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  [Deactivated] on 11/04/2015 - 07:36

  Disappointing that the complete pack no longer includes GTA1 & 2

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    lostn on 11/04/2015 - 08:56

    -3

    You wouldn't want to play those anyway. They are very different games.

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      lostn on 11/04/2015 - 12:20

      -2

      Hmm. Aparently some people don't think these games are nothing like GTA3 onwards. You get a top down view, the cars look like matchbox toy cars that 3 year olds play with. You run people over and stuff, but eventually you'll get killed by the cops. There's no story, you just keep going on your crime spree until you eventually die.

      They're not games where you can say, if you enjoyed the GTA3/4/5 series you should check out 1 and 2 because you'll love them too.

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        [Deactivated] on 11/04/2015 - 17:04

        +2

        GTA1 & GTA2 has LOTS of fun humourous main missions & side missions. Probably even more politically incorrect then todays games with things like suicide bombing a train (in a NYC setting) and processing an innocent busload of people for meat.

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      [Deactivated] on 11/04/2015 - 16:57

      They are fantastic games I would highly recommend if anyone can get access to them. Just because they are different doesn't mean you wouldn't want to play it.

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    twocsies on 12/04/2015 - 08:41

    Those were free downloads for years, but now when I went to the Rockstar page it says, "The Rockstar Classics free download series is currently unavailable." Quite sad!
    http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/

    But still available elsewhere, e.g. Grand Theft Auto demo is at cnet: http://download.cnet.com/Grand-Theft-Auto/3000-7513_4-100176…

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  Ronson on 11/04/2015 - 08:08

  I assume these are steam keys? Are prices in USD or AUD?

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    scrimshaw on 11/04/2015 - 08:21

    New to Humble I see. Yes, Humble sells Steam licenses and everything is USD.

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  lostn on 11/04/2015 - 09:01

  +1

  When is GTA5 out?

  Max Payne 1 and 2 are awesome. Didn't care much for 3.

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    IceCreamBandit on 11/04/2015 - 09:21

    When is GTA5 out?

    Coming Tuesday (14th)

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    Gnostikos on 11/04/2015 - 13:08

    Max Payne 1 and 2 are awesome. Didn't care much for 3.

    Didn't care much for 2. Way too silly and cartoonish. 3 brought it back to the more noir feel you got in the first. Either way, amazing value for some amazing gameplay.

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      lostn on 12/04/2015 - 09:36

      I felt the complete opposite. Noir doesn't work well in bright colorful settings. MP2 was very much in the feel of MP1. I preferred the comic graphic novel scenes over the new cutscenes.

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        Gnostikos on 12/04/2015 - 14:08

        +2

        Max Payne 3 is set 14 years after the events of the first game. What did you want, for Max to be exactly the same, in the same exact setting as the first game, fighting more mob goons? A disgraced cop who lost everyone he cares about isn't going to stick around the same city that has essentially been trying to kill him for 10 years. The down-on-his-luck, psychologically-scarred, alcoholic at the tail end of his downward spiral finding redemption in another massive, crime-ridden metropolis where people don't know who Max Payne is, has a pretty satisfying sense of fate.

        The drug hallucination/dream sequences, bizarre boss battles and weird, repetitive levels in MP2 undercut all the pretensions of adult, neo-noir flavour (not to mention it's by far the shortest game of the series).

        MP3 felt far more grounded in the believable, crime-ridden hell that is Brazil's slums and had a huge amount of detail in it's Hollywood-calibre script, with the accents, language, level design, characters and the politically/socially-inspired story themes all being top-notch.

        You still get comicbook-inspired, storyboard panel influences from the first two as well and the story has central to it, another damsel-in-distress that Max Payne wants to avenge. There's also the long-standing theme of betrayal by supposed friends and allies of Max Payne that makes a reoccurence, as does the conspiratorial-perspective of higher authority and blurred lines between organised crime and corrupt law enforcement.

        It's about as faithful to its roots as a franchise remake/reboot can get these days.

        Taking issue with Max Payne 3's story being too divergent or the re-imagined protagonist/setting being too unfamiliar is like complaining that Star Wars Episode 1 is not exactly like Star Wars Episode 6. They're separated by a few hundred years of events.

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        lostn on 13/04/2015 - 17:57

        @Amar89:

        Max Payne 3 is set 14 years after the events of the first game. What did you want, for Max to be exactly the same, in the same exact setting as the first game, fighting more mob goons?

        I wanted a game not set 14 years after MP2..

        I'd be fine with the same setting, but a continuation of that story. It didn't exactly end happily for him. If you're going to say, what another MP game that's just the same, who would want that? Well who wants another Halo game that's the same, or another CoD, another Ass Creed… ? Plenty of people it seems.

        A disgraced cop who lost everyone he cares about isn't going to stick around the same city that has essentially been trying to kill him for 10 years. The down-on-his-luck, psychologically-scarred, alcoholic at the tail end of his downward spiral finding redemption in another massive, crime-ridden metropolis where people don't know who Max Payne is, has a pretty satisfying sense of fate.

        I'm more interested in knowing more about how he got away with everything he did.. you know, the aftermath of it all. He did kill some cops along the way I believe. Or for him to just go full on crazy and kill more cops. He was already a guy with "nothing to lose", so if the rest of them were after him, may as well let the cops take the place of the mob.

        The drug hallucination/dream sequences, bizarre boss battles and weird, repetitive levels in MP2 undercut all the pretensions of adult, neo-noir flavour (not to mention it's by far the shortest game of the series).

        I have no trouble cutting those parts out. The narrow passage dreams were never good even in the original.

        MP3 felt far more grounded in the believable, crime-ridden hell that is Brazil's slums and had a huge amount of detail in it's Hollywood-calibre script, with the accents, language, level design, characters and the politically/socially-inspired story themes all being top-notch.

        Well, sure. But I'm not really going for believable in a game where one man ends with a body count in the hundreds and painkillers can fix gunshot wounds. And also has the slow motion bullet time thing. It felt like he was a player in someone else's story, whereas MP1 and MP2 were his story. I really didn't care about the girl he was trying to protect, or doing any odd jobs for anyone. I wanted it to be all about Max. I wanted it to be more personal.

        You still get comicbook-inspired, storyboard panel influences from the first two

        The graphic novel effect was more artistic. The cutscene style is something I've seen in just about every game. Very few do the comic book panes effect and I found it very novel and suited the mood well. Not that it would suit a day time brazil setting as much.

        It's about as faithful to its roots as a franchise remake/reboot can get these days.

        Personal taste, but I'm not a huge fan of reboots. I prefer sequels. As in a sequel that releases not long later and doesn't take big departures. The parts in MP3 I enjoyed most were the flashback parts in night time NY when Max still had hair.

        Taking issue with Max Payne 3's story being too divergent or the re-imagined protagonist/setting being too unfamiliar is like complaining that Star Wars Episode 1 is not exactly like Star Wars Episode 6. They're separated by a few hundred years of events.

        First, I never said I 'took issue' with it. I only said I didn't care much for it.

        I think complaining about Star Wars 1-3 is pretty valid. And it's not exactly a few hundred years of events between 1 and 6. It all happens within Anakin's lifetime. And if the reason for why it's worse in quality is because it was a story set many years apart.. well, don't make a story set many years apart?

        It's not unfamiliarity I didn't like.. it's that I prefer the original feel. I think it's just better.

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  SnowDragon on 11/04/2015 - 09:04

  +1

  Want to buy but already own everything :(

  Perhaps I should play them…

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  IceCreamBandit on 11/04/2015 - 09:26

  Can't seem to find the complete pack (3, VC, SA, IV, EFLC). Clicked on link in OP and I get taken to the front page, searching for it doesn't show up either. Anyone else having the same issue?

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    babo on 11/04/2015 - 09:30

    It's not available here in AUS. May need a VPN

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      IceCreamBandit on 11/04/2015 - 09:38

      Thanks. Bought it using a VPN but now can't activate it because it's not available in the country…

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        IDL05E on 11/04/2015 - 09:42

        im having the same problem

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        babo on 11/04/2015 - 10:27

        I haven't bought it myself but using a VPN to activate it might work.
        However, I'm not sure whether steam will flag your account due to logging in from a different country (indicates your account may be stolen) and require that you provide hard proof to verify that you own the account.

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        lostn on 11/04/2015 - 12:22

        @babo: I think this is eventually what will happen with most services that use geo-blocking. Some day when more people use VPNs than don't, they'll do the same thing that is happening here.