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Better late than never. id Software wanted to be able to hide bodies 
according to Masters of Doom book from 2003, take their clothes, etc.  
in their Wolf3D, but couldn't due to limitations. Return to Castle 
Wolfenstein didn't have these features too. I wonder if the newer 
Wolfenstein games could since I never played them.


Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's embarrassing that it took so long for me to notice this.

> For the longest time, I assumed "Wolfenstein 3D" took its name because
> it was based on the "Castle Wolfenstein" franchise and it happened to
> be in '3D' (or, at least as close to '3D' as 1992 PCs could get at
> that time).

> But, of course, the name also refers to the fact that - after the
> original "Castle Wolfenstein" and "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein" - it is
> the /third/ game in the series.

> <sigh>

> No, no great revelation here. Well, not for anybody else, anyway. But
> it was like an epiphany for me. I'd been staring at the title for 32
> years(!) and only noticed that today.

> <double sigh> 

> I'm still holding out for a modern remake of the original Muse
> Software games, by the way. Or just a digital release of the 2009
> "Wolfenstein", for that matter. Or maybe re-releases - on GOG, or
> elsewhere - of the forgotten, non-canonical, "Mission" disks for
> Wolfenstein 3D released by FormGen. My collection is incomplete
> without these. 

> Maybe one day.
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