As some of you know, I had been having problems with my PS3 and planned on returning it. Well, I finally found the time and thought "I should package it up", take it to Walmart before a month or so ran up and I wouldn't be able to exchange it. So I do just that... already in a bad mood from no sleep, I just want everything to go smoothly. Usually everything does go pretty damn smooth with taking things back to walmart, I cant ever remember them caring about "return policies" and the like... but this time THEY DID. After waiting for every irritated spastic to return their stuff, it was my turn. I get up to the counter and the ghetto thuggish walmart lady says "use gots a racept?" (read ebonics) as to which I proudly pull out of my pocket and put on the counter like a prize, I really figured that would shut her up... but it didn't. She proceeded to take the entire PS3 out of the box, every cord etc, lay it all out on the counter... and then tell me "use cant ratuuuuurn dis, it be afta fiftin dauys", I look at her and say "What!?" she says "fiftin dauys.... afta that, yall cant ratuuuurn dis". Obviously I am very irratated... for one I cant understand this "lady" behind the counter... at all, and she unboxed the entire PS3 only to tell me I cant get a new one, no matter if I have the "racept"... and to top it all off, she walked off leaving me to box the PS3 back up.
After getting my friend to help me box the it back up (its a pain in the ass... try it, makes you really respect the factory workers) I take the PS3 back to electronics (along the way I was ambushed by a security guard asking why I had a PS3, as if it was stolen) and ask them what their return policy is on it, to which she says "I dun knaw....". I just want to explode.
Finally after just getting irate, they bring a manager in who says "whats the problem?". I explain to her this lady told me I couldn't return my exchange my PS3 for a new one because I have had it longer than 15 days... she looks at me puzzled and says "You have a full 90 days to exchange, or return it..." then looks at the people behind the counter and tells them "get this man another Playstation 3". Victory.
Whats even better is we had to go back up to front desk (return area) to have them exchange it.. and the ghetto thug that told me I couldn't return it... tried again, not noticing the manager was there and pretty much got a verbal ass beating, I wont lie... It made me smile.
After all that hassle you would think I would go home, not even. Earlier in that day I remember Wardrox going on about GTAIV in IRC... and I remember thinking "I must be the only damn person not owning this game". Feeling like a child left out of xmas, I picked it up.
My mini review -
My first thoughts were not pretty. Knowing the I would have to do a bit on installing before I could play, I decided to pick up some McDonald's and eat while I waited.
First thing I noticed was how horrible and repetitive the music was, then I noticed how many damn times they showed the same pictures... *kept eating*.
INSTALLS WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Wait... its still showing the same pictures, why cant I skip them!?
Finally, I get to play. Music gets better and I start thinking it wont be so bad... until I see t he opening character models graphics, I cringe. For some reason I was really thinking that Rockstar REALLY upped the ante this time, not just a touch up. I try to look past that and get passed the opening dialog (which I might add, I thought were pretty funny) and am ready to drive and kill and have sex and and and.. wait.. why does the car drive like its on creamed corn and oil? Silly me.. I was just thinking it was that car.. to find out ITS EVERY CAR!!!!
Honestly though, I got used to it. The driving is "eh" at best... but not horrible. The graphics can be beautiful as well as horrid. The skits are epic... I will agree with you guys, Niko Bellic is hilarious.
All in all I am satisfied with my purchase, but I can tell you this... I will never buy anything over 100$ at Walmart again, I love my money too much to be told I cant get it back if whatever I bought is broken.