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Moonmover

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In RPG's, I will take every item in a dungeon with me - even if it means running back to town to sell off my inventory, then coming back to pick up the last blank sheet of paper or rusty iron dagger or whatever.
 

FPLOON

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I set up my own checkpoints on any game I play... "Play X game for Y amount of hours and stop, with or without saving..."

Also, if I can't sleep, I would always turn on my PS3 and immediately play a game like SkullGirls until I lose a match against the COM once...

Other than that, I will always loose track of time if I end up playing any video game after 6PM...
 

DementedSheep

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In games where you can block I end up not blocking and trying to dodge if it is something that it looks like I shouldn't be able to block. Even though I know my character can part of my brain is always going "MOVE YOUR ASS! you can't block a sword bigger than you". The one this stood out the most for recently was Dark Souls.

In stealth I do unnecessary shit like closing doors and hiding bodies when there are no other patrols through the area even if the game doesn't acknowledge these thing. I also tend to make my character walk in tense situations or when they are begin stealthy.

Sometimes if I did things in particularly inefficient way I will reload to do it the efficient way even though this just ends up taking even more time.

In open world Bethesda games I always download a whole bunch of realism mods (for FO3 I even had one that made me have to feed my dog) even though this stuff seems like it should just be tedious.

When waiting for something I hold down the directional keys or stick so my character runs in circles. This annoys some people in multiplayer.
 

Caiphus

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I tend to bunnyhop, or whatever the term is for constantly hitting the jump button while running.

Used to do it much more until a friend with OCD told me it annoyed him. But yeah, something about the rhythm of tapping the spacebar is calming, and makes running long distances in-game less tiresome.
 

Lethos

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I try and roleplay in every game, even if the game doesn't lend itself well to roleplaying. Even in RTS games I pretend I'm a general or something.

I try and recreate my appearance as best I can whenever there is character creation. I like to imagine myself as the character, and make decisions based on what I would do in real life. I'll admit this has led me to missing out on a lot of content. I've never made a female character or a beast/elven character in Skyrim for example.

I try to keep my inventory as small as possible, only having what I would consider the essentials.

I got loads more. During some of the 'darker' days of my OCD, I used to get angry every time I broke eye contact with the TV/monitor as I would be separating myself from the game world. Fortunately these obsessive things are in the past now.