How Wolfenstein II Censored Hitler In Germany (mild spoiler warning)
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[QUOTE=ReligiousNutjob;52833352]Fairly sure that the The New Order is only cherry picking individual parts of backstory from previous games without declaring them entirely canon.
The Old Blood had a piece of lore saying that the Wolfenstein assassin was captured and executed.[/QUOTE]
That was probably for propaganda purposes. It was in a German paper after all.
[QUOTE=ReligiousNutjob;52833352]Fairly sure that the The New Order is only cherry picking individual parts of backstory from previous games without declaring them entirely canon.
The Old Blood had a piece of lore saying that the Wolfenstein assassin was captured and executed.[/QUOTE]
Sorry but I find it hard to believe you fell for that nazi propaganda. Any dictatorship would claim "the culprit was swiftly captured and executed" regardless of the truth of it.
So yeah, for me that video is canon.
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52832527]Imagine the conversations they had with the german government over this
"You may have hitler in your game about nazis, as long as there's no swastikas, they don't call him Fuhrer, and most importantly of all, you remove his mustache."
Also i find it kind of strange how they portrayed hitler in the game. The real guy was pathologically obsessed with order and purity. If he shot up everyone because they even slightly slipped up or were out of order, or out of general paranoia, that'd be a great exploration of who hitler was. But to have him lying on the floor, throwing up randomly, and shooting the last actor for literally no reason was just strange. The real hitler prided himself on his power of will, and could stand in one spot for eight hours during parades or other such events. And to portray him like they did was kinda baffling, and was a real lost opportunity, where they could've shown the sort of person who'd foist a totalitarian empire of fantastic and pathological order upon the world, but in his senile years after being at the helm of a cult of personality. And show the 'philosophical' roots of nazism, stemming from the increasing insanity of hitler himself. As opposed to "hey look at this crazy old tyrannical fuck in poor health".[/QUOTE]
At the time of the game, he's getting pretty damn old and has presumably survived a number of very dangerous and lethal encounters with BJ depending on what they decided to keep as canon. I think his portrayal was meant to be more of a joke, a direct parallel of BJ, actually. Engel refers to BJ as a useless, pants-shitting cripple very early in the game. Meanwhile the literal head of the entire Nazi regime is objectively worse off than when BJ was confined to a wheelchair killing Nazis in a submarine. Honestly, with how the game has portrayed Nazis (even in The New Order), I think the entire portrayal of the Nazis is meant to be a very ridiculous caricature with some very serious elements mixed in. I mean, in The New Colossus there are Nazi soldiers talking about how wrong it is to kill people just because of different viewpoints and they go on to say how hyped they are for signing up with a death squad.
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