Now Playing: November 9-15, 2009

Demo was pretty good once I learned the controls. I'm def picking it up this week.

It's wack. Tenkaiachi 3 for PS2 is the ultimate DBZ game.

That's a funny way to spell Budokai

DB games are getting even worse than Guitar Hero. ffs, at least improve the graphics and the rooster of fighters.

I've had it since friday (With an early adopters fee of $60 no less), and I like it. I'm a raging Dragonball Fan, but I know a bad game when I see it, and its fairly deep compared to say, BT3. Seems like some mechanics were cut at first, but theres a nice fighting system lying just under the surface.

"the ultimate DBZ game"

i lol'd.

Yeah considering the boycott against the PC version of mw2, right? :p heh.

Don't you want the ULTIMATE collection of a game that was never good to begin with?

Wait, there's an actual MW2 boycott? ruffle! That might be a "sad" thing but figuring out how to spend my hard earned money is pretty important...and IW isn't getting it :/

Anyway, it may be quiet on the PC front this week, but DAO is keeping me pretty busy :D

What?

Explain to me how not buying Coca-Cola products is a boycott, but not buying Activision products is not.

I think to boycott something you actually have to persuade other people from buying it too. Like when the Philly police boycott the rage concert, off-duty officers actually stood out front of the venue.

complaining on the internet is not boycotting, or maybe it's just the laziest form of boycotting....

You cant boycott something you were never going to buy in the first place.

@Wired

what he's saying is that if you choose not to buy any of their products because you think they're bad, that's a boycott and if you just decide not to buy a certain product because you're not interested, it's just a simple decision, and not a boycott.

not that hard to figure out.

"To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion."

"To abstain from ... buying ... [MWF2] ... as an expression of protest..."

Pretty sure not buying a game because you're pissed that they cut features or whatever is technically boycotting. You don't HAVE to coerce other people. As long as you are actively avoiding the product as a means of protest, it is technically boycotting it.

My comment has nothing to do with how cool or uncool the act of boycotting a game is. I just wanted to clear that up for everyone fighting over the definition. I find myself in the middle of these lingual arguments often.

Can't talk, fappin' over Dragon Age: Origins. /PC

And he's right. I went to the Halo 3 midnight launch...I swear, I wanted to kill several of the people there.

"WOOHOO ONLY AN HOUR LEFT! WE'RE SO AWESOME!"

Nearly got us all kicked out. Then I would have been pissed.

Now, I just preorder from Amazon and get RDS.

Arg, reply fail.

I hate the term "act black" wtf is that supposed to imply?

wow, every single comment i see from you is you complaining about "frat boys." i'm pretty far from a frat boy, but even i can see that it's extremely juvenile how you let your stereotypes of others determine how you enjoy things.

if you're in high school.....ok, fine, you'll probably become more mature eventually.

if you're past high school........yikes.

But stereotyping people is fun!

Uhh where else do you think most of COD's sales come from David?

It's not going to affect my enjoyment of the game, just my enjoyment of standing in line waiting for it. I only hope there won't be any local news people there, cause there will be douches doing burnouts in the parking lot and acting like wiggers going from past experiences.

STFU NERDS!

It's ironic that you call those people douches but in the same breath use the term 'wiggers', and condemn them for acting as such.

The term wigger implies that it's negative for a white person to "act black" (quotes used intentionally), and I generally think that people who use that term regularly are pretty douchey.

nerds?

nerds?!

NERDS!!!!!!

"The term wigger implies that it's negative for a white person to "act black"

....it is, because we're not, and we shouldn't act like someone or something we're not. No one's impressed by a white guy from the suburbs pretending he's from compton.

@Josh

That sounds like a load of horsecrap to me. I would take it to be related to 'wigging out', not the other term.

STFU, PCMan!

What a strange thing to say David, if tmac went to the midnight launch, and there were in fact stereotypical frat boy douche bags, would it be juvenile for him to be annoyed by them?

Unlike you spyder, I don't care about upvotes or downvotes or who likes me on here. I'm much bigger than that.

"....it is, because we're not, and we shouldn't act like someone or something we're not. No one's impressed by a white guy from the suburbs pretending he's from compton."


How do you act a skin color?


btw, @ David,

tmac has also referred to me as a wigger, because I produce and record hip-hop and r&b music. I cannot make this stuff up.

"I don't care about upvotes or downvotes or who likes me on here. I'm much bigger than that."

We know tmac, you are in fact SO MUCH bigger than that, you voice this point in half of every article you comment in. Over, and over and over.

Don't get me wrong...I hate that term, but Cody, we've all seen your myspace page and...well...tmac wasn't wrong about that one.

Having a myspace page is like a giant sign saying "I'm a douche!"

I never thought about the throngs buying COD as fratboys. Madden games yes maybe - COD..I thought that was popular with all gaming spectrums.

It may even be worse with COD than it is with madden now, thanks to modern warfare 1. You have to go to a large opening or know someone who has (which won't be hard with this game) to know what I'm talking about.

@cody

so, do you like it when a white suburbanite acts like he's from compton?

or do you just take offense to what he stereotypes because you act that way?

or did you want us all to know you "produce and record hip hop and r&b music?"

or do you really do that all?

all of the above questions are just thrown out there and are rhetorical...

Hey, don't bust on Co, he runs SouthSyde and they (yf you haven't seen theyr myspace) are able to drynk booze and spell wyth lots of Y's!

Wow...good week for me tmac...

Modern Warfare 2 for my 360...we'll see if archaic dual analog sticks still work for me (speaking of which...maybe some practice on Perfect Dark or Timesplitters 2 would help!!!).

and...

Modern Warfare Reflex for Wii.

Why Reflex if I have MW on my Mac? That's a good question tmac! Quite simple really...initially, when I found out about 10 player online, I shot a bullet against it. Recently though, I realized...I mostly play Team Deathmatch or Sabotage online on Mac. Though still disappointing for Team Deathmatch, Sabotage is certainly playable with only 10. The other shot against buying it was no Wii Speak support (I've rumbles of it being included, but I'm taking it with a grain of salt). Though it still sucks if indeed not supported...is voice chat needed in modes like Team Deathmatch? Every time I play it on Mac, I rarely, if ever, hear people chatting. Really though, I'm buying it mostly because of controls. Seeing gameplay videos of how it works convinced me its at least worth a shot. And yes, the visuals are downgraded, but at least now I can see what's going on (given that I have settings set low on Mac since it's a laptop).

Now you're probably saying to yourself, "You idiot (seems to be your sentiments to anyone who has a Wii--and yes, I've heard you're getting a Wii, but still, various posts of yours on Wii related articles indicate you think most, if not all Wii owners are idiots)...why not just buy MW for 360?!" Simple...I already explained I liked how the Wii controls were, and having played games like Metroid Prime Trilogy, The Conduit, and MoH:H2, I am perfectly comfortable with how in controls, moreso than dual analog. Secondly, will I really play it on 360 if I have MW2? :P

Of course Wigger is a negative term.

Go see (the pretty goddamn underrated) Bamboozled by Spike Lee.

You all are a bunch of Wingers. Kip in particular.

Maybe you people should go to a college before you downvote him
most frat boy are douchebags, its not a myth

Who is this "you" that you speak of? I think you'll find many here have gone through college already.

@ Duke,

That's almost as funny as you claiming to be an attorney. Pro Tip: *File clerks* push the paperwork at the Law Offices, even in your great state of Illinois. That doesn't make you a lawyer.

@ BIGGEN,

Proving my clientel base (which happens to be heavily hip-hop oriented aside from a handful of clients) on joystiq.com is not something I care to do. I record it, I edit it, I mix it down, and they pay the bills. I'm happy.

And again, I pose this yet to be answered question to you closet racists "How do you act a skin color?"



ON TOPIC: New Super Mario Bros Wii for me this week.

Oh please, tell me how you came to this knowledge that I wasn't an attorney? This should be fascinating.

Cody, I gotta say, I usually take it easy on you, but the fact you would tell lies about people makes you a douche plain and simple.

Your little myspace page had exactly what I said on it - nothing was made up. You act like an uneducated jackass and write crap like "Some real, southern, down south, ridin' a$$ shyt. Wouldn't you agree?" and you should expect to be called out on it. Those are cute pics of booze and people giving the finger - it lets us know how hardcore you all are. What a joke.

"And again, I pose this yet to be answered question to you closet racists 'How do you act a skin color?'"

Easy. You don't. You act like the public majority of a race that tends to have various shades of skin relating to that skin color. Much like how I'm Caucasian, but most people would call me white. It's become a generally accepted part of the English language to substitute the color for the actual race. If you didn't know that, what rock have you been living under?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/White
"4. also White Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration, especially one of European origin: voting patterns within the white population."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people
"White people (in American English also Caucasian) is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin."

Cody, asking a question that relies on false context of a word isn't helping your "I'm not a douche" argument. If anything, asking such a question while at the same time implying a good portion of people are racist, is actually a pretty douche bag thing to do.

I bid you adieu. *Tips hat*

What's worse than frat boy douches?

greasy stoner douches!