The Weirdest Habits of Gamers
Reloading after a single shot, saving supplies for a rainy day that never comes; saving the game every two steps – these are just a few of the unusual habits that we all have.
Table of Contents
- The Weirdest Habits of Gamers
- Pushing gamma settings
- Squirreling first-aid kits and grenades away
- Only tens and even numbers
- Gotta know the progress
- One save is not enough
- Always choose the longest path
- Bothering random people
- Coming up with your own plot
- Buying games we can’t afford
Squirreling first-aid kits and grenades away
Think this: You have a tiny bit of health bar left and have about ten minutes of dangerous journey to reach a place where you can regenerate your hero. There are no other options. You have to take a risk and get there. After all, you won't waste one of the seventy healing vials in such a trivial situation. They may come in handy later on.
Even preppers and toilet paper hunters may hole up. When it comes to making supplies, video game players are ahead of them by years of experience. We collect all types of supplies, items or raw materials in order to save them for a rainy day. Starting from gold, through first-aid kits and medicine vials, up to ammunition. We often make it more difficult for ourselves, because we tend to repeat some levels or stages of the game only to save more ammo for a powerful weapon or to keep more first aid kits (out of 40 available...) in the inventory.
All this to complete a level or even the whole game with inventory filled with items that were never used. When you reach the final boss fight and finally it's time to use all stored supplies, it turns out that you have 10 times more of them than you actually need. In the end, we haven't used most of stored first aid kits and forgot about many weapons, because during the whole gameplay we used the basic firearm and saved the most powerful gun for the last boss. As a result, we have never used any middle-class arsenal.
Personally, I have perfected the art of saving supplies in the old parts of Silent Hill series, where final boss fights boiled down to simple strategy of standing in a spot, attacking enemy with most powerful weapons and healing the protagonist from time to time. Why have I decided to do so? Because I could afford it with dozens of first aid kits in my inventory.
