[Pirrip]

I've recently grown a fascination with plaything through video games in bizarre, unneccessary ways. Sometimes making the game harder than it has to be.

One example of a unique playthrough would be in Dead Space, where someone played through the whole game using no other weapon than the flamethrower--a weapon which uses fuel very quickly.

In Phantasy Star Universe and Zero, playing a Cast the mainly uses Technics and Force weapons is unique.

Or playing trying to play Fallout 3 without killing anyone(I'm pretty sure this is possible).

Or several JRPGs where you can set up every party member in the same role... like all healers, or all mages.


Have you played through any video games in an unconventional way?

[Shinji Kazuya]

Hmmm... Nope. I don't think I tried this before. I might have but I don't remember anymore.
Maybe in Resident Evil 4. Clearing the game with the Pistol only. But I don't really remember > <

[ashley50]

a playthrough of Metal Gear Solid 3 on Big Boss difficulty, no kills, no camo changing, no food eaten, never spotted, no equipment used and a Big Boss rank at the end.

[Pirrip]

Originally Posted by ashley50

a playthrough of Metal Gear Solid 3 on Big Boss difficulty, no kills, no camo changing, no food eaten, never spotted, no equipment used and a Big Boss rank at the end.

I knew someone was going to mention the Big Boss playthrough. XD I love that game!

[Blue-Hawk]

Originally Posted by Pirrip

I've recently grown a fascination with plaything through video games in bizarre, unneccessary ways. Sometimes making the game harder than it has to be.


In Phantasy Star Universe and Zero, playing a Cast the mainly uses Technics and Force weapons is unique.

Been done before. SEVERAL times, in fact.

[Split]

Speaking of RE4, there's some amazing playthrough of it using only the knife (in a few spots it's impossible, in which cases he uses the starting handgun with no upgrades). I think it's still incomplete, but he got as far as chapter 5-2 before stopping. Youtube channel name is "KaiWii"

Also there's this freaking incredible "no equipment" playthrough of MGS3 where the player uses absolutely no items whatsoever, no camouflage, food, no anything and still gets an extremely quick FOXHOUND ranking on European Extreme. Fun watch.

‪MGS3 No Equipment -...

This is a DMC3 "NO GROWTH" playthrough, where the player Heretic plays through the entire game on the hardest difficulty, Dante Must Die, without upgrading Dante or any of his weapons at all (one of his styles levels up once, but that's unavoidable). Very, very, very difficult:

‪DMC3SE New Game DMD...

Oh yeah, and there are people that play through Ninja Gaiden Black on the hardest difficulty using these absolutely crazy strategies to max out their karma scores, which requires beating all of the in-game battle timers and doing all sorts of other sometimes wacky and often brutally challenging things. I could barely scrape through Master Ninja mode at all, but there are people that just make the game their bitch. Totally insane people.

As for me, I once beat MGS3 on Extreme with purely CQC (but camo changes and the cardboard box and stuff allowed) using a strategy I saw on Youtube. I got a FOXHOUND ranking by beating the game in under 3 hours, the requirement being 5, and I still have the save file in case I ever need to brag about a game that's been obsolete (though still awesome) for 5+ years

EDIT: shit i just got ninja'd at least twice, that's how long this post took me

[Rock Eastwood]

I think people do this a LOT, I guess it's a good reason to get bragging rights and a chance to replay the game in an interesting way.

I also think most people take requests on how they should do it. Heck, megaman 9 and 10's achievements system encourages it. <_>

[Rashiid]

I've played Pokemon many times as if I was a gym leader - I only would use one type the entire game. It was surprisingly fun, lol. An all Water-type team was my favorite because of how many dual types there are with Water. I think I'm gonna start that again on my Black version, just trading over a few from my White early on since there aren't all types of what's in the new gen, like there's not 6 new electric types.

In various RPGs I'll do a "team bro" or "Powerpuff girls," teams made up of all guys or all girls respectively.

In FFT:A/A2 I'll do missions with only one race, such as viera.

[Siyamak]

Such play-throughs have always come off as either novel or purely for bragging rights. Since I never cared enough about the novelty, and don't give a crap what other people really think of my gaming skill, can't say I've ever bothered. I'm still impressed when I see really ridiculous stuff, for sure, but not so much it inspires me to do the same or anything.

If you want a game you could definitely do such runs on, try the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.

[Randomness]

Don't think you can beat Fallout 3 without killing... You'd obviously exclude the enforced Radroach kills at the start. You'd probably need to exclude a few other points too that are basically scripted "boss" fights.