Posted October 04, 2013
I'm sorry this isn't really GOG related, but this also seems to be a forum for gaming in general, so here goes:
I recently ordered a copy of Wolfenstein ( 2009, non-Steam version ) from some big UK online games shop. Today it finally arrived after a few weeks of waiting, and while I was initially relieved to see it's one of the earlier versions without Steam requirements, it turned out the disc only contains the voice acting and video files for the Spanish and Italian versions. In a game that's supposedly the UK version. Yeah, what the...
The game case is entirely in English, and there's absolutely no hint that it contains a Spanish, or even general PAL/ Europe version. There's not even any info on the disc itself. But since it contains only the South-European languages, it's clearly not the UK version, so as far as I can tell, someone at the store ( or a previous owner ) put the wrong disc in the case, yet they sold it to me as a factory sealed, "new" copy of the game. Seems to be a common practice for some retail stores to re-seal 2nd-hand games and sell them as "new" ones to make some extra profit. That alone would be bad enough, but I wouldn't have complained much, if it was at least the game ( version ) I ordered. ( I actually had a more severe case of this a few years back, where a supposedly "new" game case contained a completely wrong game, by a different publisher. "New" my ass. )
So anyway, I waited several weeks for my game, they charged too much for shipping, charged too much for the game itself, tried to make a 2nd-hand game look like a new one... and failed even at that. FFFFF.
Now I have a WWII game set in Germany, where all the Germans and allied troops speak Spanish. Not that there's anything wrong with the Spanish language, but this just doesn't work.
Now as for my question, does anyone here know if there's an English language pack or patch I could download? ( Non-Steam ) Thanks for any help.
P.S.: And just for the record, the UK store I'm talking about is gameseek.co.uk -- Consider yourself warned.
I recently ordered a copy of Wolfenstein ( 2009, non-Steam version ) from some big UK online games shop. Today it finally arrived after a few weeks of waiting, and while I was initially relieved to see it's one of the earlier versions without Steam requirements, it turned out the disc only contains the voice acting and video files for the Spanish and Italian versions. In a game that's supposedly the UK version. Yeah, what the...
The game case is entirely in English, and there's absolutely no hint that it contains a Spanish, or even general PAL/ Europe version. There's not even any info on the disc itself. But since it contains only the South-European languages, it's clearly not the UK version, so as far as I can tell, someone at the store ( or a previous owner ) put the wrong disc in the case, yet they sold it to me as a factory sealed, "new" copy of the game. Seems to be a common practice for some retail stores to re-seal 2nd-hand games and sell them as "new" ones to make some extra profit. That alone would be bad enough, but I wouldn't have complained much, if it was at least the game ( version ) I ordered. ( I actually had a more severe case of this a few years back, where a supposedly "new" game case contained a completely wrong game, by a different publisher. "New" my ass. )
So anyway, I waited several weeks for my game, they charged too much for shipping, charged too much for the game itself, tried to make a 2nd-hand game look like a new one... and failed even at that. FFFFF.
Now I have a WWII game set in Germany, where all the Germans and allied troops speak Spanish. Not that there's anything wrong with the Spanish language, but this just doesn't work.
Now as for my question, does anyone here know if there's an English language pack or patch I could download? ( Non-Steam ) Thanks for any help.
P.S.: And just for the record, the UK store I'm talking about is gameseek.co.uk -- Consider yourself warned.
