Instictively trying to use a technique in the wrong game.

[AlexiVolkov]

I do this quite often when I play one game for a few solid days then move onto something else... I was playing... something... just before Infamous 2 came out, and I constantly found myself trying to 'reload' Cole after every ranged take down. Took me a good day to quit doing it too.

 

[[The]Rock]

I would lol if someone tried to do a quake rocket jump in BFBC2 or Blops.

guilty yer 'onorship

 

[hooksashands]

After playing Dark Sector, for some reason whenever I play a 3rd person game with the behind the shoulder view... I catch myself holding down the bumper button to charge the blade boomerang I don't have. This habit has caused me to hold cooking grenades sometimes.

 

[Kekkles]

After playing a hella tonne of Bayonetta going to play Castlevania: Lord of Shadows... Let's just say my experience of Castlevania was ruined and I now hate that game.

 

[RagnarokHybrid]

Trying to shoot people in the leg to run up to them and cuff them in LA Noire... only to find out that that mechanic was non-existent.

 

[Astoria]

I keep trying to access my pip boy even though I'm Batman. I'm also still not used to the auto save thing.

 

[MrRetroSpectacles]

When I returned to GTA4 after having played other games, some bright spark forgot that the protagonist dosen't instantly sprint and can't do a ninja roll, so when the aforementioned bright spark tried to taunt a player in a car online, he swiftly remembered why you don't try to avoid speeding cars at the very last second before impact. Put simply, I forgot Niko couldn't evade like an elite and got myself turned to pavement syrup.

 

[MrRetroSpectacles]

Also, after playing The Darkness it took me a good few hours to stop myself from shooting all the lights out in every other game. Slightly different idea, but after prolonged exposure to Assassins Creed games I sometimes imagine ways to climb up buildings, in great detail as well.

 

[mrdude2010]

whenever i switch between halo and call of duty i spend 5 minutes throwing grenades instead of looking down my ironsights, and looking down my scope instead of meleeing people

 

[DustyDrB]

Trying to adjust to any new game when my muscle memory is set to a previous game is an endless recurring problem. I usually need a day or two to acclimatize myself to the peculiarities of the new UI.

This, you have no idea how many times I hit B trying to get to my inventory in Deus Ex by bringing up my Pip-boy.

Yeah. I tried to check my inventory while I was standing behind a civilian. Then I broke that civilian's arm and knocked her out. I keep pressing the wrong buttons over and over and over and over in Human Revolution. Having the "X" button as the contextual action button (instead of "A") is really hard to get used to.

I also accidentally threw a concussion grenade while I was crawling through an air duct.

 

[Pyramid Head]

This one actually frustrates me. In Mass Effect i press the Back button to try and open the map and Shepard throws a grenade. I try to press X for a melee attack because a Krogan wants to rape me with a shotgun while Garrus can't tell which Asari is a commando and which one is Liara and it asks me if i want to go back to the Normandy...
And shit like that happened all the time with the PS2. Why the FUCK did Hideo Kojima make it so that the circle button normally associated with the back button was the selection button while X was the back button?

Ah well. That stuff happens less often now, but i still do occasionaly confuse one duck and cover command for another, and it's happened a couple of times where out of nowhere i tried to reverse time in the wrong Ubisoft game.

 

[Malyc]

Going from a game like Forza 3 to Split/Second, or vice-versa is usually not a very good idea...

Brake for the corner... WHAT??? How can all these noobs pass me with all the sideways?
or vice versa: SIDEWAYS FOR CORNER!!! *car flips and gets totaled*

 

[rockhard556]

between RTS's i play alot of older ones but also alot of newer ones and the controls can be very different

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Not exactly using the wrong technique but trying to do something that should be in every FPS.

The lean move which is incredibly useful and although I can't remember which game it was I do remember that I was extremely shocked and appalled that I couldn't do this.

 

[Tohuvabohu]

After playing TF2 for hundreds and hundreds of hours, I got Halo: Reach to play with some friends.

Now, TF2 was the only competitive online shooter I played for a really long time before I got Reach.

So when playing team based gametypes with my friends, in Halo: Reach, I would sometimes instinctively spy-check.

Occasionally, my thought process while looking at a "suspicious" team mate would be: "AAARGHHH IT'S A SPY!!!!"

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Going from Blazblue to Marvel vs Capcom 3 is tricky. Got stuck in an air combo and started mashing the buttons trying to do a quick recovery...and kept using my hyper combos when I just wanted to grab.

Same genre, very different gameplay systems.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Most recently was in Deus Ex: Human Revolution

I went to turn in a sidequest, but wanted to check to make sure I did everything first.
Having skipped the tutorials (hubris, I know), I went up to the undercover cop chick, pressed 'Q' (default for "quests" in many games) and...I proceeded to *****-punch her into the pavement.

I laughed for about a solid minute after. "So THATs how you do takedowns."

 

[Whispering Cynic]

Like crouch jump? i played half life too much as a kid.

Oh yes, this is the first thing that came to my mind. I'm instinctively using this in almost every FPS I play to reach that ledge I can't normally jump up to. It almost always doesn't work, and when it doesn't I can't help but shake my head in disappointment.

 

[figment of mind]

*flails wiimote, nearly caving in a friends head*
"GODDAMN IT! WHY WON'T YOU SWING YOUR SWORD AROUND! HIT THEM LINK! YOU LITTLE BAS-"
"Dude, you're playing No more heroes..."
*watches travis get pummbled by the purple lightsaber dudes* "...Oh..."

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And another moment...
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*rams friend's car up against the wall*
"DAMN IT! DIE ALREADY! GIVE ME MY TAKEDOWN! LET ME BUILD UP MY BOOST!"
"STOP RAMMING ME INTO THE WALL! WE'RE NOT PLAYING BURNOUT! GT DOESN'T EVEN LOOK SIMILAR!"

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Also....
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"WHERE'S THE MENU! I WANT TO EQUIP MY bow! WHY AM I NOT GOING FASTER?! I HAVE THE FREAKING THEIF SIGN ON ME, I SHOULD HAVE 10 MORE AGILITY! TEN MORE SPEED!"
"...wow. How much of Oblivion have you been playing?"
"10 hours for the past two months. Why?"
"Cause we're playing FIFA...We're not even playing on the same consele, this is the PS2."
"...still say i should have my 10 speed..."

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And can't forget that time...
i have a problem, don't i?

EDIT: Okay, so that last one didn't happen just like that (it was worse (When you sit there for two hours (an hour fifty actually) trying to press A to grab the cereal to make breakfast, you've been playing to much)) but to save time (and face) i've edited it a bit.

 

[sooperman]

It took me like an hour to adjust to using the square button on Deus Ex: Human Revolution as opposed to X, but I still try to use the Resident Evil 4 inventory system instinctively.