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shadyridr said:
So pissed. ordered a Nintendo 3ds xl from amazon for my son for Christmas on the Sunday after black Friday.  they kept delaying the shipment even though when I ordered it it was in Stock.  I ordered games for it too. finally it was supposed to be delivered today.  just got an email that the order was cancelled and a new one will be shipped December 28. I'm livid 
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Are all the brick and mortar places out of the 3DS?

 
Frank Drebin said:
I had a similar issue last year with Target on a WiiU bundle on Black Friday. The cancelled mine completely though and refused to honor it in any way.
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shadyridr said:
So pissed. ordered a Nintendo 3ds xl from amazon for my son for Christmas on the Sunday after black Friday.  they kept delaying the shipment even though when I ordered it it was in Stock.  I ordered games for it too. finally it was supposed to be delivered today.  just got an email that the order was cancelled and a new one will be shipped December 28. I'm livid 
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Same with me at Toys R Us. Except they just straight up cancelled it.  Still haven't seen a DS at any store since.

 
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belljr said:
What's new with the 3ds Xl compared to the old 3ds xl
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The "new" 3DS xl has a NFC reader built in so it can communicate with Amiibos. It also has a small, second analog stick to the right of the screen. I'm assuming the one the guys had trouble getting here was a new release for Black Friday that was being sold for $100, instead of the typical $180 or so. Those were sold out so fast it was virtually impossible to get your hands on one. And a couple of retailers actually put them up early, so when the time came for their advertised Black Friday sale, they were already gone. 

 
Frank Drebin said:
The "new" 3DS xl has a NFC reader built in so it can communicate with Amiibos. It also has a small, second analog stick to the right of the screen. I'm assuming the one the guys had trouble getting here was a new release for Black Friday that was being sold for $100, instead of the typical $180 or so. Those were sold out so fast it was virtually impossible to get your hands on one. And a couple of retailers actually put them up early, so when the time came for their advertised Black Friday sale, they were already gone. 
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I'm having trouble with the xl.

 
shadyridr said:
So pissed. ordered a Nintendo 3ds xl from amazon for my son for Christmas on the Sunday after black Friday.  they kept delaying the shipment even though when I ordered it it was in Stock.  I ordered games for it too. finally it was supposed to be delivered today.  just got an email that the order was cancelled and a new one will be shipped December 28. I'm livid 
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Buy a new one from the store (similar to the one you ordered, if possible).  Hold onto receipt.  When the one you ordered Black Friday arrives, return it to retailer with the receipt.  Congrats, you got your item on time and for Black Friday price.

edit:  3DS is really out of stock around you guys?  I see them everywhere.

 
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Pots said:
Took advantage of a few Black Friday deals and finally broke down and bought an HTC Vive that's arriving tomorrow. For those that don't know, it's one of the real VR Headsets. Also bought a bunch of games for it. Steam has a 2 hour trial on their games which I'll use to determine which games I want to keep/refund. There were a lot of games that had equivalents that isn't clear which is the 'better' option, so I bought both and will try both for 90 min while refunding the other. For example Audioshield vs Holodance and Project Cars vs Assetto Corsa. There's also a ton of free smaller games I'm going to try out. Luckily most of the games I got were also on sale during the Steam Autumn sale. 

If people are interested in what VR is like right now, whether I think it's worth the price, or if it's simply a gimmick, I'll leave a comprehensive review after I've tried it out for a bit to let you know what I think.

My initial concerns:

All the games that I've see right now available for it are by indie developers and seem to have very little content. They look more like glorified tech demos which explains the usual $10-30 price tag on these games. However, if the experience is just 5 hours, is it really worth it? I'll find out.

There is a HUGE divide in the VR community on the preferred type of locomotion used by a game. Read: How the hell do you walk around? The three main options are 1) Using the touch pad on the Vive controller similar to Steam Controller. 2) D-Pad on XBox (or similar) controller. 3) Teleportation where you aim on the ground and teleport a short distance like a click-to-move adventure game.

The last option seems like a horrible option from an immersion perspective (I mean, you've got a VR headset and you're clicking to move? How crappy does that sound?!) However it also seems to unfortunately be the preferred movement type for a lot of players because the other options make them feel a bit seasick since their body movement is disconnected from their perspective. For some reason moving with a dpad while in VR makes some people feel ill, enough so that many games don't even offer other locomotion options other than teleport. I'm particularly interested in my findings on all 3 locomotion types.

The vast majority of AAA developers may not produce actual content for VR for quite some time due to there only being a few hundred thousand units in circulation and it's difficult to turn a profit even if EVERY VR user buys their game. People are waiting for great games before they plunge into VR and great game developers are waiting for people to buy VR units before they invest in great games. Bethesda is working on Fallout 4 VR sometime in 2017, but it looks to be a teleport locomotion... Ugh.
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I've been messing around with the Vive for a couple of days. Also got it for X-mas but made it an early present so we didn't have to mess around the inevitable set-up issues on X-mas day. Turned out to be a wise decision as we needed a new cable and the set-up took a while. 

Anyway, it's amazing. Like, I had crazy high expectations for how cool it would be and they were exceeded in almost every way, amazing.

I was skeptical about teleportation but you get used to it quickly. Plus with the Vive room-scale VR you can do a fair bit of moving around in games by walking. That one thing to make really clear, if you want the most value out of the Vive have a big space set up to play in. I initially had it set up in a roughly 8x6 area but moved it to a 9x9 space and it made a huge difference. Playing in Minecraft the 9x9 space roughly works out to 3x3 blocks, so you can move around inside a small house really easily. So far I've found the combination of teleporting and walking to be really immersive and effective. 

Most of my time so far has been in Minecraft and a RPG game called Vanishing Realms. 

Minecraft is nuts. You still use buttons to interact with objects but your tools move in your hands as you move them. You can walk around objects in the game, and it feels like they are there and you are looking at them in 3D. 

Vanishing Realms is pretty basic compared to a modern computer RPG, but I think part of that is because it takes a while to get oriented. Once you get your footing, so to speak, you are walking around interacting with the virtual world. You pick torches and as you move them around the lighting changes. You bend down to pick items up off the ground or reach up above your head. You have couple of backpacks virtually situated at your waist and you reach down to put things in or take them out of inventory. When you fight MOBs you swing your sword hand and your swing is exactly what it is, direction, arc, etc. So you can jab down at the head of your opponent over his shield or take big swings that knock them back. Using a bow you hold the bow in one hand and draw with the other, aiming just like you would a real bow. Since it's room scale you can position yourself behind objects for cover, move out to fire, and then quickly duck back behind the cover. There's no plot really, it's just explore and loot, but the mechanics are there so the eventually there will be an Elder Scrolls type world and immersive stories. 

Google Earth is also mind-blowing. 

 
Arsenal of Doom said:
I've been messing around with the Vive for a couple of days. Also got it for X-mas but made it an early present so we didn't have to mess around the inevitable set-up issues on X-mas day. Turned out to be a wise decision as we needed a new cable and the set-up took a while. 

Anyway, it's amazing. Like, I had crazy high expectations for how cool it would be and they were exceeded in almost every way, amazing.

I was skeptical about teleportation but you get used to it quickly. Plus with the Vive room-scale VR you can do a fair bit of moving around in games by walking. That one thing to make really clear, if you want the most value out of the Vive have a big space set up to play in. I initially had it set up in a roughly 8x6 area but moved it to a 9x9 space and it made a huge difference. Playing in Minecraft the 9x9 space roughly works out to 3x3 blocks, so you can move around inside a small house really easily. So far I've found the combination of teleporting and walking to be really immersive and effective. 

Most of my time so far has been in Minecraft and a RPG game called Vanishing Realms. 

Minecraft is nuts. You still use buttons to interact with objects but your tools move in your hands as you move them. You can walk around objects in the game, and it feels like they are there and you are looking at them in 3D. 

Vanishing Realms is pretty basic compared to a modern computer RPG, but I think part of that is because it takes a while to get oriented. Once you get your footing, so to speak, you are walking around interacting with the virtual world. You pick torches and as you move them around the lighting changes. You bend down to pick items up off the ground or reach up above your head. You have couple of backpacks virtually situated at your waist and you reach down to put things in or take them out of inventory. When you fight MOBs you swing your sword hand and your swing is exactly what it is, direction, arc, etc. So you can jab down at the head of your opponent over his shield or take big swings that knock them back. Using a bow you hold the bow in one hand and draw with the other, aiming just like you would a real bow. Since it's room scale you can position yourself behind objects for cover, move out to fire, and then quickly duck back behind the cover. There's no plot really, it's just explore and loot, but the mechanics are there so the eventually there will be an Elder Scrolls type world and immersive stories. 

Google Earth is also mind-blowing. 
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Saving mine for xmas morning. The kids are gonna #### bricks playing Minecraft in VR!

 
Jobber said:
Saving mine for xmas morning. The kids are gonna #### bricks playing Minecraft in VR!
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Just a heads up that the Vive needs an open HDMI port in your graphics card. I had to run out and buy a DisplayPort cable to hook up my monitor and free up the HDMI port. Plan accordingly.

 
Poke_4_Life said:
Started this last month.  Still having fun.  
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After finally waiting for all the downloads, updated, hand jobs and everything else that happens these days when you buy a new game, I was ready to roll and falling asleep at the same time.  Only had enough stamina to get to Concord and meet the minutemen. 

 
Yankee23Fan said:
After finally waiting for all the downloads, updated, hand jobs and everything else that happens these days when you buy a new game, I was ready to roll and falling asleep at the same time.  Only had enough stamina to get to Concord and meet the minutemen. 
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I missed this part.  Maybe I should have bought an XBOX.   :(

:cstu:

 
Instinctive said:
Let me know if it is good, how D&D-esque it is, etc. Would be interested to see if it is worth a lot of my time. 
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I am struggling with the controls.  I can't get used to the keyboard movement controls at all.  I must look drunk to the other players.

Graphics seem very old now obviously, but the core game mechanics, skills etc look pretty good.  I don't like that there appears to be nothing to do when leveling (I could be missing it).

 
Fat Nick said:
So I got Xcom 2 the other day - How the heck do I make more contacts?  I understand I have to build that comm relay thing in the avenger, but there are all these missions in geographies that are RED...How do I get contact so I can build a relay or whatever there so I can actually do those missions?  This Avatar clock is only like 4 from the end.
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So I've had a good bit of time to play lately, which isn't normal.  GREAT game.  I'm enjoying it a lot more than the previous one(s).  Definitely more difficult than earlier versions.  The little things, like concealment, Avatar events, and some of the new weaponry are really cool and add different dimensions to the gameplay.  The special ammo and weapon upgrades are really cool too.  Changing the old Support type to the "Specialist" and adding the Gremlin is awesome.  I thought it was dumb at first, but the Gremlin is really useful. 

I've been making a living with the Mimic Beacon, especially around Sectopods.  It gives me an extra turn to attack the Sectopod as it draws fire from other units.  I never used that or flashbang much before, but in this version of the game, I find them key.  The Specialist Hack on robotic opponents is cool too, because sometimes just disabling a gatekeeper for a turn is plenty to give your guys another round to attack it.

I like the hidden ability thing too.  I have a sniper with Rapid Fire, which is great for killing high-HP enemies.  I also have a heavy with Kill Zone, which, when used in conjunction with a sniper with the same thing basically means that if there's an Advent transport dropping more guys, If I set those two up on Kill Zone, probably 80% of the time the bad guys never even make it to their turn. 

Pretty darn cool game.  I'm intentionally going slow and only attacking Advent sites when the counter gets high because I want to build up my squad.  I'm guessing that at some point I'm just going to have to start moving forward though.

 
NewlyRetired said:
I am struggling with the controls.  I can't get used to the keyboard movement controls at all.  I must look drunk to the other players.

Graphics seem very old now obviously, but the core game mechanics, skills etc look pretty good.  I don't like that there appears to be nothing to do when leveling (I could be missing it).
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There is a pretty big thread here on the FBG group that played for years.  Search Gladden to find it, that was the server we had our characters on.

 
Mad Cow said:
There is a pretty big thread here on the FBG group that played for years.  Search Gladden to find it, that was the server we had our characters on.
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I had to give up on it. It had everything I enjoyed in gaming but I can not get a hang of using the key board to move.  I seem to be more functional with a point and click movement via mouse.

When getting PC games in the future I need to look for point+click or ones that support controllers I think.

 
Mad Cow said:
There is a pretty big thread here on the FBG group that played for years.  Search Gladden to find it, that was the server we had our characters on.
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I miss gaming the auction house and being yelled at during quests when I would stop to harvest raw materials.    Good times.

 
NewlyRetired said:
I still play every day.  I am not getting any better but I like it :)

Have you reached Legend yet?  I have come close a couple of seasons but never made it all the way.
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It's probably the most addictive game I've ever played. I've never made it to legend, though I never really tried due to time constraints. (Young kids and long work hours). I'm OK with just doing quests and the occasional arena while trying to build a collection.

 
iOS super Mario Run... i bought it through the in-app purchase on my iPad. Can that also transfer over to my iPhone or would I have to buy them separately? I was hoping I could share the app in full on more than one device. Anyone know?

 
So..... FO4.   Cleaning up Sanctuary to build stuff is oddly satisfying.  In a gaming sort of way, I feel like I am really making a difference in the post apocalyptic world by cleaning out the broken houses and dead trees and building something better.  To live in.  And start again.

And then I get to do all the fun Fallout stuff like kill people and watch their heads explode with a good head shot.

The building a camp stuff is exactly what FO3 was missing at the end after you brought water to everyone.  I would have been happy with this just being a DLC for FO3 and letting me rebuild the capitol one building at a time.  While killing super mutants.  You know.  Because that is still awesome.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
So..... FO4.   Cleaning up Sanctuary to build stuff is oddly satisfying.  In a gaming sort of way, I feel like I am really making a difference in the post apocalyptic world by cleaning out the broken houses and dead trees and building something better.  To live in.  And start again.

And then I get to do all the fun Fallout stuff like kill people and watch their heads explode with a good head shot.

The building a camp stuff is exactly what FO3 was missing at the end after you brought water to everyone.  I would have been happy with this just being a DLC for FO3 and letting me rebuild the capitol one building at a time.  While killing super mutants.  You know.  Because that is still awesome.
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I got sidetracked and haven't played in about a year but of my first 25 hrs or so, I spent at least 15-20 of them building stuff in Sanctuary.  

 
base building in FO4 was a blast for the first few dozen hours. Then you get frustrated with its limitations and the fact that it doesn't matter how awesomely defended your base is because it will never be attacked. 

 
thecatch said:
base building in FO4 was a blast for the first few dozen hours. Then you get frustrated with its limitations and the fact that it doesn't matter how awesomely defended your base is because it will never be attacked. 
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That was why I stepped away. No matter hoe different it was for Fallout, it wasn't Minecraft level easy. Then when you realize people never attack or if they do, they can walk on the front gate when one of your idiot NPCs walk through and leaves it open, I got bored with the whole thing.

 
Mario Kart said:
iOS super Mario Run... i bought it through the in-app purchase on my iPad. Can that also transfer over to my iPhone or would I have to buy them separately? I was hoping I could share the app in full on more than one device. Anyone know?
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Betting if you link your Nintendo account to it you should be able to restore purchases but not 100%

 
Insein said:
That was why I stepped away. No matter hoe different it was for Fallout, it wasn't Minecraft level easy. Then when you realize people never attack or if they do, they can walk on the front gate when one of your idiot NPCs walk through and leaves it open, I got bored with the whole thing.
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I did this too.  Built up a bunch of settlements to be able to protect themselves, forgot what I was doing in the main plot, got bored, and walked away.

I want to finish FO4 over the holidays.  We'll see if that happens.

 
2016 Purchases (PS4):GTA VUncharted 4 - Release Day7 Days To DieDoomSuper Mega BaseballMLB The Show 16 - Release DayNo Mans Sky - Release Day Madden 17 - Release Day NBA 2K17 - Release DaySkyrim Special Edition Remaster - Release DayDeus Ex Mankind Divided - Cyber MondayDishonored 2 - Cyber Monday Hitman Season 1 - PSN Flash SaleTellTales Batman - PSN Flash SaleGame Of Thrones - PSN Flash SaleTales From The Borderlands - PSN Flash Sale Completed Games in 2016:Far Cry 4 - Epic and well worth it.Until Dawn - Loved it Alien Isolation - Loved it and will play the DLC at some point.Doom - Single Player Campaign was a blast.Far Cry Primal - Outstanding and still have stuff to do even though the main story is done.Uncharted 4 - Just a wonderful game and I look forward to a second play through again.Uncharted 1 Remaster - A great time playing the original one more time!Skyrim PS3 - We finally completed the main story and Dark Brotherhood before we embarked on a brand new play through with the PS4 remaster with mods!2016 Currently playing and rotatingMLB The Show 16 - Quest For Donny Baseball Year 2, The Matheny Manifesto Year 2Madden 17 - Raiders CFM Year 2, 1993 Dolphins Year 1NBA 2K17 - 1991 Miami Heat Year 1 and 2012 Heat Year 1Skyrim Remaster - Serratus Wood Elf Archer/Thief Level 36/ (Thieves Guild, Dawnguard, Main Story-line)Far Cry Primal - Side missions and going for 100% completion In the Que:The Witcher IIILife Is StrangeThe Wolf Among UsThe Evil WithinAssassins Creed IV Black Flag (PS4)Mad MaxUncharted Remaster Parts 2 and 3TellTales BatmanDeus Ex Mankind DividedDishonored 2Game of ThronesTales From The BorderlandsNo Mans Sky - Foundation Restart on Survival Mode
 

2017 gaming plans? Other than MLB The Show 17, Madden 18, Mass Effect Andromeda, and Red Dead II You are looking at them in my que!
 
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thecatch said:
base building in FO4 was a blast for the first few dozen hours. Then you get frustrated with its limitations and the fact that it doesn't matter how awesomely defended your base is because it will never be attacked. 
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Mine was attacked all the time.  As well as every other settlement I claimed.  I would get messages all the time from the Minutemen about another settlement being under attack, and if you didn't go to help defend it in a certain amount of time, the attack would end and the settlement would be wrecked somehow, usually food plants broken and no longer able to produce.

I hated the settlements in FO4.  I felt like after I built them up and had people living there, they should be able to take care of the place.  Instead I had to build and repair everything for them, the bunch of moochers.  Eventually I just started ignoring them.

 
bcdjr1 said:
Mine was attacked all the time.  As well as every other settlement I claimed.  I would get messages all the time from the Minutemen about another settlement being under attack, and if you didn't go to help defend it in a certain amount of time, the attack would end and the settlement would be wrecked somehow, usually food plants broken and no longer able to produce.

I hated the settlements in FO4.  I felt like after I built them up and had people living there, they should be able to take care of the place.  Instead I had to build and repair everything for them, the bunch of moochers.  Eventually I just started ignoring them.
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Were the ones you built up attacked?  Back when I was playing at least, you were unlikely to get raids on settlements with high defense ratings. 

 
thecatch said:
Were the ones you built up attacked?  Back when I was playing at least, you were unlikely to get raids on settlements with high defense ratings. 
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Yes. Maybe they were attacked less often than they would've been, but they were all attacked. Sometimes they wouldn't suffer much damage even though I didn't show up to help defend them.

 
Mario Kart said:
iOS super Mario Run... i bought it through the in-app purchase on my iPad. Can that also transfer over to my iPhone or would I have to buy them separately? I was hoping I could share the app in full on more than one device. Anyone know?
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Addictive game. I believe you have to goto purchase again on the new iphone but the last step it says you purchased already and it puts it on for free. Very unintuitive. Great game though.

 
shadyridr said:
Addictive game. I believe you have to goto purchase again on the new iphone but the last step it says you purchased already and it puts it on for free. Very unintuitive. Great game though.
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Should just be able to goto App Store: purchased and it should be the newest one available to download. 

 
The Ringer's video game podcast isn't bad. They did an interview with the former head of LucasArts this week which was a fun walk down memory lane. My love of video games really started with Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, X-Wing, etc. Probably one of the top 3 video game companies of the 90's. 

 
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