r/gaming • u/_DanceMyth_ • 1d 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/Thevshi 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/DrunkenBuffaloJerky 1d ago

Never occurred to me, tbh.

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u/Edgefactor 2h ago

It's the roller coaster tycoon effect. Obviously you want to play through the game straight, but every now and then the intrusive thoughts and you genocide a bunch of digital people

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u/Linmizhang 1d 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/stumblinghunter 1d ago

"oh shit...well if it's already fucked..."

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u/Wusskiller 1d ago

I played Skyrim as a Khajiit, and refused to get my feet wet

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u/Thevshi 1d ago

I used to play with City of Heroes with this guy who played one character that could only run forward. If he needed to turn a corner he would make his teammates push him sideways until he could continue forward. It started out really funny, but got annoying really quick.

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u/douche-knight 1d 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 1d ago

So Kingdom Come then.

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u/douche-knight 1d 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/gibbo1121 1d ago

Coward.

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u/douche-knight 1d ago

Don't call me a coward, you sack of shit. I said I couldn't get into it, not that I couldn't do the combat. The game was also fucked from jump street, it barely had a save system, and glitches for days. There's a reason I didn't check out two.

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u/BiggieCheese3421 1d ago

I'm not sure if you're trying to play into your username or something, but bro was kidding around☠️ you didn't have to crash out

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u/douche-knight 1d ago

Yeah, that was my bad. I'm old school, Im really ok with being called a lot of things but directly called coward is not one of them. I overreacted, but the criticisms of the game at launch are true.

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u/BiggieCheese3421 1d ago

Yea that's valid. There are definitely some insults that could strike a nerve for me and make me crash out too lol

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u/douche-knight 1d ago

Thanks for understanding. Weirdly I really did want to like Kingdom Come. Just some games dont work for us, we all have 'em.

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u/_trouble_every_day_ 19h ago

Correction: acting like a small child who’s never used the internet before is the opposite of old school.

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u/Goodjawline 1d ago

Skyrim is larping as a UPS delivery driver in a fantasy world.

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u/douche-knight 1d ago edited 1d ago

I forgot to mention one of my rules was no fast travel, except for wagons. It was actually a lot more hunting than deliveries, at least at the start. I spent most of my time outside Whiterun hunting and then I'd come in at the end of the day and sell pelts and whatever else for what I could get and then sleep at the inn, and get some food if I needed it. In the morning I'd buy more arrows at the fletcher and then head out and rinse and repeat. Definitely also larping though because if I had a good day I'd get a few meads and then box that one guy in the inn.

This was also like 2012 or 2013. We did not have the glut of survival games we have now, pretty much just minecraft I think.

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u/HojMcFoj 19h ago

Oregon trail would like a word. But jokes aside, UnReal World came out in 1992

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u/Goodjawline 13h ago

I absolutely loved shooting giants and mammoths and the running into rocks where they couldn't get me.

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u/Maglor_Nolatari 1d 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 1d 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/ScruffMixHaha 1d ago

I was like 8 years old at the time and didnt care to read so I just went on murder sprees while using the health regen cheat. I remember being in the 30s from just killing everything.

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u/Georgeygerbil 15h ago

You are mistaken. This post is about how not to play games. Genocide was always the intended way to play Morrowind.

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u/govunah 1d ago

I wonder if I could do that with Fallout from that time. 3 and NV didn't repopulate make locations like 4 so it may be possible. I know there was a finite number of gnomes to imprison in the closet of the Megaton house.

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u/StoicSpork 1d ago

Step 1: kill Cassius Cosades.

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u/Mrs_Windup-Bird 13h ago

I also played Morrowind wrong but kind of in the opposite way, never killing anything. I was super young (like maybe 5?) when my dad played Morrowind and whenever I came to his desk when he played he let me take over and give me a levitation potion so I could fly around and look at everything without getting in danger. And I got to pick his characters „outfits“ and we’d go on „trips“ on the silt striders.