still playing Mafia 1?

Anybody still at it? Even now and then? Ah still pull it down, dust it off, more so since hooking up here at GBB. Read somewhere in 2012 it was ranked #1 in go-anywhere-do-anything gameplay. Crude as it is, stands up IMHO as a counter point to some of today's snazzier mob offerings. Whadda ya say?

Yep. Every few years I get in the mood to play it again. It's a classic. It's like the Godfather of video games. Mafia 2 was ok, but a let-down after the first one I think.

My man!

Haven't played it in awhile, now have the urge to play it again. One of the premier games I have ever played in my life. Probably responsible for much of my interest in the mafia.

I'm playing it now! I'm up to that pain-in-the-ass mission where you have to stack crates at the port. The first time I played I never even knew you could get guys to help you. I did it all alone.

I also rocked the stealth mission where you have to break into the DA's house. I only had to hit one guy and no one ever spotted me.

Also for the first time ever in the game, I ran out of gas. I didn't even know that could happen.

loved this game when it came out

I didn't know that!


Ya kiddin'. A thousand times and I never got away that clean.


I kinda knew...but it never happened. Now I want run out just so I can fill up

Yeah. You have to talk to them after you get the job from the foreman. They'll help you. But if you talk to them before the foreman gives you the job they just say go away. The game is sneaky that way. Also you have to let them take the last box. For some reason the job is not done until all the boxes are stacked neatly, and they're the only ones who can stack them neatly.



Me neither! This was the first time. I always figured that once the DA came home, that was it, you were caught. But it is possible to sneak past him too. A lot of it was just luck.



Yeah. I always figured the gas stations were just for show, but you can really get gas from them.

I haven't played the game, but I was told the main character turns everybody to the cops at the end. Sounds good, but doesn't that make the whole game kind of pointless? I mean, fighting for the mafia cause during the whole story just to say at the end "wait a minute, what did I help those bastards for? Let's send them to jail"

Like a movie, man. The fun is in the experience. You don't not watch a movie cuz somebody tells you the lead winds up less than honorable. And who plays a game with a moral compass on the side. You get to kill people, drive cars, outsmart authorities, and take in the graphical rendering of a simulation. Who gives a eff the psyche of a cartoon character...

Mafia II is a great game too, though. It was just too short and a shame you can't free roam at the end.

I still drag it out to play on PS2 on occasion. Does the PC version have more features and missions? I love the game, though it is a bit-too mission-driven for my taste, not enough different things to do on free roam.