I Was Bored, So I Did a Black Mesa Ironman Run | Semi-Ramblomatic
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Games with a lot of character customisation and equipment variety can lend themselves to roleplay runs, playing 'as' a particular character whether of your own invention or from something else. I've done a lot of those in Terraria. But for probably obvious reasons it can work well in RPGs, Fallout New Vegas seems particularly popular for it. There's at least one YouTuber who's got a series of videos playing 'as' the TF2 classes, using only weapons and tactics that match their play style: Soldier only using shotguns, rocket launchers and the shovel (and other melee weapons) for example.
Swift Justice
2025-03-08 08:02:26 +0000 UTCthere was that old Upsilon Circuit thing where players had to remotely access the game and if they died they wouldn't get to ever play it again. Was an interesting concept back in the day; someone should bring something like that back.
Matthew Cuciti
2025-03-07 16:49:49 +0000 UTCDrunk souls!
Mr Freddo Renton
2025-03-07 06:55:25 +0000 UTCI tried a nuzlocke run of Pokemon Diamond once. I appreciated the pressure of permanent consequences, and there was a distinct thrill when an opponent would score a lucky critical that “killed” your Pokemon. However, I found that the optimal strategy was to just carefully grind your Pokemon to full strength, which wore thin. Maybe it needed an additional rule to prevent that, like a time limit per area, or no unnecessary backtracking.
Dan McAlister
2025-03-07 05:12:04 +0000 UTCAfter several runs through elden ring in both solo and coop, we started doing stuff like randomizer and restricted cosplay runs to spice things up
Alex
2025-03-07 03:40:11 +0000 UTCI have been really getting back into Ninja Gaiden series again with the rerelease of NG 2 Black and have been not upgrading any weapons, using the starting sword, no consumables and no magic... It's reinvigorated my love for the punish action, and since I don't use any items or collectibles (which include the additional weapons) I have been getting faster and faster completion times (all 3 of them, it's a very short game, especially since I'm still on their version of "easy")
LookItsAnEric
2025-03-07 00:09:53 +0000 UTCI play Wordle on Hard mode and always start with the word XYLEM but that's about as hardcore as I get
Fred Targaryen
2025-03-06 23:49:34 +0000 UTCI seem to recall Daikatana had an infamous spot where a particular, seemingly simple, jump was very hard due a small object hanging from the ceiling. Imagine trying an iron man run on that game.
Allan Mills
2025-03-06 23:09:51 +0000 UTCI've done a few perfect 4-island runs of Into the Breach Unfair difficulty, including perfect runs with 3 mechs of only one class; I've done 3 Primes, 3 Brutes, 3 Ranged, and 3 Science Mechs. Perfect 4-island run = clearing all 4 islands in the game and saving 40k civilians total, meaning not letting a single building get destroyed by the giant bug monsters. Basically a high-score chase, you could think of it that way. The final Volcanic Hive mission is exempt from that condition, since its power pilon buildings have no civilians; although you still have to beat that mission so not taking building damage is still encouraged. Although I think that goes in relation to the speed run mentality, because you have to retry a lot of times to get that magical game seed that will give you good starting islands and missions for your chosen squad. I had fun with them myself, but your mileage will vary.
David C
2025-03-06 20:33:11 +0000 UTCProbably the most significant self-imposed-limit run I've done was getting a character in FFXIV through all of the crafting and gathering class quests without cheating and using the market board for anything. (Through L60...after that, all the crafting and gathering job quests involve special mats only available in the quest and not sellable.) So that meant, if I needed a thing that only showed up at game-midnight in a zone I hadn't opened up in the main questline yet, even if the thing was dirt cheap on the market board because the ingredient was useless for anything BUT that quest...I had to wait until I could gather it myself. No particular adrenaline rush, no. But some satisfaction in showing that they could indeed be done without just buying stuff on the market board...as long as you were leveling up every single crafting and gathering quest and making sure to have enough inventory to hold all the crap until you needed it.
Dave Van Domelen
2025-03-06 18:30:57 +0000 UTCOne of my "chill" games is an old-school puzzle game called Everyday Square Logic - similar in principle to Sudoku or Kakuro. As is common with such games, there's a self-hinting function to track which numbers can still logically go into a box. The challenge is to get the entire puzzle right, on the first attempt, without use of that function. Sadly the self-limit I always wind up missing is the "one more game" limit , which can be particularly pernicious when it morphs into "go to bed when I beat my best time on this."
Ronny Cook
2025-03-06 18:24:42 +0000 UTCPersonally I never found self-imposed challenges fun.
LifeIsStrange
2025-03-06 17:46:45 +0000 UTCWill the full run be uploaded by any chance? If it was recorded
icedkocha
2025-03-06 17:16:03 +0000 UTCCurrently doing a "naked man with a stick" run on DS3 and having a blast
Connor Kelly-Eiding
2025-03-06 16:42:31 +0000 UTCFactorio Ironman run.
JC
2025-03-06 16:29:46 +0000 UTC
