[Gggmanlives] Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus PC Game Review - General

[QUOTE=halfer;52843669]the item pickup mechanic (which they still left in TNC! What the fuck?)[/QUOTE] You can pick em up by running through them, that is when you stand on em. Sure it shows the icon for picking up with the key, but that happens when you are near the item, other than that, just running through it will automatically pick it up. Although the position for picking it that way is wonky when it comes to machine guns.

[QUOTE=KenjiKusanagi;52845093]You can pick em up by running through them, that is when you stand on em. Sure it shows the icon for picking up with the key, but that happens when you are near the item, other than that, just running through it will automatically pick it up. Although the position for picking it that way is wonky when it comes to machine guns.[/QUOTE] Wow, thanks. I guess I won't have to spastically hit E in tough fights anymore

Honestly surprised how divisive this is, with (as of this post) 18 ratings in the affirmative and 19 negative ratings. Usually fp hivemind is pretty set on a subject, one way or the other.

[QUOTE=richard9311;52846384]Honestly surprised how divisive this is, with (as of this post) 18 ratings in the affirmative and 19 negative ratings. Usually fp hivemind is pretty set on a subject, one way or the other.[/QUOTE] It's almost like it doesn't exist.

[QUOTE=Destroyox;52846428]It's almost like it doesn't exist.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't say there's a hivemind, but I'd also wouldn't say there isn't a mob mentality when it comes to some sub-forums.

[QUOTE=halfer;52845139]Wow, thanks. I guess I won't have to spastically hit E in tough fights anymore[/QUOTE] Note that it only works for if you need that ammo/health/armor, though. If you want to overcharge (or when weapon and ammo pickups are being stingy), don't be surprised to still be mashing that E key.

[sp]They absolutely mangled the fuck out of We're Not Gonna Take It in the credits (the part with all the protesty stuff) to the point it might as well be background music or shelled out some more cash to get the actual rights. Like holy fuck, HOW CAN YOU HIRE A SWEDE BAND TO MESS UP A SONG THIS BAD, especially how the rest of the soundtrack is decent/good? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRQ4fyw5zzM Also, this is the first time I've been annoyed by a games ending in a long time. I wanted some more gameplay before we stormed the airship and cleaved Engel. Hell, even another Roswell-esqe mission in LA, before we got Engel would have been fine, since for all the average folks know, THE ACTUAL DEMON TERROR BILLY JUST CAME BACK, CLEAVED THE HEAD OF ENGEL, AND NOW HAS A MOBILE, *NEAR UNKILLABLE* AIRBORNE DEATHSTATION POINTED AT THEIR MAJOR CITIES.[/sp]

The writing for the game was pretty good, but I thought the pacing was a bit weird, and like mentioned before there's some severe tonal whiplash. Also what's up with all the slapstick and toilet humour? Felt really out of place compared to TNO's writing

[QUOTE=Shibbey;52847188]The writing for the game was pretty good, but I thought the pacing was a bit weird, and like mentioned before there's some severe tonal whiplash. Also what's up with all the slapstick and toilet humour? Felt really out of place compared to TNO's writing[/QUOTE] To me the toilet humor and sex humor were some of the most jarring moments because they always happened right after a serious/dark moment. (Thankfully this time around I can only recall one sex scene) For example right after one of the early missions when they're still [sp] mourning the loss of Caroline[/sp] [sp]Sigrun Engel gets assigned to a computer that doesn't work, Bombate goes "Don't worry I'll find a way to *her* on... now.. which hole is it?... perhaps I should use some grease?.. Each time pausing like there was going to be a laugh track put in. [/sp] or how [sp] During a tense moment under fire in New Orleans Anya decides it's a good idea to tell you over the radio that all the danger and shooting nazi's makes her go into heat/turned on [/sp] or probably the most absurd moment, but fucking hilarious was when [sp] on the Ausmerzer, right after storming the command bridge and opening the door to the rest of the bridge, BJ sees that several nazi's and a panzerhund are behind the blast door ready to shoot him point blank, Anya then runs through the second door, dives into BJ, while in midair throwing a grenade, she lands on top of BJ stomach first (Mind you she is bordering on 6 months pregnant at this point with twins), she see's she got brushed by the panzerhund's flame, so she rips of her multi-layer clothing all at once, then starts dual wielding assault rifles and shooting the panzerhund while guts and blood rain on her naked body with slow-mo. I wish I was joking. [/sp]

I'm still trying to actually play the game, the intro cutscenes don't get anywhere past 5fps for me, even though I can run other recent games (Doom & Rise of the Tomb Raider) at 60fps. NVIDIA's 'hotfix' did absolutely nothing.

[QUOTE=richard9311;52846384]Honestly surprised how divisive this is, with (as of this post) 18 ratings in the affirmative and 19 negative ratings. Usually fp hivemind is pretty set on a subject, one way or the other.[/QUOTE] This FP Hivemind meme needs to fucking die.

Every thread i look at lately seems to have a post about the fp hivemind followed by a post discounting that hivemind

Just finished the story. I played on normal and the #1 thing I noticed was how often I died without having time to react when I thought I was okay on health. [i]This is fine,[/i] it just felt like the kind of experience you would get on the setting above normal, where you have to be more conscious about watching your flanks and stuff. There are what, 4 settings above normal? Seems like they just need to change the curve a little bit. I didn't feel like stealth was necessary but I can see why it might feel that way. There's A TON of areas with 2 officers hidden somewhere and you're pretty much always setting off the alarm. If you combine that with the fact that you die relatively easily, the player might feel like they're doing something wrong after dying a few times. You don't really need stealth, you just can't go in guns blazing as much as you'd probably like to. Sitting in one spot with the semi-auto sturmgewehr mode is pretty broken.