Video Game Habits

[@mickeleh]

I'll share a bad KZbin habit: Watching a PJ video all the way to the end to find out the point PJ was making, only to find out that PJ has no point to make. But, if you're really engrossed in an immersive video, then, "you're having fun; time not wasted."

[@fonceeiskonigin2435]

No time wasted at all when you get to look at that face :)

[@mickeleh]

Reminds me of a roommate I once had who kept trying to discover the point of every Monty Python sketch. I insisted that the didn't all have points, that some were just silly. And he maintained that since he could discern the point of some of them, the others MUST also have points.

[@fae4674]

Am I the only one who has PJ's third gaming habit but for books? I force myself to read a book super s l o w l y so I can enjoy it for longer. I did that with Harry Potter

[@nyancat5157]

No you're not, I'm the same way.

[@applejacked9125]

Yes! I got half way through the last Harry Potter book but it was going too fast so I stopped reading for almost a year 0_0

[@fae4674]

+apple jacked That's exactly what I did! I didn't want the experience to end!

[@angelinadavis7110]

SAME, I always do that!

[@heyimmashark9030]

ABW I did it with divergent and Lord of the Rings.

[@mindovermindfuck]

The incompletion thingy... Happens to me with every Tv-show and anime that I have ever enjoyed. I don't want it to end, I just really don't, so I... Never watch the ending. Sounds familiar? I have, and I have counted, over forty animes and Tv-shows that I loved the shit out of, yet have no idea how it ends. Sadface.

[@mindovermindfuck]

***** Oh. I guess I am the doctor. It's the only explanation XD

[@jembee491]

I do something kinda similar but with anime I almost never finish the last episode and I don't know why

[@iarisicornitfm3721]

me too :o

[@Kylie-ff4ln]

+Jemmie B like NOOO HARU RIN I DONT WANNA LEAVE THIS UNIVERSE

[@lizz-d2i]

Me too.

[@rjald99]

KiTtY cAt yeah, this is me

[@Andy-ew5fu]

One of my bad habits is going crazy at the library and getting lots of books, then reading them and then halfway through maybe the second or third one I realize they now all need to be returned before I get fined. Then I have to return the book while it's half finished, as well as all the ones I never even started... sigh...

[@kirstynhawkins8023]

sophie ultra-super Me too

[@user-iz3ss5rb3z]

i did that with divergent, which ive got again but still have not read it yet heck

[@jackw5197]

same

[@katalleyn5295]

My bad habit... Procrastination... probably what you may deem Dan Howell level procrastination if not a smidgen worse.

[@frigginboom]

It's possible that ruined nostalgia is the worst feeling of all time

[@menacinghedgehog]

THE LUIGI'S MANSION MUSIC IS IN THE BACKGROUND I'M IN LOVE

[@Stardust_Road]

+King Oddly YES!!!!

[@brandontytler301]

I often jump off a cliff or purposefully kill myself in games. I don't know why.

[@maryae9779]

it's practice

[@kirstynhawkins8023]

Brandon Tytler Me too XD

[@maryae9779]

this was a terrible joke I had to make I'm sorry I don't mean it personally it was just set up right. (I also kill myself in video games too)

[@kirstynhawkins8023]

Marya E I didn't even get it, but okay!

[@maryae9779]

oh this was meant to brandon, i forgot i posted it till your comment showed up sorry for that confusion haha

[@agc.h]

fun tip: to avoid self-inflicted game incompletion, try skimming through walkthroughs on the internet to refresh your memory so you don't have to start the game over

[@TheRyanLamont]

I was a bit mesmerised by your hair in this video.

[@andrealynn7985]

He has werewolf hair.

[@melololoveOG]

I had hardly noticed until I read this comment, but now...woah o.o

[@2lazy2hateluv]

I was trying to check out his hair but i was captivated by his eyes.

[@itsbrightness]

glad it wasnt just me

[@TheBenAppleby]

Oh the empathy on every aspect of this video.

[@nicolacat2]

I have the opposite problem with games. I play them consistantly for as long as i can until i finish the game, like every second of free time I'll spend trying to finish the new game I have, and then I'll finish it really fast and end up having to reply several times more because I want to enjoy it again.

[@hayleymorris]

I was addicted to Super mario.. I found the controller when I went home last and it's just covered in my bite marks from when Bowzer would defeat me! haha

[@bowtiesncoolnes5715]

"Blinded by nostalgia"... Anyone else think of Arctic Monkeys???? No..? Just me..? K den

[@123456790915]

Bowties NCoolnes I think of gta san andreas *eye twitches*

[@mancam2267]

Bowties NCoolnes yess :D

[@s.c6498]

@Bowties NCoolnes that is literally what I thought

[@famichelle6728]

I do a similar thing! I love the game, but then I feel like I'm spending too much time on it for my own good, so then I just stop playing it - and later when I want to play it again, I don't remember what the heck I'm even doing, so I restart it. And repeat. And repeat. I still haven't finished Pokemon Emerald.

[@alecmcleod3306]

I have a terrible habit that I become the character so much that I avoid taking any damage which means that I don't take any risks which basically means I don't complete the game. But that's also why I can complete games like pokemon where you aren't the one fighting. Wow that sounds sadistic.

[@E123Epicness]

Your Outro's So Awesome!

[@jaylaalyse]

I once had 2 Wii's... I lost one....

[@danfletcher8503]

How could you loose a wii?

[@jaylaalyse]

i dont know.... honestly

[@Rockyblue7]

Me too dude

[@AAN-tw1oq]

I had a wii and for my only bday present last year I got Mario galaxy 64, I remembered that we only had one wii remote and no numchuks, so my dad bought us another remote and two numchuks,we were really excited to play a real game and not just wii sports and stuff; but when we tried it it turns out the wii itself was broken so we wasted about 200 dollars on that :'(

[@kaylieclarke2307]

I have a wii and it works... My TV does not...

[@janerain13]

I hate the fact that whenever I see a game,I will research that sheet like no tomorrow.I crave knowing things about the games I want to play but when I do that I will spoil the game to myself and then I will know all the secrets and I won;t play the game,but I will still want it.Like Animal Crossing New Leaf for example.I know everything about it but I still want it.

[@sunnybubbleday]

My God, I do EXACTLY the same thing! Fire Emblem Awakening and Legend of Zelda are still sitting there... ;_; I wish I had the heart to pick them up.

[@mizunsure3947]

me too

[@jasonwolfe77]

i did the exact same thing with fire emblem awakening i loved the story so much i didnt want to finish it to fast so i stopped and now i just never finished the game

[@OranJJeTofu]

I'm sorry Pj...I love your chill videos and you always have good content..but...i'm sorry but I always just end up staring at your beautiful face for most of the video half listening xD it's okay tho because it makes me watch it couple more times xD

[@PixieLovesItAll]

I will sell my soul to a Crossroads demon for a 3DS XL. I haven't played Pokemon since Ruby & Sapphire in 2005 and it's killing me.

[@MrVentus91]

just get a 2ds, it comes in a bundle pack, and is a lot cheaper

[@PixieLovesItAll]

I know! But I was debating it, but the style of the 3DS would be better for me! I've done my research! Thanks, though

[@xXLilTamXx]

I have flaw number 3, not with video games, but with books and I just go into this downwards spiral where fiction is more important than reality and I care more about fictional characters and omg the feels THE FEELS DESTROY ME

[@jedihorjus]

starting over and then realizing how much work you just deleted, yep. that one.

[@KickThePj]

it's such a sad feeling :(

[@superkitteh2]

I relate to flaw number 3 sooo much, it's unreal!

[@t-dub3876]

I get too emotionally attatched to my support/side characters if they're on my side- but for some reason I choose to like the characters that the video game designers/writers don't seem to care about-- so they either: A.) Kill them off or B.) Just slowly make them disappear from the plot, thinking that no one will notice. I notice... everytime.. don't do that to me XD

[@darlathestrange9308]

omg that ending though lol "if you want the balls that is." haha! Idk if I have bad gaming habits. Any game I get I always love it. I usually play through it get as much as I can, unlock what I can &then play it again after I finish in case I unlock new things. I only go back to some games though. Pokemon is just enjoyable all around! But I am definitely loving x&y! I don't think I'll get tired of that for a while!

[@megangore]

My worst habit right now isn't that I just put the game down but that playing video games in college isn't always something I have enough free time to do and I'm currently in the middle of Pokemon Y and Animal Crossing and when will I finish those idk maybe when I have a diploma and house payments :[

[@katrinanaylor5227]

ah pokemon and animal crossing is the worst combination of addicting games!! fun tho :)

[@jessieee_p]

Video game music has a very special place in my heart. The end screen of this video made me so happy :3

[@isabelasilva9106]

Is it just me, or in this video he looks like Harry Styles???

[@onedirectioner67]

Oh my God I was thinking that to!!

[@lianamark2484]

No you're not I was thinking that too. He kinda looks like Harry sometimes. I am glad it's not just me who sees it lol 😊

[@cheez721]

yeah he does. Even tho I hate harry I love Pj!

[@boooooopz]

The way he is with video games, LITERALLY is the way I'm with books. I haven't touched my favorite series last book bc I didn't want it to end, now it's been 5 years and I'm not as immersed anymore ):

[@piperc03]

I love pj's widows peak😌😌

[@nyancat5157]

It makes him look like Edward from twilight. Is it just me?

[@DacyAndEric]

Games I've never finished for that same reason that I can remember are, like you, Minish Cap (I stopped at Hyrule castle, like, THE FINAL BOSS), and Golden Sun: The lost ages. That game is so long but so damn good. I've been returning to it for years now but I am so lost. Finally, I recently bought A link Between worlds and I've stopped because within a few days I found myself where I am in Minish Cap... but I don't want to end it yet.

[@thebeautybabes0335]

YOUR EYES ARE SO PRETTY

[@reeryredlove6729]

loving the videogame soundtracks in the background

[@caitrose7908]

My worst gaming habit is the same as your habit #3 I never finish a game mostly because I get addicted and go on it all the time then take a few days break and forget all about it. I still need to complete my pokemon x after getting to the pokemon league after endless hours of playing and then not playing on it for a while...

[@quinntessent1al]

I saw your ad on "The Most Popular Girls In School"! I stayed and watched the whole thing and pointed out episodes. I'm so glad you got to make that reel it was amazing just like you. :-)

[@adidaslover011]

I'm like that with books too,haha. I start reading it, get into it waay too much and rarely finish it. :D

[@mental_as_8997]

Sameeee!

[@danfletcher8503]

okay I have something to get off my chest... I did this one time. In year 6 I started reading Harry Potter and the deathly hallows. And then I moved to secondary school and forgot about it. So I still haven't finished the Harry Potter series. I AM SO ASHAMED I AM SORRY :(

[@dilhowlter2476]

Daniel Baker Its been five hours I think its time you finished it godness Daniel AND YES PHAN

[@thesarcasticsimmer1383]

metooo! like i just have a problem, i read a geek girl book in 15 minutes (a quarter of a bus journey home from Whsmith) and im reading a book right now and ive stopped reading it for 3 months so i dont have to say bye to the characters xD

[@ellie-maeboucher2540]

You took the words right out of my mouth, Pj. I literally do the exact same things you do with games. I get so frustrated with myself ugh.

[@kalahbryn3580]

my gaming habit is playing games for a long time, then forgetting y im playing it . then turning the game off. then i dont play it for months but when i play it agian i get frustrated and leave the game off and walk away. only for my little brother to erase my new data!

[@mazs199]

Great video Pj! I love the shots and can I just say you have picked all the background music perfectly it is actually amazing. :) Also habit 3 ALL the time....

[@WordsAndWhimsy]

Also. I feel somewhat harassed and entirely ambushed by that unexpected Christmas ball ad. >.

[@jillisawesome3268]

I'll get so immersed into a game that I'll play it every chance I get then I realize maybe I'm playing it too often and stop forever and maybe only ever play it again for nostalgic reasons because I know I'm never gonna be as good as when I was first in love with it.

[@lllmmsmm]

i never watch the last episode of a tv-show, because i don't want it to end.

[@eringovier4661]

EVERYTHING YOU SAID. I relate so much.

[@ashleyleblanc7140]

DAT POKEMON MUSIC AT THE END.

[@pastelbears]

I have the same nostalgia problem you have! All my favorite old games are great! Until I notice how different they are compared to their newer versions...I also have the bad habit of trying to pick up where I left off, not remembering where I am, then restarting only to not have enough time to play. I put it down and a month later...the cycle starts again. Regardless, I love video games! And what you said about how they're not a waste of money or time really helped me out. Thanks peej :-)

[@TheKoolKat1994]

One of my bad habits is a will play a video game and forget that I have homework. Now this wouldn't matter if I was in high school but I'm in college. I serious think that there should be addiction classes for video games cause I need them. Worst procrastinator every.

[@stephpunton9935]

I do an hour before I go to sleep...which is like, 12 in the morning...yeah.

[@angelmooncloud]

yes i understand completely. Especially with doing all the extra exploring and doing secret missions just so i can experience it all. XP And oh my god I love your room and that Totoro! XD

[@Abipop]

Story of my life. xD

[@blueeyesandgoodtries]

Props for the editing PJ, it must have taken a while ! xD

[@perfectlyhigh]

Dat Harry styles hair

[@Xrysto]

This was very Scott Pilgrim-y... And I loved it. Lol. Your videos are always shot and edited very well. Keep up the great work man! You are definitely inspiring me to look at filming and editing in different ways. (:

[@pingie9115]

Did anyone not notice his hair it's amazing I mean it's a ready amazing how it is but still 😄

[@davidchilds1611]

I have a list of over 50 games that I plan on going back and finishing in my head at all times. With them I remember exactly what I was doing, when I last played it, what I was trying to do (including my planned future levelling for my characters in RPGs) and everything that is still of note that has happened in the game up to that point. Sometimes I wonder if there would be a better use of my memory, but then I remind myself that it's my favourite thing to do (even more than actually playing the games) and I continue to add more games to the list. I promise I will finish you someday, Majora's Mask!

[@melissamarioperex6236]

How is no body talking about how hot pj looks!!! srly, is it just me?!

[@melokelo]

Melissa Mario perex he lowkey looks like elvis

[@OpinionatedBeth]

It's always sims for me; the same old story of finding the game at the back of your cupboard, playing it non stop for 4 days and then letting it gather dust for a few years until you rediscover it. And I've got quite a few sims games, and I am certain I have NEVER completed at least one.

[@itsbabyroo]

pj, your hair is getting quite long now. I think you should venture into the world of man buns.

[@FaithfulAlice]

The third habit you mentioned is the same habit I have! I play a game but I start to get bored constantly playng it so I stop. I eventually come back to the game feeling like starting it all over again so I do. I have so many games I haven't finished!

[@SoBasicallyZeleZele]

I do the exact. same. thing! Only with books...and anime... ._. *awkwardly walks away*

[@Chieana]

So true... my list of books to read and animes to watch (and games to play) grows every hour Dx

[@SoBasicallyZeleZele]

Girl, the struggle is real tho :) lol

[@kimberlydavis7186]

I Can so totally relate to the last part of this video! I used to do that all the time! I haven't completed more games that I can count! I think I am going to go play some Zelda now.....Thanks you!

[@saffronpm8133]

Apologising on games even when i don't have a mic, or if I kill myself!😂

[@raccoonoverlordellie]

I'm honestly so relieved that you share my horrible gaming habits. My friend got Pokemon X two weeks after me and she's done already... I haven't fought gym #5 yet...

[@NishatTasnimonedirection]

i sense harry stylerz...

[@LeonPuplett]

Fail anger - not being able to complete mission/level. Getting so frustrated I hide the game at the back of the game stack, only to find it 2 years later and think 'Oh, haven't played this in a while'... and so the loop begins again.

[@sam-jd3ff]

Peej your hair what

[@harveenagill]

Peej your hair makes you look like some sort of villain! It's kinda cute in a villain character way though.

[@tabbycat6661]

In this video to me he looks like Harry Styles! xoxo

[@sierrat2110]

I do #3 with books as well. I bought the last book to my favorite series the day it came out, and a year later it's still on my bookshelf, with a bookmark at the end of chapter 1. I don't want it to end!

[@SamaraRae]

his hands are distracting me

[@blanchethepear1501]

His lips are distracting me

[@harrietgriffiths5002]

His hair is distracting me

[@vittoriabrigliadoro2196]

his everything is distracting me

[@taylor-lou1389]

He is distracting me

[@cuteoreobiscuit2097]

He is destracting me

[@katelyn3141]

I'll sometimes start a game and go days playing it, then when the game is over I think to myself "wow I really liked this game and I'll replay it tomorrow" but then I end up losing it the next day and just forget it.

[@killerdollcosplay1462]

u kind of look like harry styles in this video xx

[@BenGriffithsReviews]

Not really any gaming-specific ones but your Self Inflicted Game Incompletion reminded me of something vaguely related. With some really good TV series (usually comedies) I sometimes do the polar opposite of that. The first few times I watch through it I multitask (i.e. playing video games), deliberately not absorbing ever funny line or visual gag, just so I can pick up new things on subsequent viewings. It's my own weird way of savoring it. The example that springs to mind is playing the Crash Bandicoot trilogy while watching Community. It's really quite sick.

[@dragonsarecats]

This made me realize that it's been five years since I got Soul Silver, and I haven't finished it because I literally did what PJ does. And now the end music... Time to dig out my DS

[@SapphireRavenmoon]

I do something similar in the way that I get really excited to get a game, and when I get it I play it a lot for a while, and then I just kind of fade out of it and end up not playing it for ages, and then wanting to restart it again like you do....

[@AthenaAGT]

I get excited by a game, get hyped, order it, watch a full gameplay of it on youtube, and then when the game arrives I don't want to play it since I've already watched all the story missions on youtube... Oh xcom how I'd love to maybe finish you one day.

[@stephrl2409]

We share the same habit for flaw number 3 ! I have that trouble with not only games but with books, television series & ever weirder chocolate I'm pretty sure I kept last years Christmas chocolates until October because I started them got really into them & thought I don't want to finish these I need to save them & ended up throwing half away 10 months later... I call this "the fear of finishing things" & I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this weird phobia/problem :)

[@mandmstars1234backup]

I've seen this video at least 13 times. I don't know why. I just love it

[@Sara-vn2kz]

OH GOD THE SLOW WALKING SPEED. Pokemon Red was one of the few games we had. My family was poor, so my brother and I shared a Pokemon Red, one Playstation Game (gifted to us w/console), and two Nintendo64 games (also gifted to us w/console). Since we had a total of 4 video games, we spent a LOT of time re-playing them. The walking speed in Red drove me crazy even when it was new tbh.

[@aishals]

Literally feel you on the Minish Cap thing. It's my favorite LoZ game right next to TP yet I haven't finished it? I just can't bring myself to do so, I think it's the fact that I still haven't finished the matching stones (dont remember?) side quest but yeah. Kinda want to now though.

[@icequeen6422]

That last one is me on Sims games because halfway through I just get bored and go - hey, it was fun making this character. So then I make a new one.

[@ThirdPersonPOV]

I get really caught up in nostalgia too, except that my nostalgia habit combines with the self-inflicted not-finishing-a-game habit. I start a game (like Ocarina of Time) and then I get to the Water Temple or the Shadow Temple... basically any part that is too hard or that creeps me out... and I get nostalgic for the beginning of the game and I start a new save file. To start all over again. I still haven't finished that game... I suck.

[@c0bieobie924]

you have succeeded in reminding me i have not yet completed pokemon black. see my problem is i start games and love it. then it gradually gets more difficult and/or frustrating and i put it to the side thinking 'i will complete this when i'm less tired or can think straight'... and then i never get back to it again. this is the same for pokemon ranger shadows of almia and guardian signs... i'm bad at finishing games once they start to get difficult

[@Belisimoo]

I LOVE THE FACT WAY THAT YOU SAY MARIO CART AND I AM BREATHING HEAVilY IT IS GREATLY LUXURIOUS

[@MeggieKay]

The stop playing a game for a while and then restarting because you can't remember where you were is my worst gaming habit too! UGH! If it wasn't for my brother, I wouldn't know the ending to almost every Zelda game.

[@Alison-yt5lm]

I do the same thing with books sometimes that you do with the games, the whole "self inflicted incompletion" thing. Especially with series. I'll get to the last book and stop in the middle of it and not pick it up again for months because I don't want that world to end haha

[@owlsighs]

My channel is a gaming channel so whenever I get a new game I always feel guilty about not recording it, so I end up with a lot of them sitting around for AGES. And instead of playing the games I really want to experience, I end up playing stuff like Minecraft, Banished, Sims 3, and Skyrim. I recently played Dishonored without recording it, and I absolutely LOVED it. But I feel bad for not recording it, because I liked it so much and I think my viewers would've enjoyed it too. Also, not saving. I always forget to save and it sucks.

[@molly9492]

The thing that gets me is trying to quest with friends. They will do the bare minimum to get to the next leveling grounds and I will be stuck with a full quest log trying to decide which side quest to drop, slowly getting further and further behind. Before long everyone has a maxed out level character and I have started again because I found another class specific quest that I just NEED to do /sigh

[@dasschallplatte]

when they still came out some time before christmas i got a professor layton game for christmas each year and i started playing it the days after like crazy and then i realized that i don't want it to end yet- so i put it down. and just before christmas the next year i sit down and play and play and play the game until its end

[@kaylajacobson4083]

when i play a video game i really like, ill play the entire game all the way but only follow the main story line. then, right before the very last boss, ill go back and try to do all the side-quests. but then by that points its so much that i inevitably get overwhelmed and dont finish it at all.

[@jechithought]

somewhere towards the middle I got lost in your eyes but then I snapped out of it when you said you hadn't finished pokemon x

[@clemclemy]

Yup, I have number 3 too, I usually stop playing before the last area/dungeon/boss (happened to me with Zelda TP, Zelda WW and Paper mario 1 AND 2). Except I don't restart my game because I usually remember where I left off, but it can take me years to complete a game (I started Zelda TP in 2007 or 2008, I finished it in august 2015..., and i have yet to finish the first two paper mario.)

[@sweeeeblee]

okay i just ordered a bauble and i will be anxiously waiting by my mailbox for the next 8-10 business days okay i am goddamned excited

[@Skittlezrock161]

I'm horrible at not finishing games, then a month later after getting it back out forgetting where I was, and then going into a small gaming depression with the fact that I'd have to start the game over.

[@chmpgnemmi9432]

My cousin gave me a DreamCast SEGA when I was six and man, did I adore that thing. It had no actual games, just a Demo CD but nonetheless my brother and I spent hundreds of hours on it, playing Dead or Alive 2 or Sonic the Hedgehog. I found just a little bit ago and so we began to start playing. I still enjoy it though, fortunately but just wish there was more to do. Maybe someday I'll come around to buying some games for it. For the time being, nostalgia is present and being a pain in the ass

[@Datolive94]

By far one of my favourite KZbinr

[@StrawberryChiu]

That song in the end... I just want to play pokèmon all over again now!!! Your hair looks great :D

[@saraemilia937]

Play with a friend, on co-op or take turns or communicate troughout it. Or just have someone watch you play. That way you could be having even more fun and feel the need to finish it because of your friend. I play wiiu platformers with my brother and we complete them in a weekend. And then the next weekend we dig through all the secrets.

[@roccoluver123]

peej your hair completes me thanks and goodnight