Favourite Max Quotes

[Guest]

Hey ppl, this is my first post here. I found these forums when I was searching for Max Payne stuff and they seem pretty cool images/icons/smile.gif

Anyway what I want to know is what are your favourite lines that Max says in the game. My fave at the moment is 'You find Lady Luck is really a hooker, and you're fresh out of cash.' Awesome stuff.

So yeah, what are ones that stand out for you?

[KillJoy]

Well bib,

-First off, welcome.

-Second off, I am glad you are not complaining about Max's face being different.

-Third off, I am gonna call you bib, cause BackinBlack is longer than bib.

-Fourth off, My favorite line would be: "The sun went down with practived bravado. Twilight crawled across the sky, laden with foreboding."

Congradulations bib, your are not a dumb noob. A diamond in the rough. The diamond being bib, and the rough being the vast noob wasteland.

[ 08-05-2003, 09:13 PM: Message edited by: KillJoy ]

[Kevin's girl]

Welcome to the forums BackinBlack!!! images/icons/smile.gif

My favorite lines from the whole game are:
1. "You play, you pay you bastard."
and
2. "Something wicked this way comes, Max Payne." or something like that images/icons/smile.gif

[YicklePigeon]

My favourite line: "I released my finger from the trigger...and then it was over...thank the lord!!! My clicking finger has got a sprain! AHHHH!!!"

j/k images/icons/grin.gif

Regards,

Yickle.

P.S. I didn't know what was more difficult - beating the game, or beating my K6-2, Voodoo 3 specification.

[The Baskinator]

"Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you."

[aavenr]

Originally posted by Kevin's girl:
Welcome to the forums BackinBlack!!! images/icons/smile.gif

My favorite lines from the whole game are:
1. "You play, you pay you bastard."
and
2. "Something wicked this way comes, Max Payne." or something like that images/icons/smile.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Hey that's so cool, #1 is amont my top picks too and so it's #2. That's quite a conincidence in a game filled with cool quotes.

And by the way, something like that would be "Max Payne at large": "Something wicked this way comes, Max Payne at large".

With a game like this, the question isn't what are your fave quotes but what aren't. It's that good people.

[Qtipie]

welcome backinblack.

my fave moments are those that show off max payne's divine, dry sense of humor, e.g.:

"vinnie gognitti. just the man I've been killing to see."

vinnie gognitti: "police brutality!"
max payne: "i rate pretty high on that."

"he had a baseball bat and i was tied to a chair. pissing him off was the smart thing to do."

there are some great pieces of dialogue throughout the game.

[j]

Originally posted by aavenr:
And by the way, something like that would be "Max Payne at large": "Something wicked this way comes, Max Payne at large".
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">My favourite quote as well.

EDIT: However, my favourite Bunch-of-Quotes™ would be the "I'm in a graphic novel/game" parts. I laughed the loudest at those.

[ 08-06-2003, 04:05 AM: Message edited by: j ]

[Jade]

I like almost every phrase that appear when you exit the game...one is in my sig. images/icons/smile.gif

[Prism]

My favorite would be: "He's a freaking mad dog. Yesterday he shot Dino because he wanted to see his brain splaterred on the wall" or something like that. The second one would be. "And now I was going to kill her."

[Joker]

"Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back."

[j]

"I was so far beyond the point of no return, I didn't even remember what it had looked like when I'd passed it" (or something along those lines) is also nice.

[Fraeon Waser Duhni]

"I am the wolf, yeah, AUUUUUUUUUUUUUH" - Lupino

[Chimera]

Originally posted by The Baskinator:
"Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you." <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I have to say, thats my favourite too images/icons/smile.gif

[hemlock_0]

Those are all awesome. I had forgotten how many good, good lines there were, each one making me smile a little half-smile to myself at how entertaining they are and how Sam doesn't take himself too seriously.

My fiancee is particularly fond of "The pills would ease the pain", and "Michelle!", making the 'constipated' face each time she says it. I grin when I hear the 'practiced bravado' line, every time. I also love wandering around in public, squinting, randomly announcing that "the pills would hold the pain back for a while"; I get strange looks. images/icons/smile.gif

[SkavenRMD]

Gognitti: "What's the freaking problem?!? Hello!? Hellooo?!"

"What are you waiting for, you apes? Kill him! Kill him!"

"Open, goddamn it!"

Vinnie Gognitti is the person we all love to hate. He is the embodiment of the high-strung, frustrated, yapping, screaming weenie inside every one of us.

I find myself quoting him whenever my PC refuses to cooperate, and my instincts begin to tell me that the only possible solution is either violence or a speedy escape (neither of which are applicable; woe is the modern society).

[Qtipie]

employees as well as their relatives are excluded from participation images/icons/tongue.gif

Originally posted by SkavenRMD:
Vinnie Gognitti is the person we all love to hate. He is the embodiment of the high-strung, frustrated, yapping, screaming weenie inside every one of us. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">huh?

[KillJoy]

I find myself quoting him whenever my PC refuses to cooperate, and my instincts begin to tell me that the only possible solution is either violence or a speedy escape (neither of which are applicable; woe is the modern society).
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I find myself doing that too, except it is with Vladmir's lines. You know:

"Messing with _____, it's bad for business all around"

"Bang, your dead, Max Payne"

"Whatever you did or did not do, I'm sure you had good reason for doing it"

And for some reason, I will say "That's a moot point", whenever anyone says something. It is such a cool phrase. I of course have a russian accent when I say all of this.

[SkavenRMD]

Qtipie:
huh?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">So how am I supposed to explain myself if I'm not allowed to participate, hmmmmm?

[Jade]

Gognitti was the funniest character...I'll miss him in MP2 images/icons/grin.gif

[Guest]

Thanks for the welcome guys, those are all great lines. I also liked:

"Tell me, how much did Dime cost you? I bet it was more than his name."

"What does BB stand for anyway? Backstabbing Bastard?"

[Kennerado]

I agree this game has some of the coolest lines and the fact that they make jokes of themslves. I like the conversations that the bad guys have with each other.

"You know all those cool action movies, and I'm talking about the coolest of the cool where time seems to slow down. Bullet time thats what they call it bullet time."

"I was so disgusted, that I strangled t'em bot' wit' the video game cables."

[KillJoy]

MMmmMMmm, Frankie!!!! Your so bad.

[SkavenRMD]

"Thank you, thank you! You've been a lovely audience!"

-- BicycleHelmet-Girl

[Jade]

Another good one was something like..."Pounchinello wanted Payne, he was going to taste the pain..."...don't know if it's exactly...I traslated from the italian version... images/icons/smile.gif

[KillJoy]

MMmmMMmm, Frankie!!!! Your so bad. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Meant to say Rico, not Frankie. I'm an idiot.

[aavenr]

Originally posted by SkavenRMD:
"Thank you, thank you! You've been a lovely audience!"

-- BicycleHelmet-Girl <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">That and BaseballBat-Boy's comics were simply hilarious. I seriously love Remedy's sense of humour, pitch black some times or completely-absurd, parody-style others.

[Kevin's girl]

I also like this quote:
"Tell the devil the Dime sent you!"
-Boris Dime

images/icons/smile.gif

[Bushido]

"I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings" -Max Payne

[asker]

"Something wicked this way comes"

That ain't you quoting Max; that's you quoting Max quoting Shakespeare. Macbeth, to be specific. If memory serves, one of the witches says it when Macbeth is about to walk by. I could be wrong on that part, but the line is from that play.

[Warmaster129]

^"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
Was it Macbeth or Hamlet?

[Guest]

Yeah it's from Macbeth. Great line.

Started the game again, found another line I liked when Max picks up the phone in Roscoe Street Station.

"We come to you now live from the crime scene"

That one made me laugh.

[DET]

"That's 'Mirrors are more fun than television'. Somehow I know this, just don't ask me how."

Fixed typo images/icons/shocked.gif

[ 08-10-2003, 07:30 PM: Message edited by: DET ]

[PlayfulPuppy]

Originally posted by Jade:
Gognitti was the funniest character...I'll miss him in MP2 images/icons/grin.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Who says we wont see him? We never saw him die, as a matter of fact he was still screeching like a howler monkey when we last saw him. images/icons/wink.gif

[Mad_Max]

Originally posted by SkavenRMD:
Vinnie Gognitti is the person we all love to hate. He is the embodiment of the high-strung, frustrated, yapping, screaming weenie inside every one of us. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Hey, I actually liked him! images/icons/mad.gif images/icons/smile.gif

My favorite quote would have to be his dialogue as he's about to storm the Punchinello manor:

"The secret trick is that there is no trick, no matter what the movies tell you. No rule, no secret mantra, no road map. It was chaos and luck, and anyone who thought differently was a fool."

Other memorable quotes would be:

"I might have laughed, if only I had remembered how."

"Nothing is a cliché when it happens to you."

"Everyone makes mistakes. Mine hasn't been to crack jokes about the guy with the bat, he would have cracked my skull regardless. It hadn't been better to trust a girl with a gun."

[Simon Charles]

My vote goes to "Nothing's a cliché...".

And the worst quote has to be "I felt beaten and bruised. I felt like the chair I had broken to get free." Oh man, I love Max but that one made me graemlins/mryuck.gif !

[hemlock_0]

Yeah, that one was weaker than the usual, high quality material we expect from Sam Lake (bows at Sam's Feet). Seriously though, almost any quote from MP is better than the best quote from any other game.

[Qtipie]

....or movie. the writing is extraordinary *bows too* and fits my 'lock, stock & two smoking barrels' and 'snatch' mood just fine images/icons/grin.gif

[Cyberfish]

My favorite Max-Quote is "Thank you" *rofl*

[Fortune Hunter]

I love all these and I cant pick a best one because they all fit into the story and bring a bizzare smile to the story. One of the best parts was the intro. it was all scripted with a nice speech.

"thank you" and "live from the scrim scene" were one of my favorites.

To bad when you declare war on the rats max doesnt say something. ANYTHING would have been good and with sam lake's dialogue it would have been classic.


But hey vinne could come back.... as a zombie and instead of bullet time script good ai for a skinless man with a BIG tounge that can crawl on the ceiling and has huge claws.
^
(this seems so familiar. images/icons/tongue.gif )

[Jade]

Originally posted by Cyberfish:
My favorite Max-Quote is "Thank you" *rofl* <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Oh yes...he was too cute! images/icons/grin.gif

[Cyberfish]

"Caraokee was not my...???" (when he touch the microphone) Shit, I forgot the word images/icons/grin.gif

[The Baskinator]

"Pizza delivery."

[scorpion]

i liked that one to cyberfish, "caraokee never really was my thing." i think thats how it goes

[poo_al]

I have to say that this is a pretty cool thread.

My favorite? Lets see if I can get this all from memory. images/icons/wink.gif

"Sharp boned cranes loomed up from the snow storm. On a night like this, you couldn't help but think of the dark army of dead men, sleeping with the fishes, cement shoes in line. There was no minotaur in this labyrinth, but somewhere out there, on the clanking desks of his cargo freighter, the skipper of the Charon was waiting for me, like the ferryman of the river stix."

Lupino's famous lines are also some of my favorites.

"I have tasted the flesh of fallen angels. I have tasted the devil's green blood. It runs in my viens. I have seen beyond the world of skin, the architecture of blood and bone marrow. Death is coming! She is coming, and hell follows with her. This is the twilight winter. I am ready to be her son! Her time is now, and all who stand in her way must DIE!"

I think I missed a line in the first quote by Max that comes after the sharp boned cranes, but considering that I haven't played the game in over a year and can remember those lines is a good indication of how much I like them. images/icons/grin.gif
Either that, or I'm simply stark raving mad. Could be? Naaah. images/icons/wink.gif

[KillJoy]

DAMN, I LOVE MAX PAYNE!

I love it enough to express my joy in all caps.

[Simon Charles]

Originally posted by Cyberfish:
My favorite Max-Quote is "Thank you" *rofl* <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Oh god, yeah! I think 3D Realms had it perfect in having Duke shoot an annoying musak speaker in the grocery store, but Max saying casually "Thank you." after taking down the elevator speaker was pure gold too.

Still, "Nothing's a cliché..." is the king.

[Guest]

''Outside, the mercury was falling fast.''

''I could hear the police sirens..it was like a
bad concience I could'nt shake.''

And at the exit menu:
''Vengence was pain behind my eyes.''

[j]

Originally posted by poo_al:
...river stix...<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Styx.

[Jade]

"the winter night stretched on before me, endless"

[Darkreaver]

Best quote is when he says "None of us was a saint", and of course "I walked right in, playing it Bogart like I'd done a hundred times before". images/icons/cool.gif

[MaxPayneFan35]

Mine is, "One thing you could count on...you push a man too far, and sooner or later, he'd start pushing back".

[Burning Fish]

Mine: "I would have laughed if I had remembered how..."

[Jokke_r]

"i went past the point of no return so long ago i can't even remember what it looked like when i passed it" or somwthing similiar

[SkavenRMD]

After you're through with Max Payne 2, I guess it's time to bump this thread up again - or start a new one. There are some really good ones there, like "T...--- no, wait, can't spoil it for you yet.

[FullMetalJacket]

Originally posted by SkavenRMD:
There are some really good ones [in MP2], like "T...--- no, wait, can't spoil it for you yet. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Thanks. images/icons/smile.gif

[Burning Fish]

Exactly!! Don't say it!!! Don't say it!!!
"He'd say the right thing... I know he would... He'd better..."

[Fortune Hunter]

YAY! Skaven!

[KillJoy]

damn...

thought he was actualy gonna say a quote.

*sulks off*

[asker]

The line from RagnaRock is "Karaoke never was my scene."

[hotrodryan]

LOL

Newbie here.....and a Max Payne 1 person 4 life.

I liked "Pizza Delivery"

"Clear as Vodka"

and "collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets ago"

"like taking candy from a baby" was a good one too.

I'll keep everyone posted while I beat the game again, lol.

[Xenomrph]

"They were all dead.

The final gunshot was the exclamation mark to everything that had lead up to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and then it was over."

Edit - typo. images/icons/frown.gif

[ 09-14-2003, 05:11 PM: Message edited by: Xenomrph ]

[Bruce Hamilton]

My Baretta twitched nervously under my coat, but the train doors had already shut behind me, and I was in for the ride... Next stop, Roscoe Street station... And Alex. The station was drenched in gloom, and Alex was a ghost nowhere to be seen. I'd have to hunt for him.

[FullMetalJacket]

Originally posted by Bruce Hamilton:
My Baretta twitched nervously under my coat, but the train doors had already shut behind.... <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">"Beretta." images/icons/smile.gif

[Nessus]

I think we'll see a much better written game this time, it being Sam's second time out I'm expecting some good things.

[RMadisonWI]

"Freaking zombie demons from outer space." That quote appears a couple of times, and there's also a poster about that movie inside Ragna Rock.

Also, that quote in Part III chapter 7, where he says something like "something clicked for the final time...my mind had never been so clear." It's a neat quote, but I have no idea what it means? Has anybody figured that out yet?

[Xenomrph]

lol, I don't really understand it either, but I'll end up making something up for the novelization. images/icons/wink.gif

[DelitaHex]

I have a series of them...

I rank them all... I'll say a little story for my overall favorite.

#6 "your in a computer game max..." (grafic novel wasn't NEARLY as funny)
#5 "thank you"
#4 "I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings
#3 "POLICE BRUTALITY!" "I rank pretty high on that" ... (i think they are in the same speaches) "YOU HAVE TO TAKE ME IN! YOU CAN'T JUST KILL ME!" "uh huh... just keep telling yourself that."
#2 "He was desperate to buy sand for his hour glass... I wasn't selling any" *tick click*

#1... endings always had me in a downer, FF7 left me at an ending where the story wasn't finished... some other games... but the second this quote was uttered, I smiled as a little boy would from being told 'good job' for the first time would...
...#1 "He grinned like a winner... that made two of us..."

[Guest]

A lot of good quotes mentioned here. However I would have to say my favorite is still:

(from memory so may be a little off)

Bravura: This is Deputy Chief James Bravura. Cease your illegal activity and come out with your hands above your head.

Max: Sure thing, Jim. Me and the boys have been talking and we're all REAL sorry. They'll never do it again...

[Guest]

I'd still have to go with, "Lady luck's a hooker and you're fresh out of cash."

For MP2, from Dick Justice, "It was if all the angels in heaven where taking a piss at the same time. In a situation like mine, you can only think in metaphors."

Good to know Remedy can still poke fun at itself. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif