Wolfenstein: The New Colossus

gimli2112

pretty sure I ordered from them, not sent yet. Friday is a terrible day for release. I'm not too pushed but it would have been nice to have it for this weekend

bigphil2

gimli2112 wrote: »

Friday is a terrible day for release.

Thats the only thing thats annoyed me about this game,Friday release date..

Grahamer666

Ordered on CDKeys. Really looking forward to my first Wolfenstein PC experience.

Why is Friday a terrible release day?
That Friday feeling??
No Work Saturday???

bigphil2

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Why is Friday a terrible release day?
That Friday feeling??
No Work Saturday???

I away for Sat/Sunday so have to wait till Monday to get stuck in

gimli2112

Disc purchased online, will probably get it next week. I could have got it digitally but didn't want to pay an extra 55% or could have got it in a bricks and mortar shop but I'm too lazy.
Easier solution would have been just to release it on a Tuesday like any other game

Billy86

Not sure it makes much difference which day they release it to be honest, I mean it they had released it this coming Tuesday you wouldn't have it until next week anyway.

dudeeile

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Why is Friday a terrible release day?
That Friday feeling??
No Work Saturday???

Billy86 wrote: »

Not sure it makes much difference which day they release it to be honest, I mean it they had released it this coming Tuesday you wouldn't have it until next week anyway.

EoinMcLovin

My copy from thegamecollection was just dispatched so should have it by Friday

dudeeile

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

My copy from thegamecollection was just dispatched so should have it by Friday

I've never used those guys but that seems like a really impressive service.

gimli2112

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

My copy from thegamecollection was just dispatched so should have it by Friday

Me too. I wouldn't bet the house I'll get it Friday but there's a chance

EoinMcLovin

gimli2112 wrote: »

Me too. I wouldn't bet the house I'll get it Friday but there's a chance

Well I'm using parcel wizard and have usually used parcel motel. It usually takes 2 days to deliver. It should reach Belfast by tomorrow and then delivered to me on Friday

First review is in, and it's gooood

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/reviews/wolfenstein-2-review-wolfenstein-2-the-new-colossus-review-ps4-1766796

9/10

This is just glorious marketing

https://twitter.com/wolfenstein/status/923275423617830918

Headshot

PC gamers, is this up for preload yet?

gimli2112

Wolfenstein marketing now being debated on the Donald Trump thread

bigphil2

gimli2112 wrote: »

Wolfenstein marketing now being debated on the Donald Trump thread

There are many fine people over on that thread.

..Jesus wept..

Billy86

bigphil2 wrote: »

There are many fine people over on that thread.

..Jesus wept..

Veering a good bit off topic here, but the guy who said it was in poor taste is far, far from 'one of them' and very actively dislikes Trump and the growing neo Nazi movement in the US. But things hit a point where you have to call a spade a spade, and there really are few pieces of media better positioned to do so than Wolfenstein (esp as it's a game about shooting Nazis that has been around since long before Trump or the alt-right, the reboot included). It's also not directly talking about Charlottesville but the overall problem, and Bethesda's offices are in Rockville, Maryland which is less than three hours from Charlottesville (almost a stones throw in US terms).

I'm not saying Trump is Hitler but he's happy to enable big, big fans of Hitler and Nazism (which the 'alt right' is just a rebranding of) in his base which is why I figured the comparison to Charlie Chaplin lampooning Hitler in The Great Dictator was fairly accurate (that movie is from 1940 - long before Hitler fell and incredibly ballsy... also randomly saw it on Sky a few years ago with a hangover, and it's surprisingly still quite funny if you like physical humour).

Anyway, back to shooting Nazis. Lots and lots of Nazis!

bigphil2

I wasnt talking about the guy giving out about Wolfenstein,i dont agree with him mind.

i had a quick read through the thread..

Billy86

Oh... right... yep. For real 'entertainment' check out the alt right thread, though a lot of it I think has been cleaned up.

Billy86

Billy86 wrote: »

Oh... right... yep. For real 'entertainment' check out the alt right thread, though a lot of it I think has been cleaned up.

Send me a link to both threads!

bigphil2

Billy86 wrote: »

Oh... right... yep. For real 'entertainment' check out the alt right thread, though a lot of it I think has been cleaned up.

i think ill wait till ive a couple of glasses of wine in me friday evening

Will probably just lash the Wolfenstein 2 trailer on there though..

Anyone know when the Embargo is lifted for the rest of the reviews?

Sephiroth_dude

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Anyone know when the Embargo is lifted for the rest of the reviews?

Tomorrow I think.

Spudman_20000

Aren't review embargos until launch day usually a red flag? Mind you, all the previews are very positive.

EoinMcLovin

Spudman_20000 wrote: »

Aren't review embargos until launch day usually a red flag? Mind you, all the previews are very positive.

There are reviews out already. Reviewers were given copies early
Polygon -9/10
GamesBeat -90/100
US Gamer -4.5/5

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/wolfenstein-ii-the-new-colossus

Saruhashi

gimli2112 wrote: »

Wolfenstein marketing now being debated on the Donald Trump thread

It's actually brilliant marketing.

I'm skeptical that many people are actually really offended by this but I think it's pretty hilarious if they are. You kill monsters in Doom and you kill Nazis in Wolfenstein. Same thing.

Most of the people who are into FPS games like this are going to buy it anyway. I enjoyed The New Order and Doom 2016 so I am definitely getting this.

The biggest, non-gamer, criticism of Doom was always that it's too violent with some fringe elements babbling about "toxic masculinity" or some garbage.

Flip it from "it's a game about killing demons" to "it's a game about killing Nazis" and every pacifistic, anti-gun, Twitter user in the world suddenly can't wait to jump into a male power fantasy where they get to rampage as a gun-toting maniac.

They've managed to take folks who were "disgusted" by people cheering extreme violence when the Doom 2016 trailer was revealed and turned them into cheerleaders for a bit of the old ultra-violence with the rest of us.

Saruhashi

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

There are reviews out already. Reviewers were given copies early
Polygon -9/10
GamesBeat -90/100
US Gamer -4.5/5

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/wolfenstein-ii-the-new-colossus

Flipping between this and Mario Odyssey is going to make for an extremely weird weekend.

Mario using his MAGA cap to Make The Mushroom Kingdom Great Again before BJ Blazkowicz shows up to kill everyone.

Mario + Rabbids style crossover in the future maybe?

EoinMcLovin

Day one patch on PS4 is 5.417GB

Grahamer666

:cool:

Headshot wrote: »

PC gamers, is this up for preload yet?

Preloading on Steam now.

GameSpot give it 9/10

Retr0gamer

**** Naughty Dog, the dialogue in this game is way better. Really snappy script and well acted. Also you are doing yourself a disservice not going for the Fergus timeline It's just got that perfect balance between silly and serious that the first game had except maybe more so.

Retr0gamer

Retr0gamer wrote: »

**** Naughty Dog, the dialogue in this game is way better. Really snappy script and well acted. Also you are doing yourself a disservice not going for the Fergus timeline It's just got that perfect balance between silly and serious that the first game had except maybe more so.

I can't remember what I chose in the first game. I also can't remember what I chose here. Think it was the guy on the right.

Anyway I'm only about 1-2 hours in but this is fantastic.

Also yes the voice acting, script and subtle digs at modern America is extremely enjoyable.

Dat gunplay doh, such a joy killing Nazis

Also, I'm playing on hard, this game will test you

Retr0gamer

If it's a loud Scottish guy you made the right choice.

Only thing I miss from the first game is the environmental destruction which seems to be gone.

Retr0gamer

Retr0gamer wrote: »

If it's a loud Scottish guy you made the right choice.

Only thing I miss from the first game is the environmental destruction which seems to be gone.

As in explosions?

Retr0gamer

No. In the first game you could tear chunks out of the masonry. It's missing in the new engine.

F1ngers

Mein Leben difficulty should be fun, zero deaths and zero saves/checkpoints. :pac:

Same difficulty as death incarnate.

Skatedude

Unfortunatly, does not work on ultra wide screen yet I'll have to give some time, but for some reason more and more games dont work in UWS where almost everything used to just a few short years ago?

Headshot

Skatedude wrote: »

Unfortunatly, does not work on ultra wide screen yet I'll have to give some time, but for some reason more and more games dont work in UWS where almost everything used to just a few short years ago?

it works on 21:9 but there's a trick to get going because the game still has bugs and needs to be patched

Use default 1080p res and change settings to low, save and restart game. Once game is restarted, change aspect to any and 3440x1440 will appear, select that and restart game

Retr0gamer

Worked for me in 21 9 out of the box?

Headshot

I suppose it all depends on GPU and OS your using as well but there's been a big steam thread about the issues with res

Nearly shed a tear for poor Bessie

@Retro

@Retro

Destructible environments happen alright

Skatedude

Headshot wrote: »

it works on 21:9 but there's a trick to get going because the game still has bugs and needs to be patched

Use default 1080p res and change settings to low, save and restart game. Once game is restarted, change aspect to any and 3440x1440 will appear, select that and restart game

I can get it work on 5860x1080, but just too badly stretched across the screens, Flawless widescreen fixer worked fin for wolfenstein the new order, hopefully he will bring out a fix for this.

farmerwifelet

Im loving it!! Not very far in yet,damn the kiddies midterm. Really like the hatchet!!!

Spear

There's something about the combat that's becoming quite frustrating. There's pretty much no visual or audio feedback if you're taking damage, and the health counter is a bit small, so there's been more than a few times where I've seemingly just fallen dead out of the blue, since I was being hammered down by an unnoticed enemy. And the office/re-inforcements mechanism exacerbates this.

Spear

Spear wrote: »

There's something about the combat that's becoming quite frustrating. There's pretty much no visual or audio feedback if you're taking damage, and the health counter is a bit small, so there's been more than a few times where I've seemingly just fallen dead out of the blue, since I was being hammered down by an unnoticed enemy. And the office/re-inforcements mechanism exacerbates this.

There is definite audio feedback, you can even hear Terror Billy (haha) breathing heavy even when firing his weapons.
Are you playing with headset?
Also, what difficulty level?

Spear

M!Ck^ wrote: »

There is definite audio feedback, you can even hear Terror Billy (haha) breathing heavy even when firing his weapons.
Are you playing with headset?
Also, what difficulty level?

Headset, on whatever the middle difficulty was. The breathing seems to be swamped by the rest of the audio. I may have a look in the sounds settings then, it may have defaulted a speaker arrangement or the like.

Spear

Spear wrote: »

Headset, on whatever the middle difficulty was. The breathing seems to be swamped by the rest of the audio. I may have a look in the sounds settings then, it may have defaulted a speaker arrangement or the like.

I found the music way to loud by default.
Also the voice is set too low by default.
Turning down music and turning up voice will help.

Spear

M!Ck^ wrote: »

I found the music way to loud by default.
Also the voice is set too low by default.
Turning down music and turning up voice will help.

That could account for it. I've found the music a bit overpowering in a few places.