Purposely screwing up games.

[aimeeandbeatles]

Do you do this? Which games, what situations, and what do you do?

In various games, I sometimes kill myself off just for fun. Such as Super Mario Bros (its funny to jump off the ledges), freeware game StrandedII, and some simulation games.

 

[GoodGame]

I think we need a thread for game questions not worth their own thread. Or maybe a games Rant thread.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

When I get frustrated in Dwarf Fortress, I deliberately flood the lower levels of my fortress with... whatever liquids happen to be available at the time.

 

[Azale]

Whenever I would fall hopelessly behind in NASCAR '99 I would start going the opposite direction so I could hit a car head-on and flip in the air. Extra points for taking out the leader

 

[LucyDuke]

Sometimes when I'm playing 2-player SMB3, I drag whoever I'm playing into minigames relentlessly. Also we'll use it coöperatively to get rid of flower and mushroom cards. Does that count? I don't have fun dying.

 

[Catharsis]

Sometimes when I play chess I move my pieces around the board and build hotels on the squares.

Do restrictive variants count as 'screwing up the game'?

 

[carmen510]

I have called in artillery strikes on myself and my allies in multiple strategy games, both single-player and multiplayer. Although I'm not too much of a griefer in multi, as I only do it when it is clear we're going to win. I remember once an epic CoH game where I called a V1 rocket onto my allies mid-map base (4vs4 map), devastating about 1/2 of our entire infantry and 1/3 of our artillery. Nonetheless, we won the round in 5 minutes and we all had a good laugh. Shame noone saved the replay.

 

[IronMan2055]

If I get bored in HoI II I either cheat to take over all the world minus caps. or declare war on everyone and see how long it takes me to get destroyed.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

One time in Civilization IV, I played with the maximum amount of AIs (I think it's 7?) on the hardest level, and just fortified the settler to see how long I lasted. (I can't remember, I think around 30 turns or so.)

 

[Bratmon]

One time in Civilization IV, I played with the maximum amount of AIs (I think it's 7?) on the hardest level, and just fortified the settler to see how long I lasted. (I can't remember, I think around 30 turns or so.)

I do that a lot in Civ 1.

 

[aelf]

Generally only racing games, or games with funnily exploitable mechanics and physics. There has to be something amusing, not just death.

 

[PreLynMax]

Here's my routine for Spiderman 2... find the Empire State Building, climb to the lightning rod (the very tippy top of the building, a few hundred feet above the roof), let Peter Parker say his last prayers, and dive.

 

[ColdWizard]

All SimCity games.

 

[MrPopov]

I like to see how many ways I can get my corpse to flail around in Fallout III

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

It was always great fun building a massive Sim City 2000 city, saving it, and then unleashing a wave of disasters on it.

 

[Bratmon]

It was always great fun building a massive Sim City 2000 city, saving it, and then unleashing a wave of disasters on it.

Yes it is. Even more so when you use debug to get even cooler disasters.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I still have the debug code memorized

 

[azzaman333]

If I get bored in Civ 4 I just give the barbarians nukes.

In Sim City 2000 disasters were the best part of the game.


I also had a period in counter strike source where I would deliberately blow my self up with grenades to see how far I could fling the ragdoll.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I play the Sims solely to see how many ways I can kill off the characters.

SimCity 2K.... ah, disasters. It's fun to see how many you can get. One time I destroyed an entire city with fire except a four-block island with 2 houses, a water pump, and a wind power generator.

SimCopter, I would open up large city, use superpowermultiply cheat and reduce visibility and ram the copter against all kinds of buildings until it died.

 

[aronnax]

SimCity Is boring without bailout money from the government. Regular bailout money.

I like letting cities grow extraordinarily large with problems then use the "bailout money" to solve the problems