Awesome. I am so glad other people think like this too. After many hours playing Jonah Lomu rugby (best sports game ever), I would always have R1+R2 in my head whenever I tried to fend someone off when playing a real game.
Gamers in the real world
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Oooooh time to prove my lack of distinction between real and virtual.
Every time I walk through a doorway, Im convinced that I can hear the click of a claymore.
After playing Prince of Persia, I tried to wall run alongside some garages. I then realised that I am not the prince at all.
I once went driving after a 5 hour session on Burnout. Never again.
After playing Fallout, I genuinely had to remind myself not to pickpocket my friends cigarettes.
I am a dangerous individual
Every time I walk through a doorway, Im convinced that I can hear the click of a claymore.
After playing Prince of Persia, I tried to wall run alongside some garages. I then realised that I am not the prince at all.
I once went driving after a 5 hour session on Burnout. Never again.
After playing Fallout, I genuinely had to remind myself not to pickpocket my friends cigarettes.
I am a dangerous individual
Never got like that from playing games, but when I first got out of the army a backfiring car could have me literally hitting the ground to take cover. And to this day I am constanting scanning roof lines and such examining them for potential danger. And I served totally in peace no combat action ever for me, possibly a good thing.
Ha! No way!! I got that really bad over Xmas when I was playing loads of Puzzle Quest!! I'd try to make lines out of multicoloured tree lights and crowds of people in crowds wearing same-colour tops. And when I shut my eyes to sleep, damned coloured gems everywhere!!Run4Covar said:
Good to know I'm not entirely abnormal
I totally lol'd. You preciouss young kids.HellsingerAngel said:
Recently, saint's row II has occupied my thought machine, how I would roam the neighbourhood with whatever vehicle there happens to be on the curbside etc etc...
usually this doesnt happen : /
Once when I still played an online game, I woke up at about 4 AM, and groggilly moved my fingers about the covers, thinking I was inside a game, and I thought to myself "Its really late, I wanna go to sleep" At which point, I began to look for the log out button, I got pissed and thought my game froze when I couldnt pull a log out screen out of thin air.
There's actually a way of doing this and letting games into real life anyway. Ever heard of Assassin? It's a real life game where basically you join a guild (very popular in high school and university societies, I've been trying to find out more about the University of Leeds one). When you join, the guild leaders will give you a target and possibly a particular weapon restriction (rules vary from guild to guild but the all follow the same formula). The target will be someone else in your guild and weapons can be anything from water pistols to eggs to simply touching them, or adding pepper to their food (the 'poison' technique). When you 'kill' your target, you will be given their target and they lose the game. You then follow their target and 'kill' them, and it keeps going until only one person is left - the winner. Games can go on for weeks and players develop a healthy sense of paranoia and stealth skills, and competitions are often held in guilds for prizes. Very fun apparently, I recommend it (or would if I could get involved, the Leeds guild seems to run through our student union but I can't get any more info...).
After I started playing MGS I can't stop wanting to grab a cardboard box and do me some sneaking.
Sometimes I feel like the guy from Assassins Creed when I'm walking around school. I always imagine just walking by people and pick pocketing them just to hear them say "Wait, WTF, where did my keys go?!" as I walk off with a smile.
Yes I often make final fantasy references in the real world im a fanboy of ff i guess >.> but it doesnt consume my life to the point of the only thing, im open minded to most games, i just love the ff series >.>