Recent content by defpally

Typically they show up as "Pending" after shipping until the return period has expired as I recall. Otherwise you could just buy something, use the points then return the item and they would have no way of taking the points back you have already spent other than deducting it from your return...

It's pretty obvious they are intending Mario Kart to be an evergreen social game not unlike GTA5. Road races, exploring, interacting with friends. But it doesn't appear to have a vibrant online currency and micro transaction system to support running the servers. They are probably just...

Oh and it gets worse, I also had Yars Rising for Switch as part of the buy 2 get 1 deal and it arrived today - with Ace Attorney Collection in the box instead of Yars. Chat support said "We can get you what you ordered in about a week or so if we get back the other thing we shipped you by...

Yep, but one of the issues is I used a reward cert and a $10 credit from a preorder for it, so I just redid the order with store pickup and will return the one they send me when it arrives (which it has now shipped - at the lowest possible speed, of course). And it is using a Best Buy store...

Just a word of warning, Best Buy fulfillment has gotten worse, in the past year have had them pull the "oh, we can't find your item to ship, but we will give you a refund in two weeks if we can't find it" three times on me. And phone support will not do anything. They won't cancel the order...

Remember that is just the "professional" reviewers. I can't imagine anyone that watches movies for a living getting into a movie such as this.

I agree. Last gen, it was at a spot where a "Pro" console enabled people to upgrade to 4k (usually checkerboard, but still) and many times enabled going to more or less 60fps over 30fps. I just don't see a lot of games that could take that somewhat minor spec benefit and turn it into a...

I'm wondering if that promised single player offline patch every happens, or if it did so bad they just choose to cut it and forget about it.

I tried the demo on PC/Steam last night. The game is good and felt fine there (and I don't have a beefy PC either). Going to try it on XBox tonight. It plays well and feels like Contra, the dash and double jump are good editions, although the double jump kind of makes path choices irrelevant...

That's the thing, they put all this painstaking detail into those things, then basically just waved the diving detail part. Just sort of a walking simulator with vertical movement. I'm just of the feeling that if you want to go fantasy-like, then go all the way like Dave the Diver. If you...

And none of the Endless Ocean games have really done a decent job of capturing actual diving. Obviously you don't want to do all the technical details, but it really doesn't even seem to try. It doesn't look real (even this new one), and it's just a hodge podge of sealife thrown together in...

They are now. Even with Best Buy Plus which I subscribed to to get couple of those B1G1 Switch deals. They often pack things then takes days to hand it to the shipper, especially when it is Fedex or ShipIt (especially). I had a package that was to be delivered by ShipIt that went through the...

Yeah, Best Buy support has gotten worse and worse over time. Was especially fun the other day having a rep tell me that the order I made on a product on sale would have to be re-ordered after it was "lost" in shipping, and oh by the way they wouldn't be honoring the sale price for the re-order...

Yeah, I find myself getting distracted quite easily while swinging to an intended designation. I really enjoy the side missions, like crime stopping and taking pictures. I'm early on in the game but keep finding myself getting side tracked even though I'm anxious to move the story along. And...

You are spot on here, use a credit card for pre-orders, then they can re-auth to their hearts content and you aren't out anything. Ideally even use a store card if you have one and pay off immediately when the game ships and the bill arrives. I have a debit card, but do NOT use it for anything...