Current Events > ITT: Mafia 3 is played (spoilers)

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Had this game for months but never really went into it. Now that I'm clearing some backlog stuff, I'mma dive into this Sixties-era shooter. The first thing that strikes me is how good the soundtrack is already -- it even has Hendrix playing on the title screen. Remember the days when Guitar Hero couldn't even secure the rights to lesser Hendrix songs? Seems like fifty years ago.
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lmao, I literally JUST got that achievement in the first bayou mission. Although in stealth games, I do enjoy covering my tracks by throwing corpses off cliffs, throwing 'em into water, etc. The villages downstream in MGS3 must've had a morgue full of my work, haha.
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I forgot about that game. I was hyped for it back then too.
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It can get little monotonous at times, but I really enjoyed mafia 3. I had fun planning different ways to kill everyone. My favorite was sneaking up behind someone, aim at them, whistle at them to get their attention, and then shoot them when they turn around and notice me.

The story, setting, and sound track are great.
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Maybe fighting's been a little basic so far, but it's been fun. Anyone know if the DLC's any good?
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Great gunplay but gets pretty repetitive. The DLC introduces some pretty good new activities to help switch things up a bit
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lmao @ these security guards walking toward a covered enemy and randomly firing their pistol

Gonna be fun taking down these Barney Fife-lookin' suckers.
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lmao, how could that Italian guy mess up a point-blank betrayal headshot? It's gonna be fun dismantling him, piece by piece.
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Cleared out a few parishes today. The game can definitely get repetitive without fast travel, but the overall plot of just gunning for mobsters is okay. The worst thing so far is carrying about 15 bullets for two guns and having to switch on the fly -- it's kinda ridiculous for an ex-military guy to be so strapped all the time. (I know there's some perk to increase it, but it shouldn't be so small in the first place.)
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Tony: Kill me, no one will even notice.
Lincoln: (throwing him out window) You're wrong. Everyone will notice.

lmao

I gotta say, while the game's repetition definitely wears thin, the dialogue and story missions aren't too shabby at all.
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Damn, Lincoln burned that klansman bigwig on a fiery cross. Even managed to 'nade some of the hooded stooges before they scattered, too. Whatever faults the game has, it definitely isn't shy about doing stuff like this.
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The first DLC is great. The other two are decent. They all add new activities.

Pot grow house for first DLC, bounty hunting for second DLC, and fixing up Sammy's place for third DLC.
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I tried playing the demo for that game a few months back and it was completely fucked to shit. Shame because I adored Mafia 2 back when it came out
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Up to the casino mission. Might as well do it since I don't believe I can get the "$10000 underboss earn" trophy this playthrough (I distributed districts evenly). Man, I really wish there was some fast travel, even if it was just to the bayou. I don't want to drive almost 5000m at times just to reach there, kill dudes for twenty seconds, then drive all the way back.

CelestialVoices posted...

I tried playing the demo for that game a few months back and it was completely f***ed to s***.

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Shotgunnova posted...

CelestialVoices posted...
I tried playing the demo for that game a few months back and it was completely f***ed to s***.
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The game was super glitchy on release, which is part of why it got mediocre reviews. I remember one mission where you have to drive an NPC someplace where either I or the NPC just was unable to actually get in the car.
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Dunno how the demo fared since released, but the game itself plays pretty well. I've had a few crashes and a little glitchiness, but the game autosaves on every little thing, so you rarely lose anything important.
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I remember some things visually being completely broken and some essential bits of info or items plain not showing up, and that aside it ran pretty terribly in general. I don't remember specifically what it was but essentially I was unable to progress, gave up and deleted the demo
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There are some... questionable design choices in the game, for sure.
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Some weird things off the top of my head:

- Wiretapping costs three fuses
- You can only carry two guns: a sidearm and a rifle/shotgun/etc.
- The last (non-mission) car you entered becomes "your car" in terms of spawning with you
- No options menu on title screen, only in-game, and only after navigating a menu to find it (the hell?)

- Whistling through walls makes things way too easy. In areas where you need to kill a heavily guarded target, you can circle a building so he's the nearest to the whistle, thus luring him outside without any real danger.

- Occasionally weird navigation planning for cars (like displaying suggested routes). I especially remember stealing some type of marijuana truck for a getaway, when it suggested the lumbering vehicle try to make some type of road-spanning Dukes of Hazard jump. I flipped the car and failed the mission, lmao.
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There are impenetrable "tree barriers" that you can't go through. And the AI is just stupid.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about those trees. In fact, there's a lot of stupid barriers like that. I especially hate the fences that are 2 millimeters too high for Lincoln, or have those decorative spikes, or small ledges you can't climb up for some unknown reason. These all make navigating the downtown areas pretty annoying, since the apartments and yards are packed like sardines.

As for the AI, yeah, it wasn't that great. Even if you take out the whistling stuff, it's pretty easy to bottleneck the opponents. I especially hated those shotgunners who'd constantly try to flank you or generally rush right toward you, making you waste time blindfiring and stuff.

Anyway, just beat the game. I wanted to do the "take the throne" ending, but I accidentally left town. Oh well. It was interesting how Donovan linked that one senator to JFK's assassination, though.
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