"Everyone knows there's no such thing as Wolfenstein: Youngblood." ..........With UA-cam videos that contradicts the claim. The very same thing that said to POSTAL III. LMAO!
It seems like a trend when a great franchise main character “has to” pass the torch to the next generation… it turns to utter garbage. Really emphasizes how much the main character makes the game. Detaching the MC can rip out the heart and soul of the game.
Well that is not always the case tho. Sure you do remember the worse offenders over the years, but there were some good example that did them right. You have to be very very good at making the replacement well deserve which is not something you can easily master.
@@Deliveredmean42 I'd love to see them replace Doomguy/Doomslayer with a new character called Doom Girl. Perhaps they could give her a wacky side-kick that fulfills several stereotypes at once whilst also ticking boxes on the PC checklist? The developers could then use these two new characters as flag bearers for how special and original and #relatable they are. The new characters will also give them excuse to write a new narrative through an insincere post-modern lens to "shake up the franchise" and make it #relatable by shoe-horning contemporary "social issues" by which I mean partisan wedge issue ideologically driven politics so it can "appeal to other people" because "Wolfenstein is for them and everyone" and that journalists and people who don't play the game on Twitter will really love it. Maybe they could retcon everything else that has happened in previous games along the way.
Seems like a trend? Homie, that is *every* sequel and reboot. The only expectations they're subverting now are the ones where I expect something bearing the name of a good thing to be good.
@@joshuagraham2843 the Youngblood turned the doctor into an old crazy fellow mumbling nonsense instead of the guardian of science that he was. Then killed him off. Wyatt and fat nazi lady was never heard from again.
@@oh-not-the-bees7872 He's nowhere near as annoying as those 2 imo. I would rather burst my ear drums than listen to those 2 for any more than about 5 seconds lol
HA HA HA! HA! HA! HA! HAAAA! Yeah, okay, cool, fine if you love it but that's like a seriously questionable. If you mean to say "Best in the Bethseda line up of games" I'll grant you that, but that game is not nearly the masterpiece people claim it is. If you mean best game in the series overall... no. No. Just no. Not even close. RtCW is the best Wolfenstein game, period. There is no real debate on this.
Bro I was just thinking to myself "why is nobody talking about how insufferable these two are" but ya I agree they were the worst protagonists I've had the displeasure to play as
I have a great concept for a game! Let's take an existing single player franchise, remove the famous protagonist, create 2 new cringe characters as a replacement, make it forced online coop (no splitscreen) and buggy as hell. Please hand over your money.
@@captaincrunch1707 If the crusty-ass Switch CPU can run Doom Eternal in any capacity, I don't even wanna hear how Xbone and PS4 couldn't manage split-screen for Wolfenstein.
Looter shooters are a mistake, especially in traditional FPS franchises. Shadow Warrior 2 was ruined by the same reason. Why every modern videogame must have health bars and bullet sponge enemies? People hate it!
I always wanted the next wolfenstein to be a prequel to New Order, to get to see more of the WW2 battle against a technologically advanced Nazis, see how the Germans advanced so quickly, how they took over Country's, it could fill plot holes, add new characters, just new content, not how Youngblood was, they basically just kinda pulled that game outa their ass.
This, would be fucking awesome.Plus they'd have the perfect narrative setup for the game's difficulty cuve with the nazis getting ever more powerful and the resistance getting wiped out over the course of the game.Could have missions where you're street fighting in London, battle of stalingrad with panzerhunds and other mad shit. Instead, we got this.
@@behemothfan1990 Exactly like just thinking about it in my head, it could be so fuckin awesome, like it could fr be the next big release if they did the idea right. I'm pretty sure people would love it.
@@crusadascrib3949 facts, the WW2 section was one of the best parts and it was so short! No fancy guns or lasers, just bullets that spewed lead and that's it
@@l0sts0ul89 plus you had achual allies to fight beside you even if they didint do alot. I feel like it's more immersive when you have achual allies to help you. Plus the guns were alot cooler and had achual historical president and prototypes for them.
That's fair, but I still think tragedy is an accurate word to describe this game. A CO-OP Wolfenstein game developed by Arkane could have been great, and it's a tragedy that it wasn't.
@@lutherheggs451 I rather enjoyed The New Colossus. Young Blood just left a bad taste in my mouth. Especially when it first came out and the game wouldn't pause even though you were in the pause menu
Agreed. The sequel was a big disappointment to me. No real villain, and they had Adolf in the game... How did they let that opportunity pass them by? He’s the ULTIMATE villain!
@@HydratedBeans that and Wolf 2009 at least allowed for slow and methodical killing from range… Wolf 2 New order felt like it wanted me to charge at the nazis… with nothing but a throwing axe and MP-40
This is what you get when you want to produce one of thes "Weimarer Republic" games with the humor of this well...yeah era or this tribe. All aspects in this game just point out to pure cultural marxim and INSANE lvl´s of degeneracie like is the most normal thing. And i think it is good that people dropped it really fast. It´s the same lvl of degenerecie that we once had in germany early in the 1920´s like i said "Weimar republic" conditions. They even bring this humor now in TV, and people dont realize, history currently is repeating itself ua-cam.com/video/oIELkjCHUoE/v-deo.html Watch till the end.
Youngblood had amazing production value and a great concept, but it was hindered by horrible characters, a cringey plot and the chasing of gaming trends as opposed to blazing it's own trail.
@@AncestorEmpire1 Those are not called "WW2 black and white flashbacks", but PTSD flashbacks! ;) Though real PTSD doesnt always manifest in this manner.. if ever..
I'm just sad cause having two characters could have been the perfect way of setting up two meaningfully separate paths. Give one sister the ramshackles, give the other constrictor harness (or equivalents thereof) and have sections that differ vastly for both of them: say 1 sister is causing ruckus in a large hall, drawing attention of the nazi forces (courthouse battle style) whereas the other one is sneaking around through now much less populated areas, planting bombs in soldier quarters and hacking their defenses and both playthroughs then converge as you escape from the place and blow the shit out of it. You could also have story differences depending on which sister you play, different lines of dialogue etc. No need for co-op or online, no need to redesign anything, much more time to polish up the story and the shooting experience and the level designs and so on. Hell, you could probably even redeem the characters (I liked what I saw from them from the opening sequences but then watching the same loading sequence gags again and again and again and again... I can see the issue).
People were laughing at this game when it came out. Wolfenstein is (or rather was) my favorite franchise... so I wasn't laughing. I'd take Wolfenstein 2009 over Youngblood any day of the week.
I’m not much of a FPS guy.. But the storyline of Wolfenstein is quite interesting with the alternate history where things played out differently in WWII..
Yeah, I don’t think anyone played wolfenstein and thought “You know what? I really wish, this fast paced shooter, action packed game could instead be slowed down and awkwardedly paced with tacted on RPG elements”
The New Order was great and The Old Blood was very enjoyable but The New Colossus was already pretty mediocre (less interesting weaponry, a story that sort of was cut off at the end, some characters who were presented but never properly used like Horton Boone etc). Youngblood however was of a whole different order of bad design.
Colossus was crap, but just like how 76 makes Fallout 4 look good, Youngblood makes Colossus look good. It's the entire industry's fault. It's all about rushing out games for profit now.
The two most unintentionally annoying and hated characters ever made. They tried too hard to make them cool and it failed miserably. My most hated enemy is Seymour from FFX but you're suppoosed to hate him so the creator did a perfect job with the character.
Yeah the two teen girl leads really irritated me and felt out of place. They were pretty obnoxious as well. It was a mistake to change the focus away from BJ.
"Hey you know what people like in our Wolfenstein games?" "The deep narrative mixed with well done cutscenes and a complex protagonist." "Yeah that. Lets do the opposite of that and ruin our franchise even more." "Perfect!"
@@LonelyIslandKid09 hey kid wolfenstein is older than your reboot wolfenstein is. Stupid 12 year olds. Wolfenstein has always been just some guy shooting the "ebil nazis". Stop pretending like it's some deep experience intrinsically.
Though I'm happy that after decades, BJ finally got the happy family that he dreamed of during the Deathhead Compound assault in 1946, it depresses me that half of that family is these cringeworthy chicks
I'd like to meet the person(s) who greenlit this endeavor after reading the script. Like a serious conversation with them. Just so I can ask them, in what way did this seemed like a good idea?
My exact thoughts after playing TNO, which frankly isn't too far off from this game's script given what I've seen of it. It's just MORE of what TNO had.
It doesn't work that way, the game was greenlit before the script was made. That's honestly part of the problem, but there isn't really a way to avoid that, since you're not going to make a script if the game isn't greenlit.
@@Gordy3000 I find it extremely hard to believe that there was no input from anyone higher up. During the development of this game. Concepts change all the time for games. Scripts are rewritten gameplay is reworked. Things are removed or added during development. And then finally is approved before being sent out for print. This wasn't some small instance that flew past the developers. They knew what these guys were doing an approved of the final product.
@@Snicketbar yea, it's a bit interesting, but if it was approved from higher up it was presumably because it seemed similar enough to other high budget games that had done reasonably well. In the end that's usually the only thing many executives look at. They don't even necessarily know what works or not, just high concept things such as ok, "dark stories" "Edginess" and "violence" sell, dose the game has these themes and aspect? This is of course not always the case, but it's quite surprising sometimes when you hear how many of these people evaluate concepts and ideas. Many sales analysts only ever look at the data, the players and viewers may say they hate the game, business model, movie or whatever, but as long as the sales goes well that's the only real determining factor.
Ya’ll went REAL easy on the two horrible main characters and their unbelievably bad writing and voice acting. Nobody wants anything more to do with those two. Good video otherwise though 👌
@@brndonlu9635 yeah but they kinda ruined the whole point of TNC's ending and spoiled what could've been an awesome thing to do in-game... like BJ killing Hitler! Fucking hell
@@francocentrone197 I mean, it's not really a spoiler when it's destined to happen BJ killing Hitler is like Doomguy killing the Cyberdemon, it has to be in every version of the story
Young blood just felt like every enemy have 200 billion health it was extremely unenjoyable and no matter how good the guns sounded it felt like hitting even normal soldiers with a wet noodle
The fact that Jim Sterling loved the protagonists of youngblood made me realize how much my taste in games had swayed from theirs. I haven't seen a Jim Sterling video since.
@@michaelknox3715 I don't know if you asked me, but in the case that you did I'll answer. They absolutely are allowed to like whatever they want. But if what they like and what I like is too far apart I can't use their opinion on games to guide my purchase. Because our taste differ too much. And since I mainly watched Jim for their game reviews I just stopped.
It's a shame how this game turned out, killing Nazis alongside a friend sounds like a great time, but they made it way closer to Destiny than Wolfenstein, which is a shame. If they made a single player game first with optional co-op similar to Halo games it could have been a blast
This video is the biggest pile of bullshit I've ever seen. Youngblood is the Halo 5 of Wolfenstein. The death of the franchise. And now that the producer of that abomination has bought Bethesda and id out of existence, es, fallout, and Doom will soon follow. #hunttheLIES
Wolfenstein 1 Remake: A brilliant and creative reimagining of an old IP that many thought was dead. If at times it takes itself too seriously. Wolfenstein Old Blood: A great standalone game that is smaller than the first and has more fun with the absurdity of the setting than the 1st does. While smaller, still great. Wolfenstein 2: Weirdly political and loses what made the 1st loved by so many. While being overly reliant on cutscenes and took the fairly simple but liked plot of the original and ruined it. Wolfenstein Youngblood: cries
I don't see a problem with Wolfenstein 2 tackling sensitive political themes and making commentary. It's a game about fighting back against a fascist regime that's dominated the world, how would it not be political?
@@gamerinatrance3618 tackling politics is fine, Nazis bad is a pretty universal stand. What the game really attempted to say though was 'Capitalists bad, White Men bad, Christians bad'. Grace was HORRIFICALLY unlikeable and would go on tangents about how bad white people or men were and never got ANY fightback. What could be an interesting political commentary could be how one extreme created another extreme and NEITHER are good. But instead Grace is shown as, while horrible, correct in all she says. We also get the Commie pastor which could have been used as a great tool. B.J. decides that going too far the other way is not worth victory, but instead, he simply argues and then accepts it. It really feels like they just gutted B.J. and instead of being the personification of America, what it stands for and the lofty ideals, he's just a shell who accepts that America wasn't really special.
@@DENSITY5404 I'm not sure what the civil rights moevement has to do with my comment. In regards to my politics, that's none of your buisiness. Also I am refering to how badly done the politics were. The other reply in here is a perfect example of what they could've done.
The new colossus was already a warning for the direction the series went...and this is just the natural progression of that: it killed the interest in any future tittle on this franchise for me.
What's wrong with The New Colossus? I want 2 play the series from The New Order but Youngblood is garbage by the looks of it and this is keeping me from getting into the series.
@@aviralverma2944 It was a mixed bag. Returning characters like Fergus and Bombate were fantastic. The new characters all sucked. I didn't like any of them. I really didn't like how Grace just walks on in all like "k I'm the boss now," stuff like that. The shooting was at least enjoyable. I also liked the DLC missions.
@Ben Cooper No shit, but still better than those weeaboo trash games where women legit have no personality beyond being a cheap fanservice. Besides, might as well be honest and apply this criticism to men too, because what you have described here is what most of Call of Duty feels like by the story standards, and it doesn't receive nearly as much backlash.
@@lutherheggs451 everybody loves tomb raider, horizon zero dawn, etc. You’re a weirdo. I guess we can’t dislike female characters or whoops we are sexist bigots. These are objectively awful characters
Wolfenstein 2009 was my favourite of the franchise. I hope they bring back the Thule Medallion, added such variation to the gameplay. Best game I’ve kill counted due to the crazy weapons and awesome FX.
Out of all 4, The Old Blood and The New Order are the only good ones. The new colossus is beyond janky and Youngblood has some of the worst characters and mechanics.
The Old Blood is the direction they should've went in after the Colossus. It may be a safe bet storywise, but its better than anything else we're going to get these days.
@@dibberz-v1z Yes I've heard this said before and I think it's absurd, like saying all COD games are bad because they are are lazy Medal of Honour rip off. I think some people just love to say thing are crap because it makes them feel cool and popular. I have also heard some say that they thought the super natural theme ruined it but I thought that was one of the best parts and Return to Castle Wolfenstein was like this as well, so I don't get what the complaint is there. I really wish people had not been so dumb about it and actually supported this great game, we would have most likely gotten some fantastic follow up titles and the franchise would have been better for it and would probably be in a much better place now. Although I do think that New order and Old Blood are good games, they would have been better if sticking with the original themes that made Wolfenstein so great. I even think that there was plans to follow 2009 with another game soon after but was scuppered by all the bullshit negativity it got, and now look at the state the franchise is in after Youngblood! Not only a poorly recieved game but a terrible insult to fans and evidence that Machine Games are headed in the wrong direction. I say give it back to Raven or at least the people that worked there at the time and make Wolfenstein great again.
That's just a typical GAMERS thing, create a researched "video essay" and then throw in subjective opinions are objective facts without any sources or validation.
@@mister_veee7143 Yes this is the worst part, that it can't even really be purchased by anyone anymore. I did get myself an original used copy on Ebay for PC a while ago for a reasonable price (about $30 AUD) but I think the price has gone up since then and of course there are not many around anyway. Which means that this game is largely missed by people especially those new to the franchise. It's so sad and shitty that this has happened to such a fine game. I don't know if it is a licencing issue or just snobbery on the part of Bethesda not to make it available but I suspect it's licencing issue once again, which has similarly happened to Segas incredible racing game Outrun 2006. Good news is though that there are plenty of torrents of Wolfenstein 2009 that are easy to find and work perfectly. Plus it's guilt free IMO because the game is abandonware at this stage. There is also a cool mod called Retrostein (I think) at the ModDB website, that makes it alot more challenging and play a bit more like RTCW which is really good after you are doing another playthrough for extra challenge.
@@mister_veee7143 Oh that is great, I'm really pleased to hear this and glad that I did mention it, thanks for letting me know. I think you will like it because I think it enhances an already great game. I even tried tweaking this mod a little myself and seemed to be heading in the right direction to do this sucessfuly but I never got round to testing it. It was just some changes to the ammo pickups no longer being highlighted after the Retro stein Mod guy removed them because he didn't like it, but I think it's too hard to find the ammo sometimes when there's lots of stuff on the ground. So I was able to find the entry in the file and changed it back. So a few little tweaks like that and I also tried adding incendiary ammo (fire bullets!) which is from the Neurowolf mod (also on ModDB), and I even looked into giving the Elite guard (The leather clad Nazi women) back their sub machine guns which made them such a challange in RTCW, although I think that one might be a bit harder to achieve. But just so you know, if you have a bit of patience you can make lots of changes to the game because it uses the Quake Engine lookup tables system so that just about everything has a value that can be changed if you can find it and identify it. That said, the Retrostein mod is already great as it is and I hope you have a lot of fun with it! P.S. Just before I forget I wanted to mention this little mod that changes the German infantry dialogue to German, it probably sounds like a small (or pointless) thing but it does add lots of atmosphere, especially while in the heat of the battle and you can hear the enemy shouting things in German (sometimes even insults!) instead of in English and you don't know what they are planning to do. Unlike the English dialogue version where you can hear them saying they might toss a grenade etc. So just an extra challenge and bit of emmersion I think. Here is the link if you want to try. www.moddb.com/games/wolfenstein/addons/wolf-sp-mod-german-axis-language-mod-v12
Yep, thats the real tragedy. Game developers intentionally making decisions to insult and piss of the players as some sort of punishment and social activism. They knew perfectly well how fans will react, and they did it anyway in the most insulting way possible to make sure to rub it in into the faces of anybody who complained about Wolfs 2 tonal problems. I swear Rian Johnson wrote this.
@@googleslocik Anti-gamergate people who brand gamers as incel mysogynist neckbeard are the people behind this and journalist are not only defending them but take side with the industry anti gamer propaganda.. the failure of gamer inside the industry to hold the influence of these "propagandist" had led us into the creation of this game. i wish and pray the current industry to be up in flames so that we can start from scratch and away from this blatant anti consumer practices.
I tried really hard to like this game, got to the final boss but was unable to beat him. The road getting to the final boss wasn’t fun either, I hated the rpg elements, and hated how the higher level you got the weapons did less damage to the enemies unless you upgraded them too
Yeah, beating the final boss was a pain. More importantly, it wasn't any fun. I was kind of working my way through the series, and I found myself just not having a great time halfway through this one. The last bit was just a slog.
Hey, you just described my exact feelings when I played TNO. Except I did beat the final boss there... and it was not fun. At all. So really, if you hated this game, you should re-evaluate TNO itself, because it's largely the same but for a single player.
@@FNGLHR I actually really liked the new order. Granted I had to put it on the lowest setting to beat the final boss, but the rest of the game I had fun with and could get through on a standard difficulty, I beat it in 2 days time. Plus the weapons didn’t get weaker on the same enemies as the game went on. I know if I shoot an enemy in the face, they’ll die, unlike Youngblood where I armored in the face enemies take like 4 shots to kill with a shotgun, that doesn’t make any sense
@@brandonthetoyandgamecollector Like what you like, but for me, TNO was the death of the franchise and seeing how its sequels doubled down on everything that game did has only proven to me further how deminishing the returns on this badly executed experiment in junk alternative history has been.
@@ulqinaku8471 Wolfenstein isn't dead, ya dingus. It's a spin-off, TNC did far better and they pretty much confirmed a Wolf3. We just don't have a date yet.
They should have used Army Of Two as an inspiration. No bad half baked rpg elements and replaying levels. A linear two player story with cool weapon unlocks. You can make a linear co-op game that also focuses on great team work elements and tactics
Well I did read up somewhere that Wolfenstein III is still in development. Hopefully Youngblood will be a lesson of what not to do. It'll take a while to bring the series back to its high pedestal but at least we can all still replay New Order & Colossus for now.
New order & Old blood seemed to hold onto some of the creepy & interesting elements from the best entry in the series IMO Return to castle Wolfenstein, New colossus was a movie interrupted by gameplay, with New blood trying to be 80's retro-reconstruction.
I hope they make a 3rd game, and in the beginning, we understand that all of old blood, was just a dream BJ had during a second coma, that is a result of an attack on him and his people, resulting in him being the lone survivor, and the game can be about him trying to first remember what happened to him, and then taking revenge that will end in him destroying something (such as a core) that results in destruction of Nazi's regime. A game in which you could even cause/lead rebellions worldwide(they can even picture him like he lost his face during the attack, hence the nazis couldn't find out who he was/is. The game might even have some sort of RPG vibe, in which your actions and decisions matter, and might even have multiple ending, for example a bad ending in which he dies despite achieving his goals, or a secret one in which he fails, but in the last hours uses a time machine to return to 1945 and manipulates the timeline to cause our timeline. He even might get his hands on the machine because it was a nazi secret project, or because some dude from future appeared and told him what to do, or even because of some alien/supernatural reason. Damn, they have many choices! (Also, sorry if that was long)
@@dibberz-v1z i think so ive heard its like a sequel to the 2001 return to castle Wolfenstein, it's pretty dumb they removed it from everything being that it isn't perfect but its still a sequel, alot of people actually liked it
Trends come and go, but we should make publishers feel, that such an ugly move will never wash off of their reputation. Only then they consider to change the approach. And that should be done to each publisher that smeared themselves in such of an abomination.
Man I justed played Wolfenstein the new order for the first time and it was amazing. I am dreading playing young blood because of what I've heard about it....
NWO and Old Blood were just so perfectly done with their narratives. TNC and YB just fall so short from the prior games. My expectations are very low for any storytelling out of Machine Games
New Order have such a different tone compared to its two sequel. It’s definitely the best out of the three. Even the character models were so much better in New Order, like B.J and Anya
New Order was amazing in every facet I agree. I really havent kept up with the franchise due to life but was surprised to see this in my YT recommends. I guess it was only a matter of time, many franchises go through cycles hopefully BJ prevails
You know what will satisfy the cult fanbase of a game that isn’t super mainstream? Changing the game to be like every other shooter and sprinkling in some Wokenstein elements for good measure. Gotta make sure we target and try to please people who won’t buy our game in the first place, so we can be successful That’ll really make us some money.
It still hurts, after the lukewarm recepction of The New Colossus they had two choices, go back to the new order style of storytelling or go with the new colossus style, they chose the wrong one.
they should of made more like the new order tbh, its considerably better, the story alone makes it replay-able, and the weapons/ ect are better (talking about TNO)
12:44 "The Blazkowicz's girl held thier own" Strongly disagree, they were literally one of the main reasons the game is universally dispised, it's not because they were women, it's because their characters are awful, it's like playing a couple of overcompensating fratboys that make dick jokes constantly while killing people, they were worse than Duke Nukem Forever
I would agree they aren't well written, but notice how so many people assumed that was because they were "forced"? Let's say they were actually twin guys instead, would people have been crying about "woke agendas" or "sjw pandering"? No, they would have just been called badly written. Notice how no-one complains about agendas when it comes to badly written white male characters, but if it's a racial, gender or ethnic minority apparently their mere existence was fundamentally to "pander" and "shove politics down our throat" and inherently detracted from the experience?
I actually really liked the synergy this game has but I felt bad I never beat it. I was trying so hard to get towards the end but I could only play the same map over and over until it left me drained. Wolfenstein 2 is the best fps story mode I've played though.
@@joshuagraham2843 did you get that for free with your gpu as well? Yeah it looked like one of those games you just kinda zone out and complete things.
A scenario where BJ had to save or protect his newborn daughters would've been an actual sequel, because it fits into the character: a nazi-killing turned family man who would go to hell to save his family. Youngblood was just a slap in the face of everyone who loved the franchise. Put incompetent people with an agenda in charge of things and this is what happens: it matters not what the CUSTOMERS want to play, but what THEY want customers to play. It is unfortunate that this is the direction large part of the industry is headed to.
@@gamerinatrance3618 That’s my point. It wasn’t hard to make something everyone would enjoy, and I gave just a single example of how it would’ve been a cool storyline while also fitting how the the franchise has ever been. But it was so poorly done that even if they tried to make it bad on purpose it would’ve been better than how it came out. Most people play Wolfenstein to play as nazi-killing hero William J. Blaskowicz, so if you’re going to make such a drastic change to the main character it has to be so amazing that people forget about it. It was precisely the opposite.
I'll always appreciate a studio trying something different, but inherently that means potential progress OR failure. Top down decisions from non devs after a large success has fucked up many franchises. That success comes from talent, not managers tossing ideas at a wall.
I love the wolfenstein revival series, machinegames did such a great job bringing that series back from the very edge of obscurity and I’m especially glad they saw fit to end after The Old Blood, a prequel, and keeping it a self contained story with a solid ending
"complete a game within a game, by revisiting places the player has already visited" How dense is this guy, that he did not see how this is a flaw design wise. "go clear this area of enemies you've already cleared" "he we would like you to clear the area for the 5th time now, don't you just like seeing the same thing over and over again?"
youngblood is trash, but just fyi that quote is about the new colossus. it refers to how players can optionally go back to each area to get any collectibles they missed instead of having to start the game or level from the beginning. as opposed to Youngblood where the game just forces you to go revisit areas over and over whether you want to or not
Still had a good ammount of fun with Nelis from the team on this, but never finished it. The story was really not as fun as the others. Too bad. Great video as always!
Been expecting this, I'm currently playin' Wolfenstein 2009 and it's incredible how is more enjoyable than Youngblood, despite its flaws... Thanks for the video and the research as always!
My problem with the premise of this game is Ive invested many hours into the Wolfenstein universe and I do want an eventual payoff where I defeat the Nazi's for good and it seemed like we were getting that at the end of New Colossus. So when this game was announced set way after the events of the previous games and BJ is old as fuck now, and its like damn they're just gonna keep milking this franchise without a definitive ending and that bummed me out.
Those "some fans" who said it is bad to replay a mission just to collect stuff had the freedom not to do that. Everybody else wants that feature back. Also, the way NC makes you revisit locations is much more story-breaking. You hatch an elaborate plan to get to Venus, using an opportunity that happens once in a lifetime and then later... you just go back as many times as you wish? Doesn't really make any sense. Also also, if you want to get collectibles, now you have to approach the game differently... in NO, you could just play casually for the first time and you could re-visit the place if you missed something and really wanted it. In NC you have to be much more careful, which can kill the vibe. I've yet to play YB, but I hope MG will go with BJ again, because he needs to kill Hitler for real next time.
Playing Youngblood was *technically* fun despite glitches (I played co-op with a friend) when it was released, but it felt like a corporate move more than a story continuation imo. Wolfenstein is such a great series, I wanted to like Youngblood, but the writing for BJs kids just didn’t compare to the writing for BJ in the previous games. BJ represented so much about what it means to be victim of hate while still having privilege, and using that privilege to your advantage when tearing down an inhumane/hateful system. It’s double disappointing because wolfenstien was one of the few l games that didn’t pull punches for action, humor or character writing while still having a sincere message. That’s a hard balance and they missed the mark. Highly recommend Jacob Geller’s video about Wolfenstein for more details about why it’s such an important series, it’s a top notch video imo.
It’s so weird and awesome you did this video on youngbloods because I went down a wormhole last night on this game if they ever fixed it. It’s the only Wolfenstein game I haven’t played
Instead of the Youngblood massacre we should have gotten a new Wolfenstein game with BJ as the main protagonist where the story continued right when it ended with major events happening such as freeing the USA, birth of the twins, etc...
Everyone knows there's no such thing as Wolfenstein: Youngblood. That was just something parents said to frighten their kids into behaving.
Ikr what is that
"Everyone knows there's no such thing as Wolfenstein: Youngblood."
..........With UA-cam videos that contradicts the claim. The very same thing that said to POSTAL III.
LMAO!
hell yea dude
@@2POWERFUL don't say the P word.
Sorry, I don't get sucked into historical revisionism.
LOL!
Playing wolfenstein without BJ is like playing doom without Doomguy.
It's also like having sex without a partner - sad and frustrating.
Don't give them any ideas...
Doomgal will be in the next game. Calling it now.
Aka the five knuckle shuffle👍🏽.
do you think bj will kill commie's ?
I feel like the whole "yeah dude" personalities was a bit weird in a game like this.
@Roy Godiksen
It reeked of 40/50 year old corporate goons trying to act “cool bro” 🤦♂️
@@brando3342 It truly did, but even "old" people who reviewed it cringed at the "humor".
makes you horrified that you actually agree with the universe's ww2 winners seeing these 2 absolute degenerates
Yea, it was, and many others seem to agree with your sentiment.
For me, they sound like two try-hards that try very unnecessarily hard to act tough.
It seems like a trend when a great franchise main character “has to” pass the torch to the next generation… it turns to utter garbage. Really emphasizes how much the main character makes the game. Detaching the MC can rip out the heart and soul of the game.
exactly and have annoying characters isnt the right way to do it either
Well that is not always the case tho. Sure you do remember the worse offenders over the years, but there were some good example that did them right. You have to be very very good at making the replacement well deserve which is not something you can easily master.
@@Deliveredmean42 I'd love to see them replace Doomguy/Doomslayer with a new character called Doom Girl. Perhaps they could give her a wacky side-kick that fulfills several stereotypes at once whilst also ticking boxes on the PC checklist? The developers could then use these two new characters as flag bearers for how special and original and #relatable they are. The new characters will also give them excuse to write a new narrative through an insincere post-modern lens to "shake up the franchise" and make it #relatable by shoe-horning contemporary "social issues" by which I mean partisan wedge issue ideologically driven politics so it can "appeal to other people" because "Wolfenstein is for them and everyone" and that journalists and people who don't play the game on Twitter will really love it. Maybe they could retcon everything else that has happened in previous games along the way.
Only game that did it right was devil may cry 5
Seems like a trend? Homie, that is *every* sequel and reboot. The only expectations they're subverting now are the ones where I expect something bearing the name of a good thing to be good.
They messed up the game.. its more of a failed spin off than an actual progression of the story.
...That's because it IS a spin off and not a continuation. This isn't part 3
@@moonpresence9707 there is no part 3. The last part ended with them siding with some communist.
i really wanted to know what happened to fat nazi girl and jewish doctor and wyatt?
@@joshuagraham2843 the Youngblood turned the doctor into an old crazy fellow mumbling nonsense instead of the guardian of science that he was. Then killed him off. Wyatt and fat nazi lady was never heard from again.
@@gre3nishsinx0Rgold4 man they were very likeable characters, thanks alot youngblood for erasing them😔
"You know what this game needs? Teenage siblings with a wacky 'tood!" Said Nobody. NOBODY.
_"Hell yeah, dude!"_
I do love the scene where they kill their first nazi though. The sudden puke made me chuckle.
Worst protagonists ever made
@@Gamesta100 i would agree, but bubsy the cat exists
@@oh-not-the-bees7872 He's nowhere near as annoying as those 2 imo. I would rather burst my ear drums than listen to those 2 for any more than about 5 seconds lol
I played the game, giving it a fair chance. One level in, Uninstalled and refunded
It's just amazing to me how, after so many sequels, The New Order is still the best entry in the series.
It's the only one with a good honest narrative and story too. You can note the decline in writing in Wolfenstein II The New Colossus.
HA HA HA! HA! HA! HA! HAAAA! Yeah, okay, cool, fine if you love it but that's like a seriously questionable. If you mean to say "Best in the Bethseda line up of games" I'll grant you that, but that game is not nearly the masterpiece people claim it is. If you mean best game in the series overall... no. No. Just no. Not even close. RtCW is the best Wolfenstein game, period. There is no real debate on this.
To me Old Blood is better because it has less cutscene.
@@FNGLHR Return to Castle Wolfenstein? Big agree if so.
@@RockSolitude
**pregnant woman dual wielding assault rifles naked**
BJ is nothing more then a broken man, frankly spineless and a ruined character
The game would have been awful even without the two protagonists but my god, I never hated fictional characters more than those two.
They clearly don't know how real world twins behave when they're with each other
Bro I was just thinking to myself "why is nobody talking about how insufferable these two are" but ya I agree they were the worst protagonists I've had the displeasure to play as
@@samuelhunter4631 must be lizards if they don't understand how humans work 😂
Even more than Rey, Ava (Borderlands 3) or Abby?
morons who wrote the game leads should exist the industry .this type of unfunny comedy ruins franchises....
I have a great concept for a game! Let's take an existing single player franchise, remove the famous protagonist, create 2 new cringe characters as a replacement, make it forced online coop (no splitscreen) and buggy as hell. Please hand over your money.
It's a formula doomed to fail.
Xb1 and PS4 had such trash CPU’s that I’m not upset by lack of split screen. Agree on everything else being galactic cringe
@@captaincrunch1707 If the crusty-ass Switch CPU can run Doom Eternal in any capacity, I don't even wanna hear how Xbone and PS4 couldn't manage split-screen for Wolfenstein.
Looter shooters are a mistake, especially in traditional FPS franchises. Shadow Warrior 2 was ruined by the same reason. Why every modern videogame must have health bars and bullet sponge enemies? People hate it!
@@MrPoeGhost split screen co-op is incredibly demanding. Its basically doubling the workload.
I always wanted the next wolfenstein to be a prequel to New Order, to get to see more of the WW2 battle against a technologically advanced Nazis, see how the Germans advanced so quickly, how they took over Country's, it could fill plot holes, add new characters, just new content, not how Youngblood was, they basically just kinda pulled that game outa their ass.
This, would be fucking awesome.Plus they'd have the perfect narrative setup for the game's difficulty cuve with the nazis getting ever more powerful and the resistance getting wiped out over the course of the game.Could have missions where you're street fighting in London, battle of stalingrad with panzerhunds and other mad shit.
Instead, we got this.
@@behemothfan1990 Exactly like just thinking about it in my head, it could be so fuckin awesome, like it could fr be the next big release if they did the idea right. I'm pretty sure people would love it.
@@crusadascrib3949 facts, the WW2 section was one of the best parts and it was so short! No fancy guns or lasers, just bullets that spewed lead and that's it
@@l0sts0ul89 plus you had achual allies to fight beside you even if they didint do alot. I feel like it's more immersive when you have achual allies to help you. Plus the guns were alot cooler and had achual historical president and prototypes for them.
This is why I love Old Boood; it's the closest we will get to a proper WW2 Wolfenstein.
This should have been called "The Travesty of Wolfenstein: Youngblood".
That's fair, but I still think tragedy is an accurate word to describe this game. A CO-OP Wolfenstein game developed by Arkane could have been great, and it's a tragedy that it wasn't.
@@GregFurey98 Agree like holy shit I want more triple A co-op story shooters
@@CrystallizedBlackSkull I do, too.
The gameplay felt like Wolfenstein but the story and the main characters were just awful
Better than New Colossus that had off gameplay, piss poor level design and a terrible story...
@@lutherheggs451 I rather enjoyed The New Colossus. Young Blood just left a bad taste in my mouth. Especially when it first came out and the game wouldn't pause even though you were in the pause menu
"These two showed us that we dont need BJ in Wolfenstein games"???
Didnt think this guy would simp this bad
@@drabnail777 who said that?
@@Redneck_Hero I think it was the narrator.
Wolfenstein Youngblood wasn't a tragedy, it was a comedy.
It was a fucking comedy... which got what it fuckin' deserved!
This is bad comedy
“tragedy” = sad ending
“comedy” = happy ending
I thought Comedy = Tragedy + Time ?
AND we live in a Society.
Idk why these wanted to make it into a rpg with enemies being sponges
there should never be any barriers between you and murdering nazis
Probably to extend the life of the game. Problem is that no one wants to keep playing garbage.
BrokenGamezHDR...easy,the anwser would be microtransactions.
Because far cry new dawn was a succes
@@DenDGLegionhardhouse I would say it goes further back, to Borderlands 2 being such a big success.
The cracks were already starting to show with the second game.
Agreed. The sequel was a big disappointment to me. No real villain, and they had Adolf in the game... How did they let that opportunity pass them by? He’s the ULTIMATE villain!
agreed
@@HydratedBeans that and Wolf 2009 at least allowed for slow and methodical killing from range…
Wolf 2 New order felt like it wanted me to charge at the nazis… with nothing but a throwing axe and MP-40
Great video that reminded me of just how steep a decline this was for the series. God this game was so disappointing on every level.
But is it worth 10dollars?
@@lujack1801 no
The New Colossus wasn’t a good game either. The decline starts there. Honestly, I rather play wolfenstein 2009 than New Colossus.
This is what you get when you want to produce one of thes "Weimarer Republic" games with the humor of this well...yeah era or this tribe.
All aspects in this game just point out to pure cultural marxim and INSANE lvl´s of degeneracie like is the most normal thing.
And i think it is good that people dropped it really fast.
It´s the same lvl of degenerecie that we once had in germany early in the 1920´s like i said "Weimar republic" conditions.
They even bring this humor now in TV, and people dont realize, history currently is repeating itself ua-cam.com/video/oIELkjCHUoE/v-deo.html
Watch till the end.
@@shagal2142 go outside. go talk to a human.
The tragedy is this game’s existence and the direction of the industry as a whole
THIS
Amén
Agreed
simp
Agree man
There is absolutely no way BJ and Anya's kids would ever act the way that those two do.
BJ would have taken them to the shed after their first SJW outburst
@@OdinAlgeron SJW outburst? lol
@@OdinAlgeronSays the anti-sjw pig
Game can be summed up with just two words: “Yaas, Queen!”
Gaslight gatekeep girl boss
Youngblood had amazing production value and a great concept, but it was hindered by horrible characters, a cringey plot and the chasing of gaming trends as opposed to blazing it's own trail.
Especially the rpg elements with needing specific weapons to take down specific fodder enemies bringing its fast pace combat to a stop.
You just described the whole AAA industry nowadays.
@@Texelion3Dprints assassin creed and ghost recon going live service rings some bells.
@@Texelion3Dprints I don't know which platform (atm) but I follow your prints/works. Small world!
the game trying to be far cry blood dragon
no seriously the game is a copy of blood dragon?
“Hell yeah, dude!”
I was just about to type that lol!!
*Proceeds to celebrate blowing a man's head off and talk about having his brain matter over their faces.
*Has WW 2 black and white flashbacks of hearing “Hell Yeah, Dude”
No no, not again!
@@AncestorEmpire1 Those are not called "WW2 black and white flashbacks", but PTSD flashbacks! ;) Though real PTSD doesnt always manifest in this manner.. if ever..
@@p4nnus when you take memes seriously....
“You must be really fun at parties”
I'm just sad cause having two characters could have been the perfect way of setting up two meaningfully separate paths. Give one sister the ramshackles, give the other constrictor harness (or equivalents thereof) and have sections that differ vastly for both of them: say 1 sister is causing ruckus in a large hall, drawing attention of the nazi forces (courthouse battle style) whereas the other one is sneaking around through now much less populated areas, planting bombs in soldier quarters and hacking their defenses and both playthroughs then converge as you escape from the place and blow the shit out of it. You could also have story differences depending on which sister you play, different lines of dialogue etc.
No need for co-op or online, no need to redesign anything, much more time to polish up the story and the shooting experience and the level designs and so on. Hell, you could probably even redeem the characters (I liked what I saw from them from the opening sequences but then watching the same loading sequence gags again and again and again and again... I can see the issue).
agree. that would of been alot better, they could of done something so much more creative with the daughters. smh
When this game was announced, I wasn’t even disappointed about it, I just straight up forgot about it’s existence
Heh, ouch.
After this game Wolfenstein 2009 is so refreshing and uniquely a good game
It was always underrated - flawed yes but far from terrible - unlike this.
Looking back with nervous smile......
No lies detected!
Wolfenstein 2009 is a perfectly fine and fun game, unlike Youngblood.
Wolfenstein 2009 is a lot of fun. Raven never fails to make quality single player campaigns.
People were laughing at this game when it came out. Wolfenstein is (or rather was) my favorite franchise... so I wasn't laughing. I'd take Wolfenstein 2009 over Youngblood any day of the week.
2009 game was still Wolfenstein, not some RPG hub shooter with cringefest characters.
That'd imply that Wolfenstein 2009 is a bad game
I’m not much of a FPS guy.. But the storyline of Wolfenstein is quite interesting with the alternate history where things played out differently in WWII..
@@Mintcar923 not to mention the writing and directing of The New Order is top notch.
Yeah, I don’t think anyone played wolfenstein and thought “You know what? I really wish, this fast paced shooter, action packed game could instead be slowed down and awkwardedly paced with tacted on RPG elements”
The New Order was great and The Old Blood was very enjoyable but The New Colossus was already pretty mediocre (less interesting weaponry, a story that sort of was cut off at the end, some characters who were presented but never properly used like Horton Boone etc).
Youngblood however was of a whole different order of bad design.
Colossus was crap, but just like how 76 makes Fallout 4 look good, Youngblood makes Colossus look good. It's the entire industry's fault. It's all about rushing out games for profit now.
@@Charles_Anthony I hated f4, f76 is better
@@emulation2369 oh I will test 76, since Fallout 4 isnt that good
The two most unintentionally annoying and hated characters ever made.
They tried too hard to make them cool and it failed miserably.
My most hated enemy is Seymour from FFX but you're suppoosed to hate him so the creator did a perfect job with the character.
Well most teenagers are suppose to be annoying. I mean real life is complex
maybe iv played alot of games and i do recall a few other annoying characters maybe in saints row series and some other games...
Creating characters that annoying by accident is actually impressive.
@@Aztecius lol Never thought of it like that lol
The only tragedy was the creation of this game.
Yep. It wasnt based.
so when are we getting a were the communist's took over the world
@@creatorsfreedom6734 CNC red alert 1 and 2
@@creatorsfreedom6734 Singularity is the closest thing we got to a commie slaying game
@@SIGNOR-G We need more. Commies are worse than N@zis.
Yeah the two teen girl leads really irritated me and felt out of place. They were pretty obnoxious as well. It was a mistake to change the focus away from BJ.
@Sailor Mercury it's just a side story, not the third game. The third game is in the works.
Link:
wolfenstein.fandom.com/wiki/Wolfenstein_3
"Hey you know what people like in our Wolfenstein games?"
"The deep narrative mixed with well done cutscenes and a complex protagonist."
"Yeah that. Lets do the opposite of that and ruin our franchise even more."
"Perfect!"
For real though...
"Hey you know that Wolfenstein game that you love?"
"Yeah?"
"Here's *NOT THAT*"
Deep narrative lmao. Literally just "nazi man bad man kill nazi"
@@vgamedude12 LMAO If that all you got from The New Order then I don’t know what to tell you. Go play something too complex for you, like Fortnite.
@@LonelyIslandKid09 hey kid wolfenstein is older than your reboot wolfenstein is. Stupid 12 year olds. Wolfenstein has always been just some guy shooting the "ebil nazis". Stop pretending like it's some deep experience intrinsically.
Having played wolfenstein 1&2, I wouldn’t call the protagonist “complex”
Though I'm happy that after decades, BJ finally got the happy family that he dreamed of during the Deathhead Compound assault in 1946, it depresses me that half of that family is these cringeworthy chicks
I'd like to meet the person(s) who greenlit this endeavor after reading the script. Like a serious conversation with them. Just so I can ask them, in what way did this seemed like a good idea?
Agree, I bet they felt pressure from external forces.
My exact thoughts after playing TNO, which frankly isn't too far off from this game's script given what I've seen of it. It's just MORE of what TNO had.
It doesn't work that way, the game was greenlit before the script was made. That's honestly part of the problem, but there isn't really a way to avoid that, since you're not going to make a script if the game isn't greenlit.
@@Gordy3000
I find it extremely hard to believe that there was no input from anyone higher up. During the development of this game.
Concepts change all the time for games. Scripts are rewritten gameplay is reworked. Things are removed or added during development. And then finally is approved before being sent out for print. This wasn't some small instance that flew past the developers. They knew what these guys were doing an approved of the final product.
@@Snicketbar yea, it's a bit interesting, but if it was approved from higher up it was presumably because it seemed similar enough to other high budget games that had done reasonably well. In the end that's usually the only thing many executives look at. They don't even necessarily know what works or not, just high concept things such as ok, "dark stories" "Edginess" and "violence" sell, dose the game has these themes and aspect?
This is of course not always the case, but it's quite surprising sometimes when you hear how many of these people evaluate concepts and ideas. Many sales analysts only ever look at the data, the players and viewers may say they hate the game, business model, movie or whatever, but as long as the sales goes well that's the only real determining factor.
You know the game sucks when you hate the main characters
Nah, great gameplay can compensate for annoying characters. Not this time, though.
i mean thats not allways true
TLoU 2...
@@ajeje1996
Gameplay suck story suck characters suck
Why the hell anyone made that game in the first place?
@@krellio9006 Yup. It's still better than Youngblood, but for me it killed the franchise in much the same way.
Ya’ll went REAL easy on the two horrible main characters and their unbelievably bad writing and voice acting. Nobody wants anything more to do with those two. Good video otherwise though 👌
Good thing it's just a spin off story
@@brndonlu9635 yeah but they kinda ruined the whole point of TNC's ending and spoiled what could've been an awesome thing to do in-game... like BJ killing Hitler! Fucking hell
Real easy? I think y’all are just dramatic. Like chill
@@francocentrone197 I mean, it's not really a spoiler when it's destined to happen
BJ killing Hitler is like Doomguy killing the Cyberdemon, it has to be in every version of the story
@@Mate_Antal_Zoltan but we didn't actually do it or see it, we were just told about it, so it kinda ruins the point
Young blood just felt like every enemy have 200 billion health it was extremely unenjoyable and no matter how good the guns sounded it felt like hitting even normal soldiers with a wet noodle
The fact that Jim Sterling loved the protagonists of youngblood made me realize how much my taste in games had swayed from theirs. I haven't seen a Jim Sterling video since.
you made the right choice. his content is completely unhinged at this point.
I was confused by his reaction to the game at first but seeing where he is now it's not surprising in the slightest
So he liked the protagonists. What's wrong with that? Isn't he allowef to like something you dislike
He's a very confused chap.
@@michaelknox3715 I don't know if you asked me, but in the case that you did I'll answer.
They absolutely are allowed to like whatever they want. But if what they like and what I like is too far apart I can't use their opinion on games to guide my purchase. Because our taste differ too much. And since I mainly watched Jim for their game reviews I just stopped.
The ending of this game is the bigest midle finger in video games
@troy Ferrington i guess is a tie with that one
@@gabrielhenriquesalvini864 Yep
Dead Rising 4 is still the top of a midle finger ending.
@@ruben_zermeno oh yeah can't forget that one
@troy Ferrington I was screaming die bitch before Ellie decided to only half stab Abby>___>
For me, when I heard how they did my man BJ dirty, I knew it wasn’t the game for me. This or the sequel.
Always been a Wolfenstein fan so i got the game to try it… It was on sale but i still felt disappointed and scammed
I just really cant stop laughing when i hear the incredibly deep voice saying: "GAMERS" at the beginning of every video
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who cracked up when they heard that
Yeah, it sounds like a beginning of a shitpost
He should have followed up with "rise up"
Definitely unnecessary, nice clean logo is all that is needed
Tragedy? They got exactly what they asked for, this is a success
More power to you but the overall reception for this game was much lower compared to the other Macinegames developed Wolfenstein games
@@therock238360 don't think you understood him\her
@@therock238360 Honestly I actually liked the game. Sure it's not as good as the older games but it's not a terrible game either imo.
ShegaSrb what did they mean then?
@@therock238360 they wanted to make woke trash at the cost of story and characters, and they succeeded.
It's a shame how this game turned out, killing Nazis alongside a friend sounds like a great time, but they made it way closer to Destiny than Wolfenstein, which is a shame. If they made a single player game first with optional co-op similar to Halo games it could have been a blast
Exactly, that's the direction they should've gone with, but they got lost in trying to capture the current fad in gameplay mechanics
Completely agree, and was pretty buggy for me. Liked the story though
This video is the biggest pile of bullshit I've ever seen. Youngblood is the Halo 5 of Wolfenstein. The death of the franchise. And now that the producer of that abomination has bought Bethesda and id out of existence, es, fallout, and Doom will soon follow. #hunttheLIES
Wolfenstein 1 Remake: A brilliant and creative reimagining of an old IP that many thought was dead. If at times it takes itself too seriously.
Wolfenstein Old Blood: A great standalone game that is smaller than the first and has more fun with the absurdity of the setting than the 1st does. While smaller, still great.
Wolfenstein 2: Weirdly political and loses what made the 1st loved by so many. While being overly reliant on cutscenes and took the fairly simple but liked plot of the original and ruined it.
Wolfenstein Youngblood: cries
I don't see a problem with Wolfenstein 2 tackling sensitive political themes and making commentary. It's a game about fighting back against a fascist regime that's dominated the world, how would it not be political?
@@gamerinatrance3618 tackling politics is fine, Nazis bad is a pretty universal stand. What the game really attempted to say though was 'Capitalists bad, White Men bad, Christians bad'. Grace was HORRIFICALLY unlikeable and would go on tangents about how bad white people or men were and never got ANY fightback. What could be an interesting political commentary could be how one extreme created another extreme and NEITHER are good. But instead Grace is shown as, while horrible, correct in all she says. We also get the Commie pastor which could have been used as a great tool. B.J. decides that going too far the other way is not worth victory, but instead, he simply argues and then accepts it. It really feels like they just gutted B.J. and instead of being the personification of America, what it stands for and the lofty ideals, he's just a shell who accepts that America wasn't really special.
Theres was this little thing called the Civil Rights movement. You just didn't like it because the game didn't cater to your politics.
@@DENSITY5404 I'm not sure what the civil rights moevement has to do with my comment. In regards to my politics, that's none of your buisiness. Also I am refering to how badly done the politics were. The other reply in here is a perfect example of what they could've done.
@@homefront1999 Seethe and cope more
The new colossus was already a warning for the direction the series went...and this is just the natural progression of that: it killed the interest in any future tittle on this franchise for me.
What's wrong with The New Colossus? I want 2 play the series from The New Order but Youngblood is garbage by the looks of it and this is keeping me from getting into the series.
The New Colossus was great
@@aviralverma2944 It was a mixed bag.
Returning characters like Fergus and Bombate were fantastic. The new characters all sucked. I didn't like any of them.
I really didn't like how Grace just walks on in all like "k I'm the boss now," stuff like that.
The shooting was at least enjoyable. I also liked the DLC missions.
@@aviralverma2944 it’s hard to describe. New Order was more grounded while New Colossus went way over the top and also pushed liberal agendas.
Is this really a tragedy? Who ever thought 20 something year old girls acting like teenage boys was ever going to be good?
Normal people who don't crap their diapers every time something has durrrrrr da weemozzzzz in it....
@@lutherheggs451
Weaboos?
@@lutherheggs451: You're a fool.
@Ben Cooper No shit, but still better than those weeaboo trash games where women legit have no personality beyond being a cheap fanservice.
Besides, might as well be honest and apply this criticism to men too, because what you have described here is what most of Call of Duty feels like by the story standards, and it doesn't receive nearly as much backlash.
@@lutherheggs451 everybody loves tomb raider, horizon zero dawn, etc.
You’re a weirdo.
I guess we can’t dislike female characters or whoops we are sexist bigots.
These are objectively awful characters
It doesn't need a 16+min video to describe: it's a broken, repetitive game that just doesn't work, neither plot-wise nor technically speaking.
So I'm like god or something, since I could finish a broken game that doesnt work.
@@keen7youtubeistoast796 well, I played and finished it as well. Three times. That doesn't change my opinion.
Wolfenstein 2009 was my favourite of the franchise. I hope they bring back the Thule Medallion, added such variation to the gameplay. Best game I’ve kill counted due to the crazy weapons and awesome FX.
Out of all 4, The Old Blood and The New Order are the only good ones. The new colossus is beyond janky and Youngblood has some of the worst characters and mechanics.
The Old Blood is the direction they should've went in after the Colossus. It may be a safe bet storywise, but its better than anything else we're going to get these days.
it was an experiment. and it failed.
*voices in my head*
"its just a spinoff not a direction, its just a spinoff not a direction"
I remember getting this game for the story and then just feeling absolutely robbed this was a big disappointment of the Wolfenstein games
3:51 Now that's an old Toby Maguire
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Wolfenstein 2009 is a fantastic game! 0:38
The only reason people think 2009 was shit was because they saw every fps with guns or involing the military at the time as a "lazy cod rip off"
@@dibberz-v1z Yes I've heard this said before and I think it's absurd, like saying all COD games are bad because they are are lazy Medal of Honour rip off. I think some people just love to say thing are crap because it makes them feel cool and popular.
I have also heard some say that they thought the super natural theme ruined it but I thought that was one of the best parts and Return to Castle Wolfenstein was like this as well, so I don't get what the complaint is there. I really wish people had not been so dumb about it and actually supported this great game, we would have most likely gotten some fantastic follow up titles and the franchise would have been better for it and would probably be in a much better place now. Although I do think that New order and Old Blood are good games, they would have been better if sticking with the original themes that made Wolfenstein so great.
I even think that there was plans to follow 2009 with another game soon after but was scuppered by all the bullshit negativity it got, and now look at the state the franchise is in after Youngblood! Not only a poorly recieved game but a terrible insult to fans and evidence that Machine Games are headed in the wrong direction. I say give it back to Raven or at least the people that worked there at the time and make Wolfenstein great again.
That's just a typical GAMERS thing, create a researched "video essay" and then throw in subjective opinions are objective facts without any sources or validation.
@@mister_veee7143 Yes this is the worst part, that it can't even really be purchased by anyone anymore.
I did get myself an original used copy on Ebay for PC a while ago for a reasonable price (about $30 AUD) but I think the price has gone up since then and of course there are not many around anyway.
Which means that this game is largely missed by people especially those new to the franchise. It's so sad and shitty that this has happened to such a fine game. I don't know if it is a licencing issue or just snobbery on the part of Bethesda not to make it available but I suspect it's licencing issue once again, which has similarly happened to Segas incredible racing game Outrun 2006.
Good news is though that there are plenty of torrents of Wolfenstein 2009 that are easy to find and work perfectly. Plus it's guilt free IMO because the game is abandonware at this stage.
There is also a cool mod called Retrostein (I think) at the ModDB website, that makes it alot more challenging and play a bit more like RTCW which is really good after you are doing another playthrough for extra challenge.
@@mister_veee7143 Oh that is great, I'm really pleased to hear this and glad that I did mention it, thanks for letting me know. I think you will like it because I think it enhances an already great game.
I even tried tweaking this mod a little myself and seemed to be heading in the right direction to do this sucessfuly but I never got round to testing it. It was just some changes to the ammo pickups no longer being highlighted after the Retro stein Mod guy removed them because he didn't like it, but I think it's too hard to find the ammo sometimes when there's lots of stuff on the ground. So I was able to find the entry in the file and changed it back. So a few little tweaks like that and I also tried adding incendiary ammo (fire bullets!) which is from the Neurowolf mod (also on ModDB), and I even looked into giving the Elite guard (The leather clad Nazi women) back their sub machine guns which made them such a challange in RTCW, although I think that one might be a bit harder to achieve. But just so you know, if you have a bit of patience you can make lots of changes to the game because it uses the Quake Engine lookup tables system so that just about everything has a value that can be changed if you can find it and identify it.
That said, the Retrostein mod is already great as it is and I hope you have a lot of fun with it!
P.S. Just before I forget I wanted to mention this little mod that changes the German infantry dialogue to German, it probably sounds like a small (or pointless) thing but it does add lots of atmosphere, especially while in the heat of the battle and you can hear the enemy shouting things in German (sometimes even insults!) instead of in English and you don't know what they are planning to do. Unlike the English dialogue version where you can hear them saying they might toss a grenade etc. So just an extra challenge and bit of emmersion I think. Here is the link if you want to try. www.moddb.com/games/wolfenstein/addons/wolf-sp-mod-german-axis-language-mod-v12
Mocking their own fanbase by creating this game is its own tragedy
Yep, thats the real tragedy.
Game developers intentionally making decisions to insult and piss of the players as some sort of punishment and social activism.
They knew perfectly well how fans will react, and they did it anyway in the most insulting way possible to make sure to rub it in into the faces of anybody who complained about Wolfs 2 tonal problems. I swear Rian Johnson wrote this.
@@googleslocik
Anti-gamergate people who brand gamers as incel mysogynist neckbeard are the people behind this and journalist are not only defending them but take side with the industry anti gamer propaganda..
the failure of gamer inside the industry to hold the influence of these "propagandist" had led us into the creation of this game.
i wish and pray the current industry to be up in flames so that we can start from scratch and away from this blatant anti consumer practices.
@@krellio9006 we would need a 1980's style Video game market crash for that.
I tried really hard to like this game, got to the final boss but was unable to beat him. The road getting to the final boss wasn’t fun either, I hated the rpg elements, and hated how the higher level you got the weapons did less damage to the enemies unless you upgraded them too
Yeah, beating the final boss was a pain. More importantly, it wasn't any fun. I was kind of working my way through the series, and I found myself just not having a great time halfway through this one. The last bit was just a slog.
Hey, you just described my exact feelings when I played TNO. Except I did beat the final boss there... and it was not fun. At all. So really, if you hated this game, you should re-evaluate TNO itself, because it's largely the same but for a single player.
@@FNGLHR I actually really liked the new order. Granted I had to put it on the lowest setting to beat the final boss, but the rest of the game I had fun with and could get through on a standard difficulty, I beat it in 2 days time. Plus the weapons didn’t get weaker on the same enemies as the game went on. I know if I shoot an enemy in the face, they’ll die, unlike Youngblood where I armored in the face enemies take like 4 shots to kill with a shotgun, that doesn’t make any sense
this is why i prefer shadow warrior
lo wang out!
@@brandonthetoyandgamecollector Like what you like, but for me, TNO was the death of the franchise and seeing how its sequels doubled down on everything that game did has only proven to me further how deminishing the returns on this badly executed experiment in junk alternative history has been.
Youngblood was an insult to the series
Not at insulting as Old Blood was and it's shameful attempt to basically ripoff RtCW while giving it the finger.
Well it's only a spinoff.
@@FNGLHR What are you talking about? Old blood is one of the best wolfnstein games period.
Wow. You made every excuse you could for the developers while never really talking about why this game was so bad. That's impressive.
the sisters "held their own" vs BJ as main characters
made me laugh out loud
@@susiederkins6612 G.R.O.S.S.!
@@susiederkins6612 *throws water balloon* (and misses)
Going back to Return To Castle Wolfenstein, then seeing trailers/gameplay for this cancerous dog turd.. it really does make the heart piss its pants ☹
Check out Blade of Agony if you haven't yet.
RtCW is and always will be the best wolfenstein. I liked New Order and Old Blood but New Colossus already disappointed me immensely.
RtCW is such an overhyped game...
Yeah, it has some good moments... and that's about it.
And it gets destroyed by wonky forced stealth sections
you just saying that because they are female protagnists. Iam glad they replace the Caucasian dude
this game kill the entire franchise....again
Calm down, it’s a stand-alone expansion
@@therock238360 and also kill the game
@@ulqinaku8471 Wolfenstein isn't dead, ya dingus. It's a spin-off, TNC did far better and they pretty much confirmed a Wolf3. We just don't have a date yet.
@@ulqinaku8471 The next game is in development as we speak. So, despite Youngblood being terrible, the franchise is still alive and kicking.
Good riddance
They should have used Army Of Two as an inspiration. No bad half baked rpg elements and replaying levels. A linear two player story with cool weapon unlocks. You can make a linear co-op game that also focuses on great team work elements and tactics
Well I did read up somewhere that Wolfenstein III is still in development. Hopefully Youngblood will be a lesson of what not to do. It'll take a while to bring the series back to its high pedestal but at least we can all still replay New Order & Colossus for now.
I hope they retcon Youngblood and make Wolfenstein 3 the last one in the trilogy
New order & Old blood seemed to hold onto some of the creepy & interesting elements from the best entry in the series IMO Return to castle Wolfenstein, New colossus was a movie interrupted by gameplay, with New blood trying to be 80's retro-reconstruction.
Lol, Wolfenstein: New Blood, That sounds cool, NGL
@@2025fahaddenseje maybe it will be used on a better game? But that's being optimistic at this point.
The tragedy of trying to justify a soulless cash grab.
I hope they make a 3rd game, and in the beginning, we understand that all of old blood, was just a dream BJ had during a second coma, that is a result of an attack on him and his people, resulting in him being the lone survivor, and the game can be about him trying to first remember what happened to him, and then taking revenge that will end in him destroying something (such as a core) that results in destruction of Nazi's regime. A game in which you could even cause/lead rebellions worldwide(they can even picture him like he lost his face during the attack, hence the nazis couldn't find out who he was/is. The game might even have some sort of RPG vibe, in which your actions and decisions matter, and might even have multiple ending, for example a bad ending in which he dies despite achieving his goals, or a secret one in which he fails, but in the last hours uses a time machine to return to 1945 and manipulates the timeline to cause our timeline. He even might get his hands on the machine because it was a nazi secret project, or because some dude from future appeared and told him what to do, or even because of some alien/supernatural reason. Damn, they have many choices! (Also, sorry if that was long)
We REALLY need a Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2, it's about time.
Just remake it, but put competent people on it, then it will be good.
Closest you'll get is probably The Old Blood, pretty good in my opinion, I think it's the best of the new Wolfenstein games.
Wasn't 2009 a sequel to rtcw?
@@dibberz-v1z it was
@@dibberz-v1z i think so ive heard its like a sequel to the 2001 return to castle Wolfenstein, it's pretty dumb they removed it from everything being that it isn't perfect but its still a sequel, alot of people actually liked it
Trends come and go, but we should make publishers feel, that such an ugly move will never wash off of their reputation.
Only then they consider to change the approach.
And that should be done to each publisher that smeared themselves in such of an abomination.
Are these 2 sisters the 2 most off putting, unlikeable lead protagonists in video game history? If not, who is worse?
Ellie and Abby
@@frawliet2738 Fair enough. I'll give you that one.
Right? They're the Jar Jar Binks of the Wolfenstein franchise.
@@frawliet2738 What? Ellie and Abby are great characters.
@@ihaveasecret9539 lol no
The New Order & The Old Blood were the best, playing New Colossus & Youngblood was like playing a godawful B-rated Quentin Tarantino comedy flick!
Not Quentin Tarantino... more like Robert motherkriffin' Rodriguez.
Wolfenstein is part of our heritage as fps gamers, it should always be handled with care, and never be allowed to die.
At least we got the Blade Of Agony this year.
we have sniper elite and zombie army
cant wait for sniper elite 5
and sniper elite VR the best
And then twitter had to ruin it
Man I justed played Wolfenstein the new order for the first time and it was amazing. I am dreading playing young blood because of what I've heard about it....
Yeah, you aren't missing much. The gunplay in youngblood is fantastic but everything else is pretty crappy.
This guy's voice is like the best coffee you've ever had strained through the rarest silk in the world. Simply amazing.
NWO and Old Blood were just so perfectly done with their narratives. TNC and YB just fall so short from the prior games. My expectations are very low for any storytelling out of Machine Games
A tragedy indeed.
No, it's "fun and fresh." lol
New Order have such a different tone compared to its two sequel. It’s definitely the best out of the three. Even the character models were so much better in New Order, like B.J and Anya
New Order was amazing in every facet I agree. I really havent kept up with the franchise due to life but was surprised to see this in my YT recommends. I guess it was only a matter of time, many franchises go through cycles hopefully BJ prevails
Imagine making a Super Mario game that doesn't have Mario in it. Instead the main protagonist is Toad .
That's Wokenstein Youngblood in a nutshell.
You know what will satisfy the cult fanbase of a game that isn’t super mainstream?
Changing the game to be like every other shooter and sprinkling in some Wokenstein elements for good measure. Gotta make sure we target and try to please people who won’t buy our game in the first place, so we can be successful
That’ll really make us some money.
Is just adding women to a game "woke"?
"Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Wolfenstein: Youngblood? No? I thought not. It's not a game that Machine Games
would tell you..."
"It is said they had the power to cheat the customer themselves."
It still hurts, after the lukewarm recepction of The New Colossus they had two choices, go back to the new order style of storytelling or go with the new colossus style, they chose the wrong one.
they should of made more like the new order tbh, its considerably better, the story alone makes it replay-able, and the weapons/ ect are better (talking about TNO)
Another fantastic video. It's sad what New Blood became but hopefully future games will learn from these mistakes.
After Youngblood, I'm cautiously optimistic for Wolfenstein 3.
12:44 "The Blazkowicz's girl held thier own" Strongly disagree, they were literally one of the main reasons the game is universally dispised, it's not because they were women, it's because their characters are awful, it's like playing a couple of overcompensating fratboys that make dick jokes constantly while killing people, they were worse than Duke Nukem Forever
I would agree they aren't well written, but notice how so many people assumed that was because they were "forced"? Let's say they were actually twin guys instead, would people have been crying about "woke agendas" or "sjw pandering"? No, they would have just been called badly written. Notice how no-one complains about agendas when it comes to badly written white male characters, but if it's a racial, gender or ethnic minority apparently their mere existence was fundamentally to "pander" and "shove politics down our throat" and inherently detracted from the experience?
@@gamerinatrance3618a lot harder to fuck up a guy character
I actually really liked the synergy this game has but I felt bad I never beat it. I was trying so hard to get towards the end but I could only play the same map over and over until it left me drained. Wolfenstein 2 is the best fps story mode I've played though.
I consider this game non existent.
I consider that you also do not exist. How does this work out?
Then how do you consider it if it doesn't exist?
@@Largentina. consider what??
@@Largentina. It can be retconned tbf
@@ThatGuy-ky2yf You missed the point. If you think something doesn't exist then you can't consider it at all.
Got this for free with my gpu and still haven’t touched it. Probably never will
good choice lol
played rage 2 got bored for 5 hours and bailed
@@joshuagraham2843 did you get that for free with your gpu as well? Yeah it looked like one of those games you just kinda zone out and complete things.
@Rupert Pupkin you talking about rage 2 or Youngblood?
@Rupert Pupkin right yeah that’s what I saw as well. I like the dev so it’s in my playlist
machine games staff looking like members of a giant metal band
i love it
The main hate for Young blood is the unbearable characters u have to play. It's like Last of us 2 , shit characters ruin games
A scenario where BJ had to save or protect his newborn daughters would've been an actual sequel, because it fits into the character: a nazi-killing turned family man who would go to hell to save his family. Youngblood was just a slap in the face of everyone who loved the franchise. Put incompetent people with an agenda in charge of things and this is what happens: it matters not what the CUSTOMERS want to play, but what THEY want customers to play. It is unfortunate that this is the direction large part of the industry is headed to.
Why is having playable twin sisters inherently a problem? They could have been good characters but they're just really cringe.
@@gamerinatrance3618 That’s my point. It wasn’t hard to make something everyone would enjoy, and I gave just a single example of how it would’ve been a cool storyline while also fitting how the the franchise has ever been. But it was so poorly done that even if they tried to make it bad on purpose it would’ve been better than how it came out. Most people play Wolfenstein to play as nazi-killing hero William J. Blaskowicz, so if you’re going to make such a drastic change to the main character it has to be so amazing that people forget about it. It was precisely the opposite.
I'll always appreciate a studio trying something different, but inherently that means potential progress OR failure. Top down decisions from non devs after a large success has fucked up many franchises. That success comes from talent, not managers tossing ideas at a wall.
I love the wolfenstein revival series, machinegames did such a great job bringing that series back from the very edge of obscurity and I’m especially glad they saw fit to end after The Old Blood, a prequel, and keeping it a self contained story with a solid ending
Good thing they're working on the third game.
Link:
wolfenstein.fandom.com/wiki/Wolfenstein_3
@@brndonlu9635 after seeing the quality of the new colossus
I'm not sure I want a Wolfenstein 3
"complete a game within a game, by revisiting places the player has already visited"
How dense is this guy, that he did not see how this is a flaw design wise.
"go clear this area of enemies you've already cleared"
"he we would like you to clear the area for the 5th time now, don't you just like seeing the same thing over and over again?"
youngblood is trash, but just fyi that quote is about the new colossus. it refers to how players can optionally go back to each area to get any collectibles they missed instead of having to start the game or level from the beginning. as opposed to Youngblood where the game just forces you to go revisit areas over and over whether you want to or not
@@alexisgutierrez7634 colossus came before youngblood, so they def used the same design reasoning for that.
GVMAERS went really easy on this game. It's was utterly dreadful.
New Collosus was already kinda lame, so the signs were already there.
Wolfenstein 2 was lame..
What you on?
Calcium Drugs?
Some are terrified to piss of the Woke Media
Still had a good ammount of fun with Nelis from the team on this, but never finished it. The story was really not as fun as the others. Too bad. Great video as always!
"FUN" "never finished" = So this IS how? ..now a days! Yup! That's IT! I am NOT a Xennial anymore - I AM a boomer :-/
"The story was really not as fun as the others." dont be so kind, just say it was absolutely bullsh*t
i really enjoyed it payed only 9 bucks for it with a buddy pass and a friend of mine and myself completed it in around 8 hours had a blast
Been expecting this, I'm currently playin' Wolfenstein 2009 and it's incredible how is more enjoyable than Youngblood, despite its flaws...
Thanks for the video and the research as always!
HELL No, get the cringe sisters OUT !
My problem with the premise of this game is Ive invested many hours into the Wolfenstein universe and I do want an eventual payoff where I defeat the Nazi's for good and it seemed like we were getting that at the end of New Colossus. So when this game was announced set way after the events of the previous games and BJ is old as fuck now, and its like damn they're just gonna keep milking this franchise without a definitive ending and that bummed me out.
Those "some fans" who said it is bad to replay a mission just to collect stuff had the freedom not to do that. Everybody else wants that feature back. Also, the way NC makes you revisit locations is much more story-breaking. You hatch an elaborate plan to get to Venus, using an opportunity that happens once in a lifetime and then later... you just go back as many times as you wish? Doesn't really make any sense.
Also also, if you want to get collectibles, now you have to approach the game differently... in NO, you could just play casually for the first time and you could re-visit the place if you missed something and really wanted it. In NC you have to be much more careful, which can kill the vibe.
I've yet to play YB, but I hope MG will go with BJ again, because he needs to kill Hitler for real next time.
I've been smashing through all your videos for the past few days. Would love to see one on Unreal Tournament!
We just wanna fight mecha Hitler in modern day graphics, and they blew it.
Not yet.
Link:
wolfenstein.fandom.com/wiki/Wolfenstein_3
Imagine a remake of Return to Castle Wolfenstein :D
Playing Youngblood was *technically* fun despite glitches (I played co-op with a friend) when it was released, but it felt like a corporate move more than a story continuation imo.
Wolfenstein is such a great series, I wanted to like Youngblood, but the writing for BJs kids just didn’t compare to the writing for BJ in the previous games. BJ represented so much about what it means to be victim of hate while still having privilege, and using that privilege to your advantage when tearing down an inhumane/hateful system.
It’s double disappointing because wolfenstien was one of the few l games that didn’t pull punches for action, humor or character writing while still having a sincere message. That’s a hard balance and they missed the mark.
Highly recommend Jacob Geller’s video about Wolfenstein for more details about why it’s such an important series, it’s a top notch video imo.
It’s so weird and awesome you did this video on youngbloods because I went down a wormhole last night on this game if they ever fixed it. It’s the only Wolfenstein game I haven’t played
Instead of the Youngblood massacre we should have gotten a new Wolfenstein game with BJ as the main protagonist where the story continued right when it ended with major events happening such as freeing the USA, birth of the twins, etc...