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

TheDanger said:
He probably could have gotten a way better hooker than you if he sold it.
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a) Jackass.
b) I'm now waiting for a guy to show up in the thread with a 'swapped mint Ocarina of Time for sex' comment.

Ms.Galaxy said:
Gonna be honest here, that kinda stung.
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It was a sealed, mint condition Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Collector's Edition. Don't worry, you've now left everyone in this thread with the haunting lingering question of would they/wouldn't they....? (Or alternatively, what would Jesus do? I mean, it was Ocarina of Time.)
 
Pathetic:
- Played Hannah Montana the Movie (PS3) for the easy platinum trophy.

Desperate:
- Don't remember now.

Obsessive:
- Skipped a few classes and sleep nights to play Diablo II (would do it again);
- Bought/rented easy games for easy trophies (this blends with pathetic topic, above).

Regrettable:
- Buying an Xbox 360 + 1 year XBL Gold in 2011 because the 'neighboor grass was greener', turns out MS focused on Kinect shit from that year on, I kept playing more PS3 and 360 gathered dust;
- Buying a PS4 camera - I never used it;
- Buying digital $60 Tomb Raider DE (PS4), $60 Destiny TTK (PS4); barely played either... not to mention dozens of digital games from flash sales I never touched.
- Spend over $200 in Destiny of Spirits (PS Vita) microtransactions only to see it shut down a few months later - what the fuck was I thinking?
Loved that game. :( grabbed my 100% tho.

Most of my regrets come from spending money. I guess I should take note and THINK more before I get hyped into buying gaming related things.
 
I had the original NES deluxe with ROB, and a ton of games, plus several years worth of the Nintendo Power magazine which included the first couple of issues which were basically black and white 8 page pamphlets. I gave it all to my then girlfriend's brother. I did not realize she was crazy. That stuff is gone forever and I regret it. The Batman Sunsoft game is one in particular I miss. And Robocop. But not WorldRunner 3D.

I bought Superman64 instead of taking my wife out to dinner when we were having marital issues. Pretty sure it sent a message that I didn't realize I was sending. We aren't married anymore. I do have a family now that wouldn't have happened with her so it's not all bad. I was able to return that game and get QuakeII 64, which I still have :D
 
My regrettable gaming moment was pledging $250 to the Mighty No. 9 kickstarter. I was so hyped for it at the beginning but now I feel like a sucker.
 
Oh, I've had a few moments sadly.

I actually bought that big Wolfenstein TNO Panzerfaust edition, thinking it would be limited. It's still in stock now :/

Bought both the Destiny LE's even though I knew I'd get bored within two weeks.

I also bought the Senran Kagura 2 LE, the one with the boob mousepad, left it out and my mum saw it :\
 
fidelio_forte said:
b) I'm now waiting for a guy to show up in the thread with a 'swapped mint Ocarina of Time for sex' comment.
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I haven't seen my old friend in years. I would laugh pretty hard if he shows up here and makes that comment. He was a pretty big game collector last I saw him, so I'd suspect he might have a gaf account.
 
Stayed home from school during the Street Fighter 2 Turbo and NBA Jam release dates, and had my mom call in sick for me.

I'm sure there are worse things, but I can't think of them.
 
Playing WoW for years. Also spent so much money on server and faction transfers for myself and friends. Probably close to a grand in the transfers alone.

Glad that 'phase' is over.....
or is it?
You just never know.
 
Cancelling a booty call to keep playing Grandia 2. No, I never told the girl why.

In general, money I've spent last gen on collector's editions I regret. Not all of them were bought at launch but as they've taken up so much space, I've decided to basically stop getting them.
 
I got my mom & uncle to drive me 40 min to the next town so that I could wait in line to buy the Wii in the snow at launch. I ended up acting like I was the Nintendo 64 kid after getting it in the parking lot.
 
-Bought RDR a week after it came out for $25 and sold it to a friend a month later for $30

-Charged a friend to use my 360 transfer cable when he got a new 360.

-Stole Pokemon XD from a Blockbuster. I rented it and knew that store was soon shutting down, I just never went back there. This was before you needed a credit card tied to the account.
 
Playing way to much Call of Duty in High School and avoiding my irl friends.

Thankfully when I gave it up they welcomed me back to the social circle lol
 
Wolf Dawgz said:
I got my mom & uncle to drive me 40 min to the next town so that I could wait in line to buy the Wii in the snow at launch. I ended up acting like I was the Nintendo 64 kid after getting it in the parking lot.
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Don't feel bad the closest store to me to even buy games was 50 minutes away.
 
Back at the height of my Halo craze in late middle school, I was so looking forward to the Mythic Map Pack for Halo 3 that I went on Youtube to some video claiming that they would give me a code for the map pack (I don't remember the exact situation, but some people were able to get it and others still had to wait a few weeks) if I gave them a $20 Xbox Live card code.

My dumbass did it. The guy even strung me along with Youtube messages about getting me that code. I can't believe I fell for that. I was so ashamed that I told all my friends I "lost" the card.

Other than that I mean, I spent $150 on the Halo Reach Legendary Edition. I don't really regret that though. Bungie-led Halo holds a special place in my heart, and the game was good, plus I do like the statue and the giant ass box it came in.
 
TheSpoiler said:
If you are spending hours with hentai, you are looking at the wrong hentai my friend.
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- I borrowed my friend's copy of THPS3 for GameCube in like second grade and never returned it. I still have it. I never even owned a GameCube, why'd I even borrow it?

- I told my grandparent's I had to call a friend for something to do with school when I was really calling the old Pay by Phone number for RuneScape because I really wanted to be a member.

- I've stayed up all night playing games of Civilization IV. Sometimes I might start my game at 9pm and finish at 6am.

- I stole my mom's copy of Excite Truck.

- I randomly decided to scratch up the disk to a Guitar Hero for some reason when I saw it in the drawer. I don't even know why I did it, I just saw the disk, took it out, and started scratching it.
 
I was a massive Chromehounds(RIP) player. One day an old friend and I decided that we wanted the scout valor achievement. You needed 2 million points for this. The most you could get on a single map was 1200 points which, on a decent run, took around 8 minutes including loading screens, so 9000 points an hour give or take.

2,000,000/9000 is 222 hours doing nothing but driving around a map activating towers.

I actually achieved this, all for a whopping 20 Gamerscore. I think around 25 people(if that) actually got this before the superweapon glitch was discovered towards the end of the games life.

I'm so sad.
 
-I have made multiple gigantic Excel spreadsheets for games.

-The craziest of my Excel spreadsheets is a completely worthless formula I devised for ranking how good a given Pokemon is for completing the usually trivially easy in-game content.

-I really want to do something like the above Pokemon formula for Dragon Warrior Monsters 2, but that's a way tougher nut to crack.

-I finished Mass Effect 3 55 hours after it came out. I didn't miss sleep (16 hours off that total), and I went to class once (90 minute round trip, hour long class, so 2:30). The game took me 36 hours to beat. 36+18=54. The last hour was trying to get it to run because the in-game servers were getting slammed during the first hour I tried to play.

-I remember when I beat it because the only time I have ever publicly nerd-raged was after the ending of Mass Effect 3 on Facebook.

-I have blasted so many WoW characters to the level cap in marathon 12 hour a day sessions for weeks at a time I'm having a hard time remembering every time I've done this. Even as I sit here now more are coming to mind. Most of them I barely played at the cap.

-I currently have four Battle.net accounts - one for my main games, and three for having a very healthy cushion to not have to pay for Hearthstone arena.

-I was irritated that there was a funeral procession for a fallen police officer in my area the same day The Burning Crusade was coming out and my dad didn't want to take me to the mall until later that night. I still feel like a shit human being about this one.

-Traded in my old SNES/Genesis/N64/Game Boy games for cash to get a copy of Golden Sun: The Lost Age with.
 
Just remembered as well, don't know if it counts but when I first got a Gameboy Advance I had this idea for no apparent reason that a port of Banjo Kazooie existed for it. I kept hearing that it was true and coming and my brain never processed that the GBA could not possibly do Banjo Kazooie. Even when the DS came I once again could not process it and still awaited my GBA Banjo Kazooie.

Years later I learned that not only was the GBA never going to have the game due to power, but because Microsoft bought Rare lol. How many arguments did I have with friends/kids that it was coming. Even convinced some of them.
 
I bet a kid 40 bucks in middle school that the Wii would outsell the PS3 on launch day

I then paid him the $40 convinced he had won the bet and didn't find out I was right for a few years
 
I occasionally get obsessed with getting some game to run through a certain setup. Usually this means either emulating old console/PC games or setting up all kinds of streaming options to play current PC games on mobile devices. Sometimes I might fix an old laptop to see if I could emulate a certain game and possibly set it up as a living room PC for light gaming. Probably has something to do with nostalgia, since this obsession often involves SMB3, Doom 2, A Link to the Past or Fallout, all of which I played a lot when they originally came out. I spend a ton of time researching different options and testing them, but if I succeed I always stop there, never really playing anything with those setups.

It would be just a nice little hobby, but I will use work time for this if I get the urge and spend too much money for devices I don't really use (Shield tablet + controller, adapters and cables to attach mobile devices to a controller or TV, parts for old laptops etc.).

Also, Steam and Xbox Live sales.
 
While in high school I spent my entire spring break one year playing Persona 4. My siblings and friends coming and going through the house and I was seated in the same spot for days. I remember somebody asking me what I was doing at the same time I had maxed Yukiko's social link and she just quietly went on her way.

And money wise I started to keep a spreadsheet of how much money I've spent on games this year. I plan on making a thread at the end of the year to see how similar it is to others. Currently, about $1200 spent so far...
 
Pathetic: Waited outside to buy Skyrim at midnight in November... in Minnesota.

Desperate: In high school, I sold my GameCube and all of my games for weed money.

Obsessed: In the past, on numerous occasions, I chose WoW over hanging out with people in real life.

Regrettable: I bought that Defiance game on PS3 for 60 bucks. That game sucked, and then it went free-to-play.
 
I drove 230 km across the border(as in another country) to get my Uncharted 3 collector's edition, which was preordered and already paid for. When I got to that particular Gamestop store, some pretentious fat ass with a Skyrim tattoo on his forehead told me the game has not arrived at the store and he is sorry for the misunderstanding, and that's after they called me that same day telling me my package arrived and I can get it from them.


Words were useless....

Did I win the thread?

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Chasing achievements....easily the stupidest thing I've ever done. In just about 3 years I amassed over 155K, mistly playing the shittiest games ever made for easy points.
Luckily, I cured myself of that addiction, today I have a PS4, notifications turned off, and I don't even know how many trophies I have.
 
I bought an Xbox One for Rock Band 4.

I bought Smash 4 three times and it was the game that made me finally import a Japanese 3DS (I did want several other imports though). I don't even like the game compared to Melee and don't really play it anymore.
 
Lol Blockbuster...

I used to keep things they included with rentals that weren't tracked. Instruction manuals, strategy guides, that big book that came with earthbound. I also kept several of those n64 rumble paks from star fox. Must of had over half a dozen of those things.
 
I asked one of my PSN friends to heart my LBP profile because I was only one heart away from the platinum trophy. That's about it, really.
 
- I skipped classes for the Twilight Princess launch day for Gamecube. Otherwise it would have been impossible to get the game.

- Replayed FF VII Renaming the characters with The A-Team Names. I know that Cid should have been Murdoch because of the piloting thing, but ended going to Cloud. He was batshit insane, anyways.

- I got a bit too pissed off at Final Fantasy XIII and decided no other person would endure this shit with my copy of the game

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Anyways, it was second ahdn and the box was in such a sorry state that I could not even salvage it to use it on another game.
 
My attendance over third and fourth year at high school (two crucial years, first 'real' exams) was in the teens thanks to FFXI. I just very rarely went. Total addiction.

Needless to say I got terrible grades.
 
I buy way too many games on Steam just for the trading cards. After all the games' cards drop, I will usually buy/trade for more cards until I have enough to make a badge. If I ever get a booster pack for that game later on, I will complete the set again unless that badge is already max level, in which case I will sell the booster pack.

I've actually made a bit of money here and there by doing this - you just have to be careful what you buy and how you sell it, of course - but I also know that I'm supporting a lot of crappy shovelware devs by not only buying their awful games but giving them a little money after that (devs get a cut of the price of every card sold), and that I'm doing it just so that my next big Steam purchase will hurt my wallet just a tiny bit less.

There's a cycle of addiction at play here, of course. Every badge you create or upgrade gives you XP, and every ten levels you get a better chance to receive booster packs, which are created when someone else out there makes a badge. I'm well over level 100 right now, and am starting to receive boosters fairly frequently. Sometimes I just don't want to mess with them and quickly sell every booster I have, and I realize that I make the most money when I'm the most apathetic towards the whole trading card thing. And yet I continue with it, in hopes of making that $29.99 game a $28.71 game one day.
 
alright, shit is getting real

- remember when the showed coloured game cubes? like platinum etc? and they didnt come out for aaaages? I full disassembled mine and spray painted it silver and sold it on ebay for 3 to 4 times its worth.

- when I used to work at EBgames a guy came in trading in PS1 games. He had a copy of dragon ball Z, an EXTREMELY rare ps1 game at the time. EB had a generic sku you could input that allows you to create a trade in value, and sale price of an item without record of what was coming in or going out. I gave the guy the few bucks EB was offering then sold myself the game for the same price. I then went to the back, cleaned it up and sealed it using the shrink wrap machine. I sold it on ebay for about 300 USD

- target had an error in their flyer of "20 off any xbox one game" instead of SELECTED games. I found the dumbest dudebro I could find and initiated my plan. I purchased a game that was less than 20 and showed the flyer and he said " I cant give it for free so ill have to charge a penny" I almost shit myself because I knew this would work and paid the penny for the game.........it gets better this was only step one.

after I knew he was dumb enough to mark it down for a penny I exploited him and in all honesty probably cost him his job.....but I purcahsed EVERY SINGLE XBOX ONE GAME that was 30 or less. I had over 75 titles that I paid between 0.01 to 9.99 for a grand total of just under 200

I then took these sealed games to walmarts around the state and used their no reciept return policy for store credit....i made out like a fucking bandit
 
  • Pathetic: Skipped Verdugo in Resident Evil 4 by freezing him and shattering him with the Rocket Launcher.
  • Pathetic: Skipped The End in Metal Gear Solid 3 multiple times by sniping him in that one scene where he's out pre-Boss fight.
  • Pathetic: Used a trainer for infinite health to beat the final boss of Dead Rising 2.
  • Regrettable: Paid 60€ for Sims 2 Pets on the Gamecube, absolute bug fest.
  • Regrettable: Bought CoD: Black Ops 1 on PC at launch for full price, couldn't even run it and never went back to see what the patches improved.
  • Regrettable: Spent a lot of money on gifting Sonic Generations to friends at full price and they hated it.
  • Obsessed: Failed an important exam due to priotizing Halo Reach.
  • Obsessed/Regrettable: Same as above but with World of Warcraft, except not only did I fail exams due to it, I also lost contact with friends because I would stay inside to play WoW instead.
  • Pathetic: Boasted about having a clean backlog only to amass a massive one days after due to sales.
 
Someone should make a film about the RuneScape one :D


Final year of my first Bachelors I left my dissertation until easter break. The plan was to work at it constantly for 3 weeks. Only DQVIII came out the day I got off. Ended up writing the disertation in a few days before going back to uni. I actually ended up handing it in expecting I'd have to resit, but somehow did alright.

Visiting Japan, I boughy a Japanese PS2 to play FFXII and KH2 early. My Japanese is really basic so had to have my laptop with English translation open beside me at all times.
 
A lot of these are quite depressing. I've never skipped work or school to play games. I remember back in high school I left some assignments to like, two days before they were due. Playing games was only part of that procrastination though.

I bought a Nes and snes, and I'm currently building a mame arcade cab, but I don't feel as those are particularly pathetic. I probably don't play them enough to justify the initial purchase though.

I guess trying to take my friends stuff in runescape? I was around 11 at the time though, so I was pretty shitty.

Edit: Now I remember, I bought a vita exclusively for persona 4 golden, and boasted to my friends about owning one. None of them gave the slightest fuck, but I was still smug about its performance vs their DS's. That was sad.
 
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