Confess your strange Gaming Habits

[Retloc20]

I've also done those where you get bored with a game and make up a new story and playing style for it, to expand, like playing Super Mario Sunshine with as little waterpack as possible, or as an archaeologist. Then I realized that the world had sunshine in real life, that light bloom didn't need to be in a game, and that the trip to the game store was a short walk away.
Also, I'd tidy my inventory in RE4 as other do, and I try my best to make a video game on another game's map maker, say, Pikmin on Warcraft 3.

But that's not strange, just trying to make a game fun with...Imagination.

 

[Your_Mum]

In demos of racing games you only usually get a couple of laps so I get to just before the finish and then turn round and drive the other way. For many many laps. And hopefully smashing into the other cars as a bonus. And I hate it if the demo times out.

 

[Fire Daemon]

I have this strange sitting habit. I sit around 2 feet from my TV, have my right leg infront of the tv and have my left leg on a piece of wood connecting the two legs of the table making me watch the tv on a bit of an angle. When playing FPS' it does make me feel like I am the guy with the gun.

Any other way and I can't play well.

 

[shadow1138]

Strange habits oooh lets see
I have the reload problem that most guys here have. I like to build neat bases and am not satisfied until I completely do the tech tree or the skill tree in diablo,I like to have lots of any units in strategies even if I don't use them at all. Plus when I was younger I would never attack unless I have some complete supremacy making sure that nobody dies...
Most of the time in battles I would be too busy to give out orders constantly to watch the fireworks ,which sucks since I play strategies mostly for the fireworks.
Shooters , next to the reload thing I will most of the time walk instead of run thinking you can't be running all the time . I like to replay every fight if I get hit once (try this on any cod)+ I never play anything fps on below the insane difficulty, unless I get bored with the game after a month or two and want to do stupid stuff. Like play HL2 with only the pistol(well Alyx plays only with a pistol why shouldn't I ??? ) when I got my first game Dark Forces 2 Jedy Knight I would start a LAN server and play solo just to see how every different skin dies or screams when thrown of big cliffs,suffocate under water etc.
So when Jedi Academy came out (and I learned how to use the console to screw with the game) I started to like to spawn stuff and kill it in ridiculous ways (I keep screenshots). About that I actually like to do that in little scenarios that involve sex. Like the storm trooper that hid his head in the main villain s ....or the Jedi that does force drain to a rodian's ass. Another thing the engine of the game was good for was the big landscapes it had. I would randomly spawn about 50-60 friendlies and enemies and watch them fight just for kicks.When the doom 3 mod that makes the bodies stay on the ground instead of disappear in red mist, arrived I would actually arrange the corpses in sexual poses. Next to that is throwing npcs of cliffs in HL. I loved to do that with doctor Breen.
But mostly I did those things to make the games more interesting after I had beaten them.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I'm sure this is well known, but whenever I'm racing or sneaking around corners, I tilt my body the same way to help.

I also jolt backwards if killed.

 

[CommanderCool]

In C&C: Red Alert 2, I like my bases to be neat and tidy. I line up my power plants and try and keep my base in a sort of sqaure shape. This obviously puts me at a disadvantage at times becuase my power plants are usually all clustered together. Same goes for base defenses, I usually like to have them in a neat formation.

Same here. I also do that with my tanks and infantry.
In Q4, i often shoot at the torso units and repair bots. I just dont like 'em, is all.
I have wierd habits in Time Crisis 3 as well, i.e ducking everytime I release the pedal.

 

[ZomBuster]

I'm sure this is well known, but whenever I'm racing or sneaking around corners, I tilt my body the same way to help.

I also jolt backwards if killed.

When I'm playing FPS's like CS I sometimes move my mouse accoridng to the reload animation.

 

[DougCL]

i cannot play a game without listening to a podcast.

 

[RazielDethAngel]

In games where you have extreme powers or such I like to imagine a news report describing the damage that has been done. I realize I do this alot when playing The Darkness

 

[JakubK666]

ummm...I teabag headcrab zombies on Half-Life.

 

[Skelefunk]

In team fortress, when playing as the sniper, I will always do the "prayer" taunt with the pistol equipped before going into battle started as a joke but now me and my buddy often pray for the souls of our enemies. It's quite ironic really, as later in the game I will
often teabag. I guess when games supply such a generous supply of taunting options you feel obliged to use them. I am often annoyed byy lack of teabag ability though. "CROUCH DAMN YOU, CROUCH". I don't think people fully realise the disgustingness of what a teabag actually is.

 

[roo18]

I did about the same,I had everything well organized
And from every mission at the dark brotherhood,I took one item and placed it on the table of the hidden Necro-room inside the Anvil-house^^

I did something like that, when I very first had Oblivion on my computer. When Count Skingrad's wife died, I stole all her possessions, knocked all the food and plates off the Skingrad Castle dining table, and dropped her items neatly on the table.

I try not to make a habit of doing that though, so I'm not sure if it counts.

 

[aussiesniper]

FPS:
in CoD4. after firing the barrett sniper rifle once, I absolutely must reload before firing again
in TF2 as a pyro I will always attempt to spray all of my flamethrower ammunition away at the beginning of the round and then resupply
in any game with attachable silencers, I will always use them above all other attachments.
if I get killed by a sniper, I will make a constant attempt to sneak up on him and steal his rifle after knifing him
if I fire more than one bullet out of my rifle, reload, and get attacked by an enemy, I must always use a stun/flash grenade and finish the reload.

RPGs:
in oblivion, if I kill someone, I must steal whatever items of food they have on their person

 

[FoxDiamond]

Hmm, I see a few already here that I know I do, some of which I wondered if anyone else does.

-I nod and react to things characters say in FPS's like HL2 and F.E.A.R.
-In almost any multiplayer FPS, I always try to come up with a background for who I'm playing and what the battle is for. Maybe that's why I get angry quickly when I die: I've invested so much in the character!
-I save obsessively. Not the two or three saves at once, but I save too often -- I've been forcing myself to save less often to make the game more challenging.
-When I play a game (especially on the PC), I absolutely cannot have anything close to the screen in front of it (i.e. post-its on my monitor). It distracts me too much.
-In addition, I also obsessively readjust my monitor's (and my own) position in order to get it *just right*.
-Continuing on that vein, I think I may need to start gaming naked: when I play a twitch based game, I become *very aware* of every slight discomfort in my clothing (my shirt is wrinkling funny, my socks are drooping, etc.) This combined with my monitor adjusting means I get killed in stupid ways a lot.
-Oddly, this OCD does not carry over to the RTS realm, where I build bases with little organization.
-I game to music a lot. If it's a single player game, sometimes I try to time my actions with the song (i.e. burst out of the vent shooting as the song really picks up). Sometimes I load the game and restart the song if I don't get it just right.
-In Counter-Strike, I play a lefty, despite being a right-hander in real life and, in fact, don't play as a lefty in any other game that gives me the option. I think it's because the weapon models had the ejection ports on the wrong side originally, and it made more sense for a lefty to be using a right-handed gun than vice-versa (since lefties are less common and thus most hand-dependent tools default for right-handers). I've downloaded skins that fix that since, but I continue playing as a lefty anyway.
-I grunt, cry out, and shout "ow" reflexively occasionally when I get hit in an FPS, sometimes sounding like I'm genuinely in pain. It doesn't always happen, but when it does, it's timed uncannily.
-In Splinter Cell games, even though I may want to murder random guards for fun, I can never really bring myself to do it. Not because I care about the guards, but because I know Sam Fisher (the character you play as) would not needlessly end a human life, regardless of whose side they are on.
-In RPGs, I can never be evil. I just don't have the heart to tell the woman who's baby was taken by a kobold. "Hah, sucks to be you.". And I could never betray the trust of the good guys to get myself ahead. I know full well they are not real, but I'd still lose sleep over it. That said, I have no problem stealing from random people in Oblivion (in fact, I found thieving to be more fun than questing in some cases).

 

[edinflames]

Before a FPS clan match (or before a session of Team Fortress 2) I always, without fail, go to the nearest sink and thoroughly wash my hands. I feel as though it makes my hands/fingers more...nimble (for want of a better word).

In Day of Defeat:Source I like to juggle my rifle (by throwing it into the air directly above myself) after a particularly skillful kill. Even if it means exposing my unarmed self to enemy fire (which in DoD:S tends to equate to an early grave).

 

[SanXo]

Alot of people here mentiones neat bases in rts games. I'm the complete opposite. I always search for the most strategic place to put them, in order to create a complex system which makes my bases really hard to attack, without massing turrets or anything like that. I ALWAYS abuse choke points and stuff like that ^^

Also whenever I begin to play a new RTS, I always choose the weakest race, learn all the possible strategies in order to become really good with them, just in order to kick the ass of the players who always pick the most imbalanced race... That feeling, when they call you a noob and leaves... its just to good