Take Jackass Johnny Knoxville, make him an anime and Star Wars otaku, give him a lightsaber and martial arts skills, call him an assassin, and then toss the concoction into an open-world game infested with more assassins ... that's the premise for Suda 51's Wii game No More Heroes -- but it doesn't stop there. The Killer 7 developer has proposed a particularly un-Wii-like challenge for his Grasshopper team: "make No More Heroes as violent, or even more violent than Manhunt 2!"And afterwards? Well, there's that secret "Project S" collabo with Kojima (a Snatcher sequel?) that's been floating under the radar; and, as Suda reveals, there's interest in developing for Xbox 360. "I want to develop games for Xbox 360 as soon as possible. In fact, I am planning the next project for Xbox 360," says Suda. "As for PS3, I don't have enough materials/topics to comment on this because there is only a small chance for us to develop for the console at this point in time." Small chance? Why's that?
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sounds fun, lughsabers and all, hope its full on waving wiimote action....definately buying.
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I just picked up Killer7 used for $9 and I'm playing through it right now, so I looked up this Suda 51 character on Wikipedia, and it says his favorite game is Out of this World. Anybody who calls Out of this World their favorite game is a developer who I'll follow to the ends of the earth. That's one of the greatest games in the universe. I highly recommend it to anybody, but I must warn you that it's got the kind of difficulty that can make you smash a TV.
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And I'm buying this game, just because of Suda Five-One and their support of the late 'cube. Killer 7 was certainly different, and that's what we need to encourage in developers.
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And those PS3 shots are getting old. We get it, it's expensive and not worth it right now. We don't need some schmo to say it over and over again.
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I HOPE HE DOESNT DIE RIGHT OFF THE BAT!
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Probably because it won't be on the market much longer. Oh burn!!! I kid, I kid. I kid because I love.
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Not really, we know that in Star Wars technology exists to create lifelike artificial limbs. Luke had his hand replaced, Vader had his arms and legs replaced..
(Ok, if you want a game which actually shows that replacement, Lego Star Wars Original Trilogy)
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LOL I forgot Lego Star Wars. Love 'em. :P
But really, even in Battlefront II, where you can mow Stormtroopers by the dozen by throwing your saber, you don't see limbs get destroyed. Not even with Droids. Of course maybe you'd get the ones supported by the canon and such but never hapless NPCs that cross your path. :P
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The location of the game is a city called "Santa Destroy"
It doesn't end, if it's possible to work this into my buying schedule, i will
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p.s. lightsaber games are cool...period
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Everyone stop buying them so i can find one for sale and get one. I demand it.
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Also just remembered, The Jedi Knight series also does allow limb severing (though you can't cut off people's heads or slice their torsos in 2, sadly).
Maybe some games do not have it programmed, but you can't say all. What I've never seen though, is a game which allows you to do more gruesome multiliations, like opening up stomachs and slicing up a head in 2. Perhaps this would be the first?
(but seriously, it's hard enough to make a game more violent than Killer 7, even if those creatures are not quite human..)
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Fair enough.
I only bring it up because it's a fairly uncommon form of violence, especially for a game with swords meant for slicing. :D
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Manhunt was banned in several countries due to it's content and subject matter recall.
You should look at how violent is determined. It isn't your defination that Suda 51 is going by.
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What most people fail to notice is that GTA, unlike many of its clones, had a great storyline and presentation which was essential to its success. Mindless fun stopped being fun when there is not much point in it. When there is no real meaning to progression.
At least Suda 51 should try make the storyline logical and not IQ 50-ish. But oh well, by the looks they won't; And most Wii users would still get it just because it's violent.
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Obviously violence wouldn't be the game's primary selling point. Speaking of which...
I enjoy playing MK than dancing in the rain... of BLOOD.
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Yes, but most violence tends to be plain, simple violence, whereas the violence in Killer 7 fits directly into it's art style. From what we've seen, No More Heroes appears to be stylistic similar to Killer 7.
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Long live the Ring of Death! lol...
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Gears of War had a much more rational storyline than this. It's the wackiness that annoys me. Martial arts and lightsaber? It pretty much sounds like you could throw away all plot and the game would still be the same.
Really, if that's what devs have to come up for "mature" Wii games, they DO have a long way to go. Perhaps 10 more years.
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