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WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Hel posted:

Which also appiles to Africa, South America and lot's of Russia.

they're not trying to sell the game to any African or South American countries as the primary market, and i get the impression an anti-Nazi game would not currently play well in Russia.

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Inspector Gesicht
Oct 26, 2012

500 Zeus a body.


Whitelight on Black Flag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTIIU357YaA

Hel
Oct 9, 2012

Jokatgulm is tedium.
Jokatgulm is pain.
Jokatgulm is suffering.

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

they're not trying to sell the game to any African or South American countries as the primary market, and i get the impression an anti-Nazi game would not currently play well in Russia.

You say that as if some Americans didn't complain that you had to fight Nazis, and TNO sold well without catering directly to Americans so why not keep doing that?
Also I might be wrong but my impression of Russia was that while sharing their ideology was pretty ok, actual swastika Nazis were still bad because they killed a lot of people in the great patriotic war and all.

stillvisions
Oct 15, 2014

I really should have come up with something better before spending five bucks on this.

Vagabundo posted:

He definitely touched on something that really soured the game: in its basic design, the maps are quite small, but with an extraordinary amount of "stuff" crammed in - fights, loots, etc. Consequently, even just travelling from location to location is an exhausting grind, because you're fighting the same enemies over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. When I load up a Fallout game, I'm actively picking up poo poo all the time. In Outer World, I found myself ignoring half the loot, and just breaking down any weapons I found. Plus, the shotgun-type weapons sucked poo poo.

There was the another factor too; exploring yielded nothing, and I'm not even talking about loot; you'd go to the far corners of the map to find that little building placed there and... ammo and maybe a large version of the monster you killed 20 of along the way. FO3 had some bad plot parts, not gonna argue that, but you could pretty much ignore that and find little stories sprinkled throughout the wasteland. In this I'm pretty sure 99% of the content was connected to a quest in some way; you might just accidentally solve that part of the quest out of order by exploring. Once I kinda wrapped my head around this being a non-exploratory game wrapped in the trappings of one and just straight ran the quests it became less frustrating. Also once I realized character progression was meaningless past a certain point besides banking skill points to make a surprise difficult check at the end.

And yeah, his assessment on some of the "surprises" was dead on, like the retirement plan and also the cannibal house; both of those were telegraphed seconds into them, with the latter having the extra magic of a literal "find the secret" quest with a map point popping up to tell you exactly where to go for the reveal if you hadn't figured it out. The only way those could have maybe been salvaged is going the route of parody with the MC having the option to sarcastically call out the twist as an option, because those are kinda peak Fallout-edgy.

The Outer Worlds had a lot of good ideas, but it just came across as bland. It was a bowl of plain potato chips; it's nobody's favorite, but it will get finished anyway.

Casey Finnigan
Apr 30, 2009

Dumb ✔
So goddamn crazy ✔

Hel posted:

You say that as if some Americans didn't complain that you had to fight Nazis, and TNO sold well without catering directly to Americans so why not keep doing that?
Also I might be wrong but my impression of Russia was that while sharing their ideology was pretty ok, actual swastika Nazis were still bad because they killed a lot of people in the great patriotic war and all.

The New Colossus is the only Wolfenstein game that has ever been set in America, and the next Wolfenstein game most likely won't be set in America either. It's really not that big of a deal. I'd agree if they decided to drop everything and make the series America-centric, but it's the second game in a relatively new series and it doesn't look like that's what they're planning.

Casey Finnigan fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Mar 14, 2020

Katt
Nov 14, 2017

Neddy Seagoon posted:

America is on the other side of the planet, away from the Nazi's seat of power and all their forces. Taking America makes perfect sense, because it's a far greater logistical effort to get ground and naval forces over there than somewhere in Europe. Gives them time to fortify, and rebuild a fighting force to go at Europe properly.

Well I mean it's America like 20 years after they surrendered to the nazis. It's probably pretty well occupied at this point.

TNC takes place in the US for the same reason that 99% of all media takes places there. Because hoora murika.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Hel posted:

You say that as if some Americans didn't complain that you had to fight Nazis, and TNO sold well without catering directly to Americans so why not keep doing that?
Also I might be wrong but my impression of Russia was that while sharing their ideology was pretty ok, actual swastika Nazis were still bad because they killed a lot of people in the great patriotic war and all.

i am pretty sure in the canon, russia is basically a nuclear grave yard like NYC but much worse. Africa is still an active war zone since the nazis since its basicaly the last active front against the nazis. maybe we will go there in 3. my issue with tnc was we didnt really get enough of america. liike its cool you side with the black panthers and i guess 1960s cspam but i wanted to fight american Nazis and poo poo. i wanted to fight the klan more and maybe free slaves and camps and poo poo. i feel like TNO did a better job showing and not just telling about the nazi rule. TNC is mostly tell and dont really show.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

stillvisions posted:

There was the another factor too; exploring yielded nothing, and I'm not even talking about loot; you'd go to the far corners of the map to find that little building placed there and... ammo and maybe a large version of the monster you killed 20 of along the way. FO3 had some bad plot parts, not gonna argue that, but you could pretty much ignore that and find little stories sprinkled throughout the wasteland. In this I'm pretty sure 99% of the content was connected to a quest in some way; you might just accidentally solve that part of the quest out of order by exploring. Once I kinda wrapped my head around this being a non-exploratory game wrapped in the trappings of one and just straight ran the quests it became less frustrating. Also once I realized character progression was meaningless past a certain point besides banking skill points to make a surprise difficult check at the end.

And yeah, his assessment on some of the "surprises" was dead on, like the retirement plan and also the cannibal house; both of those were telegraphed seconds into them, with the latter having the extra magic of a literal "find the secret" quest with a map point popping up to tell you exactly where to go for the reveal if you hadn't figured it out. The only way those could have maybe been salvaged is going the route of parody with the MC having the option to sarcastically call out the twist as an option, because those are kinda peak Fallout-edgy.

The Outer Worlds had a lot of good ideas, but it just came across as bland. It was a bowl of plain potato chips; it's nobody's favorite, but it will get finished anyway.

yeah. i like the games story and such and i hope a sequel happens some day because i think with more polish and changes, it would work alot better. i know alot of people on the game thread didnt like because it didnt end with socialism forever ending, which i sorta agree with but like noah says my big issue is that its a love letter to NV and in some ways it gets concepts of what made that game good but it doesnt have the depth. quests needed more stuff to them. it needed more of a yes man type path.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
jim sterling hates children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkKuxVRkBqc&hd=1

I do like that he just gets more into the weird-rear end lego idea as the video goes on.

edit: watch some animes during these trying times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21NT-t0r3w&hd=1

Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Mar 15, 2020

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Mr.Radar posted:

The latest reupload on Lindsay's archive channel is about pre-Youtube viral videos. Number 2 features a Something Awful connection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVU7mqSbzpM

I don’t have anything to say about it, but the viral poo poo of the early internet really does have a spirit or a style that becomes increasingly visible as the mid-2000s recede farther into the past. “Inane” does seem like just the right word, where clearly the novelty of watching something on your computer, especially something showing any creativity or polish, was doing a lot of the lifting.

Gnome de plume
Sep 5, 2006

Hell.
Fucking.
Yes.
Noah's churning them out this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZUpLtil8_U

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQQdnve5fQk

This was posted in the Wolfenstein thread in Games, but my god, does it hit me hard.

marathon Stairmaster sesh
Apr 28, 2009

ALL HAIL CEO NUGGET
1988-PRESENT

In which Civvie faces his nemesis Capstone Entertainment once again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=083x4Iy-eRg

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Something that I had a big problem with that I don't see brought up too much is the nuke lust that TNC has. There's a lot of them that go off and you do two of them and the game doesn't treat it as seriously as it should. It was very jarring.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Grapplejack posted:

Something that I had a big problem with that I don't see brought up too much is the nuke lust that TNC has. There's a lot of them that go off and you do two of them and the game doesn't treat it as seriously as it should. It was very jarring.

the one is relatively deep underground is more of a hosed up bunker buster and the other is a "gently caress it, mayber it will work to push us out and the nazis have murdered everyone here anyway. id say it does a better job with nukes than current day fallout does. like i understand your point. but so far only 3 have been used in the series and they have been only used on nazi military targets.

grittyreboot
Oct 2, 2012

It's not like TNC was spouting off some American Exceptionalism propaganda. The game went to great lengths to portray most white Americans as bootlickers who were more than happy with Nazi rule and pretty much immediately re-legalized slavery.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

grittyreboot posted:

It's not like TNC was spouting off some American Exceptionalism propaganda. The game went to great lengths to portray most white Americans as bootlickers who were more than happy with Nazi rule and pretty much immediately re-legalized slavery.

yeah. thats kinda why i dont get the "but the game is oorah" critque. like sure could it have gone farther. yeah but the game basicaly showed a whole ton of white america bent the knee instantly to the nazis either because they were shitfucks oppertunistics like Rip or because they were cowards and such. i kinda wish the game had been longer and we had gotten a secondary villian like richard spencer type. i mean i know thats what Bj's dad is supposed to be. but idk.

The Bee
Nov 25, 2012

Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Dapper_Swindler posted:

yeah. thats kinda why i dont get the "but the game is oorah" critque. like sure could it have gone farther. yeah but the game basicaly showed a whole ton of white america bent the knee instantly to the nazis either because they were shitfucks oppertunistics like Rip or because they were cowards and such. i kinda wish the game had been longer and we had gotten a secondary villian like richard spencer type. i mean i know thats what Bj's dad is supposed to be. but idk.

I've heard the same complaint with Modern Warfare and that's always confused me. Maybe later entries / other CoD games got pretty oorah, can't say I follow them enough to be sure, but wasn't the game about British special forces? Pretty sure the American viewpoint char just dies in a nuke.

Nuns with Guns
Jul 23, 2010

It's fine.
Don't worry about it.
I love how this guy finds more and more reasons to put his large lizard in videos to rub its jowls and I hope it never stops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZTCAcA1A3s

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



The Bee posted:

I've heard the same complaint with Modern Warfare and that's always confused me. Maybe later entries / other CoD games got pretty oorah, can't say I follow them enough to be sure, but wasn't the game about British special forces? Pretty sure the American viewpoint char just dies in a nuke.
After the first game all the British characters join an "international task force" that is wholly controlled by the US military.

Until a bad apple general betrays them and the country he serves, then they have to go rogue to get the work (fighting Russians) done despite theoretically still being backed by the other nations who formed this task force.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




America keeps getting written as a Mary Sue instead of a team player.

Kim Justice
Jan 29, 2007

Let's forget about all this Wolfenstein nonsense and play a much better game instead, Rogue Warrior

rudecyrus
Nov 6, 2009

fuck you trolls

Kim Justice posted:

Let's forget about all this Wolfenstein nonsense and play a much better game instead, Rogue Warrior

chew on this, fuckhead

Kim Justice
Jan 29, 2007

bring the noise, bitch

rudecyrus
Nov 6, 2009

fuck you trolls
god drat cock breath commie motherfuckers

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
Fuckin' ninja style

watho
Aug 2, 2013


The real world will, again tomorrow, function and run without me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVoyGUcXepc

unironic jam

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008
Every time Wolfenstein talk comes up I get reminded of the video essay that got me to buy the New Order. It had an interesting take on how it portrays terrorism in a positive light and how at points you attack civilian targets like the bridge, where you do end up killing innocent people. Really made me think that the game might have more depth to its story than what everyone expected out of a Wolfenstein game.

Shame to see that going down the drain these days.

Also new Jimquisition making me wish he'd just cut out the painfully unfunny stuff with him in front of the camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmPYTOfb30

Archer666 fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Mar 16, 2020

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

I find those unfunny pieces funny in how unfunny they are.

Tarquinn
Jul 3, 2007

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."



Hell Gem
I just find them funny.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Well that's what I mean, it's deliberate anti-humour.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Archer666 posted:

Every time Wolfenstein talk comes up I get reminded of the video essay that got me to buy the New Order.

Archer666 posted:

It had an interesting take on how it portrays terrorism in a positive light and how at points you attack civilian targets like the bridge, where you do end up killing innocent people.

I'm really hoping I'm misunderstanding this: the essay and/or game portrays terrorism in a positive light, and that's what got you to buy the game?

Can you link to this video?

Only thing I know about Wolfenstein is that the player-character is jewish, and I don't think there are many Jewish game characters? So that's neat representation.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
He is Jewish but he doesn't really allude to it much beyond his matrilineal heritage in New Colossus. BJ is defined more by fighting for the underdogs than by any one faith.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Set was the best character in the games and Youngblood massively suffers from him not being around IMO.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Nuns with Guns posted:

I love how this guy finds more and more reasons to put his large lizard in videos to rub its jowls and I hope it never stops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZTCAcA1A3s

tegus are cool and i want to get one someday.



Solar Tornado posted:


Only thing I know about Wolfenstein is that the player-character is jewish, and I don't think there are many Jewish game characters? So that's neat representation.

old blood, tno and TNC are solid games and they are all pretty cheap consistently.

Katt
Nov 14, 2017

I like zei squirrel but she's been self-destructing on twitter non-stop since Corbyn lost the election.

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008

Solar Tornado posted:

I'm really hoping I'm misunderstanding this: the essay and/or game portrays terrorism in a positive light, and that's what got you to buy the game?

Can you link to this video?

Only thing I know about Wolfenstein is that the player-character is jewish, and I don't think there are many Jewish game characters? So that's neat representation.

I meant that what got me to buy the game was that the essay showed that the game story was a lot deeper than what I expected out of Wolfenstein. Most of what I heard of it at the time was "You shoot nazis with big guns its fun", so I was expecting the game to a decent FPS with a silly plot that didn't really take itself too seriously. With BJ being a Rambo character who killed a million Nazis and didn't give a gently caress. So when the essay went "At one mission you perform what amounts to a terror attack on a bridge that both civilians and military use, killing innocents and Nazi soldiers alike. BJ stares in terror for a second before he's pushed to get on the ruin of the bridge to get a mcguffin and continue the story.", that caught my curiosity as it seemed to be deeper than what I expected out of the game.

It was several years ago since I saw it and I've had zero luck finding it again over the years. Afraid its one of those things lost to time.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Archer666 posted:

I meant that what got me to buy the game was that the essay showed that the game story was a lot deeper than what I expected out of Wolfenstein. Most of what I heard of it at the time was "You shoot nazis with big guns its fun", so I was expecting the game to a decent FPS with a silly plot that didn't really take itself too seriously. With BJ being a Rambo character who killed a million Nazis and didn't give a gently caress. So when the essay went "At one mission you perform what amounts to a terror attack on a bridge that both civilians and military use, killing innocents and Nazi soldiers alike. BJ stares in terror for a second before he's pushed to get on the ruin of the bridge to get a mcguffin and continue the story.", that caught my curiosity as it seemed to be deeper than what I expected out of the game.

It was several years ago since I saw it and I've had zero luck finding it again over the years. Afraid its one of those things lost to time.

Ah, an "end justifying the means?" Moment. Reading your post, I thought you said "terrorism is good, actually."

Arcsquad12 posted:

He is Jewish but he doesn't really allude to it much beyond his matrilineal heritage in New Colossus. BJ is defined more by fighting for the underdogs than by any one faith.

I meant it more that it's an undeniable aspect of his. Like, the only other Jewish characters that comes to my mind are from BioShock, and they're only side-characters.

I'm secular myself. I don't need them to grow their wigs and pray every Friday to be convinced of their Judaism. Just a hint is good enough for me, honestly.

The video-essay that I saw about Wolfenstein (which was probably posted a while back) is this one, called Judaism and Whiteness in Wolfenstein

https://youtu.be/DQQdnve5fQk

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Archer666 posted:

I meant that what got me to buy the game was that the essay showed that the game story was a lot deeper than what I expected out of Wolfenstein. Most of what I heard of it at the time was "You shoot nazis with big guns its fun", so I was expecting the game to a decent FPS with a silly plot that didn't really take itself too seriously. With BJ being a Rambo character who killed a million Nazis and didn't give a gently caress. So when the essay went "At one mission you perform what amounts to a terror attack on a bridge that both civilians and military use, killing innocents and Nazi soldiers alike. BJ stares in terror for a second before he's pushed to get on the ruin of the bridge to get a mcguffin and continue the story.", that caught my curiosity as it seemed to be deeper than what I expected out of the game.

It was several years ago since I saw it and I've had zero luck finding it again over the years. Afraid its one of those things lost to time.

i kinda of expected the game would be kinda deep. machine games is made of the core folks at star breeze studios who have made mostly good story based games. there best one is the darkness which takes a edgy 90s comic and makes it really depressing and sad. its good poo poo.

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Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Solar Tornado posted:

Ah, an "end justifying the means?" Moment. Reading your post, I thought you said "terrorism is good, actually."


I meant it more that it's an undeniable aspect of his. Like, the only other Jewish characters that comes to my mind are from BioShock, and they're only side-characters.

I'm secular myself. I don't need them to grow their wigs and pray every Friday to be convinced of their Judaism. Just a hint is good enough for me, honestly.

The video-essay that I saw about Wolfenstein (which was probably posted a while back) is this one, called Judaism and Whiteness in Wolfenstein

https://youtu.be/DQQdnve5fQk

apperently most of the characters in bioshock are supposed to be jewish according to leviene in some article. which doesnt really change much.

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