[Wolfenstein] Play it on Easy, pick Wyatt

Mr. G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvfqfGTar4
I've got a 14 hour drive, I've got a sinus infection, I haven't had a full night's sleep in eight months, so let's go people, cause I'm not doing this again

Did you not play Wolfenstein: The New Order?

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU

Remember when Doom came out last year and it was crazy good?

It was not the first id property to be completely revitalized like that

Wolfenstein: The New Order is one of the best-written and best-directed games out there, it's ludicrous how far above and beyond its station it plays at, AND it's still a really fun shooter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHht8480cEo

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is coming this October, and is doubling down on everything that made the first game successful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gak-qK-H5R8

These two games also lightly follow up on things introduced in the 2009 Activision & Raven Wolfenstein game, which isn't terrible so maybe give that a go sometime

Everyone is playing or replaying The New Order (which is $10 on Steam right now, hello) so instead of spreading it across 8 different threads, here it is

Mortal Sky

I played this back in November and good golly am I glad I did

Mortal Sky

Also hot holy damn it is actually nearly impossible to get a legitimate copy of Wolfenstein 2009 on PC now

Even legitimate used copies have to be cracked to function on Windows so the only way to play it is either on console or finding a PC copy new in box

Inquisitor

I just beat this recently and overall quite enjoyed it, even if I wasn't a fan of the more bullet sponge enemies in the game.

That said, The Old Blood is also on sale for $10 so I just grabbed that and plan to start it today. I know it's not supposed to be as good as The New Order but, I'm still curious about it.

Mr. G

I am doing this replay with god mode and infinite ammo on

It's a pretty good time

Sprout

Yeah, I'm definitely going to just bump it down to the lowest difficulty and blast through it. Just let the Nazi murder wash over me.

Somestickguy

I have played through this two and a half times in the past week

I've never seen a trailer drive so much interest in the preceding game, but boy the New Colossus trailer got me entirely on board

Snicketysnick

I played through this again last week to see the Fergus timeline and yeah, it's still excellent. I did notice something though about the ending.

specifically that it is far, far more open to a sequel than I remember. The nuke cannon doesn't get fired, BJ passes out, but towards the end of the credits a helicopter sound gets louder and louder before eventually there's a white flash that could be him waking up, rather than an explosion. It'd be super easy to take that and confirm that Anya turned the chopper around Empire Strikes back style.

Got all the perk unlocks this time hurrah!

As an fyi for anyone playing on an AMD RX series card, you might have to make some tweaks to stop the game crashing for some reason. Specifically, rename the .exe in steamapps/common/wolfenstien to _x32 from _x64 and create a new .txt called steam_appid.txt containing the number 201810 in the same folder. That should stop the game crashing in the prison level. The only catch is you'll have to launch the game directly from the renamed .exe rather than through steam .

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I'm enjoying playing TNO, but it's been in spurts. I just don't play games in long stretches like I used to.

Mortal Sky

Potentially controversial element I'm curious about people's feelings on in retrospect:
How do you guys feel they handled

the concentration camp bits? Because for me there was definitely some worry going into that level that they wouldn't stick the landing. I'm of the opinion they gave it the majority of the gravity it deserved (and going too much further into the angle might've gotten ghoulish really quickly), so the game at least earned busting out on a giant robot and freeing everyone

Mr. G

One small detail I really appreciate

J walks around playing his guitar not plugged into anything

and the sound cues they play are an unplugged electric guitar

Not an acoustic, not just an electric, specifically an electric guitar not plugged in

Etchwarts

I just Platinumed this the other day

Beating it on the hardest difficulty actually wasn't too bad? I just had to use cover more

Grey Ghost

Nazis dead
Nazi robots dead
Broke all your shit
Helicopter secure

Sorce

The New Order is everything that DNF wishes it could have been.

Mr. G

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Nazis dead
Nazi robots dead
Broke all your shit
Helicopter secure

I just got past this part and I completely forgot he's not actually reporting that to anybody

He mutters it to himself

Grey Ghost

I have to say I don't really like the monologue about the monster in his basement as a kid, it's mostly just funny to put over incongruous images like Mario's new hat

Etchwarts

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I have to say I don't really like the monologue about the monster in his basement as a kid, it's mostly just funny to put over incongruous images like Mario's new hat

I don't remember this one, where is it?

Inquisitor

Eeesh they are really doubling down on an extended stealth section at the start of The Old Blood.

I hope that stops soon.

Tonkka

Going to finish this game Tuesday.

If I try to finish before work, I might not make it to work.

Grey Ghost

I don't remember where it is but it's pretty short


“When I was a kid, we had a monster in our basement. My father said if I done wrong, it’d creep out at night and come for me.

I tried to do no wrong.

The monster came all the same.""

Casually Hardcore

Replayed it. It's good, but far from perfect. Some of the enemy placement is utter bullshit. Whoever thought that it's fun to place a bulletsponge tank in a hallway and give you no covers and barely enough ammo to kill it is a dumby.

Hopefully they take lesson from Doom for the next one.

Crippl3

Ugh, I've got no room on my hard drive after installing the new Secret World.
Why do video games have to be so big

AtomicTofu

https://twitter.com/Babylonian/status/878720554630434816

Hacksaw

I can't wait for TNC. Got that Nazi-killin' itch something fierce right now.

UnbrokenEva

The point where Wolfenstein really impressed me came at the end of a cutscene, of all things. BJ was talking on his radio headset to a few other people at once at the end of the mission, and the cutscene did that thing where the screen was split into 4 parts to show each of the people talking. And as the conversation ended and they signed off one by one, their quadrants switched from their face to another shot of BJ but from a different angle than his main quadrant, and then once all 4 parts were different shots of BJ, their cameras swing around to all the same angle and zoomed in, to make a single composite view of him at which point the dividing lines disappeared and it was just him, and then the camera swung again back to first person.

It was a short, little thing that would have been easy to miss, and easier to not bother with, but putting that kind of effort and attention to detail into something as simple as the end of a cutscene feels typical of the game as a whole.

-Tal

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I don't remember where it is but it's pretty short


“When I was a kid, we had a monster in our basement. My father said if I done wrong, it’d creep out at night and come for me.

I tried to do no wrong.

The monster came all the same.""

that is in the old blood after a character dies

-Tal

https://youtu.be/QU6tQY3eMLM

Lalabox

Also if you like really long and thorough retrospectives on the entire Wolfenstein series then

https://youtu.be/tzu0AoUxFhk

Grey Ghost

BJ choosing that particular crucial moment to make a dumb joke is so great

Mr. G

The one major criticism I can make against The New Order is the pacing at the beginning is very bad

It takes like 2-3 hours to get to the 60s and even longer to get to the hideout and see what the game is actually about

I'm sure so many people didn't get past it to see how amazing the rest of the game is

Grey Ghost

Jeez, is it that long?

Mr. G

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Jeez, is it that long?

Maybe I just took forever, but the intro is at LEAST 90 minutes

mosssnack

It definitely takes a bit. I only played TNO a few months ago and somehow managed to go into it blind after all these years. I'm so glad I was able to do that.

I showed the E3 trailer to some people I work with and I also talked to them about how awesome TNO is. One of them got so hyped he bought a console to play it and has been texting me his experience along the way. Like, this guy doesn't really play video games. When we're deployed, he'll play a bit of NBA 2k or the UFC game, but that's really it.

rhylith

That first bit is fine once you're on land.

The planes at the start are pretty rough though.

Sorce

Mr. G wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Jeez, is it that long?

Maybe I just took forever, but the intro is at LEAST 90 minutes

That sounds about right, I just got through it earlier tonight (I'm 'escorting' Anya's Uncle's truck now) and it takes a while. It also seems a lot longer if you haven't played the game before, because you keep expecting to be in the 60s, and it just doesn't happen.

Undead Scottsman

Mortal Sky wrote: »

Also hot holy damn it is actually nearly impossible to get a legitimate copy of Wolfenstein 2009 on PC now

Even legitimate used copies have to be cracked to function on Windows so the only way to play it is either on console or finding a PC copy new in box

It's in publishing rights limbo between Activision and Bethesda I think. It used to be available on Steam. Wish I had bought it when I could.

Grey Ghost wrote: »

BJ choosing that particular crucial moment to make a dumb joke is so great

They mention earlier that his german is atrocious.

darunia106

While wolfenstein 2009 certainly isn't bad, I haven't heard many good things about it.

https://youtu.be/P4LaR1C6Xds

Just play tno.

Tonkka

Yeah I got through the beginning of TNO and all of a sudden the beginning cinematic starts and I was like, oh that was the intro?

Holy shit.

I found it to be a positive thing.

Tallahasseeriel

I am installing the New Order.

Mr. G

Finished the replay and I maintain what I thought when it came out

It does its storytelling really really well and is just a pretty good shooter

Also

J is fine but wow was he massively overhyped

Casually Hardcore

Who's J?