/v/ - Video Games

Not necessarily "challenges", but I almost always impose limitations on myself to increase immersion or challenge. Especially when there's items or upgrades that seem too strong, I just won't use them. I've done many runs in Terraria with special rules though.

I never cheese anything, and restart when I'm playing like shit.

I always play DOOM with no quicksaving besides one of two times:

>Before I want to check something that I know might kill me getting into a pool of acid for example

>At the start of th elevel.

I always do a fists only run of any game that will let me. I also used to use the worst weapon in the game in any multiplayer game just to piss off the other players. You'd be amazed how many people get mad at being killed by a peashooter or terrible shotgun/smg.

For some reason, I spent over half of my first Nioh playthrough as axe only, C agility.

I tried to do a zero souls spent run of Demon's Souls and got stuck on Maneater.

in certain games with character creation, I will only use weapons/gear/powers that are "in character" for the dude I made

sometimes I will go through the game with suboptimal stuff just out of sheer stubborness

Making sure most of the NPC troops are still alive at the end of the missions in EDF 4.1 and 5

>>16450230

What's Hitman Roulette?

Modern games have become such a joke that a self-imposed challenge is practically the only challenge.

Pokemon I play with no bought items, only what you find on the ground. And the "Set" battle style (no switching between turns). Doesn't make it terribly hard still, but at least there's no "Hyper Potion" spam on your overleveled starter.

Tried to beat Sekiro without buying any skills.

I failed.

>>16450194

The original release of the game has it that when you die you restart the level without any weapons

i dont normally play/like rhythm games but i noticed getting better at them made me alot better at certain games especially fighting games.

I usually try to do solo runs in party-based RPGs like Dungeon Siege for example if possible

>>16450144

>I've done many runs in Terraria with special rules though.

I wish Terraria was actually designed around a limited-lives system. I've successfully done an Expert Hardcore 1-life playthrough but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

>>16449948

Go back to reddit

>>16450827

This should be filtered to "I'm a fucking idiot", because it gets used seemingly randomly these days.

>>16449948

In any game with a jobsystem that lets you mix and match like FFT I like to limit myself to not use skills from the same jobs on more than one character to make my squad more unique

>>16449948

Is it really a self-imposed challenge if it's a built in game mode? Key word being self-imposed, at that point you could just about claim that different difficulty settings count as a self-imposed challenge.

Not exactly a challenge, but in any game with good customization or fleshed out world I try to build a character or loadout that is roleplaying at least a little bit. Basically, I hate min-maxing and try to avoid it at all times because it makes the game boring as fuck. Bad games, like newer Fallout games, will give you amazing gear from the get go that makes the whole game a snoozefest. I pirated FO4 and decided to walk around randomly. Within an hour I had 2 or 3 new power armor suits aside from the one you get for free at the start and I realized that I was finding enough fusion cores to continually use power armor while exploring. I decided to make a gear gallery out of that one storage room in the Minutemen base By the time I filled it and fitted the base out with electric lighting, radio, and a water treatment device, the game had lost all appeal. I guess you could say I am pretty good at avoiding things that turn the game into easy mode.

>>16451104

>Bad games, like newer Fallout games, will give you amazing gear from the get go that makes the whole game a snoozefest

Don't pretend like Fallout didn't have that problem too. The spectrum of equipment is a joke and you can get some of the best start right at the start of the game in the boneyard.

Making the game harder for yourself is masochistic, which is a subset of BDSM, which is degenerate and cuckoldry.

I'm doing a playthrough of Dark Souls 3 without using spells or roll (I'm using a program that separates roll from run). Killed Hodrick all 3 times and beat Pontiff so far. One of the most bullshit things so far is that the large hollows with bowls will slam me into the ground until I'm dead, because you're supposed to roll out of this combo.

I try to avoid using ;lelchristmastree-tier weapons&armor if possible even if im gimping myself simply because it allways make the character look like shit.

Too bad most games with gear become nigh imbossibru if you do that or at the very least tedious since the only toned down to earth looking neat stuff is starter gear.

>>16451203

>tying girls up and doing whatever you please with them is cuckoldry

>>16451145

True, but that required at least some minimal amount of effort and it can be ignored easily enough if you want a challenge. I'm talking about "Hey there friend, looks like you've been walking around for two minutes, how about an abandoned suit of power armor?" Shit is absurd.

>>16451203

Games which can be minmaxed or cheesed easily have a dominant strategy and are objectively poorly designed. These are standards that were set before video games were even invented.

>>16451294

>>16451278

Come on, why would you respond seriously to that

>>16451297

The point of arguing on the internet is never to convince the person you are talking to but to inform spectators, or purely for sport.

>>16451104

I do this too, but whatever my theme or character is I minmax the shit out of

if I just did general minmaxing I would have the same character as everyone else AND it would be easy, but if I say… minmax for something retarded like the striking damage on a magic staff, then its both kind of hard, a little unique, and catches people off gaurd in multiplayer games too

>>16449948

In Deus Ex Human Revolution, save Malik without being detected, without any upgrades, non-lethal, stun gun only.

The escalation missions in Hitman 2016 are pretty good.

>>16452057

>The escalation missions in Hitman 2016 are pretty good.

I disliked their autism with each having 5 levels where 2-3 of the difficulties were filler before the main challenge.