That’s cool. I remember way back when it was Funcoland, and I didn’t follow games as closely, I would actually have nice conversations with employees. If I was looking at some terrible game, they’d tell me, but they’d actually give me *reasons*, and tell me about better games I might be interested in.

Then again, maybe now I’m just more aware of when they’ll full of crap. *shrug*

I hear ya. I worked at a Gamestop in my hometown. I was a late comer to the XBox and as such, had a whole library of games I’d not played. Of course I’d played Halo and Splinter Cell, but there were about 30 or so games under $10 that had caught my eye at one point or another. Anyhow anytime I would go to buy a game a fellow employee would scoff and say something along the lines of “that game sucks compared to this other game that’s not even in the same genre”. See, when a customer would come in and ask about a game I’d not played or disliked, I’d say “well I’ve not played it, but I’ve heard _______” or “I didn’t personally like it, because ________”. Whereas my fellow wage slaves would stare dumbly at the customer and say “this game sucks you should get marvel vs. capcom 2″. Correct me if I’m wrong, but in a retail situation isn’t your goal to be knowledgable and helpful and SELL the products, not make a customer leave empty-handed because they were stupid enough to think that Forza Motorsport would be a good purchase.

Now whenever I go into a video game store, I never pre-order, never buy their stupid subscriptions, never cave to their begging to please spend more of my money so they can make their quota. No thank you.