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[Chessr]

All the steam games i bought om discount but never played. And all the console games bought on discount and never played.
I ha e learned my lesson and dont buy games anymore because they are cheap. When i buy a cheap game i never feel i HAVE to play it like if i bought at new for full price

 

[Osukaa]

Mine are pretty non eventful.. I once stole my friends copy of Super Mario Bros 2 from him but I felt really bad and returned it like 5 hours later by placing it under his couch and saying ohh here it is LOL. The other thing I did was I camped for 3 days outside of Toys R Us for a Playstation 3 when they announced reservations.... but that was actually kinda fun cause there were over 50 others that were there to so we had small BBQs at night and talked to each other and held each others place in line so we could run home to take a quick shower and come back lol. A few people lived far so I remember one time like 6 people joined us to go to my home and takes showers haa haa Hmm now that I think about it that was actually a highlight for me in my gaming life ha!

 

[Sailent]

Damn, this thread...

 

[Blam]

I once bought Rome Total War on Steam because my disk was upstairs and I couldn't be bothered to go get it.

Still the winner.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Logged into my spare, son's and daughter's Xbox Live accounts to get the easy 1000 from Gone Home.

 

[Ragnaroz]

Blew off my friends countless times in order to play video games. Luckily for me, they occasionally play games as well, so they understand.

 

[Cato]

Bought a console bundle with gta4.
I know, I know. Most folks find gta4 a great game but it just did not click with me like SanAndreas or gta5 did.
I just hated the game for being so boring.

To make things worse, I traded this game in for credits together with Lego Indiana Jones.
(only two times ever I have traded something in).
I so regret that and miss Lego Indiana Jones.

Thus gta4 greatly disappointed me twice :-(

 

[ChuyMasta]

I failed/had to withdraw from a class in college because I was addicted to Skyrim. I would skip class and go to my friends house with my 360 and we would play side by side on two TV's. Withdrawing from that class caused me to lose my financial aid. I am an idiot I know.

One class? You are good buddy.

I flopped an entire semester (16 credit hours) because of Runescape, newgrounds, online forums and learning how to program on my own. Granted, I ended up using my frelancer coding skills on my portfolio that eventually landed me an intership in website applications, but I remember both my interviews asked me about my "special semester"

I lost my Fin aid too, Senior year of college. I ended up taking some loans and going to summer school plus half time the following fall semester. I could've graduated in May, but nope! Lost my position as a full time employee from said intership because they needed me to work full time and have a degree by July.

 

[Electric-Wizard]

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.



You're not alone. I was this close to replying to it myself.



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.

A message in the OP mentioning "thread bumped" and the message number of the post in question, would come in handy.

That dog run over story reminded of something that happened to me in Swords & Sorcery, a little indie game, bit Zelda-like, good stuff. I conquered this enemy and was left to decide wether to let him go or kill him. Was actually thinking of letting him go, but a bit confused about the interface, didn't see right away what I had to do, where I had to click. So I just said the heck with it, killed him, and immediately the game confronted me on how f'ed what I had done was, and how it leads to a dark path. Shook me up.

Bought a console bundle with gta4.
I know, I know. Most folks find gta4 a great game but it just did not click with me like SanAndreas or gta5 did.
I just hated the game for being so boring.

To make things worse, I traded this game in for credits together with Lego Indiana Jones.
(only two times ever I have traded something in).
I so regret that and miss Lego Indiana Jones.

Thus gta4 greatly disappointed me twice :-(

I prefer 2D top down GTA. 3D's too big, long distances, etc. Retro City Rampage was pretty great.

 

[Vitacat]

I regret disposing of / selling off a ton of beautiful retro systems, computers and games over the past decade or so. I will never truly be able to re-acquire them for a reasonable price. Thankfully emulation is amazing these days, so I can still play nearly everything at least.

DO NOT SELL STUFF YOU LOVE UNLESS YOU TRULY NEED TO. Sadly for me, at the time, I did think it was necessary. In retrospect, it often was not.

 

[NickFire]

Either 32x or Sega CD. Or Saturn.

 

[Electric-Wizard]

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!

Your story reminds me of a buddy of mine I used to play FIFA against on PSX. We referred to it as 'tennis soccer' since you could pass around the ball so fast, sometimes the other guy was left wondering how the hell he was ever going to get back possession (iterations nowadays are much slower). This friend, he had like a special kind of luck in things.

The ref would always blow the final whistle 2 minutes in overtime, it was like standard procedure. So when my friend got possession of the ball at that time in the game, I was already not putting in full effort anymore, expecting the ref to end the game. Except he didn't. My friend scored the winning goal in the 94th minute, after tying the game a few minutes earlier. Never before had the ref let a game continue for that long.

Yeah not very spectacular, but I still couldn't friggin' believe it.

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.

Valuable lesson.

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.

Yeah I'd rather not buy an Xbox just to play (the N64's) Perfect Dark at 60fps.

 

[buizel]

A message in the OP mentioning "thread bumped" and the message number of the post in question, would come in handy.

That dog run over story reminded of something that happened to me in Swords & Sorcery, a little indie game, bit Zelda-like, good stuff. I conquered this enemy and was left to decide wether to let him go or kill him. Was actually thinking of letting him go, but a bit confused about the interface, didn't see right away what I had to do, where I had to click. So I just said the heck with it, killed him, and immediately the game confronted me on how f'ed what I had done was, and how it leads to a dark path. Shook me up.


I prefer 2D top down GTA. 3D's too big, long distances, etc. Retro City Rampage was pretty great.

GTA 3 has a top down mode thats pretty damn faithful to 1/2.

Not that it could be possible again. I loved GTA 1. The songs especially. There was one that sounded like it kept going "HUCKIN ON MA WAWA" which to me and my sister sounded like "SUCKIN ON MA WILLY" over and over again.

 

[ReBurn]

I regret disposing of / selling off a ton of beautiful retro systems, computers and games over the past decade or so. I will never truly be able to re-acquire them for a reasonable price. Thankfully emulation is amazing these days, so I can still play nearly everything at least.

DO NOT SELL STUFF YOU LOVE UNLESS YOU TRULY NEED TO. Sadly for me, at the time, I did think it was necessary. In retrospect, it often was not.

I had to let go of my Genesis and N64 to cover some medical bills back in the day. I was sad at the time, but ultimately it was the right decision. Since then I've mostly stopped collecting and I just enjoy playing. Changed my whole perspective.

 

[Electric-Wizard]

GTA 3 has a top down mode thats pretty damn faithful to 1/2.

Not that it could be possible again. I loved GTA 1. The songs especially. There was one that sounded like it kept going "HUCKIN ON MA WAWA" which to me and my sister sounded like "SUCKIN ON MA WILLY" over and over again.

Didn't know that. GTA 3 was the only 3D one I played to ay significant amount, because of the novelty of 3D. Lost interest after that.

In GTA 1 you could stand on pedestrian bridge over the street when being chased by cops. The cops standing under it would get mowed down by incoming cop cars. The ability to freely move around and cause mayhem was something special for a video game back then.

 

[Troy1]

Probably all the time/money I spent hunting amiibos. It was fun and I met some really great people, but looking back I wish I didn't spend as much as I did.

The worst I felt was probably when I stood in line at gamestop to preorder ssb wave 4. Their systems kept crashing and I think only about four of us got orders in. I was #5 in line (they had two registers running), and it wasn't until I had come in a couple weeks later to pick them up that I was told the #4 guy wasn't able to get an order in. I should have given the guy my number and would have gladly sold mine to him at cost.

 

[Ceadeus]

Spent 2000 dollars on Dungeon and Fighter and Maplestory. No Ragrats

Woow

 

[Trogdor1123]

Played a rpg after a few too many drinks, forgot the story, had to restart as I had no idea what was happening anymore.

 

[shinkai]

Played Damnation for an easy Platinum..... One of my worse gaming experiences

 

[Antwix]

Back in the later stages of SOCOM 2, a cheat program was released called code9. You would use a gameshark/action replay exploit to launch unsigned code to be executed on the PS2, then use a PC program to send/inject code via the network to program your PS2. You could have stuff like no recoil, invincibility, infinite ammo, etc.

Anyways, my clan and I created a "ringer" clan (secondary clan using different names/accounts) and cheated with those names to basically bait other clans into cheating more aggressively towards us. We would then record the game footage and report them (and us) to get them banned from the ladder.

That was all fun and humorous for awhile, until we were playing a specific player in a match and I, and my clan mates, "knew" he cheated but never could get any concrete evidence. I went on a crusade for like a month against this one specific player, just talking smack, posting on the forums about him, etc. Then I thought of a masterpiece of an idea. Long story short, I told one of my clan mates my idea and he got the "cheater's" IP from a skype call with him, launched the code injector program on his PC, and set up and mouse clicker macro to keep trying to inject the "cheater's" PS2 with the invincibility code. Eventually, my clan mate said that the injection was successful, meaning that the cheater had launched the program on his PS2 and my clan mate injected the code just at the right time. The cheater got caught in the next match he played in and consequently got banned from the ladder.

I didn't really regret it at the time but looking back at the whole thing, even weeks after the fact, the hypocrisy was real. Although I never did cheat on my real account, I still felt bad about the whole thing. Shortly after, I quit playing anything SOCOM related.

There were some other crazy/pathetic things people did in SOCOM as well. One other thing was the use a "lag switch". People would switch on the lag switch for a few seconds (just enough not to get disconnected) then turn off the lag switch. Upon regaining connection to the game, they would be able to warp around and kill whomever was in their path in a split second. Pretty sure people still do this today to some extent but network coding has evolved and it doesn't seem viable today (thank god).

 

[God Enel]

Most regrettable thing I did and my friends are still laughing when I'm telling them the story.

Back in the day when I was a little shit (like 5/6/7/8 years old) I was playing warcraft 1. Problem was that I didnt speak a single word english and I thiught killing the enemies completes the mission. And there was this fucking mission where I in hindsight think that you have to had to build a specific building to complete it but maybe im wrong on that. So.. after killing all the orcs and the mission still wasn't finishing what did I do? I chopped ALL the fucking wood and mined all the gold on the map and dunno how long it took me to COMPLETELY farm everything to no avail. I was chopping wood and farming gold for hours and I havent completed this mission to this day and I still dont know what I was doing wrong.

when I think about it I was more orc then the orcs.

 

[Celestial Mortal]

Getting a PS+ subscription and getting it yearly. Finally dropped the subscription after getting Bloodborne.

Getting FFXV Collector's Edition for $300+ including shipping to my own country. The game didn't deliver as previous FF in the series with the soundtrack also not that memorable.

 

[BlazingJ816]

Excitedly purchasing a PS2 Console (after months of saving money on it), and unknowingly plugging it on a 220 Volt socket. Smoke came out, and my PS2 was toasted. PS2 was 110 Volt.

 

[DryvBy]

I used to have a temper (luckily, this incident was my very last). My mom had knocked over my Gamecube while cleaning up our hall way and it broke the piece that keeps the disc in. I became irate since I hadn't saved in whatever I was playing. I got up, complained to my mom, took my Xbox and PS2 and walked outside and smashed them on the ground like an idiot. Right after I did this, I was embarrassed I could get so angry. Apologized to my mom, told my friends at my part time gig, and spent my paychecks rebuying the Xbox and PS2 to sort of "punish myself" financially.

I made a rule if I ever smashed stuff again, I'd let my fam/friends know so they could ridicule me for it and I'd sell things to replace the things I smashed. This was 2 decades ago almost so and I haven't had an issue since. As mad as I get in a game, I won't throw a controller or cuss my TV out. Anything. I just chill out, put things down, and I learned to walk away. Granted, I met my wife a couple of years after this so I really don't get the privilege of throwing a baby fit like that anymore. lol

 

[It's Jeff]

I gave my Dreamcast, Gamecube, and NES to my girlfriend's daughters. About 50 games, including that coveted MvC2 for DC.

In hindsight, my girlfriend's only redeeming feature was being pretty. I miss those games a lot more than I miss her ignorant, unrefined opinions.