/vr/ - Retro Games

No, nobody does. It's not like they invented a genre of video game just for that because it got so popular. You are the only person in the world to mess around in a game.

>>1341801
Point of this thread was for others to post the things that they did.

Should have known the autism brigade would set in and nitpick over word choice instead of trying to actually contribute to a thread.

>>1341801
genre? which genre?

>>1341812

he means sandbox games im assuming

anyway yeah, mario 64 is a big culprit. mario is ridiculously fun to control in that game so i usually run around and do cool parkour shit rather than looking for stars

>>1341787
I've spent hours and hours just jumping and swimming around in Ecco. Sometimes I have painstakingly gone though and perma-killed every enemy in some of the earlier levels like Vents or the Lagoon and then just splashed about for ages.

Another favorite is the Savanna in Jurassic Park Rampage Eiditon. I'd just race back and forth with the raptor as fas as he could run and marvel in all those layers of parallax. Good times, very good times!

But of course! Same things as you, but morso the koopa shell in the lava level.

The only other one I can think of is propping the training room door open in Perfect Dark and going around the Carrington Institute with the Slayer's missile.

>>1341863
I really like playing as Zora Link in MM and just swimming around the ocean and jumping in and out of the water like a dolphin might.

>>1341863
>Ecco

That game was borring to me.

i think the classic example of this is beating the shit out of the chickens in zelda link to the past

>>1342101
Watch Blueglass play it on YouTube.

>>1342021
Or throwing poison knives on the guy standing right outside the door in the training room.

>>1342021
That reminds me. In one mission I used to kill the [IMPORTANT GUY ON THE PLANE] instead of doing the mission. I'd take out all of his security then make my way to him.

I'd also "take over" the Pond Punk bar in the Chicago level and pretend it was my gang hideout or something.

Did anyone else feel that the Pond Punk was a comfy little area in an otherwise dingy area?

In first siphon filter kill all the light.
In red alert, build prisons for my army.
In driver chase random car.

i used to turn on infinite ammo in goldeneye and make giant stacks of remote mines that extended like 15 feet off of walls.

and not retro, but i really like killing everyone in a town in new vegas, putting all the bodies into a dumpster with a bunch of c4, and making blood and limbs launch straight up and rain down over everything.

>>1341787
I do. It's a great way to find hidden stuff and hone your skills. Sometimes you find ways to reach areas you aren't supposed to until later in the game. Grinding for 5 minutes there can be equivalent to grinding for 2 hours at where you're supposed to be.

>Boot up F-Zero X
>Practice novice X cup
>Keep going back to settings until I get a nice smooth track
>Get a massive lead over the cpu
>Cruise around the course without boost
The best thing to calm down with sometimes

>>1342193
I did this but to make tripmine mazes in Duke Nukem 3D. Those things were fun. Also used to have fun sniping the birds in OOT Desert Colossus.

>>1341787

In Baldur's Gate 2 there's a thieves guild concealed in the back rooms of a shop. The shopkeeper's name is Gorch.

At a certain point in the game you are sent on a quest to massacre the thieves. As soon as you enter the shop, Gorch turns "hostile" and a bunch of thieves appear and attack you. Now here's the thing, Gorch is a hostile but has no method of attack and simply wanders about vaguely avoiding you.

After I've exterminated all the thieves I let Gorch live since he was incapable of harming my party and just wandered about his shop. You can't talk to him so I decided to use him as a gimp that my party could use as a punch bag without fear of loss of reputation. To my knowledge, there are no other enemies in the game that remain hostile but can't flee or attack (happy to be informed I'm wrong)

every now and then when my party is in the docks district I take them into the shop and torture Gorch. Usually by casting low level spells on him e.g. shocking grasp or blindness, then summon animals and set them on him. I always call them off just before he dies, heal him, then start again.

Or I get the weakest female party member to unequip all weapons and punch him into unconciousness. Then when he wakes up, cast terror on him and do it all over again.

>>1341787

I think you basically just described minecraft

In games like San Andreas or Saints Row, I'd just avoid doing plot missions for as long as possible, upping my funds, skills, stats, and weapons.

Yeah, then you walk through the game as if you were a god, but you get to take your time and not rush through areas that would be DOOM to a less-practiced player.

In Saints Row the Third, you can gain modest respect and SHITLOADS of money by doing knife-edge barnstorming between the antennas at the ends of the runways, as soon as you start the game. Doesn't do anything in Saints Row 4.

In San Andreas, I ALWAYS ride around on the bicycle before doing the first mission, running down drug dealers to get money and guns, and then when I have enough to buy the cheapest house, I get it, and use that as my base of operations to clean up the city. Shooting the tires of cars counts as headshots, which boosts your skill with a particular gun more than anything else. So you park a car in your garage, shoot the wheels (I think even if the tire is blown, it still counts for full effect) until the car is about to blow, then step back and let the door close. When it opens, the car is repaired. Repeat until you need more ammo, then save before going to get it.

Yeah, I guess those are grinding in games where you're not supposed to grind, but it passes the time.