What's your habit in games?

[anthony87]

(level 20 charge nova vanguard on bronze anyone? )

HEAR! HEAR!

OT: I reload after every kill.

I tend to save twice at each save point....just in case(?)

And I always intentionally go the wrong way....ALWAYS. If I see an arrow or a path telling me where to go I'll deliberately go the wrong way under the assumption that there'll be something there.

....It's kind of a let down when there's actually nothing there and I have to go all the way back.

 

[Smithburg]

Ive developed a terrible terrible habit or reloading after each kill, I tend to use smg's and classes that expand on your speed, so quick reloading, aiming changing weapons sprinting and so on. And ive gotten to a point where I get a kill and reload to avoid running out of ammo in a small clip, which often lets the enemies right on the previous mans heels take me out as he comes into view of me snapping another clip in the gun.

And if I use a class with a LMG im just fucked...

 

[Vern5]

-Shooter games: I like to wait around corners with a shotgun and use my headphones to listen for footsteps. I only reload when I've killed someone.

-MMOs: I enjoy renting myself out as a freelancer healer. For some reason, I'm at my most helpful when I am playing MMOs. I'm usually the first to respond to "Looking for heals"

-League of Legends: I normally play heroes who can roam around the map and pop up wherever I want to.

-Party based games (Bioware and Bioware-eque RPGs): I roleplay as a complete bastard whose time is constantly being wasted by these useless NPCs. Loyal to my party (unless they're being annoying bastards... Morrigan) but dismissive of anyone outside of that. I devote most of my skills towards being an upfront fighter, able to kill most enemies quickly with a do-or-die onslaught.

-In all games: In a tight situation, I will always semi-panic and shout "Fuck off!"

 

[DoPo]

Side quests get finished first.

It's a law.

I'm a law abiding citizen. In fact, I try to finish the side quests before even taking up the main one, so I'll try to avoid the quest giver (if possible) at, well, reasonable costs. I would go as far as not being in the same are as them if I could easily pull it off, for example if they reside in a room or a building and there is nothing else to do in that area (no shops/secondary quests/other stuff).

I'm also a minimalist. I try to use as little resources as possible. This means that I maximise what I can get out of my current abilities/items/etc. It's borderline power gaming but I'm doing it for the tactical challenge. For example, the first time I played NWN I went through the entire game without any companions - using only my character's resources to tackle everything I encountered.

For my specifically, I narrate as I said on what's going on, and my "catch phrase" I would say is "Sit the fuck back down." Which normally comes out after I snipe someone or easily defeat someone. IE: in Halo I'll get caught off guard and in an instant, I kill my challenger. In response I'll say "*****, sit the fuck back down."

I narrate too, it's either my thought process ("So if I go here and use that...no better do something else.") or just what's going on if I don't have a plan set up ("So, thanks for ambushing me, here is some sword in your face"). Maybe it's not "narrating" but "commenting" now that I think of it.

I also have some "catch phrases" but some are specific to games or genres. Or just one sort of thing. For example, I almost have to go "horsey, horsey horsey, horsey" if I even think the word "horse". It gets somewhat annoying when I'm narrating or commenting a when thinking of a tactic and there are horse riders or something remotely similar (unicorns, centaurs included...depending how horselike they are) involved. "So, if I attack with the archers there then move my horses (horsey, horsey, horsey, horsey) here maybe, no wait, I better leave the horses (horsey, horsey, horsey, horsey) next to the archers to guard them" and so on. I really don't know why or when I started in the first place.

And I'm a bit of a serial killer in games. Especially RPGs and other sandbox-y ones but if I find a helpless NPC away from everybody else and I think I can get away with it, I would most sneak up to them and kill them. actually the same goes for enemies. A secluded enemy which is out of sight from the others, out of shouting range even will always get a sneak kill unless I really can't do it (no sneaking in the game). It wouldn't matter if it doesn't pose no threat to me even if it sees me. Silent discrete murder is the norm. I'm pretty sure I haven't picked that from Hitman although it really helped there.

 

[Manji187]

I like to see whether I can break a game using its own mechanics and exploit its exploits XD.

Oh Morrowind...you are so broken.

 

[Xenowolf]

I seem to occasionly end up narrating the game as if I'm doing a Let's Play, despite the fact that I've never even made one before. I also tend to accidently refer to the secondary Xbox shoulder triggers as R2/L2 instead of RT/LT. Doesn't help that two begins with the letter T.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

I'm a perfectionist and, I'm borderline obsessive compulsive.

I just have to have 100% completion in all my games.

Hear hear.

But to add something new, I have a weird habit of "leaning into" my melee kills while playing FPS, I've been doing it since Halo 3 and my brother never fails to comment on it.

I refuse to follow the main quest in RPGs until I'm happy with the amount of side quests I've done/done them all.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Side quests get finished first.

It's a law.

and this law is to be obeyed.

i do this to, usually for the reason of getting ready for the next 'big thing' coming.

but a few more, general ones

MMOs: i almost always roll a 'melee DPS' character, with a high or higher DEF rating when possible, rarely am i a 'tank' though, even rarer am i 'ranged DPS'

i have a pretty strict 'no boys allowed' rule when custom characters are available to, not just MMOs here, but ALL games where i can fiddle with my avatar's appearance, unless there's some benefit being a dood has over being female, then yeah, 'I'll have boobs'

 

[The Wykydtron]

Reload ALL the guns, even when it's 199/200 in an LMG, nope epic reload time activate! BF3 lets you run while reloading... Thank god!

Must explore every inch of a dungeon, I don't even find it fun, it just pains me to know that I may have missed something. Except I could fly through the dungeons in Persona 4 for some reason, probably because the floors are randomised and the loot is usually just healing/SP regaining stuff that you could just buy from the shop anyway.

If I can be a sniper, I will be. That's probably why I loathed the MW3 multiplayer, it all comes down to the fact that all the maps are far too small for anything that isn't an SMG or AR. There just isn't a place for a sniper on any maps. And the usual balancing problems were a factor too i guess. Plus the maps being aggressively small leads to the usual spawn trouble.

And in fighting games, I will pick the weirdest character in the game and run with him. Characters like Ryu make me disgustingly bored. And sometimes I just know i'm gonna pull an amazing comeback... Like when I went one woman army (no X-Factor!) against an entire team and won with X-23 in UMVC3. Ok Phoenix Wright helped but it was mostly X's rushdown that won the game. I swear I was pulling off several resets without even realising it...

Sentinel drones ain't got nothin' on X-23 bitches

 

[Slayer_2]

I reload compulsively, depending on the game, it can get me killed often.

I hate camping, and even in games like Flashpoint and Red Orchestra, I'll tend to be charging into the battle.

 

[Axyun]

1. I save consumables, especially powerful ones, for a battle that never comes.

2. I must 100% clear all maps.

3. If I fail to play a story driven game for more than 2 weeks straight, I restart it.

4. Get paranoid and turtle in RTSs.

5. Tendency to hyper-focus on battles at the objective's expense. Needed to constantly and consciously break away from battles in WoW Battlegrounds to remind myself that capturing the flag is more important than killing an opponent.

 

[DrgoFx]

I narrate too, it's either my thought process ("So if I go here and use that...no better do something else.") or just what's going on if I don't have a plan set up ("So, thanks for ambushing me, here is some sword in your face"). Maybe it's not "narrating" but "commenting" now that I think of it.

When I narrate, here's an example of my fight with a Reaper Brute in Mass Effect 3:

"Oh god, here it comes...SNIPER BULLET TO THE FACE. Ok, sticky grenade...flame him...BULLET TO THE FACE. Oh god he's close, come on reload...Ok dodge out, dodge out, sticky grena- OH FUCK HE'S CHARGING. Ok, almost dead. Now ready...One. Two. Three...And...SHEPARD PUNCH! SIT THE FUCK DOWN BRUTE."

I guess I could say my "catch phrase" comes from accomplishments in my mind, either I feel accomplished to kill them off that quickly, or accomplished to beat someone I didn't think I could.

And I'm a bit of a serial killer in games. Especially RPGs and other sandbox-y ones but if I find a helpless NPC away from everybody else and I think I can get away with it, I would most sneak up to them and kill them. actually the same goes for enemies. A secluded enemy which is out of sight from the others, out of shouting range even will always get a sneak kill unless I really can't do it (no sneaking in the game). It wouldn't matter if it doesn't pose no threat to me even if it sees me. Silent discrete murder is the norm. I'm pretty sure I haven't picked that from Hitman although it really helped there.

Oh god, I do this so often. My favorite thing to do in Prototype was to find the nearest date-rape looking male, disguise myself as him, then grab the nearest female and bolt down the street or up a building screaming "RAAAAAAAPE."

I think I have issues.

 

[DrunkPickle]

I'm not sure if this counts, but I rarely ever finish games; and I NEVER re-play through them, not matter how good.

 

[Xannidel]

Any RPG or MMORPG I always play a caster (the only exception is LOTRO where I played a lore-keeper but found the captain to be more fun for me)

I also save up any consumable items and bank them in case I need them later on and then they never get used as I level up past their use and end up selling them.

In any game with a gun I always reload even if all I did was fire one shot, I always make sure I am behind some form of cover and reload.

I tend to save a lot just to make sure I do not have to retrace my steps back up to the point of where I died.

I will almost always play a male character (not because I am sexist or anything but to me it feels odd to play a female when I am a male, unless a female opens different conversation options)

In MMORPGs or any other game that permits me to play a different race, I will normally not play a human class (once again I am forced to play a human in LOTRO because the captain class is for the human race only)

 

[Fleetfiend]

Despite knowing what they are i always refer to Play station buttons as A,B,X,Y not Square, Circle, X, Triangle

I do something similar to this, but I mix them up. For me, circle/B is always B, triangle/Y is always triangle, square/X is always square, and X/A is always X.

Confuses the heck out of people when I try to communicate which buttons to press, especially when it comes to X.

 

[Swyftstar]

I'm a compulsive reloader.

Hello compulsive reloader.

I'm a compulsive quick-saver.

I do both. Hell, I think I am just compulsive in general.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I'm a health kit hoarder. I simply must have them ALL, because I'll need them... at some point. If I come across a health kit and I am at my maximum capacity I will purposely damage my health bar, use a health kit up just so I can collect the one that I found.

Someone help me... I just can't stop.

 

[Ddgafd]

I'm a compulsive reloader and I love using pistols in shooters. I have no idea why, but if there's a pistol, I MUST USE IT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

 

[hazabaza1]

Shoot somebody.
R.
Shoot wall.
R.
Shoot explosive barrel.
R.
Press R.
R.
No ammo left?
F5.

 

[Averant]

Usually when I'm in trouble I'll just mutter "fuck" a lot. When I'm running away, it's "*****".

Ah, swear words. How I love thee so.

Compulsive loader, too.