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AngryLittleAlchemist on 17 November 2017
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shikamaru317 said:

I'm surprised to see how well Shadow of Mordor did. Guess the lootbox controversy and fake charity controversy didn't hurt it much at all.

The stand-out losers of the month to me are Wolfenstein 2 and Evil Within 2, neither made the top 10 on their debut month. That's not so bad for Wolfenstein 2 since it only had a few days of sales (though AC released the same day and managed #2) but it is pretty bad for Evil Within 2 which had 2 weeks of sales on the month. They don't include digital, but even with digital included I doubt either would have made it higher than #7. 

I wouldn't be too concerned about Wolfeinstein 2. It's sales were probably good for what they were. The bigger problem is, it's sales will probably be massively frontloaded.

I honestly expected Game of the Year material from Wolfenstein 2. The original game had a lot that could be built on. I love the idea of mixing stealth with action and I think it's ideas are more interesting than Doom's. The problem is neither The New Order or now 2 seem to come anywhere close in terms of quality.

I wanted to pick up Wolfenstein 2 but things just spiraled out of control. First I heard reports that the game was too hard. I shrugged it off. Then I heard the Kinda Funny Games cast say it was too difficult on normal. I shrugged that off too, they're extremely casual considering how much they play games. Than Dishonored Wolf...a big fan of Wolf 1, said that 2 was a terrible game, that it terribly balanced the combat and stealth, and that 3 out of 6 hours were cutscenes. Now i'm fucking worried. Then SuperBunnyHop makes a video about how the story is amazing ... and ... nothing else. The game is too hard on consoles, with a huge disparity between the PC and controller(supposedly because of mouse controls?), the game is too short, the game has better combat but you can never do it because it's too hard, and the game gets worse near the end. Even worse, Wolfenstein PC ports have proved rather inconsistent, my port of the first game was quite terrible. I'm a PC gamer and I love difficult games, but this is too much for me going by what others have said.

So no matter what, you're playing the game in a non-desirable scenario. Amazing.