dam_aks

I would say Everytime I die are a hardcore band.......

New stuff. Latest 5knuckle and Howards Alias albums have been done by him, just wondering if you may be going there as well?

I am finding it kind of hard at the moment to see this growing up thing with games, so I think probably what I attempt to say is nonsensical, I will do my best! In my opinion it’s strikingly obvious we are currently stuck in the same commercial rut as Hollywood. Nearly every game is going for the 14 to 25 age bracket and to be perfectly honest it’s getting tiresome. Profits may be high but creativity isn't that noticeable in so many of today’s games. For games to be seen as growing up they need to be tackling subjects with maturity, the word "game" itself is still evident in every single title you play. I don't mean literally, I am talking the way everything is made. It is always the same mechanic; nothing truly pioneering ever seems to happen these days. Never do I seem to experience an immersing piece of entertainment anymore - yet now I'm not actually sure if I ever have. Everything is 'just' a game. For the first time ever (hell it could be grim realisation) I am actually bored by games, never mind trying to do this whole maturity lark. Yet even on this "all new" angle for entertainment its spectacularly failing in every single way. It is my opinion for a "game" to be truly mature it needs to cease trying to be a game as we know it and take things to a totally different angle - though what this is, I am still uncertain. What we have is post modernism in games, but we never had the modernism to start with.

Will you be doing any recording with Mr Miles in Chievely, 5Knuckle stylee after this new release [shirubagan]?

That is a pile of crap.

Why is taking this to the mainstream a good idea? It’s a poor example of an excellent genre. Its her box which is taking it to the mainstream, if she was a bloke, the band would be playing in the American equivalent of a pub in Bolton. *Turns up “The shape of Punk to come”*

I find them to be repetitive, boring, hypocritical crap. The band offers nothing new, it just gotten big off Broadies sweet sweet box. Nerve Agents members turned to this, why?! Sad times for music, sad times. Listen to some good punk, like Raised Fist!

Another corner on the magazine could give it that extra edge over the competition. I'll get my coat.

Less Than Jake. Thought it was awesome at the time. Now however? No.

Indeed they must. Soon hopefully. Danzig, anything by them (or him depending on how you see it!), awesome. Avatar reminder. Twist of cain baby....

Raised Fist - Fuel is doing well with me at the moment. Hardcore doesnt get much more charged than this. Heavy as they come.

I find that sexual stereotype offensive.

Zelda : OoT Zelda : MM Zelda : WW 1080 Snowboarding Metal Slug 4 Rez Shenmue Shenmue 2 Goldeneye Final Fantasy VII

The Core. Walked out about half-way through. Worst movie ever.

£40 / 12 = £3.33 (ish) Less than a magazine every month, so really, even if you only used it for a few hours a week, the cost is pretty much nothing...

As said before, that is not the genuine boxart for i-ninja. Top half GameCube, lower half PS2. Erm.

I really am surprised he is still alive. Crazy old mentalist.

Tell your wife to fuck off.

Someone who works at Zoonami? Sign my face!!!!!!!1111111111111111oneoneone

I agree with this.

Did he suggest rooting through the stock and taking whatever you wanted to as well?

If I were a Game store manager I would see that as worse than being rude to the customers.

In essence, I agree with you - I am just slightly shocked by many people’s attitudes towards members of staff. I wouldn't buy anything from a shop where employees are akin to those mentioned here. Unless it could otherwise be helped. I try not to be like the employees described here, but everyone has bad days. Yes, a part-timer should ask if they don't know. Yet this can also be embarrassing - it is also suicide in my job as it can give a customer the leg up - making the sale a total nightmare. Further to this, if you are having to ask questions every so often, I usually find that the person you ask gets pretty pissed off. Argumentative, unhelpful, rude and arrogant members of staff are an annoyance. If you don't like it, don't shop there. It is just of my opinion that in this day an age - you get what you pay for. If you pay £5 an hour for staff, you very rarely get good ones. I am fortunate enough to work in a shop with nearly all good workers, and the single bad one will not be there much longer as his inability to actually work is becoming shockingly obvious to all. I would say that where I work is a total exception, and that’s why we are one of the top performing stores in the country - despite our location. Though this then brings me back to, why should I work harder days, in a busier shop, having to do tasks far and above my job description, for £4.54 an hour, when I could work in a different store of the same chain about the same distance away from my own house doing not even a third of what I do now? Because I enjoy my job, and I wouldn't in the other store. Many people who work in retail don't enjoy the job, thus they work badly. For my performance in store, do I get rewarded? No. Not as an individual at least. So for an underpaid, un-rewarded member of staff, why oh why would an average joe give a flying fuck about the store and what they say to customers? I must be insane to work the way I do.

This is how most people live. I don't, by the sounds of things neither do you. Society is fucked.

Well, I can only guess, as I suppose you could. I wasn't alive twenty years ago, you wont be working in Game tomorrow. I could safely assume that the number of people in an average game store at the weekend is far higher than where you used to work. I can also assume that a reliance to push specific titles is far more evident. You sell what head office tells you. I doubt that this would be such a big deal in your time. Then you have the far higher number of mass-market customers, many of which (from my experience in retail) are idiots. I would also like to say that the attitude I put into my job is nothing like that I would display in game. I work hard because I like what I do. I like what I do because I work hard. I just think a lot of you are being overly harsh on these kids.