self narration in games

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is it just me or when you play stuff like skyrim,oblivion (or even powder toy) do you make a little story in your mind like trying to kill off the big city for a littler one to take over the world or having a feud with a villager i even reprogramed it to do competitions with me it is just me or not.

I do.. Sometimes it's necessary for me to make the game make sense to me.. otherwise I'd quit playing because it would all seem too ridiculous.

I can't think of a game-related example right now, but there is i.e. Star Trek where they are continually giving new passengers complete access to their databases.. Clearly, this is because the crew is just that trusting both of people in general and in their own ability to fix whatever trouble might arise, and not because it's convenient for the writers

Often, I will think through what my character will be for a few hours before actually starting to play, and ponder for several minutes at some decisions. When I'm familiar with a game, I roleplay a lot. I wish I did it less, because I would be able to play more, but then... I can't because otherwise, it wouldn't make sense, and everything would be unreasonable, and the world doesn't work that way, and the game shouldn't allow that, and how could I be in House Telvanni and in the Tribunal Temple, and AAAAARGH!

I also use Excel in some games as a support, but that is because I want to play perfectly. Actually, several times, it was so complicated in Excel that I decided it was simpler to code a Python script from scratch to help me, then input all the data... and then start playing. (The worst was for general/unit management in Hearts of Iron III. Finally, the script was so complicated to manage that I decided to play something else.)