"Piracy" kills another game

[MetalCraze]

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/game/21856/mafia-ii/

Mafia II Sales
0.11m

there's justice after all. Maybe next time it won't be such a horrible piece of shit

 

[racofer]

Should I torrent it as a symbolic way of putting another nail at its coffin?

 

[Konjad]

Good. This is how it should be.

Unfortunately I can only wish ME3 sold just as much .

 

[racofer]

Konjad, after I get my hands on ME3 I will not give a fuck about what happens to Bioware, so yea.

 

[MapMan]

Their own fucking fault.

 

[chzr]

:applause.gif:

 

[Fens]

not that bad for a straight-to-dvd movie

 

[Topher]

I heard it was crap but I also noticed that it had pretty silly system specs so I'm sure that didn't help.

 

[Cassidy]

I was curious so:

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/game/14175/mafia-ii/

630,000 on Xbawks. Not really a significant number for hyped popamole shit either. Although hopefully one day the PC market might become near fully alienated to console ports so all the hyped shit peddlers will abandon it.

Unfortunately something like that is never going to happen...

 

[Norfleet]

Wait, PIRACY killed this? How can this be? I didn't bother to not-remove-this-from-inventory at all, perhaps because it was boring.

 

[commie]

Good. After the large sales of SC: Conviction I thought that dumbing down and cutting up a game had become a godless recipe for success. Unfortunately it still would have sold n the consoles but fuck it. If this is the type of shit they want to release, I won't shed a tear if they move there and never release for PC again.

 

[Pablosdog]

Thank fucking god. This game was a half-finished poo smear.

Mafia 1 was much more superior in every conceivable way.

 

[Malakal]

There is some resemblance of justice in the world after all.

 

[piydek]

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/game/21856/mafia-ii/

Mafia II Sales
0.11m

there's justice after all. Maybe next time it won't be such a horrible piece of shit

You can be joyful, but we know what the publisher's and maybe even developer's interpretation and solution of this problem are going to be. Not to make it "less of a piece of shit" in Codex' terms, that's for sure.

 

[Achilles]

I seriously doubt that these are real sales figures. VGChartz is basically a bullshit site and the figures they give out are almost pure guesswork. Also, they only follow the retail market which is on it's way out for PC, at least in the US.

 

[SimpleComplexity]

For publishers that's a clear sign that the game wasn't dumbed down enough and that the franchise urgently needs a reboot in form of "Mafia: The old games never happend".

 

[MDH]

What happened:

Let's just throw the game out there. So what if it has generic gameplay and isn't optimized worth a second damn so nobody will be able to play it properly! And the controls on the PC version suck but we'll just let them configure it!

What will happen:

OH NO MORE TITLES ON THE PC TEH PIRACY IS KILLING US ALL

 

[Multidirectional]

Shame the same thing didn't happen to GTA IV.

What? It's like ten times better game. It also has multiplayer which can actually be loads of fun. I for one am glad GTA games still sell great, because that means I'll get to play proper sequels that don't deviate too much from the original formula.

 

[Malakal]

Shame the same thing didn't happen to GTA IV.

What? It's like ten times better game. It also has multiplayer which can actually be loads of fun. I for one am glad GTA games still sell great, because that means I'll get to play proper sequels that don't deviate too much from the original formula.

True, GTA4 is more of GTA3 which was more of GTA2 etc I like this evolution, simply adding more instead of dumbing down. GTA is a hard game too, truly a gem these times.

Why the hate?

 

[The Wizard]

because the port was so horrible that at least 20% of people couldn't play it on release, and even years after it still runs like shit?

and the game wasn't all that good either. missions with hours of driving from a to b with nothing interesting happening inbetween and *ringringringringclick*"HEY CAWSIN LETS LOOK AT AMERICAN TEETTEES"


a shame, because niko was a p. cool protagonist.

episodes from liberty city were good, though.

 

[Multidirectional]

because the port was so horrible that at least 20% of people couldn't play it on release, and even years after it still runs like shit?

No it doesn't. As of late patches you can turn off shadows, which makes it run just fine. My framerate never goes down above 30 now, and mostly stays at 40 and above on my mid-end rig (Core 2 Duo E8400, GTS250), with distance sliders on 50. Considering huge level of detail in game this is just fine.
Also while single player in GTA4 was lesser than in previous games it is still miles above Mafia 2. Seems like most work has gone into creating engine and multiplayer, which I already said is tons of fun. And the episodes improved on single player a lot, while also removing stupid buddy system. I say long live GTA.

GTA is a hard game too

This is not true though, GTA4 installments were too easy on keyboard/mouse. Difficulty was only right for gamepads. They need to add higher difficulty modes in later games, because I'm only really challenged in multiplayer now.

 

[MetalCraze]

Yeah GTA4 was incredibly easy. Older console GTAs were harder because PC controls were shit (remember that demolition mission in VC where you were controlling a chopper with the dynamite and had to press like 12 buttons to do that). GTA4 had perfect PC controls. Still unlike Mafia2 GTA4 didn't even have regen and very rare medkits were well balanced.

GTA4 PC port was and is shit however. Well it does run at stable 40 FPS (which is higher than on XBawks) with graphics settings higher than on XBawks on my system, but I just think about other poor people that have to suffer.

I seriously doubt that these are real sales figures. VGChartz is basically a bullshit site and the figures they give out are almost pure guesswork. Also, they only follow the retail market which is on it's way out for PC, at least in the US.

Note that Microsoft has a perfect grip on sales figures for Xbox360 because it all goes through them - so getting real stats for a random game shouldn't be hard for the industry suits that do that. And sales on PC are always lower for multiplatforms or other shitty games in general.

 

[piydek]

For publishers that's a clear sign that the game wasn't dumbed down enough and that the franchise urgently needs a reboot in form of "Mafia: The old games never happend".

Exactly.

 

[anus_pounder]

Yeah GTA4 was incredibly easy. Older console GTAs were harder because PC controls were shit (remember that demolition mission in VC where you were controlling a chopper with the dynamite and had to press like 12 buttons to do that).

Jesus Christ I hated that mission.

 

[Twinkle]

Still unlike Mafia2 GTA4 didn't even have regen and very rare medkits were well balanced.

It's funny that GTA 4 is more of a spiritual successor of the original Mafia (both in a good and bad way) than failed POPAMafia 2.

 

[Luzur]

Yeah GTA4 was incredibly easy. Older console GTAs were harder because PC controls were shit (remember that demolition mission in VC where you were controlling a chopper with the dynamite and had to press like 12 buttons to do that).

Jesus Christ I hated that mission.

should have been a side mission, not a main mission.

but i managed to get it right after the 234th try.