Odd Gaming Habits

[ReadyAmyFire]

As in slowly and keep your head tilted or sway from side to side? If the former, what on earth for, if the latter... for the rhythm?!

I mostly play flight sims, so I do it as the aircraft rolls so I'm always level with the horizon. It's carried over to other games so if I'm trying to peek around a corner in an FPS, or go around one in a driving game, I'll be leaning over as if that's going to help.

 

[Apollo45]

Whenever I'm playing a game and am given a "squad" of people to work with - Halo's Marines, for example - I have a tendency to do everything in my power to keep all of them alive. It gets to the point on occasion where I'll restart a section if one of them dies, especially if I'm driving around in a vehicle and they're riding in it.

Like a lot of other people, I reload my gun after every kill. Even in the middle of fights against a ton of people, more often than not I'll smash the reload button after the first kill out of habit and end up dying because of it.

I ration my health pots, mana pots, and especially the buff elixirs in RPGs ridiculously. In KOTOR I saved all of my mines until the the fights against Malak and Kreia (respectively), then placed all of them at the entrance and lured them in to the mines. Worked every time. Same deal with buff potions and such whenever I'm in those things. I don't use health pots unless I'm 100% sure I'm going to die during a fight, and even then I often will just go ahead and die so I don't waste them. In games like Assassin's Creed I do the same thing with my projectile weapons and often end up simply not using them ever. Brotherhood changed that a bit, since the loot system means I can get everything I use back after a single fight.

In TES games I save almost everything, then use the excess to decorate my houses and such. In Morrowind I killed everyone at one of the plantations, took it over, and used it as my house to great effect. I even brought a bunch of the escort-side-mission NPCs to the place and just left them there. The place was awesome, and the habit only got worse in Oblivion and Skyrim. I spend half of my time playing the game just decorating.

In Minecraft I'll organize my inventory every time I pick something up, and everything has to be in a specific slot (in order from left to right: Pick, sword, other tools (if I'm using them), scaffolding blocks (usually dirt), 4 slots for building blocks (depending on tool load), then torches in the final slot).

There are more, but those are the ones that come to mind off the top of my head.

 

[Exocet]

I have this one thing about weapons in games... if I don't like how they look/sound/feel, I won't use them. Even if they are more powerful than the one I use at the time.
If I don't like the look of a sword in an RPG, or how a gun sounds in an FPS, I won't use it.

Well, unless of course it's massively more powerful, or it's in a competitive game where you need everything in your favor.


I also have this thing that makes me unable to act evil in a game. Being neutral is no problem, being good is no problem, but unless being evil leads to hilarity, I just can't find a way to do it. Even if it's just a game, I simply don't find enjoyment in being evil for the sake of being evil.
Unless, as stated before, it leads to hilarious results.

 

[CrazyJew]

I talk to everyone in an RPG. EVERYONE. This is especially bad in RPGs where NPCs might change that one phrase that they have after a certain event. I never got too far in FFXII because after ever plot event, I ran around the town talking to every single person to see how their dialogue changed, and obviously that tired me out and I stopped playing the game.

You do realize proper trigger discipline is breathing OUT when taking your shot, right?

 

[CrazyJew]

Please delete, accidental double post.

 

[Grathius22]

I sometimes do a commentary in my mind.

I have to reload after every kill.

I save rare items even if I should probably use them.

I always react like I would in real life and so I can't bring my character to be evil.

I have to keep my ammo/health/items/gold/whatever at an even number or by fives.

That's about it.

 

[BoredWalker]

I always move toward the thing that I'm shooting at in First/Third-Person-Shooters. It never fails to get me a smack in the face and a trip to respawn/checkpoint town, but I always do it anyways.

When merchants have a limited money pool in an RPG, I can't leave their shop until they have less money than when I walked in, unless I'm leaving to get more useless junk to sell them.

In RPGs I hoard all the items. 50 Megalixirs, 200 stimpacks, 200 Rad-X. You name it I keep it. Safely hidden away within the confines of my inventory or home, never to enter a situation where it might actually become useful. It just sits there. I keep all of my previous weapons too, ever since Ipsen's Castle in FFIX where your weakest weapons become your strongest.

I used to have this; take everything, and then suffer from "but I might need it later" syndrome. The last habit I mentioned sort of cured me of this one; but if an item's unique/rare, I'll still keep it, even if it's crap compared to what I currently have. And if I don't have to worry about the merchants' gold balance, I hoard everything.
Fun fact: due to a developer oversight, Freya's Jump damage is calculated by the spear equipped, but not inverted in Ipsen's Castle like the rest of the weapons. If you stole the Holy Spear from Ark, she can carry your entire party in there.

 

[soes757]

In Pokemon (Insert color/stone here) I never use my potions but I save up for them, go to a shop and when I have enough buy the max amount I can of each type of cure item, never use any of them, always seem to forget.
I also hold B and right when I throw a pokeball, even if I'm playing on my pc.
In shooters I reload all the time.
I yell at they AI when it screws up.
I have to explore, if the game has icons on the minimap, like, in Assassins Creed, it'll show you where the towers that reveal the map are. If I see one, I need to get to it.
Oh and I hold the controller behind my head or backrest while I'm playing.

 

[Stuntcrab]

-Whenever I post something in a game chat I repeat it in my voice but only after I post it.

-I Talk to NPCs in RPG games, maybe its just the immersion or something.

-I rarely use any sort of potion, only when i've retried something about 5 times I realize " Hey I got about 67 minor health potions, I should use some."

-I always apologize when I bodyshot someone in TF2, I just feel so cheap even though they're always accidental, I also would rather miss and most likely die rather than bodyshot kill someone.

-I always hoard items even when I don't need them, in games like skyrim and TF2 if I really needed and wanted to I can get up alot of space crafting or trading/selling

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Reload, reload, reload, after every shot/burst/kill, I reload.
God forbid my enemy has a friend close by.
For he'll clearly see me mid relaod and I'll surely die.

 

[FootloosePhoenix]

Well I often do this twitchy-squirm thing along to the beat of a game's music, especially battle themes. But then again I do a twitchy-squirm thing almost all the time. I can't ever seem to sit completely still. I also fidget with my grip on the controller a lot.

 

[Jedamethis]

I lean, duck, peek round corners, and don't breathe while sniping. I imagine it looks a bit odd watching me...

 

[Korbo]

I wear cotton wraps around my palms when I play, since my palms get incredibly sweaty when I play games, especially fighting games. I do the usual stuff too, like reloading too much, "but I might need it later", and right+B in Pokémon. I swear that shit works.

I always buy stuff in RPGs in amounts that make my stocks multiples of 5. Because everything needs to be NEAT UND TIDY!

I turn vibration off for everything, providing it's an option. I often clutch the shoulder buttons too, especially if I'm doing something complicated. Which usually leads to me messing it up. Badly. Especially when playing Soul Calibur or Street Fighter.

 

[Mirroga]

Every single player I have SHOULD be in platinum or whatever trophies I can get without online capabilities as well as have the PERFECT Save AKA "Next time I play, I already have everything unlocked so I can just go wild."

 

[Orange12345]

the television volume number must ALWAYS be set to a multiple of 5, there is no middle ground

 

[Xelien]

Every time I die in a boss fight I start scratching some part of my body usually arms or head. I totally never noticed I did this until somebody pointed it out

 

[smiler777]

On driving games i lean to a side everytime i turn a corner, or when i need to see round a corner on a game i lean over like that will help me see

 

[Scarecrow]

I still have a bad habbit of jumping off cliffs and hills. If I make it, I've found a sercet or broke the game, cool! If I don't, I still get to see a funny falling death. I think all those platforming games on the xbox taught me that habbit, because in a lot of them you couldn't get hurt from falling.

 

[khaimera]

Lately I have this habit of skipping all dialog and all cutscenes. Story in games is like Kryptonite to me. Its why I love Dead Rising and Halo so much. In Dead Rising my only goal is to kill zombies, who cares why. And the Halo story never made sense to me, plus none is necessary for multiplayer.

 

[TwoSidesOneCoin]

Like many before me, I tend to reload after any kill, providing that there are no other enemies/players around at the moment.

I'd rather go into the next fire fight with a full magazine than hearing the dreaded "Dead Man's Click".