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Mafia 3 Early Copies Impressions
- Thread starter dex3108
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Yeah, this is a pass, or wait for a sale for me. The streams on Twitch saved me from making a day one mistake.
watching.. the console version looks... not so good.
watching.. the console version looks... not so good.
Sounds like they're gated by some open world 'do some side missions for the region' sort of things.
A Redditor suggested that this eases off in the games latter half/act though.
I'm currently trying to push through Mad Max so that I can free up HDD space and download Mafia 3.
It has its moments, but on the whole I'm finding it very un-fun. It has this weirdly slow pace, floaty controls, OK but repetitive brawling. The writing is bad. The world is utterly gorgeous. But I feel like it's a slog travelling from corner to corner of the map just to mainline the story. I've started completely ignoring Scrap. It's so useless and frustrating finding all the scrap in all the corners of each base. There's nothing meaningful about that gameplay loop.
I still like the game but the more I play it the more it's annoying me. The tiny snippets I've seen of Mafia 3 look way, way more compelling.
brokenbeans
Banned
Will pass I don't like being forced to do side quest stuff just to progress the main story it reeks of filler content.
The story sounds like the dead-cert thing so far, even if the mission gating might mess with the pacing.
Sounds like they went all-in with the writing after Mafia 2, which was a very solid showing.
Hierophant
Banned
all the impressions i've seen talk about how good the story is so i'm excited
ISee
Member
ElzarTheBam
Member
Watched the first 10 minutes only.
The intro, the language, the brutality. The era.
Delicious.
comshoplesce
Member
40 quid is too expensive for me atm, will wait till it drops, but have too many games to finish.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Yes, it will. Watch Dogs 1 sold ~10 million copies and when they get going Ubi's marketing is the best in the industry. I expect lifetime sales of WD2 will be in the 12-14 million range.
People like CohhCarnage got review copy from 2K / devs so they are playing on PC early, before NZ and Australia where game unlocks on PC first.
Edit: First full on racist in Cohh's chat? He doesn't go into sub mode easily.
letmetrythisname
Member
The Reddit impressions thing seems indicative of everything I feared the game would be: another repetitive open-world game. I'm honestly even more burned out on open-world action games than I was on WWII games in the early/mid-2000s.
Gamezone
Gold Member
Terrible side quests are the worst thing about open world games for sure.
Lightning Count
Member
Ok I am about two hours in. Some things I have picked up on. Overall I am enjoying but a few nitpicks.
A lot of the backstory is told in vignette form like clips from a documentary mixed in with game play. A novel approach but one which may not be for everybody.
Screen is quite cluttered, with HUD, speedometer, objectives and mini map.
On screen prompts for basic actions which are both annoying and hard to spot in some dark scenes.
Tons of canned dialogue from enemies in combat. Including them announcing when they are reloading, out of ammo, throwing a molotov, feels a bit out if place for the time period. One enemy yelled out "It's shotgun time!" as he charged out of a hiding spot.
Oh great a one button counter for melee like the Arkham games, I personally hate this dumbing down of melee combat which is a trend these days.
A lot of the backstory is told in vignette form like clips from a documentary mixed in with game play. A novel approach but one which may not be for everybody.
Screen is quite cluttered, with HUD, speedometer, objectives and mini map.
On screen prompts for basic actions which are both annoying and hard to spot in some dark scenes.
Tons of canned dialogue from enemies in combat. Including them announcing when they are reloading, out of ammo, throwing a molotov, feels a bit out if place for the time period. One enemy yelled out "It's shotgun time!" as he charged out of a hiding spot.
Oh great a one button counter for melee like the Arkham games, I personally hate this dumbing down of melee combat which is a trend these days.
Nameless
Member
I'm interested in seeing how far the a.i. and sandbox systems go. Garbage side quest and collect-a-thons(though here...) are easy to ignore when you have plenty of room to 'make your own fun'. That's where GTA has always soared compared to its clones.
Lightning Count
Member
Also the weather system is incredibly distracting I stood in one spot for about a minute and it went like this.
Beaming sunshine.
Light cloud.
Beaming sunshine.
Heavy dark clouds.
Light cloud.
Beaming sunshine.
It feels like the sky box is scrolling far too fast.
Beaming sunshine.
Light cloud.
Beaming sunshine.
Heavy dark clouds.
Light cloud.
Beaming sunshine.
It feels like the sky box is scrolling far too fast.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Is there anywhere to get this cheaper on PC? Lowest I've found is £28.99 which is a bit too expensive for me.
Cool might VPN it then so i can play later if that work with this.
Lightning Count
Member
Double post.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Oh for fuck sake, if that's true they've just completely killed the game for me, there's no way I'm buying a 30fps locked game on PC.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
That's what I'm doing 👀
User 479360
Banned
I'm jealous. I've been waiting for this game for so long. Since I finished the great Mafia II campaign and second DLC pack.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Even Ubi games I'm not excited for go on to sell gangbusters, (The Crew). It's like some voodoo magic with their franchises, (also helps that the games are usually good). Like remember when people thought the Division would flop?
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Oh for fucks sake
Yeah I noticed that but I thought it may be good info here for anyone who missed that other thread and pre orders based on other positive impressions.
Lightning Count
Member
Pretty average a lot of bloody spray, but no limbs severed or anything like that.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Glad you did, I missed the other thread and was about to buy a shoddy console port at full price so thanks for saving me from that.
semiconscious
Member
...DO you hear that hit sounds? like this "chirp, chirp, chirp" little sounds when a bullet hits like in CoD or Uncharted 4 Multiplayer?
ZombieSupaStar
Member
I liked mad max, I can't disagree with the negatives against it (Ubisoft tower game design etc) but the look, the theme, and the first time you see a storm roll on you, I don't know it just worked for me.
Still in for mafia 3, nothing, nothing will hurt more than buying the ultimate edition of battlefront on PC did, lol.
Oh sorry, I thought you meant here as in on neogaf. My mistake.
Lightning Count
Member
More like a wet thump when bullets hit flesh.
You're not going to get find anything cheaper than a resold retail key at this juncture.
OverBlood 3
Banned
Just installing it now. Really happy Simulation driving mode is in.
User 479360
Banned
What's the file size?
EDIT: Oh, 43gb. Great...
EDIT: Oh, 43gb. Great...