I heard about the first run of the game being delayed in Canada (except for certain, smaller-chain stores), and that the Standard Edition would be available by July 29th. Well, it's July 31st now, and I still cannot locate this damn game. I've checked the websites for Blockbuster, Rogers+, Futureshop, and EB Games, as well as actually going to both Blockbuster and Rogers. What's the deal? Is this all of Canada experiencing the problem, or just BC (where I live)?
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Okay, what's the deal? Where's the Canadian release?
Did some quick research for you, and a few people over on one forum are saying it isn't being released until late August/early September. Albeit, take this link with a grain of salt. I suggest you call your local game store or electronics store that sells video games and get some kind of confirmation.
" Did some quick research for you, and a few people over on one forum are saying it isn't being released until late August/early September. Albeit, take this link with a grain of salt. I suggest you call your local game store or electronics store that sells video games and get some kind of confirmation. "Thanks. While I am disappointed the game still isn't out, I'd rather have it delayed than never at all......I hope it's true at least. I am not going to be happy if it doesn't come out in Canada. I suppose I can wait another month.
Next time I go to Rogers/Futureshop, I'll ask the counter for confirmation.
Assuming there is a delay, you might want to just import the game. I'm pretty sure all PS3 games are region-free (if we are talking about buying it for the Playstation 3), and it might be around the same price as in Canada. I don't know about that last part for sure, though, cause I happen to live in the United States.
" @TheFreeMan: Assuming there is a delay, you might want to just import the game. I'm pretty sure all PS3 games are region-free (if we are talking about buying it for the Playstation 3), and it might be around the same price as in Canada. I don't know about that last part for sure, though, cause I happen to live in the United States. "Alas, I only have the 360 (which I don't believe is region-free...?). If I go down to the States and I see the game I'd probably just buy it, but that is not often.
I'm really wondering what went wrong with the distribution of this game. I'm a fan of Guilty Gear, own the Xbox original version, and I was really looking forward to playing what might as well be a sequel. Oy vey.
" @Karmum said:Aren't Canada and the US both NTSC? There shouldn't be any region problems." @TheFreeMan: Assuming there is a delay, you might want to just import the game. I'm pretty sure all PS3 games are region-free (if we are talking about buying it for the Playstation 3), and it might be around the same price as in Canada. I don't know about that last part for sure, though, cause I happen to live in the United States. "Alas, I only have the 360 (which I don't believe is region-free...?). If I go down to the States and I see the game I'd probably just buy it, but that is not often.I'm really wondering what went wrong with the distribution of this game. I'm a fan of Guilty Gear, own the Xbox original version, and I was really looking forward to playing what might as well be a sequel. Oy vey. "
"@kerikxi said:" Games up here in Canada typically get hung up with the whole two language nonsense. Having to print new covers/manuals and whatnot. Might have been what happened here. "Sometimes you just gotta say, fuck the French language. "
Sometimes? Man, I always hate it.
"@FluxWaveZ: You live in the wrong province then :P"
Since I'm 15 I couldn't even move out of Quebec if I wanted to. I've been forced to go to French schools because of that one Quebec rule that says that if one of your parents went to a French school you can't go to an English one. So I'm pretty much bilingual but I prefer to talk English anyways and that's what most of my classmates prefer as well (we're in an enriched for English class). But since talking in English is not allowed outside of an English class they'll give you detention if they even hear you say a sentence in English.
"But since talking in English is not allowed outside of an English class they'll give you detention if they even hear you say a sentence in English. "You're kidding right? What the hell?
"@FluxWaveZ said:"But since talking in English is not allowed outside of an English class they'll give you detention if they even hear you say a sentence in English. "You're kidding right? What the hell?"
Nope. They won't say anything if students are talking Chinese or Spanish or any other language with eachother, but when it comes to English they're pretty crazy about it. The supervisors acting that way about the English language also augments the discrimination we get from non-enriched English class students calling us "Les maudits anglais." or "The damn English people" in English. Sometimes jokingly, most of them time just for the sake of discrimination.
"Nope. They won't say anything if students are talking Chinese or Spanish or any other language with eachother, but when it comes to English they're pretty crazy about it. The supervisors acting that way about the English language also augments the discrimination we get from non-enriched English class students calling us "Les maudits anglais." or "The damn English people" in English. Sometimes jokingly, most of them time just for the sake of discrimination. "That's pretty goddamn ridiculous if you ask me. I don't think I can say it any other way.
@FluxWaveZ said:
Since I'm 15 I couldn't even move out of Quebec if I wanted to. I've been forced to go to French schools because of that one Quebec rule that says that if one of your parents went to a French school you can't go to an English one. So I'm pretty much bilingual but I prefer to talk English anyways and that's what most of my classmates prefer as well (we're in an enriched for English class). But since talking in English is not allowed outside of an English class they'll give you detention if they even hear you say a sentence in English. "Yep, my school is the same way, I go to a French school, and were not allowed to speak English other than in English class, the only difference is that I live in an environment where pretty much no one in my city speaks French, so im seen as diffrent cause I speak French, and no one else does.
I live in Halifax and the nearest Gamestop to me doesn't even have it. They just keep saying that "It isn't in yet". I suppose Amazon would have it though... and as for the manuals and languages, I only notice that a small percentage of games I buy actually come with a seperate french manual, or even any french in the manual / cover at all. Like Star Ocean 4, it has abosolutely no french in the game at all (well my version.) But if you buy an Ubisoft Montreal game, they have seperate manuals. usually the french one is in black and white, too. LOL
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