I don't kill friendly npc( except when Moriarty killed meat ball in fallout 3 and I wiped out the entire town by shooting everyone) and I always try for my NPC squad mates to not get killed, I also reload after every kill I make and in RTS, systematically obliterating every enemy base until only the main base is left, this is a good tactic in easy mode but in harder modes it is I who gets obliterated *sniff**sniff*
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I got that one, and I also pick up every peace of crap I could find. Because it COULD be worth something (But mostly isn't.) And I always stop to look at stuff for ages, so I can fully appreciate the work that went into the props.Monkfish Acc. said:
I always smell new consoles, I need to "game in" my controllers as in making them feel right, I always kill someone in say cod4 and then immedieatly reload, which leaves me often dead xD, I try to save money and items in almost all rpg games, on games that are control timed, like platform games sometimes are, I can spend hours on learning exactly how to do something right or perfect.
Everyone does things, I do probably almost everything that's been listed here, because it's kinda a "that's how gamers do it" thing, but I've noticed that more casual gamers have the "how it looks" thing and less of the other stuff. But it all comes down to how much you like or crave something, because only the people who really really like games smell new consoles, need to get the feeling in, have to save everything and be perfect in it. I like it that way, it seperates the casual from us old school hardcore.
Hell I even dry the dust of my nes, snes, amiga, atari, dreamcast, n64, gamecube, xbox, 360, old handhelds and everything, check that everything is the way I want it to be, and sometimes I just sit and admire the games, consoles and times and how I played. I sat one day for like, 9 hours looking over my game stash and stacks. I recalled most games I played, and had kinda a, christmas "how has my gaming life been so far" time.
That's a tradition I do xD Also I always have to have a backup plan for anything. Like if something doesn't work, I have to immedieatly do another thing that would work etc. mmh the small things in life that make your time worth it.
Everyone does things, I do probably almost everything that's been listed here, because it's kinda a "that's how gamers do it" thing, but I've noticed that more casual gamers have the "how it looks" thing and less of the other stuff. But it all comes down to how much you like or crave something, because only the people who really really like games smell new consoles, need to get the feeling in, have to save everything and be perfect in it. I like it that way, it seperates the casual from us old school hardcore.
Hell I even dry the dust of my nes, snes, amiga, atari, dreamcast, n64, gamecube, xbox, 360, old handhelds and everything, check that everything is the way I want it to be, and sometimes I just sit and admire the games, consoles and times and how I played. I sat one day for like, 9 hours looking over my game stash and stacks. I recalled most games I played, and had kinda a, christmas "how has my gaming life been so far" time.
That's a tradition I do xD Also I always have to have a backup plan for anything. Like if something doesn't work, I have to immedieatly do another thing that would work etc. mmh the small things in life that make your time worth it.
I remember after playing F.E.A.R for many hours with a friend I got the weird compulsion to constantly flex the muscles in my neck and throat. It wasn't good either, made me feel all dry and sore. I managed to kick it a few days later but I still have no idea why it started.
When i play FPS games I ALWAYS run over people after I kill them. Really screws me over in CoD4 and everything, but I still cant kick the habit.
Also, I always try to pick everything i find up, even if i have full ammo or no space left in my inventory. i will even waste old ammo to pick up new ammo, or switch out heavyer or less expensive items for shiny new ones.
Also, I always try to pick everything i find up, even if i have full ammo or no space left in my inventory. i will even waste old ammo to pick up new ammo, or switch out heavyer or less expensive items for shiny new ones.
I just lost another hour of my life to TVTropes. Curse you!51gunner said:
On-topic, I absolutely cannot play through Rise of Nations without ending the game with an ICBM to my opponent's last city. I actually cackle out loud and say in a horrible mock-Asian accent, "Here come da nucrea bomb!" This holds true even if I've executed a Gunpowder Age Rush---I'll leave the enemy with one city and surround it with stockade/bunker towers while I tech race to the Info Age so I can get that nuke.
I tend to "ritualisticly" play games that I've newly bought to death in the first couple of days, then never look at them again...
FAQs and strategy guides.
I can't help but take a peek at them, even when playing the game for the first time, just to pick up a few pointers on whatever wierd and confounded item/skill/pet system(s) the game uses.
If I'm playing the game for the second time, it can get out of hand. A while back I reinstalled Vampire: Bloodlines and found myself memorizing and writing down the optimal ways to spend XP to get the most out of skill books, items and other bonuses. I literally had to slap my hand away before I stopped making notes, closed gamefaqs and went to play the game...
Granted, some games can have confusing mechanics that you are better reading about, if only to save yourself from a nervous brakedown, but the spreadsheet powergaming can get out of hand at times...
I can't help but take a peek at them, even when playing the game for the first time, just to pick up a few pointers on whatever wierd and confounded item/skill/pet system(s) the game uses.
If I'm playing the game for the second time, it can get out of hand. A while back I reinstalled Vampire: Bloodlines and found myself memorizing and writing down the optimal ways to spend XP to get the most out of skill books, items and other bonuses. I literally had to slap my hand away before I stopped making notes, closed gamefaqs and went to play the game...
Granted, some games can have confusing mechanics that you are better reading about, if only to save yourself from a nervous brakedown, but the spreadsheet powergaming can get out of hand at times...
Same thing. I usually pick up game mechanics in like 5 minutes, but iv played for 3 hours on games only to start over on a harder difficulty.Lucane said:
Also i cant play games on easy i usually start a game playing it on normal hard or "veteran"
if you wanna get good at a game start it on a hard difficulty and get used to it that way
I pacifist run any game I can. This is especially true in the MGS series, which I have almost pulled off no-kill runs for each. I got it in MGS:TTS, almost in MGS2, and I can do it up to the rail shooter segment in MGS3. I don't enjoy killing people in games and I like the process of tranqing and hiding bodies. :3
In FPS games, I reload constantly. I like the sound of it, especially with shotguns. If I'm missing a single bullet in my current clip, I tap the reload button.
In RPGs, I name all the characters after Greco-Roman mythology. And in any game with a scoreboard, I use "Zephyrus" or "Astraeus" and fill it up. I have a friend once delete the scoreboards in SSX3 because she was sick of my weird names all over them.
In FPS games, I reload constantly. I like the sound of it, especially with shotguns. If I'm missing a single bullet in my current clip, I tap the reload button.
In RPGs, I name all the characters after Greco-Roman mythology. And in any game with a scoreboard, I use "Zephyrus" or "Astraeus" and fill it up. I have a friend once delete the scoreboards in SSX3 because she was sick of my weird names all over them.
I need my reserve ammo to be divisible by the number of rounds in my magazine.
I reload after nearly every shit.
These combine to destroy me in online multiplayer.
I reload after nearly every shit.
These combine to destroy me in online multiplayer.
LOL!!Onmi said:
"Tap A repeatedly"
"No, no! Hold B!!"
"Hold A then switch to B halfway through!!"
"Shut up, it's hold Select!"
Haha. Good times.
I'm the opposite to this. I have to have a clean organised inventory, all the time.Izakflashman said:
Pokemon. I always go Obsessive Compulsive when I'm building my team. They have to have the perfect nature, perfect special ability, perfect gender, perfect everything. I won't have a single Pokemon on my team that isn't perfect unless I have no choice, or they're shiny. You won't believe how long I can play it just making the perfect Pokemon, it would drive anyone else insane.
Also on Zelda, I hold off going into dungeons just to do some menial task like collecting Rupees or Arrows, maybe that's because the dungeons are scary or mean... :S
Also on Zelda, I hold off going into dungeons just to do some menial task like collecting Rupees or Arrows, maybe that's because the dungeons are scary or mean... :S
I still do this: Hold Up + B when you let go of the ball, then as soon as is goes in the ball switch to Down + A. It's become a habit, I can't stop, sometimes I even think it works. :SAgo Iterum said:
No matter what I'm doing in game when 11 PM rolls around, I save and shut off my system. I get really jumpy around that time of night, and playing video games with my back to anything in my room freaks me out.
that takes me back.... Me and my bro once tried to walk from the human starting area right to the dwarf territories - not realising that the train was the only way, we were so determined that we just kept dieing and respawning and eventually ended up somewhere filled with enemies with skulls instead of level numbers ;pOmnidum said:
I usually micromanage alot, like make sure everybody in my party has the best equipment, spending hours coming up with the best possible solution so my party members or friends take the least amount of damage, my friends get pretty angry whenever I tell them to stay in formation when playing a few rounds of Gears or Halo