Wolfenstein: The New Colossus.
Pre-ordered when the game was announced, because the New Order was a great entry into the IP. Experienced the 2015-2016 ramp up of politics and wokeism permeating everything, so much that everyone was being called a NAZI, well not everyone at this point, but everyone right of center. Saw that the game forces you into stealth, even though the last game rewarded you with balls out double fisting guns ablazing. Subverting BJ's character and all the silliness that comes off like a Robin DiAngelo fever dream has soured me on any future Wolfenstein games that continued in this timeline. I bought the DLC ahead of time, like a big ol' dummy...so there's that as well.
Recent regret.
*TLDR; Call of Duty Black Ops IV.
I haven't played a Call of Duty game since Black Ops II. I enjoy the COD series, wish they would spend more time building the campaign, blah blah blah..same old same old (I have to give propers to Respawn for making the Titan Fall 2 campaign such a fun romp - best COD ever!!!). Which is why I stopped patronizing the series. Yearly $50 releases that puts both feet into multiplayer and campaign, where they expect the game to live on its multiplayer aspect, deflates my excitement when I spend most of my time offline. I tend not to play online multiplayer shooters, because I have a job and I do not have the free time to tier up and git gud with all the kids who have that luxury.
A co-worker got me to buy COD: Cold War based on one video, that being the Zombie Outbreak mode. For reasons I have explained elsewhere, it hits that Left 4 Dead COOPERATION multiplayer mode that I do enjoy. Added bonus that you have a sort of goal to continue to tier up, upgrade perks and weapons; all which are available across the Warzone mode, Zombies or otherwise. So, I played the campaign mode first. Yeah, this is pretty good. I miss this stuff...being a Billy Bad-Ass running, gunning, creepy CIA cover ops stuff....good pulpy game play with enough Cold War era nostalgia to make me rewatch movies like: Rambo, War Games, Iron Eagle, Dr. Strangelove, etc..
Still reading? Good, I have a point and we are getting there.
Anyways, on the off time that I am not feeling social enough to rip around Zombies Outbreak, I had a longing for more Call of Duty single player campaigns...which are now cheap since each yearly release makes the previous obsolete, for the most part. So I go on eBay and buy WWII. Yeah, this is the stuff that made me interested in the series in the first place. Put that on my shelf, for later, because I bought Infinite Warfare for $3.99. Shipping was more than the game and I spent all day playing the campaign, stopping right after you take control of the Mons Olympus and wreck the SDF's faces all over Mars. Sci-Fi Blasty McShooty that is entertaining. Great single player campaign, no regrets. They did a darn good job with that Ethan (E3N) robot...this is why I enjoy playing games.
Well, before going to bed, I look up what other Call of Duty Xbox One versions are out there that I missed, so I buy Black Ops III and Black Ops IV, because well I need my single player campaign experience. I settle in for the night wake up and that all seeing eye of google adsense is pushing all sorts of media from older Call of Duty games. I watch some trailers that I never saw, getting pumped....yeah, buying older games for cheap prices, so as to take the sting out of shorter campaigns. I am feeling like I got one over on Activision.
Wait, what is this? Black Ops IV has no single player campaign? I don't even have the ebay listing delivered and I regret it.
Oh, Is the new Modern Warfare 2019 (not the repaint of the first game) worth playing? Any others I should consider outside of the ones I have listed here?
