Your bad gaming habits

[MrBlackDX]

I'm thinking compulsive reloading is one of the bigger factors here.

What about when you are watching someone else play (in person or Lets Play) and they don't reload? I either tell them to reload "casually", "Uh you might want to reload..." OR I will seethe in my head at the annoyance of LPers not reloading.

Another bad trait for hoarding, weight limits... Even when I start afresh with like 12/100 weight, when I get to 100/100, oh I might justify the reduced movement speed for the rest of the quest OR start weight/profit calculate among EVERY item I come across (if I chuck this away, I can get 1 extra bottlecap for picking this up...)

 

[jdogtwodolla]

I cuss/yelp gibberish very loudly when i'm in a state of losing or disbelief. Everyone in the house can hear my nonsense.

I tend to let some RPGs/Sandboxes sit for a very long while and then I tend to re-start too often due to re-learning or intimidation from where I left off.

Here's the big one. I used to have a habit of only buying games with at least one full score review. I was interested in so many games that I chose that as a filtering method.

 

[aguspal]

I never use the ultimate weapons I'm hoarding because I'm afraid that, despite the current fight being ridiculously difficult, my next fight might be even more ridiculously difficult, and then I'll need the ungodly powerful weapons I'm hoarding. And the health potions. And the mana potions. And I'll be lucky to have all that backlogged ammunition for the rocket launcher I didn't use to kill those tanks earlier. It'll all come in handy for the next fight, I swear...

And then run the credits!

Yeah this is me.


Also, another compulsive reloader too. But I think its more of a good habit, at least in my case it rarely gets me killed/wounded/whatever. Depending in the game anyways.


Save, save in another slot just in case anything bad happens with slot 1 is a classic for me too.

 

[Tdoodle]

I will horde high-level or rare items under the pretence that I'll need them "just in case", but I never use them at the time because I'm too caught up in what is going on. Like in Skyrim, I'll wander around with these fabulous arrows and high-level swords for hours/days/weeks and I won't ever use them outside of roleplaying ("Oh a Nightingale quest, better equip ebony arrows because they go well with the armour... but I don't want to waste them just in case so I'll only use the Nightingale Blade").

 

[JasonKaotic]

Saving the game every five seconds, for fear that I'll die and have to take those three steps forwards all over again. Sometimes I'll double-save, just in case I was just imagining the first time I saved. Seriously.
But mainly because if I get out of that habit, I forget to keep saving completely and next time I die I have to start the area all over again.
Seriously, I think on Skyrim I spend as much time in the save menu as I do actually playing the game.

Also a more expensive habit, I need to stop taking my frustration out on my controller. Whoever the last guy to invade me on Dark Souls was owes me a lot of money.

 

[Gergar12_v1legacy]

Always using swords, and crossbows. I think I played as a mage 2 times out of the 10 RPg games that have it.

 

[Razentsu]

Switching difficulties all the damn time. I'll get far in a game on normal difficulty but start all over on a harder difficulty because the game is too easy. Or sometimes I'll start off on the hardest difficulty setting and restart on normal. Then I lose interest because I have to replay chunks of the game. ):

 

[Nannernade]

I seem to have a lot of bad habits, I constantly forget to save my games and when I do I look at the last save and realize that was several hours ago. In games like Skyrim I get really anal about my living quarters, I want it to look nice even though I only stay in it for a few minutes at a time. (With the previous habit it makes me very angry when I re-enter the house after a few more hours playing only to return to everything being blown around the room and out of place)

And finally I'm a hoarder, I don't collect useless items like plates and stuff like that, I hoard weapons, armor and stuff like that not because I think it may become useful later, but because I'm far too lazy to stop adventuring every 20 minutes just to find a place to sell all of my damn loot.

 

[DugMachine]

I tend to go lone wolf at times when teamwork is absolutely essential

 

[Ryotknife]

compulsive reloading. My #1 cause of death in BL2 with tediore rocket launchers so i blow myself up.

hoarding. mostly in MMOs

in a sticky situation, i run away until I either understand whats going on, have a plan, or have a better angle. although to be fair, in MMOs i have ran away from an unwinable danger and left my friends behind >_>

 

[sammysoso]

I'm definitely a compulsive reloader.

I also have this obsession with hearing every bit of dialogue I can find, even the ambient ones.

 

[Ctmnt08]

I have 2 habits, though I suppose only 1 is "bad."

That bad one would be that I love the beginnings of games. Starting up, working through the levels. With modern games and their RPG elements, my habit has become a borderline creation fetish. Since the start of most games is the best part (gotta get peoples' attention!), I find myself playing hours 1-3 over and over again, even if I only beat the game once. Worst game for that: Dragon Age 1. I have played the beginning at least 6 times. Still haven't beaten it.

Habit #2: Anytime a sports game lets me create a team, their name will be the Tigers. It has no special significance of any kind. But it never fails...

 

[JagermanXcell]

I noticed compulsive reloading is a common bad habit, and I am also guilty of that... probably because there hasn't been a new Metal Slug for years now. Sad.
1. Must get every item, must not miss a single thing.
2. Whenever I'm asked to make a name for an avatar its very, VERY bland. Ex. I named my first Dark Souls character Jason... sigh...
3. If the enemy is a higher level than me, I go higher, too high, and I destroy them... its not like I didn't at least want a challenge or anything -_-
4. I always try to handicap myself when my character is too strong, I don't have fun doing it, yet I still do it WHHHHHHHYYYYYYY!?!?!

 

[Racecarlock]

Must...save...everything...I...do. Even if I just wash a car or kill one guy I gotta save it. Skyrim is very accommodating on this with it's save state style save system.

 

[ShockValue]

Can't think of anything other than needing to reload a lot. Common apparently >.>

 

[Dfskelleton]

In every game where there's the option, I will always prefer to use melee attacks, even when it's clearly the least effective thing you could do.
This becomes especially prominent in survival horror games. I don't care how many rounds of pistol ammunition I have, I'll be in the Labyrinth section of Silent Hill 2 still using my freaking plank.
I'm glad that there are games like Dishonored that fully account for people like me. In fact, I think that there's only about 5 people in the game who I've killed with something other than a blade/melee attack.

 

[likalaruku]

*Check everything for loot, even when you're already so rich that really don't need any more.

*Being so bogged down with loot as to slow myself down significantly.

*Playing with a semi-choppy frame rate because I have to have the graphics maxed out.

*Adding too many mods.

*Saving every 2 minutes, even when the game isn't the type to crash that often.

 

[pilouuuu]

Thankfully I don't have the habit many people seem to have about going back to a previous save if I take some bad decisions.

I've been making a habit of living with the consequences of whatever decision I take, which actually makes the game more fun. Except if I took a wrong decision because the dialogue options weren't clear o due to bad design of the game. In that case I have to reload. It happened a lot in L.A. Noire! I also hate how in that game you almost always had the same outcome in the missions, no matter what decisions you took. It would have been much better if you could screw a case and everyone would remind you of that, but because you took the decisions, not because the game says so.

Back to my bad habits I would say being good in games! Yes, no matter what I'm always good in games, trying to be a hero and all that. I'm trying to mix things up a bit and being evil in some quests, but not the whole game. I'm trying that in New Vegas, thinking about what would it take for someone to survive in a post-apocalyptic game and taking some hard decisions which are morally ambiguous make the game much more fun and varied.

Another bad habit is playing too many games at the same time, so I take a lot of time to finish anyone. Sometimes I take my time to return to a game, so when I start to play it again I forgot some quests or even who were some of the characters.

It's not totally bad, because when I get bored of a game I start playing another one and when I come back to the other game it feels more fresh and enjoyable again.

captcha: cat pajamas

 

[Jason Rayes]

I buy more games than I can play. I can't resist a bargain, even when I have a stack of "To do" games. Steam with its sales is terrible for me, I just cant resist snapping up items, even though I might have 60 games already gathering dust in my library. I'm the geek version of a shopaholic.

 

[lunavixen]

My big thing in game is hoarding health and ammo packs thinking "I'll need it later"

Also I have a very large backlog of games i've bought but haven't played yet. I think i still have a back log of about 20 games at last count.