7 Games You Played so Much You Saw Them Everywhere
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- Play enough of these games and you'll start seeing aspects of them everywhere in daily life! Nooo Tetris, get out of my brain!
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Ever played a load of Assassin's Creed and then had to stop yourself climbing up the nearest available building? You're not alone. Here are the games we saw even after we stopped looking at the screen...! 🎮
Outside Xtra no sorry
I... I may have tried to run up my house after playing AC. Anyone else wanna try it? Don't... just don't
I haven't, but i played so much of a game (idk what it was, but it was like a murder mystery), that I was paranoid of literally EVERYONE for like 6 months.
After I finished 1-Revelations I was looking at literally everything thinking “I could climb that.”
While I HAVE been affected by Assassins Creed's *#ICanClimbThat* effect ever since AC1, I've experienced the *#TetrisEffect* a RIDICULOUS amount of times over the past 2 decades, ever since my 5th birthday, when I received my 1st #GameBoyPocket, #PokemonBlue, & (you guessed it) #TETRIS. Also, playing the 1st three #GuitarHero games for HOURS ON END would always give me REALLY intense #TetrisEffect experiences that would *make looking at any flat/rectangular surface (walls, desks, sidewalks) appear as if they are constantly SCROLLING DOWNWARD, just like the **#NoteSheet** that you stare at the ENTIRE TIME in **#GuitarHero** to prepare for the next notes/buttons in a song...*
it happens to inventors of games as well, rumour has it then when the inventor of Tetris died his coffin was put into the ground and the entire cemetery disappeared
Thanks for the laugh ,I desperately needed it.
Fair jest good sir!
Haaaaaaaaaa
I love this. This is great. Good job, fellow human on the internet!
Rofl
Once I forgot my lab access card at uni and genuinely considered choking out a nearby UPS guy and entering through the delivery bay before I remembered that a) I'm not Agent 47 and b) I could just wait for somebody else to let me in.
I assume you were going to desguise yourself with the UPS guys uniform and then proceed to cause a "lab accident."
Lol
Portal. After I finished the second game, I laid in bed at stared at my white ceiling thinking "Hey, I could put a portal on that." Which was soon followed by the thought "Wait what?"
I know, right? I've definitely played that series too much, I can vividly remember having the same moment you're describing, except I have a loft bed so the thought was "I could pop a portal right there and reach through it for... wait, what would I use that for anyway? And why am I thinking about this at 11:00 PM?" Sometimes I'll still find myself mapping out different ways I could traverse my house by thinking with portals.
To quote Glados:
-now you are thinking with portals
Yep, been there - done that
The Gel Gun?
I had that a lot when walking through or past modernist public buildings with wide expanses of bare concrete. One train station near me in particular is full of portal surfaces, and harrowing vertical drops that would be no problem with a pair of those long-fall boots.
You painted your ceiling with moon rock dust? Fancy!
Playing alchemist in skyrim, suddenly caught myself picking a blue flower irl.. and thinking "need this"
guilty as charged.
No shit
Lockpicks
I usually do that with lavender
Restore Magicka.
Playing lots of Fallout gave me a skill of noticing every single bottle cap laying on the street in real life. Especially ones with a star on it. In the wasteland I would be already a rich man...
And Bobby pins! My other half laughed at me one time we were out and I stopped to pick up a Bobby pin off the ground.
I'm like - but it's a Bobby pin. Do you know how hard it is to find these? - then realized where I was. LoL
@@cynforgiven1221 I do that all the time I have quite the collection I could pick a freaking vault
O. - I always wanted to quick save in real life, so I would see the quick save menu pop up when I did something important in real life
I have a collection of 100+ bottle caps (all different). Hard Flex 😂😂
@Alex Jones Neverrr! Besides they're all IRL as well as in game 😂
After finishing Portals 1 and 2 I kept taking note of blank white walls before realising I didn’t actually have a portal gun. At least, not yet...
Bad Request I agree sometimes I’m lazy and wished I had a Portal Gun
One day science will find a way. Or the sun will detonate killing everyone.
Guilty of this..... Sooo guilty of this one.
now you're thinking with portals!
Did this literally the day I got portal 2, standing outside having a smoke and kept seeing the order I had to place portals to get to the roof.
After playing dying light for a while, went to the store to get food and on my way back it was sunset and I had a mini panic attack about night coming because that's when the volatiles come out
Or jump over the head of a stranger to see if it stuns them. Nope prob get my ass kicked 😂
Jonathan Wright ?
Same with playing too much Minecraft.
Even though I thrive at night, I also have an overactive imagination and fear of what might creep out of the darkness. Though the latter is natural, I've also gotten overly anxious about what I'd do if I witnessed a zombie walking towards me, one wandering around or maybe even what I'd do if I noticed a group of them coming. It's one of the main reasons I carry a knife with me at night, but I'm still not sure I'd even be capable of using it or if I'd just run away.
Skyrim, man. Walked past a certain flower in RL and all I saw was 'Thistle (x) take' and had to repress my urge to immediately take it.
I play Skyrim so much when I'm in a car and drive past a certain field I have the urge to reach out and harvest. Sigh
Too true
The Bethesda Effect: seeing someone with something you want and wondering how difficult it would be to pickpocket them.
Then, you remember this is the real world and stealing is bad, m'kay.
Kevin: "What are you doing Dave?" *Dave places bucket over Kevin's head* Dave: "Nothing..."
DarkLight523
or leveling up in speech in skyrim aswell while talking to shopkeepers around town.
how about the Skyrim with Kinect effect? quietly muttering Wuld to yourself, hoping it'll make you faster... or shouting Fus roh dah at that very rude person who clearly stole the last packet of crisps from your shopping trolley
Sometimes I pretend I'm getting "quest updates" whenever I accomplish something.....
The worse thing is getting caught having your hand is someone else's pocket, and HE is smiling back.
After playing 100+ hours of Mass Effect in like 5 days I started seeing my dialogue options when I was talking to people.
Actually pondering which response would give me something I want. It was bizarre.
Myvanwy Calista I played so much mass effect that when I broke a bowl I immediately thought about reloading my previous save, I also say Wilco thanks to gears of war
You know that moment in a conversation when you're waiting for your friend to finish their story so you can tell yours? The other week I was patiently waiting to drop a killer anecdote about one of my mates. Only to realise in the nick of time that the "mate" in question was actually Garrus Vakarian...
Honestly, that might be a better way to approach conversations. Thinking stuff through before you say it. May have to try that in the future.
this seriously happens if you play any game with choice in dialogue
Definitely couldn't be related to severe sleep deprivation...
Whenever I play long sessions of Cities:Skylines, I find myself getting angry at the poor traffic management systems whenever I am stuck in real life traffic.
Never played that game, but you are not alone in directing road rage towards non-present civil engineers.
Me too, sometimes i even dream in grid patterns.
Maybe we should use the game as some kind of city planning trainning/test.
There's the BioWare effect which has forever altered my perception of conversation and dialogue. Nowadays I sometimes awkwardly pause, spaced out, thinking of what to say as if there is a dialogue wheel in front of my eyes. Do you know how many times I've said "Sorry for the inconvenience sir." "Have a pleasent day.", "do you have a moment to talk?", "have you got a minute?", "is there anything I should know? That'll be all."
My mind is irreversibly altered by that but hey at least my customer service skills have improved tenfold. And not a single person has a clue.
Also because I'm a security guard I have a tendency to say lines of hold guard dialogue to people while on the job to see if some of the gamers of the bunch catch it. "what is it? Dragons?" " let me guess, did somebody steal your sweet-roll?" " I hear they're reforming the Dawnguard. might consider joining up myself."
"Yeah, so I just got a sweet new entertainment system for my living room-"
Tell me more about your new entertainment system!
"It's really nice, it's got Bang & Olufsen speakers-"
Tell me more about speakers!
"Um..they're the thing that audible sound comes out of."
Tell me more about audible sound!
"...uh...it's an osculation of pressure transferred through a medium and composed of frequencies within the range of hearing?"
I'm done with talking about your new entertainment system, tell me more about your living room!
@@Reishadowen Yahtzee!
"My cousin's out there fighting dragons, and what did I get? Guard duty!"
"The gods gave you two hands, and you use them both for your weapon. I can respect that." As you catch some guy trying to discretely touch himself through his pant pockets.
X Doubt
When descending some stairs, I more often than not catch myself wanting to jump over the balustrade, rather than walk all the way down, because 5 m is low enough not to take fall damage, and a 10 m fall is non-lethal so you can just heal that with a spell or potion.
I did descend a tower block once by jumping from landing to landing down the stairs, half a floor at a time. 26 1.5-metre jumps will add up to a strange achy feeling in the legs.
@@Sableagle It was totally worth it though, right.
Sableagle Back before my knee got bad i used to jump out my bedroom window to wake myself up quickly if i was running late
Coffee is nothing compared to a 8 1/2 ft drop
@@nerdherder9340 adrenaline makes coffee look weak
I dont even play video games and I've thought about something along these lines.
I marathoned yu-gi-oh so hard one time that the turn based system really messed with me. I was having dinner and instinctively waited for my friend to eat first so I could eat afterwards on my turn. Stopped playing after that...
"I end my turn." I can still hear it...
You activated my bread roll!
@@RanMouri82 this comment is too much fun😆
Shashank used Wait, Shashank’s defense fell...
ha. you fell right into my trap. i activate toaster oven!
I’ve driven past places that looked a bit run down and thought, “That’d be a good place to loot...” Thanks, Fallout 4 :P
Omg I don’t really play Fallout but when I see an abandoned building all I think is “man imagine the level design of that area”
Not gonna lie: I once smacked my hand on the window of a moving car because I was trying to pick up the blue flowers along the roadside so I could make health potions....
curse you Skyrim!!!
Every time I see the shadow of a bird flying overhead, I automatically think a dragon from Skyrim is about to attack.
Or Thomas the train ..
Breath of the Wild - Korok seeds. The number of times I've seen a shadow of a fan or out-of-place tree and immediately thought, "There's a Korok there."
I live in a place with wild yellow lilies. Worse still, one of the people living near my workplace must be a fan of BotW because they planted them in a 1-2-3-4-5 arrangement and I nearly walked into a busy street because my brain was urging me to walk through their garden in order, rather than focus on where I was going.
For me, it was Destiny 1 with the Public Events. The sky ominously darkens, your screen shakes, and then a local satellite plummets to the ground. One time during a particularly-bingey week, I logged off to get ready to leave my house, and as soon as I walked out, a cloud passed in front of the sun causing the windows to darken, and for a good 5 seconds I thought a Public Event was about to start in the middle of my room.
Tried to pause real life and had a moment of panic when it wouldn’t work.
Perhaps a break from Sims 3 isn’t a bad idea...
I can imagine someone trying to do a quicksave before doing something stupid.
"Oh, it's simple, really. Just open your menu."
all I think about after playing sims is putting plates on the floor...
I remember playing Sniper Elite and about a week later realised I was walking through town scanning the rooftops instead of looking where I was going.
Fallout games changed my perception of junk. I can never look at a bottle cap in the street without having that urge to collect it, before coming back to my real world senses.
Same. Every time I play it I find myself with a pocket full of bottlecaps a week later
Fun fact, bottle caps + superglue + a bulk box of small magnets = great fridge magnets!
I played Skyrim and became a real-life hoarder
Yeah that is for sure. I end up pocketing my beers caps when I've been playing fallout.
I do that with "chinese assault rifles."
Playing the Sims 4 for a while usually causes me to dream in Sim, fake language included. Once, I actually saw the spinning icon above my teachers head 0.0
I've managed to see my own moodlets a couple of times
#6 - Welcome to the life of a working musician. Hear a new song on the radio & you start to pick out the chord progression, deconstruct the bass line, and the like.
Portal. I haven't been able to look at plain white walls the same way.
I can _see_ the back wall of my floor right there, and here I am waiting for the elevator like a chump!
"Hey, it would only take me half a second to get to work with a Portal gun!" - always the first thing on my mind after playing that game.
The simple fact that you get used to using the mechanics in the game should be reason enough to put it here. Sure, not in the real world, but being able to instinctively solve the geometry using portals is still pretty cool.
Nor oval mirrors . . .
Or the moon
How about Mirror's Edge?
Man that roof looks so great to run across until I remember that I am an out of shape couch potato, and not an expert freerunner.
Watching someone play Tetris is so nerve racking. No! It should go there!
Unless you're watching a pro. Then you're just trying to keep up.
I have done the Assassin's Creed thing. The other thing I do that I picked up from several games is automatically scan an area I step into as if I'm waiting for an enemy to appear. Luckily, not too many people have seen me do that... yet...
Once after playing Bioshock and Bioshock 2 straight through I watched The Pianist, and during what was supposed to be a tense and harrowing moment when he crawls past some bodies I was genuinely confused as to why the inventory of the corpse didn't show up
It was just a reaaaaally long cutscene
The everything is climbable one also applies to Mirrors Edge, I still have my own runner vision.
Ronan Higgz I really thought it would be on the list, yeah.
Skyrim: Playing a mage way too much, so that when you get scared you lift up your hands instinctively, thinking you have your lighting in one hand and fire in the other.
especially if you have the vr version
The Elder Scrolls series, Skyrim in particular, made me constantly scan for alchemy ingredients! I’ve wanted to pull over and press to collect when I see wildflowers by the road, and it is frustrating I usually can’t.
Just look up the duping glitch in the current Skyrim. Hella useful for maxing out alchemy , enchanting , smithing and lock picking.
Playing any RPG with a HUD so much that in real life, wondering where your HUD is because you’re lost and you don’t know how to use your own sense of direction anymore instead of looking at a HUD.
YEEESSSSSS
fun anecdote: i used to play so many mmorpg and other HUD games that, to this day, my dreams tend to have HUDs & minimaps in them. very frustrating IRL where i have no directional sense whatsoever.
That’s why death march to another world rhapsody is so popular.
Worse than Assassin's Creed was Mirror's Edge: first-person modern-world parkour that told me if I just ran fast enough at that wall or railing I could absolutely make it to the next building. I still can't look at vertical pipes without getting Runner Vision...
The rock star / David cage effect. Where you walk very stiff as if you are a character from a rockstar game or a David cage game. You stand around as if you have your own idle animations, never turn on a dime, and everything you do such as picking up objects, closing doors, and walking down stairs, has this aura of graceful stiffness, as if someone else spent hours painstakingly animating your every movement.
You have no idea how many times I've opened and closed the door and waited for the camera to catch up and give the player control again, or stood for a brief moment before picking up a thing, stiffly inspect it, and put it back in at exact same spot, as if someone else pressed the button prompt.
What's funny is that I've done this around other gamers, and every time it gives them this weird sense of deja vu. it's screwing with their minds just as it is mine.
Using a fridge!!! like you mentally push E, step forward slowly and stiffly, grab what you need and then press E again to slowly close the fridge. Or like slowly and awkwardly placing a glass on a table as if you're trying to hold reality together through sheer force of will.
Hahahaha I used to do this all the time after playing so much Shenmue back in the day. Doing overexaggerated hand movements when grabbing things, turning my whole torso while looking around and slowly centering myself when I'm done. Walking around obstacles in a very clunky manner and making 90° turns 😂😂 good times
since i played until dawn a while ago, i've done this exact thing but also stiffly turning the object around to examine its details
I've done this after playing a lot of Detroit though my movements have become more fluid and graceful due to watching how the Androids move
This also applys to tv, I once watched so much pokemon anime, that for months after the total binge I actually made the stepping sounds the pokemon make when they walk, you know what j mean. Same with minecraft, sometimes I sit at my table and think about using the chopsticks and the charcoal for the grill to make myself a torch for my adventure before remembering I can't mine in the real world, or break things with my bare hands... or have a wolf as a pet... ok I really wish I could live in minecraft, I even have dreams about it when I play for more then 3 hours straight.
I started practicing martial arts a little while after I first played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Needless to say, I learned how to roll pretty quickly.
did you yell 'hyah, hyah, hyah' while rolling around?
And you know it's pretty bad when *Jane* thinks something makes her house look like the den of a serial killer.
Jane has a lovely home. Large for London standards. Secret panels in the library. Lots of candelabra everywhere. hallways filled with paintings of people from the Victorian era. A dumbwaiter that barely can fit a person leading to a large basement decorated with chains bolted to the wall. A room with meat hooks on the ceiling. an operating room. Oh and nice sturdy oak doors that automatically locks as soon as you enter the house and can't open it from the inside.
She's joking, of course--it looked like that before the patterns started appearing.
I thought you were going to say something different for Guitar Hero-- I remember after playing a couple games and taking my eyes off the screen, the world itself was warping towards me in a similar fashion as the incoming measures. Weird illusion, right?
This is a motion aftereffect caused by motion adaptation in the brain first noted by Aristotle and is called the waterfall effect.
OMG I love your videos!
This also happens if you actually watch something's credits.
If you look at a digital alarm clock when it happens the thing looks like it's totally bugging out. Went to check the time and got caught in a time warp lol
I love how sometimes if you look at something while chewing it seems to shake
I play so much Xbox that I have accidentally made my nightmares semi-lucid and escapable. Let me explain
Whenever something scary happens in a nightmare, I realise it's a nightmare, press a metaphorical xbox guide button, and press quit. Then wake up.
Not complaining obviously 😂 no idea how tf I started it tho.
That's cool!!!
TEACH ME
That's useful!
Apparently its a known thing that gamers tend to have more control over their dreams as well as not even being scared, more often being the threat in a dream. As a gamer myself I've had plenty of dreams where I should be scared but feel completely fine but once I wake up and realize wtf just happened I feel like I should be scared. As well as being lucid through most if my dreams(sometimes its more like watching a movie, other like playing a game)Like this one dream recently I was cornered by these people that were being mind controlled by something and knew I was fucked so I consciously told myself "Shit, I gotta wake up" which apparently sounds like a bell. The characters in my dream even commented on that fact and said something like "Is that a taco bell commercial?" Or something. Then boom, I was awake and questioning wtf just happened.
@@jordangarcia465 yup! I honest stopped having nightmares when I got really good at certain games, because my brain just reflexively uses my ingame attacks, or sees the monster as a winnable boss battle.
What about playing too much Sims and realising - when you are either starving or so bored in your everyday life - that you find excuses to 'fill your hunger/fun scale'?
It gets especially ridiculous when you start having a conversation with someone you like, analysing your very own words and categorising them into friendly and flirty interactions.
I don’t think people do that
So you know when you start getting into D&D, and it's fun, and you make a character, and then maybe another as a backup, and you start flipping through the Player's Handbook and the Dungeon Master's Guide, and then you start thinking about how you'd stat yourself, and all your friends, and your cat, and your boss, and Spiderman, and Thor, and, and, and...
D&D: Stat All The Things.
Start referring to all your successes and failures in life as natural 20's/crits and bodges.
Creating maps for your house on graph paper perfectly on a 5 foot per box grid.
@@plutarcouranus4200 And then trying to figure out how you'd run it as a dungeon and where you'd place the monsters and treasure.
to this day, any time someone in my houses looses their keys, and say out loud that they failed their spot check.
Ikr
Ah, the Tetris effect. Very useful when you need to put books on your already overflowing bookcases.
I don't have *too much* books. I just have too little space to put them!
Me too.
You can never have too many books.
@@allisonthepixie7961 My life motto! That, and "Knowledge is power".
i dont count my books in numbers but in meters
Surely once you complete a row they disappear...
Playing dishonored make me look at ledges and makes me think, "I could blink up to there."
Gosh, The Witness had me messed up for months, everywhere I looked were large circles with lines coming off them. I felt as insane as the secret ending.
After I played Alien Isolation, I compulsively checked buildings for ventilation shafts and carefully shuffled past any vents. Even shouted "It's in the vents!" once when a vent was leaking some kind of liquid and hightailed it out of the room. It was rainwater apparently, but still....you can never be too careful...that's why I'm living in this locker now.
Lmao, same. Love that game 😁
Ah yes... I grew scared of moving next or under ventilation shafts.
I've got two:
1) Freaking out a bit when a plane casts a shadow after playing hours of Skyrim.
2) That time I couldn't walk in my college library without hopping from rug to rug because I'd been playing tons of Thief, and my heels made too much noise on the tile floor.
I tend to have a weird affect where my dreams adopt the visual qualities of any game I've played for a while. This includes: aesthetics, graphics quality, animation quality, perspective (1st or 3rd person), and game-specific details.
I know this comment is super old, but same! I'll play lots of Zelda or Ace Attorney and dream in that art style for as long as I keep playing it
@@leighsartworks yep, still happens
When I was younger, I played uncharted 2 an unhealthy amount, to the point where in real life, if I saw something glitter in the light utop a building or in an alley, I'd immediately be drawn to it and be filled with determination to climb that street light and retrieve whatever treasure awaited me
Luke, I hate to break it to you but there was a camera literally right in front of you the whole time
You notice James disappeared. I'm righting a condolence letter to John, the new cameraman's future widow , so I could mail it faster. I liked James.
Thanks to GTA and Stuntman, I now can't look at a car transporter without immediately thinking "ramp"
That's the one I am surprised didn't make it unto the list!
I legitimately got the Tetris effect from reading the Necronomicon in a single reading rather than breaking the stories up.
I got halfway through over a week or 2 and I have never had such vivid and, I’d say disturbing dreams. Some horrific and some just, I don’t know mind bending. There’s something in the language that Lovecraft used that gets into your mind.
Well now I want to try it
Forgot when you play Telltale games and your life begins to feel like one where you think about the possible outcome of your choices
Outside Xbox will remember that...
I play games and whenever I’m lifting weights or pushing something, I always imagine someone is mashing a button in a quick time event, especially when I struggle. And thanks to earthbound and mother 3, whenever I think of fighting, I see the swirl effect and music starts playing in my head
Philip Schlaepfer whenever I bench, just a big x button going crazy
Same I call it the CJ effect.
Hit X faster I can do this!
@@prettyboyjeremy def san andreas lol cj got buff
@@prettyboyjeremy and I can confirm the Tetris thing, too. Whenever I'm at the store, I arrange things as such
To this day my friend has noted that I hit buttons like Booker DeWitt in Bioshock Infinite. PUNCH THEM TO WORK
Any RPG with a relationship mechanic. Every time someone laughs at my puns, I see text floating above their heads that says "They liked that".
My favorite is playing Katamari Damacy for hours and then getting into my car. Sorry pedestrians, you're all half the size of my Prius!
And ranking things around you by size? To know what can be picked up
I also experience this, it kinda freaks me out.
After playing enough games that involve dialogue trees, I see them everywhere. Especially in D&D where they're all dialogue options that involve a question in some way and then I realize I'm bad at asking questions
Also after playing enough old school Tomb Raider and playing enough Uncharted, every time I go to a museum, everything looks like some ancient artifact and I wanna take it before the opposing side gets there first
And the time I just move like a Sim and find even just one person or object in my way a big hindrance and take a completely opposition pathway to where I need to go
I swear I don't have problems, quit judging me mom and dad
Ah the witness... Made me see circles in everything and then see paths leading from that circle in anything
WAIT MY PROFILE PICTURE IS A CIRCLE
MUST.TRACE.PATH TO 100%
I can no longer remember if my obsession with climbing things existed even before I played Assassin's Creed, but what I do know is that ever since Brotherhood I am constantly plotting climbing paths and I CANNOT TURN IT OFF. It's gotten me in more trouble than I care to admit.
same thing, but because of Tomb Raider
XCOM: that moment when you see an object and see whether it is full cover or half cover, and NEVER TAKE COVER NEXT TO CARS
Another example (I am aware this video is over 2 years old); I started playing Valheim, and while riding with my family past a forested area, couldn't help but look for the distinctive pattern of birch trees (a source of "fine wood"). As well as considering each tree as potential building material.
I played so much Dishonored that whenever i see a ledge, I instantly check if it's the kind that I'm able teleport to or not.
Joeon Ren THE BEST ONE
You can teleport!? I wish I could teleport
I once played Sleeping Dogs (set in Hong Kong) for most of a day and found myself driving on the left side of the road, though I was very much in the US.
YUP, went to get in the passenger side too
@@src248 My dad did that one time we were on holiday, in a country in which the cars are left hand drive. I am still laughing about that.
Gets into car doesn't understand why there are no pedals and no steering wheel. Oh wait it's on the other side.
A man who never eats Pork Bun is never a whole man!
I usually drive on the left, despite being American.
...and also, in video games.
I remember back in middle school I was addicted to the game unturned, playing almost all summer. I was so addicted when I heard a plane my mind assumed there was an airdrop and immediately looked for a care package to fall
For me the game that always got into my head was Sudoku. Not much of a video game, but that simple number puzzle made me look at numbers totally differently. I would think of ways to fills the squares constantly in the back of my mind. I once even had a dream about Sudoku. Nothing happened in it, I just played the game. One of the most relaxing dreams I've ever had, actually.
All I know is that between The Witcher 3 and Deadpool I can't look at a stuffed unicorn anymore.
Man, this totally happened to me playing The Long Dark. One of the easiest ways to get food in that game is to spot crows circling over a dead animal in the distance, so you get pretty used to looking for them. I realized I had a problem when I heard a crow when I was outside and starting frantically looking for it so I could find food.
I've been playing Hunt: Showdown a lot recently and alarmed crows are a sign for enemy players in the area. Since it's an unforgiving game with permadeath, the sound of crows started to give me the fucking creeps in real life!
We've all thought of it at some point, and we've all instinctively reached for the keys, even when we're not at a keyboard:
Ctrl + z
When I was playing a lot of XCOM 2, every time I wanted to do something in real life, like get a drink from the kitchen. I would start working out how many moves and turns it would take me to get to the next room, thinking I can't do it cause the enemy will move and.....wait, what?
Yh I had to uninstall the game lol. I miss playing it. 🙁
What about quicksaving? I genuinely catch myself looking for an irl quicksave button before I do anything risky-like, for example, putting my new shirt in the dryer without knowing if it’s going to shrink or not.
Oh yeah, I do that...
If I'm doing something that's not working how I think it should especially malfunctioning technology I often find myself trying to ctrl-alt-delete so I can check if the process has stopped responding.
miss terious I broke a bowl once and immediately thought about reloading my previous save
I always find myself pressing an imaginary save button.
I'm glad it's not just me that does that then, or when you take something apart to fix it then realise you cannot recall what order it went back into and you think, man why isnt doesnt the load from the previous checkpoint work..................oh...yeah thats why. Reality, damn you!!
How about being sure you can endure more than you really can, if Nathan Drake can get beat up and thrown out a window and still be up for more then surely so can I!!
*stubs toe*
*faints*
Nathan Drake can take a beating, but that's nothing compared to what happened to Naked Snake in MGS3. Gets his ass kicked by the Boss multiple times, tortured by Volgin, losing an eye in the process.
That said I have a sudden urge to hide in a cardboard box.
Or a run to the store. Imagine myself running all the way there. Run a hundred feet at full sprint and I'm out of breath LOL.
Thinking you can run as much as characters like Nathan Drake is one that comes to mind. They can run that much that long, so so can we! Right?
Gta 4 pigeons.
Have an urge to shoot every pigeon on sight. Only to remember you dont carry a gun and pretty much shooting a bird in public might be illegal.
*IM DOING YOU ALL A FAVOR*
@@jollycooperation7446 #DESTROYALLPIGEONS
2:57 after playing Rouge for two hours straight (longest I've ever played a game in one sitting) I started seeing Templar crosses everywhere and Assassin hoods as well. I stopped seeing them after 3 days but I won't forget it.
You're not alone, I played AC Brotherhood and I started seeing yellow markers everywhere (which means an enemy is suspicious of you) and started dodging and putting my fist up. It was weird, but as you say, you'll never forget it.
When I was a kid I played Pokémon so much that I could hear the music when absolutely nothing was playing.
I get the Tetris effect with my fridge -- I like to think of ways to carefully arrange all the groceries so everything fits together. Also, Golden-eye is FAR from the only game to make us fear security cameras -- see the first two entries in the BioShock series (I have yet to see one in Infinite) and the two Portal games. (There's one that messes with your head -- how many times have you looked at a far-away thing and wondered what the best portal placement would be to get it to fall right in your lap?)
docette2015 amen to that. I will say that Infinite has me thinking I can Possess vending machines and make some quick money. Only after I’ve flung my hand out to no avail does the sad realization set in.
See for cameras it was always payday for me
I think the fridge thing is normal. I mean trying to fit things in with minimal gaps between them gives you maximum storage efficiency.
What about seeing a clay pot and immediately feeling the overwhelming urge to smash it open in case there is money inside? Thanks Legend of Zelda
Link, you do know you could just look in the pot, right? Also why are you stealing the rupees out of our swear jar, come on.
I got this effect from Assassin's Creed Origins.
How about out of place walls?
David so true XD what about the tendency to eat anything from Kirby games? Or to smash a block like Mario
This one. Definitely.
Well now I know why I'm constantly seeing Super Mutants in my dreams at night, thank you Jane
As a lifelong Spider-Man fan and frequent New York City visitor, I've spent a lot of time thinking about which building I could swing from, jump off of, or climb. Playing the game has mad it exponentially worse, to the point of having to remind myself that I can't just leap up and do it.
I played so much Fallout that when I'm emptying my pockets of change at the end of the night I find I somehow picked up bottlecaps.
I spent a weekend playing Mirror's Edge. When I left my room, I grabbed a red broom and didn't know why.
Whenever I go out, I see places and say "hey, that would be a fantastic sniper spot" as if I was in battlefield
yes! but becauseof Hitman for me.
Also what about "if only I could quick save/load right I'd say or do something dramatically unreasonable"
X-Com. Everything is either full or half cover and after 1000+ hours of play it's vital to finish every "move" in cover.
Idk how any game like Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, or Fallout 4 are not on this list. All those games changed my perception of reality lol. Grocery store felt like bartering with branching speech options, driving a car felt like I was fast traveling, and the best was reaching for my weapon when I got scared at night in the woods (just to realize I'm IRL)... All sad but true.
I had something like that happen once. My brother woke me up one morning (we were going on a road trip), and I punched him because I thought he was a Dark Brotherhood assassin. As soon as I said "Morrowind", he realized what happened. We laugh about it sometimes still.
also what i call the "lockpicking effect". you play any game w/ lockpicking but especially these games and suddenly you're staring at every lock you see, thinking of ways to pick it open & loot the place
Okay that's weird, by that definition I experienced my strongest "Tetris Effect" back in... 7th or 8th grade, I'm spacing exactly which, when our class was taught touch typing and my brain started visualizing my fingers typing out everything I heard people say and/or said myself.
i do that too, i am typing on say here, and someone talks on tv and i start typing what they are saying. also touch typist trained
That urge to shoot security cameras I got from Payday 2, gosh, after playing that I felt like I could pick out every security camera in a 5 miles radius just by running then jumping and crouching in that order particularly.
It's a bit like when you binge watch so much outsidextra you start seeing the world in lists of seven things to do, with punny subtitles...
Rainbow Six: Siege is the one that has me looking askance at security cameras.
Same here now when I go anywhere I look around for cameras.
I was about to comment this I sketch out anytime I see cams now 😂
Same
Been playing Skyrim. I went outside in the dark irl and I thought I should probably save in case some night monster appears.
Be careful, a Master Vampire might ambush you
Assassin's Creed made me see almost every wall climbable but I'm happy with this
I picked so many flowers in Skyrim for potions that I had to fight the knee jerk urge to pick them on the side of the road.
You totally missed walking around in the real world and recognizing "ingredients" from Skyrim.
I fully expected Mirror's Edge to be on this list. I started picking out all the red things in the world and feeling a strong urge to run to them, especially if there were a few conveniently vaultable obstacles in my path.
"Best to stay indoors where there are no cameras." He said into the camera.
I can confirm that after playing both Watch_Dogs games, I have become highly aware of where security cameras are and have frequently wished I could use my phone to force the car in front of me to move. EDIT: I just realised I could pay off my student loans by hacking people's phones for their bank account info. If it was real. If.
Bruce almighty your way too workkkkkkk
Payday 2 stealth has given me the habit of spotting every security camera when I enter a new building.
The first WATCH_DOGS gave me a strong urge to climb every scissor lift I saw. I got better... after a while.
@ Caitlin RC If the hacking doesn't pan out, you can always hide from the bloodhound's and student loan officers, in a cardboard box, metal gear style.
Totally foolproof.
@@maxvel0city906 Even if they find you in the cardboard box, it would probably work out depending on what you're wearing.
XCOM got me. I can't help but survey real-world environments for the best places to find cover and plan on a grid basis how a squad will storm my neighborhood in search of sectoids.
I remember one time I got "the Tetris effect" while playing a particularly difficult level in SpaceChem. I had been up late at night for about 8 hours playing the same level and could NOT figure out a solution, so I finally turned off the game and went to bed frustrated and defeated. After 3 or 4 fairly restless hours of sleep, I got back on my computer and finished the level in about 20 minutes. I had solved the puzzle in my sleep. Not kidding. I've been a bit gunshy about putting more than an hour or two in since. I still haven't finished that game...
I am not ashamed to say I am victim to more than one these conditions. That's right! Compulsively stacking groceries at the supermarket, always look for climbable ledges and exit strategies, always check for security cameras and if people are looking towards me, waiting for imaginary button prompts and dialogue prompts, checking for places I might hide things and bodies....
Based on the way you look at life, I think is safe to say that... I love you
@@EdAwelo let's see you roll a D20 for charisma check... no charisma bonus? uhhh...
Ok this video is full of many actions that if you do them in real life you'll end up in prision... is that why Ellen is not in this video?
I don't think prison could contain her, she would just escape through the vents. Like when Captain Luke of the starship enterprise had Jane lock her in the brig on that episode of show of the weekend.
@@maxvel0city906 you re right, after all she is so small that no prision could contain her
@@rodrigocenteno9055 Either that or Jane has turned Ellen into the liquid metal terminator from terminator 2, and she can just walk straight through the bars like that scene in which Sarah Connor is escaping the mental asylum.
Although, if she is in prison for this reason, it's probably Jane using Shadow of the Tomb Raider to brainwash Ellen into a murdering machine
I never had the button problem with Guitar Hero. The thing that always got me in that game was the wicked tunnel vision.
Everytime I see radio tower, Christmas stuff, or anything else red and white, I have an urge to destroy it. Have Just Cause to thank for that one!