Good point. Though, they should just making a fighting game of Clue for Xbox 360 or PS3. And then you find out at the end that Plum was the creator of the game.Penelope wrote:Zahveed wrote:Penelope wrote:I don't mind them updating the weapons--why a trophy, though? The axe is such a better weapon to kill people with.
What better irony than to kill the former football player with his own trophy?
Yes, but the football player is one of the suspects, not the victim; so the trophy makes sense as either HIS weapon, or a weapon used by one of the other suspects to frame him.
Hasbro destroying "Clue"
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Yes, but the football player is one of the suspects, not the victim; so the trophy makes sense as either HIS weapon, or a weapon used by one of the other suspects to frame him.Zahveed wrote:Penelope wrote:I don't mind them updating the weapons--why a trophy, though? The axe is such a better weapon to kill people with.
What better irony than to kill the former football player with his own trophy?
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According to Wikipedia, the British version of the game is getting an axe and a bat (baseball or cricket? doesn't say, but I assume the latter) instead of the American trophy and poison. I don't mind them updating the weapons--why a trophy, though? The axe is such a better weapon to kill people with.
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Or Monopoly has players buying up Skid Row homes and making strip malls out of them.
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Operation turns into a plastic surgery game
They already fucked up Life, so there's nothing really funny left for it...
I could understand removing lead pipe since lead isn't heavily manufactured these days, but why would they remove the revolver and the wrench? The former is certainly as effective a murder weapon as ever... And do that many mansions really have theaters in them?
They let people use L33t sp34k in Scrabble as legal words
Operation turns into a plastic surgery game
They already fucked up Life, so there's nothing really funny left for it...
I could understand removing lead pipe since lead isn't heavily manufactured these days, but why would they remove the revolver and the wrench? The former is certainly as effective a murder weapon as ever... And do that many mansions really have theaters in them?
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As soon as I find software to create an online petition, I'm going to put one together to protest this. I mean, there have been lots of versions over the past several years, but it was always under a different name or subtitle. Now, they are actually tampering with the base game. At least with the past incarnations, there was always the classic game being produced, but this ends that and that's why I'm upset.
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Goodbye Col. Mustard: 'Clue' goes tabloid
Hasbro gives classic detective game new characters, weapons and rooms
The Associated Press
updated 3:22 p.m. ET, Thurs., Aug. 14, 2008
Goodbye, professor. Farewell, colonel.
Toy maker Hasbro Inc. has updated its classic Clue game for today's tabloid culture to include younger characters, more weapons, and new rooms, including a spa and guest house.
The six characters' last names remain the same, but their first names and bios have been updated. For example, Miss Scarlet is now Kasandra Scarlet, a famous actress often featured in tabloids. And Mr. Green is now Jacob Green, an African-American "with all the ins."
Colonel Mustard is now Jack Mustard, a former football player. The professor? Now Victor Plum, a billionaire video game designer.
Each character — rounded out by Eleanor Peacock and Diane White — also now has a special power that could help players discover clues more quickly. New “intrigue” and “clock” cards add clues and can eliminate players in the latest version of the game.
Hasbro has also lengthened the weapons list from six to nine. The candlestick, knife and rope remain, but now weapons choices include a dumbbell, trophy or poison. The lead pipe, revolver and wrench are no longer part of the game.
Meanwhile, new rooms include a theater, spa and guest house nearby.
Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro has previously updated Clue — first created in 1949 — with an express version and a Simpsons version, but the new incarnation will be a replacement for the original version of Clue currently on store shelves.
It will be available nationwide beginning in the fall, for about $15.99.
Hasbro gives classic detective game new characters, weapons and rooms
The Associated Press
updated 3:22 p.m. ET, Thurs., Aug. 14, 2008
Goodbye, professor. Farewell, colonel.
Toy maker Hasbro Inc. has updated its classic Clue game for today's tabloid culture to include younger characters, more weapons, and new rooms, including a spa and guest house.
The six characters' last names remain the same, but their first names and bios have been updated. For example, Miss Scarlet is now Kasandra Scarlet, a famous actress often featured in tabloids. And Mr. Green is now Jacob Green, an African-American "with all the ins."
Colonel Mustard is now Jack Mustard, a former football player. The professor? Now Victor Plum, a billionaire video game designer.
Each character — rounded out by Eleanor Peacock and Diane White — also now has a special power that could help players discover clues more quickly. New “intrigue” and “clock” cards add clues and can eliminate players in the latest version of the game.
Hasbro has also lengthened the weapons list from six to nine. The candlestick, knife and rope remain, but now weapons choices include a dumbbell, trophy or poison. The lead pipe, revolver and wrench are no longer part of the game.
Meanwhile, new rooms include a theater, spa and guest house nearby.
Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro has previously updated Clue — first created in 1949 — with an express version and a Simpsons version, but the new incarnation will be a replacement for the original version of Clue currently on store shelves.
It will be available nationwide beginning in the fall, for about $15.99.
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"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
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