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

Submitted ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Elevator7009@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in Hitman were, and that they’d just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.

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PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Assassin’s Creed. The actual gameplay is almost never as interesting as just walking around a meticulous recreation of ancient civilizations as a digital tourist.

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moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Horizon zero dawn and forbidden west. I just roam around and by accident find the missions I’m supposed to do. I also exploit all the enemies, there is a hard lock on where they can walk, so I just stand 10 meter out of the zone and start hitting big enemies for 5 minutes without taking damage.

I will blame Skyrim for this behaviour

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FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Like playing Gwent instead of fighting monsters as the witcher?

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- who@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  An argument could be made that Gwent offers better gameplay than the larger game in which it resides.
  
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  - takeda@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Then you purchased a wrong game and should just play solitaire.
    
    Witcher 3 is absolutely great, but if you just go through only the main quest, won’t explore the world and won’t do side quests then I can see you ending up disappointed.
    
    What I like is that side quests can impact the main quest and even the ending.
    
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  - BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There is no argument if the statement is objectively true
    
    The Witcher 3’s gameplay was so bad that I couldn’t finish it (and the map so uninteresting, but that’s another story). Gwent was pretty cool though
    
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  - Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Are we certain Witcher is the larger game in which Gwent resides and not the other way around?
    
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  - FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    An argument could be made that you are a genius. Both arguments would be equally wrong.
    
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Trumble@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I was part of some exploration guilds in World of Warcraft with the aim to explore every inch of the Azeroth, get beyond every instance border and just climb hard terrain even if there was an easier way up.

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Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Who amongst us hasn’t played GTA at least once while trying to drive around and follow all the traffic laws for absolutely no reason at all

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- Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Every time I log into that game I like to pick a car from my garage, smoke a fatty (in RL), and then drive all slow and chill from my apartment to the golf course. Pretend like I’m afraid of getting pulled over! Then I play a quick 9 holes. Generally, after that, I’m done with GTA for another month or so.
  
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- MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh, yeah! Get a car, find a quite park, turn on the radio and chill.
  
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- forrgott@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Hmm. Nope.
  
  That’s what Streets of SimCity was for!
  
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  - QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Well unless you did sunday driving… And put weapons on your car so you could go around demolishing the buildings you had built up in Sim City.
    
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blackstampede@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Minecraft. You think that there’s no way to play Minecraft “wrong”, right up until you accidentally fall into the 4-block wide valley that I’ve cut through the entire map or walk into the liminal space that I’ve mined out just above bedrock. Fuck cutesy cottages and Minecraft in minecraft- let’s just build superstructures that disappear beyond the draw distance of the map. Fuck creative mode- let’s do it while we’re facing down mobs day and night. Fuck explosives- do that shit with a pick like a goddamn man. You haven’t really seen confused rage until your child discovers hundreds of unexplained and unexplainable brutalist towers extending into the distance like the gravestones of alien gods when they thought you were building a farm over the next hill.

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- AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  . . . I gotta tour one of your worlds someday
  
  Shit like this I have only seen in a Manga once, forgot the name, but basically bunch of robots that humanity made were let loose without humans(they died) and they kept building giant megastructures for no reason without stopping It’s just absolutely surreal and I just love it
  
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biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I collect all the stars since GTA III.

I also play everything on Easy because I have a life.

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MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I like playing games that incentivise stealth as Michael Bay films. Give me rocket launchers and c4. Yeah I don’t have the high score for the level but I will kill literally every single non-vital NPC.

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nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I often use cheats to remove grindy and boring bits beyond a certain point. Usually the difficulty curve is pretty bad and a game is only hard in the beginning. So I play as intended until I reach a point at which it’s just a matter of time and not skill. So I just give myself a ton of crafting mats or currency or whatever so I can focus on the fun and interesting parts of the game.

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andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I play heavily modded Elder Scrolls, where my character never touches the main story.

My favorite Morrowind run was a princess who ended up creating an agricultural baron, buying up every plantation and owning probably hundreds of slaves. She also got into the skooma business on the side (needed money for all of her dresses). Morrowind had a ton of wacky mods that were just fun to play in general - people made Star Wars and LOTR questlines. There’s also the work of Tommy Khajiit (RIP), which is something unique and which has never gotten the respect it deserved. (Or Lady Rae - she liked to recollect the game bright neon colors, and basically got bullied out of the modding community.)

Skyrim is a hunting/vagrant simulator for me. I usually play a Dunmer refugee and avoid the in-game quests entirely. Survival and economy mods to make the focus of the gameplay getting enough gold to afford a room for the night, tweaks to loot to make things more “mundane.”

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- Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I always like to see people who go all in on the roleplaying in RPGs.
  
  I do wish people would leave mods that aren’t for them alone. There are a bunch of mods extremely not to my taste that I just scroll past instead of intentionally clicking to tell the mod author just how much it is not to my taste and that they should not have made it because I am uninterested in the content.
  
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  - andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Modding is a really under appreciated art form.
    
    Downloading unhinged Morrowind mods in the mid naughts exposed me to new franchises, music, ideas… Like this banger, which plays at some point in the Underground 2 along with this one. (btw, Dawnguard is Emil or whoever wrote it ripping off story beats from a 20 year old Morrowind mod based on the Underworld series lol)
    
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- SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not into mods but if I remember right, isn’t Lady Rae the one who left the modding community and started making music?
  
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  - andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Did she make music? Holy shit - if you have a link I’ve been trying to figure out what happened to her for years. She’s genuinely a major inspiration for my painting and art.
    
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wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m starting a run of Project Zomboid without zombies

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- piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Ooooh but this makes some sense though, it just becomes a post apocalyptic world then
  
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Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is a very mild violation, but I like to play these puzzles: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
…except that I create a custom difficulty level which is quite a step below the easiest difficulty and then I almost rather speedrun the puzzles.

The Rectangles puzzle at 5x5 size has been my crack for the past months and I’m at about 13 seconds now (using my phone as input).

I mean, it’s very casual speedrunning. No one cares about my time, so I actually never timed myself before just now. But yeah, I just like the different challenge of thinking fast rather than complex.

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rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m playing Overwatch but actually having fun while doing so /s

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- zo0@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Banned
  
  The player exploited the game mechanics to achieve an unintended side effect.
  
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Nefara@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For a while, I played the MMO Guild Wars 2 as a music simulator. It has playable in game musical instruments that you can equip, and play with the number keys. A-G are represented as numbers 1-8 with 9 and 0 swapping an octave lower or higher. Killing monsters? Doing dungeons? Raids and world bosses? Nah I’m just chilling in a beautiful forested cliffside near a waterfall figuring out an arrangement for the Lord of the Rings theme.

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Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For some time I used Minecraft as a mindnumbing tool. I dug a huge underground structure with stone pickaxes. I had some chests of wood down there to make new pickaxes, chests, and torches, and dug an underground space of several square kilometers, 30ish layers high.

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canihasaccount@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I actually don’t know the way you’re supposed to beat Super Metroid “correctly.” I’ve always done what I ended up learning was a major sequence break resulting from a bunch of bomb jumps to get the power bomb early, and use that to get some other stuff that allows me to beat the game out of order.

I also never start Metroid Prime without immediately getting the double jump. I used to be up there on speed running that game. I don’t play the player’s choice or switch versions whenever I decide to crack it out. The original was literal perfection.

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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I played the story in GTA a few times.

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Omgboom@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I like to play crusader kings II from the point of view of God. Using console commands, sketchy cheat mod, and knowing the right game mechanics you can make characters do all types of crazy stuff. Using the “observe” console command let’s you play as a spectator, you can use the “play” command followed by a character ID and you will jump into playing as that character. I like to find a character, give them insane stats, and give them all of the best traits, make them immortal and then spectate for a few hundred years and see what my chosen one made the world into. I also like to try to determine before hand what I want them to do, like becoming emperor of brittania or whatever, and see how close I can get from just 1 or 2 interactions with them.

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- Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is such a cool idea. Nudging a few things around and trying to see what ripple effects they have…
  
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AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Mindustry It goes from a tower defense game to a logistics game for me Forget enemies, How can I haul the most amount of shit down data pipelines without letting a single container hold items for too long? My worlds are just a absolute mess of conveyor belts going everywhere, transport drones coming and going, items being produced, used, machined and consumed everywhere And the only purpose is to give me more endpoints to grow it

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- Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I gave Mindustry a shot and faded out at the tower defense bit of the tutorial. I do like !automationgames@lemmy.zip even though tower defense is not my thing, so I’m wondering: how do you manage to forget enemies and just make it a logistics game?
  
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quinkin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Any of The Forest games become basically a zipline simulator once that is unlocked.

As in, clear fell the forest so we can build ziplines everywhere.

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Bathilda_Bagshot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Rocket Leage, apparently.

What a save!

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MrEC@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I play Trailmakers which is like Legos where people mostly build planes and tanks to shoot each other, but I build cranes, forklifts, trucks and boats and fill them with the barrels and crates from around the maps and move them to other places. Very peaceful and rewarding to me.

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Jestzer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Watch Dogs 2. I’ve barely touched the story and just mess around.

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- omarfw@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I love invading people’s games and then never hacking them. It doesn’t tell them you’ve invaded so you can just mess with them covertly and pretend to be an NPC.
  
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fargeol@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I did that with RTS like Starcraft or Age of Empires II. I would just build a city, develop every upgrade, build good defenses and basically play it like Sim City

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thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Most games I play that I don’t plan on playing a lot of. I use trainers hacks and cheats on things I find grindy or just feels pointless. Or unnecessary hard games.

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libra00@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
About half the time I play Cyberpunk 2077 as a first-person RPG. The other half of the time I just play it as a city/driving-simulator.

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4am@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t think I’ve ever actually played a story mission in Just Cause 4

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thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I used to just cruise around in The Crew, enjoying a chill ride around

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Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There are a few mobile or web idle/incremental games I have used as a substitute for a Pomodoro Timer. Oh, I am really into the game and it only progresses if this is the focused tab? I really want to make progress, but I am in a period of the game where active play isn’t that rewarded, and just watching the screen while I wait to earn the upgrade is pretty boring? How about we just leave my phone with that as the active tab, and I check back when the upgrade should be earned? Keeps me off my phone and doing the actual things I should be doing instead. Somehow, “abusing” games like this works better for me than the Forest app which has the explicit intention of making sure you do not touch your screen for a set length of time and instead do something else off your phone.

I also “abuse” Pokémon Masters EX in a similar fashion. You’re expected to level up with some combination of putting them through battles that cost stamina to play through, and some pretty easy-to-obtain level-up items. And although there is an Auto option I have a feeling you are intended to manually do the battles in-game. Instead, I start story mode battles which cost no stamina to play through, that still reward me with XP no matter how many times I repeat it, and have the game fight the battle for me with the Auto setting. I check back when the battle is done and restart it. I have essentially turned this into an idle/incremental game, albeit one with a pretty short time between waiting and checking back in on the game. Free level-ups! Even though it does take much longer than the intended way, which is why I suspect nobody tried to prevent this method from working.

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- Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Huh, never knew my approach to work had an actual name. That’s neat! Thanks for teaching me something new.
  
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tatann@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I played stealth games like Hitman like a mass murderer.

I also play the “infiltrator” class in Mass Effect without tactical cloak. I mean it’s a mix of soldier and engineer, why should it be focused on stealth ?

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