Your Shameful Gaming Secrets

I bought the Metroid Prime remaster six months ago, and haven’t once thought about playing it.

In the Cuphead DLC, Chef Saltbaker's jumpscare when he turns around with the knife still scares me when I watch the cutscene in-game, even though I know it's coming.

Meanwhile, I got Slime Rancher years ago and it was never touched yet.

I was legitimately scared during the "Don't Make a Sound" level in Pizza Tower.

I’m playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom but I’m now to the point where adventuring the map has become a game of “the floor is lava”, or more accurately, “the floor is Gloom Spawn”, as I’m too afraid of running into one.

If you do run into one, head for the water or high ground, or use fast-travel to escape.

I said this in the "Odd Confessions" thread but only now did I discover this so I'm repeating what I said.

When I was around 13 or 14, I cheated on the The Perfect Run in Super Mario Galaxy 2 by using the Infinite Lives cheat because in just one playthrough, I got so frustrated seeing my 99 lives count down to 0 and I just wanted to get that game done and over with so that's why I cheated.

When I was a child, I got stuck on the Slogra and Gaibon boss fight, then Doppleganger10 in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Edited by CosmosAndChaos on Jan 3rd 2024 at 7:39:22 AM

I went through the whole of TOTK without reuniting any Koroks cause by the time I figured out how to move them I decided it wasn't worth the trouble.

On THAT subject, I actually died repeatedly trying to reunite the Koroks that are on the path to the Wind temple, due to the enemy horde that’s between the Korok and the balloon you need to use, and an INCREDIBLY poorly timed blood moon.

I've never gone to the Nether in Minecraft. My entire playstyle is to find a world, run around until I find a good spot for a house, gather random resources, start a farm, inevitably get lost and forget where my house is, and then reset out of frustration.

Really I just like to explore the map, and sometimes I'll go out of my way to die in creative ways lol.

Edited by WarJay77 on Jan 7th 2024 at 2:07:00 PM

I purposely jumped into the huge pit of spikes inside Santa's house the first time I played Cave Story. Even after reading the warning sign first...

So did I!

Earlier today in Dragon Quest Monsters 3 I went through the arduous process to make a Grandpa Slime and was confident I had all the Slimes in the encyclopedia, only to realize I forgot the Sprite Bulb. Time to go egg-hunting again!

And as a kid playing Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 I didn't know how skills being passed down from parents worked at first and stubbornly kept my MadCondor at its initial level cap of 45 well into postgame cause I was afraid I'd lose HealUsAll if I bred it with anything.

I didn't know I could guard and dodge attacks before the Sillydillo fight in Kirby and the Forgotten Land and had to look up why I was constantly getting hit. (This is why we need instruction manuals!)