In game mental conditions?

[LetheanLilith]

When I'm playing a game like the Legend of Zelda series, where you can cut grass and find money or hearts, I tend to spend literal HOURS cutting grass to get money.
Also, I have an in-game phobia of water.. whenever I have to go in deep water (deeper than 4 ft, actually), I often freak out.
oh and, whenever I pass ammo in a first person shooter, I always have to go to it and press the action key, even if I know my ammo's full. I don't know why
And in games like LoZ and Okami I jump while I run a lot. Makes it less boring.

 

[Flour]

Probably the most common problem: "But I might need it later."

It's a bit extreme though.

I refuse to use any mini nukes in Fallout 3, there's nothing that's enough of a threat for me to consider using it and I think I'll save the 1000 I have for something that's actually dangerous.(ignoring the fact that I have a 100% repaired MIRV)
I rarely use anything better than the SMG in Half Life 2, often only using the gravity gun while other weapons might be better. And I keep reusing the same brick even when there are multiple other items closer to me.
Respawning ammo locations in any game are heavily abused, to the point where shooting a single bullet is reason enough to go back through half the level to where the ammo is located.

I'm also a bit obsessed with in-game statistics. (mainly damage and health) I don't care that a ring makes me move 25% slower and weighs as much as a brick as long as it gives me a stat boost that's even a single point higher than what I had.

 

[Clashero]

You probably shouldn't play Indigo Prophecy then...

Or Call of Cthulhu. When you start seeing too many freaky things (which is all the time), you lose Sanity. This causes claustrophobia, as well as double vision, muttering to yourself, paranoia, hallucinations, camera jerking, and if your Sanity is too low, the moment you pull out your gun you'll shoot yourself.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

You probably shouldn't play Indigo Prophecy then...

Or Eternal Darkness.

 

[VladmirL]

Whenever I've been playing any FPS for a while, I start to subconsciously avoid getting head shots and I begin only aiming at the body. I start to play poorly because of this and I realize that I've stopped aiming at peoples heads for some reason. I switch back to aiming for head shots again, but after awhile, when I start getting into the game, I go back to aiming for the body. I have no idea why I do this...

 

[saintchristopher]

You probably shouldn't play Indigo Prophecy then...

Or Call of Cthulhu. When you start seeing too many freaky things (which is all the time), you lose Sanity. This causes claustrophobia, as well as double vision, muttering to yourself, paranoia, hallucinations, camera jerking, and if your Sanity is too low, the moment you pull out your gun you'll shoot yourself.

I want to play that game so bad. I've been reading H. P. Lovecraft stories for the past month and we actually still have a copy in my store... but i don't have an Xbox.

 

[teutonicman]

The only condition I have is to kill anything that moves (preferably in the most violent or hilarious method possible).

 

[The_Echo]

If there's something pointless to achieve, I plan to achieve it. Like reaching the highest point of a map, getting the strongest weapon after beating the game, etc. Oh yeah. I have an affinity for strong weapons. I always look at how much they boost my offense, and never anything else.

Also, dark areas in FPSs make me paranoid beyond belief. I literally screamed and jumped out of my seat when a Super Mutant snuck up on me in Vault 87. So I turn the brightness up as much as possible, if possible.

 

[ZonerZ]

I was going to post some ridiculous, amazingly funny post that would make everyone love me and make models want to sleep with me because I'm so damn witty, but that was before I looked back and realized that I actually do have an in-game condition. I don't trust any storage space other than my inventory (ESPECIALLY in Fallout 3). I feel like the moment I put my deathclaw gauntlet in that damned dresser drawer in my favorite abandoned bunker some Super Mutant is going to run up, take it, then run away while spamming 'lol stowl ur l3wtz nublet!' even worse, I'm worried a raider or townsperson will pick it up while I'm off on a mission or even worse it will just disappear with no explanation.

 

[saintchristopher]

The only condition I have is to kill anything that moves (preferably in the most violent or hilarious method possible).

Why would you brag about that? it makes you sound like a Neanderthalic sociopath. It's not even particularly funny, either.

 

[FlyAwayAutumn]

I hate the scary part in any game, in real life I'm not scared of anything, I was sleeping one time my brother walks up on me with some pots and pans starts clanging them and yells "WAKE THE FUCK UP!!" I woke up looked at him and said "Sup" but if something fucking jumps at me out of nowhere in a game I jump ten feet and punch any one of my friends who was unlucky enough to sit next to me.

 

[husenki]

I have the tendency to hold onto more powerful items throughout an entire game because I worry as soon as I use it, I'll need it for something. Also, I get freaked out by deep water in games, specifically WoW. If I go real deep, even if I dont have a breath meter, I get incredibly uncomfortable. I also horde items for special in game events, even though I know theyll be useless later on.

 

[cobra_ky]

i have gaming OCD. i have to do everything perfectly, with 100% completion. i constantly reload saves in RPGS just to see every possible dialogue tree. it's gotten tothe point where i don't play many RPGS anymore because of it.

 

[Kwaren]

In games where I can take most things (Oblivion, Fallout 3, ect) I become a kleptomaniac. If i can pick it up I will, even if its useless. I have a collection of 32 garden gnomes in my Megaton house in Fallout 3.

 

[saintchristopher]

In platform/adventure games, i refuse to leave an area until I've completely conquered every traversable area and picked up every collectible item. Which is why I hate it when games make it so you need a gadget/weapon that you won't get until later in the game to completely explore an earlier level, RACTHET & CLANK.

 

[wrecker77]

i have a museum collector syndrome. if i see a big boss with an ANCIENT unique weapon i must immediately kill it, take the sword, repair it to full strength, then put it in a personal museum. if its an ancient armor or other rare item, same thing. the shivering isles was a treasure trove for me, all those rare/cool looking items. i had to use TGM because i had 5k pounds of rare/cool items on my character. it only infects me in games like oblivion, morrowind, fallout3, etc. i also have a tendancy to loot anything REMOTELY useful to the point i have 5k pounds of stuff. my 2nd game syndrom is perfectionism, city builders are HELL for me, all roads must have almost no traffic, it must look just so, unlevel terrian drives me nuts when the road doesn't match to the building's level. example. you walkout down a flight of stairs to step on a road, only to fall 20 ft onto the road and die. drives me nuts because it looks so ugly.

I dont evn do any combat in fallout 3 anymore. My house has all the unique wepons all around my tennpeny apartment. I have everey type of regular gun in a drawr and evereything else is either nailed to the wall or on the floor. My favorite is my nuka machine that has quantoms all around it.

 

[Clashero]

You probably shouldn't play Indigo Prophecy then...

Or Call of Cthulhu. When you start seeing too many freaky things (which is all the time), you lose Sanity. This causes claustrophobia, as well as double vision, muttering to yourself, paranoia, hallucinations, camera jerking, and if your Sanity is too low, the moment you pull out your gun you'll shoot yourself.

I want to play that game so bad. I've been reading H. P. Lovecraft stories for the past month and we actually still have a copy in my store... but i don't have an Xbox.

You should go to www.srtest.com and see if your computer can handle the PC version. It's a really, really faithful adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Lovecraft would have been proud of it.