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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Strawberry Milkshake Gameplay
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Soul of the Beast
Member
Absolutely hyped, I LOVE how the main character doesn't talk, it really adds to the immersion and make him a lot more relatable.
Yeah, it's so stupid, why not just some gulping sounds?
Yeah, it's so stupid, why not just some gulping sounds?
Because it's supposed to annoy you. And BJ does talk, he just doesn't talk to nazis.
Oh and he is of Polish decent and I'm pretty sure his design was ironic on purpose since wolf 3d.
Even idtech 6? 5 had its share of issues, but DOOM ran really well for me and what I played of this seemed like a similar bump up. It looks and runs much better than the first game.
Zap Rowsdower
Banned
His mom was a Polish Jew. So yeah, he's Jewish.
Pretty sure it's idtech6 so the PC version will be the best one. I wouldn't worry about issues if DOOM is anything to go by.
archangelmorph
Member
If you're talking about just this game, I think he's supposed to resemble his Wolf 3D appearance. I look at his face and I see it. The chin, blue eyes, blonde hair. That or I assume they did it so he can easily blend in with the world around him and not be questioned about his ethnicity.
Hasn't BJ been a spy since the very first Wolfenstein 3D game?
That being the case, would make his appearance make sense as you say.
Raptomex
Member
And there you have it.
I guess so. Though, for a spy, he's not always great at secretly collecting information. A lot of firefights. Unless we're talking about what he did to get into the Castle before the events of the game.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
I can't wait!
yeah even doom... black screen at launch since i installed a 1080 ti. did tons of troubleshooting and every other game works fine
maybe it's just some anamoly but like i said i have the worst luck with idtech games. had to do some workaround with gpu-z to get wolfenstein running, and that was after weeks of trying random stuff
GinoFelino
Member
Wolfenstein New Order didn't have enough balls-out shooting sections and I doubt this will be much different, though I hope it is.
This barely interactive 5-minute cutscene isn't exactly taking away those concerns.
This barely interactive 5-minute cutscene isn't exactly taking away those concerns.
Messofanego
Banned
Well yeah, the developers make narrative-heavy games. If you're looking for Doom, you'll be disappointed.
Frostman
Member
Raptomex
Member
I wouldn't be against an arcade mode in the style of Doom or something similar. Although, if they implement a mode like that, I want the option to skip cut scenes and any sequences that don't involve combat. The challenge mode or whatever it was called in TOB was cool, I just wish they didn't reuse campaign areas.
GinoFelino
Member
Looking for Doom? I'm looking for Wolfenstein
They're good games though, not knocking them. I just wish more of it was about shooting Nazis in the face.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
I'd like it if one way to skip that scene would be to just shoot the Milkshake Nazi while he's still drinking.
wild wild rice
Member
This is exactly how I feel and, yet...
...this is what I've resigned myself to.
Of course it's going to follow a similar design to the first which means about 40% shooting/exploring/navigating, 40% scripted/narrative sections, 20% cut scenes. I'll buy it after a price drop for the pure gameplay segments because they were fucking killer in TNO, but I just really am not interested in video game stories at this point in time.
Should run on the same engine as DOOM, which was a huge improvement over the engine used in Rage/TNO
plutoknight
Member
As someone who just finished TNO and was blown away by the quality of...well...everything there, I'm over the moon hyped for.this one.
Hate that it is same day as Mario.
Hate that it is same day as Mario.
Script of the Bridge
Banned
All idtech5 games were best on PC too.
Snkfanatic
Banned
I need this game now. One of the reasons I will finally be upgrading my PC this year.
Yappadappadu
Member
Reminds me of the train scene in the first one.
Great stuff.
Great stuff.
I've always been curious about this scene since its reveal in the debut trailer. It reminded me of the hot dog scene from The Old Blood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU6tQY3eMLM
The reaction of the Kommandant when he recognizes Blasko. Wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU6tQY3eMLM
The reaction of the Kommandant when he recognizes Blasko. Wow!
You'reG-dDamnedRight.gif
These games are like a playable version of Munich to me. So cathartic.
Ragnar Blackmane
Member
The voice actor is definitely a native speaker or extremely close to native speaker proficiency in the bits where he speaks German (or High German to be more accurate), so his accent when he speaks English is definitely much more representive of how many Germans sound when speaking English compared to the overacted "SCHWEINHUNDEN", 'zank you zery much" or "Ve hav seen ze futAR!" we usually get from the vast majority of "German" voiceacting in games. It goes without saying that those sort of performances are a dead giveaway for an actual German speaker that it's actually non-native speakers (usually American VA's) going for the usual clichee Hollywood-German (a good example being e.g. Vahlen from Xcom Enemy Unknown).
Also consider that German 'accents" vary wildly, many people have zero issues speaking e.g. proper British/American English while others sound more stereotypical and do e.g. spell 'th' as 's'. People from the U.S. often seem to think that I'm British even though I've been born and living in Krautland for most of my life. T
Wolfenstein:TNO already had excellent German voice acting in the English dub and it's quite exceptional that they hired a diverse cast of actual Germans to voice the lines compared to the rest of the industry, including stand-outs such as actors with Austrian dialects. I doubt things changed for the sequel.
'Tl;dr': The new Wolfenstein games have more authentic "Germans speaking English" than 95% of other videogames featuring 'Germans'. Playing through the original version of the games is a great experience for German native speakers IMO.
The milkshake making an almost empty bubbling sound as soon as nazi guy starts drinking it bothers me to no end. I think I remember MGS4 having a similar issue with full or nearly full cans of soda making ridiculous sloshing sounds.
Edit: I didn't realize this had been mentioned already, lol. My good fellow!
Edit: I didn't realize this had been mentioned already, lol. My good fellow!
Kamina
Golden Boy
It is High German, the written and formal form of german. If this is different to what you might have heard somehwere else, it was likely dialect.
Messofanego
Banned
The challenge map mode in TOB was fun, so I'd love just more of that. I don't mind replaying the campaign areas, but it'd be rad to have new arenas.
Hispanic! At the Disco
Member
They showed this at E3 but cut it off when he asked for papers.
Huh, you mean his English lines? People in (especially long-term) language contact situations adjust their accent faster than you'd think
We're in America this time around. I don't think he was German originally.
save for Schwarzenegger, I'm Austrian too I can't fathom how is accent is still that heavy. Maybe it's on purpose.
BossDarkseid
Member
Lucie Pohl (Mercy's VA from OW) talked about how when she auditioned she went from the really exagerrated German voice (she's a German-American Jew) but settled on the more subtle and realistic stuff. It might sound weird to sound people but I guess we get used to one stereotype of a sort
misses bull
Banned
wouldn't the nazis immediately recognize bj if they have wanted posters of him everywhere?
Pilgrimzero
Member
Then who is BJ and the allies fighting in the WW2 scenes in the previous game?
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
The focus on Tarantino wannabe cut scenes is grating me, show me more fine ways of killing Nazi's.
Hope they have auto ammo pickup this time, it makes replaying the previous 2 grating.
Hope they have auto ammo pickup this time, it makes replaying the previous 2 grating.
Messofanego
Banned
He's probably in disguise and only until the Nazi came closer to see his face did he recognise it. It's funny because at that point BJ's face is on the TV, too.