Bad Habits for Gamers

[aaronobst]

PC gamer elitism.
"Grumble Grumble Skyrim* would be better if it was not on consoles, Why do we have to pander to 2005 tech whine whine "

^ Pretty much that

 

[FalloutJack]

Heh, what bad habit gamers exhibit DON'T I hate?

I'll simplify this down to "Being annoying/idiotic" and covereth a multitude of sins. Cool?

 

[StellarViking]

In Oblivion and other games, every time I shoot an arrow and miss (Which I work hard at making sure doesn't happen often) I will obsessively search the area for the wayward arrow and I will not move on until it is added to my inventory.

Also, obsessive reloading. "Whoops, headshot, lemme reload" and all.

 

[Saelune]

Most of mine are specific to certain games. I am currently playing Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 alot again, and often people will kick "no mic'ers" since they cant talk. This may be fine when everyone else is talking, but when no one with mics is talking anyways, why bother? Especcially when tehre are only 3 people with mics in the room.

Also Scoprion online in the new MK. Its not that I cant beat him (My wins are far greater than losses) its just boring.

 

[arrow_storm]

A video game "habit" of mine is that I reload as soon as I get a kill, often gets me killed, too. Probably not the only one though.

Oh, so many times...

Sometimes I take this waaaaay to far tho. I've caught myself reloading after every shot I fired once. It was a semi-auto, but it was still bad.

 

[gNetkamiko]

My annoying problem would have to be starting a character, not liking the way s/he is being fleshed out, deleting any save games of that character, and starting anew.

Rarely do I ever make a character that I stick through all the way to the end of the story.

 

[manic_depressive13]

As a fem-gamer, I hate it when girls use their wiles to cover up a lack of knowledge in games. As in, "HELLO. I PLAY GAMES KINDA SORTA, BUT I'M HOT SO LOOK HERE!" It's possible to be both good looking AND know your games, but it seems to be a trendy thing now-a-days that drives me up the wall and gives girls a bad name in games.

But guys might disagree..

Oh, I completely agree. In fact, I find it annoying when female gamers feel the need to advertise the fact that they are girls by having really obvious usernames, then finding a way to slip the fact that they are girls into almost everything they write just incase someone didn't notice. They could have an encyclopedia-like knowledge of games and it wouldn't be less annoying.

 

[thedeathscythe]

When people throw away the cases or the manuals of the game, as a collecter I hate that. There's nothing quite like the feeling of finding a rare game in the wild, only to discover that only the disc remains.

Or when people fold the spine of a book and then complain when it falls apart.

I'm from Canada so I throw out the French version of the manual. Make no mistake, I always keep the case and the English manual, but sometimes I ask myself "Why am I throwing this out?" but then I remember that I don't speak French. Still, it feels weird of me to throw it out, because despite the language, I am still throwing out a manual.

I do throw out those sleeves that come on top of games, and I made a topic about it once and someone ate me out about it. IMO, those sleeves take up too much space, make my games inconvenient to access, offer nothing extra to the design of the game, and create inconsistencies in my library when looking at them from the side.

 

[thedeathscythe]

As a fem-gamer, I hate it when girls use their wiles to cover up a lack of knowledge in games. As in, "HELLO. I PLAY GAMES KINDA SORTA, BUT I'M HOT SO LOOK HERE!" It's possible to be both good looking AND know your games, but it seems to be a trendy thing now-a-days that drives me up the wall and gives girls a bad name in games.

But guys might disagree..

Oh, I completely agree. In fact, I find it annoying when female gamers feel the need to advertise the fact that they are girls by having really obvious usernames, then finding a way to slip the fact that they are girls into almost everything they write just incase someone didn't notice. They could have an encyclopedia-like knowledge of games and it wouldn't be less annoying.

I just want to say that your comment is ironic because her username is G33kGoddess, hahaha, I know you didn't subtly mean it towards her but I just couldn't help but point that out. I also agree with both your points though. I know this girl who is quite attractive and we play Black Ops together, but her user name doesn't lead you to believe she's a girl at all, her avatar is a male and she doesn't like to talk in game unless we're in a party because she hates how people act once they find out she's a girl, and I have a lot of respect for that.

 

[Vault101]

Gamers, at least on the internet, seem to far too commonly hold the idea that any game they don't like is of poor quality, and ask other people what they could possibly see in such a game. This shows up a lot in discussions about Final Fantasy where every other post is how the series went downhill after their favorite one in the series.

oh and read somthing on an article you dont like? like a quote when they are talking about the game? doesnt matter how vauge or reliable or what it could possibly mean

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PC gamer elitism.
"Grumble Grumble Skyrim* would be better if it was not on consoles, Why do we have to pander to 2005 tech whine whine "

Because console sales far outstrip PC sales and without, using the Skyrim example, the console sales of Oblivion/Fallout 3 there would be a good chance that BethSoft wouldn't be making Skyrim? Hows 'dem apples? Crunchy?

Of course not all PC gamers are like this, hell my gametime is 50/50 Xbox/laptop at the moment.
*or whatever

this too

and DUMED DOWN!!

dude with the way things are *coughpiratescough* I feel like we are lucky we get ANY good games at all (and from an excellent developer that stands by our systm), seriously stop being self entitled....

that said somtimes I wish porting was done better (serious problems with Byond good and evil)

 

[Zantos]

PC gamer elitism.
"Grumble Grumble Skyrim* would be better if it was not on consoles, Why do we have to pander to 2005 tech whine whine "

Because console sales far outstrip PC sales and without, using the Skyrim example, the console sales of Oblivion/Fallout 3 there would be a good chance that BethSoft wouldn't be making Skyrim? Hows 'dem apples? Crunchy?

Of course not all PC gamers are like this, hell my gametime is 50/50 Xbox/laptop at the moment.
*or whatever

Oh good old PC gamers. "Pandering to you simple consoletards means the PC never gets any exclusives". No Mr PC gamer, the fact that you torrent so many of your games that it becomes completely uneconomical to release just for PC does that.

Note, I am not saying this is true of all PC gamers, I have a pretty decent gaming PC myself for which I buy games. However this is definitely true of all of the militants that I know.

 

[Zantos]

Gamers, at least on the internet, seem to far too commonly hold the idea that any game they don't like is of poor quality, and ask other people what they could possibly see in such a game. This shows up a lot in discussions about Final Fantasy where every other post is how the series went downhill after their favorite one in the series.

As a fan of Halo and Call of Duty I know exactly what you mean.

see halo and COD fans are right to say everything after mw1 or (whatever halo was good) due to the general lack of innovation in those sequels pumping out a lot of the same. From a technical standpoint their slightly better games due to fine tuning and gfx, but they bring very little fresh or exciting to the table is the problem. So you get people with bad opnions about the rehash.

Yea changes to characters and single play campaigns have been minor for a while, but for me that isn't a reason to hate a game. It generally means if you found it fun last time then you will this time. I find that much better than taking a loved game, deciding to take it in a different direction only to find that the new direction is down a dark backalley where it gets murdered (which is incidentally all my predictions for Bioshock Infinite).

Besides, it's not like they haven't moved on at all. Halo's forge and Call of Duty's multiplayer have gone leaps and bounds with each game.

 

[LittleBlondeGoth]

an annoying habit of mine is holding back my strongest weapons in fear that i might waste them, keeping them as if a bigger threat was right around the corner, leaving me attacking the hardest boss with the most basic weapon with infinite\large ammo supply

This. A hundred times, this. I always end up stockpiling items in case I need them later. When really, I need them now. But... You know, there might be something just past this where I need them more, so I'd better hold on to them...

Don't do it, kids.

 

[Zantos]

an annoying habit of mine is holding back my strongest weapons in fear that i might waste them, keeping them as if a bigger threat was right around the corner, leaving me attacking the hardest boss with the most basic weapon with infinite\large ammo supply

I know that feeling. Half Life 2 became so much less frustrating when I just started using the grenades and rocket launcher in common situations.

 

[Sixcess]

Playing every FPS like it's DOOM. Whenever I see that FPS perspective my first instinct is run-and-gun-strafe-strafe-kill-'em-all, regardless of how the game is designed to be played.

How long it takes to adapt to a new game varies. STALKER: SoC made it very clear from the first gunfight that it was not DOOM.

 

[putowtin]

As a fem-gamer, I hate it when girls use their wiles to cover up a lack of knowledge in games. As in, "HELLO. I PLAY GAMES KINDA SORTA, BUT I'M HOT SO LOOK HERE!" It's possible to be both good looking AND know your games, but it seems to be a trendy thing now-a-days that drives me up the wall and gives girls a bad name in games.

But guys might disagree..

this too! Remember playing as a team on AC multiplayer and getting the "oh we got a girly girl here, well if we lose it's your fault!"
then I killed three times as many as the rest of my team put together (smug feeling still makes me happy!)

 

[EHKOS]

Well, I do thi myself, but I think we all need to stop reloading after every shit. It puts us at a disadvantage and makes us vulnrable.

 

[Aphex Demon]

My sister has a tendency to take the disk out of the PS3, or Xbox, and place it on the floor

PUT IT IN THE FUCKIN' CASE *****.

 

[Tallim]

I used to do the OCD reloading thing but Bulletstorm has cured me of that to some extent. Running high scores on it means reloading is a waste of valuable time bonus.

I'm an extreme risk taker in most action games. Which usually leads me to struggling with parts of games that should be easy if you just hang back and take your time.

I play a lot of SHMUPs and it took me a long time to get out of the habit of saving smart bombs and such, even to the point where I got killed because I was "saving" it. Now I am kind of the opposite on other genres. No Kill Like Overkill for a lot of things.

Can't remember what game it was now but in it I used to use a rocket launcher as a convenient alternative for opening doors.

 

[00slash00]

the endless debating over whether consoles or PCs are better. just stop it, youre both equally obnoxious