YuccaMan [he/him]

On my last replay of the Machine!Wolfenstein series, it dawned on me that I don’t really like TNC that much, at least not compared to TNO and TOB, which are both utterly fantastic. And I think you just summed up why, apart from (and I know this is probably a git gud moment that I’m setting myself up for) the borderline-unbalanced, controller-throwing difficulty.

Also, minor gripe, but having studied them recently for a course I’m taking, I dislike in hindsight the way the KKK is portrayed in the game. I know the devs are just playing to the popular perception of the Klan as a bunch of ignorant hicks, but in actuality the Klan tended to be populated by small business assholes and middle class joiner-types, people who would’ve been seen as pillars of the community. I know this wasn’t the intention, but portraying them as baying rubes seems like an attempt to downplay how pervasive white supremacist beliefs were even among “respectable” cirlces.

It does a better job capturing the whole ‘lonely wanderer in a hostile post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland’ vibe in my opinion, but yeah, there are some core gameplay similarities to Fallout 4

I’ve been playing it a fair bit the last two days. Prior to learning in this thread that there were Nazis among the voice cast (which truthfully I’d suspected would be the case before the game came out) my only issues were that the controls could be smoother and the frame rate is pretty choppy. I haven’t run into any serious bugs yet, but I’m still pretty early in the game.

As for it being boring, I think that’s going to be subjective. It plays like I expected it to so far: a somewhat polished version of OG STALKER (or, like the better Fallout 4 that never was, minus the retrofuturism aesthetic.) I like them both for the same reasons. If you liked the original, I can’t see why you wouldn’t like this one as well (though of course, I’m a masochist who played it vanilla, a modded experience could be far superior for all I know.) But I’m far from the most avid player of the original games, so my word is only worth so much.

Edit: I should note that I’ve been playing the game on Xbox gamepass via my girlfriend’s Xbox account; I might have a less favorable opinion if I’d actually payed for it lol

Further edit: Spoke too soon. I did encounter a bug when switching weapons that locked the camera and trapped me in the weapon select menu, and I had to restart. Also, the combat is very unbalanced. Bloodsuckers in particular have been a major problem, even in the early stages of the game. They’re everywhere, and they’re incredibly bullet spongey. Scripted encounters with them also tend to be incredibly unfair. In one early story quest, you encounter one in a very tight cave, at a time in the game when you likely haven’t progressed very far and don’t have very powerful weapons. It wrecked my shit like 10 times before I decided to just juke it and hope it didn’t follow me further into the cave.

Sorry I didn’t see this earlier, but that is so rad. If I had the time to actually learn how to play tabletop DnD, I would totally do something like that lol

Thank you for doing that, and for the information. I’m a complete dipshit when it comes to web security.

Tracking links?

What’d I do wrong

The Manaan Ahto City ambient music and the track from the Kashyyyk upper canopy especially

Removed by mod

Spec Ops: The Line, beyond being a pretty good game with a lot to say about the average gamer’s enjoyment of military shooter power fantasies, also introduced me to my favorite band, the Black Angels, and I’ll be forever grateful to it for that.

That screenshot is from IMFDB I’m guessing? I’m not saying this isn’t also a gamer thing, but those guys are a special kind of anal retentive.

I don’t want to mislead you here, out of all the machinegames entries into the series, Youngblood is the one I’ve spent the absolute least time with. But I found many of the narrative decisions off-putting (again, Grace being made a cop, what the fuck), the dialogue wasn’t great, the gameplay was repetitive, etcetera. With all that being said, it’s been years since I’ve played it, and I’m going purely off of what I’m sure are questionably reliable memories. Since you’ve got somebody to play it with (which is good, because while you can play it solo, I definitely felt like I was missing the point by doing so) by all means, give it a shot. Maybe you’ll come back and tell me that I was being unkind or harsher with hindsight than perhaps was warranted. I’d be happy to be wrong in this case.

I’m okay with relegating the entire game to alternate continuity status. I liked the twins, but that was about the only thing I liked about Youngblood.

Grace’s one and only problem is that she became a cop after the revolution

Aren’t they canonically the same dude?

Much appreciated. I could do with more specificity the next time I have to make this argument lol

My BOY how is that not better than sleeping on a piece of cardboard on the sidewalk??

Anyhow, what, is every single home in China a flimsy shack? Can you dredge up one single solitary study on what percentage of homes in China are of substandard construction? Can you do any goddamned thing but regurgitate half-remembered unsubstantiated talking points from youtube from lord knows how long ago?

If you can, have it. Give us a source and we’ll have a talk about it. Otherwise, shut the FUCK up

Literally no such thing. The Holodomor is a fiction created by Nazi propagandists to paint the failures of Soviet agricultural policy in dealing with a famine as a deliberate attempt to exterminate Ukranians.

Important to note, this was merely the latest in a long series of famines which had historically plagued this part of eastern Europe. It was also the last.

Hell, I dunno. This sort of thing got through to me eventually, maybe I’m hoping I can change minds myself.

That’s not what he meant and you know it. He’s making light of an obvious double standard regarding the standing in which we hold two sources with obvious national biases.