Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Catch-All

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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus thread! Please use spoiler tags where appropriate.

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Polygon
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After re-igniting my love for single player FPS campaigns with DOOM, i'm really looking forward to this.

Pumped about this but probably won't be able to pick up a copy until the holidays.

Watched some streamed gameplay last night and I was taken aback by some aspects of the story, specifically

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the flashbacks to BJ's childhood and family stuff. Heavy sh*t. Actually pretty impressive how they're making a credible effort to turn BJ into a real, developed character instead of just a cardboard cutout of a killing machine.

I'll also need to wait at least a couple weeks, but also plan on playing through this soon as long as it runs on my aging PC. The first game was such a pleasant surprise.

I just got a chance to come up for air and this is off to a great start. If there is something more fun than shooting Nazis in the face it’s taking out their legs with a hatchet. “Does this end shoot Nazis? I’m sure it will work just fine.”

I just love a good story based shooter. Especially when the protagonist isn't some unlikeable jerk.

Y'all are a bunch of enablers. I thought I would be able to resist this one until I was done with Shadow of War, but the reviews came back solid and I was still able to get it for 20% off, so here we are. I have 5-day weekend coming up, so hopefully I can get through a good chunk of it.

Busy watching the Lirik stream. The story looks very intense(in a good way). A great mix of shock and humour.

I can confirm that it actually runs okay on a GTX 680 (mostly low settings, no AA)... until it starts just crashing to desktop without so much as an error message. I'm guessing its mostly down to not having enough graphics RAM.

*sigh* the first hour is really good, though.

A buddy told me this game had him in tears within an hour. I’m now seriously considering saving up for it. The last time I played an FPS was Bioshock Infinite and I bounced off that hard, so I have some trepidation. But since then i’ve Rediscovered my love of twitch reflex games (thank you, Bloodborne!)

I guess what I am looking for is enabling

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

I guess what I am looking for is enabling :)

The first hour is better than five BioShock Infinites

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

A buddy told me this game had him in tears within an hour. I’m now seriously considering saving up for it. The last time I played an FPS was Bioshock Infinite and I bounced off that hard, so I have some trepidation. But since then i’ve Rediscovered my love of twitch reflex games (thank you, Bloodborne!)

I guess what I am looking for is enabling :)

Yeah, Bioshock Infinite, while beautiful was rather dull gameplay-wise. This... is a lot better.

Pretendbeard wrote:
TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

I guess what I am looking for is enabling :)

The first hour is better than five BioShock Infinites

That's not a high bar to clear

Yeah, I just got through the whole initial level.

I mean, I knew it was going to be brutal based on what people were saying about it (specifically the first few scenes), but wow. I was not prepared to experience that right up front. There are very few times in gaming where I've gotten uncomfortable enough that I've had to step away. This was definitely one of those times.

I’m not so fond of BJ’s overly dramatic inner monologue, but the bits about his past hit me pretty hard. There is some serious and disturbing stuff, but then the game can also lighten the mood and be pretty humorous. While the action is perfectly fine, it’s not the high point of the game. DOOM was pretty much all about the action and I loved it for that. Wolfenstein 2 has perfectly serviceable action, but the context it takes place in really elevates it for me.

The atmosphere in Wolf 2 is simply spectacular. They've already established the aesthetic in Wolf 1, and they've really dialed everything up. Graphically, they seem to have allowed for a broad spectrum of system configurations. I'm running a fairly old processor (Core i7 2600k) but with 16GB RAM and a 6GB 980Ti. I have everything set to Ultra (which isn't the highest setting, amusingly enough) and it's buttery-smooth and absolutely gorgeous. One minor bug (on my system, at least) seems to be that the mouse cursor occasionally becomes visible on screen, and tracks around overlying what is actually supposed to be on the screen. I'll fool with the settings regarding that, but otherwise I've had no technical glitches.

As many have noticed, they've pulled no punches with the story. That said, the main Nazi characters are psychotic bordering on farcical, and they're not above having a character get beaten up by his own robotic arm. They're seemingly trying to thread the needle between capital-letter Social Commentary and old-fashioned Wolfenstein Nazi killing. Thus far, I'd say they're right on target.

Well worth buying if you were ever a fan of any other the other games.

Oof. Even pre-warned that opening half hour packs a heck of a punch!

Happily it runs ok on my laptop as far as I can see, providing I stick to the default settings - particularly the low-resolution it's running in (less than 16x9 !) but I can live with that. Still looks pretty good even then.

*actually, never mind - looks like it just went all crappy because I tried switching it in-game. when i loaded it back up again now it runs decently at a proper resolution.

**and i just discovered in true bethesda tradition, the game completely craps itself when you try to alt-tab out of it.

Love the over-wrought internal monologue stuff myself, personally and there's spades of it in here, which is great!

Between this and AC:O I am having such a hard time deciding what game to play first on my Scorpio!

SallyNasty wrote:

Between this and AC:O I am having such a hard time deciding what game to play first on my Scorpio!

So am I! I was thinking AC but I am not sure it’s gonna go down that way.

SallyNasty wrote:

Between this and AC:O I am having such a hard time deciding what game to play first on my Scorpio!

I will never 100% this after reading about the Mein Leben difficulty (beat the entire game on one life, no saving, Ultra Hard), considering I couldn't get out of the first room without dying on Hard, and immediately bumped it down to very easy for the story. Kinda glad the PS4 mostly broke my cheevo obsession.

Think I'm about 4 missions in. Love the power armor, was absolutely crushed by how much it cost.

A vague statement about the game (midway+ through), but I figured I'd spoiler it...

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This game went in an unexpected very weird direction.

wow...(home base spoiler)

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Is that the ENTIRE wolfenstein - sorry, "Wolfstone" - 3D game in the canteen? (with some modifications to remove swastika's, etc). 'cause it sure seems like it!

unfortunately it seemed to screw up my mouse pointer upon exiting, but oh well! pretty cool nonetheless.

I just hit New Orleans, and all I can say is: man, I love Machine Games. They're doing such an outstanding job with this series.

hehe, there are so many digs at the alt-right and "nazi's are people too" types in the game that I can just about hear the gnashing and wailing of internet forums with every new reference

Crazy to Think I could play a game like this soon on a Nintendo system. It's fairly gorey

This game is really hard. I imagine the perks would make the harder difficulties more forgiving, but on a first run the "Bring 'em on!" difficulty is brutal. At one point, the game told me that you can save anywhere, and that has been my saving grace. The other nice thing is that your progress on perks and collectables keeps going even if you die, so you don't feel like you are losing everything.

TheGameguru wrote:

Crazy to Think I could play a game like this soon on a Nintendo system. It's fairly gorey Holy crap it's really gory!

FTFY

I thought the early part of the game was emotionally heavy. Then I got the mid-game. Makes the early stuff look like sunshine and roses! Wow.

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The courtroom sequence was an absolute gut-punch.

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Well, I got about 5 hours in and I hit a permanent state of framerate drop. The game ran really well for a while, but occasionally, usually when a lot of enemies spawned at once, I'd go down to about 5 frames a second. I could quit and restart to get back to normal, but now it's like that as soon as I load. Getting to a new area, updating drivers, and restarting didn't fix it.

After this and Nier, I think I might be upgrading video cards sooner than I wanted to.

pyxistyx wrote:

Happily it runs ok on my laptop as far as I can see, providing I stick to the default settings - particularly the low-resolution it's running in (less than 16x9 !) but I can live with that. Still looks pretty good even then.

Curious - what card is your laptop running? I was initially delighted that my aging system actually ran it pretty happily on lower settings for the first hour, after which it started dropping me to desktop without so much as an error message. My best guess is not having the minimum spec video RAM, but I can't imagine many laptops packing 4GB graphics cards.

nvidia GeForce GTX 950m , with an Intel i7-4710MQ CPU and 8 gig ram.

This puppy is three years old now and still acceptably runs most things I throw at it (with the occasional compromise on visual quality but nothing too major - yet). Sounds like a jet engine trying to take off though, and I'd hate to actually use it as a "lap" top since it runs pretty dang hot sometimes.

So I accidentally chose the Ram Shackles as my contraption. Given that I'm normally a sneaky-sneak type, it has really forced me to change how I play. Mentally, I've decided that Terror Billy has just had enough of subtlety and is now just going to charge into the middle of everything and start murdering. It's shockingly effective. I'm actually really enjoying being what is effectively a berserker!

In other news, be cautious when you get to the point of choosing a contraption.

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