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?
When I played Planetside 2, if nobody in my outfit was playing, one of my favorite things to do was go on a “sniper hike” as I called it. Instead of going to my faction’s frontline (the game has 3 faction’s fighting in a free-for-all), I would find the main frontline between the other 2 factions.
Once I found a good position, I’d pick a side, and start shooting - sometimes dealing enough damage one way or the other to significantly change the outcome of their battle. Or sometimes, getting 2 shots off and dying, wasting all the time I put into getting there.