In the original Borderlands, you can jump on to the heads of NPCs and other Player Characters.

Once you are on top of someones head, you’ll sort of keep bouncing up and down, you can’t really “stand” on their head.

We used to keep a stopwatch and see how long one of us could bounce for, before falling off. It’s been so long I don’t even recall our best record.

However, it was one of the dumbest and funnest things we ever got up to in Borderlands.

I haven’t tested these, but for ideation:

• Use the worst weapon/tool/car through the game
• Do not use stat points through the game
• Only stealth
• Only guns blazing
• Sleep when it’s night (unless you’re a night owl but then sleep during the day)
• Do chores in the game that a human needs to do in real life (spend time in the bathroom, pretend to shower, take a walk outside etc)
• Choose, do you handle the character’s movement or attacking. A friend/spouse does the other option
• Take off some extra brightness
• No potions/boosters/upgrades
• No fast traveling

fun might not be the right word, but I’ve been playing New Vegas and trying to throw out every piece of trash I can find. if adding an item to my inventory would cause karma loss, I use grab and move it over next to a trash can. I also separate the different kinds of trash, and in McCarran and Vikki and Vance I cleaned up the bar/restaurant areas by stacking plates and cups, and disposed of all cigarettes into ash trays. its… exhausting, really.

Lots of games are a lot more fun if you roleplay them. Forget your meta knowledge, what would the character do? This adds a lot to strategy games as it adds challenge and puts you in interesting situations.

Playing without savescumming is also a good challenge in a bug free game. I try to only savescum for bugs/missclicks.

For MMOs - play through to the endgame with randoms only, no guild/org etc.

I’m always coming up with stupid little things like this. Most recent example: Ive been replaying Super Mario 3 and after beating a world boss, I always try to time a jump to catch the magic wand as high as possible.

It means nothing at all, but I’ve been doing it for 30 years and I’m not about to stop now.

In some games, I like to try to see if I can kill literally everyone on the map without getting caught or alerting anyone.

Sometimes on easier soduku puzzles I complete one number at a time starting from 1 through to 9.

GTA V taxi challenge.

There’s a certain area on the map where if you ask a taxi to hurry, they have a very low success rate of actually making it to your destination. I have a great time rooting for the next driver to make it further than the previous. I’ve never had one make it all the way.

https://gameranx.com/updates/id/27826/article/gta-5-find-new-thrills-with-the-taxi-driver-ai-challenge/

Speedrunning. Can you beat any games in 1 sitting? You can be a speedrunner, give it a shot! Some easy ones are:

1 - Oblivion. The Any% category is extremely easy. You learn 1 exploit to pass through walls, then you walk straight to a door that takes you to the end of the game. You can beat the whole game in ~20 minutes with absolutely no practice, and ~4 minutes after practice.

2 - Portal. Specifically the “Inbounds” and “Glitchless” categories. It’s a very short game with interesting mechanics, and tons of room for creativity even without glitches. But the insane array of glitches at your disposal make the game’s skill ceiling crazy high. The glitches range from extremely simple to insanely precise and esoteric, but all of them are fun!

3 - Quake. The original Quake. It can be tough to find a comfortable route for all of the levels, but it’s a relatively short game and all the levels are not very long. Getting good at running Quake is a matter of improving your movement rather than an exercise of memorizing as many glitches as you can, so it’s one of the simpler games to get into, yet it still has a crazy high skill ceiling.

4 - Super Mario 64. Another game that’s a blast to run without any glitches, but even more fun when you do learn to exploit them. Similar to Quake, getting good at running this game mainly involves improving your movement rather than learning to exploit a bunch of glitches. Simple game with a high skill ceiling.

I love playing Skyrim with certain challenges. For example:

• Survival Master Difficulty with disabled compass and map. It makes the Skyrim wilderness a much more ruthless and immersive place. Or trying unusual character playstyles:
• Get Lydia (or any other Follower) as quick as possible and play Healer only (Multiple Follower Mod recommended
• Play a hand to hand combatant. Good options to make it viable are a Khajiit for the claw damage, getting vampirism for extra hand to hand damage and getting the pugilists gloves. Extremely powerfull, especially if you you choose to play a lvl1-only character.
• playing without any equipment and items (maybe get some unenchanted clothes, so you don’t run around naked). Your best bets are probably a mage build, maybe Bretons with atronach stone for magic defense.

In FTL - Faster Than Light, on hard difficulty, take the stealth cruiser layout C (the one with no shields and no cloak). Kill the flagship without shield and cloak systems. Anything else that isn’t cheating is allowed. What defense strategies will you come up with?

I’m on a streak where I only go fishing whenever the game supports that. Far Cry? Time to learn the mechanics. Minecraft? How about building a restaurant at the ocean and then bringing in the food. Some obscure casual game? You know it baby.

Last time I played Mario 64 on 3D All Stars I tried a “stay out of the basement” run, to see if I could collect enough stars to beat the game with only touching the basement levels to get the metal cap and do the required Bowser level for progression. I ended up picking up another game at the time before I finished it, but I’ve been looking for something to play this week after beating Tears of the Kingdom, so maybe I’ll go pick up where I left off while waiting for the Mario RPG remake!

For shooting games we played “hot potatoes”. Basically once you got a kill you had to get to the person you killed and take their weapon to make your next kill.

Sounds bland in text but really fun when you get going with it.

Not that its hard but I did a few of the GTA games without getting busted, without dying is harder.