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You're welcome! I think you ought to try contacting Ross to see if he'll reiterate some of your points and give you credit for this extra bit of game criticism, if he ever gets around to making another one of those Game Dungeon "follow-up" episodes. I'm not sure how I'd go about doing that; I posted this thinking/hoping Ross would stumble upon it. I just realized (all too late ofc) that the player kills Hitler in Wolfenstein 3D (with the canon I'm building that would place that game either in late 1944 or early 1945. This still wouldn't mean a group of mayors, shopkeepers, generals, etc. would start blowing shit up however.

I just found the glaring and wholly inaccurate-ness of this steaming pile of americanized crap annoying. However, even though the other Wolfenstein games are totally wrong too (walking tanks in 1944 my ass), they're over the top about it and they're solid games anyways. I found the voice acting in Wolfenstein Fuck History annoying because that accent is in pretty much every fucking piece of fiction depicting a German (bonus points if the character's voice is a higher pitch, like in Lost Battalion) created in the United States. Poland takes the cake for shitty portrayal of Germans with their hate-boners for the Teutonics. I should probably say now that I am not fluent in any language other than English and that I have not played Wolfenstein Fuck History. Done. I'm not pissed about trying to connect the Nazis to the occult, because the Nazis DID dabble in the Occult. Well, probably not Occult but definitely Paganism (Himmler). Himmler believed Christianity had brought nothing to Germany in the almost 2000 years it has been there (proving probably once and for all that Himmler lived metaphorically under a rock) and that the true religion of Nazi Grosse Deutschland was pre-Roman paganism (Animism). Himmler also LOVED to blow millions on fruitless quests for priceless artifacts, most notably and most hypocritically the Holy Grail and believed he was the reincarnation of Henry the Fowler, a Defender of the Faith, father of the Ottonian Dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire, and defeater of the Magyar hordes in the West. He was an interesting character. Point is, they tried to connect a group of Christian political dissidents in the wrong fucking region of Europe to occult bullshit and sacrificed accuracy for a terrible plot. Thanks! This post really is just symptomatic of that terrible content. Without enjoyable gameplay, you can't ignore the unreality of the setting. This is why Immersion is probably the most important thing in a game and why other Wolfenstein games like The New Order get spared the rod of Historical Justice (also I have not played any of the Wolfenstein games).

P4LaR1C6Xds So Wolfenstein (2009) is a meh game, right? Well, yes. Let's here Ross's list: The voice acting is bad, various parts of the plot are stolen, I doubt the integrity of the composer, the mouse control is bad, and the gameplay is un-interesting. And, to boot, the story just isn't that interesting. Typically, it would make sense to stop there, right? Well, most would. But even with a very minor understanding of the German language and history, I was able to tell there were some serious research crimes going on here. So let's look them over. Every single fuckup the game makes in regards to language and history. -=:Vami vs. American-ized German:=- (There's a difference to just "Anglicized German" because if it were "anglicized" then everyone would sound British) Ross touched on this a bit, but I feel like I should expand. This game suffers badly from Hollywood stereotypes of what a German sounds like when speaking in the English tongue. Zo zhe really shpeak like zhis? Quick answer: no. Here's just some vids I stole from literally a quick google search: (Hamburger, had to learn English for employment) speaking in English while being interviewed by press who wants to improve his English This is Caroline Becker, without the pumpkin head unfortunately. Now, to echo Ross, the voice actress who plays this women in Wolfenstein (2009) is Anna Graves, an American and native speaker of English. So at 11:38 in the video just listen to that bullshit Hollywood accent drip off of her tongue and into this godawful game. There. At 11:47. Isenstadt. To an average not-German (I am American), that pronunciation is unimportant. But she fucked it up (eye-zen-SH-dot; pronounce in one go). As Ross touches at, this is the problem with setting the damn game in a region and not hiring voice actors who have at least a basic grasp of the language. And while on the topic of voice acting, I'm very sure the infamous "That man is a Spy!" line is stolen from Team Fortress 2. While I can't prove it (and I dug through the official TF2 wiki), one could easily splice a few of the Spy's lines together into "That Man is a Spy!" -=:Vami vs. Setting:=- Firstly, just where the hell is this game set? From what is immediately apparent in the game and some auxiliary information from the wiki, Wolfenstein (2009) is set in a city called Isenstadt, probably in southern Germany. But, of course, there are problems (more than the town's name referencing Isengard, from LoTR). The Wiki (and game) tell us the Wolfenstein (2009) is set in Isenstadt, which is an anglicized version of the very real Austrian city of Eisenstadt, in eastern Austria, and not Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg. This already means we're in a bit of a jam with the setting. But trust me, it gets far worse than this. So, Eisentadt. Eisenstat is a Austrian city in the eastern part of the country that does indeed have a castle overlooking it. However, the castle, Schloss Esterházy, is a baroque palace. The castle overlooking the geographically odd Isenstadt is, according to the Wolfenstein wiki, more resemblant of Salzburg Castle. Now that we have the place (which, remember, is flawed already), let's get the time. Once again, I looked to the Wolfenstein wiki. While I wasn't expecting much, I did indeed find what I was looking for here. The wiki here says that the game's Befolgen Sie! (Obey!) posters, which started going up September 3, 1944, are worn and covered in newspapers, suggesting the date to be very late 1944, which I think is impossible due to the lack of snow, or 1945. I personally believe the game to be set in Spring, 1945. This is problematic. WW2 in Europe ended May 7th, and this game is said to be set in southern Germany very close to the end of the war. So the game is probably set in April. At this point in the war, every single person on the planet knew the Nazis were fucked. There is no way that the Nazis would have been able to put on the show of force they do in the game. From this map, you can see that the southern parts of Germany remain unoccupied until May 1945 and that most of Austria remained in Nazi hands until the bitter end. Curiously enough, Real Eisenstadt was likely one of these last Nazi strongholds, but the game has already established that General Zetta and his warband are holed up in southern Germany, not Eastern Austria. And finally the fucking cherry on top. The Kreisau Circle. Firstly, the Kreisau circle is not at all what is in Wolfenstein (2009). The Kreisau Circle was a group of political dissidents - upstanding citizens vehemently opposed to Nazism who wanted to restore the German Monarchy and get Hitler out of town as soon as possible. But fuck that, let's throw that in the trash. They're edgy rebels in Baden-Württemberg dabbling with the occult. This is bullshit The KC were Christians (Jesuit/Catholics and Lutherans), so no occult bullshit, but more importantly, and perhaps the death knell, they were both exterminated by the Nazis before the events of this Goddamned game and they're in the wrong town. Shocker. The Kreisau Circle centered on the estate of Helmut James Graf von Moltke (great grandnephew of Helmut von Moltke). Let's explore these final nails in the coffin. 1). The Kreisau Circle did not exist / was severely weakened by the time of April 1945. Several members of the KC (excluding our friend von Moltke) were connected to an assassination attempt on Hitler's life, so Der Führer had them all (including von Moltke) arrested and hung. This occurred on January 19th, 1944, and full year and a month before Wolfenstein: Fuck History. 2). The center for all KC activity (von Moltke's estate) was not in Germany, but in Silesia. In modern Poland. GG. 3). This one is more of a gripe on my part. The KC were upstanding members of society: Landowners, priests, political theorists, even conservatives and liberals were both in the KC, and they were also Catholics and Lutherans. They would never stoop to occult bullshit. So there's my bitchfest about Wolfenstein (2009) done. Not only is the gameplay bad, but the research completely undermines the game. You could go and say "oh but what if the KC decided to fight," but then why would they fight in southern Germany? They'd be fleeing the Soviets. Uncle Joe, by the way, was notoriously hateful towards Germans and went out of his way to persecute them. And they're fucking community leaders, anyway. Or maybe, "what if the game was set earlier," which I find very implausible because of the posters. And one last thing. The ship in the intro cutscene? That's the SMS Tirpitz. Yeah, THAT Tirpitz. An American operative did not destroy the Tirpitz. The RAF and Royal Navy killed the Tirpitz. References • Wolfenstein (2009) at Wolfenstein Wiki at Wikia.com • Isenstadt at Wolfenstein Wiki at Wikia.com • Eisenstadt at Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia • Kreisau Circle at Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia

I've had this archive collected before on another forum called BrikWars, so I thought I'd post here for Ross and whoever to come look at. Unless specifically noted, all songs in this archive are instrumental. Story behind this archive: All tracks will be organized by their source (game/anime they came from/are associated with), with the composer listed, and then with their original sorting tag attached to the track (these will be simple; our group of Fabletop players just wanted to organize the music into categories to best fit them into a context. In some cases, I have added a new category like "Stealth" where I thought they would apply). I've omitted any tracks under 30 seconds of length and included the length of each track. Note: Anywhere I've taken the liberty of renaming a track (imo some of the new names are kinda lame) is because it would be, for example, "Mirai Nikki OST: V1 T4" otherwise. Note2: Some of the music titles for certain games may be spoilers. Somehow. You've been warned. --- Episode One: Pilot Killzone 2, OST by Joris de Man Killzone was a great game with a fantastic composer behind the OST. Another, OST by Kow Otani Another was an ominous anime, and the OST really reflected that. I enjoyed both.

A series of Dungeons and Dragons stories from an experienced DM.

I'm sure this has been posted five gajillion times already, but I have to mention the The Bloodbath of B-R5RB aka $30,000 USD goes up in smoke in a fictional battle. Why? Someone forgot to pay the rent. Links: EVE Community Website