Bad gaming habits you're trying to get or already got rid of?

MMOs i don't like them

The FPS I've played most is TF2, where I have auto reload on (whenever you're not shooting, you start to reload) so in every other FPS I forget to reload.

Fast travelling is another one. I kept doing it in Oblivion but then I started to explore and found some really awesome stuff.

Oh, and pressing slightly broken buttons. For example, on the PS3 controller, the L2 button is kind of broken and starts randomly "pressing" in the game, and on another one, the R1 has sort of gone loosely. In the middle of a game, typically at very random points and when pressing the button would put me at a disadvantage, I get the urge to just press the button and I feel like I must otherwise I just... Get annoyed.

Lately my bad habit is to play a game and then stop when I'm near the end (like at 80% of the story), as if I don't want to end it xD
Of course I still finish some games, but not so many as I used to.

I need to stop being so Steam-obsessed. I own Witcher 1+2 DRM-free and I cannot bring myself to download and play them simply because they're not on Steam.

(Also I need to dicking 100% Saints Row 3 someday. Got EVERYTHING except those damn challenges.)

I have that using guides habit as well. While I'm doing better at avoiding them to prevent myself from spoiling/ruining the game, I always have that fear that I'll miss out on something that I can't get once I miss it. Doing good so far with Dark Souls II though (completely avoiding wikis/streams of it until I purchase and complete the game--aside from watching the very beginning of the game upon release because it was so hype).

Twitchy trigger/button fingers
For some reason, I always get an urge to just press triggers or buttons during loading screens or when nothing is happening in game... I don't really have a reason why and it's just plain silly/dumb.

General bad fighting game habits
I'm trying to learn fighting games, but I have a lot of habits I need to break before I can I do well in them. I have muscle memory habits, such as doing the same series of buttons across all characters or in all situations--it takes me awhile before I stop doing that one combo that I just learned in training mode. I also lose my form/timing when playing against a player for the first time in a while; I find myself rushing button presses and my execution becomes terrible. While that all gets better as I become more comfortable with my character and opponent, that won't cut it when playing online and I would like to be able to pick up the basics of new fighting games without having to go through the whole breaking habits process.

Completionist
This one's self explanatory. I just find joy in gathering everything in video games (with the exception of those "collect all 999 orbs that are hidden and scattered throughout the game!" tasks--such as feathers in Assassin's Creed). This isn't really a bad habit; just something that results in me spending more time in areas than I should and generally making my progression through games very slow.

Reloading
I must reload my gun if I'm not in combat for like 3 seconds... Even if I've only fired one bullet... Must. Reload.

My worst habit is simply trying too hard to be good at a game and not enjoying it. When I played mostly on consoles all I did was play for trophies on ps3 and it made me hate gaming. Now I try just to enjoy the game and have fun instead of trying to progress through it tactically with perfection and precision.

Also restricting myself to newer games is a bad habit just because they are glossier than a lot of older games.

Picking up every item I find and selling them, even though I already have more money than rest of the kingdom combined.

Caring too much about achievements. If there's an easy one to make but it can only be obtained in a specific level, which I can't replay unless I do the whole game again... I do check things like that. It can ruin the game a bit, because I care more about obtaining some specific achievement than moving on with the story and enjoying gameplay. Not to mention that it's very easy to get spoiled while trying to read about it etc.

In RPGs, keeping potions or any one-time-use item so I can use it later, I never touch it again.

Losing. I really need to stop losing.

my bad habbits all root from WOW...
In WOW, you kinda always rush through the whole low-level content, to get max lvl and start raiding asap, especially since they adjusted the time needed to get to max level.
That became like a habbit for me now, whenever I start a new game, I try to finish it as quick as possible, often missing out on interesting content, nice scenaries or other. Then at some point I notice what I´m missing out on, restart the game and finally stop playing cause I´m bored by the content I already saw playing it for the first time.
Another thing WOW "taught" me is hoarding... never use a unique, one use only item, better store it somewhere... for later use...later = never.
Also turning off the game´s sound and music is a bad habbit i had grown playing WOW... man, I missed out so many good game sounds...

My habit is (I'll consider this a gaming habit) seeing games I want on sale for steam.. buying some, downloading them all, jumping from all those games. Then that ends up repeating. so I don't ever /focus/ on one game to complete xD

Another bad habit of mine is impulse buying games because its a good price. My backlog is already stupid and at one point, I put a moratorium on any new game purchases until I knocked a chunk out of my backlog. Unfortunately, then I found this site and discovered something called "bundles". Its really hard to pass a decent bundle of games for a buck.

I ALWAYS reload my weapon, whenever I can - too much - in Half Life 1 you can reload the pistol when its at full ammo, so I reload it ten times before I realize I'm doing it.

I also save an insane amount - any lull, any new pick up, anything that's not in the middle of combat - I managed 50 saves before leaving the caves at Helgan in Skyrim - I managed 1000 saves after a week of gameplay in Skyrim too.

Quicksaving and Reloading... Fallout 3, it's just too tempting, If I can kill something in one shot I NEED to kill it in one shot!

Starting games and not finishing them.

Getting items and never actually using them, especially in JRPGs with full heals, being all like "BUT I MIGHT NEED THAT!"

I'm slowly getting better about it, but in games where you loot a lot I tend to go overboard (and try to loot EVERYTHING. I once tried to see if I could loot absolutely everything in Fallout 3. I eventually gave up, but I wasted a quite a lot of time first).

Also, starting a new game that I know I'll get sucked into late at night, when I have to get up early the next day.

trying to be less of a perfectionist, perfectionism is a form of extremism

Outside of games

Playing games when I shouldn't be.

Like for instance, this is finals week and instead of studying for my finals on Saturday, I'm playing games instead. Same for regular tests/projects/homework. I end up rushing it all last minute half-assed. :/

In video games

Skipping past cutscenes.

I end up not knowing what to do or missing part of the history.

Stopping playing a game because I deem it as too good and awesome to finish in just a week...leading to me not finishing it even after 2 years and being stuck between loving it but unable to understand it's mechanics anymore and unwilling to start from scratch.

Also getting a new game and just immediately starting to play that regardless of whatever else I might have been playing or planning to play at the time which is where most of my unfinished games come from.

And being terrified the game is gonna crash and wipe my save data and thus saving every 5 meters given the option (and feeling miserable if I don't have the option). I really need to learn that Oblivion is the exception rather than the norm.

And then there's a former bad habit that has now swung all the way to the opposite extreme. I used to just play the game running head first down the main path and not caring about the rest sometimes accidentally bypassing entire chunks of games leaving me ill prepared for the challenges that lay ahead and having only experienced at best 60% of what the game wanted me to experience. Or getting myself stuck because I never saw a switch to activate the door I needed to proceed making me check a guide. Now however I get so worried I might have missed something that I spend an extra hour backtracking till I've made sure I've explored everywhere and fully understand my options and if I have 2 optional routes I try to go down both swopping back and forth every 2 minutes, regardless of how far apart they are (thanks to checkpoint autosaves I can't just advance down one and then come back because there might be a cutscene a minute away that forever locks me out of that exploration if I accidentally go down the main path first).

Even after I've learned that there's nothing interesting to explore in the game I still keep doing it cuz there just might be something next time and then I'll forever kick myself later if I compare my experience to others and find I missed out on that like I used to in the past, wasting tons of pointless time even for a completionist.

Gotta pick all that loot and sell iiiiiiit.
Nope, no leaving anything behind.
I spend the majority of Skyrim dragging my ass while carrying several tons more than my capacity would allow. And I kept running back and forth in the Borderlands series to collect all the drops, sell them and then go back to collect the rest. Despite being at the money cap. I'm a fucking idiot. (At least in Borderlands 2 I'm starting to get rid of it. Having a near full inventory with good stuff kinda makes you not care about the rest. :D )

The desire to be good at EVERY game.
Now, that wasn't a problem... until I tried a fighting game... I'll never be good enough at Skullgirls. :'(

The "just one more level" disease.
Self-explanatory. I just can't stop until I see the end of the story...

I'm bad about relying on guides. I have this need to get every collectable and I'm paranoid about missing any little thing.

Also... iuseanxboxcontrollerformostpcgamesdon'ttellanyone

For me, first of all, I stay up too late playing video games

As for the actual games themselves, I'm a massive loot hoarder/seller, I find it completely irresistible. I will pick up anything and everything I can, and then resell it if I can't directly use it. This even applies to items without a value, or with a tiny value.
Also, I tend to be quite perfectionist in my level exploration, I will look around every nook and cranny which I can, seeing what I can do as far as interaction goes, etc. It's an absolute killer in open world games, in GTA I would literally spend hours slowly examining every single thing in an area. Writing on the walls, what people are saying, etc.

Buying them! I can't stop, and I haven't played most of them.