I keep meaning to do a run of Metal Gear Solid 3 without changing camo at all. Because where is Snake keeping all of these uniforms? Which might not be all that hard since for most of the game you'd have Tiger Stripe which is a pretty good all-rounder.
Oblivion on the hardest difficulty setting is pure bullshit in the tutorial. Two rats and a zombie? A Mythic Dawn member? Fuck!
But if you tweak your skills just right before and after the tutorial, and abuse summons, you'll do just fine. I've (barely) passed the tutorial on "hardest", then I cranked it down a bit so I didn't have to be so paranoid.
Playing Oblivion purely outdoors is fun too, but since the best shit comes from caves anyway, it's not too bad. That's when you creep the difficulty up until archers are taking you out in one hit.
And I've beaten every possible part in Ratchet and Clank with just the wrench. There's a few flying enemies that you simply can't reach, but otherwise, I wrenched 'em all.
Oblivion on the hardest difficulty setting is pure bullshit in the tutorial. Two rats and a zombie? A Mythic Dawn member? Fuck!
But if you tweak your skills just right before and after the tutorial, and abuse summons, you'll do just fine. I've (barely) passed the tutorial on "hardest", then I cranked it down a bit so I didn't have to be so paranoid.
Playing Oblivion purely outdoors is fun too, but since the best shit comes from caves anyway, it's not too bad. That's when you creep the difficulty up until archers are taking you out in one hit.
And I've beaten every possible part in Ratchet and Clank with just the wrench. There's a few flying enemies that you simply can't reach, but otherwise, I wrenched 'em all.
See when I try to do the hardest difficulty on Oblivion, I end up ultimately reverse handicapping myself and in the end it doesn't work. Make your skills so that you'll never accidentally level up, but you can control it, or certain level ups won't happen often. Then eventually you have 100 spell casting and combat skills at level 5.
Oblivion on the hardest difficulty setting is pure bullshit in the tutorial. Two rats and a zombie? A Mythic Dawn member? Fuck!
But if you tweak your skills just right before and after the tutorial, and abuse summons, you'll do just fine. I've (barely) passed the tutorial on "hardest", then I cranked it down a bit so I didn't have to be so paranoid.
Playing Oblivion purely outdoors is fun too, but since the best shit comes from caves anyway, it's not too bad. That's when you creep the difficulty up until archers are taking you out in one hit.
And I've beaten every possible part in Ratchet and Clank with just the wrench. There's a few flying enemies that you simply can't reach, but otherwise, I wrenched 'em all.
See when I try to do the hardest difficulty on Oblivion, I end up ultimately reverse handicapping myself and in the end it doesn't work. Make your skills so that you'll never accidentally level up, but you can control it, or certain level ups won't happen often. Then eventually you have 100 spell casting and combat skills at level 5.
Mass Effect - No stat increases, starting equipment only, Insanity.
How, New Game+?
play through the game several times raising it up to insanity without increasing stats?
Once you've unlocked the hardest difficulty you can play a regular new game on it. It's not some big complicated thing.
Just start at level one, and then never raise the stats of you or anyone in your team. It's actually interesting because it's probably the only run in which I had Kaiden in my team all the way up until the end game.
Damn, man, that sounds like a chore; the starting guns are terrible, and no stat increases?
I imagine tears were shed over Matriarch Benezia.
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No magic runs in Diablo - meaning no magic weapons, armor, rings, amulets, health potions, or mana potions. I did use town portal scrolls for sanity's sake. Diablo 2's gameplay didn't seem to allow for that.
Darkstone had a bug that destroyed the durability of any items in your possession between saves, so I learned out to play that with no worn gear and an indestructible 2 handed sword. This transfers over nicely to Loki and its axe-wielding Viking.
Mythos' short time allowed me to play the purely naked pyro mage. Nothing but boxer shorts and spells.
Titan Quest's challenge was no magic pure strength golf. The goal was to see how far I could launch monsters with my common mace.
I absolutely loved the original Diablo, and my joy of the game was more or less defined by playing the different variant styles that evolved from the community.
Since Diablo was a very easy game (and contained bugs that allowed you to more or less break it) variant legit play was some of the only way to get a true challenge out of it.
Some of my personal favorite variants were, in no particular order: The Naked Mage, which as should be obvious is a mage class that uses no weapons or armor. Nothing is ever equipped. The Beyond Naked Mage, who goes a bit further and only wears CURSED gear. The SNOB, a character of any class who can only equip unique items, and can only cast 'unique' spells (the strange spells, like guardian, elemental, bone spirit, etc)
And then there was what has already been mentioned, Iron Man. This almost always revolved around team play, and one iron man session could be saved and take many days to complete. I'll reiterate what the rules were: Everyone creates a new character, usually a three person team of a warrior/rogue/mage. You then all go down into the dungeon, and never come back up. All floors must be cleared completely, only items available for use are those found along the way. No respawning in town if you die. This meant you had to play together as a team, carefully budget your health and mana potions, as well as your spell usage, and if you died, then you better hope someone has a scroll of resurrect. You also better hope you weren't the one carrying it.
Oblivion on the hardest difficulty setting is pure bullshit in the tutorial. Two rats and a zombie? A Mythic Dawn member? Fuck!
But if you tweak your skills just right before and after the tutorial, and abuse summons, you'll do just fine. I've (barely) passed the tutorial on "hardest", then I cranked it down a bit so I didn't have to be so paranoid.
Playing Oblivion purely outdoors is fun too, but since the best shit comes from caves anyway, it's not too bad. That's when you creep the difficulty up until archers are taking you out in one hit.
And I've beaten every possible part in Ratchet and Clank with just the wrench. There's a few flying enemies that you simply can't reach, but otherwise, I wrenched 'em all.
See when I try to do the hardest difficulty on Oblivion, I end up ultimately reverse handicapping myself and in the end it doesn't work. Make your skills so that you'll never accidentally level up, but you can control it, or certain level ups won't happen often. Then eventually you have 100 spell casting and combat skills at level 5.
I'm not sure what you mean.
Because the level system is so broken to hell in oblivion I started changing the way my character was built so that I would be able to be stupid powerful without a second thought.
Whenever I try to play Oblivion with difficulty ramped up, I just get frustrated the fuck out over it, and end up building my character so that it's basically cheating the system anyways.
My self-limitation in Oblivion is to create a character that isn't cheating the system and actually play through with their class.
I usually do no-death runs. Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3, Izuna, Shiren. Others I can't remember. Die once in game. Restart game at beginning. I'm thinking about doing a no-death, no-faint Monster Hunter Freedom Unite character.
I remember once in Fallout 3, I was like level 12-14 and I tried to jump up onto the edge of the highway by the abandoned car fort, to look down. Fell to my death. God, I was pissed.
Every Mirror's Edge run is a Test of Faith for me. There is no other way to play it. I've also gotten the "Out of the Blue" achievement on the XBLA port of Portal, where you play through the whole game only entering orange portals. I might have gone through on a blue-only run as well, I don't really remember.
I played Morrowind using almost no scrolls or potions. Admittedly, that's more down to my "I might need them more later!" mentality than imposing my own limitations.
I played Indiana Jones and the Xbox Game of Forgotten the Title using only the gun Indy started with and what he could pick up and use in melee, on Hard difficulty. Made the game a lot more like the movies, with Indy being on the back foot almost the entire time.
Oh hey, one of these threads. Been a while since the last
Anyways, the only time I've ever done this is with FFX, in which I did a No Sphere Grid, No Summon, No Overdrive, No Escape, No Non-Encounters, No Blitzball run.
Did... did you beat it?
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I once tried playing through Megaman X4 with a DDR pad. I didn't get very far, since I could only move and jump.
And, as mentioned previously, the MGS games have a lot of room for crazy runs. This guy here did a Foxhound run of MGS3 with no equipment (or shirt), while this guy(nico nico account required) plays wearing only the monkey mask and tuxedo.
I've played through Resident Evil 4 using only the Chicago Typewriter. I know, I'm hardcore.
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I do have a flawless record with the few rounds I played Super Mario Kart battle mode with either
a) my half of the screen covered up or
b) playing with one hand
my friends imposed limits on me in goldeneye. I could only play as Jaws, and I had to use only the klobb, a knife, or hands, depending on what weapon set we were using.
I peaked at video game skill in the N64 days, I was basically unbeatable in quite a few games, by my friends, even 3vs1 Goldeneye, Man with a golden gun, I could only play with the hand chop. I still won. Nobody ever beat me at Mario Kart 64 after awhile, no matter what character I used, or map.
But now I suck at games. So my self imposed limits these days are "Play the game without looking up cheatcodes and/or downloading other peoples saves."
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my friends imposed limits on me in goldeneye. I could only play as Jaws, and I had to use only the klobb, a knife, or hands, depending on what weapon set we were using.
I peaked at video game skill in the N64 days, I was basically unbeatable in quite a few games, by my friends, even 3vs1 Goldeneye, Man with a golden gun, I could only play with the hand chop. I still won. Nobody ever beat me at Mario Kart 64 after awhile, no matter what character I used, or map.
But now I suck at games. So my self imposed limits these days are "Play the game without looking up cheatcodes and/or downloading other peoples saves."
Klobb? Oh good lord.
And man, that Mass Effect challenge? I'm sure Krogan Warlords were very fun to face. Especially that one part in Virmire where it's two Krogan warriors, a warlord, and the two geth ghosts. It probably took you days to kill one, heh.
my friends imposed limits on me in goldeneye. I could only play as Jaws, and I had to use only the klobb, a knife, or hands, depending on what weapon set we were using.
I peaked at video game skill in the N64 days, I was basically unbeatable in quite a few games, by my friends, even 3vs1 Goldeneye, Man with a golden gun, I could only play with the hand chop. I still won. Nobody ever beat me at Mario Kart 64 after awhile, no matter what character I used, or map.
But now I suck at games. So my self imposed limits these days are "Play the game without looking up cheatcodes and/or downloading other peoples saves."
Klobb? Oh good lord.
And man, that Mass Effect challenge? I'm sure Krogan Warlords were very fun to face. Especially that one part in Virmire where it's two Krogan warriors, a warlord, and the two geth ghosts. It probably took you days to kill one, heh.
I will admit that I permitted myself weapon, armor, and grenade mods (along with buying the Grenade and Medi-gel booster packs.
I never used any sort of Healing Touch in any of the Trauma Centre games
no way did you complete them
I did!
I mean, this isn't counting the levels that are basically HOLY SHIT I HAVE A SUPER POWER operations that make you use them, but any time it was voluntary I didn't.
my friends imposed limits on me in goldeneye. I could only play as Jaws, and I had to use only the klobb, a knife, or hands, depending on what weapon set we were using.
I peaked at video game skill in the N64 days, I was basically unbeatable in quite a few games, by my friends, even 3vs1 Goldeneye, Man with a golden gun, I could only play with the hand chop. I still won. Nobody ever beat me at Mario Kart 64 after awhile, no matter what character I used, or map.
But now I suck at games. So my self imposed limits these days are "Play the game without looking up cheatcodes and/or downloading other peoples saves."
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But if you tweak your skills just right before and after the tutorial, and abuse summons, you'll do just fine. I've (barely) passed the tutorial on "hardest", then I cranked it down a bit so I didn't have to be so paranoid.
Playing Oblivion purely outdoors is fun too, but since the best shit comes from caves anyway, it's not too bad. That's when you creep the difficulty up until archers are taking you out in one hit.
And I've beaten every possible part in Ratchet and Clank with just the wrench. There's a few flying enemies that you simply can't reach, but otherwise, I wrenched 'em all.
See when I try to do the hardest difficulty on Oblivion, I end up ultimately reverse handicapping myself and in the end it doesn't work. Make your skills so that you'll never accidentally level up, but you can control it, or certain level ups won't happen often. Then eventually you have 100 spell casting and combat skills at level 5.
I'm not sure what you mean.
Damn, man, that sounds like a chore; the starting guns are terrible, and no stat increases?
I imagine tears were shed over Matriarch Benezia.
No magic runs in Diablo - meaning no magic weapons, armor, rings, amulets, health potions, or mana potions. I did use town portal scrolls for sanity's sake. Diablo 2's gameplay didn't seem to allow for that.
Darkstone had a bug that destroyed the durability of any items in your possession between saves, so I learned out to play that with no worn gear and an indestructible 2 handed sword. This transfers over nicely to Loki and its axe-wielding Viking.
Mythos' short time allowed me to play the purely naked pyro mage. Nothing but boxer shorts and spells.
Titan Quest's challenge was no magic pure strength golf. The goal was to see how far I could launch monsters with my common mace.
Since Diablo was a very easy game (and contained bugs that allowed you to more or less break it) variant legit play was some of the only way to get a true challenge out of it.
Some of my personal favorite variants were, in no particular order: The Naked Mage, which as should be obvious is a mage class that uses no weapons or armor. Nothing is ever equipped. The Beyond Naked Mage, who goes a bit further and only wears CURSED gear. The SNOB, a character of any class who can only equip unique items, and can only cast 'unique' spells (the strange spells, like guardian, elemental, bone spirit, etc)
And then there was what has already been mentioned, Iron Man. This almost always revolved around team play, and one iron man session could be saved and take many days to complete. I'll reiterate what the rules were: Everyone creates a new character, usually a three person team of a warrior/rogue/mage. You then all go down into the dungeon, and never come back up. All floors must be cleared completely, only items available for use are those found along the way. No respawning in town if you die. This meant you had to play together as a team, carefully budget your health and mana potions, as well as your spell usage, and if you died, then you better hope someone has a scroll of resurrect. You also better hope you weren't the one carrying it.
Because the level system is so broken to hell in oblivion I started changing the way my character was built so that I would be able to be stupid powerful without a second thought.
Whenever I try to play Oblivion with difficulty ramped up, I just get frustrated the fuck out over it, and end up building my character so that it's basically cheating the system anyways.
My self-limitation in Oblivion is to create a character that isn't cheating the system and actually play through with their class.
I remember once in Fallout 3, I was like level 12-14 and I tried to jump up onto the edge of the highway by the abandoned car fort, to look down. Fell to my death. God, I was pissed.
no way did you complete them
there's harder i'm sure
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I played Indiana Jones and the Xbox Game of Forgotten the Title using only the gun Indy started with and what he could pick up and use in melee, on Hard difficulty. Made the game a lot more like the movies, with Indy being on the back foot almost the entire time.
Did... did you beat it?
And, as mentioned previously, the MGS games have a lot of room for crazy runs. This guy here did a Foxhound run of MGS3 with no equipment (or shirt), while this guy(nico nico account required) plays wearing only the monkey mask and tuxedo.
a) my half of the screen covered up or
b) playing with one hand
I peaked at video game skill in the N64 days, I was basically unbeatable in quite a few games, by my friends, even 3vs1 Goldeneye, Man with a golden gun, I could only play with the hand chop. I still won. Nobody ever beat me at Mario Kart 64 after awhile, no matter what character I used, or map.
But now I suck at games. So my self imposed limits these days are "Play the game without looking up cheatcodes and/or downloading other peoples saves."
Klobb? Oh good lord.
And man, that Mass Effect challenge? I'm sure Krogan Warlords were very fun to face. Especially that one part in Virmire where it's two Krogan warriors, a warlord, and the two geth ghosts. It probably took you days to kill one, heh.
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I will admit that I permitted myself weapon, armor, and grenade mods (along with buying the Grenade and Medi-gel booster packs.
A little careful planning goes a long way.
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I did!
I mean, this isn't counting the levels that are basically HOLY SHIT I HAVE A SUPER POWER operations that make you use them, but any time it was voluntary I didn't.
This wasn't so much a self-imposed limitation as "too damn easy to find people w/ the radar on".
We also used to split it between two TVs and cover the other team's side of the screen up with a sheet of paper.
Same here... miss those days