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| I'm... well, I don't know how far I am into it. But the point is, this and DOOM went on sale, and I finally have a rig that can handle 'em, so I got 'em both and I'm knee deep in '90s nostalgia.
This is... as good as the previous Machinegames games. I cannot believe how good it looks and sounds. I cannot believe how well done the voice-acting and cutscenes are done. They have turned BJ Blazkowicz from an 8-bit face into a remarkably compelling, three-dimensional character who I actually CARE about. And they did it while making a really fun shooter. So that's good. This series of games will always hold a special place for me. And yet... as well done as it is, this feels almost too story-heavy. Like, it feels more like an "interactive experience", with set-pieces full of guns there just to link up the story bits. More than once (per hour) I find myself saying "this is really good, now let me shoot some Nazis." So that's my complaint. But it's a small one, in the face of an experience that, playing the original on the day you could download it back in '92, I wouldn't think possible. And yet... I spent a couple hours with DOOM before that, and ultimately I think it wins, because the story is stupid, but told briefly, and the action is stupid, and continuous. Just like the old days. One last thing. I know there's "online controversy" about this game for the exact opposite reason there was controversy in the first place, that it's too "politicized" against Nazis, or whatever. I assume most of that is trolling, but there is something inspiring, now, about a game where it IS still in black and white, as it should have been since 1939. Bad people are bad. Goodness is good. The fact that there is confusion about this now is very disheartening. But if goodness once against must rise up and triumph against evil, I want BJ Blazkowicz on my side. Again. |
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Wolf 2 by 11/25/2017, 2:17pm PST  Which one are you talking about? Wolfenstein (2009), Wolfenstein 2: The New NT by 11/25/2017, 2:25pm PST Colossus. The new one. The previous ones weren't called "Wolfenstein 2". This NT by 11/26/2017, 6:40am PST Re: Wolf 2 by 12/03/2017, 10:17pm PST Colossus sucks. Written by communists and is boring to play, the cardinal sin. NT by 08/29/2025, 9:58am PDT Thanks, Nazi. Glad we got your opinion. Now fuck off forever. NT by 08/29/2025, 10:01am PDT God dammit. That was meant to go to the Nazi. NT by 08/29/2025, 10:02am PDT BJ fucking a Jewish Pole and knocking her up with twins is character development by 08/29/2025, 10:05am PDT You are truly unqualified to offer game criticism. Quit doing it here. by 08/29/2025, 10:43am PDT Sobbing uncontrollably as I remember my dad gave me a heckin' sad. NT by 08/29/2025, 11:04am PDT Re: Wolf 2 by 08/29/2025, 10:03am PDT |
