Strange gaming compulsions

[ziggy161]

I remember someone told me that pressing UP+B after throwing a normal pokeball turned it into an Ultra-Ball. I believed them XD

 

[poleboy]

Wow, this thread is going places!

I just thought of a few more:

- I don't like to use strategy guides or look stuff up on the internet. When I started playing games, you had to duke it out on your own, and that feeling's stuck with me. I make exceptions if the game is incredibly frustrating or unintuitive. For the latter, Rune Factory is a great example.

- I'm always convinced that I'm great at any game I play and if it turns out I'm not, I usually blame the game or the machine (damn 360 pads. If I'd had a mouse and keyboard, that guy would have been dead meat).

 

[Jurnigan]

I reload far too often and always try to get the maximum amount of ammunition for every gun. It often gets me killed, especially when I'm using heavy weapons.

 

[SneakyBawls]

This is a thread about strange rituals or compulsions you have in relation to video games.

For instance, when I play an RPG, I can sometimes spend hours in character creation, especially thinking up the perfect name. Sometimes I'll delete a character I've spent hours, even days playing, because I suddenly decided he had the wrong shade of moustache or his name was missing an e at the end or something. I will then create the almost identical twin of that character with the small flaw fixed and start all over again.

Oh yeah, and keep it clean please. Strange rituals, not M-rated or disturbing.

I do the exact same thing and it drives my brothers nuts. My ingame name and avatar mean a lot to me. Why one of my pet peeves is when I see names like Legollas in games makes me want to punch puppies.

But in Morrowind I had a habit of removing the pants of anyone I killed and placing them next to the body. It was like my calling card. Even though it's not a multiplayer game...and no one else was going to see it but me I still did it. I did it in Oblivion as well. Fallout 3 kind of disappointed me when there was no pants just outfits. LOL

Yes I'm seeking help.....

 

[Midnight Voyager]

For me its Talking to EVERYONE in a game, even if its some nameless npc I have to walk over and keep clicking on it a couple of times just to make sure it doesnt say anything unuaual. Also i have to save every 4 seconds because god forbid i replay ANY part of a game.

You are now required to play Planescape: Torment. Seriously. You will be SO HAPPY in that game.

I guess my main weird thing would have to be that I MUST RUN. Assassin's Creed and Thief and the Hitman games were sooo hard to get used to, as much as I loved them. Even if running, for example, decreases how effectively you sneak. AND I DO SNEAK.

 

[Ruzzian Roulette]

I'm very nostalgic when it comesto weapons, I'd rather drag the weapon I've had since the beginning into a big boss fight than the new shiny one I picked upa few minutes ago.

 

[Space Spoons]

Any time I get a new game, the first thing I do is go to the options menu. Even if I know there's not really anything of note there, it's the first thing I do.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Any time I get a new game, the first thing I do is go to the options menu. Even if I know there's not really anything of note there, it's the first thing I do.

Samehere, but i always wait afterwards to see if there is a miniscene or whatever if you wait too long in the menu.

 

[coldfrog]

I'm generally not an aesthetic-based guy, but in games where you have armor/weapons that affects the way your character looks, I tend to eschew the big fancy armors that give you a billion hit points for anything that looks weird or cool. This is especially true for WoW since once you reach 70 80 everyone likes to look the same, but even something single player like Titan's Quest will I do the same.

 

[out0v0rder]

USING TOILETS.
It all started back in '95, i had 3 health in duke nukem 3D and I approached a urinal. Wham, instant 25 health.

Now everygame has a toilet, bioshock, fallout 3, you name it.

Have you guys flushed the toilets or turned on the sinks in the bathrooms?

 

[jezz8me]

I recently started playing Hitman: Blood Money and if anything goes a tad bit messy i always restart trying to complete the level perfectly. Silent Assasin with all deaths "accidental".

I have not found a way to kill the witness protection guy and make it seem like an accident yet though.

 

[Wargamer]

"I might need it later..."

I swear, someone should make a game where the only weapon that can kill the last boss is found 30 seconds in, and you have to carry it through the whole game. At least then it would reward our kleptomania.

 

[AnotherFineMess]

Yeah the "I might need it later" syndrome is freaking annoying but always there.

In turn base strategy I tend to keep most of my units alive, don't like to lose any.

And in action games some times I replay the boss fight because I don't think it was awesome enough, or I didn't finished it with a certain skill. Happen in Pop... several times... I did the hunter about 4 times...

 

[ElegantSwordsman]

Mostly the typical RPG ones, like stealing everything that isn't nailed down, talking to every NPC even if they look like the other 99 copies of the same guy in town, recruiting every obtainable character - no matter how utterly useless they are, etc.

 

[Durgiun]

Whenever playing a game that froze during a cinematic I began chanting ''I know it won't screw up, I know it won't screw up, I know it won't screw up.''

In any game in which I can make a character walk I do so to make him look bad ass and then rotate the camera.

 

[LeeHarveyO]

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.

yeah same here I reload after like every kill unless there are more than 1 guy in front of me, and usually I'll be reloading then bam, dead cause I couldn't do anythig.

 

[s-l-u-g]

This is a thread about strange rituals or compulsions you have in relation to video games.

For instance, when I play an RPG, I can sometimes spend hours in character creation, especially thinking up the perfect name. Sometimes I'll delete a character I've spent hours, even days playing, because I suddenly decided he had the wrong shade of moustache or his name was missing an e at the end or something. I will then create the almost identical twin of that character with the small flaw fixed and start all over again.

Oh yeah, and keep it clean please. Strange rituals, not M-rated or disturbing.

I do this exact same thing. I spent 15 hours on 4 files in Mass Effect until I thought that his cheekbones weren't jagged.

AMEN BROTHER!!.

But honestly, I've probably spent a few years in total going over character creation. I like to think of it as an alternate version of me. who's better than me with a gun or sword or magic. .. . . -cries- no but really, i think it's quite common.

 

[vivadelkitty]

When I play a game like KOTOR, i go through it being nice the first playthrough. Then I become a total d*ck and insult everybody and take all the 'wrong' conversation options the second time through.

 

[Fantomkilla]

hi ppl, this is my first post to this community and i joined it cos you lot seem better than the GT community

ANYWAY

my complusions are that :
1)i NEED to go to options when i buy a new game,
2)it needs to be with my warn away xbox 360 pads, which have no notchs
3)i need to fall of EVERY cliff that i see (halo 3 took a long time to compltet becasue of this)
4)i ALWAYS need to shoot all the glass windows in a game (its from a statistic that was in timesplitters 2 anyone remember that stat?)

 

[Jacobite_Rebel]

Its RTS games that get me every time.
I must get all secondary objectives
I must kill/ destroy every enemy unit / building before Finishing main objectives
I must have impenetrable defences before starting the "big push"

So many time levels have become almost boring because i'm waiting to build all the structures needed to build the best units, no matter what the build time. (bloody supreme commander!)