So i just noticed that when i really like the game at some point i will at once play the game and watch the stream/youtube wideo of the game( usualy speedrun or aome hardcore challenge). I noticed it recently with anno 1800 but now that i think about it i did that with tales of arise, eu4 ,kings bounty,total war,hades and probably some more. So i wonder do you have similar strange habits
When I think I’ve been playing for 1 hour, but it’s actually been 12.
This is why I’m not sure I actually like Starfield… that simply isn’t happening :/
Avoiding main quest line advancements in order to make the game last as long as possible.
After overcoming a challenge, reverting my progress so I can try it another way, and then another.
Getting through real-life tasks as quickly as possible because I want to get back to the game.
Contemplating game characters and their motivations when I’m supposed to be trying to sleep.
When I’ve been playing for 5 hours and needed a piss for 3 hours.
I can tell I’m really into a game when I end up ditching the objectives to just screw around. If I’m following the quest arrow I’m probably just in it for the plot or for some completionist urge, but if I really like the game I’ll start wandering off the main path to just enjoy the environment and satisfy my own curiosity about things.
Similarly, it’s if I really start looking at the scenery. Like zooming in on desks and and where textures meet and stuff to a) see all the worldbuilding details, and b) to see the level designer / env artist’s work up closer.
When I start making notepad lists of long term goals or shopping lists and such, usually in open world games with lots of tasks where you’d forget on your own what you might be working toward
When I start choosing to play that instead of a multiplayer game with mates. And also when I start recommending it to people. It’s all kinda involuntary at this point.
I start ‘solving’ the game’s puzzles in my dreams, or random mechanics from the game show up in my dreams somehow. When that happens I know a game has its hooks deep into me.
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I know I like a game when I start it at 5pm and then two seconds later it’s 11pm and I tell myself I’ll just finish this one quest and then boom it’s now 1230.
Keep playing long enough and it’ll be 5 pm again and it’s like you haven’t played at all!
Hahahaha. So true!
ok, I’ll be the one to say it…
an occasional pants adjustment.
what’s that? no, it’s just dragon age or spongebob at bikini bottom, nothing to see here.
