weirdest way games have affected you

[emion]

okey I will begin this hopefully hilarious topic collection.

after playing FallOut3 for one weekend straight I was so used to save before every conversation (to see how different choices would affect the story) that when I first broke out of the gaming I almost said something horrible to my mother. thinking that if she gets mad I could only load from my last save and wonder off without any consequence >v<

I almost picked up an dirty boby-pin at the bus-station the other day. thinking to myself "NOW I CAN FINALLY OPEN THAT SAFE IN MEGATOWN" before realizing wtf I was doing XP



so... enough embarrassing of myself I guess, so give me some of your funny histories

 

[HellspawnCandy]

Hearing Pokemon music in my head......it hasn't stopped.

 

[smearyllama]

I really wanted to take up riding after beating Red Dead.

Also, when I was 9 I played a crap-ton of Starfox Assault (a terrible game, but it was the only shooter I was really allowed to play), and so sometimes I'd see the targeting stuff from the HUD when I was tired, after playing for a long time.

 

[The Wykydtron]

After playing all the Phoenix Wright games (plus Apollo Justice) over the last few months, i'm starting to say Objection!... A lot

Also i was playing the new L4D map and i found myself hitting the right thumbstick trying to use the locator from Dead Space 2

 

[Gxas]

Sounds like you need to take a break from games for a while, OP.

As for me, the only way that they have affected me is that I tend to use abbreviations from WoW in conversations with other people I play with.

Nothing big or anything like that.

 

[Mr Shrike]

Red Dead Redemption is making me want to be a kinder, nicer person.
A'int gonna happen, though.

ARMA has forced me to plan all of my moves in real life at least 2 steps ahead and has turned me into a brilliant improviser.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Bayonetta made me want lolipops.

Really, really badly.

 

[smearyllama]

Bayonetta made me want lolipops.

Really, really badly.

I see the marketing opportunities in fetishizing Tootsie-roll pops.

In Bayonetta 2, they need to start branding the lollipops with specific brands, raking in the dough to make Bayonetta 3.

 

[wammnebu]

ever since Kotor if i want to add emphasis to a point i will begin with Statement and when asking a question i will begin with Query

 

[minakorocket]

I think after playing GTA3 for several hours straight before I left the house.

Red lights take forever after you do that.

 

[deathninja]

Endless Ocean completely broke me, knowledge of the existence of goblin sharks + nearly drowning when I was a child has left me something of a wreck.

Yet I completed a BSc final year module in Oceanography specialising in elasmobranches, go figure.

 

[Merkavar]

probably the wierdest way its affected me is when i played prototype then i would get on wow and press jump and get confussed why i didnt jump 20 m i nthe air and start to glide.

so not the big

 

[Drakmeire]

I went through a time in which I would play Fallout 3 for about 2-4 hours a day (a lot for me) and because of that I came very close to stealing a bobble-head off of a desk at a car dealership.Thank god I stopped myself when I started reaching.

 

[Drakmeire]

Bayonetta made me want lolipops.

Really, really badly.

I see the marketing opportunities in fetishizing Tootsie-roll pops.

In Bayonetta 2, they need to start branding the lollipops with specific brands, raking in the dough to make Bayonetta 3.

How can you make a Bayonetta 2? that final boss is going to be hard to top. Where do you go after you've killed God?

 

[One Seven One]

I think they've just made me a more creative thinker, looking for different ways through situations.

 

[smearyllama]

Bayonetta made me want lolipops.

Really, really badly.

I see the marketing opportunities in fetishizing Tootsie-roll pops.

In Bayonetta 2, they need to start branding the lollipops with specific brands, raking in the dough to make Bayonetta 3.

How can you make a Bayonetta 2? that final boss is going to be hard to top. Where do you go after you've killed God?

The Moon.
Duh.

 

[emion]

Endless Ocean completely broke me, knowledge of the existence of goblin sharks + nearly drowning when I was a child has left me something of a wreck.

Yet I completed a BSc final year module in Oceanography specialising in elasmobranches, go figure.

d@mn, thumbs up for that dude ;D you should be proud of that accomplishment ^v^

 

[Thaluikhain]

Games like Swat4 and Rainbow Six 3 make me more careful on stairs and going round corners.

 

[Iwana Humpalot]

I'm almost sure that OP is lying about that megaton bobby-pin thing, it's almost impossible to play the game whitout finding one in a weekend.

OT: I was really young, about 5 years old. I was playing this game on my friends house (i can't remember the name or console because it has been really long time since i was 5.) It was about this caveman, who was throwing bones as an attack against dinosaurs. Well guess who took all the chinken-bones from garbage and started to throw them around like mainiac

 

[deathninja]

d@mn, thumbs up for that dude ;D you should be proud of that accomplishment ^v^

I take some satisfaction in it, but I'm still embarrassed that in real life I've been beaten unconscious, run over, mugged, had to hold a guy's face together and been shot at, yet what scares me more than anything is a hadeopelagic shark that I'll probably never see.