OMG STFU!!!!

[tropicsgoddess]

Me and SO went to the Video Game PitStop get some more games for the Xbox. While we were both browsing around, we hear this loud, whiny, nasal voice droning on and on about his opinions on Fable and some other games that he played and thought that could use some tweaking on the plot, etc. We turn around and see what was your stereotypical sci-fi/gamer nerd: fat, pimply, whiny, nasal voice that sounds like puberty was a hit and miss, messy hair and fugly glasses. This SC was talking the poor cashier's ear off and then even went to follow the other employee who was facing and stocking the shelves to drone on and on about his game and all that crap. When SO and I went to pay for our stuff, I told the cashier that he had our sympathies and he replied back and told us that the SC was at the store for two and a half hours and hasn't bought a thing! So not long after SO and I were leaving the store, we saw the SC leave and start unlocking his bike from the street sign outside the store. I guess you have to have no life and/or friends to have to talk the ears off the poor clerks at the store who could give a rats ass but are forced to listen.

[Hobbs]

Heck, after two and a half hours I'd tell him to stfu. I'm a gamer too and he's the type that make me look bad when I discuss my hobbies to others.

Off-topic: What games did you buy?

Back On-Topic: I hate the reverse as well, when clerks talk your ear off about [certain game] and you have to tell them you're not interested. I had one guy say I wasn't a gamer because I never played Zelda.

[Bloodsoul]

On the other hand, he's atleast.. um.. economical by riding a bike? Eh...

Closest I've come to being a videogame SC was holding up my '89 GameBoy and jokingly asked if they still sold accessories.

[Midorikawa]

Closest I've come to being a videogame SC was holding up my '89 GameBoy and jokingly asked if they still sold accessories.

I've thought of going into stores before and asking for games for the NES. (Yes, I still have mine from when I was 6. :-D)

[Geekus Rex]

I've thought of going into stores before and asking for games for the NES. (Yes, I still have mine from when I was 6. :-D)

The game store I used to go to... still had the games

[tropicsgoddess]

Off-topic: What games did you buy?

Street Fighter IV, Grand Theft Auto IV Expansion (The Lost and Damned/The Ballad of Gay Tony) and Sega Genesis Collection (forget the exact title for it...but kicks ass and has all the old school Sega Genesis games on it)..the GTA IV Expansion is XBox exclusive...too bad God of War a PS exclusive game....

[dbblsanta]

— Super Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, I found it all to be so incredibly...indulgent. Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most indulgent video game makers. He really is.

— This man is spitting his opinions all over my neck. Oh what I wouldn't give for a large sock full of horse manure!
*ADDRESSING AUDIENCE*
What do you do when you get stuck in a line at GameStop with a guy like this behind you? I mean, it's just maddening!

— Wait a minute, why can't I give my opinion? It's a free country!

—I mean, do you hafta give it so loud? I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that? And-and the funny part of it is, you don't know anything about Shigeru Miyamoto's work!

—Wait a minute! Really? Really? I happen to teach a class at Columbia called "Video Game Media and Culture"! So I think that my insights into Mr. Miyamoto-well, have a great deal of validity.

— Oh really? Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. Miyamoto right here. So ... so, here, just let me-I mean, all right. Come over here ... a second.
*BRINGS SHIGERU MIYAMOTO OUT FROM BEHIND A CARDBOARD ZELDA DISPLAY*
Go ahead, tell him.

MIYAMOTO: I heard what you were saying. You know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.



Boy if life were only like this!

[siead_lietrathua]

omg. my husband has one of those! he works for a table top gaming company (not GW) where people can come in the store and play or paint or whatever. as long as they are working they can stay the whole day.
this guy just spends the whole day pacing, talking nonstop, and being a creeper. scares off the other customers sometimes. but the owner is to nice to kick him out.

[vstorevigilante]

Me and SO went to the Video Game PitStop get some more games for the Xbox. While we were both browsing around, we hear this loud, whiny, nasal voice droning on and on about his opinions on Fable and some other games that he played and thought that could use some tweaking on the plot, etc. We turn around and see what was your stereotypical sci-fi/gamer nerd: fat, pimply, whiny, nasal voice that sounds like puberty was a hit and miss, messy hair and fugly glasses. This SC was talking the poor cashier's ear off and then even went to follow the other employee who was facing and stocking the shelves to drone on and on about his game and all that crap. When SO and I went to pay for our stuff, I told the cashier that he had our sympathies and he replied back and told us that the SC was at the store for two and a half hours and hasn't bought a thing! So not long after SO and I were leaving the store, we saw the SC leave and start unlocking his bike from the street sign outside the store. I guess you have to have no life and/or friends to have to talk the ears off the poor clerks at the store who could give a rats ass but are forced to listen.

I work at a video store. DVDs, Blu-ray... and games. The gamers are actually the most INSANE customers, their lives end if a certain game is rented out at any given time. And they LOVE to chat incessantly, about games. The fact I'm young and female, and non-threatening (slightly overweight and bad teeth but not hideous) makes it much worse for me. After more than 2 minutes, I want to bang my head off the counter.

EDIT: I LIVED for Donkey Kong and Top Gear for my SNES, and Battle Tanx for my 64. Since then, I haven't owned anything fancier than a PS2, which s my DVD player 98% of the time and used to play Guitar Hero (which i think is the only game I've played in the last 7 years... I'm kind of awesome at it ) the other 2%, so it's not only annoying in the time-wasting sense, but in the I-HAVE-NEVER-PLAYED-HALO-OR-COD-OR-FF XIII-OR-ANY-OTHER-GAME-YOU'RE-TRYING-TO-DISCUSS-WITH-ME-! sense. I can chat with you about any movie in the store for an hour if you want, but I know nothing of the games beyond their titles and availability.

[trunks2k]

I had one guy say I wasn't a gamer because I never played Zelda.

Really? Please tell me you just never played a specific version of Zelda, not Zelda in general... As a child of the late 80s/early 90s, it shocks me that someone has not played Zelda

[Crossbow]

Really? Please tell me you just never played a specific version of Zelda, not Zelda in general... As a child of the late 80s/early 90s, it shocks me that someone has not played Zelda

I haven't. Then again, I really didn't play video games until I was in college.

[Damien]

I haven't. Then again, I really didn't play video games until I was in college.

same here... I have also not seen nor read LOTR (just to add to the blasphemy)

[fireheart]

My local gaming store and my boyfriend's local gaming store (they're part of the same franchise) have all the latest games, but they also sell all the retro stuff....consoles AND games. It's become quite popular lately with some of my male friends wanting N64's.

Me? I stick to emulators for now

[PepperElf]

oddly enough there's an employee a little like that at the comic store at the mall.
i don't shop much right now but... i do try to avoid him a little while he's working cos i like to chat a bit but... sometimes i just wanna pick up something and go and don't want to talk about some gaming system i'm never going to try anyway

[MergedLoki]

Heck, after two and a half hours I'd tell him to stfu. I'm a gamer too and he's the type that make me look bad when I discuss my hobbies to others.

Off-topic: What games did you buy?

Back On-Topic: I hate the reverse as well, when clerks talk your ear off about [certain game] and you have to tell them you're not interested. I had one guy say I wasn't a gamer because I never played Zelda.

There was a clerk at one of my local EB games (chain owned by gamestop if i recall correctly).

and i only saw him once or twice but EVERY time he'd voice his opinion on wahtever game I or my friends were buying. (we all have 360's he was a playstation fan). if the game WASNT for the PS3 he'd say something like 'yea that one's ok i guess but (insert similar game for PS3 here) is about 10x better' or if it WAS released for multiple consoles 'the ps3 version is so much better than the 360 version'. and so on and so forth. I have to assume he got fired for not just doing his damn job and ringing the game(s) up so i could leave.