Your Weird Gaming Habits

[DementedSheep]

In games where you can block I end up not blocking and trying to dodge if it is something that it looks like I shouldn't be able to block. Even though I know my character can part of my brain is always going "MOVE YOUR ASS! you can't block a sword bigger than you". The one this stood out the most for recently was Dark Souls.

In stealth I do unnecessary shit like closing doors and hiding bodies when there are no other patrols through the area even if the game doesn't acknowledge these thing. I also tend to make my character walk in tense situations or when they are begin stealthy.

Sometimes if I did things in particularly inefficient way I will reload to do it the efficient way even though this just ends up taking even more time.

In open world Bethesda games I always download a whole bunch of realism mods (for FO3 I even had one that made me have to feed my dog) even though this stuff seems like it should just be tedious.

When waiting for something I hold down the directional keys or stick so my character runs in circles. This annoys some people in multiplayer.

 

[Caiphus]

I tend to bunnyhop, or whatever the term is for constantly hitting the jump button while running.

Used to do it much more until a friend with OCD told me it annoyed him. But yeah, something about the rhythm of tapping the spacebar is calming, and makes running long distances in-game less tiresome.

 

[Lethos]

I try and roleplay in every game, even if the game doesn't lend itself well to roleplaying. Even in RTS games I pretend I'm a general or something.

I try and recreate my appearance as best I can whenever there is character creation. I like to imagine myself as the character, and make decisions based on what I would do in real life. I'll admit this has led me to missing out on a lot of content. I've never made a female character or a beast/elven character in Skyrim for example.

I try to keep my inventory as small as possible, only having what I would consider the essentials.

I got loads more. During some of the 'darker' days of my OCD, I used to get angry every time I broke eye contact with the TV/monitor as I would be separating myself from the game world. Fortunately these obsessive things are in the past now.