Gaming thoughts of the day

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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Henry Spencer » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:51 pm

Stocke wrote:
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Peter wrote:Can i ask whats the craic with preordering a game online for delivery to your home. I havent donenit before, but does the game arrive at your address on the date of release? Or get posted out on the release day (meaning you dont get it until possibly a few days later)?


Depends where from really. Amazon vary, sometimes before the actual release date, sometime after (which is rare, tbh), Zavvi are crap and take ages to send out pre-orders and Game.co.uk are pretty much spot on the day of release.

I normally stick to Amazon.



awww Damnit.
I pre-ordered tales of graces f from there because it was £5 cheaper.
Think its worth cancelling?
Also are play.com any good for preorders?


Play.com have been terrible in the past, not used them in over a year, no idea how they are now, sorry.
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby south carmain » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:52 pm

Stocke wrote:
Henry Spencer wrote:
Peter wrote:Can i ask whats the craic with preordering a game online for delivery to your home. I havent donenit before, but does the game arrive at your address on the date of release? Or get posted out on the release day (meaning you dont get it until possibly a few days later)?


Depends where from really. Amazon vary, sometimes before the actual release date, sometime after (which is rare, tbh), Zavvi are crap and take ages to send out pre-orders and Game.co.uk are pretty much spot on the day of release.

I normally stick to Amazon.



awww Damnit.
I pre-ordered tales of graces f from there because it was £5 cheaper.
Think its worth cancelling?
Also are play.com any good for preorders?

it depends, my orders from zavvi sometimes take up to 15 days to arrive, if you're from the UK check out shopto.net, it's usually around the same price as zavvi with 1st class deliveries
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby ThyDarkAngel » Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:37 pm

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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Segata Sanshiro Jr. » Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:32 pm

Wow, Kotaku is beating that sony meat nice and hard.

How do you make a really ugly smash clone look worse ADD NEW DANTE!

Worse then that is the fact that its like Raiden from MGS, Jin & Kazuya from Tekken and Ryu from Ninja Gaiden. Normally I'd be all for this but hy make a game called PS all stars when you're going to have mostly 3rd party characters?
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Spokane » Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:23 pm

That game would not even interest me if the characters were not 3rd party.
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Segata Sanshiro Jr. » Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:54 pm

Spokane wrote:That game would not even interest me if the characters were not 3rd party.


thats what makes a sony 1st party brawler so sad. They NEED 3rd parties. Whats worse is that of Ryu Hayabusa's 10 games only like 4 or 5 have hit sony consoles and even then they were mostly ports. That no worse then say Sonic being in smash, but what makes it worse is that Ryu, will join Raiden, Big Daddy, Jin, Heihachi, Kazama and emo-Dante. That means that there are 13 sony characters. so in 20 character more then 1/4th aren't even exclusive.

Whats next, Baird and Cole?

It just sends a bad message. "Hey lookit us, we gots all the games you wanna play see all these redesigned characters from series no one wants to buy any more because they're all seen as having sold out, well you can get em on playstation(or anywhere else and probably better)"

Theres also the issue that it looks like pig swill, seriously you can only KO when you have a super? If that isn't removed then its doomed to be boring.
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Peter » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:06 pm

They may as well have included Claude from GTA III in it, since they started all that mainstream exclusivity bullshit back then with that.
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Samanosuke Akechi » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:30 pm

Goes through the first 3 levels of Ninja Gaiden without getting hit.Impressive!

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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Spokane » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:38 pm

A few pages back I think in this topic I posted the speed run of that game, he gets hit on purpose to save time at a few points.
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Coby » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:40 pm

Spokane wrote:A few pages back I think in this topic I posted the speed run of that game, he gets hit on purpose to save time at a few points.

its a she
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Spokane » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:45 pm

Sorry. It's just a bad habit to call everyone a he.
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Riku Rose » Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:52 pm

I bought a quality laptop a few months ago and now have a 360 controller connected. Being able to hook it up to my TV has made me want to go back and check out some old PC exclusive games I never got around to.

I'm playing Snatcher and Policenauts right now but anyone got any other recommendations that aren't Sims, Diablo or Starcraft? Looking at stuff like Hitman and Dreamfall.
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby south carmain » Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:54 pm

Riku Rose wrote:I bought a quality laptop a few months ago and now have a 360 controller connected. Being able to hook it up to my TV has made me want to go back and check out some old PC exclusive games I never got around to.

I'm playing Snatcher and Policenauts right now but anyone got any other recommendations that aren't Sims, Diablo or Starcraft? Looking at stuff like Hitman and Dreamfall.

I heard stalker was a good game, I like civilisation which is a pretty fun franchise as well, if it's powerful enough then go to emuparadise.me download a ps2 emu and you have an instant collection of great games that are extremely rare to find or weren't released in Europe
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Postby Spokane » Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:57 pm

I was going to say Civilization IV Complete Edition but didn't think it was under his criteria really although it is strategy. Pretty much all I play on PC are Sims.
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