[smartblue]

[TXTSWORD]

Man, I couldn't bring myself to listen to that soundtrack. Have to wait.

[remote]

Yep, downloaded it, but I'm waiting. It's so close...!
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[mauve]

[Toptube]

oops

[Teflon]

[Gironika]

Hm, can X360 and PS3-people play together? If so, that'd be a treat since I currently can't tell which version friends will get → thus makes it hard to decide as well.
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[Jigsaw]

Neither Microsoft nor Sony would ever allow their customers to play with people using their competitor's system, so no.

[TXTSWORD]

Let's all just chant until it comes out.

DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS!

[Sniper Honeyviper]

[Teflon]

Okay those are legit reasons! It's just I was deciding which to get myself and the top two results were that compression bullshit.

Put my pre-order in today, which marks the second time in my life I've pre-ordered a thing (the first was Perfect Dark)!

[TXTSWORD]

perfect dark souls. the perfect game

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Gamestop decided this was big enough for them to do a midnight sale at certain stores! I won't be attending, though.

[remote]

indeed
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[glossolalia]

i went to preorder this at gamestop today and the first thing the clerk said was "did you hear what it got on ign?!?" and i was like "uh wha" and he was like

"a 9."

[Dracko]

I don't get it.
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[Flylighter]

I'm not sure I get it either, but it was hysterical anyways!
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I'm on Steam! ----- I'm on Youtube!

[Sniper Honeyviper]

no one ever has the conviction to give something a perfect score because some loser will point out why the game isn't absolutely flawless in every possible aspect, and IGN/Metacritic/whatever are trying to be the fucking Consumer Reports of gaming

[TXTSWORD]

i'm gunna get it at midnight for some reason and then go to bed without playing it :3

[remote]

I'd actually be tempted to pick it up at midnight if any of the stores in Portland were doing that. The one I've got my preorder at isn't doing it, anyway, and I'm not gonna bother calling other stores just to see if they are... I will probably run out to get it and play it for pretty much all of Tuesday like the unemployed jackass that I am, though.
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[scratchmonkey]

I won't get it until Friday; that's okay, I wouldn't have time to play it until then.

[TXTSWORD]

That awful-song-bandai-dark-souls-trailer played during breaking bad!

[Teflon]

Man I don't want to go to a midnight launch event for this and find out all the suave people I played Demon's Souls with are giant Lucky Star fans/brogamers/Yathzee/14 year olds or all of the above.

Willfully denying reality ITT.

[cassievania]

[TXTSWORD]

[Flylighter]

Yeah, that anecdote ("a 9.") gets funnier every time I think about it. I'm not an overtly mean person IN person, but I'm afraid if some dude actually asked/answered that to me with conviction, I would probably guffaw in their direction. Reminds me of the time I went into a Gamestop to get something (probably a PS3 or 360 controller), and the guy was like, "DO YOU WANNA PRE-ORDER MARIO GALAXY 2". I concentrated so hard on not laughing at him that I was visibly shaking by the end of the transaction.

Which is why I pre-ordered at Best Buy this time! Not that I'm a fan of the store, but they sure didn't ask if I wanted to pre-order Skyward Sword too.

Guys one day.
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[cassievania]

you made a good choice, customer, for choosing ａ　ｇａｍｅ　ｕｐｏｎ　ｗｈｉｃｈ　ａｃｃｌａｉｍｅｄ　ｒｅｖｉｅｗｉｎｇ　ｓｉｔｅ　ＩＧＮ　ｈａｓ　ｂｅｓｔｏｗｅｄ　ｉｎ　ａｌｌ　ｉｔ’ｓ　ｍｅｒｃｙ　ａ　９　ｏｕｔ　ｏｆ　１０．
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[Teflon]

I'm in trouble, please recommend a videogame

[TXTSWORD]

Man it's always so awkward doing transactions in gamestop and then getting harassed about preordering like cod 15 or something and eventually having to explain that you don't like games like that - a concept totally lost on the gamestop employee.

I'm not sure where all of you have gotten the impression that Dark Souls isn't "big" or something... like it's still your "cool underground game". Sure, it still plays like that - which is awesome - but come on it was like a huge success at E3 and is pretty wildly anticipated. I mean, Demon's Souls wasn't really heard of at the time of it's release and it got relatively huge by it's own merit. The game stirred up a lot of controversy (because it's apparently really hard or something aka no one has ever played real videogame before) and most "gamers" got a chance to play it or had come to a point in there life where they had to confront whether or not they wanted to or could play it - but everybody heard about it and everybody is aware of it's reputation. Dark Souls had a commercial on T.V. for fucks sake - and really the only requirement to being a triple A game is to be marketed like one. I just don't understand why all of you keep getting surprised when it's deemed big enough for a midnight release etc. and acting like it's some unheard of indie game. I understand the appeal of that thinking, but we should probably all just be really thankful that a game of this high caliber and respectability is getting this much recognition. Although it IS annoying that it's fame is for it "being really hard" and having to hear about that shit constantly whenever "normals" talk about it.

[Flylighter]

[SuperWes]

[glossolalia]

at least the gamestop people recommending preorders are just doing their jobs.

if the guy had said something like "the reviews on that have been really good, i'm looking forward to it," or if he had done the "media store clerk gives unsolicited appraisal of purchase" thing with his own opinion that would've been fine. the total reverence with which he regarded an ign review made me feel like i was in another dimension or something.

[TXTSWORD]

[TXTSWORD]

[TXTSWORD]

[Teflon]

It's just really weird to see a FROM SOFTWARE game getting the blockbuster treatment, 's all. I mean I look at my wall of PS2 Armored Core games and there's a different publisher's logo on each and every one. There are gaps where the games never got published in English at all. We've got a hundred page thread right here where DS goes from this sweet JP exclusive thing to Atlus picking it up stateside and not bothering to release it in Europe to finally Namco catching on to the game's popularity and shipping it here to Europe some six months later.

When was the last time an independent niche developer blew up like this on the strength of a single game?

[Schwere Viper]

[Flylighter]

[remote]

I guess I'm lucky that the guy at Gamestop said "good call" and nothing more when I preordered Dark Souls.

No push to preorder MW3 instead, or anything like that.

Even if he had, though, I'd have just smiled a little and said no, thanks.
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[Dracko]

[Dracko]

I was on the fence, but now I'm going to pre-order Modern Warfare 3 along with my Dark Souls pre-order just to irritate TXTSWORD. >:D
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