You Know You've Played Too Many Games When…
Posted on 23rd Dec 2010 at 11:41 by Joe Martin with 57 comments
You know you’ve played too many games when you deliberately get up early on a Saturday morning, just so you can explore the new Minecraft update in peace for a few hours.
…when you hum the Monkey Island theme tune to yourself when you’re tense, and it actually makes you feel better.
…when you catch yourself thinking, ‘Oh, quicksave!’ when you cross the road.
…when you have recurring dreams about writing the perfect walkthrough for Baldur’s Gate 2.
…when you’re celebrating your anniversary with your girlfriend at a 1950s party on a vintage steamboat and, rather than dancing, you spend your whole time being reminded of a level in Hitman: Blood Money.
…when you’re approaching one of the aforementioned vintage steamboats and, as you outpace the others on the jetty, you're tempted to yell, ‘The rescue boat is here!’
…when the doodles you draw while you're on the phone aren’t little stick men, but old Quake levels redrawn from memory.
…when you bump into things all the time and blame it on the clipping.
…when you don’t read instructions for the new microwave because you’re pretty sure all you need to do is ‘Press interact’.
…when you seriously believe the only use for graph paper is to make it easier to design Minecraft levels.
…when you don’t just talk in your sleep, but actually mime killing Kleers from Serious Sam.
…when you look at the clock everyday at thirty-seven minutes paste one and think, ‘Yes, I am.’
…when you hum the Monkey Island theme tune to yourself when you’re tense, and it actually makes you feel better.
…when you catch yourself thinking, ‘Oh, quicksave!’ when you cross the road.
…when you have recurring dreams about writing the perfect walkthrough for Baldur’s Gate 2.
…when you’re celebrating your anniversary with your girlfriend at a 1950s party on a vintage steamboat and, rather than dancing, you spend your whole time being reminded of a level in Hitman: Blood Money.
…when you’re approaching one of the aforementioned vintage steamboats and, as you outpace the others on the jetty, you're tempted to yell, ‘The rescue boat is here!’
…when the doodles you draw while you're on the phone aren’t little stick men, but old Quake levels redrawn from memory.
…when you bump into things all the time and blame it on the clipping.
…when you don’t read instructions for the new microwave because you’re pretty sure all you need to do is ‘Press interact’.
…when you seriously believe the only use for graph paper is to make it easier to design Minecraft levels.
…when you don’t just talk in your sleep, but actually mime killing Kleers from Serious Sam.
…when you look at the clock everyday at thirty-seven minutes paste one and think, ‘Yes, I am.’
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Discuss in the forums ReplyThrow away the manual, just press buttons and MOAN when it's not working as you think it might.
Manufacturers know this and, no they don't make the devices easier, they deliver without a manual as stock :D
*probably more, my guess is 99% :D
Too bad that when one is complete, I can't distribute the atribute points...
I do the same in my school.
Also, I'm paranoid that the Cyberdemon from Doom and Doom II will chase me down and shoot rockets at me.
Refer to work as a grind.
Dream about what i will do tomorow in WoW, god i'm glad i don't play that anymore. Talk about adiction.
... i used to use it for designing levels for Lemmings... shame it didn't actually have a level editor...
One for SC2 players, when you APM spam your internet browser :P
A couple of years back someone actually made a CS map of our school for the LAN server we had up. It was quite impressive and he even include artwork on the walls!
Excellent. I am actually considering trying to do the same with this school. I do have a map of the school at home, but I probably wont have the time (read: skill) to do it. Maybe break in and have a huge paintball fight!
Didn't someone get arrested for doing this?
Me and my friends have on a couple of occasions made detailed plans for the tactics we'd use for if our school was a CSS map.
you shout "Maximum Speed!" gunning it off the lights.
.. when you're sitting in traffic and start getting annoyed that the game is taking so long to load
I can see where you're coming from :P
I lol'd when I read this! When I first got hold of HL2 this is exactly what I did to get some peace and quiet to play before the misses got up!
After a while she used to get up to watch me play - she loved it, 6 months later she had her own PC and was playing CSS in a clan :P
Works well with other who know what your talking about, everyone else just haven't lived!
you know when you've played too many racing games when you always drive the perfect racing line, clipping the curb every at every turn in real life. (this isn't good for the car!)
I think me and a mate are going to try and make a map out of it. If it becomes serious I will let you bit-techers know all about it. Project style.
Some talented individual made a Duke Nukem map of my high school many years ago, and at times the entire computer lab (60 odd computers) was being used for epic LAN battles. The headmaster's office had porn mags and a stripper in it, beyond that I can't remember it too well.
Yeeeah, I'm not sure that makes you a person who plays too many games, rather you're just a complete geek.
my favorite that still gets me is "When you start suspecting a box of being Solid Snake"
This is why I stopped gaming.
I always wanted to be able to dodge crap in RL
haha
I do that all.the.time
LMAO +rep sir.
And when the motorcycle came out of nowhere, I blamed the dead pixels :x
... when you walk into a store and try to sell your old gear and clothes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MytfhzcSF-Y
And this lmao probably the best youtube vid ever :D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIrvpn3k9A4&feature=channel
Every day can be an RPG with enough imagination :D
LOL
*buys blood money for £1.23 on the steam sale and installs again ;)*