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Geekiest (Video game related) thing you've done?

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For me, it's probably one of the following:

Queueing outside Game for 4 hours for Halo 3. (I know it doesn't sound like much compared to some, but waiting outside shops barely happens at all in the UK for games compared to the US, especially not in the North, I got some funny looks for a while until some others started showing up, 2 hours later!

Owning all three editions of Halo 3.

Taking a full week off work to play Bioshock.

Completeing Final Fantasy VII properly (defeated all weapons, mastered every materia, got a gold chocobo etc) twice.

Anyone else got any?		2008-10-14 10:43:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084

Only thing I can put on my list is playing a real-life version of metal gear solid, with finger guns, with friends.

You know how it is.


"Go patrol somewhere whilst I lean on this wall and rty sneak past you"

They basicaly just pace up and down, you sneak past em. If they see you, you either kick off or shoot them once in the head and they have to die. If they kick off then you start a massive argument. Its nothing like the real game, unfortunately xD		2008-10-14 11:29:00

Author:
Maltay
Posts: 2073

Heh, sounds pretty funny actually. We were mainly playing CoD4 without knowing it!

Either that or WWF...		2008-10-14 12:11:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084

Taking the day off work when Tomb Raider 2 came out.

Getting married in wow, to my RL wife.

Yup both of those are pretty sad.		2008-10-14 13:46:00

Author:
Piratepete
Posts: 110

Taking the day off work when Tomb Raider 2 came out.

Getting married in wow, to my RL wife.

Yup both of those are pretty sad.
Very... interesting @_@		2008-10-14 13:49:00

Author:
Unknown User

That's commitment! RL marriage vows are easily broken, but a WoW marriage is for life!2008-10-14 14:20:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084

Lol. not really.

If we hadn't have given up Wow we wouldn't be together now. Nearly split us up it did guvna.

The final straw is when we realised we were sat 5 feet from each other typing messages to each other.


Why is that 'Very...interesting' Creative?		2008-10-14 14:57:00

Author:
Piratepete
Posts: 110

That is a little wierd, sitting so close and msging each other. Tried it with the DS's chat thing. It didn't last!2008-10-14 15:07:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084

Playing WoW for 8 months, with 6 other people. (People would consider them "cool" lol, so it might not be that geeky)


Finishing GoW 1 & GoW 2 Very hard mode.


Metal Gear Solid 2: Getting all the dog tags.(Had to finish it like 10 times...)		2008-10-14 15:25:00

Author:
Forsaken
Posts: 950

Some more:

Finishing all three Halos on legendary.

Watching all three LOTR movies back to back

Watching all 6 Star Wars movies back to back

Getting my gamertag/username engraved into my bracelet. (I'm also having it done onto a titanium ring, and if I can find one again, one of those mouse mats made of weapons-grade metal.)

I'm going to bend the rules a little here, as he's not in a video game, yet, but I also cut apart and sewed back together 2 green shirts (one light, one dark) in order to make a Green Lantern shirt.		2008-10-14 15:37:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084

Some more:

Finishing all three Halos on legendary.

Watching all three LOTR movies back to back

Watching all 6 Star Wars movies back to back

Getting my gamertag/username engraved into my bracelet. (I'm also having it done onto a titanium ring, and if I can find one again, one of those mouse mats made of weapons-grade metal.)

I'm going to bend the rules a little here, as he's not in a video game, yet, but I also cut apart and sewed back together 2 green shirts (one light, one dark) in order to make a Green Lantern shirt.
Now, that's awesome. I might do that with... something >_>		2008-10-14 15:47:00

Author:
Unknown User

wow. really? that's it?
week long lan parties.
two times a year.
taking days/weeks off of work for various game releases.
actually celebrating winter-een-mas every year (even made the sceptor)
i could go on.		2008-10-14 15:55:00

Author:
morkuma
Posts: 18

Some more:

Finishing all three Halos on legendary.

Watching all three LOTR movies back to back

Watching all 6 Star Wars movies back to back

Getting my gamertag/username engraved into my bracelet. (I'm also having it done onto a titanium ring, and if I can find one again, one of those mouse mats made of weapons-grade metal.)

I'm going to bend the rules a little here, as he's not in a video game, yet, but I also cut apart and sewed back together 2 green shirts (one light, one dark) in order to make a Green Lantern shirt.

I've done both those lol. It's not THAT geeky actually.

I've met a lot of people who have done that.		2008-10-14 15:55:00

Author:
Forsaken
Posts: 950

I think things that count as geekdom over here, may pale over in the US. When I have visited, people are, how can I say this? They are just in to their hobbies, their things they enjoy. I mean that as a compliment.

Take LOST for example, something people in my office are into. Did you watch it last night? Yes. What did you think of the bit with... It was good. Done! It's frustrating for someone who DOES get into things. I want to talk theories, I want to talk special effects, I want to talk, what's going to happen next? That's why I'm part of forums!

Honestly, if I mention to anyone in my office that I spent what was essentially a full day watching all the Star Wars's back to back, I would never hear the end of it.

Believe me, if anyone was willing to host a LAN party anywhere near me, I'd be there like a shot, sadly to my knowledge, there aren't many around, and most of them aren't willing to accept a newbie into their midst. Maybe I just grew up with the wrong crowd, but to me, the stuff I do is geeky.

Obviously, I'm not blind to the fact that queueing up for 3 weeks before, in costume, is even more in the same direction, but hopefully you see my point here!


P.S. Yes, a gamertag/username inscribed in something is AWESOME. It just feels better, and more subtle, than getting a t-shirt printed or something.		2008-10-14 16:13:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084

To be honest I feel pretty vindiacted that I'm not that geeky after all.2008-10-14 16:13:00

Author:
Piratepete
Posts: 110

Some more:

Finishing all three Halos on legendary.

Watching all three LOTR movies back to back

Watching all 6 Star Wars movies back to back

Getting my gamertag/username engraved into my bracelet. (I'm also having it done onto a titanium ring, and if I can find one again, one of those mouse mats made of weapons-grade metal.)

I'm going to bend the rules a little here, as he's not in a video game, yet, but I also cut apart and sewed back together 2 green shirts (one light, one dark) in order to make a Green Lantern shirt.
Oh! I want one! I would where that around- !EvErYwHeRe!
XD		2008-10-14 17:10:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

I suppose when I went to a GameStop for the midnight release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but I only waited like, 20 minutes.

During a spring break (week off from school) I managed to complete Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, and got halfway through Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. But Ratchet & Clank is awesomely epic, so that's not a geeky related thing. 		2008-10-14 17:19:00

Author:
Unknown User

Apparently, my sister says, the geekiest thing I've done is join this forum, but I am proud!2008-10-14 17:21:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

Bug my sis and gf about LBP constantly.

Yep.

Oh and, attempted to speed run Super Ghouls n' Ghosts.

...What?!?		2008-10-14 17:24:00

Author:
aer0blue
Posts: 1603

Apparently, my sister says, the geekiest thing I've done is join this forum, but I am proud!

Hey yeah, I have to jump on that bandwagon.		2008-10-14 17:36:00

Author:
Maltay
Posts: 2073

Oh, and to add on, I cried of joy when my hands first touched mgs4 on the first hours..2008-10-14 17:38:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

Oh, and to add on, I cried of joy when my hands first touched mgs4 on the first hours..

Oh, I cried at the FFX thunder plains song xD

Twas so beautiful		2008-10-14 17:47:00

Author:
Maltay
Posts: 2073

Apparently, my sister says, the geekiest thing I've done is join this forum, but I am proud!
That's not geeky, it's completely natural... if you're a man! :kz:		2008-10-14 17:52:00

Author:
Unknown User

I cried also at the end of Call of Duty 4 (Captain Price reminded me of a close relative) when Pricey died and at the end of MGS4 see the doctor for the last time and realizing the whole situation and the cruel episodes of this universe.
Also when I couldn't get a beta code..		2008-10-14 17:53:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

When my teacher made me throw away my fritos, as soon as he wasn't looking, I crouched down like Snake and took them back from the trash can.2008-10-14 18:03:00

Author:
Code1337
Posts: 3476

I cried also at the end of Call of Duty 4 (Captain Price reminded me of a close relative) when Pricey died and at the end of MGS4 see the doctor for the last time and realizing the whole situation and the cruel episodes of this universe.
Also when I couldn't get a beta code..
xD I was just shocked when Gaz died (Captain Price hasn't died for sure, the developer even said "We're not telling you, it's a secret" in an interview... or something along those lines >_>		2008-10-14 18:08:00

Author:
Unknown User

I got one, going to an internet cafe with my friends after a party, and playing CoD4 (5vs5) till 7am in the morning.
It was epicness though.		2008-10-14 18:09:00

Author:
Forsaken
Posts: 950

xD I was just shocked when Gaz died (Captain Price hasn't died for sure, the developer even said "We're not telling you, it's a secret" in an interview... or something along those lines >_>

That doesn't mean he isn't dead... OPM said he was dead! Ha!		2008-10-14 18:15:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

The interview was in OPM :2008-10-14 18:20:00

Author:
Unknown User

When they advertised a game of the year thing (I forgot what it's called) they said for Call of Duty 4:
"Or would you rather vote for Call od Duty 4, with it's epic ending of Captian Price's death"
or something along the lines of that...		2008-10-14 18:28:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

I don't think they did.2008-10-14 18:46:00

Author:
Unknown User

Lol about the LOTR back to back thing: i do that with all my dvd series like spiderman (not often) Pirates of the Carribean (more often) and Harry Potter (rarely) But apart from that i'd say it was playing MGO with pellet guns. lol That was great fun. We had like 8 people playing and we had spawn points and everything =)2008-10-14 19:48:00

Author:
liquidsnake96
Posts: 109

Lol about the LOTR back to back thing: i do that with all my dvd series like spiderman (not often) Pirates of the Carribean (more often) and Harry Potter (rarely) But apart from that i'd say it was playing MGO with pellet guns. lol That was great fun. We had like 8 people playing and we had spawn points and everything =)
That's what I did, but with real guns. Actually, all the rest have misteriously disappeared...
I think they just got annoyed because I won the game but I asked them if they wanted a free shot and they didn't answer so I left...		2008-10-14 21:13:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

Geekiest?

Spent 8 hours on the internet (in one go) trying to get a LBP beta key.		2008-10-14 22:12:00

Author:
alexbull_uk
Posts: 1287

wow there are some geeky people here, i cant think of a single thing that i can even compare to some of the stuff in this thread, i dont really have geeky parents, my cousin midget really got me into gaming,

if i had to think of something, when i was like 10 or 11 i played guildwars in my back yard with some friends, it lasted about 10 minutes		2008-10-15 00:22:00

Author:
Gondito
Posts: 1082

Wow, geekiest thing I've done, which isn't geeky at all, my brother and his friend went to gamestop for the midnight premiere at like 5...

I went at like 8, bought a pizza, started walking to Gamestop, by the time I got there the pizza was done, so I sat there for like an hour or so, with a couple of friends that didn't want to play, we went outside, went to quiznos, played ding dong ditch, did stupid stuff like riding a target shopping cart, a bunch of dumb stuff, it got to like 11:30 when we started walking back to gamestop, which is when I found out my little brother ( was 12 ) won the tournament and got 2 free Halo 3 Copies. Hahaha good times good times...		2008-10-15 01:50:00

Author:
Whalio Cappuccino
Posts: 5250

Winning a Joke Contest to get a Lbp Beta Key

I Have 2 Copies of Metal Gear 1, 2 , 3 and 4 because i wanted the other regions covers		2008-10-15 01:55:00

Author:
Bob Tampinha
Posts: 82

I think a weird habit I have is mimicing the voices of characters in time of their lines.

Examples: Star Fox 64, I tend to recite Fox and Falco's lines (including Peppy's infamous "Do a Barrel Roll!!") as they are speaking. And I do it in the exact tone.

Yeah, that's just me, and I had been playing the game this morning as well.		2008-10-15 04:46:00

Author:
Alaska_Gamer
Posts: 209

iv'e done nothing geeky along these lines the only thing i do is well

........

Do borat im the pro atm i sound exactly like him

Very nice

High 5

EDIT - I FOUND ONE when i was like hmmm 11-12 mabey 13 i used to sneak up at like 1am to play runescape lmaobut that's about it		2008-10-15 06:35:00

Author:
Thee-Flash
Posts: 3154

OMG! I found out something hilarious yesterday! I was in the changing room (after doing gym) and I over heard some of the guys in my school that were tough and real big chavs. They said,"Aww, are you gonna go on runescape tonight brov?". The other ones said," Yeh, aw, give me a power up brov? I'm only on level 38?"
Ect. ect.		2008-10-15 07:02:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

At the end of the day were all still human....

EDIT - wtf is a power up every one is talking about em		2008-10-15 07:04:00

Author:
Thee-Flash
Posts: 3154

OMG! I found out something hilarious yesterday! I was in the changing room (after doing gym) and I over heard some of the guys in my school that were tough and real big chavs. They said,"Aww, are you gonna go on runescape tonight brov?". The other ones said," Yeh, aw, give me a power up brov? I'm only on level 38?"
Ect. ect.


Classic! I once overheard a pair of chavs excitedly talking about CoD4. I know it's a stereotype, but it's not wrong to assume that MOST of them aren't into anything besdes drinking, driving really fast with lareg exhausts and small engines and tucking their joggers into their socks, so hearing them animatedly waffling on about how they were "going to pop a cap in (someone's) ***" online. Well, I had to move away because I was laughing so hard!		2008-10-15 08:18:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084

I think a weird habit I have is mimicing the voices of characters in time of their lines.

Examples: Star Fox 64, I tend to recite Fox and Falco's lines (including Peppy's infamous "Do a Barrel Roll!!") as they are speaking. And I do it in the exact tone.

Yeah, that's just me, and I had been playing the game this morning as well.

Wow, are you back now ?

And yeah, a fair few chavs play runescape.. Lol 		2008-10-15 08:24:00

Author:
Maltay
Posts: 2073

Classic! I once overheard a pair of chavs excitedly talking about CoD4. I know it's a stereotype, but it's not wrong to assume that MOST of them aren't into anything besdes drinking, driving really fast with lareg exhausts and small engines and tucking their joggers into their socks, so hearing them animatedly waffling on about how they were "going to pop a cap in (someone's) ***" online. Well, I had to move away because I was laughing so hard!

Lol. I cried of laughter when I got outside. Actually, the next day, they got into a fight because they didn't give the other a power up!		2008-10-15 16:11:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

well probably a thew of you know that i like the mgs series but the think is no matter how many times i see the ending of the games i always cry. the worst time is on mgs4 where is showed snake shooting himself then it zooms back to otocon and he starts crying saying to sunny "Snakes Had a hard life" it just got me so emotional.2008-10-19 13:58:00

Author:
crack398
Posts: 50

after me and my freinds finished playing halo 3 we rode bikes to wal mart and i hit them off there bikes and yelled DOUBLE KILL!2008-10-20 00:21:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

after me and my freinds finished playing halo 3 we rode bikes to wal mart and i hit them off there bikes and yelled DOUBLE KILL!

I don't understand your grammar?.. Sorry..		2008-11-03 20:55:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

I don't understand your grammar?.. Sorry..

And you bumped this thread just to say that? >_>		2008-11-03 21:04:00

Author:
Forsaken
Posts: 950

I don't understand your grammar?.. Sorry..

And you said Code was random earlier 		2008-11-03 21:10:00

Author:
dorien
Posts: 2767

Lol, he said "After we finished playing Halo 3, my freinds and I rode our bikes to the local wal-mart. When we got there, I knocked them off their bukes and screamed 'Double Kill'".2008-11-03 21:16:00

Author:
DrunkMiffy
Posts: 2758

I cried when LBP got delayed. LOL JK JK!

*COUGH*		2008-11-03 21:19:00

Author:
UmJammerSully
Posts: 1097

I got the Big Boss emblem on MGS4. 3h 40mins. Thats: extreme setting, no kills, no deaths, no rations/health, no alerts, no stealth/bandana and needs to be under 5 hrs. YEAH!

Also... just talk bout videogames alot lol. Hack all my mates PSPs. Oh and own almost every interpol CD (though it's music... so maybe less geeky?). Also complete every MGS so many times i've lost count.		2008-11-03 21:58:00

Author:
ryryryan
Posts: 3767

I got the Big Boss emblem on MGS4. 3h 40mins. Thats: extreme setting, no kills, no deaths, no rations/health, no alerts, no stealth/bandana and needs to be under 5 hrs. YEAH!

Also... just talk bout videogames alot lol. Hack all my mates PSPs. Oh and own almost every interpol CD (though it's music... so maybe less geeky?). Also complete every MGS so many times i've lost count.

Meh dude, many got the Big Boss Emblem...Though I got it at 4h 10 min.
You just need a LOT of patience, and have to go through a lot of trial and error.
Get all 40 Emblems <_< Then we'll talk. No I didn't do that But I've seen a few who have.		2008-11-03 22:04:00

Author:
Forsaken
Posts: 950

Meh dude, many got the Big Boss Emblem...Though I got it at 4h 10 min.
You just need a LOT of patience, and have to go through a lot of trial and error.
Get all 40 Emblems <_< Then we'll talk. No I didn't do that But I've seen a few who have.

Meh, after the Big Boss emblem it's easy. The only reason i havn't is cause i get to play my PS3 every other weekend (if that) so theres no time these days. Maybe at xmas if theres time inbetween Far Cry 2 and LBP.		2008-11-03 22:06:00

Author:
ryryryan
Posts: 3767

I completed MGS4 100%.2008-11-04 10:37:00

Author:
Unknown User

Finding a way to sneak onto a web forum while on vacation. ._.
I was addicted to my last forum XD		2008-11-04 13:55:00

Author:
scratchbachstan
Posts: 65

I don't think I've really done anything geeky, unless you consider playing games the instant I wake up to when I fall asleep.. then maybe. I've completed lots of games 100%.. I mean more than expected, like getting 99(max amount) of items for everything and such. Also, every so often I mimic videogame characters with friends but nothing big.

Once I was watching a game of soccer at school and I was looking somewhere else for a brief moment so I missed a goal, then right away I thought to myself "Where's the instant replay?" whilst actually expecting one to come up. Too much Tekken. Not really geeky but does show how videogames have corrupted my mind.		2008-11-05 03:26:00

Author:
Exodyne
Posts: 17

You might not know this game, but GunZ: The Duel, you can have alot of weapons...

Geekiest thing: Going into a shotty only DM and spray rockets

Final Score 100/ 44
100 kills
44 deaths :O		2008-11-05 13:26:00

Author:
Unknown User

Doing Let's Play videos on Youtube. I think there's a link in my sig. And I've been playing Fable 2 nonstop for the last two weeks. I'm probably going to review Fable 2 in my next Voicecast.2008-11-05 14:55:00

Author:
HobocidalManiac
Posts: 117

Earlier I was staring out the window of the car as my fiancee was driving and was watching a construction crew and wondered what kind of bolts and switches they used to make the dump truck... 0_02008-11-05 15:15:00

Author:
thegibbie
Posts: 25

LOL. well it is interesting though lol. i have to give credit for that

also another thing, when i was playing Halo, I accidentally suicided by thinking i would survive a jump off a cliff on the the ground which looked like it was only 10 meters down.		2008-11-06 15:44:00

Author:
Unknown User

watch the double post gunluis, the mods are very strict against it :/2008-11-06 16:19:00

Author:
ryryryan
Posts: 3767

I've played threw the Half-Life 2 in nothing but in class time. From start to finish in a week having only 3 classes.2008-11-07 02:54:00

Author:
TrePVox
Posts: 41

Camped out for a launch, Dressed as mario, laughed when i tricked my teacher into saying the cake is a lie (only one in my class who laughed, it was weird).

I dunno, i'm very open about being a huge geek, so iguess everything i do is part of a chain of geeky things.		2008-11-07 03:09:00

Author:
Pinkcars
Posts: 380

Camped out for a launch, Dressed as mario, laughed when i tricked my teacher into saying the cake is a lie (only one in my class who laughed, it was weird).

I dunno, i'm very open about being a huge geek, so iguess everything i do is part of a chain of geeky things.
Don't forget to bring a towel!		2008-11-07 03:29:00

Author:
Code1337
Posts: 3476

Don't forget to bring a towel!

OH GOD NO, I bring a towel with me everywhere. Towels are essential to success.		2008-11-07 03:57:00

Author:
Pinkcars
Posts: 380

OH GOD NO, I bring a towel with me everywhere. Towels are essential to success.
and you can wrap it around your head to escape from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.		2008-11-07 04:00:00

Author:
Code1337
Posts: 3476

This geeky thing is starting to get familiar.. Towels round necks? It sounds like one of Stephen Fry's films?..2008-11-07 07:07:00

Author:
TheArmedReaper
Posts: 1543

*Sigh* The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Read all 5 books by Monday or you'll be given more homework!

Aside:

Why oh why are children taught idiotic rubbish like To kill a Mockingbird in English lit, when they miss out on the REAL classics? The ones that might actually keep people interested in reading? HHGTTG is one example, there are countless others that could actually keep people inspired to keep reading for pleasure after they finish school, but instead they insist on some of the most awful, generic, poorly paced work like TKAMB and bore everyone to death!

Back on topic,

Reading HHGTTG was what I was doing when I shoulod have been reading To Kill A Mockingbird in class, hence the rant!		2008-11-07 08:03:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084

Not saying im not a geek (cos i am)

But i can't think of anything daft i have done on/with a game...

Ill give it a think then edit this post if i remember... :arg:		2008-11-07 20:39:00

Author:
MC Banhammer
Posts: 78

i remember when i was little, i went and dressed as Princess Peach, i was about 5. it was funny2008-11-07 22:04:00

Author:
Unknown User

*Sigh* The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Read all 5 books by Monday or you'll be given more homework!

Aside:

Why oh why are children taught idiotic rubbish like To kill a Mockingbird in English lit, when they miss out on the REAL classics? The ones that might actually keep people interested in reading? HHGTTG is one example, there are countless others that could actually keep people inspired to keep reading for pleasure after they finish school, but instead they insist on some of the most awful, generic, poorly paced work like TKAMB and bore everyone to death!

Back on topic,

Reading HHGTTG was what I was doing when I shoulod have been reading To Kill A Mockingbird in class, hence the rant!
I totally agree, because that's what I do. I've read the books 4-5 times now. The irony is what made that book, we ought to be learning about things like that instead of the Tale of Two Cities, which doesn't even make sense. -_-		2008-11-07 22:05:00

Author:
Code1337
Posts: 3476


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