Strange In-Game Habits/Compulsions

[Rayansaki]

If my character doesn't look good, I can't play the game.

I have to be a female character, at least for the first playthrough. It feels weird otherwise.

In RPGs, my level must end in a zero or a five. I don't stop playing until it does.

WHY THE FUCK IS MY INVENTORY OUT OF ORDER?! MUST DOWNLOAD A SORTER, NOW!

I think that sums it up.

Damn, I'm guilty of the same things! The level thing slightly different tho, I need to keep playing until my level is an even number.

On the character thing, it's not uncommon for my first gaming session in an rpg to consist of 1 hour of character creation and less than half an hour of actually playing. Two worlds shocked me with how little I could do to my character so I've been staying away from it for a while, until I have absolutely nothing else to play.

Also, I also do a good karma run on the first playthrough almost every time as well, despite a certain tendency towards kleptomania and hoarding (Organized hoarding tho!).

 

[o0BigDave0o]

In games like Fallout 3 or Oblivion, i would always decoraate my house with armour, items, everything. Even though I knew nobody would look at them =(

 

[Goro]

I beat every NPC I can during cutscenes. I don't know how many times I've ruined things çaused I've smacked someone I shouldn't have. I also break windows. I spent hours in Fable sniping windows, running away then returning once I was no longer wanted so I could finish the town.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Overly concern with ammo conservation. Even when i am over flowing with the ammo i use all the time. I just cant bring myself to spray and pray.

one of the compulsive reloaders

also, if the weapons have a max ammo cap, will always play such that i'll always be full ammo, even if it means certain death.

this XD

 

[Bradd94]

I have never understood why tea-bagging a defeated opponent is so gratifying.
It's like "I'm so hyped up and ecstatic he's dead that I think I'll rub my nuts on his face"
What?

OT: Single bullet of weapon closest to handgun I have.
[small][small][small][small]Double-tap is always worth it[/small][/small][/small][/small]

EDIT: Also, I loot all copper from every corpse in WoW. Thus, my fortune is slowly amassed!

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I com

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 know right? i do that in most sandbox games too. Walking over a ridge in Fallout to see the husks of D.C is something i'll never tire of. Used to do it loads in San Andreas.

(fucking cougars)

I didn't do it for D.C. but when i first trekked to the top of the Vault 33 Hill on the outskirts of Vegas in the middle of the night and saw it shining like a beacon in the darkness.......dayum.

 

[Anthropics]

Not FPS or sandbox game like the rest of them, but in party building games, the majority of my part must be male. My friend noticed this when we tried to play through Pokemon Gold together, battling after every gym.

Him: Why are all your pokemon Male?
Me: .....

Luckily he wasn't smart enough to give any of his girls attract. I just like the male symbol better. It's like a sword if you tilt your head right...

 

[SGDeath2]

I have to pick up everything i come past, in Dead Space 2 for instance everything enemies drop i pick up, even if i dont have the gun the ammo is for. Also i destroy every red barrel i see, more for safety though cause i know the magical bullet from nowhere hits it right when im standing next to it in the middle of a firefight.
And yes, im a compulsive reloader, even if one bullet is missing, must reload, MUST HAVE FULL MAG. And in BF2 for instance, with mag counting instead of total bullets, it kills me cause i see the 25/30 ammo count for my current mag and it just bugs the hell out of me.

 

[redisforever]

Compulsive reloader here.

In Minecraft and the Source engine games, if there is a door, it must be shut after me going through it. It just has to be.

I also love the QTE kills that look awesome. I used to run up to the enemy in From Russia With Love, just to see Sean Connery beat the shit out of someone. The good thing is that other enemies won't shoot while you're beating someone up.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I:
- Level grind up to the nearest level ending in 0 or 5 before starting a new area in an RPG.
- Never sell any weapon or armour until the end game because there might be something that I need to trade these things for.
- MUST be at full health at all times. I take the Medic role into my own hands in Final Fantasy XIII. Those idiots never heal to full health...
- Heal magically before using items.
- Run everywhere.
- Break everything.
- Save twice in a row.
- Kill everything.
- Jump all the time.
- Go the obviously wrong way for items and experience.
- Never spend money because I'll probably find better equipment in the next dungeon, anyway.
- Keep all of my characters (if there are multiple ones) at around the same level. What if I'm forced to use them in the near future?
- Rest my left hand on the WASD keys on my computer keyboard, even if the game doesn't use them.
- Dodge everywhere instead of running during a fight.
- Take every item possible; I hate games with inventory restrictions because of this.
- Save Scum like a madman.
- Need my character to be able to do EVERYTHING, if it is available to him. This is really bad in Dragon Age, I which I have to decide upon a specific build.

I've, thankfully, avoided becoming a compulsive reloader by having my TF2 set so that, if I'm not firing, it automatically reloads for me. I'm also a firm believer of practicality over aesthetics, so I probably won't succumb to the habit of wearing the better looking armour, even if it's worse.

 

[Brazilianpeanutwar]

Turning the HUD off,selling all my weapons,wearing the most normal clothes,playing the game realistically.

(Also turning the colour way down)

 

[Nieroshai]

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

Me too, yet somehow creepers STILL spawn in my mine. I thought they only spawned in the dark...
Also, I think I may need to reload my map, a 200x200 square pit straight down into the bedrock should at least yield SOMETHING of value but all I have to show for it is a little coal and enough cobble to build the Sears Tower. With stone furniture.

Try branch mining-its crazy efficient and nearly always will find you some diamond and gold-

EDIT=cant get the embed to work, so its gonna have to a straight link Im afraid-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4hPr8kRlFo

Thanks, I'll try it!

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

Driving really slowly and stoping at all the red lights when playing any GTA style game, but only on the last mission... I do it to build suspense...

 

[MAUSZX]

I collect weapons in Oblivion or Fallout that I don't even use because it might be better in a near future, and never use them

 

[The SettingSun]

In L4D ALL DOORS MUST BE CLOSED! I can't stand it when i see an open door, even if it's just a small office or something like that.

 

[everlost516]

My interest in a game increases a lot if I can make the main character female.

Ditto.

I have what appear to be fairly standard customization, reloading, and hoarding issues. Also, at least the first time through a game, I find it nearly impossible not to wade right into the middle of a battle. I seriously can't stop myself. So I have to play as a warrior/tank character and I've become obsessed with quick-saves.

 

[Mattyvole]

Hi all, just registered here just for this thread.


Mine:

-In GTA and others of that ilk, everything, and I mean everything, is a race. I have to feel like I've just beaten the world record for "most batshit insane driving in order to get somewhere" every time I arrive somewhere.

- Again in GTA, I use racing techniques. Might be because I've been playing racing games since I started gaming (currently FM3 and TDU 2) but I'll use racing lines, clip the apex, slipstream on the straights even if it has no effect. The list goes on.

- If my car (always a car, don't like bikes) suffers even the smallest little dent or scratch, I HAVE to get it fixed or abandon the car.

- Compulsive reloading.

- Have to try both sniping and running around with a shotgun close-range in the same lobby, against the same people.

- In any game which involves driving anything for any period of time, it will drift.

- Have to use manual gerbox.

- Randomly decide to screw people over (usually close allies) at completely inappropriate times.

- Cannot hold a conversation while concentrating on a particularly interesting/difficult/tense part of the game. I either stutter a lot in this situation, or don't concentrate on the game and get my arse handed to me. Particularly evident in CoD and BC2.

- Knifing quick-scopers. Doesn't matter if they're across the map and under a rock, I will run straight at them and stab them. Or die trying. Usually die trying, actually.

- Saving twice in a row.

- Can, and have, kept a counter/tally of number of police/army/people trying to kill me that I have killed in 1 life. Current best is 3291 on GTA IV TBoGT.

- Destroying a small area, usually 2 or 3 buildings, sometimes a whole street, in the most spectacular fireball possible. Good fun in San Andreas.

- Must turn off the sat nav/GPS voice even when I don't know where I'm going. No, synthesised female voice, I know where I'm going better than you.

- Some games I can't play without my own music. Forza 3 springs to mind.

- Other games I can't play with music. DiRT 2, TDU 2, CoD, GTA, etc.




As this post is getting rather long, I'll leave it there.

 

[sageoftruth]

I have trouble being a jerk. Even when I'm on my second playthhrough and porpose to be an evil character, I have trouble bringing myself to do bad stuff.

Also, in Persona 4, I have trouble getting rid of sexy personas, even if it is to create more powerful, less sexy personas. Heh heh heh, you're all mine Liliam.

In Resident Evil 4, I conserve ammo like it's nobody's business. I can't even bring myself to watch my friend play with his bullet-guzzling play style.

 

[Bendebec]

In minecraft, obsessively hunting down and destroying any gravel blocks that I can see, and killing all farm animals near my house. Why? Because farm animals once blocked my awesome roller coaster, and I have not forgiven them, and gravel because it is the most useless block in the game, it is affected by gravity, so can't be used for building, can't be made into anything useful, unlike sand it can spawn really far down in my tunnels, and it just sucks. At least sand can be made into grass.

 

[Alakaizer]

Hi all, just registered here just for this thread.


Mine:

-In GTA and others of that ilk, everything, and I mean everything, is a race. I have to feel like I've just beaten the world record for "most batshit insane driving in order to get somewhere" every time I arrive somewhere.

- Again in GTA, I use racing techniques. Might be because I've been playing racing games since I started gaming (currently FM3 and TDU 2) but I'll use racing lines, clip the apex, slipstream on the straights even if it has no effect. The list goes on.

- If my car (always a car, don't like bikes) suffers even the smallest little dent or scratch, I HAVE to get it fixed or abandon the car.

- Compulsive reloading.

- Have to try both sniping and running around with a shotgun close-range in the same lobby, against the same people.

- In any game which involves driving anything for any period of time, it will drift.

- Have to use manual gerbox.

- Randomly decide to screw people over (usually close allies) at completely inappropriate times.

- Cannot hold a conversation while concentrating on a particularly interesting/difficult/tense part of the game. I either stutter a lot in this situation, or don't concentrate on the game and get my arse handed to me. Particularly evident in CoD and BC2.

- Knifing quick-scopers. Doesn't matter if they're across the map and under a rock, I will run straight at them and stab them. Or die trying. Usually die trying, actually.

- Saving twice in a row.

- Can, and have, kept a counter/tally of number of police/army/people trying to kill me that I have killed in 1 life. Current best is 3291 on GTA IV TBoGT.

- Destroying a small area, usually 2 or 3 buildings, sometimes a whole street, in the most spectacular fireball possible. Good fun in San Andreas.

- Must turn off the sat nav/GPS voice even when I don't know where I'm going. No, synthesised female voice, I know where I'm going better than you.

- Some games I can't play without my own music. Forza 3 springs to mind.

- Other games I can't play with music. DiRT 2, TDU 2, CoD, GTA, etc.




As this post is getting rather long, I'll leave it there.

Welcome to the Escapist and thanks for my thread being your first.