[General Discussion] You gave away THAT?

Originally Posted by sprouticus

My friend flat-out gave me Rez a few months ago. I wonder how much he regrets that...

Haha, seriously. I can't believe Gamestop is selling used copies of that game for $40.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I NEED TO PICK ONE UP STILL. A GAMESTOP 5 MINUTES AWAY FROM ME IS SELLING A COPY.

I must nab it before it's gone T_T

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I remember that I traded Chrono Trigger for some crappy SNES games when I was younger. My english sucked back then so I didn't really understand (French LOL). So yeah.

And I also had Suikoden II, Valkyrie Profile and Grandia on the PSOne. I hate life. ;_; </slit wrists>

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I let my sister borrow Tomba along with a couple other games that I really didn't care about. This was about two years ago. Every time I've gone home since then, I've been unable to locate where she put Tomba, but I can find all the games like Street Racer just sitting on out. I want to play Tomba again.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Fucking Secret of Mana. I don't even know how many years ago it was now, but I still regret not getting that game back to this very day! My brother and I lent it to a very CRAZY friend of ours back in the day and got so intimidated by his complete INSANITY that we never pursued the subject of the return of SoM.

Looking back, forgoing some LUNACY would have been the wisest choice to get this game back into our collection.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I've lost tons of games/sold tons of games/gave away tons of games.

Who really cares, you beat the game already, are you really willing to replay it to put another 80 hours into it for 100% completion?

RPGs, I get rid of once I complete 100%. What else is their left to do?

I don't see why most gamers collect and horde this stuff AT ALL.

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Originally Posted by Reznor

I've lost tons of games/sold tons of games/gave away tons of games.

Who really cares, you beat the game already, are you really willing to replay it to put another 80 hours into it for 100% completion?

RPGs, I get rid of once I complete 100%. What else is their left to do?

I don't see why most gamers collect and horde this stuff AT ALL.

It's simple. Nostalgia.

I for one like to go back and play a game I may have 100%ed simply because the story was so good or because it was just really fun to play. Selling a game just because you've beaten it is akin to throwing a book you just finished in the trash.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Well, no, there are such things as used book stores. It's a similar premise, some people don't care enough about having the stuff they get be mint condition that they're willing to wait for someone else to finish using it before they get it themselves.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I just buy used and then horde.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Mo0

Well, no, there are such things as used book stores. It's a similar premise, some people don't care enough about having the stuff they get be mint condition that they're willing to wait for someone else to finish using it before they get it themselves.

Well, selling off a book is a lot different then chucking it in the trash .

I guess I'm a rare breed then, since I hoard every game I buy... with minor exceptions, of course .

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Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

I SOLD TERRANIGMA FOR TEN BUCKS.

Man... That hurts like you wouldn't believe. YOU REALLY WOULDN'T BELIEVE.

I've sold off a few games that I now regret selling, like Super Castlevania IV but I replaced that one very quickly. One recent one was when I let my friend Eddie borrow my first GameCube (the special edition one that came with Tales of Symphonia) and his roommate "borrowed it" one weekend and then his nephews took it to their house and the games that my friend took (both Viewtiful Joes, NFSU, Mario Kart Double Dash & Resident Evil Zero) got lost with it. I didn't really care about THOSE particular copies of the Viewtiful Joe games since my now-ex bought them for me so parting with them didn't mean dick to me and since I have NFSU on PS2, it was easy to part with too. However, MKDD and RE0 I had to go out and buy again and RE0 was a fucking Player's Choice game so I got ripped off there. I bought another 'cube and that was the end of that story. Moral of the story: NEVER LEND YOUR SHIT OUT TO ANYONE. If you mother wants your Super NES on her deathbed to give away to someone else, you say, "Mom, you gave me birth and you know I love you, but you can kiss my ass if you think you're taking my games."

As for the STUPIDEST thing I've ever done. That would be selling off my Neo-Geo. When I was a freshman in high school I bought a Neo-Geo at some hole-in-the-wall game shack with Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown, Metal Slug (that's right... The FUCKING ORIGINAL) and King of Fighters '94 for $150. At the time the system alone was worth about $500 and with each game costing about $100 a piece used you can bet I fucking STOLE that system. However... 3 years down the line I was about to graduate from high school and needed money to buy all kinds of shit I "needed"; like booze for prom and graduation parties and my first car. So I advertised it in the paper and sold the damn system to some guy in Fresno for $650 with all the games that I had with it. In retrospect, it's easily the most astoundingly retarded thing I've EVER DONE IN MY LIFE; and that counts all my exes combined.

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Originally Posted by Malahk Angel

I guess I'm a rare breed then, since I hoard every game I buy... with minor exceptions, of course .

I do that now too. If I play a game I almost always buy it and if I liked it enough to buy it, I don't plan on parting with it. End of story. I remember Skills recently commented that he didn't have me pegged for a "triple-digit collection guy" when I showed him my game collection on Gamespot (hey fuck you guys, that's the ONLY worthwhile feature on Gamespot and I exploit it to the fullest) because he figured that I sold all my games when I'm bored of them, which hasn't been the case since I committed the atrocity I mentioned above.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I've never sold any of my games and never will.

BUT,I have lent my games out to some friends and never got them back. I lent my Pilot Wings N64 Game out to a friend in 6th grade. Yeah,I never saw that game again. ;\ Then years later I found it at Gamestop and purchased it. Though turns out I had purchased the Japanese one so of course it wouldn't work in my N64. But I found the English one not long after. ^_^

And I think around 2000 I lent one of my friends my Theme Park PS Game. Never saw it again. That still makes me mad to this day. I always have urges to play it, and no other Theme Park game will do. ;\ I need to see if it's on Ebay sometime and purchase it from there.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Guess my two biggest ones were Secret of Mana, which I lent and never got back, bought another though. And Prince of Persia:Sands of Time, which I sold. I must have been delirious then.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

In my desperate need to own an N64 to play the recently released MARIEO CART 64 and the upcoming GoldenEye (plus some other 3D platformer that had Mario in it or something), I sold off my Super NES and all its games. I SOLD TERRANIGMA FOR TEN BUCKS.

I hate you. I've been searching that one out for YEARS.

Worst thing I ever managed to lose was when I was all wee like. I owned an SNES and had BoF and BoF 2 among others. I was all madly in love with BoF 2, and when it disappeared I was absolutely crest fallen. I sold my SNES and all my games, including FF VI, FF IV, and Lufia (obviously, I've gotten them all back plus many more, as anyone who's seen my collection knows). So I'm packing it up for the guy, and what do I find in my SNES box? Fucking BoF 2. I still have no idea how it got in there. Man was I pissed.

FELIPE NO

I'm still trying to understand what kind of asshole borrows a game and then moves without returning anything. Guess the answer is simply "a really big one". Seems to be a lot of those around. I know I'd be livid if someone did that to me.

I don't have a horror story to tell, thankfully. I've always kept everything I've bought, and everything I've lent out was returned. Mainly because most of the lending was to family, so I could hunt them down if they ever did try to pull anything.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by TheDude

I'm still trying to understand what kind of asshole borrows a game and then moves without returning anything. Guess the answer is simply "a really big one". Seems to be a lot of those around. I know I'd be livid if someone did that to me.

I don't have a horror story to tell, thankfully. I've always kept everything I've bought, and everything I've lent out was returned. Mainly because most of the lending was to family, so I could hunt them down if they ever did try to pull anything.

Summation: The dude abides.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I let my step brother borrow Golf and Excitebike for the NES and he sold them off at some point forgetting that they were mine.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

I do that now too. If I play a game I almost always buy it and if I liked it enough to buy it, I don't plan on parting with it. End of story. I remember Skills recently commented that he didn't have me pegged for a "triple-digit collection guy" when I showed him my game collection on Gamespot (hey fuck you guys, that's the ONLY worthwhile feature on Gamespot and I exploit it to the fullest) because he figured that I sold all my games when I'm bored of them, which hasn't been the case since I committed the atrocity I mentioned above.

Shit, ever since i got my first job, i've just been buying games off the shevles without even really thinking. I have a huge stack of games in my room i haven't even put into my PS2 yet. Hell, i even bought an Xbox game and i DON'T EVEN OWN AN XBOX.............yet (i'm buying my friend's Xbox as he's moving out, and is trying to get rid of stuff he doesn't need anymore, but he's moved out now, and now the situation is complex. He's trying to escape his parents by not giving his new address to anyone. He said he'd call me once he'd settled in, but i can see him forgetting or something like that)

One i forgot to mention was my original copy of Starcraft which i loaned to my friend. His house was then broken into, and a bunch of shit was gone without a trace, including my Starcraft. This is also the friend that ruined my copy of Final Fantasy VIII.

I guess i should also mention that i'm one of those friends that disappears with games. A number of times i've borrowed games from friends, and after a while asked if they want them back or not. I always give it back if their answer is yes, but there are a number of times they just say nah, hold on to it for a little longer. Alot of my games were actually donated, or bought for cheap off of my friends.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah, I actually got a copy of SaGa Frontier that way. A friend let me borrow it, then when I asked if he wanted it back said to not bother since there was no chance he'd ever play it again (don't think I did either).

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

See, I never saw any reason to trade or sell my games. Even in the old days when you never had cash, I still somehow managed to scrape together some money for that one game you really wanted.

I can smile and say that I still own everything that I ever bought. /flex

I was speaking idiomatically.

I don't think I've ever had this happen with a game I still consider a notable one. I once lost a TMNT Game Boy game to someone, but it's nothing I cry about. Meh.

Though..my acquisition of a Gamecube was the result of something like this. Some years back my older brother was visiting home and brought with him a Gamecube with Metroid Prime. He let me borrow it and a couple of months later told me that for a Christmas present I could keep the Gamecube. It wasn't until some months after that he told me that the Gamecube originally belonged to a roommate of his. Supposedly this guy was a real jerk and my brother took the cube and gave it to me because the guy was such an ass. Oh well, by the time I found out there wasn't much that could be done about it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Goldeneye, for 64. I am still extremely pissed about that, because one of the games I'd unlocked all cheats with the gameshark, and I've had a terrible history of those things *NEVER* working. I was surprised that it actually worked. Anyway, it was nice for just dorking around in single player, and great for multiplayer.

That's not too bad though, since I guess it's pretty easy to replace.

The worst is probably this: My friend gave me a NES with a few games. Had 2 controllers in perfect condition, a turbo pad (the ones with extra buttons to cheat in games where you have to tap them fast), a running pad, and an actual GRAY zapper, not the gay orange ones. My mother GAVE it to my uncle because she was getting me a 64 that Christmas, and apparantly people are only ever interested in one system at a time. My uncle never touched the thing, and it took me forever to get it back. Once I did, I was dumb enough to give it BACK to my original friend just because he wanted it back. I guess I didn't really feel ownership at the time since I didn't pay for it, he just gave it to me. Now I'm enough of a dbag to just give him the finger and keep it =/.

I ended up getting another one, with damaged controllers (ferret chewed them up, they still work though) for $20 along with almost 20 games, a few of them were actually very, very good. No zapper, but I had a guy who sold me that (orange one) and a duckhunt/super mario bros cart for $2. So extremely lucky there. I used to have that cart with world track meet though .

Ive made tons of stupid, stupid, stupid decisions, and not just with games, and it would take forever to go through them all. Those are the major two though.

FELIPE NO

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I'm still trying to understand what kind of asshole borrows a game and then moves without returning anything.

*Raises hand*

Had this friend when I was in my freshman year. He's what my parents would later refer to as a bad influence (first influence to drinking/weed/skipping classes). During the time we hung out, I got a copy of Final Fantasy 8. He had copies of Final Fantasy Anthologies and the original Suikoden.

At this point in time, he had much better taste in games than I did, but he ended up paying for it in the end. Made a trade. I'd clear a disk of FF8 and lend it to him one at a time. I got my grubby hands on FFA and Suikoden.

To this day, my copy of FF8 is missing the fourth disk.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Josiah

It wasn't until some months after that he told me that the Gamecube originally belonged to a roommate of his.

Oh. So YOU have my Gamecube.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by sprouticus

My friend flat-out gave me Rez a few months ago. I wonder how much he regrets that...

Probably not very much if at all since sealed copies of Rez are available for $30. They (and by "they", I actually mean GameQuestDirect) mass reprinted them along with a bunch of other titles - only Disgaea has maintained it's high price tag. Zone of the Enders (US version at least; PAL Limited Edition and the japanese box set and special editions are valuable), Gitaroo Man and Rez aren't all that rare anymore.

How ya doing, buddy?