Daily Mail Criticizes MadWorld For Wii

[Giftmacher]

Sounds like an interesting game. Thanks Daily Mail, without your hysterical bleating I might have let this one pass me by!

Of course if the BBFC won't give it a rating I'll have to order over the internet... but that's what it's there for right?

Gift.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Fuck the Daily Mail, I'm worried what Fox News is gonna say about it. Other than that. I have this to say:

OH MY GOD! I CAN'T FRIGGIN WAIT FOR THIS GAME!!!! XD

 

[Mstrswrd]

"No More Heroes." This is my response to the idea of the Wii being entirely family friendly. "Madworld" looks like it's going to rock.

 

[dekkarax]

We need to ensure that modern and civilized values take priority rather than killing and maiming people.

Civilisation is practically BASED on killing and maiming people.

To be honest, the Mail's credibility has never been high in my view, They even claimed that the Dark Knight was too violent.
The moment they realise that games AREN'T just for children is the day they earn some respect

 

[Zombie_King]

They'll release this atrocity on the Wii, but not RE5?

 

[ratix2]

sorry, but the award for most violent game ever made belongs soley and unarguably to postal 2.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

"I hope the British Board of Film Classification will view this with concern and decide it should not be granted a classification," he said. "Without that it cannot be marketed in Britain. What the rest of the world does is up to them. We need to ensure that modern and civilized values take priority rather than killing and maiming people."

PLEEEEASE tell me they're not going to ban it in the UK ;_;
I mean it's not like Manhunt where it looks kind of real, this is unrealistic artsy violence!
How easy is it to stab someone with a signpost anyway?!

 

[Arbre]

"It seems a shame that the game's manufacturer have decided to exclusively release this game on the Wii," he added. "I believe it will spoil the family fun image of the Wii."

The image indeed.

It's basically all they care about. That's the core of the buzz, it's about "mii too" demeanours.

They want to entertain that idea that they're not old but current, that they're playing video games too, they even have bet on the most succesful console which loves them, a machine for a civilized age, gratifying their assumed flair and even superiority to gamers who are stuck on less appealing machines, it makes them warm and fuzzy.

But the realities of business come. Pride is hurt.

 

[ProjectileVomit]

I really hope MadWorld will be as good as No More Heroes in terms of gameplay and violence. Fromt the looks of the trailer, I think it will even exceed NMH. This better get realeased with out any temperments

 

[the_tramp]

300 was black and white?

 

[riftinducer]

Sweet, my reasons to buy a Wii went from 1 to 2, thank you very much Daily Mail.

Back in the day, it used to be that some things lost any kind of mature image for the sake of being more family friendly, and they've usually ended up sucking with each step into the aforementioned image...... Ratchet and Clank even had treatment like that

When did R&C ever have a mature image? A couple of sly self-referential gags, and a couple of double entendre's here and there, but never a mature image. Please enlighten me, I must have missed something (I've played R&C's 1, 2, 3 and ToD)

 

[Imperial Avenger]

Despite the fact that the game doesn't appeal to me, as a gamer I think this is a game the Wii needs to extend beyond its current niche appeal. It may be a large niche, but its a niche nonetheless.

What I feel about the Wii is that Nintendo had adopted a motto something along the lines of "appeal to everyone." However, in that fervor, they ended up not trying to "appeal to everyone" but "appeal to everyone we haven't appealed to before" (i.e. the casual crowd). The Wii, while an amusing system with some decent games, has been running strong on a casual crowd, but has left the "hardcore" audience out in the rain. Now are "violence" and "hardcore gamer" equivalent? Well, some people seem to think so. But regardless, I think MadWorld will open up that "appeal to everyone" mantra a little more and make the Wii have TRULY universal appeal.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

 

[Lunar6]

Sweet, my reasons to buy a Wii went from 1 to 2, thank you very much Daily Mail.

Back in the day, it used to be that some things lost any kind of mature image for the sake of being more family friendly, and they've usually ended up sucking with each step into the aforementioned image...... Ratchet and Clank even had treatment like that

When did R&C ever have a mature image? A couple of sly self-referential gags, and a couple of double entendre's here and there, but never a mature image. Please enlighten me, I must have missed something (I've played R&C's 1, 2, 3 and ToD)

Well, I can't really put it in my own words, but to quote a line I heard somewhere, the humor of Ratchet and Clank has kind of changed from something out of Comedy Central into something out of Nickelodeon, meaning by my guess that it became a little less and less subtle. At least that's how I'd interpret a metaphor like that.

 

[riftinducer]

Sweet, my reasons to buy a Wii went from 1 to 2, thank you very much Daily Mail.

Back in the day, it used to be that some things lost any kind of mature image for the sake of being more family friendly, and they've usually ended up sucking with each step into the aforementioned image...... Ratchet and Clank even had treatment like that

When did R&C ever have a mature image? A couple of sly self-referential gags, and a couple of double entendre's here and there, but never a mature image. Please enlighten me, I must have missed something (I've played R&C's 1, 2, 3 and ToD)

Well, I can't really put it in my own words, but to quote a line I heard somewhere, the humor of Ratchet and Clank has kind of changed from something out of Comedy Central into something out of Nickelodeon, meaning by my guess that it became a little less and less subtle. At least that's how I'd interpret a metaphor like that.

Depends on whether we're talking 90's Nickelodeon or modern Nick. The old stuff had some surprisingly adult humour under the surface (the "Spank the Monkey" board game from Rocko's Modern Life, anyone?)

I can see the point of what you're saying, although there was some subtle humour in ToD.

 

[Rath709]

Could have shortened the thread title to just the first three words and it still would have been entirely coherent.

 

[anguaji]

bwhahaha... daily mail... hahahaha.

they'll probably go on to speculate as to whether the game was designed by the all-consuming evil Immigrant.

gotta love the daily mail. to line the catbox, for preference.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

The Daily Mail is hilarious...

As comic Jeremy Hardy put it

'The Sun is ok, because it has the honesty to look a bit like a kids comic, but the Daily Mail actually looks like a newspaper, I fear some foolish people might read it and think there's news in there!'

Really, if they had to remove all the stories about Maddie, Diana, Immigrants, House prices, and Wheelie bins, it'd be a sports paper with a page about TV listings.

Also, their recent thing about 'Dark Knight' the movie, 'glorifying knife crime', firstly, who's picking the Joker as a role model, I can't see the nasty hooded chavs going out to buy facepaint somehow. Secondly, he's a fictional bad guy, what's he supposed to do, use the last of the toilet paper in Batman's mansion and not replace the roll? Break into people's houses and move the furniture around to ruin their feng shui? he's a psycho killer, he lives to hurt people!

As for the kid (11) who wrote into the letters page saying 'They've ruined batman, the joker was a funny bad guy who had a squirt flower and never used knives, I can only assume he only ever watched the 60's TV show, and not read any of the comics. Batman can be family friendly entertainment, or it can be a very dark, violent thing indeed, it depends what you want.

Personally, I think we need to stop putting kids on a pedestal, they just don't need protecting to the point where we stop everyone doing things in case a child sees or experiences it. Of course, I generally don't like kids anyway, I dont think I liked em when I was one, and time hasn't improved things.

 

[Rath709]

Edited for excessive sarcasm about Jeremy Hardy being a comic.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

"It seems a shame that the game's manufacturer have decided to exclusively release this game on the Wii," he added. "I believe it will spoil the family fun image of the Wii."

Also I meant to add; ^ Fucking good, I hope the Wii will have more adult and hardcore games coming after Madworld.