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Mafia Trilogy

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    #272
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,816 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Perhaps the game is a bit too linear though. The graphics are stunning so it seems like a waste of a beautiful open world
    Well, it's still a 2002 game at its core, that was a time when games were linear and open world was not a thing :)


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    #273
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    The Phantom Pain wrote: »
    It's also a remake coming out on the tail end of a current gen console that can add anything it wants .

    Theres open-world stuff in Free ride.


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    #274
    JimBurnley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭JimBurnley


    Thought 1 was great, finished it in a week, excellent tight story with fun n varied missions.

    Put on 2 tonight, felt like a huge step back. Controls are rotten, animations are janky, and it all seems off somehow. Is it worth sticking with it? Story does have something to it to make me want to give it a little more time, though it's definitely cheesier than 1's story.


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    #275
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    JimBurnley wrote: »
    Thought 1 was great, finished it in a week, excellent tight story with fun n varied missions.

    Put on 2 tonight, felt like a huge step back. Controls are rotten, animations are janky, and it all seems off somehow. Is it worth sticking with it? Story does have something to it to make me want to give it a little more time, though it's definitely cheesier than 1's story.

    I got used to the jank. It has a great story with great characters well worth the playthrough.


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    #276
    Jordan 199
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    Temptamperu wrote: »
    Playing Mafia 3 right now finished 1 and 2. Its not as much fun.
    I found 3 to be a drag. Cracking tunes on the radio though.


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    #277
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    The Phantom Pain wrote: »
    Beyond collectibles, I mean. Maybe a clothes store, bars and restaurants you can eat in, some activities etc. It doesn't have to be too much but I felt like Mafia II got the linearity and openness balance right. A lot of the time in the remake the game outright yells at you for moving outside the mission vicinity.

    I do like the variety of the missions and I'm interested to find out what happens next. It's just this is one of the most impressive open world games I've seen this gen and I often stop to look around. Just feel like it's wasted somehwat.

    You can change clothes upstairs in Salieri's bar. There's missions that unlock more clothes and there's hidden cars hidden around the map but its all in Free Ride mode.


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    #278
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,816 ✭✭✭Cordell


    The world is open only in the sense that you can drive anywhere, but it's also empty, all the buildings are just shells, they don't have an interior except those featured in the main campaign. Maybe someday we'll have an open world, open ended sandbox Mafia game, where you can be friendly, enemy or neutral with other groups, mobs or crime families, that will be a proper open world game.


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    #279
    martyos121
    Registered Users Posts: 21,349 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    Cordell wrote: »
    The world is open only in the sense that you can drive anywhere, but it's also empty, all the buildings are just shells, they don't have an interior except those featured in the main campaign. Maybe someday we'll have an open world, open ended sandbox Mafia game, where you can be friendly, enemy or neutral with other groups, mobs or crime families, that will be a proper open world game.

    Aren’t you pretty much describing the Godfather game there? Really good in its day but I’m not sure if it still holds up.


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    #280
    Cordell
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    Could be, I never played that one. Well, maybe it's time for a new one :)


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    #281
    Smiles35
    Registered Users Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Smiles35


    JimBurnley wrote: »
    Thought 1 was great, finished it in a week, excellent tight story with fun n varied missions.

    Put on 2 tonight, felt like a huge step back. Controls are rotten, animations are janky, and it all seems off somehow. Is it worth sticking with it? Story does have something to it to make me want to give it a little more time, though it's definitely cheesier than 1's story.


    I liked it to the end. What I had was was pair of sony in ear headphones. I reccomend something similar as your nearly ''there'' for the amazing historical musical switch from The Andrews Sisters to Blues.


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    #282
    JimBurnley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭JimBurnley


    Smiles35 wrote: »
    I liked it to the end. What I had was was pair of sony in ear headphones. I reccomend something similar as your nearly ''there'' for the amazing historical musical switch from The Andrews Sisters to Blues.

    Stuck with M2 and delighted I did. I stand by my comments on the controls, but got used to them after a few more missions. Both the story and mission variety are excellent, and agree the music is outstanding, especially when the early rock n roll type stuff era starts.

    So just a few missions from the end now, is the DLC any good?


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    #283
    Zero-Cool
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    JimBurnley wrote: »
    Stuck with M2 and delighted I did. I stand by my comments on the controls, but got used to them after a few more missions. Both the story and mission variety are excellent, and agree the music is outstanding, especially when the early rock n roll type stuff era starts.

    So just a few missions from the end now, is the DLC any good?

    Joe's Adventure definitely worth playing as it bridges a gap in the main story. The other is fun of you're still looking for mafia action at that.


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    #284
    Wuff Wuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Wuff Wuff


    Finished the first one tonight, loved the story

    Gonna get cracking on the second one now,


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    #285
    brady12
    Registered Users Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭brady12


    Wuff Wuff wrote: »
    Finished the first one tonight, loved the story

    Gonna get cracking on the second one now,

    About to finish first one . Once I got past the clunky controls I loved it . Great story and setting . First time playing any mafia game . Would you recommend second one ? Is it a good remaster ?


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    #286
    Sephiroth_dude
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    brady12 wrote: »
    About to finish first one . Once I got past the clunky controls I loved it . Great story and setting . First time playing any mafia game . Would you recommend second one ? Is it a good remaster ?

    I found it fierce janky in places, it has not aged well, I was down the docks doing a mission late on in the game and my car kept appearing on the stairs out of the warehouse blocking my access out of it, weird stuff like that would happen but the story is great and seeing as you've played the first you may as well continue on with the second.


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    #287
    Wuff Wuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Wuff Wuff


    brady12 wrote: »
    About to finish first one . Once I got past the clunky controls I loved it . Great story and setting . First time playing any mafia game . Would you recommend second one ? Is it a good remaster ?

    I'm up to chapter 10 on the second one, enjoying it so far

    Finding the controls and shooting etc easier than the first and less clunky tbh


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    #288
    Sexual Chocolate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Sexual Chocolate


    Wuff Wuff wrote: »
    I'm up to chapter 10 on the second one, enjoying it so far

    Finding the controls and shooting etc easier than the first and less clunky tbh

    And you also get to carry more guns too.


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    #289
    Wuff Wuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Wuff Wuff


    Sexual Chocolate wrote: »
    And you also get to carry more guns too.

    DLC extras are supposed to be quite good in it too


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    #290
    goon_magee
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    Currently playing through the second game now myself and agree with those above who have said they rather the controls of the second game.

    Animations are obviously quite dated, but as for the actual controls themselves, I find them far more responsive, with the shooting mechanics putting the remake of the first game to shame IMO. Mafia 1 felt overly floaty both in terms of general movement and shooting. I get that they were going for a weighty/realistic feel, but even just walking, or trying to aim a gun left me feeling like I was wading through mud at times.

    I still really enjoyed the remake that being said, but just felt it controlled horribly.


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    #291
    Wuff Wuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Wuff Wuff


    up as far as the mission that links 2 back to 1,

    superb stuff


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    #292
    Wuff Wuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Wuff Wuff


    Finished the 2 Jimmy DLCs and started on Joe's adventures now, seems better than the other 2 so far

    Getting good value out of the trilogy tbf and still have 3 and it's DLC to play


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    #293
    Wuff Wuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Wuff Wuff


    And finished Mafia 3 now,

    Not a bad game imo, just a bit repetitive

    Got nearly 2 months entertainment out of the trilogy though so money we'll spent


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    #294
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users Posts: 11,673 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    The music in Mafia 3 is excellent.


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    #295
    Wuff Wuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Wuff Wuff


    Jordan 199 wrote: »
    The music in Mafia 3 is excellent.

    yep added the playlist to my spotify library haha


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    #296
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users Posts: 11,673 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    Wuff Wuff wrote: »
    yep added the playlist to my spotify library haha

    BTW, were you Born on the Bayou? ;)


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