@Th3solution Little late to the party, but as a longtime fan of the Mafia series, I feel obliged to offer a recommendation.
The period is a big part of the appeal to me. The general themes, the style, cars, and overall atmosphere are all fantastically realised. The first game is definitely more linear than the other two, and at this point is the most technically accomplished. It's absolutely worth your, and anyone's, time.
Tragically, the second one was subject to a dreadful remaster, buggy in the extreme. Hopefully it has been improved, but even if it hasn't, if there's one game worth fighting the bugs for, it's Mafia II, one of the finest games on PS3. The story is absolutely top shelf.
Mafia 3 is a good game, too. It gets dumped on for being repetitive, and it is, the developer definitely leaned more into the open-world, map-clearing type of game, but it's still quality gaming, and again, another top story dealing with themes from a particularly interesting time period.
Given how diverse we are as a people are, and a tremendous range of interests, I try not to recommend things too often, but the Mafia series is an easy one to make. I hope you give it a go, and hope even more that you like it.
@Malaise Thanks, bud. That’s high praise, indeed. Like I mentioned, one of the advantages to this series is I have all of them already through PS+, no purchases necessary. As usual, my limiter is the time to work them into the schedule. But that first game doesn’t seem to require much, so that’s in its favor.
So I imagine you’re pretty stoked for the newly announced entry coming to the series?
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those that you're looking forward to without ever knowing if they're even making one. To be honest, while I have less than zero interest in Geoff and his shows, there was some really good stuff came out of Gamescom for me, personally.
I also struggle a bit with time, which is why at times I perhaps don't give things a fair shake. Though I think you've largely got to grips with what most games are about in the first couple of hours bar a few exceptions. It doesn't help that some of my favourite game types are strategy, (J)RPG's, management, and simulation. All well known time sinks!
@Malaise I hope for both our sakes that this new Mafia entry is a hit. Going back to Italy is really interesting, and I’m wondering if it will be a Mafia origin story, which I just realizing that I don’t really know how the Mafia ‘started’.
The time thing is an interesting issue — how long does one need to invest in the opening sections to know if you’re going to like the game. It probably varies game to game, but some of my favorite games took a long time to warm up to. (Dark Souls/Bloodborne, RDR2, Returnal, Nier Automata, etc) But mostly I think you’re right, a couple hours (or even less as @Ravix suggest) is usually enough. Game pacing is an intriguing topic — what the most important time for a game? The beginning, the middle, or the end? I like a solid ending more than anything, but as a developer, you have to knock that opening sequence out of the park or people will never stay around ‘til the end.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution to be fair, the time suggestion is more a way of overcoming a psychological barrier of starting or going back to something, and it can apply to anything. Commit a small amount of time to something, if you end up doing it for longer, it was worth it, if you don't you've not lost anything significant. I'm not saying you have to decide whether the game is for you within that time.
So your mission for the next week is: download Mafia, Mafia 3 and Kingdom Come; Deliverance. Say "i'll play these for 10 minutes" at some point, and see what happens.
When it seems you're out of luck.
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@Th3solution So, you posed an interesting question about the origin of the Mafia. I didn't know either!
"The Mafia may have originated in Sicily in the 18th and 19th centuries from private armies, or mafie, that landlords hired to protect their estates from bandits. These armies became powerful and turned against the landowners, extorting money in exchange for protecting their crops. The word "mafia" may also come from the name of an Arab tribe that ruled Palermo, maʿāfir, which was adopted by local peasants."
@Th3solution happy you asked! It’s a surprisingly recent copypasta, originates from a twitter user with a maleshep avatar (hence the ME association).
And it’s… incredibly bizarre, putting it mildly. See, it starts out as a rant about speedrunning, but then devolves political gibberish that frankly exposes the user as a tool more than it does the thing he’s accusing. This guy is a total nutcase. I’d rather not link his original account, but there’s a full six minute long narration of the whole tweet. Yes, six minutes. This guy’s a full-on yappacino. Here’s the link to the delightful Aussie narration.
the origins of the Italian mafia sound similar to the origins of crips, aka a good organization gone bad. i was actually thinkin about this last week about a game based on it, but nah, it’ll be too bad and controversial in this climate. san andreas got lucky tbh .
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