How Doom Guy can be dumb, if he doesn't talk? This is the smartest thing, that many people forget to do.
Agree. Worldbuilding was mostly not good (see Jewtlantida), but their attempts at drama were constant slip. Why bother with romance in your game, if two characters talk and act like pieces of wood? Why add all this exposition about other survivors, if you spend most of your missions alone? Why the fuck BJ cuts his death camp tatoo on the fucking moon? Couldn't he do this in the hideout? Because, you know, after that he pretends to be nazi higher-up. With a death camp tatoo on his arm.
There were elements of New Order that were just pretty pitiful in terms of plotline or advancing the story. Some of the characters felt stupid/were stupid and the plot had some ridiculous elements over all.
Blaskowicz is described to be in his late thirties after the end of the Wolfenstein (The game preceding New Order) and the destruction of the Black Sun Portal, When New Order happens he is essentially captured and physically and psychologically crippled. Found in occupied Poland and somehow alive inside of Reich territory administrative zone as a non-combat veteran who fought against the Reich and human vegetable for the highly unlikely period of 14 years.
He's then somehow at the age of lets say 50 for argument sake if Wolfenstein is considered cannon and it is because of the Kreisau Circle and Caroline Becker from the previous game. After a brain crippling injury and being comatose wheel chair bound state in those 14 years someone not only able to regain all of his cognitive abilities, but all of his body co-ordination in a matter of those precious minutes it takes for him to kill his first Nazi and then start killing them piecemeal like a machine.
Then you've got the remnants of the Kreisau circle, led by a Caroline Becker who was crippled in the last game and hasn't seemed to have been able to improve that situation. And among her, instead of the former group of spies, ex-soldiers, and German resistance members, instead are a motley crew of autists and speds fighting the Germans there way! Especially the one who remains locked in their room number crunching, and only interacts awkwardly when there is exposition or to throw away her life fighting the Naz.
BJ then has the ridiculous task of breaking into a high security jail to rescue dangerous prisoners, some of which have been there for over 14 years as well. (Here's looking at you Angus.) Instead of being worked to death in some prison, or gassed as dangerous POW.
Then #DestroyLondon. No really, just blow the shit out of it. Fuck it. Get some suicide bombing action going on, because nothing says new and British like suicide bombings with cars. #72Virgins You steal some choppahs (Arnie would be proud) and find out the Germans can't make good concrete. (Nevermind why the German's wouldn't have a precious R&D facility inside the Reich, they decided to give Mosely a goodboy project as PM it seems.)
Then you go to the concentration camp in Croatia, (Lebensraum is further east, but who cares Croatia it is, nevermind that the Ustase helped the SS, so it was never occupied territory but oh damn history... Not today nerds!)
Never mind the Kommandant is the character of a gay evil German you'd see in a pantomime, but the fact that there were still Jews in existence in the 1960 era post world conquest German Reich. Now don't even bother asking yourself why the Rabbi with his access to this treasure trove of secret technology hadn't attempted to actually use if for the preservation of his race or the allies for that matter prior to them losing the war completely. Instead turns out the Nazi's got there hands on it, because mechanization and Darkworld Gods weren't enough for the Reich Wehrmarcht.
Then you go to the Moon, which is the most fun aspect of the game, even if it's a bit ridiculous as well, it's less ridiculous than other aspects. Then you rescue your friends, give Caroline Becker her Ironman suit. (Again where was this tech when the 6 million, oy vey.) Fight your old friendo in a robot. (Not really a reveal, that poor bastards wasted 15 years as a brain in a jar to be a sub-boss at best shoehorned in the end of the game. Plus for me it was never morally ambiguous, since the kid was more annoying than Angus. And Angus ultimately was more useful, them's the breaks in war Rookie.)
Then you fight your seemingly immortal enemy Mr. German Scientist No Good Very Bad Bad Evil Science Guy.
His name is Deathshead after all, and he seems to have a budget that would rival anything even the most elite parts of the SS would have, even having his own fortress n shit. (Again, the German economy prior to 1939's declaration of war was set to go into a recession, as the Reich's economic mismanagement started to strain the pre-war economy, and this was a Germany that still had to resort to rationing and ersatz products in order to meet the daily demands of the working population for goods and services. Hence the reasoning behind Lebensraum in the first place.)
It's Man V Mecha German. You kill him obviously, and then just as old man Blazkowizc who gets a grenade to the face, a previous deep stab wound near the heart, multiple bullet wounds, burns, lacerations, is about to snuff it finally.
BJ crawls on.... probably fondly remembering that time he banged Anya in the headquarters with everyone else around being able to hear, cause that wasn't weird at all. Nor the fact that she's a serial Nazi killer who aborted a Reich's fetus, because getting dicked by numerous Nazi's didn't make her skin crawl, but the actual act of conception was too much for her to handle.
He then recites the patriotic poem New Colossus, well the only part anyone ever seems to care about, "Give us your sick, your poor, blah blah," cause America and Progress then they launch a nuke at him to blow up Dr. Yodels magic castle .
Anyone who could look at that plot and not raise an eyebrow would have to be certifiably retarded, and I enjoyed the actual game.
I was never able to bring myself to play New Colossus, because of all the wokeness that came out during it's release. There were/are better games available and more worthy of my time and attention.
