lots of games do that, but not as well as the Wolfenstein games im sorry i cant help myself "burns like a mother when I piss... shouldve used a rubber"
The New Order and Old Blood had really good details in them that let you immerse yourself in the game's setting. From cut out newspaper articles that explain what happened to the world during your 14 years of coma, to random talks between NPC's (even something little as Anya knowing how to use a tpyewriter), or one of my favorites are how real life hit songs from the same time period have been reworked and rewritten to fit in with the new regime. (a feature New Colossus was totally lazy about as it didn't have any new songs and instead you could collect the same songs from New Order)
I love that BJ is both a killing machine and a deeply sensitve and contemplative man. Makes you think what kind of man he could have been in a less fucked up world.
For me, Terror Billy is a killing machine BECAUSE he’s such a kind, sensitive, and contemplative man. He has so much to lose against the Nazis. His friends. His country. His wife and child. He even lost his life and still went on fighting. I mean the man is literally Post-mortal and still killing Nazis because he has to.
In a less fucked up world, he kills Hitler, marries a movie star, and has a son who grows up to be a talk show host, and a grandson that doesn't want to eat vegetables and... goes to Mars? and eventually a however many greats grandson who kills demons so hard he eventually becomes a god.
@@kainepeterson6638 I feel like he would just become a mercenary or join the US Army and get involved in foreign wars in the Middle East or in Africa. BJ comes across as a war junkie who would be terrified by a peaceful and quiet life.
@@Jew_Gi_Oh I disagree, i do think that’s what other people think of him but we do see that what he wants is to just chill with his family and friends, maybe even make a bbq
You can tell this guy just genuinely loves and respects the medium of video games. All of his criticisms are fleshed out and explained. You can sense the passion in his commendations, too. So many reviewers and even fans in general seem so jaded these days, glad people still love viyda games!
I love how despite how comically evil some of the villains are, a baffling amount of Nazis are humanized through their dialogue that plays if you don’t immediately kill them. You of course have your standard dialogue talking about killing the undesirables and locking up prisoners, crushing opposition under an iron boot. But so many others are just ordinary people. One wonders if it’s right to be part of the Nazi party when he’s a Christian. Another wonders why there’s rebellions because he genuinely believes they’re doing the right thing and bringing peace to the world post-war. They talk about their families. Sometimes they joke around with each other. A commandant sits on the edge of a ruined bridge that you wreck and stares into the horizon, and I firmly believe he’s thinking about what the Reich has been doing and if he’s been in the wrong this whole time. It’s great worldbuilding in a setting that might seem almost comical at first, and it makes sense given the differing stances of German citizens under the Reich during WW2 in real life. It’s amazing, and I wish more WW2 games would do that.
And in the end of The New Colossus frau Engel speaks about her family, about her average life. Then Terror-Billy brutally murders her. When I was watching subtitiles I was wondering are B.J. and his friends still good guys or no. Also I was wondering about their mental health. I think they became a bunch of maniacs with nuclear rockets. I never saw anyone mentioning that.
Nah none of the nazi villains are humanized cause they are cartoon characters. What are humanized sometime are the common soldiers, which Blaskovic has no problem goring either way. Blskovic is kind of a cruel brutal dick I dont think he is very likable
Exactly. It's hard to remember but even though the Nazi army as a whole was completely horrible and irredeemable. The soldiers were still humans. They still had lives and not every soldier was a crazed fascist. Some were fed lies and some had no choice but to enlist to protect and provide for their families. It's one of my favorite things about Wolfenstein. It doesn't do what ever other game does and paints every Nazi as pure evil, but presents them in a more complex and humane way.
Having bad internet can make videos really funny sometimes when someone asks a question and the loading symbol starts over the person's face, or someone pauses for dramatic effect and it starts loading.
"BJ only speaks when being seen through a camera" Well I remember him talking to himself constantly in the new order. From the opening prologue, to when you use the Nazi water glider in the flooded sections where he recounts part of his childhood, I felt I was in his brain. I dunno if you meant physically speaking to people, but you absolutely hear his voice outside of cutscenes
@@Raycevick I do think you have a point there. Now that I think about it even with the little side objectives in the resistance headquarters he's completely silent.
@@Raycevick having recently got it, after completing the prologue and going thru the first couple mission, he has maybe ten actual lines of dialogue outside his own thoughts eith my 3 hours or so of playtime. He does not talk to people much
@@SIC-zh3bl The opening is about fighting through Castle Wolfenstein on his own. It makes sense given the context, and doesn't change his interactions (then and later on) being more immersive.
Same, its just one of those cherish-able games that didn't get a tone of attention but it sure as hell has plenty of amazing aspects about itself, making those who play it never forget about it...
Honestly I thought it was dreadful, ugly simplistic, not enough health, armour or ammo, too many levels with dull indoor bases, and bizarre creative decisions such as having you in a wheelchair for the first mission, capped at half health for the first half of the game and making you choose to save one of two characters you do not know or care about it you didn't play the previous game, glad I picked it up for about £3 from cex
@@meatsweatmundungus6415 I think you're talking about the New Colossus which is the sequel to the New Order, and I can agree I did not enjoy the New Colossus nearly as much as the first game.
Wolfenstein: The Young Blood claims to be a solo/coop shooter hybrid, but fails horribly at being both. *insert long rant that's carefully put together to not sound like the ramblings of a hungover mad man*
My favorite part of the Wolfenstein games, excluding the amazing gunplay, is the world itself. All the developers had to do was make a world where the Nazis won the war but they blew it out of the park! The use of the German language in everything from signs on walls, enemies speaking to each other, and even the soundtrack through collectible pop songs in German is down right mind blowing. It along with the imagery and symbolism adds to the authenticity of the game world that keeps drawing me into the world of Wolfenstein. As a German American, it is a treat to see the use of both American and German influence on this dystopian world of Nazi tyranny. Another part I like is that despite it being in the world of science fiction, the world seems grounded in mostly reality. The super soldiers clank around in heavy metal suits, and in the case of old blood require actual power sources. The guns are great as well and overall this series is by far my most important to me. I am so excited to see how the developers finish this series but until then I have another Wolfenstein marathon to play all the way through. Thank you and I loved the video, keep up the most spectacular work!
this is like three years later, but just to add from a historians perspective: they did the single best take I have ever seen on "nazi super tech". normally, (and to some degree still in Wolfenstein tbf) its a disturbing romanticism and heroification of the Nazis when people indulge in the fiction of Nazi superweapons. here, it wasnt the Nazis who did it, it was a Jewish group. and their tech was still better, which is why I love the mech suit and the the Daat Yichud vault. it did the best it could to turn around a normally awful trope into some degree of additional commentary on how Fascism only takes and appropriates things from the past, and never creates.
I think my biggest issue with TNC was the ending, or seeming lack thereof. The final boss fight was so underwhelming I didn't realise it was the final boss fight until the game ended. It also felt like the story got cut off right before the good stuff, the whole game is build-up to this grand revolution you never get to see or play (I'm not counting the assassination missions as those just seem like filler), and probably never will considering the next game has been revealed to take place in 1980. Overall I still had fun, just inconsistent fun, worth it for a discount but nothing more.
Actually Machine Games has said that Youngbloods is not Wolfenstein 3. There will be an actual Wolfenstein 3 seperate from the story of BJ's daughters.
I've always cited one of my biggest issues with Wolfenstein 2 was how heavily it leaned on stealth. I'd never really considered that the addition of the pointless 'replayability' design that centered around that massive hoard of commanders was forcing stealth into the gameplay every few minutes was the real culprit. It just felt like the game would give you ten steps for sprinting and then put you waist deep in molasses. I did appreciate the narrative and character building in the game, but the pivotal twist in the game that was wildly outlandish really drew me out of the gravity of the desperation in the plot. Then the choice of one of three new powers immediately had an effect on the level design. It created numerous areas where some of the paths forward were almost too obvious while others were completely unintuitive. I can't blame the level designers though, I can't imagine having to put in dozens of options to traverse a level depending on which of the three choices you made hours before. My biggest issue though was one you probably didn't encounter. Wolfenstein 2 was a mess at launch. I had so many issues with it crashing, freezing, and losing progress that I actually had to stop playing for a while until a patch came out. Even then there was one moment where the game would crash every single time in a cutscene until I ran it in safe mode. Really unacceptable for a full priced AAA game in my opinion. Coming off of the previous games excited to get back into the meaty world of being a dual wielding death machine, but I did not have a good time and it was tough finishing a game so full of issues, both technical and from a design perspective.
For me it wasnt even a steady decline tbh. I loved the first one and thats where it ended for me. Neither ds 2 or 3 managed to capture that same atmosphere and i found both boring
@@rickfan7 yeah only the first one was scary, it really captured that feeling of desperation and isolation while the other two feel like action games.Not to mention that by dead space 3 the necromorphs were annoying instead of scary.
Wasn't even remotely a steady decline. Even Dead Space 3 is not a bad game, it's just not enough of a dead space game. 2 is the best in the series, so again, there is no steady decline.
@@friendlyreaper9012 The first one was not scary at all LMFAO The second one only was scary because I was expecting it to be less scary than 1 and it ended up being much scarier.
TheMrSlurrpy or.. it could be the critique talked about in this video you presumably watched. Why is it always sjws to y’all... as if everything is ruined by it. It’s a childish perspective to have
One thing that I love about Wolfenstein is that it humanizes the Nazis. You read notes and overhear their conversations about their families, their friends, how some of them actually feel horrible for what they're doing. Then you meet up with ex-Nazis and the daughter of a main villain working with the resistance. The game also makes it clear that not every enemy you shoot is some concentration camp mad scientist or a war criminal, a lot of them are just security guards, scientists, or at times people who took that job to AVOID committing atrocities, only to end up guarding that one piece of paper essential for the resistance. Even the comically evil villains have things they loved like their pet dogs. I actually wondered how many of these faceless mooks I mowed down could have turned to the resistance had things been different. That's what I think you should handle enemies like the Nazis. Not think of them as an otherworldly evil, but think "My God, they were human. Humans did this." That's the only real way to learn from the past, to understand the banality of evil.
Pretty much the right way to go about these games. Except for the bits about Blazky's backstory, his childhood home and how that section starts out and ends - I actually really enjoyed that on a narrative and thematic level. The rest is rooty-tooty-sneak-and-shooty. I've always always enjoyed his inner monologues, though. Some people don't like them, but some people can't survive on this planet without a dick in their eye.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 Literally just beat TNC and your comment sums up how I feel. Not as good as TNO storywise and so many commanders significantly slowed the game down at a higher difficulty, but was a blast nonetheless. Wish there were more memorable set pieces and locations, like the London Monitor fight. Still love the inner monologue though
I agree with the criticism, but I still loved how over the top The New Colossus was. Loved the whole series and the story direction relly hits the mark for me.
New order: An amazing experience, great game, and would recommend to anyone Old blood: Good game, worth a play, but maybe would have to be a little invested in the newer wolfenstein games New colossus: it had problems for sure, the weakest of the (newer) franchise so far, need to be invested in the wolfenstein games to have maximum fun (in my opinion), but was satisfying none the less, just not as unique or good as the others, but (bc we are allowed to have opinions) still enjoyable
Honestly the new colossus needed more time to bake. The wackiness needed to be balanced with a more grim and ruthless enemy, it needed to be hammered home rather than downplayed. Gameplay ranges imo. When I first played it, it definitely felt like it needed more time in the oven. Second playthrough felt completely polished. No idea why. Also it's not properly emphasized how important the overcharge mechanic is in the first half; overcharging takes you from fragile to outright tanky in the initial sections.
Gameplay wise I thought TNC was a refined TNO. Story wise it has a lot of ups and downs, personally I like it more but I also absolutely understand people who have the opposite opinion.
I'm so glad this got recommended to me. This gave me the kick in the ass i needed to finally play these games. After watching this video I'm all hyped up to jump into them lol
They are easily worth playing through, but I would recommend staying away from The New Colossus and Youngblood (they are not as good as the originals, imo)!
Old Blood: Pretty good New Order: Masterpiece New Colossus: Wtf happened????? edit: Only good thing about New Colossus was Mick Gordon, and you can just play DOOM for that.
@@HragFarraGaming there's a long list of things people criticize the game for. So for most people who play it, it's a bit different. My problems stem from gameplay being far too fast and downright sadistic difficulty. Weapons are less interesting, and particular weapons are exclusive to timelines for some reason.
@@HragFarraGaming Word of Wolf and JamesBlack47 have both made great videos on why the new colossus was terrible. They cover practically every gripe people have with the game and highly recommend their videos.
I just want you to know I was drunk as all hell last night, shallow breathing, vomit, and everything so to distract myself I put this on and I think you saved my goddamn life. Good content
I love how you mentioned philosophy and politics. because for all of it's over the top "white nazi pigs" and characters out of a blaxploitation film, The New Colossus' political theme is simply "Racism is bad, M'kay?" Remember when Wolfenstein the New Order had moments about how about the *similarities* between the Nazis and the US, without being obnoxious (and ultimately counterproductive) about the subject matter? remember when it had talks about conviction and morality, free will, consciousness and even Jewish thought about a transcendental god? Remember when the deepest moment in New Colossus was... uh....
Wolf2NC's Message was also clear. 1940's, 50's 60's People of USA would not have problem with NAZI politics. There were Strange Fruits Everywhere On US Soil and people didn't see any problems with that. "Nazis killing Gays, Jews, Commies? and they are christians too??? Praise the lord!"
@@CHMernerner That message would be as moot as moot could be. Considering we know how the actual state of affairs panned out. Maybe that wasnt their message... Maybe it was just "Racism and Nazi's are bad M'kay?". And maybe you're just reading contemporary fake-progressive idealogy into places where there is none. In order to further validate your victim complex perhaps? Food for thought.
Mernerner Yeah thats why America never actually fought Nazi Germany at all during WW2. Operation Overlord? Never happened, the US were only and always Nazi sympathizers. You and everybody else who spouts this are complete idiots
@@clover4522 Yeah, the US fought the Nazis, but Nazi sympathizers were pretty damn numerous and loud before the beginning of the war and those people would have easily resurfaced, had this alternate future happened. People like Blazkowicsz' father weren't exactly rare. Those that are willing to put down the people that they are told are lower than them, so that they can profit within the unjust system. The overall message of the story (among others concerning different characters, but this is basically the idea of the main plot) really is about how the necessity of antifascists to unite despite their different views and problems with each other in the face of fascism and the compliance with it that always dwells within liberal society. And to not be discouraged by that compliance existing, because in the same society there is also hidden a spark of resistance, that you can draw out by sticking together. It's greatest moments follow that theme, when Grace tries to see whether Blazko is demoralized by "White America" rolling over for the Nazis, and he isn't. Or when she coaxes Hilda into a violent outburst, just to make sure she's not here because her mom was mean, but because she wants to fight fascism. Or when Blazko, the idealistic patriotic American without any critique of capitalism in mind, sits down and argues and drinks koonshine with the southern anarchist preacher, who criticizes America's imperialism just to piss him off. None of these people seem to end up as close friends. Most of them have some deep disagreements. But they all know what's needed to fight fascism and they know that they can get others to join them. Now if only that would have informed the gameplay, instead of the repeated sneaking/shooting arenas and unbalanced weapons and enemies.
I would love to watch a "So I've Finally Played The Chronicles of Riddick Dark Athena" (which includes Butcher Bay). Though it received well deserved praise at the time, I just remember it being overshadowed by Doom 3 and Half Life 2. The game design, visuals and voice acting were way ahead of the standard for the time in my opinion. But most importantly, it's the one of the earliest video game adaptations of a film that wasn't just a quick cash grab movie tie in but a true adaptation. Bonus points if you watch Pitch Black before playing it.
Remember as a child, sitting on the carpet and watching dad play Enemy Territory and Return. One time my dad threw a grenade and a German kicked it back - and because that was a novel little feature for the time in games we were both like, "OH SHIT LOOK AT THE COOL THING!"
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory gives me Vietnam flashbacks. "WE HAVE CAPTURED THE FORWARD BUNKER" "FORWARD BUNKER RECLAIMED" "WE HAVE CAPTURED THE FORWARD BUN- FORWARD BUNKER RECLAIMEDWE HAVE CAPTURED THE FORWARD BUNKER" "NEED A MEDIC!" "IM A COVERT OPS" "NEED AN ENGINEER" "I'M A SOLDAT"
Finally someone said it, even if I gloss over the enigma grindfest, to me, New Colossus almost feels unfinished, the gameplay feels not perfectly refined, level design sucks, and the menu is fucked My favorite is also The Old Blood
I'm a masochist when it comes to achievements. After beating the game on the hardest difficulty I looked at the Mein Leib achievement and went NOPE! I cannot imagine anyone getting that thing without hardcore cheating. The bloody courtroom level takes about three dozen attempts.
I felt the game was unfinished since I was able to finish it the same exact day that I bought it. New Colossus just feels like an add-on, akin to The Old Blood, but at the time of release it was given a full-game $60 price tag. Don't get me wrong, I know The New Order was pretty short too, but it's almost 2-3x as long as The New Colossus. What really bothered me was the pacing. TNO had an appropriate setup and payoff for almost everything. I don't remember anything feeling like it was dragging on too long, or was too short-lived. There's a very long series of events throughout the entire plot. When you get to the Bridge, for example, you know you've come a VERY long way from the concrete bunkers in the sand from the first mission. It feels like that was a long time ago, because it WAS a very long time ago. That doesn't really happen in TNC. The story pacing is absurdly fast. When you're launching nukes in New Orleans, it doesn't feel like you were in a wheelchair killing invading Nazis on the submarine very long ago. Because you weren't. The beginning of the game was not that long ago, and the pacing is just all around fucked because of it.
I cant believe people don't see it. I'm one of those who feel extremely at odds with TNC's politics, which are in fact all over the place, but I hardly gave a shit while playing just because of how botched, sliced up, poorly directed and underdeveloped the game was. I don't care about Grace Walker when the game has fuck all for levels or environments and forces you to spend hours with 50 health and BJ being emo.
The music was also superb in both first installments, I remember after finishing the Old Blood, i opened a window to my room for fresh air and just sat there listening to the Partisan, an absolute masterpiece. New Order also had some great memorable tracks, i mostly preferred the safehouse and cutscene guitar ones But the New Colossus, the only one i think i remember and i like is (11:53) this fucking thing, and the part of the mission while it plays is kinda underwhelming combat-wise
NC has some good tracks. The music in the courthouse fight was pretty good. I know because that mission is like setting yourself on fire on the hardest difficulty.
Tyler Bioshock Rodriguez Oh yeah ok, can’t believe i forgot to mention the courthouse. Kinda a pity that they could only fii that sequence in as a daydream
Raycevick, MandaloreGaming & GVMERS are just about all I need to scratch my itch. I appreciate the shit out of you Raycevick, this is Television 2.0 my man. Have a great month or two & cheers.
I loved The New Order, but The New Colossus was probably the biggest gaming disappointment for me in the 2010's. The gameplay I felt discouraged me from playing a way I felt was fun, with the lowered health being of particular annoyance on higher difficulties. I played it near launch in late 2017, so my memory is a bit hazy on lots of the game, but I distinctly remember the court room scene being one of the absolute worst levels I can recall playing in a first person shooter. The politics in this game I felt came at a detriment to the story, with the developers trying and failing to create captivating parallels in their game to modern day events. To be clear on politics, I don't mind a wide range of political ideas in games as long as those ideas are conveyed well, and all of The New Colossus felt like it was just pandering to a certain demographic without giving any compelling reason why somebody who disagrees should rethink their philosophy. This last point may be partly my own fault, but some of the marketing I felt misled me. In all of the trailers you saw the happy American town with that 1950's aesthetic, but with Nazis prowling the streets. All of the marketing showed the game as Nazis sort of infecting classic images associated with the American Dream, and tainting them. I thought the game was going to be about going through the Nazi ridden streets of the classic idolized period of America and taking them back, but most of the game didn't take place in such a way. The first few levels all take place on that submarine. The first level were you actually get to play on American soil take place in a generic bombed out city. Sure it might be Manhattan, but visually it looks like the level could have been copy pasted from a Fallout or Metro game. When you finally do get to that 1950's esque town I was expecting some epic shootout that starts with that Diner scene, but instead I got booted into a cutscene before I could kill a single Nazi, and then was transported to the next underground secret base level which could have been a generic level from any other Wolfenstein game. For a game that has all of the United States as a pool to draw from for inspiration, the level designs really felt uninspired and boring to me. After The New Colossus, I don't think I will be giving Machine Games' newest Wolfenstein games a shot. To me, killing Nazis in videogames is something that should be a formula that is nearly impossible to mess up, but they somehow managed to make it so I wasn't having fun doing so.
You summed up my exact thoughts. Especially disapointed since the new colussus was the first game I ever preordered and paid full price after having been a gamer for 20+ years. Won't be doing that again any time soon.
Pretty much. Doesn't help that they're now going the FEAR 3 and Dead Space 3 route of "fuck you for wanting a narrative-focused singleplayer experience, we going co-op now".
@@Wizuu0274 the courtroom scene was bloody hard but you felt good when you got through it, so i'd hardly consider it a reason to dislike the game. Or do you only like easy games?
On my first playthrough on "don't hurt me", I flew into a rage trying to finish that damn court room level. I must have tried some 50 times over the course of 3 days. The next playthrough on "I am death incarnate", I tried only 3 times before finishing it. It was very satisfying, but was at a loss for words at how little effort (comparatively) it took to finish it off. The game was way too short. The new order was much better and more satisfying to me (well, except the ending).
8:06 Who else found themselves humming to this awesome theme composed by Mick Gordon? In the start of the New Order theme it gives the feeling that the Nazis tyranny isn’t something to joke about because the Nazis taking over the world is imminent. Then the second part of the theme gives this depressing vibe of how it feels to live in a world of tyranny under the Nazis.
@@TheOriginalEdFry i pleyed it recently and i liked it. Buy ingame asap the skill that ramps up damage for every kill and the one that doubles the timer duration to play the game as its intended. The game requires more of a strategy approach but that lets you be more bold and use all tools in a synergized manner.
I loved the scenery the game had as it looked like crysis 3 before crysis 3 even came out. But sadly that's all overshadowed by very tedious and boring gameplay.
Man, i feel alone in that New Colossus is my absolute favorite of the Wolf games so far. I understand the combat, level design and tone complaints, but I just think that the best parts of the game overshadows them all. I love the BJ's flashbacks, they made me cry and I haven't did that in a game for a while. Having the reduced health in the first half reflect as a gameplay portrayal of BJ's current state is so god damn ingenious. Laserkraftwerk is so satisfying to use. The writing at times is so effective, many of BJ's lines just either reduce me to tears or make me excited as hell. New Order is a better game at many aspects, but it never got to the absurd highs of New Colossus for me. Both are fantastic though, as well as Old Blood. Can't wait for Youngblood!
Excellent Video man. I had watched some of your videos and found them to be great but hadn't really given your "I finally played _____" Series a try until now. But I guess now I have to check out every single one of them. Because this was really great. Thanks for this. 😃👍
I loved the first two games from the Saga but I can't say the same for Wolfenstein 2 jumping the shark and more concerned with telling a poorly written forced storyline with more cutscene than ganeplay instead of a well paced campaign full of awesome gameplay.
I keep hearing this about Wolfenstein 2, but the New Order had 3 hours of cutscenes for the 9 total of the game. And that doesn't include the bits where you can interact but are doing little more than walking around. I honestly was disappointed about it after playing Doom 2016, which was truly a call back to the original ID shooters.
I still think that the New order was the best in the trilogy. Its PHENOMENAL, from the insanely immersive epilogue, to the last boss fight, its amazing, and its has its downsides, like the cringey sex scenes my 17 y/o self SOMEHOW enjoyed. Its truly amazing, and i would definitely recommend it! Edit: Its extremely immersive, the gunplay is pretty much perfect, with weapons that feel and work exactly as you'd expect them to. They dont feel like COD guns with 0 recoil and no inaccuracy, they have recoil, recoil that you can mitigate with skill, but it doesn't go to counter strike levels of utter crazy amounts of it either. Its just right, it feels right, it FEELS EMPOWERING, and i love it.
The New Colossus was just disappointing for me. The constant commanders and lack of health for the first half was irritating, and on my first playthourgh, I did not even notice that there were assassination missions, so I completed it in like 7 hours, then was disappointed by the ending, and was overall just left unsatisfied... The first two were great though.
@@salokin3087 well considering how the Nazis are often refered to as "Hwuite Supremashishts" in New Collosus despite the fact that those they genicided are Jews, Slavs and Gypsies, majoritybof whom depicted as white in the concentration/work camp mission in the previous game, you might have a sense that some modern anti white political agenda was ham fisted into the game.
+Yochai Wyss Please give it a rest with this whole "anti-white" agenda. For as over the top the New Colossus is, it's irritating that people have embellished their criticisms due to politics, raging about some "SJW" agenda without touching upon what differentiates the game from its previous installment.
How does Yakuza Kiwami stack up next to Yakuza 0 or 6? I've never played a Yak game, and PS4 Plus gave Kiwami away for free a coupla months back, and I'm thinking of trying it
@@zetetick395 kiwami is a really well done remaster, basically yakuza 1 using the yakuza 0 engine and combat, so the graphics and gameplay are as good as 0's,theres also some new content too, yakuza 6 runs in the newer engine, the biggest difference are the physics, good improvement but it wont make you hate 0/kiwami,kiwami 2 is 2 remastered but with the yakuza 6 engine, I recommend you to play kiwami, then get 0 since 0 is a prequel and then get kiwami 2,then you can either look the story of yakuza 3-5 in youtube so you can play 6 right away or wait for kiwami 3.
The New Colossus has a strange disparity, I found for me, having BJ in despair taking how he was struggling to move and then, have the character sprinting into action blowing thousands off nazis to pieces to then say more about the struggles really put me off. It's not a bad game at all, I think like you said, something just feels off.
Admittedly, I've always liked the New Colossus the most. I know its generally considered the redheaded stepchild of the series, but it was the first one I played, and I will n e v e r not love it.
I like it the most as well, sure the final boss isn’t really a boss but killing Engel in the end makes sense as it broadcasts that the revolution has begun
The New Order is one of my favorite games of all time, and seeing your review of the three is fantastic. I definitely whole heartedly agree on the New Colossus, the tonal changes overall are what changed the game to the worse for me. Still good, but far less special in every regard. It also took the roles of two great characters who...admittedly didn't have the greatest presence in the first, and just turned them into joke characters, which is one of the better examples of that overall shift for the worst. RIP Fergus, you are now just a punchline.
@@Calvin_Coolage you know that’s fair, I feel like with a lot of games, your enjoyment of them can come down to your own willingness to meet it where it’s at, so I can see why people weren’t really able to enjoy Colossus. I just went in looking for a Nazi-shooting good time and to hear Brian Bloom talk about it along the way, and I got all of that in spades.
Yeah, TNC has a tone problem but it’s still good imo. It’s just not great like TOB or TNO. I also think those first two games benefited greatly from being released before ID rebooted DOOM.
I did exactly the same. I played The New Order on one of the hardest difficulties and The New Colossus was so boring. The best parts were: BJ's past, Roswell, and the beginning of Venus.
I did the same and still gave up, on everything but the easiest difficulty it was like I had a nerf gun 😂 very badly designed game that felt like it belonged in ps2 era
@@meatsweatmundungus6415 And a whole bunch of cheesy hit scan enemies and no sandboxes to play in and no way to stealth it and _dear god what were they thinking why can't we have nice things?_
I havent even played the new wolfensteins and saw the video was 20 mins long but ended up watching the whole thing- it was actually really interesting and showed how much work you put in to your vids wasted rambling maybe but you definitely have a new fan from nz good job bro
The music choice for the credits of New Colossus was the only issue I had with the game. It was the perfect song choice to fit the theme of the game but the way it sounded was much too heavy and screamy. Something just a little harder than the original would have done nicely.
That, oooor it's just not your kinda music. Maybe you don't like it, but it's badass to some other people. I thought it fit perfectly. And what's wrong with it being screamy?
@@ronnieradon You're right, it just not my kind of music. I have a friend who adores the Wolfenstein and Doom Eternal music. Incredible games, I'm just not a fan of the music. Ooohhh that doesn't stop me though
The first combat arena in Old Blood, Hegals office, is probably one of my favourite memories of a video game. Darting around the office, dipping diving and sliding in and out of cover, executing some with a knife while picking off others from a distance with a silenced pistol made me feel like the Nazi boogeyman. Ironically the hardest difficulty, Uber, which almost forced you into stealthier gameplay made me feel more powerful than just mowing down enemies with duel wield machine guns. Absolute perfection
ive played through the new order probably 6 or 8 times its one of my favorite games of that year and to this day its a favorite even though i have over 80 hours in it.
I think the reason for W2's lack of breaks in combat is Doom 2016. Both games have always had the goal of "superhuman power trip" which it does accomplish in both games. The only problem is that stealth is non-existent in Doom and a viable option in Wolfenstein. Also the quiet music issue you had did not happen with my playthrough and I did not change any settings.
An interesting viewpoint (as always). Personally I love New Colossus. Its dialogue is rich, funny and emotional. BJ's monologues, particularly in the beginning, are heart melting. The story is interesting fun and impactful, same goes for all the multi-layered characters. Gameplay is solid fun and fast-paced. There are definitely some negatives. You were 100% right with there being too many captains to kill and that pattern minigame is painful. I would say the game probably reaches its peak when BJ gets his new body, it is a very slow burning decline after that and the runtime doesn't help with this. The game could have spent more time building the resistance in order to finally take down Frau Engel, take back America and spark a worldwide resistance movement. Looking forward to playing Young Blood.
New Collosus is easily the overated of the bunch propped up for arbitrary reasons. But dont let kotaku and polygon tell you that. Literally the fucking new order was better and made it actually feel like the villians were cold and competent killers. New Collosus makes the nazis look like clowns
Agreed to some extent. It definitely feels like there was less thought put into the pacing of each level, and the A.I. and layouts don't lend themselves well at all to stealth (which in this game, compared to the other two, felt exceedingly difficult to do well).
@bigevilworldwide1 I'm especially talking about the light use Remember that one nazi base where you're sneaking up on the catwalk There's one brightly lit door and a very dark hole in the catwalk guess where you have to go.. ._.
Agreed. Not only is the level design too tight and repetitive, the enemy pathing in these levels is terrible. I kept finding myself shooting enemies that are all pouring through a tight hallway or door and making the most ridiculously easy targets of themselves. The engine stopped me from spending much time with TNO and TOB and the level design stopped me from spending much time with TNC. TNO redone in the new engine would be marvelous.
Great video! I do think that New Colossus compared to the previous entries is the weakest, but I still feel like it's a masterpiece in it's own right. Yeah, it isn't without flaws and I agree with every critique you had, but I don't agree with the many people I have seen on the internet saying its a bad game. And what it sets up for has me very excited for the next entry!
I love this channel so much. It doesn't matter what game, I could listen to this guy for hours. He just makes everything super interesting to listen to. This right here, is peak writing.
I love this series. I'm sad Youngblood succumbed to the over monetization we've seen in so many games lately, because otherwise the rebooted series is just amazing. It's full of memorable moments and stories I love to follow. It was Wolfenstein the new order, back when it first released, that made me fall back in love with story based shooters, where before I would've told you they were old news. That sounds a bit harsh, as I always was a champion of keeping campaigns in multiplayer shooters, but it was usually something I played once and then went onto Multiplayer. For context, when this was coming out, I was playing BF4 and loving it. I was never one to shun the single player only ones, but to me it was a relic of the past. While I loved to play the original COD, I was convinced no company would get the on rails shooter campaign right. Wolfenstein proved me dead wrong. It doesn't need a multiplayer mode. It knows what it wants to do, and does it so well.
I know this comment is six months old but imo the new Colossus isn't really worth buying.Just watch the cutscenes on RUclips because there is no feeling of progression in combat and pretty much no enemy variety.
The Old Blood and New Order are amazing titles even to this day, but with New Colossus it's very hard to put into words exactly why but the whole of the experience just feels off, devoid of the same imagination or creativity that defined early Wolfenstein titles (particularly those made by Machine games), the story and characters feel odd to say the least, like the Old Blood & New Order both toed the line of having dark brooding storytelling/characters coupled with zany over the top circumstances/characters but somehow they just made it work. I think Magical Realism is the term best used to describe that. The New Colossus however has that same blend but it doesn't work things either feel much to dark/moody or much too zany/over the top never having that skillful blend of both that Old Blood & New Order had. The games' lack of imagination can even be shown in it's weaponry: in New Order for example the weapon designs were colorful with distinct appearances and silly but enjoyable upgrades (ex. Assault Rifle with under barrel rocket launcher, Shotgun with ricochet rounds that bounced off of walls) in New Colossus all weapons have a standard black paint job with boring upgrades that could be found in Call of Duty (acog scope, extended mag, silencer). The story too had an overabundance of cutscenes I am usually not one to complain about such things but when a shooter that's based on classic FPS design has more cutscenes than gameplay you know something has gone wrong. It's hard to say what one thing is most aggreges but if you put all the elements of New Colossus together it just does not work where the separate distinct elements of Old Blood and New Order blended together almost flawlessly. I haven't played Youngblood but it certainly looks more fun than New Colossus. I hope they can nail the formula again for Wolfenstein 3 (really really really hope they can).
MachineGames' Wolfenstein series has come to be my favorite game series of all time. I freakin' love every single game, and I've replayed every one at least 30 times. Currently in another playthrough of Wolf 2 right now. Cant wait for Youngblood.
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Love your opinions, even if I disagree slightly. Definitely some underdeveloped and underused mechanics in The New Colossus, but it’s still a fantastic game. Just wish they’d made the ground pound and special weapons (diesel and laserkraftwerks) more useful. Also the movement feels a bit sluggish compared to The New Order and Old Blood, with less refined collision boxes in the environments, making navigating during combat less intuitive, basically the level design isn’t nearly as good. Also found myself getting lost more. I almost wish they’d just used DOOMs climbing mechanics, or something similar to them in The New Colossus, as it would fit the game perfectly. Still love them all though! Excited for Wolfenstein III!
Honestly, I’m so excited for you to review Cyberpunk 2077 but sad it will most likely be a few months to a few years from now before we see it IF you are even considering revising it.
Why review ANY software - before it IS finished? ♥ From a 'The Witcher' (2007) Euro-Jank* loving x86 player! *Since late 1990s with Hidden & Dangerous... CDPR DID do EE-versions with their first TWO games, didn't THEY? ;-D
As someone who grew up with Return to Castle Wolfenstein and fell in love with the newer games, I didn't like Wolfenstein 2, something changed for the worst in the transition to idTech 6. Whenever I died in Old Blood or New Order while playing on the hardest difficulty, it never felt like it was the game's fault, and it felt good to jump back into the action and try it again. With The New Colossus, the movement and shooting felt very drifty and lacked the feedback that the previous games did. It also felt like the enemies are far too accurate with their weapons now, I can be behind cover on the other side of a large room and they can still somehow find a way to shoot me regardless. I gave up trying to play though on the hardest difficulty after reaching the fight in the courthouse. I must have died at least a dozen times before I decided it wasn't worth the aggravation. I never felt like that ONCE during my playthroughs of the previous games. It doesn't help that the game is so bloated full of cutscenes that I sometimes I almost forgot I was playing an FPS, and most of the characters introduced here are so unlikable that I can't take any of them seriously. I also found a lot of the level design lazy and uninspired, with way too many recycled assets and areas. I pre-ordered this game, and to say I was disappointed is a bit of an understatement.
Raycevick Video Checklist:
1. Mention Spec Ops: The Line
2. Upload
Drinking game : Take a shot whenever he mentions SO:TL in a video.
I wish I thought of that before binging all his old videos
And don't forget to talk about Doom 2016's soundtrack
You're not wrong, but The Line is still a pretty brilliant piece of art IMO
@@tristancrumpler400 oh yeah I very much agree
Listening to the nazi's talking about random stuff in the background is literally my favourite part of all the wolfenstein games. It's so good.
lots of games do that, but not as well as the Wolfenstein games
im sorry i cant help myself
"burns like a mother when I piss... shouldve used a rubber"
The New Order and Old Blood had really good details in them that let you immerse yourself in the game's setting.
From cut out newspaper articles that explain what happened to the world during your 14 years of coma, to random talks between NPC's (even something little as Anya knowing how to use a tpyewriter), or one of my favorites are how real life hit songs from the same time period have been reworked and rewritten to fit in with the new regime. (a feature New Colossus was totally lazy about as it didn't have any new songs and instead you could collect the same songs from New Order)
@@damascussteel7688 NOLF 1 (2000)
@@damascussteel7688 does he mean he didn’t use a cond*m and his wee wee hurts?
@@Chuked yeah its a farcry 3 reference
I love that BJ is both a killing machine and a deeply sensitve and contemplative man. Makes you think what kind of man he could have been in a less fucked up world.
For me, Terror Billy is a killing machine BECAUSE he’s such a kind, sensitive, and contemplative man. He has so much to lose against the Nazis. His friends. His country. His wife and child. He even lost his life and still went on fighting. I mean the man is literally Post-mortal and still killing Nazis because he has to.
In a less fucked up world, he kills Hitler, marries a movie star, and has a son who grows up to be a talk show host, and a grandson that doesn't want to eat vegetables and... goes to Mars? and eventually a however many greats grandson who kills demons so hard he eventually becomes a god.
@@kainepeterson6638 I feel like he would just become a mercenary or join the US Army and get involved in foreign wars in the Middle East or in Africa. BJ comes across as a war junkie who would be terrified by a peaceful and quiet life.
Reminds me off Guts from Berserk.
@@Jew_Gi_Oh I disagree, i do think that’s what other people think of him but we do see that what he wants is to just chill with his family and friends, maybe even make a bbq
You can tell this guy just genuinely loves and respects the medium of video games. All of his criticisms are fleshed out and explained. You can sense the passion in his commendations, too. So many reviewers and even fans in general seem so jaded these days, glad people still love viyda games!
this video has some of the best game critique ive ever heard or read....
Unlike cough cough youngdefiant cough cough
Ikr he is a very passionate reviewer
@Hugh Jaynis You gotta stop overusing the word genuinely. Reread what you wrote and ask yourself what was the point of including that word.
Oh this isn’t very accurate…
I love how despite how comically evil some of the villains are, a baffling amount of Nazis are humanized through their dialogue that plays if you don’t immediately kill them. You of course have your standard dialogue talking about killing the undesirables and locking up prisoners, crushing opposition under an iron boot. But so many others are just ordinary people. One wonders if it’s right to be part of the Nazi party when he’s a Christian. Another wonders why there’s rebellions because he genuinely believes they’re doing the right thing and bringing peace to the world post-war. They talk about their families. Sometimes they joke around with each other. A commandant sits on the edge of a ruined bridge that you wreck and stares into the horizon, and I firmly believe he’s thinking about what the Reich has been doing and if he’s been in the wrong this whole time. It’s great worldbuilding in a setting that might seem almost comical at first, and it makes sense given the differing stances of German citizens under the Reich during WW2 in real life. It’s amazing, and I wish more WW2 games would do that.
Couldn't say it better
And in the end of The New Colossus frau Engel speaks about her family, about her average life. Then Terror-Billy brutally murders her. When I was watching subtitiles I was wondering are B.J. and his friends still good guys or no. Also I was wondering about their mental health. I think they became a bunch of maniacs with nuclear rockets. I never saw anyone mentioning that.
Nah none of the nazi villains are humanized cause they are cartoon characters. What are humanized sometime are the common soldiers, which Blaskovic has no problem goring either way. Blskovic is kind of a cruel brutal dick I dont think he is very likable
Exactly. It's hard to remember but even though the Nazi army as a whole was completely horrible and irredeemable. The soldiers were still humans. They still had lives and not every soldier was a crazed fascist. Some were fed lies and some had no choice but to enlist to protect and provide for their families.
It's one of my favorite things about Wolfenstein. It doesn't do what ever other game does and paints every Nazi as pure evil, but presents them in a more complex and humane way.
@@donaldhysa4836”brutal dick” Hes fighting nazis of course he’s brutal.. they are the most evil regime that has ever lived
my video froze when you were talking about the engine's performance and legitimately thought it was a gag in the video.
lol
Having bad internet can make videos really funny sometimes when someone asks a question and the loading symbol starts over the person's face, or someone pauses for dramatic effect and it starts loading.
this actually happened to me as well on that same part so I am not sure what's going on lmao
My God, is Old Blood's performance horrendous on PC nowadays, regardless of hardware ...
@@raresmacovei8382 i played on a steamdeck recently and performence was great.
"BJ only speaks when being seen through a camera" Well I remember him talking to himself constantly in the new order. From the opening prologue, to when you use the Nazi water glider in the flooded sections where he recounts part of his childhood, I felt I was in his brain. I dunno if you meant physically speaking to people, but you absolutely hear his voice outside of cutscenes
I did mean physically speaking to people, which I don't believe he does in New Order. Only internally monologues.
@@Raycevick I do think you have a point there. Now that I think about it even with the little side objectives in the resistance headquarters he's completely silent.
@@Raycevick having recently got it, after completing the prologue and going thru the first couple mission, he has maybe ten actual lines of dialogue outside his own thoughts eith my 3 hours or so of playtime. He does not talk to people much
@@SIC-zh3bl The opening is about fighting through Castle Wolfenstein on his own. It makes sense given the context, and doesn't change his interactions (then and later on) being more immersive.
I like that detail, I'm sure anyone would talk to themselves like that exploring places like that
New Order is honestly one of my favorite games of all time, I love to hear other perspectives on the game.
Same, its just one of those cherish-able games that didn't get a tone of attention but it sure as hell has plenty of amazing aspects about itself, making those who play it never forget about it...
Honestly I thought it was dreadful, ugly simplistic, not enough health, armour or ammo, too many levels with dull indoor bases, and bizarre creative decisions such as having you in a wheelchair for the first mission, capped at half health for the first half of the game and making you choose to save one of two characters you do not know or care about it you didn't play the previous game, glad I picked it up for about £3 from cex
@@meatsweatmundungus6415 I think you're talking about the New Colossus which is the sequel to the New Order, and I can agree I did not enjoy the New Colossus nearly as much as the first game.
Agreed, one the greatest games.
Damn well near cried at the end too.
@@meatsweatmundungus6415
Play the original, new order.
It's absolutely incredible.
The sequel, new Colossus, is mostly bad.
Oh boy, wonder how you will feel about Youngblood.
Wolfenstein: The Young Blood claims to be a solo/coop shooter hybrid, but fails horribly at being both.
*insert long rant that's carefully put together to not sound like the ramblings of a hungover mad man*
You know its bad when you can think of incest porno and hentai with more realistic sibling dialogue than the game
@@sernoddicusthegallant6986 yeah and I CAN'T speak from experience
@@averageperson489 I can
He said the teehee funny game is bad words, enjoy your free karma
My favorite part of the Wolfenstein games, excluding the amazing gunplay, is the world itself. All the developers had to do was make a world where the Nazis won the war but they blew it out of the park! The use of the German language in everything from signs on walls, enemies speaking to each other, and even the soundtrack through collectible pop songs in German is down right mind blowing. It along with the imagery and symbolism adds to the authenticity of the game world that keeps drawing me into the world of Wolfenstein. As a German American, it is a treat to see the use of both American and German influence on this dystopian world of Nazi tyranny. Another part I like is that despite it being in the world of science fiction, the world seems grounded in mostly reality. The super soldiers clank around in heavy metal suits, and in the case of old blood require actual power sources. The guns are great as well and overall this series is by far my most important to me. I am so excited to see how the developers finish this series but until then I have another Wolfenstein marathon to play all the way through. Thank you and I loved the video, keep up the most spectacular work!
this is like three years later, but just to add from a historians perspective: they did the single best take I have ever seen on "nazi super tech". normally, (and to some degree still in Wolfenstein tbf) its a disturbing romanticism and heroification of the Nazis when people indulge in the fiction of Nazi superweapons. here, it wasnt the Nazis who did it, it was a Jewish group. and their tech was still better, which is why I love the mech suit and the the Daat Yichud vault. it did the best it could to turn around a normally awful trope into some degree of additional commentary on how Fascism only takes and appropriates things from the past, and never creates.
It's ok to release a bit late, you didn't have to break your mother's arm.
He's just waiting for her to break the other.
what?? wtf!?!?! EXPLAIN
Probably mentioning Spec Ops: The Line
I think my biggest issue with TNC was the ending, or seeming lack thereof. The final boss fight was so underwhelming I didn't realise it was the final boss fight until the game ended. It also felt like the story got cut off right before the good stuff, the whole game is build-up to this grand revolution you never get to see or play (I'm not counting the assassination missions as those just seem like filler), and probably never will considering the next game has been revealed to take place in 1980. Overall I still had fun, just inconsistent fun, worth it for a discount but nothing more.
Actually Machine Games has said that Youngbloods is not Wolfenstein 3. There will be an actual Wolfenstein 3 seperate from the story of BJ's daughters.
that's true, even though I loved TNC, the final 'boss' is a massive let down
THAT FUCKING SONG. I'm sure so many people went out on a bad note with that embarrassing cover.
@@dynamicpenguin55 i just ran passed them couldnt be arsed
@@dynamicpenguin55 why a let down? Not hard enough?
I've always cited one of my biggest issues with Wolfenstein 2 was how heavily it leaned on stealth. I'd never really considered that the addition of the pointless 'replayability' design that centered around that massive hoard of commanders was forcing stealth into the gameplay every few minutes was the real culprit. It just felt like the game would give you ten steps for sprinting and then put you waist deep in molasses.
I did appreciate the narrative and character building in the game, but the pivotal twist in the game that was wildly outlandish really drew me out of the gravity of the desperation in the plot. Then the choice of one of three new powers immediately had an effect on the level design. It created numerous areas where some of the paths forward were almost too obvious while others were completely unintuitive. I can't blame the level designers though, I can't imagine having to put in dozens of options to traverse a level depending on which of the three choices you made hours before.
My biggest issue though was one you probably didn't encounter. Wolfenstein 2 was a mess at launch. I had so many issues with it crashing, freezing, and losing progress that I actually had to stop playing for a while until a patch came out. Even then there was one moment where the game would crash every single time in a cutscene until I ran it in safe mode. Really unacceptable for a full priced AAA game in my opinion.
Coming off of the previous games excited to get back into the meaty world of being a dual wielding death machine, but I did not have a good time and it was tough finishing a game so full of issues, both technical and from a design perspective.
Can we please, get a “Dead Space __ Years later series?” I’d really love to see your take on the steady decline of the series.
For me it wasnt even a steady decline tbh. I loved the first one and thats where it ended for me. Neither ds 2 or 3 managed to capture that same atmosphere and i found both boring
#FuckEA for butchering that series
@@rickfan7 yeah only the first one was scary, it really captured that feeling of desperation and isolation while the other two feel like action games.Not to mention that by dead space 3 the necromorphs were annoying instead of scary.
Wasn't even remotely a steady decline. Even Dead Space 3 is not a bad game, it's just not enough of a dead space game. 2 is the best in the series, so again, there is no steady decline.
@@friendlyreaper9012 The first one was not scary at all LMFAO The second one only was scary because I was expecting it to be less scary than 1 and it ended up being much scarier.
Oh my good. I legit searcherd for a Video of yours Talking about wolfenstein. What a pleasent suprise
Ben Shepherd A surprise, but a welcome one
Lunar Kaiser for sure
The New Colossus feels that it was made by different developers...
It was
@@FreeBird-ws2ye It wasn't.
@@FreeBird-ws2ye idiot
Nah, they just added shitton of sjw propaganda
TheMrSlurrpy or.. it could be the critique talked about in this video you presumably watched. Why is it always sjws to y’all... as if everything is ruined by it. It’s a childish perspective to have
One thing that I love about Wolfenstein is that it humanizes the Nazis. You read notes and overhear their conversations about their families, their friends, how some of them actually feel horrible for what they're doing. Then you meet up with ex-Nazis and the daughter of a main villain working with the resistance. The game also makes it clear that not every enemy you shoot is some concentration camp mad scientist or a war criminal, a lot of them are just security guards, scientists, or at times people who took that job to AVOID committing atrocities, only to end up guarding that one piece of paper essential for the resistance. Even the comically evil villains have things they loved like their pet dogs. I actually wondered how many of these faceless mooks I mowed down could have turned to the resistance had things been different.
That's what I think you should handle enemies like the Nazis. Not think of them as an otherworldly evil, but think "My God, they were human. Humans did this." That's the only real way to learn from the past, to understand the banality of evil.
The New Colossus was a bit of a mess, but I still had a blast shooting doods.
Pretty much the right way to go about these games. Except for the bits about Blazky's backstory, his childhood home and how that section starts out and ends - I actually really enjoyed that on a narrative and thematic level. The rest is rooty-tooty-sneak-and-shooty. I've always always enjoyed his inner monologues, though. Some people don't like them, but some people can't survive on this planet without a dick in their eye.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 Literally just beat TNC and your comment sums up how I feel. Not as good as TNO storywise and so many commanders significantly slowed the game down at a higher difficulty, but was a blast nonetheless. Wish there were more memorable set pieces and locations, like the London Monitor fight. Still love the inner monologue though
I still enjoyed it. It's still a really good game not that his criticism isn't valid.
I agree with the criticism, but I still loved how over the top The New Colossus was. Loved the whole series and the story direction relly hits the mark for me.
I played the new order on Xbox 360 and was amazed how well it actually runs on that console. Truly a showcase of what ID tech 5 could do on 7th gen.
@kyle the unbesterest Yes but it never looked as good as with the new order.
@@thatssomegoodpie They should have used it on the evil within 2
Glad you mom is okay my dude. Family first, all else second.
at least its not *his* arms which are broken ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@snaawflake Aw fuck reddit is leaking
New order: An amazing experience, great game, and would recommend to anyone
Old blood: Good game, worth a play, but maybe would have to be a little invested in the newer wolfenstein games
New colossus: it had problems for sure, the weakest of the (newer) franchise so far, need to be invested in the wolfenstein games to have maximum fun (in my opinion), but was satisfying none the less, just not as unique or good as the others, but (bc we are allowed to have opinions) still enjoyable
Nice try. The weakest was Youngblood
@@Blackhawk211 you're totally right, it wasn't like this comment was made before Youngblood came out or anything, right?
Yeah the new colossus was great but it could’ve been so much more though and that’s what’s frustrating about it
Honestly the new colossus needed more time to bake. The wackiness needed to be balanced with a more grim and ruthless enemy, it needed to be hammered home rather than downplayed. Gameplay ranges imo. When I first played it, it definitely felt like it needed more time in the oven. Second playthrough felt completely polished. No idea why. Also it's not properly emphasized how important the overcharge mechanic is in the first half; overcharging takes you from fragile to outright tanky in the initial sections.
Gameplay wise I thought TNC was a refined TNO. Story wise it has a lot of ups and downs, personally I like it more but I also absolutely understand people who have the opposite opinion.
i remember skipping school for two day when new order released just to play it. what a phenomenal game
I did that with halo 3
Nah... just nah.
I'm so glad this got recommended to me. This gave me the kick in the ass i needed to finally play these games. After watching this video I'm all hyped up to jump into them lol
They are easily worth playing through, but I would recommend staying away from The New Colossus and Youngblood (they are not as good as the originals, imo)!
@@Luke-xi2pq I mean, if he's gonna play New Order, he might as well play New Colossus so he doesn't end the series off where it's not meant to end.
@@Luke-xi2pqYou don't need to stay away from things just because they aren't as good as other things
Regardless of my or anyone’s thoughts, these videos are so informative and super great.
Hope all continues to go well and continue the good work.
"steel...stone...concrete....enemy of endless might"
Finally someone BIG mentioned Wolfenstein: the old blood's ending song Thanks mate Great video
I know, very few people mention it but it's crazy memorable to me.
Old Blood: Pretty good
New Order: Masterpiece
New Colossus: Wtf happened?????
edit: Only good thing about New Colossus was Mick Gordon, and you can just play DOOM for that.
SWEDEN YES happened
Whaa? I actually loved The New Colossus. What was bad about it that I missed? Just curious.
@@HragFarraGaming there's a long list of things people criticize the game for. So for most people who play it, it's a bit different. My problems stem from gameplay being far too fast and downright sadistic difficulty. Weapons are less interesting, and particular weapons are exclusive to timelines for some reason.
Too much sjw propaganda happened.
@@HragFarraGaming Word of Wolf and JamesBlack47
have both made great videos on why the new colossus was terrible. They cover practically every gripe people have with the game and highly recommend their videos.
I am so freaking happy that you ordered this chronologically. That's how I played through these three, and I always love your content. Great job man!
I felt sorry for Wyatt when i found out what happened to him after selecting him for dissection
I just want you to know I was drunk as all hell last night, shallow breathing, vomit, and everything so to distract myself I put this on and I think you saved my goddamn life. Good content
I love how you mentioned philosophy and politics. because for all of it's over the top "white nazi pigs" and characters out of a blaxploitation film, The New Colossus' political theme is simply "Racism is bad, M'kay?"
Remember when Wolfenstein the New Order had moments about how about the *similarities* between the Nazis and the US, without being obnoxious (and ultimately counterproductive) about the subject matter? remember when it had talks about conviction and morality, free will, consciousness and even Jewish thought about a transcendental god?
Remember when the deepest moment in New Colossus was... uh....
This seems in line with the pattern of Zenimax acquisitions.
Wolf2NC's Message was also clear. 1940's, 50's 60's People of USA would not have problem with NAZI politics. There were Strange Fruits Everywhere On US Soil and people didn't see any problems with that. "Nazis killing Gays, Jews, Commies? and they are christians too??? Praise the lord!"
@@CHMernerner That message would be as moot as moot could be. Considering we know how the actual state of affairs panned out. Maybe that wasnt their message... Maybe it was just "Racism and Nazi's are bad M'kay?". And maybe you're just reading contemporary fake-progressive idealogy into places where there is none. In order to further validate your victim complex perhaps? Food for thought.
Mernerner Yeah thats why America never actually fought Nazi Germany at all during WW2. Operation Overlord? Never happened, the US were only and always Nazi sympathizers. You and everybody else who spouts this are complete idiots
@@clover4522 Yeah, the US fought the Nazis, but Nazi sympathizers were pretty damn numerous and loud before the beginning of the war and those people would have easily resurfaced, had this alternate future happened. People like Blazkowicsz' father weren't exactly rare. Those that are willing to put down the people that they are told are lower than them, so that they can profit within the unjust system.
The overall message of the story (among others concerning different characters, but this is basically the idea of the main plot) really is about how the necessity of antifascists to unite despite their different views and problems with each other in the face of fascism and the compliance with it that always dwells within liberal society. And to not be discouraged by that compliance existing, because in the same society there is also hidden a spark of resistance, that you can draw out by sticking together.
It's greatest moments follow that theme, when Grace tries to see whether Blazko is demoralized by "White America" rolling over for the Nazis, and he isn't. Or when she coaxes Hilda into a violent outburst, just to make sure she's not here because her mom was mean, but because she wants to fight fascism. Or when Blazko, the idealistic patriotic American without any critique of capitalism in mind, sits down and argues and drinks koonshine with the southern anarchist preacher, who criticizes America's imperialism just to piss him off.
None of these people seem to end up as close friends. Most of them have some deep disagreements. But they all know what's needed to fight fascism and they know that they can get others to join them.
Now if only that would have informed the gameplay, instead of the repeated sneaking/shooting arenas and unbalanced weapons and enemies.
Wolfenstein is cool and all but Brink is pretty good
if it had singleplayer then yes
@OreoCakestir no u
Brink was fun but my Xbox was so broken I could barely play it when I got it
Brink is underrated and i hate that ppl don't give it a chance :(
Brink needed a sequel or reboot to fix the problems of the original
I would love to watch a "So I've Finally Played The Chronicles of Riddick Dark Athena" (which includes Butcher Bay). Though it received well deserved praise at the time, I just remember it being overshadowed by Doom 3 and Half Life 2. The game design, visuals and voice acting were way ahead of the standard for the time in my opinion. But most importantly, it's the one of the earliest video game adaptations of a film that wasn't just a quick cash grab movie tie in but a true adaptation.
Bonus points if you watch Pitch Black before playing it.
'Return to Castle Wolfenstein' is this the best.
And Enemy Territory was a great MP game too.
Remember as a child, sitting on the carpet and watching dad play Enemy Territory and Return. One time my dad threw a grenade and a German kicked it back - and because that was a novel little feature for the time in games we were both like, "OH SHIT LOOK AT THE COOL THING!"
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory gives me Vietnam flashbacks.
"WE HAVE CAPTURED THE FORWARD BUNKER"
"FORWARD BUNKER RECLAIMED"
"WE HAVE CAPTURED THE FORWARD BUN- FORWARD BUNKER RECLAIMEDWE HAVE CAPTURED THE FORWARD BUNKER"
"NEED A MEDIC!"
"IM A COVERT OPS"
"NEED AN ENGINEER"
"I'M A SOLDAT"
Finally someone said it, even if I gloss over the enigma grindfest, to me, New Colossus almost feels unfinished, the gameplay feels not perfectly refined, level design sucks, and the menu is fucked
My favorite is also The Old Blood
My biggest problem is that it's too hard, the AI is far too smart and the stealth sucks in comparison to the previous 2 games
I'm a masochist when it comes to achievements. After beating the game on the hardest difficulty I looked at the Mein Leib achievement and went NOPE! I cannot imagine anyone getting that thing without hardcore cheating. The bloody courtroom level takes about three dozen attempts.
I felt the game was unfinished since I was able to finish it the same exact day that I bought it. New Colossus just feels like an add-on, akin to The Old Blood, but at the time of release it was given a full-game $60 price tag. Don't get me wrong, I know The New Order was pretty short too, but it's almost 2-3x as long as The New Colossus.
What really bothered me was the pacing. TNO had an appropriate setup and payoff for almost everything. I don't remember anything feeling like it was dragging on too long, or was too short-lived. There's a very long series of events throughout the entire plot. When you get to the Bridge, for example, you know you've come a VERY long way from the concrete bunkers in the sand from the first mission. It feels like that was a long time ago, because it WAS a very long time ago.
That doesn't really happen in TNC. The story pacing is absurdly fast. When you're launching nukes in New Orleans, it doesn't feel like you were in a wheelchair killing invading Nazis on the submarine very long ago. Because you weren't. The beginning of the game was not that long ago, and the pacing is just all around fucked because of it.
I wanna say the problem is they kicked up the amount of damage an enemy can deal to hypersonic speed.
I cant believe people don't see it. I'm one of those who feel extremely at odds with TNC's politics, which are in fact all over the place, but I hardly gave a shit while playing just because of how botched, sliced up, poorly directed and underdeveloped the game was. I don't care about Grace Walker when the game has fuck all for levels or environments and forces you to spend hours with 50 health and BJ being emo.
You had Mandalore in the previous video, are you gonna get his African warlord twin for a future video ?
Something tells me Seth is probably a little too... uncouth for Ray’s liking hahaha
Oh boy... Do youngblood now lmao
I just puked a little.
The music was also superb in both first installments, I remember after finishing the Old Blood, i opened a window to my room for fresh air and just sat there listening to the Partisan, an absolute masterpiece.
New Order also had some great memorable tracks, i mostly preferred the safehouse and cutscene guitar ones
But the New Colossus, the only one i think i remember and i like is (11:53) this fucking thing, and the part of the mission while it plays is kinda underwhelming combat-wise
NC has some good tracks. The music in the courthouse fight was pretty good. I know because that mission is like setting yourself on fire on the hardest difficulty.
what is it the one at 11;50
@@gabrielbrunet7150 Na*i punks, Gtfo - Mick Gordon
Tyler Bioshock Rodriguez
Oh yeah ok, can’t believe i forgot to mention the courthouse.
Kinda a pity that they could only fii that sequence in as a daydream
@@petliakov9906 THANKS !
Great video. My only gripe is that you should have saved Fergus.
Apart from that, you pretty much nailed my thoughts on the series :)
Everybody saves Fergus, instead of whatshisname Tintin...
@@andersbackman3977 Damn right. Best supporting character.
im sorry but i couldnt let wyatt die like that. he was just so young. I still save him every time i play through it again.
@@nadussias That's an argument I absolutely get. I really do. I do not fault anyone for picking Wyatt.
@@nadussias We spiced Wyatt up a bit after the first, him dropping acid and stuff, to get more people to choose him.
This was freaking awesome!! Love the detail level you have in your essay. The amount of research you did is truly stunning. Please make more!!!
Raycevick, MandaloreGaming & GVMERS are just about all I need to scratch my itch. I appreciate the shit out of you Raycevick, this is Television 2.0 my man. Have a great month or two & cheers.
Would you be willing too do the Borderlands games, or Metal Gear Rising Revengance?
Or how about Bioshock???
I would be veeeeery interested in seeing a Metal Gear Rising video, but I don't think it's his cup of tea
@@creamygooger He would love the music alone i would bet.
Nikolai Belinski whats your problem?
I loved The New Order, but The New Colossus was probably the biggest gaming disappointment for me in the 2010's.
The gameplay I felt discouraged me from playing a way I felt was fun, with the lowered health being of particular annoyance on higher difficulties. I played it near launch in late 2017, so my memory is a bit hazy on lots of the game, but I distinctly remember the court room scene being one of the absolute worst levels I can recall playing in a first person shooter.
The politics in this game I felt came at a detriment to the story, with the developers trying and failing to create captivating parallels in their game to modern day events. To be clear on politics, I don't mind a wide range of political ideas in games as long as those ideas are conveyed well, and all of The New Colossus felt like it was just pandering to a certain demographic without giving any compelling reason why somebody who disagrees should rethink their philosophy.
This last point may be partly my own fault, but some of the marketing I felt misled me. In all of the trailers you saw the happy American town with that 1950's aesthetic, but with Nazis prowling the streets. All of the marketing showed the game as Nazis sort of infecting classic images associated with the American Dream, and tainting them. I thought the game was going to be about going through the Nazi ridden streets of the classic idolized period of America and taking them back, but most of the game didn't take place in such a way. The first few levels all take place on that submarine. The first level were you actually get to play on American soil take place in a generic bombed out city. Sure it might be Manhattan, but visually it looks like the level could have been copy pasted from a Fallout or Metro game. When you finally do get to that 1950's esque town I was expecting some epic shootout that starts with that Diner scene, but instead I got booted into a cutscene before I could kill a single Nazi, and then was transported to the next underground secret base level which could have been a generic level from any other Wolfenstein game. For a game that has all of the United States as a pool to draw from for inspiration, the level designs really felt uninspired and boring to me.
After The New Colossus, I don't think I will be giving Machine Games' newest Wolfenstein games a shot. To me, killing Nazis in videogames is something that should be a formula that is nearly impossible to mess up, but they somehow managed to make it so I wasn't having fun doing so.
i fucking hate that goddamn court room level, dies so many time in that level.
You summed up my exact thoughts. Especially disapointed since the new colussus was the first game I ever preordered and paid full price after having been a gamer for 20+ years. Won't be doing that again any time soon.
Pretty much. Doesn't help that they're now going the FEAR 3 and Dead Space 3 route of "fuck you for wanting a narrative-focused singleplayer experience, we going co-op now".
@@Wizuu0274 the courtroom scene was bloody hard but you felt good when you got through it, so i'd hardly consider it a reason to dislike the game. Or do you only like easy games?
On my first playthrough on "don't hurt me", I flew into a rage trying to finish that damn court room level. I must have tried some 50 times over the course of 3 days.
The next playthrough on "I am death incarnate", I tried only 3 times before finishing it. It was very satisfying, but was at a loss for words at how little effort (comparatively) it took to finish it off.
The game was way too short. The new order was much better and more satisfying to me (well, except the ending).
8:06 Who else found themselves humming to this awesome theme composed by Mick Gordon? In the start of the New Order theme it gives the feeling that the Nazis tyranny isn’t something to joke about because the Nazis taking over the world is imminent. Then the second part of the theme gives this depressing vibe of how it feels to live in a world of tyranny under the Nazis.
I was gonna say "damn that's a major flaw, the gun clips into your face!" but then I realize the fov is probably high
Gotta love Raycevik.
Makes you want to play those games you played a long time ago again.
Can you do 7 year later about syndicate from 2012?
I second that
Is that a good game?
Friend of mine gave me a copy for PS3 but haven't tried it yet.
@@TheOriginalEdFry Well it is not bad. I liked it.
@@TheOriginalEdFry i pleyed it recently and i liked it. Buy ingame asap the skill that ramps up damage for every kill and the one that doubles the timer duration to play the game as its intended. The game requires more of a strategy approach but that lets you be more bold and use all tools in a synergized manner.
I loved the scenery the game had as it looked like crysis 3 before crysis 3 even came out. But sadly that's all overshadowed by very tedious and boring gameplay.
Man, i feel alone in that New Colossus is my absolute favorite of the Wolf games so far. I understand the combat, level design and tone complaints, but I just think that the best parts of the game overshadows them all. I love the BJ's flashbacks, they made me cry and I haven't did that in a game for a while. Having the reduced health in the first half reflect as a gameplay portrayal of BJ's current state is so god damn ingenious. Laserkraftwerk is so satisfying to use. The writing at times is so effective, many of BJ's lines just either reduce me to tears or make me excited as hell. New Order is a better game at many aspects, but it never got to the absurd highs of New Colossus for me. Both are fantastic though, as well as Old Blood. Can't wait for Youngblood!
Poor fanboy.
Excellent Video man. I had watched some of your videos and found them to be great but hadn't really given your "I finally played _____" Series a try until now. But I guess now I have to check out every single one of them. Because this was really great. Thanks for this. 😃👍
I loved the first two games from the Saga but I can't say the same for Wolfenstein 2 jumping the shark and more concerned with telling a poorly written forced storyline with more cutscene than ganeplay instead of a well paced campaign full of awesome gameplay.
Madvillain
Don’t forget the racism towards white peoples and the vapid feminism
I keep hearing this about Wolfenstein 2, but the New Order had 3 hours of cutscenes for the 9 total of the game. And that doesn't include the bits where you can interact but are doing little more than walking around. I honestly was disappointed about it after playing Doom 2016, which was truly a call back to the original ID shooters.
@@spaceman6463 TIL killing nazis is racism wow, shut the fuck up
Space Man 1. Speak English better.
2. You sound racist.
3. Shut up.
@@spaceman6463 Triggered. Hard.
I still think that the New order was the best in the trilogy. Its PHENOMENAL, from the insanely immersive epilogue, to the last boss fight, its amazing, and its has its downsides, like the cringey sex scenes my 17 y/o self SOMEHOW enjoyed. Its truly amazing, and i would definitely recommend it!
Edit: Its extremely immersive, the gunplay is pretty much perfect, with weapons that feel and work exactly as you'd expect them to. They dont feel like COD guns with 0 recoil and no inaccuracy, they have recoil, recoil that you can mitigate with skill, but it doesn't go to counter strike levels of utter crazy amounts of it either. Its just right, it feels right, it FEELS EMPOWERING, and i love it.
The New Colossus was just disappointing for me. The constant commanders and lack of health for the first half was irritating, and on my first playthourgh, I did not even notice that there were assassination missions, so I completed it in like 7 hours, then was disappointed by the ending, and was overall just left unsatisfied... The first two were great though.
Only now I realised Wolfenstein 2 has so bombastic music, i've almost never heard it
YOU HAVE GOT TO PLAY RIDDICK! the old blood takes so many cues from that game! and honestly itll become a summer time fav
The last iteration isn't a game, it's a movie.
A bad movie.
@@kennethdavidson6508 How?
@@salokin3087 well considering how the Nazis are often refered to as "Hwuite Supremashishts" in New Collosus despite the fact that those they genicided are Jews, Slavs and Gypsies, majoritybof whom depicted as white in the concentration/work camp mission in the previous game, you might have a sense that some modern anti white political agenda was ham fisted into the game.
@@yochaiwyss3843 lol, have a cry about nothing - Jesus, they're both.
+Yochai Wyss
Please give it a rest with this whole "anti-white" agenda. For as over the top the New Colossus is, it's irritating that people have embellished their criticisms due to politics, raging about some "SJW" agenda without touching upon what differentiates the game from its previous installment.
You should play yakuza, very underrated game
hell yes
How does Yakuza Kiwami stack up next to Yakuza 0 or 6?
I've never played a Yak game, and PS4 Plus gave Kiwami away for free a coupla months back, and I'm thinking of trying it
@@zetetick395 kiwami is a really well done remaster, basically yakuza 1 using the yakuza 0 engine and combat, so the graphics and gameplay are as good as 0's,theres also some new content too, yakuza 6 runs in the newer engine, the biggest difference are the physics, good improvement but it wont make you hate 0/kiwami,kiwami 2 is 2 remastered but with the yakuza 6 engine, I recommend you to play kiwami, then get 0 since 0 is a prequel and then get kiwami 2,then you can either look the story of yakuza 3-5 in youtube so you can play 6 right away or wait for kiwami 3.
@@gmast6281 Thanks for the info man,
After I finish Hollow Knight and Red Dead Redemption 2 I'm gonna dig into Yakuza Kiwami :)
@@zetetick395 okay, If you need to know something else, just ask!
16:34 Now I understand why I couldn't remember a single track from the game.
Your review of the game series made me subscribe immediately, really mature and well though out review, great job
Old Blood is fantastic. My favorite Wolfenstein, even more so than RTCW.
The New Colossus has a strange disparity, I found for me, having BJ in despair taking how he was struggling to move and then, have the character sprinting into action blowing thousands off nazis to pieces to then say more about the struggles really put me off. It's not a bad game at all, I think like you said, something just feels off.
I literally just beat all of them on Death Incarnate! Such good games
Admittedly, I've always liked the New Colossus the most. I know its generally considered the redheaded stepchild of the series, but it was the first one I played, and I will n e v e r not love it.
I like it the most as well, sure the final boss isn’t really a boss but killing Engel in the end makes sense as it broadcasts that the revolution has begun
I completely agree, it was my intro to the game, and yeah its got its flaws, but god is it a blast
The New Order is one of my favorite games of all time, and seeing your review of the three is fantastic. I definitely whole heartedly agree on the New Colossus, the tonal changes overall are what changed the game to the worse for me. Still good, but far less special in every regard. It also took the roles of two great characters who...admittedly didn't have the greatest presence in the first, and just turned them into joke characters, which is one of the better examples of that overall shift for the worst.
RIP Fergus, you are now just a punchline.
I love the amount of attention you pay to the score... it's the most important part of any game for me and most often many ignore it and its role.
Hot take, I actually really love new Colossus. It’s just so obnoxious, gory and fun. Playing it through on PC was a blast to me from beginning to end
I feel like people wouldn't be bugged by Colossus's tone as much if it wasn't for the previous games being very somber and serious.
@@Calvin_Coolage you know that’s fair, I feel like with a lot of games, your enjoyment of them can come down to your own willingness to meet it where it’s at, so I can see why people weren’t really able to enjoy Colossus. I just went in looking for a Nazi-shooting good time and to hear Brian Bloom talk about it along the way, and I got all of that in spades.
Same for me with xbox
Yeah, TNC has a tone problem but it’s still good imo. It’s just not great like TOB or TNO. I also think those first two games benefited greatly from being released before ID rebooted DOOM.
I actually switched TNC to the easiest level because it was super boring to play and just wanted to motor through the story.
I did exactly the same. I played The New Order on one of the hardest difficulties and The New Colossus was so boring. The best parts were:
BJ's past, Roswell, and the beginning of Venus.
@@Walfuz
Oh, finally, not just me then!
I did the same and still gave up, on everything but the easiest difficulty it was like I had a nerf gun 😂 very badly designed game that felt like it belonged in ps2 era
@@meatsweatmundungus6415
And a whole bunch of cheesy hit scan enemies and no sandboxes to play in and no way to stealth it and _dear god what were they thinking why can't we have nice things?_
Oh and getting endlessly lost on the fucking submarine.
The dual wield button brining up a pistol when you're holding a shotgun.
_WHO DESIGNED THIS?_
I havent even played the new wolfensteins and saw the video was 20 mins long but ended up watching the whole thing- it was actually really interesting and showed how much work you put in to your vids wasted rambling maybe but you definitely have a new fan from nz good job bro
Playing it chronologically is absolutely brilliant from a narrative and gameplay perspective
The music choice for the credits of New Colossus was the only issue I had with the game. It was the perfect song choice to fit the theme of the game but the way it sounded was much too heavy and screamy. Something just a little harder than the original would have done nicely.
Same, it made me laugh and not in a good way
Couldn't disagree more. Fuckin' love that song.
That, oooor it's just not your kinda music. Maybe you don't like it, but it's badass to some other people. I thought it fit perfectly. And what's wrong with it being screamy?
@@ronnieradon You're right, it just not my kind of music. I have a friend who adores the Wolfenstein and Doom Eternal music. Incredible games, I'm just not a fan of the music. Ooohhh that doesn't stop me though
The first two there amazing, remember moments from them to this day.
The last one though... might as well cut that appendix.
The first combat arena in Old Blood, Hegals office, is probably one of my favourite memories of a video game. Darting around the office, dipping diving and sliding in and out of cover, executing some with a knife while picking off others from a distance with a silenced pistol made me feel like the Nazi boogeyman. Ironically the hardest difficulty, Uber, which almost forced you into stealthier gameplay made me feel more powerful than just mowing down enemies with duel wield machine guns. Absolute perfection
ive played through the new order probably 6 or 8 times its one of my favorite games of that year and to this day its a favorite even though i have over 80 hours in it.
Wait was the the whole zombie crew in this old blood, i never even knew
I think the reason for W2's lack of breaks in combat is Doom 2016. Both games have always had the goal of "superhuman power trip" which it does accomplish in both games. The only problem is that stealth is non-existent in Doom and a viable option in Wolfenstein.
Also the quiet music issue you had did not happen with my playthrough and I did not change any settings.
As always your uploads are worth the wait. Thanks for posting I enjoyed the content on Wolfenstein. Thanks and have a great week.
An interesting viewpoint (as always). Personally I love New Colossus. Its dialogue is rich, funny and emotional. BJ's monologues, particularly in the beginning, are heart melting. The story is interesting fun and impactful, same goes for all the multi-layered characters. Gameplay is solid fun and fast-paced. There are definitely some negatives. You were 100% right with there being too many captains to kill and that pattern minigame is painful. I would say the game probably reaches its peak when BJ gets his new body, it is a very slow burning decline after that and the runtime doesn't help with this. The game could have spent more time building the resistance in order to finally take down Frau Engel, take back America and spark a worldwide resistance movement. Looking forward to playing Young Blood.
New Collosus is easily the overated of the bunch propped up for arbitrary reasons. But dont let kotaku and polygon tell you that. Literally the fucking new order was better and made it actually feel like the villians were cold and competent killers. New Collosus makes the nazis look like clowns
@@thatonefpsgamer1339cuz they are clowns
Their most recent game's level design is so bad
Agreed to some extent. It definitely feels like there was less thought put into the pacing of each level, and the A.I. and layouts don't lend themselves well at all to stealth (which in this game, compared to the other two, felt exceedingly difficult to do well).
@bigevilworldwide1 I'm especially talking about the light use
Remember that one nazi base where you're sneaking up on the catwalk
There's one brightly lit door and a very dark hole in the catwalk
guess where you have to go.. ._.
Agreed. Not only is the level design too tight and repetitive, the enemy pathing in these levels is terrible. I kept finding myself shooting enemies that are all pouring through a tight hallway or door and making the most ridiculously easy targets of themselves. The engine stopped me from spending much time with TNO and TOB and the level design stopped me from spending much time with TNC. TNO redone in the new engine would be marvelous.
bigevilworldwide1
Jeez, triggered much?
I never noticed and I played through it twice and enjoyed it very much
I like that 2 of my favorite games got mentioned in this video, Doom 2016 and Titanfall 2
I am genuinely impressed with your depth in the video.
Great video! I do think that New Colossus compared to the previous entries is the weakest, but I still feel like it's a masterpiece in it's own right. Yeah, it isn't without flaws and I agree with every critique you had, but I don't agree with the many people I have seen on the internet saying its a bad game. And what it sets up for has me very excited for the next entry!
I love this channel so much. It doesn't matter what game, I could listen to this guy for hours. He just makes everything super interesting to listen to.
This right here, is peak writing.
I love this series. I'm sad Youngblood succumbed to the over monetization we've seen in so many games lately, because otherwise the rebooted series is just amazing. It's full of memorable moments and stories I love to follow. It was Wolfenstein the new order, back when it first released, that made me fall back in love with story based shooters, where before I would've told you they were old news. That sounds a bit harsh, as I always was a champion of keeping campaigns in multiplayer shooters, but it was usually something I played once and then went onto Multiplayer. For context, when this was coming out, I was playing BF4 and loving it. I was never one to shun the single player only ones, but to me it was a relic of the past. While I loved to play the original COD, I was convinced no company would get the on rails shooter campaign right. Wolfenstein proved me dead wrong. It doesn't need a multiplayer mode. It knows what it wants to do, and does it so well.
Very much enjoy this series of games
Sadly my computer can’t fking run new colossus
When you buy a new pc, I still won't recommend New Colossus. Just buy DOOM Eternal and 2016.
I know this comment is six months old but imo the new Colossus isn't really worth buying.Just watch the cutscenes on RUclips because there is no feeling of progression in combat and pretty much no enemy variety.
The Old Blood and New Order are amazing titles even to this day, but with New Colossus it's very hard to put into words exactly why but the whole of the experience just feels off, devoid of the same imagination or creativity that defined early Wolfenstein titles (particularly those made by Machine games), the story and characters feel odd to say the least, like the Old Blood & New Order both toed the line of having dark brooding storytelling/characters coupled with zany over the top circumstances/characters but somehow they just made it work. I think Magical Realism is the term best used to describe that. The New Colossus however has that same blend but it doesn't work things either feel much to dark/moody or much too zany/over the top never having that skillful blend of both that Old Blood & New Order had. The games' lack of imagination can even be shown in it's weaponry: in New Order for example the weapon designs were colorful with distinct appearances and silly but enjoyable upgrades (ex. Assault Rifle with under barrel rocket launcher, Shotgun with ricochet rounds that bounced off of walls) in New Colossus all weapons have a standard black paint job with boring upgrades that could be found in Call of Duty (acog scope, extended mag, silencer). The story too had an overabundance of cutscenes I am usually not one to complain about such things but when a shooter that's based on classic FPS design has more cutscenes than gameplay you know something has gone wrong. It's hard to say what one thing is most aggreges but if you put all the elements of New Colossus together it just does not work where the separate distinct elements of Old Blood and New Order blended together almost flawlessly. I haven't played Youngblood but it certainly looks more fun than New Colossus. I hope they can nail the formula again for Wolfenstein 3 (really really really hope they can).
I SERIOUSLY don't get the hate that The New Colossus gets, I love all 3
You know, a thing I really like about it is how memorable it all is.
I just went back through them all along with Youngblood. I love them all.
MachineGames' Wolfenstein series has come to be my favorite game series of all time. I freakin' love every single game, and I've replayed every one at least 30 times. Currently in another playthrough of Wolf 2 right now. Cant wait for Youngblood.
Визуальный дизайн, разнообразие локаций, текстуры (игровой движок), звуковой дизайн, саундтрек, оружие (импакт), что хочет вызывать сюжет персонажи и общий настрой
Perfect summary of how I felt while playing these games, I still haven't finished Colossus because it just didn't 'feel' as good as Order.
I mean this is cool but have you considered the majesty that is "the outfit" on x360?
Yo how good is that game? I was trying to look for the smaller 360 exclusives that looked good and i ended up glossing over it.
@@missingaforest3639 it's buggy & full of gimics but I greatly enjoyed the destruction, satire & RTS elements.
I played them chronologically, too. Really enjoyed them both.
Love your opinions, even if I disagree slightly. Definitely some underdeveloped and underused mechanics in The New Colossus, but it’s still a fantastic game. Just wish they’d made the ground pound and special weapons (diesel and laserkraftwerks) more useful. Also the movement feels a bit sluggish compared to The New Order and Old Blood, with less refined collision boxes in the environments, making navigating during combat less intuitive, basically the level design isn’t nearly as good. Also found myself getting lost more. I almost wish they’d just used DOOMs climbing mechanics, or something similar to them in The New Colossus, as it would fit the game perfectly. Still love them all though! Excited for Wolfenstein III!
Im always so amazed by the quality of your videos.
Honestly, I’m so excited for you to review Cyberpunk 2077 but sad it will most likely be a few months to a few years from now before we see it IF you are even considering revising it.
Why review ANY software - before it IS finished?
♥ From a 'The Witcher' (2007) Euro-Jank* loving x86 player!
*Since late 1990s with Hidden & Dangerous...
CDPR DID do EE-versions with their first TWO games, didn't THEY? ;-D
The New Colossus is insane. And it has a surprisingly satisfying gunplay.
See's other RUclipsr's 23 minute video: I think I'll pass.
See's Raycevick's 23 minute video: I NEEEEEDDD MMMMOOORRREEE.
As someone who grew up with Return to Castle Wolfenstein and fell in love with the newer games, I didn't like Wolfenstein 2, something changed for the worst in the transition to idTech 6. Whenever I died in Old Blood or New Order while playing on the hardest difficulty, it never felt like it was the game's fault, and it felt good to jump back into the action and try it again. With The New Colossus, the movement and shooting felt very drifty and lacked the feedback that the previous games did.
It also felt like the enemies are far too accurate with their weapons now, I can be behind cover on the other side of a large room and they can still somehow find a way to shoot me regardless. I gave up trying to play though on the hardest difficulty after reaching the fight in the courthouse. I must have died at least a dozen times before I decided it wasn't worth the aggravation. I never felt like that ONCE during my playthroughs of the previous games. It doesn't help that the game is so bloated full of cutscenes that I sometimes I almost forgot I was playing an FPS, and most of the characters introduced here are so unlikable that I can't take any of them seriously. I also found a lot of the level design lazy and uninspired, with way too many recycled assets and areas.
I pre-ordered this game, and to say I was disappointed is a bit of an understatement.
7:57 I literally thought to myself, he has to do it. God I love that theme.
I highly recommend you play Sunset Overdrive. A very underrated game.