[Game] Mafia II - Megathread
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Get it. Mafia, Vietcong and Hidden&Dangerous II.and I still haven't played the first one
All from the the same studios and become an alert gamer overwhelmed by games made with love and passion.
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I beg to differ.Vietcong was my main game for ages... until they totally ruined it!
Technically speaking, Vietcong is a masterpiece and was never altered. Vietcong 2, I never played since I heard it's crap.
So, Vietcong still stands in its own glory.
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yes they did -well a third party outfit made content that went over the top of the 1st and only (meagre) dev patch.
Only true hardcore cong-heads stayed around long enough to witness it, about 30 total ppl in all - TMG members mostly.
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Mafia was great, and H&D2 is a classic, but I dunno about Vietcong.
It was ok but several aspects of it really were bleh, like the many exploits that were never fixed in MP, severe performance issues and horrible cheat protection. The SP also despite having a lot of positives was also pretty damn cliched at times too, especially in the handling of the VC. Also the AI, yarg, did you ever play it on Hard or Vietnam mode? It wa slike AI pistol head shoots you through a dense forest from 1KM away.
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I never really played VC in MP except for some COOP matches but hell this game was I think the most atmospheric war game I EVER played, I actually became really interest in the vietnam war because of it.
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Hardest mission I ever played in a game was on Fist Alpha. You have to sneek through the jungle to a VC HQ killing everything on the way with the silenced pistol or knife. Extremely tense moments when you have to go through a transit camp type place, and the HQ is just a complete ****ing ****storm nightmare.
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Never played seriously the MP but I feel you there, mate.
And can you believe I was stupid, err, stubborn enough to finish the SP campaign at the vietnam difficulty? Got me cussing and reloading so many ****ing times, I can't replay it at that difficulty no more... being like 'OMFG he shot me from there!? through the canopee!?!?" when the death cam showed you the position of your killer
Man, getting back at the base was a real relief and it gave you that 'No way I'm going back in that ****ing jungle and damn tunnels!'
A great experience it was but I wouldn't be able to re-do it. Not enough patience.
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Mafia was difficult, too. The shootout in the harbour? Man, I nearly cried tears of blood, it made me so frustrated (though mostly just because I started off low on health, me thinks). There were quite a few frustro-missions in that one, felt so good to finally complete them - the race one (and stealing the car off during the night), escape from the brothel mission, the already-mentioned harbour one and the final shoot-out. Man, only Kaukasus with 50 players on as Axis gets this frustrating. Hm. No, wait, actually Kauk completely tops these in the frustration ratings.
Loved cruising in the countryside as well. Hope they'll have that feature back. And seeing as they are calling the genre "sandbox action" we have to hope they'll stick to this description. This has some potential to be a blast.
Loved cruising in the countryside as well. Hope they'll have that feature back. And seeing as they are calling the genre "sandbox action" we have to hope they'll stick to this description. This has some potential to be a blast.
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When I first did the Final-Shoutout mission, I didn't think I could go to Yellow Pete's to get some artillery so I had to start it with the little colt detective. That was hardcore till I got a Tommy gun from a corpse.
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Yeah, it wasn't. Though I somehow got lucky on that one on the first run, but still. I guess most of the missions weren't a walk in the park and that's what made the game cult.
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