Stolen from myself 6 months ago at https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/35616522

I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in Hitman were, and that they’d just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      It’s also accidentally a good trainer for motorcycle skills. Not that its physics are good. They’re not. It does have one thing that is really useful: traffic tends to pull out on you and do unpredictable things.

      That makes it a pretty good simulator for training against target fixation. You tend to drive/ride towards whatever you’re looking at. When someone pulls out on you, then you will tend to look at the car and hit it. If you train yourself to look to the side, you will tend to miss it. This is a good skill for drivers, and can make the difference between life and death on motorcycles (and motorcycles pretending to be ebikes).

      Most other games with a driving element don’t have cars pulling out on you a lot the way Cyberpunk 2077 does. Makes it worse as an overall game, but it does have some value.