What are some stupid little things you do in video games, for no real reason?

One of my habits is if malachite is available the game, I'll keep a chunk of it in my inventory for "good luck." It's sort of an homage to my days playing a Magician in EQ, where malachite was the reagent needed to summon your elemental pet, and not having a piece of malachite meant you were absolutely screwed if your pet died.

It's actually surprising how many games have malachite in them.

When I get the chance I'm always playing with the camera angle to see under the short skirts.

Paranoid Parrot has 6th finger to hit F5 quicksave every minute or more. Morrowind has taught me how to be paranoid well.

I always save before clicking exit, and click save and exit.

Down + B.

Makes you catch pokemon better.

On Oblivion I would always pick the pins of a lock in a certain order for good luck.

I usually rub my posterior on npcs for luck.

Lightweight, I hit F5 at least 3 times per minute. That way the crash fairy won't ruin my game...week one New Vegas has made me completely paranoid.

Its because of this that I don't trust Arkham City. There's no save button, its all "automatic"...bastards.

but.... Arkam City isn't from Beth......

so it shouldn't crash as often

It didn't crash once in my entire playthrough, but I still don't trust it...the autosave is taunting me.

Corridors are pitch black, I've not seen an enemy in over 10 minutes, I'm out of medipacks and the difficulties up high so the enemies are tougher. No way am I turning this next corner!

In BioShock, I'll search dead splicers several times just to make sure there's nothing else I can take from them.

I'm so keen on stealth games (or games that allow stealth gameplay) that I find myself take my time and crawling even in the fast paced shooters. Not really a superstition, just a habit that I noticed and don't mind at all.

Does it work well?

no

Theres a bunch of vids of people crawlin along gettin knifed and C4'd all over youtube

Don't we all?
Works just fine for me..

I always save potions/scrolls or whatever items that temporarily boost my abilities, even if it means dying a lot. Somewhere in my head I always think that I shouldn't waste them because I might need them later.

Then during the final boss fight of the game, with my inventory full of those buff items, I still refuse to use them.

Oh gawd, that's what I do as well.

After running through KOTOR 1 and 2 about a thousand times without ever using any stims, mines, or grenades, I finally decided to try them out against Darth Treya. Took every single stim, planted every single mine in one spot, unpaused, and well, it turns out mines do the trick by themselves.

THIS.

Haha, thought I was the only one. I usually forget about them, but still hold on to them.

I remembered another one - for a while I had a habit of collecting every teddy bear in the wasteland in Fallout 3. I just couldn't bear (you see what I did there?) to leave them out there. Think when they got too heavy they got a room of their own in my Megaton house.

To check every single bathroom I find for health packs or ammunition.

I'm saving the money and then I have too much and nothing useful to buy.

1. Never accept any drinks
2. Every door requires either explosions or your stunning good looks to unlock.
4. If something unexplained ever happens, your partner did it.
5. Punch any child you see. Especially Biwwy.
6. If the mushroom is red with white spots, it's fine and dandy. If it is purple with white spots, then give it back to old man Handy
7. Make sure to point the hollow end of that boom stick towards that no-gooder who put his seed in your daughter.
8. If a nice woman in your life is missing, it means that somebody kidnapped her. Why they don't make a move is beyond me.
9. Remember to sell any drugs you may pick up on your travels. One crate of Jet for tomorrow can land you a friend for life.
10. Leave the witnesses alive and kill the people who didn't see it. That official may be dead, but not your vanity.
11. If you see an Intact Garden Gnome, pick him up. They give at least 3.67 times the amount of luck as Nuka Cola Trucks.
12. Always say yes, unless the asker's eyebrows are at least a centimeter apart.

Yes, we do

After failing at something many times and then suddenly succeeding easily, i quit and do it again just to make sure it wasn't due to the elusive (or rather "illusive"?) "pity mode".


Same here. Yahtzee talked about that in his Mercenaries 2 review too, "i sit on a nuclear stockpile refusing to use them against the giant robotic crab just in case there's an even bigger giant robotic crab somewhere) That is me and fortify potions in Skyrim