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  • Castle Wolfenstein II remaster on Kickstarter

    From Lane Larson@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 17 18:57:46 2024
    This is what you do.

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 18 19:51:11 2024
    Am 18.02.24 um 01:57 schrieb Lane Larson:
    This is what you do.

    The original one from Silas Warner?

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Lane Larson on Sun Feb 18 19:28:13 2024
    Lane Larson <[email protected]> wrote:
    This is what you do.

    Did I missing the link?
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  • From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon Feb 19 08:55:14 2024
    On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:45:51 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:28:13 +0000, [email protected] (Ant) wrote:

    Lane Larson <[email protected]> wrote:
    This is what you do.

    Did I missing the link?

    Yeah, a link would have been nice. I'm not finding any results on the >Internet, but maybe my Googlefu is weak (I didn't really try that
    hard). Mostly I see stuff about fan remasters of "Return to Castle >Wolfenstein", which is fine but unexciting.

    Honestly, I don't know why the original games have been left to
    languish for so long. Yes, Wolfenstein 3D revitalized the series (and
    the first-person sequels to that game have all been quite successful).
    But I think that a return to the original's stealth-based, 3/4
    viewpoint would find a market too.

    Honestly, just remaking the ORIGINAL "Castle Wolfenstein" and "Beyond
    Castle Wolfenstein" to upgrade the game from 4 colors/screeching >speaker-noise/awful controls would be welcome. Or how about just
    getting the games to run outside of an emulator. You'd think the fans
    would have been all over that long ago. But the games seem
    consistently ignored in favor of their first-person descendents. It's
    weird.

    I used to play the briefcase bomb (Beyond) game a lot. I think the last
    time I played it is when Tom Cruise's Valkyrie came out. On an emulator,
    of course. Vice, IIRC.

    The first one was a little intolerable with it's countdowns and wall
    hits. It definitely needs some quality of life improvements in a remake.

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 19 15:25:18 2024
    Am 19.02.24 um 00:45 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
    Honestly, I don't know why the original games have been left to
    languish for so long. Yes, Wolfenstein 3D revitalized the series (and
    the first-person sequels to that game have all been quite successful).
    But I think that a return to the original's stealth-based, 3/4
    viewpoint would find a market too.
    I would call it the Fallout 3 effect, a ton of people do not even know
    that Fallout 1+2 were classics of their own many think the series starts
    with 3 or 1+2 were never something to bother with (despite in my opinion
    being the superior rpg experience)!

    I doubt a lot of people who jumped on the Wolfenstein 3d games even knew
    the originals from Silas Warner, despite them being absolute classics
    for their gameplay and back then outstanding technical achievements!

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon Feb 19 20:12:22 2024
    XPost: alt.games.wolfenstein

    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:28:13 +0000, [email protected] (Ant) wrote:

    Lane Larson <[email protected]> wrote:
    This is what you do.

    Did I missing the link?

    Yeah, a link would have been nice. I'm not finding any results on the Internet, but maybe my Googlefu is weak (I didn't really try that
    hard). Mostly I see stuff about fan remasters of "Return to Castle Wolfenstein", which is fine but unexciting.

    Honestly, I don't know why the original games have been left to
    languish for so long. Yes, Wolfenstein 3D revitalized the series (and
    the first-person sequels to that game have all been quite successful).
    But I think that a return to the original's stealth-based, 3/4
    viewpoint would find a market too.

    Honestly, just remaking the ORIGINAL "Castle Wolfenstein" and "Beyond
    Castle Wolfenstein" to upgrade the game from 4 colors/screeching speaker-noise/awful controls would be welcome. Or how about just
    getting the games to run outside of an emulator. You'd think the fans
    would have been all over that long ago. But the games seem
    consistently ignored in favor of their first-person descendents. It's
    weird.

    I would totally love this! Even in FPS. I remember reading id Software
    wanted to have those features like hiding dead bodies, taking clothes,
    etc. but they couldn't do it back then. Well, they or someone can now
    these days! Come on!

    CCed alt.games.wolfenstein newsgroup. ;)
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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Zaghadka on Mon Feb 19 20:13:48 2024
    Zaghadka <[email protected]> wrote:
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    I used to play the briefcase bomb (Beyond) game a lot. I think the last
    time I played it is when Tom Cruise's Valkyrie came out. On an emulator,
    of course. Vice, IIRC.

    That movie was cool. My old friend (I miss him) and I thought of the
    original 2D Wolfenstein games from this movie!
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    Dang unexpected works. :) (L/C)NY (wood dragon).
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