Comments on: Stabby, Shooty: Wanted Demo

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By: Urthman

Urthman — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:07:16 +0000

Nothing says “careless console port by people with no clue about PC gaming” quite like omiting the option to invert the mouse.

(Except maybe “no option to customise the keyboard input.” I still can’t believe I played through Rayman 2 that way…)

How stupid do you have to be to spend however much money they wasted on putting this demo out and then hang this big “Don’t bother. We sure didn’t.” sign on it?

By: Helm

Helm — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:29:15 +0000

I don’t assume Millar (or any other writer) de facto believes what his lead characters believe. But his ‘racist, black-hearted supervillain’ is handled very lightly and as if he’s cool, so there is a positive commentary there by the creator certainly. If there’s no metacommentary of a theme them why write the thing. Dostoyefsky certainly doesn’t endorse everything Raskolnikov does in Crime and Punishment but that doesn’t mean his writing is not a commentary on his actions. In ‘Wanted’ the comic book (I won’t even touch the ridiculously bad film) the handling of very awful things is the standard light cynical fare… this doesn’t mean the thought police should arrest mister Millar… it just means his book leaves a bad aftertaste whereas the artist probably was going for an awesome aftertaste.

By: bananaphone

bananaphone — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:41:21 +0000

Er, yeah, what Malkav said. It’s a dark, fucked up comic that focuses on super-villains, rather than heroes. You seriously thought that was how Millar felt about his audience? Why do people assume that an author believes everything they write.

Looks like I’m the only one who enjoyed the movie :) I was sad they didn’t have the balls to make it like the comic, but I’m a sucker for mindless action.

Anyway. The game. It’s lots of fun, surprisingly funny and has tons of cool gameplay gimmicks, but is very short. Completed it in a few hours. Worth buying, but not at full price.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:13:19 +0000

I think a lot of people are assuming that the narrator represents Millar’s own viewpoint, or at least one he wants you to find sympathetic, and I’ve never been sure why. It’s a story about an out and out, black-hearted, vicious bastard of a supervillain and how he got that way. And unlike some similar stories, it’s not about making that character sympathetic. It’s not about exposing the deep dark traumas that drive them. It’s about how a shallow, racist prick gets upended out of his dead end life and handed superpowers and a controlling role among the people that run things, and how he, quite predictably, winds up abusing them.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:47:25 +0000

I see.

By: Nimdok

Nimdok — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:36:59 +0000

Nick: Millar’s basically insults his reader throughout the comic by having his protag say and do things along the lines of “I fucked my second-grade teacher in the ass and shot her, then I raped my first girlfriend and shot her, and I beat a guy to death with a keyboard because he was annoying. I’m fucking awesome, and you’re a lame piece of shit reading comic books instead of being awesome. Like me.”

The end of the comic is an extreme close-up of the protag with the words “This is my face while I fuck you in the ass.” kind’ve sums up Millar’s opinion of his readership. And a lot of them adore him for it.

By: Helm

Helm — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:39:30 +0000

Don’t expect much, just the protagonist breaking the fourth wall to tell you “I’m awesome like this and this and that, what have YOU done that’s awesome?”.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:25:05 +0000

“Comic was basically the writer (And, yes, I know that Millar exists to ’shock’) flipping off his fanbase while revelling in their attention”

I’m geniunely interested as to how/why this worked, I haven’t read it but I’m curious as to what he did with it to have that effect.

By: tentacleraep

tentacleraep — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:38:13 +0000

The release in Sweden seems to be April third, so I guess it comes down to the publisher having to fill in forms regarding the export of ones and zeroes, which seems to be taking some time these days.

By: Nimdok

Nimdok — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:27:27 +0000

Comic was basically the writer (And, yes, I know that Millar exists to ‘shock’) flipping off his fanbase while revelling in their attention; movie was a re-think of the comic that tried too hard to be a comic-book movie while retaining the “fuck you fans!” mentality.

The game? I LIKED the demo; the cover mechanic felt perfect, the animation of The Killer was gorgeous, and the little details (shooting overhead compartments and showering a guy with luggage? Fun.) scattered (Enemies next to a door? Shoot open the door.) around (explosive fire extinguishers? Unrealistic but a great boom) made for a dynamic-feeling firefight. I didn’t use the bullet-time OR bullet-curve mechanic much, prefering to play the waiting game and aiming for exposed heads and arms, and the melee/hostage mechanic were neat but unecessary with the prevalance of cover in the demo; maybe in the full game there are more open areas, better chances to use the psudo-stealth component and/or the knife…

If I can ignore the storyline, it’s a fun game.