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Bad gaming habits you have that you'd like to improve on
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InfiniteCombo
Banned
I have the opposite problem: never using a guide or walkthrough if I can help it, and only use one in a narrow situation only if it's been hours of me trying to figure it out myself.
That, and my habit of trying to 100% every game I touch, means I don't experience as many games as I could. And as a grown man with adult responsibilities, lots of hobbies, and a busy life, I don't have time for this approach to gaming anymore, so I have to get out of that habit.
I used to have a bad habit of buying games I would barely play or not play at all, only to sell them later. Thankfully i got around to not doing that anymore, and I got lucky because in that process I didn't lose very much money at all doing that.
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Yup, buying games and then not playing them. I recently bought Ocarina 3D and Kid Icarus: Uprising, and I have a giant stack of games from the past couple christmases and birthdays that I've yet to play for more than half an hour (*cough* Tales of Xillia). I also have a PS4 sitting under my TV.
I've been playing The Sims 2 for almost a week straight.
I've been playing The Sims 2 for almost a week straight.
SliceSabre
Banned
Getting 90% of the way through a game or 10% of the way through a game and not finishing.
It's not particularly a bad habit of mine, but I told myself that I wouldn't use any walkthroughs while playing Virtue's Last Reward and the feeling of finally solving a puzzle on your own is fantastic.
Sigma even says 'Oh yeah! I solved the shit out of that puzzle!
SiKotikJ30
Member
Guilty of buying too many games that I'll never play. I have stopped buying those PWYW bundles and the various other cheap bundles so I've started correcting that recently. I have 400 games on Steam and I'll probably only ever play maybe 100 of them. I still can't control myself when it comes to the actual Steam sales but hey...baby steps.
Ahh. Too many times has this occurred in my days.
It's for that reason I stay away from guides for puzzle games unless I get stuck for an entire day or something. I love it when the devs/writers predict how you're gonna feel afterwards and that example with
Sigma
Hahaha, me 100%.
puffyshirt
Banned
First post, baby. Hell, I still have some games sitting on my shelf sealed.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Sometimes it takes me quite a long time to figure out what I want to play. With a 200 game steam library, 20 some games in origin, and another 30 not on either platform (like blizzard games), I am sometimes overwhelmed by the amount of choices I have.
The bad habit is how indecisive I am about it. Sometimes I am just browsing forums for 30 minutes to an hour before I even start gaming because I can't make up my mind. Right now, not a huge problem... thanks divinity original sin.
But most of the time I am thinking about hearthstone, firefall, titanfall, a single player fps, or another one of my steam games. Another thing that factors in is whether I can play it in windowed mode so I can watch netflix at the same time... xcom, civ5, dead island epidemic, hearthstone, and several others work really great for this.
The bad habit is how indecisive I am about it. Sometimes I am just browsing forums for 30 minutes to an hour before I even start gaming because I can't make up my mind. Right now, not a huge problem... thanks divinity original sin.
But most of the time I am thinking about hearthstone, firefall, titanfall, a single player fps, or another one of my steam games. Another thing that factors in is whether I can play it in windowed mode so I can watch netflix at the same time... xcom, civ5, dead island epidemic, hearthstone, and several others work really great for this.
I like to criticize the shit out of my friend's favorite game(s)
Edit: actually in general I'd just like to stop looking only in the negative side for some games, because sometimes it feels like I might miss the forest for the trees when I'm too busy hating on one or two bad designs, when there are many things I can appreciate.
Edit: actually in general I'd just like to stop looking only in the negative side for some games, because sometimes it feels like I might miss the forest for the trees when I'm too busy hating on one or two bad designs, when there are many things I can appreciate.
Dimitri LH
Member
I kind of have a bad habit of....uh. How do I explain it?
When im playing a game and see my friends playing through the same game and beating it.
I lose motivation to continue my own playthrough.....I guess I really dont spoilers? trying to improve on it though.
When im playing a game and see my friends playing through the same game and beating it.
I lose motivation to continue my own playthrough.....I guess I really dont spoilers? trying to improve on it though.
momshotdad
Member
Especially with handhelds: if a game doesn't blow my mind in the first 2 hours but can still great, I'm always just like "cool. i'll play this later." and never do.