I've been wondering about what sort of personal gaming demons the average GOGer has to deal with, so I've created this topic for us to confess all the terrible things we've done in gaming. What exactly do I mean by confessions? Well, why don't I start with a few of my own.

- When I was younger I used to own Magic Carpet. One day I brought it over to my friends, and since I couldn't find the jewel case, I just threw it into my jacket pocket. All was fine until I got back home. I forgot to take it out of my pocket. The next day my mom decided to be nice and wash my jacket. Yep, my negligence led to the destruction of my copy of Magic Carpet.

- I bought Star wars: Force Commander, and Masters of Orion 3 at retail.More than that, I ENJOYED both of them. I can certainly understand why they both have bad reputations, but I had fun with both all the same.

- I skipped buying Star Craft or the Earth 2160 to buy Dark Planet instead when I could have gotten one of the three. I've since corrected this one by acquiring both Star Craft and Earth 2150. Dark Planet was not all that bad of a game, just a bit weaker than the others imo.

- I used to play Red alert over LAN with friends and family at my house. I had edited the game files to give Ukraine an edge over all the other countries. Of course I would always play Ukraine. This is probably the worst thing I did on this list, but messing around editing game files has lead to a career in Software Engineering for me, so it might have been worth it :P

So what are your gamer confessions?

Once I used cheats during a Doom 2 deathmatch against my brother.
I don't remember how, but you could enable them in multiplayer.
I only used the full map cheat though, so that makes it OK.. right?

I do everything i can not to get a single unit killed, so much that i have refused to play a game because of it.

I was very, very sad when I left WoW last April. Saying goodbye to some of the people, that I've spent few hours with, every day for the last half of the year playing together, was very hard. WoW may be grindy and stuff, but in the end, the community is what makes it so great.

When I was a kid, I lost the manual to TIE Fighter and thus could no longer play the game, since it required code words from the manual to run. I've been sad ever since. :(

I probably should have brought this one up in the op because it's going to come up eventually, so here it goes.

Piracy. Yep, I've pirated a few games in the past. Most of the copying I did was just burning a copy of a game someone I knew had, but I grabbed a couple of games online. I've since tried to buy the games I've copied to make up for it. I no longer download games, I simply don't buy them if I don't have the money or am unsure if I want the game at the price asked. I doubt I'm the only poster here who has downloaded a game in the past. At least GOG seems to have a lot of reformed pirates like myself. This is why I've still got the manual for most of the games I've ever owned. When you start out on games that did this it makes you very careful about your manuals.

I own, and appreciate certain elements of, Too Human. I enjoy the aesthetic, the soundtrack, even the combat (this is coming from someone who is not a hack'n'slash fan), but several criminally bad design choices relegate this game to a near interminable level. Finishing it is on my to do with extreme reluctance list (i.e. when I am in one of my more masochistic phases or when I have no other excuses to put off work.)

Is it heresy on this forum to admit that I enjoyed Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising? I mean it was no Operation Flashpoint, but I had fun.

Is it also heresy to admit that I enjoyed Wizardry 8 more than Bane of the Cosmic Forge?

Also, I do not get what everyone sees in Bioshock. I mean, sure, it was a fairly competent shooter with a fairly unique look, but that was about it.

Five months ago I decided to stop playing WoW entirely. Not going to waste any more time on that shit.

I'm now level 85. Heroic geared. Working on archaelogy. New achievements. In fact, why am I writing this, I might miss my dungeon invite!

I actually liked, and am still liking flight simulators. I even have Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and Red Baron installed under dosbox on my i5 laptop.

I played and enjoyed SSI and SSG strategy classics ( Age of Rifles, Carrier at war,... ) but I never liked " real time "so-called "strategy" games. That is until Total war shogun and its successors.

I never spoke again to the "friend" to whom I had lent my "Microprose's Dogfight" but who had "lost" it.

I had never heard of D&D before playing Eye of the Beholder I .

When we moved in our new home, I had to sort quite a lot my extensive game collection. I couldn't keep all bigger ²format boxes but I managed to smuggle quite a few in. Including XWING, TIE, CIV, All Wing Commanders, Red Baron, Red Baron II, Ultima Underworld, UFO, UFO 2, European Air War, Master of Orion, MoO2, SWOTL .... couldn't throw them away. Hopefully my wife won't read this.

I lent me Eye of the Beholder compilation to a friend. Then ended up moving to a different country before I could get it back. =/

I don't much like and can't get on with Planescape Torment.

Most of these aren't confessions, just anecdotes.

I once needed to clear some space as I was moving, and I got rid of all my old games to gamestation at 20p per game. I think there were about 30 games I shifted, none of which I really wanted to hang onto, but someone more deserving than gamestation should have got them.

- I have never finished The Witcher. I got to chapter 4 and lost my saved games and didn't want to start right over. I did eventually start over but got to chapter 3 and stopped for now. I will go back and beat it before Witcher 2 comes out.

- I really liked Deus Ex Invisible War when it came out. I was younger and less into deeper RPG mechanics at the time... I now see why the original is much better.

- Don't tell my hardcore RPG friends on other forums that I fucking LOVED Mass Effect 2.

I havent played half my gog games even one time.