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I'm a crappy FPS player but I'm down to blast some Nazis. I'm also a noob at PC gaming.

Looks like I can get a key for the whole Alt History Collection for under 20 bucks from some vaguely shady websites.

Or I can try the piratey seas but I've been traumatized from college years of torrent viruses bricking my netbooks (DLing WWE shows, TV series, and porn) and I don't have the know-how of pirating in 2026.

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[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

The Old Blood is meh; it’s like meme Halloween DLC.

I was really looking forward to The Old Blood after playing TNO to see some classic Wolfenstein tropes served a lá New Wolf but yes, it ended up being just kind of an okay DLC and the supernatural elements felt really undercooked. sicko-wistful

The New Colossus is oddly different tonally from the first game in a way that is hard to describe, but just not as compelling for some reason.

I think that the election of Donald Trump and the rise of the alt-right between the two games really affected the sequel's writing. After the Nazi villains were shown in a sinister, creepy light in TNO the devs made sure to make them as stupid and pathetic as possible in the sequel. To really drive the point home, they wheel out

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a decrepit, demented Hitler to piss, shit and vomit all over himself as he shoots Ronald Reagan in the face

The subplot with BJ's retconned racist, anti-semitic southern white trash dad also feels like another take that against American right wingers

A large part of what made the first game so compelling was the serious, solemn way in which they depicted the horror and despair of a post-Nazi victory Europe and what made exploding them into gibs by the dozens feel so good. Turning the whole thing into some slapstick grindhouse flick just sucked all the gravitas out