"Uhh, is this how you're supposed to play?"

[someonehairy-ish]

Well I dunno about weird playstyles, but I've found some interesting tactics in games:
I found in TES IV: Oblivion that I could kill unlimited numbers of enemy melee fighters by simply running backwards in circles whilst shooting them, and occasionally running forward to collect arrows before turning round again. Plus I found that enemies never ever ran out of ammo, so if you get an archer to shoot you and simply dodge every arrow, you can collect unlimited amounts of them without very much effort at all. So the first time I found one dude with daedric arrows, boom, infinity of them.
Not only that, you can save immediately before grabbing a sigil stone (ie a really powerful random armour enchantment) and then just keep reloading it until you get the chameleon one. Get up too 100% chameleon and you've essentially got a permanently invisible characters. Or you can enchant everything to give you agility and then leap over buildings...

All of this amounts to a horribly broken game, but it's hilarious at the same time.

 

[MMSouthpawVIII]

I'm not sure if it's relevant since its a bit different, but Ever since I first got Ocarina of Time when I was 6 or whatever I've been using a g,itch instead of doing it the right way without realizing it. In dodongo's cavern there's a room (The room where the bomb bag is) where you have to use a bomb flower to blow open one of the rock wall things covering the door. What you're supposed to do is hold the bomb flower for long enough that it explodes in the the air since there's a gap and you can't just set it down near the door. What I've always done is thrown the bomb flower so that it gets glitch stuck between the ladder and the wall at the top. I can do this pretty much every time now XD

I never knew you were supposed to do it the other way until I played it again on the 3DS and realized.

So 29 of the 30 times I've beaten that game I did that part wrong XD

Ever since I was 7 I've always done the water temple before the fire temple. I don't know why I did it that way the first time, but since then it's just sort of been a, "I did it when I was little, why not?" sort of thing.

 

[Euryalus]

I'm not sure if it's relevant since its a bit different, but Ever since I first got Ocarina of Time when I was 6 or whatever I've been using a g,itch instead of doing it the right way without realizing it. In dodongo's cavern there's a room (The room where the bomb bag is) where you have to use a bomb flower to blow open one of the rock wall things covering the door. What you're supposed to do is hold the bomb flower for long enough that it explodes in the the air since there's a gap and you can't just set it down near the door. What I've always done is thrown the bomb flower so that it gets glitch stuck between the ladder and the wall at the top. I can do this pretty much every time now XD

I never knew you were supposed to do it the other way until I played it again on the 3DS and realized.

So 29 of the 30 times I've beaten that game I did that part wrong XD

Ever since I was 7 I've always done the water temple before the fire temple. I don't know why I did it that way the first time, but since then it's just sort of been a, "I did it when I was little, why not?" sort of thing.

The first time I played, I got stuck in both the Forest Temple and the Shadow temple (normal stuck not "fuck this noise" water temple stuck [footnote] I used the wrong key in the early version XD[/footnote]), and so I ended up beating the Fire temple and Spirit Temple before them.

 

[waj9876]

In WOW, I used to play WOW, I played my rogue like a tank. I never used backstab, or the...stealth disappear...move-thing...It's been years since I've played, okay?

Anyway, I played my night elf rogue like a tank. I played my rogue like a tank well. I was always the tank in my group. And I only died a horrible amount of time when I attempted to solo as a rogue-tank.

 

[PanYue]

In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom, Phoenix Wright is my point man. He goes in first, does the bulk of the damage and dies eventually. I always take down at least one dude and half a bar. So that makes me feel good. I have Chris Redfield as my anchor and X-23 as pure damage.

My team is awesome, shut up. =P

 

[endtherapture]

I go for a weird build for Bounty Hunter in Dota 2 and that's about it.

I'm curious, what would this build be?

OT: I generally use sub-par builds and then whine all match of how bad they are and how much Riot/Icefrog sucks. It's some kind of stockholm syndrome, not sure why I do it

Starting Items generally a Wand into PMS.
Then try to finish a Basi and a Treads ASAP, then get a Yasha and finish off the Vlads. Then S&Y and Diffusal and sometimes drums.

 

[WoW Killer]

...I used to play Thor before his buff.
I used to play Thor WELL before his buff.
I used to play Thor pretty damned good before his buff.

Then his blasted buff came up and all skill was tossed out. No V shaped walls to trap people, it's just STUN LOLOLOL.
Not using Beserker's Barrage as a counter to Anhur's impale, now it's just SPIN TO WIN 109 per tick, 100% SKILLS SCRUBS.
No well done double taps with Attunement, it's an OH SH- TELEPORT NAOW skill. Thor can go sit on a rusty spike.

Did you try him when he was bugged a while back? Can't remember the details but his basic attacks were doing true-damage due to some glitch. Was funny. I think Agni was bugged during the same patch, so that his passive was double-proccing.

Hmmm, I used to play Freya as a magical bruiser, like Warlock's Sash into Ethereal Staff. Worked pretty well, but I was low level at the time. I've not played her since reaching max level, and not since the PonPon-build came about.

 

[Auron225]

As a kid, I used to only use 1 Pokémon, forsaking all others to HM slaves or fodder while I healed my main Pokémon, got a good earful about how I was "destroying the spirit of the game" when I think he was more sore about the fact that my lvl 93 Typhlosion kicked his team of lvl 50 Pokémon in 1-hit.

I train most of my Pokémon equally now, but I still didn't get how the way I was playing was a "wrong" way.

Also played all of Birth By Sleep without knowing what shotlock was, I didn't remember it was part of the tutorial, once I remembered it, I used it constantly.

I remember doing that in Red a lot. My Charizard just ate everything in front of it - poor kid in my school thought he could win with his team of level 50's including a Venasaur. He just didn't see it coming

As for BBS, I used Shotlocks but on my first playthrough I almost never used D-links. They can be pretty damn good if you level them up, and it's not even hard to do that. Between Shotlocks, D-links, Commands, Command-Styles, Finish moves and regular old attacking, you can never run out of ways to eradicate whatever is in front of you in that game.

 

[The Wykydtron]

In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom, Phoenix Wright is my point man. He goes in first, does the bulk of the damage and dies eventually. I always take down at least one dude and half a bar. So that makes me feel good. I have Chris Redfield as my anchor and X-23 as pure damage.

My team is awesome, shut up. =P

Good man! Always nice to see another PW main. You don't go for Turnabout Mode though? I used to play PW/X-23 as well, then got bored of her and I picked up Dante.

My problem is that I have no solid third character. I like the Phoenix/Phoenix Wright combo but Phoenix is barely viable because lol 400,000 health. I got bored of Vergil, never got into any of his advanced mix ups (behind teleports forever) and I will never be able to pull off the Sword Swag. Dante is too technical, Morrigan doesn't have enough damage (that's rushdown Morrigan thank you very much)

I've noticed I play all the less popular characters. PW in UMVC3 (albeit the only reason I bought that game to begin with was to main Phoenix Wright and nothing was going to stop me.) Makoto then Mu-12 in BlazBlue and now Shadow Labrys in P4A

Everyone else online is too busy playing Akihiko to pick up any of the cool characters though. Seriously no Aigis players? She's high tier and widely regarded as the best character in Persona 3. What?

 

[porous_shield]

Grand Theft Auto 3 (could have been Vice City) for the race side missions I used to park a large vehicle at a chokepoint point in the route then hop on top of something tall and blast them with a rocket launcher when they slammed into it. With that finished I'd hop into a car and do the race without competition. Took as much effort to actually beat the races sometimes as pull that little maneuver off but it was satisfying and I didn't want to do the races.

 

[Anathrax]

...I used to play Thor before his buff.
I used to play Thor WELL before his buff.
I used to play Thor pretty damned good before his buff.

Then his blasted buff came up and all skill was tossed out. No V shaped walls to trap people, it's just STUN LOLOLOL.
Not using Beserker's Barrage as a counter to Anhur's impale, now it's just SPIN TO WIN 109 per tick, 100% SKILLS SCRUBS.
No well done double taps with Attunement, it's an OH SH- TELEPORT NAOW skill. Thor can go sit on a rusty spike.

Did you try him when he was bugged a while back? Can't remember the details but his basic attacks were doing true-damage due to some glitch. Was funny. I think Agni was bugged during the same patch, so that his passive was double-proccing.

Hmmm, I used to play Freya as a magical bruiser, like Warlock's Sash into Ethereal Staff. Worked pretty well, but I was low level at the time. I've not played her since reaching max level, and not since the PonPon-build came about.

I didn't try him but I did notice that glitch. Isn't being hit for a 1.1k crit with a midguardian mail+witch stone(when it had the HP on it)+hide of the Neaman lion combo fun?!

 

[bug_of_war]

Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat 9. Every other character I can use all my awesome moves against, be it Scorpion's spear, Sub Zero's freeze ball, Nightwolf's bow, etc. yet when it comes to Shao Kahn I end up treating it like a really slow dance where in which every step is critical and must be timed perfectly. For example, playing as Raiden against Shao Kahn forced me to constantly be on the block, waiting for that perfect moment to whip out 4-5 quick punches.

 

[FFP2]

I go "guns blazing" in every stealth game that I've ever played. Blood Money is so much fun when you're just being a mass murderer.

The only stealth game that I haven't done this method is Dishonored. Only the first two missions were bloodbaths, the rest were no-kills/no-detections runs.

 

[loc978]

In Fallout 3 I played the entire game from beginning to end using only the bolt action rifle. Mainly because by about half way through the game I could (usually) 1-hit kill anything with a VATS head-shot.

Ol' Painless was so overpowered in the vanilla game... like a sniper rifle with no scope that uses common as dirt ammo. Between it and Lincoln's Repeater, I didn't need any other weapons on my first playthrough.

How I play that game (and New Vegas) wrong, though... I don't wear effective armor. I went all the way through both wearing a merc cruiser outfit using mainly small unique guns that fired common ammo (Lucky and Ratslayer in NV... sometimes I swapped Lucky for That Gun if I was low on .357).

Oh... also, I built those characters with luck as my primary stat, agility and perception as secondaries, intelligence as a tertiary with strength, endurance and charisma as dump stats. It forced me to fight my way out of everything as a fragile, poorly armed everyman... who happened to be an incredibly good shot with his poor armaments.

 

[Black Reaper]

Not in fighting games . Although i try to do things ( and play characters )other people don't just to be different . But i usually rush down no matter who i'm playing .

Grappler? Rush down
Zoner? Rush down
Keepaway? Rush down
Rush down ? Rush down.

You don't zone as a zoner?,you have my respect,i fucking hate zoners

Well I dunno about weird playstyles, but I've found some interesting tactics in games:
I found in TES IV: Oblivion that I could kill unlimited numbers of enemy melee fighters by simply running backwards in circles whilst shooting them, and occasionally running forward to collect arrows before turning round again. Plus I found that enemies never ever ran out of ammo, so if you get an archer to shoot you and simply dodge every arrow, you can collect unlimited amounts of them without very much effort at all. So the first time I found one dude with daedric arrows, boom, infinity of them.
Not only that, you can save immediately before grabbing a sigil stone (ie a really powerful random armour enchantment) and then just keep reloading it until you get the chameleon one. Get up too 100% chameleon and you've essentially got a permanently invisible characters. Or you can enchant everything to give you agility and then leap over buildings...

All of this amounts to a horribly broken game, but it's hilarious at the same time.

I did the sigil stone thing too,and then i duplicated them
Speaking about duplication,whenever i started a new game,i got some high priced scrolls,chain duplicated them so i could duplicate other things in multiple quantities,dropped enough to be able to walk,went and did the fish quest just outside the imperial city,duplicated the ring you get as a reward,which was quite valuable,sold it a hell of a lot of times,used the money to go and train bladed weapons,or whatever that skill was called,while casting low cost spells(sometimes made by me,since i had the wizard tower dlc),went to the inn next door to level up,and repeated until i couldn't train anymore,then i went and did the fighters guild rat exploit(attack all the rats you have to protect in the first fighters guild quest in anvil while wearing different types of armor,they wont do enough damage to kill you,and you can easily heal yourself and boost other magic skills in the meanwhile)
I did all this until i was level 30,i remember i broke the game in various other ways,but i haven't played it in years,so i can't really remember

I've noticed I play all the less popular characters. PW in UMVC3 (albeit the only reason I bought that game to begin with was to main Phoenix Wright and nothing was going to stop me.) Makoto then Mu-12 in BlazBlue and now Shadow Labrys in P4A

Everyone else online is too busy playing Akihiko to pick up any of the cool characters though. Seriously no Aigis players? She's high tier and widely regarded as the best character in Persona 3. What?

Mu and Makoto are unpopular?,strange,i run into them a lot when playing online

 

[The Wykydtron]

I've noticed I play all the less popular characters. PW in UMVC3 (albeit the only reason I bought that game to begin with was to main Phoenix Wright and nothing was going to stop me.) Makoto then Mu-12 in BlazBlue and now Shadow Labrys in P4A

Everyone else online is too busy playing Akihiko to pick up any of the cool characters though. Seriously no Aigis players? She's high tier and widely regarded as the best character in Persona 3. What?

Mu and Makoto are unpopular?,strange,i run into them a lot when playing online

Well on the 360 at least there is precisely one other Mu player and one Makoto player i've run into. Everyone else plays Ragna, Jin, Noel or god forbid, Tager. Fucking Tager...

You sure it wasn't just me you ran into on multiple occasions when I was having my Mu vs Makoto crisis of who I was going to main? The only reason I was holding out on dropping Makoto was because she is just so charming. Mu's endless hateful remarks are pretty cute though, once you get past the world ending stuff anyway :3

 

[Black Reaper]

I've noticed I play all the less popular characters. PW in UMVC3 (albeit the only reason I bought that game to begin with was to main Phoenix Wright and nothing was going to stop me.) Makoto then Mu-12 in BlazBlue and now Shadow Labrys in P4A

Everyone else online is too busy playing Akihiko to pick up any of the cool characters though. Seriously no Aigis players? She's high tier and widely regarded as the best character in Persona 3. What?

Mu and Makoto are unpopular?,strange,i run into them a lot when playing online

Well on the 360 at least there is precisely one other Mu player and one Makoto player i've run into. Everyone else plays Ragna, Jin, Noel or god forbid, Tager. Fucking Tager...

You sure it wasn't just me you ran into on multiple occasions when I was having my Mu vs Makoto crisis of who I was going to main? The only reason I was holding out on dropping Makoto was because she is just so charming. Mu's endless hateful remarks are pretty cute though, once you get past the world ending stuff anyway :3

Everyone plays Ragna and Tager in the 360?,that sounds horrible
I play on the Ps3,if youve ever run into a Relius with a black and yellow palette,that was probably me,but from the looks of it you play on the 360
And kudos for maining Mu,i like her theme
Also,what control scheme do you use in Persona 4 Arena?,one thing that gave me a bad impression in the demo was how they remapped the controls

 

[r1024768]

In one of the old C&C games (not the Red Alert series - the one with Kane and NOD) there's a mission where you are supposed to sneak a bunch of engineers into a NOD base to capture a truck and escape. I used those engineers to capture a barracks and a power plant, sold the power plant for money, and built a small army to destroy everything on the map instead.
When it came time to actually capture the truck and do the mission, I found out that the barracks I captured was supposed to trigger an ambush...the mission bugged and stopped in the middle of that cutscene cause I owned the building.