Grand Theft Auto IV Spoilers

[Belle Hibiki]

I know how you feel. I almost feel as if I HAVE to buy it, just because of the hype, it's the same as when Halo 3 came out. In the end I didn't even really like Halo 3, hopefully it'll be different with GTA 4.

Anyway I ordered it on Amazon, it won't even be dispatched until the 2nd of May, I expect it'll get here on the 4th, so I guess I'll have to be a little bit more patient. I sure as hell wasn't gonna pay an extra £7 for it to come one day earlier...

... Me. But then, I try to avoid ordering anything online anyway. Package tracking is probably the worst invention ever to spawn out of the mouth of Hades, the postage office.

I can't stop checking it. Even days before it could ever possible arrive, I constantly refresh my order status. Has it shipped yet? Is it in transit? What station is it at? Is it on a plane? Is it being trasferred from plane to plane? The machinations of the route have become an almost neurotic second nature to my senses.

All this is just a long-winded way of saying that I would rather go to the store and grasp the visceral immediacy of clutching a real copy - a God's honest copy - of the game in my grubby hands, rather than some assumed, almost metaphysical game that may never in fact make it to my doorstep.