Non-'spastic' Mario Party 8 returns Aug. 8 to Europe

ZOMG you said retarded!

I'm totally offended! Re-write your comment at once! And at the code level mister!!

Politically correct BS? Do you really think it's appropriate for the word "retard" to be in a mario game? because that's exactly what "spastic" means over here.

anyway, i work at a checkout in a supermarket- yesterday, a woman wanted to buy Mind Quiz. a message popped up on the till saying that the game had been withdrawn from sale- now i know why.

eelb, you fucking brits make absolutely everything into an offensive word. Within ten years all of you won't be able to complete a proper sentence anymore without looking at each other awkwardly because there's a 99.99% chance you just said a "bad word".

Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. I don't care. In fact, political correctness is on the list of things I care least about, right below Britney Spears.

Example: African American. Fuck you. I'll call them black. Calling a black person African American is assuming several things (such as, that they are from Africa).

The only time I care in the slightest about censoring my choice of words is in front of young children. Otherwise, bite me.

It depends. Some people hear words aimed at them, or their beloved ones, in a degoraty way so often, that they may find it really offensive. I can't even call my fat co-worker fat without her trowing a tantrum.

spastic has always been considered a pretty offensive word in the uk. I remember some kid at our school getting suspended for using it.. and that was about 20 years ago.

For instance. Would you feel insulted if I called you a "naff pillock"? Probably not. I don't pretend to be acquainted with the slang, but I'd bet if you called someone from the UK something along those line's you'd get a matching string of profanity in response.

Yeah! AND BRING ON THE F WORDS!

Well just remember that next time someone says something that offends you and makes you angry and just ignore what that person said.

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I love how the "S" in "Spastic" stands for "Spastic"

Yes. I actually bought it (Loved MP1+2, never played since then) and returned it. It is BAD. Minigames are fun, yes, but the rest of the game's execution is abysmal. My biggest gripe comes with the lack of widescreen support. Sure, the game 'supports' it, like Wii games are required, but their definition of supports is including letterboxing at a software level, instead of a hardware level. Ugh.

I don't care about the wide-screen subject. Forget anything about the visuals and what not, I just wanna know, if I have friends over, will it be fun? Or am I going to end up throwing the Wii-mote at the tv screen?

A bit of one, a bit of the other. It depends on the minigames you get.

I'd suggest renting it to find out, and before you go plunking down $50 on it, think about how often you can get three friends and yourself together to play (it's not fun in SP, or with bots, which is practically the same thing).

Absolutely horrible. Worst Wii game I've played. And I own 8 and have rented another 6 or 7.

WTF? So you're allowed to think it's great, but no one else is allowed to think the game sucks? This game has been ripped in a lot of reviews, not just in fanboy rants. The game sucks. But I suppose it's a good thing for Nintendo they have an army of fanboys like yourself to buy any old crap they decide to release with Mario on the cover.

You think the game sucks because its on the Wii. NOT because its a bad game.

Every single game that comes out you bash. And it ALWAYS the same bullshit from you sony trolls.

1) Horrible graphics
2) Gimmicky controls
3) More of the same.

Guess what!? The Wii was NEVER MEANT TO BE A GRAPHICS powerhouse. The most it can do as everyone knows by now is 480p. Yet you guys keep bitching about graphics and how your precious ps3 games would never look as good as they do on the Wii. But you know what? We ALREADY KNOW THAT. We don't care. Moving on...

The controls for most Wii games make sense. I haven't yet come across a game that I've found challenging or extremely hard to get used to. Save Red Steel all the controls have made sense and added a new dimenson/flavor to the games. Even if it adds only a LITTLE bit of motion control or utilizes the Wiimote in a small way I think and I'm sure most Wii owners agree that its WORTH IT.

Last but not least if its not broke don't fix it. WHY IN THE HELL WOULD NINTENDO RADICALLY CHANGE THE GAME FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS IF MOST PEOPLE LIKED IT AS IS!? Some games do need major changes. Some do require new additions or unique changes. But Mario Party is NOT one of them. Is it that hard to understand? I've played all Mario Parties and they're not that serious. I don't expect Nintendo to do a massive overhaul of the game. So no it doesn't matter if the game is basically the same when it comes to gameplay. There was NOTHING wrong to begin with when it came to the basic games.

Its Mario Party. You play it to have fun with friends. I played it. I had fun.

Mission Accomplished. Go Nintendo. Move on sony trolls.

Once again hardcore gamers like you think that everyone revolves around you and therefore Nintendo must do everything YOU want but thats NOT the case nor will it ever be.

I mostly agree with everything you say here except that MP8 is a good game. It's broken, the boards are uninspired, and the controls are wonky at best. I'm looking forward to MP9, hopefully it can deliver the way Madden, Tiger Woods, SSX Blur, RE4, and others have in the controls dept.

I seriously enjoyed all the Mario Party games previous to 8 - only bought two of them, but I've played them all. I'm glad I rented MP8 first.

One thing needs to be pointed out once again - Nintendo does not make Mario Party games, they are developed by Hudson and always have been. So, whether criticizing or praising, remember that Nintendo isn't the one responsible. Actually, while I enjoy these games, I can guarantee they would be a hell of a lot more interesting and polished if they actually were developed 1st party. Also, that pun was unintentional.

Do you even know what the supposedly offensive line was? It wasn't used to describe a person as stupid. It wasn't, in fact, used to describe a person at all. The line was:

"Magikoopa magic! / Turn the train spastic! / Make this ticket tragic!"

Unless there are locomotives suffering from cerebral palsy that I am unaware of, I think it's a bit of an overreaction. Even if it must be considered off-limits for use to refer to people, surely it's still a perfectly valid word for an object with erratic, energetic movement? If people consider that offensive, then so, presumably would be a game in which you pull a lever to "retard" the flow of a chemical, or maybe African Americans who consider "black" to be offensive should start objecting to its use to refer to the color of objects. Where would you draw the line?

Excellent comment, Tyson.

It's absurd to think that words which should be perfectly fine to use in every day conversation are now being taken offensively, to the point of recalling and editing a product on such a mass scale.

"If people consider that offensive, then so, presumably would be a game in which you pull a lever to "retard" the flow of a chemical"

Well, if you don't know the difference between the noun 'retard' and the verb 'retard' that is hardly my problem. However, 'spastic' movement exclusively refers to people and not an inanimate object like a train, so it's not really the same thing.

Where would I draw the line? Well... since the word 'black' doesn't offend anyone most of the time, but 'spastic' causes offence in virtually all contexts (when used in the UK) then that's a good place to start.

But then again, if it doesn't offend you, then surely it couldn't offend anyone! Ass.

Censorship in U.K is no joke,take a look at this.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=769526&fr=slv8-