This! Especially when you are about to log off and you know it autosaves when you quit but you still manually save, save again to be sure and still have that anxious feeling.
So relieved to see that I am not the only one who does this. I began to do manual save after autosave in every game after my autosave got caught in death loop in one of the early Tomb Raider games.
I dont care if a giant demon riding a dragon from beyond time to steal everyones souls. This random peasant wants me to pick up a scroll from a sunken chest that has his grandmothers cookie recipe and he is paying with a tomato
Manual save is hardwired into you after the video games of our childhood traumatized you when the system crashed, parents/ siblings turn off the game an all your progress from the last 2 hours is now all lost.... The horror oh the horror
Try failing miserably all your childhood trying to finish Sonic 2 then finally once you become a man revisit the virtual bully of your childhood memory and making it all the way to the final stage and having your (then) one year old niece come by and kick the Genesis and freezing the game which spirals you into a fit of rage which you can't release on such a youngling so you sit there and shed one single tear and vow never to touch the game ever again...
Used to be the same until I tried the Tediore Axton build in Borderlands 2. That taught me to not reload before 50% of the magazine was gone. Unless I had a target I could throw my gun at of course.
In Skyrim, there are some caves with lighting coming from holes in the ceiling, but those are false holes. I still try to find where those holes would be above ground and expose Bethesda's lies.
I always organize my inventory depending on the game- much easier to find what you need in the heat of battle when every thing is organized... Also, Rach seems to use the Luke Westaway Hoarding System of not using something in combat because you might need it more later.
I always manual save because I have a history of my game auto saving at times when death is unavoidable. I can't remember which game it was but I remember being aboit 30 hrs in relying on only auto and then the game saving while I was falling from a cliff. I had to start the whole game over.
Bloodborne and Dark Souls taught me that I will forego the statistically best armor or most optimal of weapon loadouts just so that I can look really good or really silly in my adventures.
In the RPG "Divinity: Original Sin" you could interact with the animals and they'd make normal animal sounds, but if you had a trait called something like "Animal Friend" you could talk to the animals and they'd tell you secrets or help you solve quests.
I had like 10 different storage things in my house in skyrim. I used Hjerim in Windhelm and took the time to transfer my stuff from whiterun. The cupboard in the secret room had all my alchemy ingredients, insane amounts. I would drop my soul gems from inventory and arrange them on the shelves in the secret room. I dumped all my gems into a weapons display case. There was so many the game would lag when I'd add new ones. Jewelry went into a bedside table. Just on and on. The amount of stuff I collected was mind boggling, especially since I did so many radiant quests over and over again. What a great game. I love collecting loot just to see how much I can get.
Oblivion was good for that. NPCs would travel between towns and if I happened upon one in my wanderings, I'd feel obliged to escort them safely all the way. Unless they were tagged as "essential", in which case they were OK on their own. After a few dozen times doing that, it got tiresome...so I just made a list of all non-essential traveling NPCs and made them essential via console commands.
Assassin's Creed: brotherhood, I would be matching different colored capes with different colored outfits. I was obsessed with Venicean wine. But went back and forth with some others. I compared how each one looked in sunlight vs shade vs night AND when wet after swimming. Did it again in AC: Revelations to a lesser degree (no cape selections)
The collab no one asked for, (but deep down want) Scott WCG and Rob Playstation-access: Top 50 water mechanics in first gen consoles!! That will be you most viewed and highest like spike video EVER
If you're walking along, maybe during a mission, and you have to stop for a minute and listen to some NPC exposition, or maybe you're watching a cut scene but you still have some control over your character. The one thing I always have to do? Spin the camera around really, really fast. Bonus points if spinning your character around at the same time doubles the speed of the camera's spinning.
Making a character for a hour or so and then walk in the sun and see that the shadow makes my character not look perfect. So even if i was playing for hours i will still remake the character. 😆
I don't know how many times I did that in Dragon Age 3. The wierd lighting in the character creation dream thing drove me nuts time and again after entering the sunlight.
@@tylerryancoleman I know and after you did it you think WTF is wrong with me. 😋 Thats why i believe you should always be able too change your character whenever you want.
I always check to see if fire damage is a thing. I thought it was funny that you could stand in the middle of that big forge in Skyrim with no consequences. I'm also a big fan of breaking glass in video games. Resistance 1 had me in awe when the PS3 was brand new. I had to shoot every window I came across.
in any game with a map with fog of war that you have to clear or otherwise manually fill in through exploration, I will do my absolute damnedest to fill 100% of it in leaving no corners or gaps unexplored even if i know theres nothing left to find. Theres nothing more satisfying than a complete map, and equally nothing more infuriating than one with blank spaces you missed. Games like FF14 for example really serves you this a lot, and I gotta check the whole map asap
I do this too, in world of warcraft or in diablo, or anything that has a map you have to "discover" or "uncover" area of it. I need a full map cause I gotta know what's there!
Im the same and I gotta clear as much as the game allows before any "priority missions" just so when i look ata map everything but the mission location shows up and I know i got everything in the area possible
Same. Sometimes after stealing each item, even with the 90% chance success
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i'll never forget this weird situation in Skyrim: i was practicing pickpocketing on town guards, because they won't attack you if they catch you, they just say "you're under arrest" and you can use the dialogue option to simply pay a fine... but the dialogue got interrupted by THE APPEARANCE OF A DRAGON! fortunately i saved just before that, but i still had to kill the dragon before going back to pickpocketing.
Here are two great pointless things in GTA: Sometimes I sit in my car and my house just to listen to the music or watch the TV. I don't even play the game. I also love watching the rain in Red Dead Redemption 2.
When I'm very experienced in a game that I've been playing for forever, I always try to play it cinematically or like how it would present itself as a demo showcased in E3
I used to hoard everything like Rachel speaks about. I've found myself lately not doing that as much, except with health items and ammo, certain crafting resources too. Also, I don't know if you'd call this pointless, but at the start of any game I max dialogue volume, move sound effects volume to about 85%, music down to 25% and I always increase brightness higher than recommended. These are changes I've learned over decades of gaming just make it more enjoyable for me.
In the Arkham games, I have this very bad habit of reloading if my characters get seen in the predator sections or if they take a hit hit or lose their combo during the combat sections. I hate it but I just can't shake it off.
I have a lot of quirks for games like these, though several of them probably stem from my OCD. I can definitely relate to the "gather all these items and never use them" and "save instead of trusting autosave" things. There's also: *Cannot skip cutscenes on a first playthrough (or if it's new to a second playthrough/whatever) and must save after, as if to 'prove' I watched it fully. *Must talk to every NPC, and do so until I'm sure they've looped, even if I know the game has no variations in lines (because what IF that's the one exception?! I must know!). *Resetting instead of letting myself die in most games (same outcome but with the added hassle of having to reload). *Never getting rid of items (such as crummy old weapons) unless there is limited inventory space, and never using healing items unless I'm out of battle (for RPGS). *Examining everything. EVERYTHING. (The Sea Will Claim Everything is a brilliant game and I almost went out of my mind reading every single book title in it.)
I like to see what idle animations game devs come up with. Anything from, rocking back and forth on their heels while clapping their hands together, to checking their wrist for the time, or making an itch on their nads. Good times all around I'd say. I also am one to listen to, and in most cases, appreciate a good soundtrack. Looking at you Funky Flights! Haha
On Ewan's thing, Skyrim has mods that make layering up not pointless. I forget the name of the mod but it makes weather and stuff actually affect you. Like if its cold you can get frostbite or overheat if your hot, you need to sleep, you have to eat. Things like that. Though like Scott I check reflections cause its one of those weird things I have.
Jules literally just pointed out my biggest fear I'm terrified of the ocean and that moment in GTA5...I was a child again lol I'm surprised he knows my pain it's great cx Edit: Scott has the same habit as my friend Jon haha
Using gestures when defeating bosses or reacting to the deaths of certain characters in the Souls series. I like the RP with my character in an RPG, so I use gestures relevant to how my character would feel when defeating a boss or seeing a character she considers a friend. For example, using the Bow gesture when defeating the bosses who are legendary warriors such as Artorias or Sir Alonne, implying she's thanking them for a good fight and showing respect for them, doing the Toast gesture to Siegward and the Collapse gesture after Siegward dies at the end of his quest.
Switching on the console by hand like a god damn peasant because I refuse to believe that the Sega Master System has been bettered by wireless streaming
Same here mate. I'm so old that I class that manual switch on as exercise!!! The Master System was the very first console I ever played, so I think it truly was the pinnacle!!! (I'm so old that my home gaming began on home computer!)
Plating with water physics is always great. I agree with Rich, so many times I opened Deus Ex Human Revolution and left it on the menu screen for hours listening while I did something else. And I have yet to complete TLoU to this day because I got stuck for days watching the rain on the window glass early on in the game when escaping the town and then I finally made it outside to find I refused to move forward because I was so entranced by the rain on the character models and the ground and everything. And I've never managed to get passed there because it's just so beautiful to watch.
Or if you're on the online part, take an arena vehicle with a massive saw in the front and on each side and plow through the populated areas, back and forth, over and over.
I’m a little late to this video, but EVERYTHING that Ewan said he does in games, I DO TOO!!! It’s so nice to see I’m not the only one that plays games like this! If I’m in a situation in a game where walking would be the norm, I will make my character walk. If I’m playing a game that has a warm setting, like division 2 for example, and you can choose your clothing, there is no way i will apply a beanie or a jacket to my character(they might get overheated in that summer weather!) and the same goes for games set in colder temps. I can’t imagine playing RDR2 and being a dishonorable Arthur. Arthur is loved by all his friends and everyone he meets in my mind so there is no way I could play any other way. I can’t imagine playing a game and choosing the bad/aggressive/evil dialogue option. Every character I play in RPG’s has to be the best version of themselves that I can make them. It’s so awesome to hear somebody else who plays the exact same way I do. I love this channel
That's like saying everything you do in life is pointless because you'll end up dead in a matter of years anyway, with all your hard work eventually getting undone. Not gonna get very far with that attitude.
Rich, you're not exactly alone when it comes to menu music. I don't do it intentionally per se, but if I have to do other things, I'll leave the menu playing in a game while I do. Octopath Traveler is great for this; I've fallen asleep to its menu music countless times.
or those of us even older where you had to finish a game in one playthrough cuz there wasn't any on board memory for a save file or having to use passwords like in the original megaman (rockman) games.
Yeah, older generation gamer here, so I'm very familiar with memory cards and passwords. Plus auto save can wreck a playthrough on Fallout 3 as it would either glitch out or save just after you'd done something wrong/stupid/murderous. You would then have to resort to a previous save some 20 hours previous!!! Proper nightmare!!!
Brother I agree with the rain! Nothing I love more than a thunder storm in Oblivion, Witcher 3, Two World's 1, and in Morrowind I spent hours figuring out the console command for each weather effect and would make it thunderstorm all the time.. so beautiful and realistic
Elder Scrolls and Fallout games: constantly holstering and reholstering while zooming in and out of first person mode while walking around the world Fighting games: T-bag randomly in all games but try to do an air dash in games that do not have an air dash even though it doesn't have it Shooters: fire a few shots upwards just to reload
When playing the first 3 tomb raiders i used to stay totally still so that i would see lara yawn or look bored or something!OR delete the original playstation's save file to see if it reacted,in Tekken 3 for example xiaoyu starts crying!
No wonder why I take so effing long to finish a game: I HAVE ALMOST ALL THIS TROPES!!! - I try everything while customizing a character - I test boundaries and explore everything - I try water, watch rain fall... - I pay attention to menus and sometimes lollygag on them. (ObsCure 2, I'm looking at you) - I take DOZENS of pictures!! Either with screenshots, or the game's own system.
The most pointless thing I do in a game is drink alcohol yep once I get let off the leash I got straight for the bar The Mass Effect trilogy. Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2.
I love optical illusions. And video games give me my fix in terms of being bamboozled by all sorts of techniques to make you believe there's more detail than there actually is. My favourite is texture maps. Whenever I see an unusually detailed object or surface I say "That can't be entirely modelled, let me check that out." Whenever a game gives me the opportunity to look at things closeup and at different angles I use it. And in all cases I'll be either amazed by the illusion of 3D structures using texture maps on an otherwise flat or lowpoly object, or impressed by the amount of deteil when there is an actually modelled, detailed structure. Also the same with lighting and water here.
I used to be addicted to saints row 2 and after beating the story, I bought the apartment by college, dressed in college-esque clothes, bought a reasonably priced car, and would routinely go to school, drive the speed limit, and go sit at the computer lab at the college every day. After school I would put on dirt bike gear, drive my dirtbike to the airport, and jump the ramps. Idk why but I always liked to play open world sandbox games as if it was real life sometimes.
I believe multi manual saving is an effect of playing games before auto save was a thing, or when there were specific save points. As if you forgot to manual save or maybe one of those saves got glitched you were screwed. So the autosave icon basically becomes a did you remember to save icon.
I always need to check if theres fall damage by jumping off the highest possible point, It´s ride or die. Turn on subtitles even though the game is in a language I´m fluent in. Reload as often as possible. Also don´t forget about jumping on tables and throwing everything off the table in rpgs when a quest npc is having a monologue and you just wait for them to shut up so you can keep going.
I get the whole 'Wet Pavement' feelings. In Last of Us 2, the drip drying when you get out of water fascinated me. Also, the movement of Ellie's book bag was crazy accurate.
The double save method formed out of necessity! Autosave used to have terrible timing in so many games that we've all be burned once or twice. The old hard save is just the safety blanket .
I love to play with immersion: -Taking minimal damage when possible. I hate letting my character run out in the open. -Taking safer routes that take more time when climbing instead of just leaping along a wall like my character's fingers are made of steel -Walking(Not jogging or sprinting): Emotional moments, Relaxing moments, Moments of observation or discovery. I don't like running when my character is suppose to care about what's happening around them. -Driving somewhat safe so I don't ruin a car that I like. All this but I refuse to go to the next stage if I haven't searched every room for loot or optional items. Even if the story says its urgent.
Not sure if they're completely pointless, but I always jump off high cliffs to see if there's any fall damage, step in various sources of fire (campfires, torches, etc) to see if it'll damage me, see how long I can hold my breath underwater if there is any water, if I have legs in an FPS, etc.
I invent random stories once the main quest is finished. For example, in Spider-Man 2, I pretended that Peter's secret identity had been discovered so he faked his own death and came back as a different hero, sans webs and played the game for several hours without web swinging
I feel you there Jules. I have not trusted auto saving ever since I got stuck in a death loop. I always manual save at a certain point too. For example if I’m playing an open world game I will manually save before I start a main quest. Will not save again until I’ve completed all side quests available up to the current main story mission required level. OCD is a beeeotch.
Wearing out dialogue options for NPCs until they have nothing left but their default “I have nothing left to talk about” statement and then seeing if they have more than one of those.
12:49 YES. I even do it in Pokemon Go (I just press and hold the screen where the ball was) I'm utterly convinced it helps. I also like to amass FAR TOO MANY resources. I know I'll need them for crafting/building/cooking at some point *points at the Ferrite line in No Man's Sky* but then I just go out and mine/gather the stuff as I'm choosing to use it.
I eat EVERY piece of food I find. Dishonored trained me into this with a completion based on money collected ( ex. X of X). It got annoying to loot around the food, so I'd just spam the button to loot and eat it. In Skyrim, food is the first thing to go to lower encumbrance. I do it in Cyberpunk 2077, because selling food can have an extra menu or two, where as consumption is just a matter of spamming 1 button (alcohol has a brutal movement speed debuff when doing this.)
I do the following: 1) In any Sonic game, if I get hit once I need to restart and go through the whole level w/o dying or getting hit. I don't know why. I don't even do this in other platformers. Just Sonic games. 2) In any JRPG I can't run away from a fight. I need to fight everyone and defeat them within reason and if anyone in my party dies, I restart the game. No deaths on my watch! 3) I used to do this when I had more free time and wish I still did but in any fighting game; beating Arcade mode with every character regardless of character preference. 5) Like Jules and Rachael, I double save out of paranoia and don't trust autosaving. 6) I actively try not to "mortally wound " enemies in superhero games. Though the heavy enemies in Spider-Man in PS4 I actively threw off of buildings due to intense spite. 7) I do every single sidequest to experience every aspect of the story and world and try to max myself out while doing it. 8) Talk to every NPC at least twice to see if they say anything different.
Okay I have three things: 1) In Assassin’s Creed games I like to occasionally kill citizens even though it tells me not to or I’ll die or get a bounty on me. 2) In games that have unique weapons, armor, and collectibles I like to basically collect it all like a crazy person and even go on the wikis to make sure that I got all the unique stuff even though I don’t need it. Like once in Oblivion I accidentally failed the final Thieves Guild quest by talking to one of the blind moth priests. So I deleted that character and made a whole new character just so I could get the Cowl of the Grey Fox and it’s one of the worsts items in the game, but I still did it just so I could have it. 3) My third and final thing is some games have recently added a photo mode into them, and when I see cool or stupid looking things I always have to stop whatever I’m doing just to take a picture. Like in Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey I always can never resist not taking a picture of a urinating guard because it just looks so stupid. I of course kill those guys after my picture is done though.
Also. Not big on menu music as I'm normally caught up in the game. But loading screen music? Digital Killzone on PS3 for instance. When I've highlighted it on the list of games on the hard drive it starts playing the music from the games opening video, Visari's speach to the Helghast, and I can't start the game until the music starts to repeat itself.
i play a lot of rpg's so i learned (the hard way) to save FREQUENTLY and multiple times in a row...have to be sure. i dont know how many times ive died and lost hours because i hadnt realized how long itd been.
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oh, when gaming on an old computer i accidentally filled my entire hard drive with saved games! admittedly, it was a small drive, but still...10 megs for Diablo 1 save file, 3 megs for Hexen 2 save file, 300 megs for a Total Annihilation save file...(a really big map my computer could barely handle) ever since i usually settle for just 2 saves, including the quicksave. thought i always do a non-quick save before quitting.
Attempting to take the most efficient route to the objective whilst discovering every corner/room/secret area and breaking every single thing collecting every single collectable. If you realise a few steps in you missed a room because it seemed like a fork in the road, go back discover and then continue on the main route.
