Self-Imposed challenges
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I've done an all-underground world before - using the first day to collect wood and seeds, then going down as the sun set. It's not too bad once you get a farm up and running and somwhere to grow trees, but strangely I found I missed the daylight too much to the point of getting almost claustrophobic.AdeptaSororitas said:
In Minecraft I always play on Hard mode, and never use a bed to reset my spawn location. Since I'm typically over a kilometer away from my hub base reclaiming gear after I die can be tricky.
I have played Hardcore mode (one life, no respawn, world deleted upon death) but I get much too attached to my worlds to play it that way all the time.
I once played a campaign of Rome Total War as the Julii and I decided that once I'd secured the Italian peninsular and blocked the mountain passes with armies that I would not expand for 100 turns.
It had it's pros and cons. I was able to devote a lot of time and money to my economy, which became huge, but when i did venture out, it was against huge, established factions.
It had it's pros and cons. I was able to devote a lot of time and money to my economy, which became huge, but when i did venture out, it was against huge, established factions.
Nothing too crazy, But I've went out of my way to renovate all the towns 100% in AC games, I'm Currently working on Revelations.
I don't know why I do it, other than I enjoy it for some reason.
I don't know why I do it, other than I enjoy it for some reason.
Only one really springs to mind, in Thief 3 in the Clock Tower level at he part where the cells with zombies are I let both zombies out aand see if I can trap them in the nearby furnace without being caught myself, the crouching and trying to get through the small grate in time to shut the door and start the furnace is the tricky bit.
I usually start these kind of runs then about half way through I say screw it, this stopped being fun.
Some ones I've tried: Naked runs in the Castlevania games where you only let your fists do the talking and have no equips what so ever. You're also not supposed to use movement upgrades unless necessary but that is stupid so I don't.
No kills in Sly Cooper 1, this one is really annoying here as opposed to the other games in the series becasue guards attack you on site and there is no real way to stealth your way through.
Some ones I've tried: Naked runs in the Castlevania games where you only let your fists do the talking and have no equips what so ever. You're also not supposed to use movement upgrades unless necessary but that is stupid so I don't.
No kills in Sly Cooper 1, this one is really annoying here as opposed to the other games in the series becasue guards attack you on site and there is no real way to stealth your way through.
I've not attempted any big, grand self-imposed difficulty challenge before, but have done some minor ones. Such as not directly killing anyone in Deus Ex that could reasonably be considered to be just doing their job (exception being the ones in full armour with heavy weapons. Come on, there's no honour in that...). No fast travelling in Skyrim is another simple one. And of course the occasional 'I'll only play using pistols/melee/stealth/etc' kind of stuff in short bursts.
One I did though that was similar but not at all intended as a difficulty thing was to play Fable 3 without ever using magic. My reason was that I was the coop partner, and it made no sense at all for a mercenary to have 'Hero' powers, so I swore off them for the duration of the playthrough.
Nothing else comes to mind now, but I've not done anything major.
One I did though that was similar but not at all intended as a difficulty thing was to play Fable 3 without ever using magic. My reason was that I was the coop partner, and it made no sense at all for a mercenary to have 'Hero' powers, so I swore off them for the duration of the playthrough.
Nothing else comes to mind now, but I've not done anything major.
I'm currently doing a 'hardcore' playthrough of Skyrim:
- Master difficulty
- Must sleep every night, possible exceptions
- Must eat one meal a day, before bed
- Don't take anything in the tutorial, come out of the keep with nothing but your roughspun tunic and footwraps
- Maximum weight limit = 30% of real weight limit
- Carry no more than 120 arrows
- No HUD (subsequently, no crosshair)
- Stay in role (My character practices none of the trade skills)
I'm finding it to be great fun, starting off with nothing makes every accomplishment feel so much greater.
I've also done a nuzlocke run on Pokemon Blue.
- Master difficulty
- Must sleep every night, possible exceptions
- Must eat one meal a day, before bed
- Don't take anything in the tutorial, come out of the keep with nothing but your roughspun tunic and footwraps
- Maximum weight limit = 30% of real weight limit
- Carry no more than 120 arrows
- No HUD (subsequently, no crosshair)
- Stay in role (My character practices none of the trade skills)
I'm finding it to be great fun, starting off with nothing makes every accomplishment feel so much greater.
I've also done a nuzlocke run on Pokemon Blue.
Same, love grinding in the AC games (except the bloody flags in AC1) for one reason or another.Soxafloppin said:
To add to that... completing the central campaigns in the TW games with self imposed limits on the number of 'field armies' I can use in battle (i.e. military strength minus garrisons).
I did a very similar thing a few years ago: Very hard/very hard difficulty, no turns limit but decided to just defend on a whim. Never turned on Rome so I only held Northern Italy.Blunderboy said:
Everything from Northern Spain to the Steppes was controlled by my enemies; Briton and Dacia. They were allies.
My economy never had the chance to pick up, every army I created was very nearly destroyed a few turns later during the constant invasions.
Then, finally, I managed a heroic victory that left me with half a professional post-Marius army. Quickly discovered that the entire garrison force of the enemy superpowers was pathetic and steam-rolled them with that small army - when I say steam-rolled I mean that army got to the Baltic coast with almost no reinforcements, taking half a dozen cities on route.
That campaign taught me a lot about how to use Roman Legions.
Also doing an underground minecraft playthrough trying to build a huge library. Several hundred bookcases in I'm about 1/3 done.
Odd, my stamina never went down when sprinting, only when power attacking. Maybe a bug in my favor?NotAProdigy said:
Tried a no kill/no knockout run of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. It was so hard but so worth it. our pistol and knife become invaluable tools of evasion rather than weapons.
Tried a no kill run of Conviction (becauseyou can't knock anyoneout) and it was litterally impossible. In the tutorial if you sneak passed the enemies the camera turns around and says "Hey, shoot these dudes dumbass, there's no free will here!"
I then tried a no weapon/no gadget run of Conviction's challenge maps, much more fun and very hard, but still very restrictive and not in a good way.
Tried a no kill run of Conviction (becauseyou can't knock anyoneout) and it was litterally impossible. In the tutorial if you sneak passed the enemies the camera turns around and says "Hey, shoot these dudes dumbass, there's no free will here!"
I then tried a no weapon/no gadget run of Conviction's challenge maps, much more fun and very hard, but still very restrictive and not in a good way.
