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[DeathDude]

Sometimes I like to commentate during a tennis/golf match (The mario series) just to break the concentration of friends.

The whole spending time to level up your characters do a bit (Final Fantasy pretty much engrained this in me) so with other rpg's where you do not have to do this, can be annoying to build up a character and realize oh could have beaten him or her at a lower level.

[RyGuy]

In FPS games, I too move my head left and right to peak around corners, but that's when I'm really into the game. RPG and the like I tend to fill out my map because I'm never satisfied not knowing what that last blank space may hold.

A lot of my friends, when I play racing games with them, tend to turn the controller as if it were a steering wheel. A lot of people seem to do this, watch your friends next time they play a racing game.

[Juni Ori]

RyGuy, on Nov 8 2006, 05:04 PM, said:

In FPS games, I too move my head left and right to peak around corners, but that's when I'm really into the game. RPG and the like I tend to fill out my map because I'm never satisfied not knowing what that last blank space may hold.

A lot of my friends, when I play racing games with them, tend to turn the controller as if it were a steering wheel. A lot of people seem to do this, watch your friends next time they play a racing game.

Actually I've understood that both are very common phenomenons. But understandable. I do "steering" also and it's annoying, makes me feel dumb. One thing I noticed lately, is that sometimes when I listen music while playing FPS, the music affects a lot of my tactics. For instance, when the tempo is high, I may be rushing in bullets flying all around, trusting into speed and accurate bursts. Same thing happens when I'm driving irl, actually. Excellent example is Stairway to Heaven... All of the sudden in the middle of the song I tend to press the pedal a little harder.

[RyGuy]

Yeah both of them are understandable(and they do make me feel dumb too ) but it's just funny to watch someone do these things. You can really tell when someone is "in the zone" while playing these games. Music too can definitly affect you. I know that I tend to do better with music playing in Counter Strike, except for not hearing foot steps. The mind is a funny thing.

[DeathDude]

Think that music does have an impact on the mind when playing. It should in most cases because the different tempos of music from fast to slow, style and rhythm really adds to the whole gameplay experience. Least for myself it does affect me when playing games and like the more heavier music material, but bringing it down to a more softer tempo always is good to hear too. Think that's why RPG's usually are the best genre where game music excels in.

[Blood-Pigggy]

When I play Day Of Defeat Source, I like to prone then play the whole game that way, it's funny because all your team mates are running past you, and you get little comments like "What the *meep* are you doing Bill Nye the Nazi Spy".

[Mighty Midget]

I don't know if this counts as bizarre or strange...   but mostly, when I play a game, I at some point stop playing the game as such, and instead search for code bloopers I can exploit. I go "I wonder if they ever thought of this". Of course, the game becomes silly, unplayable at a "serious" level and all that, but it's interesting to watch something happen that most definitely was not supposed to happen. Examples: Having the F-18 hanging upside down under the game's "ceiling" and watch the enemy's AI try to figure out their next move, exploring "behind the scene" in 3d games and look at how they built the stuff from a different angle, getting stuck inside the enemy so that they can't hit you while the opposite is quite possible...

Or: Handing out comments to the game world/NPCs/beasts: "Give daddy a big warm hug" as I approach the squirrel in Baldur's Gate, just to whack it with my broadsword. Or, if the AI sucks, I usually just kill the stupid gits with an "idiot... why didn't you do something? Did you see me coming? Did you? Yeeeeees.... wave bye-bye... idiot!". If someone overheard me while playing, I think they would wonder "WTFH?".

(That "move head to see around corner"? Haven't we all?

[DeathDude]

I sometimes do that in my head with some of the npc's not to that extent though.

Sometimes make up what I think a certain character sounds like in my head, pretty sure not the only one who does this, and it can be annoying when later down the line through a movie, tv show or whatever you end up hearing a character and the voice is totally off, that sometimes just ruins the show because ya end up with sissy voice actor voicing your favourite character, but I digress.

[Juni Ori]

One thing I used to do was choose high-tempo aggressive metal whenever I entered battle in Medieval Total War. Which brings into my mind, that MTW2 is out and I heard it's a must have, even though more like graphical update with RTW improvements.

[DeathDude]

I used to do that for Unreal Tournament although really only for offline play, when I was playing online I liked to hear the in game music, as sometimes outside music can distract ya in such a case.

[Potatoe]

RyGuy, on Nov 8 2006, 03:04 PM, said:

In FPS games, I too move my head left and right to peak around corners, but that's when I'm really into the game.

Me too. Or used to, it's a strange habit, nowadays I don't do it much/at all.

[RyGuy]

It's not just peeking around corners. I just had a friend lower his head when he was crouching ingame! :

[DeathDude]

Well least now with some of those habits, it won't seem so strange when your playing those games on the wii.

[Frodo]

RyGuy, on Nov 13 2006, 04:40 PM, said:

It's not just peeking around corners. I just had a friend lower his head when he was crouching ingame! :<img src=:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Hey, lowering the head is a perfectly normal thing to do!     

I also flinch, when I get hit in the game.  

[Potatoe]

In FPS games I reload even if I have a full clip. In those that you can.