Game-Related Mental Quirks

[vodkainferno]

Riveting tale chap...

OT: Lately when I hold a hockey stick in gym it hold it across my shoulders. That and... it envision me swinging it around like a scythe... not exactly sure if this is due to video games...

 

[Toaster Hunter]

I look at bottle caps as though they are somehow valuable.

I have openly pondered that the military should use chainsaws attacked to assault rifles.

 

[Insert Comedy Here]

I look at items in a room and judge how heavy they are, their damage at the hardest swing, and the overall time it would take to swing them in a forway-backway motion.


Then I look to see what would make it better. i.e Do I have any nails to add to that plank of wood? Could I sharpen the end of this drumstick to make a dispensable shiv?

 

[Bernzz]

After playing a lot of shooters in my lifetime, I like to look around me and figure out the best places to hide, ambush, or generally just use for tactics in a military situation. When I enter a new place, I play out a little scenario in my head as if it was a battlefield and figure out the best tactics to use. However, this is probably also because of the fact I was in an RAF cadets unit for about five years at school...

Also, when I'm bored, and out walking (usually when walking the dog, back home), I'll think about the last game I've been playing and figure out how to solve different problems in my head. For example, when home for Christmas, and out walking the dog, after letting him off his leash on this field we like to go to, I walked along thinking up tactics for beating the Tyrea map on Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. And recently, I did the same thinking how to solve the puzzle to get the key from the subway station in the early parts of The Longest Journey...

I do all the same things as you, mate.

Also, OP: no dude, I think you're just a bit of a kleptomaniac and you're over-analysing it.

 

[marc951]

I look for good sniper spots

 

[Lt. Dragunov]

Everywhere I go I'm ALWAYS on the look you for the best sniper spots and the most clustered areas for a well placed frag grenade

 

[Red Right Hand]

After playing tetris for a while, I see how different shapes can fit into each other. Completely useless unless tasked with some sort of spacial awareness activity, which I rarely am. If only it was something useful. Oh well.

 

[Koeryn]

I have a series of movements I do when I stand in one place for too long: I look around, tap my feet on the floor, stretch a little, check my watch, and look around again. Every time the same thing, much like a character in an adventure game or RPG does when waiting for something to happen.

I've caught myself doing this occassionally.
Also, after years of FPS's, I find myself thinking of the best ways to clear rooms, move up a road making the most use of cover etc.
[sub]I'm not sure whether it's gaming related, but I've also got a zombie apocalypse plan mentally drawn up for both my uni place and back home...[/sub]

What sane person DOESN'T have a zombie plan? =p

 

[Hiphophippo]

One time (all the time) I saw a license plate that read 100 AC and my very first thought was "Holy shit I'll never be able to hit him!"

Sadly I was serious until my wife started laughing.

Another time I, very seriously, looked at the sky and said aloud, "Wow, looks photoshopped."

Again my wife laughed at me. She does that a lot.

 

[Luke5515]

I play team Fortress alot and while walking I catch myself thinking, "that'd be perfect for a sentry", or "Man, i wish our dumbass engineer would build some teleporters". Once I even spun around in the middle of a dark alley cause i though I saw the outline of a cloaked spy.

 

[HollywoodH17]

I can't sit with my back to the door when I go in a restaurant. I have to be able to see the door. Maybe this isn't game related... but I feel like it's always the guy with his back to you that you have to kill in sneaking games, or sneaking sections of games.

 

[Bailos]

I recently went on vacation to Ocean City, a beach "town" mainly full of businesses and hotels. One night I stayed up until 5 playing Assassin's Creed 2. Then when we went out to find a place for breakfast that morning, I traced paths in my mind of how to freerun up all the hotels and picking out hiding spots.

 

[Nex-Falx]

Ha, your tale made me laugh.
On a related note:
Whenever I go to the nearby town (city), There is a certain place where I can't help but think 'Hey, a sniper could sit in any of those places and kill dozens of people with ease'.
I then imagine the area from the vantage points, and think of all the cover angles and such.
Yeah, it may not have been games that make me think that, but they certainly don't help with that.

Same. "Hey that wooded tree line provides cover, and an escape route!" Btw, never tell someone of the opposite sex you're thinking these things... Especially if they're not gamers.

Anyways: I actually get a reversal of what you're talking about... I'm a nice guy, so in a game I can't help but play the KiSA... (Knight in Shining Armor)

See DA:O as an example. No matter how hard I try to be bad I always go back to being a philanthropist when I talk with the poor, or refusing reward after I slay some snarly beast.

 

[Chipperz]

After renting and playing through the original Gears of War with my mate, I went down to town to return it. It had just become dusk, and a flock of birds flew overhead. Thinking they were Krill, I actually did a running leap towards a lamppost. Almost smashed my head open.

I also do the whole "checking an area tactically" thing. There are several areas near my house that I have mentally bookmarked as easily defensible sites in case the Russians/Americans/Terrorists/Zombies/Aliens invade.

 

[Nex-Falx]

I can't sit with my back to the door when I go in a restaurant. I have to be able to see the door. Maybe this isn't game related... but I feel like it's always the guy with his back to you that you have to kill in sneaking games, or sneaking sections of games.

You know how "Wild"-Bill Hickok died?

Maybe it's reincarnation. haha

 

[Gigaguy64]

I now apply stats to EVEREYTHING.
People, things, even other games.

 

[Andrecova]

I also look for sniper spots in certain places, where you could get the best shots from and where you could land them.

Other than that, I also find myself often thinking what would be the quickest way to dispatch a certain person or a small group (mainly through melee methods only, using hand-to-hand combat and analyzing the environment for weapons I could use), and what would be the quickest and best route from point A to B using parkour. These two aren't completely game-related, but they probably help.

 

[Virulain]

After too much S.T.A.L.K.E.R., I stab boxes to open them. From years of CPRPGing, I now have an irrational hatred of crockery and crates. If I can't pick a lock or don't have the key, I use a two-handed sword to open the door. And what self-respecting person doesn't carry a pouch of spell components, including the dust of enemies who have been Disintegrated?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I've been playing the Thief series for years. Consequently, any time I enter an unfamiliar area, I immediately look for dark places I can hide in, ledge-type spots I might be able to climb to to check the place out without being seen, and the quickest paths to the exits.

Also, I now walk almost soundlessly without even meaning to and routinely startle my co-workers by simply "appearing" behind them.

 

[IamQ]

I usually think of alot of moments where placing a bunch of C4 would be fun.

Like blowing up the bottom of a skyscraper to then see it crumbling to the ground. Or blowing up a bridge.

Although I'd probably need more than just C4 for the bridge...TNT perhaps?