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Wolfenstein is a series of FPS games based around an alternate history WW2 involving a mix of crazy technology and the occult. In all games you play as BJ Blazkowicz, an American spy, who uncovers and stops the most dangerous schemes of the Waffen SS. The Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn8cePe-qgI This is a motion comic attempting to reconcile the wild timeline of Wolfenstein (up to the fourth game). Uh, spoilers though? I guess? 1992 The first game in the series, and one of the first FPS games in general (please don’t :sperg: about this), Wolfenstein 3D was a huge success when it was released. The plot is pretty straightforward; BJ was trying to find plans about a secret Nazi weapon, and got captured. So then you escape Castle Wolfenstein and find the secret weapon, revealed to be undead cyborgs. You kill the mad scientist in charge of that operation, then for kicks, decide to infiltrate Hitler’s bunker and kill him, too. Did your history teacher skip the part where Hitler had a mech with chainguns on it? The American education system fails more students… Thanks for Elliotw2 for reminding me that you can play the entire first game in your browser! Head to http://3d.wolfenstein.com/game_NA.php to do so! GET PSYCHED 1992 This is a prequel to Wolf 3D, released the same year. I’m a horrible jerk because I’ve never played it. Anyway, Nazis have stolen the Spear of Destiny and BJ goes to get it back. 2001 (PC)/2003 (PS2/Xbox) A sort-of reboot, in RtCW, BJ finds himself investigating the Waffen SS Paranormal division, headed by Helga Von Bulow. He and another agent, Agent One, are captured and taken to Castle Wolfenstein, where his companion dies, but BJ escapes and hooks up with a German resistance cell. He goes on to investigate Von Bulow, who is investigating legends of ancient mystical warriors...and manages to piss them off. So they come back to life (naturally) and you have to fight through the tombs and kill one of the more powerful ones, but not before Von Bulow gets killed by it. After this, BJ is sent to investigate Oberführer Wilhelm Strasse, AKA Deathshead, the head of the SS Special Projects division. BJ infiltrates Strasse’s secret facility, where all kinds of hosed up experiments are happening, mostly involving cyborg type of stuff. Strasse escapes, however, and BJ pursues to another facility, this one with completed Übersoldaten, a horrific mash-up of man and metal. BJ puts an end to that project, but Strasse escapes. The final leg of the game involves plans for something Von Bulow was working on called Project Resurrection. The plan was to resurrect (or more accurately, free from an eternal prison) an ancient warlock, Saxon King Heinrich I. BJ finds himself returning to Castle Wolfenstein (), where the excavation for Heinrich’s tomb is underway. You fight your way to a ritual being conducted by an SS psychic, who raises spirits to turn Übersoldaten into Heinrich’s lieutenants, and eventually raise Heinrich himself. The psychic dies, you kill all the evil undead, and Heinrich Himmler peaces out, kinda pissed that you ruined his good time. The console versions added a level at the beginning of the game, where BJ and Agent One investigate Von Bulow’s presence at a tomb in Egypt. This level serves to explain how BJ and Agent One got captured in the first place. A huge part of Return, however, was the multiplayer. It was a team-based system, with teams having objectives (usually destroy or defend something) in order to win. There was a class system, where you could choose to be a soldier, medic, lieutenant, or engineer, each with its own weapon loadouts (different for Allies and Axis teams) and special abilities-medics could heal, lieutenants could resupply ammo, for example. The multiplayer was hugely popular but I never played it, as I had the game on Xbox but not Xbox live. I was too busy playing Phantasy Star Online anyway. 2009 Wolfenstein (usually called Wolfenstein 2009/Wolf ‘09) is a sequel to RtCW. BJ gets ahold of a magical artifact (the Thule Medallion) that harnesses the power of the Dark Sun dimension. The Nazis, of course, want this power for themselves. Wilhelm Strasse is back, and boy is he pissed. He’s building weapons using the Dark Sun’s power, and it’s up to BJ and the German resistance to stop him. Since the last thread I actually beat this game! It's awesome! It's also too bad Steam doesn't sell it any longer. The gimmick with the medallion is a gimmick, and I think the game would be better without it, but it’s not too bad. Something new to the series is an overworld, and side missions, and that’s all handled really well. In true Wolfenstein fashion, you can find secrets and treasure in levels, and then use those to unlock upgrades for your guns or Thule Medallion. Pretty cool system, overall. 2014 A sort-of reboot (see below), the game starts as BJ leads an assault on Strasse’s fortress, but is critically injured and slips into a coma. While BJ is out, the Nazis develop the atom bomb, and win the war and take over the world. BJ wakes up in a mental asylum in the 1960s-just in time to stop the Nazis from killing him like they did almost everyone else in it, having used them for experiments and now being done with them. BJ finds the last vestiges of the German resistance, and convinces them the time is now to strike at Strasse and bring down the Nazi global regime. I'm spoiler tagging this next bit for anyone who hasn't played TNO, you absolutely should. Like right now. If you haven't played it, you're missing out on not just a great Wolfenstein game but a great game in general! The game just takes off from there, leading you all over the world...and somewhere else. The fuckin' Moon. Anyway, you eventually you strike at Strasse directly and finally kill this old fucker in his fuckin mech suit. Just to make sure, your buds in the resistance nuke the gently caress out of the place. Game ends with you wondering: Can BJ survive a nuclear blast? Apparently so, because BJ is back in the next installment. 2015 This standalone xpac to TNO acts as both a direct prequel to TNO and a retelling/retcon of sorts of RtCW. The first part of the game sees BJ breaking into Castle Wolfenstein, attempting to find the location of Strasse's fortress (for the upcoming assault as seen in the first level of TNO). Unfortunately he gets captured and must escape from Castle Wolfenstein. In the second half, BJ finds himself opposite one Helga van Schabbs, a Nazi archaeologist hellbent on-get this-resurrecting an ancient evil to assist the Nazi war machine. It's different enough from RtCW to feel new, yet familiar. 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHht8480cEo Yeah, that's the good poo poo. Just announced, the direct sequel to TNO is due out this October! Details are scarce right now, but from the trailer, we can gather that this game takes place relatively soon after the previous one, and Frau Engel is pissed. No empire falls in a day, so even with Strasse dead, the Nazi empire is still powerful and consuming. This game takes the fight to America, and BJ seems to be trying to unite his (European) resistance with the American resistance. Meanwhile, Frau Engel is back and she is pissed, hunting BJ all over America and trying to end him and his resistance. BJ even gets to be a villain in the Nazi version of the GI Joe Returning to Wolfenstein are weapon upgrades! Not a lot of specific details yet, but every weapon has a few upgrades. Oh did I mention Bethesda is actually great and is totally egging on the actual real-life Nazi fucks that were getting mad about this game? https://twitter.com/wolfenstein/status/916075551382585344 The Wolfenstein Twitter is full of stuff like this, and Bethesda is pretty clear about it: Bethesda VP of marketing and PR Pete Hines posted:We don't feel it's a reach for us to say Nazis are bad and un-American. And we're not worried about being on the right side of history here. Launch Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmy4WW8TqL8 I'm not sure trying to reconcile the Wolfenstein timeline is possible or even necessary. BJ has been captured and broken out and returned to Castle Wolfenstein multiple times; he's fought multiple ancient evils and occult monsters; he's to Wolfenstein's world what the Marine is to Doom's. Just kick back and enjoy some Nazi killin' Other Stuff Check out the previous thread if you absolutely need all the details of the pre-TNO hype, back before we knew it was going to be good and it had been 6 years since a Wolfenstein game came out! Also in the last thread, Xenomrph made a huge effortpost (reproduced below) about "Weird War 2" stuff to check out. Feel free to contribute your own recommendations as well! Finally, one of my favorite things they did for TNO was make actual full length songs of the 60s in a Nazi world, and that's too cool to let die so here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnioYhknoR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv4Ey0gdhcM The website they previously had to host the full songs is throwing security warnings at me now, so. End of a fake era, I guess. They've revived Neumond by creating fake TV shows for TNC! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45quOTuvsNc You can find the others on Bethesda's Wolfenstein site. Also, science! TaurusTorus posted:The question now is how does BJ compare to a tank? He is armored by the equivalent of 20 stahlhelms as evidenced by his maximum armor capacity. A 1918 stahlhelm is approximately 1 cm thick, therefore A armored BJ is equivalent to a tank with 200 mm armor plating according to Google a M4 Sherman has 76mm armor on the front glacis, putting BJ well ahead there. Let's Humerus fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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Xenomrph posted:In celebration of the launch of Wolfenstein: The New Order, I might as well post up my completely ridiculous Weird War II library. Humerus fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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I'm glad nearly 30 years on, we're still excited for Wolfenstein and Doom
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the new game is gonna own OP
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Panadol posted:I'm glad nearly 30 years on, we're still excited for Wolfenstein and Doom Doom had a low point or two but Wolfenstein def was lucky to a few good developers that understood how fun the gameplay of "WW2....but with mystical elements" FPS could be. That and giving time between games instead of just cranking out sequels non-stop.
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So, does anyone know why there was a cat headed monkey watching trailers in the new trailer? Like, was that an element I missed in the last game, one of Death Heads experiments?BexGu posted:Doom had a low point or two but Wolfenstein def was lucky to a few good developers that understood how fun the gameplay of "WW2....but with mystical elements" FPS could be. That and giving time between games instead of just cranking out sequels non-stop. I wouldn't say that really helped. The Mysical elements were never stronger than in the 2008 Wolfenstein Reboot, and that game sucked.
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The southern American communist resistance member threw me for a loop. This game is going to make people SO ANGRY in the best possible way.
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Klaus88 posted:The southern American communist resistance member threw me for a loop. This game is going to make people SO ANGRY in the best possible way. https://twitter.com/_kraut_/status/874215972495904768 Also, for something a little different: https://twitter.com/SullyKWP/status/874134730563883008 Rebel Blob fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Fulchrum posted:So, does anyone know why there was a cat headed monkey watching trailers in the new trailer? Like, was that an element I missed in the last game, one of Death Heads experiments? It was something to push it beyond just another WW2 game. Having side stories/mission on the weird mystical poo poo of the Nazi regime opened up the possibility of new and different enemies instead of just difference human soldiers. The new Era of Wolfenstein is all about combining that with mad scientist high tech.
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Fulchrum posted:So, does anyone know why there was a cat headed monkey watching trailers in the new trailer? Like, was that an element I missed in the last game, one of Death Heads experiments? The monkey-cat thing people are predicting is a tie-in to BJ possibly having his head on a new body. There's a shot in the trailer where BJ has a metal seam looking thing on his neck, but that could also be the power armor from the first game. Maybe. And Wolf '09 ruled. The farm level! Crashing a Zeppelin!
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BexGu posted:It was something to push it beyond just another WW2 game. Having side stories/mission on the weird mystical poo poo of the Nazi regime opened up the possibility of new and different enemies instead of just difference human soldiers. The new Era of Wolfenstein is all about combining that with mad scientist high tech. Even to that I'd say no, the real identity, the soul of the game, has always been weird sci-fi nazi stuff, and thats been in there since the first game when you killed Mecha-Hitler. There's a reason that this: Is one of the most well known final bosses in gaming.
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Humerus posted:The monkey-cat thing people are predicting is a tie-in to BJ possibly having his head on a new body. There's a shot in the trailer where BJ has a metal seam looking thing on his neck, but that could also be the power armor from the first game. Maybe. ...which body conceived the kids?
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Fulchrum posted:Even to that I'd say no, the real identity, the soul of the game, has always been weird sci-fi nazi stuff, and thats been in there since the first game when you killed Mecha-Hitler. There's a reason that this: I do like how Death's Head is piloting a suped up version of this.
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I'm sad that the bad rear end resistance lady is very likely dead in the new game
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I love the amount of goofy crap in that trailer, it's made me super excited for this, and I haven't even played any of the previous games. Monkey cat. Bulletproof pyramid head-esque armor. What looks like combat stilts. A guy playing a clarinet in the middle of a firefight what the gently caress that is downright Lynchian levels of "characters that behave in nonsensical yet oddly appealing ways". I really hope there's no explanation for that clarinet.
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Humerus posted:The monkey-cat thing people are predicting is a tie-in to BJ possibly having his head on a new body. There's a shot in the trailer where BJ has a metal seam looking thing on his neck, but that could also be the power armor from the first game. Maybe. Compared to the neck-seam without any visible power armor suit: I'm guessing BJ gets decapitated sometime during the game, since there are plenty of scenes without the seam. Maybe in this scene, which you can see part of in the trailer:
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I totally go in for the super science stuff more than the occult, like all the weird poo poo in Strasse's lab was way cooler than the zombie stuff in the later part of the game. But even then in Wolf '09 remember that Strasse was trying (and succeeding) to harness the Dark Sun energy for more super science shannanigans over just, I guess, directly unleashing the Dark Sun beasts (even though that ended up happening).Bolow posted:I'm sad that the bad rear end resistance lady is very likely dead in the new game I'm like fairly sure she had the power armor at the end of the last game, so there's hope. She was supposedly dead at the end of '09 too. Humerus fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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What you never seen a bard?
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Bolow posted:I'm sad that the bad rear end resistance lady is very likely dead in the new game I'm not. She died as this unstoppable force of nazi-killing vengeance, taking down the symbols of Nazi supremacy, and given back her legs. There would be no better moment for her to die than that. Pigbuster posted:I love the amount of goofy crap in that trailer, it's made me super excited for this, and I haven't even played any of the previous games. Monkey cat. Bulletproof pyramid head-esque armor. What looks like combat stilts. A guy playing a clarinet in the middle of a firefight what the gently caress that is downright Lynchian levels of "characters that behave in nonsensical yet oddly appealing ways". I really hope there's no explanation for that clarinet. My favorite part is probably scoring it to "Danke Schoen". There just something about scoring a games chaotic action to an older song that just really tickles me.
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Humerus posted:I totally go in for the super science stuff more than the occult, like all the weird poo poo in Strasse's lab was way cooler than the zombie stuff in the later part of the game. But even then in Wolf '09 remember that Strasse was trying (and succeeding) to harness the Dark Sun energy for more super science shannanigans over just, I guess, directly unleashing the Dark Sun beasts (even though that ended up happening). I love it's canon Hitler got sick of all this magic poo poo wasting time, so just gave Strasse a blank cheque for robots.
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poptart_fairy posted:I love it's canon Hitler got sick of all this magic poo poo wasting time, so just gave Strasse a blank cheque for robots. Someone actually gave an explanation for that. If you're putting your money into looking for magical artifacts, than at best you're only going to have so many of those artifacts to go around, so you can't just give one to all your troops. Meanwhile, the benefit of science is that its reproducible, so you can outfit all of your soldiers with insane high tech fiery robot dogs.
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Hi, I'm here for the meltdowns.
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poptart_fairy posted:I love it's canon Hitler got sick of all this magic poo poo wasting time, so just gave Strasse a blank cheque for robots. The Old Blood implies that BJ did kill Hitler and he was resurrected as a zombie, probably a figure head more than anything.
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Bolow posted:What you never seen a bard? Wait is this an actual thing? I'm failing at finding more info and I never would've imagined war bards are a real thing. E: http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/10/libyan-guitar-hero.html?m=1 Apparently it just sorta happened. Pigbuster fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Humerus posted:The Old Blood implies that BJ did kill Hitler and he was resurrected as a zombie, probably a figure head more than anything. Sounds about right. There are logs in New Order where they nearly put the Beatles to death for not Heiling Hitler before a concert, but that doesn't necessitate hi m being alive. THough you'd wonder why their first idea would be "zombies" and not, I dunno, a body double?
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i cant wait for more crying about wolfenstein
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Fresh content, collector's edition comes with Terror Billy action figure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM5shE229v0 Along with the Terror-Billy action figure, the Wolfenstein II Collector’s Edition includes the full game in a steelbook case and a double-sided poster, all in an amazing box that recalls some of our favorite childhood toys. Available for pre-order right now, the Collector’s Edition will retail for $99.99 (£89.99 GBP | $169.95 AUD). Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus will release on October 27, 2017, on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. Cheaper than the collector's edition of TNO and it actually includes the game this time! Wowzers, what a deal! Weird that Engel doesn't have the swastika, probably so they can sell one item across all territories, but maybe it means something. Probably not though. Fulchrum posted:Sounds about right. There are logs in New Order where they nearly put the Beatles to death for not Heiling Hitler before a concert, but that doesn't necessitate hi m being alive. Imagine "That's XCOM" but with Strasse saying "That's WOLF" Humerus fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Fulchrum posted:Sounds about right. There are logs in New Order where they nearly put the Beatles to death for not Heiling Hitler before a concert, but that doesn't necessitate hi m being alive. Probably to tie it to the original Wolfenstein which had zombies. Like they have the technology for it so they brought him back. Which I think would be hard because Hitler turned into a friggin puddle after BJ killed him. Also, there is a letter in either New Order or Old Blood where someone says they met der fuhrer and described him as pale and somewhat cold to the touch, IIRC.
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Rebel Blob posted:It already has. https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15780596/wolfenstein-2-the-new-colossus-alt-right-nazi-outrage
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15780596/wolfenstein-2-the-new-colossus-alt-right-nazi-outrage Nazis are supremely dumb motherfuckers, news at 11.
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15780596/wolfenstein-2-the-new-colossus-alt-right-nazi-outrage jesus
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I still hunger for Nazi blood, but for now will also accept real world Nazi tears about a 36 year old franchise about shootin Natzis. Please tell me I can also murder those loving bed sheet wearing KKK members as well.
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Crabtree posted:I still hunger for Nazi blood, but for now will also accept real world Nazi tears about a 36 year old franchise about shootin Natzis. Please tell me I can also murder those loving bed sheet wearing KKK members as well. I can remember a time when everything was WW2 and nazi murder and we reached nazi killing saturation and fatigue. Now it's all I want.
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Wolfenstein was preparing us for the future. We let up on our Nazi killing and look what happened!
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Spear of Destiny is okay. It's just more of the same for Wolf 3D, since it's the same engine, and they don't really add anything new. So as a game, it can be kind of tiring after 60 levels of Wolf 3D. It's not a bad game, by any stretch, it just is rare I want to play a Wolf 3D style game, but not Wolf 3D. The expansion packs you get on Steam are total poo poo. Like, they are just ugly messes. It's hilarious.
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Wolfenstein TNO loving owned, and was a game (Like Bulletstorm) that 'got it' with regard to how a FPS should be. None of this "Press F to pay respects". Just shootin Nazis and bein on the motherfuckin Moon.
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Crabtree posted:Wolfenstein was preparing us for the future. We let up on our Nazi killing and look what happened! Oh poo poo, it's all so clear now
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I like how to some it's a SJW nightmare with all the nazi symbology and to others it's a SJW fantasy where you fight Trumps America. It's almost like SJW is a term you use to create a strawman rather than a political ideology
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Grey Fox posted:Hi, I'm here for the meltdowns. same
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Hell yes. Can't wait to see how they top the Moonbase level from TNO. Was the Old Blood worth playing? I heard it was a step down from TNO, but it's been a while since i played it so I probably wouldn't notice much.
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