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[tallbroski]

I used a trainer to win OFFLINE matches for me in FIFA 15 UT matches because I got tired grinding for coins. The matches took like 12 minutes per game and during those 12 minutes I would just alt+tab and do other stuff. It wasn`t worth it because each match gave like 400 coins so I gave up and stopped playing FIFA no way in hell I am using real money

 

[shotgunbob04]

In June 2007 when I was 12, I convinced my 9-year-old brother to sell our DS's, GBA SP's, XBOX, GameCube, and all our games (15 for each handheld, like 40 for GC), controllers, GBA link cables & other accessories for credit at GameStop in order to buy the Wii. FUCKING GAMESTOP UGH. And the Wii

We got roughly $400 in credit with an extra 20% credit coupon, if that gives you an idea of how little money we got for all that stuff.

All in order to buy the Wii in June 2007 at a random GameStop where we actually found Wii's available. They were still hard to find back then, even like 6.5 months after launch. I clearly didn't think about the Wii's backwards compatability, as I sold all our games, save for Mario Party 4 & 6 randomly.

I think I regretted it in a week after having to return both NFS Carbon and Sonic & the Secret Rings. Zelda: TP & Super Paper Mario made things better.

8 years later and I still regret my extreme devotion to buying the Wii by selling my brother's and my entire gaming history.

 

[Rats Off To Ya]

When I was in middle school I sold basically all my classic games (mostly SNES and PS1) to EB so I could buy new PS2 titles. Older me wants to smack younger me upside the head for his shortsightedness.

 

[Chû Totoro]

You sound like a textbook depressed person. I'm not a doctor, but maybe talk to someone about it.

That goes for a lot of people in this thread. Don't be afraid to get help if you feel like you need it.

Sorry I haven't got the time to read your answer yesterday.

Thank you but don't worry I'm perfectly fine and I may be the happiest person on earth ^^

Being sad sometime is not something that seems to be wrong for me. Also I'm not sure if it really was sadness but maybe more a sort of emotion knowing something was gone forever.. Sure it was not depression

Iwata's death didn't moved me like a close person's death would have done but it made me go back in time seeing all these moments and memories that I can relate to him or Nintendo in a way.

So yeah I was moved and cried more than I thought but it didn't affected me in the long term and it was touching and joyful memories that made me cried and realise that Nintendo (and him) had a specific place in my heart. Also seeing all the various homages made the thing even more touching.

I know Iwata was not someone I really knew and Nintendo closing or another important person (like Miyamoto) being gone may affect me too but it won't change my life.

Also you should know that I'm a bit emotional and I'm not afraid to shred a tear when I'm touched by something so there's that

For example, when Tonari no Totoro was being re released in theatre in France I went to see it and shred a tear during the opening credits lol.... Also while watching it with my little girl I sometime have tears in my eyes too because I'm so happy to share this moment with her... a moment I've always had in my mind like a perfect father - daughter scene: me watching Totoro with her and her having a big smile and yelling "Dad! It's Totoro!!!" She's soooo cute <3

But you know I also have tears in my eyes even just by looking at her playing. I'm really a lucky guy and my little girl is and will still be everything to me (with her coming little brother... in a few weeks he'll be here smiling with us! )

PS: thanks for the post though, it's very nice to see some people who would gladly help an unknown person on the Internet to get better. Most of the time people are going worse because of boards on the Internet... sadly :/

 

[Ossom]

Sorry I haven't got the time to read your answer yesterday.

Thank you but don't worry I'm perfectly fine and I may be the happiest person on earth ^^

Being sad sometime is not something that seems to be wrong for me. Also I'm not sure if it really was sadness but maybe more a sort of emotion knowing something was gone forever.. Sure it was not depression

Iwata's death didn't moved me like a close person's death would have done but it made me go back in time seeing all these moments and memories that I can relate to him or Nintendo in a way.

So yeah I was moved and cried more than I thought but it didn't affected me in the long term and it was touching and joyful memories that made me cried and realise that Nintendo (and him) had a specific place in my heart. Also seeing all the various homages made the thing even more touching.

I know Iwata was not someone I really knew and Nintendo closing or another important person (like Miyamoto) being gone may affect me too but it won't change my life.

Also you should know that I'm a bit emotional and I'm not afraid to shred a tear when I'm touched by something so there's that

For example, when Tonari no Totoro was being re released in theatre in France I went to see it and shred a tear during the opening credits lol.... Also while watching it with my little girl I sometime have tears in my eyes too because I'm so happy to share this moment with her... a moment I've always had in my mind like a perfect father - daughter scene: me watching Totoro with her and her having a big smile and yelling "Dad! It's Totoro!!!" She's soooo cute <3

But you know I also have tears in my eyes even just by looking at her playing. I'm really a lucky guy and my little girl is and will still be everything to me (with her coming little brother... in a few weeks he'll be here smiling with us! )

PS: thanks for the post though, it's very nice to see some people who would gladly help an unknown person on the Internet to get better. Most of the time people are going worse because of boards on the Internet... sadly :/

That's really sweet. I hope to share those kind of moments with my future children. Thanks for sharing.

 

[E92 M3]

Not all together. But I have one of setup/testing.

Only two controllers pictured, but you get the idea.

That's pretty cool - I bet you guys had a lot of fun.

 

[mobilesworking]

Pathetic:
- Tomb Raider "nude codes." Later, I installed the PC demo, just so I could install a nude patch.

Desperate:
- Most recently, I sent my girlfriend to Target on her lunch break for a Rosalina amiibo. I don't even like Rosalina.

Obsessive:
- Declined invitations to hangout with IRL friends so I could play Gemstone III.

Regrettable:
- Accidentally named my Gemstone III character after a dandruff shampoo.

 

[Spiritwalker]

Hrmm... probably selling half my PS2 library to buy an Xbox 360 Core Edition (no HDMI, no wireless, 4GB) back in the day. I mean, I enjoyed the 360 for a while, but I do regret selling all those games. SotC was one of them, iirc. Had some rare-ish titles as well.

It's not a huge deal though.

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

holy fuck

 

[Eggbok]

Like US dollars? Holy shit

Hooooly shit

why

LOL so what does 2k get you in Home anyway?

Mangod is that you?

Yeah it was 2k US dollars, $2000 lol! Me and some of my best friends would get on Home after school like literally every day so at the time it didn't matter because I knew it was something I would use consistently. The thought of Home closing literally never crossed my mind. And because of that I would buy everything just because I was able too and I wanted to have it. I'm a sucker for modern houses, waterfalls, sunsets, etc. which were featured in a lot of spaces. I also really like clothes, most of the time in some rpgs (the few I've played) I will choose fashion over stats lol. And since Home was basically a digital mall my wallet was like.

Once they changed Home and added all the dances, tvs, vehicles, etc. it honestly got worse. By the time Home ended I'm pretty sure I had nearly every house/apartment and decoration you could think of. One apartment alone was anywhere from $5 - $20 if not more. Then you add in all the clothes, which each sell individually or bundled, the emotes, the dances, vehicles, the furniture and decorations, the club houses, etc. it was just nuts. Looking back, it all sounds really crazy and really stupid but the funny thing is that I don't regret any of it. Like Home is gone forever, all that money is gone but If I had the chance to do it all again I likely would. And the fact that PS4 is getting about 3-4 different Home replacements is terrifying and exciting at the same time. I'm obviously going to be much smarter though + plus I have much more important things to worry about.

TL;DR - I like shopping (digital or physical), and was wreckless with spending on things I didn't need but did it anyways because I am/was a shopaholic and like to buy all the things with no regrets.

 

[Lady Siara]

Unsurprisingly, Runescape really brought the worst out in everyone. What about that game drew such darkness? Was it because it was many people's (myself included) first online game due to being browser based and free to play?

It was some sort of psychological experiment for children, wasn't it?

 

[Visualante2]

I was playing Gran Turismo, and doing all the licenses slowly myself. My father got gold on all of them and over wrote my save. I was so mad he went out and bought his own memory card. We weren't that well off at the time so I felt bad about that. This was just after he bought the analog controller and I had moaned that it didn't vibrate. I guess the person at the shop sold him the wrong thing. I think they took it back because game shops weren't complete assholes in the 90s.

I also begged for a Mega Drive when we were pretty broke and they got it for me somehow. Couldn't afford many games. I am a single child so I suppose this sort of behaviour is fairly normal.

I pretended to be a girl on Runescape when someone propositioned me "girl?" and I became his internet gf. He gave me a rare blue party hat, which I then lost. I was so ashamed that I lost it that I totally blocked him out of my life. Those things are probably worth $100s today.

There are one or two internet things but I'd rather not share them.

 

[GabeTheGrouch76]

My sister's Xbox was having trouble running our JSRF/Sega GT 2001 Holiday Bundle disc, it kept freezing every now and then. So I tried to fix it by washing it with soap and water.

It never worked again on the system after that...

I also don't look fondly at my past self during the pre-release days of Sonic 4: Episode I. I didn't engage too much into it at the forum I was at, but the times I did engage in mocking / speaking negatively about people critical about the game I feel were quite regrettable. It especially hit hard when I quickly grew disappointed with the game and realized how much of the critique was completely justified. Needless to say I was far on the other side of the fence with the second Sonic 4 episode.

 

[RayearthRob]

Played chrono trigger in japanese...

 

[jetsaito]

Went to my cousin's house to do a PSP hack for him and noticed he had a big memory card for it so I swapped his for my 1 GB memory pro duo during the process. Don't know if he ever noticed.

 

[Senketsu]

I fell in love on a girl I only met online while playing Call of Duty: Black Ops


I was legit heartbroken for over a month when she dumped me.

 

[EatChildren]

I own all the Mass Effect comics and books.

 

[Linkark07]

Waking up at like 2:00 am for play WoW before going to school.

 

[Duress]

Camp out for a Wii

 

[Firthy]

Buying random old retro games that I have no intention of ever touching just because I find them cheap. This still hasn't stopped and i'm currently awaiting delivery of 8 new PSP games (I have no PSP).

 

[flatearthpandas]

I've bought 5 different 3DS systems. Stood in line for the 3DS, Wii U, and PS4. Have stood in line for midnight release games. That's probably the worst.

 

[Harmen]

I used to swap boxes of games when lending them to friends, as I didn't trust anyone with my gamecases and manuals. And that included PS2-era cases.

Nowadays I really don't care, not even about my "collection" as a whole, I just buy games to play, be it physical or digital.

 

[galvatron]

I love that physical theft and prostitution are more acceptable than admitting to pirating a game here.

My contribution might be asking for a power glove, virtual boy at launch, and buying Eye Toy and a few games.

I also skipped junior high to stay home and play SNES so many days that another week would have gotten me mandatory summer school, but I don't regret it since I knew I'd turn it up in H.S. and did.

So, nothing approaching epic regret for me...

 

[catpurrcat]

I have done this too many times. Android phones, tablets, laptops, PCs. Different 3rd party controllers, mapping inputs never being satisfied, buying adapters, endlessly tweaking software configurations, messing with custom firmware, trying out every "best" emulator, fumbling with tons of filters, A/B comparisons. Hours and hours. More than 95% of the time not actually playing games. I eventually started feeling like I was wasting my goddamn time with this obsessiveness, not having fun at all and driving myself a little crazy. I had that moment of realizing I was neck-deep in doing things wrong and had a moment of clarity.

Getting into basic classic gaming with original hardware has been THE cure. I sit in front of my CRT, fire up a console, pick up the controller and just PLAY. There was considerable setup to get to a state where I felt comfortable but it was worth it and paid off with results, unlike the endless tinkering in the years past. Simple and no distractions. A few examples: I finally picked up Streets of Rage 2 this weekend and finished it after a couple of tries. A while back I beat Batman NES for the first time. Re-played Resident Evil 2. Played through SMB3 for the first time in years instead of using the first couple of levels to test damn emulators. I think I have played and beaten more shooters in the past month than throughout my entire life, and that was one of my favorite genres growing up. It helps that some games are pretty short and simple to pick up, but regardless I have played and finished more games this past summer than at any time in my post-childhood years of gaming.

YES! I get strange looks from friends over my classic retro gaming set up over the past year, but this post summarizes why it's so effective!

So no regrets (other than spending $25 on Uniracers which was fun for like 2 hours)

 

[butalala]

I played Vanilla WOW for about a year and a half. I didn't fail any classes because of it, but it made my grades worse and negatively impacted my social life at college.

When my DS Lite's touch screen broke, I sold it and all of my games (just 3 or 4) to Gamestop and then took the store credit to another Gamestop in the same mall to buy another one. I pirated games using an R4 for the rest of the DS's life. I've since sworn off all (most) piracy.

I have a backlog that is more than 50 games and 850 hours long (according to howlongtobeat.com).

I took a day off of work to play Smash Wii U. I had my girlfriend swing by gamestop to pick up the Gamecube adapter because I didn't want to stop playing. I ended up spending most of the day fixing a broken faucet in the kitchen sink. I had to lie about how many vacation days I had at the end of the year because I had one less than I needed to cover a trip or something.

Now I'm working fulltime and going to school part time. I regularly deny myself an extra 15-30 minutes of sleep because I stay up late to get a little bit of game time in. Tropical Freeze is worth it though.

 

[FaintColt388301]

My first year of college I constantly skipped so I could play Halo 3 with my friend. Some of the most fun I've ever had.

It kind of worked my first semester. Ended up with an A two B's and a C. Second semester wasn't so smooth. Had to drop two classes.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Got a score of 1/12 in an important exam thanks to fallout NV ^.^

I've stayed up until 2 a.m. these last few nights and really regretting it work, because of playing Fallout:NV. Some of those mods really add whole new dynamics to the game. Project Nevada is one of the best mods I've ever played.

My own confession: I bought a few Mass Effect books getting caught in the zeitgeist of ME3 and then never reading them after being so disappointed in the game.

A few years back I had a massive dose of nostalgia and wanted to track down some old systems/games from my youth and spent $600 or so buying a dreamcast, N64, and 3 different versions of the PS1. And then never played them as they look awful on non tube-type T.V.'s and just ended up playing the games emulated on my PC. Though I did take the Dreamcast into work to play Tennis2k1 with 4 players with some of the crew which ended up being a go to thing to do when we had down time.

I camped out at Walmart for a PS2 on release and they only had 20 systems to sell. I was number 21 in line. My dad and I wasted hours waiting for that and had nothing to show for it.

Right when the 360 made the switch to HDMI I sold my old one to a coworker for $100 to stipend the cost of a new one and the system broke 2 weeks later with a RRD. I felt bad but not enough to give him his money back. Though luckily his renters insurance covered it.

 

[Onivulk]

Here we go. Worst thing I've ever done. I was 14 back in 2007 between the release of Crackdown and Halo 3, my cousin and I bought Crackdown just to get into the halo 3 beta (that's kind of obsessive in itself I think). Like most people we discovered Crackdown was pretty damn good so we arranged a sleepover weekend to play crackdown coop via LAN since he didn't have Xbox Live Gold at the time. It was great fun but, once the weekend was over I got home and my Xbox proceeded to red ring.

My heart sunk. Halo 3 was two months away or so. I was devastated. I wasn't going to be able to play on release. So I came up with a plan.

I waited until I knew everyone at my cousins house would be gone and told my mom I had forgotten my controller and some games at his house.

I packed my Xbox in an old PS2 bag with a strap on it. It fit perfectly. I went in and swapped out my dead Xbox with his. I had a custom faceplate on my Xbox so I swapped the faceplate too. Came back out with my new Xbox in the bag so my mom had no reason to question it.

My mom found out later and quickly suspected me but I pointed out that I couldn't have done that because I have the custom blue faceplate still.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

I fucked up my leaving certificate (like, exams to get into college in Ireland) cos infamous 2 came out, and I decided playing that was more important than going to university

Spoiler

it wasn't.

Got into real fights with people when they insulted nintendo.
Chose games over food.
Might have done some vaguely prostitution like things to pay for games.

 

[SoundPulse]

I scammed a kid out of his dragonite.

Spoiler

for a magikarp i named mew

 

[105.Will]

I stayed up until 7am to watch the persona 5 trailer the night before a family get together. Got several emails the next day asking if I needed help. It was worth it tho.

 

[Nheco]

I almost buy a Wii instead of a Xbox 360. Thanks God that a good friend of mine bring his 360 to my house with Gears of War to convince me to buy one. Three days later I was already with mine. Fuck Wii and Nintendo.

 

[MikeyMike]

I come from a poor family so when I tried to trick my grandmother into giving me money for videogames (it was 20 years ago so I don't remember the silly reason I gave to her), I handed up with an whole quarter.

Found my first job the following week and never tried to ask for money in my life since then.

 

[banefirelord]

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

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[pulsemyne]

Alarm clocking for an EVE online operation. Only for the fleet to be blue balled. It was 6 in the morning.

 

[TheSlySoul]

$2000 on PS Home cannot be beat.
I guess recently imported the EU 3DS and also bought a NA 3DS. What can I say, I love the regular 3DS. Plus early access to Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam.

 

[banefirelord]

Paying $20 extra to get Red Dead Redemption airmailed to me the day after launch because my local store had run out of copies. Thank goodness the game was fantastic.

 

[Rich!]

Uhhh I imported a european region N3DS XL from Australia last November and paid silly money to ensure I got it on launch day.

Actually no, that was a fantastic decision if only for the day I went to GAME afterwards and showed them it after they tried to get me to preorder it for the UK release.

"Blah blah do you want to preorder the new Nintendo 3DS"

"Nah I got a new one last week"

"No you didn't, must have been the standard XL"

"Nope"

Etc. Was fun.

 

[thekiddfran]

Put me in the young sociopath category.
Im not proud of my younger self at all.
I remember stealing and trading in games that didnt belong to me from others I knew.

Even as i did it i felt like a little shit and I was.

Years later as an adult I would own up to it and show up on that former friends doorstep with a confession and an envelope of cash in the amount he had spent on those items as well as an apology.

Worst part was I knew i had ruined our friendship permanently.

Wow

 

[mackattk]

Buying the GamePro swimsuit issue as a kid.

 

[Rich!]

Wow

I used to run a games store for many years.

Don't kid yourself, that stuff happens all the time.

 

[SkyTurnsRed]

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

This deserved more recognition.

- using vacation days/sick time to play new releases

I don't see this as bad. If that's how you want to relax, it's your time off.

 

[BjornTheBear]

The most pathetic, desperate, obsessed AND regrettable (all at once) thing I did in gaming was... erhm.... I BOUGHT A FUCKING RUSH IN WOW WITH REAL MONEY!

There, I said it.

I don't even play that game anymore, but this shit still haunts me. Damn...

 

[Vire]

Posted on NeoGAF 22,000 times.

 

[Enordash]

I stood in line for 13 hours to buy a Wii at launch. Sold it 3 or so months later. Bought another one for Brawl and ended up selling that one shortly after as well.

Obviously having learned my lesson, I bought a WiiU at launch, sold it a few months later, bought the WiiU Wind Waker bundle when it came out then sold that WiiU too a few months later...

 

[bjork]

- 14 hours in line to get a PS2 that I took home, hooked up, and realized I didn't have a PS2 game yet.

- I had a girlfriend come by after I had just done some kind of stuff on a Saturn game. She let herself in, walked in, and proceeded to turn the console off without letting me save, saying, "you can play with me now." I was like, "fuck no I can't, now I have to redo all that shit I just did." and I made her go home rather than be naked with her and whatnot.

 

[Greddleok]

I basically lived on a US time schedule while living in Europe to play WoW with friends during college.

Idiot.

 

[Rich!]

oh wait I have something that's truly desperate, obsessed and regrettable.

I completed Donkey Kong 64 101% when I was younger. UK, PAL copy.

 

[emb]

Worst example I can think of: I stayed out of school one day, because Animal Crossing had it's first event. Was the Sports Festival I think. Anyway, it was some meaningless event, where some citizens just kinda gathered at the fountain. Tortimer might have given me something, but I was super disappointed with it in general. I didn't really know what to expect, but somehow I thought it was worth using a day off of middle school for.

Other kinda funny examples:
-Spent $5 to get a demo code for Smash 3DS a week before the public demo release (and mine had unlimited uses, at least.)
-Left school early the day Smash Melee released. I didn't have a GCN yet, but I did hijack my older brother's.
-Convinced a friend in our group to buy a Japanese copy of Brawl, assuming we'd be able to figure out how to region mod a Wii. We were not able to do it, sold the game back.
-Stood in line all day for a Wii U. Was totally worth it for the Wii, but with Wii U supply was plentiful and the sense of camaraderie in the line wasn't really there. Also, this happened while I already had a preorder for a Wii U at Gamestop. They refused to open at midnight, and I was salty enough to go wait in line at a Best Buy. Great feeling getting home and playing it for 20 minutes that night/morning, but I wish I hadn't gotten in line quite so soon. Was there an hour or two before anyone else, and several hours before any sort of crowd.

Lol, good times. This stuff's pathetic, but also fun to look back on. Being impatient is part of the fun.

 

[Mets9]

Nothing really bad, honestly.
And BTW, spending days off work to play games is not bad.

I regret a couple of things:
-throwing away GB games boxes...still have the cartridges though.

-spending too much time in lineage 2 when I could study/hang out with friends and still have a good character on l2.

-insist to have a n64 to play Pokémon Colosseum. Spent a lot of hours on it, and pokemon snap. Only 2 games I played on n64.

 

[Filthy Casual]

Well this thread is entertaining. I've broken a few controllers over the years due to rage but that's about it.