Dan

Woohoo! Got my CE copy at FutureShop. Won't be able to play it tonight, though

nickdawgy

They will. They gave me a $20 credit when Madden 11 was late. The funny thing is my CE guide shipped on Friday.

Anyhow, what I did is went to K-Mart and bought the regular version there. Now I can either return my CE when Amazon does deliver it (but that'd take a couple weeks for the credit) or I can open it up, take the sealed copy of the game out, and take it back to K-Mart, and get refunded right there.

The cool thing about that is K-Mart is giving away a $20 gift card, so I could come out ahead

I know...evil nickdawgy

But, there is hope for my soul....I saw the guy at K-Mart putting out copies of Fable III, including the CE's. I told him not to sell them until next week because they might get fined. He was thankful because he said a buddy of his got fired when he did that and he had no idea when the game was supposed to release.

The Fable III CE looks very nice, btw.

aktick

Whoops...apparently skill magazines are temporary, only skill books are permanent.

OldBoy

any chance they would put a demo out on Live (for the severely uninitiated)?

rocketsauce

Karma has you breaking even

PopcornTreeCt

If it had been Rock Band 3 the people in that thread would've had your head

nickdawgy

As long as I get the $65 I spent back, it doesn't matter to me

I think if it was RB3, I would have bought it myself

The only reason I didn't jump on Fable III today was because I had it pre-ordered from Amazon and they have a $20 video game credit. That and I would feel guilty if I got the guy in trouble for selling it early. The Fallout box had the "do not sell before 10/19" sticker, but the Fable box had nothing.

I was surprised to see a CE at K-Mart, though. They had a ton of copies of Fallout as well. Good to see them back in the game (pun intended).

MrX

UPS just delivered my copy

Dan

Nope. In one of the interviews posted, a developer specifically said they didn't have plans to release a demo.

nickdawgy

I know they never did for Fallout 3.

superdeluxe

This guy is a obvious fan, but loves it:

http://www.examiner.com/comedy-in-na...mment-12475246

Glad about the black/dark humor.

superdeluxe

Meta Critic at 86:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-...critic-reviews

OldBoy

figured it was a longshot. thanks. wish i could get a little taste without a commitment to see if i would even like something like this. i know Borderlands was very very light RPG, but i was totally engrossed and loved every minute (from the numerous side quests to the main story) of it.

Liver&Onions

Go buy fallout 3 - used copies will be cheap shortly.

nickdawgy

Okay, I played for an hour and here are my pros and cons:

Pros:

I love the music. Kind of a blend of new and old, but we knew that already.
The environment is definitely more colorful than Fallout 3.
Some new weapons are always good.
VATS is back with slow motion kills
The way they customize your character is awesome.

Cons:

Some of the early voice acting is pretty bad. Pretend like you're not reading a script.
I saw a few instances where enemies were floating and caught in rocks.
A friendly NCR trooper attacked me because I was shooting an abandoned car. Maybe it was his?
A little bit of slowdown, but not much.

Anyway, I don't regret the purchase at all. So far I have done

Awesome game, though. Fallout rocks. Can't wait to get to New Vegas.

superdeluxe

How much does the floating people/floating heads and other little bugs bother you? I only really have issues when I get stuck in a rock and crap like that.

aktick

I haven't done much yet, basically wandering around and did some of the tutorial quest, but haven't really noticed any bugs. Some weird movements over rocks, but otherwise fine thus far. Load times going in and out of buildings haven't been bad at all, IMO. Maybe it gets worse later? At least manually saving is quick, so you can do it plenty.

GoVegan

Argh, I want to play a game I just bought on a DVD; I shouldn't have to install Steam. My computer doesn't force me to install iTunes to listen to a CD.

nickdawgy

It doesn't bother me. As long as I can move and the enemies aren't getting cheap shots (like they can shoot me but I can't shoot them) it's fine.

Cardiff Giant11

Mine is still "Out for Delivery" from New Egg. I sometimes get UPS delivering later in the day but after 5 is pretty rare

dsa_shea

I got my CE just a bit ago. The install is somewhat lengthy and I have a parent conference to attend so I will likely not get to actually play it until later tonight. Looking forward to it though.

Decker

While I agree with you in theory about being "forced" to use Steam, the reality is Steam is so wonderful that you won't mind. The first time you lose a disc, or lose your data or get your HD fried (like I did last week), having your data on a Steam cloud is a very welcome thing.

fumanstan

I got my copy today for PC from Amazon, but i'll be too busy this week because of Blizzcon to play

MrX

I played for a few hours and was able to level up, but mostly just wandered around town investigating things.

I started the quest with



I'm enjoying it so far and haven't run into any glitches yet.

nickdawgy

Well it's official. I got a shipping notice from Amazon, and it's for FedEx. It doesn't show the delivery date yet since it's brand new, but the FedEx guy always comes here by 10am. So Amazon messes up again

Two years of perfect and on-time deliveries and they screw up two in a two month period.

EDIT: Amazon is showing a delivery date of the 20th now.

EDIT 2: Amazon gave me a $10 credit for the delay
I could have pressed for $20 but I was satisfied.