STUNLOCK THE PRESSES: combo breaking news (Part 1)

A bit of a shame that there’s no accompanying game announcements. The demo was nice but it still feels like next-gen hasn’t really justified itself visually. I’m not sure it really can at this stage. At least they’re making the tools more available for creators generally but there was a weirdly dystopian, corporate social media section in the interview.

‘Connecting everyone’ ‘billions of gamers’

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Thanks, I won’t bother watching it then.

Looks really nice. August 28.

Next Tuesday’s announcement is Mafia II Definitive Edition which will also release then as well.

Thanks to whoever it was running the Microsoft digital storefront that accidentally pushed the button on their store update page lol.

are the mafia games good? they definitely slipped right past me

i freakin love graphics

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They have their following. The big thing with the first one was that it was a like a more simulation-y GTA which the second kind of leaned into and the third not so much. Mainly it’s the setting and the characters that everyone loves. If those don’t do it for you then it might not be your thing.

They all have period accurate vehicle physics/handling.

Also in 2 and 3 one of the collectible items are Playboy magazines, so, yeah that’s a thing too.

robocop has a dick shooting fataility

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dead or alive your ability to procreate is coming with me.

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The third one stars a black Vietnam vet during the civil rights era in fake New Orleans and while that sounds amazing the answer unfortunately is,

no

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In Mafia 3 your main guy you take missions from is a CIA agent and one of the collectibles are communist propaganda posters you’ve ripped down in the open world.

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Until we get a bLAME videogame this is the best we can do

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-05-12/blame-creator-tsutomu-nihei-designs-japanese-word-font/.159416

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Love the fact that there will be a limited time special edition for a font

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This isn’t what you’re looking for, but this trailer makes me wish Aerobat was done

Per the dev’s website it’s still in progress, just slowly

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Damn, I didn’t know this existed and now I wish it was done. :open_mouth:

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There’s neat little things in the mafia games, like having to get a job moving crates in a warehouse before you become a mafia man, going to prison for a while, etc, but they’re not good. I’ll never forget though the Montage in the 2nd game that’s a bunch of We Made It Boys, Living the Life Now scenes set to mafia movie music then it cuts to you all walking in the park, sun shining, broad daylight and wait, what’s that going on in the distance? Oh your buddy you were going to meet up with getting hacked to death by a bunch of guys with machetes. The game also depicts white flight to the suburbs

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i for one loved being stuck on the racing missions in the original for six hours

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can’t wait for the remake of the first jackass where everybody is 50+ years old like in the intro to… one of the jackass movies.

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