Doing things in games because it simple felt good.

I’ve been thinking about the PS1 game ‘Driver’ a lot recently. It’s a game I spent a lot of time on during my youth, and whilst I’m sure it doesn’t hold up some 20 years later, it was still a highlight from my ‘gaming youth’.

As much as I know I enjoyed it however, I don’t remember all that much about it. Aside from pulling the perfect reverse hand-break-turn in order to leave the garage/lockup area and begin the game proper. I didn’t need to pull this manoeuvre of course, I could just, you know…drive out, but something felt so incredibly satisfying about it that I couldn’t stop myself.

Which brings me to this point of this thread. What’s something you do in a game for no reason other than it feels damn good?

SGforce,

YOU COULD JUST LEAVE??? WE HAD TWO RENT IT THREE TIMES IN A ROW TO BEAT THAT TUTORIAL!!

llii,

I don’t think you could. Maybe he meant after you passed the tutorial, if you load a saved game?

Ormulum,

Flying around in the birdsuit in Pilotwings 64. I could do that for hours. Except I usually eventually try to fly through a cave and crash. Gosh I’d love a new Pilotwings

llii,

I’d also love a new pilotwings in the N64 style. With the music it was so relaxing.

TheRazorX,

In Diablo 3, I always saved the NPCs in Act 2 while doing bounties, even though there was no incentive to do so. Dunno if it counts as feeling good, but could never bring myself to ignore their cries.

Skua,

Noita: building wands with horrendous recoil. I know it's going to get me killed when I launch myself in to something dangerous, but it's just funny to be able to fly by the power of destroying everything in a given direction

Zozano,

Anyone else play Airblade? It was like a Tony Hawk game but with a hoverboard.

With only six levels, it was quite short, but really fun. Eventually I started speed running it before I knew what speed running was.

If I recall correctly I was able to finish it in under twenty minutes.

beefcat,
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Running over pedestrians and crashing motorcycles in Sleeping Dogs.

I completed every mission with an insanely low cop score because I killed so many civillians. This game is the poster child of ludonarrative dissonance in 7th gen AAA games.

The game tracks how many people you run over in a “combo” and assigns a high score. Mine is 647.

floppy,
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Activating the Super Sheep in Worms DC. It was always “argh, I can’t control this, kaboom I’ve blown up one of my own worms”, but it was fun to try!

massive_bereavement,
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When someone played the sheep, you knew that they were either confident or desperate.

jordanlund,
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I spent an inordinate amount of time driving a forklift around in Shenmue, moving crates.

heliodorh,
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Threads of Fate. Shape shifting into the cool creature forms (esp the gargoyle) and running around.

Okami. Literally, the whole ass game lol.

WoW. Exploring, collecting herbs, and skinning mobs in druid forms.

LOTRO. Just riding around.

Witcher 3. Just riding around, taking in the views - and possibly being waylaid by random wolf packs and bandits, but then the cool music starts playing and Geralt says hilarious random shit while chopping heads so that’s also fine.

Genshin Impact. Just running around doing random shit as Klee.

bbbhltz,
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When I was young (probably too young) I would always play as Kabal on UMK3. That spin attack plus the easy combos was great.

massive_bereavement,
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Kabal also felt like someone bringing meathooks to a fistfight.

TheOakTree,

By the time I started playing Forza Horizon 5, I had already completed a vast majority of the content in FH4. Once I started FH5 I found myself doing a lot less missions/races and instead just hopping in a pretty sounding or nicely handling or gorgeous looking car and seeing if I can drift some corner or launch myself off a ramp and land on a piece of road.

It just feels good.

BigBananaDealer,

going from reverse into forward with a 180 turn in stuntman ignition felt so fucking good to pull off

NaoPb,

I never got through the first mission, sadly. It seems like there is never enough time.

Limeaide,

In CSGO I constantly switching guns andbinspecting my weapons. The animations and sounds are really satisfying to me

In Minecraft flying around in the Elytra feels really nice. I wish there was some sort of time trials minigame for the Elytras

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