Games that make you talk to yourself.

[Drakmorg]

I tend to have a sort of running commentary to myself whenever I play pretty much any game. It's basically me pretending to be making a Let's Play, except I don't think any of my material is good enough for anyone to actually want to watch, so I just keep it all to myself.

 

[hazabaza1]

Been happening a lot in X-Com recently.
Though it's mostly just "oh, fuck me" or "oh, come on!" or "you're fucking kidding." or stuff like that.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

Assassin's creed. I'm always telling Ezio/Altair to stop being a flailing idiot. It never works, but that doesn't mean I'll stop telling them they're flailing idiots.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Any fighting game, really. I curse the AI when it pulls off things that aren't humanly possible. I question myself for not figuring out a counter to a tactic. I even go off on tangents when watching other players and they don't see what they're doing or not doing that's making lose (knowwing full well that it's a lot easier to spot that sort of stuff when you're in the middle of playing the matcj in question).

 

[King of Asgaard]

Beyond exclamations of satisfaction or accomplishment, or exasperation or occasionally anger, nothing really.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Uh... all of them? I talk to myself... oh sorry, "talk to myself" anyway, I don't need no game to make me do it...(!) But yeah, I always end up nattering to myself while playing about how I'll plan out my next campaign or mission.

 

[Gabanuka]

Every game ever. I would say its an issue but I only do it while gaming, and watching TV, and films.

OK I have an issue

 

[Theminimanx]

I had this a lot in Crysis lately, mostly in the form of: "Oh god, helicopters are coming to kill me again!"

 

[gigastar]

Almost all of them.

The few exceptions are the ones that i feel require my total attention at most times, such as the PS2 Ace Combat games on the higher difficulties or Team Fortress 2.

Otherwise i quite enjoy talking to myself when perforating the undead in Resident Evil and Killing Floor, perforating damn near anything that moves in Borderlands 2, having my squaddies perforate aliens in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and while punching demons, perverts, animals, fatties and women to death in God Hand.

 

[Grumpy Ginger]

I found myself cursing a lot during Assasins creed 2 and brotherhood trying to work the damn subject 16 puzzles especially when I was using an old TV

 

[Slenn]

Most of the time I do. But the material I say depends on the game. If I'm playing a strategy game, I think out loud. If it's LoL, then I think out loud plus "grrrr" at other players/commend them. If it's about the character, I probably will say something like "Yay! I love Shield of Daybreak!"

If it's any other game, It's most likely commentary or criticism while I play.

 

[Innegativeion]

AahhhhhUhhmm.... All of them

Yeah, whether its cursing at a hard one, venting frustration at bad matchmade games, considering the merits or faults of the game in question, riffing on the game's narrative, or just narrating my own actions.

In fact, if no one else is around, I'll rather talk to myself than utilize my internal monologue. It's the same thing, really, but I feel I can better organize my thoughts when I hear them aloud.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

I think all of them. But I particularly like to berate the screen when shit goes down. "Fuck you, game," is often said, unironically, as a force of habit. I also often ask myself "am I having fun yet?" ...out loud, and in all sincerity.

Yep. Videogames are weird.

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

Most games, actually. Games that are comprised of a lot of puzzles, involve a lot of strategy, or more simulation-oriented racing games, however, cause me to blabber the most to myself since it helps me think out what I'm doing I find.

A prime recent example is FTL, in which I pretty much would say everything I was doing out loud as if I was actually commanding the crew of my ship to do stuff. Helped me immerse myself in the game a bit more.

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

I talk to myself on a daily basis anyhow.
[sub]stop looking at me like that... it's not crazy unless you start expecting or hearing answers!!!![/sub]

I talk myself through things when gaming, or address questions / comments / requests / prayers and increasingly-violent-sounding threats(!!) to characters, depending on what's happening on screen.

 

[krazykidd]

I find that every game I play, I talk back to characters or ask the developers why the hell they did stuff. It's pretty much a lets play without recording it.

This . I ask characters questions , like " why the hell would you do that" . Or " who's bright idea was this " or " stop being such a wuss and murder him already" . But they never respond .

Also when i play UMVC3 , i talk myself through the match. I try to predict what my opponent will do out loud , and l say what i will do to him to counter it . My favorite thing to say , i got from mike ross when he was doing the " excellent adventures of gootecks and mike ross " , it goes a little like this . Everytime an opponent tries to jump in , use an anti-air move and shout " NOPE" .

EVERYTIME it happens i ALWAYS yell "NOPE" . No matter which fighting game it is . When i'm playing against a new player i could say nope at least a dozen times , and it never gets old .

NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE.

Edit: i just realised something . OPEN has the same leters af NOPE ...

 

[The Wykydtron]

LoL. It's pretty funny.

"Noooooo keep running Riven! I'm almost there!" *jumps in with the most clutch Paranoia ever*

Nocturne is so awesome. Darkness haterz!

Hell I might join the legions of people making LoL videos once I get a good PC. Might as well record some of the running commentaries I can do.

I probably do it because I play it with my friend over Skype quite a bit and it seeps over to my solo queue antics.

It's probably more of a multiplayer thing, I talked to myself a little bit when I played loads of UMVC3.

I counter Nocturne's ult by just turning the brightness up on my monitor. gg

I talk to myself a lot while playing LoL. Or rather I talk at my computer monitor in the vain hope that the cosmos is transmitting the message to my teammate. "No no no no no don't go in no no no don't do it no no no please god no" *frantic b pinging* "OH GOD WHY DID YOU GO IN?! NOOOOOOOOO NONONONONONO!" "An ally has been slain." "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-"

And in many other games. But mostly LoL.

Frantic back pings are my second main form of communication in LoL. Frantic go pings are first. GGGGGGGGG all day.

Remember to always ping when you come to gank in case they suck at awareness but (don't ping too early or they'll jump the gun and die before you get there) and if you ever, ever get into a fight in your own jungle ping the map, several times so your top and mid can walk in and instagib the guy. I assure you they'd never notice their jungler fighting the other jungler to the death next to their lanes if you didn't draw their attention to it :/

I dunno, there's something about the game that makes you talk I suppose. I was shouting random crap about the "power of The Sun" when i was playing Leona today and their mid Diana ran bot only to fail a 3v2 tower dive because lol eat Solar Flare *****! Get off my carry!

Leona is so much fun. Easily one of the best supports in the game. A Leona could be 0/15/0 and singlehandedly win her team the game with one perfect Solar Flare in a lategame teamfight

Still unsure over whether I prefer her or Diana though. I enjoy playing both of them more or less equally, unless I have to go Diana jungle then god give me Leona anyday.

It's weird how the support/carry bot lane has gotten super aggressive lately, you never see the pure 20 minute farm offs anymore, the really passive sustainy supports have all but vanished (Soraka, Janna etc etc) so Leona who can instakill the AD at level 3 is so strong in that environment. Her Sunlight passive is insane if your AD isn't asleep

I can deal with a Blitzcrank with Leona. That is all I need to say on the matter.

"Oh you pulled me? Thanks man I didn't want to waste my E cooldown anyway!"

 

[wookiee777]

I've found while playing Guild Wars 2 I never fail to exclaim "YES!" whenever I level. I also do that kind of half-awake, quiet, mumbling thing whenever I'm figuring out what to do where when I've completed an area or am bored and moving on to a new one.

 

[Voulan]

It's usually only when I'm very frustrated (so any form of multiplayer game), where it's usually, "What the hell!? There's no way! That's not fair!", or if I continuously muck up at some point and need to repeat sections. But, if the story in a game is really good, I usually react to it aloud (and I've had quite a few of those amusing moments when you say the exact same thing as your character does at the some time).

If someone is watching, then I will commentate just to make it more entertaining, like reading dialogue options aloud.

 

[HardkorSB]

and another "games that..." thread trundles off the assembly line, smellin' like new electronics.

I'm finding, playing Endless Space (which I so far am enjoying) that I'm talking to myself a lot more than in any other 4X (or indeed any other) game.

This pleases me.

What game makes you talk to yourself?

I talk to myself all the time.
The only games during which I don't talk to myself are local multiplayer games because then, I talk to the other players