Strange/Unusual ways you play your favourite games?

[Archemetis]

One game that comes to mind for me is good ol' Fable.
It's fairly hard to play the game differently seeing as overall progression through it is hard unless you follow the story and main quest line, but i play that, i've done so throughout at least 15 times now, but everytime i do it, i try and give my characters a personality.
I give them proper names, i've often made it so my other characters are related, so that when i make a new one they have some sort of inherited destiny, so doing the same quests again and again doesn't seem so bad (don't worry it wore off on me eventually) but doing that just made the game so much more emersive for me.

I also like to play the old Cossacks european wars games simple to see how many kinds of peasants i could pillage before the neighbouring armies started getting annoyed at me and my mutli-cultural master-force.

When it comes to the Sims games i tend to make the families and then bugger off for about half an hour and then return to see what interesting ways they might be killign themselves, the ones that lived were always sent to a giant mansion afterwards.
I once locked two guys in a house with no doors for half hour to see what would happen, and i came back to find they were now gay lovers.

playing God is tricky.

 

[Stickman Sam]

One of my friends only has one arm, but he slays everyone in Halo deathmatch. And most other games, come to think of it.

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[Aries_Split]

I play most games shirtless, if not pants-less...and...modesty-less.

I also refuse to save in oblivion, and play it on Very Easy (i.e, Very realistic.)

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

Assassins Creed - play only using the wrist blade for fights and assassinations

Syphon Filter - play only using the tazer and refer to yourself as ELECTROSE... god of all things electric

Tenchu (The Drinking Game) - take turns with a friend, if you get spotted you have to take a shot

Echocrome - play only using the sixaxis function to rotate the map. oh, and no pausing the little man

Grand Theft Auto (any version) - fire at another moving vehicle to trigger the AI into panic mode, then proceed to take the car down only with agressive driving, no guns. my friends and i called this "car hunting". if you lose the car or crash, take a shot.

 

[Nock]

I do reps with hand weights during overly long cutscenes.

 

[Neurowaste]

Snipe with my eyes closed while in COD4 to see if i ever get an epic kill.

 

[Daemon888]

In college I had my room set-up so that I could swivel my TV around and play games while sitting on the john... I played alot of MarioKart 64 and would develop the most horrendous cases of that "legs fell asleep and are now burning" disease.

 

[Reasonable Doubt]

I sometimes play GH3 blindfolded on Expert to see if I actually memorized the songs or not.

Any RTS game I put the AI on the hardest difficulty and let them build up a big base before I even start and by that time the game is over for them because I can utterly dominate nearly anyone within a three minute time limit.

 

[Xeros]

In almost every game I play I come up with alternate storylines in my head such as adding in extra characters, objectives and plot twists... I have never gotten bored with any game using this technique (if you can call it that).

 

[wewontdie11]

I frequently go through COD4 matches only using the knife. I don't usually do half bad either.

 

[Fangface74]

I don't suppose saying that I play Portal without any pants on counts...?

This thread was worth it purely for this.

And...away!

 

[Larmo]

Once on Soul Caliber2 for the ps2 my friends hooked up our DDR pads and fought each other using the pads for attacks, we had so much fun. Later we got SC4 for the 360 and use Rockband instruments to play, the drums was the most fun.

 

[Gapperjack]

GTA is my most frequent venue for strange methods of play.

Climbing: I like to try and climb random buildings to see how high I can get. This only works well in San Andreas and GTAIV.

Piracy: Basically you get a boat, preferably a cool looking one like the all black dingy, and then go out looking for bigger boats to pirate. Then either shoot out the skipper from a distance and then head over to board, or get up close and run and jump onto their boat before dispatching them with a knife, or cracking them on the back of the head with the butt of a gun. Sometimes, if I have them, I return to my boat and Molotov the pirated boat.

Murder: I sometimes like to do a serial killer type murder, picking a victim at night and then following them at a distance on foot until the perfect spot (no witnesses, quite and isolated, etc.) and then stabbing them to death. Then I make a note of where I did it, and a few days later go back and pretend to be a detective investigating the crime - looking for witnesses, CCTV, etc.

Pushing: Recently I found that it's great fun to shove people into the path of oncoming trains. Quite hard though to get it right.

On Rainbow Six: Vegas multiplayer we used to play a random game.

Michael Myers: Everyone plays survival, and goes out with a shotgun and a pistol only. The server host randomly selects someone to play as Michael Myers. Only Michael Myers can use the shotgun. No one can shoot for 3 minutes into the game except Michael Myers. After three minutes, everyone who isn't Michael Myers can attempt to kill Michael Myers. Anyone who kills Michael Myers can become Michael Myers until the round ends or he is killed, in which case the person who killed him then becomes him, and so on and so forth. If Michael Myers wins, then he continues to be Micheal Myers for the next round.

 

[Aerach]

I download so many mods on Oblivion that it isn't even the same game anymore. Seriously, I have a gun that fires raptors. Wait, that sounds familiar.

 

[Reep]

GTA is my most frequent venue for strange methods of play.

Piracy: Basically you get a boat, preferably a cool looking one like the all black dingy, and then go out looking for bigger boats to pirate. Then either shoot out the skipper from a distance and then head over to board, or get up close and run and jump onto their boat before dispatching them with a knife, or cracking them on the back of the head with the butt of a gun. Sometimes, if I have them, I return to my boat and Molotov the pirated boat.

lol that sounds like fun

for some reason i actually try and follow the lanes on the roads for some reason, or i set myself up in impossible situations and see how long i can live for. eg shootout, 6 stars and only a pistol and bike for cover.

 

[Anarchemitis]

I make extraordinarily odd goods combinations on Sid Meier's Railroads!, in conjunction with haphazard and odd track placement. Inexplicably, I get lots of money and as dictated by the computer, my rail lines are 'Efficient', and I typically have enough money left over to casually buy-out the competition and liquidate their assets.

Odd really.




Did I mention it was odd?

I don't suppose saying that I play Portal without any pants on counts...?

This thread was worth it purely for this.

And...away!

(Vamoose sound!)

 

[Asehujiko]

We just did a 16v16 demoman only match on dustbowl. Being hit simultaneously by 128 stickies sends your gibs realy far up. When i looked down the entire map was outside drawing distance. And jumping down a platform and finding out you are standing ontop of 30 or so grenades is the enemy team color is definetly a big "oh shit" moment. Attackers won round 1, defenders won 2.

 

[Vortigar]

The game: Blood
Flare Pistol only 1 v 1 matches (aka highnoon).
Pitchfork only custom created zombielevel co-op.
Free for all Tesla only.
Underwater deathmatch (also a self-built map).
All pitch black surfaces (another self built map), you can only find people by lighting the place up with (flare/aerosol, dynamite) fire, but if you do you're also exposing yourself.

Good times.

 

[Frybird]

Love the Piracy Idea for GTA IV. (Only cheat i used yet was the one to get the stars up, go figure what i like to do mostly)

Back in the Day, i used to play Indycar Racing and Nascar Racing driving in the wrong direction, dodging the competition until inevitably some cool crash would happen.
Also, in Winter Games for the C64, i made a choreography out of the "falling on the butt" animation in figure skating

In the Darkness and Hitman, i almost completely walk through the levels (instead of running)...makes me feel more badass, especially when you screw stealth in Hitman and go for a shotgun rampage.

 

[scarbunny]

My missus likes to break sims 2 to allow things like incestual marriage, is that odd?

I also play guitar hero with a stanard controller coz im a cheap ass.

and i play most games in my undercrackers, but I live with my missus so it makes it alittle less weird as she is the same.