Weird things you do in your games...

Josan

Josan

Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Any weird things you just find yourself doing in your games? Any compulsive habits you just can't break?

For me, and I don't know why I do this, but I always do... Every one of my companions gets a Sunset Sarsaparilla Deputy Badge. I even go and visit companions that I dropped off previously just to give them that badge.

Oh, and every time I kill Alice McLafferty I always make sure I put her smug-faced, decapitated head on her desk for all her employees to see and rejoice in.
 
Walking instead of jogging. Also, a love of Nuka-Cola. distaste for Sarsaparilla, whiskey, all hard alcohols. Wine collections... started after Benny ran away... ;_;
keeping special weapons in the Novac apartment... also decorated that place. Wine and beers on the counter, along with some purified water and fruits... some Med-X on the bedside table for sleepytime...

Pretty much it. Yeah, it's weird.
 
I'm sure this isn't that weird but if I am vilified by a faction then I have to erase them. The Powder Gangers were extinct by the time I was through with them. Or at least as close as you can get to extinct with the gamebryo engine.
 
-Chopping apart limb from limb of that girl who is trying to kill that guy for S.S.S caps.
-AMR'ing poor basterds on crosses
-Waking up at two AM and bugging Nobark Nooan.
-Pickpocketing good weapons/light armor/light helmets to people I like and don't wanna see dead in the wasteland. (guy sitting in NOVAC)
-Self-honored code to exterminate all threats to wastelanders
-Respect for cowboys
-Oh yeah! Deathclaw omelets..
 
pyroD said:
I'm sure this isn't that weird but if I am vilified by a faction then I have to erase them. The Powder Gangers were extinct by the time I was through with them. Or at least as close as you can get to extinct with the gamebryo engine.
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I think it's a "weird thing" I do, in the sense that I realize it's just an obsessive compulsion on my part, but I do the exact opposite of that... Even though the game is MADE for you to be incapable of pleasing everybody, I go to painful lengths to make EVERYBODY like me, as much as possible. No hostility, if it can be helped. So, even if I'm playing a "saintly" character who's aiming to help the NCR take control of New Vegas, I might just help the Powder Gangers keep NCRCF, or blow up the Long 15, or simply avoid helping Goodsprings with their Power Ganger problem until I can get enough credit with the group for them to like me overall. I "have to" complete jobs for the NCR that clash with the Legion by sneakily never getting caught, and keeping my reputation clean on both sides. It gets really tedious and boring, fast, but I'm just compelled to do it... =/
 
Atomkilla said:
EnclaveForever said:
In Fallout 3 or New Vegas, I kill everything, unless it's human.
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Basically you kill everything then?
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So if only Enclave are human... does he play FO3 without killing a single Enclave soldier? :o
 
Mameluk said:
Atomkilla said:
EnclaveForever said:
In Fallout 3 or New Vegas, I kill everything, unless it's human.
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Basically you kill everything then?
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So if only Enclave are human... does he play FO3 without killing a single Enclave soldier? :o
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And leaves 4 survivors in NV, also leaving himself vilified by everyone? :shock:
 
Well, killing sprees aren't that weird. I don't think so anyhow

Weird is more like people I know that stack or pose corpses or one guy that picks up all the trash he sees to "clean up the wasteland" or my self-amusing habit of going into casinos and jumping up and down on all the gaming tables in my underwear while sticking my butt in the dealer's face.
 
After "Ghost Town Gunfight", I like to line the Powder Ganger bodies up in front of the Goodsprings sign as a warning to the other Gangers. It's worked so far. No more Gangers in Goodsprings! :P Also, I hate Benny. I'll save my game right before meeting him just so I can reload the save and kill him again with different weapons.
 
I don't mean to sound like some kind of pretentious method actor, but I usually let the characters suggest their own quirks to me. Some that I've been known to repeat with some frequency are (like Josan) making sure my allies all get a Sunset Star badge, rushing to the aid of any non-hostile NPC who's under attack, and, if they look to be in a bad way, traveling for awhile with caravans I run across on the road until they reach the next town. If I'm playing a hyper-realism run, I'll set up player shelters along my most-used routes or near/in my favorite locations. If I'm not playing an asshole or a super hard-bitten wastelander-type, I'll usually make it a point to recover Ranger Jackson's corpse when I go in for Ranger Morales' even though the game doesn't require it (or even recognize that you did).
 
I never play at night, I even have Darker Nights mods. I just never play at night but I just don't wait, I have to find a bed or else I am just gonna continue walking until I find a house.
 
>> Find Fisto

>> Before talking to him, quicksave

>> Talk to him, and test him out.

>> Reload the quicksave after

>> ???

>> Profit!
 
^ I did the same think with Fisto once. I was playing a female character, Veronica was my companion and since it happened right in front of her my pc was wondering if she could make Veronica forget about Christine. :mrgreen:
 
CthuluIsSpy said:
>> Find Fisto

>> Before talking to him, quicksave

>> Talk to him, and test him out.

>> Reload the quicksave after

>> ???

>> Profit!
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>> Find "Fisto"

>> Vaporize Fisto

>> Salvage scrap metal

>> Sell scrap metal to trader before vaporizing them as well

>> ???

>> Profit!
 
One thing I do, which *I* don't find weird, but apparently is considered pretentious and elitist of me because it would appear that I have needlessly high standards, is I pretend that most of the denizens of the Mojave Wasteland have different voices. Yeah, Chomps Lewis doesn't sound like 5 other people- not in my head anyway. Every black character doesn't sound the same if my imagination has its way. People seem to think my dream of an unofficial patch to replace a large number of sound files for most of the random NPCs is just unreasonable, so if that'll never happen, then at least I have my imagination to try and get me by. The lack of vocal variety seriously bothers me, so this make-believe is the only thing I have to keep myself sane while listening to the drones make yet another clone to lull me into agitated numbness with their mediocrity and repetition. I... I NEED it.
 
I try very hard not to notice that lack of vocal variety. I once attempted to explain it away as a slight mutation based on residual radiation but that wasn't very satisfying.
 
I have a decent vocal range of my own (largely inherited from a mother who used to sing in a traveling choir), and a friend of mine aspires to get into "the voice acting industry" (not that there is one, in the US)- although as he is, he's not all that good, but I don't ever have the heart to tell him -so there's no shortage of voice inflections and tones I've been exposed to for my imagination to play with. The problem is, of course, inserting those in my brain when I'm actually hearing the generic, repetitious dialog. It also doesn't work whatsoever if I'm not expecting the line that's coming and/or it's from a random NPC, i.e. "Patroling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter." But, I try.

The next best thing to it is just to dwell on the awesome lines from the main cast, like House and Veronica, since they just ooze charisma and humor, so it's a delightful distraction from the rest of the pervasive monotony. It's not a bad alternative, I just wish people WOULD take the community voice talent mod idea more seriously into consideration. =(
 
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