Been on a fun little kick playing the Sniper Elite series and the Wolfenstein series and want some suggestions for what can replace it once I run out of campaign missions to do in those games.
While I would love to replay the campaign missions of COD, I ain’t paying like $30-60 for a two decade plus old game from EA. While I do prefer shooting nazi nazis, I don’t mind suggestions that have you shooting fascists in general.
Not interested in debating politics, just wanna shoot nazis.
i am not sure there are any politics to debate , killing nazis is good.
you could try the old.medal of honor or, for a good story but also old- brothers in arms.
Oh, there would be debate from reddit admins on that one.
Reddit admins would debate shooting videogame Nazis? Wtf? Things going on in GTA aren’t the same?
GTA 7 should be a time traveler, stealing Panzerkraftwagen IV and shoot Nazis.
Man I love how dumb German sounds when you translate it. Tankpowerwagon sounds so much less intimidating.
The Saboteur is basically GTA in Nazi occupied Paris…
they usually ban people for even mentioning violence or even INSINUATING IT/inneuendos.
Collected my two permabans for that exact reason.
Hard agree, but there are oftentimes apologists who are summoned from these posts or the people who make the argument that idolizing violence against anyone is abhorrent (nazis have families too!! etc etc), which to an extent I can agree with. However I have two history degrees which has given me insight on many topics, one being that non-violent resistance to true tyranny is a borderline myth. I subscribe to the paradox of tolerance .
Good news is fediverse has zero tolerance for that bullshit.
I’m proud to say that Lemmy largely does not subscribe to the modern media “all violence is bad” mentality. Everyone with a functional brain knows that’s bullshit. Even the people who supposedly agree with that idea support the police’s use of violence sometimes. The monopoly of violence by the state is just a useful thing they push to keep people in line, and it’s mostly not a thing here.
i am not sure there are any politics to debate , killing nazis is good.
Yeah but it has to be in the context of videogames, or it’s “iNciTiNG viOLeNcE” or some shit.
Kind of a problem how nazis in WW2 games are quite different from the wannabe-fascists and fascists of today. You mostly kill drafted soldiers in those games, and if you think about it too much, those are probably the people who least deserve their gruesome deaths.
Makes it not work for me as a safety valve.
A bunch of devotees to fanatical idiots leading a cult…Far Cry 5 might scratch that itch since it’s mostly white dudes in militia garb trying to “purify” everything
not interested in debating politics. Just want to shoot Nazis
That made me cry a little. So beautiful.
Indiana Jones, you hit them over the head with a spade and somehow this made me flinch more than mowing 200 of them down
Got immense satisfaction playing this game last year for exactly this reason
I’m amazed we got that game properly told as is tbh given how maga fee-fees probably got hurt over it.
I mean, who the hell else is Indy gonna fight?Punching fascists is his whole thing other than finding stuff
That is an absolutely terrible vantage point. Totally exposed to fire. If you’re gonna fight Nazis, don’t give them an easy shot.
seriously, only one side is blocked and if the sun is the wrong angle dude casts an obvious shadow.
Just finished this:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/saboteur
It’s straight up killing Nazis for about 30 hours of fun SP campaign. You play as a french resistance fighter in paris during WWII. Race cars, make wildly inappropriate innuendos, kill Nazi, rinse and repeat. Has an interesting wanted level mechanic and a stealth system with disguises. Had a few weird bugs but nothing game breaking. 8.5 / 10.
Also the last game of the legendary Pandemic Studios. It would really deserve a sequel or even a remaster.
Currently playing this, tons of fun… basically GTA with nazis and machine gun blimps. Oh and you can climb buildings, too!
I recently played through this, somehow I had never heard of it. Some parts didn’t age great but overall a very fun game. Lots of nazi killing.
Wolfenstein 3D
MEIN LEBEN!
MY LIFE! (when playing the bizzaro-world version in TNO)
Wolfenstein the New order was also good.
It was alright.
The ‘ancient jew magic’ stuff was a bit over the top.
I think first and foremost that was to be a foil to explain why the Nazis, who were historically irl incompetent, and canonically just as incompetent in game, were able to make such technology. Kinda the same logic between making jewish actors play nazis in movies, its so real nazis IRL cannot as easily idolize them. I think the whole Jewish magi-tech stuff was a bit much too, but I let it slide because it warms my heart how much it probably pisses off irl Nazis.
That was Wolfenstein 2009 wasn’t it?
The Saboteur is about an Irishmen killing nazi’s in France. Older game but was overall fun. Its like a PS3 era free-roam game.
It’s such a goofy game that hasn’t really aged well (in both gameplay and writing) but I absolutely love it
This is exactly how I feel about the game. I recommend it every chance I get. It’s goofy and it has it’s quirks but there’s just something so satisfying about slowly dismantling infrastructure in the occupied areas until colour returns to the map. I actually started a new play through yesterday.
Played it on Xbox 360 recently after it was mentioned in a similar thread. I concur about the story (and characters, mission design) but it’s fun enough in short bursts of 1-2 hours - if you go into it expecting a b-movie setting.
I did enjoy climbing buildings and silently killing Nazis. The world is surprisingly detailed, even beautiful in places. Made me suspect a lot more content/missions might have been planned but were scrapped.
What bothered me most (being prepared for the typical stuff this ‘historical setting’ is usually plagued by and the games of the time [gender stereotypes etc.]) was the Soundtrack - it’s way too short for such a long game and doesn’t fit the era.
It’s not that it didn’t age well, it was seen as very goofy when it came out, too. If I remember correctly, there was a copy protection that censored boobs in pirated versions.
Yeah, I recommend this one, it’s pretty fun.
Bloodrayne. Hot sexy vampire chick that slices up Nazi scum with arm blades? Teenaged me thought that was THE SHIT.
I got a copy of the second one for the OG Xbox when i bought some guys old console to have something to play Halo CE and Halo 2 on native hardware. I’ve been wanting to get into it for a long while ever since
Even by the standards of the time, it’s not very good. If you already have it, then try it. Otherwise, it’s cheap on GoG and I would still wait for a sale.
Is that one with the bouncy boobs cheat code?
I think the first one actually had a topless cheat code
You didn’t say “shoot Nazis (or fascists)” in shooter games specifically, so I’m going to interpret your question broadly.
In BioShock Infinite (story-heavy shooter game with some RPG elements), the main villain is some turbo-racist Nazi who runs his own “utopia.” The prior releases in the series have you facing objectivist villains, which I guess is Nazi-adjacent.
In the Jagged Alliance series (a turn-based strategy game), you control a small band of mercenaries fighting a totalitarian dictator. JA2 is a classic, though almost 30 years old by now. JA3 (released in 2023) is a more modern version and a worthy successor.
Hearts of Iron IV is a strategy game where you can literally fight the Nazis, though much of its dubious player base does the opposite. You won’t literally do the shooting though.
In Skyrim (which I’m guessing you’ve played already), there is a civil war between two factions that are basically lawful evil Nazis and chaotic evil Nazis. Though Skyrim is thin on story, at least you can decide to kill (almost) everyone.
One of the factions in Fallout: New Vegas (one of the best first-person shooter RPG’s of all time) consists of slave-driving Nazis (as much inspired by ancient Romans as the actual Nazis) called “Caesar’s Legion.” You can just go to their camp and kill everyone, including “Caesar.”
While I did have shooters in mind, I did leave it open for interpretation for any genre of game!
Never heard of the Jagged Alliance series before, but I do enjoy my turn based games. I struggle with RTS games, I like to take my time and be methodical. It’s on sale right now for quite a bit so I will consider this, seems similar to XCOM.
All the other games I’ve played before but are excellent suggestions. HOI4 has become too feature bloated imo, but it is great fun playing as Canada and building the most specialized shock troops of the allies and just shredding holes into the German front lines for the american and british troops to pour though.
In the spirit of the broad interpretation, I think an argument could be made for This War of Mine, as a resistance against fascism in the idea of surviving as ordinary citizens at all costs. But that is more so anti-war than particularly anti-fascism, although the two often go hand in hand of course.
If you do decide to try Jagged Alliance 2, get the 1.13 mod. It fixes a lot of things and adds new items and features. I still play it very often.
JA2 is indeed similar to XCOM in terms of gameplay. If you can live with the very dated graphics, the gameplay still holds up and is even better than XCOM in my opinion. There are some recent mods and patches to fix some bugs and keep the game playable on modern machines.
I’ve actually never played HOI4, the setting just doesn’t appeal to me, maybe it just hits too close to home. In terms of Paradox games I prefer CK3, though that game isn’t without its flaws.
Fallout 4 has the Brotherhood (fascists) and the Institute (fascist Nazis?). My next playthrough is going full scorched earth and burning it all down.
Enclave are the actual Nazis
but they they aren’t in FO4…
Gunners are Enclave.
Jagged Alliance 3 is the best! Really enjoyed that game
Fallout 2, Fallout 3, and Fallout NV the Nazis may have a different coat of paint but a fascist is a fascist regardless of what face they wear. Weirdly doesn’t apply to Fallout 1 since I think Unity would fall under weird form of Authoritarian Transhuman Collectivism, fuck I’ve started talking theory. In summary kill Enclave and Blòt the Romaboo larpers!
Is it bad that the Enclave is my second favorite faction besides the NCR?
The enclave as a concept of just fascinating. That is another one of my alt-hist (and occasionally irl too) fascinations, is old-government remnants and what do they do? FEDRA in The Last of Us is another one, technically the last remnant of the old USA order, but functionally has degenerated into just another authoritarian faction in the apocalypse. Arguably the Brotherhood of Steel counts too, remnant of the old world US military.
As for IRL, Taiwan is a remnant of the old chinese government before the communists took the mainland, and Belarus actually has 3 governments right now – the one currently in power , functionally a puppet to Putin/Russia, the transitional government formed abroad in 2022 hoping to replace the puppet government once given the chance, and hosted in Ottawa for over 100 YEARS is the original exiled government of Belarus from the Communist revolution in the 1910s.
Also I think there’s still some fun and explore with them, namely with a good/ morally dubious variant. In every game we’ve seen them in it’s quite obvious that the base level personnel have no clue what the Enclave is actually doing, so have fun with that make a faction of these base level guys who survived while the higher ups died make it the battle of Adams AFB from fallout 3. It’d be fun to see them being minutemen like or something because they legit believe in the ideals of Americans without any of the bad because they weren’t poisoned enough by propaganda and exposure to the wasteland helped them chill out.
But yeah they are also a really fun exploration of a remnant government still kicking around. Some other ones for you to look up would be Mount Athos and the empire of Trebizond, both were Eastern Roman remnants with Mount Athos technically still existing.
the Wolfenstein comes to mind
If you emulate the original bionic commando, you get to blow up Hitler’s preserved head in gory detail
Also cod isn’t ea.
I’d definitely recommend Mouse, P.I. . They don’t wear swastikas on their sleeve, but for how silly the game is they do take steps to show just how organized the Big Mouse Party is about fascism and oppressing minorities. Some of the first villains of the game are an army of cops that happily kidnaps shrews - “lesser” mice - into human trafficking. And you get to melt them with an acid gun.
India Jones and the Great Circle - I don’t have the hardware to play it, but I have read great things (including a pretty good story if you like the old movies.).
Yes, you get to punch and kill lots of Nazis too.
You can punch Nazis, you can shoot Nazis, you smash them with sledge hammers or shovels. Highly recommend.
It’s on my steam sale wish list, NO TICKET
I love Indiana Jones as a franchise, concept, and the look of this video game but even at 40% off it’ll be $60+ CAD which is a tough sell for one game. Base price its $90 CAD, which is more like $100+ after taxes. I’ll definitely play it eventually, but I think ill be playing the waiting game for a super steep discount.
It’s been cracked pretty much since release
It’s indeed a lot like the older movies. And it runs somewhat decently on a steam deck but expect texture pop in issues.
I thought the game was worth it.
I’m stuck in the first area of this game because I can’t stop myself from blowing my disguise so I can smash Italian fascists with lead pipes
Eating biscotti and hitting them over the head is the best 😀
