Self-Imposed Challenge: Difference between revisions

** ''[[Super Mario Kart]]'' allows players to shrink their characters on the select screen as if they had been struck by lightning or a poison mushroom. This way they're slower and more easily crushed, ratcheting up the challenge of an already hard game.

** Find a hidden green mushroom in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and collect the 8 red coins and the star before it catches you. That mushroom will not stop until it grants you an extra life.

*** How about this: try to beat every single level with a single turtle shell, and restart from the very first level if you get hit. At all. You'll need to start after you've found a turtle shell, though, so you'll have to play a little ways into the game at least to try it.

** Never forget Buddhist Mario, where you [[Pacifist Run|kill no enemies]], collect no coins, and have to walk through the gate at the end to show humility.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvdYCAqqiUQ This] guy does a parody challenge run of ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]].'' Unfortunately, he fails before even pressing the Start button.

** Particularly notable is the so-called "Hermit Challenge" where 6 of the 7 embarking dwarves and every single immigrant get killed off and caravans are ignored or killed. Check out [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15572.0 One Dwarf Against The World], the story that made the name "Urist" popular in the DF fandom.

 

* Playing ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'' with a party of four White Mages is a popular one. The early-level characters are so weak that a battle with goblins can reach epic proportions.

** Solo quests are also popular, and the truly hardcore will try both—that is, soloing with a weak class. This is so hard that there are whole FAQs available for beating the game with one Thief, one White Mage, etc.

* ''[[The Sims 2]]'' community is full of these, because the game doesn't come with hard-and-fast built-in goals. The most common are the Legacy Challenge (keeping a family going for ten generations without cheating) and the Asylum Challenge (filling a house with Sims and only controlling one of them, with the goal of nobody [[Too Dumb to Live|dying of starvation because they didn't think to make themselves some ramen]]). Even these have spawned sub-challenges and handicaps over time.

** For those interested a list of just some of the challenges can be seen here [http://forums.sims-community.com/forumdisplay.php?f=74\]

* Once people are sick of playing ''[[Tamagotchi]]'' the normal way—to keep them alive and happy as long as possible, they do the opposite; try to kill them off as fast as possible.

 

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