Katamari Damacy (future rare title?)

[brandver3]

Too many games.

I have to get this, I got Monster Hunter yesterday. Burnout3.

Every year I forget how hard it is getting through the holiday flood while being broke.

Thought for $20, I am defianatly going to get this one.

[josekortez]

I swapped my Halo 2 pre-order to Katamari yesterday, and I picked it up today. I wasn't planning on buying Halo 2 anyway.

[sharc]

man. the game/import store i checked out today hadn't even heard of this coming out in america. those of you who have it already, where'd you pick up your copy? big chain like eb games?

-sharc

[delafro]

I preordered mine at EB, going to pick it up tonight. Oh yeah!

[FantasiaWHT]

I preordered mine at EB, going to pick it up tonight. Oh yeah!

Ditto, but it was supposed to be here yesterday *glares at his EB computers*

[Jive3D]

It's available in shady areas of the internet.

[poe]

Today is my day off, so I got mine this morning and have already played for a couple hours (thankfully managed to finish up Star Ocean before this got here). Totally great. Anybody on the fence on this one just go buy it now. After the first time you push a six-foot wide ball of street signs down a hill and suck up a little girl at the bottom, you'll wonder how you ever went without this game.

[katchoo]

Today is my day off, so I got mine this morning and have already played for a couple hours (thankfully managed to finish up Star Ocean before this got here). Totally great. Anybody on the fence on this one just go buy it now. After the first time you push a six-foot wide ball of street signs down a hill and suck up a little girl at the bottom, you'll wonder how you ever went without this game.

guuuh....i want this game more than ever now!

[Querjek]

I bit the bullet and ordered this game from EB's website today. Let's hope it arrives soon

[Habeeb Hamusta]

Yeah it looks like loads of fun.

[max 330 mega]

im just hoping that the stores around me will get in a few copies so i can grab one.

[PDorr3]

this title came from nowhere! When I saw it was $20 i quickly decided i need it, but i need monster hunter first.

[Ro7co]

I pre-ordered from gamestop and it was 17.99 +1.99 shipping, not sure if it is still that price, and it's media mail shipping, I'm still waiting for it...

[delafro]

FYI, my local EB said they got 3 copies of the game. Don't know about you, but that sounds fairly rare to me.

[Griking]

I'm sorry for adding another "Gamestop and EBWorld sucks" type of post but I really have to get this off my chest.

Every time I walk into one of these stores they're basically trying to force pre-orders down my throat. Well twice now in the past month I've tried to pre-order a game and was told that the game didn't have a pre-order sku. The games were A Dog's Life and Katamari Damacy.

Sure I know that these aren't going to be huge selling games and store's probably won't get very many copies, but isn't this the entire purpose of taking pre-orders in the first place, so we can guarantee a copy of a game that they may not have many of in stock. Oh, but there's no problem reserving Madden '94 or GTA, games that you really don'y have to pre-order in the first place because every store ends up having hundreds of copies on hand.

The game was released yesterday and not one of the EBworlds or Gamestops in my area had it in yet as of this evening.

I guess I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and order it online.

/bitch off

[FantasiaWHT]

/bitch on

Wow, a game that nobody really expected to come out in the US wasn't on the preorder computer months ago? Oh my god the horror! It's been on at least a month, why didn't you just preorder it within the last month? If you had done it even as late as 3 or 4 days ago, they would have gotten a copy in.

/bitch off

Yeah, the preorder push sucks, but can you blame us? One of the easiest ways to guarantee traffic, and a decent chunk of our store rating is based on new release pickup, which is driven in a large part by presells. Salespeople who just randomyl throw out "hey, do you want to preorder this game like everyone else?" are extremely annoying (like my boss). I pick and choose. If the guy picks up a horror title I'll mention Silent Hill 4. Anybody that buys GTA3 or GTA:VC gets a question on San Andreas. If I'm REALLY desperate (way off a weekend goal, for example) if someone is buying one thing I'll tack on a "Just this today? Anything you were interested in preordering?" onto the end of a sale, but if they say no I let it go. I do just as many presells as my boss does and I don't piss everyone off lol.

Ok review mode on Did a little play-by-play call in my livejournal if you want to check it out-

http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasiawht/2667.html

[Griking]

/bitch on

Wow, a game that nobody really expected to come out in the US wasn't on the preorder computer months ago? Oh my god the horror! It's been on at least a month, why didn't you just preorder it within the last month? If you had done it even as late as 3 or 4 days ago, they would have gotten a copy in.

I wish this was the case. I tried pre-ordering A Dog's Life @ EBWorld a week before it was released and was told that they didn't have a sku for it. I tried pre-ordering Katamari Damacy just last week @ my local Gamestop and was told the there was no pre-order sku for it as well. I usually hear about these odd ball games for the first time on this forum and I usually reserve a copy of it right away its reasonably priced. I beginning to get the feeling they they really don't care about taking my pre-orders unless its for a $50 game.

[Dahne]

I swapped my Halo 2 pre-order to Katamari yesterday, and I picked it up today. I wasn't planning on buying Halo 2 anyway.

Bwah ha ha

You, my friend, officialy kick ass.

I went down to the local EB Games at the mall here, since I've yet to find any non-chain stores in the San Francisco State area. After looking around and not seeing it anywhere, I went up to the counter and asked when they would be getting it in. The guy reached into the glass case behind the counter, and pulled out a copy that had been stacked horizontally, with only the spine showing, essentially hidden in the corner.

I have no idea why. You'd think they'd at least put it on the shelves.

[Red Shadow]

Ah, great. My first post ends up being a double post and get locked. I feel sooooo stupid. Think I'll just stick to replying to other topics so I don't look foolish in the future.

Yeah, Katamari is really cool. I played through the first couple levels and it's like nothing I've played before. The EB I work at only got three, one for me, one for a customer who had it on order, and one that was bought within 10 minutes of going out on the shelf. Only two other people asked about it that day, but I had a few discussions about it with people and because of the GMR spot people seem to at least know it's "that wacky game with the sticky balls".

So yeah. Good game, total niche title. That's enough out of me.

[videogameking26]

I hope to pick it up soon...looks very interesting