Most pathetic/desperate/obsessed/regrettable thing you have done gaming related?
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Cross-Section
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During my first playthrough of Witcher 3, I read up on a bunch of crucial decisions you're confronted with in the back-half of the game for fear of messing up and getting the bad ending. Really feel like I cheated myself out of one hell of a narrative experience there.
Mr. Nice_Guy
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I never rotated my saves because I didn't realize it was a thing you should do. DMC3 SE, and accidentally overwrote THE Dante save I had with a Virgil save. I don't make that mistake anymore.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
My dad had a bunch of 50 cent coins in his closet. I went and bought Knights of the Old Republic with them for Xbox. I don't think he ever found out. That was quite a few coins and no one questioned it. Looking back they were probably worth more now than they were back then. What a dumb decision.
ivanthebearable
Member
At the time, Super Mario Galaxy was about to come out so I became nearly obsessed with it. I always talked about it, I drew stuff for it in class, I listened to the music obsessively and had dreams about it and everything. I annoyed like almost everyone with it.
It was back when game kiosks at GameStop used to have the full versions of games, and I used to go to the mall fairly often, so I basically spent literally hours at the store playing Super Mario Galaxy before I could get it myself, and ended up having my own actual save file at the GameStop. I ended up beating the entire game nearly twice with the time I spent there, and got most of the stars on at least one of the files. It was truly pathetic.
When I got it for that Christmas, I recieved it as a gift during a big family party at my cousins and holed myself up in a room with a bunch of snacks and chips and stuff and basically stayed up until morning to beat it. Again. Got every single star the following day and started Luigi's run right afterwards and got almost every star before I realized how fucking weird I was being and pretty much never touched the game again.
And then they announced the sequel a few years later. It almost happened again.
Funny enough the exact same thing happened with Smash Bros. Brawl and I lost a lot of friends from literally NEVER SHUTTING UP ABOUT IT but I guess the Smash hype was just so real at the time, so I wasn't completely alone on that. Kinda. I've learned to be a lot more.... normal in regards to these things since then, the Brawl hype and Mario Galaxy 2 stuff mostly taught me a lesson. I'm way different from those days.
It's actually rather rare that I get really hype about something nowadays. Splatoon was probably the closest I've gotten to it though.
It was back when game kiosks at GameStop used to have the full versions of games, and I used to go to the mall fairly often, so I basically spent literally hours at the store playing Super Mario Galaxy before I could get it myself, and ended up having my own actual save file at the GameStop. I ended up beating the entire game nearly twice with the time I spent there, and got most of the stars on at least one of the files. It was truly pathetic.
When I got it for that Christmas, I recieved it as a gift during a big family party at my cousins and holed myself up in a room with a bunch of snacks and chips and stuff and basically stayed up until morning to beat it. Again. Got every single star the following day and started Luigi's run right afterwards and got almost every star before I realized how fucking weird I was being and pretty much never touched the game again.
And then they announced the sequel a few years later. It almost happened again.
They're still two of my favorite games of all time lmao
Funny enough the exact same thing happened with Smash Bros. Brawl and I lost a lot of friends from literally NEVER SHUTTING UP ABOUT IT but I guess the Smash hype was just so real at the time, so I wasn't completely alone on that. Kinda. I've learned to be a lot more.... normal in regards to these things since then, the Brawl hype and Mario Galaxy 2 stuff mostly taught me a lesson. I'm way different from those days.
It's actually rather rare that I get really hype about something nowadays. Splatoon was probably the closest I've gotten to it though.
SatoAilDarko
Member
I have over 150 physical Wii games.
Might as well go for over 200.
I want 70% of the Smash series of Amiibos.
Might as well go for 100%.
Might as well go for over 200.
I want 70% of the Smash series of Amiibos.
Might as well go for 100%.
It was bound to happen eventually.
Gonna be honest here, that kinda stung.
TriggerShy
Member
This one sentence is just so amazing.
First off, the fact that you ''met'' this person for the purpose of swapping Amiibos tells us that it was a PLANNED meeting. However, since this person is a stranger, that means there was no prior contact unless you had a mutual connection like a friend or a cousin. What that implies is one of two things, you came across one another by chance and just so happened to be on the subject of Amiibos or one of you intentionally SEARCHED for a trading partner and the other responded. Both of these are more likely to have happened on the internet.
Now here is what makes it even more interesting: ''at night.''
Obviously, night makes the whole process seem like you were buying drugs. But, once again, we can assume that this was planned, meaning that both parties agreed to a location and time for the exchange. You agreed to meet this person, whom you've possibly only had a brief interaction with on the internet,... at night. The fact that you are posting here with very little detail on this statement must mean that was the ''regrettable'' part of the story, so I will assume that the trade was a success. But, I've got to ask, did neither of you think this could go horribly wrong? Didn't you ask yourself, I am going die for some Amiibos?
Of course, you posted here so you are alive, but I can't help but imagine the possibly that you and this stranger might have families at home and BOTH of you decided to meet this stranger to exchange AMIIBOS. I just can't fathom the amount of trust or fear you might have had in this situation. Either one of you could have knocked the other out and steal their Amiibo, I mean who would call the police? And if they did, besides the assault, would the police even take the theft that seriously? But, that did not happen, you just met at the planned place and time, traded some Amiibo, and went your separate ways.
THAT, is absolutely amazing.
ChoklitCow
Member
I'm a straight male and I would have done it.
DanteRavenkin
Member
I had moved to a whole new city with my girlfriend at the time. Completely drained my bank account in the process of moving and getting the apartment ready. About a week after moving my PS3 died. Completely kaput. It was our primary movie machine so we were fucking bored to tears with nothing to watch movies on. So I created a scheme I'll never be proud of and actually regret. I called my parents and told them I found out I had some kind of infection and needed money for medicine. Around $400 or so would cover it. They bought it, and I bought a new PS3. I am an asshole for that, and aside from this post, will take this to my grave.
TheFierceGentleman
Banned
Ouch, kinda harsh mate
Kssio_Aug
Member
11 years ago, playing GTA San Andreas, I literally bit my Dualshock 2, letting my teeths marks on it, after raging against the remoted controlled airplane mission!
I mean... Yeah, I still hate that mission, but that was too much of an overreact! Lol
At least, after that happened, I actually realized it was a very stupid thing to do. Since then I learned self control while gaming and when I rage I get up and get away from my console and controller. Lol
Other than that... I spent a lot of money buying a lot of Steam games I have little to no interest, just because they were in a special promo and I could, maybe, play them in the future. Well, I still don't want to play them.
Learned this lesson too though. There's quite a long time I dont give a fuck for steam sales!
I mean... Yeah, I still hate that mission, but that was too much of an overreact! Lol
At least, after that happened, I actually realized it was a very stupid thing to do. Since then I learned self control while gaming and when I rage I get up and get away from my console and controller. Lol
Other than that... I spent a lot of money buying a lot of Steam games I have little to no interest, just because they were in a special promo and I could, maybe, play them in the future. Well, I still don't want to play them.
Learned this lesson too though. There's quite a long time I dont give a fuck for steam sales!
kingwingin
Member
I just dropped 140 bucks on empty game cases so I can print and display my own boxart for my digital titles.
Looking back over games I've 100%'d, that was time wasted. Glad I stopped caring about that around the time achievements became a thing.
Not sure if this counts as I don't regret it one bit but... instead of going to an exam I downloaded and completed a portable version of Metal Gear Solid on extreme.
Not sure if this counts as I don't regret it one bit but... instead of going to an exam I downloaded and completed a portable version of Metal Gear Solid on extreme.
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.
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.
TheFierceGentleman
Banned
I bought Duke Nukem Forever, at full price. even though I heard the reviews of it said it was terrible.
I was thinking, "I want more Duke games, may as well buy it to support the IP."
Terrible logic
The less that's said about me purchasing Operation Raccoon City and Resident Evil 6 at full price, the better.
I was thinking, "I want more Duke games, may as well buy it to support the IP."
Terrible logic
The less that's said about me purchasing Operation Raccoon City and Resident Evil 6 at full price, the better.
hprshredder
Banned
I'm currently living out my most shameful moments.
Every day for the past two years, and I'm serious, every. single. day. I conduct a daily search for new information about Zelda NX/WiiU. Never just once a day, either. Multiple times. Sometimes upwards of 20 times. I spend hours of each day thinking about this game and researching it with a variety of different methods.
At this point I hope the NX does launch late 2016 because I can't wait until 2017 for it and it sure as hell isn't coming out until after the NX is released.
Every day for the past two years, and I'm serious, every. single. day. I conduct a daily search for new information about Zelda NX/WiiU. Never just once a day, either. Multiple times. Sometimes upwards of 20 times. I spend hours of each day thinking about this game and researching it with a variety of different methods.
At this point I hope the NX does launch late 2016 because I can't wait until 2017 for it and it sure as hell isn't coming out until after the NX is released.
StarskySilverz
Member
I use to play this online game called Rumble Fighter. I learned how to scam people of their items and in game currency the hard way. Now I couldn't stop scamming people and I literally only played the game to get more items, I didn't enjoy the actual gameplay anymore. I even purposely kept my character ranked with amateurs so I could scam them easier. I would get perma banned, make a new account and start again. This occurred for at least two years. So many kids wasted their Christmas money because of me.
FireBeaver
Banned
I spent over $75 dollars on an amiibo.
I want them all, damn it!
I want them all, damn it!
AmethystEnd
Member
Dude, why would you say something like this?
Psychological Intellect
Banned
OMGWTFBBQ trophy from Resistance 2
sunshine and gasoline
Banned
Skipping classes a few days in a row to play Skyrim. That's pretty much the worst thing that I can recall doing.
freenudemacusers
Member
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Legend-...247324?hash=item4aefd44adc:g:ebEAAOSwstxVODkW
$350 gets a good amount of hooker. i mean so i've heard. from distant acquaintances.
You cannot be serious. You fucked your friend for a sealed OoT? :O
Let me try and fix this: waaaay better hooker, mind blowingly hot yeah
freenudemacusers
Member
dennis can i fondle you for a used macbook?
it's one of those white plastic ones.
it's one of those white plastic ones.
jadedm17
Member
My friend bought Tony Hawk 5 brand new full retail.
Sigh
Hey, its your money, the only problem is that it supports the cycle.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
Got to level 40 with Roxas in KH2
Yeah, I was 16, maybe 17, poor, and desperate, so I did it. I felt like it was a good deal and I didn't really value my body during those times. Sex for such a rare item felt like a steal.
uncredited male
Member
I beat both Kane and Lynch games.
I just beat Duke Nukem Forever and then started Aliens Colonial Marines not too long after. You had it easy.
JSoup
Banned
Some people like to take their time.
Darth Karja
Member
Selling Pokemon Crystal to gamestop with 1 Pokemon left before completing the pokedex.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
...probably played maybe hundreds of hours trying to unlock every costume in Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 for all the girls.... >___________>
Not my proudest moment in life, hahaha.
....
>___________>
Not my proudest moment in life, hahaha.
....
>___________>
Most of these aren't even that bad, but here goes:
Played Unreal tournament 2004 from 2003 to 2005/6 and basically wasted a ton of weekends staying up and playing the game. Would wake up at like 1 am and start playing until sunrise and stay awake the rest of the day, i was usually pretty energetic. This must be why I started developing dark circles around my eyes.
I basically developed a habit of doing my homework at school as early as 5th grade, which is pretty bad. Thankfully I rapidly become a much better student and was genuinely curious about learning new things as I got older, so it was easier for me to retain information even if I wasn't always putting in as much effort as I should, and I got way more A's than not throughout high school. Though it meant I went home, told parents I "didn't have homework" and played video games. It was much less of a problem in college but other things would happen like...
Skipped a few classes in college to play Tales of Vesperia
Asked a teacher in high school once if I could skip his class to work on something for another subject, he said yeah, then I went to the library and finished the Cygnus Wing scenario for Mega Man Star Force. I can't even believe I pulled this off really, but at the same time the teacher and I were cool (and nobody else talked to him or took him seriously so...yeah on my part there was something exploitative about it)
Skipped several school assemblies to play video games. My homeroom teacher assumed I was absent ( and he didn't teach me in other subjects with the exception of one semester/attendance wasn't reported for assemblies), so yay for me
Stupid amount of hours in Battle Network 2 and 3
A high school dance was taking student submissions for songs to play there, I wasn't going so a friend and I decided to put video game music. He put a bunch of Halo stuff. I thought there was the possibility the stuff was going to be vetted, but it turns out it wasn't. Not a lot of people were going but people still complained about it the following week and I felt...kinda bad. Still thought it was hilarious at the same time.
In my senior year of high school instead of taking electives like computer graphics and creative writing I ended up taking free periods and just used it to goof off. I mean I still hung around other people and did extracurricular things too but I wish I did learn some things in hindsight
When Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast came out, I remember being shocked at discovering the Last story and was determined to beat it. But for god knows what reason, I was struggling to beat the Biolizard. I really needed to see the end of the story though, so after three hours worth of consecutive failed attempts I finally beat it, then beat the real last boss, and then cleared the game. If you know how short the boss battles should be, it should be clear I went for crazy number of retries.
On the note of Sonic Adventure 2, I faked being sick one day of school because in the morning I had been working on reproducing enlarged versions of the official art for Sonic and Shadow onto pieces of paper without tracing I really wanted to finish my project, I don't know if it was particularly hard, but I just had to focus. Since that sort of thing doesn't take 7 hours I also ended up doing the same thing with the Maverick select screen from Megaman Xtreme, down to the similar color choices (just a combination of one color, black/white, and yellow.) Was proud of both and I had a good day.
That's pretty much it. In my first high school I was one of the first people to spread proxy avoidance options (to browse 1337 gaming sites and stuffs) and gaming related things for personal use but that's not really degenerate though people ended up getting in trouble for not watching their backs when teachers came. I'm hardly a tech savvy person too
Oh that's not that bad, I did it too. It's just pretty tedious.
Well...it's really, really, REALLY tedious.
holy shit
Played Unreal tournament 2004 from 2003 to 2005/6 and basically wasted a ton of weekends staying up and playing the game. Would wake up at like 1 am and start playing until sunrise and stay awake the rest of the day, i was usually pretty energetic. This must be why I started developing dark circles around my eyes.
I basically developed a habit of doing my homework at school as early as 5th grade, which is pretty bad. Thankfully I rapidly become a much better student and was genuinely curious about learning new things as I got older, so it was easier for me to retain information even if I wasn't always putting in as much effort as I should, and I got way more A's than not throughout high school. Though it meant I went home, told parents I "didn't have homework" and played video games. It was much less of a problem in college but other things would happen like...
Skipped a few classes in college to play Tales of Vesperia
Asked a teacher in high school once if I could skip his class to work on something for another subject, he said yeah, then I went to the library and finished the Cygnus Wing scenario for Mega Man Star Force. I can't even believe I pulled this off really, but at the same time the teacher and I were cool (and nobody else talked to him or took him seriously so...yeah on my part there was something exploitative about it)
Skipped several school assemblies to play video games. My homeroom teacher assumed I was absent ( and he didn't teach me in other subjects with the exception of one semester/attendance wasn't reported for assemblies), so yay for me
Stupid amount of hours in Battle Network 2 and 3
A high school dance was taking student submissions for songs to play there, I wasn't going so a friend and I decided to put video game music. He put a bunch of Halo stuff. I thought there was the possibility the stuff was going to be vetted, but it turns out it wasn't. Not a lot of people were going but people still complained about it the following week and I felt...kinda bad. Still thought it was hilarious at the same time.
In my senior year of high school instead of taking electives like computer graphics and creative writing I ended up taking free periods and just used it to goof off. I mean I still hung around other people and did extracurricular things too but I wish I did learn some things in hindsight
When Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast came out, I remember being shocked at discovering the Last story and was determined to beat it. But for god knows what reason, I was struggling to beat the Biolizard. I really needed to see the end of the story though, so after three hours worth of consecutive failed attempts I finally beat it, then beat the real last boss, and then cleared the game. If you know how short the boss battles should be, it should be clear I went for crazy number of retries.
On the note of Sonic Adventure 2, I faked being sick one day of school because in the morning I had been working on reproducing enlarged versions of the official art for Sonic and Shadow onto pieces of paper without tracing I really wanted to finish my project, I don't know if it was particularly hard, but I just had to focus. Since that sort of thing doesn't take 7 hours I also ended up doing the same thing with the Maverick select screen from Megaman Xtreme, down to the similar color choices (just a combination of one color, black/white, and yellow.) Was proud of both and I had a good day.
That's pretty much it. In my first high school I was one of the first people to spread proxy avoidance options (to browse 1337 gaming sites and stuffs) and gaming related things for personal use but that's not really degenerate though people ended up getting in trouble for not watching their backs when teachers came. I'm hardly a tech savvy person too
Oh that's not that bad, I did it too. It's just pretty tedious.
Well...it's really, really, REALLY tedious.
holy shit
I don't understand any of this. You were playing Championship Manager and your character was wearing a suit? Or you were wearing a suit? Sorry, non-Brit here.
Mine revolves around the game Digimon World 2 on PS1. I was obsessed with it. So obsessed that I charted out my digivolution tree throughout the game. I had pages and pages of digivolutions and DNA digivolutions. Also, I started doing the digimon animations myself in time with the digimon as they did their moves as a kind of aerobic exercise... yeah, it was weird.
Oh and I 100%'ed that crappy match 3 Fat Princess game on Vita. I have no idea why, I'm not a trophy whore, and I didn't like the game that much, at the end it just devolved into mindless grinding.
Explain.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
I've started eating Taco Bell again. Jesus it's grosser than I remember. All for that gaudy gold PS4. DAMN YOU SONY!!!
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Buying the FFIX strategy guide as a kid (though that's more on the guidemakers being assholes, I suppose). Also, at one point, I printed out an entire, giant gamefaqs guide for Castlevania Circle of the Moon. Even 3-hole punched it and put it in a binder.
Blowing a 50 dollar XBL card I had on ME3 multiplayer packs. In one sitting.
Savescumming the shit out of XCOM Enemy Unknown on my first playthrough. No regrets, tho.
Getting sucked into WoW by my housemates during college. Could spent that time waaaaay more productively than raiding 3 nights a week, lol. Lich King was pretty damn slick, though.
Blowing a 50 dollar XBL card I had on ME3 multiplayer packs. In one sitting.
Savescumming the shit out of XCOM Enemy Unknown on my first playthrough. No regrets, tho.
Getting sucked into WoW by my housemates during college. Could spent that time waaaaay more productively than raiding 3 nights a week, lol. Lich King was pretty damn slick, though.