What’s the last game you replayed? And why?
destructoid.comThere’s an endless amount of new games to check out depending on where you look, but what if the mood strikes and you’d rather rediscover a game you already love? There’s nothing quite like a good replay, especially when you generally know what to expect but some of the finer details aren’t as fresh as they used to be. Timing is everything.
Halfway through 2022, that’s where I’m at — I’m in the mood for some comfy, familiar gaming; hold the new stuff. I’m fighting the urge to keep moving from one in-the-zeitgeist target to the next, and I don’t mind putting my backlog on pause for the near future.
More or less out of nowhere, I’ve been playing 2014’s Wolfenstein: The New Order for the second and likely inevitable third time. It’s been a while since I’ve played a single-player FPS, and Wolfenstein III feels as elusive as ever, so here I go again. With this retread, I also want to figure out if I should bother with any of the series’ DLC, or Youngblood.
Instead of just replaying Wolfenstein: The New Order once more for its (surprisingly good at the time, and still solid to this day) story, I’ve convinced myself that I now need to:
As I write this, I’ve just wrapped up this replay and started another playthrough.
The big picture — a decades-long Nazi-resisting sci-fi-infused alt-history story with a relentless protagonist who just cannot seem to stay dead — was still crystal clear.
Certain memorable scenes — like the “choice” B.J. makes in Deathshead’s castle and on the train to Berlin, infiltrating the extermination camp, and the trip to the moon — have stuck with me after all these years. But a lot of the little details were hazy. Perfect!
I also didn’t realize how fun it’d be to play an of-its-time shooter campaign in
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