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.
Can confirm, kicked several objects and people while in VR, still unsure how many were real
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
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!
I once messed up something I was writing by hand and instinctually wanted to press ctrl+z
Scraped my car tire rim on a curb the other day and mashing Ctrl + Z in my brain for minutes afterwards :(
I get the Ctrl+z urge too! If only…
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
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.
Imagine if you played Suika, how you’d look at fruits.
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
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!
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.
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.
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
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!
Yep, I do remember this with AC. I posted about the one that hit me harder, which was Crackdown.
If I spent a lot of time training I could theoretically move similarly to the characters in AC. No matter how much training I do I’ll never be able to leap multiple stories in one jump up.
ah yes haha, rings a bell ! gothic churches especially have a ton of protruding, grabbable details
Not in a game, but I’ve sometimes tried to Ctrl+F some text on a pile of papers.
When I was reaaaaally playing too much Hitman I began to notice large containers that could fit human bodies inside.
