Mafia: Definitive Edition - remake of Mafia from Hangar 13

[Sentinel]

Anyone played Mafia 2 remaster and can compare to the original?

 

[Citizen]

ho wdo mirrors work?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

ho wdo mirrors work?

Upon reflection, I'd say they do.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Anyone played Mafia 2 remaster and can compare to the original?

Nick930 likes to talk about little details/ engine behavior and audio comparisons. He does mention some gameplay diferences in his videos but normally it's not the focus.

 

[Deflowerer]

Mafia 1 for only 40 bucks is rather suspicious.

 

[cretin]

man the changes to the eye animations really hurt those scenes. What an amateur oversight.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

with regards to mafia 2: I don't like the lighting changes, feels too saturated.

[edit]
and some scenes are way too dark
e.g.,

 

[cretin]

i was thinking the same. The improved resolution is nice, but is killed by the darker image. M2 already had a really dark imagespace. This change looks like some faggots ENB for skyrim with overly crushed blacks everywhere sucking the life out of the screen.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Mafia 2 had a desaturated, somber tone to it that fit in with the winter setting. From what I've seen, this really missed the mark.

Almost feels amateurish, as if someone just applied some color mapping filter to it.

And I can't unsee the eye thing now. There's no way I could play this, how did they mess that up so badly?

 

[DalekFlay]

Lighting seems like a mixed bag though, some of the comparisons he showed were greatly improved by ambient occlusion if nothing else. Also nice texture upgrades. The eyes do really hurt it though, yeah, and they altered the look and mood too much.

Video didn't mention pop-in distance. I remember that being one of Mafia 2's big issues, as even at max settings stuff popped in way too close. A big improvement there is probably the only thing that would get me to try the remaster.

 

[DalekFlay]

Mafia 2 remaster doesn't even maintain 30fps on pro consoles.

 

[Citizen]

Mafia 2 remaster doesn't even maintain 30fps on pro consoles.

20 fps gaming... It wasn't even funny when ps2 games did it, but in 2020 it's just sad

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Toffeli]

Tommy's new voice actor is pure decline.

 

[cvv]

Tommy's new voice actor is pure decline.

Everything is shit.

 

[Multidirectional]

So as I suspected, not gonna be the same game, just modern popamole somewhat based on original.

 

[Infinitron]

Delayed to September 25th, gameplay on July 22nd:

 

[J_C]

This will be the disappointment of the decade.

 

[cvv]

This will be the disappointment of the decade.

This should replace "ITZ happening" on the Codex homepage as our motto. Permanently.

 

[Toffeli]

RPG Codex - The disappointment of the decade.

 

[Lemming42]

Don't wanna shit-talk the new actor before I've seen his performance properly, but yeah, my mind was just screaming "that's not Tommy". Surely a big part of Tommy's success as a character is that he's just a normal person who's constantly out of step with the rest of the Salieri family and mafia culture, which is sort of the entire point of the plot. They've made him sound less like a random taxi driver way in over his head and more like a movie gangster.

Seeing the old locations recreated with modern graphics was pretty cool though, and there's nothing so far to indicate that the plot is gonna be butchered or anything. This could still turn out ok

 

[AwesomeButton]

If they have cut down on the stretched out gunfights vs scores of enemies, and added an accent on the movie-like moments, it might turn out better than the original. I always wanted to explore the characters more and was bored by the shooting parts.

 

[cvv]

If they have cut down on the stretched out gunfights vs scores of enemies, and added an accent on the movie-like moments, it might turn out better than the original. I always wanted to explore the characters more and was bored by the shooting parts.

Then again the cinematic game genre has progressed a ton and this remaster might look a bit dated compared to the technical marvels like TLoU etc.

 

[Multidirectional]

If they have cut down on the stretched out gunfights vs scores of enemies, and added an accent on the movie-like moments, it might turn out better than the original. I always wanted to explore the characters more and was bored by the shooting parts.

So you want another Mafia 2, where there are few shootouts throughout entire game and the rest is filled with you doing trivial boring shit?

 

[DalekFlay]

So you want another Mafia 2, where there are few shootouts throughout entire game and the rest is filled with you doing trivial boring shit?

This is pretty much how I remember the original, the only difference being those shootouts lasted for-fucking-ever and had poor checkpoint placement.