Took the words right out of my mouth! I agree with your thoughts on the game 100%.
I just love how folks who haven't even PLAYED the game are relegating it to "Crap" and "Bargin Bin"
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Took the words right out of my mouth! I agree with your thoughts on the game 100%.
Welcome to the [H] gaming forums, where it's apparently the cool thing to hate on every new game release on every platform. Just look at the Titanfall and Watch Dogs threads. I've only played Wolfenstein a couple hours so far (haven't had the time to play a lot of anything this week ), but I already think that this game is really fun and that I'll get my money's worth out of this one.Wow, so I registered on here just to post about this game, after reading some of the senseless "trolling" going on in this thread.
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Not to crap on your opinion, but it is exactly because of opinions like these that too many games that come out nowadays have half-assed, broken multiplayer tacked on to a release. But I can understand why someone would want multiplayer in a Wolfenstein due to its heritage.As soon as I heard no MP. I was totally not interested.
Wow, so I registered on here just to post about this game, after reading some of the senseless "trolling" going on in this thread.
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As soon as I heard no MP. I was totally not interested.
Wow, so I registered on here just to post about this game, after reading some of the senseless "trolling" going on in this thread.
First off, I'll be upfront. I liked the game. It's not a "Game of the Year" but it isn't a bad game either.
From a story standpoint, it seems good, I'm about 1/4 of the way into the game.
Which reminds me, the guy who got the game and said he beat it like 3 hours after launch, that's either straight up lying or he pirated an unfinished copy. It would be literally impossible to beat the game in 3 hours. After 5 or so hours, being only 1/4 of the way in I'm guessing, playing at a normal pace, I would assume it is going to take me 20 hours to play the game, with ONE timeline. The game has a branching storyline, so replay value is there. Also lots of collectables and stuff to find.
It very much reminds me of old Wolfenstein 3D, trying to find hidden caches of Nazi gold, secret rooms, and documents etc. I wonder what the enigma codes unlock?
From a technical standpoint, it’s ok. It isn’t going to blow your socks off in the graphics department, but it isn’t a slouch either. There ARE some very nice special effects going on, and the models for everything have nice complexity. It looks as good as Dishonored, or say, Deus Ex (The new one) As for the game being locked at 60 FPS, who cares. It isn’t a multiplayer competitive game, so, nitpick much? It's not like at 60 FPS it feels laggy in ANY way.Texture pop-in? If it has this, it isn’t nearly as noticeable as RAGE was. I played the game, and if you are playing the game to PLAY it, instead of trying to nitpick and tear it apart, it wasn't noticeable from my eyes at least. It's funny to, because GTA 5 has terrible pop-in going on, and I never saw nearly as much complaining about that.
The gameplay itself is a "Run and Gun" shooter. It's very much an Arcade shooter. Which is great, because that is how the original was, which I loved. There are some more modern shooter "gimmicks". You can lean (In 4 directions actually) you can do a sliding move ala Max Payne, and you can Duel wield almost every gun in the game, which is actually fun.
The "perks" system is neat. No points, you level up perks based on your play style, so if you play stealthy, you get more stealthy perks. If you play crazy Rambo, you get more "Action" perks etc. There are 4 "skill" trees you can go through, which will automatically give you perks as you play, sort of like achievements. For example, I was doing a lot of stealth knife kills, and it unlocked a perk for me that let me use throwing knives.
The well crafted characters and story really shine in my opinion. They absolutely nailed the William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz. The character is exactly how I imagined him to be in the old Wolf 3D days, a "grunt" US Army Ranger. The supporting cast is also well done. The voice acting is great also, from the villains, to the side characters, really well done. Speaking of characters. The enemies are pretty neat. Creative use of almost like a "steam punk tech" you would expect from crazy Nazi experimentation, makes for a nice variety of enemy types, all of which have special "weak points" you can target to make them easier to take down, rather than dumping a million bullets into them. And the regular Nazi's make great cannon fodder. Individually, I like that I don't have to dump 20 bullets into them to take them down. They feel "real", a few bullets, and they drop. So shooting them in droves with a machine gun is fun.
As for the plot, from what I see so far, it is good. I am interested in seeing what happens, I like the characters, and one particular choice early on in the game actually made me cringe a bit, because I was very fond of a particular character. The whole "What if Nazi Germany had won the war?" plot is extremely well done and interesting to see. Other nice things are while the plot is "serious" the game doesn’t take itself too seriously at time. It retains that funny humor from the original Wolf 3D days, or DOOM. Picking difficulty settings will make fun of you for going on easy, and remember those funny quotes when you went to quit the game like "Abandon all humanity and Wuss out?(Quit)" well, yeah that is still there.
Also, Blazko has some great one liners. Soldier:"So what have you been up too?" Blazko: "Oh you know, strangling, stabbing Nazis"
Or you go to kill this sleeping Nazi with a stealth kill, and Blazko is "Wake up! You're dead" Reminds me of all the funny one liners in the old Duke Nukem games.
And the internal monologues! So sometimes, you look at a painting or something, and in the middle of the action, Blazko goes on these internal monologues, which are insightful at times, or others, outright hilarious.
So that's my thoughts. If I had to list some complaints, it would be 2 things.
I find the leaning mechanic cumbersome to use.
I hate having to push a button to pick up the items, versus just walking over them.
I agree, even though this isn't my type of game I won't go out of my way to bash it. I think it has to do with the demographic getting older and more spoiled for certain games. People complain more as they get older that games just aren't fun. When I was 13 every game that got released was a AAA title to me and I loved it. Now our expectations have grown exponentially. If I go back and play Half-Life 2 I will see tons of faults and see just another generic corridor shooter. Which is probably why valve doesn't want to release HL3, they see the older generation fans whining day after day that games aren't "innovative" or "too linear" that if they were to release it right now it wouldn't get a positive response; which is why they have been working on pushing themselves away from the old style and throwing new things into the mix like Portal and DOTA. Maybe it's the fact that most of us have gotten jobs, we can afford all the games we want to play but not the time to play them. We play a game for 10 minutes or watch a 5 minute trailer and if we aren't immediately hooked then the game is garbage and we feel cheated. What happened to the good old days where you saved up 6 months of allowance you could buy that awesome looking game box on the shelf that you've been eyeballing at your local game store and play the fuck out of it and enjoyed it.
tl;dr: Older gamers are self entitled douches.
I agree, even though this isn't my type of game I won't go out of my way to bash it. I think it has to do with the demographic getting older and more spoiled for certain games. People complain more as they get older that games just aren't fun. When I was 13 every game that got released was a AAA title to me and I loved it. Now our expectations have grown exponentially. If I go back and play Half-Life 2 I will see tons of faults and see just another generic corridor shooter. Which is probably why valve doesn't want to release HL3, they see the older generation fans whining day after day that games aren't "innovative" or "too linear" that if they were to release it right now it wouldn't get a positive response; which is why they have been working on pushing themselves away from the old style and throwing new things into the mix like Portal and DOTA. Maybe it's the fact that most of us have gotten jobs, we can afford all the games we want to play but not the time to play them. We play a game for 10 minutes or watch a 5 minute trailer and if we aren't immediately hooked then the game is garbage and we feel cheated. What happened to the good old days where you saved up 6 months of allowance you could buy that awesome looking game box on the shelf that you've been eyeballing at your local game store and play the fuck out of it and enjoyed it.
tl;dr: Older gamers are self entitled douches.
I think a lot of the "every game is bad" mentality stems from the fact that gaming, as an overall hobby, has gotten cheaper than ever. When you have good free-to-plays with zero cost of entry and really good $5, $10 and $20 indies, it pushes expectations for $60 games into the stratosphere. Or the troposphere. Or whatever.
pfft, after all those great A+ games from 2013 you cant get away with shit like this pretending to be a A+ game anymore, and as for people saying the game looks like crap without even playing it: the same goes when you see dog poo, you dont have to also stick your finger in it to know what it is.
homage my fucking ass homage.
pfft, after all those great A+ games from 2013 you cant get away with shit like this pretending to be a A+ game anymore, and as for people saying the game looks like crap without even playing it: the same goes when you see dog poo, you dont have to also stick your finger in it to know what it is.
homage my fucking ass homage.
So just out of curiosity how would you guys rate this next to Singularity? I actually ended up really enjoying that game. For all it's flaws it was very memorable and had a cool storyline. In todays market it was not quite indie for me value wise like a $30-40 game.
Sterling seems to indicate that this is kind of bland in the way of story. If thats the case I don't have much interest in playing.
Bad troll is bad?
as in contrary to "1 Day n00bie" that creates a new user to defend this crap?
Haha, but I AM an old gamer. I played the original Wolfenstein 3d, when it came out. I actually think thats why I appreciate this new one more so, because I really remember the old one and can see how they paid homage to it so much, with all the little touches here and there.
Oh that reminds me. You can still eat Dog Food. Hahaha, made me laugh. Also, when I got attacked for the first time by a dog, I immediately had a flashback to the dogs from the original Wolf 3D.
The story is what it is. We arent talking "Last of Us" here exactly, but it IS a good story, and well presented so far as I have gotten. Besides, Sterling bitches about every game.
Total Bisquit reviewed Wolf New Order, and frankly, his is a pretty honest review, though he doesnt talk a lot about the story.
as in contrary to "1 Day n00bie" that creates a new user to defend this crap?
I'm watching the total biscuit review. I don't know the game looks really really ugly. I play a lot of old games so I might be ok with it.
I don't know all the reviews are weird. It's getting a lot of 8-/10 and like total biscuit the details of the reviews are just saying "meh". Meh is not an 8/10 for me.
Regardless I'm not gonna blow $60 on this...or..well $10.
Haha, but I AM an old gamer. I played the original Wolfenstein 3d, when it came out. I actually think thats why I appreciate this new one more so, because I really remember the old one and can see how they paid homage to it so much, with all the little touches here and there.
Oh that reminds me. You can still eat Dog Food. Hahaha, made me laugh. Also, when I got attacked for the first time by a dog, I immediately had a flashback to the dogs from the original Wolf 3D.
HAHA, I just found an easter egg that makes the game 100 times more awesome.
You can play the original Wolfenstein 3D game inside this game.
This is just like RAGE, which wasn't an all star game, had it's technical issues, but all in all was fun to play, in my opinion.
I never played RAGE, but I'm not impressed with the graphics. I still like the game. Is this the engine Carmack spent his time working on? This would have looked last gen, last gen.
People are already drawing parallels to Rage?! Good to know, will wait until it hits a humblebundle so I don't waste more than a $1 on a potential turd.
Among its many problems the biggest is the texturing.
Also, people act like the graphics are SOOOOO bad. Please. They aren't any worse then any other shooter that has come out recently. Sure as hell looks better then the Call of Duty crap they keep shoveling out. Looks better then Call of Duty Ghost for sure. BF4 quality, no, but still plenty good for what it is. When did people become such graphics whores, instead of playing games because they are fun.
I loaded the game.
Loaded the latest NVidia beta drivers.
loaded the Flawlesswidescreen fix.
no technical issues. Surround works, SLi works.
The game is fun to play.
It's old school shooting.
The graphics are RAGE-like, and Singularity-like(Singularity was an Unreal, I think)
I haven't seen any texture pop-in, but there are some bland, granular textures.
It ain't Crysis. It's just as good graphically as Bioshock-Infinate.
The story is interesting.
Worth it? That an individual choice, but I'm enjoying the game for what it is.