Dark Souls Catch-All

Tyrian wrote:

Someone else was telling me they've had Amazon orders delivered before the order tracking showed up in their account. Maybe that's what is happening here.

If only...

I am fairly sure UPS hasn't been here yet, especially since I am home watching the Rays game. Guess I will keep working on NG+ of Demon's Souls.

I did call around a couple stores and no one seems to have the CE in stock. When it hadn't shipped last night at midnight I probably should have ran to Walmart just to be sure. Looks like CE's have sold for $100+ on ebay already. It's not like I couldn't have got my money back in a couple days one way or the other.

Stele wrote:
Tyrian wrote:

Someone else was telling me they've had Amazon orders delivered before the order tracking showed up in their account. Maybe that's what is happening here.

If only...

I am fairly sure UPS hasn't been here yet, especially since I am home watching the Rays game. Guess I will keep working on NG+ of Demon's Souls.

I did call around a couple stores and no one seems to have the CE in stock. When it hadn't shipped last night at midnight I probably should have ran to Walmart just to be sure. Looks like CE's have sold for $100+ on ebay already. It's not like I couldn't have got my money back in a couple days one way or the other. ;)

Mine just flopped over to "shipping soon", like yours. *shrug*

I guess I'll just have to wait and see. There might be copies of the game around town, but I haven't bothered to check.

For those (like me) who cancelled their preorder because it wasn't going to arrive, I was able to order it online from Best Buy with a store pickup for today. The catch here is that Best Buy is also sending me a $10 gift card to Best Buy for ordering a new game online nice.

TLDR: BestBuy is selling is online with a $10 gift card. You can pick your order up in-store.

Quick heads-up for any Canadians: I bought a copy at Future Shop on my lunch break and it turns out that they're offering a $10 gift card plus a coupon for $10 off Skyrim with every in-store purchase.

garion333 wrote:

TLDR: BestBuy is selling is online with a $10 gift card. You can pick your order up in-store.

Yeah it's not so much I must have the game today... I just pre-ordered for the CE goodies.

Word on the net is that BB doesn't have enough CE's to cover pre-orders, much less walk-ins.

garion333 wrote:

For those (like me) who cancelled their preorder because it wasn't going to arrive, I was able to order it online from Best Buy with a store pickup for today. The catch here is that Best Buy is also sending me a $10 gift card to Best Buy for ordering a new game online nice.

TLDR: BestBuy is selling is online with a $10 gift card. You can pick your order up in-store.

Thanks! Purchased!

Stele wrote:
garion333 wrote:

TLDR: BestBuy is selling is online with a $10 gift card. You can pick your order up in-store.

Yeah it's not so much I must have the game today... I just pre-ordered for the CE goodies.

Word on the net is that BB doesn't have enough CE's to cover pre-orders, much less walk-ins.

I didn't care, I just want the game.

gregrampage wrote:

Thanks! Purchased!

Welcome!

Walmart: 360 only
Other Walmart: 360 only
Meijer: Nothing
Local Shop: No interest
Gamestop: Yup, PS3.

Guess my years long boycott of GS ends today. Dark Souls makes me weak.

garion333 wrote:

For those (like me) who cancelled their preorder because it wasn't going to arrive, I was able to order it online from Best Buy with a store pickup for today. The catch here is that Best Buy is also sending me a $10 gift card to Best Buy for ordering a new game online nice.

TLDR: BestBuy is selling is online with a $10 gift card. You can pick your order up in-store.

God, I was going to wait, but now...

For those who picked up the CE, you might want to wait a few days to redeem the code. According to the website, once you redeem your code your download access is only valid for 24 hours. Unfortunately, their servers aren't up to the task of handling today's traffic.

I foolishly redeemed and was able to download the miniguide and the map without much trouble, but the bigger zip files for the soundtrack and the behind the scenes stuff keep stalling out and "completing" early, leaving me with invalid zip files.

That's kinda weird. Although since so much of it is digital, I expect it to get spread around the net pretty quick.

Can't wait to get home!

Still no sign of my copy, but I suppose they still have ~30 minutes.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
garion333 wrote:

For those (like me) who cancelled their preorder because it wasn't going to arrive, I was able to order it online from Best Buy with a store pickup for today. The catch here is that Best Buy is also sending me a $10 gift card to Best Buy for ordering a new game online nice.

TLDR: BestBuy is selling is online with a $10 gift card. You can pick your order up in-store.

God, I was going to wait, but now...

I honestly can't tell if you're serious or clocking ...

Stele wrote:

Still says "shipping soon" and estimated delivery today.

Tempted to check KMart. Surely it's not well-traveled enough here to maybe have a copy.

That's where I got mine. My roommate and I got the only two copies for 360.

This game is pretty sublime. That said, I'm stuck on the second boss.

garion333 wrote:

I honestly can't tell if you're serious or clocking ...

Totally 100% dead serious. I'm trying to wait to buy this until I've at least finished Persona 3, but I'm having a really hard time not biting for $60 + $10 toward another game down the line.

Amazons response was sorry, huge demand, first come, first serve - here is 10 bucks you'll get yours on the 6th (maybe).

Well then go to Kmart and get $20

Stele wrote:

Well then go to Kmart and get $20

Nah I am good. Plenty to play until then.

Disc in PS3, time to die.

Man, I can't wait to get home from work. I'm going to die so many times!

I don't recall if there's been fair warning, but for you guys new to the series don't go killing all the NPCs you meet as when they die, they're dead and gone (barring any sort of plot thing I haven't encountered).

I stopped at Best Buy after dinner and stared at the two copies on the shelf. Debated the $10 gift card on my phone. Tried to think how much I might play tonight vs whether Amazon will get it to me tomorrow. And thought about the pile.

Better show up tomorrow though. This has never happened before with Amazon, so I'm more inclined to blame the publisher. But damn, get it fixed.

I finished the tutorial and didn't die a single time. What kind of crap is this?

I'm almost considering getting this on the way home from work, but damnit, my pile is already immense. I mean, it's starting to block out the sun, it's that big.

Pro tip: If you use all your healing battling just a few enemies, then you went the wrong way.

Btw, I looooooooooooove the way they did the healing in this game. No more farming for weed or whatever it was we ate in Demon's Souls.

That's more like it! Skeleton warriors of doom kicked my ass.

Friendly tip: Save up 1k souls for the first merchant you encounter and buy a heater shield for a quick 100% physical damage block.

*Gold-plated knight destroyed me. Not going that way.

Oh no...

Spoiler:

I just saw a crystal gecko disappear in front of my eyes...

Dyni wrote:

Oh no...

Spoiler:

I just saw a crystal gecko disappear in front of my eyes...

That makes me unhappy. I hate that aspect of Demon's Souls.

drdoak wrote:
Dyni wrote:

Oh no...

Spoiler:

I just saw a crystal gecko disappear in front of my eyes...

That makes me unhappy. I hate that aspect of Demon's Souls.

And according to some of the guys at Whiskey Media, they're much more rare and harder to identify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FtME...

Starting it up now, and a pyro, I think.