| Paperboy_J said: Whenever I'm playing a game that requires you to save manually, I always save twice before I quit. I know it's silly but I just can't help it. I always feel I have to save twice just on the off chance the first save didn't take. It's a bad gaming habit. Do you have any bad gaming habits like that? Do you reset the game when you're losing? Perhaps you reload your weapon constantly when it's unnecessary? Do tell! |
| BasilZero said: Reload after one shot on a magazine. |
| Cloudman said: I have an issue with saving constantly. Do one action: save. Do a battle: save. Talk to characters: Save. I probably don't need to save that much, but I just can't help it. |
Me too, inmany RPGs I even save twice on two savefiles or save slots, that's 4 saves at a time. 
And many saves before critical decisions, although I almost never go back, unless I really messed everything beyond any chance of fixing it decently, or if a more recent save got corrupted (but the double recent save makes this unlikely).
| SvennoJ said: Save up all the special powers/materials/gold as if there is some kinda prize for having the most at the end. As a result, never get the enjoy all the special attacks etc, yet I'm always prepared :/ Regenerating mana is a blessing for me, instead of ending the game with 500 mana potions. Infinite ammo please, I ended Fallout 4 ready to open up a wall mart size store for special guns and ammo. Never used the special ammo or heavy toys, just in case.... |
| Shiken said: Picking up every heart or rupee I come across in a Zelda game, even when maxed out. Reload after one shot. Hoarding in RPGs just in case I MIGHT need something...never know when a fork will come in handy. |
| boypita said: For some unknown reason I try not to use the best items the game gives you :P Ethers or elixirs on rpgs for example. |
Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
I'm with you. Always thinking I'll need it later or if I get stuck. Hell I do it with shooters like Doom that let you have great weapons and save their ammo. I'm always walking around with BFG rounds and gattling gun fully loaded. |
This too.
In RPGs I like to use powerful spells often, if mana isn't excessively hard to recharge, but in FPS I tend to hoard the most powerful ammos to save them for the hardest fights, and then I use few or none of them even in those occasions, for example the first time I played Quake II, I arrived to the final boss with all the ammos maxed out, then I killed him in a painfully long take cover, peek out and shoot sequence using only the blaster.
| TallSilhouette said: 'Taking a break' 2/3rds through a game, then not touching it for months/years. By the time I finally come back, I might as well restart from the beginning. |
This happened to me not for my fault only, as when I had to upgrade (downgrade?) from Win 2000 to XP as the former's extended support was going to expire, Thief III stopped working, its DRM was constantly damaging XP's optical drives drivers, this prevented Morrowind too from working. I stubbornly tried to make T III work for months, endlessly reinstalling it and the drivers to no avail and I ended up feeling lost in Morrowind. In the end I was able to make Thief III work only getting GOG's DRM-free version, but by then I had already upgraded to Win 7. I was finally able to finish Thief III, enjoying it a lot, although it took steps backwards compared to Thief I and II in many things, but resuming playing Morrowind was painful, a big world with free roaming and so many things left pending, and I haven't managed to finish it yet, anything can distract me from it. Maybe after so much time I fear messing up the main quests (I have the GotYE, with Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansions), as each time I resume playing I just do a lot of sidequests and I don't really proceed in the game.
Although on the portable I hadn't these problems, I stopped playing Planescape: Torment, and each time I try to resume playing it it's hard, I forgot too many things, and this time it's all my fault, as I like that game, but something stopped me anyway.
