Instictively trying to use a technique in the wrong game.

[Jfswift]

Playing duex ex:HR this week i have so far tried to hit the left trigger to aim guns seems i play too much cod.Also a few nights ago while playing was sneaking around pressed right trigger expecting it to go into vats for some reason thinking i was playing fallout.But instead threw a grenade at a guards back.

I am not sure between me and the guard who was more surprised

I agree, I do the same thing. I had the same issue with the original Deus Ex also. Why must the scope key always be in such a strange place.

 

[panagram]

I tried to climb a golden vine while playing Fable 3 after playing L4D2 versus all morning

 

[Zeraki]

I just recently started playing the original Mass Effect again in order to start getting ready for my Mass Effect 3 save, and I keep trying to play it like Mass Effect 2. Pressing the A button to get into cover, trying to sprint to get through the Citadel faster, only to remember that I can only sprint for two milliseconds while in combat. I still love the game, but it's very jarring going back from Mass Effect 2's improved combat mechanics.

 

[Lilani]

Because they're both in the source engine, I often mix up Half-Life 2 and TF2. I'll try to use the flashlight in TF2, or try to call for medic in HL2. Just silly stuff like that.

 

[DarthRiko]

Rocket jumping in Team Fortress 2: Gain tactical advantage, sometimes die.
Rocket jumping in Borderlands: Lose health, sometimes die.

Strafe while running in 007 Goldeneye/Perfect Dark: Get speed boost, complete missions faster.
Strafe while running in Far Cry: No speed boost, lose mission because you can't see shit.

Snaking in Mario Kart DS/Wii: Massive speed boost when done properly.
Snaking in Trackmania United: Crash into a dozen walls.

Press Q to switch weapons in Half Life 2: Fast switch to a better weapon for your situation.
Press Q to switch tools in Minecraft: Toss that fancy diamond picaxe into some lava.

Bunny hop in Portal: Move faster, solve puzzles easier.
Bunny hop in Counter Strike: Source: Move slower, die easier.

Shoot rocket at wall next to you in Red Faction: Instant cover, sometimes shortcuts.
Shoot rocket at wall next to you in Half Life: Lose health, sometimes die.

Using VATS in Fallout 3: Easy damage, usually perfect accuracy.
Using VATS in Left 4 Dead: Easy death, usually takes a crane to get it out.

 

[DirgeNovak]

I tried to use VATS in Deus Ex 3. So Adam threw a grenade, which rebounded to my feet and killed me.

 

[PayneTrayne]

This isn't a game but I still find it funny.

I had just gotten off a Fallout 3 bender and went to my buddy's apartment. The sign said entrance on West side. I immediately looked down trying to find my compass.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Games are bad for not all having the same commands on PC. Who sets E to jump? Honestly! E is use items, Space is jump! Foolish developers. *Barges into controls and changes the settings*

They first time I played a final fantasy game (FF7) I kept hitting X to try and confirm instead of O. It was sooo confusing to my young mind, "Why would they make it this way if everyone else does it that way?" I remember thinking.

See! Can't they confer or somthing. (That so happened to me aswell xD)

 

[omega_peaches]

It turns out that if I try to aim down the sights in Halo, I end up sticking a team mate and having the whole team get mad at me.

 

[Foxbat Flyer]

Playing Deus Ex:HR on my PC, and pressing right mouse button to use iron sights... Couldnt work out why it would go into 3rd person view and put me against the wall, at least until the tutorial came up on wall hugging

 

[brainslurper]

I tried to enter V.A.T.S. before remembering I was playing Just Cause 2, once.

Done that like 10 times with oblivion.

 

[Ghengis John]

I was just playing the DeathSpank: The Baconing demo and during a fight I thought "I'll stay in front of that projectile so I can use a timed block to deflect it. Oh wait, that's Bastion." They do have a similar isometric viewpoint, so I guess that helped.

Anytime you play the next iteration of a fighting game and the move list has been arbitrarily changed this is a problem. "Ah that's not two quarter circles forward and punch anymore.... so ... I'm dead then?"

 

[Psychoid]

Playing Dragon Age: Origins after having played a lot of Oblivion:
"Okay, I'll press 'B' to open up the map/inventory screen... Wait, what did I just drink?"

And then playing Mass Effect after having played a lot of DA:O:
"I'll just press 'Back' to open the map/inventory screen... Huh. I hope that grenade doesn't hit anyone important..."

 

[soulless-5]

I get mixed up in nearly every new game I start, most recently in Just cause 2 I have a nasty habbit of mixing up the grapple and nades... I've wasted so many nades even and after so many hours of gaming I still do it.

 

[Vykrel]

sometimes i will find myself crouch-walking around enemies in FPS games where it wont help me in any way. like in Battlefield, ill crouch-walk as if im playing Halo

 

[Squirrel1328]

Sometimes i keep trying to jump from cover to cover and silently sneak up behind my enemies because i think i'm playing Splinter Cell

 

[mjc0961]

Every time I switch between Saints Row 2 and GTA IV, I always hit the wrong button for handbrake turns. In Saints Row 2, X is handbrake and A is cruise control. In GTA IV, X is changing weapons and... headlights toggle, and A is handbrake. So if I play a lot of Saints Row 2 and then later go play GTA IV (like I have been recently), I find myself slamming into a wall as my headlights turn on more often than I'd like.

Also, this time in GTA IV I kept trying to hold down B to access the weapon wheel, but there isn't one because Rockstar decided to say in the obnoxious PS2 "press left and right a whole bunch of times" part of the world for that mechanic. >_<

It turns out that if I try to aim down the sights in Halo, I end up sticking a team mate and having the whole team get mad at me.

Ah, I kept doing that too, thankfully in the campaign though.

 

[Imperius]

Tried to rush around to flank the enemy on my own in countdown match on Red Orchestra 2.(Like I would in COD or BF)
Ended up with a face full of lead and a long wait for the next round.

 

[Denariax]

I remember one time I was playing Saints Row 2 and I wanted to call a horse in a la Red Dead Redemption. Strangely, a few of my gang members rode up and got out of their car. It felt awesome.

 

[Ninjat_126]

After playing Brink for some time, it was kinda wierd playing a game without the SMART system..
Trying to walljump in BF:BC2 can get you killed pretty fast..

The only thing i can think of right now..

Try adjusting to something like COD after playing that.

Fallout 3's PS3 jump button was the same as COD's switch weapon button- I think you can tell where this is going.

Also, the COD "special grenade" button is the same as the Resistance 2 "Sprint/Crouch" button. Cue self-flashbanging.

Resistance: Fall Of Man's Secondary Fire is Resistance 2's Zoom. Cue much accidental self-nading.

Shattered Horizon has no gravity. Cue many deaths from falls.

COD/Halo/Everything modern has regenerating health. Half Life does not. Cue many suicidal rush attacks.

Most games don't have terrifying flickering nightmare faces as enemies. Afraid of Monsters: Director's Cut does. Cue much brick shitting, screams of terror and "OH GOD WHAT IS THAT"s.

Dawn Of War: Soulstorm classifies Necron Scarabs as air units that only attack other air units. My favourite strategy for screwing around with infinite energy was now useless.