Ben Chapman voices concerns about the upcoming Max Payne 3, and how Rockstar seem to be handling the game's noir-inspired story all the wrong way:
"The lone, grizzled badass endures dramatic circumstances to save a loved one or rescue a family member. Things go poorly, as noir stories often do, and they recede into a haze of alcohol and painful, longing stares out windows as rain streaks across the face. This is Noir 101. My question is, when was the last time you cared about a character like that?"
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.
I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.
Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.
Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.
I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.
Discord messages Rockstar Games management reviewed before firing union members have reportedly been revealed.
They were involved in protected Union activities and Rockstar will be in trouble with the NLRB.
Basically this is Rockstar vs the Union members word. These employees could be cherry picking or spoofing the chat logs.Rockstar could be lying. I will withhold judgment until Discord is subpoened and releases the chat group text from their servers.
A rare interview from the former GTA and Red Dead Redemption writer and executive producer.
Interesting to know.
Among MGS4, Agent was the reason I wanted and bought a PS3. (Who knew we would get other gems like Killzone 2 and TLoU.)
I always assumed it got cancelled due to hardware restrictions even at that time.
Such a shame, I remember first reading about it in official playstation magazine, Agent and The Getaway are the two cancelled games I wish I could play 😩
Because it had to be open world, of course. Couldn't change that and make the Agent game work otherwise. Totally buying it.
I used to laugh whenever I'd see someone cite Agent as a game to look forward to, because it was never officially canceled (at least, as far as I've seen.)
"It's still real to me, dammit!"
Yup....nothing wrong with admitting it, your just a concerned fan in my eyes. It looks like it will be good but I can't say that it will be a good Max Payne game
For starters I'm getting pretty sick of people saying "It's Rockstar theres nothing to worry about" or "Rockstar never dissapoint, as true as that may be this isn't their franchise, they havent done a game like Max Payne the franchise is no GTA, Rockstar didn't create the Noire atmosphere in Max Payne and MP2, they didn't create the gameplay like "bullet time", they didn't help shape Max Payne as a character. So to say "Oh Rockstar can't do no wrong" think about it...when they take a franchise which isn't theirs and don't know much about creating that theme which Remedy made in MP how can you say it's going to be good. I think this is why in my opinion even though the game will be good we'll have another GTA4 on our hands..."Yeah it was amazing, the best one ever" <Perfect Scores>, then 8-10 months later, "Oh it wasn't that good Rockstar kind of ruined Max Payne a bit, they made it too differen't"...you get the point.
the game is going in the wrong direction in my opinion.from the trailers the gritty/ noir aspects are gone and replaced with some tropical setting.they just turned payne into some bald headed drunk/die hard type of character.
what do the gamers want? will there be the same question if CoD goes a different way. I mean, for me the new Max Payne looks great.
The original Max Payne was amazing; It did things that no one else was really doing at that time - The odd drug scenes and even bullet time, it was actually a great game.
I was under the impression everyone lost interest by Max Payne 2, so I'm not even sure where they're going with this one..
Not speaking of this game but it seems like EVERY game is heading in the wrong direction according to mainstream media/sheeple.
Everybody just wants to bitch about something.