What's your habit in games?

[Smiley Face]

Very much a completionist. When playing something such as Skyrim, I will continue to sort through loot and go through pains to sell it even when I'm not using the economy at the time - and steal everything that isn't nailed down. In combat, I tend to aim for maximum offense insofar as difficulty allows.

 

[Death Carr]

Le snip
Katawa Shoujo probably has 100 saves too
Le Snip

100?
Damn, last count I had 120-something
OT (And referring to the above)

I never save over old files if I can.
If a game will let me have multiple save files, I will abuse that system to the full extent.

Skyrim: 800-odd saves

 

[arnoldthebird]

Always move, if you don't move you die. I hate waiting, I tend to rush in a lot of games

 

[BaronUberstein]

The most consistent habit I have is talking to myself out loud in different, retrospectively silly, voices about what I can and can't do. Usually I do this in strategy games.

Unless I'm on Skype, then what could be said to be my catchphrase is, "Danger close" and marking the mini-map.

Artillery is fun. Honestly, I cannot go without building at least ONE kind of artillery unit in Company of Heroes. Even if I'm playing with a friend, and we've decided he's going to spam all the Nebelwerfers, I'm going to make at least one. <__<

 

[stabbymcstabs]

I have a habit of making myself feel like im a military commander in an rts. Not just rushing in to finish a mission but sometimes even taking hours to finish a level just because I felt like making a scene up as i went along

 

[toothofymir]

Stealth + largest sniper rifle (or equivalent) I can find.

And yes, camping is a viable tactic.

 

[likalaruku]

I have ADD like you wouldn't believe. The first thing I do is run around taking screencaps of the environment & gathering up the maximum amount of quests before doing any of them.

Female avatars are always busty redheads, male avatars are always skinny with long black hair & girly faces.

If I'm given the option to dual wield twin weapons, I will.

If I can choose between a two-handed sword & a one handed sword with a shield, I'll always pick the two-handed.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I'm a compulsive reloader.

Same here. It's the bane of my online existence. As soon as I get a kill I reload, which usually means the teammate of the person I've just shot gets a free kill on me as I'm unable to defend myself. I know I do it, I get frustrated at myself for doing it, but still after every kill I hit that damn reload key.

 

[Pearwood]

I typically jump when I'm running. I don't know why. It started in WoW at low levels, just something entertaining to do when traveling around horseless. Thus it became habit.

Yeah I do that. I blame Morrowind and its ludicrously slow run speed. Also I try to break the game. Skipping "unskippable" areas is always fun.

 

[WingedWalrus]

one sentence is needed, and only one

i might need it later

I follow this mantra to a fault -> Obsessive use of melee weapons... "I might need this massive stockpile of ammo... later..." Even when Im getting my ass handed to me on a plate.

 

[megarik]

I'm a compulsive reloader.

Hello compulsive reloader.

I'm a compulsive quick-saver.

Hello compulsive reloader and compulsive quick-saver

I'm both

 

[S.N.N.]

For some reason I pick up every single item available and use absolutely nothing.

This is pretty much me in a nutshell, especially in RPGs and shooters. I'll go out of my way to get every single bullet/healing item - no matter how obnoxiously placed they are - and then they'll more than likely sit and rot in my inventory for the rest of the game.

 

[TheDharmaFox]

I horde items, I have that "what if I need it later?" mentality with almost everything, it especially rears it's head when I play JRPGs.

And I'd probably shout "***** please" While I'm winning, and for particularly difficult sections of games I'll shout, "Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?"

 

[Riki Darnell]

If the game can be saved from a menu I save prob every 5 min. The habit came from playing Pokemon Red back in the day where I had played 3 hrs straight and batteries died on me right b4 I made it to cerulean city

 

[VeryOddGamer]

Well, I have a few. In FPS games I am also a compulsive reloader and I always go for the shotgun.
In RPGs I almost always play the mage or it's equivalent and sell all my useable items, (potions, scrolls etc.) or just save them forever and I refuse to wear helmets for some reason.

 

[runnernda]

I tend to stream-of-consciousness talk. I also swear a lot more when I'm gaming, particularly when something I don't expect happens. I still remember the first time I was playing RE4 and yelling "WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS THIS?!" the first time I saw the horde coming at me. I also yell things like "WHAT NOW, *****?!" or "OH SHIT SON!" during fight scenes...because I also become inexplicably gangsta when I game. For comparison, I'm a suburban white girl, so it makes no sense at all.

Other than that, I'll mainly just lean sideways when I Wii bowl or lean forward when playing MarioKart.

 

[Anthony Abney]

in FPSs I tend to charge in guns blazing laughing maniacally. If I'm not doing that, then I'm probably sitting back with a sniper making people's heads pop and laughing maniacally.

in visual novels and games where choice has some effect on the story, I make the same decisions that I would make if I was in the same situation (as opposed to making the decisions that would lead to the ending I want)so that I could get an idea on how things would have turned out for me, usually with interesting results.

in RPGs, I tend to favor magic or whatever the equivalent is in that specific game if it doesn't have mages.

one of my more negative habits is that I tend to NOT save very often.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

- In shooters I have Constant Reload Syndrome. It's a disease that causes me to reload even when I don't need to, usually at the worst possible times, causing me to die.

- In RPG's I tend to play the heroic warrior/soldier.

- In fighting games I tend to just smash random buttons hoping I do something cool and win because I suck at them.

- I'm a serial hoarder, I'll pick up and keep anything I think will be useful later on. My houses on games like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls are more often than not filled with random shit. In Fallout it's mostly teddy bears.

- I explore every nook and cranny I can. I must find EVERYTHING!

- In RTS's I always try brute force first. If that doesn't work then I'll try proper tactics.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I tend to be collect them all or the type or keep fine tuning their character apperances.

In FPS I go out there gun and blazing as sneaking is not my strong point. Also in rpg and mmo I tend to be a melee type of class however if the mmo is superhero theme I tend to played as a range/ blaster type of superhero/ villain.

 

[SuperNova221]

In RTS games I always try to align everything.

In creative sandbox games (MineCraft, GMod, Terraria...) I always try to misalign everything. Just to annoy everybody else on the server when they see it.

Edit: I also try to wear a hat in every game if at all possibly, helmet will suffice if no hats are available. This isn't even TF2 induced, I've just always tried to get a hat.