Put me down for "GTA".

Now what about "Guilty Habits"? :)

I'm thinking of doing my own Top 10 of them. Think there's enough habits to make it work?

~Otaku-Man

I used to run "top ten" lists when I was involved in amateur press alliances.

Hokay...from the home office in Columbus Georgia, Steve Addlesee's top ten list of favorite furry characters in alphabetical order (cause I'm NOT about to get into the "why do you like this character over that character?" controversy).

10 Aries (from  eggplantman "Zodiac")
9 Chops (from  eggplantman "Zodiac")
8 Cutey Bunny (My "first love")
7 Leila Martins (from  skunkworks "Caterwaul")
6 Leo (from  eggplantman "Zodiac")
5 Natasha (from  skunkworks "Skunk Sisters")
4 Prowl (from  duntov475 in "Carc & 'Slide")
3 Savage Squirrel (from  karno)
2 Sierra (from  duntov475 in "Carc & 'Slide")
1 'Slide (from  duntov475 in "Carc & 'Slide")

i like Aries too he was always cool and he can make the funnest faces with out really trying. Sierra is also another good 1 as will. i can't do top ten lists caz i love too many characters.

I like Aries because 1) he's a former pro wrestler. 2) he wears a patriotic motif on his costume. 3) he has a good soul.

lol i remember borrowed it to try from a friend, after playing it once and never played it again i just didn't like it.

 duntov475 and I GROOVE to any GTA. Rich because he can drive as he wants to. Me because I can go to war as I want to.

I gotta say that this is a pretty accurate list of games or game series that are guilty pleasures.

However, the nomenclature of the list is a bit misleading. I went in thinking that it would mention the guilty pleasures people indulge in EVERY game, and not just specific games themselves.

For example, for me, one of my guilty pleasures...

...or maybe I should say "Guilty Habits"...

...is completing a monster-pedia in every game that has one. You know the drill:

The game comes with an in-game index of every baddie and boss in the game, complete with strengths, weaknesses, how much damage it takes to kill them, EXP (if any), and...

...and this is the biggie...

...DROP ITEMS!

Yes, the random goody that baddies will sometimes drop. In some cases, you can steal the item, and sometimes the item you can steal and the item the enemy drops are completely different. So now you start grinding away until you've gotten a stockpile of every single possible weapon, armor, material, food, or whatever, but ONLY until you've filled in every last blank of the monster-pedia.

That is easily my number 1 gaming guilty habit. Sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes I don't, but I am COMPELLED to do it every time.

~Otaku-Man

don't u need a really big inventory for that? also doesn't Pokemon and WoW have something like that in them nowadays?

For Pokemon it's the whole "Gotta Catch 'Em All" thing. That's been around since the original GB games. WoW... not sure if it has a Monsterpedia, but I'm sure many players seek glorious loot whether it be Quest only, or monster-drop only.

As for big inventory, YES!

I have clocked in over 120 hours on Dragon Quest 4, and I still have an incomplete monster-pedia. The good news with that game is completing it actually rewards you with 300,000 casino tokens (each token worth 20 GP). That's enough to buy even the most expensive of the rare items that you can only get by playing the casino games.

Of course, being the perfectionist I am, I want a REALLY complete monster-pedia to show all the drop items too. To do that, you either need to have Torneko RANDOMLY steal from the monster (which monster he steals from and when he steals is completely randomized as he tends to do his own thing and ignore any commands you give him), or get them to drop it in a Treasure Chest, OR kill 20 of that particular monster. Once you do that, even if you haven't gotten the drop/steal item yet, you can at least see what it is in your "Big Book of Beasts".

Problem is, some monsters are actually really hard to find, and only appear on rare occasions, so while it may be easy for some monsters, it can be bat-shit crazy hard for others.

But alas, it is a guilty habit of mine to make a 100% complete game, and that includes filling out the in-game monster guide.

It's also because of this that I made the "List of Monsters" on Wikipedia.

~Otaku-Man