Little urges you get from playing games for long periods of time.

[NeoCracker]

Pft, you're all odd. Thoughts like this only serve to hurt us as gamers, as it lets others think we allow games to influence us.

I hope all of you get rolled up by a Katamari!

[Wolf Kanno]

I stopped playing GTA the day I was driving home from my job at the time, after playing GTA3 all night (you heard me right) and I saw a guy walking on the sidewalk. I had to stop myself from driving on the curve to run him over in his silly little suit.

After playing MGS for so long, I like to hide in cardboard boxes when I find them. My co-workers think I'm weird

[Levian]

The only one I can think of right now is that when I was younger I would always walk up stairs in the same tempo as they would in the Resident Evil 1 stair loading screen.

[Iceglow]

The only one I can think of right now is that when I was younger I would always walk up stairs in the same tempo as they would in the Resident Evil 1 stair loading screen.

so in other words it could take you an age to go up 10 stairs?

[leader of mortals]

Well it isn't really an urge, but I often, after playing games like oblivion, where I could easily save wherever I wanted, I always think "there's no need to worry about doing this because I could always reload if I need to..." then "Oh, crap, I cant reload..." then I wish I could

[Jiro]

I like to horde crap like I would in an RPG. Playing Rainbow 6: Vegas makes me scout rooms pretty effectively. After a long time of playing, I tend to slide along walls by instinct, and peek around corners. I like to do this from time to time anyway and tell people I'm looking out for zombies. They think I'm crazy but if they happen to appear at that exact moment, I'll be the only one (of them) ready.

I sometimes have trouble moving across games though, after a long period of playing. I remember playing Morrowind for ages, and then playing Halo 2 at a friend's place. I kept "jumping" and died from explosions the other big one is trying to melee with B/Circle. Funnily enough that happens most playing R6: Vegas where B is the goddamn grenade button

[blackmage_nuke]

When im moving in a large crowd I pretend im in a danmaku and the people are bullets and i get extra points for getting close without touching them.

Also from playing chess when i see tiles on the ground in the form of a grid I walk in L shapes like a knight

Also when im walking sometimes i walk up behind into someones "slip stream" and pretend i get a speed boost to rocket me around them, a handy hint i learnt from mario kart.

[P4ine]

Ehw, I think there are quite some to think of..

But the most significant one would be imagening like every object engending sounds when they move or collide with another object.
Be it a punch from Street Fighter II, a jump from Super Mario World or something else. I've assumably been doing this like all the time I've lived so far.

Sometimes I actually speak the sounds out loud what makes the people around gaze at me.. what in turn is extremely annoying, but well, guess that's what I get

[Old Manus]

I've played the Resident Evil games so much that I'm always subconsciously thinking about how I would get out if zombies busted into the area. What Levian said, too.

Soon I'm going to start walking around in a tank-like fashion.

[~*~Celes~*~]

The only one I can think of right now is that when I was younger I would always walk up stairs in the same tempo as they would in the Resident Evil 1 stair loading screen.

I lol'd

After playing The Sims 2 pretty much 24/7 for a week during summer vacation once, I started imagining I was a sim being controlled by a player, ended up cleaning the whole kitchen without thinking about it...it was weird.

[Lionx]

When driving i usually think of Street Fighter stuff, theories in my head and being able to play certain situations out in my head to 'advance' without really playing. Like based on experience what the guy would probably think in this situation..and what can i do to mix it up. This only works if i know the game engine well enough to say 'that wouldnt/might work'....

<<< Dork

[Bolivar]

used to think about how to stay behind people/out of their peripheral vision, behind columns etc when i first really got into MGS.

Would imagine the camera getting behind me and starting up the car/radio GTA style last year when IV came out.

[VexNet]

I think I've gotta agree with most of what Jessweeee♪, Samson, Guardian XIII, Iceglow, Wolf Kanno, Levian and Bolivar say. I've been very well known to live in my own world most of the time.

From time to time I like thinking up scenarios that might happen. If I got involved in a war, I would like to think up ways to survive, If this world and the imaginary world combined (The ultimate crossover arc!) Sometimes even the Zombie Apocalypse (I loved the Zombie level in CoD:WaW).

I used to think up scenarios as if I was the main character of my own RPG. pick the right option etc..

It's mostly speculation to think of when I'm bored and/or on my own to entertain myself.

[MadeOfApples]

Every time I enter a building, I instantly scan for every possible exit and threat. Its really not a bad or strange urge but still one that I developed from years of nonstop video games. Plus those strange urges to sneak around in shadows.

The worse thing I developed from playing video games is how I now horde EVERYTHING because of my years of playing those point-and-click adventure games as a child. Everything had a use in those games; in life, not so much.

[Quindiana Jones]

I only just realised that my obsession with knowing where every security camera, hiding area, ambush point and exit is comes from the influence of games and movies. I will always be ready should I need to hide from terrorists with access to cameras. Or if I ever need to leave in a hurry, which is genuinely useful.

Also, the Assassin's Creed method of getting through crowds FREAKING WORKS. People don't appreciate it much, but who cares? ZOOM!