Talk:The Godfather (2006 video game)

message: Fans of The Godfather may wish to participate in the AfD debate concerning whether the article The Godfather films in popular culture, which was spun off from this article to keep it from being too unwieldy, should be deleted.  That debate can be found here.  The article in question provides a place for people to note instances which illustrate the continuing influence of The Godfather and its sequels on films, TV shows and other popular culture media. Ed Fitzgerald 00:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion of "The Godfather films in popular culture" under consideration 

message: I'm concerned about copyright on this page.  A large block of text taken from elsewhere was inserted and later rewritten, but it still smells much like the original text.
I'm going to delete the text which descends from the original copyright violation.  The page where I found the text (which I suspect is taken directly from the game or a press release):  http://www.mediadis.com/games/detail.asp?id=150720
: According to the official EA site, the release date is March 24, not 21. Darth Everent 17:29, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  All recent Godfather trailers on the website ended with the release date as the 21st and a news update was posted on the 22nd noting the game's release (but this is all moot now) --Colonel Cow 02:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright, Release, etc 

message: I remember before the game was released that Coppola denounced it siting that he felt they were making money off of his work. Should this be mentioned somehwere in the article (personally I find it to be interesting trivia) :: ehmjay 22:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Coppola Denounces

message: What? where in the game does it say your players name is Trapani?
:Late in the game, when your character takes out some corrupt police bigwig, there's a bulletin board above his desk with various overlapping newspaper clippings and photos.  Somewhere in there is your picture, and although the first name is obscured, "Trapani" is clearly visible as the last name.Raider Duck 04:36, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Besides being a typical Sicilian surname, Trapani is also a well known city in Sicily, not far from Palermo. In this case I agree that Trapani is most likely the character's original last name (hints are pretty clear!), you can just tell that Aldo is Sicilian from his very name, just as if his surname was Palermo, Messina, Catania and so on.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.227.68.70 (talk) 09:19, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trapani? 

message: This section contains poorly written commentary. Cleanup is suggusted.
*There are so many other critisism's to this game that are not listed in this game, such as the terrible weapon sizes and capabilities, such as the Tommy Gun being extreamly small and weaker than the Colt 45. pistol, since they fire the same ammo, the Tommy Gun should be more powerful, since the larger size and barrel. The magnum is the best weapon in the game, but that is rediculous, magnums dont have as much power as a rifle, it should suck, the shotgun is laughfalbly small, and also does not have as much power as the UNBEATABLE MAGNUM. Also besides that, the upgrades also are not realistic, for the tommy gun, the final upgrade makes it look gay, and the cut off barrel, box magazing instead of a drum magazine, and removed stock would make the gun terrible, reducing the accuracy tramatically, it would suck, the final shot gun upgrade, the "street sweeper" goes the smae, it would be horrible, and it to looks gay. 
*All the guns are not there real size they would be in real life, they are all really small and look terrible, not to mention they do not follow the God Father, Ive never seen a stupid ass little bitch Golden pistol in ANY of the godfather movies, and NO FAGNUMS either, and no cut off sawed off shotguns, called "street sweeper's". No "dillingers" wich suck, and somehow have more ammo than a drum magazine. No "assassin pistols" and the tommy guns in that movie were not miniature pieces of crap.
*Not to mention, the are no "gang colors" in the god father movie, but there is in the game, this makes no sense, when did the mafia EVER signify each other by wearing a green or red suit? NEVER! this is rediculous, and stupid, This game does not follow the God Father at all, it makes up crap. And the police  never used 38.'s, they used shot guns and tommy guns, and 45.'s at the time, in order to fight the mafia's arsenal of weapons.
*The size of New York in this game is terrible, its so small, and if look closely at the map, youll see the outlines of streets that the idiotic game creators left out, it looks NOTHING LIKE NEW YORK OR NEW JERSEY OR WHATEVER.
*not only that, but the game a limited selection of cars, so limited in fact that I saw all of the cars in the game in a matter of minutes after I started playing the game, except the car you get while doing missions, the car that is always black and you drive with sonny in.
*All in al, this game blows, there is no way anyone could like this game to be cool in, the only fun thing to do is to make a loser and be him, like a big fat guy thats ugly as hell or whatever, and make him use those gay weapons and be in the lame stroyline, and whats up with Micheal Coreleone, he looks nothing like him the in the game, nothing like him at all, at first I couldnt even tell thats him.
:God you're annoying as fuck, although you do have some valid points buried underneath that pile of deranged, barely-cohrent ranting you just spouted.  Just play Mafia instead. - 81.178.102.118 11:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How can you aim better with a Magnum than a Thomson with an extended barrel, vertical foregrip and better sights fired braced against the shoulder.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.118.182.209 (talk) 05:33, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critisism section should list complaints from the owners of the game too, displeased owners of the game like me. 

message: I've removed a lot of sections that contain unnecessary material in violation of original research and Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate list. For editors, keep the following in mind:
*This is an article, and as such requires credible sources to back up statements. Personal opinion has no place here.
*Avoid making extensive lists such as weapons, as they violate WP:NOT.
*Avoid using spoilers in sections other than the plot.
*The game needs a proper overview. I haven't played the console versions, so I can't be of much assistance here. The previous overview is more of a plot summary, so an editor with more knowledge should split the section into a gameplay overview and a plot summary.
*Finally, please assume good faith and be civil towards other users. --Scottie theNerd 16:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: I went over the entire article and removed redundancies, double spacing, and plenty of subtle criticisms that were shoved in it. Anything else that needs fixing?
:The list of differences between story and game is needless trivia. I will remove it if there are no objections.--Scottie_theNerd 12:55, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup, cleanup

message: :Image:Godfather Wii.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot 03:29, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Godfather Wii.jpg

message: I'll start on it; it puts things like respect levels and rank into more context.  --BrokenSphereMsg me 18:30, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No gameplay section? 

message: :Image:The Godfather game.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:48, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:The Godfather game.jpg

message: What has to go or can be culled down to bring this in line with WP:VG MOS standards?  At this point for one I think the following can go/be changed:
*Supporting characters can go
*Mentions of specific members of the families within the families section can go and the descriptions rewritten
*Cut down the details in the Holdings section on how to acquire them
*Cut down the descriptions of new features added in the PS2, Wii and Xbox versions
--BrokenSphereMsg me 20:13, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I hadn't checked the article history, but I suspected it was you who added the extra information. Anyway, most of your additions have to go: they're not essential to the article. Most of the information regarding the characters can be placed into the plot section. The Families can go or, at the most, be incorporated in a sentence as part of the plot. Quite a few things can be sliced off without detriment to the article; others will need to combine sections to present more readable information instead of extensive lists of gamecruft. --Scottie_theNerd 22:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article cleanup 

message: I thought one of the ways you lose a mob war is if someone from the rival family kills you, and not just if you die during the war. I remember dying during a mob war(a few times), and when my guy recovered, the mob war was still going on. I guess it also depends on how much time you have. Modesta107 (talk) 02:25, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dying during Mob war 

message: Since there seems to be many articles on wikipedia about the characters and since most of them are short.
I was wondering if its a good idea to merge all characters article onto one wikipedia article?
Most games like Final Fantasy and Bully have had this done for their characters.
Anyone else think its a good idea? Dan the Man1983 (talk) 06:56, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe the current articles have any notability to warrant even a collective article. --Scottie_theNerd 11:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think its important for each character to have their own article though. They should all be listed on one article in my opinion. Dan the Man1983 (talk) 04:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As I said above, I don't think the characters collectively deserve an article. Saying that "most games" have a character list article is an exaggeration; lists that are thoroughly developed are usually for games that are notable or the characters have established notability in their own right. Not every character list is notable either, and in the case of The Godfather: The Game, I don't think the game nor the characters have enough notability to put together a collective character list. --Scottie_theNerd 05:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As they say, opinions vary. Most games that have a lot of characters are in them have lists for their characters. Dan the Man1983 (talk) 11:23, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Characters of the Godfather the game Page. 

message: Al Pacino was NOT involved in the Scarface video game. I am removing that part of the article. General Mannino (talk) 20:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: The game released on DOS is an entirely separate game; it has nothing to do with this newer game other than the branding. It should have its own article or the info removed from this article (apart from a passing mention of its existence). --Mika1h (talk) 16:59, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  DOS game 

message: Apart from the movie "Godfather" I think the two-part movie about Joseph Bonnano (I never saw the very beginning so I'm not sure about the movie title - but it is probably the one mentioned at the end of the article) also served as a basis for this game. The whole fronts-rackets-warehouses-trucks subplot, which is hardly mentioned in the Godfather is described in detail in this movie - Bonnano is actually shown taking part in a raid on rival (Masseria)family's warehouse (whose architecture includes the catwalks seen in most of the games' warehouses) in order to retrieve some stolen trucks. I have no sources for this but the similarity is too great to be ignored. Is there anyone who has seen this movie and agrees?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.137.119.112 (talk) 13:14, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional inspiration for the game 

message: I know it's pretty basic, but shouldn't there be a list of the cars used? Govvy (talk) 16:52, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cars list. 

message: The game features the title character as the author of many of the hits and missions that are found in the movie, like punishing the guys who raped Bonasera's daughter, having Paulie Gatto whacked, helping Michael in the Hospital and ultimately killing Barzini.
However, while in the movie they aren't identified by name, in both the novel and the movie the guys doing all of these jobs were different and specific characters. The ones who help Paulie Gatto to punish the rapists, according to the novel, were two former boxers, and they don't kill them, since The Don repeatedly said he wouldn't, according to the movie: "That is not justice, your daughter is still alive". The guy who whacks Paulie later is Rocco Lampone, he even says it in the movie "Hey Rocco, move to the other side". Enzo, the baker, is the one who helps Michael at the hospital. And Al Neri, a very important character in the sequels, is the one who kills both Moe Greene (in the novel) and Don Barzini (in both).
Anyway, this should be noted as a drawback for fans of the movies. For comparison, the Shadows of the Empire (video game) article also notes there are inconsistencies with the novel and comics. --Surten (talk) 00:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yet, while a valuable opinion, doesn't give a real valid point as to why not indicate the inconsistencies.--Surten (talk) 06:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistencies with both the movie and the novel 

message: I have looked through this article and, needless to say, I am quite shocked at how low it's quality is. This article has been screaming a massive overhaul for years now but nobody seems to be willing to contribute. I don't own The Godfather, but I think I could make a generous start on getting this article up to Wikipedia standards. There are a few things that need to happen:
* The entire families/ characters section will either need to be snipped or split off into its own article.
* The lead section will need to be merged with most of the other parts of the article.
* The article, in its entirety, will need additional citations.
* Moving/changing/adding sections and sub-sections.
* Obviously, the biggest factor, a complete rewrite.
I can make a start on this but I need somebody else to help me out here. Any volunteers?
VG Editor (talk) 09:18, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean-up 

message: Maybe this version deserves its own article. It is a completely different type of game, after all. The Scarface games both have separate pages, and so do many others. 69.117.184.58 (talk) 20:08, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mob Wars

message: Under the families it is written that the three caporegimes for each family are... but this is surely inaccurate as the capos you kill in the game arent the only capos in the families.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.206.251 (talk) 15:06, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caporegimes 

message: this game included a new way of punching with the analog stick and thats what made it a success. Or however many people played it, or whatever, you know what I mean. Why is that not in the article?
Sorry for not signing these things. I usually forget it. Deathsculler (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 22:23, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  throwing punches 

message: it's mentioned in the article that the player needs to rise through the ranks from outsider, enforcer, then associate...and so on. but in my understanding, the enforcer is not an actual rank; both in the game and irl, but is instead more of a role description; like a trusted bodyguard/henchman. It is implied in the film/book/game that Luca Brasi (who was the only character explicitly called an enforcer in the canon) was a feared but somewhat slow-witted; and that his rank quite possibly wasn't even up to a soldato (i've read somewhere that he was an outsider, though i'm sceptic of that).
can someone clarify what his designated rank was; and whether 'the enforcer' is usually designated a fix rank? and what about the 'enforcer' as an intermediate rank in the game? cos i don't remember seeing that rank ever.
--Zigil Parcelforse (talk) 17:16, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Enforcers?

message: I tried to no success putting 'score' table atop text. Someone who's good at wiki editing, pls do this. There's too little space to the left of this table for any text. The text is to be below the table. Thank you 37.212.56.217 (talk) 15:09, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception section text