Strange In-Game Habits/Compulsions

[Dirty Hipsters]

I have to check every room. EVERY ROOM. I might already be completely overloaded with equipment to the point of not being able to move, have full ammo for all of my weapons, have full health and a crapload of healthpacks, and tons of money, but I still have to check EVERY ROOM just so that I don't miss getting whatever cool thing may or may not be waiting for me there.

 

[Gigathrash]

Jumping, oh dear lord, jumping.

If the game has a jump button I will spam it regardless of situation. Especially if I'm listening to music so I'm jumping to the beat, it's a pretty bad nervous twitch that has sent me into many an unseen abyss.

 

[Nohra]

"My gun has less bullets than it can have."
R
"Dammit, down by three bullets again."
R
"Oop, gun's at half clip."
R

It even drives me a little crazy when I watch other people run around with guns half loaded or lower. :V

 

[ramboondiea]

wiping out innocent people when bored, does that count?
hoarding weapons and health ups
finding some way of performing a tackle

 

[Shoggoth2588]

in Reach matchmaking, if someone teabags me I make sure to hunt them down. Once they are dead I take out my pistol (or whatever lesser weapon I have at the time) and bust a single shot into their head. If however, I find my own body, I tea-bag the hell out of it while beating it and wasting ammo on it.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

Well I think everybody has this, but trying to pick up everything and save everything for later, and by later I mean never. I'm also an OCD reloader. But my wierdest one is randomly switching weapons if I'm just walking around. No reason, I just do it. It's really bad if it uses the mouse wheel, then I just roll it really fast lol

 

[Jedamethis]

Stealing. EVERYTHING. It must be mine. o.o
What's that? I'm not allowed to touch it? But, you don't understand. Why else would it be there if I wasn't supposed to have it? o.o
Please?
No?
Okay then. o.o
I shall leave.

...

Ooops, I slipped. >:B

 

[[.redacted]]

I remember lotting every single fucking blue/yellow/socketed item in Diablo 2 on the off chance it would be something cool.

So much time...

 

[Blueruler182]

If the option to shoot lasers pops up I usually have to try it, even if it slows shit way the furk down. You'd think future laser technology would be more powerful than the furking sentinel beam, but no...

I just like to find fun ways to abuse the physics engine. My four favorite moments in gaming are points when I just had to stop and go "how the furk is that even possible?" (Saints Row 2: Launching a cement truck fifty feat into the air by running over a curb, DCUO: Launching a car over a building with ice spikes, Arkham Asylum: Explosive gel under a guy launching him fifty feat into the air before plummeting into a bottomless pit, Halo 2: Driving a Warthog across the map to our base with the flag carrier on the two left wheels because I hit a rock on the way out.)

I also giggle inappropriately with fire or explosives, but I don't see that so much as a habit as a mental health issue.

 

[SIXVI06-M]

I hated selling weapons in games like fallout.
I would zealously collect and store every gun i found....

Bahahahahaha - reminds me of my hyperspace gun locker (because seriously, that itty bitty locker and the quantity of guns I have in it to equip a sizeable army?) - I keep pretty much as many units of guns I use in the locker for parts so I can repair all my equipment whenever I return home; so it's done out of convenience if anything. Then again... I had a thing for keeping the refrigerator in my FO3 house well stocked with all the foods I could possibly find - even the purified fruit found on the carrier D: (I had to steal those, but they were a must have for my home D.

I also used the other lockers in my FO3 house to store spare parts, knick-knacks, health items, and my room was my favourite place to put memorabilia and souvenirs on display, like the stuff I take from the museum (seriously, I doubt the feral ghouls appreciate the stuff more than I do). It was actually all very very well organised. I even had to have a teddy bear on my bed, because come on - in a harsh world like Fallout, anyone would appreciate some softness D:. That and I always liked to keep Dogmeat at home, just in case anyone decides to burgle my home! (I mean, come on, if I do it to everyone else's house, who's to say it won't happen to me?). So yeah- I had an obsession in making my 'home' in games literally 'a home'.

As for other habits I have: I feel the need to SPAM the quicksave key (literally, hit it a bunch of times)... very very often.

I also like spending forever customising my characters .

 

[Brutus03]

Testing out the Physics by jumping off the tallest object or sub-consciously finding pits\caves to fall into.

 

[Napierdalac]

I would jump onto the reloading team.. Gotta have a full clip! You never know what's behind the next door.

 

[chocolatekake]

I have a bad habit of instanly reloading whenever I kill someone in MW2. Even if someone is shooting me from the front, my finger just automatically jumps to the R button.

This. It's killed me way too many times to count.

Also, in games like F.E.A.R. where you can lean using Q and E, I waddle around as much as I can. Sometimes even while fighting enemies.

Also also, I compulsively organize inventories. Especially RE4 where I even organize magnum ammo differently than other types o_o

 

[Togs]

Collecting every last secret, collectible or easter egg.

In minecraft ive started to develop little tics- I never leave doors open, mine all ore I come across (even ifs coal, which as of this moment i have 6 or 7 stacks of), no corridor or mine shaft of mine will ever have dirt or gravel visible and I religiously place torches every 3 block

 

[PayneTrayne]

I try my best to play the game with melee as my weapon of choice. Be that a melee weapon, or just beatdowns like Halo. I will punch you in the face until you die. Or you shoot me with your gun and I die.

Works surprisingly well on Legendary.

 

[D33dl3]

well ....
the reload after damn near every kill ...yup
the kleptomaniac/collect everything ... yup
kill'em all ... yup (preferably from far away, I may be a homicidal kleptomaniac but I'm not stupid ... or sporting )

 

[SIXVI06-M]

While I was ranting on my FO3 habits- I have another one; I loved being kind to NPCs and such, even if they weren't designed to appreciate my generosity - for every kid I encountered in FO3 - I keep a stockpile of teddybears and snacks - even if I couldn't give it to them, I was able to plant it on them to some effect (or at least leave it in their home).

 

[Proverbial Jon]

"My gun has less bullets than it can have."
R
"Dammit, down by three bullets again."
R
"Oop, gun's at half clip."
R

It even drives me a little crazy when I watch other people run around with guns half loaded or lower. :V

Yup, that's me too!

OT: In any game which requires health packs, I get super twitchy if I can't pick one up simply because I've met the limit. It usually means I'm at full health and stuffed with health packs... but I have to purposely injure myself JUST so I can take the health pack... can't bare to leave the precious behind...

While I was ranting on my FO3 habits- I have another one; I loved being kind to NPCs and such, even if they weren't designed to appreciate my generosity - for every kid I encountered in FO3 - I keep a stockpile of teddybears and snacks - even if I couldn't give it to them, I was able to plant it on them to some effect (or at least leave it in their home).

I'm sorry, I know you mean it as a good will gesture... but that just made me laugh. I have this image of some wasteland wanderer going round and leaving teddy bears and snacks for people... AT ANY COST! Damnit it may mean I'll have to break into your house or reverse pickpocket you but you WILL accept my gift! Lol

 

[Delock]

-Never sell a weapon or armor
-Always reload around half clip
-Often avoid instance based combat (where the battle cuts away to a separate area, such as with random encounters and onscreen RPG foes) but always engage every enemy in action games.
-Pick up every item I see, despite my hesitance to use them (this also includes buying from traders to keep a certain number of healing items always on hand)
-Always believe a room has a reason if it's empty (unless it's along the way to the next objective)
-Break all barrels/boxes
-Crouch in shooters where the environment is dark
-Never let an enemy escape
-Avoid using magic until I'm able to properly handle 10 or so in a row
-Absolutely go out of my way for avatar changing items (outfits, strange weapons, skins, etc.)
-Constant free heal (for example, if I take only 5 damage when I have 6000 health when I walk outside the health restoring save point, I will go back in, even if the enemy that did it will respawn)
-Save twice
-Stay away from long range weapons in action games
-Forget to block... a lot.
-Curse at a character for screwing up a jump or moving the wrong way
-Follow the lights
-Always dash if I'm able
-Accept any side quest, even if I have no want to follow through (except when it takes over the main quest)
-Go crazy after saving in any sandbox game
-Play as a good character unless I just decide to be bad all the way through (though this was brought about by my experience with KotOR where being bad lost you around half your party, even if I didn't use those members, and in the second where you lose 2 Jedi by going evil, so this is all Bioware's fault).