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Jay Rust posted:When you think about it, there's not much difference between shooting pictures with a camera, and shooting bullets with a gun. I'd pay for a Call of Duty game where you're a journalist in Syria or some made up country that really is Syria. Time Magazine had a piece where they had a war photographer play Last of Us and use the photo mode
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tap my mountain posted:LBP is bad well-
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Harrow posted:I think its setting is cool--I'm a sucker for the "overgrown, verdant post-apocalypse" thing like Hyper Light Drifter or even The Last of Us--but everything about the game itself looks like it's just going to put me right to sleep. This week's Humble Bundle has ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West™ in the pay-what-you-want tier, if you like overgrown post-apocalyptic sci-fi landscapes the environments in that game are fantastic and varied, especially considering it was a mid-generation Xbox 360 game.
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Feb 2, 2017 02:03
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Shame about the rest of the game
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I watched most of Enslaved in LP format and it was clear I was missing very little by not playing it myself. Pretty game, but utterly mindless.
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Is GameStop Monkey like an actual job that's in high demand or whatever? Around here, GameStop hires the people who are too dumb to work at McDonald's and pays them accordingly, and anytime I've ever known one of the employees they've been like "yeah there's all this stuff we're supposed to do but since it's so hard to keep employees here period nobody actually gives a poo poo".
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Feb 2, 2017 02:45
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Whenever I go into EB Games it's always a pleasant and painless experience that I'm thankful for. GameStop sounds like real bullshit retail.
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Feb 2, 2017 02:52
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did the joke fly over my head because those are the same company
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EB Games and GameStop are literally the same thing since like 2004 I thought? At least in America. I don't doubt that they have quotas and such but in my experience a lot of that stuff is blown way out of proportion. I wouldn't be surprised if all these anonymous employees talking to Kotaku are Record Store Clerk types.
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precision posted:EB Games and GameStop are literally the same thing since like 2004 I thought? At least in America. They're absolutely not. Like I said this poo poo had been going on for decades and you can ask any Gamestop employee. At best it depends on how much of a shithead their manager or their manager's manager is.
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precision posted:EB Games and GameStop are literally the same thing since like 2004 I thought? At least in America. There's a bunch of comments on the article from people that say they're employees or ex-employees and they all say Kotaku isn't exaggerating at all.
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I liked the GameStop where I used to live because there was a girl there who loved anime games and the simple act of me buying an atlus game seemed to make her happy. Sometimes simple joys are all you need
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In Training posted:I liked the GameStop where I used to live because there was a girl there who loved anime games and the simple act of me buying an atlus game seemed to make her happy. Sometimes simple joys are all you need You should have married her, and played anime games together.
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Gamestop is awesome because it seems like they only ever hire people who loving hate Gamestop and will do anything to undercut their terrible business scumminess. I bought my new new 3ds from Gamestop and I only noticed after I bought it that the guy sold it to me for the trade-in upgrade price, and to this day I am not sure if he did it by accident or on purpose.
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chumbler posted:You should have married her, and played anime games together. Maybe. Although now I live somewhere completely different and by a store that breaks street date which is cooler imo
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ImpAtom posted:They're absolutely not. Like I said this poo poo had been going on for decades and you can ask any Gamestop employee. At best it depends on how much of a shithead their manager or their manager's manager is. I mean, I said I have known GameStop employees recently though. I'm totally aware that things vary by location, which is why I was surprised in the first place - the manager of the one by me legitimately doesn't fire people for quotas because, as I said, he has an insane problem with keeping people and the people that do want to work there are Record Store Clerks (meaning, they want to do as little work as possible and think that because they know a lot about obscure Japanese video games they should be Assistant Manager). I wasn't being flip when I said they hire the people who are too lazy or stupid to work a fast food job. That's literally who they hire here.
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Feb 2, 2017 03:09
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Sounds like I should get a job at GameStop
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I don't think I've set foot in a chain game shop in over fifteen years. If you are going to go brick and mortar you may as well try to support locally-owned business
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Quest For Glory II posted:did the joke fly over my head because those are the same company Not a joke. They might be the same company (and we're used to it here in Toronto with Future Shop/Best Buy, Chapters/Indigo) but there are no GameStops anywhere and the EBs are always chill.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I don't think I've set foot in a chain game shop in over fifteen years. If you are going to go brick and mortar you may as well try to support locally-owned business i don't think i've ever once seen what you're talking about here
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Feb 2, 2017 03:19
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Yeah, I have seen exactly 0 locally owned game stores that aren't pawn shops.
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Feb 2, 2017 03:26
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There's almost no reason anyone with Internet access should use GameStop unless you just want to impulse buy fifty used Wii games for ten bucks.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I don't think I've set foot in a chain game shop in over fifteen years. If you are going to go brick and mortar you may as well try to support locally-owned business Those no longer really exist, Gamestop crushed them in the late 90s/early 2000s with its ridiculous resale prices and larger selection.
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CJacobs posted:Yeah, I have seen exactly 0 locally owned game stores that aren't pawn shops. There was one right in my town but it just unexpectedly shuttered last month They had a bunch of old cartridges and stuff in there and the owner seemed like a nice guy 
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oddium posted:i don't think i've ever once seen what you're talking about here From my experience there's one in San Francisco New York and Chicago.
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Feb 2, 2017 03:39
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Comic book stores often have used games way cheaper than GameStop.
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drat I must be lucky, then. There's like four different locally owned shops around here, once one of them started selling new games they all did to compete, and they all started selling them for $5 cheaper than MSRP too.
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River City Ransom Underground is FINALLY arriving this month after almost 4 years and it is glorious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7MnovsPKs
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MinibarMatchman posted:River City Ransom Underground is FINALLY arriving this month after almost 4 years and it is glorious I really hope it's gotten better since the builds I played. 
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Lurdiak posted:Those no longer really exist, Gamestop crushed them in the late 90s/early 2000s with its ridiculous resale prices and larger selection. We have a handful here in Austin. In small towns, I'd guess to be very rare or impossible to find an independent game store though.
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I've finally gotten around to trying out the Plague Knight thing for Shovel Knight and I'm afraid even after an hour I don't like playing him very much
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Ciaphas posted:I've finally gotten around to trying out the Plague Knight thing for Shovel Knight and I'm afraid even after an hour I don't like playing him very much Yeah, neither did I.
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Did you guys get the float thing, that really makes a difference in the learning curve at least until you get a better handle on the mechanics.
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plague knight is very fast and it feels good to 1-2-3 jump bomb hover over the level
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Last Celebration posted:Did you guys get the float thing, that really makes a difference in the learning curve at least until you get a better handle on the mechanics. I got a handle on it just fine, and in fact preferred the basic blast to the float blast before long, I just didn't like it
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On the other hand I've just been shown Alwa's Awakening coming out tomorrow and that looks like my jam, yessirree
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Ciaphas posted:On the other hand I've just been shown Alwa's Awakening coming out tomorrow and that looks like my jam, yessirree
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