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Return to Castle Wolfenstein Ships

Posted by chrisd on from the actung!-mien-lieber! dept.

Screaming Lunatic writes "Woohoo, Return to Castle Wolfenstein has finally shipped. Check this story out at Yahoo. You should be able to buy it at the regular gaming shops. I highly recommend buying it rather than hacking it, as noted in Graeme Devines .plan file." CD: I am seriously flashing back to the Apple II game with a similar name, hope this doesn't suck like daikatana.

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  1. Re:Wolfie 3d by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    In the good old days we never had anything like those newfangled things like controllers or keyboards or screens!

    The CPU was actually just a tree trunk with bits of string attached! The screen refreshed at 2 frames a minute because we had to wait for someone to rake the sand pit dry and redraw it with a twig!

    And real gamers, my goodness they were real! They didn't sit down to play dang-nabbit, they hung upside down from the ceiling with their eyes closed and they always chewed gravel to help them concentrate!

    You young people, you're too spoiled and you dont appreciate how hard it used to be *mumble* *mumble* *froth at mouth* *collapse*

  2. Re:Patch by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 4, Funny

    Before I'm halfway through? Hah! Not the way I play! Man, you've never seen moves like these- super-backspin-kicking-slash-shoot attacks! Bang ka-POW! Of course, with my luck, the first patch will screw with all the timing settings and my descending laser bullet of CERTAINDEATH will miss horribly, thus deciding my fate before I've even had a chance to say goodbye to my loved ones.

    Damn, I love FPS.

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    "If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
  3. CDKey by Ndog · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the link about CDkeys:


    Wolf uses the same cdkey generation technology as Q3A. THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE SINGLE HACK on this system. Many so-called cdkey generators are in fact virus attacks that steal your own good cdkey, or worse, corrupt your files.

    So, I don't have a CDKey and download a CDKey generator to get one, and it is actually a virus attack to steal my good cdkey? Does this seem like a stupid statement to anybody else, or if it is true, don't the CDKey authors seem stupid? Who would write CDKey generators to steal CDKeys, when most of the people who try to use them want them because they don't want a CDKey? Am I missing something?

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    -N
  4. Re:Wolfenstein 3D was not the First... by Dahan · · Score: 2, Funny
    Use of a software voice synthesizer was pretty cool, if a bit rough.

    It was digitized, actually... didn't sound all that great coming out of the one-bit Apple II speaker, but it was cool back then :)

    Anyone know what it actually said? I didn't know German back then, and I still don't. I always assumed it was something like "Stop! Come here!" (sounded something like "Halt! Kommen sie!" but apparently that's not proper German :)

  5. ATI driver support? by statusbar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember to rename the exe file to 'quake.exe' to squeeze out a better frame rate!

    --jeff

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  6. Re:I don't envy the developers by flacco · · Score: 5, Funny
    Not compared to Team Arena. That was a cheap hack that they sold just to rake in a bit more. Wolf3d is the same engine and very little else. And it actually has a single-player element, one that doesn't involve out-railing bots. (God, their AI is crap.)

    Q3:TA was a few new runes, some new models, and some new maps. Nothing amazing either. A day or so picking over planetquake for 3rd-party levels will get you the same quality. Ca-ching.

    Christ, Romero, still bitter?

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  7. Them damn talking Nazis in Muse's Castle Wolfenst by StrawberryOnSlashdot · · Score: 3, Funny
    I played the original quite a bit on the Apple ][ + and recall the Nazis saying (really more like barking):

    • "Halt!" ("stop!")
    • "Ko-pen zee!" ("come here!")
    • "daus pass?" ("your pass?")
    • "Heil! ("I, too, am a feeble-minded sheep")
    • "S.S.!!!" ("Hi, I am a S.S. Stormtrooper and am about to get medieval on your ass!")
    • "Kaput!" ("game over man, game over...")

    I don't recall if they added more sayings in the sequel Beyond Castle Wolfenstein...

    Castle Wolfenstein
    written by Silas Warner
    Muse Software

  8. Graeme saves us from evil pirates by Seemlar · · Score: 5, Funny
    From Graemes plan:

    Many so-called cdkey generators are in fact virus attacks that steal your own good cdkey, or worse, corrupt your files


    Obviously, Graeme thinks the people who read his .plan are idiots.

    Picture me sitting here with my brand spanking new downloaded copy of RTCW. I run a keygen.

    Oh no! That evil virus attack just sent my valid Wolf key to some insideous pirate! Except it didn't.

    PIRATES USING KEYGENS DON'T HAVE VALID KEYS.

    He used this same stupid assed scare tactic when Q3A came out. It was stupid then, and stupid now. But at least he added the evil terrifying file corrupting ability bit.

    I'm tempted to just download the game and play through the singleplayer game for the heck of it.
  9. But does it use hexadecimal? by Derek+Finch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can you see vital signs in hexadecimal? If not, it's a waste of bits.