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Posted April 10, 2016
I tried hard to remember my "worst", but ended in thoughts type of "this is way too absurd, and that...no, that's quite embarrassing...and..." so I guess it's more honest to say nothing, than to come out with some mildly silly yet entertaining episode that would actually have problems even making it into top 100!?
Posted April 10, 2016
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MadyNora: Morrowind.

Museum. In my (Hlaalu) stronghold I always esablish a museum. 1 of each type of weapon and armor are "exhibited" somewhere in a corner. Special weapons, armors, and jewelries are on display as well. I used a mod to make the stronghold a bit bigger for this.
And I always make a skooma corner. With lots of moon sugar and skooma lying around :P
I had a treasure hoard as well. Mine was in a house in Balmora that I think you had to kill the owner on one mission. Every set of armor, every different helm I found displayed on a shelf, stashes of grand soul gems, books and drawings and odd stuff I found, rows of lockpicks, thief gloves, deidric goblets and rows of different weapons.
Posted April 10, 2016
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Emob78: [...] In my day sucking at the arcades cost you a great deal of money. [...]
I don't actually have a comment; I just wanted to quote this. : )
Posted April 10, 2016
It wasn't me, but I recall reading the following:

1) A guy posting a walkthrough on Morrowind wrote that an easy way to max his running stat (on the console version) was to apply a rubber band on his controller's stick and let his character run in circle while he was asleep (you boost skills in Morrowind by using them).

2) I once read a post on the X2 forums about a guy who loved to use his M1 class capital ship like a 'baseball bat' by swerving it around in clusters of enemy fighters.
Post edited April 10, 2016 by Magnitus
Posted April 10, 2016
For my most recent play through of Fallout 3 I decided to heavily mod it for a change. That included a sex industry mod where I could employ people and pimp them out for cash. So I employed one of the girls from the bar and had her operating out of my shack in Megaton, and I would pick up the cash whenever I was in town.

This one particular day I returned home to find her screwing the Mr Handy Robot Butler! It paid her as well.
Post edited April 10, 2016 by CMOT70
Posted April 10, 2016
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Cyanosis: Saving at any time does carry this territory of screwing yourself if you wind up in a bad spot, but you have only yourself to blame for that. I'm guilty of doing it too sometimes in the heat of combat. What's worse though, having to restart a hard fight with a renewed valor or trying to make-do in the thick of it with no health or ammo left? I'd rather choose the former if possible since the latter will cause even more frustration than necessary.
I think the best solution is to include some emergency escape option which can be used without having to fully load the save file. This option would put you back in a safe place from which the game is guaranteed to be clearable. (Of course, that place might not be near you need to be, but at least it would keep you from being permanently stuck.)

(Also, why have my posts on this page of the topic been "low rated"?)
Posted April 10, 2016
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Magnitus: It wasn't me, but I recall reading the following:

1) A guy posting a walkthrough on Morrowind wrote that an easy way to max his running stat (on the console version) was to apply a rubber band on his controller's stick and let his character run in circle while he was asleep (you boost skills in Morrowind by using them).
I think it's actually swimming, since it increase exp a lot faster. I know I do the same on pc back then, jumping into river in balmora and swimming againts wall for hours.

Now, perhaps I can find something to press jump key and let it be for hours, I bet it would increase acrobatic nicely

Morrowind is just this kind of interesting mess
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Magnitus: It wasn't me, but I recall reading the following:

1) A guy posting a walkthrough on Morrowind wrote that an easy way to max his running stat (on the console version) was to apply a rubber band on his controller's stick and let his character run in circle while he was asleep (you boost skills in Morrowind by using them).
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kusumahendra: I think it's actually swimming, since it increase exp a lot faster. I know I do the same on pc back then, jumping into river in balmora and swimming againts wall for hours.

Now, perhaps I can find something to press jump key and let it be for hours, I bet it would increase acrobatic nicely

Morrowind is just this kind of interesting mess
There's another way to improve your skills. Find a trainer, then cast a spell to drain the skill you want to improve to 0 (on self), then train while the spell is active. Easy +1 for 1gp and it works even at skill 100. (Your skill won't improve beyond 100, but it will still count toward the next level up.)

One thing I have yet to do in Morrowind is use the super potion trick to overflow a stat. Raising a stat above 2.1 billion (needed to overflow it) takes a while, however, even with the exponential nature of the Super Potion trick.

On the other hand, I have raised my fatigue high above its maximum, then made a huge jump, and when landing, I took negative damage, raising my health way above its maximum. (Does this make sense?)
Posted April 10, 2016
I used a cheat to keep spawning tanks on the PS2 version of GTA3 until the PS2 couldn't handle it anymore, it would stutter or freeze. If the game let me I would then try to cause as many explosions as I could to try and crash the game.
Posted April 10, 2016
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kusumahendra: I think it's actually swimming, since it increase exp a lot faster. I know I do the same on pc back then, jumping into river in balmora and swimming againts wall for hours.

Now, perhaps I can find something to press jump key and let it be for hours, I bet it would increase acrobatic nicely

Morrowind is just this kind of interesting mess
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dtgreene: There's another way to improve your skills. Find a trainer, then cast a spell to drain the skill you want to improve to 0 (on self), then train while the spell is active. Easy +1 for 1gp and it works even at skill 100. (Your skill won't improve beyond 100, but it will still count toward the next level up.)

One thing I have yet to do in Morrowind is use the super potion trick to overflow a stat. Raising a stat above 2.1 billion (needed to overflow it) takes a while, however, even with the exponential nature of the Super Potion trick.

On the other hand, I have raised my fatigue high above its maximum, then made a huge jump, and when landing, I took negative damage, raising my health way above its maximum. (Does this make sense?)
On morrowind, yeah it makes perfect sense.
Posted April 10, 2016
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Cyanosis: Saving at any time does carry this territory of screwing yourself if you wind up in a bad spot, but you have only yourself to blame for that. I'm guilty of doing it too sometimes in the heat of combat. What's worse though, having to restart a hard fight with a renewed valor or trying to make-do in the thick of it with no health or ammo left? I'd rather choose the former if possible since the latter will cause even more frustration than necessary.
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dtgreene: I think the best solution is to include some emergency escape option which can be used without having to fully load the save file. This option would put you back in a safe place from which the game is guaranteed to be clearable. (Of course, that place might not be near you need to be, but at least it would keep you from being permanently stuck.)

(Also, why have my posts on this page of the topic been "low rated"?)
Most games auto-save these days, but it varies game to game how often it does. Some are really bad at keeping recent events in memory like the first Half-Life whereas Half-Life 2 is really good.
Posted April 10, 2016
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Cyanosis: Whether it was something unconventional, weird, funny, etc.

I killed 10,000 people in my second playthrough of POSTAL 2's Monday through Friday game last year just to see if I could, and to outdo the first time I completed it with 5,700 kills in 2009, and it felt like the most pointless and biggest waste of time after I did it.

http://i.imgur.com/vqA8Yz3.jpg
Is that the highest rank you can attain? I got "Hitler would be proud" by killing "only" 2609 people. Wow, killing 10k people is a long endeavor, I salute you!

As for me, I beat .hack//INFECTION on the PS2 without saving once because back then I couldn't afford a memory card.

When I got the first Sims' expansion packs, the money cheat "klapaucius" no longer worked. Until I discovered that the new cheat was "rosebud" I had a workaround: Launching fireworks and selling them when they fell down. Oh... I could go on and on about The Sims, back then I didn't have an internet connection, but I had lots of time, and I tested all kinds of crazy stuff there.

And my father once chopped down ALL trees and harvested EVERYTHING in a random map of Age of Empires.
Posted April 10, 2016
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kusumahendra: I think it's actually swimming, since it increase exp a lot faster. I know I do the same on pc back then, jumping into river in balmora and swimming againts wall for hours.

Now, perhaps I can find something to press jump key and let it be for hours, I bet it would increase acrobatic nicely

Morrowind is just this kind of interesting mess
I think you could probably program something to constantly trigger the jump key. Not my area of expertize (low-level input handling that is), but I was entertaining the notion for a time to do specials in some PC fighting game. Button mashing was never my forte.
Post edited April 10, 2016 by Magnitus
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kusumahendra: Morrowind is just this kind of interesting mess
I wouldn't really call it a mess, to me, that particular skill system makes the most sense of all the RPGs I have played. You get better at things by doing these things. I'm not entirely sure why don't you just cheat huge amounts of money and get trainers to increase your skills to decent amount as opposed to waste power by having your PC on trough the night, but okay, I guess that's a way too :D

Incidentally, when I've had way too much time on my hands, I played like 50 hours of Morrowind with a character that made money using alchemy, collecting herbs and sneaking out of trouble whenever possible (I did have mod to make fauna less aggressive.) I didn't even do any quests. Just... That.
Post edited April 10, 2016 by Fenixp
Posted April 10, 2016
I just completed the fan game based on the movie the room.
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