Gaming Habits!

Technology and Gaming
#21

When I play I usually compulsively use the weapon my enemy is using, so I usually have shitloads of ammo for everything at all times.

Also when I play online I almost never use the mic, even though I have one, and I always type.

Usually people won’t hear from me at all, except sometimes while I’m dead or am being epic and typing midair or while charging suit etc.

In hl2dm I find myself always leaning towards using shotty, orbs, xbow, 357, and crowbar, like that in order of importance. I usually don’t spam ar2 or smg/smg nades, and I like to use the 9mm. :^P

#22

I HATE banshee spamming in zombie master.

back on topic though, I almost always play stealthily, even of it’s an action game not made for sneaking.

#23

When I play TF2 you can often hear me literally laughing out loud because of how easily I’m killing people, mainly with heavy.

#24

You should just stick with the Scout, your personalities are both similar. :stuck_out_tongue:

#25

Nah, pyro is the way I roll.

#26

Same here, I keep trying to use the mic but always go back to the trusty keyboard.

During some cutscenes, if something is in the way I sometimes try to move my head to see around it.

No matter how tightly packed the map is I have to be a sniper at some point.

#27

That habit is a really good one!

My first time through STALKER, I used some rather rare ammo and was always trying to conserve it. I would walk across the entire Zone to reach the one guy who sold it.

But my second time through, with a mod, that trader was killed! So now I’m using the most common rifle ammunition :retard:

#28

It’s funny because usually the weapon that’s most common is one I don’t like at all.

#29

In games, I always use the pistol the most.

#30

one of my gun weilding habbits is I will NEVER use a new gun that I’ve just picked up until I know for sure that Im not going to run out of ammo. also in oblivion and other games like that, I never use good items, just in case I will need them later. the unfortunate thing with that is every situation just never seems to be dire enough to warrant using said items.

and I have to watch every cutscene. If I watch someone go through a game, skipping cutscenes and ignoring story driving characters on their first playthrough I go into a rage, and if they tell me to skip cutscenes or ignore story driving characters I kill them.

violently.

#31

Guilty on both counts here. Oh god I feel like such a geek now :frowning:

#32

I usually think what I beleive the player character would think, as well as reply to the NPCs.
I try to immerse myself into the game more fully that way.

#33

I get really stressed about ammo if there is a shortage. I stopped playing dead space 30 minutes in because of that.

Sometimes after playing a game for a long time, Ill look into the corner of my eye for my health bar. I also end up rotating my whole body instead of just turning my head to look at something. shame

I think it all goes back to the time that I was playing bioshock and ran completely out of ammo and eve on a big daddy, I tried to cheat but in the end the only way out was 2 hours of wrench suicide missons.

#34

How many people here only play the multi player of a video game when they have finished the single player campaign.

Gawd it took me ages to play counter-strike.

#35

Same for both. Especially the ammo one.

Also, when I play and of the Half-Life games, I always have my preferred weapon, and then my “Q” is always the crowbar; unless it’s HL2, then it’s the Gravity Gun.

#36

usually did that back when I played Multi. I broke the habit with Soldier of Fortune 2, playing the multi first, and the campaign second. I wish I hadn’t played the campaign at all. It ruined the multiplayer for me so that it wasn’t fun anymore :frowning:

#37

I have a tendency to conserve ammo for big guns, even when it is clear that there will be plenty more ammo ahead.

#38

ever since the release of wow ppl used to refer when a boss or a family member yell at them as an aggro

#39

The term aggro existed way before WoW.

#40

In space battle simulators, for instance while dodging asteroids, I always tend to lean into the desired direction. Leaning back while pulling up, leaning forward while diving…

In FPS games, when there is something hidden behind a corner, I tend to move my head first to look around it, instead of using the game controls.

Answering random NPC chatter and story dialogue in-character, as if I was roleplaying the game hero.

When being asked a question by Alyx in HL2, I sometimes “nodded” or “shook head” by moving the mouse.

I’m also an explorer - going everywhere, trying to do everything, gather every piece of loot, hit every button, crush every enemy… visit every place in a game. Even though in real life, it wouldn’t make any sense.

Reloading after almost every single shot, quicksaving after every kill or every difficult stage of level navigation. Quickloading after every unnecessary loss of live energy, hitpoints, armor power, whatever.

Always trying to protect as many npcs from getting killed as possible. Quickloading whenever an npc unnecessarily dies.

Trying to use stealth even if it has no useful effect in the game.

Always using the weapons my current enemies are using as well. For the benefit of ammo.

Always experimenting until I find the most clever way to solve a dangerous situation in a game.

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