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PaperclipPerfector  17d ago (text post)   2909 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 14, 2025

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El paso Elsewhere is alright if you want third person bullet time, and trepang2 is a pretty cool fps variant (but it feels more like the FEAR games) but the game you really should check out is Echo Point Nova. It's got bullet time, it's got tribes style skiing and a whole bunch of other cool mechanics, all in a non linear open world map.

Thanks for the suggestions. I like the looks of Echo Point Nova, but it looks very slide-y with non human enemies and cartoony graphics. Part of the appeal of Max Payne 3 was going to a shithole Latin American country drenched in sun and humidity as a fatass sweaty drunk who quips extremely pessimistic lines every 30 seconds whose heft you can feel when doing the classic Max Payne diving technique. Shooting people never felt better than it does in a Rockstar game, too.

Related: I liked the stories of the originals, but I think Max Payne 3's story isn't bad enough to be worth bashing. It's written a lot less flowery, but there are a lot more lines in it that I feel tempted to quote.

Yeah I loved the shit out of Max Payne 3. I loved the first two too, but I was entering middle age when 3 came out and the whole "this is what happens to that sardonic alcoholic when he loses the vigor of youth" hit home hard. And mechanically I felt their reach exceeded their grasp (the graphics quality was too high and while that does give it a long shelf life, those resources would have been better spent on more game imo), but it was still great fun.

I have EPN on my wishlist already, I plan to get it as soon as I've moved into my new place and got a PC set up! Everything I've seen about it makes me think it's an amazing game.

It's awesome, and it's that mix of exploration and action that makes you look up from the game and wonder how so many hours could have passed. If you want to save some money though snap it up now if you can, as it's currently part of the spring sale - and it was also last week's midweek special, so it's probably not going to go on sale again for a while.

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