Am I the only one who has PJ's third gaming habit but for books? I force myself to read a book super s l o w l y so I can enjoy it for longer. I did that with Harry Potter
I'll share a bad RU-vid habit: Watching a PJ video all the way to the end to find out the point PJ was making, only to find out that PJ has no point to make. But, if you're really engrossed in an immersive video, then, "you're having fun; time not wasted."
Reminds me of a roommate I once had who kept trying to discover the point of every Monty Python sketch. I insisted that the didn't all have points, that some were just silly. And he maintained that since he could discern the point of some of them, the others MUST also have points.
One of my bad habits is going crazy at the library and getting lots of books, then reading them and then halfway through maybe the second or third one I realize they now all need to be returned before I get fined. Then I have to return the book while it's half finished, as well as all the ones I never even started... sigh...
fun tip: to avoid self-inflicted game incompletion, try skimming through walkthroughs on the internet to refresh your memory so you don't have to start the game over
The incompletion thingy... Happens to me with every Tv-show and anime that I have ever enjoyed. I don't want it to end, I just really don't, so I... Never watch the ending. Sounds familiar? I have, and I have counted, over forty animes and Tv-shows that I loved the shit out of, yet have no idea how it ends. Sadface.
I had a wii and for my only bday present last year I got Mario galaxy 64, I remembered that we only had one wii remote and no numchuks, so my dad bought us another remote and two numchuks,we were really excited to play a real game and not just wii sports and stuff; but when we tried it it turns out the wii itself was broken so we wasted about 200 dollars on that :'(
I have the opposite problem with games. I play them consistantly for as long as i can until i finish the game, like every second of free time I'll spend trying to finish the new game I have, and then I'll finish it really fast and end up having to reply several times more because I want to enjoy it again.
I have a terrible habit that I become the character so much that I avoid taking any damage which means that I don't take any risks which basically means I don't complete the game. But that's also why I can complete games like pokemon where you aren't the one fighting. Wow that sounds sadistic.
I do a similar thing! I love the game, but then I feel like I'm spending too much time on it for my own good, so then I just stop playing it - and later when I want to play it again, I don't remember what the heck I'm even doing, so I restart it. And repeat. And repeat. I still haven't finished Pokemon Emerald.
I hate the fact that whenever I see a game,I will research that sheet like no tomorrow.I crave knowing things about the games I want to play but when I do that I will spoil the game to myself and then I will know all the secrets and I won;t play the game,but I will still want it.Like Animal Crossing New Leaf for example.I know everything about it but I still want it.
Games I've never finished for that same reason that I can remember are, like you, Minish Cap (I stopped at Hyrule castle, like, THE FINAL BOSS), and Golden Sun: The lost ages. That game is so long but so damn good. I've been returning to it for years now but I am so lost. Finally, I recently bought A link Between worlds and I've stopped because within a few days I found myself where I am in Minish Cap... but I don't want to end it yet.
I have flaw number 3, not with video games, but with books and I just go into this downwards spiral where fiction is more important than reality and I care more about fictional characters and omg the feels THE FEELS DESTROY ME
I'll sometimes start a game and go days playing it, then when the game is over I think to myself "wow I really liked this game and I'll replay it tomorrow" but then I end up losing it the next day and just forget it.
I get too emotionally attatched to my support/side characters if they're on my side- but for some reason I choose to like the characters that the video game designers/writers don't seem to care about-- so they either: A.) Kill them off or B.) Just slowly make them disappear from the plot, thinking that no one will notice. I notice... everytime.. don't do that to me XD
my gaming habit is playing games for a long time, then forgetting y im playing it . then turning the game off. then i dont play it for months but when i play it agian i get frustrated and leave the game off and walk away. only for my little brother to erase my new data!
The way he is with video games, LITERALLY is the way I'm with books. I haven't touched my favorite series last book bc I didn't want it to end, now it's been 5 years and I'm not as immersed anymore ):
Fail anger - not being able to complete mission/level. Getting so frustrated I hide the game at the back of the game stack, only to find it 2 years later and think 'Oh, haven't played this in a while'... and so the loop begins again.
One of my bad habits is a will play a video game and forget that I have homework. Now this wouldn't matter if I was in high school but I'm in college. I serious think that there should be addiction classes for video games cause I need them. Worst procrastinator every.
okay I have something to get off my chest... I did this one time. In year 6 I started reading Harry Potter and the deathly hallows. And then I moved to secondary school and forgot about it. So I still haven't finished the Harry Potter series. I AM SO ASHAMED I AM SORRY :(
metooo! like i just have a problem, i read a geek girl book in 15 minutes (a quarter of a bus journey home from Whsmith) and im reading a book right now and ive stopped reading it for 3 months so i dont have to say bye to the characters xD
I'll get so immersed into a game that I'll play it every chance I get then I realize maybe I'm playing it too often and stop forever and maybe only ever play it again for nostalgic reasons because I know I'm never gonna be as good as when I was first in love with it.
i did the exact same thing with fire emblem awakening i loved the story so much i didnt want to finish it to fast so i stopped and now i just never finished the game
I'm sorry Pj...I love your chill videos and you always have good content..but...i'm sorry but I always just end up staring at your beautiful face for most of the video half listening xD it's okay tho because it makes me watch it couple more times xD
It's always sims for me; the same old story of finding the game at the back of your cupboard, playing it non stop for 4 days and then letting it gather dust for a few years until you rediscover it. And I've got quite a few sims games, and I am certain I have NEVER completed at least one.
My worst gaming habit is the same as your habit #3 I never finish a game mostly because I get addicted and go on it all the time then take a few days break and forget all about it. I still need to complete my pokemon x after getting to the pokemon league after endless hours of playing and then not playing on it for a while...
My worst habit right now isn't that I just put the game down but that playing video games in college isn't always something I have enough free time to do and I'm currently in the middle of Pokemon Y and Animal Crossing and when will I finish those idk maybe when I have a diploma and house payments :[
omg that ending though lol "if you want the balls that is." haha! Idk if I have bad gaming habits. Any game I get I always love it. I usually play through it get as much as I can, unlock what I can &then play it again after I finish in case I unlock new things. I only go back to some games though. Pokemon is just enjoyable all around! But I am definitely loving x&y! I don't think I'll get tired of that for a while!
I was addicted to Super mario.. I found the controller when I went home last and it's just covered in my bite marks from when Bowzer would defeat me! haha
This made me realize that it's been five years since I got Soul Silver, and I haven't finished it because I literally did what PJ does. And now the end music... Time to dig out my DS
I do something similar in the way that I get really excited to get a game, and when I get it I play it a lot for a while, and then I just kind of fade out of it and end up not playing it for ages, and then wanting to restart it again like you do....
I get excited by a game, get hyped, order it, watch a full gameplay of it on youtube, and then when the game arrives I don't want to play it since I've already watched all the story missions on youtube... Oh xcom how I'd love to maybe finish you one day.
I'm horrible at not finishing games, then a month later after getting it back out forgetting where I was, and then going into a small gaming depression with the fact that I'd have to start the game over.
I'm honestly so relieved that you share my horrible gaming habits. My friend got Pokemon X two weeks after me and she's done already... I haven't fought gym #5 yet...
The stop playing a game for a while and then restarting because you can't remember where you were is my worst gaming habit too! UGH! If it wasn't for my brother, I wouldn't know the ending to almost every Zelda game.
when i play a video game i really like, ill play the entire game all the way but only follow the main story line. then, right before the very last boss, ill go back and try to do all the side-quests. but then by that points its so much that i inevitably get overwhelmed and dont finish it at all.
I have a list of over 50 games that I plan on going back and finishing in my head at all times. With them I remember exactly what I was doing, when I last played it, what I was trying to do (including my planned future levelling for my characters in RPGs) and everything that is still of note that has happened in the game up to that point. Sometimes I wonder if there would be a better use of my memory, but then I remind myself that it's my favourite thing to do (even more than actually playing the games) and I continue to add more games to the list. I promise I will finish you someday, Majora's Mask!
My problem is that I'm obsessive to the point of boredom. I will get to the end of the game and right before finishing it I will say, "I know I can beat the game now, but I should go get all the items/missions/levels first" And then after spending another 20+ hours going through every last crevice of the game and leveling all my party members up to the max, I get bored and never actually complete the game.
I have an awful habit of "taking a break" from a game when it gets too difficult and then I end up never going back to it and I forget about it forever
My worst habit with video games is cursing at my childhood friends because I my mind becomes to dense to understand the incredibly simple puzzles and paths to follow.
OH GOD THE SLOW WALKING SPEED. Pokemon Red was one of the few games we had. My family was poor, so my brother and I shared a Pokemon Red, one Playstation Game (gifted to us w/console), and two Nintendo64 games (also gifted to us w/console). Since we had a total of 4 video games, we spent a LOT of time re-playing them. The walking speed in Red drove me crazy even when it was new tbh.
I have the same nostalgia problem you have! All my favorite old games are great! Until I notice how different they are compared to their newer versions...I also have the bad habit of trying to pick up where I left off, not remembering where I am, then restarting only to not have enough time to play. I put it down and a month later...the cycle starts again. Regardless, I love video games! And what you said about how they're not a waste of money or time really helped me out. Thanks peej :-)
There as these moments when i'm like "yeah! Lets go play something on DS and then play the whole game in an hour", *20 minutes later* "Eh.. its too stressful, ill come back and play it later" *never plays the game again, ever*.
I began playing Fire Emblem: Awakening a few days ago and I discovered that my video game habit is to restart the whole game when I didn't have the chance to recruit a character.
I do #3 with books as well. I bought the last book to my favorite series the day it came out, and a year later it's still on my bookshelf, with a bookmark at the end of chapter 1. I don't want it to end!
when they still came out some time before christmas i got a professor layton game for christmas each year and i started playing it the days after like crazy and then i realized that i don't want it to end yet- so i put it down. and just before christmas the next year i sit down and play and play and play the game until its end
I totally put the games off to the side too. I have two Legend of Zelda DS games that I keep trying to pick back up but end up giving up on because I can't remember where I am. Good luck with breaking that habit.
The third habit you mentioned is the same habit I have! I play a game but I start to get bored constantly playng it so I stop. I eventually come back to the game feeling like starting it all over again so I do. I have so many games I haven't finished!
I saw your ad on "The Most Popular Girls In School"! I stayed and watched the whole thing and pointed out episodes. I'm so glad you got to make that reel it was amazing just like you. :-)
I do the same thing with books sometimes that you do with the games, the whole "self inflicted incompletion" thing. Especially with series. I'll get to the last book and stop in the middle of it and not pick it up again for months because I don't want that world to end haha
my worst game habit has to be getting any app on my phone... once i get a game, i get addicted. but only for a few days am i constantly playing the game before i get bored and vow to never download a game on my phone again. well, until somebody convinces me otherwise and the addiction cycle begins again.
