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Rob's Rants: What The West Really Wants

Filed in archive Features on January 27, 2008

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Matt Casamassina of IGN.com wrote a blog this week, defending his buddy Mark Bozon over his No More Heroes review. Why? Because Bozon had the temerity to give it a 7.8.

As usual, the response from the mind numbed message board set was predictable. Personal attacks, lame brained arguments, and general ill will were voiced to the IGN review staff.

I should premise this with the usual fine print about not having played No More Heroes. But to be honest, the more I hear about it, the less interested I am in it, at least as something I might pay full retail price for. Why?

Suda51, the famed developer behind the game, specifically designed this game for "The West." Meaning basically America. So what does a game designed for us entail?

Apparently huge gouts of blood, liberal uses of f-bombs and swear words, and potty humor.

Thanks, but no thanks.

I would like to think that making a game for Americans means that you have unbroken gameplay. Is that too much to ask?

It's really too bad that No More Heroes goes down the path it does, because the fighting mechanics sound outrageously fun. Now, being a gamer, I can handle a little violence. I'm not a pacifist. Yet it is the whole package that has me turned off. If you just had the gouts of blood, and you didn't have the language issues, I might have tried the game, for instance.

Gamers have the mindset that everything should be A-OK in terms of games like this because the gamers commenting on message boards are usually young and single. Though I was never really that way even when I was young, I will tell you that as a husband and father I do care about these issues more.

No More Heroes has a right to be in the marketplace. Yet I'm going to withhold my dollars (which is my right), because I for one don't like being stereotyped in terms of what I want to play. Make a great game, not a decent game with an M rating. IGN's Mark Bozon should be congratulated for delivering an honest review, when IGN was one of the main outlets promoting the game all of last year.

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