Everyone has their quirks, and when it comes to playing videogames things are no different, whether it be inconsequential things no one would ever notice or more drastic habits that radically alter your playing experience.

Writing about the way I tend to play open-ended games like Mass Effect recently prompted me to take a more critical look at the way I play games to see what else I do that might be considered... unusual. Wrong would not be the correct word to use, as I'm not sure that you can play a game the wrong way WOW Gold. You can certainly play them in a less than ideal way, as demonstrated by my propensity for playing Mass Effect or Heavy Rain in such a way that important decisions are rendered insignificant. Other eccentricities are less harmful, which is certainly good news for me as I seem to be in never-ending supply of them.

Luckily I've also come to learn I'm not the only one who avoids storming through games with no regard for health, ammo, collectibles, and stealth while running along the perimeter of every environment, searching out invisible barriers to ensure I don't miss a hidden secret.

While I would consider myself a collector in games, what I am more than probably anything else is a saver or conserver. Whatever you want to call it, I try to save almost everything. Money, ammunition, health packs -- you name it, I'm unlikely to wasting it. I do this in order to ensure I don't end up in an unfortunate situation where I'm drained of resources and unable to take on a challenge, yet in so doing I tend to inflate the difficulty of games I play Runescape Money.

Having money on hand can almost always be a good thing. Except, of course, for when you end up in a situation where you're underpowered or under-geared because of your aversion to spending money at a shop, which causes you to think you'll get the item you'd like to buy (or something better) once you're in the action. Depending upon your ability to go back this may or may not end up biting you in the ass.

Where games can become really difficult is in avoiding the use of health packs. While I have thus far managed to avoid resorting to my old ME2-style save tactics in Mass Effect 3, I am incredibly hesitant to use medi-gel to revive squadmates or heal myself. When someone goes down, I run over and manually help them up rather than use a medi-gel to do so more quickly and easily. And I've battled for long stretches with a minimal amount of health, relying on my recharging shields and cover to keep me from having to waste -- which is how I look at it in my mind, as opposed to "use" -- a health pack. (And yes, this is time-consuming as I end up dying numerous times as a result of all this.) In other games, like Pokemon, for instance, why waste a healing item when a Pokemon Center can do the same job for free after what may or may not be a long walkc

"I tend to hoard healing items," shared 1UP reader Jonathan Todd on Facebook. "Maybe it's coming from playing games where they're incredibly expensive or rare to find, but in almost every game I usually wait until I'm near death to use a healing item."