game addicts real world weird experiences

OK guys, we know how we play games so much that when we get out in the real world, reality tends to twist that we don`t feel like we`re normal anymore... I`m not talking psyho cases just when u dream at night that u have to complete some quest or why is Alyx hugging u and ur not even Gordon... I have a lot of stuff that happened to me here`s some more recent: after playing and replaying Portal I got up in the morning and as I was staring at the door for a split second I looked for another way out (portal) to exit, also my addiction to Lineage I tend to look at people and I instantly link how they are dressed to armour sets... one of my friends saw a flower in a garden and thought it was a quest item... so feel free to share ur thoughts and experiences on this freaky subject...game addicts real world weird experiences
Haven't been in situations like that, the closest thing I've got to was when I one day was walking down at the docks looking at the water. My first thought was ''That's some nice looking graphics''. This was like 4-5 years ago



But I have thought something like ''Now if I had the portal gun right now, it would be awesome'' :)game addicts real world weird experiences
[QUOTE=''ADG_'']Haven't been in situations like that, the closest thing I've got to was when I one day was walking down at the docks looking at the water. My first thought was ''That's some nice looking graphics''. This was like 4-5 years ago But I have thought something like ''Now if I had the portal gun right now, it would be awesome'' :)[/QUOTE]i would have my way with myself:P
Reading these comments have been funnybecause it just reinforces the fact that your not alone. I was watching the old Italian Job film (Michael Caine)on Sky Movies just over a week ago and as the three minis weredriving along together escaping and evading the Italian police, I imagined that it was an online game and that I was the mini at the back of the line trying to keep up with the better players at the front. And at the end of the persuit when the minis drove up into the moving truck, I said to myself ''noob'' becausethe last mini had trouble aligning his front wheels to the ramp.Also when the black American driver was driving them away with the gold at the end, I just knew he was taking those turns at too fast a speed (from playing simulation racers) and they were bound to crash.Edit: Oh yeah, there was another time when I was in my bedroom with one eye open and was imagining that what I saw in my room was a presentation demo for a new DirectX or some sort of new graphics technology. The graphics were oviously amazing with no jaggy edges, and as I looked out my window at the grass and trees, buildings and draw distance, well it was definitely an advance in technology!
It has happened with me a lot , while i was playing Half Life 1 and F.E.A.R.I think the games take over our sanity.
It has happened with me a lot , while i was playing Half Life 1 and F.E.A.R.I think the games take over our sanity.
I'm still waiting for that day when a total stranger walks up to me and gives me a quest to safe the world...
If games affect your sanity, I hate to say this but you didn't have a firm grip on it to begin with...
Every day tasks like get gas , buy bread and things like that I sometimes pretend are ''quests'' and I ''accept'' them lol....sleep is another one, I usually tend to not accept that crazy one.
I was once together with my friend, and he REALLY plays 24/7... He played WoW a lot...A day when we were walking in the city on our way home.. He suddenly started laughing, I asked him what's the matter? and he said, that just before he left his house he used his hearthstone in WoW.. And as we were walking on the street, he thought, 'damn my Hearthstone is on cooldown, I shouldnt have used it'.. (we were on our way home) lol :)
when i was going paintballing with my mates, it happened to me, at the end of the day i realised that all day i had been referring to each scenario as a ''map''...as though i was playing bf2 or DoD or something...i kept saying stuff like ''what map are we playing now?'' and i just thought it was really wierd...as im sure my friends did :P
The worst thing i have had happen was I was at the mall with my freinds and another person joined us and the thought came to mind saying that my reuite has expanded like in Medieval II total war. I felt like such a nerd.
The only thing I remember doing is talking to a partner in a Bio lab and I started my sentence with ''you say'' because I was so used to reading everything I typed in Everquest as ''You say: Blorgle blog!'' He didn't notice it or he didn't say anything...one or the other.
I must say, Battlefield 2 messed my mind up pretty badly (for me, anyway) at times. I'd start hearing the voice-overs all the time during my day even when I wasn't playing the game (sort of the way you can't get a tune out of your head). I'd hear noises in the real world that sounded similar to noises from the game, and my mind would instantaneously jump to the conclusion that the sound in the game would normally make it jump to, though only for a split second as my reason would kick in pretty quickly. Still, it was annoying knowing I didn't have full and utter control over my brain's reactions to sounds in the real world.2142 did the same thing to a lesser extent whenever I played it avidly, I guess because my mind had become more conditioned to the effects of Battlefield addiction by then.Battlefield is the only game that has had that unpleasant effect on me to such an extent. Oblivion has made me hear its music all day after I finish playing for a few hours, but I guess that's mainly because it's just really nice music.
[QUOTE=''emmm78'']OK guys, we know how we play games so much that when we get out in the real world, reality tends to twist that we don`t feel like we`re normal anymore... I`m not talking psyho cases just when u dream at night that u have to complete some quest or why is Alyx hugging u and ur not even Gordon... I have a lot of stuff that happened to me here`s some more recent: after playing and replaying Portal I got up in the morning and as I was staring at the door for a split second I looked for another way out (portal) to exit, also my addiction to Lineage I tend to look at people and I instantly link how they are dressed to armour sets... one of my friends saw a flower in a garden and thought it was a quest item... so feel free to share ur thoughts and experiences on this freaky subject...[/QUOTE]dude.....thats messed up......
One day i was in an test in my university and i the Battlefield 1942 music was playing in my head all the time..... i failed the test.....Other day iwas wtih my friends doing a barbacoe and we needed wood to start the fire and we take the''quest''of searching wood to make the fire.Finally i says all the time to my girlfriend''u have very good grafics''........Sorry for my english XD
[QUOTE=''emmm78'']when u dream at night that u have to complete some quest or why is Alyx hugging u and ur not even Gordon... [/QUOTE] roflWOOT!
Few years ago i use to do mapping/level editing, and once i got into that i use to look at things in the real world and picture it in wire frame.and i use to hear game sounds all the time mostly at night, its normal to hear them if you play a game for a long time
Heh, yeah, it is fairly normal to hear faint game noises if you've really been into a particular game for awhile. Me, I sometimes wish I had a quick-save button for real life... That's about it. Oh, and I only go outside at night and stick to the sewers for my commuting because I can't afford another masquerade violation.
The only thing I can think of along those lines came when I was playing Oblivion alot. I'd look out into a field of swaying grass, or a forest of something, and I'd get this weird feeling for a split second like I was looking at a screen from the game. I guess you know your game has great graphics when it makes players lose their grip on reality...Either that or the Matrix is all true and I was just experiencing a glitch in the system. yeah, that sounds cooler, I'm going with that