• Common/Strange Video Game Habits
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What are some habits you have when you play video games? Whenever my character goes underwater, I hold my breath along with them. (Within reason, I'm not gonna try that playing Echo the Dolphin :v: ) Whenever I dodge a projectile in an FPS game, I'll physically dodge it too/duck to the side of my monitor. Whenever I'm trying to make a jump in a console game, I jerk the controller up and tense up, trying in vain to make them jump higher.
Mine are too weird and embarrassing to post.
If I get through a conversation in a game, and then end up having to reload or do it again, I ALWAYS choose every option again, even if they're optional choices. Like in the Mass effect games, I will do EVERY investigate option, even if I know everything they're gonna say.
I always try to bhop regardless of game
in games like fallout and the elder scrolls I always quicksave when I enter a new-new area and then go on a rampage to see what the place got "why would you kill an entire town of mutant rampage survivors?" to test my ability
I quicksave way too often
I'm an obsessive looter when it comes to RPGs. Hell, I used to be the despair of my DM in the D&D group we had because I'd insist on carting away every piece of normal weaponry and every last copper coin to add to the group tally.
If the ammo pool on a weapon I have is currently sitting on an uneven number after a significant downtime after a firefight, I'd fire some shots just to get it onto an even number.
If a game lets me collect garbage and sell it, you better believe I'm taking everything that isn't fuckin bolted down :v: A friend told me I was playing STALKER wrong when I finished SoC with over 250 thousand rubles On a weirder note, I tend to compulsively hoard random, specific items in those games. Last time I played through Fallout 3 my fridge in megaton was just completely packed full of whiskey. I didn't even use them, I just for some reason decided I was going to keep every single bottle of whiskey I come across [editline]12th June 2017[/editline] Also, narrating the character's thoughts in my head, freeman's mind style
[QUOTE=NachoPiggy;52341517]If the ammo pool on a weapon I have is currently sitting on an uneven number after a significant downtime after a firefight, I'd fire some shots just to get it onto an even number.[/QUOTE] I either round off to multiples of five or, if the weapon has a weird magazine size, make sure my remaining ammo is divisible by the magazine size. If my gun holds 12 bullets and I have 123 rounds spare I'm firing those 3 rounds into a wall, every time.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;52341545]I either round off to multiples of five or, if the weapon has a weird magazine size, make sure my remaining ammo is divisible by the magazine size. If my gun holds 12 bullets and I have 123 rounds spare I'm firing those 3 rounds into a wall, every time.[/QUOTE] Yeah forgot to add to that if a game has a weirder mag size, especially if it's one of those psuedo-RPG FPS with upgradable stats and stuff. It happens to me too in multiplayer games which screws me over often.
If I get into a fight/skirmish of any sort and if I come out with less health/armor etc or take more damage than I'd like, Instead of using any sort of healing/repair items afterwards (no matter how many I have) I just end up reloading the save and doing it over and over again and I'm satisfied with the end result. As a result of this I always have an absolute ton of healing/repair items in games with inventories, even early on.
Sometimes. When i die in TF2 I Will Start throwing my hand up and down with the mouse in it. While i'm clicking going through spectator mode. Then... I MAKE F*CKING MONKEY NOISES. I'm not even joking on that last part. Thats why this took so long to type :boxhide: Its so fricking embarrasing. Good thing i don't hold V while doing it though.
I'm not sure if anyone else does this or if it's common or not, but when I'm on the phone or speaking to somebody, I subconciously start playing the game, I don't play it really I more or less just move the character, for instance if I'm playing WoW and I end up in a long phone call, I end up being fucking ages away from where I was when I took the call and it's completely random where I go.
I have a tendency to subconsciously tilt controllers in different directions as if that would make the thing I'm controlling go that way faster. When I was playing the harder levels in Trials Fusion I often noticed that I had tilted the controller almost 90 degrees to the right without noticing, as if that would make the bike lean more that way.
I can't bring myself to do evil options if available. I just have to do the good option irrespective of actual worth
Everytime I get a kill in TF2 I have a habit of using the "Thanks!" command.
Saving items that grants temporary stat boosts or unique potions for latter in the storyline. Just to end up never using them and having 80 unused potions in my storage, useless or not suitable for a high level character.
I cant finish a game with custom characters. 50+ hours in I'll hate the way the eyes are spaced. Or how thick the lips are. Start over and make a new character
I always watch ragdolls.I have never killed anything without watching it go down.Or up.Or sideways.Or all 3.I don't ever rush through.And speaking of ragdolls,if it's a Source game,I always recompile the model with a new .phy,applying $noselfcollisions to it.I HATE self collisions.
In any game with custom characters, I'll always make the same guy.
Since I was a kid I have always held my breath whenever a character goes underwater, just to see if I could hold my breath for just as long as the character, if not longer :v:
[QUOTE=TheJamesGravy;52342537]I cant finish a game with custom characters. 50+ hours in I'll hate the way the eyes are spaced. Or how thick the lips are. Start over and make a new character[/QUOTE] Good thing they have A plastic surgeon in The Saints Row games.
[QUOTE=EmilyVasquez;52342002]Everytime I get a kill in TF2 I have a habit of using the "Thanks!" command.[/QUOTE] pls don't it's like taunting except more cowardly
i'm very indecisive when it comes to making characters (in RPGs especially, like elder scrolls or fallout) let's say for example i'll have 3 choices of weapons to use in an RPG: guns, melee, and magic -i'll start with guns, get bored, then start a new game with melee -then i get bored of melee and start a new game with magic -then i get bored of magic and decide i like guns again and start a new game with guns ad infinium
99/100 ammo count? Better fuckin reload!
[QUOTE=The Rifleman;52343618]99/100 ammo count? Better fuckin reload![/QUOTE] Same here. I too am a compulsive reloader.
I have a fear of small physical props like soda cans.
Compulsive reloader Always magic, preferably summoner Always evil if possible
Actually one non-embarassing one I have is that I try to break the shit out of them. Anything I think the devs might have not accounted for, I try. In some games, like most Nintendo games, it doesn't usually work. But of course there are plenty of games with low QA budgets where the devs don't think of everything.
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