Have Any Gaming Traditions?

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Celtic_Kerr

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Deathkingo said:
Every year October comes around, and every year it makes me want to play Warcraft 3 while I listen to the School Of Rock soundtrack. I have no idea why this happens. I've also been having a hankering to play Brutal Legend again, and probably will. Before this, I used to play through Rampage once a year.

I was wondering if anyone else had their own little gaming-isms and what they are and why.
Awwww, now "The Metal" by Tenacious D is stuck in my head...

When I Gank in battle grounds, I have a beer for every 10 kills I get.

It's a new tradition
 

Betancore

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There isn't a particular game that I do this with, but whatever game I'm playing at the end of the year, I absolutely have to complete before December 31 at 2359. Sometimes I stop playing for ages just so I can save up the last few hours of the game for that final day of the year. Every time I play Half-Life or HL2, I have to take travel medication. Or wear one of those wristbands for pregnant women. This is less of a tradition, and more of a necessity, since I tend to throw up after ten minutes of those games.
 

Headwuend

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The Journey said:
My tradition is always returning to what is in my opinion one of the best games ever made, Baldur's Gate 2. It's so, so old and yet every time I have a fiddle around with it again I either discover something new or rediscover something I'd forgotten was in there and almost always end up pleasantly suprised. In fact, I might go play that again right now...
This. It got "worse" when I discovered widescreen mod. The game suddenly became pretty again!
And some of the fanmade NPC mods are insanely good and fit right in, making for even more "MUST PLAY THROUGH AGAIN".

I just started with Dwarf Fortress, otherwise I'd be installing BG2 right now.


When I play CoD4 with friends (i.e. when I play it at all), I always make it a top priority to go for sneaky knife kills.
They still won't call me Batman, but I know they fear me just as much.
 

Gunner 51

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I used to listen to Ozzy Osbourne religiously when playing Counterstrike during LAN parties.
 

LostTimeLady

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It's a semi-regular tradition of mine that I play through OoT up to the water temple, get stuck, turn off the N64, come back to it ages later and decide to start the game over again because I'm sick of being stuck in the water temple.

(One day I shall beat that flipping death trap maze of a level...)

Oh, another tradition is when I get a new game I watch the whole pre-loading screen cut scene the first time I turn it on. I'm sure load of people do that but it's something I like to do.
 

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diego_2112 said:
And starting RIGHT NOW, I'm going to initiate all new gamer friends by making them play "Bible Adventures."

Yeah, I went there.
I will never be your gamer friend.

OT: Every month; me and three others get a pair of xbox 360s; two Halo CDs (It's moved to the ODST multiplayer disc) and just do forge for a day. It's gonna be forgeworld on Halo: Reach starting this month!
 

Akihiko

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I've always enjoyed playing Shenmue 1 around christmas time. The atmosphere in it really does put you in the christmas mood, and also it was around that time when I first played the game.
 

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When a new LEGO game comes out, I have a tendency to play through it to 100% as quickly as I can (with work getting in the way, this is more difficult than it seems).
 

noble cookie

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The Annual "CoD release" each year.

The only special occasion that makes me hhhmmmphhhrrrRAAAAEEEEGGGG
 

oplinger

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LostTimeLady said:
It's a semi-regular tradition of mine that I play through OoT up to the water temple, get stuck, turn off the N64, come back to it ages later and decide to start the game over again because I'm sick of being stuck in the water temple.

(One day I shall beat that flipping death trap maze of a level...)
I actually developed a trick for the water temple when I was a kid. I don't get stuck anymore...but my problem was always finding the last key.

OT: The only tradition I have, is when I beat a game, I watch the credits. Every time.
 

SimuLord

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I use a week's worth of my work vacation each year for an ambitious gaming project---a Paradox 900, a decade's worth of seasons in a sports game, building an entire SimCity 4 subregion, that sort of thing. I'll withdraw to my cave and not let anyone in---turn off the phone, disconnect the Internet connection, whole nine yards.

Of course, now that I'm back in college that goes by the more traditional name of "spring break".
 

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I always name my character 'Crash', which meant that I got to call my ATV in Pure the 'Crashwaggon'
I always start up a new playthrough of FFIX a few days before decorating the house for Xmas. I absolutely love decorating the house and the tree etc. so I feel it's appropriate to play one of my all-time favourite games while I do so
This isn't game related, but every Christmas Eve, in anticipation for the best day ever, I watch the first Pirates Of The Caribbean, always
 

Gyrefalcon

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Hmm, interesting thread. My friends and I would get together to try out the new Mario Party and Skrek Party as well as fighting games (until Mario Party got to simplified so it wasn't interesting or challenging anymore in the sequels). And we would invite friends over (and they us) when a game everyone was interested in came out so we could all see how well it measured up to expectations.

They were generally good times. I guess things have downgraded some as instead of it being an event in and of itself, we check out new video games when we normally gather. But it is still basically the same idea. Thanks for coming up with a new thread idea.