Thread 717936376

This game has been out for days now and I haven't heard anything about it.

Does it suck? Is it good?

>>717936376 (OP)
It's fucking boring not even worth getting cracked

>>717936376 (OP)
rehash of the first game
literally the same missions

>>717936376 (OP)
it's pretty bad

>>717937657
pretty much but with much worse pacing

>>717937657
I never played the first one, is it worth checking out or nah?

>>717936781
Cope poorfag.

>>717940157
yeah it's good and even the remake is half decent

>>717938863
yeah the pacing is terrible

>>717940230
?

>>717940230
>poorfag projecting

>>717940230
You didn't buy it either.

The funny thing is that the game is, on paper, literally everything that /v/ asks for in a game
>Cool, new setting for a video game
>White, straight male protagonist
>Cute and wholesome love interest
>Traditional crime story with no Whedon quips or Millennial writing, the game takes itself 100% dead seriously at all times
>No slop open world with Ubisoft towers and a million checklist activities
>Just a pure focused experience for the player
>No multiplayer, GAAS, battle pass, FOMO or any shit like that

So why the fuck are you playing Uma Musume instead?

>>717940157
og yes
remake is decent but it feels too americanized at times. take the first mission for example. in the og you are followed by one car of bad guys and to escape you need your own driving skills to do so. in the remake you are followed by like 10 cars that each crash out one by one in a cutscenes where you break some traffic cone and the enemy car bursts into flames

>>717940591
Because I bought the collection on PS4 and it was shit. 1 was okay but the gameplay was ass. 2 fell apart the farther you got ahead, and 3 was just repetitive nonsense. Never playing Mafia again.

>>717936376 (OP)
I enjoyed it. The music and vibes are top notch. ENG voice acting is great for the most part. I did try it in Sicilian afterwards but it's not mixed properly and and some of the performances are lacking. Overall a great game well worth the price I paid for it. The ending did kind of sour things though.

>>717936376 (OP)
I liked it, not every game has to be some bloated 60 hour mess. Gameplay was OK, the story was enjoyable
Worst part is shitty unreal engine optimization

>>717941114
>not every game has to be some bloated 60 hour mess

and not every game has to be 8-9 hours with a 3-4 hour tutorial before you even touch a gun in a game called MAFIA

>>717941386
what the fuck were they thinking?

>hangar 13 with much less people than they had when they made that shitshow mafia 3
>rushed 3 year development cycle

not surprised it's shit - the ai and bugs would made bethesda blush

I think the big issue with Old Country's pacing is that there should have been another section of the game before the last few chapters where Enzo actually starts to like being in the gang. Add some more gameplay stuff there like more collections, car/horse faces, bandit and other gang shootouts, etc.
Basically add a filler arc to give players a bit more of the gameplay before shit crashes down around everyone.

Denuvo = no buy
Even after it's removed I'll just get it from fitgirl

>>717940640
$50 game. 10 hours long. 5 hours are cut scenes. 5 hours of gameplay are basic bitch cover shooting with bad stealth. Not worth it. Maybe for $30.

The ending kind of ruins it

>>717940640
>>White, straight male protagonist
italians are not white

game plays itself
story sucks

the ai is broken just like mafia 3

>>717942294
>What if we le copied Red Dead 2?

Feels weird that they went backwards in time to Italy given that they were hinting that their next game would be in the Mafia equivalent of Las Vegas/Los Angeles

story and setting is very interesting
but it's not a video game

had i bought it on Steam, i would unfortunately give it a not recommend
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4YAxJ6oHc
Historian Prof. John Dickie Reacts to Mafia: The Old Country - Mafia Game Videos - 216K subscribers 76K views 3 weeks ago

>>717942737
>Throw a grenade into a group of enemies
>They loudly say "WATCH OUT A GRENADE!!"
>But don't actually move away from it or anything

>>717937657
it really is - even the stupid race at the start

>>717943017
god i hate these videos
fucking kill yourself shill

>Dont worry, mi amor. Your father will totally understand and allow me to marry you after I tell him I’ve been fucking you behind his back for the last three years
Was he stupid?

You can't really blame them for rehashing 1 when that is exactly what the fanbase asked for.
Everyone hated when they told a genuinely new story with 3 because it was too different and not Mafia enough. Now they complain that Old Country is just more Mafia.

What the fuck do you want exactly?

>>717941386
This your first game in the franchise huh? Sounds like youd like 3 more than the others

>>717943314
nigga in the first game (not remake) you start shooting within the first hour
in the second it's within the first half hour
if anything it takes the longest in 3

kill yourself you fucking retard

>>717943276
retard

>>717943495
You can't deny that 3 has the most "actual game" out of all the entries. The only thing that comes close is the DLC campaign for 2 that stars the bald guy and plays like GTA.

>>717940640
>>Cool, new setting for a video game
fucking mediterran map, it was done million times
>>White, straight male protagonist
italians are not white
>>Cute and wholesome love interest
she looks fucking dumb
>>Traditional crime story with no Whedon quips or Millennial writing, the game takes itself 100% dead seriously at all times
story is weak as fuck, almost like a parody
>>No slop open world with Ubisoft towers and a million checklist activities
this is true
>>Just a pure focused experience for the player
experience? What kind of experience? You either watch cutscenes, or need to kill shitton of NPCs by going from A to B
>>No multiplayer, GAAS, battle pass, FOMO or any shit like that
which mafia game had multiplayer before you retard

>>717943135
don't think i will

I liked 3

>>717944409
its okay to have shit taste

>>717944409
me toonuh ye

>>717944262
>which mafia game had multiplayer before you retard
how's that any kind of argument? you can always add new stuff

>the story sucks

Of course it sucks this series pretty much rips off every famous mafia movie in existence rarely putting its own unique spin on it.

>>717943495
Aww does zoomie need a diaper change

>>717943276
>you don't want a story about a guy killing mafia
>AND you don't want the story of 1 for the third time???
Well I can't possibly think of anything else other than those two options. Coming up with another story that's actually mafia related is impossible

>>717944409
I don't like Mafia III as a game but what it did for shitters makes it a net positive in my book.

>>717936376 (OP)
GO TO THE BATHROOM!

Forced tragedy.
>>717943272
>Was he stupid?
Yes. He was just a slave miner for most of his life and then immediately clung to the first woman he fucked.

>>717936376 (OP)
It's a movie game with shit gameplay. At the very least, the graphics are pretty.

The sad thing is that what happens is not really Enzo's fault ultimately. The plan goes wrong because Isabella is an idiot who confessed the whole thing during church, to a priest with close ties and proximity to the gang that she is trying to fool. Genuine total retard moment.
Tino was suspicious of Enzo from the beginning, but he only got concrete proof and the particulars of the escape plan after he tortured the info out of the priest.

>>717936376 (OP)
You barely play the game, just watch cutscenes after walking forward a few feet. Then it ends with a shitty forced tragedy. It's actually not worth playing.

>sicily is nothing but mafiosos and bandits

Is this accurate?

>>717947630
He barely even gains much by the end. Only thing that happens is he becomes capo in a crime family he wants to leave, which is meaningless. It's why the end feels retarded since it feels like barely anything happened and then he's suddenly dead.

Also, people claim it was written with ChatGPT or some LLM and I'm inclined to believe it, because when you read the official character bios, it has LLM slop all over it.

>>717936376 (OP)
It's alright. The story is decent enough to get immersed even though it's cliche and the performances are all decent to good. Game looks fucking great too. The problem is the samey gameplay. Basically you go from point A to B while a conversation plays, go through a mundane stealth section with nonsensical mechanics like ""Mafia vision""", and then have a janky knife fight. The gunplay actually feels decent but is barely used outside of 2 or 3 missions.
I wouldn't recommend spending 50 bucks on this game. Just watch it on YouTube if you like mafia shit. There's some cool characters and the game is pretty atmospheric if you're into that type of stuff, but it's incredibly short and most of its ~9 hour runtime is cutscenes. Fair enough if you buy it on sale for 10 bucks.

>>717948462
Forgot to add but Enzo is a pretty weak protagonist. Luca, Cesare, and the Don are cool though

>>717943495
3 has you using the best gun in the game literally immediately during the tutorial, which is what Old Country should have done; a knife fight, some shooting, then
>6 months before...
or however long. /v/ cant hang because the dude in 3 is a black but in every regard except narrative/theming it plays the best in the series, although I will say that ignoring all open world components and just fast traveling to each story mission asap is the best way to play 3

Aggressively mediocre and overpriced for what it offers. Seems the audience is agreement with this. The rating is slowly going down. It's at 71% and getting closer to being mixed review.

>>717948178
>It's why the end feels retarded since it feels like barely anything happened and then he's suddenly dead.
Exactly! Old Country really needed something like the "let the good times roll" montage to show that time has actually passed and he has some period of success before the fall.

Enzo's fall from grace doesn't work because he barely rises in the first place.