Disgruntled Goat

I buy from www.gameexpress.com
It's slightly cheaper - to the max.

Down with EB/Gamestop; up with miniskirts.

One time, I went up to this bloke's flat, rang the bell, and ran like Sebastian Coe.

V8 juice is 1/8th gasoline.

It's funny, I always defined a "game" by GAMEPLAY. I'll gladly take a game like Super Mario Bros., Ikaruga, Contra: Shattered Soldier, and the like over the countless self-indulgent attempts to shoehorn the "epic" stories of failed screenwriters and novelists into "game" format.

A game doesn't REQUIRE a story to be considered a game. There's a difference between a Bioware GAME and the novelization of that Bioware GAME - and bound up in that difference is the distinction that MAKES the game a game and the novel a novel.

Bioware's approach at "gaming" is like the "My Dinner With Andre" arcade game Martin Prince so adored in an episode of The Simpsons. "Tell me MORE!"

Sorry, but I didn't get into video games to prolongate a bad novel with spats of pointless busywork. (Two hours of button mashing and menu finagling nets the "player" a poorly directed cut scene that inches ever closer to the predictable ending. Yay.)

If there's room for warmed-over movie scripts and Choose Your Own Adventure style dialog simulators in the world of "gaming," there's more than enough room for the style of video games that actually INVENTED the field - you know, the kind that are actually interactive and require skill. I don't recall anyone claiming in the 1980's that the NES was a "toy" and NOT a video game console. It was BOTH. The PS3 and 360 are recreational devices. They're no less "toys" than the Wii. It's a matter of arrogance to suggest that because you're so grown, so "cultured," you're somehow above playing with your Playstation/Wii/360 and that this is a "sophisticated entertainment device" and not a "silly toy" like the Wii. Somewhere, Pierre Bourdieu is laughing his derriere off.

If there are no room for Bioware games on the Wii, so be it, but there are plenty of GAMES on the Wii. This is just self-congratulatory marketing spin from a company beholden to its investors. They'll make what they're paid to make on the platform they're paid to develop it for - e.g. Sonic RPG for the DS. If EA wants a bioware game on the Wii, it'll happen. So, they can spare us the pretentious, pseudo-intellectual nonsense about how GAMES are defined by NARRATIVE. Give me a break.

This is a company that values narrative OVER gameplay. Is it any WONDER they think games are defined by STORY?

Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels for NES.

It's a public service: boot camp sans the brainwashing for today's wussy gamers.

"If you don't want the extra guns, don't buy them. If that makes it less fun for you, don't buy their next game."

.... Uh, isn't that the point of a boycott? Or does it just bother you that they're using their "clout" to convince others to act in kind? Either way, hello hypocrisy.

This game was never even on my radar, but I don't see the problem with avoiding it due to DLC nickel and dime tactics. If I'm not mistaken, writers on this site moaned ad nauseam about the laughably incomplete Lumines on XBL. How is this any different?

How a whiny editorial passes for news is anyone's guess. Guess that's the Faux News spirit of journalism. Rah rah big business! Can't knock the hustle!

"perhaps X-Play (and its revamped format) could come up with something original to grab viewers instead of riding The Escapist's coattails?"

This from a site that would gleefully post a "news" entry if "Yahtzee" sneezed. I guess when you're covering video games, EVERY day is a slow news day.

Why create original content to fill a void when you can just lean on someone else's? *cough* No irony there, Joystiq. Cute puns and snark aside, how much of your stuff comes from other sources?

OMGZORZ another 13 year old boy in a 31 year old's body posted a profanity laden tirade on Youtube! Now THERE'S something you don't see every day on the Internet.


That said, ANYTHING is better than XPlay's attempts at sketch comedy. *shudder*

It's a shame that adult gamers have virtually no sources for gaming news. Those who actually "get it" can't present their information professionally; those who present their information professionally don't "get it."

I'll stick with the ol' fashioned PS2 version, if you please.

As for my favorite guitar solo, I'm gonna have to go with Wyld Stallyns' "God Gave Rock n' Roll To Ya." If it's good enough to save the world, it's good enough for this contest.

If that doesn't count, let's go with Journey's "Any Way You Want It" - it's Larry Burns approved!

Why, exactly, does this qualify as news? Do we really need an update every time this person "publishes" a review?

It reads like an advertisement. "Please support this glorified troll's desperate pleas for attention. He gets angry and vulgar over the most trivial things and he doesn't seem to enjoy life! You've never seen anything like this on the Internet before!"

I visit joystiq because IGN is owned by NewsCorp, gamespot somehow demonstrates even LESS journalistic integrity than the newscorp property, and joystiq, at its best, distills the essential news from every major gaming site to allow one to stay abreast of recent news/developments without spending an inordinate amount of time hopping from one site to another. The more "filler" stories you pad the site with, the less valuable it becomes.

You don't create an update every time EGM publishes a review, so why the heck do I care if "zero punctuation" has a new review out? If I wanted to see it, I'd keep up with it on my own.

Sorry, but "random malcontent hates popular game" is not news. This is the type of gristle I visit Joystiq to AVOID.


Trolls can have at it, I don't plan to return to participate in an idiot snakepit. I just thought I'd register my opinion in case anyone working at or reading Joystiq cares about quality control.

Worst... Wallace Shawn impression... EVER.


It's not like he's busy, either. If your budget doesn't permit you to cast Wallace Shawn for a Princess Bride game, just take the L.

There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead - and this game is all dead.