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  1. Architecture-er's Avatar
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    When I used to play WoW I'd jump EVERYWHERE.
  2. Converse girl's Avatar
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    (Original post by tehforum)
    Do you sniff it?
    No I Taste it

    We keep the windows open but is funny every one is sitting either playing or watching and all of a sudden you hear a noise followed by a horrid rotten fishy eggy smell

    We kick her out after that
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    On all games where I hit a hard part, but mainly driving games, I turn from a relatively calm, placid person who rarely swears to swearing like a temperamental sailor on leave.

    I believe Baby Peach kept overtaking me or spamming me with shells once so I started yelling and calling her Baby Slutface.
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    Drive around obeying the traffic lights.
    Reload after a couple of shots.
    Applaud my teams performance after a hard fought win in FIFA
    Reload a Fallout save if Dogmeat dies.
    In COD:WAW - copy whatever they say in game e.g. "Recon plane standing by"
    Unnecessarily air assassinating people on Assassins Creed.
    Always playing radio on Fallout
    NEVER driving with sirens on (LA Noire)
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    (Original post by IlexBlue)
    On all games where I hit a hard part, but mainly driving games, I turn from a relatively calm, placid person who rarely swears to swearing like a temperamental sailor on leave.

    I believe Baby Peach kept overtaking me or spamming me with shells once so I started yelling and calling her Baby Slutface.
    Sounds a little bit familar....
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    I always moan at the referee on FIFA when something goes against me like an offside decision.
    On the games like Mafia and GTA, I tend to drive 'normally', so the police wont pull me over.
    Last edited by Electric_Dynamo; 02-07-2012 at 10:16.
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    I usually hold the controller behind my head as I play. Only newbs have to see the buttons all the time...

    Also, if I'm playing a particularly stressful part of a game, I'll get up off the couch, walk to the TV and crouch in front of it as if that somehow increases my chances :fight:
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    Whenever I'm playing a first-person game, the first thing I do is look down to see if my feet are there.
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    The main for me are:

    1. MUST watch all cutscenes. Subtitles on. Always. Makes MGS4 last ages..
    2. If the game tells me to go one way, I have to go the other to check it out first.
    3. Sidequests must be completed when you encounter them. Cannot have a mission objective list as long as the Dictionary.
    4. EVERY NPC must be spoken too. Too much Pokemon/Final Fantasy/Zelda.
  10. ZombieMartin's Avatar
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    - Whenever I get annoyed in a game I tend to throw my controller in the air and the catch it.
    - When I can control my character in cut-scenes I usually make him jump and run around because I get bored.
    - Unnecessary Reloading in any FPS game.
    - I usually change the way im sitting because I think that it might make me better during my game
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    (Original post by That Bearded Man)
    Reload a Fallout save if Dogmeat dies.
    I had to eventually tell Dogmeat to stay in the safety of my house because I couldn't take the emotional torture whenever he was in danger.
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    If I'm playing BF3, I always start with a game of TDM on Damavand peak.
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    When playing FIFA whenever there's a 50-50 decision, I automatically raise my hand to call for the decision :rolleyes:
    Gets me weird looks from everyone else around
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    Make Wander from SotC run around; he runs like he has a stick up his ass. Or ,as an obseravnt youtuber put it , "extremely camp". Youtube it if you can. >u<
    Certainly gets a giggle out of my mum.
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    I ALWAYS tilt my xbox controller whilst playing GTA as I'm convinced that this makes me drive better
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    I can only play halo in my Boxers. Otherwise I'm just bad at it (well back when I actually played Halo anyway)
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    Forget to eat or drink for a few hours because I get so absorbed into it.
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    I never use the brakes on GTA
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    (Original post by Tac Crab)
    I had to eventually tell Dogmeat to stay in the safety of my house because I couldn't take the emotional torture whenever he was in danger.
    Not gonna lie, I spent along time on fallout 3 going "good, boy"
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    Re: Weird Things You Do playing video games
    (Original post by pinkpenguin)
    The main for me are:

    1. MUST watch all cutscenes. Subtitles on. Always. Makes MGS4 last ages..
    2. If the game tells me to go one way, I have to go the other to check it out first.
    3. Sidequests must be completed when you encounter them. Cannot have a mission objective list as long as the Dictionary.
    4. EVERY NPC must be spoken too. Too much Pokemon/Final Fantasy/Zelda.
    Gah, this too much. Have to visit every house, every npc, even if there is a tree and it looks it might be hiding something, spamming A just to see if it has anything.

    ~Feeling quite dumb.
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