8 Video Game Habits You Will NEVER Break

4. Reloading After Firing One Bullet

If FPS games were an indicator of real-life infantry conflicts, then it wouldn't just be just teabagged bodies littering the streets, but an entire truckload of tossed clips and magazines as the habit of reloading even after firing a single bullet is so engrained into the genre that it's actually impossible to break.

Now I know what you're saying "but why would I want to break this habit? I need a full clip in case someone rounds the corner into the barrel of my gun!" and you'd be right, it makes no sense to carry around less ammo than it would take to down an opponent, but it doesn't stop this moment from being incredibly odd.

In fact, some video games have actually experimented with this trope to highlight how ridiculous it is in many other games, forcing you to lose the ammo you chuck away or merely switching the clip so that you'll still have 5/6 shots left when you reload this fresh one.

What this highlights is the clip-dump mentality actively affecting player aggression and the speed of the game overall, with instant reloads prompting you to push on and not measure your ammo in a conservative manner.

Breaking this habit might actually never happen because the games themselves now rely on it.