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What are your gaming idiosyncracies?
Something unusual you like to do in games -- your uniquely weird habit or preference or behavior.
Tell us all about it.
Something unusual you like to do in games -- your uniquely weird habit or preference or behavior.
Tell us all about it.
Probably not what you’re looking for, but I think I like games way more than I like playing games :|
Ouch. Me too.
Beating WW2 FPSs using only the weapons that would be actually available to that soldier.
Currently playing Factorio which i am not great at, but i am putting a LOT of energy into paving a whole continent.
Also, i have to loot everything. Games take me a very long time to finish because of this. Overall I'm pretty sure I am highly diagnosable.
There's a commonly repeated phrase in the Factorio community:
The corollary to this is that you can call anything that doesn't have concrete your "starter base" and make it as messy as you like.
Meanwhile my base is an absolute brick with its own internal train tracks instead of conveyor belts because of how big it is. Paving that monster was uh, an experience.
Not sure if any of this counts, but I did previously share my weird habit of playing single-player C&C Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge skirmishes on maps that position the enemy base behind a bridge, then rushing to blow up said bridge and cut them off from everything. Because of a flaw in the game's AI, it never thinks to repair the bridge. So I scoop up all the resources at a leisurely pace while the enemy withers, and fart around for an hour or whatever just amassing a huge army until I get bored and steamroll everything.
I think I also play tactical RPG combat wrong. What you're supposed to do is look for enemy weaknesses, like you're fighting a fire beast so target it with your water magic, make sure you've got your enchanted helm on that gives you +2 attack against hell-type creatures, target its right shoulder which is unprotected but only against piercing ranged weapons. Delegate roles to everybody in the party — healer, sniper, tank, and so on. Study your spellbook, manage your magicka supply, consult your spreadsheet to make sure you're min-maxing the right skills for your build. But I just don't have the patience for (or honestly, interest in) any of that. I just put all my points into strength and wail on the baddies with the biggest axe I can find. If I can bypass all the complex mechanics and just spam "strong melee attack" instead, that's what I will do. My favorite BG3 run I teamed up with Lae'zel, Shadowheart, and Minthara — respecced ALL of them as berserker barbarians and just blunt-forced our way through every mob the game threw at us.
I know that probably wouldn't have been possible on a "real" difficulty level but this is how I like my games. I don't think hard == fun, and constantly losing and retrying encounters is just frustrating and tedious for me. I want to advance the story, not do math. I game at the end of the day to rest my brain after adulting for umpteen hours.
I'm also the guy who likes to explore every nook and cranny, and do every inane fetch quest. Don't ask me why. I've never finished The Witcher 3 because I got so bogged down in its wonderful plentiful side quests that I burned out and switched to something else.
I love video games but I don't know anybody else who plays them like I do. I'm a gamer but I'm not a gamer.
Holy crap I loved RA2 and Yuri's Revenge; spent an unbelievable amount of hours playing those games....25 years ago...fuck. I'll have to look into that CnCNet thing you mentioned. Something I loved doing as a kid in Yuri's Revenge was amassing as many infantry units as I could on a map and then seeing how many would die to a single Virus sniper shot, green clouds everywhere.