Max Payne 3 Delayed Beyond October

At least we were ready for another Max Payne 3 delay. During Take-Two's financial conference call yesterday, the publisher revealed that the shooter would be pushed back beyond October 31 (via Joystiq), making good on its own speculation that one big Take-Two fiscal 2010 release could be delayed.  

Sad 
EDIT: First!

FUCK
 
EDIT: Okay, I'll take Mafia then.

What else is new?

... about giving titles enough time in the oven to "fulfill [their] potential in the marketplace."
 
In other words, they plan to spend more than five minutes doing bug-testing this time

No Portal 2, potentially no Max Payne 3... man, this fall is getting thinner and thinner.

As long as Max Payne 3 delivers, I'm ok.

this is great news, I WANT max payne 3 to succeed

sad face.

Now I'll have time to finish the first two games before this comes out...

I forgot about this game, if Alan Wake has taught me anything. Max Payne 3 should be fucking awesome.

" I forgot about this game, if Alan Wake has taught me anything. Max Payne 3 should be fucking awesome. "

Not sad at all about this. I am a huge Max Payne fan, both games rank really high on my all time favorites list but I don't want them to push out an unfinished game. Bad games are bad forever and I don't want them to throw the franchise to the dogs so that the investors are happy, because the investors are always really short sighted. 
 
I also am not expecting it to be a Remedy style Max Payne either. I'm half expecting this to be open world but then what really sets it apart from GTA, bullet time? I love Bully and that had a long development cycle, I have faith that Rockstar Vancouver will bring out something really cool when they are ready and I am happy that Red Dead Redemption helped Rockstar see it was worth taking the time to polish.

" @teh_destroyer said:

" I forgot about this game, if Alan Wake has taught me anything. Max Payne 3 should be fucking awesome. "

Different developers... "

Great. the game needed to be pushed back. That guy is NOT Max Payne in my mind.

I reckon it needs the delay. They need all the time in the world to live up to expectations.

" I'm half expecting this to be open world but then what really sets it apart from GTA, bullet time?  "

" @mosdl said:

" @teh_destroyer said:

" I forgot about this game, if Alan Wake has taught me anything. Max Payne 3 should be fucking awesome. "

Different developers... "

so was RDR and that turned out great "

" As long as Max Payne 3 delivers, I'm ok. "

" @ZmillA said:

" @mosdl said:

" @teh_destroyer said:

" I forgot about this game, if Alan Wake has taught me anything. Max Payne 3 should be fucking awesome. "

Different developers... "

so was RDR and that turned out great "

I think you missed his point. Alan Wake is made by Remedy and Max Payne 3 is made by Rockstar - they don't coincide to mean that both have to be great games.   Whereas RDR and Max Payne 3 make more sense. "

I like to think Alan Wake contains the true ending to Max Payne as well as implying Remedy really don't like the idea behind it, so I can't wait for this to get cancelled.

After playing Red Dead Redemption to it's conclusion and being fucking stunned at how good a narrative it was, I now have complete faith in Rockstar to at least produce a Max Payne game that tells some kind of worthwhile story, even if it might not be in the genre-tastic stylings of Sam Lake.
 
Plus RDR also convinced me that they can make a shooter that looks, sounds, and feels solid and powerful, which is important to a Max Payne game!
 
And I don't even give a shit about the delay because FUCKING LA NOIRE IS STILL COMING OUT. I long for it's sweet and tender embraces.

Man they need to start calling the week before E3 "Delay week". these announcements should come after E3 not before.

If this delay makes the game better, I'm alright with the delay.

 Never expected it this year... more surprised that L.A. Noire isn't getting a delay, especially with Mafia II getting more coverage and under their belt. Weird.

After how incredible Red Dead was, they can take all the time they need.

If the extra time is really spent on making the game the best it can be, then I am all for the delay.

That's okay. Because early 2011 is going to be fairly free and open, just like early 2010.

haha lookit Max he's got an old man belly

I'm ok as long as they take the extra time to make it an actual Max Payne game.

fuck

The delay is fine.  Rockstar is quickly becoming the new Blizzard and Valve when it comes to release dates.  However, all three of those companies pump out quality almost every single time.  Can't complain. 
 
Also, I was unaware that L.A. Noire was going to be out THIS YEAR!  Fuck, that's awesome.  Definitely looking forward to that game.

Still can't say I'm excited about another developer taking over Max Payne, the moment you give a franchise to a different developer is the moment it looses a little piece of what makes it great.

Oh great another delay for Duke Nukem forever...
 
wha.. opps sorry I meant max payne 3 ;D

I still have serious doubts that Rockstar Vancouver can make a Max Payne game that has even an oz of the same personality of the first two games. Remedy can do games whit it, so far RSV can't.

No that surprised really

This is a good thing.

Everyone knows that Rockstar is one of world's best game development studios.  Their most recent game, Red Dead Redemption, is a masterpiece.  Max Payne is a fantastic, critically acclaimed franchise.  I don't think there's any doubt that Max Payne 3 is going to be GOTY-caliber when it's done.  Whenever the game hits shelves, I'm buying it.  They can take as long as they need.

I'm disappointed, although this was to be expected: apart from the 10+ screens and a single GameInformer article, there has been no news, no vidocs and no other screens. I only hope that this delay helps to better the final game, unlike Alpha Protocol's delay.

I am not impatient to play Max Payne 3. Take as long as you want.

Max Payne delayed.. Talking about Deja Vu.

Why don't you just come and get me when your game is done then I will take a look at it.

who is making Max Payne 3? is it some Rockstar studio or Take2 internal studio?
 
I can see Max Payne bullet-time system being a hard sell on the console, when cover based shooter is all the rage.

imo despite being GTA's "off year", Take2 did reallly good for 2010.

Good I need more time to wrap up 2.

 
Max Payne 3 might be a great game, but if it's not made by Remedy and written by Sam Lake then it's not really Max Payne at all.  It's just bald-guy action game.