“Clue” gets an update: New rooms, weapons – The Daily Breeze.
Are you freaking kidding me on this one? I never was a huge fan of the game, “Clue,” but this update of the game just smacks of political corectness and vanilla.
Professor Plum is going to become Victor Plum, a video game designer. No more Colonel Mustard, as he’ll be former NFL star Jack Mustard. Mr. Green? Oh, we’ve got to make him Jacob Green, a black guy with “all the ins.”
The true abortion of the game is that each character will have “secret powers” and instead of cool weapons like candlesticks, lead pipes and revolvers we’ll get crap like dumbbells, trophies and poison. Screw this, this is a bad idea.
-Tyler
Seriously? The charm of the original comes entirely from its Britishness and the dry and twisted humor (ir is that humour?) of someone being bludgeoned to death with a candlestick.
So, Ty, you have strong partisan feelings about this? Your journalistic objectivity is beginning to crumble. What next? An opinion about the weather?
Ok, take it from a true board game afficianado, Hasbro is making another big mistake. This, is the midst of the tidal wave of bad PR where they’ve made millions of people made over forcing Facebook to take down Scrabulous (for copyright violations), and replacing it with a Hasbro/EA version of Scrabble with so many bells and whistles, new colors, and the coup de grace, a feature that drops your played word just for the heck of it.
I don’t know who does market research for Hasbro, but they ought to be fired. No I won’t be buying the new Clue. Nothing will replace Colonel Mustard in the Billiard Room with the Revolver.
Over at Facebook, we’re playing WordScraper by the same guys who developed Scrabulous — a pretty decent substitute. And we’re playing at Scrabulous.com enjoying the original simple lovely game. And many are boycotting Hasbro.