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[TheInfamousKira]

Okay. So I'm sitting here, scrolling through my screenshots on my PS5, and every time you hit R1 to go to the next image, the borders of the top and bottom of the screen go all vignette and obscure 66% of the image, making it a super pain in the ass to just scroll quickly through images and actually, you know, see them. I know you can immediately press up or down on the Dpad/left stick to make the shit go away, but like...I don't want to have to activate the Konami code to go through my images without condescendingly having my console obscure the entire screen telling me that the buttons I just pressed to do what I just did DO IN FACT just what I just did. In case I'm like....missing my frontal lobe.

And then I thought to myself:

I bet no one else in the fucking WORLD cares about this specific flavor of frivolous bullshit. Which brought me to the conclusion that people play games. And people are weird. So we ALL must have some eccentricity or condition to the games we play that, in all likelihood, we are the only ones who care.

If my hypothesis is correct, tell me the random OCD bullshit you neurodivergent pioneers indulge in.

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Setting inverted aiming. My buddies bitch about it all the time that I prefer it for most shooters yet one of them uses scroll wheel up for jump...scroll wheel up for jump. I neeeeeeever heard of that esoteric jump button assignment before and yet he got some nerve getting bugged out over inverted aiming

 

[Topher]

I'm not sure I want to know the "weird habits" of NeoGAF.

 

[Guilty_AI]

I terminate as much useless programs as i can when playing. Its pointless to do this in modern PCs (unless you're running blender or something) but i can stop myself.

 

[Represent.]

Purposely playing most games in Vivid mode, 30fps on my OLED.

Not giving a shit about performance at all

 

[Jaybe]

Vibration off

 

[Crayon]

I terminate as much useless programs as i can when playing. Its pointless to do this in modern PCs (unless you're running blender or something) but i can stop myself.

I'm only recently forcing myself to break this habit and it still feels like I left the stove on or something.

 

[Captain Toad]

Play Babylon's Fall on Steam.

 

[DryvBy]

I unlock a single trophy or achievement in a game, close it and then go "I'll come back to this later". It's sometimes many years later I'll return and pick it back up like nothing happened.

 

[Larxia]

I'm often bothered by upgrades in games that change things or add new things that can be a distraction to me.

For example, in Spider-Man, you can jump again immediatly after landing on something, and there's an upgrade that boosts this jump, but it now makes some kind of explosion / woosh noise, and smoke, and I hate it.
I really prefer the default jump so I never unlocked this upgrade, on purpose.

In Final Fantasy XV when I unlocked the Libra ability for Ignis, it really bothered me for a while that there was this big window with all the stats that would appear randomly on the corner on the screen, with me having no control over it, and no option to remove it when I don't want it.

More recently, in Guardians of the Galaxy, there's an upgrade that allows you to detect ressources, but the description said it was when using the scanner.
It's actually not that. Once you buy this upgrade, everytime you will be near an object, there will be an icon in the corner of the screen, flashing, and making a beeping noise.
I absolutely hated this. I hated the effect, and I hated the fact that, by showing me this, I knew where there were things immediatly, but more importantly, I knew where there wasn't anything, so there weren't any surprises anymore, if the icon wasn't there when exploring an area, I knew immediatly there was nothing to find, and I really disliked this.
I sadly didn't have any save backup, I didn't pay enough attention. I decided to restart the game from the beginning with a clean save because of this, I only completed 4 chapters out of 16 thankfully, but it was still a few hours of gameplay lol.

So yeah, I'd say this is one of my probably "weirdest" things I have with games.

 

[Sub_Level]

Purposely playing most games in Vivid mode, 30fps on my OLED.

Not giving a shit about performance at all

Reported. Enjoy your ban.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

Okay. So I'm sitting here, scrolling through my screenshots on my PS5, and every time you hit R1 to go to the next image, the borders of the top and bottom of the screen go all vignette and obscure 66% of the image, making it a super pain in the ass to just scroll quickly through images and actually, you know, see them. I know you can immediately press up or down on the Dpad/left stick to make the shit go away, but like...I don't want to have to activate the Konami code to go through my images without condescendingly having my console obscure the entire screen telling me that the buttons I just pressed to do what I just did DO IN FACT just what I just did. In case I'm like....missing my frontal lobe.

I recall being constantly upset at the Windows Media Player for something similar, and when youtube leaves its interface on for too long... Also any full screen media application/game that does not hide the damn mouse pointer, anyone who forgot this deserves pain.

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

I love GAAS and give most of them a try. They’ll never be my favorite games but by far my most played games. When a new one is announced I get happy.

 

[Arachnid]

Nothing I do is weird or frivolous. I am the quintessence of execution.

Spoiler

 

[Ceadeus]

The Konami code, LOL

 

[MikeM]

I play COD online with adjustable triggers on.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I terminate as much useless programs as i can when playing. Its pointless to do this in modern PCs (unless you're running blender or something) but i can stop myself.

Same here, can't even leave the Steam overlay enabled.

I think it's because as a kid I always had a potato PC and needed to scratch performance in every way possible. Old habits never die I guess.

 

[ryantetric]

Even though you don't have to, my old ass still closes every app on PS5 before I turn off the system for the night, which you also don't have to do.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

I recall being constantly upset at the Windows Media Player for something similar, and when youtube leaves its interface on for too long... Also any full screen media application/game that does not hide the damn mouse pointer, anyone who forgot this deserves pain.

All of this. My Lord. And it makes me wonder if these "pop up and gradually fade," things would bother me nearly as much if they were just designed to not disappear at all and just be a permanent fixture.

My media shouldn't make me feel like I'm visiting The Oracle.

 

[MastAndo]

Setting inverted aiming. My buddies bitch about it all the time that I prefer it for most shooters yet one of them uses scroll wheel up for jump...scroll wheel up for jump. I neeeeeeever heard of that esoteric jump button assignment before and yet he got some nerve getting bugged out over inverted aiming

Same, but on console as well. If it's not an option in a particular game, I'm out. My brain just can't process it. Fortunately, it almost always is an option.

Even weirder, when I used to play PC games with mouse & keyboard way back when, I used right-click to walk forward and W to jump.

 

[consoul]

OP, that screenshot vignetting annoys the shit out of me. I'm glad you called it out.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

All of this. My Lord. And it makes me wonder if these "pop up and gradually fade," things would bother me nearly as much if they were just designed to not disappear at all and just be a permanent fixture.

My media shouldn't make me feel like I'm visiting The Oracle.

We are annoyances mates!

VLC doesn't annoy me like this, and this may very well be because the UI is opaque, but neither does Netflix, Prime video, etc. they just don't seem to be in the way of what they are there to present.

 

[The Wheel of Fortune]

I was thinking just the same thing the other day while going through my Genshin screenshots, mate. It pisses me off a bit, too.

 

[Deerock71]

I pluck chin whiskers constantly. I don't know if that's just a me thing, but I have a hard time stopping once I start.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

still prefer using arrow keys on a full fat keyboard.

 

[Represent.]

Reported. Enjoy your ban.

I dont just leave it on stock settings though, its in Vivid mode but still customly tuned to each game.

Horizon Forbidden West looks especially spectacular on Vivid mode

For The Last of Us Part 1 though, I tried FILMMAKER MODE (customly tuned settings aswell) and that shit looked fucking incredible. Set the tone perfectly.

You guys are missing out if you're just switching it to game mode and doing nothing else

 

[Elysion]

When I’m playing rpgs, I just can’t help but collect (and keep) all kinds of shit I don’t need. Like in Skyrim for example: If I get a letter, I always keep it, even though I’ve read it and don’t need for anything else. If I find a key, I just can’t bring myself to throw it away, even if I’ve already unlocked all the doors that the key can unlock. Same with quest items that I’ve already used.

I know I don’t need this stuff any more, but it’s like there’s a voice inside my head telling me “you never know, maybe there’s an npc somewhere who’s interested in that letter”, or “there might be a secret dungeon somewhere filled with incredible treasures, which can only be unlocked by this particular key that I just snatched from a peasant to steal the potatoes in his basement”, or “yes, I already used this artifact, but maybe there’s a super secret Dwemer ruin somewhere, whose secrets only this particular artifact can unlock!”

 

[Fbh]

I like playing shooters with a controller. Even when I play on PC I play with a controller.
Just let me play on my comfy couch, I don't want to go sit at a desk to use mouse and keyboard

 

[Tams]

I must touch door knobs (not handles) on both sides (ideally simultaneously), or else everything feels out of balance.

 

[John_Ryder]

When I had a gaming PC and I tried a new game I used to put it first in the lowest graphic settings possible and then going up one by one.

Also I play console games with soap opera effect on lol.

 

[ahtlas7]

Reported. Enjoy your ban.

gold incoming

 

[Thebonehead]

Purposely playing most games in Vivid mode, 30fps on my OLED.

Not giving a shit about performance at all

I bet you turn on intelligent frame creation as well you monster...

 

[Rykan]

I must touch door knobs (not handles) on both sides (ideally simultaneously), or else everything feels out of balance.

Bruh, that's not a habit. That's OCD.

 

[Kumomeme]

when i controlling my character if i turn around on one side too much, i would turn other side to balance things out. i dont know, i dont feels 'right' if i didnt do this lol. sometimes i did this IRL too.

sometimes when i turn to one side and i dont feels right, then i twist the character on other side instead.

 

[Tams]

Bruh, that's not a habit. That's OCD.

 

[tommib]

I tell myself I won’t buy new games due to backlog and buy them anyway, including pre-orders. I need help, quick.

 

[Ellery]

Weird obsession playing with the starting handgun/pistol in games as long as possible and trying to complete it only with handgun in future playthroughs.

My favourite game for this is Resident Evil 3 PS1 1999

 

[darrylgorn]

Change your reload button from R to E you alien, double-jointed fucks.

 

[kyussman]

I like to take my clothes off and rub myself all over with a rose scented body scrub just before booting a new game for the first time.....no idea why really.

 

[tygertrip]

Setting inverted aiming. My buddies bitch about it all the time that I prefer it for most shooters yet one of them uses scroll wheel up for jump...scroll wheel up for jump. I neeeeeeever heard of that esoteric jump button assignment before and yet he got some nerve getting bugged out over inverted aiming

That is fucking nuts about the scroll wheel! To each their own. Anyway, When console fps were new, you could always tell who had came up playing fps on pc and who was a johnny-come-lately console kiddie ( )by seeing if they inverted their mouse/thumbstick or not.

 

[BlackTron]

I terminate as much useless programs as i can when playing. Its pointless to do this in modern PCs (unless you're running blender or something) but i can stop myself.

So launching a game and then racing to kill the Blizzard app before it goes full screen.

 

[H4ze]

I am using the arrow keys and the surrounding keys when I play with a dedicated keyboard and not on a laptop. My dad plays like this and I guess I just got used to his control schemes as a kid.

Even did this when I had my prime WoW time with around 25-30 hotkeys, everything got double binded if possible. Even used trinkets by pressing Down, cuz noone should backpaddle in pvp lol

 

[balls of snow]

Playing the previous game in the series before a sequel is out. Doing it twice this month with Plague Tale and God of War.

 

[SmokedMeat]

I don’t look at my FPS, or put my CPU my usage, temps, RAM use, etc on my screen.

I simply fire up my PC game and play. If something feels off then I’ll adjust my settings.

 

[Guilty_AI]

So launching a game and then racing to kill the Blizzard app before it goes full screen.

blizzard app

 

[Cert.in.Death]

I clean my hands after eating but before I play videogames.

The rest of you are fucking disgusting heathens.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Spending 400 bucks on VR gear and then only use it for porn.

Oh wait, that's probably what everyone does anyway.

 

[MasterDerico]

My first playthrough is just to learn, then i play the same game several times again until i become a real master on it.

That's why my backlog are insane lmao

 

[Hayabusabruh]

Doesn't get more weird than this. Some games have to be turned to music videos after completing them

 

[Rex_DX]

In some RPGs I need to walk unless the situation makes sense for me to run. In Skyrim I will slow walk everywhere. In the Witcher 3 I walk, trot, or canter Roach everywhere. I stop to rest horses. RDR2 was my perfect game for this reason. I grabbed the reigns on foot and walked those guys everywhere.

FromSoft games are my only exception. I'll run whenever.