Confess your strange Gaming Habits
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I know this sounds wierd, but I like to rent a game, ether beat it or do a lot, and then not play it. I've done this with Virtua Fighter 5 (Still have it), Metroid Prima 3, etc., and I don't know why.
I have all of those problems. Some days, I just cannot get comfortable, and my gaming performance suffers horribly for it.FoxDiamond said:
Me too, especially when I'm making gameplay videos. Say I'm making a video of a police chase in Need for Speed: Most Wanted - I put a lot of thought into the song I choose, and once I start recording, if even the slightest thing goes wrong and breaks the flow, I restart. Once, I restarted a level dozens of times to get one video. (Things kept going wrong) The video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5cyIu01YF4] I got in the end was pretty damn sweet though, so it was worth it.
I do that, but then, I'm a compulsive hand washer all round, I wash my hands at least a dozen times a day.
That reminds me.
If I ever get that strange glare from the sun on my monitor or TV when Im playing a game. I MUST get rid of it by any means!
1. Shutting the curtains, somtimes works but can fail on a bright day
2. Making a tent using a large blanket around me and my monitor
3. Using a towel to add another layer of curtain to thw window, no matter how stupid it looks!
4. Destroying the Sun bringing an everlasting eternal night! But it has'nt come to that. . .yet
If I ever get that strange glare from the sun on my monitor or TV when Im playing a game. I MUST get rid of it by any means!
1. Shutting the curtains, somtimes works but can fail on a bright day
2. Making a tent using a large blanket around me and my monitor
3. Using a towel to add another layer of curtain to thw window, no matter how stupid it looks!
4. Destroying the Sun bringing an everlasting eternal night! But it has'nt come to that. . .yet
This is a fantastic thread, I just had to post some of mine.
1) I too have been known to occasionally game nude. Well, oay, I'm not KNOWN to game nude but I'm admitting it here and now.
2) I too, am also a reload junky, which, when using the breen gun in COD4 ensures many a failed deathmatch.
3) I also like to nod my character's head in FPSs, just for the immersion factor.
4)In a slightly twisted fashion, I tend to cackle maniacally when I perform a particular gruesome or gratuitous kill in a FPS or other typically violent game. My favourite in particular was when I turned a corner in Half Life 2, didn't even aim my gun, and nailed a combine soldier with one magnum shot to the head. The bloodstain hit the wall at a perfectly straight projectory, he slumped over the table he was behind, and despite having his gun primed over the table he was hiding behind, he barely had a chance to fire a shot.
5) If I'm playing a game with catchy music, I tend to narrate my onscreen actions in time and pitch to the melody. Playing Symphony of the Night and singing to a skeleton worrior about how exactly I'm going to kill him is both juvenile and entertaining.
6) If I've been left alone all day with nobody to talk to, 9 times out of 10 I'll fire up my console and if I'm not talking to my onscreen assailants, I'm talking to myself, congratulating myself for good kills or puzzle-solving skills.
7) I get through some of the hardest puzzles in a game, then get stuck on the really easy ones, give up within a half hour, look at a walkthrough, and then feel really guilty for the remainder of the game. I did this earlier today for the Milkman stage in Psychonauts. The solution was so simple, and I love the game so much that I'm still feeling dirty for it.
8) If a game is bright, colourful, relaxing, strange, and simple (Katamari Damacy being a great example) I tend to wait until I'm really stoned before playing it. Makes it so much more fun. Ditto with scary games - I don't normally get freaked out by horror titles, but FEAR, a few tokes, and surround sound, and you're in for a terrifying treat.
9) As a kid, I used to play games to enjoy and complete them. Nowadays, I want to see a game through to the end to critique it. I do still enjoy playing through my games (why else would I play them?) but I aspire to be either a game designer or critic, and when I play through a game it's very rarely for storyline closure, but so that I can look back and analyse what did or didn't make the game great.
10) I absolutely detest Oblivion. It's universally loved by many, others are impartial, but I find every last piece of binary that holds that game together totally objectionable.
1) I too have been known to occasionally game nude. Well, oay, I'm not KNOWN to game nude but I'm admitting it here and now.
2) I too, am also a reload junky, which, when using the breen gun in COD4 ensures many a failed deathmatch.
3) I also like to nod my character's head in FPSs, just for the immersion factor.
4)In a slightly twisted fashion, I tend to cackle maniacally when I perform a particular gruesome or gratuitous kill in a FPS or other typically violent game. My favourite in particular was when I turned a corner in Half Life 2, didn't even aim my gun, and nailed a combine soldier with one magnum shot to the head. The bloodstain hit the wall at a perfectly straight projectory, he slumped over the table he was behind, and despite having his gun primed over the table he was hiding behind, he barely had a chance to fire a shot.
5) If I'm playing a game with catchy music, I tend to narrate my onscreen actions in time and pitch to the melody. Playing Symphony of the Night and singing to a skeleton worrior about how exactly I'm going to kill him is both juvenile and entertaining.
6) If I've been left alone all day with nobody to talk to, 9 times out of 10 I'll fire up my console and if I'm not talking to my onscreen assailants, I'm talking to myself, congratulating myself for good kills or puzzle-solving skills.
7) I get through some of the hardest puzzles in a game, then get stuck on the really easy ones, give up within a half hour, look at a walkthrough, and then feel really guilty for the remainder of the game. I did this earlier today for the Milkman stage in Psychonauts. The solution was so simple, and I love the game so much that I'm still feeling dirty for it.
8) If a game is bright, colourful, relaxing, strange, and simple (Katamari Damacy being a great example) I tend to wait until I'm really stoned before playing it. Makes it so much more fun. Ditto with scary games - I don't normally get freaked out by horror titles, but FEAR, a few tokes, and surround sound, and you're in for a terrifying treat.
9) As a kid, I used to play games to enjoy and complete them. Nowadays, I want to see a game through to the end to critique it. I do still enjoy playing through my games (why else would I play them?) but I aspire to be either a game designer or critic, and when I play through a game it's very rarely for storyline closure, but so that I can look back and analyse what did or didn't make the game great.
10) I absolutely detest Oblivion. It's universally loved by many, others are impartial, but I find every last piece of binary that holds that game together totally objectionable.
For some reason I have to name characters with some variant of my name. My main back in WOW was Luisfranco (seriously, it's my real name), with an alt being papafranco and then a bank alt named Francobanco. I guess it's due to the fact that if someone tried to grab my attention by saying "sirbrohan", or something stupid that I made up, I wouldn't pay attention. Although I've always wanted to try out what Yahtzee said and name a character "I say"...
In RTSs I make all my units in 10s. I'll never send anything out to attack unless I've got ten of each type of unit. If that doesn't work, I send out 10 more of each next time.
In Final Fantasy games I never use the attack spell items (Zeus' Wrath, Antarctic Wind etc.), telling myself I'm saving them for a boss. Then forget about them in the boss fight.
In RE4 I spent ages reorganising Leon's case.
I obsessively order the Pokemon in my boxes, with a different system in each generation. Currently, it's one of each in numerical order with extras in the one remaining empty box.
In Soul Calibur 2 I always run out of the ring after getting ring out on an opponent. If I KO them normally I try to throw them before they fall over.
In Final Fantasy games I never use the attack spell items (Zeus' Wrath, Antarctic Wind etc.), telling myself I'm saving them for a boss. Then forget about them in the boss fight.
In RE4 I spent ages reorganising Leon's case.
I obsessively order the Pokemon in my boxes, with a different system in each generation. Currently, it's one of each in numerical order with extras in the one remaining empty box.
In Soul Calibur 2 I always run out of the ring after getting ring out on an opponent. If I KO them normally I try to throw them before they fall over.
In Smash Brothers, I always have to taunt just as my opponent is knocked off screen. I also HAVE to use a set combo as a KO if its the deciding KO--IE, if I'm playing as DK, I have to fully charge a punch, headbutt my opponent into the ground, then punch them off the edge of the screen.
RPG's I have to open every chest, look through every bookcase, look in every pot, etc. Don't even get me started on the shovel in The Legend of Zelda games...
Finally, whenever I play Counter Strike, I HAVE to steal my opponents weapons if I kill them. Doesn't matter if I spent $8000 on my gun alone and my opponent is using dual pistols, I have to steal their weapons and kill someone else with them just to prove I'm better at that weapon than them. Kinda douchey, I know.
RPG's I have to open every chest, look through every bookcase, look in every pot, etc. Don't even get me started on the shovel in The Legend of Zelda games...
Finally, whenever I play Counter Strike, I HAVE to steal my opponents weapons if I kill them. Doesn't matter if I spent $8000 on my gun alone and my opponent is using dual pistols, I have to steal their weapons and kill someone else with them just to prove I'm better at that weapon than them. Kinda douchey, I know.
I'm just gonna list my most frequent:
I can't not complete a game in one sitting the first time I play it.
I talk to the TV while playing sometimes.
I if my inventory can be organized, it will be. No matter what.
In FPS games, I reload before the clip runs out.
In RTS, I enjoy overwhelming.
I can't not complete a game in one sitting the first time I play it.
I talk to the TV while playing sometimes.
I if my inventory can be organized, it will be. No matter what.
In FPS games, I reload before the clip runs out.
In RTS, I enjoy overwhelming.
In FPSes, I cannot leave a single enemy standing. Even in places like the first level of Deus Ex when your brother asks you to only take down enemies with severely limited and painfully slow-acting tranquiliser darts and a cattle prod, I can't finish the level without laying out every dude that shows up red in my crosshairs. I just can't. Spawn points cause me grief because I know that by the time I reach the end of the section another zombie/splicer/alien/terrorist/fascist stormtrooper/exploding clown on a unicycle (I love Serious Sam) will have appeared and there will be no-one there to send him on his way to the next spoke of the karmic wheel of computer game villains.
-Nick
-Nick
I will never finish a race in any driving game unless I get first. Even a silver means an automatic restart.
For some reason, I'll always make up stories in my head based on what I'm playing.
It is physically impossible for me to play ANYTHING with lag. Even the tiniest bit of it screws me up.
Whenever I accomplish something in a Wii game which only uses the remote, I'll hold the remote upside-down, and spin the wrist strap like a mace. Always.
For some reason, I'll always make up stories in my head based on what I'm playing.
It is physically impossible for me to play ANYTHING with lag. Even the tiniest bit of it screws me up.
Whenever I accomplish something in a Wii game which only uses the remote, I'll hold the remote upside-down, and spin the wrist strap like a mace. Always.