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Why is it that people in game shops don't talk to each other. We always seem to have so much to say on the Future of Gaming forum, mostly about everything, not just the future of games. So why isn't it the same in the shops?
Do you think that people would look at you funny if you walked up to a complete stranger and said 'oh, that Shenmue is good, but I don't like the look of that Wrestling game!' Yet we do this all the time on Special Reserve's site. Is it the fact that we can't see each other, or that we are typing rather than talking? Perhaps,as an exercise, you should go to the shops on saturday and try it out. Store assistants in the big game shops barely grunt at you, let alone talk in sentences, unless they see you with money in your hand, and even then it seems like such a strain to tell you what you need to know.
So, in a way it's lucky that we have this forum. Remember what Pink Floyd said, Keep Talking.
Do you think that people would look at you funny if you walked up to a complete stranger and said 'oh, that Shenmue is good, but I don't like the look of that Wrestling game!' Yet we do this all the time on Special Reserve's site. Is it the fact that we can't see each other, or that we are typing rather than talking? Perhaps,as an exercise, you should go to the shops on saturday and try it out. Store assistants in the big game shops barely grunt at you, let alone talk in sentences, unless they see you with money in your hand, and even then it seems like such a strain to tell you what you need to know.
So, in a way it's lucky that we have this forum. Remember what Pink Floyd said, Keep Talking.
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PB you won!! Congratulations. Next time I'm in the Galleries in Bristol and a bloke tries to strike up a conversation I'll know who it is. Or get worried. Or both.
well I know most of you live no where near me which is lucky, but unlucky. well, I don't think anyone lives in Kent. why is Kent known for apples and countryside?
No one talks in my stores because they are too small and most people in my town are real grumpy g!ts, no ones ever happy whether it's a game shop or a very very happy place! always the same dull people! especially around this time of year as everyone is spending money on other people than themselves.
Gamers are usually very unsociable people anyway, they spend most of their time locked away in their room playing games only to emerge when 'dinner' is called by their mum or dad!
No one talks in my stores because they are too small and most people in my town are real grumpy g!ts, no ones ever happy whether it's a game shop or a very very happy place! always the same dull people! especially around this time of year as everyone is spending money on other people than themselves.
Gamers are usually very unsociable people anyway, they spend most of their time locked away in their room playing games only to emerge when 'dinner' is called by their mum or dad!
I'll be the one wearing trousers.
I've thought the same thing Grix, but no-one ever seems to come down to the west country unless they are on holiday.
I've thought the same thing Grix, but no-one ever seems to come down to the west country unless they are on holiday.
I sometimes wonder when I'm in a games shop if there is anyone I talk to on this forum in the shop with me.
Sometimes I look at people, and wonder who they can be. They then look at me, and give me a rather bad look.
Ah well. Perhaps we'll never meet. Or perhaps we already have...
Sometimes I look at people, and wonder who they can be. They then look at me, and give me a rather bad look.
Ah well. Perhaps we'll never meet. Or perhaps we already have...
I read one issue of N64, and someone tried to ask when a game would be out, he started a conversation with him, the assistant said he prefered PC games, he said not all PC games are good, the assistant cried out 'my PC's crap!' in the end he got kicked out.
My local independant is good as well, lots of people I know go there. I wonder what the Special Reserve shops are like. Problem is the nearest one to me is Bristol and Bristol is not somewhere I'd like to be.
Wow not like that down my local Gamestore, its freindly the staff are nice..the Local Gamestation is pretty freindly. But E B well thats a bit dead for atmosphere... And then there was That other videogame store( which shall remain nameless)...where one Guy was Pirating Games for the Whole of my home town...his brother owned the store...Then his brother(the storeowner) found out...He was freindly, although the store hasnt been as freindly of late without him.
Do you think it would work though? I mean, striking up a conversation with the person next to you in the shop, talking about games. (mind you, if you talked about some of the stuff we do on this forum, you would really get some funny looks!)
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