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This game was made around a time when Activision lost its glamour for me, especially with its capitalization over the abysmal gameplay of the Call of Duty franchise, thus replicating every first-person shooter video game they made with the image and mechanics of the CoD garbage. After years of playing it first (and the only time), I had little to no recollection of the game apart from it being rather weird, so I decided to give it a go, again, and see if it's a better game than I remember.
...And it bloody well wasn't!
After playing the game for like 45 minutes, I lost interest and have come to the conclusion this was mess of a product that doesn't know what it wants. Being a veteran player of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (the only title in the franchise that I truly love), this sequel was a major letdown, hence my justification of hating it back when it came out. The "Black Sun" angle they were willing to concentrate is alright and all, but it has been completely narrated using all the wrong purposes and all the wrong imaginations. Fighting major insects from another dimension? Well... This isn't Resident Evil, this is Wolfenstein. You fight the undead, not overgrown giant bugs referred to as aliens from another planet. When fighting the supernatural in a Wolfenstein game, you're supposed to be haunted to near death, not just fight it in an action movie manner. You're supposed to be in a horror story just armed with guns to have a fair fight. Not ordinarily star in an action-packed adventure slaughtering any non-human paranormal beings.
The gameplay in itself is boring. Could the player character get any slower of a runner? My grandmother runs faster with her cane than he would! Then again... it's one of the reasons for why I hate Activision's idea of "realism" in video games. The lesser said about the two-weapon limit, the better, as well as the aim-down-sights technique. Additionally, I can't say I'm very keen with this "open world environment" as I'd rather the game would take me automatically from a level to another. This incarnation of BJ Blazkowicz has got to be the most boring iteration of the character with no personality whatsoever. He's too angry, too hot-headed and sometimes too smug. It's very inconsistent. Can't say I'm a fan of his "generic video game hero" look, either.
In a way, I'm glad Activision lost the license to Bethesda Softworks. Even though I'm not a big fan of The New Colossus (due to its differentiation from the Wolfenstein we know, and turning it into a full action-packed adaptation of 1984), I'd say they are doing a fine job with the franchise rather than producing yet another CoD: Zombies that Activision seems to love doing. Also, they're not afraid of demonizing the Nazis which is a plus point for me, unlike Activision who shied away from featuring Swastikas and Nazi flags to steer clear from "offending" some Neo-Nazi idiots in their World War II CoD game. The late Raven Software's Wolfenstein, unfortunately, is at the bottom of my ranking in the series.
Downloading Battlefront 2 Deluxe Edition buckled as it's almost half price in the sale, looking forward to seeing this on my Xbox One X
On your Xbox One, I take it? This game is huge apparently and sounds like a lot of fun, hopefully it comes to PS4 some day but who knows.
As for me lately, as usual:
Overwatch
The only online shooter I consistently play anymore. The Holiday Event was still ongoing yesterday so tried to sink a bunch of time into it to unlock as much as I could before the end. Played a lot of Mystery Heroes (which has forced me to play other characters I typically don't mess with, leading to fun results), and I ended the night with a DLC trophy. Incredibly proud to have 79% of the trophies without boosting a single one.
Hitman
Amazing fun as always, I lose so many hours playing this and tuning out to it. I've recently returned to Normal Difficulty so I can complete as many challenges and escalations in each location as I can, just to do it.
Basically you're dropped into a big map by plane either solo or with a small team, and you have to scour for gear and guns to upgrade your abilities to survive all while avoiding those who are coming to kill you. The map is surrounded by a giant circle that grows smaller over the course of the game and you must keep in it or be killed if you get outside it too long. Naturally, this makes it so that the end of each game, with a map full of around 70 to 90 people at the start, boils down to 20 or 30 fighting in one small area to be the last one standing. It can get pretty nuts.
I hope it comes to PS4 as well. It'd be fun to hop on with you and attempt to survive the other players. Can't tell if it'd go really good, or really bad!
I received my first PS4 Platinum trophy, from this game, yesterday. It wasn't a hard Platinum, it could be done all in one playthrough, but early on, the player is given a choice to make, depending on the choice, you might get the trophy. I made the wrong choice, so I didn't get the trophy. I completed the game, then went for my second playthrough, skipping through cutscenes and dialogue, only took me about 10 minutes to get to that point, and make the other choice.
Sounds like a whole lot of fun! Past that, the only thing making or breaking it for me would be the servers and the connection overall: may be a ton of fun if it's not a trash connection.
I quite enjoyed it. I was incredibly engrossed in the story, even if it was incredibly predictable after a while. Any bugs that might've hampered my enjoyment at launch have likely been fixed by now, and I believe they've added some DLC/free new content to the game, as well.
@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 It's probably a mix of the two. I know the game still has a reputation for being poorly optimized even on PC, so that's the dev's fault. I'm sure Microsoft is screwing things up as well though.
Of course, I haven't completed this game before, but I know and remembered very well that it resembled the classic Need For Speed games. There's a story campaign but you're basically dealing with the high-life society and participate in gentlemen's sports rather than being a punk in illegal street races (which is basically anything in NFS post Underground). It's set in an open-world Ibiza (quite a large map!) where you can free roam, race and purchase houses, cars, modify your character... Right now, I'm driving Lotus Esprit S3, Roger Moore's Bond car. I've yet to unlock new clothes for the character because I'm going to put him in a suit the moment I get the chance.
I also recently purchased Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. My expectations were low. It's actually not terrible.
On top of all that, No One Lives Forever keeps reminding me that I shouldn't be wasting my time on all these inferior shooters when I have this great game on my PC. I'm such a console gamer that I often forget to give my PC games the attention they deserve.
@ClarkDevlin No that's what I meant! I shouldn't be playing all these other inferior shooters when I have NOLF.
I never got far as it's not... the best looking game if you know what i mean (any hi res patches for that @ClarkDevlin ?)
Forza Horizon 3 would probably be a modern, hi res equivalent to the free open world of Test Drive Unlimited 2.
Still waiting for that one to hit Steam (and not cost ridiculous 130$ with all DLC)
I'll be entering my NOLF marathon sometime soon, @BMW_with_missiles. I'm growing rather thirsty for it. :D