Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?

I'd LOVE to hear the explaination from the 1 downvote.
- Playing devil’s advocate here. It’s probably people who think no matter what, every single life is precious and should be preserved.
  Edit: I feel like I should probably add that I do not agree with this ideology whatsoever. Facists deserve a good beating
  
  It’s probably people who think no matter what, every single life is precious and should be preserved.
  I doubt it's that, simply because the OP is not talking about doing anything to anyone in the real world.
- 4 explanations are needed now.
  
  "Nazi" x5
  There's all the explanation you need.
- You expect Nazis and their sympathizers to have a brain and form coherent sentences, huh?
  I fear, there are at least some who do and those are even more dangerous than the typical braindead Nazi.
- 6 of them now lol crazy there are that many.
- Genuinely? I think there are always a couple trolls downvoting anything and everything, or people who can't resist being contrarian for the sake of it. I see downvotes applied to on-topic, factually correct, and completely uncontroversial posts and comments all the time. For example, go to any cute animal community. You'll find various inoffensive pictures of the animals, with zero incorrect assertions because it is literally just a picture, and at least a few of these pictures of critters the entire community is about (so it's on-topic) will have a few downvotes anyways. Same principle could apply here. If there are lots of upvotes I almost expect to see a few downvotes as "noise" from trolls.
  Also because Lemmy has Local and All, maybe there are people who, not caring that the community is Games, see this in their Local/All feed and do not like video games or Wolfenstein so they just hit downvote for "dislike" and move on.
  Sometimes I fat-finger my phone and downvote something I didn't mean to. I always take it back, but I imagine not everyone would undo their accidental downvote. Especially if the sequence is downvote -> crash -> reopen tabs -> wait where was I, whatever I don't care enough to undo one downvote online
  
  I’ve also downvoted things on accident before. Not yet on Lemmy because I have to more deliberately choose through Voyager. But it’s only a matter of time.
- The type of 'anger management' described in the OP is unhealthy and doesn't even help you feel better, short or long term. 'Blowing off steam'/venting literally does the opposite of what most people believe it does.
  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feeling-angry-chilling-out-helps-more-than-blowing-off-steam/
  Edit: Looks like some people don't like being called out for their unproductive behavior, lol. I answered the question.
  It's getting harder and harder each day to tell this place apart from Reddit, lol.
  
  I don't think they are trying to decrease/cool down their anger. I think they are trying to engage in it.
  I'll be honest, as long as people are not acting awful towards their fellow human beings (like taking out anger on a person who has nothing to do with it, punching someone over cutting in line at the bank) I do not particularly mind if people are increasing their anger and aggression instead of decreasing it. Jogging it out and getting angrier is still far better than punching it out at a person, especially since you probably still reap the health benefit of jogging.
  Thanks for the link though, fun read! I guess we should go to bed angry ;) Clicking one of the links in the article you linked was pretty interesting…
  One man in the rumination group became so angry while hitting the punching bag that he also punched a hole in the laboratory wall.
  My concerned side worries for that guy and the budgets of the people doing the research but most of me says "that's just funny".

For no reason at all? No, no, no. For all of the right reasons? Oh, for sure.

In wolfenstein? No.
- Blasting Nazis in wolfesntein is fun but not as fun as the real thing >:3
- Ah a CoD player.
  
  Or John Brown club

"No reason"
They're nazis, friend! That's all the reason we need!

I've been punching nazis and Italian fascists (as well as shooting, crushing skulls with heavy objects, blowing them up etc) in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle since around christmas.
It's a great time.

Waiting for Sniper Elite blow Elon's balls off DLC
- Why not LARP it?
  
  Because Elon's balls are nonexistent. At least he still has the heart and brain, however small and hard of a target they are.

Also Sniper Elite 4 and 5, and The Saboteur. The Saboteur has boobies and we can all agree on boobies.
- I just looked it up, very positive reviews and very cheap. No mention of boobies in the feature list but it has this:
  Key features:
  First Ever Open-World Paris
  Thank god, FINALLY someone did it.
  
  the campaign is really cool in coop btw.
  Edit: I mean the campaign in Sniper Elite 4/5
- I suggested we play Sniper Elite 4 to my girlfriend recently. She's not usually one for shooter games (she's more of a Stardew Valley/Animal Crossing/Cozy Grove/Coral Island type of gamer), and I wasn't sure she'd like it. She thought she wouldn't, but she's happy to try out a suggestion of mine every once in a while even if she thinks we won't play it much.
  We loaded into San Cellini island and she initially struggled with the controls and how to aim and shoot. The gravity and wind effects weren't super easy to grasp either (she's on the Steam Deck as well, making it slightly harder to aim too). She accidentally shot a couple times as I was giving her a quick tutorial, which attracted a Nazi soldier to investigate and try and shoot her (which scared her a bit as she got hit). Off to a rocky start, and I could tell she wasn't enjoying it at all.
  We got to the first tower, where the game gives you a pretty good view of the area and lets you fairly securely shoot a bunch of Nazi soldiers. Time to shoot! Here we learned she gets a bit jumpscared if the game suddenly shows you a slow-motion killcam, especially if I was the one triggering it. Again, not a great start for her.
  She struggled, but did hit a couple of them. Then on the 3rd or 4th kill, the game showed her the magic words after the kill: "TESTICLE SHOT". This caught her completely off guard, immediately exclaiming "WAIT DOES THAT MEAN I SHOT HIS BALLS OFF?!". I have never witnessed her doing a complete 180 degrees turn on her opinion of a game. Suddenly the game became extremely enjoyable for her. The first time she had a killcam where she could see the Nazi balls pop one after the other was like giving her crack cocaine or something. Total bloodlust.
  We've played through the entire campaign in a span of two weeks, then the DLC, the overwatch missions (twice to play both roles) and now the survival maps. Every evening after dinner she asks if we can "shoot more Nazi balls". Her spirit animal is Hugo Stiglitz at this point.
  God I love that woman.
  
  Just, uh, be careful if she shows a sudden interest in certain "relationship aids" just in case it was less about what the balls were attached to than the pure act itself
- The Saboteur is a lost gem that everyone should play.

Let the mods flow in (as in game mods, not moderators...)

Hmmm, reinstalling Wolfenstein doesn't sound too bad.
- I've been toying with the idea. So many good memories from New Colossus. It might be linear, it's such a great story. Not Shakespeare great, but honest b-movie great.
  
  I agree with that. I think it's time for Terror-Billy to go on a rampage again.
  
  I can just see the NSA nerds now, "Sir, we have seen a severe uptick in downloads and installations of the video game 'Woflenstein'... We must do something to stop the propaganda!"
  Edit: You know what, I'm gonna leave the typo because I think it makes it even more funny.

Wolfenstein 3D was woke propaganda. At least that will be the official article if Trump and the right get their hands on Wikipedia like they've already said they want to.
- they already said that the last couple of games
  
  Sadly, I believe this almost without question.

Not for "no reason at all"

Blasting Nazis needs no reason

I was literally googling earlier today to see if there were any updates on the next installment. Maybe it was subconsciously influenced by current events?
- Machine games has been working on Indiana Jones for the last few years, I doubt we'll see anything for a while.
  
  Hold up, so they went from making the Wolfenstein games, to making an Indiana Jones game where (according to people here) you beat up Nazis?
  Based studio...

bj would have been beyond devastated about what is happening now
- There's a line in New Colossus where he's in the USA during a parade for the Nazis and everyone is cheering and he says something like "look at them, cheering for their own destruction" and I keep being reminded of it
- BJ saw it in 60s US, and you know what he did?
  He got to work.

I've had some fun Anti-Nazi movies playing while I work-from-home lately, like Inglourious Basterds and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
- More and more, I've been coming back to Inglorious Basterds as possibly being QT's best film.
  It is just so goddamn good.
- I recommend The Dirty Dozen. It came out in the 60s, so you're not getting Tarantino level gore. However, it gets so close to that line anyway.
- Don't forget Fury!

But 2nd amendment states your duty as a citizen to grab a gun and defend against nazis irl?

Remember folks, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory lives on as an open source project.

Brutal Wolfenstein is a very fun game, you truly get to experience spilling Nazi blood :3

:Alt+Tab out of Wolfenstien: What?

Shadowrun: Dragonfall has a satisfying mission where you get to shoot up a neo-nazi compound.

Someone is going to release a Trump administration reskin and it's going to be spectacularly popular.

I was actually thinking about picking it up now

I would suggest Indiana Jones and the great circle as well for this.
- I'm on PS5 so that'll have to wait until some point this spring.
  
  I look forward to it.

I'd love a new Wolfenstein-style game that diverges from the simple divide of giving them helmets.
It's simple morbid truth that these people are human beings, who have committed their minds to unimaginable cruelty. It'd be fun to have more games about reciprocating that cruelty.
Mortal Kombat's fatalities gave me a big ick factor when they leaned into cruelty and pain (and thankfully turned towards looney creativity to be entertaining). But I could see the former being a bit more valid when there's universal reasoning behind why it's being applied.

It's not for no reason.

If you have a Quest you can return to Castle Wolfenstein in VR.

Yeah absolutely, really itching to just bash the first smarmy fascist I see.
In minecraft, y'know?

I played the original on Apple ][.
It's ALWAYS been a good time to kill nazis.

it doesn't have to be Wolfenstein specifically. i've been blasting some in Metro not too long ago.

I've been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein! Having a blast revisiting a childhood classic and blasting through Nazi scum

All those old games: Wolf3D, Mario Bros...

The New Order broke me
- That's gonna be America pretty soon.

I need to finish the game.

Wut?

https://x.com/wolfenstein/status/956287192271347712?lang=hi
- Fuck X.

You want to travel back to the 1940s?
- Plenty of nazis running around today. No time travel needed.
  
  True I did see a lot online excusing Biden sending money to kill kids & saying people should vote for Kamala even though she said she'd pay Israel to kill kids too.
- Fun fact: Wolfenstein first released in 1981 as Castle Wolfenstein, and the famous one is 1992 Wolfenstein 3D. The Wolfenstein people usually talks about these day is the one made by MachineGames. There's no known Wolfenstein released in 1940s.
- You are just a downvote factory my friend.