Sepharo wrote on May 6, 2022, 00:56:

LOC wrote on May 5, 2022, 23:31:
I also recently re-played Mafia 3 and had quite a good time with it. It isn't some masterpiece of the open world genre mind you, but it is well made, the gameplay is good and it still looks quite good as well (on PC, dunno how it holds up on consoles, though I am playing the "remaster" they re-released) and I actually like the story quite a bit. It's a bit heavy handed at times, but that's fine in the end imo.

I liked the setting, and I think I would have liked the story too had I got further into it... but the gameplay was so fucking soulless.
I can't do the Far Crys / Assassin's Creeds etc. type open world anymore. As soon as it starts to feel even slightly repetitive (which is like outpost #2 in these kinds of games) I get sooo bored.

People complained about Mafia 2's open world being empty... but the rest of the gameplay and missions made up for it... whereas Mafia 3 had more stuff to do... but it was so formulaic and boring.

I agree, but I also enjoyed Mafia 3. It could have been so much more but the shooting mechanics, vehicles and graphics were satisfying enough to pull me along to the end. I think I even got most of the achievements. That isn't to say it wasn't a huge disappointment though. Mafia 1 was one of my favorite games for a while.

It reminds me a bit of Mad Max. Go to location, clear it out, repeat. Yet the world is pretty and different and the combat enjoyable enough that I couldn't put it down after a point until I got all the achievements.

As for this recent news. I am not sure how you make a prequel to three (mostly) different stories.

More like incoming turd. It's likely to include many 'hand-holding' antics for console kids and millenials.
None of the current new editions beat the original and M2.

LOC wrote on May 5, 2022, 23:31:
I also recently re-played Mafia 3 and had quite a good time with it. It isn't some masterpiece of the open world genre mind you, but it is well made, the gameplay is good and it still looks quite good as well (on PC, dunno how it holds up on consoles, though I am playing the "remaster" they re-released) and I actually like the story quite a bit. It's a bit heavy handed at times, but that's fine in the end imo.

I liked the setting, and I think I would have liked the story too had I got further into it... but the gameplay was so fucking soulless.
I can't do the Far Crys / Assassin's Creeds etc. type open world anymore. As soon as it starts to feel even slightly repetitive (which is like outpost #2 in these kinds of games) I get sooo bored.

People complained about Mafia 2's open world being empty... but the rest of the gameplay and missions made up for it... whereas Mafia 3 had more stuff to do... but it was so formulaic and boring.

I also recently re-played Mafia 3 and had quite a good time with it. It isn't some masterpiece of the open world genre mind you, but it is well made, the gameplay is good and it still looks quite good as well (on PC, dunno how it holds up on consoles, though I am playing the "remaster" they re-released) and I actually like the story quite a bit. It's a bit heavy handed at times, but that's fine in the end imo.

I enjoyed Mafia 3 recently, but that's probably because it's been so goddamned long since a new GTA came out and it scratched that itch pretty well.

Sepharo wrote on May 5, 2022, 22:33:
Let's hope it's more like Mafia 2 and Mafia: Definitive Edition, rather than Mafia 3.

I played about 30 minutes of Mafia 3 and got too motion sick to continue. No idea why it affected me when few (but not zero) other games do.

I gather it's just Generic Openworld Game so I didn't miss much.

Let's hope it's more like Mafia 2 and Mafia: Definitive Edition, rather than Mafia 3.