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Golf! Darts! Tennis! Hunting! The movies! The amusement park! And just going sightseeing! Not to mention the bajillion side missions. Whether or not any of this stuff is fun to you is a whole other story.
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Oct 5, 2016 17:57
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Deakul posted:Golf! It loving sucks
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Oct 5, 2016 20:09
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Junkenstein posted:
I forgot about that. I may do that too then.
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Oct 5, 2016 20:17
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littleorv posted:It loving sucks How rude.
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Oct 5, 2016 20:32
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Deakul posted:How rude. Those events you mentioned in GTA5 were all awesome and fun distractions. Littleorv dislikes fun.
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Oct 5, 2016 20:59
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Deakul posted:Golf! I never did any of these things more than once but still consider GTA 5 to be one of my fav games ever. Did every single side mission.
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Oct 5, 2016 21:04
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There are currently a BUNCH of prerelease streams up on Twitch and Youtube, if anyone's interested in spoilers 
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Oct 5, 2016 23:15
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I never did any of these things more than once but still consider GTA 5 to be one of my fav games ever. Did every single side mission. I went through every side mission and activity as well but they really were just things you'd probably only do once and didn't have a while lot of replay value (or depth for the most part). Outside the missions you really had to just entertain yourself. It's a shame they seemed to keep most of the 'extras' for the multiplayer - which I was never particularly interested in. Purchasing most of the properties in the game was really only something you could do if you cheesed the gently caress out of the stock market or really, really, really loved grinding. Gotta push those Shark cards! So far from what I've seen here the game looks pretty average. Not bad but not oh my god $80 day one purchase, either.
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Oct 5, 2016 23:29
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In preparation for this, I never played 2 but I played the first game to death, so I've been playing Mafia 2. It still looks surprisingly good despite being 6 years old, it oozes atmosphere and has loads of personality. I have about 5 or 6 hours with the game so far, I've hit some frustrating missions(love getting gang raped by a horde of cops right out of the gate) here and there and it crashed a couple of times.(fixed the crashing by running in Win7 compatibility mode, I'm on Win10) Otherwise, the combat is merely okay I wouldn't get the game if you want thrilling gunfights and things like that, the voice acting is great, vehicles are fun to drive especially with simulation mode turned on, the sounds of the city... the music... and the vehicles are all spot on and beautiful. The biggest, absolute biggest mark against the game is obviously the open world. It does nothing with it, it's more of a wide open stage for the story to take place on. There's no side missions and no activities... there's some fun collectibles(vintage Playboy mags!) to hunt down but that's about it. It doesn't bother me THAT much but I'm just laying it out there for potential players that want GTA in the 40s.(get The Saboteur if you want that maybe) The game has a great story so far and that's definitely enough to keep me playing it, I'm not sure what to expect with the DLC missions, perhaps someone can chime in there.
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Oct 5, 2016 23:41
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SilentW posted:There are currently a BUNCH of prerelease streams up on Twitch and Youtube, if anyone's interested in spoilers I'd say make sure to turn off chat since the exact kind of stream monster you would think is showing in force in many of them, but quite frankly that should be the default reaction no matter what.
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Oct 6, 2016 00:25
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Deakul posted:In preparation for this, I never played 2 but I played the first game to death, so I've been playing Mafia 2.
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Oct 6, 2016 02:31
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Deakul posted:The biggest, absolute biggest mark against the game is obviously the open world. It does nothing with it, it's more of a wide open stage for the story to take place on. There's no side missions and no activities... there's some fun collectibles(vintage Playboy mags!) to hunt down but that's about it. It doesn't bother me THAT much but I'm just laying it out there for potential players that want GTA in the 40s.(get The Saboteur if you want that maybe) Jimmy's Vendetta is literally the side content stripped out of the game by the publisher, which is why the open world is so worthless. I never played any of the DLC though. Everything you've said about Mafia 2 is true. It's absolutely beautiful at selling atmosphere and story. Just expect the open world to waste your time at points.
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Oct 6, 2016 02:35
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LA Noire had the same problem. Gigantic city that there was no reason to explore. Made even more useless through having your partner able to taxi you around.
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Oct 6, 2016 02:38
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LA Noire's problem was that it tried to be a GTA clone when it should have been more like an adventure game.
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Oct 6, 2016 02:40
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ZombyDog posted:Joe's Adventure features is his story line picking up while Vito is serving time, and to be honest I started it, never really got very far into it because I wasn't really compelled to follow what happened to Joe during this period, and knowing what happens to him at the end of Mafia II. I don't think it was necessary for the main story line and would have disrupted the narrative flow had it not been pulled out of the game and sold as DLC. Jimmy's Vendetta is something again I've not really gotten into but it's mini mission icons that are scattered all over the map that you get graded on time and performance ( kill streaks, head shots and that kind of thing ). I finished Joe's Adventures yesterday. It was great revisiting the world, I'm still surprised at how detailed it is. The open world is empty but I enjoy just driving around in it with the speed limiter on. I also like the relative realism of it. Cops will react to speeding or hitting traffic, for instance, but won't pull out their guns. Instead they'll attempt to give you a fine (but you can also pretty easily loose them if your wanted level is low). I hope 3 keeps some of that, though I don't count on it. That said, the DLC is effectively four "real" story missions, in new locations with cutscenes. The rest are set in the open world. A lot of them are fun but they're pretty bare-bones and feel like padding. Also the story is told through images with text before each mission. Maybe it's easier if you play it right after or during the main game but I couldn't follow what was happening at all or who was who. Anyway, the DLC sated my acute want for more Mafia for now, but I'm looking forward to impressions of this come tomorrow!
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Oct 6, 2016 09:35
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I like the launch trailer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNiHOpHbCzM Also, early GAF and Reddit impressions suggest a good but very repetitive game, which I'm personally okay with. e: Screenshotted the PC settings menu from an early stream. Looks fine to me. 
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Oct 6, 2016 13:12
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Even if the game is garbage I hope they release the song soon.
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Oct 6, 2016 13:13
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kuroiXiru posted:Looks fine to me. Yeah max fps of 30 is fine Hold delete to whistle, nice Jusupov fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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Oct 6, 2016 13:33
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Ripped from one of those comments on Gaf. quote:mission structure is insanely repetitive. Also, talks of major pop in. I play these games for the story, but Mafia 1 and 2 had mission variation which was awesome. I cannot imagine all they did was put kill missions into the game all drat game. Is the PC version locked at 30fps?? Edit: With that said I cannot believe I just read a thread on loving Neogaf. Utnayan fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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Oct 6, 2016 14:48
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Utnayan posted:Is the PC version locked at 30fps?? According to twitch streamers, yeah. Luckily, the human eye can only se 
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Oct 6, 2016 15:07
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The side missions are kill everyone. Hopefully the main missions aren't. Also, I noticed some HORRIFIC pop-in in several pre-release gameplay videos but figured it'd be fixed by release. Guess not.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:08
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Updated the OP a bit. Game unlocks for me on steam in one hour (Eastern Australia) and it is not a global launch, it seems. So I removed the times which I added to the OP because they are now wrong. Apparently the day zero patch is around 1gb, but I'm not 100% sure on that, so decrypting and updating might take a little while for some people. Someone was saying 30fps is locked for the pre-release versions the streamers got an hour or three ago, but I have no clue if that is true or not. We'll have to wait it seems. I saw a picture, the physical PC release has 6 CDs. hah.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:08
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:The side missions are kill everyone. Hopefully the main missions aren't. There's apparently a 2 GB+ day one patch. Hopefully that smooths some things out.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:11
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Xeremides posted:According to twitch streamers, yeah. LOL. I was fired up to check this out on PC this time around since I just replaced by 770 with a 1070. Will see if that is being fixed with the day one patch, if not, that's just crap.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:14
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I'm actually rather excited that even though the game has technical problems and possibly suffers from repetitiveness the writing has universal praise. I can easily forgive repetitive gameplay if the writing is good.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:20
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I spent 10 dollars to get a decent story so I'm good with that.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:22
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Accordion Man posted:I'm actually rather excited that even though the game has technical problems and possibly suffers from repetitiveness the writing has universal praise. I can easily forgive repetitive gameplay if the writing is good. Mafia games have always been well written. However, it is good that is being touted as good considering Daniel Vavra left the company in utter disgust after they slashed half of Mafia 2 for DLC. Once he left, that was the main concern I had with Mafia 3 development. I am happy to see the new writer(s) are doing well here. Sounds like they could have invested in some actual game play designers however and character skill building. They need to address the 60fps issue and the day one patch better resolve the pop in issues as well.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:29
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kuroiXiru posted:I like the launch trailer That is a v good trailer. The early impressions are about what I expected, glad to hear it gets more varied the longer you play though. Disappointed in the lack of HUD options, I have noticed that your screen gets loving bombarded with poo poo.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:38
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Utnayan posted:They need to address the 60fps issue and the day one patch better resolve the pop in issues as well. According to one of the streamers, they talked to a dev who appeared surprised by the lock so it's likely a bug.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:51
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Mokinokaro posted:According to one of the streamers, they talked to a dev who appeared surprised by the lock so it's likely a bug. By the same token, if the dev was surprised then the bug probably won't be fixed by the day one patch.
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Oct 6, 2016 15:53
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New nvidia drivers are now out. Also, drat you steam, I thought the game was unlocking 15 minutes ago because the store page said "This game will unlock in approximately an hour' for the whole previous hour, then of course switched over to 'This game will unlock in approximately less than an hour' this hour. Just have a countdown timer. bleh. Oh well, I have Friday off anyway so starting to play a little after 3am is fine by me.
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Oct 6, 2016 16:16
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I've tried looking and looking and haven't found any evidence of motorcycles in the game, anyone know if they're in?
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Oct 6, 2016 16:38
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drunkill posted:New nvidia drivers are now out. Also, drat you steam, I thought the game was unlocking 15 minutes ago because the store page said "This game will unlock in approximately an hour' for the whole previous hour, then of course switched over to 'This game will unlock in approximately less than an hour' this hour. Just have a countdown timer. bleh. Oh well, I have Friday off anyway so starting to play a little after 3am is fine by me. Boy they did a ton to optimize for Mafia 3. quote:Added or updated 3DV profile.
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Oct 6, 2016 16:40
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Mokinokaro posted:According to one of the streamers, they talked to a dev who appeared surprised by the lock so it's likely a bug. https://twitter.com/Totalbiscuit/status/784079131088650241 Hmm.. okay. And let's just go check on those Steam revie... yep, no surprises there. 
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Oct 6, 2016 19:07
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They really need to start delaying these games on PC if they can't get an acceptable product out the door at the same time as the console versions. Rushing it out isn't worth the terrible press and refunds.
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Oct 6, 2016 19:09
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Oct 6, 2016 19:11
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Inkel posted:Hmm.. okay. And let's just go check on those Steam revie... yep, no surprises there. Yep, TB's minions are working overtime as usual.
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Oct 6, 2016 19:11
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Yeah so with that said above with the PC version this sums it up pretty well. 1) PC version sucks. Lots of crashes, 30 Fps, even a lot of frame hitching has been reported. (After day one patch) 2) Xbox One version sucks. 720p without dynamic scaling and doesn't even hit 30 Fps most of the time. 3) PS4 version is 1080p at 30 FPS and so far so good. If you own all three devices for gaming, the PS4 version seems to be the way to go this round until patches hit the PC version. And now we also know why they held back the review copies. Not a shocker. Looks like the PS4 version for me unless I hear differently from the masses.
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Oct 6, 2016 19:14
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I'm still not sure how people feel more than "drat, that sucks" when a game isn't at 60. I prefer it a lot but it's not going to ruin my day if it's locked to lower, just ends up being a checkmark in the negative column instead of "Game Ruining poo poo".
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Oct 6, 2016 19:16
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