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I honestly liked Mafia II a lot, not enough to want to replay it, but I have good memories of it. Looking forward to this, if it turns out well.
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The Mafia series has suffered from problems in the past, but they've been inconsistent problems. Mafia 1 had crummy graphics and some pretty lovely AI (even for back then), while Mafia 2 was just cut to ribbons to sell DLC, and some platforms got buggy releases. That's why it's hard to say exactly what could be wrong with 3, but no studio puts an embargo that hard in place without a seriously good reason. Especially 2k, who are usually really good about getting review copies out, which just makes it more suspicious.
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Oct 3, 2016 18:21
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This game is probably gonna be bad but I'm a sucker for gta like games. All those games have horrible AI so I'm not worried about that.
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Oct 3, 2016 18:23
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Waiting for the reviews, crossing my fingers and hoping it won't be that buggy. But then again, not pre-ordered and super hyped so eh.
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Oct 3, 2016 18:27
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:The Mafia series has suffered from problems in the past, but they've been inconsistent problems. Mafia 1 had crummy graphics and some pretty lovely AI (even for back then), while Mafia 2 was just cut to ribbons to sell DLC, and some platforms got buggy releases. That's why it's hard to say exactly what could be wrong with 3, but no studio puts an embargo that hard in place without a seriously good reason. Especially 2k, who are usually really good about getting review copies out, which just makes it more suspicious. They've only ever shown like 3 of the 10 districts in the game, which leads me to believe it's going to be the same gameplay loop we've seen, ballooned to like a dozen more hours of it.
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Joe Gillian posted:They've only ever shown like 3 of the 10 districts in the game, which leads me to believe it's going to be the same gameplay loop we've seen, ballooned to like a dozen more hours of it. Well yeah that's every open world game
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Oct 3, 2016 19:19
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i hope this game is good, rather than bad
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Afraid of Audio posted:i hope this game is good, rather than bad  What the gently caress, dude.
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Oct 3, 2016 19:26
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Afraid of Audio posted:i hope this game is good, rather than bad A controversial opinion to be sure. Having not followed this game at all since it was announced and everyone was dwelling on the race of the main character I really have no vested interest in this being a flop or not. I hope it will be good so that I have a good game to play - because as flawed as Mafia II was I still found it fun and would like more - but if it sucks I can just wait until it's heavily discounted and give it a spin then. Really I just want a decent, compelling story and some fun missions and/or side missions. It doesn't need to be GTA V and a half.
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Hakkesshu posted:Well yeah that's every open world game True. I personally am creative enough when playing most decent open world games to wring the most fun out of them. This one seems to make crafting the best "one-take" murderbinge its low-key focus, and I can dig that at some level.
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Oct 3, 2016 21:20
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Well, I bought this friday because GMG had it for dirt cheap and I remember early buzz being good. Now it might be bad? Oh well. Never played a Mafia game before, those tired old italian mob cliches are boring as gently caress, this looks at the very least different enough to be worth a try.
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Oct 3, 2016 23:36
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Seems to me that the only negatives will be the graphics, the AI, and the repetitive side stuff. I'm hearing good buzz about gameplay, driving, atmosphere, world design, and story.
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Oct 3, 2016 23:45
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I'm mostly just in this to murder klansmen.
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Oct 3, 2016 23:46
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Mycroft Holmes posted:I'm mostly just in this to murder klansmen. 
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Mycroft Holmes posted:I'm mostly just in this to murder klansmen. this and its a crime story that for once isnt sucking off the Mafia and acting like they are these honorable thieves who helped the oppressed and family and stupid poo poo like that. they were a bunch of stupid sociopathic monsters, just watch the goodfellas. If i can go BJ Blaskowitz on some dumb Goomba adulterious murderous gently caress and their klansmen friends. thats a + in my book
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Oct 3, 2016 23:57
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Dapper_Swindler posted:this and its a crime story that for once isnt sucking off the Mafia and acting like they are these honorable thieves who helped the oppressed and family and stupid poo poo like that. they were a bunch of stupid sociopathic monsters, just watch the goodfellas. If i can go BJ Blaskowitz on some dumb Goomba adulterious murderous gently caress and their klansmen friends. thats a + in my book None of the Mafia games have glorified the mafia
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Oct 4, 2016 00:00
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:None of the Mafia games have glorified the mafia I didnt mean the games. i ment alot of crime media in general. the mafia games have always been good about showing how poo poo they are.
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Oct 4, 2016 00:02
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Mafia 1 is one of my favourite games of all time, but for me Mafia 2 was a big disappointment. Didn't even bother to finish the game. Really hope this is a return to form of the first. The music, story and tone of the first game was so good.
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Oct 4, 2016 00:21
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Mycroft Holmes posted:I'm mostly just in this to murder klansmen.  Gonna grip and rip that M79  Gas up the fuckin' party popper
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Oct 4, 2016 01:25
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Capn Beeb posted:
drat, that looks like vietnam gameplay. both people are in uniform.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:drat, that looks like vietnam gameplay. both people are in uniform. Pretty sure that's Apocalypse Now.
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This thread is a tad depressing. "Sure, the game has reported issues, there's a review embargo and Mafia 2 was iffy at best and had been cut to ribbons for DLC purposes but omg i get to kill Klansmen take my money take it take all my cash."
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you know it's also just possible to wait until the reviews hit
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Oct 4, 2016 02:31
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Nah wrecking the Klan is the opposite of depressing.
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Disgusting Coward posted:This thread is a tad depressing. Amazon just started doing the "20% off within two weeks of launch" thing in Canada which has me considering cancelling all my e3 sale preorders ironically (previously the only way to get 20% off). Definitely a bit worried about this one.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Pretty sure that's Apocalypse Now. gently caress  i didnt look close enough
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gently caress it, game might suck but I'll buy it to enrage racists irl and kill them in game.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:None of the Mafia games have glorified the mafia Yeah, I mean it's right in the first game. There's that poignant ending credits theme where they tell you where gangsters go when they die. And I can tell you where they don't go...
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That was actually my first exposure to that song so when the local altrock station plays 90's things for lunch and that comes on I can't not hear it in a rap rendition.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Pretty sure that's Apocalypse Now. Yeah it is Now I want a tiger stripe M79 unlockable paint job 
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Oct 4, 2016 03:33
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I'm in the "Loved Mafia I and II so I'm onboard regardless" crowd. I did think the Drive from the north of the map to the south video looked a little murky around the edges, but between the sound track, the protagonist, the cars, the city that isn't New York/L.A. ( C'mon, who hasn't wanted to drive a fan boat through the Everglades ) I'm still hype as gently caress.
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Jeza posted:for me Mafia 2 was a big disappointment. Didn't even bother to finish the game. Good! Because I just beat it yesterday and it sucks. Deus Ex MD's out-of-nowhere middle-of-the-story ending has nothing on Mafia II's. It's literally *everyone gets into their cars* "Good job killing Falcone." "Thanks. Wait, where are you taking Joe?" "He wasn't part of the deal. If you know what I mean." "Oh." *stares angrily* *pan to city, fade out* I guess the rest of the game was okay? Short, but okay? Still, I'm looking forward to III.
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By the look of things they haven't crammed their open world full of boring, uninspired minigames at least. I could never get into GTA V much beyond the main storyline because there was nothing of real substance to do, that I'd expect from a crime oriented game. Triathlon? Yeah, okay...
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To me it looks like this year's Shadow of Mordor in terms of being an open world game with clashing systems. Hopefully the race aspects aren't too dumb or tacky.
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I don't expect it to be fantastic to be honest. But unless the story is absolute garbage I expect fans of the series to enjoy it at the very least. But yeah, never pre-order a game (unless you can find it really cheap).
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Even if the driving is mediocre, as long as I can drive around blaring that soundtrack I'm gold.
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Everyone that plays Mafia games plays them for the story. The problem is, Daniel Varva has nothing to do with this one and left the company after 2K sliced his Mafia 2 story to poo poo and back for DLC, which in turn had sent the story line into a pacing black hole of garbage. What I would like to know is if there is a review embargo and copies aren't being sent out, how the hell did Angry Joe get a copy. To me, that smells like paid for promotion right there, and he hasn't been disparaging at all about the game. basically saying the only thing that gets stale after a while (And little variety) is taking over territory from other mobsters in side content. With that said, we have a developer here that has stated none of the content has been cut for DLC this time around. So, we will see. Mafia 2 suffered big time because of that. Utnayan fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Oct 4, 2016 15:51
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As much as people say it suffered I thought Mafia II at launch was perfectly fine. It's infuriating that they cut content from the game to make DLC but even without it the base game is fairly good. It simply could have been great instead.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:As much as people say it suffered I thought Mafia II at launch was perfectly fine. It's infuriating that they cut content from the game to make DLC but even without it the base game is fairly good. It simply could have been great instead.
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