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Post by GamerL on Mar 12, 2015 2:47:15 GMT -5
They bypassed the 360! Those scum. Shoot, I really found New Order impressive on 360. Maybe it will be the last big game released for it... Dude, the 360 is literally almost a decade old, it's time to upgrade methinks if you have any interest in current games, has any console still had new releases on it when it was a decade old?
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Post by Colonel Kurtz on Mar 12, 2015 7:29:11 GMT -5
They bypassed the 360! Those scum. Shoot, I really found New Order impressive on 360. Maybe it will be the last big game released for it... Dude, the 360 is literally almost a decade old, it's time to upgrade methinks if you have any interest in current games, has any console still had new releases on it when it was a decade old? Bah, until now? The 360, duude!
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Post by Weasel on Mar 12, 2015 14:16:22 GMT -5
Well, even the 360 version of TNO was a bit of a stretch - come on, 4 discs?
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Post by 16bitter on Mar 13, 2015 15:47:47 GMT -5
The Famicom and the PS2 had like eleven or twelve years of official releases, though I think this was only true in Japan. If you count unlicensed releases, the Atari 2600 still has games programmed for it by hobbyists.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Mar 20, 2015 7:13:19 GMT -5
Apart from Schabbs being the last name of one of the bosses of the original Wolf3D, the second half sounds interesting, because it may confirm a return of the supernatural elements, at least for that short campaign.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on May 6, 2015 0:52:14 GMT -5
So, The Old Blood is out and seems good (from the second part of the launch trailer it seems confirmed we'll also get some paranormal stuff this time), although it suffers the same technical problems as TNO and The Evil Within, and some possibile fixes show that they could be solved very easily. At this point my guess is that the problem goes up to the engine creator, Id Software, and that they don't care making the Tech 5 better - or maybe they even can't since John Carmack is not with them anymore.
It's also already confirmed there's another Wolf3D secret level.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Aug 11, 2015 3:12:40 GMT -5
While waiting for TOB to become part of the article, I can say that most of the reviews I've read around release were fair.
First off, while a bit less pronounced the problems with the Tech 5 have not changed. MachineGames cannot be held responsibile for an engine they had to use out of contractual obligation, but they at least should have realized that setting a FOV of 100 rather than the default 80 already reduces graphical problems a lot. Even so, I went from entire flawless sections to others with frequent problems at the border of the screen. Shame, but the overall quality is always good - the view of Castle Wolfenstein while approaching it is fantastic.
The narration has some moments but isn't at the same level of the base game. The first close encounter with Helga evidently apes the iconic scene with Frau Engel and Bubi on the train, and it's nowhere as good. The mystical elements are rather ancient science gone bad, but it still manages to take a look at the franchise's past while not straying too much from TNO's atmospheres.
It starts slow and the level design is more restrictive, but it gradually picks up, and almost everyone agrees that the second half is better, with some fantastic moments ("Look at that, it's raining nazis"). This divide may be due to the fact that TOB started life as two "classic" DLCs for TNO that were subsequently - and laudably - put together in this stand-alone release.
A big surprise was to find one resting place for every level. This means that throughout TOB, you can replay all the first episode of Wolfenstein 3D, up to the boss fight, with the exception of the first level that is in TNO.
For its content and in proportion with the original game, I'd say the price for TOB is quite fair, even more in case of discounts; mere weeks after its release came the big Steam sale and both it and TNO could be picked up for less than $25 in total. It's not as great as the base game but it's a good "more of the same".
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Post by Weasel on Oct 25, 2015 0:54:23 GMT -5
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Oct 25, 2015 3:38:08 GMT -5
TOB is undoubtedly confusing to place in the timeline: it's in many ways a retelling of RTCW, as noted, but it also doesn't overwrite it - that game introduced Deathshead, Wolfenstein 2009 furthered his role (and also introduced Caroline Becker, who's an important character in TNO as well), and at the beginning of TNO he clearly recognized Blazko. So we cannot say the last two games have created their own timeline. On the other hand, I don't remember if TOB ever makes references to Blazko having already been in those places in the past.
By the way, RTCW was recently released on GOG, along with most of Id Software's classic stuff, and lately rumors have circulated of the next title of the series being already in the works.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 25, 2015 4:21:40 GMT -5
Maybe there's actually more than one castle that bears the "Wolfenstein" moniker?
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Oct 25, 2015 7:00:38 GMT -5
Maybe, but there are also the villages of Wulfburg and Paderborn to be taken into consideration. I've now read that in TOB you can find a newspaper article talking about an assassination attempt on Hitler that followed an escape from the castle, which could make TOB the "true" return to the castle in the timeline. To further confuse things, BJ dreams of the entire first episode of Wolf3D through TOB, including the original confrontation with Hans Grosse (who was the final boss in 2009), but it's just that, a dream. So maybe it's better to just not think too hard about it.
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Post by GamerL on Sept 2, 2016 3:36:50 GMT -5
After all this time I finally played both The Old Blood and The New Order to completion. Both are very good games despite some technical hiccups, The New Order has inconsistent graphics though I noticed some of the bugs have been smoothed out (I didn't see any disappearing doors and the vsync worked much better, though still not perfect), whether that's because I was playing on a more powerful card this time or because of patches I don't know. The graphics in The Old Blood are a bit better, with better looking character models and a few more effects, but there still seemed to be technical problems, including weird texture load in sometimes when I would pan the view around. Taking both The Old Blood and The New Order into account it doesn't seem like Return to Castle Wolfenstein is in the same continuity, which as a fan of that game is disappointing, unless there's two different castles that bear the Wolfenstein moniker, but even so Return to Castle Wolfenstein pretty clearly has supernatural elements while even in The Old Blood there's nothing strictly supernatural. But about the story of The New Order is it implied that BJ dies? Or is it just an irritating cliff hanger? also the ancient Jewish secret society with highly advanced technology is pretty a silly idea, but weird enough to be interesting. At any rate, I'm very excited for the next game in the series.
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Post by jcrankin on Sept 6, 2016 7:12:03 GMT -5
Regarding TNO's ending, it is very ambiguous, but in the post-credits scene you can hear a helicopter so I believe the resistance members actually went back for BJ
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Post by GamerL on Sept 6, 2016 7:47:16 GMT -5
Regarding TNO's ending, it is very ambiguous, but in the post-credits scene you can hear a helicopter so I believe the resistance members actually went back for BJ I noticed that too, it's very possible.
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