Do you suffer from VGOCD? (Video Games Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
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I also HAVE to pick up all loot even if it is completely worthless (which makes games like Torchlight and Borderlands take far more time than they need to). I also absolutely HAVE to fill out the entire map. I cannot leave an area before the entire map is filled out (Torchlight, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, etc...)
I used to constantly reload my weapons in FPS games as well although I have started to quell that urge a bit but I still do it like 90% of the time, even if it's an accidental fire of like 1 bullet or something...=\
I also NEVER overwrite a savegame unless the design of the game FORCES me to/has a limited number of save spots (stupid red dead/mass effect...)
I used to constantly reload my weapons in FPS games as well although I have started to quell that urge a bit but I still do it like 90% of the time, even if it's an accidental fire of like 1 bullet or something...=\
I also NEVER overwrite a savegame unless the design of the game FORCES me to/has a limited number of save spots (stupid red dead/mass effect...)
In the Lego Star Wars games, I always had to pick up Every. Single. Stud. I felt a bit guilty when they just faded out. Also, in games like Age of Empires, I too have a compulsion to explore the entire map.
The voice in my head says your crazy... but i half do. i want to do really and perfectly well on most any good game, but i will say fuck this to a boring game with no or a bad story, like CoD 1-MW2 and games that don't cut to the chase or explain shit like timeshift. Oh, and my voice says get another voice, that one sounds annoying.Art3rius said:
My voice does that for me, he has dominant control over my right hand when it comes to video games, makes it easier for me.Korten12 said:
That's me in every game, and i hate auto-saving games because i ALWAYS play so long before quitting because i think ill have to do it all over again. like i ALWAYS have to do in the goron castle in Majora's Mask. No matter what half way through something happens so i have to start over. I have to get a new way to play because my disk is scratched and have to replay the whole game, i accidentally press restart before i save or i walk away and the power turns off... ok that last one is going to happen some day, my voice in my head is telling me it will happen, he just knows it...ForgottenPr0digy said:
one time i was playing metroid two, fighting the second to last boss for the 5th or 6th time, and my voice said 'stop' when i had 194 ammo on light and dark, my lucky number. BAM, I won the game. My voice is smart =DMr. Moonshine said:
Bioshock.
Self: Okay... that's all the Big Daddies. Now let's get the hell out of he-
VGOCD: Wawawawaiiit there's a trash can over there you didn't search!
VGOCD: And there must be at least six cameras on this level you didn't hack!
Self: But I won't be back here--
VGOCD: Dooo iiiittt...
My first BioShock playthrough was thirty hours long.
Self: Okay... that's all the Big Daddies. Now let's get the hell out of he-
VGOCD: Wawawawaiiit there's a trash can over there you didn't search!
VGOCD: And there must be at least six cameras on this level you didn't hack!
Self: But I won't be back here--
VGOCD: Dooo iiiittt...
My first BioShock playthrough was thirty hours long.
Really? My voice in that said, GTFO OF HEAR OR YOUR DEAD, then i had to shut him up when i ran out of ammo, so i pretty much had him shut up for half the game until the end when he was screaming, DAM IT DITCH THE KID AND LETS GO!!! i had no control over him at that point...sun_and_earth said:
I was going to say I was OK on the VGOCD front, but my compulsive saving is a little worrying. Not as bad as yours though...DuplicateValue said:
Me: It autosaved!
VGOCD: So save it yourself, right now!
Me: But I'm still playing, and I'm not going away from the game for a while...
VGOCD: But what if you die in the next couple of minutes?
Me: Then there's the autosave?
VGOCD: Not good enough! What if it doesn't work?
Me: Eugh, fine. Saving now.
I put it down to an entirely unjustified distrust of autosaving.
My brother has a compulsion to attack every witch we come across in Left 4 Dead. Even if it takes longer to find the witch then it would to get to the safehouse...
Oh gosh. Yeah, I completely get the minimap thing. I hate it when games don't give a large enough reveal radius.
I am also prone to reloading constantly.
I am also prone to reloading constantly.
There was a list posted I think on Digg or something a couple days ago about a bunch of common video game compulsions from popular games ranging as far back as Mega Man on the NES. There were 12 on the list and I was guilty of 10 of them.
It comes up every now and then, mostly in RPGs.
Me: Alright, time to go to the next location.
VGOCD: Fuck no! That one guy over there still has a sidequest for us to do!
Me: Your point? I don't need to waste anymore time. He'll probably just give us some money or something as a reward.
VGOCD: But what if he gives you an awesome new weapon or item? It may be the only thing keeping you alive in the next boss battle!
Me: I killed the last boss with no effort at all, I seriously doubt the next one will be that bad.
VGOCD: Didn't you say the same thing before you fought Barthandelus in Final Fantasy 13?
Me: ... I'm still not doing the sidequest.
Me: Alright, time to go to the next location.
VGOCD: Fuck no! That one guy over there still has a sidequest for us to do!
Me: Your point? I don't need to waste anymore time. He'll probably just give us some money or something as a reward.
VGOCD: But what if he gives you an awesome new weapon or item? It may be the only thing keeping you alive in the next boss battle!
Me: I killed the last boss with no effort at all, I seriously doubt the next one will be that bad.
VGOCD: Didn't you say the same thing before you fought Barthandelus in Final Fantasy 13?
Me: ... I'm still not doing the sidequest.
If any of you ever saw me play Sonic you'd be shocked. I almost always walk, I never go into extended speed burst, I must collect every ring alot of the time, andI must get the gem. I have never played Sonic fast.