This. Except it wasn't for a short period of time- it was every day since I got it on GameCube. Then I switched to Wild World. Then to City Folk. And it'll happen again when AC 3DS comes out.TheAztec said:
Most obsessive compulsive thing you've done in a game?
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Easy, collected all the collectables in Assassins Creed...yep, all the flags, everything. In fairness tracking down Templars was fun (it was like a collectable that you had to fight to add to the completion list) The last one I actually turned into a movie like fight, next to a Salladin camp in a small lake we fought for ages, with me refusing to counter attack at all to keep it going.
Either that or shooting out all of the lights in any game after I finished with The Darkness...just got into the habit I guess.
Either that or shooting out all of the lights in any game after I finished with The Darkness...just got into the habit I guess.
I like collectables only IF you have a map for the game (which is preferably a sandbox one). The reason for this is that I never go to collect them on my own, I rather download a printable map with them, print it and go on to have a treasure hunt. It's a game in itself and I tend to have fun with it a lot of times. Some good examples are the previous era of GTA games, like Vice City, and oh boy, the goldmine itself: San Andreas. A bad example would be Assassin's Creed only because of its shitty map, but the guide I was following made it all the way more easier, so it was semi-fun.
Though if I have to say one thing that I'm even ashamed of and I definitely didn't have any fun with, it would be the Queen of Cards "sidequest" in Final Fantasy 8. The huge ammount of time I spent on it was mostly spent by swearing at my monitor (had the PC version), constantly standing up from the PC and going out to have a smoke (I don't smoke often, and only smoke pipe), and slowly giving in for the insanity that came from the experience. The worst part? All I got was a freakin star. In the menu.
Since then I'm a bit more careful when it comes to tedious sidequests or whatever in a game, and that's the reason I discontinued getting all the orbs in Enslaved, saving everyone in Dead Rising, and getting all the fairies in Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal which is a Pokémon ripoff that is fun to play (yeah, I love fairies so what).
Though if I have to say one thing that I'm even ashamed of and I definitely didn't have any fun with, it would be the Queen of Cards "sidequest" in Final Fantasy 8. The huge ammount of time I spent on it was mostly spent by swearing at my monitor (had the PC version), constantly standing up from the PC and going out to have a smoke (I don't smoke often, and only smoke pipe), and slowly giving in for the insanity that came from the experience. The worst part? All I got was a freakin star. In the menu.
Since then I'm a bit more careful when it comes to tedious sidequests or whatever in a game, and that's the reason I discontinued getting all the orbs in Enslaved, saving everyone in Dead Rising, and getting all the fairies in Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal which is a Pokémon ripoff that is fun to play (yeah, I love fairies so what).
It's not so much as a game thing but in my Memory Cards I cannot leave ANY SPACE! Be it blocks (Gamecube) or MB I have to make sure that if I fill it, I fill it! This means I had to swap over Memory Cards that I knew would fit perfectly for the amount of memory each game was using. But now I have an Xbox my brain can stop hurting.
In Deus Ex 3, i ALWAYS had to go through all the alternate paths before I could progress through the level to get all the XP.
Thos of you who have played Perfect Dark for the N64 will remember the crossbow and how its bolts stuck out of enemies. I spent thirty minutes making a lamba symbol on a corpse. In total, it took me three hours because I messed up a few times. Looked sweet though.
Meh looking at everyone elses answer, i win.
Cross Edge, getting every weapon and armour...yeah well it can take upto an hour to get a single ingredient for a single weapon, about 3 hours to make a strong weapon, but the Ub3r weapons need to be made from other weapons, so 1 hour getting materials, 3 hours making the weapon and that 1 weapon is part of 5 which is needed to make 1 single weapon. Takes about 15 hours to get an 1337 weapon...BTW theres about 500 weapons and about 20 ultimate weapons...
Cross Edge, getting every weapon and armour...yeah well it can take upto an hour to get a single ingredient for a single weapon, about 3 hours to make a strong weapon, but the Ub3r weapons need to be made from other weapons, so 1 hour getting materials, 3 hours making the weapon and that 1 weapon is part of 5 which is needed to make 1 single weapon. Takes about 15 hours to get an 1337 weapon...BTW theres about 500 weapons and about 20 ultimate weapons...
For some reason when I started my current playthrough I didn't think that killing people in the prologue would count. I hate myself for that mistake...[/quote]No_Remainders said:
Oh dear...
On my second playthrough, I went to the Hive. I had met the woman in the quest 'Bar Tab' and was going to try and convince them to leave her alone. Spoke to the barman and managed to get as far as:
"Here's your money you fine upstanding citizen. Now you better leave her alone"
The barman stupidly said "Don't make threats you can't enforce".
He didn't seem to realise I had three rockets and a launcher, 103 shotgun shells and 32 revolver (explosive) rounds. I murdered the entire club over a beautiful five minute rampage. After which, I dragged all of the bodies into a pile in the centre of the club (12 mins) then fired my last rocket into the stupid twats face.
I dare any npc to say that to me again.
Reloading my gun even if I fired a single shot or just to have that 1 extra round in the chamber.
Searching every inch of an area for loot.
Performing inventory tetris whenever it gets messy. Health items and grenades are grouped together, guns are next to each other and ammo is next to their respective guns.
Turning every dirt block back to grass when I was Admin in a Minecraft Classic server.
Always making sure my weapons are 100% fixed before I head back out again.
Searching every inch of an area for loot.
Performing inventory tetris whenever it gets messy. Health items and grenades are grouped together, guns are next to each other and ammo is next to their respective guns.
Turning every dirt block back to grass when I was Admin in a Minecraft Classic server.
Always making sure my weapons are 100% fixed before I head back out again.
I like your style. I had a lot of fun with Deus Ex recently but hated how it always auto-sorted it for you. Took me ages to get my layout just right and picking up one combat rifle bullet threw it all away.Xyphon said:
After taking control of all of Japan in Shogun Total War 2, I still kept playing until all of my towns were as maxed out as they could be, why? I have no clue.
I can't really remember if i've had one, but my friend was determined to get every piece of clothing in the game on Fallout 3, great thing is, he wanted to be the good guy, he lasted up until when Butch asks you the help his mother before you leave the Vault before he murdered Butch and his Mother for their clothes
looting looting and more looting in both the fallouts and obilvion even if I don't need the money I just do it anyway