Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

• BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also did this with the first Monster Truck Madness and Big Red Racing. And Motocross Madness. Seems these games were just built for that. Only had demo versions though, so just the one stage to explore.

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  • TechnoCat@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shareware!

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    • riskiedingo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you saying you can still find these titles?

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      • TechnoCat@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware

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• SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Carmageddon was really good for it, too.

  In modern gaming I’ve clocked up about 400 hours on Snowrunner, half of the game is intentionally exploring with trucks (albeit a lot slower, lol)

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  • TechnoCat@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah yeah Carmageddon! They definitely encouraged exploration. I remember never winning by racing, but instead killing the other drivers.

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    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, that was often the easiest way to progress.

      I used to be a bit of a Carmageddon nut, I think I have original copies of all the games (1 with the Splat Pack expansion was the best for exploration) … but my old PC can’t run the latest version at more than 1fps unfortunately :-/

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