What's your habit in games?

[orangeban]

I barely ever use items in combat, and if I do I regard that as a failure of some kind. However, I'm also a serious hoarder, which means I often end games with enormous numbers of health potions, grenades, scrolls and whatnot.

Also, if I'm playing an RPG, I'm very careful about inventory management. If the game works on a weight system (like Skyrim), then I'll work out every items weight:value ratio and chuck out as little as possible to get moving again. Time consuming sure, but worth it.

 

[Artina89]

Compulsive reloader here, I noticed it when I was playing Resident Evil 4 and my roommate asked why I was reloading almost every time I shot something.

When it comes to RPG's I compulsively grind until I get to a certain level for certain bosses.

Thats about it I think.

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

- I too suffer from compulsive reload syndrome

- In shooters I mostly avoid long ranged combat unless forced into it. Much prefer mid-close ranged. Snipers are for the cowardly and weak I say!!

- I am very frugal about items in RPGs. I tend to not use them unless absolutely necessary, and even then I can be hesitant.

- In RPGs, I more often than not ALWAYS get to a specific level before progressing (ie: I must be lvl25 before moving on to next point ect...)

- I normally play the more versatile classes in RPGs, being equipped with a little of everything. If one isn't available, I make my own.

- I must explore every nook and cranny of every dungeon/location, no exception.

- Fighting games, I have am one of those people who gets that second wind and proceeds to make some crazy stupid combacks when pushed. Seems after half my health is gone, I can turn into a wrecking machine and turn the tables in a matter of seconds.

- The above second wind statement goes hand in hand with my tendency to sort of turtle for the beginning more or less. Get a feel for my opponent before going nuts...probably explains why my primary characters tend to be of the turtle category (Baiken, Hakumen, ExDeath, ect...)

Yes. This pretty much describes all of my habits bar the "Screw story im going to dick around" one.

 

[Rumpsteak]

Most definitely.

In games where I am alone I will almost always go mele combat whereas if I have another person or a party I'll play ranged magic. Side quests will almost always be done before the main plot.

 

[ELD3RGoD]

In shooters with create classes, I tend to make classes that are similar to real life. For example, in call of duty W@W, I'd never use any attachments on my SMGs because it wasn't historically accurate or more currently in MW3, I'd build classes that fit current standards today, Like using an M4A1 with an ACOG and a handgun or a SMAW as a secondary etc etc.

In fantasy RPGs, I also build my characters relative to historical armies and so on, it's a habit I can't break!

 

[DoPo]

Oh god, I do this so often. My favorite thing to do in Prototype was to find the nearest date-rape looking male, disguise myself as him, then grab the nearest female and bolt down the street or up a building screaming "RAAAAAAAPE."

I think I have issues.

Na-aw, it's all right. In a stealth game (I'm tempted to say Hitman but it could have been something else) I killed every single thing on the level and dragged the bodies to one room. That included enemies and innocent NPCs. All that without alerting anybody[footnote]Unless I was surprised by somebody while dragging a corpse, then I'd kill them, stash the remains and come back for them.[/footnote] then I finally went after my main target and made them go to the room (most probably by following me there. I can't exactly recall) because I wanted them to see my masterpiece...before shooting them. I wanted my target to suffer before putting him out of his misery. For no particular reason - it was just some random guy my character had to kill.

In Fable, I gathered all the men who loved me from Bowerstone and sacrificed them to Skorm. It might sound homophobic but it was because they were constantly dropping the crates they were carrying, as soon as they saw me. And that annoyed me. In Oakvale I made everybody follow me one by one to the small jetty where it was secluded and then I killed them. Until I depopulated the whole town. See, I wanted to buy some houses and earn rent from them.

In Oblivion I got into a guard building, then stealth killed all the guards (I had a mod to stop the psychic guards shenanigans, so I was able to assassinate them from the shadows), stripped them and arranged the bodies into pentagrams (or as close as possible). That, I hoped, would lead the investigation away from me.

In KoA's demo, in the first town there was a woman praying on top of a grave. I liked to imagine it was her child's grave. So I murdered her right there.

I just played Blood 2: The Chosen (BTW, it's half price on GOG as well as a bunch of other games) and there was an innocent NPC woman being scared after I killed some dudes. I was going to leave her alone but she shouted "Don't shoot me!". Well, I was holding a knife at the time. She got exactly what she asked for - I didn't shoot her. I cut her.

As you can see, what we're doing is perfectly normal! It just how games are meant to be played.

 

[loc978]

Despite knowing what they are i always refer to Play station buttons as A,B,X,Y not Square, Circle, X, Triangle

Same here... which is one reason I can't seem to get used to Xbox controllers (aside from only rarely encountering unbroken Xboxes in the wild).

Spoiler: THIS is A B X Y.

X is on top, B is on bottom.
You don't go changing long-established layouts willy-nilly!

Spoiler: I'm lookin at you

...ya fat bastard

As for me, one of my biggest personal tropes happens mostly in single-player RPGs. I will use and abuse the hell out of any stealth system. I sneak constantly, even with characters that aren't built for it.

 

[Rikomag132]

In Oakvale I made everybody follow me one by one to the small jetty where it was secluded and then I killed them. Until I depopulated the whole town. See, I wanted to buy some houses and earn rent from them.

I do this in every town if I'm about to buy their house and rent it out. It's just so cruel to make them homeless just for some money (Oh, so killing them is better?). No I'm not batshit crazy.. Okay perhaps slightly.

OT: Compulsive reloading. Not just boom, he's dead, got to reload. No, mine's worse. I fire until I think they're dead, not as in look at them and see if they're dead, but estimate how many bullets I need to kill them, fire that amount and then reload. Even if they're not dead. This has killed me a lot. Like, A LOT.

Also hoarding. Oh, a potion that increases damage for a short while. I've got to keep this. Just in case. Thing is, I don't even use potions, other than healing potions. Ever.

 

[Headsprouter]

Constant reload.
Check over each room 3 times before leaving.
Never drop anything until you know it's rarity and purpose.
In Pokemon: make faces to the moves! Thunder: Look at pokemon, look above enemy, look down with evil grin!
Catchphrase: "Damn I should be a Hollywood director..."

And I also sometimes imitate noises. Such as creature-sounds or spell-noises.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Compulsive reloader. I always have to have a full clip, it pisses me off if I don't have one entire mag ready.
/Rage/

 

[DustyDrB]

I definitely don't have the reloading problem. I go the complete other way, in which I run around with an empty clip and don't reload until I try to fire and nothing happens (or the reloading starts automatically).

My habit is actually self-restrictions. I almost never use magic in RPGs (unless you call it The Force. Don't ask me why). I used a spell exactly once in Skyrim: I had to cast that one to get into the Mages college. And I was only going there so I could question the librarian. It actually kind of pissed me off that the game made me cast a spell. It broke character.

Also in that same Skyrim playthrough, I made a point to periodically kill some wild animals, cook and eat their meat, and sell their hides. I was playing the character as a very survival-minded hunter, obviously. That game really needs a New Vegas-style hardcore mode (for consoles).

Speaking of New Vegas, I had a run in it where I only used food items to heal (no stimpaks). I also only used pistols or a mine trap to defend myself. I'll do something similar for most runs, at least with weapons. I find making a set of rules to operate within really elevates the experience for a lot of games.

If you play it, I used to play a game with my friends in Borderlands. Every time a weapon drops, you gotta switch it out with your current weapon and you had to use that weapon until it ran out of ammo or a new weapon popped up. Pretty amusing since I was a shot gun, sniper loving guys [odd combo, I know.] And when I was given SMGs or a Rocket Launcher oddly enough I looked like a retarded mercenary with ADHD running in, shooting randomly and killing nearly nothing while shouting the Tick's battle cry of the glorious spoon. Yeah...not really threatening.

I only played Borderlands for an hour or two, but that sounds really fun. You could probably do that in other games as well. I'd like to try it in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It would be chaos.

 

[Orks da best]

hmmm in games like mmos and rpgs, i focus on haveing a "set" of gear for my character, a uniform set, and in shooter, I tend to melee as often as possible, face gets caved in!

 

[GeneralFungi]

-Sometimes when I'm in an intense moment in a game, whenever I do something my hands vibrate with the controller in my hand rapidly. I guess I'm that way due to all of the rumble my dual shock controller used to give me; it's become instinctive for my controller to shake during certain actions.

-In almost all PC based FPS games whenever I was low on health, I would hit the E button (The button to call for a Medic in Tf2). I hit the button almost constantly during my play through of Half life.

A medic never came. :C

-I over analyze EVERYTHING. In a game like the Legend of Zelda, I'll constantly be looking for the slightest detail that might hint to how I am supposed to move forward, just to realize that it was the simplest, smallest thing that I completely missed.

-I am another person that loves being a support character. I guess I just enjoy the companionship I get with certain other players when me and him have been working closely together. Playing support has also made me very protective of my team mates; within reason anyways.

 

[Braedan]

for some reason I randomly shake the mouse and then tap it on the mouse pad. it irritates me because it means I might be caught in a situation with my mouse off the damn desk, but its a habit.

 

[ChickNaney]

In RPGs, I always have to check dead ends. Every time. Even if I'm on the brink of death, I just have to check if there's anything back there. I always have to be a stealth character, as well, at least partly for lock picking skills.

In FPSs, I do the constant reload thing, and if I get a head shot with a sniper rifle, I yell out "wanker." In Battlefield games, when I see someone with their back to me, I yell out "you are getting knifed, my son!" Shortly followed with a whisper of "got your tags." That was started in BC2 when a friend with a severe hatred for snipers decided to do something about it.

In every first person game, in general, I have a habit of walking in diagonal directions. Probably started with the game Perfect Dark where you walked a lot faster if you walked diagonally.

 

[Blade1130]

Uhh, hi. My name is Blade and I am a compulsive reloader... One of my favorite games is Half-Life, and I think that is because it let me reload the pistol when it was already loaded. Walking down hallways led to me reloading a gun with full ammo just because I could.

Not only that, I also do an extreme amount of quicksaves which I blame on Max Payne. Just try to beat that without quicksaving after every kill. Now I quicksave whenever I've killed someone and aren't being shot at, as well as immediately before (and after) and loading screen, even though they generally auto-save at that point.

Other than that, whenever possible I always play stealth or an archer / mage, whichever works best. Though that is a little weird since I don't use the sniper rifle (or shotgun) in FPS's, I quite detest them, always stick with the assault rifles and pistols.

The only one that is really a problem is in multiplayer games I never seem to shut up. I'm always yelling at someone or pointing out information everyone already knows. In Team Fortress 2 I don't put on my mic since I know I won't stop talking if I do and I'm too lazy to type out everything I would say. Although whenever I play Left 4 Dead you're kind of stuck with my ranting, I figure the annoyance is still better than no mic whatsoever. On a related note I have a tendency to repeat things exactly 3 times, particularly in L4D. "Hunter, hunter, hunter!" Even though he was killed after the first time I said it...

 

[V8 Ninja]

If a game encourages exploration and doesn't allow the player to go back to areas after a certain point, I have a compulsion to do everything before I move on. The best examples of games that have this sort of system (that I can think of) is the Deus Ex series; I literally spent about 1-3 hours in every area of Deus Ex simply because I needed to find everything.

 

[Ruedyn]

I can't help but melee in most every game I've ever played no matter the class. A guild in WoW once kicked me out because I would always run up and draw aggro with my shitty hunter daggers. This presents a very big problem in games where I don't have that ability.

The other thing is I stop using words when I get too ragey. The latest example was when I yelled 'rargl monster' after a heated game of LIFE with my cousin and his little brother.

 

[SoranMBane]

-Compulsively jumping around like an idiot in games where I can jump.

-Or, when I'm not jumping, I always try to play the game as cinematic as possible, and I try to perform actions as close to how the character would in real life (outside of mindless tics, like the jumping). Sort of like I'm trying to do Freeman's Mind or something.

-Compulsive reloading. Even if I only shot one bullet in a 40-round clip, I'll reload as soon as the danger's over.

-Ammo conservation. Any chance the game presents me to conserve ammo, I take it. It usually gets to the point where I'll have way more ammo than I could ever need and I still try to kill enemies in the most ammo-conservative manner possible. It actually sometimes pays off when I get to boss fights, though, since by then I'll usually be sitting on a stack of ammo so big it'd make Burt Gummer (from Tremors) accuse me of overkill.

-Checking all the containers because I need to loot all the things, which ties right into...

-Hoarding. Whether it's just a unique or neat-looking item, or a weapon that's too awesome to use, I keep it. Forever. Makes the most sense in Skyrim, since the protagonist is Dragonborn, and dragons like to hoard. One of my characters actually has a pile of gems at the foot of his bed so big that the game lags if I move them even a little bit, never mind what happens if I Fus Ro Dah the whole pile (the shower of bling is apparently too awesome for that game).

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I was a compulsive reloader... and then I found LMG's in CoD... that quickly snaps you out of that habit!

I am one of those people who you do NOT want to watch play, or play with, due to the fact I like to look in every nook and cranny in the game... seriously! I am horrifyingly slow when playing Skyrim, and will not stop until I have looked behing every wardrobe, and in every drawer, and under every bed...!

I also play with an extremely gormless expression... something I noticed recently with a bad placed mirror!