Seen this article on kotaku thought it would be cool to know your guys gaming compulsions. Whether its how you play a game or way you got them sorted in your house etc... My compulsions are 1,) if my save file gets deleted on a game its very hard for me to want to play the game again. 2.) I can never be a bad guy on a game. If I have a choice I always go good. I can never be bad. 3.) I save a ton. Like oblivion I will save like ever 5 minutes if not sooner.
Only a couple that I can think of right now. 1. Always forgeting to save game, then get pissed when I die or something. (No one to blame but myself) 2. For some reason I get to near complete on a game then shelve it for a couple of weeks with something new. Not sure why lol.
Not that I can never be bad, but I am always good first. I sort all my games alphabetically, and by system. I tend to save every chance I can. I always try and get every side quest before I beat a game completely. Mini-games usually take up a lot of my time (like blitzball in FFX, or the card game in FFVIII)
I have to get the game out of my system. If I get a new game, you can bet that all my free waking hours and half of my sleeping ones will be dedicated to that game. When I bought Fable TLC for PC recently, there was probably 8 of 72 hrs I slept, 24 of them I worked and the rest I spent on the game. Once I've played it through, the urge is gone- until the next game, that is!
I use to be that way with new games also but I am not anymore. With the bad guy thing I just can't I feel guilty for some reason. Like the game characters have feelings lol.
Yeah, I kind feel the same way too. Like with KOTOR I and II, I just couldn't turn on the other characters in the game. So I took it out on all the other NPC's- if you were bad, you were dead. "Man face you, he is enemy. Enemy deserve no mahcy.....oooaooaoaaaaaaahhh! *HONK* "
That's me up there for sure! My save file got deleted on Lost Planet, and I traded that game in just a couple of days later. Unless its a great game with a great story mode, I'm not doing it again. For some reason I tend to play a new game to death until I get burned out, then I hardly ever touch said game again unless someone suggests we play it. Hence I try no to purchase games because of that reason. I typically play games with autosave functions, so I do not have to concentrate on saving all the time.
- I never buy anything unless the game literally forces me to do it and I hate games for forcing me to do it because I love hoarding money for the sake of hording money. Keep your dumb ancient sword of the dragonslayer +1, silly merchant, I'm going to loot one in the next dungeon anyway and I'm richer than you, hah! - I never bother disarming traps. Disarming traps is the antichrist. Total waste of time. So go ahead, stupid gamedesigner, and blast my party to kingdom come. I'd rather reload a dozen times to survive the trap than investing skills points in that pointless disarm trap skill that you only put in there to annoy people. - I don't play games with weight limits. Never. Weight limits are even more silly and a lot more pointless than traps. I hate weight limits. They are the antichrist too. - I steal. Really, it's quite a neurosis in games. I'm basically a virtual kleptomaniac. Every chance I get, I'll loot your house. And your neighbor's. - I don't use magic. Magic is boring. It usually involves hours of memorizing spells (or even worse: buying them), inventing new ones, finding out what exactly they do and don't do, while I could hack those critters to pieces in seconds with my ancient sword of the dragonslayer +1 that I didn't buy from that silly merchant because I found it in the next dungeon anyway and I'm richer than him, hah!
Aside from #2, we are identical. If I get far in a game, then it just pisses me off if my file gets deleted or something. Obviously, this hasn't been a major issue with the PS3, but back on the PS2/Xbox when memory cards were necessary, it happened quite a few times. Like right now -- I'm not playing any next-gen games (CoD4 got bored to me), and I was going to free roam San Andreas for a bit until GTA IV. However, I can't find my memory card, and I'm not playing that game over for the 10th time just to open to map. And yes, I save games like crazy. In Madden or NBA 2k, I usually save the game after every roster move I make, much less every game I play. In games like GTA or Saints Row, I'll save the game for every cool car I lock up into my garage or something. To contradict my last statement, I HATE the auto-save feature in games.
In GTA games... I find it VERY hard to do the missions. I always fin my self side tracked making chaos just to get into a ridiculous police chase.
I do number 2 as well then I usually go back and finish it like its a chore..even if its just the last boss fight I wont finish...maybe because I know it will be over .
