Your First Ever Pre-Ordered Game

[I Max95]

mass effect 2
i dont preorder much

 

[Dexiro]

I think my first was Final Fantasy 13, or some other game that came out around that time.

 

[Flig]

Final Fantasy XIII...biggest mistake gaming-wise I've ever made. Now I wasted 65 bucks instead of just 60 on that thing, but I was a shameless fanboy, can you blame me? At least the holographic cover was sort of cool...

 

[William Dickbringer]

never preordered before planing on the fallout new vegas collector's edition

 

[Dfskelleton]

I'm pretty sure it was Halo 3. I'd pay about $20 for it today, but back then it seemed like the best series ever to me. I still kinda like it, but there's better things to play.

 

[kannibus]

Don't laugh but it was Tom Clancy's Hawx.

 

[StBishop]

I've never pre-orderd a game in my life.

I think pre-ordering is only necessary in countries like America or Japan where there are still actual lines infront of gameshops. I don't think I've ever seen a line infront of a gameshop in Holland.

If you pre-order from GAME in the UK, you get the game the day before release or earlier.

Surely this is illegal.

I don't know how street dating works in the UK but in Australia you get fired if you sell a game before the street date and the company gets a fine somewhere in the tens or even hundreds of thousands.

They ship it out to you so you get it on release. Infact whether you get it a day before release entirely depends on royal mail and where you live. They aren't intentionally sending it out so you get it early, they're covering for themselves so you definitely get the game on the day of release, even if royal mail is slow.

Ahhh, I see. Most people that I know of that Pre-Order actually pick up the game in-store on release date. I've not heard of a pre-order delivery service before. It's incredibly strict in Australia, to the point that I think most companies would rather deliver a game late than accidentally break the street date.

Of course this only applies to some games. We've had games come in where there simply was no street date and we were able to sell them as soon as they arrived but on other occasions we were forbidden on pain of firing (and the wrath of our incredibly intimidating 2ic) from selling games.

 

[Timbydude]

Soul Calibur II for Gamecube.

Why? Because I got a sweet art cell of Link for doing so.

 

[tomtom94]

Chrono Trigger DS. Was it worth £25? I'd have to say no, I'm rather disappointed that the section of the game I was on (which I'd assumed was around the middle of the game) was actually fairly close to the end...
I didn't even get a pre-order bonus. Yay for play.com.

 

[Deralix]

Yager on the Xbox. Totally freakin' worth it.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

I think mine was either Soul Calibur 2 or State of Emergency

 

[War Penguin]

My first, and so far only, preorder was Mass Effect 2. I usually wait until the reviews come out, or until I have enough money, or just forget about buying it and only do so in five years when everyone else forgets about it. But, damn it, I loved the first Mass Effect so much that I just had to play ME2 as soon as possible!

 

[sansamour14]

Halo 3 ODST i wanted Recon armor

 

[NorthernTrooper]

I think Resident Evil 5.

 

[blarghblarghhhhh]

I've never pre-orderd a game in my life.

I think pre-ordering is only necessary in countries like America or Japan where there are still actual lines infront of gameshops. I don't think I've ever seen a line infront of a gameshop in Holland.

If you pre-order from GAME in the UK, you get the game the day before release or earlier.

seriously I wish we had that in america I would pre-order every single game I wanted.

 

[Ike Jager]

Starcraft II Collector's Edition. I want my mini-thor. X3
Plus I want my Starcraft+brood war back, I miss that game so~.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I think the first Starwars Battle Front, that or GTA: SA

 

[Ontoue]

Assassins Creed 2, I didn't like it as much as i thought I would, but I guess that happens when you get hyped.

 

[Giest4life]

Fifa 08, and it was a piece of shit. My only other pre-ordered game is Fable III, and Pete Molyneux makes it sound AMAZING!

 

[killereddy]

Crackdown, I wanted to be sure and get that beta