Recurring Gaming Habits

[TheyCallMeTheSwede]

I have seen threads in the past based on gaming habits (mostly bad ones), but there is something I notice lately and it lasted for over 10 years. I have notice that nearly every wrestling game ever made, since they started having CAWs, Every year, since Wrestlemania 2000 for the N64, I have always created this one character in the games, which basically the most simple character, wearing a Black T-shirt, Camo pants, Black long hair, a beard with a simple name...and his name was Chainsaw, somehow, I have always been attached to this character, and since then every year when there is a CAW feature, I would make that character first, and as I get older and the game gets more deep the creation feature, my creativity pretty much expanded beyond belief, I pretty much made this simple character to a deep complex character, ie, he had a rival, a friend, a girlfriend that would escort him to the ring, and gave him a full name "Chainsaw" Charlie Romaro. Since SVR11 has a character feature, I wanted to make a storyline based on this character...but I did not know what to do, then I figure, I am going to make a retirement storyline on him since my interest of wrestling games is pretty much on life support and I have since make better characters (that I also made over the years that I still make), plus he was the oldest character that I have ever made.

So yeah, anybody got some recurring gaming habits that would like to share?

[Damm64]

On some adventure games where are things too collect like puzzles pieces or golden bananas i ALLWAYS try too get it all before fighting the final boss... i ALLWAYS end up saying f*ck it i will kill that end boss! There's only a few games that i got 100% items.

[J T]

Since SVR11 has a character feature, I wanted to make a storyline based on this character...but I did not know what to do, then I figure, I am going to make a retirement storyline on him since my interest of wrestling games is pretty much on life support and I have since make better characters (that I also made over the years that I still make), plus he was the oldest character that I have ever made.

If you haven't seen it yet, you need to watch The Wrestler.

[Xeogred]

I'm really OCD about inventory management. lol
(in games where you can rearrange it yourself, like RE4, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, etc)

[BoringSupreez]

I always play with the exact same looking guy every time I play KOTOR, but that's as far as I go. I like the hero to have a definite, unchanging look. I mean, how would you like it if Indiana Jones was played by a different actor in each movie?

[DomitorInvictus]

Lately I've been more bent on collecting games than playing them, and I can't control it.
Anyone else have this problem?

[Damm64]

I'm really OCD about inventory management. lol
(in games where you can rearrange it yourself, like RE4, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, etc)

Same here... i can't see a grenade next to a 9mm amunition!

[Gamerforlife]

I hate games that track your deaths and failures. I obsessed over keeping my deaths at zero in Resident Evil 5, which is funny in retrospect as I didn't even like the game much. I'll probably do the same if I ever get back to playing Dead Nation

I got 100% in Grand Theft Auto Vice City while making sure that I had zero hospital visits and arrests on my stats. I'm a perfectionist. Not a life choice I'd recommend to others

[mjmjr25]

Lately I've been more bent on collecting games than playing them, and I can't control it.
Anyone else have this problem?

I think many of us have this - it ebbs and flows though.

Sometimes i'm more into the selling/buying/trading.
Sometimes i'm more into the collecting/arranging/accessorizing/displaying.
Sometimes i'm actually in it for the games.

Right now i'm playing more than I have since I was probably 15, so its nice. 18 months ago I spend 90% of my video game time collecting and then displaying and only 10% actually playing. So yeah, it comes and goes.

A microcosm - i've owned Contra for NES 8 or possibly 9 times in the last 2 years, at one point I had 3 copies - currently I have 0 copies. I have not played it since I was 12-13 years old, so, yeah - part of the hobby. Oh, and I really want to play Contra right now.

[ryanofcali]

Since SVR11 has a character feature, I wanted to make a storyline based on this character...but I did not know what to do, then I figure, I am going to make a retirement storyline on him since my interest of wrestling games is pretty much on life support and I have since make better characters (that I also made over the years that I still make), plus he was the oldest character that I have ever made.

If you haven't seen it yet, you need to watch The Wrestler.

That ending was bullshit.