Strange In-Game Habits/Compulsions

[Zergadooful]

Always reloading and being a major pack rat. I have 20,000ish caps in Fallout 3, and I never spend a single one. I collect and sell tons of random crap just so I can have a bunch of useless caps.

And when I discovered that when you shoot enemies in both knees in RDR, they drop to their knees and shoot at you until they bleed out. I now kill EVERY enemy by shooting them in their knees.

 

[baddude1337]

I'm pretty obsessed with character customizing..
I'm probably more concerned with looking good over better equipment.

That and extreme active reloading

Basically this. Even if I'm towards the end of the game and getting my ass kicked because I'm wearing crap armor, I don't change because it looks cools.

Case in point: I wear the Roving Trader outfit in FO:3 and New Vegas.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I'm pretty obsessed with character customizing..
I'm probably more concerned with looking good over better equipment.

Here here!

If a game as a chraetcer maker mode, 'll spend more time in it then the actual game.

Also, I check every nook, cranny, and unlooted corpse for stuff. Never know if there's hidden items or ARG lurking.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I too am a compulsive reloaded, but I've learned to cope with it. I make sure I kill my targets from or very near cover so I can dash inside and reload right away without exposing myself. I also found LMG's to be a good trainer to soften up the reload tick. Thanks Bad Company 2!

My weird one would to close any door I open. It's been hammered in me by my father and has jumped over to my virtual escapades. Strangely it's waning in real life, but still as strong as ever in games.

I also try to keep virtual companions alive as much as possible no matter how crappy their AI is. You wouldn't know how often I reloaded Halo and Half Life 2 just to keep those soldiers and rebels shooting and cheering and being my bestest fwiends! I bond so easily.

I'm probably more concerned with looking good over better equipment.

It's why I usually keep two or more item sets just for that purpose, but Fallout: New Vegas made me so happy in that regard; the most effective item set yet (Bountyhunter duster and the Recon Barret with Authority Glasses for show) also looks the best. Woohoo!

 

[MassiveGeek]

I'm pretty obsessed with character customizing..
I'm probably more concerned with looking good over better equipment.

That and extreme active reloading

That pretty much sums it up for me too.

Dito.

I'm also obsessed with exploring and double checking. I just have to get anything and everything that there's any sort of reason to get.

 

[Thunderlot]

Using melee on everything even when range or mage would be more practical.

Customizing my character and my outfit to match even if it isn't the best but looks cool.

Always reloading so I have a full clip.

 

[Tanto-chan]

In Oblivion I had the strangest compulsion that no matter the character i made I NEEDED EVERY PIECE OF SILVER IN THE WORLD!!! That means I bought it and stole it from EVERYWHERE!! and then I piled it all in my house in the slums until there was so much I almost crashed my computer. Then I put it in a closet.

 

[bodyguarddied]

Like quite a few others, reloading after a kill. Sometimes, it's so bad I don't even wait until they are dead. That has gotten me killed quite a few times.

The other thing I do is I go out of my way to send enemies/civilians off ledges. One of my friends and I have had an obsession with that for years. It's just too damn funny to send enemies off ledges......

"task chothes" wtf captcha....

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Stealth perfectionist. It started with Timesplitters 2 when me and a friend got Siberia on Hard Mode down to a tee. Since then I will perfect any attempted stealth in a game.

 

[Wintermoot]

auto reload I reload after every shot (even on weapons that have a long reload time or are mellee weapons)I also have the nasty tendency to accidentally click the alt fire (allot of Barney,s and scientist have experienced this on the painful end)

 

[nin_ninja]

In Assassin's Creed I would always take a detour to kill any archer I saw. The rooftops are mine! MINE!
It got so bad I crossed half a city to stab one of the pesky critters while the alarms were going off and the entire garrison was out looking for me.

It was fun hitting them with throwing knives, though not as satisfying as a crossbolt to the face in AC:B.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

In games that don't punish for theft, collecting EVERY item. I was still taking the elfroot at the very end of Dragon Age despite the fact that the only thing I ever did with it was sell it for a completely pointless amount of money.

It always pisses me off when games with no penalty for theft suddenly do impose one for a particular item. The idea is clearly a "got you, you thought you could get away with taking this, but you can't!" twist, but that always seems silly to me when the reason you thought you could get away with taking it is that the game trained you to expect that. The chest in the elf camp in Dragon Age is a good exaple - up until that point you're consistently rewarded for breaking into every room and looting everything. The residents never complain or even notice. Then out of nowhere, someone starts yelling at you for trying to take something out of a chest.

 

[Mallefunction]

Holding R1 to run XD Played too much ACII

 

[omega_peaches]

In FPS, I reload after I kill every person, or group of people.
In GTA IV, Niko must ALWAYS WEAR HIS HAT.

 

[BioHazardMan]

I'm a compulsive re-loader. Even if one bullet is missing from my clip, I reload. I even check when I have a full clip. A bit troubling.

 

[xHipaboo420x]

I reload like a *****. Constantly and consistently.

Every shot fired: YUP LOOKS LIKE WE NEED A WHOLE NEW BUNCHA BULLETS HERE

 

[mrF00bar]

When I play cs:s and I am not shooting at someone, I have to constantly switch between main and secondary weapons with my mouse wheel constantly. Its gotten me killed a few times but it does mean you reload slightly faster with sniper rifles.

 

[staika]

I also am part of the reload after every pause in combat or after every kill even if i only used one bullet and its a 100 round magazine I must reload. Also I collect ammo for those super over powered weapons and then I never ever use them even if I have more ammo for them then the weapon I am currently using. Also I am a compulsive reverse hoarder I take everything out of all the rooms I can find and then sell them the second I can and I never store anything ever everything I have is on my person and not in a chest somewhere.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I will search every area that I'm in for stuff, and if I can break into places to get stuff then I will. I guess I'm a kleptomaniac and it annoys people when I do co-op, but damnit, I want it and it's going to be mine!

 

[joe90]

whilst playing beat em ups, i used to have the strange urge to use each attack once before using a super to finish the fight. Then i accidentally became quite good at button commands as a result, and just fight on higher difficulty levels...