480601 No.14007572
Do you guys have any quirks that would be considered weird when you play vidya? I have a couple.
>disdain for magic
In RPGs and such, I never use magic welding characters. I like them in my party, but my MC is always a fighter class.
>temporary stat boosts
If I could use 10SP or whatever for +5 strength i would use that move. However, if a temporary stat boost is in item form, I never use it. Potion of strength? Fuck that.
8cc971 No.14007574
I always pick the boy character and dress him up in the sluttiest outfit I can find :3
9f2060 No.14007581
>>14007572
I hate elves and katanas.
a1e6fd No.14007689
>>14007622
Can a post be both amusing but absolute garbage?
ff2038 No.14007704
I hate elves so goddamn much.
fe853a No.14007714
>>14007704
Me too. Fucking knife ear faggots.
d2e42d No.14007805
In games with inventory management ala Diablo I always put items in the four corners and try to keep the center clear for as long as possible, sometimes I don't even put stuff in the middle at all
e8bb7e No.14007818
Elves are better than Orcs tbh
f7deec No.14007879
I play the elf and act like a witty little cunt. I basically embrace the elf-ness.
When a game has potions, I save them for later. And then I never use them. For instance I played through deus ex without consumables or augmentations.
I generally pick the snowflake classes nobody ever picks, such as thief/ranger. Not so much nowadays because tryhards flocked to that kind of character.
768455 No.14007883
>>14007805
fuck Diablo 2's inventory management
>all you get is a piddling tiny stash to store your entire adventure's worth of equipment
>in a game that gives you shit like MAGICAL CONSUMABLES
fuck this shit I want Diablo 1 back again
5c449f No.14007897
I compulsively hoard consumables and never use them. Potion of Bull's Strength? Not even that uncommon. Still hoarded and never used. Not even sold. Aether Clusters? Hoarded. Never used. Etc. etc.
21d8be No.14007902
In history-based grand strategy games, I always have to do things with as much historical accuracy as possible.
5c449f No.14007932
Shit, even in games where I can craft potions I never use them (except healing potions, and I only use those in serious "OH SHIT" moments).
6f66b7 No.14007941
I think way too much about the morality and consequences of my actions, like would it be better to talk a group bandits out of a fight and prevent loss of life or would it be better to wipe them out and guaranteeing they won't hurt anyone else.
It's like that even if I know for a fact they won't show up once they're dealt with, it's a pain in the ass.
7da640 No.14007952
>>14007572
I always fucking stockpile potions and consumables never to use them. It always feels like it'd be waste to use them, better save them for when i REALLY need 'em.
If a shooter has a revolver i'll always use it and fully upgrade it if possible. Even better if it has a long and slender barrel.
If a game has armor options that don't actually change your appearance i'll almost always drop them after a few hours, it has to be a really good game for me to look past that.
I'm incapable of taking the edgelord options in most games, it always makes me feel bad for the NPCs.
5381eb No.14007956
>>14007572
>disdain for magic
I'm the opposite. For RPGs if and when there's a magic option I pick it. The mindset always was, since I was a kid, that real life doesn't have magic.
5c449f No.14007961
>>14007941
I actually like games where hard choices like that really end up mattering. Even more if the choices have unexpected consequences.
1440f1 No.14007984
I use highly inefficient strategies for cool effect.
I play for fun when everyone else plays for muh ranks.
I try to roleplay in grand strategy, as well as in military shooters.
I have a disdain for fantasy.
Do I need to continue?
d64805 No.14007993
21d8be No.14007994
>>14007984
What kind of inefficient strategies?
76b536 No.14007998
>>14007902
>repeating history
>not roleplaying reasonably believable alt-histories
Sounds even worse than blobbing.
22f989 No.14008003
I only play humans and dorfs. I also never use potions or poisons because I couldn't be fucking bothered. I like playing dumb shit, like a super fast character with high dodge, wielding a huge fuckoff hammer or claymore, and I enjoy shield bashing shit an unreasonable amount.
f7deec No.14008010
Where do you lads who play fantasy games only to never touch the fantasy part come from?
I want to go to that place and raze it to the ground.
aee026 No.14008011
don't know if this counts but I have trouble finishing games, mostly rpgs because I don't want it to end
5c449f No.14008021
>>14007993
I can't think of anything I've recently played that fits the bill, but I could have sworn that there was a game where if you talked some assholes out of a fight they end up going on to run into the big bad's (not the BIGGEST bad but a big bad) party that's chasing you and seriously weakening them (making them an easier fight). I cannot for the life of me remember the game though.
21d8be No.14008022
>>14007998
Well, I do sometimes alter the military organizations for pragmatic reasons, but it's all autism tbh.
76b536 No.14008081
>>14008022
I get that, I just prefer to start all of my GS runs with some interesting historical "what if" scenario. What if Harald Hardrade conquered England in 1066 instead of William of Normandy? What if the Kingdom of Jerusalem had survived? What if Japan hadn't bombed Pearl Harbor? I like making small changes and mostly observing the results from there, doing a pure repeat of actual events seems boring to me.
2b83be No.14008114
I always try to make an unarmed character if it's viable. Who needs weapons when I'm the weapon? Even better if I can use magic along with unarmed fighting as well, like a Monk type character. Unfortunately RPGs make it a habit now to make unarmed fucking useless or brainless. Instead of just boosting punching damage, why not give me all kinds of crazy throws, holds, chokes, and fighting styles? Add some kicking in there too. Let me curb stomp people and swat peoples' heads off their shoulders with my foot.
f7deec No.14008131
>>14008114
Sounds like a deep dark fantasy.
7da640 No.14008155
>>14008114
Unarmed is woefully ignored by most devs.
b4baa1 No.14008168
in games where it's applicable i always turn off all assists, applies mostly to spess games.
5c449f No.14008191
>>14008114
You know what I really want? A River City Ransom-esque game that lets you do all that shit. Learn new moves in different unarmed combat styles, mix and match even so you can have a Thai kickboxer who knows how to judo-throw and shit like that.
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070422 No.14008245
If the game has a silent protag, I voice act their lines to fit what I think they would sound like, even when people are around to hear me do it. I can even do both male and female
40e4a9 No.14008254
I move through text as fast as possible even if the text moves too quickly for me to read it.
I'm not skipping through the text; I read the text as best as I can, and I get engrossed in stories. I almost consider it a challenge to play through a visual novel or text-heavy RPG and follow the story and characters all the way through.
ff3875 No.14008270
I always set brightness as low as possible, turn on subtitles and turn off as much of the HUD I can
5f11b2 No.14008287
>>14008191
>Learn new moves in different unarmed combat styles, mix and match
God Hand at least does that.
052a46 No.14008290
Sometimes I narrate shit that I'm doing as if explaining it to an audience. This actually helps to understand what I am doing, because I have to demonstrate it at a fundamental level that even a novice can understand.
My main goal for pretty much any game is to build pretty shit. Though, my definition of what is "pretty" is a little odd.
9ef05b No.14008351
In Fallout 1, 2 and Arcanum, I always try to make a character who is only good at navigating conversations. High Speech, high Charisma, nothing into combat skills or stealth. I actually managed to make it pretty far into Fallout 2, too.
a64433 No.14008637
Motherfucking martial artists/monks. If there is an opportunity to make a character like that I fucking gravitate to that shit every goddamn time even if it fucking sucks most of the time. What I'm trying to say is that >>14008114 is my nigga. On the other hand this type of weapon in DMC and similar games is always 10/10 so there's that at least.
ea50b4 No.14008655
If it's possible, yet suboptimal to play a cleric character, I will play it.
1440f1 No.14010875
>>14007994
Tank rushing in games where it doesn't really work and trying to make cool formations and moving in like that… of course until i make that formation they all die.
b13c98 No.14011006
>>14007572
My famalam.
I hate shit like elves, orcs and other classical west-fantasy-tier shit so I usually pick the Glorious Human Race for my characters.
I never use katanas even ironically.
I love setting really weird and difficult traps that obliterate anything that triggers it.
Sometimes I use as little equipment and weapons in games as possible.
I always try to fight or make my main character fight unarmed and just base his growth, stats and skills around unarmed combat. I don't really know why, but I just like unarmed combat.
If there are really no any options to fight unarmed, then I pick the biggest sword and RP as Guts.
Also I try to paint my character, weapons and vehicles red so they will movethree times morefaster.
I absolutely love overkilling enemies.
>>14008114
Try Tales of Maj'Eyal. It has an unlockable Brawler class that lets you make a literal Kenshiro, with the Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken and pressure point trickery or you can make a wild wrestler that tosses shit around. It was really fun playing this class. It was nice to punch great dragons in the face till they die.
000000 No.14011023
>>14007572
In Deus Ex and games like that, I kill everyone on the streets and dump their bodies in the sewers. Then I walk around the empty streets and get a very weird thrilling feeling. I like to imagine someone walking the city at night, thinking everything is fine, then wondering where everyone is, not knowing that an entire graveyard rests below his feet.
Then I reload the game and play like a normal person.
c00d6c No.14014934
>>14007572
When I play RPGs, I have a compulsive saving habit. I save in new slots constantly, because I'm paranoid and afraid I might want to go back to a certain moment and not be able to. I always save right before any dialogue. If I accidentally advance the dialogue before I was done looking at all the optional stuff, I'll reload and do the sequence again.
I hardly ever end up using any of the hundreds of saves I make, but despite that, I hardly ever delete them either. I just move them to a backup folder when they start clogging up the in-game save menu too much.
91fd69 No.14014989
>>14008655
I like to play as a battle white mage whenever possible. It started with FFT when I discovered the joys of holy bombing my opponents.
cbf1d6 No.14015002
>there's an option that you can spam or chain to other things
>exclusively use that and ignore anything else
and
>always look for alternate ways to beat the game
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faf67b No.14015009
>>14008254
I read so fast that i can just skip through everything and understand it clearly. I actually read slower with books than i do video games.
11073f No.14015015
I like RNG with my skills/weapons/etc and I always end up playing crit based classes. Also poisons.
b07629 No.14015179
I always like my character to look the way they do in the official artwork. None of this alternate costumes nonsense. Even if it means passing up in-game benefits granted by stronger gear, I still don't like changing my character's outward appearance.
I also avoid playing on pc at all costs. If a game happens to be only for pc, it's instantly neglected and disregarded in my eyes.
I find multiplayer a huge waste of time. Especially online multiplayer. I just like playing singleplayer experiences with a definite end to them. Not shit that can go on forever like the endless multiplayer matches, or arcade games that go on and on.
4d1ab4 No.14015192
This started kind of recently - I'd say only 4 years ago - but I like to multitask, even while gaming. That means I will usually have the main game im playing windowed and on the side will be either some video or a documentary or if the game I am playing is particularly mindless, an anime.
In RPGs or games with experience points and multiple party members, I try to keep all of them at the same level. For instance, in the GBA Fire Emblem games, I made everyone (except for the thieves) the same level, or as close as possible to it. I've heard multiple people do this and it seems more like a strategy than a quirk so I don't know about it.
The following quirk has been said a lot in this thread, but I, too, hoard items and never end up using them. My mindset is usually just to save them for really dangerous moments, but those moments rarely come, and even when they do, I may just forget I have items in the first place. Kind of the same case for when I am playing Touhou. By no means am I good at it, but while trying to 1cc on normal, I never use the bombs I am given because I feel like I should save them for when I am really truly in a bind, yet they end up going to waste whenever I die, which I inevitably will.
e3e20b No.14015234
I like hot female characters in my game but don't like to play as them.
eebff3 No.14015467
If a game lets me build and use traps, I will happily sink all of my time and resources into them. Land mines, spike walls, trip wires, remote explosives…I love them all. I've spent way too many hours on Fallout 4 simply because the settlement builder lets me turn entire towns into impenetrable trap-filled fortresses, and mods let me spend 90% of my time fighting by luring enemies into IEDs or planting remote-detonated explosives.
I guess I'm the inverse of the "horde the consumables" sort since traps, 9 times out of 10, are a one-use affair that you have to accept will likely be unrecoverable, even if they're never set off.
46b9af No.14015530
>>14015467
>If a game lets me […] use traps, I will happily sink all my […] resources into. I love them all. I've spent way too many hours […] turn(ing) […] impenetrable trap(s) […] into […] inverse […] traps. 9 times out of 10, (they) are a one-use affair that you have to accept will likely be unrecoverable, even if […] they're […] set off.
dc7905 No.14015533
>>14015467
Go play Cataclysm DDA.
4154f9 No.14015539
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Magic is real and demonic.
It's kabbalism/occultism/freemasonry/illuminati ancient mystery school Babylonian satanism.
Jesus Christ is LORD & Savior
ca8918 No.14015556
>>14015234
>having hot women fetish
Ew
ce18bf No.14016160
>>14014934
I did that with The Witcher, not realizing that the "quick save" feature didn't go to a single quick save, but to an individual hard save every time. By the end of Chapter II the game was so bogged down it was unplayable, and then I realized what I had done. About 120 deleted saves later, the game ran smooth again.
c00d6c No.14018169
>>14016160
I had that exact same experience. I have no idea why they set it up that way. Quicksaves were perfected a long time ago. Witcher 1 runs on the Neverwinter Nights engine, and NWN had proper quicksaving. If I recall correctly, Witcher was also one of those games that had a quicksave key but not a quickload key, which is a pet peeve of mine.
I ended up quitting The Witcher after Chapter 2 anyway, because the game itself didn't hold my interest.
d2e42d No.14018195
>>14015539
I just cast a spell on you
229240 No.14019568
>>14007572
>However, if a temporary stat boost is in item form, I never use it. Potion of strength? Fuck that.
as long as the potions arent too hard to come by i dont mind. even then i generally lean towards spell buffs. but i share this one with you for the most part.
other than that, im really bad when it comes to keeping outdated or outright junk items. im just terrible with inventories in general. dont play terraria with me.
f83fad No.14020200
I like to stand up when playing games with a controller
I'm really not sure why I do this. I guess it's a habit I had as a kid thanks to the arcades and never really grew out of it. Sometimes I bounce up and down on my toes from excitement. This is especially with fighting games, hack n slashes, and certain RPGs like Demon's Souls Thankfully I can contain it when around other people
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61a91b No.14020237
>>14007714
tfw no extra-liminal nirnian assault lattice who'll be my bf
368564 No.14020342
Going fast with a sword/other melee weapom.
Flicker strike in PoE, MGR:R, Mercenary in risk of rain, Warband, Chivalry, Warhammer:End Times, EDF 4.1 Fencer, E.Y.E., Hotline Miami, Catacomb Kids, running around as the japs in Rising Storm, Killing Floor, using stun prods in XCOM: UFO Defense, every single role-playing game that lets me optimize speed, luck, and swinging a sword around. Something about it is cathartic.
c08e42 No.14020352
not just related to vidya but, i unbind my scrollwheel in almost all games because i like to spamclick it for no reason. unsure if autistic or ocd.
i also like to play as underpowered characters (in rpgs) and races (in rts), and usually do so even if i normally wouldn't play saif char/race. altho if they get buffed in the future i stick with them and dont drop them because of the buff.
4014fc No.14020463
>>14007572
Goddamn, you and I would get along really well. I do the same things.
Also, will pretty much only play human characters.
229240 No.14020670
>>14020463
>no magic
>human only
this is the ultimate in dull
efc17d No.14020735
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If I can play as someone with counters I prefer it. Something fun about that risk.
I'll also lounge around in those little "paradise" looking alcoves that devs like to sprinkle in back areas.
f897b3 No.14020743
In RTS games I always spend like 2 hours building up defenses even if they are meaningless and a waste of resources.
They just look so cool.
229240 No.14020800
>>14020727
oh yeah? this is you
30e711 No.14022015
>>14007572
In RTS games I would always try to keep a balanced ratio of infantry to cavalry/tanks. Spamming a single OP unit that can target everything severly hurt my autism. However I don't do this anymore because it would lose me 80% of my games. Now I just min-max like a faggot and only look to win using the most optimal strats. I also hate playing the "default" boys in blue faction (Humans in wc3, GDI, UEF) because those usually don't have any special quirks to work around.
In RPG games with dialogue, I felt hard pressed to get every single dialogue response from every NPC, no matter how insignificant. I would also always forego progressing the main story and complete every single side quest I could find. I find classes without any supernatual abilities highly boring and never pick them seriously who the fuck finds "hitting things really hard" interesting?. I hate warriors with a passion. I also hate everything non-human looking or ugly, esspecially green niggers and lizards elves are alright though. I dislike overdesigned weapons and armor and would sacrifice stat efficiency to make my character more visually appealing.
In FPS games I religiously use the automatic or semi-auto rifle. Absolutely detest sniper kids, and killing one brings me great joy every time.
8da093 No.14023029
>>14020200
>standing up
Holy shit I do the exact same thing. They only time I sit is when I'm playing something casual. But if the casual game gets even a little intense, I will stand because I feel I have more focus like that. I'm a console peasant too so I will play 2 hour multiplayer sessions while standing the whole time.
1ab816 No.14023045
>>14007572
>I never use magic welding characters
>He uses physical based rivets
Enjoy your shear failure, faggot.
72ad8d No.14023066
>>14015556
Girl fetishists are so gross.
a888e4 No.14024618
I can only play through the story of a game once. Even if there are multiple paths to go through I only ever play once and then look up what the other endings are.
d709c0 No.14024633
>Game has physics system which allows you to drag around corpses
>Drag Undead enemies right back into the coffins they sprung out of so they can finally rest in peace.
f83fad No.14026481
>>14008114
Fuck, I'd make a build like that in every game if possible. Having elemental fists and magic impacts to compliment your punches and kicks is such an untapped goldmine. Just recently I made an unarmed build in Dungeon Lords CE and the animations/combos in that are actually pretty damn complex for a style of fighting not many people would use. Even better when the combos improve and damage rises as you level the skill. You can even buff your fists with fire, ice, holy, dark, lifedrain, etc.
I can use magic along that too without suffering penalties from not equipping a staff. Hell, a lot of the classes are unarmed martial artists with various magic types. Sucks that a lot of games force you to use a staff or some kind of casting item for spells. Not sure why I can't just shoot purging light from my hands.
>>14023029
I tend to fidget in my seat if I'm playing a game sitting down. I play consoles and PC, but even with my PC I stand up and just angle the screen and play with a controller for active games like say Furi.
I've been doing this pretty much my whole life. tfw you have permanently muscular legs from years of standing up and bouncing while playing games
608486 No.14026572
I always take my time in RTS-games. I like to have to be base look good, nothing assymetrical or it won't float. Like there has to be two guard-towers on each side of the road, the biggest base has to be in the middle, the baracks can be off to the side etc. The units always has to of six, one leader and 5 soldiers. Hence why i always lose i guess.
I always use my own name whenever characters are made. Everything else seems phony and ridiculous.