Are You a Neurotic Gamer?

[wraggster]

When I get my 360 back, the first thing I'm going to do is wipe my Bully file from the hard drive and start over. And I guarantee you when I replay it, I'll watch all of the cutscenes straight through, and almost try to forget that I ever started it. It won't be the first time.

It's one of the weird gaming neuroses I have, and I'm wondering if I'm alone. So, just to start a conversation: What are your gaming hangups or compulsions?

http://kotaku.com/376467/are-you-a-neurotic-gamer

[limming]

When I was about 8 or so, when I used to play Kirby Super Star for snes, I would do the same thing. I would pretend I was playing for the first time every time and I'd watch all of the tutorials and everything. Now that I think back about that it's kind of weird. I did that with some other games too.

[Auriman1]

I always watch the cutscenes when playing through a game, no matter how many times I've done it before. Tutorials, however, I can live without, unless they're very interesting/interactive.

Also, it's very rare I'll play a game through the whole way the first time playing it. I'll normally stop right close to or right before the end, then start from the beginning the next time I play it, normally exploring everything much more thoroughly than the first time, paying much more attention to what I'm doing, and then finishing it on this second playthrough. I don't know why, it's just normally what I do (this is especially true for RPG's)

[Dorian]

No matter how good the games get today,no matter how good the graphics,how many items,how creative the items,I will always slide right back to my habits of playing
Gloom (the quake 2 mod,enourmously fun,prequel to Tremulous)

TRIBES (Cmon,its tribes,it still works,still fun)

C&C:Yuri's Revenge (An awesome,if not one of the best RTS games out there.I love the sprite/voxel graphics rather than raster3D graphics for RTS)

I will always slide right back to these,I think they should update the graphics though,and re-release them.

[JKKDARK]

I'm not a big fan of cutscenes. Generally I don't watch them.

[NoQuarter]

I played metal gear solid 2 through the first time on hard and then proceded to beat it 5 more times getting all of the dog tags and looking at hot girls,lol.

I also play megaman 2 still to this day,as if I hadn't beat it before.

I can see myself behaving strangely like this for metal gear solid 4 :P

[urherenow]

I spend more time collecting games than I do playing them, but there are several oldies that I always go back to. For instance, if I see Rastan (very rare nowdays) I can't keep walking without pumping a few quarters in. I play it on MAME all the time as well. ButI have 12~14 gamecube/Wii games that I have NOT EVEN OPENED YET! But I've already paid for Mario Kart...

get the picture?

[watupgroupie]

The whole reason I play a game is usually for the sweet cut scenes. Well and for the fun gameplay, but I always look forward to the cut scenes.

[____anders____]

i always watch the cutscenes, usually they're quite cool

especially in SSBB, they're awesome, got it yesterday and playing it with freeloader on my PAL wii, no dual channels cus i use freeloader

[**1_Man_Matrix**]

I do that with games I haven't played in a while.

Compulsion to play Doom. Guess I have a 'Doom' Syndrome, where I will play it each week without fail. It's always Doom 1, episode 1 on Ultra-violence...

Play it on my PSP, DS iPod, Phone, I play it anywhere, I download the Doom 3 mods that give you classic Doom, and the Quake 1 mods for Doom. I have a Doom addiction...

Also, play Half-life 2 through from the start like it's a new game