I liked his discussion of character types, very interesting insights.

So,as I was picking up infamous, I asked the gamestop employee when sotd came out. He said I better reserve one because they were probably only getting 27 yes,2 copies. As someone in another post already stated; of all the locations to buy a game, you think a game specialty store would be the best. This, however, is not the case...they have you believe that if you don't preorder, you won't get a copy on launch day, then they don't purchase enough extra copies so that may very well be the case. Yet, you can hop in your car and drive to k mart (or other retailer) and have little to no problem. I really need to stop going to gamestop

@salamgogo - Its a nice dream you're having there but the GS employee actually wasn't wrong.

Shadows of the Damned is a niche title. Just because you might find a copy at Kmart doesn't mean Kmart stocks all niche titles, much less restocks them. They sure as hell don't do preorders on games to my knowledge.

You think Best Buy and Target would even stock this game were it not for a publisher like EA behind it? I don't expect them to stock much even with EA publishing.

There have been plenty of instances where Gamestop will only stock so much of a particular game - if you want to blame someone for that, blame yourself and other customers for not coming out to support games like No More Heroes or 3D Dot Game Heros or other extremely niche titles.

Retailers can play it safe on something like Madden or Call of Duty because millions of chumps will buy that stuff. Little Kings Story? Muramasa? Ar Tornelico?

Not so much.

So, yeah, if you want to show some real love for this game, I do suggest you pre-order it so EA knows this is kind of a big deal and so does the corporate offices at Gamestop. Don't fault the clerk for shooting straight with you just because you want to be a hipster tool about pre-orders.

I'm a little itchy about the Wiiu too :D

Lucky lucky Holmes but I'm disappointed that you didn't ask him if the game had any Boglins in it. I can easily see it happening.

Pre-ordered a few weeks ago as I believe this will become hard to find in a months time or so.

I work at GS and yeah its hard to get in titles like 3d dot game heroes or even harder now henry hatsworth unless someone trades them in(which you'd be a fool to trade either in). But you best believe we have 2o copies of black ops ready to go.

@thesilentprotagonist; I have no problem with the employee,and its not just shadows of the damned, they pull that preorder scare tactic on pretty much every game release. When I went to pick up infamous, the 1st thing they asked was if I preordered,because they only had a few "extras" for people who didn't preorder. THAT, is bullshit, and a deliberate nonsense tactic to get people to drop 5 bucks on a game months is advance to please their shareholders

Can't wait for this game. Two of my favourite dev's gettin' down and makin' a baby.

The amount of preorders a store gets at GS also determines how many hours go to the employees...its really horrible

God I hope this game lives up to the hype in my mind

Awesome interview. The Superman/Batman bit was mint.

One hell of a game :)

Woah, he seems like a really cool guy! I'm so excited for sotd! Holmes you are my heeeeerooooooo! His translator seemed nice too!

Can I say "man-crush" in regards to Suda?