Mafia 3: Definitive Edition – Part 1-1
Andre tells me that this is his favorite out of all the Mafia games. Let us see if it lives us to the hype.
Streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/newdarkcloud
Andre at https://www.twitch.tv/goodoleandre
I’m not going to hold licensed music against Hangar 13. The Twitch streaming boom hadn’t hit yet when Mafia 3 first came out in 2016, and thus it wasn’t as widely known now as it was back then what effect licensed music has for Twitch streamers. Honestly, that’s not a burden that Hangar 13, or any dev studio, should be forced to shoulder, but my grievances with the music industry and copyright aren’t worth hashing out here.
What I will instead complain about is the lack of a settings menu, and specifically a subtitle menu, before the first spoken line of dialog. I can’t speak to how irritating that can be for the audibly impaired. As a streamer, I need subtitles so that both I and my viewers can still keep up with the game’s plot while we’re having conversations about it. It’s an important accessibility tool for me, and I have chosen against playing certain games on stream before because of how they handle subtitles. Thankfully, this is an annoyance rather than a deal-breaker, but combined with the amount of finagling I needed to do before the stream started just to get the correct aspect ratio set up for OBS, I was starting this stream mildly pissed off.
I would go easier on this game if came out far earlier. As a 2016 release, even as Hangar 13’s first work, I expect the PC version of the game to have this type of functionality baked in my default, and I doubly expect that from a Definitive Edition released in 2020.
It’s a shame that the game starts off on such poor footing. Once all the technical issues were resolved, I was having an incredible time of it. There’s a lot to like here, and we’ll doubtlessly get into it as the game goes on.
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