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That about sums it up, honestly. EDIT For the most part, House of the Dead has always been a particularly bizarre series. The titles almost seem intentionally poorly done (in all things but gameplay), with the art design, dialog, and voice acting all painfully silly. The part of the charm is that it's so stinging to the equally oddball horror genre that it makes it a defining experience. So the monumental overuse may very well be appropriate for the game. Though I'd have to argue that SEGA may have missed the mark a teensy bit. While it's still somewhat funny (and fitting for the 'Overkill' title) as a satire on the zombie movie, it's still out of place. Movies like Bad Santa are better for parodying overuse, while things like House of the Dead are better suited for other styles of mind-numbingly bad dialog. Still funny. Just feels like SEGA shot for parody and ended with collateral damage by hitting the wrong industry. | |
Well it is somewhat tongue-in-cheek and is adequately summed up in its title, methinks. | |
I'de like to see this game go against Samuel L. Jackson. "Who will win the battle of Mother F*cking Domination" | |
Fuck Yeah! | |
Well, congratulations to Sega! Well done on winning such a great achievement. | |
And thus I edit my game script to include 190 uses of the word 'fuck'. | |
Only 189? I can knock that out in under an hour. | |
LOL. Oh man this article almost had me in tears. Not because the honor goes to House of the Dead but because it is for a Wii exclusive. I suppose this will put the Wii on the radar for people like Jack Thompson now. | |
Now all we need is a video that edits all the uses of the f-word into one, condenced pack of 'Fuck'. Use of the surrounding words optional. | |
None of the GTA games can match that? Pretty sure I heard at least that many f-bombs in GTA: San Andreas...... | |
No, no he asked for a f**k yeah f**k yeah! | |
Unless the Guinness folks did a side-by-side comparison with Kingpin, I'm calling bullf**k. | |
Ever been to a Children of Bodom concert recently... | |
Sorta reminds me of that episode of South Park where they repeated the word "FUCK" over and over again. What was that episode again? Oh yeah, all of them. | |
...........FUCK YEAH! The best thing is that my aunt has bought this for her 12 year old son after i recommended it for his birthday, she is going to kill me! | |
Reminds me of a Lewis Black routine, where he's talking about how a certain place wouldn't let him preform there because he said "fuck" 47 times at his last show. His response is also mine for this. "So, wait a minute. Do you know what that means? They actually had a guy sit there watching the show going One fuck, Two fuck...!" | |
Well, they did have an episode where they said 'shit' about 150 times. Complete with a counter. | |
Yeah the "curse word" episode but it was the word "shit" not fuck and they said it 163 times. | |
you are screwed dude | |
As Yahtzee said, the black dude uses "motherfucker" like other people would use a comma. | |
I f**king agree. Also what about Scarface: The World is Yours? Like Kingpin, you could swear at the press of a button, with the taunt action. The only way I can see House of the Dead:Overkill beating Kingpin or Scarface for profanity is if the Guinness World Records people only count original profanities, and not repeated actions.
As it's a new record in a brand new category, I don't think any other games have even been tested or entered into this category, so it's not very credible. Smells like a SEGA marketing ploy rather than a genuine world record. | |
Children of Bodom Live: The Game. There's a record worth setting. I can't believe people would actually pay attention to something like that. Congratulations to SEGA for their most recent achievement. | |
FUCK YEAH Great games deserve great rewards lol | |
well they need that as a selling point :P | |
"three f**ks per second" brings new meaning to the acronym FPS. | |
Rofl, they knew the game wasn't going to sell itself. It needed a tad bit more help. | |
Fuck yeah! Take that, people who still think that the Wii is strictly a family machine. | |
Samuel Jackson must be furious. | |
Crackbone could beat this if it was the a word or calling people a fg | |
I contest this. If you hit Birdy enough in Conkers Bad Fur Day, you could easily hit 200. And then there's Noby Noby Boy, but that just makes the player say "What the fuck?" | |
Give me two minutes. And I won't use fuck exclusively, either. | |
Scarface is totally still the champion. You have 4 characters, and though I've only used three of them, all three can use F-words as fast as you can press the button. So, Infinite x3= > 200 Scarface wins. | |
Oh give him some time, he'll beat that record you know it. | |
Oh yeah, that. I still think this was probably the best movie-to-game conversion of the last generation, if it weren't for lack of consitent plot and completely destroying the first games message. | |
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House of the Dead: Overkill Sets F-Bomb Record
Guinness World Records has determined that House of the Dead: Overkill is the most profane game ever released, clocking in at almost 200 uses of the f-word.
It might not be topping sales charts, or even review charts, but House of the Dead: Overkill has topped another kind of chart and landed itself a Guinness World Record - for its profanity. The script for Sega's zombie-rail-shooter clocks in at a whopping 189 counts of the word "f**k."
That's no small feat, either, given that, if the press release is to be believed, the game itself only has about three hours of "relatively limited" dialogue. The combined f-bombs total up to more than a minute of swearing (at three f**ks per second). Another way of looking at it - the word makes up 3% of the game's entire script.
What other games can boast an impressive 1:33 f-word:non-f-word ratio, huh? Not many. The new record will be listed in the 2010 Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition. Kudos to Sega for this, uh, honor.
Can I get a "f**k yeah"?
(Sega Europe, via Joystiq)
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