No cheap shots, sir. I don't even disagree with you. I just don't think it's a particularly good idea for a mod to take a part in these childish fanboy wars.

You get annoyed at people, and for revenge, you do the same annoying thing back. Honestly, normal members would get banned for trolling like you do (to be clear, most of your posts aren't trolling), but you can do it, because you do it in the name of revenge, and you're a mod.

Take an example by Stof or Twesterm, they do a great job of keeping out of these childish feuds. You, however, dive straight in, and you seem to enjoy it, too.

Every console gets ridiculed, but you have to understand where a bit of the backlash comes from. I actually think a lot of the predictions for the game's sales were modest, and it seems to be selling fine to me. And I also think a lot of people are overreacting over only a couple weeks of sales. It's just that some of the posters on this site have been really pretentious and it created that illusion among quite a few Wii fans. Things like "Wii Bingo," "Bitter Tears," and Malstrom all made a lot of people angry (including me). This shouldn't surprise you that much.

As for my being expressive, I learned from a wise sage. Rocketpig has taught me how to rage well.

Ermmm....I think you missed the part where I'm not a mod. In some of my rage, I may sound serious, but I'm usually not. I'd love to color code my posts for seriousness (red text for ultra serious, light blue for casual), but it would just look fruity. I just like to have a rant every once in a while. And while I respect Stof and Twesterm a lot, they're not perfect either and I'm sure you could find reasons to criticize them too.

This.

Also, my post contradicts everything about COD in the original list.  It was also just one example off the top of my head, there are likely others.  It also shows a bit of bias in the original list since that was left out.

Let's just keep it at different ideas about moderatorship, then. It's nothing against you personally, I hope there's no offense taken.

Damage control. This game is heaps better than that crap Carnival Games, yet it only did 70k first week....

And why is it a thread like this always pops up whenever a 3rd party game that SHOULD be good, essentially flops? If it happens enough times, what you're trying to argue against must be true to some extent.

I mean, look at Zack and Wiki: "Oh, you can't calim victory. It's JUST a point and click adventure game"

NMH: "You can't claim victory. It's SUCH a niche game"

House of the Dead: "You can't claim victory. It's JUST a rail shooter"

and now MadWorld......

In your opinion MadWorld may be a better game than Carnival Games but that has very little to do with how a game sells. You have to grow up and realize that the opinion of the elitests generally doesn't translate into how any content sells, and (in all mediums) a lot of 'Crap' tends to sell dramatically better than the best material released in a given year. Consider that the teenage harlequin-romance series Twilight has (dramatically) outsold most of the best books written in my lifetime, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull made more money than most of the best movies that have been made in my lifetime ...

Now, for your list of excuses ...

When adventure games switch from a text interface to a point and click interface the genre rapidly died off, why should a point and click game released 15 years after the genre was important sell particularly well?

No More Heroes was Suda 51's best selling game ever and (as a result) is getting a sequel, why did you expect it to sell so much better than everything he has worked on in the past?

House of the Dead 2 & 3 were recently released for the Wii and sold at a similar rate to House of the Dead overkill, and it has now sold (almost) 1 Million units ... Why do you expect House of the Dead Overkill to have drastically different sales pattern to the other House of the Dead games released for the Wii.

And now for MadWorld ... With the exception of No More Heroes and Zack and Wiki every game that people have bashed for selling so poorly on the Wii has sold (roughly) 1 Million units 1 year after it was released. Don't you think you should wait until it has been out for more than a month or two before you write if off as having sold poorly?

Trolling is a important activity on teh Internet. Just think on the thousands and thounsads of people without nothiung better to do!

You've been here long enough to know that Sony trolls are not going to pay attention to the publisher if it contradicts their argument. This entire thread has been wave after wave of Sony fanboys cherry picking arguments and then jumping to something else when proven wrong.

And when Madworld hits a sales milestone, they will be nowhere to be found. As usual.

Looking back, this game was hyped, advertised and reviewed very well. This was the first of many games Wii fans were sheering for as to show these types of games sell well on the wii. But, if I have to wait until 2010 to claim this game was a success, what is it now?