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Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread 2
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narcosis219
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Welcome to RFD where gouging stores is more than encouraged.
firehawk12
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Guys, I just came back with 10 TVs thanks to Mattlikewhoa. Check my Kijiji page.
Anyone know if there are usually good deals on Video Cards during Boxing Week? I wouldn't mind grabbing a GTX 560 for under $200 if I can find it.
They were already under $200 during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales at Canada Computers.
The Elite
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Yeah, I didn't decide to get one until today. That's a good sign that it will happen again. Need to upgrade from 460 GTX 768 MB to a 560 GTX 1GB.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
To be fair though, if all you are looking for is breaking information, RFD is fine. It's only when you get into the fine details of the deals that it gets weird.
Make sure it's the Ti or 448 model, and not the regular GTX 560 (which is just a rebadged GTX 460).
The Elite
BOSS
Oh, I'm going to need to refer to this post when I decide to buy.
Yeah the ti barely drops below 200 though. The Memory Express one is the first time I've seen it below 200 but it's OOS except in-store =(
Buying a 3DS for Christmas for someone utilizing the Best Buy deal. Trying to decide whether to get the Uncharted Collection or Shadow of the Colossus and Ico collection for free with my $40 off.
Never played any Uncharted games, but the insane amount of praise they get has always tempted me, just not enough to buy since generally I don't play games with a lot of shooting.
Played the shit out of Shadow of the Colossus on PS2, but have never played Ico.
What say you fellow Canadians? Team Ico or Naughty Dog?
Never played any Uncharted games, but the insane amount of praise they get has always tempted me, just not enough to buy since generally I don't play games with a lot of shooting.
Played the shit out of Shadow of the Colossus on PS2, but have never played Ico.
What say you fellow Canadians? Team Ico or Naughty Dog?
My favourite was when I gave the benefit of the doubt to this jackass who was trying to PM something at Sears when I worked there. It looked sketch and I half called him out on it but didn't want to pursue it. Of course I go on RFD later and see he's posted his receipt and that yes the page he printed out was Photoshopped to say in-stock instead of sold out. I was suspicious because I'd looked at it the day before and it was sold out then. I became more of a hardass after that.
Due to RedFlagDeals' partnership with the major stores (Future Shop and Best Buy mostly which is what I think most people are interested in), you won't be seeing them until less than a week before.
firehawk12
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Team Ico collection. The Uncharted games are probably cheap as heck now individually as well.
I also fully expect Sony to bundle all 3 of them eventually.
Yeah. If you're getting them both eventually I assume there'll be a triple pack for the UC games. If you can only have one, UC2 is one of my top 5 games this generation.
firehawk12
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Surely there will be a PS4 port - "Uncharted 60fps 1080p collection". lol
firehawk12
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Apparently it uses European difficulty settings (harder), but I don't know if that was intentional or accidental.
Anyone know if there are usually good deals on Video Cards during Boxing Week? I wouldn't mind grabbing a GTX 560 for under $200 if I can find it.
shameless (not really lol) plug but if the AMD cards are as good as they say, I will have 2x GTX 480's for sale for around that price, 1 MSI & 1 Zotac AMP! Edition.
Eb Daily Deal is Red Faction: Armageddon for 19.99 (PS3/360)
http://www.ebgames.ca/browse/ProductMerch.aspx?groupid=618
Any impressions of this game? Worth the price?
http://www.ebgames.ca/browse/ProductMerch.aspx?groupid=618
Any impressions of this game? Worth the price?
firehawk12
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It's a disappointment after their last game, mostly because they turned it from an open-world game to a linear TPS.
AlphaTwo00
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I burned through it during the EB "Tradeback in 7 days" deal. It's a decent corridor shooter with some hints of it being a Red Faction game, but yeah, it's short (sub 10 hours), and it doesn't have a lot of variety like Guerilla, which was disappointing. I guess you can do a lot worst for $20, but unless you REALLY have nothing else at that price range.
Crap how did I miss this post. I could've checked it out when I picked up Mario Kart. Also I didn't know about the PlayStation and Xbox stores. I would have gone by when I was in Toronto
radiantdreamer
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After seeing some of the malls in Asia (especially the 5-floor Forever21 in Singapore), a 3-floor Uniqlo would work. And that would be so awesome but only if they stocked more Asian style clothes like those awesome anime/video game graphic tees. Have you seen the European and US Uniqlo sites? It's basically the Gap.
Yes it is. It's BOGO right now. Got a good selection of games, but don't try to profit by trade-in. In the end, you'll be making a loss. (trade in values SUCK!!)
I vote for SotC too, but only by a margin. Uncharted series is by no means terrible. Uncharted 2 is by far the best of the series in terms of fun game-play, but Uncharted 3 had more incredible moments.
Mikey Jr.
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So they are shutting the stores down, or just getting rid or games/movies?
The Main Event
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So as of today I still haven't received my pre-order of Cave Story 3DS from Best Buy. Even though I saw it in-store, their website still hasn't updated and it still mentions Dec. 31st as the release date. Sent them an e-mail so they get it fixed.
Yeah, there is I believe. I'm sure someone else will help out but if not I'll try to find the link when I get home, its a site that basically gives you access to the US side of things for like $5 or something. So you'll be paying $5+Netflix fee to get the US content.
IllumiNate
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Anyone know if Wal-Mart will price match Shoppers Drug Mart on there $34.99 advertised flyer Mario Kart 7 deal?
DJ_Lae
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Saints Row the Third arrived yesterday.
Checked back through my e-mails and it shipped on November 10th. I think that's about 18 business days. I know it's coming from the US, but I've made US Amazon orders before and they didn't take much more than a week and a half.
So yeah, I wouldn't recommend anyone order from THQ's online store with the cheapest shipping option (not that express is a better alternative, it's $20).
Checked back through my e-mails and it shipped on November 10th. I think that's about 18 business days. I know it's coming from the US, but I've made US Amazon orders before and they didn't take much more than a week and a half.
So yeah, I wouldn't recommend anyone order from THQ's online store with the cheapest shipping option (not that express is a better alternative, it's $20).
Lostconfused
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Really? That doesn't sound too bad to me. Usually it takes at least two weeks to a month for something to get shipped from US for me. Ok that's an exaggeration. Usually it takes two weeks or more but only one order took an entire month to be delivered. So my recommendation would be to not order something from the US.
Not gaming but if anyone is looking at Harry Potter BluRays for themselves or as a gift for Christmas, you can get it Region-Free from Amazon UK for about $47 CAD shipped. Pretty good for 8 movies.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00543RC0Y
I feel like it might be a common want this year.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00543RC0Y
I feel like it might be a common want this year.
What. I did not know about this... I was contemplating pulling the trigger on this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005GTJEZC/
Yes krae_man... they split the last book into two movies. They're all out now.
Book 7 was split into two movies for maximum milkage.
I'll probably eventually buy the Harry Potter blu-ray series, but I can wait for it to drop price in Canada.
I don't know about that. The last few items I have ordered from Amazon all came within a week after shipping. If you are getting something from California with the cheapest shipping, then yes it can sometimes take close to a month but I have noticed it taking far less than that lately.
I'm not sure THQ is the issue here.
I think Canada Post has been pretty slow lately. Early holiday mail this year? I don't know.
I had some issues with some board game components. They sent me replacement pieces from Ontario. I'm in Manitoba. It took 32 days to arrive.
Lostconfused
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Well you are right the last thing I ordered got here within the week. Although It's still annoying that it's faster to get something shipped from Japan or Hong Kong than from US.
Big Chungus
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So I bought Fifa 12 and Gears of War 3 from Rogers Video using the B1G1 free promo.
Question, when I finish Gears of War 3, can I trade it in at EBGames even if it has that silver Rogers Video sticker at the center of the disc?
Question, when I finish Gears of War 3, can I trade it in at EBGames even if it has that silver Rogers Video sticker at the center of the disc?
Mattlikewhoa
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You guys are too funny with the RFD type posts.
I'll be sure to poke my head in this thread from now on...
I'll be sure to poke my head in this thread from now on...
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
This is weird. I just had the notion that I might want to rent Skyrim this afternoon but with Rogers closing, um............ can you even rent games in Canada anymore? This is kinda fucked up.
I can't remember the last time I saw a mom n pop rental store that carried games... (Vancouver area btw)
This is why mail delivery rental places don't work for me: I don't want it later, I want it now. I'll be busy later. I don't think I'd even want to play it later... there's a moment of time now. And there's no way I would have planned ahead for today.... that's not how I would EVER rent. It's always on a whim.
Our society just went backwards. (I blame Harper, lulz)
Any options I'm not thinking of.....?
I can't remember the last time I saw a mom n pop rental store that carried games... (Vancouver area btw)
This is why mail delivery rental places don't work for me: I don't want it later, I want it now. I'll be busy later. I don't think I'd even want to play it later... there's a moment of time now. And there's no way I would have planned ahead for today.... that's not how I would EVER rent. It's always on a whim.
Our society just went backwards. (I blame Harper, lulz)
Any options I'm not thinking of.....?
It's EB, so YMMV as always. But it shouldn't matter, used is used.
Not all Rogers Plus stores are closing. There's a list at CAG of the ones that are.
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=310343
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