Strange gaming compulsions

[51gunner]

That "I might need it later" in RPG's is common as anything. I have it, you have it, TVtropes has it:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntidoteEffect

Aside from that, I usually try and play a good character/paladin/whatever. In Bioshock I felt so... dirty finding out what the evil ending was.

 

[Shellsh0cker]

I'm surprised no one else has mentioned that weird compulsion to ALWAYS build your RTS armies in powers of 2 or multiples of 12.

I'm also a 100% completionist (within reason, I didn't go scouring the landscape for every last flag in Assassin's Creed); I think I restarted Metroid Prime twice because I missed a one-time scan.

I always play the "good guy," if given a choice.

Here's one that I've actually never seen anyone else reference: in games such as Halo, where you can pick up enemy weapons, I will always stick with the weapons of my side unless I have no other option. This even applies in multiplayer (except for the energy sword, of course).

 

[VH2 BoOp]

Two things.

I think we all did the first in Pokemon, Mashing a button hoping that it's affecting the capture rate some how.

The second is odd, for some reason I can't release Pokemon I know their just data it's WEIRD.

Am I the only one who pressed down and B when throwing a pokeball? Like, fucking always. I probably still would.

When I'm playing an online FPS, I reload too much. Sometimes I get away with it (like in TF2), but a lot of times it gets me shot down (in COD4 mainly). I also check the ammo of weapons I haven't used yet, just to be safe. Also because it feels awesome.

i still do the pokemon one now even on the DS i tap the touch screen and mash the buttnons
and on a FPS i reload all the time when ever im shot im reloading

it gets annoying in left 4 dead since the charater says reloading, and with me every of sound is me saying that.

 

[Syphonz]

In Half Life 1 and 2, I never get around to using the revovler with the thought of 'I'll use this for something big' and then that "something big" turns out to be more of a puzzle than shooting at it.

 

[asteroth21nox]

I always make magic charicters if given the option, I guess over the years it's become a skill? lol

 

[dcheppy]

trash talking in single player. out loud. with nobody else around. And just generally talking to my games.

 

[Phyroxis]

Gaming is my general compulsion. I don't tend to have compulsions within compulsions.

 

[Hithel]

I reload all-the-time in any given FPS, even if I've just spent a couple of rounds. This usually gets me in tons of shit when I play Cod4 online, always reloading in the wrong moment.

 

[Garzo]

I'm a leaner. Mostly in driving games, but sometimes in FPS's. The only time I don't move is when I am so tired or hungover that I'm clinically dead.

I also have terrible habit of not finishing games. I am pathetic for not finishing games. I'm looking at my copy of Far Cry 2 and I know that I am probably never going to finish it.

 

[Pseudonym2]

I played mostly brawlers and platform games when I was a kid, so my first impulse in a 1st person shooter is to run up and melee the opponent.

 

[Arntor]

Turning on a fighting game just to play training mode with the A.I. set to maximum difficulty for 30 minutes to see if I've gotten rusty.

 

[Silver]

I reload all-the-time in any given FPS, even if I've just spent a couple of rounds. This usually gets me in tons of shit when I play Cod4 online, always reloading in the wrong moment.

Ghost Recon on anything but recruit. Seriously.

They track the ammo in every magazine. Instead of getting a fresh one I keep moving down in the numbers, getting lower and lower until I have 6 magazines with 3 bullets each in, at the most.

 

[TheColdHeart]

Whenever me and my friend play a co-op game on the xbox such as GoW and we unlock an achievement we always go "oh yeah (achievement name and the number of points)" and high-5. Don't know why but we just do.

Also on racing games I always try to crash or handbrake turn over the finishing line to make it more 'dramatic.

On Pokemon I always hated buying pokeballs because if the pokemon broke free I thought it had been wasted, regardless of the massive stack of cash I had.

 

[AntiThom]

I had to see a therapist over incinerating the companion cube...

 

[Clemenstation]

Basically any game with 3D environments:

I get super-angry if I'm exploring a dungeon or area or whatever, and I accidentally manage to reach the 'end' and get tossed into a cut scene. The whole time I'm watching, I'm seething because SOMEWHERE back there there's an alley I didn't go down, or a tunnel branch I didn't check out. Even worse is if, post-cut scene, you find yourself in a new area when you regain control. WHAT WAS DOWN THAT OTHER PATH??? WAS IT TREASURE?? Reset time, every time.

 

[AntiAntagonist]

1. Cleaning the gunk out of my controllers.

Especially after other people have been using it. Other people seem to have comparatively grimy hands.

My hands used to be really dry; enough so that when I picked up a controller I could feel if someone else had used it.
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2. I always cycle through the main screen once before starting a new game. Just to know if there's anything special.
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3. If I control saving at all I always make 5 saves and cycle through them. I've never had to backtrack to an old save though and will strive for a long time before even thinking to try.
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4. When I get a new system I smell it. New systems smell like cartridges from back in the SNES days.
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... Wow it's weird to read those.

 

[Seydaman]

when i get to the point in oblivion where im taking dead bodies in my house and pretending to make them zombies. then lighting some fire <