Mafia III Pre-order

[Grim.Reaper]

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.

Wish I could, but since not available anymore besides through ebay and such, likely won't happen....just too lazy for physical game shipments:)

[undercovergeek]

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?

Meanwhile at RPS..................

John Walker says:

My issue is that the game fails to realistically capture the severity and ubiquity of racism at the time.


09/10/2016 at 12:19 Bum Candy says:

I'm not really sure how you can make it any clearer. It was clear from the article anyway. The use of racial epithets being exclusive to the bad guys plays down the racial element and makes it seem like it was exclusive to bad people and not endemic in the society as a whole.
   

09/10/2016 at 20:00 pepperfez says:

I think the problem some people are having is that they really believe racism is the exclusive province of cartoon villains. Certainly not something that decent upstanding people like them could be guilty of, anyway.

09/10/2016 at 18:57 TheRealHankHill says:

So you want 3 podunk back woods Klansmen to decapitate some poor young black man after dragging him behind their truck for miles just to be "accurate?" Theres no way to "accurately" represent racism in a video game. You would have to make an entire game solely based on racism, and even then you wouldn't even have scratched the surface. Y'all haven't actually EXPERIENCED these issues in these areas, lots of us have. Including that stuff in a game not about it would feel like it is cheapening the situation to me, having some southern belle calling a man negro boy or n1gger is less ham fisted.

They cant help themselves, it started last night as a review in progress with 20 comments about gameplay, it now has a further 201 comments about misrepresented black females - i know im taking the far less intellectual route, but for fucks sake, play a game, shoot people and drive cars you moaning asshats

[Grim.Reaper]

This stuff just must be over my head since not at all while playing the game did I stop and think about any if this....simply was playing a game

[undercovergeek]

This stuff just must be over my head since not at all while playing the game did I stop and think about any if this....simply was playing a game

exactly my point Grim

[JudgeDredd]

...for fucks sake, play a game, shoot people and drive cars

Exactly what I am doing

...you moaning asshats

OI!  >:D

[Grim.Reaper]

Certainly getting destroyed in reviews....55 from reviewers and 3.1 from gamers.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/mafia-iii

[Grim.Reaper]

I decided to restart over so I could really pay attention to things and just had a really good time completing one of the missions....I won't spoil things, but it is a mission that happens in a swamp and you basically have to clear a camp of bad guys.  First time I played through, I was Rambo and just shot up the camp...it was pure chaos.  However this time through, I went super stealth...cleared the camp largely without firing a shot, really was nice sneaking around and taking out each person.  Also saw something funny....after I disposed of the guards, I moved their body and threw into the swamp to conceal them....all of a sudden heard some thrashing behind me, turned around and an alligator was having fun eating the body!

Still having a good time, regardless of what the reviews say, but of course way early....

[JudgeDredd]

Yeah - the Haitians. Good mission. I started low key and went loud when I was spotted.

I wondered what the water noises were around me when I threw a body in...I thought it was some physics glitch where the body was turning around in the water...couldn't find the body. Next one I threw in, I stayed and watched and I saw these red eyes coming towards me and then the body being dragged away by a big MF croc.

[Tpek]

I'm quite enjoying the game at the moment.

Also, LoL at collecting PB magazines and having some of their pics (the not-full-nudity ones).

[Grim.Reaper]

Yeah - the Haitians. Good mission. I started low key and went loud when I was spotted.

I wondered what the water noises were around me when I threw a body in...I thought it was some physics glitch where the body was turning around in the water...couldn't find the body. Next one I threw in, I stayed and watched and I saw these red eyes coming towards me and then the body being dragged away by a big MF croc.

Yep, fun stuff.....I really enjoyed being stealth this time around and glad to see multiple ways to comp,eye missions.  This time looking around for collectibles and trying to fully take in the experience...good stuff.

[JudgeDredd]

Now I've played some and went a read/watched a few reviews, I honestly can't criticise the reviews. I think they're spot on with a couple of things...specifically

• Sub par graphics
• Very limited open world - it's annoying there are so many buildings and they're almost all closed

I'm not far enough to agree with mediocre, repetitive and boring missions.

However - again, Mafia is about the story and how it's told and for that, I still have to give it top marks...so far.

[Tpek]

^Graphics ain't all that bad.
People are just exaggerating, mostly because of the FPS lock that was in the original release (pre-patches).

[JudgeDredd]

No - the graphics are quite bad  :)

[Tpek]

No - the graphics are quite bad  :)

What are you playing the game on?
I might not be such a modern day graphics ho', but I still care somewhat about graphics, and this game looks fine.

[Grim.Reaper]

For me they are perfectly fine, but likely not at the same level as some other recent modern games.  But has not factored in at all in my satisfaction of the game.