Why is the DLC twice as long as the game?!

[Dmazer]

I just finished all the DLC for Mafia II. I don't understand why it's twice as long as the original game at 12 hours. The DLC took me 24 hours to finish everything. You have to play every single arcade style mission one by one... Jimmy's Betrayal and Jimmy's Vendetta were pointless really. Just arcade style side missions. Joe's Adventure was worth the DLC, but you can't just play the story missions. The game would crash every now and then. You would think with the remaster it wouldn't crash as much.

[familiarr.Strangerr]

This game was cut off for dlc. When Mafia 2 originally came out gta4 was praised for the dlcs all around. So 2K thought they need some different protagonist based dlc as well.
Some of the missions in the dlcs were previously shown as main mission but later cut off and we thought maybe they didn't make into the final game. But when Joey's Adventure came out we played those early gameplay videos' missions but this time it was different because there's no story or dramatic build up around the mission
Also Jimmy who is another dlc character was cut from the game as well. There is not much information but why do Jimmy shares same safe houses? Is he Vito's room mate or what! You can still find those bashing articles if you search the internet.

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Joe's adventure sucked every time i do a mission i get wanted status that is total bs and very stupid can't complete missions with the stupid cops always shooting at you and bashing into your car. ACAB.

[Patrick M. Bateman]

Joe's Adventures had some annoying ass missions alright. My personal two least favorites ones: the train hangar / saving Marty

[Dmazer]

Originally posted by Patrick M. Bateman:

Joe's Adventures had some annoying ass missions alright. My personal two least favorites ones: the train hangar / saving Marty

I just don't like doing the side missions. They should be optional . When the side missions are forced; it feels like filler content. Just give me the story missions and be done with it.

With that being said the story missions were good. I really liked the flavor and detail of the Cathouse mission.

[Saturdays]

This game should be a great idea for what the Mafia 1 remaster should be like, with ratings to match

[CunkFeatures]

Originally posted by Mazer:

I just finished all the DLC for Mafia II. I don't understand why it's twice as long as the original game at 12 hours.

Little direction, no cut scenes. No doubt written by someone else (not 100% sure). Much cheaper than the main game