Full disclosure: I interned for a gaming mouse distributor in the summer of 2012. If you feel that invalidates my opinions and suggestions, please feel free to ignore the rest of my post.
First thing's first. Never, ever, buy a mouse, gamer-branded or otherwise, until you have a chance to hold it in your hand. Unless you're like me, and just love collecting mice, this is the most important factor in mouse choice. Your mouse, be it as a gamer, or as a normal computer user, is quite likely the most used peripheral on your computer, next to your keyboard. You have to make sure it's comfortable to hold, for several hours. Beg borrow or steal if you have to, the price of gamer-branded mice these days is far too expensive to buy sight-unseen.
Second, you probably don't need a "gamer mouse". Namely, the fact that you're asking the Giant Bomb forums for their opinion. Now, I'm not telling you they're not better-engineered products. (Granted, in a few cases, they actually aren't.) What I'm saying is there aren't many people who will notice the difference on whether their mouse has angle-snapping, pixel-jitter, etc. tl;dr unless you plan on competing in tournaments regularly, an office-store brand mouse should probably work just fine.
Third, anyone who tells you to buy a specific brand/model of mouse to try should immediately be ignored, as they have no idea what they're saying. The choice of mouse is far too personal to leave it up to anyone else. I currently use a CM Storm Spawn, but I hardly ever suggest it, because I know that the Spawn fits me, and the way I hold a mouse, and the way I play, better than most mice on the market, but I'm one of the few people who hold a mouse in such a way that the Spawn benefits me.
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