Bad gaming habits

[Flodder450]

Whenever I start a game, I always rub the controller on my crotch and then sniff it for good luck. This is a bad habit because I know that some day it will get me kicked out of Game Stop or Toys R Us or Dave & Busters.

......What?

[Croooow!]

Most of the time when I am at close the end of the game, I actually stop playing the game until at least a year later so I could beat it. For some reason I take breaks on games and it lasted me a year.

I'm guilty of this as well. I've been at the last level in Viewtiful Joe for over a year and at the final stage in MGS3 Snake Eater four probably four years. I want to finish both games but I'm afraid that I've forgotten how to play them well enough to beat them.

[REPO Man]

My worst gaming habit? Buying games I'm interested in and developing such a backlog that I only play maybe 1/4 of them.

I dont' do that with games. Books and DVDs, yeah.

When I played Super Mario World on GBA, I always reset the game when I lost a life. I eventually ended up with HUNDREDS of lives.

I play dozens of different games in a time period (like right now, I'm splitting time between Phantasy Star (via Sonic's Genesis Collection) and a few other games I have for the 360) and will sometimes leave a game alone for a long time.

I haven't played some games in YEARS! God of War is a game I played a few nights ago for the first time in years. After I beat Normal, I'm beating the next two difficulty levels and trading the game in somewhere.

I have yet to get the next .hack game. Haven't touched .hack//INFECTION in what I assume is aeons. In between beating the last boss and getting //MUTATION, I'm just gonna level grind a bit and beef up some of my weaker characters in //INFECTION.

I have way more but can't/won't say them right now.

[Balasubbie]

Screaming "Broken!" anytime I get my arse handed to me on platter in fighting games. Recently, it's been just and sound considering the last few I've played (some finished, others cursed off and threatened with petulant forms of toture) included the likes of SvC: Chaos, Street Fighter (the original) and that Apprentice gimp off Soul Calibur IV. Might as well add being a glutton for masochism, judging by my natural gravitation toward fighters with broken elements, or really, just broken engines.

[the7k]

Hey man, SvC Chaos was fun as hell. Where the hell else could you have Goenitz fighting Demitri, or Zero vs Mars People? If Capcom had half the balls SNK had with the roster, CvS2 wouldn't have been just KOFvSFA.

[Balasubbie]

Yes, aesthetics and rosters aside, it suffers woefully from SNK boss syndrome. Which'd be excusable somewhat, if the difficulty rose incrementally, as opposed to "oh my god, I was doing fine, now I'm being fisted by an albino Akuma" and sweet Jesus, good luck if you chose a Street Fighter characther. It's so unbalanced, Fox news looks to it for pointers......

[the7k]

Yes, aesthetics and rosters aside, it suffers woefully from SNK boss syndrome. Which'd be excusable somewhat, if the difficulty rose incrementally, as opposed to "oh my god, I was doing fine, now I'm being fisted by an albino Akuma" and sweet Jesus, good luck if you chose a Street Fighter characther. It's so unbalanced, Fox news looks to it for pointers......

To be fair, all the regular characters suck. It's boss characters or go home.

Edit: Also, to be even more fair, CvS2 was notably biased towards Street Fighter Alpha characters. Take Sagat and Blanka, for example. Compared to just about any other character, they could walk all over them without breaking a sweat. I many times ran Blanka when I was forced to use a controller I couldn't do special motions on (like a Japanese-style stick or a stock PS2 controller) simply because I didn't need special moves. All I needed were fierce punches, fierce kicks, throws and either N-Groove or K-Groove.

[Hobie-wan]

Whenever I start a game, I always rub the controller on my crotch and then sniff it for good luck. This is a bad habit because I know that some day it will get me kicked out of Game Stop or Toys R Us or Dave & Busters.

*note to self, no controller trades with Lime*

[littlecallen]

Easily my worst habit is playing a really long RPG for a really long time and then really not saving so that when the system really fails I get really mad cuz I just really lost all of my data.
Fucking really!

[Bradtemple87]

Easily my worst habit is playing a really long RPG for a really long time and then really not saving so that when the system really fails I get really mad cuz I just really lost all of my data.
Fucking really!

I'm on the other side. I start rpgs and dont finish them