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Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? (lemmy.zip)
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Stolen from myself 6 months ago at https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/35616522

I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in Hitman were, and that they'd just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.

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[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Forgot to mention, back then we would optimize fps for refresh rate. 120Hz CRT monitors with 120 fps constant was the sweet spot for a while (until people started playing in multitudes of 60 fps on LED-based displays). It's entirely possible that if your fps is not optimal, you can't clear larger gaps or gain as much momentum in QW/Q3/CPMA or similar.

I've never played HLDM or CS, so I'm not that familiar with derivatives in those games.

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