Do you get OCD when playing games?

[Aetera]

I always have to keep my inventory perfectly organized in any game that I play. I'm horribly messy in real life, so it's kind of odd.

 

[Andrew_Mac]

I used to HATE playing Call of Duty games because of this. I still do. Because if i'm using a weapon with high ammo (any weapon actually, but specifically with them) even if I fire a SINGLE shot, i have to reload. And the high ammo weapons take forever to reload.

But its not just reloading weapons. Its anything. Take Portal 2 for example. The boxes to activate the buttons HAVE to be right in the middle.

If i'm ever designing something, like minecraft, then it has to be symmetrical, perfect, same height all over, same length walls (assuming its a square floor).

Even in games with inventories and such. I have to organize my items so that similar items are together. Like in pokemon, if i pick up an evolutionary stone, i IMMEDIATELY go into my inventory and place it with the other ones.

I'm also the same in real life. More so. Some games are just torture for me if theres something out of place and i can't do anything about it, i try to get the hell away from it before i go mad. A few times i've stopped playing a game because of it. i may need medical help...

Maybe I shouldn't play games...




(P.S. I hate the laptop i'm writing this on, because the mouse pad thingy is JUST off center... its about 1.5 cm from the middle. driving my bloody insane...)

 

[Baldry]

Yeaaah I have that, shoot, reload, shoot, reload. I got annoyed at a friend when they didn't reload after shooting!

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

i dont know why i do this but i do it every single fucking time i turn on a console game, i click the triggers (l3 and r3) a good 4-5 times, i don't know why but it comforts the hell out of me knowing they are in working order.

 

[Kenami]

Same, even if I shot 3 bullets I reload, just a constant fear I'm not gonna have enough ammo to kill someone if I dont' ahve a full clip. Gets me killed often, but I have trained myself to double tap the weapon switch in mid reload to cancel it when I get attacked.

That and in RPG's I must find EVERY secret in an area before I move on.

Wow I always thought the thing about reloading was something I only did hahaha but yeha my OCD is that, same as finding everything in RPGs.

Also this might seem like a weird one but even if an RPG isn't hard I'll look up an FAQ on GameFaqs. Not necessarily to see what to do but to see what order to go in even if the choice solely rests on my own. For example when I played Knights of the Old Republic the FAQ said not to go to Korriban right after Dantooine which lead me to saving it for last.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm Terrain Destruction Maaaaan!! I break everything I CAAAAAN!!

 

[THEfog101]

Im OCD about completing shit, like for instance in Assassins Creed Brotherhood i was determined to renovate every fucking building everywhere and recruit every bloody assassin i could at the time before the game hardly even started, i have always been like that though.

 

[run_forrest_run]

Another problem I have that I'm sure most others will have is that whenever I get a good weapon that has rare ammo I end up just using the standard assault rifle (or whatever gun the armies of identical mooks just so happen to be using at the time). I try to save it for a desperate situation but that situation never comes. In Fallout 3 it took a lot for me to fire a shot from the fatman and when I did I had to make sure it got rid of whatever was bothering me.

 

[cruzermac619]

I get OCD playing the Assassin's Creed series. I feel like I have to do every single side task (Assassination Contracts, Courier Assignments, Tombs, Lairs of Romulus, etc,..) before I move along with the story missions.

 

[Dasistgutja]

i dont know why i do this but i do it every single fucking time i turn on a console game, i click the triggers (l3 and r3) a good 4-5 times, i don't know why but it comforts the hell out of me knowing they are in working order.

I do that.
It's like my fingers NEED to be doing something. If I'm not doing anything on my PC I'll just click randomly and draw drag boxes.

 

[Marik Bentusi]

R, F5, W, repeat

(reload, save, move a bit)

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

Only with Minecraft. Both sides of the house MUST be simetrical. O.O

 

[Neverhoodian]

After i started playing online, i always reloaded after every shot and in most RPGs i scour EVERYTHING, scavenging whatever i could find (this applied nicely to Fallout).

Oh God, I did the exact same thing in Fallout 3. Every time I'd clear out a building or Vault I'd pick up everything that wasn't bolted down. When I'd reach my weight limit, I'd sell the items at the nearest vendor, then go back and pick up where I'd left off. Sometimes it would take me seven or eight trips, but I wouldn't stop until every last tin can and empty Nuka-Cola bottle was swiped. It got to the point that I was swimming in caps from all the stuff I sold, but I kept on doing it.

God help me when Skyrim comes out.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

I dont get it...

You get discourage by TES and Fallout....and call reloading being OCD...more of a survival skill then being OCD...


I have OCD most with the Elder Scrolls and Fallout...

I always have to every unique item, weapon, armor, etc etc

Oblivion:
90% of the books/text
Unique Arms and Armor
Chests filled w/ all the necklaces/rings/jewels I owned
Chests with Light/Heavy Armor (1 set of each type)
Unique items (ala the Necromancer book/repeat of Hounds Tooth Key)

Fallout 3:
Unique Armor
Unique Weapons
Unique Items
Nuka Cola...
All unused Fridge items placed in the fridge (no Survival skill...)

Fallout New Vegas:
umm not a lot here really...
DLC only items
37 Gold Bars
Unique Items

 

[Hyper-space]

After i started playing online, i always reloaded after every shot and in most RPGs i scour EVERYTHING, scavenging whatever i could find (this applied nicely to Fallout).

Oh God, I did the exact same thing in Fallout 3. Every time I'd clear out a building or Vault I'd pick up everything that wasn't bolted down. When I'd reach my weight limit, I'd sell the items at the nearest vendor, then go back and pick up where I'd left off. Sometimes it would take me seven or eight trips, but I wouldn't stop until every last tin can and empty Nuka-Cola bottle was swiped. It got to the point that I was swimming in caps from all the stuff I sold, but I kept on doing it.

God help me when Skyrim comes out.

Oh god...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Battlefield 3, Witcher 2, Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim, Mass Effect 3 and EYE: Divine Cybermancy, goodbye life...

 

[matrix guardian]

Another problem I have that I'm sure most others will have is that whenever I get a good weapon that has rare ammo I end up just using the standard assault rifle (or whatever gun the armies of identical mooks just so happen to be using at the time). I try to save it for a desperate situation but that situation never comes. In Fallout 3 it took a lot for me to fire a shot from the fatman and when I did I had to make sure it got rid of whatever was bothering me.

Oh yeah, I do that all the time. When I played the first Half-life, I killed at least 80% of the enemies with just the pistol. If it weren't for quicksave, I would have never even used a lot of the heavy guns in several games. Sometimes I'll reload a save and do an area over again but with heavy (rare ammo) weapons just to have fun and try them out, causing reckless mayhem. And then I'll reload the save where I did it the "real" way, with only a pistol and maybe shotgun, or a rifle. Cause, you know, I just might "need" that rocket to take out a huge tank/monster and I don't want to be out of rockets when that time comes. What's really funny is those times when I don't even use the rockets on the big tank/monster when the time does come. Either I forget to use it because I'm so used to not using them, or I think maybe there is an even tankier monster-er guy up ahead?

While part of it is the resourceful preparedness of "just in case I need it later," I know another part of it is feeding into the satisfaction and sense of accompilshment from using underpowered weapons. I think its FUN (sometimes, as long as it's not tedious) to try to kill the big badass monster without using the big power weapons. It's easy to just shove a rocket down his throat, but it's exiciting and challenging to run and dodge for your life taking cover and poping out to shoot him with you pistol. Or in Halo, it's fun to try to kill hunters by punching them to death. You have to dance with them dodging their swings, and any misstep will get you killed.

Anyone else out there actually ENJOY using underpowered weapons?