I don’t mean Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom style “this game kind of asks to be broken and have its puzzles circumvented as a feature” stories, but more stuff like:
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playing GTA while obeying all the traffic rules
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playing Fortnite as a pacifist like in that one John Green youtube series on Hank Green’s gaming channel
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a group inventing its own rules within a multiplayer game
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driving around the race track backwards
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collecting all the cabbages in skyrim and storing them in your house and having that be the only goal you care about
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playing single player games as multiplayer ones
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playing games that aren’t in a language you speak, and trying to understand it and its story and mechanics
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playing a game with a wacky or unintended controls setup
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self-assigning extra goals, like achievement hunting in ye olden days before achievements/trophies in the modern sense were a thing
And anything else along those lines.
Or your own personal speedrunning stories, too, especially if they’re funny, even though speedrunning has become its own big meta-game thing at this point, so most speedrunning is speedrunning done correctly/as intended in a way. Have any of you done speedrunning “incorrectly” somehow?
I’ve done a no fast travel run in oblivion a while ago, it was a lot more fun than I was expecting and helps a ton with immersion. You get a much better feel for how all the cities connect together and eventually you find yourself relying on the map a lot less,plus the roads are much better designed than I thought they would be. One minor problem though, the second you go off road the experiance becomes a lot less… Polished and kind of feels like a cheap survival crafting game.