I don’t mean Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom style “this game kind of asks to be broken and have its puzzles circumvented as a feature” stories, but more stuff like:
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playing GTA while obeying all the traffic rules
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playing Fortnite as a pacifist like in that one John Green youtube series on Hank Green’s gaming channel
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a group inventing its own rules within a multiplayer game
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driving around the race track backwards
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collecting all the cabbages in skyrim and storing them in your house and having that be the only goal you care about
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playing single player games as multiplayer ones
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playing games that aren’t in a language you speak, and trying to understand it and its story and mechanics
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playing a game with a wacky or unintended controls setup
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self-assigning extra goals, like achievement hunting in ye olden days before achievements/trophies in the modern sense were a thing
And anything else along those lines.
Or your own personal speedrunning stories, too, especially if they’re funny, even though speedrunning has become its own big meta-game thing at this point, so most speedrunning is speedrunning done correctly/as intended in a way. Have any of you done speedrunning “incorrectly” somehow?
In WoW I had a character that was only about fishing. I did some leveling, but at one point I just went places and fished. I had a friend escort me to higher level places to do the Nat Pagle quest.
Once I was in a place way above my level and saw a guy fishing. I stood next to him and casted my lure and he was baffeled that I was high level enough to fish there.
Eventually, though, I did not feel like paying monthly fees for a fishing game so I quit.
I find the Mario Kart Blue Yourself records to be hilarious personally. Get a blue shell and hit yourself with it as quickly as possible.
When I was a kid I’d play Fable The Lost Chapters as a regular villager. I’d buy a house, get married, equip a stick (because you had to equip a weapon) and just walk around interacting with the other villagers.
Eventually I’d get bored though, so I’d out-of-rp murder my wife, then “discover” the body and go on a rampage through Oakvale.
It sounds so much worse written down.
I play V Rising on PvP servers and I’ll go protect people’s castle if they are being offline raided. I don’t care who it is. I’ll be there.
If they’ve been breeched already I’ll try to steal the loot myself and keep it safe and return it to their owners when they get back online.
Eventually I get a lot of allies and I am essentially immune to raids lol
Not all heroes wear capes. Except if V Rising has capes.
When I played Planetside 2, if nobody in my outfit was playing, one of my favorite things to do was go on a “sniper hike” as I called it. Instead of going to my faction’s frontline (the game has 3 faction’s fighting in a free-for-all), I would find the main frontline between the other 2 factions.
Once I found a good position, I’d pick a side, and start shooting - sometimes dealing enough damage one way or the other to significantly change the outcome of their battle. Or sometimes, getting 2 shots off and dying, wasting all the time I put into getting there.
