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The problem is they rode the fence on the MMO part of the game. If they made it a true MMO, it should be online only in my opinion. But they didn't have enough true MMO elements in the game to warrant it being online only. You could play through the campaign easily with a couple friends offline and not miss any experience with it because there's really not much open world interaction as you mentioned.
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Andy92 wrote:The problem is they rode the fence on the MMO part of the game. If they made it a true MMO, it should be online only in my opinion. But they didn't have enough true MMO elements in the game to warrant it being online only. You could play through the campaign easily with a couple friends offline and not miss any experience with it because there's really not much open world interaction as you mentioned.
Yeah that's true, I guess. Maybe I'm just hating on them more because of shitty internet anyways :lol

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Lol yeah, like no one complains World of Warcraft is online only because they do it right. I want an open would game where people of other races/clans can start attacking each other without every enemy in the campaign being computer generated AI.
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aww shit FF 15 looks amazing guys

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^^^ troo dat
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Still making the most of playing WoW for free. Lvled to 76. I plan to get to 85 by Tuesday.

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Creed songs are now available as DLC for Rocksmith

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Just finished Max Payne 3....what a waste of a series. 1 and 2 were so unique and noir-ish and 3 just seems like a poorly written fan fiction with the only similarity being the name.

-Exploration is gone, you can't even open a locker anymore to look for painkillers...This makes the world mostly one giant corridor no matter how pretty it is. If I can't interact with anything, why do I care about a room full of computers? I'll just breeze through it in 3 seconds...They did introduce 'hidden' golden gun pieces around the levels but God forbid you search for them because Max or whatever helpless NPC he's escorting at the time will be bugging you to press on every 10 seconds.
-"I wouldn't know right from wrong if one of them was helping the poor and the other was banging my sister..." Wtf is that shiz? Max wouldn't say that...this garbage is everywhere
-Stop taking my guns away after cutscenes if it isn't a new level! #&*^$*@#%
- What happened to the messed up dream sequences?
- What happened to the fun comic style cutscenes and TV comedic relief? There were only a handful of TVs this time and while they tried to have one or two funny bits it was mostly news and they weren't episodes like in the old games...
- Why do you give me a silencer if there's no way to kill enemies unnoticed or bypass them?
- Why is 60% of the game in Spanish? I get that they want you to feel that Max is out of place but you don't want the PLAYER to feel the same way...it makes them tune out
- Cover system isn't that great. About a quarter of the time you'll pick a spot where you can't lean out the way you need to for no apparent reason.
- I hate all the NPCs

Seriously...what the hell Rockstar, you did better with the series like 10 years ago.

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Fish Tacos wrote:Just finished Max Payne 3....what a waste of a series. 1 and 2 were so unique and noir-ish and 3 just seems like a poorly written fan fiction with the only similarity being the name.

-Exploration is gone, you can't even open a locker anymore to look for painkillers...This makes the world mostly one giant corridor no matter how pretty it is. If I can't interact with anything, why do I care about a room full of computers? I'll just breeze through it in 3 seconds...They did introduce 'hidden' golden gun pieces around the levels but God forbid you search for them because Max or whatever helpless NPC he's escorting at the time will be bugging you to press on every 10 seconds.
-"I wouldn't know right from wrong if one of them was helping the poor and the other was banging my sister..." Wtf is that shiz? Max wouldn't say that...this garbage is everywhere
-Stop taking my guns away after cutscenes if it isn't a new level! #&*^$*@#%
- What happened to the messed up dream sequences?
- What happened to the fun comic style cutscenes and TV comedic relief? There were only a handful of TVs this time and while they tried to have one or two funny bits it was mostly news and they weren't episodes like in the old games...
- Why do you give me a silencer if there's no way to kill enemies unnoticed or bypass them?
- Why is 60% of the game in Spanish? I get that they want you to feel that Max is out of place but you don't want the PLAYER to feel the same way...it makes them tune out
- Cover system isn't that great. About a quarter of the time you'll pick a spot where you can't lean out the way you need to for no apparent reason.
- I hate all the NPCs

Seriously...what the hell Rockstar, you did better with the series like 10 years ago.
I actually only ever played the 3rd one and I quite enjoyed the narrative and the gameplay, personally. The graphics were good, too. And the whole matrix slow-mo thing is fun to do. I remember doing that and diving off of balconies in MP so many times. Rockstar did well on MP3. 4/5

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If you enjoyed MP3, I would recommend going back and playing at least #2: The Fall of Max Payne. You can probably get it on the super cheap, it's pretty old now (10+ yrs) and outside of the graphics and the cover system it's pretty much the same gameplay.

Mona Sax is awesome, cutscenes have comic-book style art, Lords & Ladies and the Pink Flamingo are great ways to break up the monotonous slaughter, there's a lot of dark comedic humor, there's some trippy surreal dream sequences, and the gameplay is a lot more flexible from having Molotov cockstails to double barrel shotguns.

I'd be interested to see if you think they did a better job back then. For me MP3 was a skeleton of the former games.

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SMASH BROS IN 3 DAYS!
AAAAaaaahhhhhHHHHHHHH
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too bad i have no nintendo stuff anymore. they seem to release a bunch of interesting stuff.

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BennyWhatever wrote:SMASH BROS IN 3 DAYS!
AAAAaaaahhhhhHHHHHHHH
AGHHH I'm so excited. I've been too excited to even play the demo.
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LOTR: Shadow of Mordor released today...anyone else feel a three day weekend coming on?

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Fish Tacos wrote:LOTR: Shadow of Mordor released today...anyone else feel a three day weekend coming on?
Planning to pick this one up sometime. It looks fun.

Got Hyrule Warriors yesterday. It's a pretty good game. Never played Dynasty Warriors, but I'm enjoying it since I'm a huge Zelda fan. Curious to see how many missions there are. I've finished 4 of them.
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Here's some entertaining gameplay of it:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/BUgoQwkoD2s[/youtube]
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Andy92 wrote: Got Hyrule Warriors yesterday. It's a pretty good game. Never played Dynasty Warriors, but I'm enjoying it since I'm a huge Zelda fan. Curious to see how many missions there are. I've finished 4 of them.
Been watching some gameplay of that. At first, I didn't like what I've seen in the early stages of the game, but as the game goes on, I'm starting to really enjoy the plot and all the characters that are added to it and I'm digging how the objectives are done and stuff like that. Link's a boss and all the ladies dig him.

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anguyen92 wrote:Link's a boss and all the ladies dig him.
This is why I'm thinking of being Link for Halloween this year.
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zazthespaz wrote:Here's some entertaining gameplay of it:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/BUgoQwkoD2s[/youtube]
Man this game looks gooooood! Can't wait to play it!

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Just got an Xbox One with Shadow of Mordor! Let's hope this isn't a huge waste of my time and money!

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