Does your AS influence your gaming?

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As a girl with AS, I find it very easy (usually, *stares at Okami for failing me*) to empathize and get emotionally involved with a game's story and characters, and can usually grasp the philosophy and lore of a game pretty quick. My problem isn't the social interaction part, because my problem with social interaction is that I learned the rules religiously and freak out if I get something wrong by accident without thinking, afraid of upsetting anyone: So in a game, pre-set choices social responses are usually really easy for me. However, I don't think I'd do well in an online game with lots of people trying to talk to me while I played. I've never tried, though, so I'm not 100% sure.

The main way in which my girl-AS effects my gaming is in puzzle solving. Mainly: I can't do it. My brain is literally incapable of that. So, games like Myst or Riven are completely lost on me unless I play with somebody else (and I try to do that, because I really do love those games). I even have to have a walk through at hand for Zelda's very occasional puzzle solving elements (e.g, in the twilight princess, moving around the 'chess board' to get the master sword).

I am however fine with the piercing clues together, like in Phoenix Wright.

I never said I didn't like Animal Crossing, I just ignore the silly social aspect of the game, and opt to go fishing and stuff instead.

I tend to get a bit obsessed with completing collections of stuff (Pokémon, summons in Final Fantasy, furniture sets/museum exhibits in Animal Crossing, etc.) which might count... it's been years since I last played FF7 and I'm still annoyed about missing Ramuh.

Mind you, in Pokémon's case that's probably the whole idea. Especially considering what people have been saying in the "Autistic pokemon" thread...

yer ff7 was my fave RPG game.

i also like playing online on TF2 and garrys mod making machiines on spacebuild

Yea like some people have said I'm quite obsessed with collecting everything in most games, sometimes with bad unsatisfying results because it would take so long like I tried to get all the trophies in a couple tiger woods games, I played for months never could get some of those trophy balls

Other times it's ends pretty well like with mass effect, there is quite a bit of satisfaction getting all the achievements collected

well I rock sometimes when watching awesome cut-scenes in some games.