[General Discussion] What are you currently playing???

My signature has all of the games I'm playing, but I'm focused right now on Ys: Ark of Napishtim on the PSP and Grandia 3. I'm playing all those games too, just not as much as the two I listed.

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Originally Posted by cubed

Exit (PSP): Great puzzle game. There are some tricky puzzle I can't manage to finish, but that's the purpose of the game. SOLVE PUZZLE.

We <3 Katamari (PS2): Playing few minutes per day, for the roses level.. argh... pain in the ass to get 1 million!

... well that's it. I was going to buy Shadow Hearts From the New World, but the dumbass at EB said the game won't be "released" before tomorrow. RELEASED and GET IT IN STOCK is not the same. I'll try my luck tonight at another store.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by cubed

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 ?

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 am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I've been switching back and forth from Need for Speed: Most Wanted (which I checked out from work, but I'm thinking of returning it), Grandia 3, and soon enough Megaman Powered Up. I....need to go get that game.

By the way, has anyone played Drakengard 2? I was thinking about checking it out myself, but I'd like to hear some comments about it before I play it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Woot, another owner of Grandia 1. That's always nice to know.

I've still got Grandia 3 in my PS2, but having just finished Kingdom of Paradise for the PSP, now I've moved on to trying to complete Megaman Powered Up! and Daxter.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I've owned it since January 13th, 2006, but I'm just now playing Wild Arms 4. It's a really enjoyable game and this game could teach Link a lesson -- the ability to jump is not restricted to platformers and FPSs.

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It's definitely worth it, although unless you're a nostalgia fan and have crazy love for Wild Arms 1, WA: Alter Code F....really isn't worth it. Especially not after playing Wild Arms 4. I'm holding on to my copy anyway, but if you haven't purchased it, wait until it drops to $10 or something -- can't be that far off considering WA4 is already $19.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I've got Astonishia Story in my PSP right now, and I'm really enjoying it. I can't figure out why the reviewers hate the game so much -- sure, it's exactly like a few other RPGs on the PSP -- but at the same time, I'm enjoying extensively more than the others.

The pacing, for one, is great. That's my biggest problem with the Ys: Ark of Napishtim port. The music's pretty good too, not up to Ys' standards, but better than Popolocrois and Generation of Chaos. All the sprites look good and have really smooth animations. Load times for the game are infrequent and brief when they do appear, etc. etc.

Only bad thing is that there is a difficulty spike, but it's easily conquerable with just a bit of level grinding, which is cool because the battles are fun and easy to play out. It's a grid-based system, but it allows for more free movement than, say, the early Arc the Lad games. All in all, I'd give this at least a 7.5 (well above the 4s I've been seeing) if you're an RPG gamer.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm mixing it up between another round of Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth in order to get the A Ending, Onimusha Dawn of Dreams and Resident Evil 4.

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