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Wolfenstein 2: Nazi Killing Boogaloo

I left at 8pm but they legit are playing Wolfenstein 2 and projecting it to a nearby wall.
 
So I had gotten up to most of the way through the final sub sequence on my first playthrough (Fergus' timeline), and, as often happens when I'm playing a lot of a game because I'm really enjoying it, I burnt out. Couldn't muster up the effort to finish it. It sucks, but it's a pretty predictable pattern by now. And stupidly enough, it often happens that I'm right before the end of the game when I burn out. Happened in so many games by now.

Yesterday, I had a scare with my computer. I spent hours trying to fix it. All signs pointed to a hardware issue, that had taken out either the motherboard, the CPU, or both. Looked like I was up for between $250 and $900 AUD to get it up and running again, which I do not have. Today, after sleeping on the issue (and then sleeping in, as between multiple issues, I was up for twenty-two hours yesterday), I fixed it in five minutes, after trying the idea I had while falling asleep last night.

So I spent a good chunk of today playing video games after it was fixed. Fired up New Colossus for the first time in a few months, reacquainted myself with the controls, gave Fergus back his arm, and boarded the Auzmerzer. That was fun. And the final battle, with the giant robots? Awesome. I had picked up the Ubergewehr (hereafter referred to as the Hellgun, because its link with DOOM 2016 is obvious), but found that using it on more than the first two Supersoldats left me too slow, and I'd get cut down by the normal troopers while trying to take on the next two pairs of Supersoldats. So I stashed it in a corner bunker, and went to town with dual-wielded assault rifle and rotary shotgun, my preferred combo - switching to shottie and laserkraftwerk when I needed to take down a supersoldat arsehole. Then the door at the far end was kicked down and the two giant robots dual-wielding Hellguns came out. Smaller than the really big Zitadelle robots seen earlier in the level and here and there before in the game, but much more mobile and durable. The first one took like four or five dead-on blasts from my Hellgun, sprinting after each shot to avoid return fire, before he blew. The second one ate two Hellgun blasts, but then I had to ditch it to deal with some normal troopers who had come up, only to sprint out of the way as the remaining giant robot used its jetpack to almost crush me, landing on my Hellgun. I switched to shottie and LKW, standing less than twelve feet from it, aimed up, and unloaded into its crotch. A fair chunk of my LKW's battery and a lot of shotgun rounds later, I had to switch back to the assault rifle and shottie to deal with some troopers, but after switching I had a second, and fired once more into the robot. It must have been so close to death, because it immediately blew, taking both of the troopers who were advancing past it with it. Then I advanced to the bridge, where Anya was amazing, then we all went and said 'hello' to Frau Engel on live television.

The credits were great - the music was jarring at first, and I thought the original Twisted Sister version of We're Not Gonna Take It would have worked better, but after the first bit of lyrics was over, and it was just guitars and drums, it worked better. Then when the lyrics came back, I don't know if I had grown used to the cover artists or if they had legitimately gotten better, but it seemed more fitting, especially with the scenes of the population of America rising up, with radio chatter interspersed with the lyrics. And the scene from the TV studio in the middle of the credits, where BJ recovered his mother's ring and proposed to Anya? So great.

I'm pretty sure I saw some of those Appalachian Mountains Resistance members in the credits - they must be the survivors from when the Auzmerzer crushed most of them, earlier in the year. (which I'm pretty sure is why we never made contact with them - Frau Engel had the Auzmerzer wipe them out at some point, before we could. There's a newspaper article or two that talks about it)

I know New Colossus has been on some deep discounts since pretty soon after launch, which is usually a sign that a game has commercially failed. (Unfortunately, it looks like all those idiots going on about boycotting it actually made a difference to sales, unlike the last time people like them said similar things, for Mad Max: Fury Road, which ended up being a massive success because of all the people who were attracted to it for the same reasons idiots were boycotting it) But I really hope Bethesda funds Machine Games for the end of the trilogy - I'd love to see their vision of how this all ends! Maybe even meet the twins? I'm kinda hoping we even get to make it to Africa, meet the governments-in-exile, recontact Allied High Command, see how different everything is, when the better-than-Nazis-but-still-largely-racist Allies have had to spend the last thirteen years in Africa, relying on Africans to keep the last portion of Earth free from Nazi occupation.

I was so pumped when I finished it, and the credits rolled. That was a great end to a game I thoroughly enjoyed! Haven't tried the DLC yet, but I think I'll get all the Ubercommanders, first. Really make a clean sweep of it, wipe out the remnants of Nazi High Command.

EDIT: Also, how terrified must all of the Nazi bastards on the Auzmerzer been in that final assault? It's literally two people, but they are carving their way through the Reich's best! Supersoldat after Supersoldat go down, they arm the crew, after sealing all the blast doors parts of the Auzmerzer are being just smashed through/Terror-Billy is turning up on the other side of the closed blast doors (depending on Ramshackle/Constrictor Harness usage), a Zitadelle gets just... casually destroyed (at least, that's how it happened on my playthrough, couple charged laser shots to the head took it out easily), the ready magazines are emptied of supersoldats and the prototype super robots get destroyed by a weapon that most of them have probably heard only rumours of, and somehow he has it! ...and that's not even mentioning the shit that Anya's probably getting up to, considering her showing on the bridge! We must have seemed like forces of nature (or, as one poster said earlier, the Golem of Prague (what's written on the scroll: 10 KILL NAZIS 20 GOTO 10) and his Polish serial killer girlfriend), just... nothing stood in our way!
 
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So!

I just bought the game!

...How do you get past the first level, where you're trapped in a wheelchair?
 
Don't get into any drawn out gunfights; you can't afford it due to your low health. Make liberal use of cover, line of sight, take down your opponents quickly, etc.
 
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