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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus |OT| Amerika ist wieder großartig
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Dankey shoom? Donkey shaun?
Good luck sneaking up on dogs. They follow your scent when you're within their radius.
On heavies, you smack open their oil tanks, which they begin to trail fluid from. If you just let them patrol for a while, it'll extend for quite a distance, giving you fair opportunity to shoot the trail and watch the flames ignite along the path before causing a massive explosion.
About 10-12 hours, depending on your chosen difficulty and how thoroughly you explore. If you decide to play the optional assassination missions, tack on an additional hour or two.
Awkwardly. Too fast paced for 30FPS, what with the kind of input lag that brings. It could work, probably won't. I don't have particularly high hopes.
Obvious spoiler...
I'm in Section F for the second time, I have to find the nukes this time. I got to the main room and three big dudes poped-out of sarcophagus or whatever... I killed them but now I'm not sure where to go? I'm not seeing any prompts or objectives markers anywhere.
Edit... Nvm, found it
6-7 hours sounds insane to me.
Playing on "Bring 'em on" difficulty, I'm very close to the end and I've clocked in 18 hours and 48 minutes (with around 2 hours of it being me leaving the game on pause menu). For me it has been a perfect balance between gameplay and cutscenes.
Thoughts on the game, just finished Fergus timeline:
I feel like if your playtime is that short you didn't bother going around the uboat and listening to character interactions. Which is a real shame if people are missing those. They are fantastic. My completion time was 13 hours
Man that was an absolute blast. Every cutscene was fantastic. The character interactions on the Uboat were perhaps my favorite parts of the entire game. I thoroughly enjoyed it... up until the "end". Wow that was one of the most flaccid endings I've ever seen. Not only did they leave multiple plot threads open, they also killed off a major villain in the series with a one button kill? Where's the boss fight? Or at least sometime similar to it. What about the artifact set couldn't figure out. He acted like he had an epiphany toward the end there, but the game went nowhere with it. We didn't get to see anya and BJ's twins born. And it feels like the resistance is only marginally stronger than they were at the beginning of the game. It felt like almost nothing was accomplished. At least we know there's going to be a third game because of all the loose ends here... Anyone else feeling this way?
Side note, is the endgame side content worth doing? Any story stuff or just pointless busywork? I'll just start another playthrough for the Wyatt timeline.
Side note, is the endgame side content worth doing? Any story stuff or just pointless busywork? I'll just start another playthrough for the Wyatt timeline.
I feel like if your playtime is that short you didn't bother going around the uboat and listening to character interactions. Which is a real shame if people are missing those. They are fantastic. My completion time was 13 hours
Just beat the first level in America and I'm enjoying it more than at the start. Currently playing on easy, think I'll bump it back up though.
Glad I'm not the only one struggling. And maaaan am I struggling in some scenes.
Having a blast with the game!
I'm also finding the game to be difficult, but it still lot's of fun.
I'm also finding the game to be difficult, but it still lot's of fun.
Took me just under 14 hours on "Call me Terror-Billy!" difficulty (without any of the optional Übercommanders).
The only way I can see someone beating the game in 6-7 hours is if they are just shooting their way through everything, and/or playing on the lower difficulty settings (which is of course fine on both accounts!). However, if you're exploring, listening to NPC conversations, finding collectibles or stealthing, it's going to take much longer.
Man! Am I the only one who finds the difficulty satisfying?
I'm playing on 'I am a death incarnate' and with a controller. Dying a ton, of course, but that means having to rethink stuff. Hiding in cover doesn't really work due to aggressive flanking, so what you have to do is transition rapidly from a firing position to another and take your shots.
It really plays wonderfully. I'm sure the gameplay will get more praise down the line.
I'm playing on 'I am a death incarnate' and with a controller. Dying a ton, of course, but that means having to rethink stuff. Hiding in cover doesn't really work due to aggressive flanking, so what you have to do is transition rapidly from a firing position to another and take your shots.
It really plays wonderfully. I'm sure the gameplay will get more praise down the line.
I'm about 7 hours in and don't think I've hit the halfway point. Playing on normal and taking some time to listen to NPC/enemy chatter when it presents itself. I'm sure people can beat the game much faster than I will, but I feel listening to a lot of that dialogue while I play has been some of my favorite parts of the game and really add to its atmosphere. I'd still say the majority of my time played so far has been gameplay. Game certainly has a lot of story, but so far, haven't really run into a cutscene that felt "too long" or getting in the way of gameplay.
Something funny that happened while playing.
I was playing the NYC mission when my roommate came home from a party. We were talking and he was looking at the game. I said so apparently NYC got hit by the atom bomb. He got wide eyes and for a sec thought I was talking about real life lol.
The feedback in this game is not great. I can never tell if I'm landing hits and never notice that I'm getting hit.
I can't remember if TNO was like this (I loved loved loved that game) and I hope they'res enough people criticizing it for a patch.
I can't remember if TNO was like this (I loved loved loved that game) and I hope they'res enough people criticizing it for a patch.
I knew this game was going to be bad ass since back at E3 but god damn. It's way up the top for my game of the year. The storytelling is superb and the action is excellent. Those auto shotguns are absolutely brilliant.
Everything about the Hitler scene was incredible. Everything. His depiction, the way BJ acts out the scene. The fact that you can fucking kick his head in, that was so satisfying and funny.
It was definitely a mistake teasing his presence in one of the trailers, would have made for a great surprise.
It was definitely a mistake teasing his presence in one of the trailers, would have made for a great surprise.
I gotta say, I wasn't entirely feeling it until then, but the game has picked up considerably after the midway point. Gotta replay it to reassess my opinion of the first half.
Just started this tonight. Wow, really impressed with what I have played Only a few levels in but damn. What an unnerving beginning to the game too. One that I will remember for a long time. Playing on PS4 and performance is super smooth. Loving the weapons so far too. Can't wait to dig into this game more.
It's going to be hilarious when MachineGames inevitably releases the infographic that tells us how many people
kicked that thing.
Yeah, judging by the trophy percentage, not a whole lot, at least up until now!
How can you not do it, though, how can you not have the urge?
By Steam's achievement percentages, 18.6% of players have made it to that level, 6.4% have done the thing. So like one third. That's lower than I would've thought.
Yeah the whole scene was amazing.
I purposely messed up the lines a few time just to get a few laughs out as well.
It's hands down the best weapon in the game when it is fully upgraded. Dual wield it and you can mow anything down.
Spoiler about a mid-point in the game where I did get a bit frustrated:
The dream sequence where you break out of the Nazi court is really hard. It's so insta-death it's not even funny. This mostly has to do with the cover available, and the fact that no matter where you are, you're always flanked. I died like 200 times here. But nailing it down feels really special: you actually overcome such great odds the satisfaction is incredible. The game doesn't pull its punches one bit, but just rains enemies on you just like you'd expect if you were the most dangerous terrorist on Earth and trying to shoot your way out of maximally secured imprisonment. It's fantastic.
The fact that it's indeed a dream sequence is funny in that sense. It puts you to an impossible situation, makes you find your way through it, and then tells you that it was in fact impossible. The cutscene that came after that was harrowing. The human vulnerability of BJ is construed very well, the game has a real heart beating underneath the mayhem.
The fact that it's indeed a dream sequence is funny in that sense. It puts you to an impossible situation, makes you find your way through it, and then tells you that it was in fact impossible. The cutscene that came after that was harrowing. The human vulnerability of BJ is construed very well, the game has a real heart beating underneath the mayhem.
I think I picked the wrong time to try this game the first time. A bit buzzed, on medium difficulty and dying a few times every other encounter. I played through TNO a few weeks back and this looks to be a whole different ball game, sirs and/or madams. Time to git gud, as it were. Looks nice as hell though on PS4Pro.
That was also a highlight for me, seeing him so vulnerable and adding to the continued humanization of BJ as a character.
Really, the return to the farmhouse was the point where the game started becoming much more fun to me. You get BJ confronting Rip, a cool set piece, and then that whole dream sequence. What comes after is even better, just great shit all around.
Really, the return to the farmhouse was the point where the game started becoming much more fun to me. You get BJ confronting Rip, a cool set piece, and then that whole dream sequence. What comes after is even better, just great shit all around.
Lower percentage to even get to that point than I would've expected, too.
Gotta try that on my next playthrough, it crossed my mind but I was just too eager to see who was getting out of that room and, most importantly, how!
Just finished and absolutely loved it. Rarely do you see a game completely nail tonal shifts, and W2 did it in spades.
After spending a long time with it this weekend on PS4 I moved difficulty from 'bring 'em on' back down to 'Don't hurt me' as the only way I was making progress through some scenes was by save scumming every 30 seconds or so. Game is still kicking me on occasion even on that setting.
I find stealth and quick saving makes for the most fluid way through the game for me. When large shootouts start you go down really really quickly.
I'm still loving the game. The atmosphere, the script writing, characters, weapons & upgrades. Everything about the world is fabulous.
I wonder if theres a breakdown of what the different difficulties actually do to tweak the gameplay. I'd be very interested in reading the mechanics behind what it actually tweaks.
Thinking about buying this after I finish Mario Odyssey. I have one question though: Can you pause cutscenes in this (PS4)? Not being able to pause cutscenes was my biggest problem with the first one. I remember pressing the Home button and then running in to my daughter who just woke up, when I got back I had missed a whole important cutscene.
You can't on PC so I imagine you can't on PS4. None of them are particularly long though.
I'm glad Sigrun had an arc and didn't turn on the team. Great character.
Max Hass finishing part of his collage and then taking Professor to his room to show it off is downright magical. Max Hass fuckin rules.
This. If it wasn't for this lack of feedback and the broken lean mechanic it would be solid. For now it transmits not the fun it should. Will give it an other try later on and if it doesn't click i'm going to wait and hope they patch this somehow. I really want to like it, everything seems great but this and the bad soundmixing kinda ruin this game for me:(
Yeah, I can safely say Wolfenstein II is distinctly disappointing to me. A lot of what I loved in design and presentation from The New Order is simply not here. I'm going to have to really mull on my thoughts and feelings as I continue through, but the big red flag is that I'm forcing myself to put aside time and sit down to continue through. The draw of The New Order, where I couldn't put it down, is nowhere to be found.
i'm having a hard time putting it into words as well -- there's something missing
So I was covering the Belgian Wolfenstein release party and one thing I wasn't aware of is that many players play and buy Wolfenstein 2 for the Nazi-elements. The majority knew before even playing the game that it would have Nazi-jokes. This took me by surprise to be honest, I never would have guessed that people actually buy a game just for that.
Anyway, if this is allowed here is a short article about the Belgian release party.
I am almost done with the game and so far I'm satisfied but I liked the previous two more. Playing on Xbox One, I have experienced many visual bugs with shadows, frame rate drops and the lean mechanic is simply terrible. Not the biggest fan for the environments too, I miss some extra creative work. That sounds negative though, overall I think Wolfenstein is a very decent shooter, it might even be the best single player shooter for 2017.
Anyway, if this is allowed here is a short article about the Belgian release party.
I am almost done with the game and so far I'm satisfied but I liked the previous two more. Playing on Xbox One, I have experienced many visual bugs with shadows, frame rate drops and the lean mechanic is simply terrible. Not the biggest fan for the environments too, I miss some extra creative work. That sounds negative though, overall I think Wolfenstein is a very decent shooter, it might even be the best single player shooter for 2017.
I feel the same. Narrative momentum carried me through the early parts but even that is making it hard to keep going. I just finished
Venus
This might sound like sacrilege, but I find myself wishing this game had regenerative health/armor. I mean, it kinda does have regenerative health, but you die in 1.5 seconds so what the hell is the point. Combat in this game is just not working for me at all. No matter how I approach it I get fucked. I've resorted to abusing quicksaving/loading.
So having beat the game, there's a couple things that bug me. Narrative threads that felt like loose ends. Full game spoilers.
And you aren't getting the plat cuz you're never gonna beat Mein Leben, so...
The segment where you meet your father. It felt very bizarre. Did he go there with the intention of dying? Of killing you? Both? Was he coerced into doing what he did by the Nazis? While a hateful man, he didn't really strike me as someone who would become a fanatical nazi loyalist. I don't see why he would knowingly, deliberately go to his own death, and the death of his son. What did he hope to gain out of that exchange? Did he spontaneously choose to go down there, and have the nazis on the other end of the line just to show what a good little puppet he was? If the writers simply wanted to make him into a ridiculously despicable boot licker who would gleefully sell out his own son at the end of the game, even at the cost of his own life, then why'd they bother to humanize him thirty seconds earlier, with the flashback in the bedroom of him taking you and your mother to the basement, with guns, to face your own nightmares?
The ring. Frau Engel takes the ring from you that you go back for, and it's never suggested that she disposes of it. On the contrary, she seems to have something of a fascination with Blaskowitz, and I'd be unsurprised to see that she kept it on her after his passing as a trophy. But despite being an object of some importance to William, it is never revisited. I hope it'll get tied up in the third game.
Finally, William's resurrection. Obviously this scene is ridiculous, but the game is built upon the ridiculous. New Order had us fight our own friend's brain piloting a robot mech, a decade after they'd been killed and their brain put in a jar, and we have the precedent of Shoshana, so obviously the game has set us up to accept the ridiculous. But William importantly remarks upon his own doubt for whether it's happened. When Spesh comes to try to rescue you from holding before the trial, he claims that your friends are waiting in a car downstairs, and that in spite of there being tanks outside the building, he isn't concerned about whatever happens once they're to the garage, because they have 'tricks up their sleeve.' Later, BJ asks Anya about how on earth Anya and the others escaped from the garage when Engel's kill squad was ready and waiting to trap them. But Anya never explains, and merely sleepily echoes Spesh, 'We had some tricks up our sleeve.' BJ wonders at the deja vu. Is this real? Is any of this real or is he still dead? The game never revisits Anya and crew's improbable escape, nor BJ's solipsism. Was this questioning of reality ever supposed to go anywhere? I feel like raising this thread and then dropping it just as quick is an unfortunate miss.
I feel like all of these are vestigial dead ends that may have been originally intended to go somewhere, but end up just being left in, half baked. They raise questions that the game has no answers to, or seem to build up anticipation of events that never come. Bummer.[/spoilers]
The ring. Frau Engel takes the ring from you that you go back for, and it's never suggested that she disposes of it. On the contrary, she seems to have something of a fascination with Blaskowitz, and I'd be unsurprised to see that she kept it on her after his passing as a trophy. But despite being an object of some importance to William, it is never revisited. I hope it'll get tied up in the third game.
Finally, William's resurrection. Obviously this scene is ridiculous, but the game is built upon the ridiculous. New Order had us fight our own friend's brain piloting a robot mech, a decade after they'd been killed and their brain put in a jar, and we have the precedent of Shoshana, so obviously the game has set us up to accept the ridiculous. But William importantly remarks upon his own doubt for whether it's happened. When Spesh comes to try to rescue you from holding before the trial, he claims that your friends are waiting in a car downstairs, and that in spite of there being tanks outside the building, he isn't concerned about whatever happens once they're to the garage, because they have 'tricks up their sleeve.' Later, BJ asks Anya about how on earth Anya and the others escaped from the garage when Engel's kill squad was ready and waiting to trap them. But Anya never explains, and merely sleepily echoes Spesh, 'We had some tricks up our sleeve.' BJ wonders at the deja vu. Is this real? Is any of this real or is he still dead? The game never revisits Anya and crew's improbable escape, nor BJ's solipsism. Was this questioning of reality ever supposed to go anywhere? I feel like raising this thread and then dropping it just as quick is an unfortunate miss.
I feel like all of these are vestigial dead ends that may have been originally intended to go somewhere, but end up just being left in, half baked. They raise questions that the game has no answers to, or seem to build up anticipation of events that never come. Bummer.[/spoilers]
Drop it down a peg or three. Unless you are dead set on trophy hunting, this game does not seem designed for the average non-masochist to enjoy at anything above Do Or Die.
And you aren't getting the plat cuz you're never gonna beat Mein Leben, so...
lol you regenerate up to the next whole 10 hp. In a game where four or five bullets can drop you from 200/100 to dead before you turn to see your enemy, that doesn't really count for much.
Yeah I meant health and armor. Like I said, the way it is in the game is really useless. You die so quickly it's ridiculous.