1eyedking said:
I mean, the Codex baffles me.
Not me, I always expect things like this ...
Missions are GTA IV 'siriuz buzinez' Hollywood movie style, easy as shit (except for a race mission that comes out of fucking nowhere) yet somehow the game doesn't get bashed?
Well yes because Rockstar is doing "honorages", GTA IV did not have those RC missions that everyone hated or you see people bitching about it instead of racing.
Well that is Rockstar problem as they just have to throw what amounts to be mini games on a mandatory storyline progression mission (San Andreas is a fine example of that, fucking hate it).
In GTA IV I had troubles with that fucking "following the train" mission because I always end up driving right into the same dead end until pure power of rage blinded me and I completed it.
Mafia is shit. It's GTA with turtle-speed cars (I mean come fucking on), turtle-speed/episodic car hi-jacking, with a stupid storyline filled with uninteresting/cliched characters, and a plot twist that makes you puke in your mouth; all that minus the quirkiness, trojan language, and fucking awesome characters that made the GTA series so cool. Mafia, in fact, was one of the first "next-gen" movie-like games to be ever made. And somehow that's not bad.
Actually I recall getting killed in the first shootout mission a lot until I ended up grasping their combat system, there were many things I liked on Mafia, like having to follow the traffic laws (unlike GTA were you can drive like a madman and unless you do a no-no as hittting a police car, running over a pedestrian or not pay the toll) as it somehow looked more as a real town as GTA is simply ... a sandbox.
I got pretty far into Mafia (I beat the boat mission) until I learned THE GOD DAMN ENDING !!! FUCK! RAGE-QUIT!
For fuck's sake people do you even know what you're playing, at least some of the time? I'm becoming truly estranged to these forums, so many shit games getting praised lately that I sometimes wonder if clicked the wrong bookmark...
I understand why people liked Mafia, hell the whole "LOL! You get killed at the end" goes right some people alley and I guess things as police ACTUALLY WORKING AS THE POLICE goes into mine, if you looked at the preview you know the police is not going to quit looking for you in the entire city and you have to really evade them (granted, its a bit like GTA but its exchanging plates and not a new paintjob).
Not liking the whole "standard lock picking mini-game" but hell, its not a RPG so I cannot bitch too much about it as it makes some sense (Mafia is a pure player skills game) and I dont mind to see were it goes, as long there is NO FUCKING RACE and the story is decent ...
