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Not necessarily a good game, but an interesting one) and the multiplayer was made by Nerve Software (the studio’s first game published under that name, but mostly made up of old Rogue Software people, who had worked on a game called Stryfe, which brought open-world RPG elements to a Doom engine game, but that pretty much no one had heard of, and also known for making Quake 1 and 2 mission packs and American McGee’s Alice, which is another weird/interesting game). The single player was made by Gray Matter Interactive, at the time known for Red Neck Rampage, a Quake 2 mission pack, and Kingpin: Life of Crime (a surprisingly interesting game at the time. The multiplayer was extremely well received in the circles I ran with at the time (a combination of old Team Fortress players, Quake III deathmatch players, and Counter-Strike players). It also had a multiplayer mode that came out around the time class-based competitive team multiplayer FPS games started to really crystallize in the wake of games like Team Fortress. When Return to Castle Wolfenstein (henceforth RTCW) was released, it had a pretty standard first person shooter campaign mode that I’m pretty sure was intended to be a direct sequel of the DOS Wolfenstein 3D games (it’s been a long time, so I can’t remember for sure). I wanted to bring some context to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, because I don’t think a lot of people are necessarily aware of its odd development history. Near the start of the podcast, Rob made a reference to Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and how those games plus the 2009 Wolfenstein contributed to a sort of dilution of the franchise. It is important that we not get that confused.) They believe, firmly, that some people aren’t. They aren’t making a cold, indifferent calculus that ruins lives. Nazis aren’t interested in even exploiting the material value of a human life for some greater amount of utility. (Worth saying briefly, too, that I think it’s a mistake to consider Nazism an extension of even the most extreme utilitarianism. I certainly hope so, because right now I’m feeling deeply detached from a game that so many have told me is an emotional powerhouse. Now that I’m not actively talking about the game with my friends again, I’m actually back to feeling p down on the whole game. “Which soldier to you save, the young one or the old one” feels like such a storytelling trope at this point, that I was actually disappointed to see it pop up (especially at the end of what had been a hellish slog to get there.)

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Hey! This is my first time through the game, and if I’m being honest, that sequence-and most of the game’s storytelling full stop-did little for me in terms of evoking any sort of emotional response.