Every platform I buy has to have some killer app that tips me past the temptation point. This is the PSP's. I just don't have room in the budget for one.

According to the internets, the shipping date got pushed back to 14Aug2007. I'll look at Best Buy when I go by tonight.

Stupid internets. I've been looking forward to this game.

Don't forget Final Fantasy Tactics coming out in October.

You sir have a resolve of steel.

What are you doing here at GWJ? Do you enjoy having your resolve tested by the Enabler Squad?

As for the game, with so much other great stuff coming out (and Gitaroo Man Lives! dropping to $20 at Gamestop) I am definitely in wait and see mode. At least one of these tactics games is going to a gem and I will definitely be getting it.

I am the only one who misses 2nd edition?

Definitely not. I've been left in the dust, like the old man who can't adapt to the new computer system at the office. I loved the AD&D rules. Feats? Bah. Give me THAC0, an armor class of -5 and set character classes - with dual and multi-classing primarily limit to non-human races - and I'm good to go.

Please post up your initial impressions if you do pick up the game - I'm eager to find out if it's any good as I could really go for a tactical RPG that doesn't involve spiky haired androgynous teens.

I wouldn't say that I have a resolve of steel so much as a Budget of Superior Inflexibility (medium-grade wondrous item). I've been in credit card debt before, and have refused to do so again; I like having my only debts be my student loans and my car note (and that hopefully gone when I pay it off). Actually, let me rephrase that; I don't just like limiting my debt like that, I find that it makes life so much less stressful that I can't go back to the debt-riding ways I used to!

So when you're on a constricted budget, and debt isn't an option, you'd be surprised how easy it is to resist "fun" purchases and instead focus on what you really want to spend your discretionary income on. My game purchases are very carefully determined anymore.

That said, I do someday hope to pick up a PSP on the cheap, with some of the titles I'm really eager to play, such as this one.

3 years?! Holy crap! I guess if I were Best Buy I'd take your money too. There's gotta be a fair chance many people will either forget or lose their receipt with the pre-order. Or move to another country. Or die/become incapacitated.

What do they give you for preordering three years in advance? Do you get interest on your investment?

(I kid, but really...I'm surprised.)

I preordered the game back in June of this year (paid in full with trade in credit). When I said "in almost two years" I meant that, before D&DT and Forza 2, it's been two years since I preordered another game paid in full.

someone ever at pspupdates.com posted this video of the first 5 minutes of DISGAEA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDyRffXrKQ

here's a glimpse at the new english trailer for FFT:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23013.html

Probably less hackable, though.

I've seen a bunch of interviews with the developers, but nothing review-wise... the only review so far has been that GameInformer review I mentioned above.

there's three reviews up on Metacritic... with a composite average of 70% -- both of the other two reviews are better than the first one (60%) from GameInformer.

well, EB Games/GS is offering an extra $10 in trade-in value when you trade in 2 PSP or 2 DS games. So I got $70 in store credit today. I went ahead and purchased a copy of Jeanne d'Arc, and with what was left, I put half toward this and spent the other half on a wii points card. So hopefully there will be some more reviews up in the next day or so and I can swing by and pick up my copy.