When I got hooked on Morrowind in middle school it occurred to me to quicksave before a test at school.
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I got hit really hard by 2048. I didn’t even play it that much but my brain started looking for groups of identical things and imagined how they slide into each other to create something new. Plates on the kitchen table, seats on the train to work, identical cars…
Funny that you mentioned 2048 specifically, that one got me on the high way one time. For half a second I thought I could get past traffic if I compressed all the cars in front of me into the right lanes.
When writing on paper, I will sometimes think, “Ctrl + Z” to undo an errant pen stroke lol.
Same, but for drawing on paper. It took me a while to break this habit. My left fingers would reflexively twitch, like they were rolling over those key
I’ve attempted to quicksave a couple of times before parallel parking my truck.
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 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
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!
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?
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.
Thanks to Fallout I can recognize the sound of a bottle cap hitting a surface from across a crowded room and get the intense desire to go and grab it
When I was reaaaaally playing too much Hitman I began to notice large containers that could fit human bodies inside.
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!
When I caught myself planning exactly how I’d scale that building wall, AC style.
When I visited Italy for the first (and last) time a few years back, I kept thinking the same!
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.
Can confirm, kicked several objects and people while in VR, still unsure how many were real
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.
