Thirith on 29/9/2018 at 16:51
I'm curious: how many of you have habits, tics, small things you've been doing in games pretty much since you started playing them? What are they?
For me, it's two things:
1) Whenever I can name my savegames, I call the first one "Just started". Later savegames tend to get more descriptive names, but the first one's always the same, whether I'm playing an adventure or an RPG.
2) If they're human and I can give them a name, most of my characters will be called "Goddard". It's my mum's maiden name and it always sounded better to me than my own, German surname.
Renzatic on 29/9/2018 at 18:12
If any game lets me have a dog, and allows me to name that dog, I will name that dog Turbo.
Sulphur on 29/9/2018 at 18:31
Quote Posted by Thirith
1) Whenever I can name my savegames, I call the first one "Just started".
Mine tend to be 'sdfsds' or 'now', because clearly I love coming back to the same game three years later and going, 'So, uh... what happened, again?'.
ZylonBane on 29/9/2018 at 18:48
KILL ALL TREES
Pyrian on 29/9/2018 at 19:59
How many games let you actually kill trees? I know there's Dwarf Fortress, and... Um... Some tank games... Chaos Gate...
Jason Moyer on 29/9/2018 at 20:27
For male characters in RPG's I usually use my own name, for female I use my daughter's middle name (Jade). If there are character classes I usually tell myself I'm going to try something new but ultimately end up playing whatever the most straight-laced rogue class is.
Despite constantly trying to play games properly, if a game has even the most rudimentary stealth/ambush/whatever system in it I will spend stupid amounts of time exploring it. I think that's why it always seems to take me at least twice as long as everyone else to finish any action games. I'm probably the only person on the planet who completes the random-location bandit missions in Skyrim by waiting until everyone's asleep and then creeping past the mooks and silently pickpocketing and/or killing whoever the target is depending on the mission objective.
ZylonBane on 29/9/2018 at 20:49
Quote Posted by Pyrian
How many games let you actually kill trees? I know there's Dwarf Fortress, and... Um... Some tank games... Chaos Gate...
Many old-school top-down adventure games. Early 90s 3D shooters that were showing off their awesome interactive environments. Serious Sam SE (with an actual chainsaw). BattleMorph on the Atari Jaguar had a secret weapon that you could only acquire by destroying a few hundred trees.
Renzatic on 29/9/2018 at 21:03
Also, I named my plot of land in Stardew Valley Turbo Farms.
Starker on 29/9/2018 at 21:31
Let's see... If I can name my character, I like to put in something punny. I like to goof around in the game, even if nobody is watching. Sometimes I talk back to the characters. I'm a terrible hoarder, running around with max ammo and full inventory. If there's a way to cheese enemies or exploit a system, I can't help but use it, to the point of ruining the game.