I feel like I have the weirdest habit. I am obsessed with checking how far along I am in a game, kind of like how you'd check the seek bar when watching a movie or number of pages when reading a book. It's gotten to the point where it seems like I can't stop it if I wanted to. (Do I want to? *shudder*)
I love it when games actually tell you your progress by showing you a percentage, or at least the number of levels/areas etc. But if a game doesn't provide that, I get desperate and end up looking at walkthroughs of the game just to grab their table of contents and track my progress that way. Then I calculate my progress percentage after each game session, and it gives me a weird feeling of accomplishment.
Now you'd think that this means I may not actually enjoy playing games, if I'm so obsessed with getting them "over with". But I do this for all games (at least the ones that have clearly demarcated sections), regardless of how much I enjoy playing them. I will love, love, love a game, and I still can't resist checking how much more I have left to play.
Normally I wouldn't be such a snowflake about this, but it kind of gets to me because I wonder if I'm having an inferior experience by knowing how long a game is, and by sometimes being spoiled because of the chapter titles when looking up walkthroughs.
Does anyone else do anything like this?
I love it when games actually tell you your progress by showing you a percentage, or at least the number of levels/areas etc. But if a game doesn't provide that, I get desperate and end up looking at walkthroughs of the game just to grab their table of contents and track my progress that way. Then I calculate my progress percentage after each game session, and it gives me a weird feeling of accomplishment.
Now you'd think that this means I may not actually enjoy playing games, if I'm so obsessed with getting them "over with". But I do this for all games (at least the ones that have clearly demarcated sections), regardless of how much I enjoy playing them. I will love, love, love a game, and I still can't resist checking how much more I have left to play.
Normally I wouldn't be such a snowflake about this, but it kind of gets to me because I wonder if I'm having an inferior experience by knowing how long a game is, and by sometimes being spoiled because of the chapter titles when looking up walkthroughs.
Does anyone else do anything like this?