Scooby Doo: Who's Watching Who? Comments by Dan Whitehead

/cancels preorder

I appreciate the journalistic integrity behinf the policy of reviewing as many games as time allows, but there are times when I just think: honestly, EG writers, save yourself the pointless pain. If I'm being presumptious here, please don't hesitate to correct me, but is there a single person who has ever read this website that was planning to buy this?

I thought it was "zoinks!" rather than "zoiks!" that Scooby said? Google seems to agree with me.

@ Muddtallica;

I think we know Eurogamer hasn't got the time/manpower to play every single game that gets released. But from what I see, they try to review games that cover as broad a spectrum as possible.

Scooby Doo is a name to work with. I remember the cartoons as a kid, and I do confess when the older episodes are being shown... yeah, a little part of me has fun watching it. But if the game is bad, the game is bad and people should be warned that it really might be something to steer clear of. Despite past games, Scooby Doo still appears to sell and sell rather well...

I guess that is why there is often zero effort put into making the games work logically and fluidly... they still seem to sell, so why should they offer something good when they can just sell stockpiles of turdy gaming?

I have no problems with EG reviewing dreadful games - they make for the best, most entertaining reviews!

As for this game, all I can say is that if FINALLY lives up (down?) to the sheer unimaginativeness, morbidity, insipidity, doggedness (clever pun ha-ha), repetitiveness, and all around diabolical quality of the cartoon it's based on. It is time someone wiped out Scooby Doo from the face of the Earth. I at 28 do watch cartoons to this day, and not with my children because I don't have any - but everytime Scooby Doo comes up, my faith in humanity falters some more.

/whooop.....feels better after getting rid of 22 years worth of pent up rage

EDIT: @Kami : sorry - I read your comment after posting mine. I might have hurt your feelings about Scooby, so my apologies for that. Trust me mate, there are better cartoons out there!

"but is there a single person who has ever read this website that was planning to buy this?"

With Christmas coming up, I think there's a reasonable chance someone might have been planning to buy this for a younger relative.

wonka, company of heroes? :P

Hey Talha, as I said, I'm more into the classic episodes. Ya know, capturing lost youth and the like... I have a fondness for the classic, traditional Scooby of when I was a kid, when it was Scooby-Dooby-Doo and not Crappy-dappy-doo...

But this review score didn't surprise me. Look at the films, look at the games they spawned, look at the Scooby games of recent years... they're awful and yet continue to sell. THQ has no damn reason to buck its ideas up with this one - it's a turd, yes, but a turd released before Christmas that people will sadly buy!

I remember Scooby on the SNES... oh my, I just remembered playing Roadrunner on the SNES too! Damn, those were the days...

*goes all nostalgic*

I thought it was "zoinks!" rather than "zoiks!" that Scooby said? Google seems to agree with me.

It's Shaggy who says Zoinks and Velma says Jinkies (or Jinkys), Fred says "we need to split up, Shaggy and Scooby you go that way while i shag er... go with Velma and Daphne" and "I have a plan, Scooby, Shaggy your the bait (he must really hate those two)" Daphne always talk Shaggy and Scooby into being bait by offering them Scooby Snacks, and Velma always knows who the culprit is from the very beginning.

Yeah i know you probably know all that but it pisses me off that this is the bloody formula for every single epidsode practically a Copy and Paste with a new theme, right down to including the chasing scene with the song in the background.

The decent thing they've done over the years is sack Scrappy doo altogether along with his "tada tada dada Puppy Power"

What's worse is that my little Sister is falling for "What's NEW Scooby Doo?" episodes.
I'll tell you what's new... other than the non-repetitve backgrounds with the chase scenes not one f***ing thing.

/rant off

Fells so good to vent out how pissed off with Scooby Doo i am.

@Kami: I SO identify with you. Nostalgia - specifically, a longing for childhood days - will make a silk purse out of any turd...please excuse my messed up idioms. IMHO if a thing survives the test of time (for me, that'd be ABBA, Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, Murder, She Wrote etc) then it is a genuine article. Otherwise, I am all too familiar with the feeling of being crushed by the weight of your own golden memories of something that actually sucked.

Hell, what really sucks is being old enough to be talking like this!

A murder she wrote DS game would be teh Roxor...

@ Talha: Heh heh, strange isn't it?

I totally agree. Some things die out for a reason. Some things just go out of fashion, and some things get stronger over time. Maybe Scooby isn't it. One thing I will never forgive the Scooby franchise for is the god-awful live-action films... just, WHY?

Oh well. Nostalgia isn't always a good thing, but you're right, some things DO get better with time. Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner... Murder, She Wrote is an odd one. I didn't like it originally but caught some of the re-runs and was surprised how much I enjoyed it... see, memories can sometimes be misleading...

I think we can agree though - modern Scooby Doo is rubbish.

Damn, I feel old now...

Who's watching WHOM goddamit!
No wonder kids nowadays are illigitimate. Er...

Gentlemen, the best Scooby Doo scene ever.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J8qAtRU4xe0&f...