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Anyone here got a video game hyperfixation?

I'm wondering if anyone out there plays games the same way I do. Most people approach the hobby normally like play a few games on rotation with friends or to pass the time. What I do is play hundreds of games to completion then for some reason memorise each and every one, learn about all the differences between the ports, the game engine tech it runs on, all the bugs and speed running strats and index it in my head for instant recall.

Why I'm like this I do not know, something to do with making soul reaver my personality when I was a kid which was funny cos nobody knew wtf i was talking about cos other kids were playing gta and lego games.

Any other oddballs like me?

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  • It's not really the same, but I tend to play a single game at a time until I've exhausted its in game secrets or got bored of its story/gameplay, and if I exhausted its secrets I'll go looking for the most similar games I can find. I only have a very passing interest in bugs and speed running, and no particular interest in game engines, so I don't seek that information out, but I will memorise story details, hidden gameplay mechanics, ability interactions, that kind of stuff. Most of the games I own probably have less than 10 hours played because they didn't interest me or hold my attention, but the ones that did have hundreds of hours - Tactics: Ogre Reborn, Hades, the Owlcat games, and Warframe (again) over the last 5 or so years.

    • Same, I will get into a game and just keep going until I’m bored or if I didn’t like it, beat the final boss and never open it up again.

      For example I just beat Pokemon Sword and the story was meh, but a lot of it was boring and reeked of the expectation you would buy the DLC. Making curry was kind of fun the first couple times and felt like genuinely good worldbuilding to see non-pokemon centered things in the Pokémon world, but then they added whipped cream to curry. Fuck that I’ll just juggle between coconut curry and potato curry like a normal person.

  • when i read the title i thought, yes that's me, but then i read the post that's a big nope from me.

    i was thinking more along the lines of i download and play hundreds of games, but mostly just for a few minutes or a couple hours, then i delete them and forget them forever

  • I like the Kirby and Mega Man franchises and can whip up lots of trivia about each at a moment's notice. Two years ago, the Mega Man Star Force series and its main character Geo's progression out of loneliness and anxiety struck a lot of emotional chords with me on a deeply personal level. As a result, that series has practically become my identity as it sits very close to the heart. Geo unironically is a role model for me.

  • You are me when I was a kid. I even got angry when my brother couldn't remember the controls or what exactly you are supposed to do in every Chicken Little stage.

    I got a bit more normal when I aged (I still know where all important stuff is in every Dark Souls)

    • I did do my part of being normal and now I'm entering midlife crisis and been playing all the singleplayer games I've had on my backlog. Already completed 7 games this year, didn't do much last year because i got back into mmo's and was playing basically all of them at the same time

  • I've picked a couple games from the late 90s early 2000s like Majora's Mask and pokemon to learn all about the beta content, game engine, and speed runs. I listen to all sorts of piano and orchestral remixes of the OST. There's like a million Dire Dire Docks remixes

  • I don't do it to that degree, but I do wonder sometimes how much space in my brain is taken up by obscure Binding of Isaac knowledge

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