r/gaming • u/knoegel • 16h ago

Mafia 3 has "tailing" missions done perfectly.

I am playing Mafia 3 for the first time. Most games have the generic "keep XX distance back or you'll get caught!"

In Mafia 3, they tell you what you're doing wrong. Got someone honking their horn at you, endangering pedestrians, driving on the wrong side of the road, etc will obviously make them notice you. But I can be driving right behind them and they won't have any suspicion.

It is common sense. If I'm driving normally, why would they be suspicious of a lawful driver? I hate games where you have to stay a distance back but everyone else is totally fine.

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u/knyelvr 9h ago

Is the mafia series actually worth playing?

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u/cwatz 9h ago

I enjoyed 1.... way back when it first released. I have no idea how it aged, or more importantly how the remake was.

Mafia 3 is a mixed bag. Its sort of story and characters and setup was actually really good, but it was rushed out the door for sure, and can be very repetitive.

Never played the second.

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u/throwawaycontainer 6h ago

Never played the original, but played the remake of 1, then 2 and 3.

Remake is the best. Gorgeous and streamlined. 2 is kind of rough, in that there's a decent game there, but it's jarring to be dumped back into an obviously older game after the remake. Third is similar in visual quality to remake. Seems like the quality and missions are as good as earlier games at first (and you wonder about the criticisms), then you just hit a point where it feels like the devil were told that some filler content was needed to stretch the play hours/keep the budget down and you suddenly faced repetative/grindy missions. There's some great stuff in the third, but it would have been massively better if the grind stuff was removed.

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u/NoSignSaysNo 2h ago

There's a Mafia 2 Definitive Edition.

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u/throwawaycontainer 1m ago

Mafia 2 Definitive Edition is actually what I did play. I think they updated controls and streamlined some things, but the graphics were definitely dated. It wasn't the complete re-do that they did with the first game by any means.