Pikman Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Maybe just one more sleep!! We are off to a gig tomorrow, well, Jaguar Skills, and I think I might pop to Gamestation on the way home. I will likely be off my face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Ed, we could always do a swap? I have Ghost Recon sitting right here already I'll swap you Donkey Kong Country Returns for it? My SSFIV3D order has been shipped from ShopTo, but Pilotwings hasn't. I hope they get that one out to me for release, it was the one I wanted to play first. I got a call from Gamestation to say my preorder was in stock ready to collect from midnight tomorrow. Yeah, the preorder I cancelled a few weeks back. While I had them on the phone I asked them how much the games would be. I was told the RRP is £39.99 but they'll be selling them for £30-35, for what it's worth. My 3DS case hasn't arrived yet either (shipped 28th Feb), but an order shipped after that has already arrived. I got an email back from Play-Asia. Dear Ed,Thank you for contacting Play-Asia.com I am very sorry to hear about this delay when delivering your order. An investigation will be carried out in our local post office. It will take about 3 weeks. Please kindly contact us for the result of the investigation if you still cannot receive the order after about 3 weeks. If you have any further question, please do not hesitate to ask. Best regards, Michelle Play-Asia.com Three more weeks?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 My 3DS case hasn't arrived yet either (shipped 28th Feb) i've had stuff take over a month before unfortunately, wouldn't be surprised if it arrives within a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illdog Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Not sure if this has been posted but: 5 Hidden Easter Eggs you need to know about according to C+VG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sambob Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I wonder how many hours it will be before picture of 3D boobs are circulating the interspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I wonder how many hours it will be before picture of 3D boobs are circulating the interspace There are loads of bewbs on the net. Like these. NSFW obviously 3d fake ones! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sambob Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I wonder how many hours it will be before picture of 3D boobs are circulating the interspace There are loads of bewbs on the net. Like these. NSFW obviously 3d fake ones! Mmm boobs, but that's presumably not set up to be 3D when viewed on a 3DS Internet explorer? As far as I've read there aren't any '3D' pages yet, although presumably it's just a case of setting them up correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Pilotwings Resort has shipped! Excitement confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikman Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Mine shipped too but from Zavvi so I'm not sure I'll see it before Friday! 25 hours and we can be picking out 3DS's up... if we are crazy enough to go at midnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinzon Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Mine shipped from Amazon, according to the email it might arrive tomorrow but I'm not holding my breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 zavvi shipped pilotwings but are sitting on ridge racer like massive idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Potential PRO TIP for anyone buying in store at GAME. I heard Game are selling games at full RRP, £40. Also saw on another forum that they are doing a guaranteed £35 trade in offer on 3DS games. Turns out you can save yourself a few bob by buying some of the £25 games and then trade them straight back in to get the decent games at £30. That nugget apparently came as advice from a Game employee to a punter!I.E get Monkey Ball and Rayman in your bundle for £25 each. Take them out of cellophane and hand them back to get £70 trade value and pay an additional £10 to get SSFIV and pilotwings More GAME Group info: They are offering six games at £25 each when bought with a 3DS. from Rayman, Madden, Sims, Asphalt, Super Monkey Ball and Ridge Racer.You'll get a leaflet with three vouchers inside: * Get Rabbids 3DS for £24.99, save £15. * Trade in any two DS games and get an extra £5 added to the value. * Get an extra 1,000 points when you buy any 3DS game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Jeff Gerstmann likes SSFIV3DE. The Nintendo 3DS version of Super Street Fighter IV is a great portable version of a great fighting game. It also might be the most fully featured 3DS game available alongside the new handheld's launch, offering support for almost every major system-level item that the 3DS has to offer, like StreetPass, Play Coins, and online support. And though none of them are as successful as a joystick and two rows of three buttons, Capcom has included a lot of different control options in an attempt to cater to a large number of players of varying skill levels. The catch there is that some of the control options make not-so-welcome changes to the way the game plays, potentially impacting the quality of the versus experience.SSFIV on the Nintendo 3DS has almost all of the features found in the console versions of the game. There's a trial mode to let you bang out combos, you can set a player icon and title, you can fight through the arcade mode and get interrupted with online fight requests, and so on. Even the achievement system from the other versions make it over here via a custom list of medals that you can unlock. It has all 35 of the characters, and they even get a couple of the alternate costumes that required an extra purchase on the 360 and PS3. You can play through the arcade mode and get the same type of intro images and conclusions that you saw on consoles, and, well, you get the idea. The only missing features come on the online side, where you can match up against other players and fight them, but the tournament options and large lobbies found on consoles aren't here. New features are also included, like 500 character figurines that you can unlock via a spinning wheel. Each of these figures has a level, number of hit points, and other statistics associated with them. It's your job to assemble a strong team of five figures, which make up your StreetPass team. Then, at least in theory, you just walk around your hometown with your 3DS in sleep mode, and whenever you encounter another player that's doing the same thing, you'll exchange team data and a completely passive battle will occur. When you launch the game, any StreetPass battles you've engaged in are posted to a log, and you'll earn additional figure points--which are used to purchase more figures--for winning those battles. You can also earn figure points by simply playing the game in any other mode, or you can exchange a Play Coin for one spin of the figure-unlocking wheel. It's a basic system, but it integrates quite nicely with the handheld's various passive features. Super Street Fighter IV is best played on a six-button controller, with all six buttons on the face of the device. The 3DS, by default, sets things up like they were on the Super Nintendo, with your hard punch and kick buttons on the shoulders. It's less than ideal, but usually works well enough. The game also puts four large buttons on the touch screen that can be assigned in a variety of ways. In the default "lite" control scheme, special moves are mapped to these buttons, so your super or ultra combo is always a button press away, as are two special moves. You can configure exactly what you want on those buttons, so if you'd rather have push-button access to all three speeds of Ryu's fireball, that's an option, as well. The configuration is saved on a per-character basis, letting you set up each fighter just the way you like. You can also enable auto-blocking, which works as advertised. If someone throws an attack in your direction and you're not in the middle of attacking or recovering, you'll block it. The catch is that the damage is temporarily shown on your life meter, almost as if you absorbed the blow with a focus attack. The life slowly restores to your meter, but if you're hit with an actual attack, all of that potential energy is drained. This helps keep players honest and prevents the auto-blocking from getting too powerful. In the pro control setting, you can only place multi-button combinations onto those touch screen buttons. By default it'll let you pull off a focus attack or push all three punch or kick buttons simultaneously. But the rest of the game plays as it did on consoles. You'll have to execute all of the moves on your own, something that isn't too tough to do with the system's D-pad, though my big left hand certainly cramped up a bit after putting some serious time in with the game. The big control problem in the 3DS version of this game is that the lite mode breaks the rules of the game, allowing for balance-changing situations that would be impossible under normal circumstances. Specifically, charge moves--Guile's flash kick, for example--can be executed without them charging first. Without the need to hold down for a moment before rising up into a flash kick, Guile can follow his sonic boom projectile in and, if the other player decides to jump over the projectile, Guile can flash kick them right out of the air, no questions asked. This gets frustrating when you take the game online. When you attempt to find an online opponent, the default option lets players with either control scheme intermingle, and you don't know ahead of time if the other player is using auto-block or which attacks they have mapped to the touch screen. But it's easy to tell once a fight has begun, as players flash whenever an auto-block is performed. I've played quite a bit of Street Fighter over the years, but the way moves can come up without being charged is forcing me to unlearn the rules of the game, something that'll probably make me worse at playing the game on consoles in the long run. And even though dismantling these players isn't all that hard once you know what to expect, it's just no fun to fight Guile after Guile, knowing that they just intend to execute standing flash kicks whenever possible. Now, you can filter your searches to ensure that you're only matched up with pro mode players, but in my experience, almost no one is playing that way. I found exactly one taker when searching specifically for pro mode players... and he quit after I beat him once. Frustrating. Visually, SSFIV looks great and makes good use of the platform's 3D option. The backgrounds sink into the screen effectively, giving a great sense of depth while also not causing the same sort of swimmy stomach that some 3D games can. Of course, the impact of 3D on your constitution will vary, so if you don't want to deal with it at all, you can always disable it. While the backgrounds do look great, they're also completely static. All of that movement from the console versions of the game is gone, so the hippo won't walk up to you over the course of a match, and you can't dragon punch the wing off of that plane. Even without those animations, though, the game still looks great. In an attempt to emphasize the 3D capabilities of the display, Capcom has included a "3D view" option that gives you a sort of over-the-shoulder camera angle on the fight. In a game that places such value on knowing how much space is between you and the other fighter, playing around with the camera angle seems like a misguided feature that detracts from the experience. But it's optional and worth looking at once or twice, just to see how the 3D makes it all look. Getting into online matches quickly and easily is probably Super Street Fighter IV's strongest component. It even seems to be faster and more reliable than its console counterparts, with none of the "unable to join session" errors that plague Capcom's other fighting games, but once a rush of domestic players get their hands on the system, it's anyone's guess about how that will change. It's just a bit disappointing that most of those online matches are slightly marred by the way the lite mode allows players to perform tasks that would be impossible under normal circumstances. But even with that caveat, the numerous features and options make Super Street Fighter IV one of the best games available at the launch of the 3DS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Gutted! My copies of Pilotwings Resort and SSFIV3D should be here in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illdog Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Im actually pretty excited, i didnt think i would be but i keep grinning like an idiot when i think about playing Pilotwings after all these years. I was supposed to go out tomorrow night but ive cancelled so i can spend some quality time with the 3DS Misses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 mines on the van to my house apparently. I'm also off sick today coincidentally. actually kind of genuinely, I should go back to Ned but I'm sat in the front room waiting for tnt to turn up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 £175 at Tesco in-store from Midnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illdog Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Cant get mine till after work tomorrow but hey ho, i'll just have to sit here and shit myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikman Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 £175?! FFS... Even with my GS vouchers that is tempting, £45 difference can't be sniffed at. Lol, love Illdog's new name, he he. Don't worry, I'm sure we'll all be really nice and wait until we can all open them together, like we did with secret santa Pretty sure I'll end up super drunk after Jaguar Skills and at Gamestation around midnight, we'll see. If not, I will be passed out and it will be morning rather quickly anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Even though I have no money, and no particular interest in having one of these yet, I'm tempted to go to Tesco's at midnight and buy one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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