I have a hankerin' to do one thing, and one thing only.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Wolfenstein. Wolfenstein Wolfenstein.

    DO it.

    The new games are funny as fuck and all around great shooters. Make sure you pick a difficulty level that is just easy enough not to be super frustrating, but hard enough that you can't run and gun carelessly. It's not Quake. The right amount of difficulty makes the experience more rewarding. And you'll hate the Nazis on a slightly different level. And you'll do more stealth, so you'll hear the Nazis talking more often. There's great satire in there. My favorite parts are the constant calls for "civility" and "renunciation of violence" by the Nazis as they continue to run death camps - this pervades much of the story. It can be hard to really feel the contradiction without hearing it from a well-acted fictional Nazi during your own struggle for survival.

    And so much catharsis. And shamelessly over-the-top violence and nudity, just ridiculous and they absolutely OWN it. You know how GTA gets away with being insane? It's like that but way more metal.

    W1 New Order and W2 New Colossus are simply the best, and it's basically one story arc between the two games. Youngblood is a sequel/spinoff and it's meh, I had some fun but never even finished it. Bit grindy. But you really don't need to play that one IMO.

    BONUS: Wolfenstein II New Colossus contains the best version of Wolfenstein 3D, the original Wolfenstein FPS from 1992. It's called Wolfstone - it's a mirror universe clone of Wolfenstein created by the Nazi version of Id Software. Yeah. So it's all Americans and Russians who scream things like "my life!" instead of "mien leben!" and it's its own great satire, but the thing that rocks is that it has fully responsive Mouse + WASD controls that make it absolutely amazing. The game is an exact clone except it just controls well. It's GREAT. It's a BLAST. The bosses in the game are all your actual friends.