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The first act of Old Blood is great but it goes downhill once they introduce the zombies and most of the combat during the last half turns into first person zombie shooter #984. The very beginning of the game with the semi-forced stealth isn't terribly interesting either. Still worth playing though.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 04:22 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 11:05 |
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In addition to shootin, stabbin, and stranglin Nazis, we can now hatchet and dieselkraftwerk them. And don't forget the return of the mighty FLAMETHROWER. I wonder how much ribbing/poking at The Man In The High Castle will happen. Also, the cartoon character is named "Blitzmensch" and that amuses me. Bolow posted:I'm sad that the bad rear end resistance lady is very likely dead in the new game
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 04:46 |
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I know the new Wolfenstein is gonna deliver on the Nazi shootin', but the trailer implicitly promised some KKK shootin' and I better get it Mafia 3 was a good start in that regard. Let's see you step it up MachineGames.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 06:40 |
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I'm going to reinstall TNO and TOB, it's one of the best nazi killing simulators. Sniper Elite being a close second. But what's all this talk about Hitler maybe being a zombie? I don't remember anything about that in either of the new games.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 07:36 |
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de_dust posted:I'm going to reinstall TNO and TOB, it's one of the best nazi killing simulators. Sniper Elite being a close second. There were some notes you could find in TNO suggesting that the Fuhrer wasn't looking that great and was pretty sickly and pale-looking or something to that effect. Maybe a bit of stretch to go to "zombie" before The Old Blood came out but, well, The Old Blood had literal zombies.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 07:41 |
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It was in the Old Blood, actually. A letter from a Nazi officer who met the Fuhrer and shook his hand and said he looked really pale. Also there was a news article about how the Fuhrer is totally fine and don't worry about these rumors an American broke into his compound and killed him, that's all a lie.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 10:50 |
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Wolfenstein Megathread: So Much For The Tolerant Left would have been a way better title imho Humerus posted:It was in the Old Blood, actually. A letter from a Nazi officer who met the Fuhrer and shook his hand and said he looked really pale. Also there was a news article about how the Fuhrer is totally fine and don't worry about these rumors an American broke into his compound and killed him, that's all a lie.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 11:01 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:Wolfenstein Megathread: So Much For The Tolerant Left Frau Engel's face looking a lot better, considering how super hosed up it got last time we saw her.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 12:32 |
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Grey Fox posted:Hi, I'm here for the meltdowns. If I wanted to shoot the grandfathers of AntiFA, should I start with 2009 or the newer games?
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 20:21 |
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Personally I love Return, but it is rather dated these days. Health and ammo carry over between most missions so if you barely squeeze by in one you may start off screwed on the next. And obviously graphics wise it's a PS2 era game. 2009 was pretty good but the only way to play it is to find a disc-it's not sold digitally. It's also the one with the most mixed feelings. Like I'm going to say play Return but nobody would blame you for starting with The New Order. Just depends on how much you can handle older games.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 20:47 |
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I guess he didn't play far enough into TNO where it's revealed that all the Nazi's super-science was reverse engineered from Jewish super-science.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:22 |
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Mel Brooks was right. Jews did master space travel.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 22:03 |
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So this game is indeed in continuity with the 2009 game? I never played it, but it seemed like I was supposed to have a history with the wheelchair/powersuit lady and the German dude who was friends with Sloth. So how the heck is this game Wolfenstein 2?
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 22:14 |
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GigaPeon posted:So this game is indeed in continuity with the 2009 game? I never played it, but it seemed like I was supposed to have a history with the wheelchair/powersuit lady and the German dude who was friends with Sloth. They really should have gone full Dark Forces with the naming. I'd totally play Wolfenstein 3: The New Order 2: The New Colossus.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 22:25 |
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RTCW, Wolf09, TNO, TOB and Wolfenstein II are all canon. Wolf3D and its expansions (or parts of them) might be canon going off a newspaper article you can find on TOB. RTCW gets referenced once or twice during TNO and TOB and BJ meets Caroline during Wolf09, but both games barely have a plot (BJ is a silent character in RTCW) and the NPCs are there as exposition. If you want to get even more confused then TOB takes place in the same beginning location as RTCW despite the town and castle looking completely different within the two years that have passed between the games. Wolf09 also had a handful of pre-release animated comics that put it, RTCW and Wolf3D/SOD in the same continuity and tried to set-up some organisation called the Fourth Reich as the main enemy - this was all scrapped once that game bombed and the IP was handed over to MachineGames. It also showed BJ fighting Hans Grosse in Wolf3D despite the latter appearing in Wolf09 and neither of them recognising the other despite supposedly having fought before. Don't think about it any of this too hard like I did.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 22:44 |
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GUI posted:RTCW, Wolf09, TNO, TOB and Wolfenstein II are all canon. Wolf3D and its expansions (or parts of them) might be canon going off a newspaper article you can find on TOB. Also, remember the time the sequel to RTCW's F2P expansion was a prequel to Quake 2? That's gotta be canon, right?
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 23:04 |
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Humerus posted:I'm not sure trying to reconcile the Wolfenstein timeline is possible or even necessary. BJ has been captured and broken out and returned to Castle Wolfenstein multiple times; he's fought multiple ancient evils and occult monsters; he's to Wolfenstein's world what the Marine is to Doom's. Just kick back and enjoy some Nazi killin' No really though, don't worry too much about it. Caroline was shot by Strasse at the end of '09 and was never shown as surviving until she shows up in TNO. And the Grosse stuff and TOB and RtCW being so similar with an SS officer named Helga so obsessed with the occult....
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 23:10 |
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GigaPeon posted:Also, remember the time the sequel to RTCW's F2P expansion was a prequel to Quake 2? That's gotta be canon, right? Its a real shame about that one. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was like the best class-based shooter out there, leagues beyond anything else around at the time. And then Quake Wars was a big megatextured fart. I haven't played TNO yet, bought it on sale a while ago and have been waiting to start until tomorrow when I can binge-play it for like 12 hours
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 23:20 |
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my bony fealty posted:I haven't played TNO yet, bought it on sale a while ago and have been waiting to start until tomorrow when I can binge-play it for like 12 hours Congrats on what is going to be an awesome day. I'd honestly rather play Wolfenstein New Order through twice than TNO and some other game. It's about ethics in games Naziism.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 23:39 |
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GUI posted:RTCW, Wolf09, TNO, TOB and Wolfenstein II are all canon. Wolf3D and its expansions (or parts of them) might be canon going off a newspaper article you can find on TOB. Everything before RTCW are PTSD induced flashbacks B.J. experiences in TNO/TOB and are therefore sort of canon since the events depicted might have occurred in some fashion that are then remembered by B.J. as crazy dreams.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 23:50 |
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Klaus88 posted:The southern American communist resistance member threw me for a loop. This game is going to make people SO ANGRY in the best possible way. I like how pissed BJ's getting at him while he goes on about how he bravely resisted sending the proletariat to die in Europe. It seems like a big thing in this game is going to be trying to get a bunch of resistance cells that hate the gently caress out of each other to work together enough that they remember they hate the loving Nazis more. They played with it a little in The New Order with Blazko and Hendrix nearly coming to blows, but from the trailer it's going to be more central this time. Also, if my eyes don't deceive me, Fergus is getting a robot arm and Wyatt's going a bit nuts. Could be someone else, but if they're keeping both routes available, that's pretty neat.
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# ? Jun 13, 2017 23:52 |
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chiasaur11 posted:I like how pissed BJ's getting at him while he goes on about how he bravely resisted sending the proletariat to die in Europe. Nazi's - They bring everyone (except Nazi's) together to kill Nazi's Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Jun 14, 2017 |
# ? Jun 13, 2017 23:59 |
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You know, there are hundreds of WW2 shooters, but very few are actually NAZI killing games. Wolfenstein and Sniper Elite are really the ones to focus heavily on the enemy being Nazis and not just Germans. Call of Duty is more of Germans as the faceless goons, but Wolftentein really goes "gently caress Nazis" and runs with it. That's what really sets it apart from other World War 2 games. Still curious how they will address the Fergus/Wyatt divide in the game. Probably a flashback choice section while BJ is in a coma, to play as a tutorial level.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 00:10 |
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GUI posted:The first act of Old Blood is great but it goes downhill once they introduce the zombies and most of the combat during the last half turns into first person zombie shooter #984. The very beginning of the game with the semi-forced stealth isn't terribly interesting either. Still worth playing though. It did give us the line "would you look at that; it's raining nazis", which i believe to be the peak of human writing.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 00:25 |
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I still like the second half of old blood for how well it veers into the apocalyptic. It's bad enough the the allies are getting crushed but then you throw zombies on top of it all and set the sky on fire and the whole war feels hopeless. You fail to save agent one, fail to save agent two, and if you save Kessler instead of anette he just goes on a suicide run against Berlin. Everyone dies and it's all for nothing. It's an odd prequel that still has a foregone conclusion, but focusing the mood on the hopelessness of the situation sells it so well. And it doesn't stop the game from having really funny moments, like BJ frantically sawing off the shotgun barrel, or quietly unchaining himself while Helga and her lackey try to control the beast. And if you play it before new order it makes the gut punch of that game hit harder, as you've gone through hell only for everything to somehow get worse. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jun 14, 2017 |
# ? Jun 14, 2017 00:36 |
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I hope a lot of DOOM rubbed off on the new game so I can have less tedious Old Blood stealth sneaking and more in your face gunblazing
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 00:50 |
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Old blood's stealth section with the ubersoldaten was the worst and thank gently caress in New Order if you failed at stealth you could just shoot everyone instead and not feel bad about it.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 00:59 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFryhE5rwA There's maybe a little more information here, but nothing super new/surprising. Oh also if you feel you must have a faux leather replica of BJ's yellow jacket, Bethesda has you covered for $98!
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 01:16 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:And if you play it before new order it makes the gut punch of that game hit harder, as you've gone through hell only for everything to somehow get worse.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 01:25 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Old blood's stealth section with the ubersoldaten was the worst and thank gently caress in New Order if you failed at stealth you could just shoot everyone instead and not feel bad about it. You stealth kill the first guy then mow the rest of them down with the minigun, you just need to wait for them to turn around
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 01:27 |
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Ravenfood posted:Eh, I think it works better after TNO because you know all of these sacrifices and deaths were all leading up to the doomed assault on the compound anyhow. True, but my overall point is that it is the rare prequel that plays to its strengths, whether you play before or after New Order.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 01:27 |
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Bolow posted:You stealth kill the first guy then mow the rest of them down with the minigun, you just need to wait for them to turn around Target their backpack you mean?
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 01:28 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:True, but my overall point is that it is the rare prequel that plays to its strengths, whether you play before or after New Order.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 01:29 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Target their backpack you mean? Yeah if you shoot them in the connection bit and it falls off, then you gently caress them up
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 01:33 |
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Humerus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFryhE5rwA Caroline is all but confirmed dead before we even get off the U-boat I'm guessing.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 01:34 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Caroline is all but confirmed dead before we even get off the U-boat I'm guessing. Either dead or coming back as the pentultimate boss like Wyatt/Fergus in TNO.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 02:05 |
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Humerus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFryhE5rwA "I'm not saying it's space aliens, right? But it goes without saying, it's fuckin' SPACE ALIENS!" I love that guy already.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 02:10 |
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Humerus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFryhE5rwA
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 02:12 |
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Scalding Coffee posted:Does it come with iconic machine gun? FTFY
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This really should be the main image in the OP.
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# ? Jun 14, 2017 02:20 |