You know you've been playing ... too long when ...

[Odbarc]

I know I've been gaming too long when I have a dream of the game I've been playing all day.

I sometimes have these Starcraft 2 dreams where I'm playing as my usual Zerg, but then I destroy some small Terran army only to have a bigger army magically appear from the shroud and outnumber me. And I'm constantly fighting this uphill battle regardless of how well I seem to play in this dream.

 

[hurfdurp]

When you close your eyes you can still see Storm electrocuting the poop out of people.

 

[RMX]

Had to make an account to address this...

I know I played too much GTA San Andreas when two things happened ..1. I walked outside and would look up in the sky every minute or so to look out for falling airplanes and 2. waiting for someone who was too slow in a drive thru and thinking to myself...I should throw him out of his car to speed things up lol

oh and I also got those "syndromes" from Oblivion and Fallout with collecting flowers and lockpicking

 

[Danpascooch]

When I tried to go to sleep last week I literally saw images of Monday Night Combat flash through my head.

One time after binging on CoD, I walked out of my writing seminar class and saw a plane flying at the PERFECT height and orientation relative to me to look EXACTLY like a spyplane. My first thought was "Holy shit a spy plane" and something about using an RPG (It was pure reflex, like a knee jerk reaction) my second thought was "holy shit I'm fucked in the head"

 

[Eddy-16]

When you can hear the pokemon walking round music when your just trekking in a field. Oh and the other day my friend asked me if I could help him and I told him it was cost him a lot of caps.

 

[PureChaos]

in the MMO i play, rare weapons/armour/items etc appear as red boxes. when i wasn't playing the game, if i saw something red i thought 'oooh, red box, wonder what it is'

 

[8bitmaster]

I hear sc2 sounds in my head when i'm not playing. I still don't think i've been playing too much.

 

[minispike47]

When I was walking to a lesson with my hood up and I saw I plane and thought to myself 'Its ok, i've got ghost pro'

 

[wammnebu]

you look for the conversation wheel when talking to friends

you start acting like a bioware npc

 

[Hister]

You know you have been playing to long when... you start dreaming about the game at night... Minecraft dreams... very odd. (Or as one dream was, Minecraft and Left 4 dead at the same time )

Haha I had a similar dream a few weeks ago with lego people (like lego star wars)and left 4 dead. It was a very freaky dream, Freud would a field day with that one

 

[Sov.reign]

It's definately the quick save option to life that I'm missing. Now how best to seduce my girlfriend... hmm two ways to do this but if I pick the wrong way I'll not get the chance again for another week, better save... wait what? Oh right... life... I lose at life.

and ofc pretty much all alerts, item noises and HUD screen from Metal Gear... seriously this stuff would be worth investigating in a Psychological study, not whether games cause rape XD

 

[Goody]

Oh and the other day my friend asked me if I could help him and I told him it was cost him a lot of caps.

I may do that to one of my friends, he has a collection of bottlecaps from the beer bottles that we've been drinking in the past year

 

[imnot]

I used to play a PS2 game called "Shadow of Destiny," in which the main part of gameplay is traveling through time to change certain events. After making dumb decisions in real life I would just say to myself that I can just go back in time and fix it.

Also, after a very intense couple of days playing Oblivion for the first time, I walked around in a daze wondering why I couldn't quicksave...

Same thing with Oblivion. I found myself trying to save all the time.

Same here, bloody oblivion,
I once thought gee mt rooms awfully dark best puts some torches up to stop the skeletons!
I facepalmed a few seconds later.

 

[theonlyblaze2]

When you try to enter V.A.T.S. and you look out for Radscorpions whenever you here Jazz music.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

After a long period of CoD, you turn a corner and instinctively panic knife the person who walks into you.

 

[tharglet]

You know you've been playing World of Warcraft(and MMOs in general) too long when...

You ask your supervisor at work if coupons stack with your employee discount.

Lol, if I was your supervisor, I'd know what you were asking. I've occasionally used MMO terminology in "RL" only to find out people don't know what I'm on about ><.

 

[Cybele]

After having played wow until 4 or 5 am I was dead tired and went to bed but I just couldn't fall asleep. I just couldn't stop thinking about the instance run, what we did, didn't and what I could have done better. After a few hours of trying to stop thinking of wow I gave up and somehow fell asleep. Needless to say my dreams were filled with wow.
I felt really tired the next morning.

 

[icame]

When I see a saw blade and get instantly excited. This is when you know you've been playing to much half life 2.

 

[Ca3zar416]

When I realize the sun is rising....again.....yeah.....whoops.

 

[Wolfram23]

When your CPU is ~90 C...

That's a sign that your heatsink isn't doing it's job and needs cleaning and/or reseating and/or your case needs better ventilation. No CPU made should hit 90C.