Gaming gone too far
My friend once told me that he'd played so much Halo that he'd find himself 'checking his motion sensor' in real life as he walked around. Of course this is only a slight movement of his eyes down towards the bottom left of his peripheral vision, or his HUD, as he called it.
(MikeyNiv can coin snatch 32 pennies, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 0:30, 10 replies)

Playing too much Halo
I got the "Halo Claw" where my last two fingers on each hand were wrapped round in the shape of the controller and took ages to loosen up.

I remember playing so much Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter I kept imagining people walking down the street outlined in red diamonds.
(bigjonnydynamite, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 0:53, closed)

Quake3
We (a bunch of work mates) played so much Q3 Arena that I thought, at the end of the day, we could just jump over the street to the bus station.

I shared it with the group and they had similar experiences too.
(randomset, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 1:23, closed)

I had a friend who used to check rooftops for snipers while walking down the street.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 2:47, closed)

On a similar note
Has anyone ever gotten so used to simply being able to load up a new game whenever you've fucked up that, when back in the real world, for a very brief moment at least, you've believed you could go ahead and do something with consequence because if it doesn't work out you can just load your most recent save.

Chat up that girl? Yeah go on then, if I get an embarrassing knock back I can just loa- oh right.



No? Just me then.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 9:24, closed)

Not quite, but I do that in my dreams. Like, "oh I'll just grab her boob, it's only a dream."

Perverted, I know.
(MikeyNiv can coin snatch 32 pennies, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 14:03, closed)

I do CTRL+F
in my head when I'm looking for stuff in the real world. It doesn't work.

*click*
(SimianKid internet faffer, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 10:55, closed)

Haha.
The GTA series of games has this effect on me if I play them for too long. Whenever I see a building site in the city centre, I spot the high-vis jackets and automatically think about sniper rifles and wanted levels.
(god_is_a_ghoti Carpe Deum., Tue 6 Jul 2010, 11:15, closed)

Yeah this happens to me
If I have played too much Mordern Warfare 2, I will walk downstairs poking my head through doors and thinking i should throw in a flash bang then unload some lead into Mrs arrow....she thinks it's weird and childish.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 11:26, closed)

I once had sex with a prostitue then beat her to death and took my money back

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 11:30, closed)

Painkiller tends to have this effect on me.
I'd just played the level set in the docks the day before then went cycling over a rail yard near my house, and half-expected drunken dock workers with nail guns to start shooting at me.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 14:33, closed)