The Godfather was a better Mafia game.

[Dregora]

It was an amazing underrated game who had both an incredibly cool story and very cool concepts that allowed you to climb the ladder and eventually to become the don, take over businesses, take out enemy gangs and take over their businesses.

Amazing game. Underrated.

[Sir Archibald Witherfellow VII]

I wish we could get a Godfather 2 game remake. That was pure gold

[Dregora]

Godfather had such a good mix of story and actual open world side activities. I love the mafia 1 world and how it looks, but I miss taking over small businesses, collecting money and buy them out even more.

It was simple but god it had a great charm to it.

[Baron von Geist]

No. Just plain no. It's not even in the same league as Mafia, especially the original from 2002. And I say this as someone who loves The Godfather movies (Except GF3...blah!) and has seen both 1 & 2 dozens of times over the years.

As I recall, the GF game received mostly lukewarm reviews. In fact, it's Metacritic rating is a very lackluster 72%. It was criticized for being very repetative.

By contrast,, the original Mafia's Metacritic rating is almost 90%, and was initially over 95% before it was re-released on Steam last year.

Sorry, but comparing Mafia to GF is like comparing a steak dinner at Peter Luger's to a bag of greasy fried chicken from Captain Spaulding's gas station.

[Mr.Curious]

This game is beyond gorgeous looking and It's so disheartening to see how open, and vibrant the city and country side is, and yet it's just EMPTY. Nothing to do, besides look for some collectibles. They had such an opportunity to make this world come alive finally after all these years, and yet they chose to remake this game the exact same way, minus the the use of transportation through out the city... No clothing stores, no currency to be had, you have a stupid garage that makes no sense what so ever to have, No side missions, nothing.

You make it so the Police will legit pull you over, and give you a ticket for speeding, running red lights, and even tapping a bumper of another car, and yet you give us nothing this time around to even remotely engage our curiosity, or time... FAIL 2K. I hope and pray they put mods in and allow this to happen because the replay value at this current time, is null and void!

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Baron von Geist:

No. Just plain no. It's not even in the same league as Mafia, especially the original from 2002. And I say this as someone who loves The Godfather movies (Except GF3...blah!) and has seen both 1 & 2 dozens of times over the years.

As I recall, the GF game received mostly lukewarm reviews. In fact, it's Metacritic rating is a very lackluster 72%. It was criticized for being very repetative.

By contrast,, the original Mafia's Metacritic rating is almost 90%, and was initially over 95% before it was re-released on Steam last year.

Sorry, but comparing Mafia to GF is like comparing a steak dinner at Peter Luger's to a bag of greasy fried chicken from Captain Spaulding's gas station.

Ok and metacritic shows scores about 80 for Assassins Creed Odyssey, yet we all know how mediocre the game is, how much copy paste the game is and how repetitive all it's side stuff is.

What exactly is your point with metacritic? Have you played Godfather yourself, the games that is, or are you just somehow copy pasting metacritic scores and assume they're all rational scores that clearly not everyone can post on?


Everything is repetitive if you look close enough. I could call The witcher 3 repetitive and having quests that need you to go from point A and B. I can dumb them down as they are factually, just that. However the writing and dialogue makes it less obvious that it's a simple go from point A to B. That's how the witcher sets it apart.


That being said, as I said, the godfathers business take overs are fairly simple. One could call it repetitive. But what exactly do you think the life of mafia is, a bunch of tasks that vary greatly every single day? You started very low. The tasks were repetitive sure, but they fell in line with the life of the mafia. So they were fairly immersive.

[BurningWild]

So what exactly was accomplished by making this thread ?

[Dregora]

Originally posted by BurningWild:

So what exactly was accomplished by making this thread ? :bern:

About as little as your comment, i'm not looking to accomplish anything, just sharing an underrated game.

[First Mate]

The original godfather game was definitely a classic. It is hard to say which 1 is better.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by First Mate:

The original godfather game was definitely a classic. It is hard to say which 1 is better.

I agree, it probably depends on what you value. I'd say Mafia 1 has the better story overall, since I find it's easier to nitpick The Godfathers story because it's based off of an established franchise which is so highly rated, hard to top that.

Gameplay wise (if we just consider the originals, i'd say mafia 1 remaster has the better gunplay) i'd say godfather is better in terms of overall immersion activity wise.

[LİLİTH]

yea godfather and godfather 2 better but godfather 2 have crew members (gang members) clothings bars etc vs vs.

[Geezuz]

If only I could have gotten past that damn warehouse mission in GF. Maybe I shouldn't have played the wii version, although the gesture stuff was pretty sick.
Recently tried in on the 'box. And good lord, the graphics stutter...and they're not particularly glorious. Good game though.
never tried the 2nd one.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Geezuz:

If only I could have gotten past that damn warehouse mission in GF. Maybe I shouldn't have played the wii version, although the gesture stuff was pretty sick.
Recently tried in on the 'box. And good lord, the graphics stutter...and they're not particularly glorious. Good game though.
never tried the 2nd one.

Yeah it didn't age well. I have fond memories of it, but when I looked it up, I started to notice how nostalgia can actually blind it. The images in my head I have of that game are like 4k with an amazing cover system shooting haha. But yeah, that's not really accurate the moment I looked up the game again.

But god the ideas are great.

[Old Skool Raver]

Godfather was a better mafia game? Because Mafiosos would regularly go around killing the people that ran local businesses and taking control?

Sure.

The Godfather games were terrible, repetitive and about as accurate as my impression of an opera singer.

[Geezuz]

gameplay does actually hold up fairly well; but it does get repetitive rather quickly, and it's pretty janky; plus it's an ugly game lol. But, the whole taking over businesses? Fantastic. and a decent melee system.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Carl Johnson:

Godfather was a better mafia game? Because Mafiosos would regularly go around killing the people that ran local businesses and taking control?

Sure.

The Godfather games were terrible, repetitive and about as accurate as my impression of an opera singer.

Pretty sure they paid them off, not shooting them in the face. You had to threaten them and pay them off so you'd take ownership. And with ownership i'm mostly referring to you taking a cut while offering protection since all gangs had ownership of them like that.

I'm not sure what you're referring to?