You know you've played too many video games when...

[BrawlMan]

You try to move around like an over-the-shoulder game and see button prompts to open doors or jump over barriers/chest high walls.

As a kid I would try to pull off Street Fighter or SOR moves horribly. I remember one time trying to knock over trash can thinking their would be a perfectly roasted chicken in there. I was wrong. Then there was that one time as a kid where I tried moving around like an RE protagonist from the PSX games. It was fun for a minute.

 

[thebobmaster]

When moving boxes around summons Korobeiniki in your mind.

 

[Worgen]

When you make topics about knowing that you've played too many games.

 

[Drathnoxis]

There's no such thing.

 

[Catfood220]

You die of dehydration covered in your own filth.

Or...in the spirit this thread was intended. You look at a building and start thinking about how to climb it. Bonus points for picking a spot to leap off of into a waiting cart of hay.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

You know you've played too many stealth games when the first thing you do when entering a place is look for dark corners and potential exits.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

When scoliosis is diagnosed.

Oh, umm, everytime I see a coffee table in a dining room the urge to salmon leap over in slow motion as I twist my body around shooting all threats in the vicinity before landing the other side. Haha take that! Without guns of course. A small detail easily forgotten until after landing through the table while the kids are crying and the dog's licking all the blood gushing from my newfound wounds.

Also years of skateboard games a whiles ago have done a number on the brain so can't look at humble outdoor guardrails, benches, fences, slopes (or a specific collection of early 00s to late 90s nu metal, punk, rap, hip hop, ska music) without imagining the raw thrill of accidentally falling genitalia first trying to grind the damn things.

 

[Absent]

Every problem feels designed around an existing solution. It's a good mindset, actually. But horribly false.

 

[Dreiko]

One time I was walking down the street and I reached a street light and for some reason I had the greatest urge to use a kick to press the street light button, it just seemed to be at a perfectly kickable spot for some reason.

Too many fighting games.

You know you've played too many stealth games when the first thing you do when entering a place is look for dark corners and potential exits.

I think that's called PTSD lol.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

When you imagine UI elements in your mind/in front of you with the associated sounds

 

[Gergar12]

When your dreams are about a game you played years ago.

 

[Satinavian]

When you know the Flags and borders of 1444 as represented in EU4 better than the current real world ones.