Poll: Do you talk to yourself while gaming?

[Drakmorg]

If I'm getting my ass beat in multiplayer I will, on occasion, make threats to brutally main and defile my adversary's family and friends.

I just can't seem to help it if my first reaction to getting dominated in TF2 is to imagine a scene composed of my opponents dead loved ones that would make Hannibal Lecter vomit in disgust

 

[Dango]

All the time. Hell, if you recorded me and the game, you'd have an instant Let's Play.

This. I tend to make commentary on the game the same way someone doing a let's play would.

 

[Kajt]

All the time when there's no one else in the house but me. It makes certain games much more fun to play and grinding much more bearable.

 

[karloss01]

All the time. Hell, if you recorded me and the game, you'd have an instant Let's Play.

same here, swearing is often but i also talk out my own plans to myself.

 

[EscapingReality]

I'm pretty bad for it, actually.
I like to criticise the character I'm playing. Like it's their fault I suck.

"Damn it Ezio what the fuck are you doing. Yeah, I said kill this guy but fuck that this random civilian pissed you off with his staring so he's going the fuck down. Oh okay yes jump off that building there, it's not like we're in a rush chasing somebody or anything."

I also have this habit of mocking cutscenes at every available opportunity. I hear it is pretty grating when I'm watching someone else play.

Second that... It's specially bad when I play Halo CE that I curse at other players and my character

 

[Arashiofordo3]

I'm a let's player, its what we do.

 

[lacktheknack]

Only when scripting an LP.

Or when I sit back and go "ZOMG WUT?" See: Second Sight.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

Search and Destroy on any COD game, and I'm the last man, I narrate everything I'm doing and coach myself

 

[The Unknown Stuntman]

like most people on this thread my talking to the game consist of a steady stream of profanaties and grunts along with the insults to my character, if its a game i know i can do i get especially wound up. My cousin lent me batman arkham asylum and i have now completed story mode on all difficulties but as i was getting near the end (and also on the challenge mode) batman has become a crazy assed rubber wearing moron who wont do as he is told and before any1 comments yes i know he is only doing what i tell him to

 

[Ajna]

I play games as a way to socialize, so even when I'm playing single player, I'm normally talking to friends in a party. So, on the rare occasions when I'm not talking to people...

Sometimes I forget I'm not, and voice an opinion with the expectation of a response. Or ask the air a question. I repeat my friends' names aloud when they don't answer me. It's embarassing.

 

[flakmagnet]

I rarely talk to myself, I do however (usually sarcastically) answer characters, and talk to the NPCs I'm about to kill, but again only sometimes.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Oh yeah. If I'm plaing SWAT 4 I'm swearing at my AI team-mates or at the bad guys. The camping assholes.

Also my mum walked into my room the other day and was asking what it was I was doing since I was in the middle of a really intense battle in Magicka and was shouting "YEAH! EAT STEAM LIGHTNING MOTHERF***KER!!!". I didn't know she was in the house.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Never.

What is wrong with you people?

 

[Daverson]

Yes. But to be fair, I talk to myself a lot. Man, I said "hell yes I do" to myself as I voted in the poll.

Of course, this is probably because I'm the only person I know capable of making decent conversation... real people need to be more like internet people, you're all so awesome! =D

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

I do quite a bit. It makes for some awkward moments when parents or siblings walk in the room, like what happened when I realized that I was talking pretty loud to myself during the Mass Effect 2 finale...

 

[Ultress]

Anything from cursing when I lose ,to trash talking bosses I beat, to making a running commentary.


Also I like telling Chie(Persona 4) to shut up.I like her but it's really fun to do.

 

[Ionait]

I didn't start talking to the screen until my husband and I started playing games side by side (playing the same game together or playing totally different games. We have two televisions on the same wall in our living room for this purpose).

Now, we talk out loud all of the time, to each other, to our own game, and even to each other's game screens when we glance over. It's a pretty constant chatter actually and extremely entertaining.

Now that I think of it though... It makes it super hard to take any game seriously anymore because of this, and I'm the type that adores a good story and quirky characters. I named all of my Final Fantasy 7 characters after ingredients when I restarted it, somewhat because of this.

 

[GamerGeek]

Definitely; I talk to myself almost constantly while playing, adding humorous sound effects, explosions, voices for the characters, extensive creative curses, or just rants... Sometimes, my friends will just watch me play something, just for the things I say...

I should learn to shut my mouth.

 

[GamerGeek]

I'm pretty bad for it, actually.
I like to criticise the character I'm playing. Like it's their fault I suck.

"Damn it Ezio what the fuck are you doing. Yeah, I said kill this guy but fuck that this random civilian pissed you off with his staring so he's going the fuck down. Oh okay yes jump off that building there, it's not like we're in a rush chasing somebody or anything."

I also have this habit of mocking cutscenes at every available opportunity. I hear it is pretty grating when I'm watching someone else play.

Second that... It's specially bad when I play Halo CE that I curse at other players and my character

All of the Assassins Creed game produce this effect. A running commentary about how stupid the main character is when they won't listen to me and decide to jump off any nearby structure, and sometimes nearby people? All the time.

 

[Astoria]

I talk to myself CONSTANTLY when playing games. I have it all, swearing, muttering, talking to characters, abusing characters, calling the game stupid you get the idea.