I thought BJ's "Aryan Design" was to piss on the Nazi racial ideology as he's of Jewish and Polish heritage.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

That is absolutely a way of looking at it, yes.

@kainepeterson6638

7 жыл бұрын

It's actually true though. That's the way it's supposed to be looked at.

@Aczie042

7 жыл бұрын

Rhett Zember DaivdOZ BJ's design is very reminiscent in approach, and look to Marvel's Steven Rodgers (Captain America), just more uber-violent. They're both the ubermensch (Aryan), and both ideologically against the Nazis. I'm shocked I haven't seen anyone make that comparison.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

That's very true. Not too into Marvel or otherwise I think I would have included that. Nice call.

This video is criminally underrated. Much like the Game in discussion itself. Kinda ironic but in all seriousness this is a very well done analysis of a stellar game. I sincerely hope this video reaches out to more Wolfenstein fans and like minded gamers. You've earned yourself another subscriber mate 👊

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

You're awesome. This kind of thing makes me smile so big! Thank you.

@phoenixzappa7366

4 жыл бұрын

It's no Wolfenstein 2009 😀😄

@Largentina.

Жыл бұрын

@@phoenixzappa7366 Which has nothing to do with what was said.

The concentration camp level was my favorite level. I also love the hub missions at the headquarters in between main missions.

Cool video, man. Damn shame, about the lack of views. You've earned yourself a sub, my guy.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Evan. That means a lot. The views thing is tough. I will admit writing these essays and working on editing them for so long and seeing hardly any views isn't much fun. At the same time, I am sure there is more I could do to get my name out there, I just don't know what it is. Regardless, you help!

@chimpanzee243

7 жыл бұрын

DavidOZ Post your stuff on Reddit :)

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

I have before! To /r/videogameanalysis and the subreddit. Pretty strict self promotion rules so one of you guys would have to do more.

@ERTChimpanzee

6 жыл бұрын

U are right man!The competition is very,very tough in KZread.I don't have a lot of views as well on my videos, but I do it for fun you know.

Good job on the analysis. When I played through the game a year back, I paused after every chapter to take in the events that occurred in each one. For a first person shooter, it was surprisingly well written and thought provoking. The scene that was my favorite was BJ's ride in the moon base rail train, during which he hums and sings softly to the chorus of "Die Käfer - Mond, Mond, Ja, Ja." I may be overthinking this but that simple scene added to BJ as a character. As we know the German tongue was enforced as the new global language by the Nazis, and this world's Beatles were forced to sing that song in said tongue. BJ's appreciation of that song enforces that his fight is against the ideology the Nazis represent rather than simply anything German.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Yes!! I loved bits like this. This is actually pretty great, and I wish I had included something like this when I was talking about BJ and the nazis. Consider me adding this into the video, at least in spirit.

Holy shit this is pure quality commentary. You sure have a talent.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Xerun. That's really cool to hear.

@davecarterNV5

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidOZ 25:34 you said sement lol its not pronounced like that lol

27:19 "Dat'Yihudeded" This cracked me up! I learned so many Yiddish words from this game, lol. Excellent analysis! Though, I'm pretty sure Dat'Yichud tech isn't actually magic, just "sufficiently advanced" technology, as they'd been studying and inventing for literally thousands of years.

You say for B.J. that it was always about killing nazis but I have to emphatically disagree. The New Order is a game about that makes B.J. a great character through, among other things, contrasting two of the most striking character traits, the first mostly in gameplay, the other mostly in cinematics (but also gameplay to a degree). It contrasts his bottomless contempt for the Nazis through the savage violence he inflicts upon them, the most obvious trait he has, with something MachineGames imbued him with themselves - boundless empathy for others. His hatred for the Nazis comes from a place of compassion for the weak and vulnerable. The game highlights it by making just about everybody he surrounds himself with the weak and vulnerable. Caroline is wheelchair bound, Max has a developmental disability, Set Roth is a devout Jew living in Europe in the early 20th century, J is a black american, Fergus and Wyatt experience PTSD, and Tekla actually has two separate conditions, autism and schizophrenia, existing comorbidly. Klaus has no such sort of trait but what earns him B.J.'s respect is how Klaus treats Max. The game opens with B.J. lamenting the loss of life of many young men, boys really, just starting their life being sent out into the meat grinder to die having no say in the matter. What breaks B.J. out of his trance is the callous murder of defenseless mentally ill patients and those who have compassion for them. B.J. isn't an avatar of blind hatred, he is a champion of the weak. That's one of the reasons why he gets so upset at J for characterization of him and it's why B.J. can push that aside and find common water with him like water under the bridge. There's plenty of smaller moments of this deep well of compassion coming forward in cinematics and in gameplay. One time you're at the hideout you accidentally upset Max so B.J. decides that he's going to find Max's missing toys for him and then when he finds them all he arranges his letter blocks to spell Max's name. In a cutscene where Tekla, a woman who has only been rude and dismissive towards B.J., stands by his bedside while him and Anya are sleeping naked he doesn't flip out and get mad at her, he listens to her ravings because those ravings are important to Tekla, tries to follow and understand her not-easy-to-follow raving, and then follows up with his own input. Later he talks to her to try to understand her determinist worldview and teaches her how to use a firearm. During her death scene they're both able to empathize with each other and Tekla understands B.J. in a way that only she does and other characters don't, as a victim of fate. A woman with both autism and schizophrenia - traits played for comic relief at best but usually ridicule and even villainization - is treated with accuracy and respect by the game and treated by B.J. with an open hand and open mind. That sort of openness is how TNO's writing is able to have such credibility when you have retrofuturistic robots with gatling guns patrolling Nazi concentration camps. I think this empathy Blascowicz has is no more clear than his recitation of The New Colossus at the end of the game. Emma Lazarus was a Jewish activist who met an untimely death and it's no coincidence that he's reciting that. I'm sure that during development MachineGames decided that B.J. canonically was Jewish himself, something now confirmed which makes the parallel more explicit. He's reciting it from heart not because of some blind american jingoism and that it's a popular vaguely american thing, he's reciting it because he's a true believer in the ideals embodied by the poem and by the Statue of Liberty. That poem matters to him because those ideals drive him earnestly. Those gruff, melancholic "war is hell" monologues he keeps having through the story come off as earnest and credible instead of edgy like they do in other games because of this compassion - how many characters in a modern CoD game do you think could recite The New Colossus? B.J. reciting the poem also tells us why he fell for Anya in the first place - because he saw the same compassion for the weak he has embodied in her. It transforms the often used obligatory but senseless pairing of two characters of the opposite gender together because they're near each other from an eyeroll to something touching. What he sees in Anya is why he's able to die at peace after earlier wondering if anything left in the world was worth saving - because he knows the spirit of compassion and liberty that he's fought for has not been extinguished from the world, that he successfully fought to keep it alive and gave it a fighting chance on its own without him needing to carry the burden. Deathshead says that he wishes to be judged by what he creates rather than what he destroys and B.J. as his opposite represents the flaw in the binary thinking of construction being good and destruction being bad. Deathshead builds is a world devoid of the soul (important to B.J., he brought up the soul in the conversation with Tekla and quotes the Old Testament while Deathshead creates literally soulless machines in the shape of animals and men), a world of brutal efficiency and does it through construction. B.J. stands opposed to that binary, demonstrating destruction as a force of good, and how as counter-intuitive it may be to our typical idea of progress, that destruction and bloodshed can be morally righteous and even an act of kindness. B.J.'s path of destruction isn't fated because he's bloodthirsty, it's fated because he cannot abide by injustice. It's one of the things that sets him apart from his unlikable, archetypal "brooding american military hero" counterparts despite having all of the hallmarks of one - unlike them we see he's an absolute true believer in all of it. So yeah, I think you're generally spot on but missed the point on that. And while you're here, could you not describe the evil Nazis like Deathshead and Engel as mentally ill? Because they're not. Evil isn't a mental illness. The fact that the game has multiple characters with some sort of mental condition who are all on the side of good is meant to illustrate that while those mental conditions are not a choice the willingness to do good or to do evil is. I mean, we see Nazis straight up purge a mental asylum and its entire staff - dozens of completely defenseless human beings characterized as "parasites" being slaughtered because, yes, they do drain resources without providing anything in return - and that doesn't make their right to life less legitimate in the eyes of Blascowicz. It's the choices that the Nazis we see make to harm others that makes their right to life illegitimate, something to be denied.

@ari.centauri

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

I recently bought this game on sale and upon completing it wanted to see what kind of analysis videos there were for it. Turns out there are surprisingly few, but yours is one of the better ones. You've just earned another subscriber. As an addendum to your pointing out the stupidity of idiots yelling that the game promotes "white genocide," it's kind of hard to depict Nazis any other way than white due to their beliefs in Aryan supremacy and extermination of "subhumans." Yes there were nonwhites who served in the Wermacht during World War II, but they were so exceptionally rare as to be statistically nonexistent. On the flip side, I don't think there are nearly as many of these idiots as the media likes to portray. It's just easier nowadays for the lunatic fringe to make themselves heard in comment sections and social media. The game sold well and was largely praised by both critics and the public, so it's not like the majority didn't like it. With regards to B.J.'s fakeout death at the end, you do hear a helicopter approaching after the end credits, so the Resistance presumably went back for him before the nuke hit. That said, it does strain credibility. I mean, I get that B.J. is a tank of man who takes ridiculous amounts of injuries and powers on through, but a grenade explosion at point blank range is pretty extreme even for him. If I may give some constructive criticism, you could have probably pared down the walkthrough of the game's plot and levels a bit. Viewers who have played the game will already be familiar with such things, and those who haven't but are willing to sit through a lengthy analysis video are probably curious enough to go and play it themselves. Also, some of the game footage was much quieter than the rest of the video, to the point that I had to crank up the volume a few times. In all though, a solid analysis of the most compelling and memorable FPS title this generation. Simply put, Wolfenstein: The New Order is far more intelligent and thought-provoking than it has any right to be given its premise. If Wolfenstein: The New Colossus manages to deliver even half of what this game did I'll be a happy gamer.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is great stuff here. I am optimistic about The New Colossus. I think with an increased budget and a refined vision, they are going to make something really special. It's one of my most anticipated titles now. The B.J. grenade survival thing is tough, especially seeing what it did to Deathshead, who wasn't any further away from the explosion. He was obliterated to all but his torso pretty much. I should have explored this more, but there is such a commitment to showing BJ as.... super-human. Dialogue like when Bubi says "I gave you enough to take down ten men" or something like that when he poisons you is another example of the developers being heavy handed about this. It's almost as if the game is canonizing the game play, which is to say that he is capable of being shot so many times in game, why can't he in cut scenes too? Which is a common dissonance in video games. This is all pretty much stream of consciousness from me though, I dunno if there is anything real to it. He's probably just buff. I love criticism, which I mention in some of my other videos. Even the real angry kind.Thank you for being respectful though. I agree on the summarizing. I'm in a weird place with these videos. I figure there are so many video game analysts out there. I am juggling being an analyst and a book reporter. I want a venue for someone to go if they don't want to play a whole game, and don't like watching some screaming let's player, where they can "experience" the game to the closest way rather than playing. You're totally right though. The audio stuff improves every go I have at this. It's tough. Thanks again.

@lcrawpuppyable

7 жыл бұрын

DavidOZ a minor thing I wanted to add to the conversation, was about BJ's apparent tank like nature in the cutscenes. In the scene where Bubi poisons BJ, he says after the line about it being able to paralyze elephants, that there must be something wrong with BJs brain. The implication being that the shrapnel that's still in Blazko's head somehow prevented the toxin from fully reaching his brain and causing complete paralysis. Shaky science? Maybe, but it shows the developers weren't trying to make BJ the complete Ubermensch. As well from what we've seen of new colossus, Blazko's been in a coma for a while and even when he wakes up he's paralyzed from the waist down and requires the Da'at Yichud Power Suit to actually walk around for, at least for the start of the game. BJ's obviously tanky to a certain degree, but I don't think the devs made him seem indestructible, just very tough and too stubborn to die. Anyways, great video, just wanted to throw in my two cents.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Interesting. This is the stuff I love, thanks for contributing.

@SwingDancer61

7 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen (or at least remembered) anyone talking about the game promoting white genocide. I have seen people wishing that the game allowed you to play as the good guys. I figured most of these people were just trolls trying to piss people off.

@ERTChimpanzee

6 жыл бұрын

I see you have some spare time to type so much on comment section.

Just played it in 2024, still holds up.

just came across this analysis - incredibly well done and i cannot believe this does not have more views. subscribed!

First video i have seen of yours and I loved it thanks for the great content,I thank you also for the high production vale in your videos it is nice to see something worth watching .

Thank you for giving a closure to my experience with this game. This completes my true "The new order" journey... Cheers man.

Thank you for making this Video, I've always been wanting to know about the Wolfeinstein games for a while!

Excellent analytical video, David. And I admire your collected tone and sincerity. I’ve just finished The New Order and am now looking at playing The Old Blood before tackling The New Colossus! Please keep up the good work. You have a new subscriber. Stay safe my man. :)

Its always good to see another good channel with long videos on analysing games and stories. You've earned a sub :) Keep up the good shit. If you continue doing stuff like this you'll go far

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks BB. ;)

I finished the video! I'm really excited to see the rise of people like you, Innuendo Studios, Novacanoo, and Chris Davis; longform video analysis of games feels like it's on the up and you all seem like you're on the bleeding edge of this stuff. Like, we're finally seeing a cultural shift towards serious critique of games or else the means of production are finally in a great place for that to be easy to make and disseminate. Also, the video owned but that like goes without saying.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

It doesn't go without saying, friend. That's awesome. It means a lot to be compared to those guys, I'm a huge fan of Novacanoo. You're totally right about the rise of this form of analysis. I think it's one of the few internet things where there is actually something novel to say, I have seen all but one or two videos analyzing this game. It's rare to find stuff like that on the internet nowadays. Being new to this, comments like these help an extraordinary amount. Thanks for the kind words.

Great video my guy!! Wolfenstein was always one of my favorites. Very nostalgic looking back on it!! The New Order was my favorite

oh man i love how you explaining that many aspects of this game. Im love New Order, it's my fav FPS Shooter. Briliant characters and super feeling what makes games fun - a exciting gameplay, and story becoming next to that

Watched the whole video great video keep up the great work loved your analysis

I like your analysis a lot, but you are wrong on one point - Wolfenstein makes a clear statement that all Nazis are human. From Klaus Kreutz (ex-Nazi) to the citizens in Germania which you can hear during the sewer section above, to the SS officer talking about his family at the start of the game (and many others late on in the game). That is why Wolfenstein tells such a story - it isnt afraid to make the statement about humanity in general. That is why Tekla and Jay work so well in the game's themes.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

I agree humanity is important, especially with Jay's monologue on racism in America. It may even be making a point about redemption. I agree words are important here though and I probably brushed with too big of a brush when discussing the enemies. Sure, Deathshead is human. He has guts and blood and moving thumbs. He absolutely lacks humanity though. As do most of the whackos you kill, so no I don't think the game is making a clear statement that all Nazis are human. Maybe that they can be, but the one's in charge, no.

@CharcharoExplorer

7 жыл бұрын

It seems to be a statement about ideology and how soulless it is in general. It draws the line quite cleverly IMHO. Deathshead is human, true, and he has human traits - he is ambitious like all humans are. He is like the DatÝichude from the story just a much darker version of them. His quest was to win for technology and bring upon an age of his engineering, an ubermensch and the Nazi idology was his opportunity. Engel is different, she is purely a Nazi and a monster but she still has passion, even if sick and demented. I think the bad guys dont lack humanity, its their humanity which makes them more repulsive. As for the common soldiers, in German as they are slaughtered by BJ they start feeling fear and talking about what an unstoppable person they are. Whilst meta in the sense that this is a commentary on video game protagonists, it also humanizes them in the face of another monster (a physical one). Others still lament their job, have issues with the regime or dont care - they have a family and friends. I am actually surprised Wolfenstein went so hard and so deep with its themes and I now believe a nuanced approach is what these games do well. Even RTCW had humanized Nazis which I like - it makes pulling the trigger more exciting and still adds to a major theme I like in literature. All humans can be evil. Its too bad that in their stupid SJW vs Anti-SJW war, the monolinguals will basically butcher the art form :(

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

I understand. I think what you are touching on is so much bigger and nuanced than I gave myself time for. You're right though, and understanding the role of even just a normal Wehrmacht soldier in WWII is an argument that will probably never be fully agreed upon. Was he evil? Or was he disillusioned by his countrymen? Sure, he was a "nazi" but is he the same as Deathshead? How do we reconcile a young man swept up in the third reich? Tough stuff. Thanks for watching.

@CharcharoExplorer

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah dont mention it. In all honesty I think id rather judge the GRUNTS (the normal soldiers) individually. The Soviet army (and the USSR in general) was both much stronger than Nazi Germany and much worse, with its soldiers raping and pillaging and letting the Warsaw Uprising slaughter happen. But the Soviet soldier isnt an evil entity, he is just human, same for all others. Some of them were twisted and demented for sure, hell I remember watching a video at school of a US soldier marauding the teeth of dead Japanese soldiers to sell them for profit, stealing from the dead and acting without respect for them (which is a war crime, even if not a major one). Or reports of rapes from US soldiers too and French and British ones. The human condition is very complex. The evil that is the Nazi commander is complex, yet its still a human being even if one that is monstrous. I am currently writing a written review of Wolfenstein TNO and I will touch on these things. People often ask "Why do I shoot Nazis?" especially if they dont know history. Wolfenstein actually answers that and it also answers why BJ hates them, why Klaus the ex-Nazi officer hates them JUST as much as BJ (if not more) and why they suck so much. It answers why Nazis hurt Germany, why they hurt art, why they make a mockery of progress and technology, why they corrupt smart men, vapid people, why they make soldiers act out terrible deeds. It isnt as in depth as I would love, but its a lot for a video game, and downright startling for Wolfenstein (I am a major Wolfenstein fan, but whilst smart, the game was never before smart in thematic depth).

@ryanhunter226

7 жыл бұрын

Alexander Yordanov or Strasse when he speaks of his childhood being alone shy and frightened but having great intelligence ambition and vision which I noticed mirrors his beloved Führer.

This is an incredibly well-done video essay on the topic, and deserving of praise. I'm not in any position to give advice as I don't make any serious type of videos at all, but just as a viewer: add background music. The focus on just your voice can be a powerful tool, but background music will really help to set the tone of what you're currently speaking about and let you use that tool in more ways. And it's kind of subtle, but I believe it will make your essays feel more.. comfortable. Keep up the great work, regardless! I look forward to more.

I judge vids like this hard on the first minute or two of intro You had me hooked to watch it all. Great vid

I don't think people criticised the new order for political opinions. That was mostly the second game. Never saw any of that backlash for new order

Loved the video, I just beat the game after going into my backlog and I wanted more! Can’t wait to play the sequel and watch your video on that!

These videos I’ve seen from you are so amazing, sorry for not leaving comments sooner. You should feel good about yourself, these videos are amazing critiques and some of the best content when it comes to games.

Holy shit dude, you are an incredible writer. SUBBED. How have I not been here before?? Keep at it man. Yours is a channel that deserves a million subs. I think a lot more people are stating to crave LONG FORM game analysis.

@DavidOZ

6 жыл бұрын

This is really kind. It made me smile really big! Thank you and hope to see you around in the other videos. Unfortunately won't be making the Nier Automata video anytime soon.

@visualeyezdoug8158

6 жыл бұрын

DavidOZ haha. It’s okay man. I bet you have some great thoughts on it though! As that game and philosophy go hand in hand. Can’t wait to watch the Wolfenstein 2 video after I finish the game. The “book club” aspect is what I’m definitely here for. Coming here after I finish a game to hear others thoughts on it. Thank you for the work you do sir! And thank you for taking the time to reply. :-) You can bet I will probably watch every one of your vids lol.

Nice analysis i really like this kind of video i hope to see more of this.

Honestly idk where to start with this so here we go I loved this game and this critique to bits honestly like this game is probably my favorite game from 2014 the combat is extremely satisfying and idk why but when one of my fav moments for me personally was to run outside when you had to rescue Anya from the Nazi's (the end of the hospital mission when you meet her) and just running outside with an assault rifle and mowing down all of the Nazi's that were in my path it was just so satisfying. And OH MY GOD THE DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUN this was probably my most used weapon in the game i just loved running up to someone sliding and then just blasting a whole chunk out of them. The story was pretty good not the best story ever but i believed everything about the characters and never doubted that they were good characters for a minute. The level design was brilliant aswell i mean in the first mission/level you go from a plane battle to storming a beach to climbing up a castle wall and walking around the outside of a castle to then be locked in an incinerator room and to jump out of the castle before it blows up just god i could say more but i would probably go through the entire game Now to the critique i just want to say that this is one of my favorite critiques on the platform considering you were so well spoken and had everything just so well put together like it sucks that this channel and video didn't get the recognition that it deserves you've earned another sub and i wish you the best for your future projects. Also i was going to comment about 11:45 but i see that someone already did so oof From A person who loves your stuff

@DavidOZ

4 жыл бұрын

This is super kind of you! It put a smile on my face for sure. I love when this video gets some love, it was my first really actually good analysis. Don't worry about it not getting reception or whatever, I am stoked it has as many views as it does.

@jackmyers35

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidOZ That's really cool of you and i'm happy that it made you happy and was just wondering (if you ever upload again) are you going to do an analysis of wolfenstein youngblood since you have done new order and new colossus

@DavidOZ

4 жыл бұрын

I will say this - its a "probably not" for now.I didn't do The Old Blood either. I've heard lots of bad things about Youngblood too, and I am just too busy to write about bad games! KZread isnt my job, so uploads are slow as these take a lot of work. I am uploading a new one soon though.

@jackmyers35

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidOZ Ok fair enough do you what you wanna anyway wish you luck in your life and hope your next video does well

A good review. I like this game - it's a no frills shooter, with a bit of a story. That's all you need sometimes. I like the smooth simplicity of it. Give me linear anytime, I don't have the hours to spent wandering around in pretty landscapes. This is a fun blaster with a few stealth opportunities - that'll do. A great review, done with style and aplomb. Nice.

Your analysis is really putting word of my own experience of the game. Really liked the way of your layered approach. Did you reflect anything about B.J's own reflections of the killing? With both his thoughts about lost friends and his own killing. You really deserve a lot of cred for your work! It made gaming a dinner conservation with the whole family. Keep up the good work!

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

I think his inner monologues during the missions were kinda... hard to include in the video. I don't know how I feel about them. My gut reaction is that the developers wanted to make BJ seem more nuanced and emotional. I don't know if it succeeded, mainly because I think BJ is interesting for a lot of other reasons. Thank you for the kind words. This kinda stuff really means a lot.

Hey I wanna let you know you’ve done a great job dude. I personally have not touched this game. But you gave me the emotion and feeling that the game provide to the player. Thank you so much!

@jordanarellano455

6 жыл бұрын

You’ve got a new subscriber and I just saw all the other videos you have and I’m about to dive into it. I appreciate this content so much.

@DavidOZ

6 жыл бұрын

Wow. This means a whole lot! That's why I do it. Hope to see you around the comments!

I really enjoyed this video, as an aspiring writer, you give me somethings to think about...

You hit the nail on the head. This game is surprisingly artful with its commitment to writing and gameplay. As a side note, during the credits for the game is you listen in you can hear a helicopter getting closer, which I assume is Anya picking up BJ before the nuke lands. Which also characterizes the ending for BJ as him wanting the end to his story. Throughout the game he is portrayed as nothing more than tired, while being tasked with something literally impossible to do. When he crawls to see Anya's escape and recites the poem, he thinks of himself as passing the torch, therefore he can die. But BJ's inexplicable invincibility, which in itself is sort of a motif of the game, keeps him alive even after he has laid down at the end of his story allowing Anya to pick him up to be doing the same thing in New Colossus. Strange ending.

@DavidOZ

6 жыл бұрын

Definitely interesting. I've mentioned below that I wished I went more indepth with the repetition of BJ's seemingly unkillable nature. I think there is a lot to unpack there for sure. Thank you for watching!!

A really well thought out and presented video, earned you another sub. One criticism I could think of is that the ingame audio during the cutscenes you show is too low compared to the rest of the video

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, people have mentioned this. I don't know where it went wrong in editing but it did. Shouldn't happen again.

I have nothing to add to the conversation but this was a good video. Gave brain good chemicals make satisfied. Subscribed.

I a absolutely baffled as to why you don't have thousands of subscribers at least. KZread with how it is currently doesnt often recommend me quality videos but this time it presented me with a well written and thoroughly engaging channel in the comments and the video. This is one sub you earned without question and i will try to do more to promote as you easily deserve it. Now I just excited that I get to binge the rest of your content.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome. This makes me so happy. I dunno about the subscribers thing. I'm really lucky this video did so well, and grateful. Truthfully though it is frustrating sometimes because I do think, for example, my GTA video isn't so bad and I'd love people to see that one in the same volume. Anyway, not that big of a deal and I'm just pretty glad to have something at all. Hopefully the subs come. Thank you for the kind words.

Excellent video my friend, I share your love for Wolfenstein: The New Order, and thus have subscribed to your channel!

@DavidOZ

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Love this game.

Hey, this analysis video was fantastic. Best video yet. You're up there with Joseph Anderson and Matthewmatosis. I've always wanted to make my own analysis videos, and I'm hoping to eventually. It's great to get different perspectives on things too. Keep it up though. You've gained a subscriber.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is some high praise. I hope to improve a lot, so thank you for the subscription. The only real barrier to entry here is the tech side. If you're capable of capturing the footage and recording your voice, there is no better time to enter this space on KZread. Look into it, dude!

@Bigdaddymittens

7 жыл бұрын

DavidOZ There's not a lot to improve, really. Just mostly technical things. Those issues are mostly based around budgetary constraints though. Top quality writing and voice work though, man. You're bound to get a huge following on here. Keep it up.

I never relised how fucked up the mental hospital part was.

One of the most fascinating elements about this game, isn't that its a war setting, it's an apocalypse setting, similar to fallout. This appears to be especially the case in the New Colossus with it's sick twisted cheery tone. The reason I say this, is from both a narrative. The narrative is that this is a disaster, that is irreversible, the Nazis aren't gone by the end. There is no happy ending, no epilogue, and I don't think there will be. The Nazis are presented as a force of nature, representing everything twisted regarding Nazi ideology, and most encounters with the Nazis are a metaphor of this. Deathshade represents the cruel sadistic scientist side, while the SS couple represent the Aryan superiority side. The biggest aspect of how the Nazi victory is presenting more of a force of nature than an victory, is that it seems endless. When did anyone care what you did, care about how many soldiers you killed. Barely ever, you can't undo an apocalypse, and in this game despite your best efforts, you can't undo their control

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Yes. This is a great reading. If you haven't already, Writing On Games pretty much covers exactly this in his analysis of The New Order. It's smart stuff for sure!

@mini2239

7 жыл бұрын

I'll be sure to check it out then

Awesome video 🙌! Love it

"I made it this far" proof that I made it to the end where you say to comment if we made it to the end This game left me with a very strong existential feeling. As someone who loves history, reading up on WWII leaves a lump in my throat knowing that it was only a couple coincidental mistakes that caused the Nazis to lose, such as the Russian invasion. It was a very close reality that the world in Wolfenstein could have been the real world - albeit without the crazy sci-fi tech, but still a Nazi rule. Your style of commentary was excelent. Very logical points and not as much subjective input as actually trying to analyze the game from an objective angle. I'd love to see more of these types of videos. It was a very "academic" approach to discussing the video game's gameplay, world, and lore.... a type of discourse severely lacking in the gaming community. I look forward to seeing other analyses from your channel

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend. The kind words mean a lot. I have a video sorta like this one on GTA and "the American Dream." Look forward to seeing you around!

Great video on a great game.

I'm a huge Indiana Jones fan, so I was naturally drawn to Wolfenstein when I was young because they share a lot of the same DNA in many areas. Based on mid 20th century pulp stories regarding badasses taking down Nazis, and very much focusing on action and heroics that portrays the Third Reich as the bumbling, insecure, and quite frankly not that smart bullies they were as opposed to the armies of unstoppable iron men they wanted others to think of them. Seeing this video and Jacob Geller's gave me the idea for a second Indiana Jones movie if I ever wanted to make a trilogy based on my favorite action hero. How interesting would it be for Indy to have an adventure set entirely in America, and focus on his already established hatred of Nazis, only for his story to be about how he discovers how many people in his own nation, and how much of his nation's history shares with the ideals of the Nazis. By the end he could learn more about being more aware of what really makes a Nazi a Nazi, perhaps learn a thing or two from people who are hurt by segregationist laws in place in the U.S., and it could still contain all the action and thrill of what you could see in an Indiana Jones flick.

I have subscribed - more please David.

Just finished this game , was fucking amazing and so was this video very underrated keep going 👍

I really enjoyed this video! It's a great analysis, showing that there's more to Wolfenstein than just going around shooting Nazi's in the face, eventhough that is a big thing in the game. I also didn't know about the poetry in the end, used as B.J's final monologue, as someone who wants to get into poetry it is very eye opening and I'll most definitely look into it. Once again, great video and I can't wait to either see the Kingdom Hearts or the Rockstar Games videos you are willing to make. My preference goes out to Kingdom Hearts. Can't wait to see more!

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend! This is awesome. I already released a video on GTA. It is sort of my dream to try and do kingdom hearts. I don't know how realistic it is, given how enormous the lore and story is. I think I have a lot to say. You're the first to express interest in it, so I am feeling more motivated about doing it.

@b.3015

7 жыл бұрын

DavidOZ You are correct in it having a huge lore, there is no doubt about that. But since it was announced that KH3 is coming out in 2018, it is a good time to start working on it and have it ready by next year. So that gives you some time. I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud. If you want I would like to help you on the research if you'd like. :) I'm curious to see what your take on KH is if the video comes out.

I like long form content. It seems like you're a bit unsure about doing it. Don't worry, and keep at it. You'll get your audience. Subscribed.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend. I'm working on the confidence.

Watched it all. Amazing video

@DavidOZ

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, that's awesome. Hope to see you on some of the other videos!

Watching this to find a drive to complete the game. It worked 👍🏾

Great video

just suscribed bell an all, great video, I am really hyped for the new colossus, however the new order while I love the personality of the game and mostly everything, gameplay wise I tought it was just ok, you don't move fast enough for arena combat to work( Doom 2016 does this perfectly) , there aren't enough stealth mechanics on it to go that route only, so I think it is stuck between being old school and breaking the mold of call of duty while trying to be modern at the same time, and it achieves it at times and at times it just feels a bit clunky, keep up the good work

@bazzy5644

6 жыл бұрын

I did wonder many times if they wanted to do more with stealth, not only the beginning of the old blood but also the mid of the main game seem to be a perfect opportinuty to make an intricate vent system like in a stealth game work, imo. I agree on Doom 2016 did many things in gameplay better imo. The fact that BJ isn't able to jump on leges for example, the bridge level in particular gave me rages one after the other. Movement speed as well as Weapon switching were also things that weren't ideal in TNO. But as you said this game was far better than it had any right to be, i just hope the new game irons out these problems, otherwise it would be a shame. This could be the next step after Doom 2016 to be a game of the year contender.

This was great Thanks!

@DavidOZ

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom!

I never comment on videos but for you I'll make an exception. You did a really rad video and you've got a subscriber for sure . P.S In the future I would love for you to do History of .. type video . I believe you would have some great options and insights !

@DavidOZ

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! That means a lot. I'd like you to tell me a little more about that video idea. I dunno if I've seen one like that, but it sounds interesting.

@staypositivetestsubject3867

6 жыл бұрын

DavidOZ Well I've seen channels that do like a game company history but I think something different for example would be a specific genre (fps,racing, immersive sims) and you could talk about the history or what that genre brought to the gaming industry. Something like that would make you stand out . You're welcome for the words man keep making videos you have the knack for it for sure :)

I can see millions in this channel

I love these kinds of videos. what I remember enjoying most about this game was when it came out it was a refreshing change, no developer Social Club to join, it didn't have hundreds of meaningless collectibles, it didn't have annoying mini missions or side quests required to level up your character. it was just a straight-up throwback to a classic 90's first person shooter. for me a lot of the appeal of video games is the power fantasy. for reasons too personal to disclose in public comment, the feeling a sense of power in a video game is extremely important to me, as I so often lack it in real life. so for me it wasn't so much about killing Nazis or attacking racist ideology as much as it was exercising my frustration and anger with the trials and tribulations of everyday life... were you can't just blow things away with a double shotgun, where the solutions aren't so simple, where the paths to success aren't so clear, where achievement isn't guaranteed.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Yes. I think I intended to touch on all of that a bit more. I laid the foundation by talking about fantasy and violence in video games, but I never went as in depth as I could. I will on a future video for sure. This is a great comment, thanks for sharing.

I love this game so much

Great video! Yours is one of the very few channels I've seen (other than Noah Caldwell-Gervais - awesome you mentioning him in the video) that's taken a deep dive of one of my all-time favorite games. So now that The New Colossus has come out, will you review it? I adore TNO, I've played it three times. In contrast, I have very mixed opinions about the tone and characterization they go for in TNC...but I'm looking forward to your thoughts if you choose to review it!

@DavidOZ

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I really like what Noah is doing. TNC review is my next video. It's hard for me to do these videos in a timely manner, but I am trying my best. D: Not to spoil, but we had similar opinions on the new one.

Concentration camp isn't on imaginary location. It is actually Jasenovac where people were killed in "less soffisticated" ways. Frau Engel is based on Hermene Braunsteiner and Deathshead are based Joseph Mengele. Also, entire resistence is made out of "undersirable". While setting is exaguarated, their actions are not. They are actually portrayed very realistically.

Old Blood was a great game, just like New Order. But the feel, the vibe of going back to the place that reminisces of the old, old games. Taking in the scenery feels great, nostalgia at it's finest.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I will definitely visit it at some point. Working too hard on videos right now to do that but I am excited.

@edwardconsole6721

7 жыл бұрын

DavidOZ Hey David thank you so much for replying man, all KZreadrs make promises to reply, small channels or bigger ones. But you kept it. :D whenever you get to review Old Blood would be great to talk about the musicality, or the ending song :)

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

See now you have got me interested. I've never really gotten a chance to talk about music. Thank you for watching

@edwardconsole6721

7 жыл бұрын

DavidOZ :) no problem man, today's been an average day but talking to a KZreadr that talks about a game I love in such way means something. I'm honored :)

U just earned a sub, and do the Rockstar Contemporary games retrospective. Great channel

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Should be next! at least GTA 4 should be. Thank you for the kind words.

12:47 no don't call them "mentally ill", that makes it sound like you are trying to justify their actions

I enter that room and kill everything with pistol, even the robots hahaha. Feels great.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

I LOVED the pistol in this game.

@bazzy5644

6 жыл бұрын

If the upgrade mechanic would've given a introducition as well. I alreated so many commanders just becasue i didn't knew you had to put on the silencer yourself for it to be active.

So how did bro not move for 14 years and start fighting like he can still bench a car. No rehab needed, all you need is a knife and your back to full strength

@shitlordflytrap1078

7 ай бұрын

Because he's a chad.

You're a very bright man you gotta new sub😎😎

Please please keep making these videos. There's such a small amount of people that take the time to talk about serious issues like this in video games and how important they can be. I'm a strong believer that video games are art and I'm happy to know I'm not the only one. Im glad that you understand the importance of philosophy and big ideas in media and I hope you can help educate the masses about the importance of this form of art and that video games are not just for kids but in reality can be great learning tools for anyone.I'm proud of you for taking the time to make this video and please please keep it up. Thank you much and know that you know have a permanent subscriber. I hope your channel grows rapidly and I hope you find success through this medium.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is so nice! It's comments like these that make writing these videos easy. Next video might take a while but i'm in the business of quality not quantity. Thank you for the support.

This was the only game I grabbed all the collectibles in my history of gaming

Good shit

Great video!! Will you make a video about the New Colossus when it comes out?

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I'll try to make it as close to launch as possible.

@lunar_trooper

7 жыл бұрын

Woooooo hype :)

You need more bloody subs

The only thing that annoys me about this game and the series in general are the forced combat sections. I love the game to death but sometimes it feels like the game wants you to fuck up stealth. Of course boss fights are a different thing. I'm talking about for example the bunker in the first level, where you enter and the dude spots you over 100 metres.

The craziest part of this game is how Blazkowicz retained all of that muscle mass and strength after 14 years of being bedridden. They don't even explain it away with "they helped him work out" or anything, we're just left to wonder how

@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943

2 жыл бұрын

When I first played the game the asylum shoot out caught me off guard, he just snapped out of it and became a forced to be recokened with, after FOURTEEN YEARS OF BEING STATIONARY IN A CHAIR!

@sydssolanumsamsys

2 жыл бұрын

@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 he's bj fucking blazcowicz

This was a great Vid. But i have a few suggestions. First your twitter link on your channel doesn't work (takes me back to the channel). Secondly i would prefer if you could include timestamps for skipping. If for example i just want to hear about story or mechanics and on that note its a bit much praise for the gameplay, imo. The checkpoints are the most annoing parts i've seen form a game in a long time and i really don't think this is a small critisim either, because the setback can waste so much time for literally nothing, also the bullet spongeness of the heavy dudes should be mentioned here as well. To make it short i would love to have a breakdown of gameplaymechanics and story, if you're willing to do so. Something personal at the end its a damn shame that channels such as yours are litterlly completly ignored by youtube, had i not looked up wolfenstein tno in particular i had never found you! keep it up!

@DavidOZ

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hans. In all of my most recent videos, I've included timestamps. I will do it for this one, it's way over due. Thanks for pointing out the twitter link. As you can see, I am no professional KZread uploader. hahah. As far as the lack of viewership, it's fine. The people that do watch me I think have a much higher chance of interacting with the content and being kind. I'll take that ratio over lots of views for now. It's crazy anyone finds these videos at all given the boring titles and stuff, haha. Thank you for watching!

BJ is Jewish, its a point that is brought up at several points in the game

I''m so glad u addressed the people claiming this game is liberal propaganda, it was annoying because not only did it make the right look bad but it's just delusional and not even correct since wolfenstein has always been a game about killing nazis.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It is very revealing about the people who would say such a thing.

@bazzy5644

6 жыл бұрын

It just felt like you spent far to much time on making that statment, i would prefer to have such a statment in a side note and quickly moving on next time, tbh.

A bit overdue comment, but damn, what a great video! I also enjoyed the game very much and I appreciate you helping me pinpoint some of the elements that make it so fun. What I especially loved about the game is how unapologetically anti-nazi it is. With the inclusion of Nazi super-soldiers and domination, it could be very easy to make the game a Wehraboo’s dream, and yet it is anything but. It does not try to find a “honourable nazi” among the soldiers, it does not equivocate or show much sympathy towards these monsters. Yeah, the main character did just massacre a captured Nazi officer with a chainsaw - do not act like you did not want that to happen. The one “good” Nazi soldier, Klaus, drives that point home - the only good nazi is the one that stopped being one. About the concentration camp scene, I am personally not sure what to think about it. I’m Polish, and so the war and the holocaust especially are the things I learned about from a very young age. Fun fact: for a long time after the war, it was considered unacceptable for anyone that did not go through the holocaust to create any sort of art about it. That cultural, multigenerational taboo combined with a simple fact I personally know and talked a few older folk who lived in Poland at the time, make the holocaust and Nazi camps generally a very serious issue. Seeing this stuff in a video game, even though it was executed just fine, kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I do not think the creators have done something wrong, but I absolutely do get how some may be critical of the scene.

Further to what some have said elsewhere the game doesn't show the Nazis as being all cackling villains - even if without a doubt they are authoritarian supremacists who despise instead of accepting weakness as an inherent part of the human condition - and indeed the Nazis constantly come up short physically. Still it is hard not to feel a little pang of guilt when one of the guards is angrily castigating his younger colleague for ignoring the fact that uberconcrete is clearly unsafe, how it is causing them all to have health problems and it is affecting his family. He even says when his younger colleague insists - all evidence to the contrary that everything is fine and their leaders would never lie to them - "stop being so blue eyed!", thus instead of blue eyes being evidence of 'pure aryan racial stock' it is evidence of stupidity.

I think another thing a lot people miss is the second games message of unity. In that game you team up with communist, anarchist and all different types of folk and people took that as anti capitalism/democracy. It’s not about what form of government the nazis are, It’s a message that despite the differences in the ideas about the government, an authoritarian racist regime needs to be taken down.

12:33 Yes, man

26:22 You have selected the name "Not Sure". Is this correct?

Yo tek a look at Battelfild 3 Battelfild 4 battelfild 1 Battelfild 5 and battelfild hardlin

Wolfenstein the new order is amazing

Addendum to other comment: it is Wilhelm Strasse, not Strauss.

Fergus is scotsman

An open world wolfenstein could be fun and would guarantee much more time to play the game besides the main story which is 5+ hours

Play the Old Blood, it's an awesome game, I liked it a little more than the new order

35 minutes strong

1:20 If you were a bit aware of the game market, there are more non-violant games than violant ones. Now you might play with definitions but no... most games are not about butchering people by your bear bloody fists. Also all games are not AAA games. Most are mobile games or small 2D games. The best ones are about having a challenge and putting up a bloody fight I agree, but they win the race because the have an interesting challenge for the player.

Set Roth isn't spiritual, and the da'at yichud technology isn't supernatural. It is even said so in the game by set

I loved the action and setting of the game, but wasn't a fan of the in-between level hub area missions

Regarding the "politics" of the game, cod has been depicting russians, japanese, nazis etc as pure evil for decades now, and there's nothing wrong with portraying them in such a way, its art, and art that is clearly fictional, its not meant to be takes in the context of the real world or interpreted as a political statement, not all german soldiers in ww2 agreed with hitlers ideologies (a lot of innocent kids who fought barely know what they were fighting and eventually died for), but that is not set in or has any relation to the world of the game, in the game's world nazi soldiers are comically evil and its extremely cool and entertaining, and that's the point of entertainment, the fact the game has a lot of minorities in the resistance is properly contextualized too and makes sense within the context of the game. Im usually the first to hate when games infuse radical ideologies and sjw politics into their games (like black ops cold war, where its forced and the main character suffers for it) but that's far from the case for Wolfenstein. Also your video is great, its a shame you get so little views man, you definitely deserve way more, especially considering this video is 4 years old now.

The best fps game since the second half life.

26:00 It isn't a "true" war story this quote sums up why I prefer the latter (genius.com/5082046 )

I just finished this game for the first time yesterday. A quick question: Did they state that Anya is pregnant during the span of TNO? I know the reveal trailer for The New Colossues shows she's preggers but I don't think they said that in this game.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

True... I want to say they do talk about it in TNO, but I'm probably making that up from when I saw it in the trailer. Huh. Thanks

@GamerGuy1157

7 жыл бұрын

Nah they never mentioned it in TNO, I think it was only added in TNC after TNO finnished.

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

huh. My mistake then.

@bazzy5644

6 жыл бұрын

What about the audio dieries form her sis. The first line she said to bj kinda made me think about how she maybe wanted to hint about it. It was something like ".. she had many secrets within her" but maybe the TNC promo footage made me just link a simple phrase to it. Didn't hear those diaries in game yet i have to say.

@ 17:49 Scot not brit

Fergus is Scottish btw

Coming off Wolfenstein 2009, the later games was disappointing because of the linear gameplay. And 2009 was a open sandbox with exploration

Too bad I can't replay this on my RX 480...

@DavidOZ

7 жыл бұрын

no way? :( Doesn't work w/ AMD? I had performance issues and I was on a 1070... Locked at 60fps too.

@bazzy5644

6 жыл бұрын

This engine is a damn piece of crap and i do not even own an AMD card. But still the texture streaming issues and the performance problems to this day on a 9 or 10 gen Nvidia card is a damn tesxtiment of how bad id Tech 5 really is. Glad to hear the new game runs on id tech 6. Doom showed how fucking perfect a game can be on there. Literally the best running game i ever played. Even freaking HL 2 has drops every now and then Doom had no drops at all.

8:42