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Shiken said:
Nautilus said:

You are weird XD

I KNEW I WAS NOT ALONE IN THIS.  My friends and even my wife all think i am crazy lol.

Worse is after you explain it to them, they still look at you like "dude you lost it".



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JRPGfan said:
Shiken said:

I KNEW I WAS NOT ALONE IN THIS.  My friends and even my wife all think i am crazy lol.

Worse is after you explain it to them, they still look at you like "dude you lost it".

LOL That is so true



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

JRPGfan said:
Shiken said:

I KNEW I WAS NOT ALONE IN THIS.  My friends and even my wife all think i am crazy lol.

Worse is after you explain it to them, they still look at you like "dude you lost it".

So true, even when I give examples.  My wifes younger brother came over and used my PS4 once.  Np right?  Well I thought so too till I saw a open pack of gushers sitting next to the controller.  I picked it up to find all kinds of stucky crap on the bottom.  Buttons were also sticking as well.

 

Luckily I am one of those guys who is not afraid to take shit apart, so I disassembled the controller and cleaned the gunk from the buttons myself.  Works good as new, but damn if I didnt nearly have an aneurysm when I saw it.

 

And of course, even with these examples, I am the crazy one lol.



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StarOcean said:
Nautilus said:

It sucks doest it?!?!?And I have a brother that also plays with my Wii U and PS4 that dont wash its hands and when I play after he used it... ugh.Every time that happens I go to the bathroom to take the towel to clean the controler.You are not alone!This is a habit of the winners!!!

Oi, I feel you two. I once let my sisters play on my N64 without washing their hands. Didn't think about it but later on they had a lot of soda and now the buttons are permanently shitty. They have a bit of a stick to them when you press them which can cause delay x~x

Have a similar case but with a PS2 controller.The right stick is eternally sticky.That is one reason why I always feel apprehensive when there is a visitor at home and they want to use my gaming devices



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

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I hate playing survival games because I'm afraid to use any of my resources, ammo, etc.

I played through RE4 thinking I needed to conserve ammo when there was always plenty. I played through all of the first Dead Space using my standard handgun weapon because I didn't want to use my big weapons in case a big battle came.

Survival games are too stressful for me.



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Wright said:

On shooters, I always have the need to be constantly reloading whenever there's a small window of safeness. Even if I just shot one bullet, I hit reload and let it flow. I remember there was a game that heavily punished that by removing the whole magazine bullet count instead of individual bullets. Ugh, hard times.

Another reason to hate the Tomb Raider Reboot. After loading, weapons start with as many bullets loaded as the the stock magazine capacity of the weapon, so the first thing I had to do is to reload all the weapons I had upgraded the magazine capacity because programmers were so stupid that didn't consider that someone would do it.

 

OT: Saving after doing the smallest of the things in RPGs to avoid losing progress. Example:

Enter a new city -> saving -> sleep at inn -> saving -> buy new stuff -> saving -> did I save? -> saving -> talk with NPCs -> saving -> why not save again? -> saving



Well, I collect all of the things. I have to force myself to use any items not readily replenished. I need to remove all fog of war, all of it. In open world I need to either ignore all sidequests and focus on the main quest exclusively OR clear all the optional stuff before continuing the story.



Wright said:

On shooters, I always have the need to be constantly reloading whenever there's a small window of safeness. Even if I just shot one bullet, I hit reload and let it flow. I remember there was a game that heavily punished that by removing the whole magazine bullet count instead of individual bullets. Ugh, hard times.

On RPGs, I always have the feel that my party isn't fully restored unless I sleep in an inn, or somewhere else. Just using potions to maximize my HP doesn't cut it, for some reason.

I press my reload button constantly, just to make sure there is always a full clip.  I just have this feeling that I'll die if I have 29 bullets loaded instead of 30.  In one of the Borderlands games, there was a skill you could take with one of the characters where you got some kind of boost with less bullets in your clip but I just couldn't do it.  I tried it, hated it, and spec'd out to something else.

I hoard consumables.  I almost never use them, other than health potions, which I also use sparingly.  Everything else, I never use.  I end up with dozens, perhaps even hundreds of consumables in the bank.

I hate loading screens so much.  On PC, I have a ball I keep in my desk that I throw at the wall while I'm waiting.  There is a 'strike zone' and I try to get in at least a full inning.



I find myself saving every 30 seconds in games that don't have an autosave feature.



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