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[Mozz-eyes]

Wrt OP conning his grandma into buying him Mortal Kombat, that's not sad or regrettable at all! I presumed it was just a part of growing up.

My step mother knows nothing about games so I always used to get her to buy me titles like GTA with high age ratings. I just told her that there was a bit of swearing in it so it has an 18 rating, and that it was nothing worse than I'd seen on TV before.

 

[super-famicom]

I bought the Destiny Digital Guardian Edition.

 

[Lashley]

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?

Hahahaha this is hilarious

 

[Finale Fireworker]

Wrt OP conning his grandma into buying him Mortal Kombat, that's not sad or regrettable at all! I presumed it was just a part of growing up.

My step mother knows nothing about games so I always used to get her to buy me titles like GTA with high age ratings. I just told her that there was a bit of swearing in it so it has an 18 rating, and that it was nothing worse than I'd seen on TV before.

I remember when my parents were confiscating all my T rated games, including my precious and socially significant copy of GoldenEye, because I was "only twelve." I clutched onto my copy of Shadows of the Empire by saying you only shot robots and there was no blood, which was honestly mostly true. But at the time, it felt like a lie, especially since I hadn't made it very far in the game yet and knew eventually there could be humans.

 

[Yrael]

I bet a lot of amiibo confessions could go on this thread lol.

Yeaahh, lol. I've got to admit that I regret buying as many Amiibos as I have - it's rather a waste of money.

 

[Lashley]

I kept myself off school when both GTA: San Andreas and GTA IV released.

No regrets.

Went to midnight launch for both of the games too.

Tried it again for FIFA 06 but saw one of my teachers at the launch who foiled my plan.

 

[NHarmonic.]

Buying a Dsi thinking it was the next important step in handhelds. lol.

 

[Mozz-eyes]

I remember when my parents were confiscating all my T rated games, including my precious and socially significant copy of GoldenEye, because I was "only twelve." I clutched onto my copy of Shadows of the Empire by saying you only shot robots and there was no blood, which was honestly mostly true. But at the time, it felt like a lie, especially since I hadn't made it very far in the game yet and knew eventually there could be humans.

Oh man, that sounds tough. My parents let me play GoldenEye when I was 7! My dad actually bought a second controller to play with me because he thought it looked cool and liked the Z trigger because it was like a gun.

 

[Snarkasaur]

I called in sick to a well paying job in college to play Dark Age of Camelot. My girlfriend at the time found out and broke up with me.

 

[Disxo]

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.



24 Games for over $200. $9 for that horrible Ridge Racer game.

Even COD? Damn

 

[MBS]

Wrt OP conning his grandma into buying him Mortal Kombat, that's not sad or regrettable at all! I presumed it was just a part of growing up.

My step mother knows nothing about games so I always used to get her to buy me titles like GTA with high age ratings. I just told her that there was a bit of swearing in it so it has an 18 rating, and that it was nothing worse than I'd seen on TV before.

My parents didn't gave a fuck about GTA on-screen violence back then. Contrary to a friend's father where he was searching for R*'s phone number in the back of the case because he wanted to complain about Vice City's violence after he saw a chainsaw execution of a prostitute. Crazy times.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

When I was adjusting poorly my first year of college, I used to get anxiety and skip classes I was failing and play Pokémon Platinum in my car. Just grinding levels. I would turn off and indulge in the false sense of accomplishment while my actual extremely expensive life suffered. I remember freezing in the winter just pressing A over and over again, knocking everything out in one hit, and watching a little bar increase in even littler amounts. I remember thinking that THAT was what I was doing instead of my math class I was paying to attend.

I've put myself through college without a dime of financial aid from anywhere but my own bank account. And I'm proud of that. I turned around an academic dismissal to a 3.7 graduating GPA while working full time to pay for it.

Growing up is tough.

Oh man, that sounds tough. My parents let me play GoldenEye when I was 7! My dad actually bought a second controller to play with me because he thought it looked cool and liked the Z trigger because it was like a gun.

My parents hated and still hate video games. That was a big reason why. They never wanted them in the house and discouraged the hobby whenever possible.

 

[vocab]

I spent $3100 on dungeon keeper on Android. No regrets, it's the most addictive and best game I've ever played.

I don't believe you.

 

[Rival]

I failed a college algebra class because I was absolutely addicted to playing dr. Mario on my ti-85 graphing calculator in class and never paid attention.

 

[Tinfoilhatsron]

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?

You sir, are a true monster.


Lol.

 

[Reedirect]

Stayed up all night to play the third episode of Life is Strange before a pretty important final presentation for one of my subjects at university. It was also longer than the previous two, so I ultimately went in with like thirty minutes of sleep.

Still nailed it, but damn, what a dumb decision.

 

[zoodoo]

As a kid my neighbors and I were addicted to killer instinct on snes. One of them had the guide and would beat the crap out of us while refusing to share any moves or combos.
One day, he forgot the guide at a friend's house. I ran home, took all my savings, begged my mom for some extra money and walked 30 mins to the copy center. I made a copy a copy of the entire guide, even the cover. A few days later, it was revenge time.

I once borrowed a nintendo power from a classmate. The issu had the entire donkey kong country 3 map with all the secrets. I took one of my notebooks, drew the entire map with all secret locations. I did not even have the game and I never played it until years later and that notebook was long gone.

 

[visiblemode]

Hey, if you actually won the Xbox one and Forza 5 for only $80 worth of products...that's not as dumb as you think it is!

Yeah...it's so far from crazy that it makes no sense at all, tbh.

For me, maybe getting the million coins in NSMB2. Mario games trigger completionist urges from deep within.

 

[off duty ninja]

Back in the spring of 2006 I had just gotten married and my wife was pregnant with our first child. We were gifted my grandparents old Chevy cavalier so we sold my Corolla for $4000, $600 of which was dedicated to putting a stereo in the cavalier as my grandparents never had one.

So $600+ later I had a very nice system put in my car. Shortly there after I happened to be at Fry's and they had a stack of fucking Xbox 360's sitting there and I swear there was a sunbeam parting two clouds beaming down on the glory.

I bought one.

I reasoned with myself that I could just return the system and it would be a wash. I could live without the stereo in the car. Unfortunately the CarToys peeps weren't so fond of this idea and they let me return everything minus the wires and shit and the labor. They kept like $150-200 if I remember correctly.

Well at the end of the day I am still married. I still get shit for the amount of time I spent playing oblivion while she was pregnant not to mention my junkie like reasoning that I used to get the 360 to begin with.

Overall though?

 

[GreatNumber]

Plenty of things

1. Spent easily over $600 on Tf2 and Cs:go.

Spoiler

Haven't gotten a knife or an unusual yet from unboxing

2. Bought GtaV once on the 360 and another time on the xbox one, haven't touched the xbox one version since a week after I bought it.

3. I bought Super Mario Maker instead of a new xbox one controller.

Spoiler

no one plays my levels and the grand majority of community levels aren't great, also my xbox one controller's left bumper and X button are straight up broken. ;-;

4. I have over 120 games on steam, 90% of those were impulse buys because of a deep sale, and I have yet to play a grand majority of them for more than 5 minutes.

5. I spend at least 60 hours a week playing video games.

6. In the first 3 days after the Binding of Isaac Rebirth released I amassed 60+ hours.

Spoiler

Still haven't platinum god it.

7. In the first 5 days after Metal Gear Solid 5 released I played 80+ hours

Spoiler

Still haven't beaten it.

8. I've had Undertale sitting in my steam library and haven't touched it yet.

9. My first playthrough of Dark Souls 1 I went to blighttown using the shortcut without knowing it was a shortcut. I then didn't know where I needed to go for the second bell so I went up the path to the depths (not knowing the depths even existed). Two hours later I made it to the gates of the depths with no way of opening the doors and realizing my mistake.

Spoiler

I almost went to ash lake before my friend told me exactly where quealag was.

10. I killed Solaire on my first playthrough.

Spoiler

Don't hurt me.

 

[SallyIsNow]

Legit cried when Silent Hills was cancelled.

 

[Justinh]

9. My first playthrough of Dark Souls 1 I went to blighttown using the shortcut without knowing it was a shortcut. I then didn't know where I needed to go for the second bell so I went up the path to the depths (not knowing the depths even existed). Two hours later I made it to the gates of the depths with no way of opening the doors and realizing my mistake.

Spoiler

I almost went to ash lake before my friend told me exactly where quealag was.

Oh my God, that's where I quit Dark Souls for a while. I took the shortcut, then went all the way back to the "real entrance" and didn't know where to go and just kept running back in forth

Spoiler

and getting killed by invaders while on that shakey walkway

. When I came back like a year later, I just started looking at a guide.

7. In the first 5 days after Metal Gear Solid 5 released I played 80+ hours

Spoiler

Still haven't beaten it.

this too

 

[TM25]

I got the shiny charm in Pokemon, got obsessed with it and ended up breeding a full team of shinies.

 

[Baron Von Beans]

I've eaten way too much Taco Bell lately. I always do every time they have these contests they are running.

Good thing I love Taco Bell...I think one time last contest was three times in a day. Spread out my code entering a for days where I can't make it.

 

[AmethystEnd]

Regrettable

When I was younger and playing through Ultima 8, I fell in love with the Pyromancy system. The Pyromancy system in Ultima 8 was amazingly deep. You had to go to a pentagram in-game, place candles of the correct color (red or black) at specific points, place reagents in specific points, and place what you were trying to enchant in the center. And all of this was different from spell to spell.

Young me found the available reference material for how to enchant Pyromancy spells into foci very lacking.

So I made my own. Meticulously hand drawn diagrams, charts for candle and reagent placement, etc...

Welp, my mother found them.

She's a devout Catholic.

All hell broke loose because she wouldn't believe me that it was for a game.

This is regrettable because I was proud of those diagrams/notes and she tore them up and threw them away. Wish I still had them.

 

[chronic_archaic]

Scrambled to sell some of my Vita collection I said I wouldn't sell so I could buy The Taken King at launch. Ended up getting in a day later, but still. Worst part is, I got $45 the very next day from something else and the expansion was $40...

 

[Red]

Buying a bunch of games because they were cheap

This is mine. Steam lists over 500 games. I hardly ever play them. But I am compelled to buy.

 

[Zombine]

I am a grown ass dude and I've sent my mom out multiple times to pick up my games because I didn't want to go out.

 

[Hazaku]

Filing grief reports on someone once a month on Xbox Live after they got salty at me in CoD

Spoiler

and I'm still doing it

7. In the first 5 days after Metal Gear Solid 5 released I played 80+ hours

Spoiler

Still haven't beaten it.

Same

Spoiler

but I still haven't unlocked Quiet

 

[zsynqx]

I broke my hand punching a wall when playing MW2.

 

[MBS]

This is mine. Steam lists over 500 games. I hardly ever play them. But I am compelled to buy.

I did that with the PS2. Over 100 titles, didn't play the half of them. Eventually i just sold most of my unplayed backlog.

 

[Nyoro SF]

Regrettable

When I was younger and playing through Ultima 8, I fell in love with the Pyromancy system. The Pyromancy system in Ultima 8 was amazingly deep. You had to go to a pentagram in-game, place candles of the correct color (red or black) at specific points, place reagents in specific points, and place what you were trying to enchant in the center. And all of this was different from spell to spell.

Young me found the available reference material for how to enchant Pyromancy spells into foci very lacking.

So I made my own. Meticulously hand drawn diagrams, charts for candle and reagent placement, etc...

Welp, my mother found them.

She's a devout Catholic.

All hell broke loose because she wouldn't believe me that it was for a game.

This is regrettable because I was proud of those diagrams/notes and she tore them up and threw them away. Wish I still had them.

I shouldn't have laughed, but I did. I feel bad.
If it makes you feel better, I admire your charting spirit, and I did something similar when I played those kinds of detailed games when I was younger.

 

[Kiddy Dong]

My first preorder ever was for Metroid Other M. It was also my last.

 

[whiteninja]

My friend and I would modify WC3 maps (dota and rpg) to stick power ups in some corner only we knew about. Most people didn't notice they were redownloading the same map they supposedly had already.

 

[Like the hat?]

Eating too much taco bell every time they run a PlayStation promotion and never winning

Buying too many amiibo

 

[LifeBrandRobot]

I was obsessed with the mobile game Blood Brothers over one summer. I had multiple accounts on my computer, phone, old phone and tablet. I had an alarm set to ring every two hours when my energy recharged so that I could play, even waking up multiple times at night. I finally snapped out of it when I was transferring monsters between accounts and accidentally traded off a really good monster. I raged, got sad, found clarity and deleted the game. Bright side is I didn't waste any money, lost months of my life though since I refused to go out since it would be a waste of energy.

 

[SURGEdude]

I almost bought a Nokia N-Gage. If it wasn't for the whole "side-talkin" meme I would have likely done it too. Crisis averted.

 

[pizzacat]

I hustled someone in gears tournament

 

[TheSpoiler]

Hentai is my greatest shame.

The hours I put into Oblivion is a close second.

 

[CNCOMICS]

For me, probably taking off of work for the week of E3 and turn into a hermit. Been doing it since 2008. I use my dual screen setup for GAF and live streams. Used to go triple screen by monopolizing the tv when G4TV and Spike used to broadcast live.

 

[Baldwin_the_First]

Probably arguing in text messages with what ended up being a 13 years old kid after a EA UFC fight Lol. feels bad

 

[Veldin]

I broke a Guardian Heroes disc by accident. It snapped into two jagged pieces. It's the only game I've failed to take proper care of.

Also in high school I ended a long friendship with someone I knew really well because he liked Xbox and I didn't (at the time). It was more on him actually because he was snooty about it and kind of a dick in general. I don't entirely regret it but it's a pretty pathetic thing to lose a friend over.

 

[MBS]

Another one: I once stole a friend's lvl 70 Suicune from his Ruby in exchange for a lvl 7 Rattata. He never found out who did it.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Ran a linkshell (guild) in FFXI that purchased a several thousand dollar botting program so we could monopolize 1 per day spawns. Super not proud of myself from my MMO days.

 

[pizzacat]

Hentai is my greatest shame.

The hours I put into Oblivion is a close second.

Compare hours of full on hentai to oblivion

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Overall though?

I never noticed that's the God of War font

 

[bomblord1]

Can't think of much but maybe replaying Harvest Moon a Wonderful Life 3 times after losing my save data 2 times in a row.

Haven't finished the game to this day decided after the 3rd data loss it wasn't meant to be.

 

[U2NUMB]

Brother and I went for and got the achievement for finishing 1000 games of FEAR on the 360... for 5 gamerscore points

 

[...Scatter...]

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.

Like US dollars? Holy shit

 

[thenewjeva]

1. Giving my GBA away to Gamestop for no money after I got a DS.

2. Throwing my controller on the ground when I kept dying at Makarov's cabin in MW2. The controller still worked fortunately and when I tried again the next day, I beat it on my first try by just camping in a corner as the data was collected from the laptop. Only time I've ever thrown a controller.

3. Played the Burger King contest to win a Wii U when I had no interest in it at the time. I won it on my second try.

4. Buying a 3DS and PS4 at launch. Only bought two games for my PS4 and I've only used the 3DS for Nintendo Video and Picross 3D until 3D Land came out.