Dark Knight wrote:Or it could be because it's a blatant ripoff of Zero Punctuation and a bad one at that.
Eh I think that was kind of his intention, more an homage then a rip off. He even points out how he's emulating Zero Punctuation.
Now if its bad by comparison, I don't know as I have never watched any Zero Punctuation vids.
Its actually pretty rare for me to go into a game store anymore. I did just go to the GameStop at the mall the other day to pick up Yoshi's Island DS. I'm not going back there again either. There was only one register open out of the two, and another guy boxing up a whole bunch of used ds games who could have easily rang me out real quick on the other register, but didn't. The guy in front of me in line took like 20 minutes to get done, cause he just sat there going on and on rambling to the cashier, and despite seeing me getting very impatient behind him, he just kept going on and on. I was pretty angry having to wait so long for something that should have taken me less than 5 minutes to be in and out of the place. I'll most likely just go to the Babbages around the corner from them next time, since I've never had any problems with them like that before.
The one in the area mall is pretty decent. The people that work there are pretty friendly and stuff. So far I've gotten most of my PSP games from there, and I haven't traded anything in over there so :shrug:
I'm quite leery of trading in stuff, as the last time I've done it at the local shop, they would have given me $25 credit for 20 dvds, 3 PS2 games, and a GC RPG (can't remember the name of it, but it cost me 25 used).
This makes me remember back when I frequently visited Funcoland. I miss that place.
Mr. 207 wrote:Now if its bad by comparison, I don't know as I have never watched any Zero Punctuation vids.
I never have, and I highly doubt I ever will, trade in games. I find that I can get more for them if I eBay them. Hell, even if they only go for the minimum bid, together with P&P I still get about �3 (roughly $5.50, I think), which is probably what I'd get for a trade-in. If it sells for higher... lovely.
franpa wrote:I had no idea that the companies make no money when people buy the games 2nd hand at there stores... thats pretty retarded :O and now I know to buy any games that i like, NEW so the company gets some money to hopefully make another awesome game.
Anytime you buy anything second hand the original manufacturer gets nothing. Not just in games, but anything. That's why we're starting to see computer software that has a EULA that specifies that the license is non-transferable. That way you can't turn around and sell it once you're done with it. Anyone who wants to use it has to pay the producers.
I think it's amusing how Nintendo saw this being a problem ages ago. But until the monster that is GameStop came along I really think Nintendo was just a whiner. But now I imagine it really hurts game sales. And at a bad time with the extremely high production costs of games.
Gamestop is pretty filthy if you ask me. There were two in my mall, one upstairs and a smaller one downstairs, for some reason. The smaller one closed, for really no reason, but whatever.
The place has three huge bins of old DVD cases with whatever in them. Half of the cases on the shelves have the poorly drawn Gamestop covers because they don't even have the original cases. I only really go there to get a new game if I want it right away [Like MGS4, and Brawl, and soon I'm gonna pick up Silent Hill:HC there too] other than that, I get my stuff online.
They're also always loaded full of annoying ghetto kids who want 200X Basket/Foot/Baseball. One time a little kid was just pounding away on the Donkey Konga drums and basically broke them, and his mother didn't seem to give the slightest care in the world. Not to mention all the people who want Mario on the Playstation.