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Doing it wrong.
harvest
By birthright,a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
By birthright,a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
I want to hear examples of playing games the wrong way 
Like, for instance, the last time my brother and I played through Secret of Mana we totally forgot to upgrade our equipment at like half of the towns where you can do so. When we got to the risen continent we were really struggling, getting one- or two-shotted, using up tons of healing items and magic, just really having a hard time. After the boss we saw the shop guy, feeling totally retarded and badass at the same time.
Another was Privateer. I played that game so hard when I was a teen but I refused to work for the pirates, cause pirates are bad 'mmmkay? I never finished the game because of t his. Only later did I learn about the serious perks that you get for working for them, not to mention forwarding the plot. What a retard I was.
Like, for instance, the last time my brother and I played through Secret of Mana we totally forgot to upgrade our equipment at like half of the towns where you can do so. When we got to the risen continent we were really struggling, getting one- or two-shotted, using up tons of healing items and magic, just really having a hard time. After the boss we saw the shop guy, feeling totally retarded and badass at the same time.
Another was Privateer. I played that game so hard when I was a teen but I refused to work for the pirates, cause pirates are bad 'mmmkay? I never finished the game because of t his. Only later did I learn about the serious perks that you get for working for them, not to mention forwarding the plot. What a retard I was.
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More seriously, not base rushing the AI in almost any Mythic RTS.
Oh, playing Splinter Cell 1 and not knowing that LT held your breath for sniper shots. Got REAL good at anticipating the sway of the gun and memorizing the guard's patrol.
200 Terran Marines
400 Zerglings
UR DOIN' IT WRONG!
Pretty much every stealth game I've gone and butchered anyone I can. I don't know why, I know the entire point of the game is to remain undetected but I just love doing it.
Playing on the other team than flippy in TF2.
Im really bad at any game that gives you limited supplies of items, potions, magic wands, grenades ect ect. I will almost always save them up until the last boss...whereupon I will use like 2.
I don't know why. It's like a mental block.
No, I think that focusing exclusively on the main quest of Oblivion would be doing it wrong.
My buddy attempted that the first time he played Medieval: Total War. He was surprised when his full stack of peasants was routed and crushed by a few units of enemy spearmen.
Anyway, an example of mine is attempting to beat Baldur's Gate without wands and other items. Its not possible.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
Man what? Scouting in CS was proof of skills.
I keep doing that in starcraft. I can't get my head around building anything beyond zerglings and hydralisks.
My school has starcraft lan set up, and I keep building Zerglings only to be wasted by marines early on.
I have a reputation.
I'm playing through Vegas 2 now, using a pistol almost exclusively. It's fun as hell. :^:
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that didn't last too long.
Take for example: Halo.
Beat the entire game without realizing that R and L blocked. I thought they were just to pull in those powerups.
The first one, sure. It sucks balls in 3.
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We used to do a lot of little things like that. For example, all of us on Terrorist side on a hostage map like Assault back before Source was even a thought. We would all stack ontop of each others heads with pump shotguns. Making a giant pump shotgun totem pole. Then if anyone walked in, they would get four or five quick pumps.
It was actually more fun when it backfired. The opposing team killing us through the wall or throwing like three Flashbangs in at once.
Frankly, I still don't think I nailed the mechanics of the game.
Holy shit, I'm doing that too. I started it on Realistic just for fun to see how far I could get using just the glock. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do when I have to
I'm pretty sure that's just called 'griefing'
At the end of the night, everyone was chanting "Bubble!" during those sections.
I'm stealing that one.
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
Another thing I realized I never do is use anything that gives me a temporary boost. If it's not permanent I probably won't bother with it. All sorts of buffs and things in RPGs go unused, even if they would benefit me greatly I normally just don't bother.
I hate them. Because I never use them. And then I just waste them, because I never use them.
Also I play RTSs the wrong way. I turtle, but I don't just generic turtle. Oh no I make sure my base is the perfect defensive structure before pushing out at all. Like I don't just fortify, and then start building units and stay defensive. By the end of a SupCom game my island or section of land will be flat out covered in heavy shield generators and turrets. And hell, when I do go on offensive? I drop in SACUs and have them build a giant shield/turret grid and either firebase up the map or use that platform to make units for the real offensive.
I play RTSs like they're city builders. With shields.
Everything equipped to Squall, pretty much. No GFs, spells or upgraded weapons for anyone else.
This is why I fail super hard at Splinter Cell. Never finished it.
I get paranoid that if someone isn't unconscious or dead, they'll come up behind me later in the level.