What's your most bizarre gaming behavior?

Just like the heading says, what’s the most bizarre gaming behavior you have?

Personally speaking, I can’t really come up with a good one off the top of my head (that’s because there’s nothing normal about you, Ninja.).

If I was to say there is one thing that possibly some may consider as being strange (There you go again, Ninja.) then it would have to be that upon first play-through of a game I have to collect and explore everything that I possibly can on that run.

On that first play-through you would think I was going for something like a platinum/100% completion as it pertains to thing like collectibles and side quests.

I think this is part of the reason why I don’t “gel” well with open world/sandbox games as partaking in this kind of an endeavor usually leads you a few hours later down the road saying “what the heck was I supposed to be doing again?” Very easy to be taken out of the narrative/main story when you are doing irrelevant things to help advance it in any way.

However, onebehavior that still to this day sticks out in my mind as being “odd” was from a friend of mine (Friends, Ninja? Ha! Now we know this story is fake.).

Whenever he finished playing games he would take the disc/cartridge out of the console, put it away in its sleeve then proceed to take the entire console, disconnect it (All those red, yellow, and white AV cables, lol.) and place it back in its original packaging with the plastic as well as all the accessories and controller that it came with.

Essentially any time he wanted to play a game he was opening up his system “for the first time” in a sense. He did this every time I went over to his house and played games with him.

Even though that behavior still seems odd to me today (Ha! Coming from you?) a part of me always admired him for what he was doing. Why? Because unlike me (who would just turn off the console, usually with the disc/cartridge still inside and the controller on the floor.) he seemed to have an actual appreciation for what he had and it was reflected in the way he took care of his consoles.

Either that or it was just some strange OCD type behavior he had, lol.

So Gamespot community, what are some of your “interesting” gaming quirks?

-WE’RE ALL STRANGE HERE NINJA APPROVED-

I don't have any with relation to gaming, but i do have one for new year's lol.

Getting hard on these sexy Anime girls when I'm gaming? Take Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball for example.

@davillain-: LMAO!!!

Nothing wrong with that ;)

-IT'S NATURAL NINJA APPROVED-

I guess the only thing I can think off is that I don't finish games.

This is something I was terrible at as a kid, and while I've gotten better, I still find myself doing it.

Uncharted 4, FFVII (PS4 re-release), GTA V,MGS V, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Fallout 4, Witcher 3, is just a small handful of the games from this gen alone that I've started playing, gotten around half way or further into, and regardless of the level of enjoyment I was getting from playing them, just given up and moved onto something else.

I have found though that I'm getting better. Last year, I actually started keeping track of every game I beat, as a way of trying to help tackle my backlong, and managed to get up to 53. So far this year I'm already at 11, where as by the end of March last year I'd beaten just 7.

I game at 5:30am till my family wakes up around 9am most weekend mornings. Been doing it for years. It's my favorite time to game. Fresh cup of coffee and whatever game I'm working on.

Occasionally, and very occasionally I talk to myself while I play. :P

Like, recounting to myself what I am seeing, doing and what I think of it... out loud.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG, that is awesome!

-I'M CRYING NINJA APPROVED-

@videogameninja:

I feel like I HAVE TO make every creatable character into a girl or I can't enjoy the game.

I can't focus on a single game, I have to play like 4-5 games to keep progressing in them, no matter how good or bad those games are; also I hardly leave a game unfinished even if it is really bad.

@videogameninja: Hahaha. What is it they say? Speaking to oneself is a mark of insanity?

Senran Kagura is actually a fun video game, but that dressing room yo.

I'm not sure, I probably have a few but you'd need to ask my wife and/or kids for the details. :|

I game naked sometimes.

Played Senran Kagura: Estival Versus for no other reason than to have it as my 69th platinum.

The 13 year old in me will never die.

Some games that I absolutely LOOOOOOOOVE takes me a super long time to beat because I want to stretch out the experience as long as possible. Trine 2 is one of them. I got the game on launch (even played the pre-release beta) but I'm so enchanted by every "first" experience that game gives me that I still haven't beaten it. That's not to say I haven't played it a ton. I still get lots of mileage off of replaying stages I've beaten different ways and engaging in both online and local co-op with friends. I love it so much though that I treasure each first encounter and new gameplay engagement like fine wine.

Witcher 3 had me like that as well but I've recently put everything else down (aside from Overwatch) to give it it's due. Completely off subject though, the internet is cray cray. I'm nuts about the combat and gameplay in this joint.I look forward to every single combat engagement with baited breath. Griffin School FTW.

Other gamers give me turrets when in a competitive environment. Teammates don't often help thinking they are a lone wolf killing machine leaving the objective in the dust in order to up their K/D ratio. Many use lag switching or at minimum shady tactics and when you call them on it, they say "get gud". My response is generally "find some skill".

The quips. I don't stay silent when I game; I like to make quips and commentaries that might sound badass or funny to me, just to add a little entertainment cherry on top of the entertainment cake. I only do this when I'm genuinely having fun. Examples:

When playing Titan Quest and meeting a giant scorpion enemy: "I'LL FRY YOUR CLAWS AND EAT THEM WITH CHILLI AND LIME!"

When killing an enemy with the Flak Cannon in Unreal Tournament 2004: "A fistful of cash and a face full of flak!"

Also in Unreal Tournament, when someone uses the "You fight like Nali!" line: "And then a four-armed Nali God comes along with four rocket launchers and kick the shit out of everyone."

In Civilization V, when Egypt beats me to a Wonder, I jokingly shake my fist to the sky in a comic book villain style and goes "RAMESSES!!!"

And in racing games, I kind of have a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality. When I'm ahead, I'm a careful, "clean" driver. But the moment I'm behind, I become a complete lunatic, doing things like grinding my opponents against the rails and trying to make them crash. I accentuate my "Lunatic Mode" by uttering things like; "YOUR SOUL IS MINE!!!," "CRASHES FOR THE CRASH GOD!!! WRECKS FOR THE WRECKAGE THRONE!!!" and "THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO PRY YOU OUT OF YOUR CAR WITH A CAN OPENER!!!"

Things like that.

I am very patient and methodical. I like deconstructing defenses, using physics to maximize kills, discovering exploitable weaknesses in a boss fight, in general anything that gains a tactical advantage. One of my greatest joys in a game is to outsmart, break, or downright cheat a game into submission. I tend to break the rules every chance I get.

Whenever I play games like Castlevania I have to destroy all the candles no matter if I want or need the item. I knew what would drop from the candles but it didn't matter, they needed to be destroyed every time all the time.

O_O

The most odd behavior I've ever seen : some Players in the online mode Of Original Battlefront 2 just play that game to kill their own teammates(they stay in spawn points and kill teammates that spawn) whenever the Server Enables TK.(ive also seen one whom dropped down our tank from cliff when he saw that we only have one command post)

I've been pressing Up + spamming B when a pokeball I throw comes into contact with a Pokemon for about 18 years.

I have a really stupid habit of hoarding consumable items that do extra damage or high healing etc in RPG's in the belief that they will be needed for some ridiculously difficult boss that never turns up, ever.

As a result, if there is a Super Healo 5000 Very Rare item you keep for special occasions I always end up with 500 of the fucking things and have never used it once in the entire game.

I don't think you're the only one.

Breaking shit when I lose. Well, when I was younger I did lol

I have literal knee-jerk reactions in some games where I kinda involuntarily jerk my leg up, and occasionally bash my desk so hard one of my monitors starts to fall over (though I've always been able to catch it so far). I managed to bruise my knee one time.

mostly seems to happen in games with vehicles - Rocket League is probably the worst offender in recent memory.

When I was younger, I was a grade A controller thrower. **** you so much Ninja Gaiden Black.

@jg4xchamp: My old (old) bed had a wooden frame that raised a little over the mattress. Playing madden so much (as well as watching redskins suck) ended with me breaking a huge chunk off the frame and distorting the TV picture from a few angry push kicks lol

Well, I always aimed at the ground, although in the case of the Xbox, that shit could take a beating. Because I got two clean fast balls in my dude lol

Oh man I love early morning gaming sessions like that on my days off, especially when I know I can take a nap later. It's rare, and usually only happens when I accidentally fall asleep at like 8PM or something the night before from exhaustion and I wake up at 4AM and can't go back to sleep...

...but I have this energy and focus and it's too early to be distracted and I have three days (I work four 10-hour shifts) off so it's literally the most amount of time i have. It's great. You are totally right about that.

Buuuuuut my weirdest habit when gaming is probably turning my head/upper body during piloting sections/flight sims, like I bank and I will turn my head with the plane lol. If you're watching me it looks pretty funny.

I mean, i was just playing a 6/10 game known as Adromeda at 3am. Is this bizarre enough?

If I don't like a character I've created or I feel I could do a better start because I understand the game more I will restart the entire game, even if I'm quite far in.

The most recent one, I saw a place irl and thought "that's a good place for a Korok". Too much BotW lately, I guess.

Sometimes I plat a popular game even though I think it's crap just to give my opinion more weight. I can now say FF15 is a bad game and I have a plat that proves I have seen most of what the game has to offer.

1. I put subtitles ON in every game.

2. I don't look at the achievements list until after I have finished the game once.

pics ha ha

^ This...glad I am not the only one, I also tilt my controller....& summer time game nude ..oh yea hentai buuman. :P

I take like 3 times the time most people do to complete the games. The last example was HZD. Most gamers finished the main story in about 30 hours and took like 50 hours to complete everything. I'm almost 100 hours into the game, just beat the main story and still have dozens of side activities/quests to do :P

@blueinheaven: Same here. I end up never using some of the best items.

I only play true exclusives.

If I own a game that loses exclusivity I break that disc and trash it.

It's dead to me.

Nah, I don't want to scare the $%#& out of you!

Pretty sure some tree huggers would NOT be happy to hear that.

When it gets intense, my tongue slips out. I can't keep it inside.

When there's cows, sheep and hermit crabs in a game like RDR, I get this urge to slaughter them where they stand and fire up the grill. lololol :P

@kvally:

I'll break that tree and trash it also if it's roots spread outside my exclusive yard.

Albeit with an axe, chainsaw and considerable effort but it's dead to me!

Better be a GAS powered chainsaw, with a leak so that the gas pours out onto the clean soiled ground.

@kvally:

I have a 55gallon drum with a small hole that leaks non-stop hazardous chemicals.

I refill it weekly.

You are a man after my heart.

For some of the games I play, I try to think of at least one song that "defines" them.

A few examples :

1) Dark Souls games are defined by Dir En Grey's, "ain't afraid to die" and "DIABOLOS". I don't actually like the in-game music of the series... Those two songs just fit the themes of the Dark Souls series. They act as the perfect counter to the whole "Prepare to Die" tagline of the games and becoming Hollow.

2) Final Fantasy VI is defined by Eric Clapton's, "Change the World". No idea why, but this song just gels well with FF 6.