Game Stop 1043

The staff at this location has always been great and very helpful. Good selection of games :)

This is the best GameStop in Westland, which is sort of like being the best crackhouse in Detroit, but you get the picture. If you’re in Westland and you’re jonesin’ for a video game, this is the place to stop. First of all, it has a pretty big selection of games, especially compared to its sister stores. There’s a decent amount of floor space, seeing as how this used to be a FuncoLand. It’s not just some tiny hovel shoved in next to a Vitamin Shoppe at your local strip mall.
Secondly, and more importantly, most of the guys who work here are either very friendly or very knowledgeable about games. If you’re lucky, you’ll stop in there and get someone who is both. I like how some of these guys will sit there and brood behind the counter until you go up with your chosen game, while some of the dudes will literally talk your ear off about the latest RPG for the DS. Either way it’s cool with me.
I actually stopped going to this store for a little while because the staff were getting so familiar to me, I had to ask: geez, just how much am I spending on video games each month? Considering that you can get a lot of good deals if you shop exclusively for used games, it’s not hard to drop $ 40 and feel like you made off like a bandit because you got 3 – 4 games for that price.
The big pet peeve people seem to have with GameStop is the fact that the employees are forced to hock subscriptions and pre-​orders on you. Yeah, it’s a necessary evil, but then again I have one of those subscriptions so who am I to talk. It obviously bothers other people more than it bothers me. I can sympathize with the guys because every store seems under pressure from corporate to have the most pre-​orders in the area. Considering that there are 4 GameStops in a 2 mile radius in Westland, that’s gotta put pressure on a guy to get you to pre-​order the latest Final Fantasy spin-​off (complete with an androgynous, sword-​wielding hero and 30 hours of CGI cutscenes in place of a plot).
My only beef with this GameStop has been the people that shop there, but I will admit they amuse me to no end. The customers are definitely of your sweat pants-​wearing, Halo-​playing, and Mountain Dew-​chugging variety.
Here’s a typical encounter when 2 dudes walk into the store…
Employee: Hey, can I help you guys find anything?
Dude #1: Heh, yeah, you can help him find a single white female, about this big!
Dude #2: Aw, shut up! Ahuck!
Cue the laugh track.