Our Biggest Gaming Regrets

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[@TotallyNotCalledEvan]

I'm gonna miss this banter. I'm sure whoever they bring in will be brilliant, but it won't be quite the same without Jon

[@jonathanwilson7949]

Indeed

[@t.fernbach602]

Wait, what? Jon is already leaving?

[@jonathanwilson7949]

@@t.fernbach602 yep he announced it on Twitter

[@t.fernbach602]

@@jonathanwilson7949 is there a reason? I mean, he joined Nintendo Life maybe a year ago? Too bad, they were great together.

[@MajoraWaffle]

god fucking damnit, jon's leaving? ffs, i only came here cus of the mass exodus from gamexplain. where do i go now?

[@SirOtterKnight]

My biggest regret is putting my collection into storage and someone breaking in to steal all of it. Many of my SNES and 64 carts had save data from my mom who passed away. So they basically stole alittle piece of her from me and it bums me out to this day. I’m building back up and sharing this with my daughter which is incredible

[@MsKornkitty]

I left a horrible relationship, and decided to leave my Gamecube games with the ex for when my son visited him. My son ended up only visiting him a few times and I never got the games back. They're 'lost'. Windwaker with the bonus games, Melee, Double dash, Chibi Robo, Mario Sunshine, many more. It's so depressing seeing the value go up and not being able to find copies of some of them. I really want to play Chibi Robo again. But I'm still better out of that relationship. I did keep my Pokemon games, albeit without the boxes.

[@GokuInstinct1]

Aw man that sucks. I loved my GameCube and I sold it back then. 😔 I never played Mario Sunshine but I got it on the Switch now. Windwaker HD is available on the Wii U which I had.

[@Linkfin]

I can’t believe that Ron and Bilbo were on the show!!

[@feo130]

Don't you mean Harry Potter from the Ron Weasley series?

[@By-the_Way]

I'm really going to miss Jon in these fun little conversations but best of luck to him wherever he's going next and I hope he has time to come back again as a guest :) My biggest gaming regret is probably buying the Dreamcast a week before they lowered the price by $100 (or 10,000 yen in Japan). I absolutely loved the console, so it's fine but I've never been able to forget it (LOL).

[@kylegodfrey1302]

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[@hickknight]

Ah. I missed where Jon said that. What's he up to?

[@katanakhari]

I regret trading my Pokemon HeartGold, SoulSilver, Platinum, Black and Pearl to GameStop. I even threw away some of the boxes 😭

[@ahumblebulbasaur3591]

Big ooff. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep playing Pokémon but even my wife is telling me to never part with a copy of anything I have and I’m pretty sure she hates video games.

[@hickknight]

I feel this with HeartGold. It even has the pokéwalker with the box....

[@contra_sandinista]

F

[@randomsom1]

Did the same. Oh my rationale back then... Now I'm finding myself looking for boxed copies online.

[@ranchman693]

Zion, your story about Cubivor touched my heart and made my day. People having the ability to play older games especially when they are so expensive and hard to find means alot to me. You have a big heart for doing what you did, it was a good thing and shouldn't be a regret. I had a massive retro game collection and when a collection gets so large, it gets to the point where you don't really get the time to play them all. So I sold my whole collection for extremely cheap to a game store with the thought that people who didn't know how to pirate them, or have access to them, could play them instead of me having them sit in the house and collect dust. Btw it's okay I beat Cubivor and it's over rated 6/10 lol

[@jamesw.9256]

My biggest regret is not keeping all of my consoles and games that I've ever owned

[@cm70707]

I bought Balan Wonderworld on the off chance that all the bad reviews the game got were wrong and I could find the hidden spark of genius that made it a masterpiece. I was wrong.

[@GRIM0IREG00CH]

“Losing your Chao is almost like losing your children.” *waits to hear what Jon, a father, has to say* “Depends on how much you love the Chao I guess.”

[@ianlotts]

I was at Best Buy in 1996 and remember seeing an entire endcap of Earthbound for $20. Must've been 10 of them there. Not grabbing at least one is one of my biggest gaming regrets.

[@Jack-tk3ub]

In primary school as a kid we had one day a year where we could bring in and play any toy with all our friends. I brought in my GBA and pokemon emerald with 100s of hours of play time. My biggest regret was lending it to another kid to try, who saved over my file, wiping all of my progress. As a child it was truly heartbreaking and I'm still bitter when I think back about it

[@doraeguyakaneddie6586]

I think that kid may have been a sociopath

[@paralysis_demon_hunter]

I lent my copy of Pokémon sapphire and the same thing happened. However, they never returned it to me either….

[@Jack-tk3ub]

@@doraeguyakaneddie6586 Looking back on it, I can accept they were just a kid who didn't understand the game mechanics. I'll give them benefit of the doubt that it was done unknowingly

[@Jack-tk3ub]

@@paralysis_demon_hunter Oh no that's way worse! How did they get away with it

[@paralysis_demon_hunter]

@@Jack-tk3ub when they originally deleted my save file I was upset but allowed them to continue with their new save. time went by, grew up and by the time I remembered to ask for it back again they no longer have the copy themselves :/ not really either of our faults. We were just kids playing games lol 😂

[@AzureDragonZX]

My biggest regret is not realizing Nintendo actually made extended Wii U batteries. I definitely would have picked one up had I known!

[@saml302]

now if only someone made a signal booster

[@MrDiana1706]

@@saml302 I think that would require hardmodding both the console and controller, I wonder

[@rhodrage]

Mine broke and I had to order a new one.

[@levant5378]

If its any consolation, even back in 2015 you couldn't find any.

[@BillySYT]

That intro was simultaneously regret-filled and iconic, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[@FelixSR]

I think my biggest regret is that i played Breath of the wild. Because man, i really wish i could experience that game for the first time again 🙌

[@MogusMasterSaikawa22]

Tell me about it. Botw was one of my first Nintendo games but believe it or not I didn’t love it that much my first go. I was a Sony gamer growing up I was used to incredibly linear and similar experiences but luckily I played botw in June 2021 my 4th time and finally got it I beat all shrines in under a week or so haha

[@acefreak9561]

That's how Xenoblade 1 felt for me too man I need a neurolyser

[@xenos_n.]

That's how I feel about Metroid Dread. Now that I've played it once nothing is a surprise and I don't understand people who play it more than once in succession Because the best part for me was the discovery of new things.

[@Viktoria_Selene]

@@xenos_n. I do it because the core gameplay is very fun

[@FG_Enthusiast]

@@acefreak9561 same, this game and Breath of the Wild. If a certain someone's final Smash hadn't spoiled it for me, I would definitely want to relive that!

[@jestersinsanity4473]

My biggest regret by far, is trading in Ghost Trick. I found I think at a pawn shop for super cheap as a child, but struggled to play it for whatever reason and ended up trading it in for a new game. Still kicking myself for that.

[@trapez77]

Selling great games to GameStop for literally change

[@Rawk__]

Hearing an American say the word “quid” is surreal, that might have been the funniest thing I’ve heard Zion say for such a stupid reason. Anyway, my biggest gaming regret is honestly, not getting into collecting sooner. Game collecting is one of the most fun things I’ve ever done, and to have missed out on so many years of that fun is really upsetting to me. ~ Rawk

[@MsZumoman]

Yea the quid comment stood out to me too

[@coneg2714]

3 of my "regrets" are similar to some of yours, Alex and Zion. 1.) As a mix of Christmas and my birthday, we went to NYC to see the tree back in 2005. Nintendo World was still pretty new then so I convinced my parents to have that be a pit stop. They let me get whatever game I wanted and I picked Shadow the Hedgehog... 2.) I played through Pokemon Blue during the formative years (it helped me learn how to read!) and I have these mixed memories of having a Blastoise and a Charizard. Years later I let a sibling overwrite the save file because by that point there was no path forward for old Pokemon to Gen 3 onward, so I have no idea what my actual Hall of Fame team was. And I didn't trade with people so the best I can figure is starting with Squirtle, restarting shortly after getting Blastoise, and doing a good chunk of the game again with Charizard? 3.) I wish I was able to get an Earthbound cartridge as well. I actually "had" the chance back in college, $100 for a loose cart at a retro game store but being a poor college student that didn't even have a Super Nintendo scared me off it. Luckily the Wii U and SNES Classic exist to "own" the game legit but it does sting to see how much more the game is now when $100 was already a balking point for me. Besides that, it's mainly not keeping track of my old games. Especially Gen 4 and 5 Pokemon games that are now going for insane prices on eBay. I don't know how much is just lost somewhere in my parents' house and how much was sold by siblings for quick cash since moving out, so whenever they find any old games from our childhood I just take them at this point.

[@jashslingingslasher]

mine is also a gamecube story. When i started college i stopped playing games, so i gave my gamecube, a ton of games, my wavebird, etc. to the childrens ward of a hospital near by. They ended up just trashing it i found out a couple weeks later, and it has bothered me since.. If they werent going to use it, they should have just told me. I ended up getting back into gaming and redownloaded most of my games through emulation, but it would have been nice to hold onto them. Most of them are very expensive now as well. Its just one of those experiences where you try to do something nice and give people an opportunity to have the same joy you had as a kid, and they just threw it away.

[@xxsusmasterxx5491]

That is actually very stupid, why did they not even say anything? Well, at least emulators is amazing and a good way for people to play those games who dosen't have them anymore. I'm not trying to condone piracy, but, sometimes its for the better in situations.

[@cjt217]

11:00 I can't wait to find out that he sold that new game to ScottTheWoz, because Scott is all about game manuals

[@ahumblebulbasaur3591]

Hey does anybody have any Gex?

[@tomohawk2177]

I regret not playing Botw sooner, just ordered a copy and it’s arriving tomorrow. Also sad to see Jon go but it’s probably the best for him.

[@TheMail518]

the only benefit is that u prob got the discounted one. 2017's games were $60 each one and barely any discounts Today, the games have a lot of discounts lol

[@spooky4892]

Buy the dlc sooner rather than later and after the starting area the game is amazing

[@cooperwestfall5981]

I love these types of videos with you guys have gameplay in the background and you guys just talk.

[@aurumonado9006]

My biggest regret: I had a sealed copy of Dragon Quest V on NDS. I kept it sealed because I played the game on my Acekard. One day I decided to open it because I needed somewhere to put my GBA copy of 'Friends of Mineral Town'. #1: The DQV case did not have a spot to put GBA games #2: I later learned my copy of Friends of Mineral Town was a fake from China I also sold a sealed copy of Baten Kaitos Origins to a guy in the Netherlands for $90 in 2015.

[@greenguy5570]

Probably one of my biggest gaming regrets isn’t too serious, but I regret looking up some answers to puzzles in Luigi’s mansion 3. I wish I just sometimes persevered and did them, but I still had fun and luckily haven’t really had any regrets of games I got or for games I sold because I haven’t sold any.

[@NanaJana4cozygames]

I love listening to these three guys! To be from different countries they have such great chemistry. You'd think that they grew up together

[@JoesCaribbeanVanLife]

My worst videogame regret (im older than you guys) was asking for an Action Max "console" for a birthday gift.

[@SJMan2022]

My biggest regrets are selling my New Super Mario Bros Wii game(at final boss), Super Mario Galaxy 2(if I recall I was at the bowling level), and selling my Wii(I had a Wii U and thought it was pointless, then a week later I found out mine had Gamecube backwards compatibility)

[@Maplewest]

My biggest regret is selling Sonic Gems Collection for the Gamecube complete with everything 10+ years ago. Why did I do that?

[@TealOpal]

My biggest gaming regret was impulse buying a new copy of Godzilla for PS4 for $20, never playing it, eventually trading it in, and then finding out that it was delisted and selling for hundreds of dollars on the secondhand market as a collector's item.

[@johnedington1632]

Great topic Zion. I regret as a child ripping all the NES boxes I had including several Mega Man games and getting rid of the Ps1 screen.

[@MogusMasterSaikawa22]

Awww damn I’m sorry -,.,-

[@joshwhite5730]

I ripped off the lamination thinking it was the shrink wrap

[@jindraws]

My biggest regret is selling Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn on the Wii after playing it only for a few hours because I didn’t enjoy it all that much... 10 years later I’m now a fan of the series so if I could go back in time I’d slap my younger self in the face

[@joshwhite5730]

So you still have it or did you trade it in

[@jindraws]

@@joshwhite5730 Sold it to a local game store for probably 15 euros? I think they’re now selling for 100 or so on average which I suppose isn’t too insane but still… sadness

[@joshwhite5730]

@@jindraws thats sad

[@xenos_n.]

My biggest regret is selling my childhood Super Nintendo with the games.

[@HandheldGamer1991]

Funny you say that when i was 13 i wanted to sell all my old stuff to get a ps2 but no one in my country (poland) wanted to buy the snes so i still have it and thank god i never got to sell it. I was young and would pobably punch myself for selling my ps1and gameboy colection for about 50Euro hell some of those games from the ps1 are now worth a fortune like tomba or poy poy.

[@Andriale]

Personally, I had a DS, but never played a Pokemon game as a kid. I never really thought about them when I was really young, and when I got into middle school I looked down on them just because there were so many entries. Joke's on me, that's when the series was actually good.

[@chaoticcranium]

Guy who bought Superman 64 at release at full price. Ask me anything.

[@reijinshinryen1339]

I have many video game regrets throughout the years. But...from the top of my head, it was Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash for the Wii U. The worst part was...I bought the game full price, and when I was about to walked out of Walmart. From the back of my head, I was thinking...I should get a refund and get my money back, because I had a bad feeling about the game. But...I ignored it, and lost my opportunity. So, my regret was buying the game, and I didn't have a good time playing it. (The only one time I had fun playing the game was with my cousin.)

[@chepecheapy308]

Gonna miss these chats with all 3 of you 🥲

[@crazyconan28]

I agree, trading in games as a kid was my biggest regret. Having those titles not for money, but to play easy again on my own or with family is great to share memories by

[@roienn777]

Videos like this always make me feel so lucky in my find at my game store when I bought Cubivore for $8. The crown jewel of my game collection.

[@coltdeedede]

I'd love to see them do one of these styled videos but each take turns covering what is in their backlog of games!

[@CasepbX]

This brought back lots of memories of going into retail stores and looking at the thousands of games for however long. I also regret trading in games for GC and PS2, but I've been buying a lot back now. The thing I regret the most is when a sequel came out and I traded in the original game, and then after playing the sequel realizing I liked the original a lot more lol.

[@SUCHMISH]

I would have to say that one of my biggest regrets is trading Mario and Luigi Bowser's Inside Story for Skate It on DS... After I beat it I wanted to go back to M and L: Bowsers Inside Story so badly... A happy ending to the story, I did find the game in a pawnshop for 15 dollars case and all!!

[@SUCHMISH]

Another is where I got M&M's adventure instead of Super Mario Galaxy when we bought some pre-owned games at a game stop with a buy one get one deal...

[@camharkness]

My biggest gaming regret is letting my autistic butt get angry in the past for others trashing stuff I like instead of just saying "it's okay to think that" then going back to enjoying what I enjoy. I want to apologize for how I acted in the past everywhere, specifically the harvest moon one world review because I personally loved that game a lot, and still do. I've matured and hopefully won't let this stuff happen again.

[@les-os]

I leant my copy Gotcha Force to a friend as a kid, the friend moved across the country and I never got it back. The game was a memorable part of my 5th grade experience, I played it all the time with friends RIP

[@jacobpalmer5400]

I sold my entire nintendo DS collection of games, some shovelware, some gold ( I think I only ended up keeping three or four total games out of something like 30/35 cartridges) but I think the one game I really regret selling was my pokemon platinum, it was my first pokemon game and I should have valued it more, but at that point I really wanted a new phone and I needed some money to do that. Even though BDSP has been getting a lot of criticism (and rightly so in a lot of cases) it has actually been extremely nostalgic for me to revisit that region I thought I wouldn't see again, so in someways I'm glad they remade it (though they could have expended a bit more effort imo).

[@katoshi6464]

pokemon bdsm

[@LadyOfSnow]

Alex bringing up Game made my eyes glaze over with nostalgia. We had them here in Ireland, too, until they packed up around the turn of the millennium. Heading into town as a kid, wandering around the high street, taking a detour into Game and getting lost in its (in hindsight, somewhat excessively) purple aisles - those were the days. Side note: that "oh god, that was the first half of my life" feeling is a big mood. Here's to turning 30, Alex. Relax - we'll both make it alright.

[@bullymaguire6091]

My biggest regret is just not getting into gaming sooner. I only started playing games around the middle of 2018, and I constantly see older games that weren’t ported or rereleased on the consoles I have and thinking that I really want to play them.

[@SteamPunk96]

I'm not Flapjack but I essentially asked for this exact video on Twitter recently so this is highly appreciated, thanks guys!

[@parrac2350]

My biggest regret to date is not buying the special edition of xenoblade chronicles 2 when I had the chance, I'll never be able to find that thing ever again

[@garenthal9638]

RIGHT!?!

[@yarnandpets]

Donut County has been my favorite game (that isn’t animal crossing) so far!! Short, funny, so very weird, and relaxing. Congrats on the new channel!! 🥳

[@matthewcienki8064]

My 5 year file in Harvest Moon 64 got deleted by accident... I selected delete instead of opening my save file because I looked away from the TV for a split second and didn't double check what button I was pressing. In my frustration I sold game cartridge to Game Stop. That now makes 2 mistakes...

[@DanSutherland]

1. Purchase wise: Traded Sonic The Hedgehog for GBA & Super Mario Sunshine for Crash Tag Team Racing. I don't regret Sonic at all but Super Mario Sunshine is one I'm very sad about. Never played Sunshine either. 2. Save files: I let my nephew or niece overwrite my 1000+ hour save file for Pokemon Ruby (my first GBA game) where I had caught all Pokemon but 4, no internet searching, no cheats. Had won all the contests too. There are so many memories gone that were attached to the Pokemon and their names. I didn't realize how much just the names would trigger memories of where I was and who I was with when I came up with the names. I still have Sapphire and my other games, but man.

[@nathansteele75]

While I am sad to see John leaving, I'm excited to see who they bring in. Hopefully we can get future collabs to bring you guys back together. I know this is pie in the sky, but maybe NL and GVG could host talks like this that bring all you guys together semi regularly. In the meantime I will say I loved this talk and you guys are awesome 😊

[@Gingerfied.]

If anyone is interested, japanese versions of cubivore are going for about 20 bucks depending on where you find it, possibly more or less if someone's just selling the disk or if the box is included

[@kingdilly8906]

I regret not playing through the Mario RPG games until my 20’s. All of them are so wonderfully charming and imaginative. They make me very happy.

[@Rumboats]

Just want to shoutout the very solid Mario Tennis gameplay

[@hyperfixatedd]

"harry potter from the jon weasley series" I LOST IT

[@daniel-1489]

I was nine years old. I spent my last £3 buying a second hand copy of Virtua Tennis 2 from Grimsby Indoor Market. My PS2 wouldn't read the disc 💔

[@MilkWasABadChoice17]

When I was a kid on or around my 8th birthday, my aunt took me to Toys R' Us and said "pick out a game". My dumb ass picked "Ahhh! Real Monsters" for the SNES because I loved the show. Some games I literally remember going right past: Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Final Fantasy III, Secret of Mana, Contra III, and Mega Man X. My aunt even saw A Link to the Past (a game I didn't have or ever played) on sale and I SAID NO. I got so much wiser after this event.

[@MsZumoman]

My regret is throwing away my childhood big box copy of super Metroid and the game guide because who cares about boxes right and it was flat packed already so worthless. I have the cart. I’ve searched my childhood home many times for the box because theres a 5% chance i didn’t throw it away. I still hold hope. I’m very very nostalgic for that particular box and game. Never mind the cost of replacing it.

[@undeadpandaproductions]

I had moved half way across the country (Australia) after a whole mess of drama. Had to put everything into storage. Spent ages saving up and was about to have all my stuff shipped to me. But Queensland was battered with massive flooding. Where my stuff was stored got flooded out too. Costing me my entire gaming collection bar a couple PS2 games. This included a Saturn with 40+ games, the gem being Panzer Dragoon Saga.

[@PikaLink91]

I would say I regret not playing the Ace Attorney trilogy back when they came out, because after having played 5 and 6 I can no longer go back to the archaicness of the old DS games, but my brother was the one who had those when we were kids, and pull or shove as I might he would NOT lend them to me, because he was scared I would save over his files (which is stupid because those games operate on chapters that you can replay, not individual save files). And also he was always SUPER protective and possessive of his shit.

[@intrepid1160]

Even though the DS AA games had chapters, I liked having my save file for the last case be on a specific line near the end, and when I loaned someone the game (accepting that it would be saved over), I went to work replaying the chapter with a guide and skipping text as fast as I could just to restore the specific save I had. So I can kind of understand the feeling.

[@PikaLink91]

@@intrepid1160 I have always been great and respectful of keeping people’s save files intact. Had he loaned them to me but said “please be careful with my save file” naturally I would have honored that. And I mean, it’s one thing if I was just a friend, but we are brothers and very close, so he should’ve trusted me at least that much I think.

[@KeenKiyoshi]

34:21 Me too!! Good to know I’m not alone

[@bc_digital]

My biggest regret ever was selling my Wii and all my games in high school because I thought I wouldn’t go back to it as much (as my friends and I were all into Xbox/PlayStation). Now I’m trying to buy back most of what I sold back then 😫

[@steel.oneill]

My biggest gaming regret is buying and playing Wasteland 2 on Switch because that POS is BROKEN and I was refused a refund 🤡

[@dannykazari]

Gave my Gamecube and N64 games away to a friend I wasn't even particularly close to before moving away years ago. Right after the Wii came out. One of the dumbest decisions of my life.

[@juiceala]

I have a similar regret story to that of Zion, so as I was working on a game store back in 2009 we had a customer come in and ask if we had the DS game Project Rub 2, the sequel to Project Rub Feel The Magic, at the time I didn’t know the game (even though I heard about it at one point but I have forgotten) so I told him we don’t have it. IT turns out we DO have the game and that man introduced me to an underappreciated franchise, poor guy he was very shy asking quietly expecting to be judged it’s like he’s buying something illegal, until this day I regret answering him without double checking.

[@xxsusmasterxx5491]

My BIGGEST gaming regret, was playing Rabbids Travelling in Time on the Wii, because if i haven't, i would of never cut my knee when i was 5 in a flipping washing machine. I thought as a kid, i could travel in time in a washing machine because of the game, but the washing machine's glass was broken for whatever reason and i cut my knee, REALLY badly. Like a big dent on my knee. Anyway, got stiches, and everything was A-Okay after that. Never again. Never.

[@FABRT]

I cannot tell you how long I have been waiting for ANY mention of Cubivore! I had it as one of my first gamecube games and oh my gosh, it was a TRIP! I have been biting my tongue, almost wondering if it ever really happened haha. Thank you for this moment Zion, its been a long time coming for me.

[@Technonova323]

My biggest regret, although partly out of my control, is losing my PS2 and Dreamcast alongside all their games. I say it's partly out of my control because it was my dad who threw them away since I didn't play them anymore. Also, I was like 5 when I lost them so I didn't fully realize the significance of losing those consoles until years later.

[@CrowTRobot]

Alex with the amazing comic timing. "Nothing personell kid"

[@takeyourheart3030]

Did Jon get the Achievement? I need to know! By the way Zion, the batteries in those old GameBoy cartridges would have almost certainly died by now, taking your save files with them, so don’t regret too much that you don’t have your originals.

[@Astralbeargaming]

I regret throwing out all my DS and GBA game cases. I cannot remember why I did it either but luckily I still have all the games!

[@danielclark12]

I had a collectors edition of Ocarina of Time as a kid and was too young to realize why my copy was special. I ended up trading the game into the local game store so I could buy Pokémon Stadium. I immediately regretted it and my mom took me back to the store two days later to buy the game back and the store had gone out of business. Years later I bought another used collectors edition for $60 from an online game store but it still is one of my biggest gaming regrets. OoT is the game that made me fall in love with gaming.

[@danielclark12]

I haven’t traded a video game in since.

[@Portersona69420]

For me there's a couple. Selling gamecube games (Eventually got them all back) And not buying any of the Mario & Luigi games when I was a kid. I was REALLY missing out on some of the best games i've ever played.

[@GurdevSeepersaud]

Funny enough, one of my regrets is that I actually wish I DIDN'T play Metroid Prime as a kid. I remember being really enamored with stuff like Halo and Gears of War but my mom just never liked me playing violent games. So I got the MP Trilogy because that was a little less violent but the same sci-fi shooter vibe. I'm sorry to say this but despite Prime's greatness it's just not a great game for a 12/13 year old kid who wants a fun action shooter. People talk about how much of a masterpiece this game is and I fully understand the perspective, but I just CANNOT go back to certain parts of this game without digging up these absolutely miserable memories of being stuck when all I wanted to do was shoot things. I'm a big proponent of giving games second or even third chances at different points in your life, but my initial playthrough of Prime is kind of tainted for me. I hate the Magmoor Caverns theme, I hate the dang ghosts, and I hate how many hits those beam-specific pirates take. If I'd played this game as an adult, I think I would have had much better memories of it and it may have been an all-time favorite.

[@Ray_2112]

There is still Pirme 2+3... ;)

[@nebiyumeseret]

My biggest regrets are lending my friend a gameshark cuz he sold it. I went to bed with my gba one night and just had a terrible nightmare and I picked it up, threw it on the ground and it broke. I always regretted not getting more games for my gamecube but I didn’t really know about a lot of them until later on. This was a fun watch/listen. Thanks everyone!!

[@brycestrife5605]

This was really great, let's have more talks!

[@I_was_a_Bullfrog]

My mum still reminds me of this occasionally, but I traded in my metallic red limited edition DS in to get a DSi. Mum tried to buy it back afterwards (basically we traded it in to as it made the DSi significantly cheaper) but they wouldn't let her or even keep it aside. I regret this decision immensely.

[@DragoonMyuutsu]

I remember coming across a copy of EarthBound long ago back in a local Blockbusters Video store, giant box and all, not sure about inserts/ manual/ potential guide inside or the condition of the cart; at the time I didn't even know what EarthBound was, Smash Bros 64 i don't recall wasn't even around at the time and there was no easily accessible internet for me to look up this game with the giant box. Didn't help that I didn't really subscribe to Nintendo Power more at that early age. At the same Blockbusters I did buy a cart of Mega Man X which was probably $5 or $10 at the time (which was super cheap), so I imagine this copy of EarthBound would've been around the same price. It still haunts me that I never bought that copy.

[@jpm1544]

For a lot of us these are the "good old days" right now. Enjoy.

[@mr.midnight1683]

Extremely underrated video. I used to have Luigi's mansion, Gale of Darkness, windwaker, Sonic adventure dx.... Etc... Traded it in or sold it at a garage sale.... Can't remember :/

[@Cysubtor_8vb]

They keep bringing up wishing they still had old memory cards while I still have mine yet the data has corrupted erasing my Gamecube era saves from various Zeldas (including the bonus disk Collector's Edition) to TimeSplitters: Future Perfect with all the levels I made and challenges & whatnot I completed.

[@King_K_Rool_]

Around 2000 I sold my original childhood SNES and Gameboy games for basically nothing because I had apparently outgrown video games... I was very stupid in my early teens and regretted it not to long after and now have quite the game collection which was originally almost entirely driven by buying back the games from that sale I made.

[@Sharingon700]

I don't have many gaming regrets, but I do wish I had gotten into the Yakuza series as a teenager. I love the games, but don't have the free time to go through them all nowadays

[@AceSpec]

I remember when I was a kid, going out to buy the original Silent Hill on PS1. I brought it home, played it, beat it, and then asked my mom if we could take it back to the store because it was too scary for me. She said no, because it was opened and played. I told her we could seal it back up, and sure enough I got that thing looking like a sealed copy, and they took it back at the store. If we’re talking about things we regret… yeah that was underhanded of me and I felt bad not long after it.

[@OwnageMancer]

I didn't preorder Fable 2, and I really wanted the collector's edition, so my friend and I camped out in front of Gamestop for 6 hours. We were the only 2 there the whole time.

[@ClayMills-gt1bt]

I remember my brother or I wanting Zoocube or Cubivore and we ended getting Animal Crossing as a present. Very happy with that outcome.

[@RikuHino]

I traded in so many expensive games when I was a child I regret it so much some were very rare big sad. That what the poor life was like

[@amphibiousRV]

A big bonding thing that I did with my dad was buying comics together at Johnny Cee's. It's crazy to think that I probably met Zion multiple times while I was just having a good time with my old man 😁😁

[@johmami4825]

My biggest regret happened about 2 years ago. I'm from Wisconsin, and I was on a trip to Nashville for choir stuff, and I was given a lot of money for food and souvenirs and stuff like that from my family that doesn't have a lot of money. So I went to GameStop in Nashville, and Animal Crossing New Horizons had just come out. I decided to pick up Luigi's Mansion 3 and Terraria instead. I then had little money for food or souvenirs on the trip, and I felt bad for spending what money I had on games, but on top of that, a few months later I became obsessed with getting New Horizons, and it took forever to get because my family was in a tough spot at the time. I also ended up selling Luigi's Mansion 3 and Terraria, which are both good games, I have no idea why I sold them and I still don't have them to this day. Just a bunch of big regrets related to gaming in one sitting really.

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Man, I so relate to wanting bad or mediocre games to be better than they are as a kid. Because I was playing so much at the time and my only console was the N64, which famously had a pretty small library, I ended up playing quite a lot of rather mediocre titles. But it's like I refused to accept the concept of some games just not being that great, so I basically tried to force them to be good by the sheer power of denial lol.

[@geoffreyhogueison5551]

For me, its trading in my wii u, with extra controllers and botw for more 3ds games. Money was tight so i couldnt quite get what i want but i couldve just waited a few more months for college to start cause i wouldve had disbursement money. I ended up rebuying a wii u in far worse condition than mine for like $120 in 2020, about 3 years later

[@sageoffire3964]

I can name some games that fall under the cliche category of "I thought this would be good but this is dog water", but I have other gaming regrets. Not getting Xbox Live so I could play the multiplayer of the Transformers games. And now I never will get that option because the online servers for ALL Transformers games were shut down back in January 2020. Back in 2011, my brother was playing my DS without permission because he was grounded. I deployed the oh so genius tactic of throwing something at him. I threw a shoe at him, and missed. Instead it hit the DS, and the entire top screen shattered. The system still worked, but the top screen was now useless, so I was left with just GBA, and we only had like 4 GBA games, and at that, only one of them was any good. Subsequently, after my DS broke, my dad decided he was going to sell all my DS games since they were now useless to me. I didn't care, I still wanted them. I tried to at least hide my favorites, but I couldn't. Fortunately I have since found nearly every DS game I owned as a kid, and WAY more, but that was a big blow.

[@Rayquaza3010]

I had to sold my Game Cube. Not because of the money but my parents only wanted me to have one home console and I really wanted the Wii.

[@SuperPaperPokemon]

I lost my Pokemon Diamond box and cartridge during a move when I was young. Never again have I owned an official cartridge of the game or its generational counterparts, and considering the price of DS games these days, especially DPPt, I probably never will.

[@Gameitupchannel]

My biggest gaming regret is selling my dreamcast. Was saving up for a gamecube at the time. I don't regret buying the gamecube at all but wish i had held onto Segas last console

[@J.R.Unbound]

Most of my regrets stem from not getting games as a kid, only to now want to play those games. I could've gotten Heartgold, Sonic Colours, SSB Brawl and whatever, but because I was a really timid child I didn't want to ask for anything. And now I may never get to experience those titles... (I know Sonic Colours was remastered, but, well, you know)

[@Tea_Sea69420]

I remember in maybe 2011 I had a best friend who was an only child. He had all the consoles and games imaginable pretty much, it was the first time I saw one of those diverter boxes that you plug all the consoles into that you can switch between automatically, he had one of those and it was mind blowing. Anyway, it was his birthday and I knew of two games that he didn't have that I did that he couldn't find anywhere. Were monkey ball 2 and the original animal crossing. I gave both to him for his birthday and I regret it every time I remember it. They had everything in em, manuals and all. at the time I had city folk so I thought why not give him the old animal crossing when I had the newer one anyway. I still have my old game cube and my data cart, I doubt I'll ever get to see my old town again

[@ajimmick]

My biggest gaming regret was selling my super Nintendo and all the games so I could buy a PlayStation VR.... Still makes me sad