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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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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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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Who amongst us hasn't played GTA at least once while trying to drive around and follow all the traffic laws for absolutely no reason at all

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Is there any mission as of nowadays that forces you to drive according to traffic laws in any of all the entries?

If not I propose a very annoying one like the Driver tutorial as the GTA VI tutorial.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

People talk about getting filtered by fromsoft bosses but the goddamn driver tutorial was the hardest shit ever; especially since it used a lot of movie terms so if you weren't really into american movies about cars half the stuff on the list was kind of gibberish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Sorta? Multiple that make you watch your speed, for sure

Driver's law mechanics in a mission/mode of GTA would be amazing, wanted level system from 2 included (with a way to clear your on-foot wanted, of course)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

There's a wonderful contrarian-but-is-it-really-considering-it's-making-the-lawful-choice delight in trying to follow the rules in a game about breaking rules.

No-commentary video of someone just driving in GTA trying to follow the rules of the road. I'm usually really not a video person, but just watching this feels nice somehow.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Every time I log into that game I like to pick a car from my garage, smoke a fatty (in RL), and then drive all slow and chill from my apartment to the golf course. Pretend like I'm afraid of getting pulled over! Then I play a quick 9 holes. Generally, after that, I'm done with GTA for another month or so.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Oh, yeah! Get a car, find a quite park, turn on the radio and chill.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hmm. Nope.

That's what Streets of SimCity was for!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Well unless you did sunday driving... And put weapons on your car so you could go around demolishing the buildings you had built up in Sim City.