Odd things you do in Video games

[Jynthor]

I know some people may find it odd but I NEVER use fast travel in Bethesda games.

Oblivion, fallout 3, Skyrim, and Obsidian's New Vegas..... Never used it.

It takes away from so much of the game..... and when I hear "THOSE GAMES HAVE NOTHING IN THEM" it usually comes from people who fast travel everywhere and dont ever actually experience the world.

I do that in Skyrim as well, I did fast travel in previous games.(Although in Oblivion I limited myself to only fast travelling from city to city) I wish they did the transportation Morrowind style, but I'm glad we got the carriages at all.

 

[Quantum Star]

I am a compulsive saver. Every time I pass a save point, even if the last one was just two minutes ago, I NEED to save.

 

[Rastien]

I will kill any random NPC that insults me, or is just generally rude if there are not any nearby guards, or if I think I can take whatever guards are near by. In Skyrim I've attacked Nazim (in Whiterun) after he made the snide comment about how I don't make it to the Cloud District very often.

And when I play as an assassin character, after I kill a group of enemies I will shoot each one in the head using the weakest ammo I have (i.e. 10mm or .32 ammo in Fallout or Iron arrows in TES).

Finally I tend to hide the bodies of people I've killed, or at the very least drag them a good distance away from the road.

This.

Hence why i got the child killing mod in skyrim those gobshites needed to be taught a lesson. Mouth off at me will you agnus! here have a fetching pair of FROST LANCE GLASSES!.

Im wandering around adnorned in quite clearly bad assery gear yet you feel the need to insult me? DIE NPC YOU INSUFFERABLE INSECT.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

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.

I do that as well.

THERE'S NOTHING STRANGE ABOUT US! OUR CHARACTERS SHOULD BE PERFECT!

 

[SarcasmoPope]

When I play a shooter I have to reload after killing someone.
except it's not when i kill someone. It's after the number of shots that I'm used to firing. So if I miss one shot and they don't die I reload anyway.
And if I switch weapons without reloading first I can physically feel that something is wrong. I can actually feel it. It will stay with me forever and ever until I reload. Shit could go all sorts of messed up but at the end of the fight that feeling will still be there until I reload.

 

[Zeema]

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.

Yeah, me too. i HATED my Shepards nose in the 2nd game made me crazy. also i couldn't get the facial structure right in Oblivion

 

[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.

 

[bliebblob]

Collecting gear in the elder scrolls games. Because it feels like such a waste to leave behind a 2 handed deadric axe (or whatever). Even if my character never uses axes.
Usually I'll make a glass, daedric, dwemer, ebony and elven collection. So basically anything that isn't just steel or leather. I did this even before display cases and mannequins were a thing.
In skyrim I've also started collecting any and all gems, which I than throw into a little fountain in my home. (The asteria player home mod, highly recommended if you like dwemer/steampunk stuff) It's starting to look really neat now that there's like 500 gems in there. Like the stereoptypical pile of gems and gold in a dragon's lair.

 

[mirage202]

I am a compulsive saver. Every time I pass a save point, even if the last one was just two minutes ago, I NEED to save.

This but with quicksave. It started in the X games, capital ships had a tendency to ram stations and explode, now I catch myself doing it in games where failing is almost impossible.

Other thing is, games I really enjoy, I will restart endlessly, yet never once finish. Something to do with not wanting a good thing to end I guess.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Whenever I play multiplayer, I never kill anyone, I just go towards the freshly killed players to teabag their corpse so they think I was the one who killed them, guaranteed it never works.

Or sometimes when I play online I just do random shit, like look at the prices of couches and whatnot.

 

[Julien Brightside]

I like to talk to all the NPCs just to listen what they have to say.

 

[theravensclaw]

I love to wander if I can. I have spent hours of WoW time just walking around areas and looking at stuff. Any open environment game i wanna see every square inch of it. Drives my friends insane becuase i take ages to finish games for this reason. I hours looking at stuff in Bioshock too. I sort of fall into games.

Naming a character is very important to me. the name must be meaningful. and must match the appearance.

 

[Bertylicious]

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.

Heh, I remember creating a character in ME1 and it wasn't till well after the Eden Prime mission, as I'd skipped all the conversation, that I realised his eyes were much too close together.

Later on I lost my saves apart from that one, still not sure how I managed that, and ended up playing ME2 with this bonk eyed weirdo.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

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 do the same thing.


Sometimes in GTA or Saints Row I just "Sunday Drive" around or follow a particular NPC until they turn a dark alley and then silently take them out.

Oh and if you don't lose the entire clip its always a good idea to reload its as important as saving your work.

 

[Valdus]

I know some people may find it odd but I NEVER use fast travel in Bethesda games.

Oblivion, fallout 3, Skyrim, and Obsidian's New Vegas..... Never used it.

It takes away from so much of the game..... and when I hear "THOSE GAMES HAVE NOTHING IN THEM" it usually comes from people who fast travel everywhere and dont ever actually experience the world.

It's hard for me to critisize those people because well...they put fast travel in. You can't really blame people for using an intentionally added gameplay feature. Having said that I would much rather it wasn't there.

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

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.

Yeah, i do this too. This also leads me to fall in certain DLC traps which involve reskins and different model types (Batman:AC- dark knight returns. I just NEEDED to have him).
I spent hours in the cutscene viewer of SR2 just to see Santa or Jesus smash a beerbottle into someones face.
I just love ingame cutscenes with my own created character. More games should feature an character editor.

In the former Max Payne games i often used the quicksave and load function. The shootouts just had to be perfect.
As much as they used bullet time in other games, i just can`t get enough of it. Playing Soldier of Fortune 2 with slow-mo was great...reloads and enters the room with a shotgun and throwing knifes.

Whenever a shooter features the Desert Eagle or a Magnum i use those big hand cannons as long as i can.

 

[Jynthor]

I am obsessed with hearing every single line of dialogue in a game. If I happen to miss even a single word I will reload. Same goes for movies... You can imagine how that goes.

 

[bobmus]

In games that revolve around shooting I must reload everytime I kill somebody, because if I don't I will run out of ammo on the next person and die.

In games where these apply (RPGs mostly) . . .

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  [li]I close every door behind me.[/li]
  [li]I must open (picking the lock, if necessary) and loot every container I come across.[/li][sub]I don't take and hoard everything though (strangely enough).[/sub]

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  These. I think the reloading habit has killed me more times than it's saved me, but the satisfaction of killing someone who failed to reload is incredible as a smug auto-reloader.