Your Weird Gaming Habits

[Fyrana]

I have noticed that I have a very strange habit when I play games. I can't play a single title for hours on end anymore. Even if the game is incredibly short like F.E.A.R. 3, I still reach to around the halfway point and just... quit. Then finish the game the next day (the game itself took me a total of 5 hours to beat from start to finish). Recently, I have been trying to get through my 200+ game backlog. Three days ago, I started Amensia: The Dark Descent, F.E.A.R. 3, The Ball, and Resident Evil: Revelations. Each game, in order I have spent 6, 5, 4, and 4.5 hours playing. I managed to finish the first three games yesterday and I am currently only 3 chapters away from finishing Resident Evil: Revelations.

I am not exactly sure why this is, but I just can't play a game from start to finish like I used to. It isn't that I don't have free time, I do. Tons of it. (Seriously, classes need to start up again so I can get off this bloody farm).

Anyways, do any of y'all have strange gaming habits?

 

[Randoman01]

Sometimes when I play video games I like to imagine that a video game is a primitive holodeck like from Star Trek. I have always wanted to live in the Star Trek universe and video games are the closest things for me to experience what being on a holodeck is like.

 

[Sylph_14]

Any game with dialog options has me quick-saving and replaying every possible option. Both for fun and to some extent meta-gaming I guess.

 

[Fat Hippo]

I'm completely obsessive when it comes to inventory management in RPGs, which is weird because I'm not an extraordinarily neat person within my actual physical surroundings. But my backpack full of weapons, armor, gems and other miscellaneous objects must always be orderly and well organized, to the extent that I probably spend 20% of my time in certain games shuffling my stuff around. Not an efficient or especially purposeful use of my time, but I can't help myself. It's a mystery.

 

[Lilikins]

hmm...video game things I do....ehh.

Overcompulsive orderly bagspace (just like Fat_hippo....I know how you feel)

Always play the game on the hardest difficulty..even if it becomes a 'job' then and I find no enjoyment out of it. Even if I have the option to turn down the difficulty ingame I wont because I want to beat it that way.

100% the game (thats calmed down now somewhat) but if I didnt have 100% complete on my games it drove me up the wall.

React to multiple choice things as I would do myself. This was most noticable in Overlord for me with the moral choices..I tried to be 100% bad, but I just couldnt, I donno why..I tried..but it didnt work.

playing horror games with surround sound in a completely dark room...even though Im a pansy then.

think thats about it^^ hehe

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Always get the good guy ending, always.

 

[Michael Tabbut]

Strange gaming habits...
Riffing a game for no reason.

 

[MysticSlayer]

If I see something that looks climbable, then I will find a way to climb it.

If there are branching paths and the one I choose starts going on for a little too long, then I will retrace my steps and go the other way assuming that the extra pick ups are the other way.

Every time I run into an invisible wall, I will often spend a few minutes trying to get around it. For some reason, I always assume that it was a mistake to have an invisible wall in the area. Normally, though, it is just lazy design. The worst are on multiplayer maps where I can clearly get into a path that will lead to a vantage point, but an invisible wall prevents me from getting there. This often leads to me getting killed while I simultaneously fill my friends' ears with my not-so kind words for the lazy map designers.

 

[Zak757]

Every single Skyrim character I make ends up being a stealthy archer/backstabber with no magic, alchemy, or two-handed ability.

Every single Fallout character I make ends up being stealthy without any points in survival or melee.

Every single Bethesda character I make ends up being a Chaotic Neutral with extremely selective morality.

I only ever play the hardest difficulty.

Captcha: stop wasting time

But with these games it's so hard!

 

[Quazimofo]

Always get the good guy ending, always.

Ditto. I find it exceptionally difficult to be an evil character. Sociopathic is not too hard (ever run over people in an ambulance in Saint's row? you can taste the irony), but eeeeviiiiiil? I just... can't.

 

[Childe]

according to my friends when i get into games i start bobbing my head. otherwise i tend to ignore min/maxxing builds and just build whatever i feel like regardless of how underpowered it is

 

[Trinket to Ride]

I've been playing a lot of Payday 2 lately, but I can't bring myself to gun down wave after wave of cops.

I know they're just polygons and code, but they're just doing their job! I started all this, they shouldn't have to die! What if they have families? It's only Payday 2 as well. I can blow up police car after police car in Saints Row and not feel bad.

I usually just hang out in back bagging the goods and throwing them towards the drop-off point while my teammates do the dirty work.

 

[Nuuu]

I've been playing a lot of Payday 2 lately, but I can't bring myself to gun down wave after wave of cops.

I know they're just polygons and code, but they're just doing their job! I started all this, they shouldn't have to die! What if they have families? It's only Payday 2 as well. I can blow up police car after police car in Saints Row and not feel bad.

I usually just hang out in back bagging the goods and throwing them towards the drop-off point while my teammates do the dirty work.

It also doesn't help that one of the lines the operator can give after answering a pager is "Alright then, i'll see you at your kids ballgame next weekend"

For me it's perfection of small things, such as either stages in Bit Trip Runner 2, or cleaning in Fossil Fighters. I would refuse to even continue the game unless i got at least 90% completion on the fossil (there's a pretty restrictive time limit and fossils are easily damaged). I never finished the game.

 

[theevilgenius60]

I always wear my Turtle Beaches, even if its single player(especially stealth). Also, if I ever get in the zone, I start humming random tunes. My brother does that too. Also, I sometimes find myself telling the character on the screen to get on with it when they do the little hand to head, talking exposition with the radio thing(Arkham series, Gears of War).

 

[EHKOS]

I have constant reload syndrome, I get caught in between magazines so many times you'd think I was a bookmark.

I used to play with my back and head to the wall, and I would constantly knock the back of my head into the wall as a sort of tic. Glad that stopped before I usfered any brian damage.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

If I'm being stealthy I'll always close every door I open because it just bugs me and even if the NPC's don't acknowledge it to me that's leaving evidence of your presence.

I horde items just because you never know when something bigger is going to show up and you'll need that rocket (Thank you Resident Evil!)

 

[Lucem712]

In games with morality systems, I always play good. I try, I try to play bad but it just doesn't happen. I mean, not that I'm against being 'bad' in game. I always play super awesome savior of the wastes in FO but if an old lady has some glasses I want, well that old broad is gettin' shot in the face. Sorry, not sorry. Or, just you know, killin' hookers in GTA. But, during the actual mortality choices, I always go 'good'.

Also, not weird at all or anything, but if its an open-world or even limited world one, if there are toilets or anything small and non important I can interact with, I will seek them out. I guess its just the small stuff that really builds the world for me.

 

[happyninja42]

Always get the good guy ending, always.

Yeah i do that one too, though I wouldn't call it "weird/strange" just liking to play the hero xD

As of late, I've found myself commenting to the characters in the game as if I were part of the conversation, and if it's an especially poorly written game dialogue-wise, I'll riff it like I was on MST 3K.

For a game like the new Tomb Raider I'll treat it like it's the bad B movie it is and be like "Ok guys! I'm off to go get in a situation where one of the male characters can heroically die in a way to help me progress through this map!! See yah later with an increased body count! Tralalalalah" *skip along* Hell my favorite part was after a particular scene of that, and I yelled at Lara about the frequency of deaths in her presence, and then one of the other characters said it right after I did! xD I shouted at her "Thank you! Glad somebody else here is sensing a pattern!"

My wife finds my gaming habits highly amusing, as she reads fanfic in the next room, and listens to my outbursts, giggling at my antics.

Let's see, another weird habit. Hmm....Following traffic laws in video games where I drive a car. Saints Row 3 & 4 aside, stuff like Watch Dogs, or other more serious titles, I'll frequently just follow the flow of traffic to avoid getting the cops on my tail.

In Skyrim I LOVED being selective in my thieving habits, and only stealing from people who were evil or assholes. This didn't limit my choice of targets much. xD I even gave myself a calling card when I'd clean out a house. I bought up a large collection of feathers, and I would drop one feather on the inside of the doorway of the house I just stole from.