GG and I were talking on AIM a couple of days ago about how we RPG players seem to be a minority sometimes. I can understand people who don’t play the games won’t know about them, but pisses me off that people who should know about the games don’t. For example, we’ve all shared stories about Gamestop or other store employee’s that don’t know about crap. We’d ask them, “When does game x come out?” and they’d have no clue. I could help but want to bang these people’s heads into a wall. It pains me when 99% of people I know can’t associate Bahamut with dragons or FF when they should be able to.
Like I said before not all people play RPGs, and that’s cool. Although I couldn’t help but almost faint when I saw the following question on Jeopardy! last night:
I don’t remember the specifics, but the category was New Video Games.
“X-2…is the newest sequel to this poplular RPG series…”
Now granted that “X-2” was the first word of the answer and the given category I actually thought X-2 was from the X-men movie sequal of the same title until I saw “role playing game” and of course was shouting FF at the top of my lungs. This was a college tournament on Jeopardy! so the contestants are more likely to know about video games in general right?. Wronng. None of them got it. Excuse me a second, while I pound my head into a wall…ok, I feel better :hahaha; .
Oh, it also bothered me that the $2000 question in the Mythology categories was “Who was Medusa?”
Does it bother any of you sometimes that people think that the above questions are harder, maybe because there are fewer people who know the answer. It’s just a thought that came to me.
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> Yeah, those goddamn lazyasses should be EDUMACATED. Like, it really pisses me off when I walk into a CD store, and ask them vague, rather obscure questions like when the newest album of John Doe arrives, and they don’t INSTANTLY know it. Noooooo, they have to check their big books with release dates and everything. That’s just absurd, we could train monkeys to do that! Even better, since they can use their feet like hands, they can make me a bloody sandwich while I’m waiting for them to look up the release date of Duke Nukem Forever! Yeah! Monkeys! Woo!
Well, I don’t expect the employees to know everything. I’d just like them know SOMETHING instead of “Uhh…what’s that? What system is it for?” What pissed me off most is that most of the time I ask for release dates, there not even in their supposively all knowing computer!
I guess the point I’m trying to make is, if you work in a video game store, you should know something about video games!
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> Yeah, see, release dates are hard to come by. The producers have to tell people, the store needs to find it, add it to it’s database, and check for updates a lot (say, daily.) Now then. Multiply that by a GAZILLION times, for all the videogames in development right now. And don’t forget to add another BAZILLION, for new games that are announced.
Bahamut I’ll have to try and get that message across, if I get the job I’m applying for (in a gasme store). It is always anoying when that sot of thing happens.
And that Jeopardy thing is completely lame. How the hell could they think that something about Medusa (possibly the most famous mythological creature) is actually hard.
I would have more of an issue if a manager didn’t know, since it’s their store they’re running. But as a rule the run-of-the-mill employees are just there to manage the register and shelves, not to get intimately involved in the industry.
I agree that they should have a minimum amount of knowledge. I mean, it’s a frigging game store, that should be a requirement. When you apply to work in an animal control shelter do you not have to have some sort of pre-requisite knowledge to help you in handling them? I know comparing games to animals is a stretch but it’s an example. When you work in a grocery store, don’t you need to have some people skills as well? And so on and so forth. That doesn’t mean they should all have to research, but some people are more fitted to certain jobs than others, and I do believe anyone applying at a video game store should have some experience and knowledge in what they’re doing.
Well Merl, before my local Babbage’s turned into Gamestop, the management was ridiculous. There was one older guy who knew a lot and was really nice but the other “managers” were like regular promoted employees because they were short staffed. He however must have retired or someting because I haven’t seen him for months. Like I said before, it would make sense that if you wanted to work in a video game store, that you know something about video games.
TD, I know there are countless numbers of games but I really only buy the most popular (FF, etc.). My former Babbage’s had a board out in front of the counter with new releases on it. I tested the former “management”, by asking for a game on that list and they were still clueless!
Fortunately for me, the store must have chaged management when it changed into Gamestop. The people have been great and I have an application to hand in. I might work there over winter break.
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> Don’t. Posting a comic in a thread is fine, but putting it in your sig, so that it gets loaded every time someone views a post by you isn’t. It rapes their bandwith. Also, it makes your sig frickin’ huge.
God forbid they don’t know when some obscure game comes out, because (as we all know) every single employee in a game store knows everything about every game ever. This is why they are paid a whopping seven dollars an hour to serve you.
Im glad to know that the game store i go to the employees have brains,everytime i ask them something they answer quikly and without looking at the realease date book.
Originally posted by Tenchimaru_Draconis <img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> Don’t. Posting a comic in a thread is fine, but putting it in your sig, so that it gets loaded every time someone views a post by you isn’t. It rapes their bandwith. Also, it makes your sig frickin’ huge.
Haha, once again people are not listening to you (Although for once, I agree o_o; Put it out, pleeeease)
Anyways, I dont care about release dates anyway, so it doesn’t affect me =p
But this mythology thing… Fine, I understand if you don’t know who Bahamut is, but things like Medusa (or ODIN! Recently I said something with Odin and all my friends went “huuuuuh?” >_<) are just things you should know. It’s called knowledge. That’s not necessarily an RPG- thing. In Germany in the first season of Big Brother some guy was doing a crossword puzzle and didn’t know who Shakespear was. I tell you, this world is stupifying faster than we all think :fungah:
Originally posted by Dragon Tear In Germany in the first season of Big Brother some guy was doing a crossword puzzle and didn’t know who Shakespear was.
Originally posted by Cybercompost God forbid they don’t know when some obscure game comes out, because (as we all know) every single employee in a game store knows everything about every game ever. This is why they are paid a whopping seven dollars an hour to serve you.
Yeah, what he said. You shouldn’t complain about people’s ignorance, that’s their own fault. Just because you are part of a subculture(well, kind of), doesn’t mean the rest of the population will know what you’re talking about.
And, while the name Bahamut is used in FF games, Square didn’t make it up, and if I remember correctly, he was originally a fish in whatever myth he came from.
Actually, applying for a job at Suncoast, knowing about popular movies is almost a requirement.
Ok, knowing about obscure games like some earthworm jim game shouldn’t be something an employ has prior knowledge to at a videogame store, but come on, FF…
Bahamut I’ll have to try and get that message across, if I get the job I’m applying for (in a gasme store). It is always anoying when that sot of thing happens.
(Although for once, I agree o_o; Put it out, pleeeease)