I search out every corner for hidden treasures.

And I use my calculator to organize my stuff and threw out the things with the worst value/weight ratio.
My therapist helped me with that.

I absolutely do the exact same thing.

I don't expect games to require thinking and logic. Which is a shame. I am positively surprised when I notice that the most obvious road is not the correct one.

I do that all the time, (without a calculator).
Nothing wrong with realizing four leather boots are worth as much as a silver sword, and weight only 1 unit more.

Definitely this. I also comb every area to see if there's something I missed, and I hate leaving even pointless stuff just in case I need it later (crafting materials in NV really got me on this one - I would carry stuff that I'm still sure has no use. Plus the charcoal in Skyrim which I think I've had to use once). L.A. Noire also played on this a lot - I was the person that insisted on picking up every cigarette butt and beer bottle, even though I'd figured out in many previous investigations that it probably wasn't going to help with the case.

I'm TERRIBLY guilty of this. My mind was of the logic that 'WAIT! THAT CRUMPLED UP CANDY BAR WRAPPER FIVE BLOCKS AWAY IS A CLUE!!!!!' during my first playthrough

Also, games in the vein of GTA IV are bastards. How so? When you just dally about driving, you can pretty much make cars go flying if you hit them just right, during missions though? They suddenly become five million ton lead weights that make you fly out the windshield the moment you hit it. I've been forever left paranoid during any game with a car chase mission.

I tend to spray at the enemy car before and when they're in it so that it has burst tires, and it works. Then I get in my car and give chase only to realise that the other cars tires have re-inflated and I need to gangsta style out the window of my car to do it again.

Yes

No

Thanks to Morrowind and Final Fantasy I've learn to save and save often.

In a typical FPS I find myself using spec ops tactics, hiding behind a corner, peaking around, killing whatever's there, then running to the next corner and repeating the process.

I have tons.

When I first buy a game, I smell the manual.
In most games, while running, I jump as well.
In CoD, I keep turning the nightvision on and off repeatedly for no real reason.
When button mashing, I lift my hand off of the controller and use my index and middle finger rather than thumb.
When playing racing games, I use the handbrake as the exclusive way of slowing down, stopping, or drifting/powersliding.
I always increase the sensitivity of the controller.

I probably have more but just don't remember.

And then I can't carry around any more and may sell them instead.

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Ah yes, the "new game smell". I've been buying digital lately, so i almost frogot how that smells like

Me in a nutshell.

Also, saving literally every 2 minutes is a habit of mine.

Add me to the list of people who are guilty of doing this, it comes so natural that I didn't even think of it until you posted it.

Apart from that I have the urge to go in the opposite direction of where my objective lies, just so that I can explore all the things before moving on. So far as that I get frustrated when I accidentally finish the level early and have to leave a part of the level undiscovered because of it.

I hacked literally EVERYTHING in Bioshock. Hacking compromised like half of my play time with that game.

Oh ho ho! Looks like I'm not alone. I didn't care what is was. "What's that? You're a vending machine that is out of the way and up a five hundred foot cliff?" *Hacked*

I love the Bioshock hacking mini-game more than 2's to be honest.

The first one was fun but it broke flow so badly. The second isn't much better, although I've got pretty good at it now. Blue bars all the way.

I dunno, I'm a svcker for puzzle games, which is basically what Bioshock's was. Bioshock 2's was way to simple in comparison.

I need to open every container and take everything with a good price/weight ratio. I will haul a dozen spoons out of a dungeon if they have a good ratio. This applies even when I more money than I'll ever need. I rarely ever invest in merchant or speech skills. I don't need the gold, I just need to sell stuff.

On a related note, when I inevitably dump this stuff in a chest somewhere, I always make a save that I don't overwrite. Just on the off chance the items suddenly disappear in ~20 hours of gameplay or something. I don't think I'd ever actually go back that far, but I keep the save anyway.

I hate using consumable items. They usually have a good price/weight ratio, so I can't part with them. I just started a new Fallout 3 playthrough with Wanderers Edition mod, which removes the healing from water and food, so you need stimpacks to keep yourself alive. The problem is, they have a fantastic 350 caps/pound ratio! I've been running around the Wasteland for the last two hours at ~30% health because I can't bring myself to use them, and I'll occasionally reload an old save if I take too much damage in a fight because I just can't bring myself to use a stimpack instead. I have a couple dozen in my inventory.

I don't know those 'connect the pipes' puzzle games just make sense to me. I'll hack a vending machine and not even buy anything.

heh, you don't need to tell me, I just enjoyed the mini-game.

always keep my first weapon in game

In TES games I usually get attached to the very first town, I make Balmora and Chorrol my home base in all of my playthroughs of MW/OB.

I did that in System Shock 2 as well. I never bought a single item from the vending machines, but I always hacked them.

Oh man, I do that too. I literally stockpile everything, but usually don't end up using them.