Your gaming quirks

[klakkat]

I am a fucking pack-rat. I attempt to pick up anything I come across if it looks like it could be useful or I could sell it for halfway decent cash. This wasn't so bad in Fallout 3 thanks to fast travel, and in Fallout 2 I always had my car to throw crap in. Even for those games, though, I constantly had to reel in the habit when I found myself overweight halfway through a mission. In STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, the downsides to this habit hit me like a ton of bricks. You can't carry as much as in the Fallout games, there's no fast travel, and ammo has weight to it, so if you don't dedicate half your carry capacity to ammo you better be using whatever the enemy is. I ended up filling my inventory in no time flat on most missions; sometimes I filled it just getting to the mission, and made three store runs before actually accomplishing anything.

Also, when playing City of Heroes, I like to spout out one-liners (rarely good ones).

On the subject of OCD, I do tend to get very compulsive while gaming. For instance, in an FPS, I almost never reload in the middle of a clip, because I simply can't have an odd number of spare rounds; the number of spare rounds has to be divisible by the number of rounds the gun holds. For instance, if my gun holds 20 rounds, I can have 80 spare rounds, but not 81.

Huh. I think I have the opposite of this; If I'm not shooting something then I'll hit reload, even if its just down one bullet. I feel my gun should be full at all times (except when shooting, obviously).

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

I have to stand up when playing an FPS. I reload after every kill, and I talk to characters in frustration in RPG's and halflife 2.

 

[fenrizz]

I need my mouse and keyboard or controller to be clean as possible or I get distracted trying to clean it while playing.

I do the same thing. Don't you love OCD?

On the subject of OCD, I do tend to get very compulsive while gaming. For instance, in an FPS, I almost never reload in the middle of a clip, because I simply can't have an odd number of spare rounds; the number of spare rounds has to be divisible by the number of rounds the gun holds. For instance, if my gun holds 20 rounds, I can have 80 spare rounds, but not 81.

I also do this.
If i happen to have, say, 83 bullets, then I'll fire of 3 of them and reload.

I also always jump when going places, if the game allows it. but I guess that one is pretty common.

I am a fucking pack-rat. I attempt to pick up anything I come across if it looks like it could be useful or I could sell it for halfway decent cash.

Guilty of that one too.
My inventory is always filled with useless crap.

 

[Spanner207]

if someone throws a smoke grenade of any kind during online play, i have the strange urge to run into the smoke with a shotgun, blind firing as i go screaming "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" down the mic....

 

[DigitalJedl]

During FPSs I need to use my headphones to and the lights in my room to be off. No other noises can distract me other than the deaths of my comrades and opponents. During fighters however, I need to have the controller tilted a certain way for me to play effectively, and I need a specific song playing while fighting. :l

In J/RPGs I tend to... talk to the characters like my voice actually matters in some situations. >_>

Yes, I'm weird.

 

[Mockingjay]

I sit on the radiator and get overly attatched to the character I'm playing as. Not in a creepy way but in the way that it upsets me if they get hurt xD

 

[Fightbulb]

I can't play games where mistakes can't be corrected. Which is why I can't play my copy of Viva Pinata. I'm just constantly freaking out, thinking about raccoons killing my foxes or whatever.

I also don't like having followers that need to survive, or having to escort people.

 

[Azraellod]

i sit weirdly while playing, like either in a curious lounging position that makes me look like my neck is broken, or in an uncomfortable crouching position.

i also mutter under my breath, and say ow etc. if my character dies

 

[blood77]

If a game provides two different paths for me to play, good or evil, I will usually play the good one first. This is because I feel that the evil one will probably be easier and more fun.

 

[TeaBaggin]

When playing racing games I lean with the car and turn my controller like a stearing wheel, and if i'm not turning fast enough i try to turn my controler further.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

I reload after every burst or kill. I have to have the controller above and behind my head tilted at a weird angle, and I must have some object between my legs.

 

[Stylish_Robot]

if a game has difficulty achievements, I usually play "Normal" first, get all the other ones first and leave the other difficulties for last

 

[CNKFan]

I push forward on the control stick in racing games because I think it will make the car go faster.

 

[G1eet]

I talk to my games. When I'm playing as a certain character, or faction, I speak in the correct voice and say character specific things without realizing it. I also yell at enemies and such. It would be a strange thing to watch me playing a game through a hidden camera.

Not so much strange as entertaining, provided you were playing a decent game.

 

[nokelso]

When I play Silent Hill, every monster I see must die. Even if they don't even notice me, I must beat them down for I won't feel right for the rest of the game.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

What are your gaming quirks? Games you love that everyone else despises, or something you like to do while gaming that nobody else does.

Mine is that I bought Unreal Tournament 3 to play with bots, and do not play it online.

I play Lost Planet because i like it. Weird huh?

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

Have to sit perfectly straight playing fighting games. If I'm lounging too much I get my arse kicked

That happens to me on street fighter! I thought i was the only person, lol, its nice to know I'm less of a freak than i thought i was.
And if I'm lying down its even worse.

 

[Bohner239]

I play violently. Even if all I really play are games like Cookin' Mama and Parappa the Rapper. "I MUST GRATE THIS CHEESE TO THE EXTREEEEEEEEME." Then add a couple of expletives on the end. But I do enjoy games like Half Life and MGS, and I can keep quiet during those games oddly enough...

 

[the protaginist]

If i'm playing a Free-Roaming game set in a city, Medieval or modern, I MUST see if there's someway to get on and traverse the rooftops. This is one of the reasons I loved Assassin's Creed and cannot wait for Prototype(360, so no Infamous).

 

[skcseth]

I like to explore every section of the map in a game, even if the game doesn't call for it.
I remember when SSX Tricky first came out, I would veer off course just to find all the short cuts, then restart and play the race.