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Whenever I'm playing really any form of video game, especially in the action genre, I find myself leaning forward with my character or sort of tilting my head when I'm looking around a corner. I could go on with other examples but that's the general concept.
I do realize that I'm not accomplishing anything, it just happens naturally.
Depends what type of game I'm playing. I don't play FPS any more but when I did, I used to do the same thing. If I fall off something in a game and it's a long way down, my stomach always flips in horror. Sometimes lean left and right when I'm driving a motorbike in a game. Like that's going to help steer it any better!
I do that a little, but my husband does it a lot; I find it hilarious.
Your brain is hard-wired to respond to certain stimuli in certain ways. You'll lean around a corner even if it's a virtual corner and give a little jump when a fake monster comes after you.
I'm replaying Oblivion right now, and I got goosebumps all over when a zombie came at me from a hidden passage in an Ayleid ruin. As far as my hind-brain was concerned, I was fluffing my fur to look larger and present more of a threat -- a reaction that's probably at least 20 million years old, yet it's still part of our genetic code.
People are weird animals, and that is totally normal. :)
I've never been able to get into Oblivion, which depresses me. I just can't take the graphic drop from Skyrim to Oblivion anymore.
Thanks for the response. I've never actually seen someone else do this so I've never been sure if I was alone in this.
I wasn't aware of that. If I was to try and play it again, would ou say console or PC?
This is completely normal. I do this anytime I do something on the computer or draw or on a game. I think it means you are intensely focused.
I would definitely say PC for both. Steam had them on their big holiday sale, so I picked them up for a song and have thoroughly enjoyed replaying them even with the clunky old graphics.
And yes, even with those lousy graphics, I still lean in my chair to look around corners. :)
I played console and it was okay, but I've heard pc was better. And if you play morrowind it is only for pc and original Xbox. So I would go for pc
I do the same its just your unconcious brainium saying hey look around that corner
By the way, this post came about from Star Wars Battlefront when my brother started criticizing me for halfway jumping out of my seat when my character did so in game. I then started looking for other similar incidents and found I do it a lot. A lot a lot.
Haha i do that to. Especially when i first started playing. Also i would say ouch. Sometimes i talk to the other characters haha
Im a hardcore gamer, I make it my job to be the character. Movement in all......
I lean forward to try and look around doorways when playing Deadspace and then realize that it does nothing. Fucking necromorphs.
I move my controller around excessively even though I'm not playing a Wii and it doesn't help in the least little bit.... kind of similar I suppose.
Ah yes, very normal~ When I'm playing Street Fighter 4, sometimes if it was a really close match, I might mimic the K.O. cries of the characters and go all "Guaaaaagh!" *thud*. Well I don't thud but you get the idea. I remember one time when the Wii first came out and I was playing Wii Tennis with friends and family and when the ball was coming towards me, I actually started to move in the direction of the ball like it was going to come out of the TV screen. I stopped myself but I was already seen, haha.
If I'm playing a driving game and I crash, my body (especially my legs) jolt with varying levels of violence.
Sometimes when I play fighting games, I bash the buttons really hard, as if I think that it's going to make my character hit harder.
Shit, you should see me when a creeper comes up to me in Minecraft. Our brains are designed to react in weird ways, games, or not.