Strange In-Game Habits/Compulsions

[Eternal Cat]

I'm really bad with the constant reloading and I dislike playing games like Fallout because I have to explore EVERYTHING and find EVERY gun.

Oh, and I'm a teamkilling homicidal maniac when I don't feel that it's important - when I'm playing, if there isn't an enemy around to kill, I tend to go for an ally instead. This doesn't apply to Left 4 Dead and CoD, but does apply to Magicka and Minecraft. Especially Magicka. I have a tendency to kill someone when bored, revive them instantly, kill them again, revive, and walk on. Giggling all the while. *guilty face*

 

[Shade184]

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.

Seems every CoD player I know, myself included, suffers from Compulsive Reloading Disorder.

 

[emion]

well while I was playing Fallout3 I used to save before talking to a "person." wanted to be able to check out the other options and how they effected the story.

so after a weekend at home, doing nothing els then play since my friends was out of town I almost said something awful to my mother thinking that I could just load my last save if she got angry

I almost picked up a dirty bobby pin at the bus-station too, thinking "HELL YEAH, now I can finally try opening that safe in magetown."

that was a trippy day XD

 

[blippity]

Jumping instead of walking. Happened a lot in WoW where I'd just jump and jump in circles.

Whenever I play a sandbox game, I must find a vista or some kind of view of everything, some place where I can just enjoy the scenery of the game engine, the other beauty. I especially enjoyed how in Red Dead Redemption how the game would switch to a first-person panorama view if you just let the game sit for 2 minutes or so- you could just watch the weather go by and hope that a cougar wouldn't ruin the experience.

I do enjoy this as well. RDR was great to try and find nice plateaus to sit and watch, of course those damn cougars made you on edge! But most other games, I like to get up to the highest building and look at the scenery, like in Just Cause 2, GTA IV, Saint's Row etc.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

With games that allow me to jump, space bar.

I cant not jump before pulling when tanking, or circle the mob to much of any rogues annoyance. Although dragon roulette is a game me and my friends decided to do since Ony.

 

[Simmons 2.0]

only one i can think of is even when i know an enemy is dead i have to shoot it a couple of times, thanks dead space apart from that i gradually become more and more organised every time i play a new game. i dunno, like reloading every weapon before an encounter.

 

[Aiden_the-Joker1]

I constantly reload even if I have only fired 1 bullet from a 60 round magazine. Also when my character is hurt I usually act like I am being hurt, murmuring ah and ow.

 

[zidine100]

Conserving items, to the point where i will purposly ignore resurrecting characters in rpgs because i don't need / like them (its always a pain to try and level them up afterwords).

And then theres the cherry tapping (not going to link to tv tropes for your safety)

Forgetting to save, seriously its a pain, especially if you pull an all nighter on a game just to get owned right at the end of the night.

multiple saves, seriously after the unwinable states of old i cant play without doing this.

 

[pyrosaw]

Because of Fallout 3, I must look at everyone, and everything. It's starting to become a problem.

 

[Grimlock Fett]

Whenever I play a sandbox game, I must find a vista or some kind of view of everything, some place where I can just enjoy the scenery of the game engine, the other beauty. I especially enjoyed how in Red Dead Redemption how the game would switch to a first-person panorama view if you just let the game sit for 2 minutes or so- you could just watch the weather go by and hope that a cougar wouldn't ruin the experience.

I'm the same except when I'm playing games like Prototype or ultimate(i think) Spiderman (Venom missions) the first thing I do is find the highest point, work out how to grab then climb the to the tallest point clutching a civilian or small grabbable enemy and throw them off the top! Admiring the view as they plummet!

 

[Zayren]

Getting god damn EVERYTHING in Fallout/Oblivion games. I have a drawer filled with basically every item in the game in FO3, and had similar in NV before I lost my save file.

Conserving items, to the point where i will purposly ignore resurrecting characters in rpgs because i don't need / like them (its always a pain to try and level them up afterwords).

And then theres the cherry tapping (not going to link to tv tropes for your safety)

Forgetting to save, seriously its a pain, especially if you pull an all nighter on a game just to get owned right at the end of the night.

multiple saves, seriously after the unwinable states of old i cant play without doing this.

Oh yes, all of these. I don't conserve my items to the point I don't resurrect people, but holding onto all the items I can is kinda linked to the thing above. I mean, if I use it now WHAT IF I NEED IT LATER!?

/eats 100 buffout

 

[Wilfy]

Bringing up the score sheet every time I die on COD. And making sure every player is muted. I always do better if everyone's muted

 

[automatron]

I can never throw anything away/sell it.
In a game like fallout, won't get rid of the worthless crap because it might become useful later on, even though it most likely won't

 

[Freshman]

Reloading. I've fired 1 bullet from my 250 round magazine... better reload.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Going into women's bathrooms... what? maybe there's a health pack in there...

 

[X10J]

Reloading anytime I shoot. I put 10 rounds in someone-reload, double tap his head-reload, accidently nudge the trigger causing me to discharge one round from an otherwise full magazine-reload.

Oddly moving the right stick. Either holding it in one direction excessively, or moving it back and forth in one or more direction.

Pressing the button that is on the opposite side of the controller from the one I just pushed. Example: If I pull the right trigger, I feel compelled to pull the left trigger. If I click L3, I feel compelled to click R3.

 

[Watchmacallit]

I have to look into every room. In Dead Space 2, if the game tells me to go one way I'll go the other way to see whats there...Thing is, games like Dead Space punish you for it.

 

[purf]

Yeah... Minecraft comes to mind. I get kinda pissed when I dig my mines according to my elaborate layout plans and then hear the gargling/hissing noises of a nearby cave. Which fucks up my layout to the point where I'd like to fill the cave with blocks (of the smooth kind, the manufactured one)
Also, of course, collecting stuff, and subsequently sorting it for hours...

in FPSs, I use ESDF with A for crouch. I crouch a lot for no reason.

 

[sansamour14]

in halo whenever i get a Fuel Rod Cannon i end up saving as much of the ammo as possible trying to save it till i really need it and sometimes i end up not using it at all.