[WontonGoodsoup]

Whever playing new adventures I love to try and make the toon do the stupidest things and see what their reaction is. Like trying to make Guybrush walk into the sun on SOMI. lol.

i always have one saved game and name it my name. it also drives me crazy if there is no subtitles with sound. i feal muth more comfortable when i can read and hear what they are saying. I also take feakishly good care of my adventure games. i have a seperate shelf for thema nd there all in alplabetical order in perfict condition. i remember i had a very small scratch on my grim fandango cd. i almost cryed..

[Ninth]

Originally Posted by Paragon

I always call my first save game "Start".

Every single time now that I think about it... Later save games get titles based on whats going on in the game.

Yep, the same. Only it's "début". And later on, when the game is not very easy, I have a Heu? (Er?) savegame.
That aside, I can't think of any habits, or rituals.
Oh yes, I always try to explore everything in a room, dialog options included, before I proceed to the next one. Which at times, in games like BS1, can be really boring.

[RLacey]

I always call my first savegame 'Playing'. No matter what game it is.

Before playing a sequel, I ALWAYS replay the previous games.

I keep trying to get into Maniac Mansion...

[D.C.]

The keys under the door mat.

[RLacey]

Originally Posted by SerialFreak

The keys under the door mat.

LOL. Thanks a bunch for solving the first, easy puzzle .

Not that it works on PocketSCUMM - the controls seem screwed.

Anyways, I did get that far before ...

[D.C.]

I was wondering whether you would take it as a joke or not.

[Jake]

I'm definitely a member of the "retarded savegame naming club," and this can be witnessed by you the reader by simply downloading the SCUMM Bar's ScummVM savegames for Monkey Island 1 and 2, which were contributed, names and all, by me.

That said, I frequently find myself wanting salty foods, especially when playing LEC games. That's probably weird.

[D.C.]

I always call my GK3 save games:

Gabriel Knight III: Gabriel Knight
or
Gabriel Knight III: Grace Nakimura

[Renegade]

Originally Posted by New_Order

Holy crap, that is exactly the same thing as used to do. Doesn't everyone do that?

Yeah I do it too, except I can't read in the car (get sick) so I have to wait till I get home then I read the manual while it's installing.

[karel y2k4]

I have to see and read everything, even the small standard copyright letters. And when playing the game I inspect every sreen to see all the little details. This way Syberia was a really long game for me and extremely enjoyable 'cause there was a lot of detail. And I always buy games the first day they are released, except ofcourse games before I had my PC.

[Walrus]

Originally Posted by karel y2k4

I have to see and read everything, even the small standard copyright letters. And when playing the game I inspect every screen to see all the little details.

This reminds me of this guy called "me".

[astronomy_psi]

A steaming cup of coffee by my side mmmmmmmmmmm......

Plus, I lock my door because people like distrubing me during those important movie sequences you can't pause!

[lmxplx]

Originally Posted by mycroft

Wow. This is great. I, too, have a save game naming ritual/habit. My first save game is called...'First' and so on. I rarely use more than two slots. The other one is aptly named 'Stuck'. A save game named 'Test' is not uncommon.

Oh and (don't ask me why) but I play games with all the lights turned off.

This is exactly what I do. Sometimes I'll use First Try, Try1, or something similar.

[sephiroth209]

When playing I have to LOOK at every item that the game will let me, and if I accidently pick up an item without looking at it I have to load a previous saved game and get back to that point. Also I look at it again when its in my inventory to see if there is another description.

This can make your game last FOREVER, ecsspecially like in the old Sierra games where everything had a description.

[ConcreteRancor]

Originally Posted by dave_minall

I always named my saves stupis names too e.g. in monkey island 2 id call em "HELP LECHUCK." i also did the one about reading everything about them before playing them. then i wud stay up til about 4 paying them.

I used to name my saves in a way that involved both my name and the name of the main character or the game in some way. I thought it was funny.

So I'd have saved games called Sambrush Threepwood, Sammy Calavera, Riddle of Master Sam, Sam Throttle, etc. Anyway, that habit kind of stopped, and now I generally just make all my primary saved games named Sam.

I also always save my game twice. The second save is always called "Backup." I've accidentally saved over games that I didn't want erased before, so this helps.

I actually had THREE different saves when I played through Grim Fandango. I thought Rubacava was so fun to just wander around that I made a saved game called "Enter Rubacava," which I saved just before leaving the city, so that I could go back and walk around town whenever I wanted.

[jannar85]

Originally Posted by guybrush_guy

i only do with adventure games and when i did'nt drive. but, when my dad would take me to go get a new adventure game i would pick out the box in the best condition. when i got back into the car i would open verry carfully not to rip the box. then read every scrap of media possible. when i got home i would run to my room and install. i think the last game that i got really exicted that i was going to get was the longest journey.

Ooooh! I do exactly the same
Cool!

[100ja a.k.a. mr_mitja]

Originally Posted by Ninth

Oh yes, I always try to explore everything in a room, dialog options included, before I proceed to the next one.

If that is a habit, I guess it's my only one except playing in dark. The rest (coffee, beer, even smokes are occasional). BTW my savegames range from 100ja1, 100ja2,... to gjsdhg and gr8eq or djkzjeoh or...

[rtrooney]

Pour stiff martini.

Insert CD.

Go through install process.

Open first scene and save.

Drink martini.

Play game.

Tim

[Kaparen]

Originally Posted by rtrooney

Pour stiff martini.

Insert CD.

Go through install process.

Open first scene and save.

Drink martini.

Play game.

Tim

weirdo!