Consistent mistakes

[oplinger]

I always forget to use powerful spells/weapons with long cooldowns or very limited ammo. There's always this little niggling doubt in my mind that lurking behind the next corner is something more powerful than anything I've fought before.

more often than not. This. I will finish many games with the weakest guns in the game because i don't want to use the strong ones. Or I'll not use the best power in the game because It has a long cooldown or something. Then for fun I'll be like "fuck this I've never used this hand held orbital nuclear missile beacon....Hey look a squirrel.."

Needless to say I will resort to punching things generally, instead of using the big guns. >.>

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Whenever I play a level that I find hard but it's because of the way I'm doing it, I continue to do it the hard way.

 

[The Rockerfly]

I buy too many games considering how little time I have for gaming.

I have the exact same problem

OT: I reload way too much. Seriously, one bullet and I reload. I have died so many times as a result

 

[Vuavu]

I've always tried to make a game feel like I'm in a movie or something so I dramatically play up and draw out big fights and take hits when I think I should and use appropriate moves/weapons. This has gotten me killed lots of times haha

 

[Doive]

Quite old-skool but on the pokemon gameboy games (red/blue) when my pokemon were learning new moves and I had to choose one to replace I often tapped through the speech to quickly and deleted on of their best moves.

 

[Double A]

Playing games instead of doing homework. Gets me every time...

I also usually go the route of "Hmm, there's a alien robot here, but I think I should save my rocket launcher just in case there's a giant alien robot around the corner."

 

[DanielBrown]

While playing games like Prince of Persia, where you gotta check your surroundings all the time for ledges and stuff to jump to, I tend to just fling myself in some direction and hope for the best.
Gotta love the rewind feature.

 

[Instant K4rma]

I don't make mistakes.

Win.

OT: I can't do timed missions/objectives. ANYTHING that is timed in a videogame I generally fail at. Even if it's something I'm good at, put a clock to it, and I'll fuck it up without a doubt. The added pressure of a running clock really messes with me.

 

[EllEzDee]

If I'm using a bolt-action gun, then I miss 75% of the time due to pressure.

I have parkinson's disease whenever i use any kind of 1 hit or chance weapon, such as a sniper rifle. I'll have my aim perfectly on my target, only to over-compensate his movements and COMPLETELY fucking jerk my hand to the side, missing my target by about 10-15 meters. And it ALWAYS happens.

 

[Patrick Dare]

I get impatient with text boxes and tend to tap whatever "confirm" button there is as fast as possible in a vain attempt to get it over with. This sometimes causes serious problems (like, say, erasing my brother's saved game).

I kind of do this, I get impatient and skip text/dialog or just don't pay attention then when they're done telling me what to do I go to run off and go "wait...what am I doing?". I also have a problem in free roaming games of doing things I know will probably result in mission failure just because I want to see what happens (this has resulted in a lot of mission failures in GTA games).

Edit:

I always forget to use powerful spells/weapons with long cooldowns or very limited ammo. There's always this little niggling doubt in my mind that lurking behind the next corner is something more powerful than anything I've fought before.

I've been giving myself therapy for this and am slowly weaning myself off of the "you need to save it in case you encounter something super powerful" mentality based on that I always end up never using it.

 

[EmzOLV]

When, and I say 'when' meaning 'on the extreme rare occasion' I play any FPS games, if something makes me panic I immediately press all buttons on some instinctive reaction and usually end up firing my weapon at the floor and staring at my feet. Cue imminent death...

Totally sucks. Over Christmas I'm going to train myself NOT to do that!!

 

[thom_cat_]

Depends on the game.
But I usually learn from my mistakes, it's the logical progression of things.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Being too thick-headed to realise my current strategy is doomed to failure. While most people would realise a cause is hopeless, I refuse to and continue in the face of unbeatable odds.

Like when I was holed up in the tavern in Red Dead Redemption surrounded by, like, 20 lawmen on all sides with only a lasso and a knife left. I figure, if your gonna go out, you go out fighting.

Like the ending of Halo: Reach. I refused to believe that you were MEANT to die and fought valiantly until it was physically impossible to fight any longer.

 

[Brandon237]

In shooters, I always pick ultra high power weapons that demand excellent accuracy on purpose, e.g. the Magnum and Military Sniper Rifle in Left 4 Dead 2, and I'm a mild shot on a good day. I also allow myself to get frustrated at points in games which are just poorly designed and not actually difficult, which just makes me play worse and worse and makes me more and more frustrated. Up until I go completely berserk and reach some kind of zen rage where I do everything perfectly without thought. I usually just stop playing for awhile before I get there though.

This has happened to me a couple of times, although more from me not being the best gamer than from bad design.

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I was playing the official SW 3 game on the PS2, and I had gotten to the level where you have to kill General Grievous. The boss fight was broken up into 4 progressively harder stages, and I could barely get to the second one. This try and fail fast and miserably happened FOR A WHOLE DAY. Next morning, second or third try, I just don't think and complete all 4 stages with barely a scrape, and the highest on kill score possible.
I don't know how, but it happened.

 

[Jekken6]

Reloading way before my clip or mag is empty. I do this so, so much.