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ortable Ops, every-time I put someone to sleep outside the main story, I'd knife them to death.
ortable Ops, every-time I put someone to sleep outside the main story, I'd knife them to death.
Odd things you do in Video games
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For some reason in Fallout games, I hardly ever spend caps. I stockpile the fuckers, but I hardly ever use them. It's almost pathological with me.
Mine would be that in almost every RPG, regardless of my intent, my character is a complete psychopath. If I think I can get away with killing someone, I do it. Even if I know they have nothing of value. I'll take convoluted quests just to gain the opportunity to kill an NPC. (The Ebony Blade quest in Skyrim so I could kill Farengar, for example) And I'll try for hours to successfully assassinate someone without alerting the guards if I'm not ready or strong enough to just fight my way through the town, even if killing them doesn't actually help me in any way.
I break into everything, steal all the money I find, and never use it because I just steal everything I need anyways. And I'll reload a quest if I could have, but failed to, complete it in the manner that lets me kill the person at the end. (Like the scientist in Fallout 3 who is experimenting on the fire ants.)
I break into everything, steal all the money I find, and never use it because I just steal everything I need anyways. And I'll reload a quest if I could have, but failed to, complete it in the manner that lets me kill the person at the end. (Like the scientist in Fallout 3 who is experimenting on the fire ants.)
No mod, I just think of what I would do if I were to have an army brought to that location. I had the PC version of Skyrim I definitely would try to find mods that would allow me to create large-scale battles wherever and however I wanted, but I don't so it's all in my head for now.xshadowscreamx said:
I'm one of those compulsive reloaders. I don't reload after every shot, but I reload way more than I should. For example, if I managed to kill someone with a single 3-round burst with a magazine capacity of 30, I HAVE to reload. I HATE not having a full clip when I go into a fight. It's even gotten me killed because I reload almost instantly after I kill someone whether I need to or not.
In Skyrim, I was a compulsive hoarder for dragon bones and scales because I thought I'd need a lot of them for crafting armor when my skill reached 100 (spoiler, you don't). I think by the time I leveled it that high, I had over 200 bones and nearly that many scale stashed in my Whiterun house. That was the only house I owned too, so that meant I (since Lydia was dead) had to lug those items all the way back to Whiterun every time I fought a dragon so I wouldn't be overburdened. My budget for Strength Potions skyrocketed...
Back when I was really young, my Dad and I played adventure games on the PC (when Riven was new; Journeyman Project, etc) I made him click everything just to make sure we didn't miss something. This meant we saved a lot, especially after I got us trapped in the prison book in Riven He never let me live that one down.
In Skyrim, I was a compulsive hoarder for dragon bones and scales because I thought I'd need a lot of them for crafting armor when my skill reached 100 (spoiler, you don't). I think by the time I leveled it that high, I had over 200 bones and nearly that many scale stashed in my Whiterun house. That was the only house I owned too, so that meant I (since Lydia was dead) had to lug those items all the way back to Whiterun every time I fought a dragon so I wouldn't be overburdened. My budget for Strength Potions skyrocketed...
Back when I was really young, my Dad and I played adventure games on the PC (when Riven was new; Journeyman Project, etc) I made him click everything just to make sure we didn't miss something. This meant we saved a lot, especially after I got us trapped in the prison book in Riven
He never let me live that one down.
1. I must always obey the traffic laws in any sandbox game. Even in chase scenes I don't want to hit cars not because it makes me get to the objective faster but because I feel bad for the people I hit. Games like GTA4 and SR3 I often times get so rage filled when I just knick an NPC car that I have to reload. I park my cars as perfectly as I can. I even make sure that the tiniest scratch that someone else has caused to my vehicle is always fixed at a shop right away! (unless I reloaded). This even extends to walking where I'll always use sidewalks and paths (unless being chased) and wait for cars to let me cross the road. I try to walk places, too, and don't just run everywhere, unless I'm actually in a hurry.
2. I don't like forcing other NPCs into my business. This can range from making sure I never shoot a bystander, even if I'm supposed to be a psychotic genocide artist (like in SR3) to a super-powered office of the law (Crackdown). This can get to a very disturbing level of dedication in situations like in True Crime when you fire warning shots and a civilian pulls out a gun to defend themselves, I'll attempt to disarm them if possible but always run away (old lady chasing me down with an automatic shotgun...yeah...). This couples itself with #1 where I don't like hitting NPC cars while chasing down bad guys or am being chased and trying to get away.
3. I will always max out a character. RPGs that don't let me actually do this annoy me at a basic level. This even extends to games that lock certain benefits for going down particular paths (like Paragon/Renegade in ME, which I totally cheated on the second I found the conversation wheel glitch). I must make sure that my character is the best at everything. The only exception is weapon styles, but I must be a master of at least one weapon.
4. I'm thematic. I don't go for sword and shield because it gives +15% more defense than two handed swords which gives you only 5% more damage so the stat balance is in favour of it in the end, I go for it because I'm determined to play a protective knight. So what if loin clothes only give 2 armour and I'm almost done the game? I'm a barbarian of the frigid Nordlands come to pillage all your furs! When I get armour, I buy it in sets and make sure it matches, unless my pre-determined master theme allows for mis-matched pieces. I'm not terribly concerned that it isn't the best sword in the game, so long as my sword skill is maxed and it looks bad ass with the rest of my equipment.
5. Ammunition is life, so I must reload. This goes as far as to emptying a seven shot clip in an M1 Garand because "screw you, that one bullet could save my life!" Even before I put a weapon away it has to be a full clip or I get the niggling feeling in the back of my brain that something isn't right.
6. I have to conserve everything, because you never know. The best example would be Big Daddies. All that armour-piercing ammunition just kept flying past me because I always worried something bigger and meaner would exist that I would need those precious few rounds for. This made those fights so much harder and I face palmed so hard the first time I just splurged and used some unique ammo on a Big Daddy. This happens in RPGs too where I'll used every last MP I have before even considering using a health potion. I can always rest at an Inn, I can't just magically get potions!
7. My last is easily the strangest. Every single player RPG that doesn't have voice acting (which is becoming too few and far between now) I make up voices for the characters and I read their dialogue out-loud, even if nobody is around and enjoy it far more than having pre-set voice acting in a game. I don't know why I feel compelled to do it, but it's so much more satisfying to enunciate the emotion of the characters myself, like we have this connection now because of it. I even sometimes project personalities to characters that aren't even there just because the voice I impulsively pick gives them that impression (Asnabel from Ogre Battle 64 will forever be a disease riddled, dirty old hobo man because of this!). I even add sounds like Asnabel coughing wildly between dialogue or Cthulhu from Cthulhu Saves the World having slurping sounds from all those tentacles, but I may never, never! ad-lib dialogue for a character that has dialogue in a game. Sometimes I even just think about a clever line they might say or something different because of a trait I've projected upon them and I have to restart the entire conversation/section just because it doesn't feel genuine to me if I don't stay faithful to the text and mold the voice around it. The only exception to this, as was previously mentioned, would be characters with no dialogue at all, in which I will sometimes ad-lib clever responses to dialogue and end up having this really awkward conversation with myself. That last bit can extend to other games, too, but usually only beat um' ups and other very old-style type games. (Godzilla will always shout out "RAWRUAWRUAWRUAWRUAW!!!" when he breaths nuclear fusion over everyone)
...Damn I'm frigging weird. So many convoluted rules and habits! D=
EDIT
Just thought of another one. I'll always make a specialized unit in an RTS game some sort of quasi-hero. This seems to work best in the Command & Conquer series but can extend to having only one powerful hero in games like Heroes of Might & Magic. They're like my super commando and I send them in to destroy entire bases by themselves because they're awesome!
2. I don't like forcing other NPCs into my business. This can range from making sure I never shoot a bystander, even if I'm supposed to be a psychotic genocide artist (like in SR3) to a super-powered office of the law (Crackdown). This can get to a very disturbing level of dedication in situations like in True Crime when you fire warning shots and a civilian pulls out a gun to defend themselves, I'll attempt to disarm them if possible but always run away (old lady chasing me down with an automatic shotgun...yeah...). This couples itself with #1 where I don't like hitting NPC cars while chasing down bad guys or am being chased and trying to get away.
3. I will always max out a character. RPGs that don't let me actually do this annoy me at a basic level. This even extends to games that lock certain benefits for going down particular paths (like Paragon/Renegade in ME, which I totally cheated on the second I found the conversation wheel glitch). I must make sure that my character is the best at everything. The only exception is weapon styles, but I must be a master of at least one weapon.
4. I'm thematic. I don't go for sword and shield because it gives +15% more defense than two handed swords which gives you only 5% more damage so the stat balance is in favour of it in the end, I go for it because I'm determined to play a protective knight. So what if loin clothes only give 2 armour and I'm almost done the game? I'm a barbarian of the frigid Nordlands come to pillage all your furs! When I get armour, I buy it in sets and make sure it matches, unless my pre-determined master theme allows for mis-matched pieces. I'm not terribly concerned that it isn't the best sword in the game, so long as my sword skill is maxed and it looks bad ass with the rest of my equipment.
5. Ammunition is life, so I must reload. This goes as far as to emptying a seven shot clip in an M1 Garand because "screw you, that one bullet could save my life!" Even before I put a weapon away it has to be a full clip or I get the niggling feeling in the back of my brain that something isn't right.
6. I have to conserve everything, because you never know. The best example would be Big Daddies. All that armour-piercing ammunition just kept flying past me because I always worried something bigger and meaner would exist that I would need those precious few rounds for. This made those fights so much harder and I face palmed so hard the first time I just splurged and used some unique ammo on a Big Daddy. This happens in RPGs too where I'll used every last MP I have before even considering using a health potion. I can always rest at an Inn, I can't just magically get potions!
7. My last is easily the strangest. Every single player RPG that doesn't have voice acting (which is becoming too few and far between now) I make up voices for the characters and I read their dialogue out-loud, even if nobody is around and enjoy it far more than having pre-set voice acting in a game. I don't know why I feel compelled to do it, but it's so much more satisfying to enunciate the emotion of the characters myself, like we have this connection now because of it. I even sometimes project personalities to characters that aren't even there just because the voice I impulsively pick gives them that impression (Asnabel from Ogre Battle 64 will forever be a disease riddled, dirty old hobo man because of this!). I even add sounds like Asnabel coughing wildly between dialogue or Cthulhu from Cthulhu Saves the World having slurping sounds from all those tentacles, but I may never, never! ad-lib dialogue for a character that has dialogue in a game. Sometimes I even just think about a clever line they might say or something different because of a trait I've projected upon them and I have to restart the entire conversation/section just because it doesn't feel genuine to me if I don't stay faithful to the text and mold the voice around it. The only exception to this, as was previously mentioned, would be characters with no dialogue at all, in which I will sometimes ad-lib clever responses to dialogue and end up having this really awkward conversation with myself. That last bit can extend to other games, too, but usually only beat um' ups and other very old-style type games. (Godzilla will always shout out "RAWRUAWRUAWRUAWRUAW!!!" when he breaths nuclear fusion over everyone)
...Damn I'm frigging weird. So many convoluted rules and habits! D=
EDIT
Just thought of another one. I'll always make a specialized unit in an RTS game some sort of quasi-hero. This seems to work best in the Command & Conquer series but can extend to having only one powerful hero in games like Heroes of Might & Magic. They're like my super commando and I send them in to destroy entire bases by themselves because they're awesome!
If a game has a sneak function I will use it all the time during my travels. Fallout 3, Oblivion, Skyrim and New Vegas is comprised of about 80% sneaking in the wilderness/dungeons and 20% actually running in town and battle. In Rage I crouched everywhere I went. Kingdoms of Amalur is the first big open world RPG that I didn't sneak around everywhere and that was mostly because of the time limit in the demo forcing me to sprint everywhere in order to experience as much content as possible in that 45 minutes.
Also in shooters I always reload after a kill even if the area might be dangerous (sneaking suspicion that an enemy is still around the corner somewhere) or if I only fired a couple bullets.
Character Customization is also something I take seriously to a fault. I almost cringe at playing Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 1 or Mass Effect 2 again just because I have gone through the opening sequences more times than I like to admit just because I made a character and realized I didn't like the way the looked in the actual lighting of the game.
Also in shooters I always reload after a kill even if the area might be dangerous (sneaking suspicion that an enemy is still around the corner somewhere) or if I only fired a couple bullets.
Character Customization is also something I take seriously to a fault. I almost cringe at playing Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 1 or Mass Effect 2 again just because I have gone through the opening sequences more times than I like to admit just because I made a character and realized I didn't like the way the looked in the actual lighting of the game.
I have a couple. I have never done a "pacifist" run of a game, tranquilizer guns will never be used by me unless absolutely necessary. Why? because I'm paranoid and whether or not the guards will ever get up and come after you I'll thin they will. This extends accidental knockouts as well. In Deus Ex: HR if I accidentally just knock out a guard with the takedown button I'll take out a gun and shoot him in the head so I don't have to worry about it.
I've caught myself reloading guns more than necessary like many others on this thread.
I save WAY more often than I need to, often after each fight if the game will let me.
Finally I have never really "roleplayed" a game. Doesn't seem that odd to me but seeing the vast amount of crazy things you roleplayers have mentioned doing in Skyrim, Fallout, etc. has boggled my mind so maybe seeing the reverse will boggle yours.
Closest I've come to it is a joke to my roommate while playing Saint's Row 2. He walked in and saw my character, a sexy redhead in leather and asked, "Why are you a chick I thought you were a black guy in the first one. You know it's supposed to be the same character right?" I replied with "He got a sex and race change to hide from the cops." We laughed and from then on Saint's Row starred a black guy who just wanted to be a white girl. lol
I've caught myself reloading guns more than necessary like many others on this thread.
I save WAY more often than I need to, often after each fight if the game will let me.
Finally I have never really "roleplayed" a game. Doesn't seem that odd to me but seeing the vast amount of crazy things you roleplayers have mentioned doing in Skyrim, Fallout, etc. has boggled my mind so maybe seeing the reverse will boggle yours.
Closest I've come to it is a joke to my roommate while playing Saint's Row 2. He walked in and saw my character, a sexy redhead in leather and asked, "Why are you a chick I thought you were a black guy in the first one. You know it's supposed to be the same character right?" I replied with "He got a sex and race change to hide from the cops." We laughed and from then on Saint's Row starred a black guy who just wanted to be a white girl. lol
not really that unusual I believe you get something for doing so in the second gameNeutralDrow said:
O.T. Actually obey traffic laws in gta and saints row
also walking when other npcs walk it irks me running past an npc while they just stroll to where ever
I do the exact same thing. It sometimes gets to the point that I start annoying myself.Daystar Clarion said:
I run against walls and into random bushes and trees, hoping to find the secrets that were littered about in old games I would play rather than just realizing the game I'm currently playing has no feature for exploration.
I was so happy finding the invisible path in Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars. I'm positive another game will have an invisible path over an empty abyss one day... yeah no, I'm just going to keep wasting my time being OCD.
I was so happy finding the invisible path in Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars. I'm positive another game will have an invisible path over an empty abyss one day... yeah no, I'm just going to keep wasting my time being OCD.
I spend hours doing things that I know will have no effect at all.
Like in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, where I did a full stealth run through Tao Yong Medical, and then went all the way back to the start of the level to release all of the security bots onto my side.
Just in case they sent a strike team after me.
Like in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, where I did a full stealth run through Tao Yong Medical, and then went all the way back to the start of the level to release all of the security bots onto my side.
Just in case they sent a strike team after me.
True, the M1 was not meant to work that way =). It could be topped off at any time, but it was time consuming and resulted in orphaned clips (technically not a magazine due to the en-bloc design).Samantha Burt said:
Not to mention that careless handling risked having the thumb/finger caught in the bolt.
I suppose it's not really in game but I always run my fingers over the buttons. I need to stop it, I keep shooting or bringing up the menu when I don't have to.
I always pick up anything remotely shiny too, even if I don't need it. Then I get clogged with stuff I don't need
I always pick up anything remotely shiny too, even if I don't need it. Then I get clogged with stuff I don't need