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01-31-2002, 04:12 PM
ok, welp this is quite probably my over active imagination. But I can't help think there's something extra and under-lying about Max Payne.
A few reasons are that it's getting made in to a movie. This seemed weird as the 'main' story (though ok as it was) was nothing special. Guys loved ones are killed, guy gets pissed, guy kills all responsible. It wouldn't be much different to every other action film. So I thought why would they bother unless there was something else to Max Payne.
Also, there's already talk of a mp2. And the cliffhanger the 1st one ended on leaves me thinking the story is going to continue in the 2nd one.
Anyways, here is what I think max payne is truely about.
As most of you will know Valkyr was originaly meant to be a steroid like adrenaline pumping drug to give to fighters so they would be god like. But apparently we find that it never worked and just wacked out the users. That was until Max Payne.
Max Payne was the first success. He found out in the labs that the tests were being done in his area. Not on junkies. But him himself. And it was the first success. This people, is why there is the bullet dodge. This is why all max needs is pain killers. No medkits for him. The slow-motion stuff aint just a cool trick. It's a piece of the plot, showing that he is hyped up on a drug that gives him abilities no one else has.
But his wife found out that he was doing this so she had to be killed. We hear in the dreams her saying "I'm sorry max, I didn't mean to!" She's saying this because she stumbled on his secret and is going to be killed. He is ordered to by the boss woman. And she dies along with his baby.
See I don't think max actually knows this is being done to him. But after this it was too strong and started creeping in to his mind and he gets mad, he knows somehow Valkyr is the cause so he goes after him. His friend in the subway was about to tell him the truth I think. About Max himself. But he never got the chance.
When max is pumped full of Valkyr I think maybe it's rather an antidote type thing. They were trying to bring him off Valkyr because he was getting so strong. So in this state he was like a junky needing a fix, but was also closer then a sane mind before, and images of what really happened come in to his mind; his wife screaming at him, and he even shoots himself, showing that he's realising what really happened.
Now Mona. I believe mona was a 2nd succesful subject just like Max. That's why they started to team up. Also near the end when she gets shot and supposedly killed, max comes back to find her gone. And he says something like "It all became clear" this is where he really understands the truth. Mona was Valkyr which is why she didn't die, she quickly healed enough to be able to get away. Max now realises he's the same and that he killed his wife. At the end he just gives up and gets caught. Becuase he knows now that he killed his wife and he wants to be punished for it. He has nothing else to live for.
Also this is why Max has that crazed smile on his face all the time. He's doped up.
Anyways that's my rant. And I'm probably totally wrong. But that story woulda been so cool if it really was like that! It reminded me of Bladerunner. Where he's hunting cyborg things and throughout the movie it's hinted that he's one of them himself but no one coule tell for sure. Plots like that are the best, they leave you thinking about it ages after it. This would be awesome if max payne was really like this. Give a huge replay value to the game. And would also make a great movie images/icons/grin.gif
Hey I might be right? Don't ya think?
well it'd be a damn cool plot if it was anyway images/icons/tongue.gif
[ 01-31-2002, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: Pleutus ]
A few reasons are that it's getting made in to a movie. This seemed weird as the 'main' story (though ok as it was) was nothing special. Guys loved ones are killed, guy gets pissed, guy kills all responsible. It wouldn't be much different to every other action film. So I thought why would they bother unless there was something else to Max Payne.
Also, there's already talk of a mp2. And the cliffhanger the 1st one ended on leaves me thinking the story is going to continue in the 2nd one.
Anyways, here is what I think max payne is truely about.
As most of you will know Valkyr was originaly meant to be a steroid like adrenaline pumping drug to give to fighters so they would be god like. But apparently we find that it never worked and just wacked out the users. That was until Max Payne.
Max Payne was the first success. He found out in the labs that the tests were being done in his area. Not on junkies. But him himself. And it was the first success. This people, is why there is the bullet dodge. This is why all max needs is pain killers. No medkits for him. The slow-motion stuff aint just a cool trick. It's a piece of the plot, showing that he is hyped up on a drug that gives him abilities no one else has.
But his wife found out that he was doing this so she had to be killed. We hear in the dreams her saying "I'm sorry max, I didn't mean to!" She's saying this because she stumbled on his secret and is going to be killed. He is ordered to by the boss woman. And she dies along with his baby.
See I don't think max actually knows this is being done to him. But after this it was too strong and started creeping in to his mind and he gets mad, he knows somehow Valkyr is the cause so he goes after him. His friend in the subway was about to tell him the truth I think. About Max himself. But he never got the chance.
When max is pumped full of Valkyr I think maybe it's rather an antidote type thing. They were trying to bring him off Valkyr because he was getting so strong. So in this state he was like a junky needing a fix, but was also closer then a sane mind before, and images of what really happened come in to his mind; his wife screaming at him, and he even shoots himself, showing that he's realising what really happened.
Now Mona. I believe mona was a 2nd succesful subject just like Max. That's why they started to team up. Also near the end when she gets shot and supposedly killed, max comes back to find her gone. And he says something like "It all became clear" this is where he really understands the truth. Mona was Valkyr which is why she didn't die, she quickly healed enough to be able to get away. Max now realises he's the same and that he killed his wife. At the end he just gives up and gets caught. Becuase he knows now that he killed his wife and he wants to be punished for it. He has nothing else to live for.
Also this is why Max has that crazed smile on his face all the time. He's doped up.
Anyways that's my rant. And I'm probably totally wrong. But that story woulda been so cool if it really was like that! It reminded me of Bladerunner. Where he's hunting cyborg things and throughout the movie it's hinted that he's one of them himself but no one coule tell for sure. Plots like that are the best, they leave you thinking about it ages after it. This would be awesome if max payne was really like this. Give a huge replay value to the game. And would also make a great movie images/icons/grin.gif
Hey I might be right? Don't ya think?
well it'd be a damn cool plot if it was anyway images/icons/tongue.gif
[ 01-31-2002, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: Pleutus ]