also: it's kind of amazing that Wolfenstein of all things, going on 40 years into the series, suddenly reinvented itself as an intelligent (for an AAA FPS), well-written series with a diverse cast of elaborate characters and some serious questions to ask and is being fantastically received for it
@theoutrider Right? Like, I avoided The New Order until just recently. I went in expecting just an ordinary "rah, rah fuck the Nazis" type of game, which would have been enough for me at this moment in history...
What I did not expect was the resistance leader to be a middle-aged disabled woman who basically tells Blaskowicz to fuck off when he says that he feels sorry that she can't use her legs any more. Or Literal Jimi Hendrix calling out the fact that white folks in the US weren't much better than the Nazis.
@theoutrider And it's even more amazing that they seem to be doubling down on that with TNC. Not only making the leader of the US resistance a black woman but also having scenes where e.g. KKK members are depicted like giddy schoolboys when they meet Nazi soldiers.
@tobascodagama yeah, the entire scene with Hendrix was... very unexpected for a major FPS of any kind