I saved a kid tonight!

so at gamestop this kid had all his pocket money bunched up and was ready to buy sonic and the black knight. i said, "no!!! don't!! it's the worst sonic yet." and he was like "you just want it for yourself!!!" and then i ran to the other side of the room and found sonic mega collection and i said "get this! it's half the price"...and then he got de blob. i felt good, but also like a jerk because kids can't really tell what a bad game is. but he was about to blow 30 dollars!

have you ever saved someone in a similar way?

lol pretty funny. Well there was this one time where this one dad and his son bought two of those shovelware racing games >.< but i couldn't really tell them that those games are horrible and pick something else.

lol pretty funny. Well there was this one time where this one dad and his son bought two of those shovelware racing games >.< but i couldn't really tell them that those games are horrible and pick something else.

12qazx

How do you know if he would have liked Sonic or not? Thanks to your efforts he may have spent his money on a game he might have less fun with. This is why I don't get involved with people's purchases. Chances are some people liked Sonic and the Black Knight more than De Blob and that kid might have been one of them.AlexSays

For the first time in my life, I actually agree with you. :shock:

Nothing wii related so no i have not. I tend to not get into other peoples business. As it is their money and really i do not want to argue with a person over a game. I have seen it happen at Gamestop before between employees and customers and i find it rather pointless. If they bought a bad game it is their fault we have all been there it is just another life lesson. Heck he might have liked it i mean when i first started gaming i thought games that were mediocre were excellent.

I once saved my mates life after he had an epilectic fit, but yours is a stroy of true courage and integrity.

Also sonic the Hedgehog (360) is $130 in my country **** I am jealous of you bastards.

I once saved my mates life after he had an epilectic fit, but yours is a stroy of true courage and integrity.

Eh, I try not to get into other people's business when I'm buying video games. Although it is kind of funny to see people yell at Gamestop employees because they bought a crappy game brand new then they tried to exchange it for something else but can't because since the game is opened, it's considered used and they can only get store credit for it. I hear them say that over and over again, but people don't seem to listen. Plus, they end up holding up the line and making everyone else pissed because they have to wait in line.

I don't think kids can tell a bad game even when they are playing it. When I was nine-ish I used to think Clayfighter 63 1/3 was the holy grail of fighting games.

I guess this gives me the right to tell people whatand what not to buyfrom now on whenever I enter a store.

Ahh....I love feeling superior.

God will now let you enter his kingdom. You have done a great job of kindness no other human has ever achieved.:shock:

I'm glad you did because I don't want developers of s**t games to get money so easily.so_hai

1000000% agreed.

We need more people like you.

I've seen kids about to do dumb things like that, but most of the time don't want to say anything because it's their money.

I would have thanked you :oops:. I absolutely loved De Blob.

I convinced a guy to buy MadWorld this last weekend. He was looking at it with a somewhat interested look on his face, so I just went up to him and said--"Buy it. It's amazing". And he did :shock:

It felt a little weird because I've actually never played it. Not allowed to play rated M games. But I want it to sell well, so I figured it was okay.

I was swerved into on coming traffic just to avoid hitting a cat....so I guess I understand what you're saying.

well one time this kid was going to get shadow of the colossus, but he was torn between that beautiful masterpiece and some video game version of a movie. >__< I told him the VG adaptation movie game piece of crap was really good and I got SotC for myself :)

Yes, I've done that. I chat with people in the games aisle so often I should probably get commission. I recommended Nintendogs just last week to a lady looking to buy a game for her daughter. Ok, maybe not the game you would have recommended... :lol:

On the other hand, I've never talked anyone out of buying a game. For all you know the kid might have liked it, not everyone that has played it has hated it.

I don't think that was really right. I, for one, liked it, and can name a number of other people who do, too. You never know whether a person may enjoy a game or not simply basing the fact that a game is good on your opinion. In short, you feel if you like a game, it is good, and if you don't like a game, it is bad. We're not all robots. We have opinions. It appears you haven't passed the pre-operational stage in Piaget's developmental theory - so, are you of 2 to 7 years old? Come on. It's really not that hard to understand that other people have their own opinions - he may have liked the game, and he may have hated De Blob. I saw no point in De Blob. Sure, now you may think I'm an idiot, but hey - that's my own opinion, I haven't picked on yours, so you don't pick on mine.

I once saved my mates life after he had an epilectic fit, but yours is a stroy of true courage and integrity.

Also sonic the Hedgehog (360) is $130 in my country **** I am jealous of you bastards.

Master_Bland

"Bad" is in the eye of the beholder. What I think is a great game, you may think is horrible. Just because a critic says a game is bad, doesn't mean that it is.

I've helped parents pick out games for their kids, but I never told someone not to get something.starmetroid

I'm more of the `suggest games that I love' type too ... though I have suggested to people to read a couple reviews of everything they plan to buy [taken with a grain of salt] can be very useful at identifying games that are lemons. Sadly, some sites review poorly - but a little bit of research IMO is more likely to result in avoiding the worst games.

When my mum bought me a PS2 one year for my birthday the guy in the shop recommended she got me Kingdom Hearts with it. I wish I could meet that guy 'cos I'd shake his hand.

so at gamestop this kid had all his pocket money bunched up and was ready to buy sonic and the black knight. i said, "no!!! don't!! it's the worst sonic yet." and he was like "you just want it for yourself!!!" and then i ran to the other side of the room and found sonic mega collection and i said "get this! it's half the price"...and then he got de blob. i felt good, but also like a jerk because kids can't really tell what a bad game is. but he was about to blow 30 dollars!

have you ever saved someone in a similar way?