When I got hooked on Morrowind in middle school it occurred to me to quicksave before a test at school.
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When I played Superhot. It’s a slow motion shooter where enemies and bullets only move in real time when the player is moving.
I only played it a few minutes at a time, but each time I looked up from my desktop I was surprised that stuff was in motion even though I wasn’t.
Very weird effect and it set in each time I played.
I remember they made a VR version of the game, which I was very keen on. And I imagine the VR aspect would’ve made that effect even stronger.
Portal 2. Finished it in a few days and for a day or two afterwards my brain found blank white/beige wall surfaces very attention-grabbing.
Especially slightly angled walls!
Fallout 4 had me noticing a lot of scrap for a bit. Seeing a roll of duct tape was like looking at a bar of gold.
I got access to a really nice VR system through work and binged through Half Life Alyx. I was in a room that was large enough to walk around in, but for larger moves you use the controller to teleport a short distance. Also you can gravity attract items within a few yards with your gloves.
After playing the first time I went to cook dinner and got embarrassingly frustrated when I tried to summon a spoon with a hand gesture.
Yes! The telestep-urge happened to me with RE4 VR. I was trying to move around my house with my thumb!
At periods when playing a lot of geoguessr I often catch myself looking at license plates and street signs when walking on the street, as if trying to figure out where I am.
Also years after I stopped playing assassin’s creed, I still get a mental image of a red outline when I walk too close to a cop.
Thanks to Morrowind and Skyrim i still find myself absent-mindedly noticing “alchemy ingredients” when walking through the woods on hiking/camping trips, despite the fact that I haven’t played either game in a couple years at this point.
Do you also eat every object to determine what “alchemical properties” it contains?
I do not have enough hit points to be that reckless lol
I get this with trees because of Rust
Played so much Assassin’s Creed, I too wanted to jump off the top of a building.
That’s what 25 years in IT did for me.
I laughed, but then cried in yaml.
Back during the WoW days (the flying mount expansion), every time I would walk home from Uni I’d think: “This would be a lot faster if I turned into a crow and flew over these houses”.
I played a Druid.
When writing on paper, I will sometimes think, “Ctrl + Z” to undo an errant pen stroke lol.
I knew I’d been playing too much GTA (would have been around the VC/SA days probably) when I was out driving one day, heard sirens, and looked up in the corner of my windshield to see if I had any stars.
Everyone gangsta till you do this and actually see 4 stars on the windshield
I’ve attempted to quicksave a couple of times before parallel parking my truck.
I just considered that like an hour ago. Car’s parked next to building, trash truck blocking me in. So I thought “I could go this way instead” where “this way” is a little slope, then turn onto the sidewalk for 50 feet then get to the road.
GTA. I was driving down the road and had the urge/intrusive thought to side swipe a motorcycle because hitting them is just what you do in the game.
I noted how it was weird the first time, then it occured again a week later. That was the last day I played GTA even though I enjoyed the game.
I’ve never had that thought, but I often think about driving over a curb. I play a lot of racing games too
Half life alyx had me flicking my wrist to try and gravity glove small items I needed. I remember having a late night sesh of HL Alyx and in a sleep deprived state trying it multiple times and not understanding why it wasn’t working.
I always feel like I should throw a turtle shell at the idiot driving in front of me
Factorio. I began seeing conveyor belts in my sleep.
