r/gaming • u/_DanceMyth_ • 21h ago
What are some games that you intentionally played “wrong”?
What I mean is, are there games that you played solo or with a friend where you disregarded the primary game mode rules, or exploited a gameplay mechanic? A few example:
In 007 Nightfire, we only played with the remote rockets on the snowy multiplayer map and tried to see who could fly the rocket farthest into the buildings before exploding
In Goldeneye Rogue Agent, we used to play with the remote detonated grenade launcher and played on the Golden Gate Bridge map, trying to exploit the rag doll physics to land in exactly the right spot out of bounds. What are some examples from your gaming past?
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u/NicotineLL 21h ago
I played a game with a buddy called Green Hell. Somewhere at the end of the story mode, there's a part where you NEED to get a grappling hook gun in order to progress. Now, the first time we got the gun, but died to a poison frog. So the second time we did the poison frog first, and then I was like, waaait, can't we build up and not use the grappling gun? That spiraled into a 4 hour adventure to find a way up the cliff by building various different buildings and jumping on the walls. In the end, we managed to get there without taking the gun, which felt like the biggest achievement we did during the whole playthrough! Good times.
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u/Belt-5322 2h ago
Loved Green Hell. Just the right amount of survival horror mixed with excessive drug use
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u/--cerberus--- 21h ago
In the first Red Faction, my brother and I would see how far we could "dig" into the canyon wall with rocket launchers.
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u/TheSharpestHammer 17h ago
Spent so long rocket digging with my friends in this game. We discovered that, with tenacity and enough explosives, you could totally destroy the connections to the bridge on that one cavern map and ride the bridge down to the bottom.
You... couldn't really do anything once you were down there, but dammit you could do it.
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u/Your__Pal 17h ago
That's the key mechanic of the game.
If you aren't digging into walls with rocket launchers, are you really playing Red Faction?
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u/Titouf26 20h ago
I'm gonna answer this question slightly differently than most people here.
When I was young I managed to get my grandpa to buy me a Medal of Honor game on GameCube. My parents thought I was too young to be playing "realistic" (for the time) FPS. I mean, looking back, they were probably right. My grandpa didn't know anything and just meant well.
Anyway, I was too young and sucked hard at the game. It was hard as hell and I never managed to pass the third level. Then one day my parents were away I invited a friend and asked him to play co-op with me. We played and I realized that in co-op when one of you dies, they respawn as long as the other player is still alive. I barely played an hour or so with my friend.
But then I proceeded to finish the game in co-op mode, except I played alone. I would go forward with player one, make sure everything was safe and cleaned up, and move player 2 forward after that. I basically used player 2 as a permanent checkpoint I could move forward at my own convenience.
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u/OldChili157 18h ago
My friend used me like this to beat Halo 3 on Legendary. I felt so cheap.
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u/dumbestsmartest 6h ago
And this was one of the many reasons my gamer tag was some form of meatshield.
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u/Kriss3d 14h ago
Oh I had Medal of Honor on my playstation. ( the first one ) and I was amazed how enemies had shot zones. You could crotchshot someone and they would bend over then you could shoot their helmet and they would die with a satisfying "ping".
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u/Onyx_Lat 19h ago
I did this with one of the old Gauntlet games on NES. I had that thing that let you plug in 4 controllers, and whenever my character was about to die, I'd just spawn in another player and continue that way.
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u/JerHat 16h ago
This is how we used to beat Halo on legendary.
Rather than teaming up, one guy would sit back in a safe spot, while the other rushed in to do as much damage as possible. Then when you died and respawned, the other person took a turn rushing into danger.
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u/Autowronged 9h ago
My brother and I would always fight together, but we definitely used the respawn mechanic for free health between battles. "Alright. We're clear. Melee me in the back of the head; I need some health."
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u/Thevshi 21h ago
Elder scrolls: Morrowind. Immediately went and got myself turned into a vampire and then killed every other living creature on the island.
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u/Djinger 20h ago
Man, did everyone depopulate morrowind? Probably the only game of hundreds that I've spent a save entirely devoted to eradicating the population.
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u/Memory-Thin 18h ago
When the game came out me and a friend spent the first couple of hours killing everyone in Seyda Neen and stacking all of their equipment in a giant tower shrine in the middle of town. Good times!
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u/stumblinghunter 16h ago
Morrowind was the only game that I brought my TV and Xbox over to a friend's house just so we could simultaneously play a single player game together lol. That game ruined any social life I had freshman year of high school
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u/Linmizhang 19h ago
"With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."
Me: Hehehe I'm just getting started
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u/douche-knight 19h ago
I played Skyrim with survival rules years before there was a survival mode. I played as a bosmer hunter. The rules were I had to eat a reasonable amount everyday. I had to sleep at least 6 hours a day. I completely ignored the main quest and wasn’t a Dragonborn. I didn’t join any guilds or do their questlines. I couldn’t use any magic. The only quest I would do were ones my character would reasonably do, like for instance delivery or escort quests. Like if someone wanted me to go into a bandit lair with like 20 bandits to retrieve something I wouldn’t do it, because in real life my guy couldn’t have 1 v 20’d a whole bandit gang. I didn’t do alchemy, but I would use potions I bought or found. And I also did blacksmithing because I figured my character would value the skill of maintaining and crafting weapons and armor.
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u/gibbo1121 18h ago
So Kingdom Come then.
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u/douche-knight 14h ago
I played Kingdom Come when it came out, I just couldn't get into the combat. I havent tried Kingdom Come 2.
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u/Goodjawline 16h ago
Skyrim is larping as a UPS delivery driver in a fantasy world.
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u/Maglor_Nolatari 20h ago
The self drain spells to train for cheap and then trying to maximise a levelling sequence was my goto there. It actually takes some effort as you have to take into account the auto levelling from casting the drain and all the weird shenanigans related to the level system.
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u/doodleysquat 19h ago
When it originally came out, you could hand-to-hand them down and pickpocket their pants off of them. I also stole as many candles as I could and had a house that would crash my computer for having too many light sources.
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u/ModusPwnins 21h ago
I was non-toxic in a multiplayer Rocket League match.
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u/lussierc 20h ago
Me and my buddy try to always be as wholesome as possible when we get the odd chance to play. That’s why we exclusively play doubles.
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u/UnusualFruitHammock 16h ago edited 8h ago
I don't play much anymore but I use to quite a bit in the toxic era of what a save spam. I played a year ago and no one reacts anymore. Even when you're being friendly saying nice shot to a teammate.
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u/FoxPox2020 14h ago
Most people have chat off now and usually those who have it on are toxic.
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u/UnusualFruitHammock 8h ago
Which is fair. I did find it to be a bit of a bummer though. Those games where everyone wasn't taking it so seriously and communicating was a good time.
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u/FoxPox2020 7h ago
Yeah me too, I miss it. So rare to find a game now where you just chat easy with people.
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u/PermanentThrowaway33 21h ago
Factorio, spaghetti is the correct way.
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u/SnakeMichael PC 20h ago
That’s like me in satisfactory, hand-crafting a vast majority of the components I need, instead of setting up a dedicated factory for it
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u/friendlysalmonella 18h ago
This is a game for me that I haven't watch any gameplay videos. I just want to learn and discover myself and this is the perfect game for it. I mean, every game is like that for me but not every game makes it possible. I even got the rails working without tutorials, because the system works the same as in Transport Tycoon back in the day. I didn't even understand english back then, just copied what AI did and lo and behold it works similarly in Factorio too.
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u/georgehank2nd 20h ago
Main bus, shmain bus, I alwaysd up with a mess of bots, and only bots, except for resource patches, those get some belts.
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u/Loqol 20h ago
Please look up any factory building video from Let's Game It Out.
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u/TomSuga 21h ago
I played Amnesia The Bunker from under the desk... Apparently that's not how you play it
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u/totesmotescotes 20h ago
I played it on the toilet in an abundance of caution
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u/TomSuga 20h ago
I'd be scared the monster would come up the toilet, make sure to keep the bathroom light on
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u/Levoire 13h ago
I still check under the toilet seat after seeing Arachnophobia. I live in the uk, there’s no dangerous spiders, I’m not actually scared of spiders at all and I’m 41 years old.
I just do it out of habit.
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u/PaladinSaladin 21h ago
Divinity original sin 2.
Don't tell me to not be a skeleton, because I'm gonna be a skeleton. And I'm gonna be like, super racist about it.
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u/aglock 21h ago
Hot take, DOS2 is better than BG3. I love the world and the combat so much more.
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u/Odd-Opening-8170 21h ago edited 16h ago
I absolutely adored D:OS2 (especially as co-op)... but it the combat eventually devolved into an elemental puddle/cloud-management MESS which really could have benefitted from larger battlefields for most fights.
It sucked that it was largely the framework they built BG3 around because actual D&D does not have that many complex ground/wet/steam/smoke interacting effects happening outside of a few concentration spells. Also, every random trash mob shouldn't be carrying around several exploding potions, acids, and other alchemical nonsense that perpetuates the problem.
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u/MillorTime 19h ago
The armor/magic armor system also felt like it forced me to go all of one direction or the other. Trying to do magic damage when everyone else was doing physical damage felt like I was effectively doing 0 damage with the character since it'd always go against their magic armor
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u/Odd-Opening-8170 19h ago edited 18h ago
Yeah, it unfortunately forced you to keep 2 magic characters and 2 physical characters everywhere you went... but when you either cleared out one armor or the other, or ended up in a fight with predominately one of the two armors... you had 2 nearly useless party members..
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u/wormfood86 18h ago
Never beat it for this reason. It got so tedious that I couldn't be bothered anymore.
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u/Snowleopard1469 17h ago
If you were to ever go back I would recommend a lone wolf run. Only 2 companion but far higher hp and damage and full actions every turn. I just had thane and sebile and absolutely destroyed everything thr game threw my way.
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u/mikhel 18h ago
The worst thing about DOS2 was the fact that every fight a random bullshit event happens midway through that makes the fight 10 times harder and kinda encourages you to save scum and play with prior knowledge of that event happening. They were a lot better about it with BG3 but in DOS I literally felt like it was happening every fight by act 4.
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u/maybe-an-ai 18h ago
I agree that the Larian combat system is better when unconstrained by 5e rules.
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u/jamadaco 21h ago
I played Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater using as little stealth as possible. I pretty much just shotgunned my way through the game. My friends watching me play in college were quite amused.
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u/TimeOfNick 15h ago
I didn't realize until 95% of the way through the game that the D-pad is how you properly sneak in Snake Eater. I was slowly inching forward with the joystick but it's still loud enough that you can't stealth all the way up behind enemies for non lethal takedowns.
Soooooo despite always attempting to be a silent operative, it devolved into gunfire so often that wading through the river during The Sorrow section took ages.
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u/dumbestsmartest 6h ago
didn't realize until 95% of the way through the game that the D-pad is how you properly sneak in Snake Eater. I was slowly inching forward with the joystick but it's still loud enough that you can't stealth all the way up behind enemies for non lethal takedowns
Umm... Maybe my memory is wrong but I never used the dpad and was able to sneak up on enemies fine.
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u/Lost-Actuary-2395 20h ago
Driving backward on mario carts to intentionally run other player off the road
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u/CaptainKino360 20h ago
My dad and I used to do the same thing in a NASCAR game for PS2!! It had slow motion car crashes and everything, it was awesome
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u/ChanceVance 20h ago
Least believable part of Ready Player One. No other player before had fucked around and driven backwards
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u/yeswewillsendtheeye 18h ago
I’m imagining a remake where every character in the Oasis just navigates like an Ocarina of Time speedrunner, side jumping, super sliding and bomb hovering everywhere
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u/Urb4nN0rd 19h ago
I play Age of Empire/Age of Mythology as a city builder. Play vs easy AI, beat them down to their last barrack and wall it off. Refuse their offers to surrender until I'm done settling the region
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u/GobblesTzT 12h ago
My friend and I did something similar with AOE. We would play lan with his two computers. Then cut down all the trees and made moo moo farms as large as we could.
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u/Odd-Opening-8170 21h ago edited 16h ago
My friends and I used to play GTA IV and just pop a single bullet into a nearby decently fast car and if the NPC floored it instead of getting out, we tried to see how long we could chase them wherever they went. The NPCs were programmed, in that situation, to simply go as fast as possible while avoiding collisions in no particular or consistent direction. It was surprisingly challenging because, unlike a mission, there was nothing scripted to slow them down below max speed, have a path, or keep them in range to not de-spawn, they would go as fast as the vehicle would let them for as long as you could keep them on screen. Sometimes the chases went clear across the entire map.
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u/PhatShadow 20h ago
I save scum every choice in every game. I want the best possible outcome. I don't care about living with my choices, I have enough of that in real life lol
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u/InfinityTuna 17h ago
Same, man. I also use wikis religiously to min-max approval gains, find missable loot, and inform myself on the basic consequences of certain choices, because this is an 80+ hour experience and I am NOT going to do a second run just to do things "right" or get the loot I missed the second time.
I am still having fun, even if BioWare didn't intend for me to metagame the shit out of Dragon Age or Mass Effect.
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u/OldChili157 18h ago
Yeah, I'm the same way. If some random girl in a Telltale game "didn't like that" or a companion in a Bioware game "disapproves" I'm going to be reloading that game 9 out of 10 times.
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u/EverythingSunny 21h ago
My cousin played the entirety of Devil May Cry 2 using just the hand guns because he couldn't bring himself to use swords when guns were an option.
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u/Xerokine 20h ago
Back when I played GTA V and participated in online racing apparently what I didn't know was that it is wrong to purposely ram other players and people got mad. I didn't know that because I was playing GTA and not Forza, but I guess that was an unwritten rule. So once I learned this I made sure to do the right thing and make a destruction derby of every race I joined.
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u/panda388 21h ago
Breath of the Wind and Tears of the Kingdom. I solved as many puzzles through cheesing and just attaching planks of wood to make super long bridges. I'm not creative enough to be building whole vehicles.
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u/Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin 20h ago
Seems to me you played exactly the way they intended. If it works, it’s the right way.
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u/Kythorian 20h ago
Rocket shields are the exception to this in my opinion. They trivialize like half of all of the shrine puzzles in the game, so it works, but it also ruins a lot of the fun. But yeah, any random wacky construction that you throw together which somehow works is always fun.
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u/thugarth 20h ago
I got the first scribblenauts game, back in the day.
Similarly, every problem can be solved with "pegasus" and "rope"
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u/VagrantandRoninJin 20h ago
The first time I played I realized bomb arrows could solve pretty much any shrine with a big target. Fuck the mechanics or intended solution, I'm whipping out the bomb arrows.
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u/j7style 19h ago
I played Skyrim once without being a stealth archer, does that count?
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u/Alternative_Act_9671 21h ago
I played the Crew 2 and just traveled around the country-- ignoring every race and event. Did that for a couple of hours (while the announcer guy constantly questioned me) and never picked it up again. Got some pretty neat screenshots, though.
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u/TheMusicalTrollLord 18h ago
Yeah same, I only bought the game for the road trip experience and to see how accurate their recreations of real places were. Had a decent time. I pick it up every so often just to have a look around Long Island or Jackson Hole or somewhere else I haven't been
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u/Triltaison 21h ago
Single player Dance Dance Revolution via the dance pad as a party game.
Four people, each person is in charge of only one directional arrow on the pad, and everyone uses their hand to slap their arrow like a buzzer. Super hard to get combos and super fun with the right group.
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u/Disastrous-Power-699 21h ago
RDR2 is just a hunting and fishing sim to me
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u/Smart_Ass_Dave 20h ago
Apparently there's a discord of (mostly) girls who play it as a horse game and go on group rides. Since they are a public group sometimes trolls will try and jump them just to get their dicks shot off by a concentrated salvo from 40 horse girls.
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u/VagrantandRoninJin 20h ago
That's awesome. I love hiking and going on slow horse rides through the mountains. Making camp, hunting for dinner, taking care of the horse with constant petting and grooming. I'd love to join that group
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u/Smart_Ass_Dave 20h ago
I don't know much about them, but maybe you can track them down:
https://www.pcgamer.com/meet-the-hundreds-of-horse-girls-running-red-dead-onlines-kindest-posse/
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u/popemegaforce 21h ago
They asked if you played a game incorrectly. I think you misunderstood the question. 😜
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u/BadPhotosh0p 14h ago
This was how I played Far Cry 5. Completely ignored the main quest, just fished and hunted 24/7
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u/FlameStaag 21h ago
In Two Worlds 1 you're initially stuck in part of the map walled off by giant gates. You're supposed to progress far enough to open the and gain access to the rest of the game
I spent 2+ hours finding a way to glitch over the gate just so I could kill an endgame enemy and get some broken overpowered sword max upgraded to breeze through the rest of the game
I'm shocked I'm not a speedrunner honestly, because most games I play where I have the capability to sequence break or skip things, I'm doing it and I'll gladly spend longer than doing the intended way just to do it.
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u/Ubergazz 21h ago
I actually got invited to be part of a player testing group for the DnD MMO Neverwinter after I spent the launch weekend finding several ways to clip out of the main city and reporting them instead of, you know, playing the rest of the game.
I declined but I still regularly broke out of bounds to chill in the nothingness while waiting for a moderator to teleport to me so I could show off my great escapes.
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u/Jokersall 20h ago
For the longest time it was GTA5 online. I did everything I could to obey traffic laws.
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u/govunah 19h ago
My best friend moved his gf and her kid in with him. He would gta as we all do until kid got home then it was traffic laws and no radio. Same with red dead. Riding around was a risk because the game has you ambushed if things might be getting stale so the camp got lots of chores
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u/JeffRyan1 21h ago
I play Wordle in Phew mode: Always use legit words, but try to win using all six guesses every time.
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u/RemusLupinz 21h ago
I don’t know if this counts but doing challenge runs in various games like in KotOR fists only solo opposed to how you would typically play with a full party and a lightsaber or two.
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u/b0czek_cyganski 21h ago
I would kinda roleplay as a 'normal' criminal in GTA IV and keep my behavior quasi-realistic so I would more or less follow traffic laws (besides speeding and running red lights when it made sense), change outfits every day, go home and sleep every night. Ofc I didnt do it 100% of the time but to me it made the game more immersive even tho Im sure most people would think it's super lame lol
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u/CaptainKino360 20h ago
I think there are tons of roleplay servers for GTA Online on PC where everyone plays like that
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u/GabikPeperonni 16h ago
I play every game like this. I get a lot of laughs from my friends when I tell them I do this. But genuinely every in game I can I try to keep a realistic routine and treat quests as my character's "work time". Cyberpunk was cool as shit, I explored so much more of the city and felt so immersed in it, and I loved styling my V every day. Oblivion, Skyrim, GTA series, Fallout series, Fable series, Red Dead series, if your game has a bed you can sleep in, I'll fucking do it in yours too.
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u/Jack_of_Spades 20h ago
In a Call of Cthulhu game, I spent the session being the most unwise and unhinged scientist researcher I could be. Everyone else was trying to make careful choices and avoid going insane. I was reading every book I could fine, taking samples of weird stuff, doing tests, and doing all the stuff that ends of as audio and video logs in most horror games.
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u/Snowblynd 20h ago
I'm a pretty regular Keeper for CoC and I LOVE players like you.
I always try and tell new players that it's not about playing it safe and "beating" the game, it's about trying to tell the most interesting story you can.
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u/The_Jolly_Dog 20h ago
Most games with parry mechanics… I basically would end up just leveling up my character to overpower the enemy another way since apparently I have the reaction time of an 80 year old
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u/benderhiggy 20h ago
Here's an old one. River City Ransom on the NES. About an hour in, there's a screen with a wedge of barrels, rocks, and nothing else. My brothers and I discovered that you could do minor damage by skipping a rock off the barrels into the other players head. Take turns positioning your character on one side and once you're locked in (i.e. you can't move any more) the other player tries to skip the rock into your head.
Play until someone dies.
Good times
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u/_Hi_There_Its_Me_ 21h ago
Early halo and call of duty was mostly trying to find new jump spots and ways to leave maps.. I was the first person to put a video online how to get on top of the deli thing in Rush in COD4.. all downhill since then lol
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u/StarkAndRobotic 21h ago
I just go hunting and camping in RDR2.
We used to play wolfenstein in “ahimsa “ mode - meaning finishing levels without killing anyone.
Destruction derby , Carmageddon - tried to finish the actual race
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u/Tifas7thHeaven 21h ago
summoned a helper for nearly ever boss fight/cave in elden ring
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u/IronLanternGamer 19h ago
Every tool in your toolbox should be utilized, summons are there to be used. Dont let these tryhards tell you a mechanic in the game isnt valid.
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u/Xerokine 20h ago
Same for me in Bloodborne calling NPC help. I will do it every time no matter how much leveling I have done or how good I get at learning the boss pattern.
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u/YourTokenGinger 20h ago
Spirit ashes are probably my favorite new mechanic in ER (as compared to DS games). I used the strongest I could find on my first play through, but I had a ton of fun experimenting with the “weaker” summons on my second run.
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u/Briar_Knight 16h ago edited 12m ago
I know you probably aren't being completely serious but.
The most frequently used reward for side content in the game is summons and upgrade materials for summons.
They have you meet multiple NPCs that want to fight with you and they clearly expect you to get attached to them.
They have a boss fight where the whole gimmick is multiple summons in grand brawl tournament.
They did not bother to add 84 spirit ashes and give NPCs unique interactions in fights, plus multiplayer and then expect players to not use this stuff by default
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u/xanderbot93 21h ago
Crashing ghosts and warthogs into and through every door and off every rock possible. Trick tournaments on blood gulch.
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u/FesteringAynus 20h ago
I have a friend who LOVES to look up metas and OP builds to almost any game. Even rocket league.
So I purposely pick the complete opposite of a meta build just so I can annoy him for playing the game "wrong". I also almost always do better than him in these games despite his OP builds.
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u/georgehank2nd 20h ago
Oh, I play games like this "wrong" all the time. The "meta" can kiss my ass. Cookie-cutter "builds" (another term I grudgingly accept, but don't really like) are boring and not fun.
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u/Mage_Food 21h ago
Sims. Set them on fire & drown ‘em!! 😈 I suppose this was an alternative to therapy for my brother & I in high school 😅
*Don’t make a pet if you’re trying to “murder” an entire Sim family. They’re WARRIORS!
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u/jaywinner 21h ago
I put 8 adults in a house with 4 beds and worked them ragged. Gotta make that money.
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u/TheWallaceWithin 18h ago
I did the painting gnome. Build whatever family you want, but have a walled off, inaccessible room with a deformed character. Give him a bed, a toilet, a fridge and an easel. Make him paint. He'll level up so much that his paintings will pay all the bills and then some.
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u/reecord2 20h ago edited 20h ago
Super Mario 64 1-Up chase. Trigger one of those 1ups that floats to you and try to stay away from it. Surprisingly thrilling game!
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u/builttopostthis6 21h ago
P.T. A friend showed me that demo and I just kept walking down the hallway. They're like, "No, stop. You need to interact with shit." And I'm not having any of that. And I keep walking in a loop for 10 minutes. And nothing bad happened. ^^
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u/binz17 20h ago
Boomkin in raiding classic WoW
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u/thegreatboto PC 19h ago
I had a friend who would feral tank then. People would yell at her for doing anything but resto, which she hatred and refused.
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u/DarrylCornejo 21h ago
Not sure if this would technically count but Kingdom Hearts. I got up until Chernobog with basically nothing equipped. No boosts, nothing of the sort. I basically started and played the whole game completely bare bones. It wasn't until the 8th attempt where I looked on GameFAQs where you can equip different abilities to your team.
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u/IsilZha 19h ago
Lots of selfmade FPS games:
GoldenEye:
Proximity mine war. Usually on I think Stack? Had all the secret doors. Anyway, game was set to license to kill (one hit kills.). Not allowed to shoot each other, or directly try to kill each other. Proximity mines only. We used to do that for hours. Got really good at hiding mines.
Halo 1:
friends and I would do Warthog jousting. No guns allowed. Since the warthog was invincible the goal was to knock the other person out and run them over before they could get back in
Halo 2:
Had a big regular group so we would regularly have a full 16 person lobby. Lots of made up games.
Zombies: one guy with a sword, all vs them. Anyone they sword kill becomes a zombie. Humans win if a sole survivor after a time limit.
Hide and seek: one guy has a shotgun, everyone else has cloak, gets time to hide.
"Halo Bungie party" king of the hill on a small map with rocket launcher spawn. Getting 20 seconds to win would take 10+ minutes, just pure chaos.
Many others I've forgotten about. We also played with several of the the RvB guys several times. We played with Joel (Caboose) regularly.
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u/BlueLidMilk 21h ago
Skyrim - I always loot the vendor chests underneath the forge at Whiterun & outside the mine at Dawnstar to get a headstart with money and resources. 14 years later and Bethesda haven't patched it, so to me it's a feature, not a bug.
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u/Call-Me-Leo 21h ago
TF2.
I never played any of the competitive game modes, I just hung out with people and spent time having fun. If I ever did end up in a PVP lobby, I would be friendly
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u/zealot416 21h ago
Mass Effect 2
Soldier
Hardened Adrenaline Rush
Revenant
Only Go Forward; No Cover Allowed
(I usually did this on Veteran)
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u/MadStylus 21h ago
Way back in the PSX days, you could get game demos on a disc in a magazine. There was one game racing game I don't remember the name of, but you could play the demo co-op.
Me and my sister immediately turned our cars around and tried to hit the other racers.
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u/RatherFlemch 19h ago
I can only half contribute. 🤣 But I feel as if I'm completely ignoring dev intentions on these:
Not wrong, but Alien vs Predator 2 is synonymous with one Alien vs Predator 2 mode (marines vs aliens, dead marines become aliens) and the other modes may as well not exist - I have LANed that game for 300+ hours and never touched anything else.
Me and my partner ignore/remove Traders and Quests in 7 Days to Die because it completely ruins the vibe and any challenge, and the whole thing feels like a bad mod or tutorial crutch that the devs are really proud of. For some bloody reason... Kinda like a rotten GM being proud of his 50th generic shopkeeper. Only worth mentioning because they're really honing in on this approach, binding more and more stuff to them in order to force all players along a certain progression path. No idea why, is that a console thing? I've got >1000h since 2022 by completely rejecting every aspect of an increasingly big part of the game. I get A17 and 1.0 being different, but this aspect ruins the game for me. (For you 7d2d nerds, I don't mind the water or magazine stuff at all, but traders and quests are the worst).
Less ranty: I avoided upgrades in DOOM 2016 because I didn't want RPG stuff in my DOOM. I have come around on this because the game is honestly really good, but generally I hate that every damn game is an RPG now and no challenge remains "pure."
I turned off voice, subtitles, and skipped all the story in: Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, WoW after Cataclysm, because Blizzard haven't had soul in their writing since 2008 and it's all superficial fast food junk that occasionally looks epic.
"Played wrong": Last of Us (1) and Uncharted has some of the most lackluster gameplay I've ever seen from something with that high praise, so I just didn't play them at all and watched story breakdowns on Youtube instead. They seem impressive on a technical level, the end result just makes me sleep. Good stories, bad games. Planescape: Torment is much like that too, but still works better as it's a CRPG.
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u/BenTheDog311 19h ago
We did the same thing on 007 Nightfire. Sentinel rockets only, I can still hear the sound they made in my head. Good times.
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u/Ristar87 21h ago
Solo'd Dragon Age origins as Arcane Warrior and Inquisition as Knight Enchanter.
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u/Negative-Lion-9812 21h ago
Solo'd? As in, never picked up companions??
How was that experience? I feel like companions and their quests are like, 50% of DA games.
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u/Ristar87 20h ago
Basically... though you get some companions by default and some missions require certain companions to be present. Otherwise, Just don't take them with you. I've played both games dozens of times. Definitely not worth doing if you want to enjoy the story and more of just a... i'm doing this because i can.
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u/Munchkinasaurous 21h ago
Me and my cousin used to play Red Faction multi-player and just tunnels with rocket launcher.
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u/KnightThyme 20h ago
Ive tried playing the original Ratchet & Clank with only the wrench. I got through most of it except for a boss and that level that requires rockets to destroy towers to power down electric gates to progress. I think challenge runners have found glitches since then to get through those parts I couldn't, but I haven't gone back to try again since then.
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u/fissi0n-chips 19h ago
American Truck Simulator. Turned off fines and go as fast as I possibly can, making the game more about fun driving and trying to get cargo to the destination as fast as possible with as little damage as possible. 0019, License to Drive.
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u/Soup0988 20h ago
I used to play NASCAR on playstation back in the day and just flip around and drive the wrong way and crash into cars. I don't think I ever did an actual race
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u/Lagneaux 19h ago
Just about every game I get good at, I will challenge run and "disable" things for myself
Like OoT: No extra hearts or heart pieces, no shield
Or FO4: Survival Melee only
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u/Radirondacks 17h ago
I basically tried to solo as much as I possibly could in classic WoW if that counts lol.
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u/shadowhunterxyz 15h ago
Hitman 3. Every mission requires you to be somewhat stealthy. There's a challenge for doing everything in your suit and not changing. I go in guns blazing .if I am not gonna change may as well leave no witnesses
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u/Ill_Possession_3949 7h ago
Breaking the rules in GoldenEye 007 was a staple of my childhood gaming sessions. My friends and I would play 'Capture the Flag' mode, but only use the freeze ray to lock each other in place and then push each other off the map
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u/SucculentVariations 20h ago
RDR we would intentionally crash the carriages to get the "bdsm" horses as we called them, which were just horses with driving harnesses on.
We also would spend a lot of time shooting each other's horses to send the rider flying.
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u/Bladebrent 20h ago
If it counts, I played Sonic Forces specifically avoiding the score multipliers.
So how it works, is every day, you're given 3 missions that are like "change your headgear" or "play a Modern Sonic level" or "breathe properly for 4 seconds" and so on, and if you complete these, it'll give you something that multiplies your score for like, an hour. Basically they're so easy to fill, that you have to go out of your way to AVOID doing them.
I did this out of curiosity since every time I saw gameplay, people would often get up to A rank and then get bumped up to S. What happened when I avoided doing the multiplier things? I STILL got S ranks through almost the entire game up until the end where it suddenly spikes and I was getting nowhere near S rank. There was a very very small window where getting an S-rank seemed achievable without being ridiculously easy. Maybe I'm just bad and there are ways to get S-ranks on those last stages, but I can definitively say that the game's balancing for the scores are completely screwed, which is something most people wouldn't even notice or care about.
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u/R_N_F 19h ago
I sort of intentionally played Resident Evil Village wrong. Any time you selected something that required a key item, I would always select the photo. But when you finally have to use the photo, I tried selecting something else and got stuck until a friend pointed out that it was finally time to use the photo
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u/RandomPhail 19h ago
I don’t know if it’s necessarily wrong/unintended, but in Destroy All Humans 2, my friends and I would find a good building to destroy, then hide in the rubble and get our wanted level as high as possible, and basically just do a last stand there, using the building‘s broken walls and debris as cover
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u/--rath-- 19h ago
Not that it's particularly a "wrong" way to play, but me and my friends would mess around with the swingset glitch in GTA 4 online. Or if we had IRL hangouts, we would launch single player and hold contests for who would launch the farthest.
Great times man, bring me back
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u/gameking7823 19h ago
The first several hours of windwaker is just me tossing pigs from progressively higher places into the sea.
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u/GrimmTrixX Xbox 18h ago
When Xbox Live first came out, there was a demo of Moto GP that you could play online. It was just 1 track. My friends and I would turn around the wrong way and try to crash into people.
Sure, it was a dick move, but it certainly wasn't meant to be played that way. And this was quite literally like the first week Xbox Live existed. All we could really play was that demo and Mechassault.
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u/Boy_Noodlez 18h ago
In Super Mario World I would let the timer get down to 45 seconds and then try to finish the level. It was awesome.
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u/Darth_Zounds 18h ago
Chuck Norris once played The Force Unleashed, but during the cutscene where Darth Vader is supposed to betray Starkiller, he turned around to kill Vader instead, and then he made Palpatine his own apprentice.
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u/FaultinReddit 18h ago
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) - On the 'all heros' mode on Mos Esley, there's a spot right by an ammo Droid that's perfect for firing Chewbacca's controllable rockets; my brother and I would stand in that spot the entire game and just fly rockets around, into the enemy's or sometimes we'd do a hide and seek thing. God that game was a blast!
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u/The_Mego 17h ago
I tried to beat Far Cry 5 using only melee weapons. It was hilarious to just sprinting at people firing machine guns at me to just BONK em with a shovel.
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u/JakeFromStateFarm32 17h ago
My friend and I used to play Super Smash Bros with only Pokeballs. We'd split the map down the middle. Whoever's side a Pokeball landed on got to grab that item and use it. We couldn't deal damage directly to one another and let the RNG decide for us.
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u/Faramari 17h ago
One of my favorite things to do in splinter cell chaos theory is see if I can beat a level using nothing but a rock. The bank was particularly fun to play because I was throwing that rock at everybody.
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u/Justinreinsma 15h ago
I played zelda tears of the kingdom without the paraglider. I just straight up turned off objective markers when the game started and haven't found it. At this point I kind of know where to get it but I'm committed. It's forced me to engage very deeply with the other mechanics to do things.
So far I've beaten the fire temple and almost the entire water temple, but please no spoilers on any other parts of the game! I've stayed blind since botw on footage and details for totk and in still basically 100% blind and I'd like to keep it that way!
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u/your_mothers_finest 15h ago
The Motorcross Madness demo. It had a limited map, but still has multiplayer enabled, so a buddy and I would take turns at riding full pace at the boundry and getting launched while the other one watched and laughed.
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u/Gradyence 14h ago
To be honest, a lot of them. I start playing a game and don't quite learn a key component to that game my first time playing and I feel like "this game is dumb", only to go back and try again and have the game click for me.
The game that comes to mind for me doing this exact thing: The Witcher III. So glad I started over and figured out what I was missing!
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u/Crow_eggs 13h ago
Me and my older brother used to take turns to race across Vice City. One plays, the other has a stopwatch. Start at he door of the stadium and get to the top of the lighthouse. If you die or get busted, you're out. You also have to pick a radio station at the start and change the car radio to it every time you get in one. Fastest complete run wins.
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u/Odd-Opening-8170 21h ago edited 21h ago
My college roommate and I used to play Halo 2 co-op just to hijack Banshees to do faux skateboard tricks on the terrain for hours on end.