Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Not a bad game by any means, but a huge disappointment after TNO. It has nothing to do with the reactionary "woke pandering" crap, the story and characters are mostly all great and the only real issue I have is that the humor can be a bit much at times, TNO kept it more downplayed which I appreciated.

The real issue is the gameplay. They gutted so much of what made TNO great, the levels were too linear and lacked options, the stealth went from being piss easy in the last game to borderline impossible in this one, the difficulty is outrageously high during the first half when you're limited to half health(having double armor cap doesn't help because armor pickups are rarer than health and don't partially regenerate), there's no new game plus, there's no little mini games that lead to new areas depending on what whether Fergus or Wyatt are alive and likewise no way to upgrade health or armor, there's no fucking level select which insane in a 2017 shooter, there's no boss fights at all and the main antagonist dies in a damn cutscene, the laserkraftwerk was absolutely gimped, and those assassination missions were pointless padding.

Also yeah Anya wasn't handled well in this game at all. Only character in the story that I felt was just not written well

There’s a lot about these games that I enjoy - esp. the characters, hub areas, and open ended levels (more so in ‘New Order’ than here) - but the difficulty drains the fun out of the experience if you’re caught in one section for too long. MachineGames, if the crux of your gameplay is spraying Nazis into giblets, I’d rather be the punisher and not the punished.

happy 5th :)

story is bad and there's too much of it and too little shooting

@Jorgetime woke pandering? u mean the game telling u nazis are bad?

I don't get why people say this game is "too woke" or "too political". Firstly, Wolfenstein is political game series at it's core. Since the very first game you've been literally fighting against Nazis. Secondly, wouldn't it be worse if they didn't talk specifically about WHY the Nazis were bad and instead just treated them as generic bad guys?

Why do people think this game is so hard? You can manually save it making it far easier than completing the new order on Uber difficulty imo. Also it’s an alternative history, it’s not “woke crap” when it’s a completely different universe than our own. Battlefield 5 and call of duty ruined WW2 with wokeness because they weren’t alternate universes. The narrative and story is absolutely incredible imo but if you’re not big into history you probably won’t appreciate just how good the story is honestly.