Most pathetic/desperate/obsessed/regrettable thing you have done gaming related?

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Hey guys, as a 30 year old gamer who has had his fair share of forehead slapping moments upon reflection I thought it would be a hilarious topic for us all to reflect and air some dirty laundry. I hope I am not alone in the things I am going to admit in terms of cringe-worthy moments but here goes. I don't have a huge list compiled and will just rifle them off as they come to me and ill continue to post in this thread as things come back to me.

- buying shit loads of discount doritos and mountain due in an attempt to win an xbox one with forza 5 ( I did ....about 80 $ later but that is besides the point )

- as a kid getting my dad to drive me 2.5 hours to try a gamecube before launch at a "local" mall

- spending my life savings as a kid on an imported dreamcast and shenmue. I had to play the ENTIRE game looking at a printed out translation of the game

- spending over 200 on an import copy of a fishing game/reel for imported dreamcast

- buying anything and everything that had a mortal kombat symbol on it

- working at eb games

- as an ADULT driving to various cities/towns to try systems/games before they come out

- conning my grandma to buy me MK3 ultimate on genesis when my parents wouldn't

- spending too much money on PSO ver.2 for my imported dreamcast only to get banned doing a dupe glitch

- using vacation days/sick time to play new releases

- buying EVERY system at launch since the N64



......will update with more later
 
Infinite Souls glitch in Demons Souls on first playthrought (around 60% completion)

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I guess buying Link amiibo for Hyrule Warriors despite vehemently hating the concept applies... I never got around to using the spinner weapon that it unlocks.
 
Nothing. I am not one of you crazy people.

Although, I played way too much WoW back in the day. So maybe I am one of you.
 
I gave myself 100 extra health in the original version of Cave Story using the level editor to beat Sacred Grounds, along with a save right before the final boss there.

It was such a terrible thing to do. But I had to beat him.
 
I was obsessed with buying stuff on playstation home, spent like 2k total on it throughout the years it was around lol.

and it's all gone now, thanks obama.
 
When I was younger, I used to steal my mom's credit card to register for subscription based MMOs but wouldn't charge anything to it since a lot of them at the time required one, even if you were using pre-paid time cards. She was extremely paranoid about her credit card usage and for one game I forgot to disable recurring payments and I remember her being in tears that "TABULA RASA 30 DAY SUBSCRIPTION" or something (I don't remember what MMO since I tried to play almost all of them during 2004-2008) was on her credit card statement one month.

I met a stranger at night to swap Amiibos.
 
ElTorro said:
Nothing. I am not one of you crazy people.
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I read this much and was like "this"

but then I read this part

Although, I played way too much WoW back in the day. So maybe I am one of you.
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now I'm all like "I guess this..."


Gooble, Gobble. One of Us.

Ol No Bones said:
Took me 225 dollars of dew and Doritos to win an xb1 and ryse
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srsly though, congrats
 
Grinding in Destiny as much as I did. Something just clicked one day where I thought what the fuck am I doing with my time here? Whole thing was a hollow experience.
 
I used to "hack" all my friends on RuneScape by trading passwords with them, then biding my time, and striking when enough time had passed for them to not suspect me. Then I would steal all their stuff by trading it to my account and liquidating it immediately for massive injections to my own in-game financial resources.

When one of them did it to me, I ruined his puny little life. All of our mutual friends had to choose him or me and they all chose me, The Great Liar, and that kid disappeared from our social circle. I was vindictive, maniacal, and ruthless. Eventually, they all stopped playing. But I kept going for years on the foundation I built from my crimes against them.

I was a cruel and selfish young boy who has made a lot of personal improvements since then.

Please make note that I am extremely far grown beyond this psychopathic behavior and constantly strive to be the complete antithesis of my childhood construct. Is this not a place for confessions?
 
- calling those 4.99$ a minute gaming lines to ask about cheat codes. Even though I was a kid I can still recall how much they were stalling .
 
I fell asleep in a PS4 voice chat party after shooting into the Destiny lootcave for about 14-hours straight.

Ended up actually creating burn-in in my Panny S60 plasma.

*edit*

Took a weeks vacation for Diablo 3
Taking four days vacation for Fallout 4
 
I spent $70 on importing a piece of Mega Man Battle Network merchandise. It was a interactive PET toy that had an admittedly cool little dungeon crawler RPG build in where you plugged in "real" battle chips. It would have been from the BN5 era. It was a neat little toy, but holy shit that was a lot of money to piss away on a neat little toy. I think I eventually tossed it.

I also once skipped class to run a raid in WoW. My guild gave me some honest and appreciated shit for that. Never did that again.
 
Recently this past summer I had seen that the Ness/Dedede amiibo were getting a restock so I hit up the GameStop by me like a few minutes before they opened. This GameStop had apparently sold them before they were supposed to. They called the GS in the next town and they had a bunch in stock. I already power walked to this GS like a crazy person and instead of going home, collecting myself, and getting cleaned up to go shoot for the amiibo I immediately go to the train station to the mall since the station was like two minutes from the GS. It was like Run Lola Run...

Hilariously by the time I got back GS had put the Ness and Dedede on their site to buy :lol.
 
I bet a lot of amiibo confessions could go on this thread lol.

I'm not too crazy myself. I skipped lots of days for games and console releases. One that springs to mind was when the Wii launched, and I even saw a classmate on the bus when I was coming back with my purchase. Luckily I guess he wasn't a snitch or at least didn't care enough.

I imported a copy of No More Heroes because I would only settle for the version with blood I guess, but I don't think that's too crazy. I did buy a 360 solely for Tales of Vesperia though. I don't regret it; I found more games for it that I loved, though I knew going into it that all my friends would get a PS3 instead so I guess it was a little crazy.

EDIT: aaaaaand right on cue with the amiibo confessions lol
 
Worst thing i've done, tricked a gamefaqs user into giving me his fable 3 weapon dlc while using a scrub account ... was a real dick move considering the game sucked and it was terrible of me to do that. Its what i've considered the worst thing i've ever done gaming related.
 
I lost a girlfriend in high school because I wouldn't stop talking about Pokemon.

Really kicked myself about that one. She was one of the popular girls and I was not at all popular. What a dummy.
 
Finale Fireworker said:
I used to "hack" all my friends on RuneScape by trading passwords with them, then biding my time, and striking when enough time had passed for them to not suspect me. Then I would steal all their stuff by trading it to my account and liquidating it immediately for massive injections to my own in-game financial resources.

When one of them did it to me, I ruined his puny little life. All of our mutual friends had to choose him or me and they all chose me, The Great Liar, and that kid disappeared from our social circle. I was vindictive, maniacal, and ruthless. Eventually, they all stopped playing. But I kept going for years on the foundation I built from my crimes against them.

I was a cruel and selfish young boy who has made a lot of personal improvements since then.
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Man what a piece of shit you are.
 
Dropped a class to play Assassin's Creed 3. Then dropped another class the year after and skipped lectures for a week when the PS4 came out.

First one wasn't worth it. Second one probably was.
 
I ate about 20 Quesaritos to win a white Destiny PS4 bundle ... while already owning a launch PS4 and a 20th Anniversary Edition PS4.

And I'm eating more now to try to win a gold one.
 
Finale Fireworker said:
I used to "hack" all my friends on RuneScape by trading passwords with them, then biding my time, and striking when enough time had passed for them to not suspect me. Then I would steal all their stuff by trading it to my account and liquidating it immediately for massive injections to my own in-game financial resources.

When one of them did it to me, I ruined his puny little life. All of our mutual friends had to choose him or me and they all chose me, The Great Liar, and that kid disappeared from our social circle. I was vindictive, maniacal, and ruthless. Eventually, they all stopped playing. But I kept going for years on the foundation I built from my crimes against them.

I was a cruel and selfish young boy who has made a lot of personal improvements since then.
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Oh.

I don't know if you've been told this before but you're a sociopath.
 
Not sure how regrettable it is, but in one of the last missions in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 I found a spot where you could attack those crab fiends or whatever from all the way above a pit. You couldn't even see them but they were there and you could hit them. I did, with the shuriken which did f-all damage, and since it was Master Ninja mode I broke the combo counter and got the trophy.
 
I've been spending way too much money on FIFA points (to buy packs) the last five years or so. Not anymore, though.
 
I was given a wiimote to play Brawl at release at a friends house, let's call him Rick and he had 3 Gamecube controllers and of course I was the one stuck with the ratchet ass wiimote, however he said that whoever could beat him gets to take the cookies his mom made home, and believe me, those cookies are delicious, I'm not letting this disadvantage get in the way so I thought, but then I noticed I was being singled out. Why you may ask? Because Rick and my other friend were singling me out, because it seems they made a deal, Rick liked that guys' sister and he wanted the cookies so they were targeting me specifically, the 3rd friend was useless as all sin, he jumped off Battlefield as Bowser trying and failing to Spike people 3 times and ran out of stock. I refused to acknowledge that I lost the homemade heavenly cookies over this fucked shit, so that's when I make a swift move with a spare Wii nun chuck, and bash the sister thirsty friend in the back of the head, while also hitting the controller out of Rick's hand, this allowed me to use Kirby's down b to finish them both off. Turns out that Rick's mom wasn't having any of that and even though I WON, I was the only one leaving the house without cookies.

Rick owes me some goddamn cookies.
 
15,000 hours and 6 stone in weight between 2006-2012 (although only about 3,000 hours since then).

You can guess the game.
WoW.
 
I failed/had to withdraw from a class in college because I was addicted to Skyrim. I would skip class and go to my friends house with my 360 and we would play side by side on two TV's. Withdrawing from that class caused me to lose my financial aid. I am an idiot I know.
 
Buying a bunch of games because they were cheap.

Recently buying a every Vita game clearanced at Target I didn't have already even if the game was worth the price.

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24 Games for over $200. $9 for that horrible Ridge Racer game.
 
I wore a suit to the FA Cup final on my Championship Manager save with Arsenal

I was drunk, don't know why I thought it was clever, but yeah
 
- I bought GTA V two times when it launched. One digital, because i was obsessive playing it exactly by midnight launch, and one retail copy for collection/selling purposes. Eventually i sold my PS3 with the digital version attatched to a secondary account, and i also sold the retail version seperately. I eventually triple dipped when i bought the PS4 GTAV bundle.

- I got my father driving for about 3 hours to find an available PS2 console during holiday 2002. Eventually we came up home with empty hands because every shop in a 40 mile radius had all it's stock sold out. Eventually i managed to find a console bundle sometime in Jan. 2003.

- When i left my PS2 open for the night (i had school the other day) in order to complete a GT4 24hr endurance. It technically wasn't an actual 24hour race with sped up B-Spec mode, but still had to leave it open overnight and checking it every hour or so because it would reset to x1 time every time it was entering in the pits. Because i wanted to go unnoticed, i covered the PS2 with a blanket to hide the flashing LED's, and i kept the TV closed just in case a parent would show up in my room during the night. Eventually everything went by the book and i did completed the race.
 
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