What strange, pointless things do you do in games?

I guess I mean what kind of wierd role-playing things you do that are completely unrelated to anything in the game, the game doesn't even have to give you the option of doing that thing, you just pretend it does. Any other interpretations of the question are most welcome too.

I remember when I was very into Chrono trigger for the first time, so a fair few years ago, but I sucked and couldn't get passed the church where you find Frog. So instead I'd just start a new game and just pretend that Chrono's mum was giving Chrono the order to go shopping, but he was a cheeky lad and ended up finding a girl to play around with.

In zelda : oot, I would go near the shadow temple, just outside, climb up on the wall, play the windmill song, to make it rain, put on the sad mask (I can't remember what it was called, but the mask that made everyone react badly to you) and pace up and down the fence, pretending I was contemplating killing myself, because I had been burdened with a terrible face.

The other significant one I can remember is in Pilotwings 64, I would go the youngest male character on the first island with my rocket pack , and pretend I was going on a date, and I'd pick up the girl and we'd go to a restuarant and visit the fair and play golf, and all these other things.

It was a very strange time in my life for games, but it was good fun. Did anyone do \ or still does things similar in games? Do the new games allow for creativity like this?

in couter strike soucre i shoot barrels, bottoles and unend up playing soccer......GOALLLLL!!!!!!

I actually pay for my games. I guess that's kind of weird these days.

Hynox.Rain said:

I guess I mean what kind of wierd role-playing things you do that are completely unrelated to anything in the game, the game doesn't even have to give you the option of doing that thing, you just pretend it does. Any other interpretations of the question are most welcome too.

I remember when I was very into Chrono trigger for the first time, so a fair few years ago, but I sucked and couldn't get passed the church where you find Frog. So instead I'd just start a new game and just pretend that Chrono's mum was giving Chrono the order to go shopping, but he was a cheeky lad and ended up finding a girl to play around with.

In zelda : oot, I would go near the shadow temple, just outside, climb up on the wall, play the windmill song, to make it rain, put on the sad mask (I can't remember what it was called, but the mask that made everyone react badly to you) and pace up and down the fence, pretending I was contemplating killing myself, because I had been burdened with a terrible face.

The other significant one I can remember is in Pilotwings 64, I would go the youngest male character on the first island with my rocket pack , and pretend I was going on a date, and I'd pick up the girl and we'd go to a restuarant and visit the fair and play golf, and all these other things.

It was a very strange time in my life for games, but it was good fun. Did anyone do \ or still does things similar in games? Do the new games allow for creativity like this?

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Dear god.. if you are doing this, you need some serious help. GET OUTSIDE. you know, the place on the other side of the door and pile of Mnt. Dew cans? I think you have problems my friend. Its great to play games (even a lot), but its a whole new can of beans when you start doing stuff like fantisizing going on a date in your video games..


2 words..

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help.

I think he was referring to when he was quite a bit younger. You know, using that thing that doesn't require a monitor, your imagination.

Crime?

I think not. Go lift some weights or something.

run up to random people in IF or SW drop a /sexy /dance on them with my female gnome warrior.

The funniest part is people usually play along.

WoW - I was super bored one day but wanted to stay logged on because the guild was having a meeting. So I swam around the Alliance continent from Booty Bay. All the way around. I found a bunch of oddball stuff like random buildings and such.

WoW - I also had fun using the goblin blimps to travel around. I was a human rogue. Running screaming into that one Horde camp in the jungle (north of Booty Bay) with nothing but my guild taberd on was fun. Then seeing all the Horde characters stare at me while the blimp was moving was a laugh too. It was just as funny when I got on the wrong blimp and ended up near the Horde capitol. I just loved WoW's lack of a death penalty

Morrowind - Due to a weird bug humanoid NPCs would not arggo me unless I attacked them first. I would go into the bandit caves and only kill the male NPCs and then smooch up to the females.

Oblivion - I always made sure to move dead bandits/NPCs off to the side of the road. Now I just use the disable command because all the dead bodies in the gameworld are really hurting my framerate >_< (I use one of the No Respawn mods so the corpses are not going away like they are supposed to.)

Oblivion - I killed the final boss using hand to hand and completely naked. Just hand to prove what a badass I was.

Any Bioware RPG - I always play the ultimate good guy first, then a bad guy.

Civilization 4 - I never chop down forests and always build lumbermills on them. Also, I never build mines unless there is a special resourse there.

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I've broken two controllers because I can't beat eternal legend in Ninja Gaiden black.... oh, wait, you said IN game.

lloose said:

Dear god.. if you are doing this, you need some serious help. GET OUTSIDE. you know, the place on the other side of the door and pile of Mnt. Dew cans? I think you have problems my friend. Its great to play games (even a lot), but its a whole new can of beans when you start doing stuff like fantisizing going on a date in your video games..


2 words..
get
help.

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Why? Lighten up.

As for strange things, I seem to be a bit of an explorer. I got the winterspring flightpoint in WoW at level 42, IIRC, and I've swam from the Thandol Span to Swamp of Sorrows. In my defence I was half-heartedly reading a book simultaneously.

I absolutely spam observers / spy drones / whatever in RTS games, too.

I shoot fireballs at every single table and bookshelf in Oblivion just to watch the stuff get blown all to hell.

When playing a shooter like Hitman I have to break every thing that even resembles glass. I shoot every window, monitor, screen, lamp, exit sign, headlight, police light, lamp post, and street light in the game. As a result my stage times are really long.

In rollercoaster tycoon i made a rollercoaster that just sent everybody into a fiery inferno.

dx2 said:

run up to random people in IF or SW drop a /sexy /dance on them with my female gnome warrior.

The funniest part is people usually play along.

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Exciting, lol.

riot8ap said:

In rollercoaster tycoon i made a rollercoaster that just sent everybody into a fiery inferno.

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i do the same thing, but instead of fires, i make 50 buck to ride a ride going in to a lake. hehehe

i goof off in almost every game, most notably WoW just for the fact that there is so much useless shit to explore. everyone loves trying to find awesome areas that nobody else has been around.

others would be in cs buying a para and just going to town holding down the trigger and hitting whatever ran in front of me...

Oblivion: I drag corpses around for no apaprent reason. I mean literally drag them around the streets. I even go as far as propping them up against buildings with a goblet or something like a hobo does in NY then I stand back and laugh at how funny it looks when people walk by them and stare. I say things like: Spare any change?"

Obliivon: I beat the crap out of that one guy in the tavern (you know Maglir) the pansy who quit the thieves guild because of Fallen Rock or something like that. I'll knock him around the tavern and laugh when he gets up and says: "Well met!!" and I hit him again and say to the screen, "What now bitch?" Or I'll rob him and when he catches me I smack him with my swor d or shoot him with a fireball.

I also like to break stuff in other FPSs that resembles glass. I also like to shoot walls and stuff because of the particle effects or I'll write words or make smiley faces on walls with mounted MGs with unlimited ammo.

Fly outta bounds in BF2 with a loaded UH60

Fly to the top of the allowable ceiling level in BF1942, then drop out of the plane and listen to my guy scream and shit his pants before he crushes into a heap....

Coldtronius said:

Fly to the top of the allowable ceiling level in BF1942, then drop out of the plane and listen to my guy scream and shit his pants before he crushes into a heap....

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The highest I've ever been to in BF2 was a 650 scale feet. I've often wondered what the allowable in game ceiling was.

I occasionally just walk slowly through Oblivion, and try to find every location to mark on the map. Spend hours and hours just walking to see everything, enjoying the music. Yeah, I love doing that In Red Faction, I used to try and blow up every single part of the landscape..

join a ff server in css and pump mfers in the back of the head.
If they're camping spawn and awping with a 19-0 record its even more fun.

Hynox.Rain said:

In zelda : oot, I would go near the shadow temple... pretending I was contemplating killing myself, because I had been burdened with a terrible face.

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wtf

Hynox.Rain said:

Do the new games allow for creativity like this?

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creativity?

For some reason, in single-player RTSs I generally end up hell-bent on global deforestation...

In just about all my racing games when I was in last place I would feel that the front pack were trying hard to keep me from getting the boss (first place). And as I would move up in places the cars would get harder and harder to get past and that the "gang" of cars got mad as I moved up in position. lol

I used to pretend and imagine a lot of things whilst playing N64 and SNES. I think it was an advantage to think like that when playing those games while being a youngin.

In Live for Speed, an online racing sim, I would make it a point to ruin every single race by not breaking at the first corner and slamming into everybody

last time me and some mates got together with the pcs, we got rly bored so fired up oblivion on someones comp and killed heaps of guards, stripped them naked and piled them up

we may also have been going partially insane from boredom at the time

aynway: here are the screens

I'll get on Halo 2 and go attack random barrels... and on containment I'll send the barrels through the bounce portal things... and push them over again... and watch them fly up and down and up and down.

I'll play splinter cell and not use any bullets.. just straight up hand to hand... or grab the first guy i find and walk around with him for a bit XD.

In RCT, when I used to play. I would get bored and pick up my workers and drown them in the water ^_^.

In driv3r I'll shoot something and then wait for the cops to show up and kill them all over and over and over and over and over again.

In Morrowind I would run up to random people and try to kite them into other cities . That was always quite fun .

well towards the end of the days of tribes 2 i became so bored and frustrated with the game and the endless amounts of uneven games where it was always one team totally raping the other.. i was on a team we were losing terribly and the opposing team were just being aholes about it, so i quit, changed my nick, rejoined, and joined the opposite team.. then all i did for the rest of the game was plant satchel packs (which were basically large remotely triggerable c4-type explosives) all around key parts of their base, especially the generator room.. they had no idea they had a traitor on their team cause i was sneaking around their base but it was fun to get some revenge on them.. I know it's not cool to tk or anything but there are sometimes situations where the opposing team is being such shits that you stop caring and want to get some fun revenge on them Besides, that's the only game I've tk'ed in, mostly because that satchel explosion was so massive it made it fun just setting it off all the time

lloose said:

Dear god.. if you are doing this, you need some serious help. GET OUTSIDE. you know, the place on the other side of the door and pile of Mnt. Dew cans? I think you have problems my friend. Its great to play games (even a lot), but its a whole new can of beans when you start doing stuff like fantisizing going on a date in your video games..


2 words..

get

help.

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Sorry, this was about 8 years ago or so, when I was just 10. I had the biggest crush on a girl, and I used to pretend all this stuff to try and build up my confidence to talk to her. We ended up going out. I thank pilotwings! JJ, but it was fun anyway, thinking back on the strange things I used to do.

Used to have an old version of NASCAR Racing (~1998?) where you could turn off car damage for your car only. And then drive around the track backwards until you win by default as the last man standing .

lol I was just thinking I'd never done anything this weird, but then I saw the WoW comments...

Was in IF bank once, was 4am and I couldn't sleep. I sat awake thinking about different stuff for awhile, but didn't realize I had been idly mashing the jump key the whole time. So for about a half hour straight, I'd been hopping nonstop. I'd never have noticed it if someone hadn't whispered me, "Dude, how long have you been doing that?? Freaking weirdo!"

I've done alot of weird stuff in WoW, it's more fun when you have an audience. ;]

I ran a lvl 5 alliance alt all the way to Orgrimmar to try and kill duelers. It didn't work, so I made alot of annoying macros and shadowmelded out of sight and spammed the area will /yells. I took my main to the auction house in Org, put on a pink dress, died, and put on my AFK tag.

Me and this super-epic mage took off all visible clothing items, put on dresses, and ran around killing people. Nothing is funnier than getting 2-shotted by a gnome in a dress.

For those of you who don't know, WoW has a binding system for items, all magical items bind to you after use, and some bind upon pickup. So basically, there are a few epic items you can sell, but almost everything good binds on pickup. The text on the item will show this, but chinese farmers aren't so great at reading. A horde friend of mine kept getting ganked by 2 rogues while he was trying to get some cash, so he asked me if I could convince them to leave. I tried to talk to them, but neither of them spoke english and I couldn't get them to understand what I was saying. I was about to apologize to my friend, when an idea struck me. I linked him one of my soulbound epic items and said, "5g you buy ok?"

He was on the far side of the world, with his hearthstone on cooldown. His hearthstone was on cooldown, but that wasn't going to stop him. Believing he was practically stealing this item from me, I got him to fly all the way from Silithus to Stormwind to pick it up. The flight must have took him 20 minutes, and he had to fly all the way back after I put him on ignore and /danced with him. My friend was easily able to finish off the remaining rogue, and resume his money making.

lol great thread. Thought i was a weirdo or something. In Zelda 3 i used to go to the little bridge that you could walk under (there was a campfire and some dude i think) and just sit there "relaxing" when i got frustrated with playing.

In driving games (especailly midtown madness 2) i used to just drive real slow at the speed limit and pretend to park at people houses and shit.

My weirdness has a more dangerous bent frequently. Like in Diablo 2 playing a Paladin I will have this strange need to use no potion when I have prayer and regen items. I will run myself to nothing in the health dept. Then hide in a corner and watch my health slowly inch back up. Potions are so cheap! Why do I do this? Couldn't tell you. Or on Civ4 I will refuse to make paltry warriors, instead I will run for Iron in the tech tree and leave cities dangerously undefended so I do not have to upgrade anyone, I want all swordsmen dammit! So I run around with that single default warrior trying to defend wayyyyyy too many cities. I should make cheap archers, but I don't. Doesn't make sense but for whatever reason I gain tremendous satisfaction from pulling it off. Finally in RTS games, WC3 for instance, I will play a skirmish game and not start with anything other then a single peasant. It takes forever to build that first stronghold and puts you way behind, but I insist on it anyhow. Then I build only infrastructure and chase upgrades all the while my dangerously undefended base beckons to the enemy. Yeah brain dead.

great thread, cos we've all been there! hehe.

morrowind: i have a table in morrowind with SO MANY drugs and booze bottles and skooma pipes it could fell an elephant oasis roadie


i also had a cupboard full of NPC's who asked for me to escort them somewhere... i just made a lock 100 spell and added them to the cupboard with the last idiot who asked me for an escort hehe.

oblivion: on a similar theme, but more satisfying, this benirus dude sells you a f***ed up manor for 5k and skips off into the sunset. so i installed mods for a castle with a lockable dungeon and a spell to recruit NPC's and bingo! he's in prison forever (i stole his posh clothes and gave him a ring of burden) - the best bit is that every so often hostile rats spawn in his cell and attack him!


also i used the recruit mod to hijack all the fittest birds in the game and keep them in my castle bedroom. i can take their clothes off and they have a full nudity mod (sad i know) - they get along very well for a harem...


GTASA: motorbiking to the top of mount chiliad then picking up the parachute and bmxing off the mountain top (using the tourist information plaque as a ramp) - very hard to survive; motorbiking onto the car transporter and then getting off and sitting on it and riding it around town to see where it goes (esp when cope are chasing you); flying a jet as high as possible then skydiving and opening parachute as late as possible; stealing cars with passengers and then rolling out as it hurtles over a pier or off a high building

Call of Duty: I've been in a clan for about 18months and have too many tales on this. in one map me and the guys found a secret room so we found a CTF (capture the flag) server playing the map and a couple of us joined each team and took the enemy flags and ran in there. there were sofas, a bar, a gramophone playing german 40's songs, so we just put up our feet and chatted on teamspeak while the war raged pointlessly around us;
also trying to get under the map in every custom map - i load up a new map on our server then a gang of us go in there and it's a race to get under the map - done it on literally hundreds of maps;
we also had a sticky nades and satchels AWE mod and used to take it in turns sticking a lit satchel on each other and running headlong into an enemy bunker!
oh and jumping off of very high towers (the minas tirith map was good) and trying to land on your mate who is trying to catch you. it works 20% of the time, where you just bounce off them and hey no damage! but the other 80% it's "WHOAAAA strawberry jam dude! all over my boots"

BF2: spawn as specforces and put C4 on the bumpers of your dunebuggy then ram enemy tanks. I love spawning at the airfields and flying out to the enemy carrier and parachuting down to C4 the portacabin controlbox (endlessly)

Hitman: loads of fun stuff like going in unarmed and doing the whole game with found stuff (cleavers!) - i got particularly fond of the hotel one with the metal detectors: i even spelled out my tag with bodies

LMAO @ Egg....

Damn dude you've got this thing for locking people up. Maybe you should quit the Skooma and other drugs and seek some help. lol Thats awesome.

Wow... all these make me seem normal... >_<
In RTS' I used to pretend that the extra resources I gathered at the end of each level helped the "cause" and went to funding troops fighting in other battles

Black Horse Courier - read all about it!

Shocking news: Emperor's secret bastard priest son caught with naked married chick while town of kvatch burns around him!

Brother Martin of Akatosh (the holy priest long-lost-son of the emperor, voiced by Sean Bean no less) was seen this morning emerging scratched and happy from Sigrid the Alchemist's tent in the emergency relief camp established to aid the refugees from Kvatch...


It later emerged that Brother Martin, long thought to be a hero of Oblivion and the primary target of the secret Mythic Dawn cult is in fact the head of the cult, pictured here with Brother Jauffre, head of the Blades, a faction dedicated to destroying the Dawn cult:


more news will follow...

eggbeast said:

It later emerged that Brother Martin, long thought to be a hero of Oblivion and the primary target of the secret Mythic Dawn cult is in fact the head of the cult, pictured here with Brother Jauffre, head of the Blades, a faction dedicated to destroying the Dawn cult...

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So that is why everyone was attacking him. When I finished the Battle for Bruma mission (the one where you have to close the Oblivion gate in 13 minutes before the seige engine gets to the city.) and reappeared outside all the NPCs were attacking Martin. Even Jauffre was attacking him. I figure Martin must have wacked one of the guards and the lame ass AI went hostile on him. It was funny seeing the guards yelling "For the Emporer!" and "Protect the Emporer!" while trying to kill him. Thankfully Martin is invincible and slaughtered them all

In Everquest... or any other game where people would do a /shout in the zone for strangers to help them transfer items from one character to another, i would do a /shout I'LL HELP YOU! Choose me! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! I'LL HELP YOU!

Has anyone allowed the seige engine to decimate the city? I may do that just to see what happens.