The MDickie Show - let's play / gameplay / walkthorugh / commentary
50The MDickie Show is a place where we take your everyday problems and solve them the way they used to do it in ye olde timmies. Through a classical show of strength. Whoever stay's on stage the last is the winner.
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Official Description :
The MDickie Show
"I'll take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally!"
- Eminem
What if there were no security guards on TV chat shows? What if the disgruntled guests were actually ENCOURAGED to come to blows? The MDickie Show holds the answer to those very questions. On this show people come out to discuss their problems and then solve them the old fashioned way: with a vicious, hardcore fight to the death! With a motto like "Violence Solves Everything" you're asking for trouble...
Take A Seat
The game IS as simple as it sounds. Two guests come out on stage, take a seat, exchange a few lines of heated dialogue - then when it reaches boiling point they stand up and, for all intents and purposes, it becomes a fighting game! An outrageous brawl ensues, which comes to an end once the host has declared one of the guests unable to continue. The winner goes home safe in the knowledge that he/she was 'right', whereas the loser goes home in an ambulance! A problem brawled is a problem solved...
Tabloid Junkie
Believe it or not, there IS an objective to the game. Like Federation Booker, it revolves around the world of TV ratings. You must play through a season of shows, each time choosing whether to control the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy' in an argument. Every time you win as the good guy you take a step towards being the 'nicest' show on TV, whereas every win as the bad guy takes you closer to being the 'nastiest'. It doesn't particularly matter which route you take so long as you become the most talked about show in the world. You may regret your choices at times though, because your preferred guy isn't always the strongest fighter - and then there's the matter of your integrity. Choosing which side of the fence you're on, with regards to ever-more controversial issues, is the ultimate test of your morals! Don't go thinking you can lay down for your opponent either. Every loss is viewed as a "fake" fight - whether you lost on purpose or not - and that's seriously damaging to your cause. Not only do you take a step in the wrong direction, but you can only suffer 3 such scandals before the show is pulled of the air entirely...
Look Who's Talking
Topping the ratings is only the tip of the iceberg: you haven't completed this game until you've unlocked all 35 show topics! They only become available once you discover them in the Season mode, so you have to play through several times before you unlock them all. They're worth playing for though. Far from the speech bubbles of Federation Booker, this game sees the debut of my humble mic work - as each conversation is acted out with real speech! Not just the same voice over and over either. Although I do them all, at least a dozen unique voices from both sides of the Atlantic are portrayed - including a few impressions. I really enjoyed doing them, and hopefully they're not too bad - in which case they may become a welcome addition to the games. In any case, if you think you can do better there's space for you to record you very own promos! That should be VERY interesting...
What's The Matter?
So what are all these voices talking about? Well, the topics range from the outright ridiculous to the downright dangerous. Some are heated, some are light-hearted, some are weird - and some are just plain explicit! The language is disgraceful more often that not - but I felt it had to be that way to have any credibility. Mercifully, there are some good censoring options which cover both the speech and the subtitles. In fact, sometimes it's funnier to have censored speech because of the authentic *BEEP* effects! Back to the topics, there's actually plenty for wrestling fans to enjoy. The Bret-Vince dispute is hinted at in one of my favourites, there's a Rocky 3 style boxing vs wrestling dispute, some characters from Federation Booker come to blows, and there are a couple of instances where wrestling fans get heat from a teacher. Even the ones that aren't wrestling-inspired still have familiar voices. Look out for loose impressions of JR, Steve Austin, Vince McMahon, Bret Hart, and even Randy Savage! Elsewhere, there are countless stabs at the real world - with public figures like George Bush putting in a couple of appearances. Believe it or not, there're even a few female voices. Thanks to the wonders of pitch I could make certain voices higher, which just about does the job. The voices aren't exclusive to the intro either. Shorter remarks can be heard occasionally throughout a fight, which is great because it reminds you why they're fighting in the first place...
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