I fired up Max Payne today just to go at least start it. I couldn't play it on my 360 because, for some reason, I couldn't see anything. I thought I'd fried my Xbox again but I tried it on my old Xbox and that worked just fine. I'm thinking it has something to do with the HDMI cable because I have component cables hooking up my old Xbox and that looks just fine. For the record, since I have a much nicer TV than I did the last time I played this game, I never noticed how great this game looked back then; it's a lot nicer than I remember.

So I've been trying to play on New York Minute, since I've never beaten it on that before. Yeah.

Uh.

I'm not really getting anywhere. This was not a good idea. :(

Has anyone here got anything they can offer me for general pointers? I understand getting by under the wire is how this works but I feel like I'm succeeding more on luck than brains in the rare occasion where I do?

Or am I just doing that shittily? Maybe trying this coming off of such a lengthy hiatus is not the best idea.

I don't even know what happened to my original game save on my Xbox so I started playing it again and the highest setting available until I beat the game is "Hard Boiled". I never did get to play it on "New York Minute".

For anyone that doesn't own the games on PC, Steam is running a fantastic deal this week on Rockstar games including Max Payne 1 and 2 (as well as all the GTA games and expansions): Package: Rockstar Collection

Apologies, I've been a little lax getting things sorted with this thread this month due to the flat move and everything else going on at the moment. I was intending to try and play this game this month, but sadly haven't gotten around to it.

So who did play the game, and what did you think of it? For those who returned to the game again how well did it hold up to your memories?

There's also the question of what game to tackle next: anyone have any suggestions?

It held up exceptionally well, but that wasn't my problem. I got to chapter 6 in New York Minute and just had to stop. It wasn't necessarily the baddy difficulty that was getting me as much as the time limit, but I just felt like I wasn't making consistent progress, and everything I was doing felt like more luck than brains.

I don't know if I was just playing sloppily after having a go for so many years, or what the deal was, but it was something I was unable to finish.

Maybe if I watch some vids about it I'll pick up on what I was doing wrong, I don't know.

I just rebought it as part of the Rockstar bundle and I have to say the game feels a lot harder than I remember it being. Before I'd hardly ever have to take any pills, and now I'm constantly chugging all of them. :(

Also, if you got it off of Steam or are playing it on a new OS there's a chance you'll have an audio bug where you can't hear sounds in the cut scenes or Max's narrations in-game. Someone posted a patch on the Steam forums which made it run A++ for me.

Speedrunners use tricks like super jump, but still:
http://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?MaxPayne_NYM_2922

So now you guys have finished your meet thing, any chance of getting this up and running again?

Just wanted to say that I did see this post and did plan to get back to you, but I've been somewhat distracted. Yeah, sorry things have fallen off track a little due to getting busy with work and going away to the meet.

I think I also figured that people were losing interest, but if people still generally interested in the idea then please shout and say so and I'll see about getting this back off the ground sooner rather than later (still sort of catching up with my life back home post-meet).

Also, if people have suggestions for games, that'd be good.