Silly Little Things You Do With Games

[Darragh]

I used to forward roll almost everywhere in Ocarina Of Time, especially across Hyrule Field, thinking it made me faster.

Did it?

[martroid]

Some of mine:

In driving games on Xbox which use the triggers, even though the trigger for accelerate is pushed all the way in I'll still squeeze it a lot harder than I need to. After some big sessions on Forza a while back, this habit caused one of my fingers to swell up a bit and go numb for a good two weeks

Breaking the shoulder buttons on two PS2 controllers from some frenzied mid combo weapon switching in DMC3. I blame the crap build quality though.

Used to be a bit obsessive about dust getting on the screens of my handhelds. Just a few visible specks of dust were enough to put me off a game and make me pause it to remove them. Luckily, I've stopped this one.

Used to be worried about scratching up my DS touch screen. Nearly refused to do the end boss in Project Rub because of this. Now that the screen actually does have some scratches on it (one big one and lots of tiny ones) I've stopped worrying about it. You cant actually see them 99% of the time anyway.

If a game offers multiple slots for saves, I'll only ever use one and keep overwriting it. Seems tidier that way.

[TomCGCG]

In World of Warcraft, after ressurecting my owl (as this invariably means poor Kasp's sacrificed himself so I can run away like a sissy) I always target him and give him a /hug as I feed him. Makes him feel appreciated. Too much time spent with just him for company methinks...

[Klatrymadon]

Another one, when playing a shmup for the first time and trying to find the fire button I always hit the bomb button first.

Christ, yeah! I do that every chuffing time.

[Ran]

Christ, yeah! I do that every chuffing time.

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Ive had a number of comedy moments rocketing through DoDon Pachi getting real cocky, Putting on my "Now suck on this mother fuckers" face, pressing the Bomb button only to remember ive remapped it leaving my ship firing sweet fuck all and duly swallowing an enemy bullet.

Head falls into hands.

[ModoX]

If a game offers multiple slots for saves, I'll only ever use one and keep overwriting it. Seems tidier that way.

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I'm quite the opposite with this, I use the top slot, then the next one, and so on, and go round in a circle, it has to be in the right order or I get panicky. I just figure I might do something I regret and want to go back to an earlier point, so I'll use up as many saves as the game allows, even once I've finished a level I wouldn't delete the saves from it, even once I've finished a game I keep them all. It's come in handy maybe once or twice in the umpteen years I've been doing it.

[zektbach]

For no reason whatsoever I would circle the little cursor that leaked stars while PSO loaded.

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But you only circle the cursor because it could be circled... had the cursor been uncontrollable I bet you wouldn't even be posting in this thread

[unspec]

I'm quite the opposite with this, I use the top slot, then the next one, and so on, and go round in a circle, it has to be in the right order or I get panicky. I just figure I might do something I regret and want to go back to an earlier point, so I'll use up as many saves as the game allows, even once I've finished a level I wouldn't delete the saves from it, even once I've finished a game I keep them all. It's come in handy maybe once or twice in the umpteen years I've been doing it.

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in FFVIII I'll use 3 save slots and rotate them

[1]

[2]

[3]

But I'll keep a 4th save on the next screen JUST IN CASE

[aaronayl1]

I used to forward roll almost everywhere in Ocarina Of Time, especially across Hyrule Field, thinking it made me faster.

Did it?

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Yes. I know this because back when Ocarina first came out, I was scared of the skeletons that come out at night.

So when you first go to Hyrule castle town you don't make it before nightfall. But if you roll you get there just in time.

[pompey88]

Before i got 100% on GT4 (i'm not bragging ) Sometimes it wouldn't load so i believed that when i held down the reset button to red rather than just pressing reset it would work.

[martTM]

In Super Mario World, whenever Mario was sitting on a moving platform and I had to wait until it reached its destination before he could get off, I'd tap down on the D-pad in time with the music, to make Mario 'dance' in a crouching-to-standing-to-crouching kind of way.

Does that count?

[martroid]

I reckon it does. Sadly, I do exactly the same thing.

A kind of similar thing, I really annoyed a friend when playing HL2 on his computer by constantly throwing things at people and trying to sit on thier heads while they were talking to me.

"You're ruining the atmosphere!"

[kerraig UK]

In Halo Lan when it said "slayer" I always used to sing the intro riff to Slayers "reign in blood".

And in halo 2, on the score screen for the 2 seconds before the next round, i ALWAYS try to kill myself

Any games with unskippable intros i'll always hammer every button in every combination anyway. Likewise, i'll hammer the start button during developer logo's at the start.

[ZOK]

When I am making multiple saves in games, I always retain saves of cool sections or events so that when my mate Slimey comes down from the smoke I can show him those bits. I still do this now, even though for the past three years all we ever play when he turns up is Monkey Target...

[ModoX]

Any games with unskippable intros i'll always hammer every button in every combination anyway. Likewise, i'll hammer the start button during developer logo's at the start.

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Ah yeah, I do this too, one thumb on start, one on A (or X for PS2) and bash like I'm playing Virtua Athlete. One day I'm sure it will skip the logos.

[df0notfound]

Running around in circles, making them tighter and tighter in MGS2 is where it's at. It looks hilarious when you really get it going.

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haha yeah I do that too, in most games really but mgs2 is very good at it, walk in a snakey pattern too and doing cartwheels down every staircase.

[Frankie Lee]

I first started this way back in the original GT but I'm still doing it these days in Forza:

As the race is starting and the camera pans around my car I steer the front wheels back and forth really quickly in the belief that it'll heat up the rubber underneath thus getting me better grib. At first it started as a laugh but now I can't stop myself!

[elmo]

argh... commentating during football games (as long as no one else can hear)

and shooting into the air if i'm still alive at the end of a game of rainbow 6

[Triple A]

Another one, when playing a shmup for the first time and trying to find the fire button I always hit the bomb button first.

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bloody hell, i always do this too!

in the arcade also - which means i always need to put in another credit to get that perfect run - as if! :-)

[ScouserInExile]

Old one: C64 tape games: the tape player had to be as far away from the computer and TV as possible, with the cable dead straight, othwise the game wouldn't load.

New one: "eat my goal / glove / foot / dust" everytime I win a game / race.

Oh and I lean forward to accelerate faster in racing games

[Gabe]

argh... commentating during football games (as long as no one else can hear)

and shooting into the air if i'm still alive at the end of a game of rainbow 6

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God, I used to do that when I played the original Kick Off on my ST. I would commentate fully on the games, too. And with Emlyn Hughes, IIRC.

[pauc]

Champ Manager - During any match I start to lean to the side of the screen containing the oppositions goal in the belief the possession bar along the bottom will move along with me.

In dire circumstances I even start quietly chanting something like 'left, come on, left, a bit more'.

[Sng]

I used to do crazy stuff with CM. (Back in about 93, honest).

Like think covering the monitor with a sheet of A4 paper so I could only see the scoreline would give me good luck.

"But I can see the flashing lights through the paper, argh! Grab a magazine, quick!"

[pauc]

My worst stint of madness was in the 97/98 version of the game, green cover and mitre magma on the front.

I also had a strange belief that if I didn't celebrate each goal with passion and vigour I would be punished with a drought.

Console wise, during every loading screen I perform the Hadoken action on the pad and dont look at the screen. Makes it load faster doncherknow.

[ThreeHeadedMonkey]

When spectating on CS I always fly round the map attempting to make it through doors and down passageways without going through any of the walls/objects.

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Allways, that or trying to get nice cinematic shots.

[ianwuk]

Astilius, I used to do that with my Amiga. Sometimes I would turn the monitor off as the game loaded for fear of the Amiga getting upset and crashing.

[Mercury]

I couldn't think of any when this thread first started but I realised today that when I use the "Regulate Condition" option in PES4 Master League, I HAVE to win the match even though it doesn't record the score and is completely pointless.

[Sonic.Mirrorz]

I played sprung.

I bet no one else has done that.

[Cyhwuhx]

I played sprung.

I bet no one else has done that.

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.::: You havn't met Rllmuk's Underground Sprung Clique then.

[tnman]

On PSO, I had to rebound the little ball of light of all four corners and sides of the screen, and then put it back exactly in the middle of the screen before it finished loading.

I have mastered this. B)