MMaRsu
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Mafia 3 Reveal Trailer (Hangar 13/Take-Two, 2016, PC/PS4/XB1)
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A response to amir0x. Cant read?
Hip Hop
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That just means more wilderness to me, which I would like to have, if the city is indeed small in the game.
Thank goodness we're finally getting a take on a different mob, and we're stepping out of the light of just the Italian setup. Lincoln Clay looks to be an actual character, that's vying for some handle on crime with a diverse crew in New Orleans. A new mob, the Black mob- and thank god for that. I hope they address the racism and the cultural change with great responsibility and good writing. The combat looks so brutal, the city lights look so perfectly neon, the fact that Vito is in your crew waging war against the Italian mob- perfection. Honestly, this is the most interesting main protagonist we've had in an open world crime game since maybe Luis Lopez for me. I just like that the developers are taking a chance on trying to show the criminal open world from a different light, from a fresh perspective.
Consider me there day one, and I say this with Mafia 1 being one of my favorite games ever. Bravo!
Consider me there day one, and I say this with Mafia 1 being one of my favorite games ever. Bravo!
Kid Kamikaze10
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If the main character is half-Italian, would it be interesting for him to rise up the ranks despite the amount of racism thrown his way by other members of the mafia?
That's something people don't want to see? Whatevs, but I find that way more interesting than reliving Godfather or Goodfellas again.
Gameplay though, I wish it was a bit more realistic.
That's something people don't want to see? Whatevs, but I find that way more interesting than reliving Godfather or Goodfellas again.
Gameplay though, I wish it was a bit more realistic.
I'm glad your disappointment does not stem from race.
New Orleans is more than big enough to set a game in and the trailers seem to suggest that you'll be going outside of the city as well.
Christ.
Me and you both. The concept is amazing and I really hope they execute it with great success. So much potential.
SomedayTheFire
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You need to stop. Put the keyboard away. Leave the thread before you keep saying more incredibly dumb, discriminatory stuff.
I think the CGI trailer was great. It was very atmospheric and the MC seems pretty badass. The gameplay looked alright. I guess cars explode too easily and the open world looks alpha.
GlassEmpires
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So Vito works for the main character? Or you mean the other two people.
Oh my god. MMaRsu. Man. Just take a step back. Stop posting. Consider others' points of view. I understand you feel like you're being attacked and made out to be something you're not. I don't think you're a horrible racist, but you may have some racist tendencies you should reflect on. This isn't about winning an argument or you being right or wrong. Just be honest with yourself and think about it, man.
brokenbeans
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I think people are disappointed that they didn't see a traditional Mafia setting.
At this point I hope Vito is the protag's barber, just for the salt.
the salt in this thread
Just burst out laughing in the office hahaha
Stiler
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Here I was expecting to (hopefully) have speed limits an dother things that made Mafia stand out from GTA , where the cityscape felt more "real" and doing things would get you in trouble if people saw you and it made it more exciting.
Yet it seems like we are getting an arcadey style Just cause/GTA gameplay.
The way the cars burst into flames when another car hits them looks soooooooo bad imo.
I hate that style of gameplay, instead of having cars with realistic damage modeling, crumple zones, something like Flatout, etc they end up having generic "car looks fine, oh no someone touched it! Change model and have flames burst out!"
Yet it seems like we are getting an arcadey style Just cause/GTA gameplay.
The way the cars burst into flames when another car hits them looks soooooooo bad imo.
I hate that style of gameplay, instead of having cars with realistic damage modeling, crumple zones, something like Flatout, etc they end up having generic "car looks fine, oh no someone touched it! Change model and have flames burst out!"
I rather have a smaller city with lots of detail than the other way around.
If it tackles the social issues head on, talking about the angolan imigrants in italy that the mafia uses to their ends, if it talks about the social issues caused by the way the mafia uses black people, and if talks about how anyone that is not italian has limited growth inside the mafia, then I think this game has a lot of potential.
I just hope making him black isnt just for looks. That would be silly.
You know what fuck it....
I'm actually happy that this game went a different route with the portrayal of the mafia. There isn't a limit of color to the association of the mafia, especially in the 70s when groups such as "Black Mafia", YBI, and even Black P Stones formed. I seriously don't know why we are going ass backwards on some "can't relate" shit, when the damn game didn't come out yet.
I think the one thing that made me raise a eyebrow in this thread is how some folks complaining about racial issues in the game, but don't mind playing games like Skyrim where racial profiling and segregation is the law of the land.
I'm actually happy that this game went a different route with the portrayal of the mafia. There isn't a limit of color to the association of the mafia, especially in the 70s when groups such as "Black Mafia", YBI, and even Black P Stones formed. I seriously don't know why we are going ass backwards on some "can't relate" shit, when the damn game didn't come out yet.
I think the one thing that made me raise a eyebrow in this thread is how some folks complaining about racial issues in the game, but don't mind playing games like Skyrim where racial profiling and segregation is the law of the land.
Karl_Dilkington7
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As a huge Mafia fan, I'm beyond hyped for this exact reason. I really hope they pull it off. A lot of respect for Hanger 13.
User 73706
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That, and it looks like the cast of Vigilante 8 rolled up at the end.
SomedayTheFire
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Sounds like an absolutely fantastic basis for a story to me.
Admiral Woofington
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Posts like these give me hope that not everybody needs to care about race. It's fucking silly. I was just as invested and immersed in sleeping dogs.
As a Swede, I will embrace this oppurtunity to play as a person with a different background than me. Just as I did in Mafia 1 and 2 (I'm clearly not an Italian mobster, and I doubt most of GAF are), who gives a fuck who you're playing as? What matters is if the story and gameplay is good.
brokenbeans
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Oh wow lol I got that vibe too
This is wrong.
Italian and Nigerian gangs: A deadly alliance
Like I said, it always comes down to money, power and sex. All their honour, all their family and yes, all their racism/elitism falls to the wayside.
People sometimes forget that games are just games.
akidnamededdy
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Hey guys I'm not racist some of my favorite games have black characters.
Mad Season
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I guess the doubters havent watched Boardwalk Empire. Chalky was involved in the mob working with Italians
Gabriel_Logan
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The main character looks like some goon who would drive Tony Soprano around when he got too fat.
FreezerGeezer
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The interview video containing the game play segments looks great. Really happy to see Vito knocking about but as others have said I hope they explain a bit what has happened in the time since number 2.
Very much looking forward to this.
Very much looking forward to this.
I guess the doubters havent watched Boardwalk Empire. Chalky was involved in the mob working with Italians
I don't want to be the guy that thinks all black people look the same, but he looks exactly like Omar from The Wire
i'm not racist, franklin is my third favorite character in GTAV.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Is it me or do the images looks worse than Mafia 2?
They are pretty lackluster.
EDIT Wait, is this thread full of people hating a black protagonist?
They are pretty lackluster.
EDIT Wait, is this thread full of people hating a black protagonist?
Don't get people that are upset by not playing Vito again. Series has established the Time Jump + New PC already. Be glad he gets more screentime than the lead of the first game did in Mafia 2 at least.
And with the new setting at least this game's story might be more than a mob movie highlight reel like 2 was.
And with the new setting at least this game's story might be more than a mob movie highlight reel like 2 was.
SultanAdam
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This game will suck unless they really make the open world worth getting lost in.
Also, I was hoping they would have picked 1980s new York City as a setting.
Also, I was hoping they would have picked 1980s new York City as a setting.
The Matranga family was long gone by the sixties. The NO mob was run by Carlos Marcello in the sixties. All sorts of great stories from the period, including Robert Kennedy trying to ship Marcello off to Guatemala, and Marcello's connection with both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. If they've done their research, the mob the protagonist will be dismantling is an interesting one.
I'm reasonably excited for the game, because it's not Italian Mobsters. Frankly, I'm sick to death of La Cosa Nostra. Movies, TVs, and games have turned them into bullshit fantasies about the nobility of mobsters, focusing more on the organized than on the crime. And the setting is just amazing. Few cities have more character than New Orleans, and NO in the sixties was a crazy place. This went from not being on my radar at all, to something I'm anticipating.
akidnamededdy
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I loved GTA San Andreas. And the Walking Dead. And Prototype 2.
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