First, a little background:
Alright. To begin, you have to understand that I\'m a big Guilty Gear fan (which you probably already knew.) I\'ve been waiting some time for the stateside release of Guilty Gear XX (called Guilty Gear X2 over here, but otherwise exactly the same. Go figure *shrug*) Heck, I\'d been waiting ever since it was in the arcades in Japan. The game is scheduled for shipping Feb.4 and expected in stores Feb.5, but that date wasn\'t made 100% official until just a few days ago. There\'s the background, now here\'s the story:

I\'d known for quite some time that the name of the game was going to be changed and that the release date would be Feb.4 thanks to a little something we call the interenet. I was a step ahead of the average Joe. I was determined to be among the first to own the game. (Was, hint hint)

So I go to the Electronics Boutique in the local mall sometime in the latter part of December, walk up to the desk, and ask them a few questions about the game. To make a long story short, these guys still only knew it as Guilty Gear XX and were convinced that no release date had been set yet. I said \"OK, thanks anyway\" and walked out. That\'s when it dawned on me about how much of an ass I must\'ve sounded like saying, \"Thanks anyway,\" As if they\'d just wasted their time on someone who found their info to be utterly useless... Oh well, forget them. I\'d just paid \'em for a copy of Capcom vs SNK (which was the other half of the reason I was there) so they had no cause for complaint.

So here it is, late January, and I\'m still watching for any news of an official release date on the web. Lo and behold, about a week before the rumored release date rolls around, it\'s confirmed as official. Needless to say, I\'m happy. Since it got this close to the date without any word, I thought they\'d pull a \"Capcom\" on me and delay it. Luckily they didn\'t.

Still I was determined to be among the first to own the game. So tonight, I finally get off my butt and head down to the same Electronics Boutique in the same local mall, thinking that I\'d walk in, reserve my copy, and walk out. (The key word here is thinking. If that isn\'t a dead giveaway that things are gonna turn weird from here on in, then you\'re pretty slow.) I walk to the same desk yet again and ask \"You guys are going to be getting Guilty Gear X2, right?\" \"Yup\", he says, \"February 5th.\" \"Alright,\" I sez,\" then can I reserve a copy?\" The guy looks down at the computer and starts smiling. I bet the guy in line behind me was puzzled at this point by the puzzled look that was undoubtedly all over my sorry face. So the guy looks up and now he\'s kinda giggling a little bit. \"Actually, we had a used copy up until just a little while ago.\" \"What,\" I said with the kind of sheer disbelief you\'d expect only from a younger sibling when you tell them you accidentally shot the tooth fairy, \"If it\'s not out yet, how can you have a used copy?\" \"Some guy from the newspaper had one. I guess he was reviewing it or something and he was done with it.\" Eh, I shrugged it off and walked away, content with my reserved copy. Even still, I was thinking that If I\'d gone down there just a little earlier I could\'ve grabbed that used copy and been a happy camper. Some lucky fool got it a little early is all.

So I get home and there\'s a message on the answering machine. I check the caller ID, it\'s a friend of mine who lives about 20-30 minutes away from me, and usually doesn\'t call unless he\'s got something important or cool to say. (if that isn\'t a red-freaking-flag as to how this story ends... *shakes head*) I push the play button on the answering machine with a pseudo smile on my face thinking watch this, with my crap luck, I bet he\'s the \"lucky fool\". Just a plain message from him asking me to call him back. So I did.

He picks up the phone, we exchange greetings, and I cut right to the chase, \"I got your message, so what\'s up?\" He says, \"Well, you know how Guilty Gear isn\'t supposed to come out until February 4th?\" I cut him off \"You got the used copy, didn\'t you?\" (a moment of silence, he was unquestionably impressed with my psychic abilities *cough*) then he says \"Uh........ yeah\"
I reply, \"I hate you.\"

So that\'s how it goes. I always get the poop end of the stick, and the reason as to why always hits so close to home that it\'s as if fate likes to rub it in my face... just \'cause it\'s so easy. Needless to say, I don\'t really hate the guy. In fact he invited me to visit him on Sunday. And even though I didn\'t want to see anything of the game until I had it for myself, I promise you he\'ll have convinced me to play it before I leave. I just felt like sharing this story with any of you who find the misfortunes of others humorous. I know I certainly do, and that\'s exactly why I\'m posting this.:D

[Edited on 2·1·03 by KamikazeChicken]

Dude, that sucks! I can sympathize with you, though......

I was a little dude, and I wanted to get the Mario Kart for the N64. Wal-Mart didn\'t have it at the time, but they put it on reserve for me.

......2 weeks pass.....and still no game. Fuck.

So, we go in there, and I decide to get another game instead and cancel the reserve. I was quite happy with the other game- Can\'t remember it for the life of me, though- and all was right with the world.

We go to Wal-Mart the next day, and what do we see but Mario Kart. Fuck again. I got it for Christmas, but man......

It seems that life deals me and my family the low card in the game of war we call life. We\'re like the three- rarely we win, but mostly we lose.

[Edited on 2-2-2003 by Phatman Dover]

it sounded a bit funny;D

I thought that the story was quite...............odd,but heres a story,ok mom dosnt know what shes saying in her sleep right,well when I was about 4 I went into my moms bathroom and got this skin cream and ran into mom & dads room crawled onto thier bed on moms side and asked \"Mom can I put this cream in your hair\" and she said \"uh huh\" so I smeared a long streak of this cold skin cream in her hair and,then she yelled at me real loud,dad woke up..............dad was pisssssssed!

LOL! My luck is ALWAYS horrible. Perhaps fate set this up, to balance my skill. I mean, I AM REALLY good at games, so I get them later for some freak reason. Prolly to let my friend\'s have a chance to beat it before me. I mean, my friend was playing Golden Sun. He was stuck on the last boss. I borrowed the game from someone, and played it from begining to end, and beat the game, before he did. He had a MAJOR headstart! I suppose I\'m just cool like that.....