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17,500 games of Halo 2 online. Brother played a bit on my GT but I just have to own that addiction from way back when.

No ragrets, met life long friends then and we still do annual paintball and LANs.

Dude, Halo 2 is perhaps the best competitive FPS to have graced the internet. It was balanced so well. If you were good, you were good. Quick reaction was key, grenades dealt significant damage, and boarding could actually be countered.

Such a great game. No regrets.

 

[witness]

I bought horse armor.

 

[Sato Koiji]

Played Star Wars Galaxies too much when it came out. Its ridiculous how much time I invested in that game. The developers didnt mention that you had to sell your innocent soul to become a jedi in that game. I sold my soul.

 

[SoulUnison]

I remember when Kingdom Hearts II was coming out, I'd called them so many times to ask if pre-orders had come in yet that I eventually asked a friend to call and ask on my behalf, as I was sure they knew my voice by then.

Reading through this thread,though - that's not so bad.

 

[SillyJoe]

Purposely getting into a glitched area to look up Moxxi's skirt in Borderlands 2, multiple times

Manipulating camera angles in a ton of games to get a nice big view of breasts and ass

Spoiler

I've never had a girlfriend

 

[DXLelouch153]

my entire MMO career
so much money spent, especially on DFO in the Nexon years
and Its not over yet Snake!
FF14 keeps pulling me back in(ill probably return sometime next year)
thankfully having a backlog keeps me away long enough to not go crazy(for now)

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Dude, Halo 2 is perhaps the best competitive FPS to have graced the internet. It was balanced so well. If you were good, you were good. Quick reaction was key, grenades dealt significant damage, and boarding could actually be countered.

Such a great game. No regrets.

Halo 2 in MCC is even my favourite to play. Solo dominating plays FTW. I just wish we could get more game/search matches down under.

 

[TimmiT]

I used to buy a shitton of games on Steam during sales. I own 727 games right now and probably haven't played the majority of them. Most of them were bought years ago.

 

[preheatedbibby]

Once broke a 360 controller spiking it after losing to Seth in SF4 for the 30th time in a row.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

Between the PSP and DS lite, trading in constantly, I used to do it pretty much every week or 2 weeks, so I'd say I went through 50 PSP's, more DS lite's. Didn't finally knock it off till around the DSi came out, which was the same time I matured a little, and got a job.

 

[O.v.e.rlord]

As a teenager I fapped like mad to Dead Or Alive Exterme Volleye Ball........yup......good times lol

 

[Brainfreeze]

Probably just playing Smash or Pokemon in the back row of my classes when I should be paying attention.

Or reading GAF when I should be paying attention ;_;

 

[Steel]

Between the PSP and DS lite, trading in constantly, I used to do it pretty much every week or 2 weeks, so I'd say I went through 50 PSP's, more DS lite's. Didn't finally knock it off till around the DSi came out, which was the same time I matured a little, and got a job.

Wah? Why?!?!

 

[KiraXD]

i sold a LOT of my old game collection for drug money... and i hate myself for it.

 

[toadsworth]

Read Gaf through the large majority of my college classes. Still passed, so thats good I guess!

When GTAV came out I played it all night when I had an exam the next day. I studied for like half an hour before and failed it.

Oh in high school a friend and I stayed at my place on New Years Eve and played WoW all night long. Ordered some pizza. About halfway through the night we realized this was kinda sad and didn't really talk much.....

 

[robot]

Traded in 60 NES games for $1 apiece towards Mario Party 1. I don't remember if there was anything really good in there but it was still pretty dumb in hindsight.

 

[jokebreath]

Every reputation farming achievement won in WoW.

Raising fishing to maximum level in WoW.

100% achievements for Silent Hill Homecoming.

 

[hlhbk]

Buying a Wii U. At launch made it even worse.

 

[bobawesome]

Buying a Wii U. At launch made it even worse.

The sky really seemed like the limit at the time.

 

[GamerJM]

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.

This reminds me, I got a DS Lite on launch day when I was like 12. I went to the GameCrazy across the street from the GameStop I got it at and started playing it in front of the employees, who were like twice my age. One of employees walked up to me, showed me his Phat, and said "Hey, I'll trade you mine for yours," and I was like "wtf dude I know mine's the newer version and I already have the old one".

 

[SolidChamp]

I bought horse armor.

Me too. Don't be ashamed.

 

[-shadow-]

As a teenager I fapped like mad to Dead Or Alive Exterme Volleye Ball........yup......good times lol

A friend of mine once told me very specifically not to use his controller and switch the two before booting the system to play Halo 2 Co-op. The disc inserted was DOA Extreme Volleyball. I... I think I've just now put two and two together...

 

[Fat4all]

Aw shit, I guess I'll admit it.

I spent $50 of my actual real money on Gems in the Gameloft "MLP:FIM" game. This was a few years back.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

Wah? Why?!?!

I kept constantly changing my mind, trading one back in for the other, always cost me as well, what a bloody waste.

 

[OranSky]

1) I sold over a dozen DS games to get like three 3DS games a few years back. I had a pretty good DS collection and *poof* like that it was gone. The collector in me now will never let me live that down.

2) At the start of this school semester I started getting into FFXIV....like really getting into it. If it was not for me being broke to re-up my subscription...I dont even want to think about what situation Id be in.

3)I browse GAF and other gaming related forums when I should be working on assignments

Spoiler

like right now

 

[Fat4all]

I sold over a dozen DS games to get like three 3DS games a few years back. I had a pretty good DS collection and *poof* like that it was gone. The collector in me now will never let me live that down.

That's nothing to be ashamed of, I sell all my games. Nothing is safe.

I beat it, I sell it. Money goes towards more games.

I ain't building a gaming museum.

 

[Rockman Wright]

I backed mighty 9 for 350$....

What a fucking mistake (i will still enjoy the game, and i've got nice backer rewards.... but still...)

 

[ClayKavalier]

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.

Crying when someone they admired died? Yup, as a fellow recipient of a B+ in Psych 101 I agree, therapy definitely wouldn't hurt.

Most embarrassing thing I've done is attend midnight launches, but I was young and didn't have anything more pressing to do.

On the pathetic side, in grade school and early high school I used to on weekend-long gaming binges around the time report cards were sent out since I knew I was losing access to my games when my grades came in.

 

[Santerestil]

Selling via eBay some Saturn and NES games and DC controllers at a very low prices.

Buying a Wii U. At launch made it even worse.

I don't know if I should go low_quality_bait.jpg or just avatar quoting you.

 

[Octavianus]

Buying Fallout 3 due to the IP it belongs to even though I knew it was going to be shit. I guess I felt like it deserved a chance despite being a Bethesda game.

 

[2scoops]

- 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.

Fucking hardcore man.

 

[SillyEskimo]

Probably EverQuest 1 related. I did 24hr marathons often.

 

[entremet]

Oh man, PLENTY of these. Regrets? Tons of them. One of them being that I literally ate 1/4th the cover (including some of the plastic) of Borderlands back in the days. Felt shit after that (not about the game but my stomach... man, my stomach).

wut

 

[Captain Tuttle]

I've gone all digital this gen, I live on the edge.

I also went to the midnight launch of Skyrim


Wild man

 

[lasrmountedmoai]

Tried to buy and flip a PS3 about two weeks into launch....

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

Buying collector editions for games I hardly played. (This goes for DLC too.)

Deleting saves files for games I might want to play again.

Buying certain games digitally.

I PSP bricked when I knocked it of the charger while it was updating.

I messing my fat PS3 twice because I didn't read those manuals ( I do now) I didn't know that cutting the system off with the switch would damage it.

 

[onken]

Hundreds of hours of Maple Story and almost getting kicked out of college for it. Thank god the graphics card on my laptop overheated and broke so I could run desktop apps and nothing else. I owe basically my whole life to that shitty old Vaio.

e- oh yeah and I spent real money on some stupid consumable item just so I could complete some worthless quest that had a brokenly bad drop rate. Whyyyyy

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

Please tell me you bought it all at once and had a massive pile of mountain dew and doritos sitting in your living room

Don't know about him, but I had it 'sitting there' literally. #winningduh

 

[pixxxelz]

Went to the midnight launch of CoD-BO..

 

[Jameson]

Around 80$ spent on CS GO cases and skins.

 

[Sol1dus]

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.

You deserve what's happening to your body.

 

[Ieu]

When the PS3 was quite new, I was obsessed with trying out Resistance and Motorstorm so much so that one weekend I was shopping with a friend and eyed up a PS3. Unfortunately those games were sold out everywhere but Wollies were offering Oblivion plus a HDMI cable instead.

If my friend hadn't have talked me out of it I would have paid full price for the PS3 just so I could pick up copies of Motorstorm and Resistance later when they were back in stock. The kicker is that I already owned a 360 and Oblivion...

I eventually did go back to Woolworths a couple of months later and picked up both games with a second controller for £350 as the manager was apparently desperate to get some cash following in. In the end Woolies went bust before my warrantee expired.

Resistance was so so but I fucking loved Motorstorm. I also enjoyed watching the PS3 slowly come to life with each firmware update to the point the only releases I cared about were not the games.

Before this I bought my first HDTV due to the 360 which was a 32 inch 1080i Sony. It cost £999 which looking back was bloody silly, especially since 3 years later I replaced that with a 37 inch 1080p Samsung for literally half that.

 

[HellBlazer]

Oh man, PLENTY of these. Regrets? Tons of them. One of them being that I literally ate 1/4th the cover (including some of the plastic) of Borderlands back in the days. Felt shit after that (not about the game but my stomach... man, my stomach).

 

[Seraph_Nicholas]

Probably Gaia, though it was hardly a game when I was on it.

Just, all of it. Pretty much pure regret. It destroyed real relationships, I wasted untold hours, and none of the friends I made there lasted.

It did give me a lasting fondness for forums. Incidentally, GAF is like forum-heroin, speaking as a connoisseur.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

I paid someone to power level my brother's priest (yes, not even my own character) in WoW.

Yes, I regret it. Especially because he got banned for hacking. He was able to get unbanned, but still.

 

[NCR Redslayer]

I sold my copy of Conkers Bad Fur Day and Banjo and Tooie for Smash Bros Melee and Mario Kart Double Dash.

 

[Icyflamez96]

made the ratchet and clank community thread on gaf

 

[MastaKilla]

I connect my laptop to my ps2 and take 20 minutes calibrating some stupid app in order to be able to play Socom 2 online. It's pretty fucking desperate.

 

[SparkTR]

I bought an N-Gage recently, all the games on it are pretty much garbage now but I could see how this thing would have been interesting in a pre-PSP/DS world.

 

[GrayChild]

Broke a keyboard rage-quitting on Dark Souls II.

Guess that's not much.