Something odd I've noticed between my playstyle and my husband's....

In game, my husband buys everything he needs. If he sees a weapon he likes, he buys it. If he wants to improve his weapons or armor right now, he just buys his ingots/ore from the smithy. If he needs potions, he finds the nearest Apothecary, etc.

In real life he's a complete tightwad. Doesn't want to spend money on anything and expects me to spend days finding the best deal/sale on everything.

In game, I don't spend any money at all. If I don't have what I need, I wait until I find it because you can find everything you need in the wild.

In real life I don't have a problem spending money on something I want. I'm not a big shopper and rarely spend money, but when I do I don't regret it or feel guilty....

I find it so odd that our play styles are the exact opposite of our RL play styles......

My Significant Other hates cooking and cleaning and anything having to do with housework or chores. Yet in video games she loves crafting and cooking. She has spent literally hundreds of hours in a game called Wurm Online, farming, building fences, planting crops, cooking - all stuff she wouldn't do in real life if you put a gun to her head.

Try hooking up an Xbox controller to the vacuum cleaner. See what she does.

In game I'm usuallya tight-fisted kleptomaniac. I not only don't buy things, I hoard the consumables I obtain for the day when I'll really need them which is never quite yet.
In RL I'm a spendthrift whos never saved and doesn't worry about tomorrow.

I don't think its odd. Part of why I play RPGs is to do things I'd never do in real life (beyond the obvious like slay a dragon) and to play characters who are totally different in beliefs and attitudes to me.

If I want it, I'll buy it if I can afford it. Same in RL too.

That is weird....

What's wierd about it? Like Amazon Queen says, we play these games to live a different life than the one we lead in real life. Most of us want to exchange ourselves for someone else for a few hours. We want to be a different person for awhile in a safe environment. That is what roleplaying is all about, no?

I usually hoard my money and anything worth over 100 Septims in game for the first ten levels or so. I try and get enough to buy Breezehome, Honeyside or some property, furnish it, and not be poor afterwards. On my wood elf though, he's going for Proudspire Manor.

In real life, I budget well. I set aside a set amount each week to spend on my hobbies, and then more for the obvious things, and I get along quite happily.

I am so cheap in Skyrim, I never buy something unless I really need too. I have a poor man's mentality when it comes to the Elder Scrolls, with games like Monopoly though, I have a totally different mentality. I don't know whether its due to my business and marketing background but I am always willing to buy all the property and take risks by treading on the bankruptcy line whilst my friends become cheapskates pretending to be businessmen, and I always win, my Risk Management lecturer at University is probably turning in her grave though......Sadly, Skyrim isn't like Monopoly

In RL, I am tightwad when it comes to buying stuff like games or magazines, but if I was a businessmen, I would go my monopoly route, but, with more caution lmao

true but its weird to roleplay something you hate to do.
personally i play similar to how i live...the exception being that in game if someone angers me i can beat them to a pulp, in real life i would like to beat them but my brain knows better as real life prison isn't worth the satisfaction of punching annoying people like nazeem

I'm somewhat loose with cash if it is cash I dont need for school. In game, I dont spend my money for [censored] unless I really need it, or I'm far enough in the game to be filthy rich. I usually dont buy stuff on early levels unless I have enough loot to replace it, and I have to really really need it. I usually get all my armor and weapons, etc. from looting anyway, so I've limited myself to buying only training lessons for the most part. I sometimes even use the exploit to buy a house for free (don't judge, I kill a [censored] dragon and I have to pay for my house? WTF?) Lydia doesn't like being homeless, lol. Gotta do whatcha gotta do.

This reminds me of a quote by Yahtzee in his review of Mercenaries 2:

"There's an insidious thought that frequently goes through the minds of gamers... I mean the thought that goes, "But I might need it later," the niggling little doubt that prevents you from using all your most powerful insurance policies in case there's some kind of no-claims bonus at the end of it all. So we have scenarios where you're sitting on a nuclear stockpile to shame North Korea and are throwing peas at a giant robot crab on the off-chance that there might be a bigger giant robot crab just around the corner."

I'm guilty of this too.

I don't think so. I hate killing. Yet I do it in games all the time.

Yep. I tend to try to be self-sufficient in these games - buy as little as possible, find/loot/stockpile everything I can, etc. In Oblivion I always did my own repairs, and didn't ever use magic gear until I got my Repair skill up to 50, for instance. Only thing I'd buy in that game, 99% of the time, was repair hammers and the spells I might want for enchanting.


Oh, yeah. Can't tell you how many Final Fantasies I've finished with all (or almost all) the elixir/megalixir/ that the game gave me.

This made me LOL, as this is me!

This is an common problem, you save stuff as you might get more use for it later.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooAwesomeToUse
Naturally you soon out level the item.

Yeh. Sometimes we can do things in games that we hate a certain aspect of in RL, yet like the idea of having our character do.

Oddly enough, in the picture they provided, the player is right not to use the item, as a Megalixer doesn't revive downed party members. So only two people would be brought back to full health, and one of them is still well enough to stand as it is.

Then again, I horde Megalixers like no other in FF games, so maybe I'm not the best judge of when to use them.

i doubt you hate it but rather feel like its wrong or something to that effect. if you do truly hate something then why would you want do it in a game?

i hate golf so i would never buy or play any golf game. i like certain forms of violence (like brawls) and am barbaric at heart ha so skyrim is perfect for me. in game i would never muder someone in cold blood just like i wouldn't do in real life but if someone tries to kill me or my loved one's i would easily kill them first as i would in real life. everyone's different but its just strange to me to play something you hate....playing something you wouldn't normally do is different then playing something you hate

What real consequence can come from a game? I believe this is the answer you've been looking for

In real life I have absoluetely no problem spending money on things I might want but in the game I usually try to get everything by myself so it is cheaper or free. Though there is also days that my characters feel lazy and just buy something.