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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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[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't play it any more, but the only thing I did for most of my time playing The Sims was cheat in money and design baller houses. Couldn't have given less of a shit about the Sims themselves.

[-] BigPotato@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'd argue that is a totally valid way of playing - half the game is designing homes after all. A quarter is doing the life sim thing and the other quarter is removing ladders from pools.

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