Discussion Why is your guilty pleasure in a (or ANY) video game?

Discussion in 'Gaming Discussion' started by Oblivion, Sep 27, 2017.

  1. Shiraori_

    Shiraori_ Heh, nothing personnel, kid.

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    Mindless busy-work and completionism. A lot of the times I pick up games to have something to do for a long time, just keep my hands moving and my mind occupied. Games like Rune Factory, Fantasy Life, and Ever Oasis have a lot of busy work and development and what have you to work on. By the end-game I'm more than well aware that half the reason I'm even playing is more because I want to complete and unlock everything or what have you than because I'm having fun, but it's still something I sort of enjoy.

    Rune Factory is a pretty good game for that type of thing. Or at least Rune Factory 4 was. There's so much stuff to do that I end up using all 24 in-game hours doing a routine, at which point I had to stop and re-work it to make it more reasonable, by reducing how many fields I was managing and removing certain activities, etc. If I ever get bored of that kinda garbage though I can always go around and just fight some enemies if I feel like it.
     
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    DreadLord Well-Known Member

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    Level grinding cause I want to overpower all of my enemies.
     
  3. Fallion

    Fallion [Indolence Personified]

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    That comment is the closest thing I've ever been to becoming gay for someone. My guidelines are: If anyone starts whining when I play support I'll stop helping them entirely, if 2 people starts I'll throw the game.
     
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    Dedrater Well-Known Member

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    I tried killing the children in skyrim

    Also I onced tricked a player in runescape that I'll trim their mythril armor then teleport away.
     
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  5. Simon

    Simon [The Pure One's Chief Steward][Demon Beast]

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    In games like elder scrolls, I like to layout my weapon collection on the ground and see how far I can get.
     
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    Trying to follow traffic laws in GTA games
     
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  7. Phantom Starlight

    Phantom Starlight The Guiding Light

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    I suppose its just game? I didn't have any problems. Then again, I was ready to quit anyway so was just burning through my resources anyway
     
  8. Land of The Fallen

    Land of The Fallen Hax's | Immortal

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    Buying stuff...
    Buying alot of stuff to the point I become broke.... Even if I don't need the various items I get...
    Then I grind and hoard and buy more stuff...


    And then I get bored of the game and look for a new one
     
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    spawn camping on shooters
    and in other games becoming strong then going back and one shotting level 1 mobs
     
  10. CyberCypher

    CyberCypher Air Breather

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    Playing Lan CSGO with friends. When we decide to go only knives then when everyone is gathered use a machinegun to mow them all down. The cursing in the internet cafes are awesome.( they do that to me as well so all is fair)
     
  11. JinVodka

    JinVodka 「Back to Work Back to Suffering _(-ω-`_)⌒)_」

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    I got this urge to try all class on mmorg and max them, the grinding is real.
    Gonna try them all :blobhero:
     
  12. Black Parcher

    Black Parcher The Eternal World Wanderer

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    Ah maybe you set the precedent that caused it to be a 3 month block from the any game for this offence. When did you do it?
     
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    forgotten 【 R E M N A N T】

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    I'm completionist which is annoying sometimes but it's in my blood to check every possible corner and container for any item even though I know that even the best thing possible to get is something like few coins or gems and I'm already maxed out and it has no use for me. But ts not only looting, its overall completionist thing. sometimes playing this way I get bored of the game before I finish it so it isn't always great....
     
  14. Xiongace101

    Xiongace101 Monkey

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    upgrading weapons and armors trying 2 hit max when i know that i'll never get it :blobsalt:
     
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    Assassin's Creed (forget which one)
    Calling a bunch of civilians to guards by throwing money, then poisoning a guard so that he kills the civilians around him.
     
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    Proclaiming the glories of Darth Jarjar Binks and Anakin Skywalker's most romantic lines on starting planets of SWTOR xD
     
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    I enjoy Hoarding stuff and crafting every possible item (+max upgrading), using some slight cheats like max money or double drop rate helps a lot.
     
  18. cellimen45

    cellimen45 God of Books (self proclaimed) Convert The Bullies

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    Return to the level one area when your high leveled so I can murder everything

    Never using any consumables EVER even if it means death, because I might need them later. I know that's wrong but I can't help it.

    Torturing enemies, despite the fact I've yet to play a game where that's any point. Like metal gear, just keep shooting him in the balls with rubber bullets, cuz u ruined my stealth.

    Beating up dead bodies, to watch the ragdoll or destroy body affects.
     
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    I like to go to the base of the enemies and try to kill everyone in melee.
     
  20. Tsaimath

    Tsaimath Otter Madness!

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    Abusing bots to just stomp them in the ground, kinda like burning ants with a lense just that I don't have to feel guilty about ants
    In mmos I don't really have a "guilty" pleasure, during the early days in wow I used to go lowie-ganking but looking back I just feel sad for doing it. Oh, well, the thing that could count is trying to kill my gaming-buddy in creative ways, for example in some GW2 dungeons there were projectile reflection effects and the reflection hit the first player in it's flight path - so you stand behind him and fire away, adding some fun to the bossfights we were grinding. Or trying to downscale the Groupsize to the max, trying dungeons solo or in a duo, trio, whatever we could get away with.
    Obviously that only works with frienda