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- PityDaFool, on 06/25/2009, -0/+35Well, those Nazis aren't going to kill themselves.
- eifersucht12a, on 06/25/2009, -0/+28I'm assuming the .4 is a Hitler Youth?
- Joshislong, on 06/25/2009, -0/+24Math is THE exact science. It's fail journalism like this that is not exact.
- anthropodeus, on 06/25/2009, -0/+20or are they?
/(Hitler) - Netmindstorm, on 06/25/2009, -2/+18Humm, the screenshot shows 36% complete with 639 enemy kills. Assuming you killed all the enemies, all the enemies are nazis, and the amount of enemies killed is linear with the completion rate, 100% complete would result in 1775 nazi deaths. There appears to be a discrepancy of 49.176 nazi deaths at play here (at 36% complete) although perhaps he was able to estimate based on on the level he played and what activision sent over that those nazis are just sneaky bastards. I'll give it a pass since to his credit he does say "math isn’t an exact science".
- nicodemus26, on 06/25/2009, -0/+14Fractional Nazis are the scariest kind.
- dafragsta, on 06/25/2009, -0/+13... and I WANT my scalps!
I just want to know how the .4 factors in. "I'm getting better!" "No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment." - MikeSD34, on 06/25/2009, -1/+13It would be a pretty sweet game to let you off the pope...
- HopeForTomorrow, on 06/25/2009, -0/+9The .4 is rather odd. A nazi party sympathizer?
- voomfoo, on 06/25/2009, -4/+13That's less than 9000!!!!!!1!!!! ( ʘ Y ʘ )
- eagles7977, on 06/25/2009, -1/+9I remember playing the original Wolfenstein... where we could only kill about 20 Nazis per level :(
- bodiez, on 06/25/2009, -0/+7Please please please allow me to walk up to a wall, press spacebar, and open up secret passages with health and treasure.
Wolf 3d was the *****. - inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+6That little monkey in raiders of the lost ark.
- gcnaddict, on 06/25/2009, -0/+5This is ***** retarded.
36% is rounded, duh. No one gives an exact achievement percentage in-game; we don't like seeing lots of numbers. - pingpants, on 06/25/2009, -0/+5That's alotta Nazi!
- dman24752, on 06/26/2009, -0/+4To kill the last .4 of a Nazi, you actually employ him in a dead-end job in a cubicle for 30 years and keep passing him over for promotions.
- boulderomen, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4Odd, I remember slaughtering hundreds of Nazi's in almost every level of the first game. Especially near the end when you would encounter the 'super-bosses' that had had been cast from the bowels of hell. Fun times, that game was.
- LordVance, on 06/26/2009, -0/+4Yes.
- doubleoh7, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3Ummm...cross multiply and divide?
Just take the 639 deaths and divide by .36; which, by the way, equals 1775 Nazi deaths (not 1638.4).
Although I will still digg this for the idiocy of the claim that "math isn't an exact science". - richmomz, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3I don't think his calculations factored in the possibility that many of the later game kills could be from cybernetic dogs, undead zombie Teutonic knights or bio-engineered mutant ubersoldiers, thus skewing the overall statistical estimate of ordinary Nazi deaths. Very sloppy.
I assume the extra "0.4" kill is from a Hitler midget clone that inevitably MUST be in any reputable Wolfenstein game. - richmomz, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3I don't think your calculations factored in the possibility that many of the later game deaths could be from cybernetic dogs, zombie Templar knights or bio-engineered mutant ubersoldiers, thus skewing the overall total of ordinary Nazi deaths. Very sloppy.
- Feraldr00d, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3*****' lol'd.
- puppyoneb, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3Is the fractional (0.4) Nazi a midget? Oh sorry, little person?
- BJLStorm, on 06/25/2009, -1/+4I only play games if I get to kill over 9000 nazis.
- richmomz, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2It's the Hitler midget clone boss you have to fight at the end of Level 3 XD
- cambob76, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2Doesn't calculus just pretend to be exact? (I haven't studied math in years)
- onClipEvent, on 06/25/2009, -4/+6THIS got on the front page?
- Dalif, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2gvoakes or men of his ilk
- cosworth99, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2I play Wolf3d on my phone sitting on the can on break. Nutbar mecha-bosses still make me ***** my pants. Now I'm prepared.
I'll play this new game for hours.... - TekTrixter, on 06/25/2009, -1/+31775 was the year the Marine Corps was founded... coincidence?
- dethsesh, on 06/25/2009, -1/+2who would even submit this crap
- richmomz, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1Well the REAL Wolfenstein (3D) did, and he had a freakin robotic Nazi powersuit with twin arm-mounted gatling cannons - THAT's how you do it!
It ain't Wolfenstein unless it's got Hitler mini-me cyborg clone assassins, dammit! :p - dsmx, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1return to castle wolfenstein didn't have hitler in it.
- rxbudian, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1killing bad people is justified in games because they're evil.
- Lane, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1Stupidity
- Fishn2, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1I'm guessing the percentage complete is more to do with the gold found, tombs found, intelligence found and the number of missions completed...
I'm willing to bet that number of nazis killed has absolutely nothing to do with the game completion percentage... So what's the point of this article??? - jeremymccurdy, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1So they extrapolated this number from a screenshot taken from a 36% finished game... Hmm, okay, what if the player missed some Nazis in the level? What if the amount of Nazis increases as you progress? Or decreases?
Why the ***** did this even get submitted? The author just did some ***** math based on a ***** screenshot. - richmomz, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1A cybernetic German Shepard attack dog
- Kruse, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1Where does this .4 come from?
- spec209, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1Enough of this... it was a great tragedy but come on. There have been are are occuring bigger tragedies now around the world and need to be addressed.
- richmomz, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1A cybernetic Hitler mini-me midget!
- asnider, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1One of the German Shepperds.
- MOJIRA, on 06/26/2009, -2/+1Are you heiling Hitler there at the end?
/(Yeah, I know what you meant.) - inactive, on 06/25/2009, -1/+0Mean-ass nazi german sheperds.
- Totenkopf88, on 06/25/2009, -3/+2How many allied soldiers do we get to kill?
- pitdog, on 06/25/2009, -4/+2Too few. Killing Nazis is fun.
- fredsterss, on 06/25/2009, -6/+1BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRING
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..................................., - rudejaxom, on 06/25/2009, -6/+0If you played a Nazi, you would kill a lot more Jews.
- bmcnally, on 06/25/2009, -8/+2Right, because you can somehow overcome an information deficiency to calculate the unknown data points.
You don't know what the levels are like (will you get a CoD4 sniper level) or how many Nazis will be in each one, let alone have respawning waves.
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