Hm, I am not really surprised the voting didn’t really budge. It does seem like we’ll be doing a double bill! I’ll have an excuse to play my Xbox more now.
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@Yousef- yes, the game with most votes at the beginning of each month is the one to be played. Unless we receive an extra vote we will have a double choice this time around
I was going to toss a vote for mafia, but it wouldn't do any good since it'd be part of the double bill. Might as well hold my vote so those who want to play mafia can, and those who want to pay tooie can. I'll give both a try next month I suppose although I really didn't like BK.
September raises the Nostalgia with an uncommon double feature of remaster/remake of early 2000 classics! Welcome to the club Banjo-Tooie and Mafia definitive edition
Rare's game is both available as backwards compatible from the 360 and as part of rare replay (both on GP) but not sure if it has any difference between them (or you can dust of your N64). As for Mafia, the remake, is available in most of the current platforms or you could go back to original Xbox (for a not so great version) or the excellent, if a bit dated, 2002 PC one.
Please use spoiler tags when discussing spoilerish moments of the game. You do so by typing your spoiler between spoiler tags like this: [spoiler]insert message here[ /spoiler] and removing the space between [ and /
Some HLTB Stats:
Banjo-Tooie
Main Story - 17 Hours
Main + Extras - 23 Hours
Completionist - 24 Hours
Mafia
Main Story - 10.5 Hours
Main + Extras - 13 Hours
Completionist - 25 Hours
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Halo 2 - 1 (Pst)
Inkulinati -
Inside -
Jusant -
Perfect Dark Zero -
Planet of Lana -
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Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 -
Steamworld build -
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The Quarry -
Tomb Raider Definitive Edition -
Unravel -
We Happy Few -
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@Balta666 Not sure if someone is going to manage to play and beat two games man that seems a bit to much to ask imo. Iam btw managed to beat one games we had earlier the games a club a few weeks ago. Planing to publish the review of it soon. So yeah even if I have not been active in teared I have kept an eye on discussion without wanting to infer to much with my own thoughts which like have been general thing for me as of late..
@oliverp the objective of the double feature is to give freedom to choose to play one or the other or a bit of both. Also looking forward to your thoughts on past games.
Like I said Mafia is one of my favourite games of all time and I have played many times to (including getting all special cars in freeride mode) and I own the definitive edition on Xbox. Because of it and also because I will be say on holidays for a couple of weeks I will be skipping it and focusing on Tooie.
I have also finish this one in the past, although only a single time. This morning I have played the beggining including the first stage and unlocked stages 2 and 3.
@Balta666 Ok now I see. Did not wanted to be rude or anything just that I thought that there was an expectation to play both games this month if you wanted to be part of the club.
I want to play both of these, but don't think I have time this month. Banjo Tooie I started about 5 years ago, went on holiday, and got completely lost when I came back. Mafia i've always wanted to play. Will see what I can do.
Let's discuss a bit of Mafia. The first thing to have in mind is that it should not be compared with GTA as the world does not have much to do apart from the missions itself and it works much more like L.A Noire going for the story.
The story is about a guy telling his story about getting in a Mafia family as it tries to get out of it and it goes from the point where he is a taxi driver that gets mixed in it by pure chance but by the end is a killing machine.
It is all passed during the American great depression and the looks of the city and country-side, the music and the people are all top notch.
Like I said previously I played the OG many times and the definitive edition once. While in general I prefer the story, and specially the personalities of the OG characters (although a bit flat at times), the definitive edition gives you more context (really well done regarding Sarah in particular).
The combat is much more straightforward in the remake with a typical cover shooting third person action game but it ends feeling a bit generic. The OG is absolutely brutal as you don't recover health and have very limited health packs throughout the levels,which you need to take on the spot (exactly like Max Payne), the enemies are relentless and do not show on your Minimap, there are few checkpoints (your health stays btw them) and overall you need to memorize it before being successful.
But in the end and a lot by nostalgia it is still my "definitive" version and I suggest anyone that can to give it a chance as it is a 10/10 game imo (on PC only!!)
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