The Rise and Fall Of The Wolfenstein Reboot 

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The fact that we got Young Blood instead of Wolfenstein 3 where I kill Mecha Hitler is the worst possible timeline.

Some youtubers just stretching to that 8 minute mark 😮‍💨

Make BJ survive being beheaded, then make Wolfenstein game where he isn't the mc.

The big robot in Wolfenstein 1's opening is able to be killed, but you can't stop shooting the anti air cannon or it'll manage to get a shot off.

2 hours? Damn, let me bring my popcorn

For some reason, when a video is longer than 1h I’m much more inclined to click on it. I just love having something to listen to while doing something else (like cooking or going for a walk)

I dislike youtube for demonetizing people for using historical phrases it just strikes me as stupid.

Can we all agree to pretend that young blood never came out and doesn't exist

All I can say after watching this video is well the toilet works

The rise and fall of __ What happened to __ The strange case of __ The problem with __ Forgot how much we just love to bank off of failures

I distinctly remember my favourite moment from Wolfenstein 2 TNC Its not the Courtroom battle. Its not the ending. Its none of the flashbacks or overly long cutscenes Its when Super Spesh gets domed by Frau Engel. I kid you not, I was so annoyed by that Marvel Capeshit tier character that the moment he got a rapid cranial surgery by the Head Nasty, I celebrated out loud and yelled "FINALLY!" Don't think that's the reaction the Devs wanted. But its what they got

wolfenstein reboot can be summed up in three words, Reddit's wet dream

the fact your wolfenstein vids had me play the old blood 4 times in one day says lot

The guy with the eye patch and broken feet in Deathshead's Compound (1946) is Prendergast. Prendergast was the one who triggered the "You ain't got no churches in England?" exchange with "Blondie," the snarky British Paratrooper. He did survive getting launched out of the incinerator room window at the end of the chapter, in addition to the fall into the Baltic Sea by fortune of being nearest to Fergus/Wyatt. His room can be found in the Berlin Safehouse, adorned with Christian paraphernalia. Fergus/Wyatt will make a comment about how they made mistakes in Blazkowicz absence, and sent him off on a mission where he never returned.

8:00 actually this is incorrect. Wolfenstein: TNO has a ‘combat stealth’ mechanic, where enemies have to really on sound or visuals in order to detect you. If you use your suppressed pistol during loud sections, enemies will have a much harder time tracking your location.

The answer for why you didn't originally notice with Youngblood is simple, you were playing with a friend, even the worst of games are fun with a friend and you can shoot the shit about bad/stupid things Honestly i think these games are a good example of the decline in quality for many game studios in general over the years

I think what made wolf 2 go down into the pooper was the fact it was legit just marvel tier writing. and also the writers fetish disguised as a naked pregnant women covered in blood shooting. and the lack luster ending boss fight.

Hmm… let’s take this extremely somber and emotional game and make it a quirky action-comedy with a cast of zany characters. Everyone knows that Wolfenstein is famous for its humor

I love Frau Engel as a character, she's such a vile, unhinged and scary antagonist. Absolutely pure evil, and she's believable in the setting even though she's practically a cartoon.

The count to four inhale exhale thing is an actual trick I was thought in therapy

For some reason that first set of jokes made me imagine a nightmare scenario where your life support is hooked up to a game of tetris and if you lose you die.

Wolfenstein 2 made me want the Nazis to actually kill all the characters except BJ, Fergus and Anya

For the game's defense at 2:00:56 , the enigma machine was one of the most powerful encryption device of this time, and yet the nasties were dumb enough to put "heil h*tler" in each of their messages, and its part of what helped Alan Turing to decypher it !

Aaand... Every one forgot about Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein Enemy Territory :(

Genuinely thank you for showing people wolfenstein, honestly think wolfenstein new order is the pinnacle of fps games and it is a shame how over looked it is!

I love Wolfenstein cause you can play as a Jewish man who teams up with Jimi Hendrix to fight Nazis. Perfection.

Also fun fact: BJ and DeathsHead/TotenKompf/Wilhelm Strauss faced one another before in Return to Castle wolfenstein, BJ in the beginning of Old blood after taking down one of the super soldaten he mentions encountering them in DeathsHead’s X labs which is the labs you encounter the very first super soldaten.

It pains me to see how hard the wolfenstien reboot series fell off. I just don't understand how it happened so fast.

I never actually finished New Order. It was sold on me as old school shooter in new tech, but what I got instead was game that possibly wanted to replicate what old shooters were like, but was not allowed to leave their AAA baggage behind: slow movements, lots of cutscenes, walking expositions, "Press E to keep playing", pointless "stealth" sections. Old Blood improved gameplay-to-bullshit ratio significantly, though it was still there. Sure, zombie level was a slog, stealth level was insulting, but more often then not it would let me actually enjoy the game with no interruptions. And I loved first villain/boss when he comes at you in power armor screaming bloody murder because you killed his dog.

The problem I have with New Colossus is while Wolfenstein has always been over the top; something I love about it. New Colossus takes it way way too far. To the point where using drones to recover and reattach our main characters severed head so he can fly to Venus! it makes the realistic threat of the Nazi's feel overly clownish.

Damn bro, quality content right there. Good job

New Order was genuinely surprisingly good to me. I picked it up expecting a generic shooter, but got the opposite. But then I mistakingly played New Colossus... And I understood just how hard making good games is. And how you need someone with a big picture view of the project or you get... The Mess Colossus. Too many long cutscenes, nonsense upon nonsense, awful humour and annoying characters and then the gameplay... The level designers must've been asleep.

You know, out of everything The New Order shocked me with? No it wasn't the unapologetic visuals of Gore, the enemy faction, not the dark themes or even the twist at the end. No. What caught me by surprise was the sus scene. I wasn't expecting a sussy scene in the game lol.

Shoutout to 2hr long video game essays Gotta be one of my favorite genders fr

This is the most interesting 2 hour compilation I’ve ever watched, I’ve never sat through a video like this in one sitting👍

Been watching this the past 2 days @ work and I appreciate the quality

great work man, thx for the hard work

Man I remember I got this on 360 from a pawn shop. Came on like 4 discs. Beat it, loved it. Then I saw that foundry teaser for DOOM 2016 and immediately realized that they made it all of the run and gun sections of Wolf. It got me so hyped and made me so obsessed with DOOM 2016 that I not only played Wolf on repeat to practice but also led to me being one of the first people to beat 2016 UN on Xbox.

great video/style/voice. keep it up, u gonna be big some day :)

1:22 The Ratchet & Clank Orxon music triggered multiple of my neural synapses, as well as my fight or flight. Thank you.

Great compilation of a fun series! I think Machinegames unfortunately learned the absolutely wrong lesson from The new Order. The new colossus doubled down on the funny bits too much while also being afraid to show any actual hard hitting atrocities like the first game. I was honestly shocked that the same team made this game.

Talk about timing. Just as I refreshed RU-vid this banger pops up

The Rise and Fall of The Wolfenstein Reboot: The Movie Written, directed by and starring Proxidist

The only reason I ended up playing the new Doom game is because I played Wolfenstein New Order got me back into FPS games after modern warfare burnout

“That was at launch back in 2017. I was a dumbass sixteen year old at the time, now I’m 22…” You didn’t need to make me feel old like that homie, I completely forgot how long ago The New Colossus came out.

51:47 it's that high brow German humor. This was simply BJ earning the Nasty's trust by making a hilarious German joke.

The new order and the old blood are my two favourite fps games of at least the 2010s. I really hope machinegames learns from their mistakes and give us wolfenstein 3. Maybe something where bj kills "evil mustache man" like they say he did in youngblood, and explaining where are Wyatt or Fergus (probably dead)

Although not intentional this long form video really highlights the creeping introduction of DEI into the series, does make you wonder if the same happened to the dev team leading to quality drop off.

I remember playing the new order on the 360. It was a great game but I remember even on that console.The graphics were so good it actually made me feel dizzy or discombobulated at first. still to this day one my favorite games to go and replay

Nicely done

Wyatt always Wyatt never Fergus.

Happy birthday !!!!!

Good shit. Subscribed

i like to think the zombies part is just a huge reference to the one Wolfenstein game with the zombies and is basically impossible to play or get at this point

Red Faction was before Halo. Why do they say Halo did it first? I was there.

I subbed just for that controller aiming jab in the Old Blood section.

Man I loved Wolf 3-d. I played that shareware episode like 600 times. Came on a 1.44 mb disc.

Im the german soldier when my friends try to speak german

this video is a masterpeice!

I love every one of these types of videos doesn’t cover the wyatt timeline

Great sleep options and i gotta rewatch this tomorrow

He survives a point blank grenade, falling from hundreds of feet in the air, and being fucking decapitated!? How!?

Cyberpunk does the 'getting stronger' perfectly. You start of struggeling against random goons on the street to slaugtering maxtac (which is like the SWAT team if they did crack, had the full americans military budget for 6 guys and a bit of scifi magic)

If you want to play a great Wolfenstein game, I recommend the fan mod Blade of agony. It’s not so much a mod as a massive fan game made with GZDoom engine. It really does put the official games to shame and it’s free so check it out if you guys want some more nasty slaying action.

Calling the Nazis "nasty/the nasties" is so goofy to me 😭😂

I've never played any of the Wolfenstein games, but this video makes we want to try ALL of them out! Great work!

6:20 gun sounds so pathetic Its like a tic tac launcher

The Prey soundtrack at start got me, i completely forgot about it.

Frankly, my biggest issue with the reboot Wolf, was the severe lack of paranormal element. Besides The Old Blood, of course, but that's why it was my favourite from the reboot era. It's not hard to guess, that RTCW was my favourite in the entire serie.

20:50 Pulling the "I was just following orders defense" I see.

Dinner and a movie? Perfect

Found this video thanks to the youtube feed, and I am honestly so happy to see someone extensively cover the reboots, they're not just not talked about ENOUGH, I feel like they're not talked about AT ALL, barely anyone mentioned it aside from obligatory Gman I think. At least I remember people talking more about how much of a slop Youngblood ended up being. It's like "if you thought New Colossus was bad, hold my beer" situation there. Edit: I am extremely sad that what we got was Youngblood in the end. Modern AAA-gaming consumed this franchise like a plague. First it was the marvel-esque writing in NC, and then lifebars, same low bar of writing and damage numbers in Youngblood. Feels like they just wanted to have playable female characters, but didn't know how to make it work. Should've just let it rest after New Order and Old Blood DLC. Wait till the time this franchise could've gotten something much better, something it truly deserved when it comes to getting a sequel that holds up to the bar that New Order has set. Loved the video, subbed, bell is on, I'm looking forward to more things as I watch some of the other videos you've got.

Bj,s father is the definition of a drunk abusef father

Thank you for the history lesson.

1:24:23 Doomguy (the character before he was retconned into Doom Slayer) is actually a descendant of B.J. Blazkowicz from the first Wolfenstain 3D.

TNC felt like it was written by 2 different people with vastly different ideas of the game that hated esch other. Youngblood proved the wrong writer won.

great video man but sometimes the editing was distractingly repetitive, if I took a shot everytime you used the hands out or thumbs up stock image I would have died of alcohol poisoning

Labyrinth 3D was actually the first FPS in which you could see the weapon you were using, it was somewhat popular, then Wolfenstein 3D came shortly after it.

14:25 my man, during WW2 the US drafted people between 18 and 45 years old

Ah yes. I remember the hospital/asylum mission... So you're telling me he sat there for 14 YEARS. Without aging a minute AND keeping all his muscle mass to be able to even stand instead of everything being atrophied from just wasting away? Seems legit! Somehow I keep remembering that whole scene being a dream of his though? Or maybe I am remembering some other game. - Ah, it was the dream in the courtroom probably.

Personally Wolfenstein is "dead" it just took a very bad turn when they decided Beevus and Buthead would make good protagonist.

Hey, in the Old Blood. You can kill the super soldier by shooting the top of it where the cable is attached.

The ign prey joke hit me good

16:40 actually you can kill the giant robot and it looks really really cool

This will be worth watching

Wait... talking about wolfenstein and not mentioning Return to Casle Wolfenstein is a crime!

I adore wolfenstein, play through new order and new colossus and it was immensely fun, haven’t done the prequel one but tried new blood, and I for the life of me can’t describe to but I felt different, it didn’t give me the same rush as the others

I died so many times deathshead, he was such a nightmare

Also if you chose Wyatt in the New order you get a different NPC called “J” (Its Jimmy Hendrix but because his music didn’t follow the rules of the yathzees like the Beatles did in this timeline he was being hunted)

Frankfurt is a city, dude. The sausage is named after it. :D

As a german Wolfenstein obviously wasnt a great seller here so I mostly watch videos like this. Of course the americans can have way more freedom using symbols that are essential forbidden to show in germany for good reasons. But great supercut here :) The concept of the Nasties winning 2nd WW is unique and gets portrayed very serious in the first games but almost comically in The New Colossus. But The New Colossus is one of the wackiest inconsistent sequels out there anyway...

28:13 um actually I think Albert Speer did a good job

Isn't Brutal Doom, the mod for the original Doom, the main inspiration for the new Doom? Also recruiting inexperienced young adults and sending them to their deaths isn't a desperate move, as far as I know it's standard military procedure. Good review of the game overall though.

Anya: "Are you comfortable sharing?" Bj: "no" Insert sigma music.

Why didnt you mentioned Half Life 1 & 2 ? It also had a major influence on FPS games , and it kept some of the traditional fps elements and also added physics to the genre.

2:19 technically the credit for that goes to Alien: Ressurection

1:18:37 his shoulder span is larger than that pipe, how does this work?

Wolfenstin the new order and rayman legends were the first video games i ever bought myself, such classics

I may be in the minority, but I hated New Colossus. The game was just not fun, from making you feel week at the beginning, to the controls just feeling clunky. They took BJ and just gimped him. Stark contrast from Doom 2016-Eternal where you felt like an '80s action hero!