Dear C3PX and Ringo (since everyone else is still on ignore),
I just finished a 10 hour run through Wolfenstein (the recent one). Relatively 'meh' though I'm not sure why. It's very much like COD1-3 in the sense that you're shooting Nazis and have some freedom loving soldiers joining you in the fight, you use iron sights, etc... But then there are all of the supernatural elements. Which are pretty cool.
But for some reason, this doesn't gel into a must-have-experience for me. I like all of the elements. And it's decently fun to play. But never completely compelling.
And now a word about the achievements- a full 50% are online only and I won't be pursuing those. I never really heard about the MP for this game, so I can only assume it was neither hotly anticipated or better than everyone's low expectations.
The SP achievements are about half "you'll get them as long as you play the game" and half "you'd be insane to get all of these." There were two that I didn't have after finishing the game that I thought were worth a few minutes to go back and get.
Perhaps that was part of my disinterest in the game. I hope not, because that would make me quite the shallow gamer... But I'm investigating the posibility. Perhaps had I been more regularly rewarded (finding 100 pieces of Nazi gold (which I did) as well as finding all of them (which I didn't)). I ended up with ~300 points off of it, ~100 of it all came together at the very end of the game. It only took me 10 hours, so it's a better pph than, say, the 120+ hours I sunk into Oblivion for 1250 points.
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In related news, I'm playing/enjoying my son's allowance purchased copy of Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions. This probably ranks just below Web of Shadows for me, which ranked just below my memory of Spider-Man 2... The additional of the Noir and 2099 playstyles are pretty fresh. I'm a little disappointed in the "Ultimate" universe since it's so similar to "Amazing." And Assassin's Creed "1602" set of levels would have been awesome. But probably more expensive since it would have been a 3rd true departure in formula and playstyle like the 2099 and Noir levels. I also like that each level is based on the world of one of the villains/bosses. It really works for a Spider-Man game since playing a 20 hour game to defeat one supervillain seems like a wasted opportunity.
And the level based challenges are good for game-overachievers like myself, but so far have put few requirements on my underachieving/uninterested son.
And the Deadpool level is pretty funny. Not the funniest rendition of Deadpool that I've seen/read. But not bad.