Weird game "habits"?
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I try out basically every game I play as a platformer. I love climbing shit and going where I don't belong. Similarly, in the Halo games I always hold on to my vehicle long after the game tries to make me give it up. I've run over many marines getting sideways tanks through cracks, driving ghosts and banshees through tight corridors, and jumping a ghost onto that scarab from the second game. I'm always confused by that cutscene where the scarab blows up and Master Chief is on the side because I'm always in my ghost running over the pilots. Sometimes I'll just fuck around with vehicles for no reason, like in the first Arbiter mission, Halo 2, when you're escorting a wraith in your banshee. I bail out of my banshee, land on the wraith, shoot down a couple banshee's with my needler, then I hijack a banshee in mid air and fly off.
In games that have large amounts of customization, I tend to spend more time making something just so... in TES games I end up spending all night downoading mod armors and piecing parts I like together on nifskope( yet rarely do play for more than an hour, at least latly) and in sims, never delt with the life of a single sim, but i'm one hellufa intirior decorator.
also, in fps's, I tend to melee more than I shoot, only realy taking a break to pull out some explosives.
also, in fps's, I tend to melee more than I shoot, only realy taking a break to pull out some explosives.
Much like real life, I can't look NPCs in the eye.
Makes Bethesda games weird, to say the least.
Makes Bethesda games weird, to say the least.
It's much easier to describe me by checking off things in this thread I *don't* do.
Games usually have an extra 10 hours of me doing random stuff tacked onto them - must explore every inch of the map for secrets, must get perfect stealth runs or i'll restart from the last save, and my worst... must possess every collectible item (in shooters it usually entails emptying mags into the sky just to fit those 5 extra bullets)
This is probably why I have put 30 hours into Skyrim and am only just at the greybeards.
Games usually have an extra 10 hours of me doing random stuff tacked onto them - must explore every inch of the map for secrets, must get perfect stealth runs or i'll restart from the last save, and my worst... must possess every collectible item (in shooters it usually entails emptying mags into the sky just to fit those 5 extra bullets)
This is probably why I have put 30 hours into Skyrim and am only just at the greybeards.
Got a lot of weird habits, but perhaps the strangest is this: I've got this plastic ring with a huge, very obviously fake emerald on top of it. For some weird reason, I simply can not play games that involve managing some kind of collective without having it on. XCOM, any Pokémon game, Tropico, SimCity... I feel the need to have this huge, uncomfortable ring on my hand that throws my hand off balance. Even led me to loose my best man in XCOM when it shifted the weight of my finger down onto the right mouse button when I didn't mean to move him. I still feel completely wrong trying to play managment games without it.
I like to finish with overkill. I don't know why (it's actually really annoying in Pokemon, trying to beat the Elite Four and having to get a shitload of ethers for your top moves), but I just do.
If there's an in game codex or the ability to scan targets for more data, I'm usually pretty interested in that.
Compulsive reloading when I'm in shooters.
Playing magic users whenever possible. It gets frustrating when I WANT to play something else (rarely a traditional warrior, but sometimes I have fun playing a ridiculously heavily armored type) but have to stop half way because I'm not magical enough. Dragon Age 2 for example. I WANT to play a rogue once in a while, but I keep getting drawn back to mages. I eventually had to justify it in my head that Hawke's invisibility/flash step tricks as a rogue were latent mage talents or something.
Compulsive reloading when I'm in shooters.
Playing magic users whenever possible. It gets frustrating when I WANT to play something else (rarely a traditional warrior, but sometimes I have fun playing a ridiculously heavily armored type) but have to stop half way because I'm not magical enough. Dragon Age 2 for example. I WANT to play a rogue once in a while, but I keep getting drawn back to mages. I eventually had to justify it in my head that Hawke's invisibility/flash step tricks as a rogue were latent mage talents or something.
Once I've played through a game, I usually play through it again with some kind of handicap (fist weapon Dark Souls playthrough, not buying the dodge ability in MGR). I just like to be able to say I did something the the "break down a cement wall with your face" way.
I must always attempt to be stealthy in any game where this is possible.
Also, in grittier RPGs, I'll play through a second time with the rule that my character must immediately go after, pick up and use any and all drugs/alcohol that passes his/her sight.
Also, in grittier RPGs, I'll play through a second time with the rule that my character must immediately go after, pick up and use any and all drugs/alcohol that passes his/her sight.
I see my incessant nagging has paid off. Welcome aboard. You know better than to go near the basement.LeMurphs said:
I was just thinking the other day how I've been meaning to spend less time having a real "outdoors with other people" kind of life, so the timing for another forum was excellent.Blunderboy said:
Glad to see you've brought your internet back from the dead, by the way.
When I first played Fallout: New Vegas (my first Bethesda-style game), I compulsively picked up everything that wasn't nailed down - tin cans, pool cues, you name it - so that I could sell it for a feeble amount of money. It took me a while before I learned that it was somewhat impractical. I also kept trying to go straight to New Vegas instead of taking the proscribed long and circuitous route, which mainly ended up with me being eaten by Deathclaws or Cazadores. I did eventually find a fairly short route - I went east through Hidden Valley and sneaked through Black Mountain with a Stealth Boy I found earlier.
I have to smash every box/vase in a room before I'l move on. BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW.
Also, I tap a little tune on the sides of the controller during loading screens, Its always the same tempo.
Certain games have addictive collectibles. Lego studs and Ratchet and Clank Bolts the most probably.
Also, I tap a little tune on the sides of the controller during loading screens, Its always the same tempo.
Certain games have addictive collectibles. Lego studs and Ratchet and Clank Bolts the most probably.
