Weird gaming quirks you have?

[Borghir]

I often grind unnecessarily. In games where you have small amounts of ammo I usually end up with an inventory full of bullets. If I need 2000 resources I often continue to grind until I have 20000. I am a person that likes to grind...

I also tend to have podcasts, debates, lectures, etc running in the background as someone mentioned above. There's something about the feeling of doing 2 things at the same time that makes it more interesting.

[aileron]

I think this is pretty common actually but in RPGs and open world type games I need to look in every box, barrel, sack, room, etc, search every body, and generally gather a bunch of useless or semi useless stuff.

[PriestTroit]

Yup. Guilty.

[JackofTears]

Not really a quirk, but I am a compulsive saver - if I haven't saved in some fashion every 5-15 minutes, max, I get twitchy. I've played too many games where some glitch would get me killed or crash a game, and I'd lose hours of play - so I save before every fight, every conversation, every cutscene ... a game has to be very engaging to make me forget ... and usually, that's when something goes wrong.

[aileron]

Ha ha yeah I'm also guilty of that. To the point where I really dislike playing a game where you can only save at checkpoints if I play one at all. Quicksave button is my friend.

[PriestTroit]

Dude, so many times I'd boot up the Xbox to play Morrowind only to find that my character's save file was corrupted somehow. That's when I learned the value of multiple saves and saving often.