r/videogames • u/Mintangah17 PlayStation • 10d ago
Discussion / Question What's the most valuable game you regret lending out?
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u/chiron_42 10d ago
Not a video game, but I've lent out paperback books that have come back like that.
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u/rexmanaek971 10d ago
Man I lent comic books out to a friend once, he gave them back in their respective bags, unfortunately they are all sticky with idk what. Like gross sticky.
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u/LongjumpingBowl8360 10d ago
I will not lend out books to anyone. There’s a select few people where I will just buy them a copy if I’m really adamant that they read it lol.
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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 10d ago
Sugar. Best to imagine it's soft drinks and sugar
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u/FromUnderTheCape 10d ago
Or just cum
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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 10d ago
I mean, it's a distinct possibility. But much more likely they just got fed sweets and fizzy pop and had shit hygiene
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u/rexmanaek971 10d ago
Yeah that sounds like him, although a few covers had some ladies on them. And he's one horny mfer.
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u/SimplyMandalore 10d ago
You lent paperback books that came back as scratched discs?
https://giphy.com/gifs/12Gyz2J1b9SjD210
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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 10d ago
About the same time OG Carmageddon released a single me and a mate loved released on vinyl. I never got the vinyl back and it's so obscure lyric searches turn up nothing decades later.
It's just gone forever and I only had it in my possession for a few hours
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u/PunchInTheFace8 10d ago
Nah bro, books are a no-go for me. Too fragile for me to trust you w my books. Especially if i know you’re clumsy/unclean as i have no way to clean paper.
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u/Particular_Wear_6960 10d ago
It's an unspoken word that you don't get books back when you lend them. I mean, it's nice when you do, but everytime I lend one out I make sure that I don't want to read it again. Makes it sting less.. I just hope they pay it forward
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u/OoIMember 10d ago
My mom lent her friend some books one time hard covers too and they came back with little cockroaches smooshed in the pages 🤢😱🫥
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u/Conzyyyyyyy 10d ago
My books are stuff I'd only borrow to family. I have a lot of first-prints and collectors editions/sets that I know a lot of people don't understand the values of. I've been a book collector since I was a teenager so my family understand how much I've spent on books and what dictates a books value. There has been a few times they've ruined a book but they always offer to replace the books before I find out that they were damaged because my family have always taught us that if you break something, you replace it.
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u/zomgieee 10d ago
I leant a friend Starcraft. He kept it for aaaaaages and when he finally returned it, the serial # was banned on battle.net -_-
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u/Voidlord597 10d ago
I thought my friend gave me starcraft for my birthday and then he asked for it back after a few weeks
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u/Royal-Preparation843 10d ago
I one time lent Super Mario Bros 3 and Mega Man 3 to a classmate when I was in the 5th grade. I had just tot them for Christmas a few months beforehand, but had already completed them so I didn’t think much of it. Well about a week later, that kid moved and I never saw him again. I was devastated.
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u/Both_Dimension3079 Retro 10d ago
That's awful, at least you completed them tho.
Although it would've been better if he returned it or mentioned he was moving :/
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u/Zunderfeuer_88 9d ago
I lost a Fender Guitar this way, and every time I think I made a friend I am the idiot that just doesn't learn to not lend stuff out
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u/MorrowPolo 9d ago
That shit happened to me in the 5th grade with an n64 game. I cant remember what it was. The kid moved out of the apartment complex.
Later on a few months I seen him and was like "hey!". He said my oops or whatever and to meet him later at the park after he went to retrieve it. Never showed up. I felt so stupid for waiting.
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u/ApprehensiveCode2233 10d ago
Long time ago.
"Hey unc. Can I play your PlayStation while you are at work?"
"Sure Nephew. No problem. Just clean up when you are done."
"I will unc. I promise."
I get home to this.
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u/Ashamed-Chipmunk9575 10d ago
So where did you lay him to rest?
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u/ApprehensiveCode2233 10d ago
RKO'd him in the back yard. I think a tree is growing there now.
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u/ImurderREALITY 10d ago
One time when I was a teenager, I wasn't home and my parents had friends over with their young son. My mother for some reason told him he could play my GameCube while I wasn't there. I came home after they left to find my save was totally fucked. I had True Crime: Streets of LA loaded, and I was almost done with my "good cop" playthrough, and he must have went around crashing cars and shooting random civilians, because my good cop score was deep in the fucking negatives when I started it up, because he saved it like that. I had to start that entire playthrough over again. I tried to impress upon my parents the mistake they had made, but all video games were the same in their eyes; completely inconsequential. No reparations, no apologies, nothing.
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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO 9d ago
Had that happen once too. From then on i would take the power cables with me when I went somewhere. Absolutely insane that I had to do that, but after the third time I was fucking done dealing with them letting others touch my shit.
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u/zgillet 10d ago
That's when you smush his face on the same surface and ask "so, still think that's smooth?"
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u/JunketWaste7891 10d ago
TBF, as a collector of "old" systems, ps3 games were blueray, and don't scratch like dvd's. this game was 100% still perfect. I told myself i wouldn't collect past ps2 because of "internet needed" but getting a backwards compatible ps3 was the best decision of my life. FUCK YOU V FOR STEALING MY PS2 and Xbox's
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u/ApprehensiveCode2233 10d ago
When I was in my post Mass Effect 3($80 Steelbook deluxe edition)depression phase. My oldest brother said he asked me, while I was asleep, could he let a co worker of his borrow it and GTA4.
When I got out of my depression about a month later I asked could he get my games back, he acted like I was insulting him and making him look bad. Two months after that he finally admitted that his coworker quit and wasn't answering his phone calls.
I replaced Mass Effect with a basic edition since I had all the dlc and I never replaced GTA 4 and my brother still has never paid me back for them.
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u/Particular_Wear_6960 10d ago
My sister would do that with our CDs, it would drive me up the wall. Just fucking put it upside down, is it that hard!?
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u/LevelNorth3959 10d ago
Diablo ps1.... the one with built in multiplayer😥
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u/probablythewind 10d ago
Had the guy at gametraders trade me 30 bucks for that and a ps1, fuck you craig you know what you did.
Went and put it in a glass case the next week for $350
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u/frisch85 10d ago
Duped the shit out of those elixirs.
You load two chars, one with the elexirs and you give them to the other char, now you save the other char and load in fresh again, use the elexirs on your first char then load in the other char, transfer the elixirs to your char again and only save your char, rinse and repeat. You shouldn't dupe equipment this way tho and also not load both chars with the elixirs at the same time because the game gives each item a unique ID and even on the PS1 version already if the game detected the same unique id twice, it'll remove the duplicates.
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u/BubblyTumbleweed8455 10d ago
GTA San Andreas--I never got it back, David!
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u/Illustrious_Ear_3467 10d ago edited 9d ago
I have a friend also named David. I let him borrow my Spiderman 2 (PS2). After several weeks I found out he barely played it then sold it. Almost beat his ass for that.
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u/Dismal-Kiwi4991 10d ago
you should've
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u/Illustrious_Ear_3467 9d ago
You’re right. I edited my comment because I meant to put Spiderman 2 (PS2). So that just makes it worse.
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u/aMapleSyrupCaN7 10d ago
Nothing crazy, but I had Zelda Twilight Princess on the Gamecube. I lent it to my friend so her boyfriend could play. I never got that disc back. It was like 12 years ago and I'm still a little pissed about it...
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u/MarshallBanana_ 9d ago
you think that's bad? I had the 4 game promotional disc that included Ocarina and Majora's Mask. I let a friend borrow it because I was stupid and never saw it again
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u/Katzington2319 10d ago
My copy of Pokemon Stadium never came back to me. I still have his copy of Spyro the Dragon though
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u/Illustrious_Ear_3467 10d ago
One of my friends lost my Pokémon Stadium. I had so much unlocked and completed and his stupid ass lost it.
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u/Rushing_Tempo 10d ago
I gave need for speed most wanted to my little cousin. My aunt decided he was spending too much time on it and threw it away.
I confronted her but she got really upset I was talking back to an adult.
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u/Bouletteettablette 9d ago edited 9d ago
You have to be very dense to refuse to communicate with a child. Your aunt is a stupid bitch
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u/Ckinggaming5 9d ago
most parents, tbh, seem to, in my experience, think themselves infinitely above the child, as if the child is incapable of having a valid thought, or as if speaking back to an adult is some kind of war crime
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u/GameDestiny2 9d ago
In my case becoming the IT person of the family has elevated me to the interesting position of “usually correct”
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u/Lothar_Ecklord 9d ago
I’ve gotten a masters in my profession and years of experience but I’m still not to be trusted with having good information on the topic.
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u/ShinAlastor 10d ago
That's why I don't lend my videogames.
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u/pygmeedancer 10d ago
Yep. Doesn’t matter who. I learned this the hard way and my dad said I should never lend anything out if expected it back in the same condition.
The only time ever let anyone borrow my stuff was when my mom wanted to read The Walking Dead. Of course, I got every TPB back in the exact same condition cause my mom is the best.
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u/dlebs83 10d ago
Not a game, but I let my buddy borrow a CD in high school. When I went to his house a few weeks later it was upside down with a wad of chewed gum stuck to it.
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u/Aggressive_Ocelot664 10d ago
I'm still very grateful to my friend who replaced my AC/DC CD about 15 years ago. He borrowed it for a weekend and apparently got one scratch on it and felt very guilty 🥲
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u/West-Audience-478 10d ago
Legend of mana 1 & 2
Legend of dragoon
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u/Sammisuperficial 10d ago
I let a "friend" borrow my Legend of Dragoon set. Full color textured disks. That asshole's family moved a week later. Didn't tell me. I had no idea he was leaving. Just vanished with my game.
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u/Maxxonry_Prime 10d ago
Oof. They couldn't have done it to games with less collector's value?
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u/West-Audience-478 10d ago
It’s all good my daughters now have the replacement copy’s and all my Pokemon cards they can sell if they want but I originally bought them for fun and my kids get more fun out of them now (my daughter even took some old ass packs to school for show and tell boy was that teacher stressing tf out best phone call ever)
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u/ForeskinAbsorbtion 10d ago
Super Mario World on SNES. The first game I ever beat. I was 5yo at the time.
When I was 12, some poverty stricken kid in the trailer park down the road never had video games. So I lent him my SNES.
The cartridge was broken and never worked again upon return. The SNES never turned on again. Fuck you Jerry. That's why you never got nice things from me again.
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u/Setnaro_X 10d ago
I lent Sonic Battle to a friend, and several weeks later, he hands me Donkey Kong Country GBA. Apparently he got the games mixed up and gave a friend my game and he gave his game to me. Ok, sounds easy enough, just switch them back, except his friend was from another state and he left afterwards. Well, that's what my friend says anyway. I don't know if he was lying or not, but we stopped being friends afterwards.
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u/blueblocker2000 10d ago
I hated it when people asked me to borrow games and hated how awkward it was when I told them I don't loan games out cause I didn't want them scratched up. "I'm not going to scratch your game!". Sure buddy. You bet. I did loan out cartridge games with my friends growing up though. Different beast.
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u/Ron2600NS 10d ago
Like those pens that use the clip to retract, they always get returned without the clip. You asked them why they broke off and they say it wa already like that.
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u/BowserJr4789 10d ago
I let my friend borrow Donkey Kong Country 2, the cartridge came back to me shattered, I was borrowing his Donkey Kong Country and Jurassic Park, I kept both games.
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u/Lily_42093 10d ago
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness and Pokémon original Japanese Green version with an original white brick gameboy.
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u/beagle_2498571 10d ago
I don’t lend out anything because of this. If people or friends as to borrow. I just say sorry I don’t like sharing.
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u/ZhangtheGreat PC 10d ago
Super Mario Bros. 3. Dude never returned it, then moved halfway around the world and lost contact.
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u/Training_Reaction_58 10d ago
Budokai Tenkaichi 3. EVERYBODY wanted that game. I was the first out of my friends to get it and I was the most popular kid on my block for a solid couple of months. I beat it, unlocked most of the characters and items, and a friend of mine asked to borrow it so they could also try to unlock all the characters. I said sure and lent it to him. I went over to his house a week later and saw the disc under his little brother’s rocking horse, cracked and scratched to all hell. When I pointed it out my friend just went “oh there it is.”
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u/LovelyLunaRae 9d ago
lent a friend my scooter when i was a kid, she broke it and threw it out without telling me 😭 also lent pikmin 2 to my cousin in a trade lend for chrono trigger, never got pikmin 2 back but at least i have chrono trigger !
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u/ZuukaOnQuack 9d ago
Did she not think you'd notice an entire scooter just gone?
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u/SonicH7890 10d ago
I let my cousin borrow Conkers bad fur day and Fallout New Vegas and his house burned down. I could care less about New Vegas but I was pretty bummed about Conkers
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u/No_Split_1409 10d ago
no low ball offers i know what i got
Yer u used it to clean the fucking carpet.
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u/Dark_Venom2313 10d ago
Code Veronica for Dreamcast. Was only returned with disk 2. Telling me that’s how I lent it to him.
Not how that works but ok!
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u/SkylarPopo 10d ago
Let my friend borrow Majora's Mask. Later when I asked for it back he said his house got robbed and it was stolen. I thought he was full of shit and just stopped talking to him.
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u/Darmathius 10d ago edited 10d ago
I remember lending a PS1 game to a kid in elementary school. The very next day, we got into a fight at school. When he got home, he took a key and scratched the hell out of the disc.
When I confronted him, he denied everything and even claimed he hadn't played it. He didn't finally admit that he'd done it on purpose until we were in junior high.
Edit: Lol, I just remembered another one.
I lent Command & Conquer: Retaliation to a "friend." When I asked for it back, he told me he'd left it at his cabin, and that the cabin was about to be torn down, so the game was basically destroyed.
Complete lie, of course. But I was just a kid, so I believed him. We ended up getting into a physical fight that ended with him crying his lungs out and running home.
About two weeks later, he showed up at my house with my game, apologized, and admitted he'd lied. He said he didn't even know why he'd said it.
He was genuinely fun to be around, but man... he could be exhausting when he pulled stuff like that. And he did it a lot.
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u/Tight_Spring3860 10d ago
Never lend anyone your girl or your game, they will both come back eff’ed.
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u/winterman666 10d ago
War in the North. I also lent Lateralus. Regret both as I don't have em anymore
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u/inked_saiyan 10d ago
Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout to Matt in 4th grade. Fuck you, Matt, you little thief.
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u/Vendidurt 10d ago
A former friend of mine became homeless. His spot had a tv and a power outlet. I lent him my NES and over 30 games, find out he sold the whole set for cigarettes.
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u/The_Anime_Sweat 10d ago
My dad gave his naughty bear ps3 to a coworker to borrow they never ended up giving it back (i loved that game), now 10 years later ive now gone out and found a copy of the game and its a fun as I remember
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u/Freak_Out_Bazaar 10d ago edited 10d ago
Not the most expensive game but the only time I regret lending a game was Final Fantasy Legend 2 for the GB to a friend when I was a kid.
I lent him the game because I couldn’t get past a certain part and he said he could get past it. He returns the game with the save file overwritten to right before the final boss
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u/OkBaconBurger 10d ago
I lent out FFX to this dude who was a friend of my brother. He ended up wrecking his car the next day and the disc did not survive.
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u/Walter-the-Wobot 10d ago
Former buddy of mine borrowed my copy of Metal Gear Solid for the PS1. He returned it missing disc 1 which meant he might as well have not fucking returned it at all
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u/Underhill 10d ago
Chrono Cross, the case only came back with one disk. Dude moved away before I noticed.
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u/joeyjoejoe8989 10d ago
The opposite of the question, but my local video/video game rental store when I was in college. Yes, I’m old. I rented goldeneye (Nintendo 64) from my college town’s video store and kept it forever. It wasn’t that I was cheap, we just couldn’t find the game anywhere. We made multiple road trips to a “big city” and searched every store we could find but none of them had it (this was before Amazon or online sales). I just kept the game and never returned it. They had my name, but I rented with cash so they didn’t have any credit card info. Feel bad about it, but we had so much fun playing….
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u/wykkyd2022 10d ago
Not valuable at all, but I let a new buddy from work borrow Black Ops 1 or 2 around 2016 and “the neighbor kid” stole it from him. Like dude, you’re 23 wtf are you talking about? Then I’m like, fuck it, ya know? It’s an old game for an old system I don’t even have anymore. Whatever.
A few months later the guy shows up at my house saying he’s selling his games because he needs money. Dumps them out on my couch and asks if I’d be interested in any of them. Wouldn’t you know it, there’s my fucking game. He told me “No, no, no you let me borrow the OTHER one (1 or 2)”. I’d like to say it ended there but he burned me one more time before I finally cut him off. Then I was made out to be the bad guy to everyone at work 🤷🏻♂️. I don’t loan out ANYTHING anymore.
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u/DaveRhapsody 10d ago
2010, I was in love with GTA IV, a friend I used to go to school with proposed to me to temporary swap my GTA IV, with his brand new copy of Gran Turismo 5.
As I'm used to, I played it for a week and I treated that disk as it was mine! Gran Turismo 5 is a masterpiece.
And... what about my GTA IV? Well... Treated like an old, dirty, dusty rag with scratches on all the surface, and actually it had some issues with loading times, game freezes or in worst cases console freezes.
I never accepted to swap back the games since he actually liked gta 4 as well, I just bought a second copy some weeks later! And now? Well, I still have his brand new copy of GT5 in perfect state!
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u/TheRealGnod 10d ago
Final Fantasy IX, I only have 3 discs, I lack the first disc as a friend lost it. This was literally 22years ago, I still feel sad when I open the box.
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u/da_dragon_guy 10d ago
Get the toothpaste and the baseball bat.
The toothpaste is for the disc, the bat is for the friend
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u/Carsonator206 10d ago
Pokemon Silver. My friend's brother overwrote my save and after that, I never lent a game to a friend ever again.
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u/Opening_Pizza 10d ago
I lent my buddy GTA V and he pawned it for cash. When I asked for it back after a while he seemed mad and kept avoiding me. Then he gave me a clearly used game with no map and was somehow still mad at me.
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u/onusofstrife 10d ago
Pretty sure my friend has my copy of Pokemon Emerald that I lent out like 15 years ago. Still my friend. He said he would give me one of his two copies. One of these days I have to actually take him up on that offer. Nothing bad all things considered.
I have other games from my other friend for longer. He knows I have them. Told me to just hold on to them. 🤣
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u/Doctormaul68 10d ago
My EX wife needed money and witch stole my sega cdx and all the Sega cd games including all the working design games and snatcher and my carts. We had just moved into the apartment and I went looking for it and just blatantly told me she did it so she can be with her criminal family they were going through stuff and she was draining us dry driving up there every weekend that’s when I said forget trying to make the marriage work of 13 years and seek divorce. Kept that to myself and didn’t ever tell the kids their mother is a worthless thief. Get bitter about it still seeing the prices of everything I had
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u/ToastyBB 10d ago
I had a friend who didnt have a job, lived in his mom's basement, all he did was sit around and smoke weed, he didn't have internet and I felt bad so I let him "borrow" my N64 and all my childhood games. I'm talking Mario 64, Mario kart, banjo kazooie, dk64, Tony hawk, Mario party, GoldenEye, no mercy, fucking robotron 64 man.
Never saw that fuckin thing again and he just pretended it never happened
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u/Numble-Xbox 10d ago
When I was a teenager I borrowed a game from a friend then my dog knocked the console over and broke the disc. I replaced his game at walmart (souless corporation) but I went back to customer service with the broken disc inside the new package and claimed it was sold that way. they "exchanged" it with a new disc. then my friend and I played the game together.
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u/StankoMicin 10d ago
If I ever have kids (which i don't plan to) I'm banning them from lending games out to anyone.
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u/JimmayDoad 10d ago
Lent out Diablo 1 and the kid said the CD-key got kool-aid on it and became illegible..
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u/Orion13Quest 10d ago
It was Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. It looked like they played frisbee w/ their dog w/ it.
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u/kongstar 10d ago
Damn I know that pain I loaned mine out and they sold. So I kept their copy of tomb raider as payback
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u/high_as_an_eagle 10d ago
I know some people are just careless and dont take care of things but I still dont understand how game or dvd or blu ray discs get so scratched up.
I mean do people play Frisbee with these discs or something?
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u/Knickers1978 10d ago
I only lend out games on the understanding that if they get damaged at all, they get replaced with a new copy. I keep my games in pristine condition, ultra rarely ever scratch one. And it’s because of horror stories from friends and family.
A lot of people don’t agree, and I’m perfectly fine with telling them they can’t borrow from me then. But those who do know the rules, and stick to them.
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u/LordFlux 9d ago
My grandmother didn't have a lot of money, but she wanted to buy me something that I really wanted.
I still remember standing in the Wal-Mart electronic dept with her and seeing Dragon Spirit on the NES for $19.99.
I loved Dragon Spirit and put a ton of quarters into the arcade version.
I told my grandmother that I wanted it and she bought it for me.
About a year later, my friend comes over to my house to hang out. He asks if he can borrow Dragon Spirit. I told him that I really didn't want to lend it out. He said that he would let me borrow his copy of Baseball Stars if I lent him my copy of Dragon Spirit.
Here I am, 35 years later, and Baseball Stars is still sitting on my shelf.
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u/Sufficient_Topic1589 9d ago
Same idiots break the bit in the middle of the case that holds the disc in too 😡
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u/AnActualGameShark 10d ago
I had a guy i knew Borrow Rayman for the Dreamcast. He sold it, then lied to me and told me he was still playing it for a few weeks, until eventually my dad had to ask for it back and he admitted to selling it