Weird game "habits"?
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The typical OCD and refusal to sell anything that if not clearly junk.In stealth games, constant reloading if I feel I was not stealthy enough.
Though the ones even I find weird:
-I will always try to have a pistol with me.
-If the game has health potions I will refuse to use them.
-I make a separate file for every time I save if the game allows me to.
Though the ones even I find weird:
-I will always try to have a pistol with me.
-If the game has health potions I will refuse to use them.
-I make a separate file for every time I save if the game allows me to.
In Skyrim I hoard everything that may be of use later down the line. Key word is "may".
In dialogue heavy games I click every available piece of dialogue and then proceed to skip it.
In dialogue heavy games I click every available piece of dialogue and then proceed to skip it.
Learn every ability (except for something that is ultra-useless), kill every enemy. And most of the NPCs if possible.
I also have a hard time not killing NPCs that beg for mercy (which subsequently made it impossible to beat Abe's Odyssey). It's just too delicious.
I also have a hard time not killing NPCs that beg for mercy (which subsequently made it impossible to beat Abe's Odyssey). It's just too delicious.
In rpgs and such i tend to accumulate level ups so as to get more then 1 skill point/talent point/whatever to play with.
I dont like taking baby steps on a stat screen basically, it does lead to game being harder depending on how far levels up are, but well its a habit.
Otherwise what else...
Oh yeh in rpgs (again), if given the option i tend to make a character as close to me as possible for easier immersion.
Its only in subsequent runs i vary it up. Im one of those who contributed towards mass effect series being mainly played by male shep soldiers
Otherwise its all rather classic, i find it frustrating in most games to progress to next area if i havent discovered all the collectibles/secret i want to discover (so to use tomb raider as an example: tombs and relics, id be annoyed when realizing i needed an upgrade from later in the game and would go back to that area asap as soon as i got it, didnt care for the gps caches though so those didnt count in my book).
I dont like taking baby steps on a stat screen basically, it does lead to game being harder depending on how far levels up are, but well its a habit.
Otherwise what else...
Oh yeh in rpgs (again), if given the option i tend to make a character as close to me as possible for easier immersion.
Its only in subsequent runs i vary it up. Im one of those who contributed towards mass effect series being mainly played by male shep soldiers
Otherwise its all rather classic, i find it frustrating in most games to progress to next area if i havent discovered all the collectibles/secret i want to discover (so to use tomb raider as an example: tombs and relics, id be annoyed when realizing i needed an upgrade from later in the game and would go back to that area asap as soon as i got it, didnt care for the gps caches though so those didnt count in my book).
In WoW, I still push for achievements on my hunter. As though the account wide logging wasn't there. Be easier on my Mage? My Shaman? Nope. Has to be my hunter or it doesn't count.
The only exception is if I ever try to chase the BG/Arena ones. PvP is not my thing. I'm willing to go with the face roll class of the month.
The only exception is if I ever try to chase the BG/Arena ones. PvP is not my thing. I'm willing to go with the face roll class of the month.
Constantly reloading my gun.
Search the entire area for any sort of collectible until I have made sure I've gotten everything. Then get pissed off when I find out I missed something.
Shooting the arms off of a flood in Halo Combat Evolved and have them follow me, seeing as they desperately try to attack me but can't without their arms.
Also in Halo Combat Evolved, whenever you melee a dead elite, pretty much a fountain of blood would come spraying out and all over the floor. I would melee a single corpse multiple times to see how much of a mess I would make. This actually lowers the framerate a lot.
Search the entire area for any sort of collectible until I have made sure I've gotten everything. Then get pissed off when I find out I missed something.
Shooting the arms off of a flood in Halo Combat Evolved and have them follow me, seeing as they desperately try to attack me but can't without their arms.
Also in Halo Combat Evolved, whenever you melee a dead elite, pretty much a fountain of blood would come spraying out and all over the floor. I would melee a single corpse multiple times to see how much of a mess I would make. This actually lowers the framerate a lot.
It takes just around 100 stacks of Pre-War Money to fill a bathtub in Fallout 3 or New Vegas, although a little more doesn't hurt to really give it that stuffed appearance.
I know this from giddy experience.
I know this from giddy experience.
Mine would probably be crouching when I hit the ground in most First Person games. The origin of this would probably be Halo PC, where crouching as you hit the ground negates impact damage. Hence I would use it when I jump off of really tall shit to get away without getting hurt.
Didn't help against midfall damage from falling for too long though...
Didn't help against midfall damage from falling for too long though...
I reload all the damn time.
Often I only fire one bullet and I compulsively reload, getting me killed more times than I'd like to admit.
In GTA I just have to run over motorcyclists if I see them on the road.
Those are the only two that come to mind right now.
Often I only fire one bullet and I compulsively reload, getting me killed more times than I'd like to admit.
In GTA I just have to run over motorcyclists if I see them on the road.
Those are the only two that come to mind right now.
Doing a "pacifist run"...
...in GTA. Am I the only one around here avoiding the pedestrians?
Also, sometimes I reload to play a mission in a different time of day which I think it would look cooler in.
...in GTA. Am I the only one around here avoiding the pedestrians?
Also, sometimes I reload to play a mission in a different time of day which I think it would look cooler in.
i am a hoarder a tidy hoarder but a hoarder all the same across all my skyrim saves i have a drawer full of jewelry and a drawer full of books and a sack full of smiting materials box of soul gems a cupboard of food items one for weapons though many of them get sold im not that bad
i was the same with both of the new fallouts
with mass effect 1 the game was always complaining i had too much stuff with 2 and 3 i always worried that i had left some box unopened and therefore un-hoarded
also hate spending money unless it will make more down the road fable 3 had me sitting on a great big pile of cash a quarter of the way through
with gta it was feltzers or cheetahs when i was driving some place i would ignore many other perfectly good cars and look for a cheetah or a feltzer well until i got desperate for a ride saints row was well i cant remember the name but it was a sporty convertible too
i was the same with both of the new fallouts
with mass effect 1 the game was always complaining i had too much stuff with 2 and 3 i always worried that i had left some box unopened and therefore un-hoarded
also hate spending money unless it will make more down the road fable 3 had me sitting on a great big pile of cash a quarter of the way through
with gta it was feltzers or cheetahs when i was driving some place i would ignore many other perfectly good cars and look for a cheetah or a feltzer well until i got desperate for a ride saints row was well i cant remember the name but it was a sporty convertible too
also when ever you have a map that fills in as you explore i must fill it in completely, even if i see the cornor of the area that leads to no where and theres nothing there, i must go and make sure that map is filled in
In the Elder Scrolls games (and sometimes fallout) I have a bad habit of picking up random, mostly useless items like forks, spoons, burnt books etc. and then placing them in random places. My favorite trick is to clean out a hard to reach chest somewhere in a dungeon and stashing it full of forks, the thought of a future adventurer sighing in dismay when he fought all this way just to find out his prize is 57 forks is priceless.
Also, back in morrowind I had the same habit but due to the fact there were no physics I was able to create the "Leaning Tower of Crap" in Balmorra. Just a huge pile of junk reaching to the absolute terminal point at the top of the world, I usually had to use a couple of levitation spells to get to the top after awhile.
Finally, I have a habit of confusing my buttons sometimes, like just yesterday I was playing Bioshock: Infinite and wanted to reload my gun during a down time moment and accidentally hit Y and used the sky hook to rearrange some poor black woman's face. Y_Y
Also, back in morrowind I had the same habit but due to the fact there were no physics I was able to create the "Leaning Tower of Crap" in Balmorra. Just a huge pile of junk reaching to the absolute terminal point at the top of the world, I usually had to use a couple of levitation spells to get to the top after awhile.
Finally, I have a habit of confusing my buttons sometimes, like just yesterday I was playing Bioshock: Infinite and wanted to reload my gun during a down time moment and accidentally hit Y and used the sky hook to rearrange some poor black woman's face. Y_Y
You only quicksaved every 10 seconds in STALKER? Man, you like to live dangerously.Roads said:
Personally I hate it when I did a section sub-par. For example, if I get spotted in Deus Ex and I still manage to kill everything, but reload because "I could've done that more efficiently". The same applies to STALKER - I kill everything and then be like "well, but I got hit a few times so now I lost a medkit (of the 50 in my inv). I can do better than that".
