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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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[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Red Dead Online is almost always my go to Fishing Game with friends. It just does the fishing aspect really well. Bonus points when the camp is setup near a river or pond

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most of my time in Elden Ring has been 1) ogling at the landscapes going "Holy shit this is metal", and 2) bravely running away.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 7 points 1 day ago

Bravely running away is the quintessential FromSoft experience. The ultimate flex on enemies is to not even bother attacking them and just rolling to dodge occasionally while you grab items and run past them to the next checkpoint.

[–] Sebastrion@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

What? How else i'm supposed to play it?

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Battlefield One

I don't play it anymore, but when I did with a friend, I broke the healer mechanic.

I always stayed with my friend and our team, and instead of a weapon I was carrying a syringe.

In a Match I ressurected up to 70 people, making us pretty much an undying army.

I would always top the leader Board in any game Mode.

A couple months in I saw copycats, but nobody came close to my insanity.

The next Iterations of the game sucked for me because they nerfed the mechanic extremely.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

I think I've seen a video showcasing this tactic. Dude with a Syringe just running around, picking up his teammates as soon as they downed. It was great :D

[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Ship. It's normally supposed to be a social deduction game, but some friends and I all get together in a private server and basically just play deathmatch. It's hilarious because most of fhe weapons are really hard to kill with and you still have to be sneaky because if you get caught, you go to jail (which is also full of shanks). It always leads to some great chaos, especially with more people.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Whenever I played The Ship back in the day or always seemed it was mostly murder and no deduction other than "did my target change outfits"?

Good game though. Very fun.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I don't think this is super uncommon but in harder difficulties of Terraria, I just play the game as a fishing game. I pretty much exclusively fish for the first few hours of the game and gear up solely through fishing. Then I repeat for the 2nd half of the game as well. I'm also setting up huts in every biome location to do fishing quests.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

If I can get it working, I will absolutely use debug mode on pokemon fan games because it saves me time not to have to do things like going back for healing my party, grinding to a certain level defeating bosses I'm not supposed to using cheated in legendaries, etcetera.

Definitely not developer intended, nor am I sure this would count for an intended answer to the question. Otherwise, I cannot think of any other answers to this question.

[–] Statick@programming.dev 28 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I used to only do something called "surfing" in the Counter-Strike: Source days.

There are dedicated servers that only run surf maps.

100% of my CS playtime is surfing it's so fun.

[–] Million@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Source best game.

I still have KSF Clan server list in my bookmarks for easy access. When theres nothing to play, just play surf.

Also, shoutout to momentum mod, a standalone game with surf, bhop, defrag, rocket jump, sticky jump and more in one single game. Coming out soon ™️

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

TF2 Had surf maps too, and I spent an embarrassing amount of time on those. Got super good at it too.

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 79 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Assassin's Creed. The actual gameplay is almost never as interesting as just walking around a meticulous recreation of ancient civilizations as a digital tourist.

you and i play the same. I'm never getting to venice before it sinks, but i got my digital museum

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