For me it's starting a game, I have to be able to get what I consider "the perfect start" done. So in Fallout 3 I took several days worth of game play, probably enough time to complete the game even to get to the first town and do a few early missions. I also HAVE to save before returning to a npc to turn in missions just so that I can be sure if the outcome of the mission is not to my liking I can reset and not loose hours of play.

I have to if possible play female characters, excepting in Halo 3 online. It's not even in the cyber perverted manner of "well if I'm going to be staring at the ass on this character for most of the game I'm gonna want it to be hot!" kind of thing or the idea that guys are nicer to girls in online games. I tend to be very self reliant it's just a thing I do.

I've also got a few bad habits with RPGs, this is the norm for me: All characters must be skill capped, even if I do not intend on ever using them, this in games like Suidoken 4 is a nightmare. I must have the best possible equipment in the game, such as genji armour in FFTA and for the final battle Llednar's armour for Marche. I generally have to have every spell, item ect ect ect. In FFVIII this goes really to the extreme that I will collect 100 curse spikes to make 1 dark matter and another 100 for refining to Pain spells and then collect it back to 100 "just in case" same goes for Energy Crystals ect.