Antigaming on Speccy?
I have been with my mate to a shopping center recently. He normally doesn't play any games at all, but suddenly seeing a Playstation console exposed to free playing, he became quite interested it it. He started playing some car racing game, but as a person who doesn't have experience with games, he was extremally lame at it. He bumped into obstacles every 5 seconds. After a short while he gave up the idea of completing the race and began to crash into things deliberately. He had a great fun seeing all the destruction he made.
I didn't share his fun though. I like to watch a skilled player playing the game properly and following the game objectives. His playing was the opposite, I would call it antigaming.
Have you ever played like this? Play not to win ,but to see some results of playing against the game rules?
And were there any Spectrum games where you can do just the opposite the game wants from you and still have some fun with it?
I didn't share his fun though. I like to watch a skilled player playing the game properly and following the game objectives. His playing was the opposite, I would call it antigaming.
Have you ever played like this? Play not to win ,but to see some results of playing against the game rules?
And were there any Spectrum games where you can do just the opposite the game wants from you and still have some fun with it?
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When the game whent wrong it used to make the mazes up as it whent allong. I should emagine that the the memory addresses for the maze patters got messed up. It made the game much more interesting and harder to complete, sometimes there was never a solution.
Andrew.
On a Speccy? Don't know offhand.
Acouple of non Speccy ones
Grand theft auto, ignoring the missions and beating hookers up with a baseball bat, then the pimp, then the cops, and on and on. Trying to see how much destruction you can cause in general.
Steep Slope Sliders on the the Saturn always had rails and things and the levels that with some determination you could grind, Ironically since it was a very early Snowboarding game you didn't get any points for grinds, just airs and styling.
how ironic.
Ooh yeah, all the time on Indianapolis 500 on the Amiga. Barge round the wrong way and see how big a pile-up you could make. I think it was the first racing game with replays (Revs?), which made it all the more fun.
Can't recall ever doing it on the Speccy, though. Elite, maybe: shooting at space stations to pick a fight with the Vipers. But then, I'm not sure if that counts. There were no rules in Elite.
Cliffhanger , especially after level 1 , just to see the Wile-E-Coyote type death scenes
I always dare the ash to send me to my doom, seeing how long I can last playing chicken before my tail rotor goes and I plumet to my destruction. Blaaam!
It's called Team Killing (TK) - ie. you go round killing members of your own team rather than the enemy.
It serves no purpose other than to piss people off.
And there is a more subtle version in things like BF1942 in which the c**nts deliberatly drive over mines laid by their own team to get other members of their own team banned for TKing.
Thats just naughty. When playing as a team with other real people, of course you should 'stick to the rules.' That would really hack me off.
On multi player games like Enemy Territory, if it's just us who are on the server, we fiddle with the server settings and do things make the most spectacular mine explosions, or perhaps have shove wars. We played like that for hours once.
Not sure what driving game it is but look at Grand Theft Auto. Sometimes i liked to play it to do the main mission, a lot of other times for a laugh i wanted to see how many 'stars' i could get and see how many police would chase me and how long i could survive for.
Most racing games i used to like going the wrong way (NASCAR) and seeing how much carnage i could create !
Its good if you can do that with games instead of doing solely the main storyline.
Come on Ralf, i'm sure in Elite you often turned around after leaving a space station and shot at it to get the police out and then trying to blast a few police ships ! We've all done our anarchy bit !
They were setting mine traps for me which I just walked into, then I'd burst through the smoke slapping like crazy, they shit themselves they did.
I suppose you had to be there to really enjoy such a thing though :D
I'm rubbish at racing sims, so I ALWAYS try to cause pileups :-)
Question: If you played Burnout , would you try NOT to crash?
I loved that game when it came out ... I like to find shortcuts and that game has enough of them while my best friend HATES short cuts in games ... he's very anti-anti-gaming ... I try to fully exploit EVERYTHING given to me in a game whether it be intentional or intentional ... Which reminds me ... In one of the Gauntlet versions you could hit SYMSHIFT(or summat like that) and walk through walls or you had to wait then all the walls turned to exists ... right? Something like that, please remind me what it was.
PS ... I don't tell you guys this often enough but I freakin' a- love WoS!!! You are my buddies ... so there!!! Why does my esophagus feel like it;'s on fire>? Oh, yeah ... something to do with those twoo triple shots of Cointreau! Silly me! Here I was thinking I had eaten too many oranges ... tsk, tjsk!!! :rolleyes:
Well, anyway ... hugs are on me, folks!
Skarpo
:-)
That's ok ... you're a smart guy ... you keep your investments in the bank where they accumulate interest!
Skarpo
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I occasionaly tried to do some crazy things on some games, but I can't remember the names. I remember driving the wrong way in some car games, and shooting or kicking player 2 just for the fun of it. Could you do it in Target Renegade? I don't remember.
I just hope the bank in question isn't Northern Rock:D.
No dont be silly, Skarpo isnt that stupid. His money was in Barings Bank
;)
Hi Skarpo,
Yeah, I remember Big Red Racing, we used to always have a multi-player network session at lunch time, was great fun, that and Descent 1 of course. Multi-player on that was excellent, D2 was let down by big maps took ages to find anyone :(
Nah ... I deal solely with the oh, so very sophisticated Bank of Lint ... I currently have about 3$ maybe close to 4$ there ... and the bank is very eco-conscientious as there are no receipts or monthly paper-statements ... it's a very fast system working at a near-light-speed effectiveness ... all's I gotsa do is slip my hands inta ma pockets and there it be, InstaBank, aka the Bank of Lint.
When I win the lotto I will have to buy one of those very baggy pants methinks.
Skarpo
:-)