If the game's release date is 3/7, it won't be in stores until 3/8. It's deceptive, but the 7th would be the day the game ships to stores. We don't get it in stock until the next day. Now, if the game's ship date was yesterday and that store didn't get it today, there's a problem.

I've been replaying Final Fantasy Tactics and Gladius, lately. This thread has made me nostalgic for Starcraft, however. I might have to reinstall it. :P

but it wasn't like that few years ago. 3/7 ? 3/7, there you go. Why don't they ship the game during the night, eve to the release date ? Now I have to wait til tomorrow to get my ass out of my house and visit the EB again.

I believe they are shipping through the night. But still, even if they ship at night, either a.) we wouldn't be there to receive it or b.) we wouldn't get it until the morning, and that would be the next day.

There's also this to consider -- companies like EA set street dates which force us to hold games and not sell them until a specific date, such as Black. We received Black 5 days ahead of schedule -- no joke. And all we could do was look at all those games in a box and wait for 2/28 to roll around so we could sell them without losing our jobs.

I KNOW I posted already... but whatever.

I've started playing Deus Ex: Invisible Wars, and after a confusing intro (And I played the first game, so confusion should not be a problem!) the game's starting to get into the natrual flow of things.

The game had a lot of things better, and a lot of things worse at the same time, my opinion is that its just alright at this point.

Still Harvest Moon:Friends of Mineral Town.

Probably the best installment of the series since the 64 version. I'm currently trying to get 100% before the release of Magical Melody.

Just for the fun of it, it could have been cool to see a copy of Black before its release... You lose your job but hey... YOU HAVE A GAME BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. ISN'T IT WONDERFUL ? I live in a dream....

err.... anyway I mean, if the game is released on 3/7, then why does it take a day to get it ? The trucks leaves US during the day and it takes a day to come to Canada ??... Why do DVDs get released the same day as expected ?

Found an old same game file of Harvest Moon 64, figured I'd see if I can still grow potatoes.

On that topic I've not got an answer for you. I only know that the release date is the ship date, and it takes one day for us to receive it. If, by chance, we receive the game early, we are only allowed to sell it if it hasn't been street-dated by the publisher. If it has, we have to hold on to it.

I'm currently playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the GBA (It takes forever) and Super Mario Bros 3 for the same console (I have to beat this soon). Two great games on a great console.

I just started on Legend of Zelda ~ Minish Cap the other day. I just gotta get used to playing with a keyboard.

I miss PSO.... :(

I'm currently working my way through SpellForce Gold Edition. Graphics could do with a bit of a polish, but otherwise no complaints so far.

Frozen Throne on and off, Naruto Clash of Ninja here and there. Actual game progression is in Legend of Dragoon, I guess.

I've been playing Metriod Prime 2 lately. Once I get my video card issues worked out, I'll be back on Guild Wars, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Battlefield 2, and Doom 3. I'm debating on weither or not to buy Star Wars: Empire at War and Half-Life 2. My friends keep bugging me to pick up a copy of each.

I'm playing 'Aeon Flux' (XBOX), 'Prince of Persia:The Two Thrones' (XBOX), 'Resident Evil 0' (Gamecube), and 'Metal Gear Solid:The Twin Snakes' (Gamecube). I just picked up 'Aeon Flux'. I'm half way through the second level. I'm liking the game a lot. One of the better movie based games. I'm going through 'POP:TTT' and 'MGS:TTS' both for the second time. I'm going through 'RE0' for the fourth time.

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Now finally I have all 3 versions of Shadow of the Colossus!! NTSC/JAP, NTSC/USA and PAL/EUR. There are not big changes in them but they sure play a little different from each other. I still have some things to do in each of them to finish them on 100%. In USA version only 3 Colossi left in Hard Time Attack =).

A few weeks ago, I was playing Yu Gi Oh GX Duel Academy, now the new 2006 is out but doesn't seem as fun. And not forgetting Maple Story, got addicted to it again. And tommorow there will be a Taiwanese MMORPG which was P2P, but now they have a version 2, so version 1 is free to play. Since I'm a cheapskate, I play "cheap" games, as in I just pay the electricity bills and the ISP.

I started playing BLACK last night. Oh how i've missed the joys of playing an FPS. The last one i played properly was probably Half Life and that was years ago. I'm surprisingly good at BLACK considering it doesn't have auto aim and i'm rubbish without auto aim. My Dad's gutted because i got further than he did in one nigh and i didn't die once whereas he has dies countless times

I've oddly been getting back into Pokemon Emerald... Mostly for the Battle Frontier. Gives me another reason to train my Pokemon and battle against the odds of cheap ass trainers with attacks that just so happen to execute at the right time. (Them = Protect ; Me = Explosion ; Me = FUCKTHISSHIT.)

Been playing lots of Winnig Eleven 8. Why? Because the game is sooooo good, and its the only way me and my roomate can compete to not have to do the dishes that were left piled in the sink for over a week....

Too bad I lose most of the time...:(

The only game im playing now is Guild Wars. Its great to kill some time. I hope that on the 20th Ill be in a cave somewhere playing Oblivion, god willing.

I started Suikoden and Xenogears. I'm going to see how long it takes me to play two games at once along with homework. :)

I'm playing FFIV hardtype right now. It's a really good game. You can tell that it's a little older than FFVI, but it's still a lot of fun to play, and the graphics are still quite nice. There have been some tough battles (specifically: the Demon Wall), and after about 19 hours of logged play, I think I'm nearing the end. I'm playing it on SNES9x since my PS2 is broken and I can't play the Playstation version that came with Final Fantasy Chronicles.

I'm playing The Legend of Zelda (NES GBA Re-release)
As this is one of two zelda games I have yet to play, it took some adjusting to. I do not understand how the only way I can save the game is by dying, as dying seems to be very easy though. I had no idea where to start or what to do, and it got frustrating really quick. I seem to be stumbling across things and not exaclty going at everything in game order (didn't find level 2 until I had already beaten levels 3 and 4). I never thought it could be that hard, and it will at least hold me over for a short while as I still must wait even longer for the new game to come out. Overall, I'm impressed by the gameplay and probably still would have been immediately hooked had this been my first zelda game...

Finished playing Lumines on my PSP, now I'm playing through Disgaia, La Pucelle Tactics, and Phantom Brave. Then I will go to Front Mission 4 I think.

I need to start these tactics games or else I'll never finish.