What weird gaming habits do you have?

[krazykidd]

So i just notices something that i do a lot . I play a lot of fighting games , and usually in a fighting game there is a large cast of characters both male and female . I noticed that when i start a new fighting game , i always play with the female cast first . To get a feel of the game and which characters i like and want to main . Women are usually my first pick . What this does is when i finally choose who i pick to main , it's always a girl . I'll give an example .

Street fighter 4 : chun li
Persona 4 Arena : Elizabeth
Mortal Kombat 9: Sindel
Soul Calibut 5 : Viola
Marvel vs capcom 3: X-23 / x / x
Skullgirls ( lol ) : Valentine
Darkstalkers : Queen B / little red Hood
Injustice : Harley quinn

These are all the characters i chose to main as . As you can see all women. I have no idea how this came to be. I usually like to play underused/underpowered characters . And for some reason they mostly tend to be women .

So what kind of weird game related habbits do you guys have?

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Whenever I build a character in a game they must always have a beard, preferably as majestic a beard as the game allows.

 

[Confidingtripod]

if theres a swinging object (especially physics based) I immediately and repeatedly headbutt it.

no idea why as I usually behave rather serious (I get more immersed in the story) but I have to headbutt physics objects

 

[tippy2k2]

I can no longer marathon game anymore.

Even games that I was stupid excited for and bought on Day 1 like "The Last of Us"; I will play for about a hour before I get distracted by something shiny and go away for like...fifteen-thirty minutes. Then I'll sit back down and start playing again.

Speaking of LoU (though this is true in every game), I am constantly reloading. I take a shot...better reload. Hmmm...it's been a bit of time, I better cycle through all my weapons and make sure they're all reloaded. ZOMBIE! BLAM!...better reload! You know, just to be safe, I'd better cycle through all my weapons and make sure they're all reloaded even though I only used the one weapon I have equipped...

Repeat until the game has ended.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I can no longer marathon game anymore.

Even games that I was stupid excited for and bought on Day 1 like "The Last of Us". I will play for about a hour before I get distracted by something shiny and go away for like...fifteen-thirty minutes. Then I'll sit back down and start playing again.

This happens to me. I'll suddenly pause a game and look at unrelated videos on YouTubez or something, or go do something else while my game is paused. Then come back to it like, half an hour later. It's especially bad while I'm playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. A single battle with Rathalos, Duramboros or even a Lagombi can take up to 45 minutes to an hour(most of it is paused, it doesn't use up the in-game time limit).

I button mash everything. Even things that don't need to be button mashed.

Some habits carry through to certain games, but not to others.

In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, I closed every single thing I opened. Safes, doors, everything.

Dishonored? Never seem to be able to close a safe or door or anything. I just pass it by.

 

[shrekfan246]

I can no longer marathon game anymore.

Even games that I was stupid excited for and bought on Day 1 like "The Last of Us". I will play for about a hour before I get distracted by something shiny and go away for like...fifteen-thirty minutes. Then I'll sit back down and start playing again.

Yeeeeap.

Hell, the last game I bought and played through was Lollipop Chainsaw, a game that can be completed in five or six hours, and between every stage I'd spend something like 45 minutes checking out The Escapist or other things again while just having the game sit in the background.

Speaking of LoU (though this is true in every game), I am constantly reloading. I take a shot...better reload. Hmmm...it's been a bit of time, I better cycle through all my weapons and make sure they're all reloaded. ZOMBIE! BLAM!...better reload! You know, just to be safe, I'd better cycle through all my weapons and make sure they're all reloaded even though I only used the one weapon I have equipped...

Repeat until the game has ended.

I'm a chronic reloader in shooters as well. Hell, even in the middle of combat while I'm running around away from enemies I'll often stop firing when there's still two or three shots left and reload early. Metal Gear Solid is so awesome for this; you can just spam unequip-equip your weapons, because they automatically reload whenever they're unequipped and the sounds/animations for swapping guns on/off are far more satisfying (and amusing) than they should rightfully be.

In World of Warcraft, I always mash my spell keybindings even when my framerate and latency is perfect, so I would be able to pinpoint exactly when I should start casting again for maximum efficiency. But nope, I just smash the keys because it's more fun that way (also because I pretty much had to back when I was playing with 3 FPS).

In games where you can choose how a character responds to things, I can practically never choose the "evil" option. To this day, I've still never finished a full Renegade play-through of the Mass Effect trilogy.

 

[Roxas1359]

Whenever I play a Bethesda RPG I must do the following things:

1.) Decide whether I'm on the turn to have them be a boy or a girl
2.) Name them either Maxieon, Neronium, Elika, or Mia (depends on gender although Neronium and Maxieon have still been used for girl characters)
3.) Purple hair, no exceptions! (perhaps that's why I wasn't a big fan of Skyrim, I couldn't change my hair color)
4.) They must be both good negotiators as well as stealthy characters!

The only thing weird there is probably the purple hair thing to be honest.
Well in another thing is that I never choose the evil option on things because I feel like a dick afterwards, this is more because the Fallout games do a good job at making you feel like an asshole if you go Evil/Legion...

When it comes to distractions and getting off the game I have that problem as well, but I have ADHD so it's to be expected, and I'm getting better as I can't just up and leave in the middle of a recording session for my LPs.

Oh, another one is that whenever I catch a Pipo Monkey in an Ape Escape game I must yell "Monkey!" when catching them. XD

 

[GodzillaGuy92]

I can no longer marathon game anymore.

Even games that I was stupid excited for and bought on Day 1 like "The Last of Us"; I will play for about a hour before I get distracted by something shiny and go away for like...fifteen-thirty minutes. Then I'll sit back down and start playing again.

I've somewhat recently fallen into exact opposite problem. Admittedly, this doesn't hold true for games where I'm merely seeking to have fun rather than experience a good story or immerse myself in a world, but when it comes to games like Batman: Arkham City, Portal 2, and BioShock (and inevitably BioShock Infinite, once I get it), I have to get through it in as few sittings as possible (the former two I did in one sitting, while BioShock I completed over the course of two days), even in situations where there's a part of my brain telling me that lack of sleep and other factors are keeping me from enjoying the game as much as I might otherwise. It's not even that I have to finish it as quickly as possible, it's literally that it needs to be in a small amount of sittings; when I played Mass Effect, I started it at the beginning of a weekend, spent the entire weekend playing it but didn't finish, then postponed playing it again until the following weekend when I knew there would be no easily-postponable schoolwork or other responsibilities to interrupt me.

Speaking of LoU (though this is true in every game), I am constantly reloading. I take a shot...better reload. Hmmm...it's been a bit of time, I better cycle through all my weapons and make sure they're all reloaded. ZOMBIE! BLAM!...better reload! You know, just to be safe, I'd better cycle through all my weapons and make sure they're all reloaded even though I only used the one weapon I have equipped...

Repeat until the game has ended.

This, on the other hand, I fully empathize with. About half my deaths in Halo: Reach's SWAT mode (precision weapons, no shields, one headshot=death) happened while I was reloading.

On a related note, I'm quite stingy with my ammo, even in games where I know it's not important. The principle example is Resident Evil 4, in which I not only use the TMP primarily as a single-shot weapon to allow me to stun enemies so that I can do damage with melee attacks, but actually refrain from reloading as much as possible in hopes that the next ammo capacity upgrade will come along soon and give me a hundred or two free rounds when I purchase it. In certain cases, when my current clip is almost dry, I'll further postpone reloading by switching to my pistol; only when I'm completely out of pistol ammo will I resign myself to "wasting" my TMP ammo by reloading. (This actually goes for all my supplies; BioShock, despite being far too forgiving even on Hard with the Vita-Chambers disabled, at times feels less like a game than a deliberate OCD-provocation, as I struggle to remember all the locations on the map where I've left ammo, first aid kits, EVE hypos, money, and specific dead bodies carrying various combinations of the above.)

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

Whenever a game has a codex or journal, I have to click on each entry just so I don't have the word "new" hovering over the journal icon in flashy text. I usually don't even bother reading the entry, unless it's a piece of lore I'm really interested in.

When playing Pokemon, my entire team MUST be at the same level.

When playing Professor Layton, I get a little niggling feeling in the back of my head when my Picarat count ends in something other than a 0 or a 5.

If a shooter offers me the chance to use a shotgun, I'm going to use it, no matter how inappropriate it is for the situation.

 

[BurningWyvern90]

Whenever a game has a codex or journal, I have to click on each entry just so I don't have the word "new" hovering over the journal icon in flashy text. I usually don't even bother reading the entry, unless it's a piece of lore I'm really interested in.

It depends on what the game is whether I actually read it or not, but I do this a lot too.

In games like Skyrim or Fallout, I keep food and potions and health items either at even numbers or multiples of 5 when at all possible. And if I have a large, weird number of arrows, then I go by multiples of 25.

 

[Total LOLige]

Whenever I build a character in a game they must always have a beard, preferably as majestic a beard as the game allows.

Yep agreed, "Survivalist" beard in Fallout 3 & NV is a must.

I'm an in-game hoarder, I never sell weapons "just in case I need it" I never ever need them. Is that weird? Another thing is that I only use mid-table teams in Football Manager, no exceptions.

 

[King of Asgaard]

In RPGs like Skyrim, I'm ALWAYS the kleptomaniac. I will steal the dumbest stuff (Ysgramor's Soup Spoon, anyone?).

Epic beards are naturally a must.

Also, (connected to the first point) I'm a massive loot whore.

 

[Miss G.]

I'm a money/treasure whore. I may not finish a game, but if its got a currency you can bet I'll have somewhere in the millions and lots of rare items that I'll be loading the game up, not to play, but just to look at my horde. I now have something in common with Fafnir.

 

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[IshimaruHayato]

Games with a strong female protagonists I usually favor over other games

 

[tilmoph]

Not entirely related to video games (there are poker video games, though), but I have a terrible habit of chasing draws in community card games. Sometimes I'll catch myself, and try to stop just check calling like a moron, or dropping way more cash on a maybe than I should, but then I win a big pot, get a big lead, and think "hey, I got money to gamble, let's see how this goes" and whoops, I'm doing it again.

More specifically related to gaming, with any common, or useful item, I pick an amount (always a mutiple of 5, as someone else noted) and will obsessively sell or buy to that level, usually 10 or 25. Sometimes, if I'm too far from a merchant, I'll just drop surplus. Doesn't matter if I'm going on a long, townless quest, making a quick hop to the woods, whatever, my potions must always be at whatever number I somehow set without noticing.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I always have to explore everything, to the point of trying to go out of the map if possible (even if not). Also, in any game where there's a meter/bar (or anything that has a full and not full state) I just have to keep that full, even wasting items or reloading after shooting once. I also tend to play female characters when given the choice.

I really like having an amount of money (or whatever in-game currency) ending in 0 or 5.

Same here, and that goes for items, too. It saddens me that most of the maximum for those end in 9.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Constantly reloading (which I can't do in Borderlands 2 with my Mechromancer) even when just one shot is fired. Half the time checking my loot/items I acquired to see if I didn't accidentally drop or sold anything. And dunno if it counts, but I always play with crosshairs off whenever the game supports it.

 

[Edalborez]

Another for constant reloading here. Long reload times or not actually reloading until the animation is finished (Left 4 Dead...) kill me. Also the "NEW" tag thing.

If there is character creation, I really appreciate it if I can put a ponytail on my female character. If not, I am sad.

The inventory system in Resident Evil 4. I had to make sure that thing was perfectly organized at all times. It drives my best friend nuts.

I must loot everything. This also drives my best friend nuts.

In RPG-y games with a sneaky/shoot-y class, I must pick it.

I like sniper rifles but I am a terrible, terrible shot with them.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Speaking of weird fighting game choices my selections turned out to all be robot girls. Seriously.

Labrys, Shadow Labrys, Aigis, Mu-12 and a very small amount of Lambda-11. All robot girls. I may have problems...

Oh and I pick all my main LoL Champion on how gimmicky their ults are.

Twisted Fate, Nocturne, Rengar and much much more.