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yellowcar posted:Credit card or Nintendo fun bux. Presumably both have to match the region where the 3DS comes from. Since you're a Euro, a credit card is out of the question so your only choice is to buy Nintendo's Mickey Mouse money. Is the credit card thing for real? You think they'd be glad to take your money regardless of where it comes form. Also even if they don't, 3DS eshop uses real money and not Nintendo Points
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Drizvolta posted:Oh god how do I save The mage and troubadour in chapter 5 I've forgotten just how hard these games are If you do the first sidequest, you can get a rescue staff from one of the chests. If you pair the two up, they can both be simultaneously rescued. Ch. 5 is a goddamn wringer though, it's fantastic.
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Jan 30, 2013 16:43
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Bah, none of the nearby Gamestops appear to be selling this game early. I hope you all are proud of yourselves 
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Jan 30, 2013 16:48
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So with all the talk about GameStop not taking preorders anymore, does anyone know what the situation will be like for other retailers like Best Buy or Target? Any chance that those places will have a copy for someone who didn't preorder next Monday?
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Jan 30, 2013 16:49
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Chaltab posted:Is the credit card thing for real? You think they'd be glad to take your money regardless of where it comes form. Nintendo is happy to, the continent of Europe with their trade laws aren't.
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Jan 30, 2013 16:57
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Jan 30, 2013 17:01
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Tae posted:Nintendo is happy to, the continent of Europe with their trade laws aren't. So its pretty much impossible to buy something in the nintendo US eshop if you are in Europe?
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Jan 30, 2013 17:03
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FrickenMoron posted:So its pretty much impossible to buy something in the nintendo US eshop if you are in Europe? yellowcar posted:Credit card or Nintendo fun bux. Presumably both have to match the region where the 3DS comes from. Since you're a Euro, a credit card is out of the question so your only choice is to buy Nintendo's Mickey Mouse money. Play Asia or someone trustworthy in the US to buy cards for you and e-mail you the code.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:15
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So I'm reading the US street date stuff was a mistake and it's not officially going on sale til 2/4. Is that the case or is it actually out? I've heard some Bestbuys are doing it early and Gamestops as well but other stories have them refusing to sell til the fourth.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:21
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Cake Attack posted:If you do the first sidequest, you can get a rescue staff from one of the chests. If you pair the two up, they can both be simultaneously rescued. Ch. 5 is a goddamn wringer though, it's fantastic. Rescue has limited range though, so you need to move first.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:27
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Levantine posted:So I'm reading the US street date stuff was a mistake and it's not officially going on sale til 2/4. Is that the case or is it actually out? I've heard some Bestbuys are doing it early and Gamestops as well but other stories have them refusing to sell til the fourth. Yeah, the Gamestops in Boston aren't breaking and don't even get shipments until at least Sunday. Gonna give Target/Best Buy a shot after work.
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Aphrodite posted:Rescue has limited range though, so you need to move first.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:42
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I completely forgot about that Rescue staff and just brute forced my way through that mission  .Only took me three resets, too!
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Jan 30, 2013 18:01
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Jan 30, 2013 18:13
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I wrote a mini-review of the game. I chose to focus on the heavily upgraded support system since I found it to be my favorite addition. https://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/01/fire-emblem-awakening-review/ EDIT: Small plot and gameplay spoilers but nothing beyond the official ads. DARPA Dad fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Jan 30, 2013 18:21
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JSnake posted:I wrote a mini-review of the game. I chose to focus on the heavily upgraded support system since I found it to be my favorite addition. https://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/01/fire-emblem-awakening-review/ Wait, I thought time travel was a pretty big spoiler? Or is it not, I haven't been paying attention to the official nintendo ads.
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Jan 30, 2013 18:25
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Tae posted:Wait, I thought X was a pretty big spoiler? Its been 'spoiled' to me in like 3 reviews so at this point it seems like more a "how does this go down" thing. That said the joystiq review is also up and contains this spoiler. So reader beware if you're trying to go in super ignorant. http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/30/fire-emblem-awakening-review/ (4.5 stars outa 5)
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Jan 30, 2013 18:28
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After playing the demo and reading some initial reviews of the game, I broke down and preordered Awakening. I can't wait to get it, I've had a mad SRPG itch for quite some time now and I'm hoping this game will help scratch it. I found out that the retail version will have dual audio tracks, one in English and the other in Japanese. Do we know yet if there's a subtitle option for the Japanese voice track?
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Jan 30, 2013 18:30
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Tae posted:Wait, I thought time travel was a pretty big spoiler? Or is it not, I haven't been paying attention to the official nintendo ads. The game makes very little secret of it. It's not an endgame or even mid game spoiler. Still, I edited my post to warn anyone wanting to go in absolutely blind.
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Jan 30, 2013 18:30
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These reviews are really making me second-guess my decision to play the game in Casual mode my first time through (albeit on Hard). I was thinking it would reduce the irritation of having to restart certain levels a bunch of times, but maybe the experience wouldn't be as good without the series' trademark cruelty. I mean, one of the most intense experiences I've had playing a Fire Emblem game was back in Path of Radiance, that one chapter where you get Rolf (an eight-year-old archer) and sending him over to fight some pirates and having him die and his death quote is the most heartrending thing ever and having this feeling, like, 'if you don't reset the game right now you are a monster'. That was a really cruel experience but it made the game better. I just don't know.
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Jan 30, 2013 18:41
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I haven't read/watched it, but apperantly the Gametrailers review has some hefty spoilers really early on, so avoid that one.
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Jan 30, 2013 18:44
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Tae posted:Wait, I thought time travel was a pretty big spoiler? Or is it not, I haven't been paying attention to the official nintendo ads. I didn't really know about it as such but since you, you know, have kids...
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Just reached Chapter 8, which is the staple desert map of Fire Emblem. Does anyone know of any secret items on floor tiles or some such thing?
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So do we know for sure that Gamestops breaking street date in the US once they received shipments to be a false alarm?
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Jan 30, 2013 19:24
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As I understand it, there's not actually a street date for Gamestop and you just have to count on the given store getting it in stock. And they all expect to have it on the 4th. I may have understood incorrectly.
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RuBisCO posted:Just reached Chapter 8, which is the staple desert map of Fire Emblem. Does anyone know of any secret items on floor tiles or some such thing? No desert items in any chapters.
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cheetah7071 posted:No desert items in any chapters. Really? Really really? This game keeps getting better and better 
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Jan 30, 2013 20:05
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Well drat, I checked my local gamestop and they had it but wouldn't sell it. Street date is back on I guess.
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Karthe posted:I found out that the retail version will have dual audio tracks, one in English and the other in Japanese. Do we know yet if there's a subtitle option for the Japanese voice track? You have to turn cutscene subtitles on in the options menu near the bottom, it isn't on by default. I think you have to watch one or two cutscenes before you get to the point that you can turn them on though, couldn't do it from the main menu.
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Levantine posted:Well drat, I checked my local gamestop and they had it but wouldn't sell it. Street date is back on I guess. If you really want it now and now alone just have then look at their store informer; hopefully they'll sell. There isn't a street date of any kind.
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Chic Trombone posted:Gamestop seems to have reopened online preorders. Aaaand it's gone. Hopefully stragglers managed to grab it in the few hours it was up.
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SC Bracer posted:If you really want it now and now alone just have then look at their store informer; hopefully they'll sell. There isn't a street date of any kind. I have two Gamestops within a mile of eachother here in town and was told by the managers of both that they were issued some order to maintain the "street date" of 2/4. So I don't know. Amazon is also holding to that as well so at least in the US, there may be a street date.
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The clerk I just talked to, a different one from before, told me that they have standing orders from corporate not to sell the 3DS bundle until 2/5! Even though the game sells on 2/4!
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Another good review! http://www.gamesradar.com/fire-emblem-awakening-review/ I think it may be time to stop following this thread because I simply cannot wait and its getting unbearable!
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ChiTownEddie posted:Another good review! http://www.gamesradar.com/fire-emblem-awakening-review/ There's a bunch of reviews up on Metacritic, so far the average is 91 and the lowest is an 85. It's higher then any other game in the series so far. Not that it matters too much, but it's nice to know the game is getting good press. e: Screw this guy, Fredrick owns.
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Hopefully all this good press leads to more Fire Emblem games on the 3DS as well as a new Advance Wars. Nintendo's not dumb enough to not make more games like this, right? 
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Boondock Saint posted:Hopefully all this good press leads to more Fire Emblem games on the 3DS as well as a new Advance Wars. Nintendo's not dumb enough to not make more games like this, right? 
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The DLC for Awakening pretty much printed money, on top of the game being really successful on it's own. There's far greater reason to be concerned of them milking the Awakening setting, over them not making more FEs.
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You can't even register the game with Club Nintendo until the 4th. Come on Nintendo, I need to buy a lanyard.
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