So Toby has finished playing Wolfenstein: The New Order and its DLC, and has started playing Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. If you don't remember, Toby and I had taken to calling the Wolfenstein game Captain Manpain Punches Nazis. He almost didn't get through the first one because of the manpain monologing by the hero, but he enjoyed the actual gameplay enough--and has heard enough good things about the gameplay--that he was willing to at least start it.
There's still plenty of monologuing--a thing that occasionally occurred in the previous game and has occurred at least once in this one is the hero dreaming of lazing on a lawn chair at a suburban cookout in a war-free world, while his voiceover says "In my dreams, I smell a barbecue. I see children, a dog, and I see someone. I think I see someone. These things, none of it for me. I move by roarin' engines, among warriors. We come from the night." Other quotes include "Death at the gates again. Howling my name. Can't greet you today. I have a war to win." and "I was a kid, we had a monster in our basement. My father said if I'd done wrong it would creep out at night and come for me. I tried to do no wrong, but the monster came all the same."
He also does things like (SPOILER FOR THE NEW ORDER IF YOU CARE) OKs a nuclear strike on his location while he's still there because DEATH COMES FOR ME etc.
Anyway, I figure it might entertain us if I come up with a Manpain Bingo card, so now I'm looking for examples of manpain to put on it. It won't work if I come up with all of them because I'll just come up with all the examples I've seen him do in the game so far and get a bingo before even starting. :)
If it's at all germane, the games are set in an alternate early 1960s where the Nazis won WWII and have taken over the US (presumably the second game is about liberating the US, given what we've seen so far) along with some super-science so there's things like robot attack dogs (PANZERHUNDS!) and mecha suits. The hero is part of an underground resistance group. (As is his (MINOR SPOILER) pregnant girlfriend so I fully expect some fridging in that arena, although they did surprisingly manage to avoid fridging her in the first game.)
Anyway, we basically think he superheroes through the game fueled by the power of his WAAAAANGST and need to come up with a way to tolerate it enough that Toby can enjoy the actual gameplay parts and so I can enjoy Toby enjoying them as he's so entertaining to watch game. :)
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