Hitler portraits

[Melissa Alien Loaf Wubman]

How come in a game that centers around Nazis that there are no portraits of Hitler anywhere like there was in past Wolfenstein games?

[Jellopie]

Not sure if it's still considered canon with all the various discrepancies between the games, but B.J. killed Hitler at the end of Episode 3 in Wolfenstein 3D.

[Patrol1985]

Hitler is still alive in "The Old Blood". Can't remember which mission exactly, but one note you find mentions Hitler (by name, not the "fuhrer" title) visiting Sweden to accept their defeat and visit some kind of museum or a different facility.

It's hard to follow Wolfenstein's storyline, but I think a good way to start is to separate games which were published in the 90s (Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny) and treat them as one storyline, whereas anything published after 2000 (Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein, The New Order, The Old Blood) is a separate story.

I'm not saying it's perfect and makes sense all of a sudden, but the single most problematic event causing discrepancies in the storyline is Blazkowicz killing Hitler. The killing took part only in Wolfenstein 3D, so if you dismiss this one the whole thing makes SLIGHTLY more sense ;)

[DogMeat]

The reason Hitler isn't a bigger part of Blood/Order is simple... international release & censorship. Why add tons of content, models or portraits involving Hitler when all you are doing is making tons of extra work for yourself when the German version will need to replace those models or portraits with different content. They've already given themselves a lot of work by having swastikas on the arm bands etc.

I seriously doubt we'll ever get to kill Hitler in a Wolfenstein game again. It was one thing to replace a few sprites back in the 90s but that heavy alteration in a modern game would be a large undertaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hK4Px4O8aE

[Patrol1985]

That's true and I second that killing Hitler was a one-time thing in the series. Different times, different markets, one could be more controversial back in the day because games weren't as big as they're now. I'm still impressed they take effort to put those swastikas in the game, when they could easily replace them with "Wolfenstein" symbols and release one version world-wide.

[DogMeat]

Originally posted by patrol1985:

That's true and I second that killing Hitler was a one-time thing in the series. Different times, different markets, one could be more controversial back in the day because games weren't as big as they're now. I'm still impressed they take effort to put those swastikas in the game, when they could easily replace them with "Wolfenstein" symbols and release one version world-wide.

Yeah, there have been a few cases of international censorship effecting the product for everyone. In Fallout 3 for example Med-X was originally called Morphine but they just censored the game for everyone as Australia took offense to the word 'Morphine'. Although in that case I don't really mind as Med-X was a decent name in a fictional alternate reality sci fi setting. Unfortunately Bethesda took the lazy route with Doom 3 BFG edition, censoring the secret Wolfenstein 3D levels of Doom 2 for everyone.

[Maniac86]

Well, we always have Sniper Elite 2 and 3 to kill Hitler (With Medically accurate single testicle!)