Mafia Is One of the Strangest, Messiest AAA Games Ever Released

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Mafia: The Old Country is one of the most visually extravagant AAA video games we’ve ever played. And yet, there’s very little game to be found in this strange, disjointed, but decadent tale of organized crime in early 20th-century Sicily. Why has the Mafia series struggled for decades to deliver on its ambitions? And how did this get made? The Besties unpack their complicated feelings after a week with this oddity. And because we always like to provide something fresh for you to try, we share a few new, enjoyable games.

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0:00.0	Um, I'm about to begin the count.
0:03.1	One, two, three, four, five, six.
0:08.1	I mean, that was worse.
0:08.9	Wow, it's worse.
0:10.9	Yep.
0:11.3	Fuck.
0:12.3	So when you say it works great on other platforms, what other platforms are you referring to
0:17.0	specifically?
0:17.7	It doesn't matter.
0:18.4	I'll have to figure this out later yeah i don't i think like
0:22.7	long-term what a solve it is well what's weird is like again long-term you were we more or less had
0:31.1	addressed it and then you switched to the desktop and it was borked and then you switch back to left
0:36.3	i want to try one other thing.
0:38.7	Let me try seeing if it literally runs any different if I run it through a different, like if I'm getoff Chrome.
0:46.2	I mean, is this just like a technological impossibility?
0:53.6	No, because we've had it working.
0:55.3	So there's like a variable here that we're not accounting for that I don't fully...
0:59.0	Some sort of plug-in or something.
1:02.8	Me too all the white.
1:05.1	Put on it.
1:06.7	You know what, Russ?
1:11.9	It's not working on Safari.
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