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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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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

In Super Sprint arcade, on the track below, once I get enough lead up on the 3rd or 4th lap, I would enter the red arrow 360 loop and then just keep spinning the steering-wheel left. This makes the car do 2-3 donuts around the loop, until going out of control backwards to explode into the barrier.

Always worth it.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That game is near impossible to control. The fact that you were able to get enough of a lead to do donuts* is just mind-blowing to me.

* - Or as I recently learned, in the Midwest they call this "whipping a shitty" which seems appropriate here.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You do need to back off the go-pedal in sharp corners, and occasionally turn in to a slide to cancel it.

The other thing is, you get about 3 easy to beat races, then the green car switches into crush-mode.