COG writes - Faster, Baby! is exhilarating for half its short runtime before devolving back into the disappointing experience of Mafia 3’s main campaign.
JTGA: Despite what appeared to be a mixed critical reaction, Mafia 3 turned out to be a huge sales success, and for us, one of the most enthralling open world adventures in recent years. The story, characters, and alternate world of ‘New Bordeaux’ left a lasting impression; a testament to its narrative ambition and quality writing.
Thankfully, developer Hanger 13 are supporting the game with both free DLC and larger, premium expansions. The first of which, ‘Faster, Baby!’, is a short but densely packed affair that doubles down on what made the base game so special. An entirely new, fully realised story is on offer, alongside an increased focus on action and vehicle combat. Two further expansions are due for release later this year (in May and July, respectively).
The first paragraph of this sounds like someone from the studio wrote it. Played the game, it was very 'meh.'
If that was true, do you really think 'they' would admit to a 'mixed critical reaction'? What a weird thing for you to say. All words are my own. Anyway, I really enjoyed my time with the original game, which is clearly reflected in the opening paragraph. Reviews are meant to be subjective.
I enjoyed the game but I got tired of some of the repetitive aspects of it and never finished. I kinda want to finish since I enjoyed the story maybe Ill get back into with this free update
Not sure why you got the down votes...
Thinking for ones self gets an upvote from me.
I agree. Like you said, reviews are meant to be subjective but somehow some people feel they own the truth when reviews go their way, good or bad.
I feel the same way with how you put it ; despite its flaws, the game 'left a lasting impression' on me., unlike say Watchdogs. Style matters.
@Specimen 79 - cheers bud! Yeah the reaction from some people on here has really surprised me. I realise my opinion may not be a popular one, but still, very strange!
@OB1Biker - "I feel the same way with how you put it ; despite its flaws, the game 'left a lasting impression' on me., unlike say Watchdogs. Style matters." - A THOUSAND PERCENT THIS. I know Mafia 3 has issues, but the way the story was presented, and the overall tone of the game, just hooked me from the offset.
This week Dandr0id and Jack McBastard talk about Phil Spencer's hints at the future of Xbox as a service, and the long term viability of Scorpio's forwards compatibility
Time Codes for The Digital Fiasco Podcast Episode 28: Reading Between the Lines with Phil Spencer
(1:46) Dandr0id is still building costumes
(3:17) Dandr0id plays Rain World
(12:41) Dandr0id plays Stories: The Path of Destinies
(18:45) Jack McBastard plays Cosmic Star Heroine
(22:57) Jack McBastard plays Mafia III
(27:22) Discs, Downloads, and DLC Highlights (NOTE: The Surge Gameplay Trailer https://youtu.be/crDp1VqKNZ...
(33:43) G2A takes a page out of the Trump playbook
(41:04) Who knew the Kinect was a disaster? Peter Molyneux.
(45:23) Everyone wants a NES Classic? Better cancel it.
(51:01) Crash Bandicoot is a PS4 Exclusive. Mostly.
(53:25) Star Wars Celebration and The Last Jedi trailer
(58:22) Star Wars Battlefront II
(1:06:57) Deep Down is still a thing
(1:08:11) NVIDIA is coming (or maybe just breathing heavily)
(1:08:46) Dead Island 2 refuses to die
(1:10:01) The first Nier is being reprinted
(1:12:30) Microsoft's new digital refund service
(1:22:15) Reading between the lines with Phil Spencer
(1:46:17) The Options Menu: Steal This Idea
(1:47:56) Steal This Idea: Carsanity
(1:56:29) Steal This Idea: F-Zero the RPG
wait your title is about Phil and yet the main point is nearly at the end of your podcast. ill pass
As you can see from the time codes, we do go through a large number of topics. This is an expansion of last week's Scorpio heavy episode, and a callback to the very first episode where we discuss Microsoft's long term plan for the Xbox brand beyond consoles.
But if that one point is all you want to listen to, you can certainly just skip to it, listen for 24 minutes and then turn it off. Or not. Your call.
L.M I was literally was gonna play it til i saw ya time stamps. I wasn't tryna make an early morning rant my bad if i came off like that. I'm just used to the meat being in the middle of other podcast i listens too.
No problem. I usually structure the show in such a way that the biggest discussion happens at the end of the news section, particularly if there are other topics that lead into it that provide shading to the discussion.
The time stamps are for those who want that one thing specifically, and don't need/want the other discussion. Either way, I try to respect people's time.
@whitesoxfalife1976 You are being overly harsh on the bloggers as they are being entirely transparant. The Phil Spencer element is the most important so they use it as the headline. It isn't at the beginning of their podcast show but they do give timecodes so you can jump straight to it.
What's interesting is the things that Spencer talks about off handedly in the middle of talking about Scorpio. Taking them into consideration alongside their strategy on the Play Anywhere initiative, it makes for some interesting discussion about what's next for Xbox as a brand and/or service.
I think perhaps you've confused the discussion of what Phil Spencer said with one of the hosts' interest in such a model. Phil Spencer's direction is more along the lines of Trip Hawkins's concept of the Xbox brand as a service.
