A Really Weird Thing Happened in my Supermarket (has something like this ever happened to you?)

[bodyklok]

He was trying to ask a member of staff if they had it in, it was fun watching them, discretely of course. There was a lot of confusion.

Wow, that a little scary. Do you make a habit observing random people?

That does sound a little creepy actually.

If I say I don't that's a lie. I do tend to go people watching on my days off from work, sat outside a café with a drink. I don't eavesdrop or anything creepy, I just like analysing people.

I wanted to see how this particular scenario played out.

What happened in the end anyway?

 

[Srkkl]

He obviously isn't a 360 elitest because his only argument for why the 360 is better is because of graphics.

OT: I actually do this to people, I mean it's fun to see their reactions and a lot of the time I have some good conversations with people that I don't know.

 

[Terramax]

Has happened to me, but I kinda was the interrupting person. (scary voice) I am the Gamestop employee who jumps out at you from corners! *rar!*

You're not in any of the Devon branches are you?

I'm just trying to say you may not be interested in them now but when you get your ps3 and try the demos and stuff you might want other games too. It happened with me and Valkyria Chronicles.

No worries. I was thinking of Valkyria Chronicles actually, but I watched a few videos and it seems to drag on too long. But I really... really wanna play Pacific Rift

But at the time it was either a PS3 or a Suzuki DRZ400. The PS3 looked good, but not DRZ400 good.

 

[Andalusa]

What happened in the end anyway?

The guy asking for the game gave up. He was very annoyed by this time, and stormed off.
The staff member stood there for about five seconds after he left looking confused, then went back to working.

 

[G1eet]

He sounds like a Gamestop employee. Let me pull out the checklist

Jumping into personal conversations-Check

Talking to you about shit you don't want to talk about-Check

Insisting that His/Her opinion is right and your an idiot-Check

Incredibly rude when you disagree with Him/Her-Check

Yup he meets all the criteria for a gamestop employee.

Edit: Yes it happens to me at my local gamestop all the time if you can't tell. =/

This is also pretty good criterion for Twitards.

 

[jboking]

as for exclusives, there are only 4 games I want to play on the ps3, compared to the 24 games I am playing on the 360, this does not warrant a 'buy' for the ps3, now if it was to kick into high gear and make use of its stolen mechanics, then I might re-consider [LAIR was the ONLY game that made me love Six-Axis controls, OTHER GAME JUST DONT COMPARE!

...You say that almost as if Microsoft isn't guilty of the same thing. Natal - Eyetoy...

BUT, lets not linger on that.

OP: Yeah, I have had this situation happen to me before, recently too. I went to Gamestop because they were allowing preorders for Professor Layton and the Dubious Box. I struck up a conversation with the clerk about the DS compared to the PSP(I think she was trying to convince me to buy one). I told her that I realize the PSP has a lot of cool features, but I just preferred a gaming device that just plays games(was just trying to end the conversation at this point, even though it was a friendly one). At this point a 15 year-old looking through ps3 and 360 games on the walls started butting in telling me that I was childish for playing a DS. He went on about how the PSP has God of War. I responded with, "So does my ps2." He went on about how I should totally buy a PSP. I ended it with, "When the PSP has Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, Pokemon, Megaman, Fire Emblem and Advanced Wars I will buy it."

I believe his parting words were something to the nature of "You're a fag." I'm not, but I responded with "Yes, is there a problem with that?" I watched as the kids eyes got really big and he started shifting back and fourth. This whole time I was staring at him and you could feel the clerk(we were both standing at the checkout at this point) sweating and really wanting us both to leave. The kid eventually left back to looking at games on the wall without so much as a word. It was a good day!

 

[Nuke_em_05]

Well, I don't really consider conversations in a supermarket "private". I mean, not that you should expect people to jump-in, but it doesn't seem that odd if you're just talking about something. I mean, he approached cheerfully, and if the conversation had ended well, you'd probably have thought little of it. Then again, we're coming from two sides of an ocean, and might not have quite the same social "rules".

Dude obviously didn't get that you were for the games over the graphics, and it sounds like he was pretty cool until you got firm about it, so... I dunno, some people are just dicks lying in wait.

*bides time with shifty eyes*

 

[Captain Lag]

I've never had people being rude to me, but I've sure met some weirdos.

1) I was taking the bus back from college and some guy starts talking to me, 'hey, you're a game journalist right?'

So I say yes and suddenly the guys starts expressing his love for Fable II...
For about HALF AN HOUR, all the way onto the bus! I had never even seen the guy, hell, after giving me the entire monologue, I still didn't know his name.

The only reason he stopped talking was because he had to get off the bus, I wouldn't want to imagine me having to get off at the same stop...

2) Then this other time, I get on that bus again. This time, it's some 14 year old kid (14 year old tops!) and he starts talking about WoW. Then he finishes his rant and the next thing occurred:

"Do you play World of Warcraft?"

"No."

"Oh..."

And the rant continues. Oh Lord...
Never got to know this guy's name either.

3) Now, this happened in college, in between two periods. I'm lending out a game to a friend of mine (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, if I remember correctly) and some guy sees it, saying: "Hey, is that an illegal copy, did you chip your console?" I tell him no and say that most review copies are like this. So he finds out I'm a reviewer and yet another monologue ensues: the games he play, the consoles he owns, opinions about this and that... Seems he's a big fantasy fan. He pulls out some book and again starts talking: "It's an awesome series, they should make a game of this, no, a whole franchise!" He shows me a couple of drawings and maps. 3see, they've got a whole detailed universe ready to be digitalized!" Then he says: "Don't you think that's a great idea? Think about, you should really tell them about it. See if they could do that..."

Wait, this dude actually thinks I can go and tell developers what kind of game they have to make? Christ, he's as old as me, he's kidding right?!

Finally it's time for the next period so he starts to wrap it up.
Again, never even knew his name.

World is a strange place indeed...

You review games? *Rambles off into opinions and whatnot*

 

[KittywifaMohawk]

your an idiot

This little grammatical slip up will never stop making me chuckle.

I don't think it'll make me stop chuckling either. Thank you for pointing that out, I probably wouldn't have noticed. Thank you for the good laugh.


Anyway, on topic.
It's happened a good few times with me to be honest, I don't hate the PS3, I'd just rather not own one, and people just automatically assume I hate the PS3 when I tell them that. Stubborn assholes.

 

[Terramax]

*Snip... or whatever they say*

Seriously dude, this isn't what I set the thread up for.

 

[jboking]

SPOILERS FOR ZE MASSES!

Spoiler: PS3

If I recall correctly, there was another controller that had something like that also......... wait!

Spoiler: 360

thats where I remember that from!

Are you serious? The fucking control button? it's something that is necessary if you are going to play wirelessly. Hell the button is used basically to turn off the controller and the system. I remember ps2 and Gamecube controllers that would do this. You're overreacting.

oh wait, there might be a few others, let me see if I can find them......... Ah, here we are:

Spoiler: PS3

Spoiler: Wii

Actually, thanks to third party distributors that are supported by both MS and Sony, all of the current gen consoles have a wiimote.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/02/wiimote-challen/
At least the new ps3 and 360 wiimote work differently from the wii's. It also seems to be very integrated with the eyetoy, which is nice I suppose.

and lets not forget that before a NINTENDO controller, Control Sticks were for arcade fighting games only...

I assume you are talking about the control stick and the c-stick on the N64. Honestly, sony just upgraded the idea and put it on a less hand breaking controller. Three prongs never made sense to me. I suppose you could also point out that Microsoft uses Control Sticks as well, but it would just seem stupid, because then we could get to the point that both the PS3 and 360 use BUTTONS! Somebody was ripping off the brown box.

but yea, your statement about how the ps2 is almost a fanboy killer, a ps3 fanboy kilelr that is, next time you get into a conversation about it just simply say "if the ps3 is soo muc hbetter ,why are they still making games for the ps2?" use examples of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Mercenaries 2: AIRSTRIKES REVENGE World In Flames, and the like and you almost will never get an answer, mainly because one of the few answers brings flaws of the ps3 to light, I.E. the price of it.

I don't really think that is a fanboy killer...and it seems you misinterpreted what I said. In all honesty, sony continuing to make games for the ps2 just makes sense. They are able to combine the sales of the ps2 into their total income, especially since the ps2 is cheap as hell to make now - including the games for it. It just seems like Sony not giving the finger to those who just want to keep their ps2. Which is a good idea, as one of their ps3's no longer has full backwards compatibility. I do tend to wonder if they will continue to support the ps2 when the alleged ps3 slim comes out...but that's beside the point. The ps2 is far from a fanboy killer, because it shows that Sony was willing to do something that Nintendo and Microsoft were not. Support those who still use older systems. It just makes them seem more responsible as a company.

To date, I would say Nintendo is the only active gaming company that hasn't stolen an idea from another company. I wouldn't let it grate on you too bad though, this is just them acknowledging that Nintendo comes up with good/interesting ideas.

p.s.: you might want to slow down when you type, some of your words started meshing together and being misspelled.

p.p.s.: there is a reason I said lets not linger on that. It was cause it would derail the thread. which we are doing. So can we just end this?

 

[kevin_kaya]

Well something slightly similiar happend to me, once in Sweden me and some friends were outside a shop and this random 40+ guy came up to us and started asking us when our easter holiday was and other random stuff.. then like 2 months later he satrted talking to us again when we were in a park, said something about bringing instruments to the part so that children could play them... he was kinda freaky actually..

 

[historybuff]

No, that's never happened to me. Hahaha, that would be obnoxious.

 

[syndicated44]

My friend is not allowed in best buy anymore because he kept telling people cheaper and better ways to fix things then what the geek squad told them.

 

[Takoto]

Walked into a game store once, and a guy behind the counter and a customer were having an argument (and shouting) about what was better, consoles or PC's.

It was awkward.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

As everyone in this thread has told you, there are assholes in this world. Best you can do is simply ignore them and hope there extremly tiny brain will realize you don't care.