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

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I really hate and love the latest Nobunaga Ambition but found the data sorting totally lacking in game.

Being a working adult, I have little time to deal with this kind of nonsense in game. But I can't help but feel I'm playing with one hand tied behind my back because I kept making the least optimal choices when assigning officers to my army.

Then it hit me. To excel, I must first do Excel.
So I open MS Excel while at work and loaded up my dropbox with all my screenshots and started doing it myself.

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Oh man! I did something similar with romance of the three kingdoms III, as a teenager. I would write up all my officers' stats in a notebook and read them later, in bed, when I wasn't playing the game. I was so addicted to that game.

I bought nobunaga's ambition on day one, due to nostalgia. But I can't bring myself to play. I've been avoiding it.
 
Lindsay said:
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buying an N64. pretty much a worthless system. only ever had 3 games for it, all pokémon ones. 2 of which are basically useless/pointless in this era (stadium games). not saying I didn't have fun with 'em at the time but I can't help but think that money coulda went towards games I'd still enjoy playing today.
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I know that the N64 had quite a small line-up but to read someone only got 3 games and they were not out of Banjo, Mario, Zelda or Mario Kart, really is strange to me :D.
 
CMojicaAce said:
Most pathetic/regrettable thing I've ever done in games is using a guide for my first playthrough of Demon's and Dark Souls because I was intimidated by the difficulty and didn't want to die a lot.

A blind playthrough would have been incredible :(
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I used a guide for my first run of dark souls for the same reason. Still loved it and it's probably one of my favourite games, but I wish I'd played it blind first time
 
I have about ten different Skyrim characters; each one only did one major questline. When playing the next one, I would pretend all the things my prior character did were canon in my active game. For instance, my first character did the mage guild quest, so that was done, he was the archmage, and no one else could do those quests.

Spent a LOT of time playing and replaying the first few hours.

Kind of wish you could import world-state into new games so your characters really would appear as heads of the guilds, etc.

Did a similar thing with Oblivion, but in THAT case I used the same character, they were simply incognito: when the head of the mage's guild joined the fighter's guild, she wore obsidian armor and used a greatsword, even though she stunk with them and could have melted everyone with fireballs instantly.

"Who is the mysterious black knight, that is kind of not great at fighting?"

I am full-grown adult that adds even more pretend during my games. Also I've never finished the main quest in either game (morrowind either).
 
Most of my 'moments of shame' are from smashing pads in fits of rage when I was younger. Numerous SNES/N64/PS2/DC pads suffered as a consequence of my fury at losing. Thankfully I calmed down as I reached adulthood, though friends from my youth won't let me forget past lapses of judgement.

Although it was not me who did this, the funniest tale related to damaging items was during my uni years ('01 - '04), where me and my housemates would still play endless amounts of multiplayer games on the N64. Most popular choice was FIFA World Cup '98, where the referee's 'bias' would almost certainly be the cause of anger and frustration. One particular match between myself and a friend was level with seconds left before a penalty shoot-out. I had possession in the opponent's box, and with my player too tired to sprint I entered the command for my player to dive. No defender was nearby, yet the ref saw it fit to award me the penalty and send off his keeper. I duly slotted home the penalty and started celebrating, only to see my housemate stand up and kick a hole through the living room door of our rented house.

As supposedly intelligent maths/physics students, we came up with an elaborate plan to avoid being charged for this damage; we covered the hole with a Britney Spears poster. She did a fantastic job over the next 9 months and when it came to the final inspection before moving out, the landlord didn't suspect a thing.

Good times!
 
In 2009, let my addiction to aion get in the way of my school work. I did poorly that semester.

Stopped going to gym to play aion. Rushing home to play aion.

The greatest feeling of joy and sadness was the day I quit. I was free but at the same time I realized all my "hard" work was essentially useless. My highly geared character did not mean shit in the real world.
 
theaface said:
What the? You didn't want to play it for some of the best games ever made (e.g Super Mario 64, Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, most of Rare's output in that era)? C'mon son, calling the N64 worthless is some blatant trolling.
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Yoshi said:
I know that the N64 had quite a small line-up but to read someone only got 3 games and they were not out of Banjo, Mario, Zelda or Mario Kart, really is strange to me :D.
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I mean picked one up during the height of PokéMania when the first Stadium game came out (early 2000?). So its competition at home for me was actual mainline PKMN games, Playstation which was still hot, and Dreamcast which was love! PS2 & GBA were right around the corner to. There wasn't any space/time/money/interest in my life to explore its expensive and limited cart-based library nor ta figure out how to use its dumb controller properly!

These days I prolly got even less reason to check out its games. It has F-Zero X? I own F-Zero GX. Smash Bros? I got Melee. Mario 64? I got Sunshine & 3D Land. RE2 & MM Legends? Got those on PS! OoT? I tried it on the Gamecube an didn't like it. Mario Kart? I got the great GBA version and both Segac All Star Racing games! Rare collectathons? No thanks! I could be totally wrong but based on my tastes an what lil I know about its games theres nothing worth looking into for me back then or now.
 
Lindsay said:
I mean picked one up during the height of PokéMania when the first Stadium game came out (early 2000?). So its competition at home for me was actual mainline PKMN games, Playstation which was still hot, and Dreamcast which was love! PS2 & GBA were right around the corner to. There wasn't any space/time/money/interest in my life to explore its expensive and limited cart-based library nor ta figure out how to use its dumb controller properly!

These days I prolly got even less reason to check out its games. It has F-Zero X? I own F-Zero GX. Smash Bros? I got Melee. Mario 64? I got Sunshine & 3D Land. RE2 & MM Legends? Got those on PS! OoT? I tried it on the Gamecube an didn't like it. Mario Kart? I got the great GBA version and both Segac All Star Racing games! Rare collectathons? No thanks! I could be totally wrong but based on my tastes an what lil I know about its games theres nothing worth looking into for me back then or now.
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You haven't lived until you've played Paper Mario 64.
 
Around the release of Dark Souls 2 i was taking a break from shool for a couple of months because of mental health issues. This did however lead me to loose contact with alot of people from school and pretty much my only friend (also my best, love him) i kept in touch with was over skype. This led me to feel really isolated and to combat that i pretty much always had dks2 om idle in the background with my character chilling with everyone in Majula to make me feel less lonely.
 
Back when I played Final Fantasy XI and abjurations were still a thing, I'd sit in the Aery and leave my controller on a wood table before going to sleep. Whenever Fafhogg spawned it'd rumble my controller loud enough against the wood that it'd wake me up. Then I'd wait for a merc LS to kill it so I could make bids against other people for the abj drop.
 
Most regrettable thing I've ever done in a game was driving a sports car really fast in GTAV while in a suburban neighbourhood. I turned a corner going extremely fast and saw a dog run across the road. I braked and tried to avoid the dog but I accidently hit it and killed it. Didn't play GTA for a couple of days after that. I'm a huge dog person so I really felt like shit. Don't know if it's somewhat 'pathetic' to feel so bad for a virtual dog but man I felt like utter shit

I haven't done anything particularly bad with games when it comes to real life, but I remember someone in my secondary school lending their copy of FIFA to this random kid and when he hadn't been given it back after a week he asked him for it back but it turned out the kid got bored of the game and just traded it in at like GAME or something. To this day I've never understood why you'd trade someone else's game in. Just boggles the mind.
 
Scotia said:
Most regrettable thing I've ever done in a game was driving a sports car really fast in GTAV while in a suburban neighbourhood. I turned a corner going extremely fast and saw a dog run across the road. I braked and tried to avoid the dog but I accidently hit it and killed it. Didn't play GTA for a couple of days after that. I'm a huge dog person so I really felt like shit. Don't know if it's somewhat 'pathetic' to feel so bad for a virtual dog but man I felt like utter shit
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Just recently I did some mission in metal gear 5...it took me ages to get there because it was in some secluded area and no fast travel nearby. A few meters away from it a donkey ran across the street. I tried to avoid it, but hit it. Reloaded my last save and did the whole drive again.

So, no.. Not pathetic at all... But I tend to just reload the section, because then it never happened ;)
 
Acinixys said:
The worst ive done is probably being late to pick up my GF from work because I was in the middle of a Dota game
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I have chronic nosebleed from time to time, it usually happens once a month that my nose suddenly starts bleeding for no apparent reason, usually it stops after a minute or two, but once i have been in a game of dotes with friends over teamspeak and just when the game got really thrilling and we were behind it started to pour out of my nose and it wouldnt stop for half an hour.

But as the responsible friend i am, i jumped shortly into the bathroom, grabbed a bathtowel and continued playing, using only the mouse with my right hand and keeping the bathtowel under my nose with the left.

I was bounty hunter with three active items at that time and we still won.

#Dedication
 
About 15 minutes ago I slammed my hand down on the floor after dying to Father Gascoigne in Bloodborne on NG+. Seriously feels like I broke something.

I beat him on my next try though!
 
I used to get dressed up and play 45 minute long sets on Rock Band and between songs I would banter with the crowd.
 
There's a free little android game called "HOMERUN BATTER!". It's an enjoyable little 2D game where you try to hit 10 pitches. They come in a variety of effects, some comical and outrageous, but imo very well capturing the hitting mechanic of anticipation, reading the pitch and adequately reacting to it.

I got focused on improving my high score. 1000 is a perfect score, 10 home runs. A triple is 75 points, double 50, single 30 and foul 10. Once your top 10 score ladder starts filling up with 8 and 900's, missing or fouling off a pitch or hitting a few non-homers, pretty much means a restart. So the margins get smaller and the energy and persistence it take to improve, increases dramatically.

950 in medium difficulty was the highest score I reached and I was able to put it down after that. But even then, the possibility of a perfect score still plagued my mind. Tenacious or obsessive?
 
In my early teen years I found out about video game emulators for the first time thanks to a buddy I met in a chatroom. There was an app called Kaillera that worked like a meeting zone for players and teams to get together and play online matches with each other. You could play all sorts of different games but for the most part everyone played old school arcade fighters like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Anyway I started up a team called the Axem clan with this other guy and we were the most hated clan on there by far. We thought we were hot shit but really we were complete garbage and we behaved like douchebags to everyone else. This all happened way back in 2005-2006 but of course the internet never forgets and some of the forums I used back then are still active, so every now and then when I want something to cringe at I'll go back and read some of the things I said when I was part of the Axems.
 
Playing Gears of War 3 or shooting games instead of playing Fighting games. Should have used that time playing SF4
 
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.

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?
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Jezuz Christ Man !! Thats some next level betrayal.. If any of your friends are still in your circle of current friends at least buy them a steak dinner.... Damn i'm not usually at a loss of words haa haa.
Glad your making improvements and have the insight to realize that you needed to change.

EDIT: Im an idiot who didnt realize this thread and post is like over 3 years old....
 
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Here's a good one:

I stayed up for 24 hours straight playing 100 different video games as part of a feature story for a video game magazine.
 
I lost my PS1 and my entire library of over 50 games due to a horrible mix of laziness and stupidity in college...
 
using real money to buy Runescape money I think back in my middle school days. I am glad I stopped playing it when I went to high school.
 
Osukaa said:
Jezuz Christ Man !! Thats some next level betrayal.. If any of your friends are still in your circle of current friends at least buy them a steak dinner.... Damn i'm not usually at a loss of words haa haa.
Glad your making improvements and have the insight to realize that you needed to change.

EDIT: Im an idiot who didnt realize this thread and post is like over 3 years old....
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Yeah sry, my fault. Was finally able to register to NeoGAF and had some old threads bookmarked.

I like how you made a positive comment on that horrible story of betrayal. Scroll down and you'll see the guy got flack for it. It's not about who has the worse story, but his was pretty bad and he had the courage and honesty to share it, setting an example for the rest of us.
 
I blew off my friend while playing GTA4 back in middle school because i spent 2 hours looking for virtual hookers.
 
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among the maniacs said:
In my early teen years I found out about video game emulators for the first time thanks to a buddy I met in a chatroom. There was an app called Kaillera that worked like a meeting zone for players and teams to get together and play online matches with each other. You could play all sorts of different games but for the most part everyone played old school arcade fighters like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Anyway I started up a team called the Axem clan with this other guy and we were the most hated clan on there by far. We thought we were hot shit but really we were complete garbage and we behaved like douchebags to everyone else. This all happened way back in 2005-2006 but of course the internet never forgets and some of the forums I used back then are still active, so every now and then when I want something to cringe at I'll go back and read some of the things I said when I was part of the Axems.
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Look at it from the bright side: the fact that it's cringeworthy to you now, means you've come a long way as a person. Godspeed

Kaillera. I'd like to try that one time. Goldeneye 64! Tekken 3! If there's anyone on there, that is.
 
I bought an Xbox One, just so I could play Rare Replay. I ended up selling the console on Craigslist several days later for less than what I paid for.
 
Does engaging in the sonic fangame community as a teenager count, creatively bankrupt OC and all?

Who am I kidding, of course it does. On the upside, I wouldn't have nearly as solid of a basis for my programming expertise had I not cut my teeth building tons of fangame prototypes in Multimedia Fusion and never releasing them.

Thinking about it, not much has changed other than dropping the sonic. Prototypes as far as the eye can see, but not a single finished one. Ah well.

Osukaa said:
EDIT: Im an idiot who didnt realize this thread and post is like over 3 years old....
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You're not alone. I was this close to replying to it myself.

Scotia said:
Most regrettable thing I've ever done in a game was driving a sports car really fast in GTAV while in a suburban neighbourhood. I turned a corner going extremely fast and saw a dog run across the road. I braked and tried to avoid the dog but I accidently hit it and killed it. Didn't play GTA for a couple of days after that. I'm a huge dog person so I really felt like shit. Don't know if it's somewhat 'pathetic' to feel so bad for a virtual dog but man I felt like utter shit
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Don't eat yourself over it, I'm the same way with depictions of cats and semi-regularly have the 'is this pathetic?' internal struggle over it. There's a specific episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Season 4 with implied kitten murder that had me cringing into my seat through sheer discomfort. Effective way to establish a villain, but jesus christ I can't even.
 
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Also, Cookie Clicker. Putting large amounts of time into that game made me feel dirty.
 
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Back in 2011, at the launch of NFS The Run, I had the bittersweet feeling that 2 of my favorite cars (The Porsche Carrera GT, and Koenisseg Agera R) appeared only on PS3, so I decided to spend some cash and get the ps3 too with the game.
 
oneils said:
Oh man! I did something similar with romance of the three kingdoms III, as a teenager. I would write up all my officers' stats in a notebook and read them later, in bed, when I wasn't playing the game. I was so addicted to that game.

I bought nobunaga's ambition on day one, due to nostalgia. But I can't bring myself to play. I've been avoiding it.
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I always do notes for 4x strategy haha but more so back in the day for RTK on SNES or PS1/PS2.

Notes for RPGs, too... I had a sort of entry log for FF VII chocobo breeding, keeping track of stats, how much the raced, every nut or whatever used, who their parents were. I had these huge family tree spanning dozens of chocobos o.0

that said, most of that is just fun aesthetic... crazy thing is probably something purely time related like a MMO grind... 4 months, literally 24/7 during a summer break, to be one of the first Rank 14s/HWLs in WoW o.0 that said I don't regret haha my work ethic since then has been great =p i try 'HWL' everything now hhhh
 
Friends were playing Destiny 2, I didn't wanna grind because I wasn't that into it. Bought a few things through the eververse because I wanted to keep up without putting in the work. In that instance, I was a part of the problem, it felt dirty. I stopped playing a week later
 
I lost my copy of the bonus disk that came with the Zelda Wind Waker preorder back in the early oughts, the one with the Ocarina Master Quest and like Zelda 2 and stuff. A friend of mine received the game as a gift (just the bonus disk, no Wind Waker). Considering he didn't even have a Gamecube or any interest in Zelda, I saw it as a chance to replace what I lost and I stole it from him.

He suspected I stole it but couldn't prove it (since I at one time had the same disk) but since then we haven't been anywhere near as close. A couple of months later I got a PC for school and got into emulation. I definitely didn't need to have stolen that disk. It's not even worth much as a collector's item.

I can't say I feel bad since I didn't deprive him of anything since he's not a Nintendo fan to begin with, but taking something that doesn't belong to me isn't something I've done since.

Also I found out my original disk went missing because my cousin stole it from me :)
 
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Blowing off finals during my first semester of college to play Final Fantasy IX, which had just come out.

To be fair, I was dealing with severe and completely untreated depression/anxiety.
 
Smashed way too many classic controllers in my late teens playing Mario Kart Wii competitively on an Australian internet connection. Who'd have thought a controller connected to the Wii remote would actually perform so effectively as a 'Nunchuk' haha?

Thankfully I've moved away from those angry teenage days. Partly because I can no longer afford it with real life responsibilities and had to grow up...
 
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