Mafia III Pre-order

[Grim.Reaper]

Saw post saying developers will have 1st patch posted by tonight (pacific time)....this includes the FPS fix, not sure what else might come with it....

[Grim.Reaper]

Patch out

[undercovergeek]

Savaged by rps - hope you guys are enjoying it

[Grim.Reaper]

Its a good thing that often my tastes go against reviewers:)  Don't get me wrong, this is not game of the year material and the graphics as I mentioned earlier are certainly not the same standards as other games, but I am still enjoying the heck out of it.  The AI may or may not be good, but I am not very good at these games so I likely wouldn't even be able to tell, in fact there already have been a number of missions where it took me many times to complete because of the AI getting me.  For me my expectations weren't through the roof, never expected it to be perfect and I knew it would roughly be like other games, but with a good story on a topic (Mafia) that I enjoy.   If you have different expectations and not interested in this type of story, then people should absolutely wait until there is a sale.

[JudgeDredd]

One mans wine is another mans poison.

It seems to borrow from other games - other good games to be fair.

I mentioned earlier that there's a bit of Saints Row in there and that's because as you go around, some red icons show which are "bad guys" and they are either on their "home turf" or aggravating someone....Saints Row definitely had the home turf gangs dotted around - though in this game taking them out doesn't make you the owner (at least, not yet).

Another example, is Junction Boxes. I've been running around and collecting electronic circuits. Hadn't got a clue what they were for or why I was collecting them. I then noticed somewhere an instruction to "tap in" to the area. I went looking and sure enough you use those electronic junction boxes to tap into the area and it seems they reveal things in the area - much the way the towers did in Far Cry 3 and 4.

Those are not bad things because they are both very good games but make no mistake - if you play this and you've played other FPS games in the last 5 years, you'll spot some similar mechanics.


I was playing the original Mafia last night (what a stonkingly good, atmospheric game) and you know what - it wasn't ground breaking in gameplay. It was set in the 30s. The music wasn't as diverse as in II or III, but it still really delved you into the era. Mafia II took it from the 30's to the 50s and added radio which gave an superb soundtrack.

There are some bugs to...I've had 3 CTDs, I've seen a floating shopping basket, there's a funny look to the vehicles - in fact, there's something about the graphics that make it look odd at times and I've messed around with the settings and can't seem to get rid of that "odd" look.

One other thing....WORK OUT THE KEYS before you patch. I just got used to the keys and then they went and changed them!


All that said - what makes the Mafia games for me is huge sprawling cities with great fantastic stories, superb soundtracks and incredible immersion in the era and so far, so good.


Oh, and I am very disappointed you can't have more than one profile.

[Grim.Reaper]

Oh, and I am very disappointed you can't have more than one profile.

Just curious what you meant by profile...do you mean having more than one save/story going on at the same time?

I am going to restart my own campaign with the patch out, plus I didn't pay much attention to collectibles and side quests so want to go back and make sure I can do it all....guess back to the soup kitchen:)

[JudgeDredd]

Oh, and I am very disappointed you can't have more than one profile.

Just curious what you meant by profile...do you mean having more than one save/story going on at the same time?

I am going to restart my own campaign with the patch out, plus I didn't pay much attention to collectibles and side quests so want to go back and make sure I can do it all....guess back to the soup kitchen:)

Yes - only one save. Restarting overwrites where you are - no ability to create a new profile.

[jamus34]

Oh, and I am very disappointed you can't have more than one profile.

Just curious what you meant by profile...do you mean having more than one save/story going on at the same time?

I am going to restart my own campaign with the patch out, plus I didn't pay much attention to collectibles and side quests so want to go back and make sure I can do it all....guess back to the soup kitchen:)

Yes - only one save. Restarting overwrites where you are - no ability to create a new profile.

Ah, one of the defining points of a shite port.

Glad you are at least enjoying the game though JD

[Jarhead0331]

Just tell me one thing...does the game try to be edgy and relevant by forcing upon the player a story laden with issues involving racial discrimination and cynical anti-war dogma?

[Grim.Reaper]

Oh, and I am very disappointed you can't have more than one profile.

Just curious what you meant by profile...do you mean having more than one save/story going on at the same time?

I am going to restart my own campaign with the patch out, plus I didn't pay much attention to collectibles and side quests so want to go back and make sure I can do it all....guess back to the soup kitchen:)

Yes - only one save. Restarting overwrites where you are - no ability to create a new profile.

Thanks....not a big fan of that but I guess to be honest at least with this game, not much of a chance I would be playing two different profiles anyway...but still would be a nice option.

[Grim.Reaper]

Just tell me one thing...does the game try to be edgy and relevant by forcing upon the player a story laden with issues involving racial discrimination and cynical anti-war dogma?

I may not have fully paid attention so far (mostly been playing to try things out), but whatever has been included has not distracted me from the main story line...the game certainly uses colorful language, talks about how certain races not welcome in places, and has some nudity, but don't recall much anti-war stuff...they certainly reference the war a bit, but seemed more about "what was it like over there"...I am going to be restarting since my first start up was just getting use to things, now I plan to fully pay attention to things.

[JudgeDredd]

Oh, and I am very disappointed you can't have more than one profile.

Just curious what you meant by profile...do you mean having more than one save/story going on at the same time?

I am going to restart my own campaign with the patch out, plus I didn't pay much attention to collectibles and side quests so want to go back and make sure I can do it all....guess back to the soup kitchen:)

Yes - only one save. Restarting overwrites where you are - no ability to create a new profile.

Thanks....not a big fan of that but I guess to be honest at least with this game, not much of a chance I would be playing two different profiles anyway...but still would be a nice option.

It's only an issue really for me because I have a daughter that will want to play it

[Grim.Reaper]

Oh, and I am very disappointed you can't have more than one profile.

Just curious what you meant by profile...do you mean having more than one save/story going on at the same time?

I am going to restart my own campaign with the patch out, plus I didn't pay much attention to collectibles and side quests so want to go back and make sure I can do it all....guess back to the soup kitchen:)

Yes - only one save. Restarting overwrites where you are - no ability to create a new profile.

Thanks....not a big fan of that but I guess to be honest at least with this game, not much of a chance I would be playing two different profiles anyway...but still would be a nice option.

It's only an issue really for me because I have a daughter that will want to play it

Good point, I am the only PC player on my computer so don't have those conflicts....

[JudgeDredd]

Just tell me one thing...does the game try to be edgy and relevant by forcing upon the player a story laden with issues involving racial discrimination and cynical anti-war dogma?

lol - that sounds too deep for me.

Certainly the police "awareness" level goes up as you go by. Also, I've been asked to leave an establishment (can't remember if it was a café or not).

But I genuinely don't know if there's any agenda there. The warning at the beginning of the game says it wants to accurately display the attitudes of the time - I haven't picked up too much on it in game apart from the police thing.

I don't recall anything anti-war thus far

[JudgeDredd]

By the way - I wanted to "live the Mafia experience" again and so restarted Mafia I - and I'm half way through it.

A word of warning for anyone wanting to go back to this amazing game. Whilst it is amazing, it's also very frustrating in places. Two examples are

• No difficulty setting - what you get is what you play
• Terrible waypoint saves
  Example - I had 5 health left and died - the game took me back to the last save which was where I was at the door with 5 health left - it was always going to go south everytime so I had to go back to another save

But those aside - the game is bloody fantastic.