Tricycles

In the past week I have made both an extremely expensive and an extremely inexpensive purchase in relation to games. Namely, Guitar Hero 5 and Budokai 3. Firstly, whilst Guitar Hero 5 is a mightily enjoyable game, providing hours upon hours of -marketing spiel here- it is still abnormally overpriced. The game itself is already overpriced at $114, but then apparently a piece of shit chunk of plastic now costs $100 to buy. Fuck you Activision. Activision, publisher of Guitar Hero and Modern Warfare 2, have gone off the rails. With the introduction of DJ Hero, Activision have decided to attempt to cash out with another pisspoor plastic device. The CEO appears to be spearheading this money grubbing scheme: What a schmuck.

Statements such as the following just go to show what a charming chap he really is: “… You know if it was left to me, I would raise the prices even further,” and "The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." aaand "I think we definitely have been able to instill the culture, the skepticism and pessimism and fear that you should have in an economy like we are in today. And so, while generally people talk about the recession, we are pretty good at keeping people focused on the deep depression." What a character.

Enough hatred and fury for now, onto my second purchase. For $16 this is probably the best purchase I could ever make. ever. It's the second time I've bought the game seeming as my old copy started to freeze and do all sorts of weird things, and I am addicted once more. To be fair, I am a dragon ball fanboy, but this game is so exciting and expansive that I would recommend it to most gamers. The colourful visuals, quick paced fights, and enormous variety of characters and game modes make Budokai 3 an easy purchase even 5 years after its release. It is definitely at least 12 times better than its subsequent releases also.

The moral of the story is that dragonball z is awesome, and bobby kotick is a cunt.