Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
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King Herald said:
Yes, it sent me right back to the start of Venus......
Yep, recent update means all my progress through the last mission has been lost as it forces you to restart from the air bridge. Even worse, it seems I'd reached the very last battle! 
What sort of idiot thinks it's a good idea to release an update that makes all the mid-mission saves unusable?!
King Herald said:
And now I am on some sort of air bridge, it explodes, I am told to run...... but no matter how hard or what direction, or where I try to jump to or grab, I still plummet to the ground.
Assuming you are at the start of 'Der Ausmerzer' .... don't try to follow Anya up the ramp - wait for it to close and then for her to re-open it ....
snuffy said:
StephenP said:
Assuming you are at the start of 'Der Ausmerzer' .... don't try to follow Anya up the ramp - wait for it to close and then for her to re-open it ....
That took me ages to work out too !Finished.
Quite enjoyable, some of the cut scenes went on a bit especially the stuff with Wyatt in his hippy phase but well written and acted in general. AH was hilarious.
Action was solid and pretty hard generally but was getting a bit repetitive towards the end so I was ok it ended. A few bits were hard as nails (I played on average difficulty) and sometime fluked it and sometimes worked out a tactic and once I think I found a glitch.
Final fight on the airship was a little disappointing that it was nothing more than fighting more of the same.
I ended up with the constrictor and the battle legs thing both upgraded via side missions.
Got bored with the ubercommander stuff.
The sex/violence/language was pretty intense in the cut scenes and that must have been the world's longest pregnancy.
Recommended, but play the others first.
Quite enjoyable, some of the cut scenes went on a bit especially the stuff with Wyatt in his hippy phase but well written and acted in general. AH was hilarious.
Action was solid and pretty hard generally but was getting a bit repetitive towards the end so I was ok it ended. A few bits were hard as nails (I played on average difficulty) and sometime fluked it and sometimes worked out a tactic and once I think I found a glitch.
Final fight on the airship was a little disappointing that it was nothing more than fighting more of the same.
I ended up with the constrictor and the battle legs thing both upgraded via side missions.
Got bored with the ubercommander stuff.
The sex/violence/language was pretty intense in the cut scenes and that must have been the world's longest pregnancy.
Recommended, but play the others first.
I also finished it last very. Most impressed. At least on easy mode it was easy for an old gimmer like me to do !
Then I did a few of the extra bits whilst still in the main game and also had a quick look at the bits that unlocked a couple of weeks ago. So I few more odds and ends to do, but I'm pretty much done now.
Then I did a few of the extra bits whilst still in the main game and also had a quick look at the bits that unlocked a couple of weeks ago. So I few more odds and ends to do, but I'm pretty much done now.
snuffy said:
I also finished it last very. Most impressed. At least on easy mode it was easy for an old gimmer like me to do !
Then I did a few of the extra bits whilst still in the main game and also had a quick look at the bits that unlocked a couple of weeks ago. So I few more odds and ends to do, but I'm pretty much done now.
Easy?! Shame on you! Then I did a few of the extra bits whilst still in the main game and also had a quick look at the bits that unlocked a couple of weeks ago. So I few more odds and ends to do, but I'm pretty much done now.
I was thinking about this game last night and although I didn't realise when playing all the goons have lives, wives, girlfriends etc. You pick bits up from the letters and postcards and the chat if you listen in to them. I heard two of them talking about Wolfgang who'd died and he had a wife and kid back home.
Nice touch.
Nice touch.
Insert Coin said:
Easy?! Shame on you!
Not having a go at you specifically, but this kind of attitude is really rather toxic. Different people want different things from a game, maybe a more casual experience, or maybe the story is more important to them than the combat, or maybe they just don't enjoy dying every 10 seconds. Some people like that kind of challenge, whilst others find it a tedious grind. Each to their own. I read a good article on this a while back (I can't seem to find it right now) that suggested that games developers could do more in this regard - and singled out Wolfenstein specifically for showing BJ in a bonnet and dummy on the easiest setting. But since then, a lot of games have changed and now many games label the easiest setting as "Story Mode" which I think is a step in the right direction.
Anyway, back to this game, and I thought it was ok. Not as good as New Order but there were some nice set pieces and a good story. The cut scene after the final battle with Anya going all Goddess of War / Mother of War was a bit of an eyebrow-raiser, but on the whole it was a good little romp.
I too found that the Ubercommander missions became stale very quickly and I gave up on those.
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Sunday 26th August 17:49
snuffy said:
I never bothered to read any of those. Some games you need to read the stuff you find for clues as to what to do next, but not in this game, so I never bothered.
For me, this kind of "flavour" (as it is called) really adds to a game, and I enjoy reading it all. Plus I feel partially obliged since the developers went to the trouble of creating it. A good case in point was Everyone's Gone To The Rapture. The whole point of the game was to find out what happened to everyone, but there was a distinct lack of such things and it felt like a radio play with added visuals. I'd have much preferred a "show don't tell" approach where you had to rifle through drawers, look on desks, read letters, postcards, etc.
Ok, so in a shooter like Wolfenstein, perhaps it's not necessary but it adds to the story I think. Well, does for me anyway.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
I read a good article on this a while back (I can't seem to find it right now) that suggested that games developers could do more in this regard - and singled out Wolfenstein specifically for showing BJ in a bonnet and dummy on the easiest setting. But since then, a lot of games have changed and now many games label the easiest setting as "Story Mode" which I think is a step in the right direction.
Game developers are doing a lot now to help people who are s
t at games. I remember Ninja Gaiden Black on the original Xbox, if you died enough at the same checkpoint it would give you the option of playing in "ninja dog" mode which was a hidden easy mode, but if you selected it your game data would be marked up so everyone knew you had opted into it and the main character would have to play the rest of the game with a pink ribbon on his wrist. Team Ninja (the developer) were well ahead of the curve in assisting people with poor hand-eye coordination and slow reactions. Mastodon2 said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
I read a good article on this a while back (I can't seem to find it right now) that suggested that games developers could do more in this regard - and singled out Wolfenstein specifically for showing BJ in a bonnet and dummy on the easiest setting. But since then, a lot of games have changed and now many games label the easiest setting as "Story Mode" which I think is a step in the right direction.
Game developers are doing a lot now to help people who are st at games. I remember Ninja Gaiden Black on the original Xbox, if you died enough at the same checkpoint it would give you the option of playing in "ninja dog" mode which was a hidden easy mode, but if you selected it your game data would be marked up so everyone knew you had opted into it and the main character would have to play the rest of the game with a pink ribbon on his wrist. Team Ninja (the developer) were well ahead of the curve in assisting people with poor hand-eye coordination and slow reactions. Gassing Station | Video Games | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff