whats your unconcious sign that you really really like the game you are playing

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨szczuroarturo@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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

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eldrichhydralisk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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.
  
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- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I was like level 20 before I started the main quests in Skyrim. 😂
  
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  - rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Wait, Skyrim has a main quest?
    
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EnemyBirds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- Klystron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Keep playing long enough and it’ll be 5:02 and it’s like you’ve only played for 2 minutes!
  
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  - EnemyBirds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hahahaha. So true!
    
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When I think I’ve been playing for 1 hour, but it’s actually be 12.

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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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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- Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This, I had this with shenZen i/o, I would solve the solutions in my sleep then never remember them when I woke!
  
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ono@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Avoiding main quest line advancements in order to make the game last as long as possible.

After overcoming a challenge, undoing your progress so you can try it another way, and then another.

Getting through real-life tasks as quickly as possible because you want to get back to the game.

Contemplating the game characters and their motivations when you’re supposed to be trying to sleep.

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bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When I can’t stop thinking about it when I’m not playing it.

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- Chailles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  For me, that tends to be a sign of burning out. Or at least it’s imminence.
  
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daredevil@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The game will be my first thought when waking up, and my last thought before I sleep.

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Styxie@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When I’ve been playing for 5 hours and needed a piss for 3 hours.

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- surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Followed by the nervous sprint to the restroom and the immediate sprint back
  
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Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The biggest sign is when I stop playing it, I notice that it’s night.

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- sirdorius@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Night? More like sunrise and time to go to work
  
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Voytrekk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I will be in my own bubble playing the game. Not looking at social media, just focused on the game.

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GrimSheeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When I start taking screenshots of what’s happening on screen waaaay too often, that’s when I know I’m really engrossed in it.

I do this especially often with EU4, like whenever I’m in a gigantic war, or when I’ve just taken some land and my borders are looking real sexy

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all-knight-party@kbin.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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

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mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When I’m researching things about the game even when I’m not playing.

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Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
See, so many of the things below I can think of about games I was addicted to but wasn’t really enjoying. Like, if I’m hearing the music while I fall asleep? That’s a sign I’ve been playing it a crap load, but I also can think of many games that sucked me in chasing carrots and kept me up until dawn… but the actual fun parts were fleeting.

Games I actually enjoy have me grinning like a maniac once I start getting into top-tier flow with the actions available, like threading needles in a racing game.

Relevant SMBC:

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/happy-2

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Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When I go back to do some part over again to try and do it better, or just do it different.

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boletus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When I have on the video game music and sound effects. That means I’m totally in it.

Otherwise I’ll have Netflix/Hulu/whatever streaming or music playing.

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- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  For real!! I don’t know how many times I listened to Short Change Hero while playing Borderlands 2!
  
  Related sidenote: My son just started playing it like ten minutes ago. Aww, Nostalgia.
  
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  - hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Borderlands and Diablo style games are so great for music farming sessions. Good times man.
    
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De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Around the midpoint of a game, often while still enjoying it, I start asking myself how close to the end I am. Let’s Plays are great for this. I can just open a playlist and read episode titles until I’m around the same point I’m actually at. Let’s say e.g. 45/67 videos or 2/3. If I rarely do this, maybe even not at all, I’m really into the game.

For context, I mainly play quite linear JRPGs. For other games, I usually just look at howlongtobeat.com and compare it to my playtime.

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Tibert@compuverse.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t get tired fast.

A boring game will get me tired.

A great game will keep me in.

Tho sometimes it’s a bit more difficult to say. The environment may keep me in, but the gameplay mush me away.

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Xianshi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Playing for hours

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