I woke up way too early this morning thanks to a high blood sugar so I played through the first level before work.
Truly remarkable wheelchairing and baddadding.
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I had this problem in Doom, too. Sounds like the same engine to me!
what is with these recent bethesda games only giving you like 10 save slots, that doesnāt work for me
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Dracko, youāre a bloodpotion machine
The difficulty select screen alone disposes me favourably to this vidcon though I swore I would never play a trad mouse/keys fps again
Thereās more than in the first two games and it kind of confused me, since thereās two medium settings alone. I just went with hard, which I think is titled Do or die! and itās quite challenging so I have no idea how enjoyable the highest two are. Mein leben is supposed to be pernadeath too.
Iāve gotten access to the Enigma machine. So far this feels like an improvement on all fronts. These sly fuckers have sneaked in an actual shooter within a narrative story-focused action-adventure this time round.
yah, Iām on regular hard too, dying as much as Iād like
I have recruited the black panther contingent living at the top of the empire state building atop the nuclear wasteland of new york
Game of the motherfucking year
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Are there enough axes/hatchets lying around the world everywhere? Would you say B.J. is a real āhatchet manā*?
*I am truly sorry I promise to never again make an Insane Clown Posse reference in relation to Wolfenstein.
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Itās the āgame of the year,ā and the game of the year.
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Iāve never understood the criticism that these games are tonally inconsistent
I love every minute of it
The collectibles really suck. I donāt want to pause in the middle of a firefight to read a letter from a Nazi Iām probably in the process of murdering, to his wife and kids. Most of them are redundant padding for the obligation of cheevos and āreplay valueā instead of serious efforts at worldbuilding, as embodied elsewhere. The notes are instantly forgettable pap, and theyāre everywhere. Like most every other game, sure, but why?
Also, unrelated, not fond of the perk system artificially making the game easier when I get stuck at some point (playing on Death Incarnate), making it feel like a grind instead of a challenge.
Iām nearly to America and very eager to get off this boat, although the living hub was lovely. The game opens with three missions on a ship, which imo is a bit much.
you could just not read them? I actually like them, the tone is reliably gonzo and the writers were clearly having so much fun with them
the first three missions were also very different from one another
I did notice that points toward perks still accumulate when you die and retry but itās such a small thing overall that it doesnāt really seem like the game is artificially taking challenge away from you? on hard mode I only wound up repeating most setpieces like 3-4 times at most though
When I got the heavy Lasergewehr I, of course, wanted to go through the next encounters using it as much as possible. One of the kinks it has is a limited battery that has to be recharged at certain wall outlets. The game really let loose on the enemies at this point and I was having fun and dying enough that, in no time at allā¦ I had inadvertently maxed out the perk which doubled my heavy weapon capacity, thus negating the need for conservation and making it that much less interesting to use. It would be like a turret section where the turret simply stopped overheating if you failed it enough times so you could just hold the trigger down with impunity. Itās kind of insulting.
More annoyingly, though, is that no matter what you do it constantly pops up the perk checklist notifications, which the first game didnāt do, and which really takes me out of the moment. I bought this $60 boutique cinematic FPS campaign to be nothing but in the moment for so many hours, and if I could pay extra for a mode to disable this crufty padding I would.
Itās the same with the collectibles, which, regardless of their content, arenāt placed with regard to immersion or pacing (since they pause the game at usually tense moments to display a full-screen transcript, not even at least showing you a full rendition of the handwriting or something convincing, like in The Order: 1886), but just having some obligatory thing in every little dead-end alcove to pad the game length. And itās hard to just ignore them since the game has the same error of the first one by making you mash E constantly for health and armor and ammo littered everywhere, with zero thought for placement or quantity, such that I donāt even know what Iām picking up anymore and itās almost pure posturing that the game doesnāt just have conventional regenerating health since it is this narrow. I wouldnāt mind the notes if it were a slower and more exploratory kind of game, like Dishonored, but the first three missions are nonstop frenetic CoD-style action, and any gap in the flow at all, anything that takes me out of the moment, really dulls the hype.
I do appreciate their presence in the hub levels where you just walk around and chat with your comrades, though.
I promise the lasergewehr still runs out later in the game with your ammo maxed
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Yeah, the perks in total donāt seem that dramatically altering, especially compared to DOOM 2016, which only makes me question their presence moreā¦
Whatever, the game owns, Iāll have more positive stuff to say about it no doubt as I get further along.
theyāre exceptionally inobtrusive from a cognitive perspective, yeah; even tno had semi-explicit trees to encourage you to vary your playstyle to get the later perks. these just sort of passively go up, which is actually less burdensome imo, since almost every player will actually use every weapon and some mix of shooting & stealth; you donāt necessarily need to be incentivized to focus on any of them individually because while BJās moveset is diverse-ish itās not actually that huge and thereās a time and place for everything. I generally prefer the illusion of deus ex-style freedom ā or at least having all those options but then being heavily constrained in what works on short notice ā to the actual āmultiple non-overlapping routesā design.
as for the visual overhead of the popups, fair enough. itās not like wolfenstein is unwilling to be gamey though and I donāt necessarily see this one as requiring hud austerity the way a ueda game does.
also, please no spoilers here for a while everyone. the turns taken by the story and the range of the ensemble cast are a real joy so far.
Whoever made the sound effect for that massive lasergun had a fun time doing it
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Also extremely into the resistanceās paisley fatigues
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