Why is it every time I go into a game traders or EB games store I end up having to justify my personal opinions on games?
The most recent encounter was two or three weeks ago, roughly around when the new Halo game was coming out, I was EB games on my lunch break, looking over the pre-owned Xbox 360 games, when the PFY (Pimply Faced Youth) manning the store came over to me and asked if I needed anything, a polite "No thank you I'm fine" should of sent him back to his hole, but he must of been new so I got a dissertation on the game I currently had in my hand, and then a question about weather or not I had pre-ordered the new Halo game, my reply of "nahh not really into FPS games" should of shut him down.
But oh no, it was like I had murdered his dog after sleeping with his mother, sister, and girl-friend in his childhood bed.
After a 10 minute rant on how Halo is the best thing to happen to mankind since toilet paper and how FPS games are the pinnacle of modern gaming, I put the game I was going to buy back on the shelf and walked out of the store.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind FPS games, I rather enjoyed a few of them, but I'm more a 3rd person action/adventure or RPG gamer that some times indulges in other genres, I'm perfectly happy with people playing whatever they enjoy, but for some reason every time I voice my personal preference I get treated like a leper.
It's far from the first time it's happened, the reaction I got at one store after saying I wasn't really interested in Bioshock 2 as I couldn't really get into the first game, finding it kind of clunky despite being awesome to look at with an incredible story line was similar to the reaction one would get wearing a Swastika into a Synagogue.
Why is it the people working in these stores never seem to grasp that just because they enjoy something it doesn't mean everyone else will enjoy it as well?
The most recent encounter was two or three weeks ago, roughly around when the new Halo game was coming out, I was EB games on my lunch break, looking over the pre-owned Xbox 360 games, when the PFY (Pimply Faced Youth) manning the store came over to me and asked if I needed anything, a polite "No thank you I'm fine" should of sent him back to his hole, but he must of been new so I got a dissertation on the game I currently had in my hand, and then a question about weather or not I had pre-ordered the new Halo game, my reply of "nahh not really into FPS games" should of shut him down.
But oh no, it was like I had murdered his dog after sleeping with his mother, sister, and girl-friend in his childhood bed.
After a 10 minute rant on how Halo is the best thing to happen to mankind since toilet paper and how FPS games are the pinnacle of modern gaming, I put the game I was going to buy back on the shelf and walked out of the store.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind FPS games, I rather enjoyed a few of them, but I'm more a 3rd person action/adventure or RPG gamer that some times indulges in other genres, I'm perfectly happy with people playing whatever they enjoy, but for some reason every time I voice my personal preference I get treated like a leper.
It's far from the first time it's happened, the reaction I got at one store after saying I wasn't really interested in Bioshock 2 as I couldn't really get into the first game, finding it kind of clunky despite being awesome to look at with an incredible story line was similar to the reaction one would get wearing a Swastika into a Synagogue.
Why is it the people working in these stores never seem to grasp that just because they enjoy something it doesn't mean everyone else will enjoy it as well?
