Wolfenstein was a series I went into with really low expectations. From what I'd seen, it looked a little cartoonish to me, and when I first started playing, my reaction was pre…

Wolfenstein was a series I went into with really low expectations. From what I'd seen, it looked a little cartoonish to me, and when I first started playing, my reaction was pretty much, okay, it's another shooting game. By the time I got through the series, it was in my top five game series of all time. I loved the hell out of it. The mechanics, the gunplay, even the way the reloading worked. It was an amazing experience, and it ended up being so much more than I expected when I first picked it up. I absolutely loved going through it. I wanted to talk about DOOM alongside it because that's another series that completely blew past my expectations. I grew up playing some of the older DOOM games, but I still went into the modern trilogy with my expectations nowhere near as high as they should have been. I loved the gameplay. Both of these series gave me some amazing playthroughs, and I'm really glad I took the time to go through them. I'm a little behind on some of the newer DOOM content, so I still need to go back and catch up on that. I'm looking forward to revisiting it. There's also some really interesting history connecting Wolfenstein, DOOM, and Commander Keen. I want to get into that separately, because some of it comes straight from the original developers, and some of the things people connect are references and Easter eggs. I'll get into those next.