by SirArchmage Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:51 pm
I have a few gaming habits.
In every game I start my first playthrough on normal, play for a few minutes to see the difficulty, and turn it up if I can see it won't be too challenging that it would be impossible, and hope that there is no sudden and unexpected difficulty jump. Turn brightness halfway between max and recommended. Put subtitles on. Make dialogue a bit louder then backround noise and change backround music volume depending on how good it is.
With RPGs, I have a very weird thing I do. I have a certain set of characters that are in every game I play and I integrate them and their story into the game. I have a character named Mary that I play that is a tank that uses magic, and is neutral for the most part. She is in Skyrim, Dark Souls, Dragon Age, Oblivion, and Fallout New Vegas. I have an anti-hero sniper that loves to use stealth in Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Borderlands 2. There are about a dozen of these characters that I have with all of them being very different and some of them having stories that connect with each other. I will also act in the game according to how they would act, despite if I know that it is not a good idea. Like I have a bi-sexual rogue that duel-wields swords named Alvaro, and he loves to spend money on random useless stuff. So he can hardly afford anything. Mary is silent to most everyone she meets, so she never has very much speechcraft, charisma, or anything like that in any game she is in. And saying this, I spend very much time doing character creation and getting their faces to look similar to how they look in every other game. I also get very absorbed in the game, and in every game I play if someone watches me I will do things simply out of spite at an enemy, and will fervently insult an enemy I do not like, saying insults and witty comments about the scenario I am in. A great example of how much I get absorbed into the game is how when I played Bioshock Infinity, I beat it in one session without stopping, and thus was very absorbed in it. So during playing, I found a pair of pants as my first gear in it. But then the next one was pants as well. And then the next one. I had three pairs of pants and no other armor, so took off my shirt and shoes and refused to put them on until I found a shirt or shoes in the game. It took me over 4 hours until I got to wear a shirt.
With FPS's, I always choose a rifle or carbine, and a shotgun. I enjoy having force to my shots, so the versatility of having a rifle and a shotgun means that I can snipe with efficiency as well as be great in close range. And if I can have four weapons instead of only two, I will keep a revolver and sniper rifle on me as well. Long range sniper, mid-long range rifle, mid-close range revolver, and close range shotgun. I hate how in most every game the SMGs, assault rifles, and LMGs feel like bullet hoses where I point in the general direction of the enemy and shoot dozens of bullets until they die. However, if I am playing online against other people I will choose to simply have an SMG. I have very good twitch reactions and good aim so it combines well with an SMG. Plus in online games I usually do not have the time to switch to a different weapon, nor the option to do so. I also play very objectively, preferring to go in and do the objective rather then just kill everyone. Sad to say that FPS games are the games that I am best at, by far. Other games do not even come close. RPG games are my favorite, but FPS games are my best.
I also play aggressively on every game that I play. Doesn't matter what it is, whether FPS, RPG, or anything else, I am the one at the front of the battle and leading the charge. I hate defensive. Not only that, I am terrible at it. My main skill of twitch reaction relies on my adrenaline rush so that I react to things faster. Playing defensively, I do not have that, and I make mistakes very often. I also do not like the enemy having the first move. Always do the first move unless it is absolutely necessary. I die much less often then one would think from this playstyle.
