Cooking Mama: Cook Off Review

By Tom Bramwell Published 9 May, 2007

Half-baked.

Version tested: Wii

I can't cook to save my life (which is why I usually swim towards the light rather than sealing myself in pastry). Fortunately, the Wii's charm lies not in its ability to render activities realistically, but rather in its capacity to rend our preconceptions and deliver entertainment regardless of how skilled we might actually be in the activity we're performing. Little surprise then that within minutes of putting a flame to Cooking Mama I was chopping, peeling, frying and mincing with the best of them. Grilled bonito, pierogi, paella, lasagne, popcorn - when it comes to the console that makes surgeons out of tennis players, it's all in a day's wok.

Each of the game's many recipes is broken down into a series of preparations that utilise the Wiimote in different ways. To chop a vegetable, you first remove the ends by dragging the pointer across the area indicated on-screen, perform the same action to cut it a few times lengthways, and then chop it finely by drumming the Wiimote down on a virtual counter until the blade's run the length of the food. Holding the Wiimote horizontally and rotating it like the handle of a tombola allows you to mince beef, while moving it back and forth shakes a pan of frying onions, tilting it butters the inside of a pan, and moving it in response to directional prompts kneads dough to the correct shape and consistency.

Naturally you're not required to demonstrate any actual culinary ability, but you might learn a thing or two about what goes into the food you eat, or gain an appreciation of the timing and phases of cooking. It's in these areas that the game develops its simple premise of prompt-and-response into something more testing, as you have to click an icon to add salt, stir, and adjust the heat in an ongoing sequence. Having wrapped vegetables in meat and skewered them, another task has you fanning the flames beneath them and flipping them when you're prompted, or when smoke starts to gather - and having to act on different skewers at different times. Developer Office Create may or may not know its way around the kitchen, but it does a good job of harnessing certain activities' inherent tension in order to throw you off, asking you to resist the urge to pluck mussels from hot oil at the first sign of their golden innards, for instance.

'Cooking Mama: Cook Off' Screenshot 1

It certainly makes you hungry. Unless that's just a boredom reaction.

However, while tasks become more elaborate, they only do so up to a point, and rather like a juicy hunk of meat that shrinks in the pan (or an elaborate metaphor whose returns diminish by paragraph four), the novelty soon wears off, and what it leaves behind is bland and rather repetitive. Increased speed and better timing are the only things that will improve your results in the kitchen, and since a great deal of your immediate attempts are already rated as highly as they can be, you've seen most of the game by the time you've unlocked the first couple of dozen recipes. The game's simple structure does it few favours, either, as even your progress through the menus, clicking through page after page of similar icons, colludes with the patchy gameplay to leave you cold. (Although in fairness, the game perks up a lot if you adopt my usual kitchen tactic of sharing the wine with the saucepan.)

Then again, as you may remember, much of this was the case when we looked at the DS version, and budding chef Keza remarked, "those first fifteen minutes of novelty-induced delight are all it aims for", deciding that it was charming enough if you accepted that you were merely getting what you paid just 20 dollars to play. It's a sentiment I'd be happy to echo here were it not for the bigger problem: the Wii version's poorly sprinkled garnish of motion-sensing. As has been a problem with early Wii games, it often fails to heed what you're doing, or misreads your strokes, with typically depressing results. Dough kneads in the wrong direction, stew goes unstirred for the duration of the game's twirly prompt, and - most annoying - the game mistakes small gestures for big ones, reading minor twitches as purposeful shakes and neutral twinges as thrusts in the wrong direction. Don't be surprised if rotating your wrist one way sends the food flying the other.

'Cooking Mama: Cook Off' Screenshot 2

'What would you like?' 'Tostada.' 'No no, for the main course.'

All of which skewers any hope the game had of receiving the same guarded recommendation it got last time. Whereas the DS game could be defended for ignoring significant depth for the sake of accessibility, Cook Off's controls are simply too ropey for it to earn any flavour of respect, and leave its repetitive, flash-in-the-pan mini-games open to assault. Still a novelty for the first half an hour (and one greatly intensified by the two-player mode), it boils down to a game that punishes you for the flaws in its own control system, with the result that it's not only an experience whose ingredients appear more appetising than the dish they're set to become, but one that simply burns you the way you've been burnt ever since you first wound up with a bad game. "Cook Off" seems like a decent place to leave it.

5 / 10

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  • kissthestick #1 5 years ago

    not surprised..

  • AcidSnake #2 5 years ago

    Hmmm...
    But what about the surgeon simulator you mentioned?
    Does it have a release date already?

    Also, I remember seeing a video once showcasing the DS and how it could read kanji signs and such...(video was filled with japanese people saying 'Hi!' all the time) In that same video it showed a 'game' which helped you cook, with you inputting what ingredients you happen to have and it then presenting you various recipes and functioning as an egg timer while you cook.
    Does anyone know whatever happened to that software? It didn't become cooking mama or did it?...

  • Darren #3 5 years ago

    Nice... ... another game for the Wii and another one *not* to buy. Where have all the good Wii games gone? Checking my Gameplay.com pre-orders shows that there is nothing of any note for me out until late July at the earliest... :(

  • All_the_girly_men #4 5 years ago

    Another shite game for the Wii. What a surprise.

  • haowan #5 5 years ago

    This is the sort of game they cannot afford to screw up.

  • JediMasterMalik #6 5 years ago

    Surprisingly, leeching DS IP's onto the Wii doesn't work out so well.

  • Santino #7 5 years ago

    oh well at least strikers is out in a couple of weeks, also would like to note that after reading the tetris review for the 360 i am now going to sell the console, and also my ps3 was sold immediately after reading the Genji 2 review. /sarcasm.

    seriously, the amount of people who must come into comments just to talk shit about a certain system can really make reading the comments a chore.

  • Dizzy #8 5 years ago

    "Does anyone know whatever happened to that software? It didn't become cooking mama or did it?... "

    Yes it did.

  • SBfistfun #9 5 years ago

    wow....

    yet another crap game.

  • knocker #10 5 years ago

    Santiano - you have to admit there is a certain pleasure to be gained from reading about a game on a platform you don't own (or like) and then slating the platform in front of an audience. I think it's a therapy to help deal with inadequacies ... or something


  • AcidSnake #11 5 years ago

    @Dizzy:
    Damn...
    I liked the idea of an interactive cookbook...
    Though I can cook a lot of different meals I'm getting used to them...

    /starts thinking about launching an interactive cookbook on the DS...(Cook Power: Delicious Supper!)

  • trevd72 #12 5 years ago

    and so it continues.....

  • Santino #13 5 years ago

    Thats what goes for every single system that gets bought at launch Slurpy J, it simply comes with being an early adopter. I know there are plenty of games coming for all my systems, so i am happy enough to be an early adopter of them all.

  • Schiraman #14 5 years ago

    What's most depressing here is that a game which, according to the reviewer, is dull after 30 mins and suffers from badly broken controls is still worth 5/10. So this is an *average* Wii game then? Not an actively bad one? Hardly a glowing recommendation for the console as a whole...

  • Killerbee #15 5 years ago

    Re: lack of Wii games -

    Yes, arguably only Excite Truck has been any good on the Wii since the launch line-up (and yes, it is intensely annoying that Super Paper Mario still has no release date), but I have more anticipated Wii titles on my wish list than for any other new-gen console and even with Zelda and Wii Sports alone, it's much more of an inviting prospect than a PS3 is right now.

    If you bought a Wii, don't worry about it, play some of the bloody fantastic PS2 stuff that's out instead (no excuse for not owning a PS2 these days, is there?), indulge the Virtual Console a bit, and just have patience...

  • Hog-lumps #16 5 years ago

    @Dizzy:
    Damn...
    I liked the idea of an interactive cookbook...
    Though I can cook a lot of different meals I'm getting used to them...

    /starts thinking about launching an interactive cookbook on the DS...(Cook Power: Delicious Supper!)

    I seem to remember there was a cookbook game that only got realeased in japan? - in fact wasn't there a peripheral that fixed the DS to the fridge with magnets while you cooked? :)

  • HiddenAway #17 5 years ago

    I'm actually quite surprised. I thought this would work out well for the Wii :S

  • AcidSnake #18 5 years ago

    @Hog-lumps:
    Maybe that's the one I meant in the first place!...
    Though my fridge is too distant from my gas rings (the correct english term evades me)...I might stick it up to the (another word I don't know) the fan-sucker dealy...

    Now all I have to do is learn Japanese! Hi!

  • NewYork #19 5 years ago

    Stop making crap imaginative games.

  • oerhoert #20 5 years ago

    <em>What's most depressing here is that a game which, according to the reviewer, is dull after 30 mins and suffers from badly broken controls is still worth 5/10. So this is an *average* Wii game then? Not an actively bad one? Hardly a glowing recommendation for the console as a whole...</em>

    Well, hopefully the fact that the game is a Wii game is irrelevant to the score, right? To put it another way: a 5/10 is meant to be universal, and hence mean "average" regardless of the format the game is on?

    Furthermore, I agree that it seems weird to give such a bad game (going by the reviewer's words) such a nice score. To me, it read like a 2 or something. Then again, Eurogamer has made it something of a habit lately to deliver 5/10s to games they really slate.

  • UncleLou #21 5 years ago

    Would be a big help if the actually bloody released the games that are better than average over here. It's not like there aren't any at all.

  • Schiraman #22 5 years ago

    @oerhört

    Yeah, my main point really was that EG's scores are really all over the place and rarely match up with the text of the review. I thought maybe if I pointed out that by giving a crap Wii game 5/10 they were effectively slating the Wii they might spot the problem... ;)

    As for whether EG grades games in a universal sense or per-platform, I think they're just inconsistent there as well. God of War II was 9/10 rather than 10/10 because they "can't rate games in a vacuum" - presumably meaning that graphically it looks a bit dated compared to next-gen offerings - but they clearly don't apply this logic to DS or Wii games, since otherwise they'd all be suffering lost marks because of their respective platform's lack of graphical power.
    Edited by 1 at 09/05/07 @ 15:27

  • Hog-lumps #23 5 years ago

    Stop making crap imaginative games.

    It's not imaginative, I've even found a link to the game (whether it is crap is another matter though);

    [link url=http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-70-1nwr.ht ml
    ]http://ww w.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-4...[/link]

    [link url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/31/ds-cookbook-a-jap anese-hit/
    ]http://ww w.joystiq.com/2006/07/31/ds-coo...[/link]

    So nurr!

    ;)
    Edited by 1 at 09/05/07 @ 15:29

  • manic_mouse #24 5 years ago

    "Thats what goes for every single system that gets bought at launch Slurpy J, it simply comes with being an early adopter."

    The Wii has been out 6/7 months. I think most consoles have a good game that isn't a port from the previous console by then.

    If the 360 only had Halo 2 ("special" 360 edition) for the majority of it's first year people would have MURDERED Microsoft.

  • AcidSnake #25 5 years ago

    @Hog-lumps:
    Fantastic! :)
    That's exactly what I want!...Why didn't it launch over here? It's not something very weird...It would probably do well outside of Japan...

    Maybe the recipes are too localised...

  • Santino #26 5 years ago

    Good game? sorry but are you just choosing to ignore the fact that many people like games such as excite truck and SSX and Zelda is a great game. Wii Sports and WarioWare still go down a storm when playing with friends.
    Some people talk as if there is nothing on the system whatsoever that anybody could possibly enjoy, in which case they need to take your head out of the sand and realize not everybody thinks the same.

  • marc_si #27 5 years ago

    My kids love this and I have to admit I've found it quite fun myself ...

    Is it a gigantic in depth game which will keep you riveted for hours on end, no way - is it a game which has had my wife, her sister AND her mum playing and giggling away .... heck yeah.

    As such I think its a good game, just most blokes aren't its desired target audience (unless you're drunk in which case nearly every Wii game becomes great fun ;-) ).

  • morriss #28 5 years ago

    It sells out everywhere and there's nothing decent to play. Weird, innit?

  • Max_Powers #29 5 years ago

    You're right Morriss. It's strange. Having played Zelda on the Cube, I have yet to be enticed to buy a Wii.

    I like the machine, but there just nothing good to play on it. Same goes for the PS3. I can afford to wait though. I bought a PSP on release and boy, what a mistake that was.

    How come that Wii is sold out still?!

  • SBfistfun #30 5 years ago

    Because people in general are morons

  • Sid-Nice #31 5 years ago

    Shit, I had my heart set on this game. I'm not bothered about Super Paper Mario; I want a cooking game. Zelda is shit, Wii Sports is shit, Wario is shit, all turd party titles have been shit, how much more shit are we expected to take?

  • andromeda #32 5 years ago

    agreed. What ever happened to Nintys quality control?
    The only good game is Zelda and i'm enjoying that immensely on the cube.
    Shame that Prime 3 isnt a cube release as well. Probably gonna buy a Wii for Metroid and then flog it again. Unless something incredible comes along after that.
    Which, looking at the current roster, is highly unlikely

  • teabagger #33 5 years ago

    I just don't get this. I could, for not much more effort, do actual cooking and my reward would be actual cake. This is all of the effort and none of the reward. Surely the point of a game is to do something you can't do in real life, not simulating something you can do minus all the benefits of the real-life task.

  • UncleLou #34 5 years ago

    Good game? sorry but are you just choosing to ignore the fact that many people like games such as excite truck and SSX and Zelda is a great game. Wii Sports and WarioWare still go down a storm when playing with friends.
    Some people talk as if there is nothing on the system whatsoever that anybody could possibly enjoy, in which case they need to take your head out of the sand and realize not everybody thinks the same.

    Sounds like you should do just that. A bunch of reasonably enjoyable, but ultimately mediocre arcade/sports games (Zelda being the only exception) is not my idea of what a console should offer after 6 or 7 months.

  • Sid-Nice #35 5 years ago

    How anyone can't love this game?

  • manic_mouse #36 5 years ago

    "Sounds like you should do just that. A bunch of reasonably enjoyable, but ultimately mediocre arcade/sports games (Zelda being the only exception) is not my idea of what a console should offer after 6 or 7 months"

    My fear was that with the Wii Nintendo were abandoning "gamers" to cater for the casuals. So far those fears seem to have been realised.

  • smelly #37 5 years ago

    >GOLLY GOSH NO! ANOTHER SHIT WII GAME??


    GOLLY GOSH!!! ANOTHER FUCKING RETARD IN A WII THREAD.

    You're sooo right, i really must sell my machine and get whichever wankbox you have.

  • SuperBas #38 5 years ago

    Glad I sold mine as well.

  • knocker #39 5 years ago

    I bought a copy of snakes on a plane the other week.

    It was shit.

    So now I'm gonna sell my DVD player. And my TV. And my house.

    (I didn't actually buy it - but I read a review that said it was shit - and I am incapable of making my own mind up)

  • smelly #40 5 years ago

    @knocker: I read the score at the end of a review for snakes on a plane (without actually reading the words), then went straight to the forums to tell people i'm selling my dvd player (even though i dont own one), and to tell everyone to buy betamax players instead (as I own one of them - despite it being the losing format).
    Edited by 1 at 09/05/07 @ 17:39

  • patchbox360 #41 5 years ago

    bollocks

  • andromeda #42 5 years ago

    WTF is wrong with passing comment that this console is failing to deliver quality software?!
    Surely internet forums such as this are exactly where this sort of dialogue SHOULD BE TAKING PLACE, and with any luck the devs churning out this poop will take notice and get their acts together!! And Nintendo might get wind of the fact that their console is not quite the revolution it promised to be. Jesus, Duckhunt was more fun than Cocking Mama..

  • dllord #43 5 years ago

    Cocking Mama.. now that would be a Wii game worth getting!

  • smelly #44 5 years ago

    "Surely internet forums such as this are exactly where this sort of dialogue SHOULD BE TAKING PLACE"

    Like anyone is going to take any notice from comments from a load of 14 year old 360 fanboys on a forum thread?

    Bad games happen, I for one applaud this for trying to do something different and not yet another racer/fps game. Do you think that games companies shouldnt try to make different games? So what if said game isnt very good? It's not effecting me any, i just wont buy it. It's simple. Im not offended by it in someway not being good. Just like im sure you weren't offended by halo 2 being wank.

    Look on this site at the tetris review, it got 4/10!! OH KNOES!! Microsoft really need to pull their finger out and start listening to fanboys on forums dont they?


    Edited by 1 at 09/05/07 @ 17:54

  • Der_tolle_Emil #45 5 years ago

    WTF is wrong with passing comment that this console is failing to deliver quality software?!

    Nothing wrong with that - IF you have played the game. I very much respect EG's opinions on games (why else would I be here?) but nothing is set in stone. Just because EG rates it 5/10 does not mean that the game is shit and the console is doomed for all eternity. Other sites have been rating this game a lot higher, 1up for example gave it a 7.5/10 - and they aren't exactly Wii fanboys.

    So nothing wrong with posting OWN opinions about a game but it's quite foolish to post 'I say it's shit because someone told me'.

  • Overlush #46 5 years ago

    "Cook Off's controls are simply too ropey for it to earn any flavour of respect, and leave its repetitive, flash-in-the-pan mini-games open to assault"

    /suggest substitution of 'Cook Of'f with 'Wii'

  • wopr-lower-case #47 5 years ago

    I hope smelly enjoys being told to fuck off because it's gonna happen...

  • Sid-Nice #48 5 years ago

    How about; Fucking Mama: Fuck Off? Yes I want a MILF Game.

  • The-Bodybuilder #49 5 years ago

    >"reading minor twitches as purposeful shakes and neutral twinges as thrusts in the wrong direction. "

    My biggest wii fear seems to be materialising....

  • Brianstorm #50 5 years ago

    Blimey already 54 posts on a Wii thread and no list of games from 360 owners must be an EG first.....

  • The-Bodybuilder #51 5 years ago

    >"My fear was that with the Wii Nintendo were abandoning "gamers" to cater for the casuals. So far those fears seem to have been realised. "

    My other fear too. And looks to be true too.
    Let's face it, it's beginning to look like the wii just wasn't aimed at us.

  • The-Bodybuilder #52 5 years ago

    See what you people have done, you've unleashed the full rage of the ultimate wii war monger (smelly).

  • manic_mouse #53 5 years ago

    "Let's face it, it's beginning to look like the wii just wasn't aimed at us."

    And fair play to Nintendo, they seem to be doing pretty well with this strategy.

    And smelly, put the toys back in the pram.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #54 5 years ago

    reading minor twitches as purposeful shakes and neutral twinges as thrusts in the wrong direction.

    My biggest wii fear seems to be materialising....

    I guess it depends on the game. Excite Truck's controls are excellent and are as exact as played with a wheel. Plus the light and small form allow very fast turns not possible with a wheel. WarioWare also controls very, very well. Especially the latter is very prone to misinterpretation but it works just fine.

    So I don't really think that the Wiimote doesn't work - some developers clearly show that it can be really accurate. It's really down on the games, the Wiimote itself works.

    Let's face it, it's beginning to look like the wii just wasn't aimed at us.

    While I would not agree with you I cannot really disagree as well. It's really down to the first party titles released later this year. The Wii is alright although I do have the feeling that the console was maybe released 6 months too early. It would have given the developers more time to finetune the controls and Nintendo would have their own titles ready as well. I also believe that the Wii's release was heavily influenced by the PS3 release.

    Compared to the 360 the Wii's first year will look weak but thinking back of other consoles it's not too bad actually. There could be more (better) games but you must not forget that most people don't care if someone rates a game 6/10 or 8/10. Personally I really enjoyed Koroinpa and SSX for example, both rated 6/10. They aren't amongst the best of the best games but they are fun and are definetly good enough not to scare gamers away from the Wii.

  • smelly #55 5 years ago

    So the 360 fanboys come on here, start slagging of a console based on one review score of a review they havent read of a game they havent played on a system they dont own.

    You take the piss out of them.

    And they get upset at ME?

    Oh dear kiddywinks.

  • UncleLou #56 5 years ago

    You really are a bit featherbrained, aren't you. The only person who is dragging this thread down to teenage fanboy niveau is you. As always.

  • The-Bodybuilder #57 5 years ago

    >"And fair play to Nintendo, they seem to be doing pretty well with this strategy. "

    Fair play.
    But it would've been nice for them to aim at both.

  • The-Bodybuilder #58 5 years ago

    @ Der Tolle

    I agree that the wii isn't the console with the weakest first year (here's looking at you, ps2), and yes maybe the wii was out a bit early (could be said for any of them IMO).
    And yeah, I forgot about exite truck as a good example.

    I just personally find it odd that unlike the previous ninty consoles, the wii has strong 3rd party support.
    Equally it's the 3rd party titles that are somewhat damaging the console's reputation.

  • The-Bodybuilder #59 5 years ago

    LOL @ smelly.

    I remember some months ago you claiming you weren't a fanboy, talk about a turnaround.

    It's pathetic to see someone respond so childishly over A FRIGGEN GAMES CONSOLE.

  • Yeevle #60 5 years ago

    WII is a great console for children, although I do not want them cooking on my stuff.

  • smelly #61 5 years ago

    "It's pathetic to see someone respond so childishly over A FRIGGEN GAMES CONSOLE. "

    Im responding so childishly not over the console, but over reading the same comments again and again and again from people who dont even own the machine.

    Its boring the hell out of me, and sometimes i get narked off.

    I s'pose i shouldnt as everyone knwos the 360 will be in last place by the end of the year anyhows.


    "and yes maybe the wii was out a bit early"

    Totally dont agree. The wii wouldve got a lack of games at the start regardless when it was released. Because dev-cos thought it was going to do a cube.

    It wasnt until it started to sell well that dev-cos took notice and started to announce they were making games for the thing. But most games take a year or so to make, thus the shortage at the moment.

    Also bear in mind that there's always a drought this time of year on ALL THREE consoles.

    Edited by 1 at 10/05/07 @ 01:06

  • Aretak #62 5 years ago

    smelly is worse than albundy ever was. Only the fact he doesn't post on the forum much ensures he still has an account.

  • smelly #63 5 years ago

    wtf?

    Right - lets put this into words that a retarded monkey could understand. So maybe if you concentrate REALLY hard you might understand too. If not, ask a grown up to explain it to you.

    If i went into every 360 thread saying "360 is shite, this game is shite, all games on the 360 are shite", etc. Then the people in said forum would be rightfully upset and say I was a nob (rightly so)

    But when 360 fanboys (and it is always the 360 fanboys for some reason) go into a wii or a ps3 thread and do the same thing, and I respond by calling them nobs. That somehow makes ME a fanboy?


    So let me get this right, the new definition for "fanboy" is someone who doesn't do what all the 360 owners do? As long as all you do is copy 360 owners, then that's okay?


    Quite frankly im confused as hell as to whats going on here.
    Edited by 2 at 10/05/07 @ 05:25

  • smelly #64 5 years ago

    Hang on.. all this hate back at me is coming because i said halo 2 was shite isnt it?

    hahaha. Gears of war wasnt great either.

  • Les #65 5 years ago

    "As long as all you do is copy 360 owners, then that's okay?"

    Long live internet democracy...

  • joeking #66 5 years ago

    "LOL @ smelly.

    I remember some months ago you claiming you weren't a fanboy, talk about a turnaround.

    It's pathetic to see someone respond so childishly over A FRIGGEN GAMES CONSOLE."


    +1

  • Qbert2k #67 5 years ago

    "Hang on.. all this hate back at me is coming because i said halo 2 was shite isnt it?

    hahaha. Gears of war wasnt great either."

    No, it's because you're a hypocrite.

  • Overlush #68 5 years ago

    /passes smelly a new spade

  • Genji #69 5 years ago

    Wow, is it "lets all insult smelly" day or something?

    If you want to ignore him, just *ignore* him. What's with all the bile?

    And no, "he does it too!" is not a valid response.

  • Genji #70 5 years ago

    "I would have been a Wii owner if it wasn't for the Wii fanboys."

    So you don't buy a console because there are other console-owning people who are fanboys?

    That's... so unbelievably stupid that I don't know where to start.

  • Genji #71 5 years ago

    Sure they do. "Fanboys" of all stripes need to relax. But whatever they do has absolutely no impact upon my own buying choices.

  • bengray66 #72 5 years ago

    Its shit like this that really puts me off the wii

  • Overlush #73 5 years ago

    I'm sorry, but a game based on cooking? Originality for originality's sake? Fucking pathetic. What's next, a game on picking noses or making beds?

  • Overlush #74 5 years ago

    And another thing. Why do Japanese developers feel the need to put a BLOODY COLON: in every other game? This case is DOUBLY ANNOYING as we KNOW it's to do with cooking from the first two words! No need to shove in a colon and a couple of more similar words!!

    GAH!!!

    /rant over
    Edited by 1 at 10/05/07 @ 13:12

  • smelly #75 5 years ago

    @Genji:

    "Wow, is it "lets all insult smelly" day or something?
    If you want to ignore him, just *ignore* him. What's with all the bile?
    And no, "he does it too!" is not a valid response."



    Erm, thing is.. look back thru my posts. I've said nothing out of order. I've just merely taken the piss out of the 360 fangirls who feel the need to come into every wii/ps3 thread and slag off said console (which they dont own, about games they've never played, based on review scores of a review they havent read).

    The only people it seems are getting upset are said 360 fangirls (Who i dont see why they're in this thread in the first place, let alone getting upset at my responses to them).

    As I said, if i went into every 360 thread of a game which got a bad score, and said "har har the 360 is shite".. then i'd be rightly shot down.

    But are you saying that it's not okay to respond to trolls on forums calling them dicks?

  • Genji #76 5 years ago

    ...this is just depressing.