Odd things you do in Video games

[spartandude]

I'm so anal about character customisation, it's not even funny.

Seriously, I'll spend ages crafting a character and then if I notice something that bugs me, I'll delete hours of game play just to rectify it.

Are you me?!

Hell, I spent more of my first session with both Skyrim and KoA:R customizing my character than with actual gameplay.

i can vouch for this as well, i went through about 4 hours in DA:O and then realised my characters beard/hair colour was slightly out and i hadnt noticed it due to the lighting so i restarted it all

 

[PrinceBuffoon]

At some point while I'm playing, I need to make the character I'm controlling do some kind of dance, even if that means just moving back and forth in time to the music. I think I've done it in every game that I could since I was a kid. If there's music in the game, I'll have them dance to that. If not (or if the music sucks), I'll make up a song to sing while I'm playing.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I pose the corpses of my fallen enemies in Fallout 3 / New Vegas. Say I blow a raiders head off in VATS, that (headless) corpse then gets propped up against a wall with a sawnoff shotgun in their lap (yes I carry one around with me for this eventuality) and several empty whiskey bottles by their side (yes I carry those too). Other favourites (?) include the Junkie (stripped on a mattress with surgical tubing and empty syringes) and the Elvis (propped up on a public convenience with junk food scattered around).

I would provide pics but I play both those games on my Xbox and have no idea if you can screen capture on it or not.

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Stop looking at me like that. It's normal.

I would love to do this. I need to continue my FO3 game then. That's pretty much how I play Garry's Mod.

It's great - if somewhat creepy - fun. Bear in mind however this approach massively increases the time it takes to clear out an area as you spend so much time arranging bodies just so.

 

[Gerishnakov]

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I would love to do this. I need to continue my FO3 game then. That's pretty much how I play Garry's Mod.

It's great - if somewhat creepy - fun. Bear in mind however this approach massively increases the time it takes to clear out an area as you spend so much time arranging bodies just so.

In my plays of FO3 and New Vegas if I'd cleared a lot human enemies from an area I would sometimes pile them up, dump a load of explosives on them, run away a little, then lob a grenade in and watch the show. Always good fun.

 

[Fijiman]

In any game that allows it, I steal/loot/buy everyone's shoes.

This had me rolling with laughter.

In Skyrim, after clearing an area of enemies, I will usually look around an area and think as if I'm going to bring my own army to that area and use it as a base. I even go as far as to think of the defense in stages.

 

[Derelict Frog]

In GTA games if my car gets even slightly dented I have to change it.
It's just ruins the atmosphere if you turn up to a mission and you arrive in a car missing panelling.
I also sometimes like to abide by the speed limit sometimes and just cruise along listening to the radio.

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Also in RPGs and any other game withg customisable armour I always go for aesthetics over usefulness. I spent most of Skyrim wearing nothing but normal clothes with fingerless gloves and a hood.

In Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 I just had my guy wear no armour apart from some badass recon jacket with aviators.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

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I would love to do this. I need to continue my FO3 game then. That's pretty much how I play Garry's Mod.

It's great - if somewhat creepy - fun. Bear in mind however this approach massively increases the time it takes to clear out an area as you spend so much time arranging bodies just so.

In my plays of FO3 and New Vegas if I'd cleared a lot human enemies from an area I would sometimes pile them up, dump a load of explosives on them, run away a little, then lob a grenade in and watch the show. Always good fun.

A pile of bodies, you say? Gibs, you say?

I'd never even considered ...

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I have a bunch of C4 sitting around doing nothing at the Lucky 38...

[sub]Thank you for this.[/sub]

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

I save twice at every save point. I think it was because one time in Dead Space (I think, for some reason I seem to think it was Lego Star Wars) I made some serious progress, then THOUGHT I saved when I really didn't. You can imagine my frustration when I turned on the console next. Now, I just don't take any chances.

 

[distortedreality]

I'll pretty much always save my game every hour or so when I go for a smoke break. When I get back to my game, i'll then proceed to forget that i've saved the game, check if I did, and then proceed to save it again.

This was especially stupid when I was living elsewhere and smoked inside. Walking outside gives me somewhat of an excuse, but when i'm sitting right where I was when I saved it a couple of minutes previously, it's just silly.

I'm also one on the hoarder bandwagon, am currently playing Chrono Trigger and have dozens of elixirs etc - am just about to start the end game run.

In Hitman games, I absolutely have to a playthrough of each mission where I don't worry about stealth and just kill everything. Is especially hilarious in the mission in Blood Money with the two nightclubs (Heaven and Hell from memory).

 

[redisforever]

I would love to do this. I need to continue my FO3 game then. That's pretty much how I play Garry's Mod.

It's great - if somewhat creepy - fun. Bear in mind however this approach massively increases the time it takes to clear out an area as you spend so much time arranging bodies just so.[/quote]

That's actually what I do in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but as I've usually got a shortage of guns as I tend to sell them quickly for the money, I just fling the people into firebarrels and watch them burst into flames. Or dump the bodies in bathrooms, or off bridges.

 

[Auron225]

(Usually in buildings or caves) if I come to a split in the path, I'll want to know whats down each. Normally, one is a dead-end (maybe with treasure or something) and one is the way to go. I'll hope for the dead-end first time around so I see whats down each!

There have been a fair few times where I went down one path, suspected it wasn't a dead-end, went back again and down the other one, suspected it wasn't either, and I'll run between the two for ages only getting a little bit further each time!! 0.0

 

[Mr Dizazta]

When playing a game like Skyrim or any other RPG, I purposely go the wrong way of the objective, mostly because I feel if I don't I will miss something very important

 

[juyunseen]

I never fast travel.
I try to find every possible thing I can jump on.
I'm more interested in my armor looking good than having a good armor rating.

 

[Vigilante 989]

Sometimes in FPSs, I limit myself tp playing only with two weapons with three reloads each. In general, I tend to play games in a realistic manner. There was always a slight break in immersion when characters can pull out magazine after magazine of ammo out of there ass and carry four weapons the size of mopeds (that would vanish at the start of a cutscene). It also made playing games more of challenge.

 

[Samantha Burt]

Superpower fixation. If there's an RPG with some super awesome power, I won't wait until it pops up that I can afford it, I'll just grind and grind tiny low level stuff to get it and have one epic ability amongst my myriad newbie ones. xD

Also I tend to have a weird obsession with item appearance. If an item looks better than one I have, I have to trade it out, even if it's not as good... guess I'm just a fashion nut at heart.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Make enemy corpses do the the "ragdoll dance" preferably with a weapon of some kind.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I'm rather anal about keeping AI companions alive, even if their AI is pretty stupid. I've reloaded Halo and Half Life 2 saves way more than necessary just to keep my 'mates' alive.

I also barely if ever keep doors open. I don't even know why.

And when a shooter has one, I often absolutely abuse the quick-swap weapon button. That started with Counterstrike: Source, been stuck with it ever since.

 

[juyunseen]

Superpower fixation. If there's an RPG with some super awesome power, I won't wait until it pops up that I can afford it, I'll just grind and grind tiny low level stuff to get it and have one epic ability amongst my myriad newbie ones. xD

Also I tend to have a weird obsession with item appearance. If an item looks better than one I have, I have to trade it out, even if it's not as good... guess I'm just a fashion nut at heart.

I'm exactly this way!

 

[Kreett]

Save, save, save, save and save. I blame Skyrim for that recently developed hell. Also I have a fetish for reloading weapons. I love the clicks and scraping noises made when switching mags!

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

Also i always save twice when i manual save in two different save slots, just in case . Oh and i always keep a back up at important events just incase i screw something up . The bahamut zero summon from FF7 taught me that one .

All of my Fallout saves and Skyrim saves are double saved in two spots. My brother thinks I'm crazy...Crazy like a fox.

Otherwise I'll allow my character to have a seat and chill for a minute if things are hectic.