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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)

submitted 1 day ago by Elevator7009@lemmy.zip to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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Stolen from myself 6 months ago at https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/35616522

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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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I spend a solid amount of time in RDR2 camping. I’ll go to town, gather some supplies, and head out in a random direction with no map.

Gather food as I go, hunt for game as I find it, craft supplies, and live off the land.

You can take multiple in-game days to get places and even better is choosing a mountain or similar in the distance and making that your destination.

You still come across plenty of side missions with this approach because of how much is going on in that game, but it feels quite genuine when you do.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 14 hours ago

One of my coworkers who's big on hunting and fishing in real life has almost exclusively been trying to 100% the hunting and fishing trophies on RDR2

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 11 points 1 day ago

I would argue this is an intended play style. They made camping and the natural world extremely detailed on purpose.