Oblivion: there are lots of videos of torturing the “Adoring Fan” that you get for becoming the Arena champion. It may seem sadistic, but on the other hand he keeps reviving and also you haven’t met him so you don’t know how annoying he is.
I remember those. I never got far, because I kept overthinking my planning, and I think I kept holding out trying to buy the earlier ones.
PvP server, so their fault. I actually remember something, I only played the early days, so maybe now not allowed. My friend was a Paladin, and along with a Priest he “befriended” a Horde guy (Forsaken warrior maybe?). Mind you, cross-faction players cannot chat as they speak different languages. He would escort him into town (I remember the Alliance Hillsbrad town), and watch him kill lowbies. When someone came to help out and the Horde guy was damaged enough, the Priest would mind control the horde guy (thus now an ally), allowing the Paladin to heal him to full. Lots of griefy fun.
In Morrowind, the Dark Elves are called “Dunmer” in their language. Well, there were semi-frequent typos, where characters would refer to them as “Dumners.” Someone I know roleplayed a Dunmer who would take offense at being called dumb and kill that person, damn the consequences.
In Oblivion, I would cast fury spells on the townspeople and try to get everyone in town fighting. You could get huge groups of people fighting each other and then summon in your own monsters to join the fight, just absolute chaos.
In AC 2, The minstrels served the same purpose as the crazy homeless in AC 1. When they blocked my path, I’d grab them by the lapels and head-butt them.
Has anyone ever played the Force Unleashed games and not spent way too much time flinging hapless stormtroopers against walls and ceilings, then giggling madly and tossing them off of walkways when no longer amused?
Dude, the OP specified “that you didn’t *have *to do”. What else am I supposed to do with ultimate physics control and non-threatening friendlies ? Come on.
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is, in various incarnations of Microsoft Flight Simulator, I have flown planes through the Statue of Liberty.
No, not “crashing into the Statue of Liberty” - flying through it. Appaerntly, in order to get the statue to be the correct color, it ends up being considered “sky” by the simulator, and you can go through it as if it is not there. Really early versions also let you fly into the insides of mountains, as “white” was also a fly-through color (otherwise you would crash into clouds), so you could enter a snow-capped mountain through the top, and the inside of the mountain was hollow. (Ironically, the World Trade Center towers were also white.)
First off, I don’t own any kind of home video game system. I never have. I played arcade games in my teen and college years, I’ve played a handful of PC games (mostly trivia related, but a few strategy games as well), but not many.
Video and computer games really haven’t been a big part of my life in decades. And even when I did play them, the bloody, first-person shooter type games never held much appeal for me.
That said, last Thanksgiving, when I was back home in NY, my brother and my two teenage nephews were trying out the latest Grant Theft Auto game they’d just gotten. They were playing it on the huge screen TV my family has in the basement.
All of us were constantly calling out advice and instructions to my brother, who had the controls. And after a while, we just told him to kill practically any character who stumbled into any scene. Annoying looking pedestrian nearby while you’re driving? Run her over! Dopey looking guy passing by, minding his own business, while you have a gun? Shoot him!
Hey, who told THEM to get in our way? Anyway, it’s not like thye were real.
It was a lot of fun for 15 minutes. But I didn’t stay around any lomger than that, and I felt no urge to get a game system of my own.
I figure there’s a particularly good reason you can’t attack most of the NPCs in towns, particularly all the little kids and vendors in WoW. The big pre-Wrath event where everybody got to infect everybody with the Plague demonstrated that…
In an early-90s RPG called something like “Escape from Hell,” you had two party slots that you could fill up with people you meet.
Given that it is Hell, none of the people you can get to join are all that virtuous, still, I think I probably could have selected a slightly more moral companion than Stalin.
I would mess around with the custom battles mechanic. I made an entire army of preachers and made them chant while I gave the enemy fire onagers, firing balls of fire at them killing hundreds at a time.
Back in Starcraft 1 I’d play 3v3 shared max money maps and backstab after we were about to win.
That is to say I would unally and then kill my team. I found this endlessly entertaining, the reactions from both sides were priceless. I still have a lot of replays and screenshot grabs. Sometimes if one player on either side was particularly competent I might feel bad and ally them instead of killing them off. Generally I’d kill my team’s army which would be bunched up in the other base then march back and kill their bases. If they were Zerg I’d send some guys to kill all their tech structures so they couldn’t make anything. It wasn’t always easy, especially if I was in the middle position and open to both sides, or if one of my partners actually knew what they were doing. Sometimes the post-backstab action took longer than the rest of the legitimate game.
Sometimes the former enemy team would try to rebuild while all this is going on and try to ally with either me or my beleaguered team mates, or sometimes they would remain on their own and it’d be a chaotic three way. From what I remember usually everyone allied against me, the rest of the time they’d want to be with me because they saw I was the best player and would probably win. I would usually give vision to the other team so they could enjoy the show, only taking it away if I thought they were up to something.
It was also fun to play the psych game and make people think someone else was the backstabber and that you were just defending yourself or you saw them preparing to backstab you and you just did a preemptive strike.
But the worst was when I would do this with a friend. If we were on the same team we wouldn’t backstab the third guy, that would be too low. But if we were on opposite teams as soon as it looked like one side would win the other would backstab and ally with the other and try to prevent them from being killed by both their former allies and (when they finally caught on) your former allies who are still streaming into the enemy base. Complete havoc and confusion. It was hardest to save the other friend if they were in the middle position. Terrans could fly away. When you really got whittled down we’d build a bunch of transport and try to rebuild in the other person’s base.
Find out the nukes have this slight problem with blast radius, I think I killed more friendly than enemy.
Again on the friendly fire route. Battlefield desert warfare had artillery, but you had to be in possession of the satellite transmitter, as it was side agnostic. So unless you could get off a fire mission inside a few seconds, some bastard was sneakin up behind you. So it was just better to target something and at worse you deny the arty strike to the opposition. Soookay, that’s six friends who are not talkin to me anymore.
Bad company 2, callin in a hellfire strike with the drone on a sniper with a really dialed in location. Something I was supposed to do , but I still felt bad, that was a good hide.
That reminds me of how in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City I would amuse myself by flying up to crowds in a helicopter and massacring them with the rotors.
There was also a spot with a respawning Molotov cocktail; I would amuse myself by setting swathes of people on fire, constantly running back to get refills, trying to see how long I could last against the incoming cops until I had to run for home base.
