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Shinkicker444

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Played a lot of Thief back in the day, near every first person game after Im always attempting to vault (ctrl+spacebar) onto things, with varying amounts of success.
 

Imperioratorex Caprae

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Neronium said:
I have a bad problem with grinding. Any JRPG, if I'm given the chance to walk around and earn EXP then I'll do it. In Pokemon this becomes a huge problem. One example is in Sapphire, which I just recently restarted. Before I even battled my rival for the first time, my Mudkip was already a level 22 Marshtomp.
Even worse was in my Kingdom Hearts Final Mix LP I did a year and a half ago, in which I got to level 25 while still on Destiny Island. :p
I do this too, blaming both Dragon Warrior (Quest) and Final Fantasy from the NES era. Now I have to grind so by the time I go through the endgame I'm basically one-hitting things that should be a challenge. Or in FF7's case stomping the hardmode bosses without realizing they were supposed to be hard (except Ruby weapon which I didn't know the trick on killing it first 100 times it killed me).
 

blackrave

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Hoarding
Every single game that allows it
The most ridiculous examples were Skyrim (I carried ~1000 potions, most of them were healing, magicka, stamina and invisibility potions) and Deus Ex HR (before last boss battle I had 30 hypostims, 25 painkillers, 30 cyberboost bars, 10 cyberboost packs and ~400 AR rounds, could have carried more AR ammo, but I chose Laser rifle as my secondary lethal weapon)
Especially painful for me was end of "The missing link" part of Director's cut because
at the end you receive all items that were confiscated from you prior to that
That plus stuff I collected during that event, left me we ~10 grenades of every type, more than 1k rounds for AR and previously mentioned meds and energy bars)
Choosing what to leave behind was HARD :(
And selling excess stuff wasn't an option, because Quinn does not trade anymore after certain point
Lazy bastard :(
 

Horon

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Mine would probably be crouching upon landing after a jump off of something.

I picked this up from Halo PC when I discovered that crouching as you land would negate fall damage.

Done it in every FPS I've played ever since.
 

Phantom Kat

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I have a really bad habit where if I feel like doing another playthrough of a game, I delete ALL my previous saves/characters. I've done this in MMOs even (as long as the character isn't level capped).

I also cannot spend less than 1 hour in character customisation if there's a decent character creator. I've also deleted characters 20 hours into a game because their mouth is 2mm too small or their eyes are just the wrong shade of turquoise.

Most of these haven't transferred across games though, but rather simply occur in (almost) all of them.
 

Alexander Kirby

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Tuesday Night Fever said:
Immediately reloading my weapon after killing a target, even if I still have half the magazine or more left. I have no idea where I picked up this bad habit, but I do it in pretty much every shooter. In some, like the CoD franchise, it's not really all that bad. In more realistic franchises though, the ones where any rounds left in a discarded magazine are also discarded... yeah... it kinda hurts there.
Yes, same here, every time. This is especially annoying when I play Red Orchestra 2, as in that game if you take out a half used mag, you will actually keep it, but it'll remain half used. Yet after over 100 hours of gameplay I still reload after every kill, and I just end up with a bunch of mags that run out too quickly because I didn't check how full they were :(