Has gaming infected your mind?
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When you play Heavy Rain, for the better part of a day, you may find yourself envisioning Quick Time Event prompts for every mundane action you will perform for the rest of the day.
It happened to me once. want to open the fridge? Hold R2. Get the milk? Hold R1 while continuing to hold R2. To drink the milk press and hold O while still holding down R1 and R2. that was an odd experience. thankfully it didn't last terribly long.
It happened to me once. want to open the fridge? Hold R2. Get the milk? Hold R1 while continuing to hold R2. To drink the milk press and hold O while still holding down R1 and R2. that was an odd experience. thankfully it didn't last terribly long.
Yes, in fact. This happens to me fairly frequently.
After playing Half-Life 2 extensively for a few days, the first thought when rummaging around under my computer desk in near-total darkness was "Press F for flashlight".
I regularly make references IRL to Eve Online while cooking, trying to invent and manufacture T2 food. Also, whenever I figure out some difficult or complicated problem, I can always imagine that little automated voice in the background going "Skill training completed".
Occasionally, I'll look for the objectives list when I'm very, very bored - or when I had an idea, and forgot what I was going to do.
Sometimes, on bad days, I think "Hit escape and load up the last autosave". A couple days ago, I had one of those dreams that are so real, you only realize they're not real when you wake up. It's quite cool when, in a dream, you want to go back to a prior save point - and then you wake up.
After playing Half-Life 2 extensively for a few days, the first thought when rummaging around under my computer desk in near-total darkness was "Press F for flashlight".
I regularly make references IRL to Eve Online while cooking, trying to invent and manufacture T2 food. Also, whenever I figure out some difficult or complicated problem, I can always imagine that little automated voice in the background going "Skill training completed".
Occasionally, I'll look for the objectives list when I'm very, very bored - or when I had an idea, and forgot what I was going to do.
Sometimes, on bad days, I think "Hit escape and load up the last autosave". A couple days ago, I had one of those dreams that are so real, you only realize they're not real when you wake up. It's quite cool when, in a dream, you want to go back to a prior save point - and then you wake up.
Well, uhh, playing Mirror's Edge made me look at everything in the world as an obstacle to jump over and I kept trying to mentally find a way onto the roof of every building I walked by/drove by. Just thinking about it like "Ok, start in the parking lot, jump on this car, than this truck, then this dumpster, then this crate, then climb..."
I keep thinking in terms of FPS's sometimes, but it can actually be handy. I picture a little aiming reticule and I do things with greater precision.
Also, QTE's that rely on button mashing. I had to prise out a badly jammed steel insert from concrete at work with a big crowbar. I kept tapping A in my head, and out it popped (quite violently at that).
Also, QTE's that rely on button mashing. I had to prise out a badly jammed steel insert from concrete at work with a big crowbar. I kept tapping A in my head, and out it popped (quite violently at that).
Oblivion. I will play that game for about two months then give it away and move on. After another two months if I so much hear about the game in a passing conversation then I will want to play it again. I need to.
When I play paintball with my mates. I never pop up from the same barrel more than once because in BC2 that shit gets you killed.
When standing still, I tend to have an idle animation like I'm straight out of some fighting game.
A few times after finishing something I found myself thinking something to the lines of "Where's my achievement?"
Other than that, load and save functions would be incredibly useful IRL.
Other than that, load and save functions would be incredibly useful IRL.
Sometimes I can see people with morale bars... Oh and sometimes I honestly start seeing the world in Minecraft cubes if I've been playing it enough.
I was in Venice a couple of months ago and my mates were very annoyed when I kept pointing out buildings I'd climbed in Assassin's Creed II. I sometimes also look at a building, spot handholds, judge distances and think "I could climb that". (I really, really couldn't.)
Well... Quick time event prompts, the sanity bar from Farenheit, sometimes the urge to snipe since it LOOKS simple in game and the ever so annoying ctrl+F doesn't exist IRL.
Although that isn't from a game I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Although that isn't from a game I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Nope, sorry. Games can't infect. Only affect. And then, only as much as anything in my life.Dark Claw13 said:
So really, you could say that - effectively - I'm an amalgamation of many influences, none of them going too deep.
Not games, no, but I always end up disappointed when I realise I can't just 'find' things in real life. I even type ctrl+f on the air subconsciously, as was pointed out to me earlier when looking for white rum (Mojitos!)
well, i always smash or steal anything that isn't tied down, because i'm sort of a n00b at this game and don't know what to do yet. but i'll get there eventually, or wait til someone posts a walkthrough.