Remedy provides updates Max Payne remake and Control sequel

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In brief: Remedy Entertainment as part of its third quarter earnings report provided an update on the progress of some of its most anticipated projects including remakes of the first two Max Payne games.

Remedy developed the first two games in the popular neo-noir third-person shooter series, Max Payne (2001) and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003). The original was one of the first games to feature the flashy bullet-time effect made popular by The Matrix a few years earlier. Max Payne 3 would not arrive until 2012 courtesy of Rockstar, and lacked much of the tone and style that defined the earlier entries.

In mid-2022, Remedy revealed it was remaking the first two games to take advantage of modern hardware. They are being developed as a single title for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC, and will utilize the proprietary Northlight game engine. The surprise announcement generated so much interest that it crashed Remedy's investor website.

In its third quarter report, Remedy said the remake has progressed to the production readiness stage. The developer noted they have gained clarity on the style and scope of the game, but stopped short of announcing a release date or pricing.

Another highly anticipated project, Control 2, is not quite as far along. Remedy said this project is still in the proof-of-concept stage and that they expect it to remain in this state for at least another few quarters. "The plans for this sequel are ambitious, and we have seen good progress both in the designs and in the game build," the developer added.

Control arrived in 2019 for PS4, Xbox One, and Windows. The paranormal action-adventure game was later ported to additional platforms and received two paid expansions. Control 2 was officially announced last November and is being co-developed with 505 Games.

Remedy Entertainment's latest release, Alan Wake II, hit the scene last week and is off to a solid start. The PS5 version currently has a score of 89 on Metacritic with a user score of 8.6 out of 10. Pricing is set at $49.99 over on the Epic Games Store.

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I really enjoyed 2.... I haven't played it in such a long time that if they did some upgraded graphics but the same game I'd pay $10-15 for it. If they add more REAL content like, extending the story or adding alternative paths, on top of updated graphics I would pay a little more. However if they just tweak graphics and don't add anything fun or useful and charge $40+ then forget it.
 
Nice.I waited so long for this moment.I'm usually cheap when it comes to buying games but have no problem when it comes to games like this or FARCRY, CRYSIS, HALF-LIFE, FEAR etc.
 
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Curious to see if future Remedy games are EGS exclusive as well (like AW1 Remaster and AW2) or if they're published by a third party and either do the temporary exclusivity or launch on all PC stores.

No beef against EGS with AW2, they put up the money to publish AW2 and they get to keep the title as exclusive to their store as they want, but I personally am off the multiple launcher merry-go-round.

I am most heavily invested in the Steam ecosystem so I've decided purely for my own convenience that if stuff doesn't launch on Steam I just won't bother with it.
 
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GodisanAtheist said:
Curious to see if future Remedy games are EGS exclusive as well (like AW1 Remaster and AW2) or if they're published by a third party and either do the temporary exclusivity or launch on all PC stores.

No beef against EGS with AW2, they put up the money to publish AW2 and they get to keep the title as exclusive to their store as they want, but I personally am off the multiple launcher merry-go-round.

I am most heavily invested in the Steam ecosystem so I've decided purely for my own convenience that if stuff doesn't launch on Steam I just won't bother with it.
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Honestly, it's not the multiple launchers that annoy me, it's the practice of paying off developers to make it exclusive that annoys me.

I do find it somewhat a benefit that it goes EGS first though, when it gets to Steam in 6 months, it's patched quite well and some games get free DLC bundled in (Borderlands 3 for example) so it kinda just makes EGS buyers beta testers for me.
 
Best game ever the remake good idea.

90' years classic revenge hero story but here real reason killing all family child and wife.
So badly the movie not good but always making all director the another story.
 
GodisanAtheist said:
I am most heavily invested in the Steam ecosystem so I've decided purely for my own convenience that if stuff doesn't launch on Steam I just won't bother with it.
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I get it... Steam just works, and is pretty damn solid and very convenient, we don't need it - it is not a requirement to run software and nor should it be. But that also supports Valve creating a monopoly, which they almost did. In the end, WE DON'T NEED AN EFFING LAUNCHER! What happened to just having the shortcut to the damn executable on the desktop??? The game itself can offer updates, but we should be able to opt-out. I just wish launchers and stores for that matter would go away or be alternative options. We should still be able to just run the damn game by itself.
 
MakeMSGreatAgain said:
I get it... Steam just works, and is pretty damn solid and very convenient, we don't need it - it is not a requirement to run software and nor should it be. But that also supports Valve creating a monopoly, which they almost did. In the end, WE DON'T NEED AN EFFING LAUNCHER! What happened to just having the shortcut to the damn executable on the desktop??? The game itself can offer updates, but we should be able to opt-out. I just wish launchers and stores for that matter would go away or be alternative options. We should still be able to just run the damn game by itself.
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Without updates you won't be able to use newly added features or even launch new dlcs.
Takes games like Ark for example, it had a million updates till it got officially released.
The advantages of having an app that takes care of the games outweighs all disadvantages
 
toooooot said:
Without updates you won't be able to use newly added features or even launch new dlcs.
Takes games like Ark for example, it had a million updates till it got officially released.
The advantages of having an app that takes care of the games outweighs all disadvantages
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Games could offer the updates from within the executable, or have a separate update executable. Either way, a launcher is not required. We never used to have them before and could still update games.

Can it be more convenient to have a launcher? Sure... sometimes, but with DRM protections among other crap breaking games it is very frustrating. I miss simpler times I suppose but some things were just better because they didn't harass the crap out of you back when we didn't have full always on internet access.
 
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