I think that anyone that acutally really likes to play the vidya DON'T work in vidya game shops.

It's Game, they purposely employ the idiots.

did you ask them if they ahd battletoaodsk XDDc cds

>>33355724
This, making and selling vidya for a job is not fun shit, if you really want to enjoy something then you don't do it as a job otherwise you'll be sick of it.

Because the shitty shovelware would never leave the shelves and the higher-ups would be sad.

I'm still convinced GAME hires purely on appearence. All the staff at my local look like hip creatures.

I have a friend who works in game

He constantly complains about casuals and hates the Wii while thinking the PS3 is the best system ever

He also plays Left 4 Dead on PC sometimes

I think if developers/publishers had their own stores they'd hire better people to see their games.

>>33355693
Because its a job.

All the people who know about games are busy playing it.

Fags who work at game stores are there because they think theyre cool and trendy. Look at those guys. Nice hair, rather good looking. But only play games casually.

>>33355769
I have to say this is correct.
I applied for a job there (I wanted the employee discount) and the people who actually got the positions were all atractive women

>>33355801
No no.
They're 'gamers'.
We're just weird people.

>>33355751
I don't think salesperson has much to do with videogame passion. A reviewer might be a more direct video game job.

>>33355787
>>33355751
>>33355724
Suddenly, things just started making sense. I've always wanted to work in a game shop, seemed logical in that, I like games, so i'd like to work selling...I just realised that wouldn't work.

It's a fucking retail job, they don't judge you on your expert video game knowledge, they just need to work a till and stock some fucking shelves.

Gamestation was here

Game is a loser

>>33355769
yeah at the one in wigan they hire the best looking 17-21 year old hipster girls they can find. im not saying its a bad thing.

>>33355769
>>33355727
They certainly don't hire on brains that's for sure, I've had them fuck shit up on me multiple times like giving me the 360 version of L4D in a PC box.

The same reason why people who work in Barnes and Noble aren't book enthusiasts. The same reason Blockbuster doesn't hire movie critics. People without opinions sell stock and don't question managerial decisions

REET MATE
YA WANT JEE TEE AY FORE
FOR FREE SIXTY OR PEE ESS FREE
OKAY MATE THATS FORTEE QUID

~GAME employee

>>33355868
seconded

>>33355825
Women, of any kind attract gamers, especially if they seem to have an interest in gaming.

>>33355769
i managed to get a xmas job there last year
didn't get one of the full positions afterward though (that right was reserved for a genuinely nice and clumsy guy, and also a huge suckup with zero personality and a constant sarcastic tone of voice)

there was one chick there who knew absolutely NOTHING about vidya gaems....and she was kinda fat....and she's a self centered bitch....
dunno how she got the job, everyone there hated her

It's somewhat depressing buying games from retards who know shit all about them. This is why I buyf rom JB Hi-Fi cause at least they don't act like they know everything they clearly don't... Also cause they are cheap as fuck

If it was about being a salesperson i would like to work there. It would bring a challenge to the job trying to sell games and trying to give customers the lowdown on games and stuff.
But i go in there and they pretty much just just stand at the counter waiting for someone to bring a game to them. Altough i asked a female about something vidya related and she knew what i was talking about so i have a little faith.

>>33355868
This fits so hard for me. I'm surprised the staff at the Game near me haven't snapped and gone postal because of the constant looping GAAAME RADIOOOOOO.
The Gamestation down the road, on the other hand, blares drum'n'bass at full volume and played the last Iron Maiden album over and over when it came out.

I don't like prototype because of the EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEMEEEEEE 90's spikes everywhere design of the main char.

>>33355868
EB here, both faggots

>>33355970

Lucky, my local Gamestation just plays screamo over and over again. Makes me want to punch the speakers.

>>33355970
>>33355868
protip guys:
GAME bought out gamestation sometime last year, so whilst gamestation may look to be somewhat relaxed and down to earth, its run by the same money grubbing bastards as the other stores

just sayin

>>33355984
electronics boutique was fucking shite.

and all the ones i knew all turned into GAME.

Yeah, I had a friend back in high school who apped for Gamestop. Completely A+ certified, and one of the smartest people in the school, and never even got called.

>>33355970
wigan doesnt have game radio. they tried it for a month and the employees mustve ripped it out themselves. they just play whatever an employee brings in (i think)

>>33356017
Gamestation is progressively getting worse which isn't a surprise.

>>33356040
>A+ certified, and one of the smartest people in the school.

He applied to work at gamestop? Oh wow.

>>33355825
wherre is YOUR GAME
the bedford one, like most people in bedford
is full of fucking retards and acne faced ginger pricks with long hair who are 30 and haev social problems

I havent bought a game from a physical shop in years. Why would you put up with crowds, travel, retarded staff and limited stock when there is MAIL ORDER!

Superior electronics store is superior.

I work at gamestop. Guy is on crack, multiplats sell more.

>>33356017
This is true and is sort of depressing. Still, Gamestation, holding on to that 'grubby' look, often hires people who don't look like they're models or in a band or something.
Hell, they gave me an interview. Didn't get the job though...fuk

>>33356046
orpington, bromley and bexleyheath all had GAME radio (I worked at the one in orpington)

honestly, you just phase it out until you hear a song you like, or if you want to laugh at how cheery the DJ sounds when talking about something horrible happening in the daily news

I think it's funny how people say Gamestop employees are idiots, yet I've never had a problem with them in my town, and actually enjoy shopping there. Most of them are pretty cool people. The only problem was some 50 year old woman who knew nothing about games.

Why the fuck do you faggots even support these shitholes?
The games are overpriced and they always have a terrible selection, just buy your games online.

one time I actually heard the two guys behind the counter talking about resident evil 5 scaring the shit out of them.

but those two dweebs gave me the DMC4 limited edition mini artbook when I ask for the regular DMC 4

>>33355898
dead right

This is the reason i buy games at tesco
Cheap as fuck and i dont have to have some hipster faggot looking over my shoulder while i browse shit

>>33356099
Dunno why actually.
When I went to school with him, he had a job at Outback's and some job where he sat around and copied papers making $10 an hour.

>>33356155

I have to agree with this. 2, maybe 3 years ago my local Gamestation was a pleasure to browse through even if I had nothing I wanted to buy. Usually had a PC section, even though it was small

Now half the store is Nintendo products with the rest being shared by Sony and Microsoft equally

It's a real shame. Well, only for me I guess

>>33355970

When i did my work experiance with Gamestation a few years back they allowed one of us to control the music for a day.

Twas a good time, the people that worked there actually knew shit about the vidya, one even admited that he lies about which console/game is better just to get the overstock out.

PROTOTYPE THREAD!

>>33356160
I went into Game once and a manager and they guy on the register were swapping Family Guy quotes, doing Stewy impressions... ugh, I had to leave it was embarrassing.

What happened to funcoland

Go to Walmart for your games like the good lord intended

>>33356188

wut? the hipster faggots are too busy playing guitar hero

Same - usually when I go into GameStop I wind up having a chat with the employees there. There's three in my town, only shop at two of them depending on which one has what I want. My favorite one to shop at would be what my friends & I call the "Mythical Gamestop" because whenever we were looking for a game, that GS would have it. But none of us knew where it was (we were from out-of-town at the time), so for six months we had to deal with never finding what we wanted. Finally, one day, we found that GameStop, and lo and behold the employees there were even MORE awesome and knowledgeable than the one we normally went to - to the point of discussing The Red Star & Tales of Legendia with us. Same employees, same conversation. Shit was so cash.

My friend works at a gamestop, his boss was offering five bucks on the spot to each employee for each guitar hero world tour they could sell. Even though Rock Band is obviously better, and my friend believes this as well, he was pushing people to buy guitar hero over it.

The employees try to get you to buy the shitty ones to get them off their shelves, cause no one needs to say a word to the employee to buy a good game that they know is good before buying.

>>33356155

digging through the second hand games racks and finding good shit, feels good man.

BE A MAN

BUY YOUR GAMES FROM TOYS 'R' US

Okay, now wait a fucking second /v/

We are all neckbeards, and know better about a lot things about videogames, even if we have nothing else or happen to be a more social variant of the neckbeard we definitely spend a great deal of time on the net.

Why is it then, that you do not buy EVERYTHING over Amazon and ebay? I mean, ebay is a bit of a bitch but if you have to buy something, why actually go somewhere when the cost of delivery is almost nil or negative?

Same for newegg and comp parts.

Explain yourselves.

I was in a Game once, flicking through the used 360 stuff, and two kids walked in heading to the PS3 titles in the back and loudly proclaimed they weren't interested in the "xbox three-shitty".
It was magical. I started remembering when Nintendo Magazine (uk) were saying 'Greystation' and 'Dreampants.'
That last one was sort of flat, really.

>>33356364

You can buy games there? Now I have a reason to go in there and stare at kids.

>>33355868
Fuck you, gamestation, you stocked the WoW Figures at a higher price than Game. But you had Zelda capsule figures, so I guess I can sorta forgive you.

>>33356407

There's always the chance for a bargain. Plus, who wants to wait a day or two for your game? Sometimes you just want something now, savings be damned.

>>33355880
last time i went to the wigan one it was full of monsters, NOW the one in the new side of the arndale in manchester thats a different story!

>>33356407

Some stores sell old games for pretty much nothing.

Once picked up Klonoa(PS1) and Kirby64 for about £5

>>33356407
Because of that hope that maybe this time, flipping through the cases, fingers moving fluidly in a dance they're as instinctively familiar with as grasping tools, you won't just come across another copy of FIFA 'FUCKING YEARS AGO but some truly golden piece of treasure. Your pupils dilate, your breath hitches, you taste the air and know that this was a day well spent.
It's rare, but when it happens... ohh

>>33356584

IF I SEE THAT COPY OF FIFA ONE MORE FUCKING TIME.

>>33355693
the only time i ever saw someone knowledgeable about games working in a GAME store was in cambridge i think. stood there talking to him about neo geo games and shit. turned out he was a neo geo collector. fuck yeah.

God tier - CEX

Okay tier - Gamestation

Shit tier - GAME

Seriously, CEX is awesome, at least their website tells you how much your games are worth to trade in. Instead of going all the way down to the store and finding out that the 10 games you're trading in will come to a total of £15

>>33356558

My bargains:

Snatcher (Mega CD with spine card, about as mint condition as you could imagine): £5. Was in a 3 for £5 deal so I also got Conker's BFD and Majora's Mask as well
MvC2 (PS2): £2.50
We <3 Katamari: £5
Ico (Original printrun): £5
MGS3 Subsistance: £10

Those are all ones I've found in the last year as well.

>>33356729
Cex has a fuckton of games but i hate the staff so fucking much, they only talk to themselves only 2 fucking tills open with qeues out the door and they never have money for cash trade in.

>>33356407

Summer /v/. There are normalfags here.

>>33356729

True, but the CEX near me has the worst case of zombie employee i have ever seen.

>>33356753
>CEX
i've heard about them being good before. where's their site?

>>33356753
>We <3 Katamari: £5
Seriously? I got that the day it came out and to this day I've not come across another copy, not even used.
>MGS3 Subsistance: £10
GOD FUCKING DAMN YOU

>>33356753
>MvC2 (PS2): £2.50
Marvel vs Capcom 2? Lawlawlawl Here in America, that game is $80 at Lamestop. Quite a steal I dare say.

>>33356808

No idea, these are all games I've bought from Game and Gamestation. There's no CEXes in Scotland from what I've seen.

>>33356808

www.cex.co.uk

>>33356753
>MGS3 Subsistance: £10
Hngh, I paid £50 for this last week.

prototype is inferior though

>>33356729
Cex in Birmingham sucks ass, only one till is opened when the line is massive and they stopped selling new games and other cool shit like arcade sticks and other imported shit we never see here

>>33356729
CEX is good for choice but service is shit and pricing is all over the place!!

>>33356826
>>33356897
>MGS3 Subsistance: £10
>Sorry, out of stock. Try again later.

Been like this for ages I think, no idea while it's still listed.

In my local game, there is a fucking huge fat guy, a emo kid and a girl with slits down her arm.

The other one has another fat guy, a slightly normal guy and a complete asshole.

For those who think they just employ attractive girls.

Think again.

>>33355693
Oh odd

I thought that Prototype was worse because of the shitty graphics and horrible story missions with lack of a good story to drive me to do said missions.

Its unfortunate that i have to do them to get enough ep and to unlock all the powers for just running around the city with your powers is awesome...but god damn the game doesnt let you utilise your powers at all.

Though infamous feels as though effort was put into each storyline mission, and each new power you get actually helps, not to mention you actually wish to do them to find out what happens next. Thats just my opinion though.

Also Infamous is true parkour, not this shallow running up building business.

>>33356855

There's one in Edinburgh, bro.

>>33356945
This tells me that a fucking huge fat guy, a emo kid and a girl with slits down her arm are the most attractive people where you live.

I once came across a game at Gamestop that was charged higher on the USED copy than on the NEW copy. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!

>>33357042

You would be correct.

>>33357055
oh god

they did that for Masseffect
35 bucks preowned no manual

30 bucks brand new and still sealed

WHAT THE FUUUU

>>33357055
This happens quite a bit in my local Gamestation. Their stock's so disorganised it's not surprising. I once saw a used copy of Odin Sphere for £20, and on the other side of the shop a brand new one for £15. Snatched that shit up.

>>33356964
>>33356964

Agree with everything you said..

inFamous gameplay, powers, and missions really beat the shit out of prototype.

Also, I downloaded and installed prototype (WTF 8gigs) and it looks worse on my PC at 1920x1200 w/ all settings cranked to high than inFamous does on my PS3 at 720p.

>>33357055

This happens all the time in gamestation. They have them half price deals of some of the top 10 games. So for example fable 2 was half price at 20 quid and the used copy was 32.99

>>33355769
>I'm still convinced GAME hires purely on appearence

This.

Everyone looks like fucking weiners. I lol'd once when some dude said that the new R-type on the PSP is oldschool.

I once saw Fallout 2 for $20, Fallout Tactics for $10, and then I found a collection pack of Fallout 1,2 and tactics for $10.

>>33356841

I actually have all three home versions. Not a single one has cost me more than £5.

>>33356826
>>33356897

It's true. Tears really are the best lubricant.

>>33357002

Never knew that. Then again, I live in Glasgow, and I visit Edinburgh maybe once every 14 months or so.

>>33357055

My local Game did that the other day: Steambot Chronicles new - £5. Preowned - £14.99.

>>33357223
isnt it...a strategy game?

god damnit GAME

I buy all my games online. I hate going into Game because the employees look to good and make me feel uncomfortable.

Granger games, the most dodgey game shop in england. Seriously, those prices are too low. New PS3 games for £30, buy it, get home and open the box, no disc in box.

>>33357318
lol

every human is ugly, were so imperfect that its embarrassing

only reason you'd feel uncomfortable is because you're fat...isnt that right fatty

>>33357318

Any place like that makes you feel that way. music stores electronic stores, and especially phone stores you will be in there for 5 fucking seconds before some faggot jumps on you and asks what the fuck you are doing in their store.

>>33356826
My sister gave me Snake Eater a month ago for 15$. I traded it in because I wanted Subsistance and got it for 9$. How does this make you feel?

I remember buying Resident evil 2 on the gamecube at gamestation for £13. It was a used copy but the guy handed me a brand new sealed copy and said they had it for so long they moved it to the used section.

Felt so good

Prototype is worth £30 trade in at CEX

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

gotta find the last 3 landmarks and trade it in while it's still worth something

>>33357380

The fuck did this company come from? over the last 2 or 3 years they seemed to have just risen out of nowhere. Plus They have raised their prices a bit, used to be stupidly cheap now just below gamestation prices.

This seems like a good thread to ask in.

I have a God of War 2 disc I've play and beaten one time.
Probably a year or so ago, been a while.
I brought it to my cousin's house today to play it, but the Ps2 won't read the disc (other games work).
What's a good way to remove the scratches or whatever to fix the disc so it'll read?

all the people who work at our EB games in town are not attractive in the least, they hire fatass fucking casuals.

This obese neckbeard kevin-smith looking one keeps trying to get me to buy a Wii because "its the best console"

I'm currently suspended from shopping there for snapping on him and his manager for pestering me over the Wii. The exchange went "hey there's our perspective Wii owner!" and "Fucking god damnit, I'm not buying that fucking toy from you so leave me alone"

Real gamers buy from the internet, no interaction with people.

>>33356841
Actually they dropped the price on MvC2 when it was announced that It would be released on Live and PSN. The only thing keeping up the price now is the collectors value.

>>33357668

take a shit on it.

>>33357665

I never knew all americans had scars, terrible haircuts and ask their puppets out on dates.

>>33357671

You must go in there like 4 times a week for that to bother you.

>>33357668

Get a disk resurfacer off amazon or something. They cost about 10 quid (15-20 dollars, I think) and I can attest to their efficiency.

>>33357827
Sounds like a lovely idea.

When I went to buy RE5 the guy said it was much better than 4, I just said "really", but in my head I was raging at the dumb fuck

God-fucking-damn. I work there, my coworkers are retards. I'm the youngest person there, so everyone else thinks they're superior to me. All day it's them ranting about how they hate Nintendo and casuals.

Did I mention I fucking HATE the term 'casual' and 'hardcore'. I play games because they're fun, considering they're toys. I'm the only one there that's nice to the mothers that don't know anything about the vidya and I know how to deal with the pissed off dads.

It disgusts me how rude the others are to customers. It's obvious 90% of the shoppers are what they'd consider 'casuals', so why do they always do that fucking retarded sigh and eyeroll?

>>33357668
My local game store will put a used disk through a cleaner if I mention it's too marked, no charge. You might try asking if they've got one in your local.

>>33358248
Well, I'm broke. If I had money, I'd just buy a new game. (It's GoW2, only $20).

JB Hi-Fi and Gametraders are the best vidya stores, hands down. EB Games is full of mumbling neckbeards, 15 year old girls buying pink Dsi's, and 24 year olds with backwards hats.

was in Gamestation, this was before the ps3 and wii were released and I heard one of the shopkeepers say to his co worker"converting ps3 buyers to wii one at a time" and they actually fucking high fived each other

I just thought wow Nintendo must be proud of you and business wise why would you not want your customers to spend more money

>>33358195

Your post has such a fucking agenda that I want to fly out to whatever undoubtedly shitty third-world-country your GAME is in to punch the pretentiousness out of you.

A middle ages woman works in our game store, i'm sure she knows fuck all. A job is a job :P

My GAME is just niggers everywhere, it's funny. They are still pretty nice and helpful though. Sometimes they compliment me on my choice and everything.

>>33358493

There are GAME stores in Africa?

The moar you know

>>33358420
Yeah. I'm just full of pretentiousness. If you don't want someone like me serving you, enjoy the slightly overweight guy with a ponytail that smells like shit.

>>33358555
Try London. Though it might as well be sometimes.

>>33358555

Silly Anonymous, there's no black people in Africa anymore.

>>33358493
You have a shit choice in games.

The only reason I used to go to game stores instead of ordering them online was because of the hot bitch who worked there, as she was a friend of a friend and I knew she was single and desperate.

After several conversations we got to talking about our favorite systems. Sega Genesis, naturally. She said DSi.

I was outraged.

Also, I recently found out she stuffs her bra with these weird pouches of this sort of jelly-like stuff. Even her tits were a lie.

I was furious.

Only casuals go outside to buy games.

I work in a gamestore. whenever someone says "would a 5 year old girl like this?" to me I rage

The Internet was here.

You guys suck

>>33358717

> Only casuals go outside.

There fixed that for you.

>>33358745
Much as I'm inclined to agree, that kind of question is an excellent opportunity to recommend a non-retard game like Viva Pinata or Katamari.

The state of games isn't going to change unless casuals get smarter, and let me tell you raging at them isn't going to teach them.

>>33355693
HOLY SHIT OP THATS MY LOCAL GAME!

>>33358943

Oh wow! You're so cool!

You'll be an e-celebrity in no time! No time at all!

Go you!

At HMV (this was a couple of years ago)

Me: Is Resistance first person or third person?
Salesman: *glare* It's a shooter.
Me: ...

>>33358894
>viva pinata
>non-retard
...

>>33358195
Dude, don't you hate it when kids pre-order or reserve games and give you their mother's phone number?

Ring... ring....
"Hello?"
"Hello, this is such and such from whatsitgamestore, is Tyler there?"
"... No, he's in school, why would he be here? Who are you?"
"I work at-"
"Is he in trouble? Did he skip school?"
"N-no, miss I just-"
"WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO TALK TO HIM YOU WEIRDO"
"I'M NOT A PAEDOPHILE."

>>33359018

Nigger

>>33359018
internet sarchasm

>>33359060

If you haven't played it yet, don't even start with me, man.

If you have...I don't really know what's wrong with you.

>>33358745

Hello Kitty DS. No, seriously, littlekids love that shit. It's sold out here.

>>33359209
...my GF bought it. sitting with the rest of the 360 games we have. but party animals was worse.

>>33358745

Why? They want to buy something nice for their kid and would like the opinion of someone who knows a little more about video games than them, why does that bother you?

>>33356964
lol wut? Prototype's story is way better than Unfunmous'.

But you're just a PS3 owner justifying your purchase

>>33359273
It seemed pretty obvious to me that Party Animals was worse, but I played through the original with a surprising enthusiasm. I felt genuinely pumped when a new pinata peeked out from behind a rock somewhere.

Maybe "non-retard" wasn't the correct word as "autistic" is probably one of the words I'd use to describe the game. I just didn't want to start a shitstorm about converting the casuals.

>>33356964

>infamous
>true parkour

>sliding along power lines
>true parkour

>green text
>more green text

Shop in real game stores faggot.

>>33359399
Lol calm down Xbro you may be able to afford a PS3 one day

>>33355984
ahh i miss eb when it use to be good.

I hate the fuckers in Game. They snort when I ask perfectly valid questions. I remember asking if the xbox wireless headset took batteries or was rechargeable, and the fucking scene boy faggot behind the counter was smirking and snorting like he was master of all knowledge. How the fuck should I know, it was just a thought that crossed my mind. Fucking jobsworth flicking his damn hair around like a prick, I should have broke his damn wrist.

>>33359549
Where the fuck did all these come from, they just appeared one day and have undercut the prices of everyone.

>>33359399

I already have 2 PS3. Must suck making less than $400 the past 3 years...

>>33359549

FUUUUUCCCCCCKKKK YEEEEEAAAHHH!

Grainger game is for true bros. Whereabouts you from?