I watched the videos on gametrailers and noticed a few new characters. There's an eyepatch girl with unlimited blade works and a Kojima-esque cyber ninja. Actually, their faces are on one of the boxes in the pics Dark Nation posted.

Oh, and at the end of the anime cinematic there is some guy with a Zaku mono-eye visor.

Anyways this is apparently coming out tomorrow(well today now that it's past midnight). Anyone getting it opening day? And if so want to share impressions with the rest of us? I'm planning on buying it Friday myself but I'm hoping to hear some stuff, good or bad by then so I can go with more than "it looks cool and the game magazines are rating it well".

I've got it pre-ordered online via gamestop thanks to the "online only" artbook pre-order bonus. It should be here by the end of the week, god willing. I haven't heard anything bad about it, though.

Same for me as well. It shipped out yesterday so I'm hoping to get it by today or tomorrow (since I got upgraded to free 3-day shipping), even though the arrival date is listed as Thursday.

I keep getting more and more excited every time I see this game, so even though I got burned by SFIV (not the game's fault really, I probably just overhyped myself for it considering I've never been a huge SF fan), I expect great things from this one. Guilty Gear has always been my favorite 2D fighting series, and I think Blazblue will live up to that.

Just noticed this, is three-day shipping not the slowest and something you have to pay for over there then? If so, that would explain why so few Americans seem to consider buying online as a viable way of getting games, that's awful service. Amazon over here gives you free next-day delivery if you spend over £5, Game is free next-day delivery on everything, as are most online games shops.

Wow, I had no idea your postal service was so crappy.

There's slower than three day. UPS ground can take between 7 days and two weeks on average. And you often have to pay for it too.

Of course considering how often things get lost in the mail around here I don't have a lot of faith in UPS in general. I'd say about one item in ten ends up having some sort of problem out of things I've ordered online. 10% is an extremely bad ratio.

The original order I placed was free shipping, but it was estimated to take about 7-10 days to arrive. They had the option to pay to upgrade to either three day shipping (which I think they gave me for free since they had some offer for free three day shipping on all pre-orders after I had already ordered it) or overnight shipping, but the prices just aren't worth it if you ask me.

It does vary by retailer, though. Our Amazon gives you free shipping on orders over $25, and it usually takes about a week or so for the order to arrive. Again, you can pay for either two or three day shipping, but it's just not worth it (I think I once ended up paying $25 for a $13 book just to get it in time for my mom's birthday). They have Prime, a service you can sign up for that gives you free two shipping on all orders regardless of price, but that's like $70 a year.

Newegg, on the other hand, has free three day shipping on all orders I believe. That's probably about the best you can get on shipping around here.

Newegg only gives free 3-day on select items, otherwise you're charged on a per-item rate instead of per-order.

Keep in mind the relative size of our countries. Some retailers offer California Overnight which is a special service that'll deliver anything in CA, AZ, and NM (I think it includes NM) for dirt cheap since they have to distribute over a much smaller area. Economies of scale seem to work backwards a bit when you've got over three million square miles of land to cover (England is ~2.5% the size of the US).

I realised that about as soon as I hit reply. I was assuming that over there you have the same density of distribution centres that we do (And a nationalised postal system like us) and it's easy to forget that some of you seem to drive further to get to work than it's possible to travel in Britain without doubling back on yourself.

http://www.gamingforce.org/miles/bb.jpg

This is how I roll. It's all about the free overnight shipping coupon.

Didn't know that. I've only used them about three or four times, but every time I have I've always gotten free three day shipping. I guess now I'll have to make sure the items qualify.

newegg used to kick ass....now they do so while fucking you on the shipping charges.

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/b...oldelivery.gif

Shit needs to get here right now.

Hito already has his copy. Jealous so bad.

I'll get mine tomorrow.

Apparently mine is expected to arrive Thursday, I'm hoping it might arrive tomorrow, but ah well if not.

Mine has already been pre-ordered at EB games, so I should be expecting any time now. Unfortunately, I won't be able to play it right away, not until I get back home which won't be until July 10th so in the meantime my wife will be picking up the game.

I took twelve dozen eggs, stuck them in a bowl, mixed the... FFFFFFFUCK out of them, and what did I get?

PEEEEEEEENIS.

Game came around 2 for me. Played that shit. Shit's awesome, but I can already hear the crying from people who consider Super Smash Bros. a competitive fighting game. <3 Litchi.

The lines in this game, lmao.

"My breasts aren't meat buns!"

"Hands off the panda!"

Too hilarious to ever switch to Japanese.

Edit: Also, Bang Install totally makes up for him being an otherwise worthless character.

How's the music? Guilty Gear had some great tunes and I'm hoping BlazBlue has an even better soundtrack.

Just check out Youtube for the music.

How is Bang a worthless character compared to... let's say... Carl?

:tpg:

Carl has the lowest health but in the right hands he can be decent...but why you'd use him over anything else is wtf.

I dunno, maybe because in the right hands he can be decent?