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Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? (lemmy.zip)
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Stolen from myself 6 months ago at https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/35616522

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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[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Going back a while - Monster Truck Madness 2 was a great game of exploration if you just drove off in a random direction rather than doing that silly racing stuff :-)

The maps were big, and there was no time limit, so you could just go and do your own thing ... a favourite made-up mini-game was sliding around a frozen lake on the winter map.

[–] TechnoCat@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes. I did this with Monster Truck Madness and still remember the opening announcer guy.

I also did this with Big Red Racing, Diddy Kong Racing, and Rallisport Challenge.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also did this with the first Monster Truck Madness and Big Red Racing. And Motocross Madness. Seems these games were just built for that. Only had demo versions though, so just the one stage to explore.

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Carmageddon was really good for it, too.

In modern gaming I've clocked up about 400 hours on Snowrunner, half of the game is intentionally exploring with trucks (albeit a lot slower, lol)

[–] TechnoCat@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yeah Carmageddon! They definitely encouraged exploration. I remember never winning by racing, but instead killing the other drivers.

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, that was often the easiest way to progress.

I used to be a bit of a Carmageddon nut, I think I have original copies of all the games (1 with the Splat Pack expansion was the best for exploration) ... but my old PC can't run the latest version at more than 1fps unfortunately :-/

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you played Mario kart world?

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't, can't say I've ever heard of it!

(I've got Mario Kart 8 on the WiiU, that's about it!)

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Haven't played it, but the concept is being able to drive around after, between, or even during races to do exploring and side adventures

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Sounds nice, provided you're in the Nintendo ecosystem