I did a no-death run of Super Mario World. Harder than it sounds.

When I next have a chance, I am going to do a run of Avalon Code where I dont scan anything but the weapons.

Mass Effect 1:

I've completed a Vanguard run, on Insanity, without spending any talent points. One rank each in pistol, assault training, throw, and warp. My squaddies don't get any talent points either.

I'm also in the middle of an Engineer run without my squad. I can't attack anything until both squadmates are unconscious, which also means every enemy is after me and me alone. As an Engineer, I repeat. On Insanity.

Try beating a final fantasy game while killing EVERYTHING that attacks you, it's harder than it sounds

Until you realize that your a much higher level than necessary to kill anything.

This Troper once ran a RuneScape (a MMORPG) character into the mid level-50s. Single player. No trading, no Grand Exchange, no teaming up, nothing. If he wanted food, he fished for it, cut down the logs with a hatchet he forged himself out of ore he mined and smelted, set the fire, and (hopefully) cooked the food. You would be amazed at how long this takes.

I've played trough Guitar Hero Aerosmith with a normal PS2 controller on expert with an average of 4 stars per song, I curb stomped Joe Perry while fending off his attacks successfully and the only song that I can't beat for some reason is Train Kept A Rollin and I'm now thinking of starting the next challenges:

Castlevania Order Of Ecclesia: Hard Mode starting at level 1 with the Death Ring equipped which increases my stats but it also makes me a OneHitPointWonder for those not in the know.

Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King: Complete the game and bonus levels without using experience points to upgrade my characters.

Age of empires III: Start a skirmish match with 7 computer controlled opponents on maximum difficulty and beat them all.

BatmanArkhamAsylum

With a touch of ''{{Discontinuity}}''. Regarding Challenge Mode, this troper decided hunting for points in Combat and going out of your way to perform certain takedowns wasn't very {{Batman}}, so I decided to do every Combat Challenge as a ''OneHitpointWonder'' and every Predator Challenge without being seen by the guards (although they are allowed to catch a brief glimpse of you before they black out, if grappled over a ledge for example)

I spent quite some time searching for a trope where in a party of people are picked off one by one by an unseen assailant (I meant to reference it in 'without being seen by the guards). If someone reads this, and knows the name of such a trope, I'd appreciate it if they could put the reference in and then delete this addendum

How about Elite Beat Agents with your left hand (or right, if you're left handed)? So far I've beaten every level on Breezin' and Cruisin' and a few levels on Sweatin'. Eventually I want to beat Jumping Jack Flash on Hard Rock, something that seemed impossible with my right hand, but then Let's Dance on Cruisin' seemed impossible when I first did it...

In ''TheElderScrolls'' games, this troper would spend literal hours collecting every Ash Statue in the game, covering houses with candles, building walls of Corprus Meat...

I built a shrine to Vivec by placing hundreds of stolen candles alongside him. Then I kill him to take his place. Yeeessssss...

Huh, I'm not alone in performing candle-lit deicides...

I found and bought or stole every already-placed and non-respawning fork in Vvardenfell and laid each individual one on the altar at the Shrine of Sheogorath.

This troper had the idea to play {{Zelda}} without using ''z targeting'' or collecting any of the heart containers after the bosses. He never got round to it, but still hopes to someday.

This troper was one (of the apparently many) players that managed to beat Ocarina of Time with only three hearts, and no continues. This means no picking up post-boss heart containers, and not getting the Great Fairy's damage reduction. It's not quite a no-damage run (at least until you get to Ganondorf) but still quite a challenge. Now, if someone were to do this for the ''Master Quest'' remix...

Not quite as hard a challenge as one might initially think, owing to the fact that the hardest enemy (ie Dark Link) has only three hearts as well, thus posing no larger threat than usual. Beating it with three hearts, without using a shield (apart from essential mirror shield usage) is harder (in [=OoT=] and MQ) until you get the hang of it, at which point it is easy. It's not really hard at all in Majora's Mask, which has hardly any sword-and-shield combat at all (which I only realised while completing said task).

This troper had the idea of beating Twilight Princess on the Wii (or any Wiimote-Nunchuck compatible game, actually) using the Wii Remote on my left hand and the Nunchuck on the right one.

This troper did something very similar - playing through it ''normally''. Being left-handed can suck sometimes.

This troper played through Wind Waker with only 3 hearts. Probably the only Zelda game where this isn't very hard.

Gets somewhat difficult for the final boss.

This troper beat The Palace of the Four Sword with 3 hearts, 4 fairies and the only upgrade was the Tempered Sword.

This troper went through ''HalfLife 2'', starting with Ravenholm, using only the crowbar, gravity gun, rocket launcher, and grenades. It's even harder than you'd expect.

Tssh. Kid's play. Gravity Gun only is the real challenge on [=HL2=]. And that pales in comparison to "The One Free Bullet" achievement in Episode One (only one gunshot allowed in the entire game: shooting a padlock to get through a gate).

Personally, this troper enjoyed tinkering with the damage variables for all the weapons to make them somewhat more lethal (as well as making sure that the [=NPCs=]' versions of weapons were just as damaging as the player's). The "Water Hazard" chapter proved especially difficult.

This troper went through the lengthy vehicle section with the buggy... without the buggy (he just decided to leave it behind after toppling it over twice). Surprisingly, this is mostly ''easier'' because the SequenceBreaking means some enemies that are supposed to spawn don't. On the other hand, the antlion sections are vastly more dangerous, and there's a chasm that's ''incredibly'' hard to bypass if you're on foot, since it's too wide to jump across.

I tried to do this first time through, but I didn't use the developer console back then and they wouldn't let me through the gate after you shoot down the gunship.

This Troper spent DAYS tinkering with Garry's Mod to make the ultimate vehicle for the highway stages; a buggy that floated, was impossible to tip over, and had rocket boosters to get it out of sticky situations. Without resorting to balloons. (It failed badly, the cage was too heavy, the blue barrels weren't buoyant enough to stop it sinking like a rock. And the end result of the anti-roll cage was to stop it being turned BACK over once it had flipped.)

This Troper enjoys running through ''Resident Evil 4'' getting as few kills as possible. Usually using the PRL and a non-upgraded basic handgun for switches. Yay overlap.

This troper is aiming to do a Run-through "RE 2 style". No buy weapons or upgrades, must use the RPD costume, and only weapons that are in RE 2 can be used, which are the Matilda and the regular shotgun. Yeah, try killing a Garrador with that combo.

Garrador's, while still scary as all hell, are not that difficult, especially since most encounters come with bells: Shoot bell. Garrador gets stuck in wall. Shove the shotgun barrel up it's back parasite. Pull trigger. It'll spin around, stopping for a second with it's back towards you. Fire again. ??? Then, profit! I reckon actual bosses or recurring mid-bosses would be tougher without an upgraded/big gun, especially U3, Salazar and Saddler.

This Troper is attempting a no Merchant run. (She keeps running out of ammo at the hall of water.) She's going to try a grenade/knife (yes, both together) only run after that.

This Troper did a varation of the No Merchant Run awhile ago. He didn't bother with the Shotgun but still stuck to the Knife, Handgun, Grenades and eventually the Broken Butterfly. He also did a No Item Storage Run in ResidentEvil5 more recently.

This troper likes to play through ''{{Portal}}'' either without dying or getting shot or without disabling any turrets (generally, turning them to face a wall to allow for safe passage).

This troper had a lot of fun giving every single turret on Level 16 a time-out - placing it facing a corner, without letting a single turret be deactivated. Got a bit challenging near the end of the level, though. He is now trying to get all of his Portal-playing friends to give it a try.

In the original [=NES=] version of ''Dragon Warrior 3'' this troper decided to beat the game with the Golden Claw in his inventory. The Golden Claw caused RandomEncounters to occur ''every single step.'' I succeeded, but looking back; I think I was insane back then. (The [=GBC=] remake just had the Golden Claw have that curse until it was taken out of the Pyramid.)

Speaking of the remake: Collect all the gold medals.

This troper completed ''ShadowHearts: Covenant'' on his first playthrough with a self-imposed "No Running" challenge. Other possibilities include No Fusions and No Sanity-Point Restoration (which would put every fight on a often-very-short timer).

This troper is facsinated with the idea of doing levels from ''SonicTheHedgehog'' games while never collecting rings. Note that this isn't a NoDamageRun -- avoiding rings is much harder than simply not getting hit. He still isn't skillful enough to seriously undertake it, but hopes to one day.

This troper did a no weapons, no vehicles run in ''ShadowTheHedgehog'' once, a feat that the makers of the game said was possible--and was, technically, with copius abuse of post-injury invincibility and stretching homing jumps as far as possible. And it only works for certain levels and missions, too.

Hmm... This troper is now calculating what the best route for a ShadowTheHedgehog {{speedrun}} would be.

This troper has completed ''Xenosaga'' Episode I with these challenges all at once. Initial ether level only, initial skills level only, initial tech level only, no swapping of skills, ether or tech, initial equipment only, no Erde Kaiser, no AGWS used ever, no emails answered, and no secret doors opened.

This troper once played through ''Castlevania: Symphony of the Night'' using the infamous luck code (which reduces most of Alucard's stats to 1 or 0, and gives him a starting hit point total of about 25, but also gives him 100 luck to start, which more than makes up for it) along with a GameShark code that caused him to start with 0 luck. This made for an exceedingly hard run-through, at least in the first half of the game.

This troper, unsatisfied with even the Proud difficulty of Kingdom Hearts 2, went through the game with Sora Only (requires turning the allies to "Sora Attack" to turn them into punching bags as well as eschewing Summons, Overlimits, and Drive Forms), Low Level by killing as few enemies as possible, and without using any Cure magic. He hopes to do this same challenge on Proud difficulty, but idly wonders whether it is even possible.

This troper, largely not that bothered with ''GeometryWars: Galaxies'' on his mate's Wii, took on a challenge to get as high a score as possible on [=MinEis=] without ever firing a bullet or using a smart bomb (basically translating as "all you can do is dodge and trip off mines"). He's since got Gold Medals on [=MinEis=], [=MinDuo=] ''and'' [=MinTris=], and is waiting for someone to turn up with the DS version so he can try for the billion points on [=MinZeroth=]. (The Weavers - the green ones - are the toughest to handle, meaing that [=MinEis=] was the hardest...)

Update for the interested - it happened. 1.1 billion without firing a shot. If you can get through five minutes of Generators spitting so many Wanderers that the game basically becomes BulletHell, you're fine - the next phase is Grunts, who die easily and give double Geoms. I had seven lives at one point.

This troper won't call an arcade-style game (ShootEmUps, for example) "beaten" unless it's beaten without continues. He'd like to think that that's the only way to beat the game, but the general consensus among gamers is that continues are absolutely acceptable and taking them away makes a game hard; to them, one-crediting a game is a ridiculous SelfImposedChallenge and nothing more. Because this troper defines difficulty by how far he can get with his first credit, and not how many continues a game allows, he might as well be classified as a Stop Having Fun Guy. Surely he's not the only troper with this mindset...right?

Nope. This is why this troper will never ever beat ''{{Gradius}}''.

This troper completely agrees, with exactly one exception. His first introduction to ''SpaceHarrier'' was the ZX Spectrum version, where you start with nine lives; replicating this experience in the arcade requires three credits, so he's always played like that.

This troper does this with SuperSmashBros. 1 player modes, quitting if he ever gets game over. The only exception is when getting trophies, since the harder trophies are so hard to get without continuing that it makes sense to continue in order to stand a chance.

Check out the {{Touhou}} games if you haven't already, getting a good ending requires normal difficulty or higher with no continues.

This troper has played through KingdomHearts 1 on Extreme mode. While picking the shield and getting rid of the sword. While using everyone's first weapon the whole game. It's actually easier than it sounds since the shield gives you the Second Chance ability, ensuring you don't die. But the flipside is that everything works against you by ensuring ''the enemies'' don't die either. It's not uncommon to only take off a pixel of a boss' HP bar each hit...and they have more bars under that.

This troper's in the process of playing through a file where he chose the wand and sacrificed the shield, and isn't using ethers, I'm at the room before the final rest in the last world, but those damn invisibles keep killing me.

This troper has beaten the main game of CaveStory with only the starting 3 HP, which makes the protagonist all but a OneHitPointWonder. He has also done ''speed runs'' of the hell stage. (This is facilitated by an in-game item that gives you a timer from the start of the stage to the end of the SequentialBoss.)

This troper is... TRYING to go a step further, and complete it with 3 HP and no optional weapons, specifically the Bubbler, Nemesis, or Polar Star replacements. Or life pots, but that goes without saying. He's been stuck on the Island Core for months...

The missiles are also completely optional, in case you didn't know...

Oh, he knows. He knows...

This troper is doing something a little different. There's no change to the actual game, but I'm not using any of the Save Points. In other words, a single death will send me all the way back to before I got the Polar Star. As of this writing, the farthest I've gotten is about halfway into the Sand Zone.

This troper has had the idea of beating ''Star Fox 64'' while scoring as ''few'' points as possible. He hasn't gotten around to it, but he thinks it could be done with as few as 36.

This Troper likes to play RealTimeStrategy skirmishes with various interesting ideas. One of his classics is setting Red Alert to no bases, maximum units, a tiny island map, and customized rules with piles of random powerup crates.

This Troper wanted to get Omnislash before the end of the first disk of FinalFantasy [=VII=]. He LevelGrinded for... what was it, twenty-six total hours until Cloud is level 70-something and he got bored (finally). And he got Omnislash, yay, along with the other limit breaks available on disk one. Then he stomped Jenova-[=LIFE=] like the little turd it was.

He also did similar overlevel-the-main-character-on-disk-one shenanigans in [=FF8=] and [=FF9=]. Must like GodModeSue protagonists or something.

This Troper nearly went insane with level grinding on disk one to do that. The rest of the game was a breeze... although that was my fourth run-through.

This troper plans to finish ADOM with a mindcrafter,because no-one else seems to play them. Six years and counting,and his best character is lvl. 32... and he's afraid to play him in case he dies.

This troper just got a wild hair and a urge to play a troll mindcrafter again. (randomly rolled the first time)

This troper plays all [=RPGs=] with one simple restriction: no resurrections. If any character dies (or "drops unconscious"), reload (and no saving during battles either, if the game makes this possible). Spells or items that resurrect characters become forbidden. This pleasantly ups the challenge on many games and increases immersion, as it forces you to protect your weaker characters for more reason then just losing their attacks. Of course, to make this a truly hardcore challenge, you'd have to do it without ''reloading'': if any character dies, ''restart the game''. Unless you can already dream every battle in the game this probably crosses the line from "added challenge" to "masochism", though (and if you ''can'' dream every battle in the game, it's probably time to look for a new game -- ''{{Nethack}}'' comes recommended).

Actually a challenge on the official boards of the BaldursGate series (resurrection may be included or not, depending on preference, but main character death is always a game over). Given the entire series can and will easily run to 250 hours, and having participated in it himself, this troper has some serious respect for the ''two'' people that have done it in the history of that thread (several years by now). You are, of course, allowed to save/reload in order to get some sleep, though.

The FireEmblem series is famous for its permanent character death. If a character dies in battle, they die for good - if their living is important to the plot, they are horribly injured and pulled out of your party permanently. This troper has always been stubborn about reloading to keep characters alive, but when battles late-game can last a couple of hours, it starts becoming incredibly frustrating, and FireEmblem is pretty viciously hard to begin with. Sometimes you just give up and reload to keep the characters you like...

At the point where it becomes that hard, you're only likely to be using the units you've grown to like. Except Nino. Let Nino get blasted to oblivion for being level 5 six levels from the end.

This troper bought a PS2 and FinalFantasy X before an extended weekend, however forgetting the memory card module. Of course, not wanting to miss out on the game and scarce free time, HilarityEnsues - after that, every RPG is played in this way at least on the second run because shooting DeathIsNotPermanent in the face makes for way more exciting battles.

This troper went through the first run of SidMeiersAlphaCentauri playing as the U.N. "Peacekeepers", roleplaying the faction: no declaring war on anyone first, no conquest, only using the army for self-defense, no betraying allies, accepting alliances from everyone. This got pretty hard when the ChurchMilitant faction became his new neighbor. He won by Ascent to Transcendence, and only later learned that this PacifistRun was considered an added challenge (it's indeed a ''lot'' more sensible to be aggressive).

Here's a nice self-imposed challenge: try filming a documentary in the Ultra Orthodox neigbhourhoods of Jerusalem. Morgan Spurlock tried that. Hilarity ensues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ2PMcCYZ7I&feature=PlayList&p=FD7DC0E7C3447EC4&index=4

This troper spent over a year of free time back in high school downloading custom mods for SimCity 4 and trying to build a life-sized, realistic metropolitan area - complete with multiple separate cities, suburbs, several huge parks, and a fucking chemical seaport. It's not finished... But it's still on his hard drive, and IT WILL BE SOMEDAY. Besides a lifelong obsession with building things, he has no idea why he's doing this, though.

This troper is doing Hard Mode runs of ''{{Castlevania}}: Portrait of Ruin'' and ''Harmony of Dissonance'' while restricting himself to 1-2 healing items during boss battles.

Getting all the coins in Super Mario Galaxy is very hard, possibly even out the realm of human ability, especially on any levels involving cannons, bottomless pits, and scrolling platforms. However, this troper likes how it adds more challenge to otherwise easy levels, and discovering new coins and even areas missed the first time around is a real treat.

Little tip: If you plan to do a 1% run of Metroid Fusion, learn to be EXTREMELY patient. Why? Yakuza and Nightmare.

This troper refuses to use his degree in liberal arts to become a teacher, because that's pretty much what everybody does.

This troper went and bought antiseptic mouth rinse. The kind that tries to eat the soft tissues in the mouth, and burns like nothing that should go near pain receptors. It is used after brushing and flossing, when tender regions are exposed. It is now the third day. You would not believe how much this hurts.

It's not a challenge if you're doing something everyone else does daily without such a problem.

This troper is working on a ''FinalFantasy XII'' SEC, where he doesn't move on in the plot unless he has every equipment available and as complete of a bazaar recipe checklist as possible that early in the game. He's currently a Leo Gem and a Bone Helm short of the challenge letting him beat the Rogue Tomato.

This troper went through {{Metal Gear Solid}}: Sons of Liberty with one goal in mind: finding all the ways to piss off Rose while still avoding being detected by the enemies.

This Troper earned the elusive "Big Boss" ranking in {{Metal Gear Solid}} 4 by beating the game on "The Boss Extreme" difficulty with 0 deaths, 0 alerts, 0 kills, 0 recovery items used, 0 special items used, and in under 5 hours (my time was 4 hrs 21 min). Some pointers: the solar gun is a must for nonlethal kills because drebin doesnt let you buy stun grenades or tranq rounds. Skip all cut scenes (obviously). Save in every new area so you can reset if you screw up. By doing this I achieved my ridiculous self-loathing goal in about a week, and it was exam week too. Yes I need to sort out my priorities.

This troper once played through ''Zelda II: The Adventure of Link'' raising ''only'' his Attack level. It took him several sittings and about 12 Game Overs on the counter, but he got through it.

This troper, for reasons even she doesn't understand, has taken it upon herself to go through the entire chain of VideogameTropes and add ''TheLegendOfZelda'' to as many as possible. Of course, it's already on most of the appropriate pages, but she's added it to a few more.

This troper pointedly (usually) avoids HotSkittyOnWailordAction in {{Pokemon}}, and only breeds Pokemon that look like they should be able to breed. The catlike Leafeon and the doglike Luxray? Fine. Leafeon and... well, Wailord? No. He also will search out every hidden item in any game, even if there's no benefit for doing so and you can't play the finished save file (like the original MetalGear Solid).

Only breeding look-a-like Pokemon seems less like a challenge and more like just playing differently. Because there's no real need to breed Pokemon at all to beat the game.

A friend of mine took his Pokemon training to a whole new level with breeding and leveling Pokemon. In his Pokemon Platinum game, he is breeding Pokemon with specific natures (little things like "Relaxed" or "Timid" or "Hasty") that boost a stat in exchange for lowering another. Once he has a Pokemon with the best nature (usually a "neutral" nature, such as "Docile" or "Hardy"), he begins EV training, which involves heavy vitamin use (Carbos, Iron, etc) and level grinding. Defeating certain Pokemon gives the winning Pokemon a small amount of [=EVs=], which have also been called "Stat XP". In this way, his Pokemon can obtain what are literally the best stats in the game, completely legitimately. He is, almost literally, genetically engineering the perfect Pokemon.

I'm doing all that plus trying to get perfect [=IVs=]. Smogon gets really anal about it...

I have two friends who epitomize this trope. First, they had a challenge in Ruby/Sapphire (I call it the "Fire Emblem Challenge") where they had to only catch the only pokemon in each new area, and if any of them fainted, they had to be released. Overall, this was hard enough. However, they had another challenge (which I dub the "Gym Leader Challenge") in Fire Red/Leaf Green where they started the game with 6 pokemon that were all of the same type. They weren't allowed to catch any other pokemon. This one becomes evil when you face down an opponent with a clear type advantage.

The names are, in order, the Nuzlocke Challenge and the Monotype Challenge

This Troper plans on doing a Nuzlocke Challenge soon. Maybe I should also throw in Miser (Exception being found/given Pokeballs) and Monotype...

Pfft. Nuzlocke almost feels easy, even without grinding, compared to that Magikarp Only run of Gold I did...I almost lost to Agatha when I saw that she had a Gengar, but I beat the Elite 4 at level 80. I killed so many Ursaring and Golbats in Victory Road...

This Troper does the Monotype Challenge for every single game since Gold/Silver as a second run-through. As well as doing the One Mon Challenge - first one with a Mareep/Flaaffy/Ampharos in Gold. Dear Arceus, that was torture.

I try to beat a boss using a powerful move as the last attack so much that I call the moves used for them "dramatic finishers". This often leading me to have to conserve enough of whatever the game requires me to use for the attack or doing a complex set of moves to use it, or making sure the boss has enough health left for me to do it. That last one gets especially difficult when I want to finish with the end of a combo. I do CherryTapping too.

Are you me?

Are you I?

When playing fighting games, This troper forces himself to finish matches with the biggest, most telegraphed, hillariously slow move he can find, using high-power unblockables in the SoulSeries games and the Muay Thai fighter's roundhouse kick in Virtua Fighter at the end of every battle for dramatic finish potential.

This troper is gonna keep adding ''InitialD'' examples to articles until ''InitialD'' gets its own article. Then again, he could just write the damn article.

This troper has beaten {{Pokemon}} Red with only Charmander (Not Charizard, ''Charmander''), and only Magikarp (traded for the starter as soon as possible), barring HM Slaves, Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker with three hearts, and New SuperMarioBros. with only small Mario, and with the fewest number of levels completed possible. (Not at the same time, though. That'd require hax.) He believes himself to be addicted to [=SICs=].

Recently, he has begun trying to beat TempleOfElementalEvil A) with a one-character party (Bard and Druid are his best, with Paladin and Cleric not far behind) B) With all death being final, and a TPK meaning that the save file must be deleted (almost did it once, was wiped in the Plane of Fire C) Without patches. That last one is quite near ''impossible''.

This troper has never limited the level of his sdtarting pokemon, but he has done runthroughs of the game fighting only with a Blaziken that could only use Struggle for gym leaders, Victory Road, and the Elite 4/Champion. He was holding an experience share the whole time, and started at level 86.

It wasn't for the whole game, but this troper once tried to beat the elite four with nothing but a bunch of level five magikarps. He had to wait for an opponent's attack to miss, then use splash. Repeat this times forty to get the magikarps to use struggle. It was kind of cheating though because he used an infinite amount of full restores. Still fun though.

This Troper has beaten the Elite 4 of the Pokemon Firered Edition and caught the three Legendary Birds without ever using a pokemon on Level 50 or higher, in 27 hours and 31 minutes. It was easier than it sounds.

This Troper managed to play through Pokémon Sapphire and beat the Elite Four using only a Ralts. Not only that, I beat it in 18 hours, 56 minutes, and 27 seconds. Sure I got two [=TMs=] (Shock Wave and Shadow Ball) through trading, but still. My next challenge is to beat it again on a solo character run, this time with no trades at all, and to cut my time by ''five'' ''eight hours''. Just to note, it was a regular, segmented run.

This troper loved Kirby Super Star Deluxe, but he found it too easy, so he played all the games without using any power ups. Much harder, especially Arena and Milky Way Wishes.

Meanwhile, ''this'' troper is currently working on beating The True Arena without using any copy abilities. After that, it's onward to beating The Arena and Helper to Hero without using any healing items.

This editor enjoys putting a different spin on The Arena. As anyone who's played it should know, after every battle the player is offered two randomly-selected abilities. For this editor's "Arena Roulette" challenge, the idea is you MUST take one of the two powers between every round, and cannot use the same one for more than one round.

This Troper will see your arena challenge and raise you one. In the True Arena, as most people ought to know, you only get one copy power between rounds. To start, enter and exit the True Arena until Kabula is up first (the only boss in the True Arena where power doesn't matter). Then, for each of the next rounds, you must take the power you're given. Much harder than the above, because you don't get a choice in the matter; you might end up having to use Suplex on Dedede or the Galactic Knight. *shudder*

This troper has a bizarre love of an obscure Game Boy Color game called ''LilMonster.'' Having played through it numerous times, she's now taken up various challenges in it, such as beating it as fast as possible, beating it without using healing items except those necessary to get an item later in the game, and, her favorite, beating the final boss with one of the most pathetically wimpy monsters in the game. She actually did it on her first run through the game at the tender age of 11, so she knows it's possible... just vicious hard.

Whenever this troper plays ''ComixZone'', he insists on fighting the final boss hand-to-hand rather than luring him under the rocket boosters at the bottom of the arena like you're supposed to.

This troper is unreasonably fond of extreme "Sims 2" challenges. Accomplished feats: Raise 7 toddlers simultaneously with one adult and no help. Make 20 best friends without ever leaving your house or talking to anybody in person. Raise a generation of Sims with no running water (sinks, tubs, toilets, dishwashers, fountains, pools). Currently working on the Apocalypse challenge, and past the difficult first stages where you essentially live in a tiny house with a sink, an uncomfortable bed, no electricity and one meal a day... oh, and it's the dead of winter. People who think [=TS2=] is a wussy game should try the challenges, seriously.

Hey hey, the Apocalypse Challenge! *shudder* I load up my [=TS2=] game every so often and try to put a few weeks into my Apoc game, but, good grief, it's mentally taxing remembering which restrictions I can or can't ignore (and that's not counting my pathological aversion to harming or inconveniencing my Sims)...

This player just made up the Psycho challenge. Basically either you have to kill everyone else in two weeks without any outside help or the ability to control them, or you have to become friends with the guy who's killing everyone else so that he'll leave you until the last day. Then you have to kill him before midnight or you loose.

This troper made a female character that worked lived and interacted from home only on her computer. when she died of old age, she had only been visited once by the support bunny at the beginning of the game, because nobody else in town had gotten onto the internet.

This troper tried to complete ''Second Sight'' with 100% Morality. (Unfortunately, one level seems to be impossible, since the clones apparently die even if you use a psi blast to take down their shields and then use nothing but the tranquilizer, but you can't leave the room with them conscious. And another level is incredibly difficult because of all the soldiers with shields.)

As have I, inspired by the villan calling the hero out on all the people he killed to reach him, he still says it even if you kill nobody in the level.

This troper tried to do a Bioshock run on hard without killing anybody who isn't required to progress (that would also entail no big daddies except for two in Hephasteus, meaning a grand total of 3 little sisters available total). Security cameras and turrets are fair game, since ACTUALLY not killing anyone would quickly create a critical mass of enemies since more spawn after every objective, but no using enrage, electrobolt or winter blast, since freezing your enemies solid for five seconds while you run past is cheating. I only got most of the way through Medical Pavillion before getting fed up with the fact that the AI was '''not''' built to consistently chase you in the same way, which means luring leadhead or even some thuggish splicers back to a friendly security camera requires lots of reloading and a good deal of luck or potentially taking several hits for no reason. Also annoying was the part where you get incinerate; the enemies are also not made to consistently be run past, so whether I'd bolt outta there like a shot or get caught on an enemy (and I mean caught on in the "running into and trying to run through them" sense) was random, and just when I thought I had it they all chased me down the broken staircase which to this point had appeared to be inaccessible to them. But since I know things'll get a lot better as soon as I get target dummy, I might revisit it, or I might return while allowing myself nonfatal electrobolts.

This troper at one point started a playthrough where the only weapon used would be the wrench. Fair enough, except since I had done something similar on an earlier playthrough (wrench and crossbow only), I decided to crank the volume up. Survivor, no Vita-Chambers. Made it to somewhere in Arcadia before my patience wore out (may eventually pick it back up again).

The only way for this troper to play ''{{Pikmin}} 2'' is without letting a single Pikmin die. Ever. Especially in the later levels, this quickly ratchets up the difficulty of the game from "Simple and somewhat breezy RTS" to "NintendoHard." This also means the final boss takes a ''ridiculously'' long time to beat--about an hour, for this troper--since you have to play extremely cautious with your Pikmin. This is actually a good strategy for the dungeons, since you can't get more Pikmin in them (except on VERY rare occasions, when you get temporary "Bulbmin" that are immune to all hazards). Granted, in the Challenge Mode, you actually get a special ranking on all the levels for beating them this way.

Try combining this challenge with getting exactly 500 Pikmin, 100 of each color. Or with the speedrun challenge.

This troper is also currently doing a "Picture Perfect" run in ''BeyondGoodAndEvil''--she must complete the animal survey, but every animal picture must be "perfect." The head of the animal must be clearly visible and not obscured, and must be taken either from the front or at least in a pretty good profile--never the back. The animal should be as big in the frame as possible. The picture should not be too blurry, and if additional members of the same species can be in the picture, the more the better. And the picture of a human? Must be ''smiling.'' (There's actually only one way to get a picture of a person smiling, and it's only after a specific cutscene.)

This troper sentimentally went through her second playthrough by fitting Pey'j into every animal photograph it was possible to take with him beside you, making sure he was always facing toward and waving at the camera.

This troper has gradually given himself the following challenges:

Not using Jade's super attack (except against the first boss where it's mandatory) - I wasn't able to use it effectively anyway.

Not using the homing missiles (neutralizer cannon) in the battles, except when it's the only way to hit the enemy.

Using proper stealth instead of putting the guards out of action by shooting their gas tanks wherever possible (and wherever it doesn't prevent HundredPercentCompletion).

This troper played columns watching the reflection on a window, to make it a little more challenging. Playing it "by ear" proved to be imposible, though.

This troper is attempting to beat TVTropesWiki without making a typo.

This troper will only pair spades with hearts and clubs with diamonds when playing solitaire.

Years ago, this troper did a foodless ''{{Nethack}}'' run. She's ''still'' proud of it.

This troper has beaten IWannaBeTheGuy. He thinks this counts.

This troper agrees. I Wanna Be The Guy: when cutting yourself just isn't masochistic enough.

This troper beat I Wanna Be The Guy on Very Hard while collecting all the secret items... I have way too much free time.

This troper likes seeing how far he can get with his eyes closed, only opening them on the "Game Over" screen (to see how he died). His record? Five rooms.

Whoever beat the game on impossible deserves to be heralded as a god, I could practice for months and still never get there.

This Troper, when he was extremely bored, decided to beat Pokemon Diamond without allowing ANY enemy pokemon to attack him even once, starting to count as soon as he got at the first city. This means he spent 12 days levelgrinding. And managed to beat the game. Without taking a single hit.

That's pretty much a normal game of pokemon for this troper. Only replace "first city" with "second route."

This Troper's goal is to collect all the non-event Pokémon in Pearl version under very strict restrictions. First of all, everything must be in a regular Pokéball or something equally as weak (aside from Safari Balls, which are allowed for obvious reasons). Any trades done must be with himself, and the final trade number on the Trainer Card must be no more than 7. This is just barely possible if trade-induced evolutions are imported from the GBA games whenever possible, and Electivire/Magmortar are obtained from Battle Revolution. That leaves the other two starters, Stunky, Dialga, Rhyperior, Dusknoir, and Porygon-Z that must be traded. (A Skull Fossil can be attached to one of them, eliminating the need to trade a Cranidos.)

For the record, my current total is 456, 8 of which are not in the weak enough Pokéballs. I should be able to get it up to 472 or 473 soon, still with no recorded trades and with everything in Pokéballs.

There's a Youtube user who has done this one in FOUR trades. No, it's not imposible, he got Rhyperior, Dusknoir, and Porygon-Z via the trade-evolution glitch. (OK, technically he still needs Lugia, Ho-oh, Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi, but still.)

This fellow has beaten KingdomHearts 2 with a Low Level Challenge. It was quite a bit of fun, the combat system really shines once your buffer of massive amounts of HP is missing. After beating the game, I desided to try and beat Sephiroth with the file. A year has passed since then. :(

This lurker has beaten several Olympus Cups while blindfolded.

GreatPenguin plays Master Of Orion, and will not be content until he can capture Orion and wipe out every AI race on every difficulty level.

This troper has played ''FinalFantasyTactics'' with Ramza as a strict Mediator and a party of all monsters - it isn't as hard as you'd think, most of the time, though healing does get to be a problem, as you're basically limited to yellow chocobos and one of those tree-type enemies... and not a single damn monster in the game can revive. This troper's brother has also played with a FinalFantasyIV tribute party - Ramza as a knight/white mage and a bunch of generics - an archer/white mage, a summoner/black mage, a ninja, and a lancer filled out the party. The archer/white mage blew, but it was more of a fun thing than a challenge (It works best for FFIV, but tribute game templates exist for whatever FF game you please, and it gets really fun if you have a GameShark).

This troper's halfway through a full SSC Black Mage run in the PSP version. Surprisingly, I only had trouble in a handful of battles so far (I found that enemy equipment is often randomized, meaning that certain battles are pure luck; if you get guys with certain shields or cloaks that significantly boost their magic evasion, you're screwed). And interestingly enough, I started a normal game on a separate save and with a balance team, I'm stuck on the Dorter Trade City fight, when I demolished it with my Black Mage team. Weird.

This Troper beat all the RatchetAndClank games using nothing but the wrench unless absolutely necessary, which made the 2nd and 3rd games even harder (no upgrades.) Also beat JakII without using guns. (This was on my fifth playthrough, though, so I had the necessary experience.)

This Troper also attempted this, and failed, how you managed to get through the spaceport in the first game (where you pretty much need some projectiles to take out the towers that keep the forcefields up) is beyond me. Similarly much kudos if you beat the mutant swampbeast II in 2 with just a wrench, that thing is insanely difficult due to how it keeps moving forwards.

This troper spent ages, with four housemates, trying to leap out of a helicopter onto the roof of a moving car in GTA IV. Probably loads of people have done that, but the difference in my case was that, in a fit of drunken bravado, I made a bet on it: the first to do it could claim as his prize my anal virginity, unless I was the first to do it. Nobody managed it that evening, so we tried again a couple of days later. Three ''weeks'' on, I succeeded, to my relief (no offence to my housemates).

...you put a bet on your anal virginity...

...and your friends competed for it.

What

the

daffodil

He ''said'' they were drunk when they made the bet, everything after that was probably out of "I can't go back on a bet" mentality. That or all of his friends are gay.

''even then''.

Or the troper is a female.

'''EVEN THEN.''' Or is that just me?

Call it morbid curiosity, but I kinda want to know if the original troper would have gone through with it had he or she lost that bet.

Also call it morbid curiosity,but is the first trooper a girl or a boy?

This troper is planning to do a hard mode playthrough of KOTOR 2 without using any items whatsoever, including equipment. Thus, combat will comprise entirely of force powers, punching things to death, and running away a lot. And all the while, the characters will be in their underwear.

It's not CherryTapping when your punch is ''almost'' as powerful as a lightsaber blade. That would be to never increase your Strength stat, which controls all physical damage. And Force Storm and Life Drain are among the deadliest things in the game, and still in your arsenal. Stasis Field, Force Wave, and Master Heal, too, though for slightly different reasons. You want a ''real'' challenge, try playing through never levelling up past the necessary Level 2.

The goal was to make a more interesting playthrough, not necessarily the hardest one possible. :) I linked to CherryTapping because KOTOR's entry there is a major inspiration for the run. BareFistedMonk would probably work better for pot-holing, but it didn't exist back when I added this entry.

This troper's brother can no longer simply ''play'' ''FinalFantasyVI'', he has to come up with more and more insane challenges to put himself through. First it was a low-level run. Then a "natural magic" run, where only characters who learn magic on their own may learn it. He's currently at work on a "no magic" (save for Lores) run, with so far only one spell used, a single Cure spell against Vargus.

This troper has beaten RatchetAndClank3 with no armour. It quickly becomes NintendoHard to the point where it is one-hit kill, and even tiny errors can cause huge damage that will take ages to replenish. Also, playing without the PDA (allows for ammo to be purchased anywhere at the cost of x10 the usual price) is excluded.

The troper above has also beaten RatchetGladiator (or Deadlocked for some) in two ways. One: ''pacifist'' style. The player cannot attack ANY monster at all, s/he must use the bots to attack (and they are seriously underpowered). Two: no mods. Alpha mods and omega mods upgrade your weapon and they are important to surviving. Without them, it takes more effort to kill common enemies, resulting in rapid depletion of ammo, making vendor runs essential, in the end costing you a lot of money and time. These two challenges make the game so difficult incredible and astonishingly (imagine, the first few missions!!)fast that it becomes common to keep trying again to avoid messing up for the 463rd time .

This troper is and has been trying to beat the original SonicTheHedgehog with a DDR mat (Sonic Mega Collection for GameCube with the DDR mat for the system.)

THAT. Is AWESOME.

Similar to the Pikmin example above, ever since ''Marathon'' I've made it my personal mission to clear an FPS level at least once with as few RedShirt casualties as CutsceneIncompetence allows. The suicidal attitude of the typical RedShirtArmy sometimes strains VideogameCaringPotential, but I can't help loving the poor shmucks.

This troper began writing an {{Exalted}} character who is, for a lack of better words, really damn retarded. The reason for it was because just to see how an Intelligence 1 PC can function. Surprisingly, the PC is now one of her favorites.

This Troper is insane. Honestly. I went ahead and fully ev trained a Charmander then evolved her into a Charizard BEFORE EVEN FACING BROCK (on Fire Red). >.> I am also planning on one day beating a Pokemon game using nothing but one Magikarp (not evolving it) and a Pokemon with Pickup to get funds so that I can HEAL the damned fish (It CAN attack without knowing Tackle or Flail. However, using a Pokemon Center means having to drain 40 splashes ALL OVER AGAIN x.x)

This Troper has a strange self-imposed challenge with any and all RealTimeStrategy games that have a campaign setting: Beating each mission without losing a '''single unit or building'''. Yes, ''even in missions that are obviously some flavor of Kobayashi Maru scenario''. Well, excepting any scripted or cutscene losses, of course. Just imagine trying to get through, say, the C&C Tiberium Wars GDI mission in Croatia without losing a single unit. His friends are all convinced that he's {{Idiosyncrazy}} to put himself through sheer NintendoHard torture of ''that'' caliber.

Once upon a time, this troper took on his brother at Soul Calibur II and beat him with one hand.

And what did you do with your other hand?

UnfortunateImplications

No way, he must have used the other hand to play the game while beating his brother.

Answer: Solved a Rubik's Cube.

Ghosting in any game with thief-like elements is one of my most rewarding challenges, the object of which is to get in and out without being witnessed, and leaving no trace of your presence except for the things that are missing. Ideally no one should even suspect you were there except for the guy who gave you the job (unless he sells you out.) This can be done for all Thief games, and all thieving missions for Morrowind and Oblivion (with the exception of the damn vampires, which foils my perfect record.)

Unarmed/unarmored challenges for Morrowind and Oblivion, which becomes easier with skill and enchants. It can also be done with Fallout 3 quite effectively with the right perks.

This troper is planning on playing Fallout 3 without directly killing anyone. I'm going to upgrade the heck out of my speech and sneak to avoid battles, then I'm going to talk all the bad-guys to death.

This troper once caught all 204 monkeys in Ape Escape (the original on the mighty Playstation) using ''only'' the net. That means no using the Stun Club to momentarily stun the monkeys. Yep. I only used gadgets that were necessary to advance through the game but no none of those gadgets were used to aid the capture of monkeys. Its easier than it sounds but harder than it looks.

Not sure if this counts, but I can't possibly be the only one who tries to play games to the rhythm of the music playing.

No, this troper does that too. (Not just rhythm games, but fighting games, rpgs, first person shooters?)

This troper will occasionally attempt to do this with Touhou. So far I've only suceeded in Imperishable Night on easy mode

YouHaveToBurnTheRope. Use only the upper right torch. No damage. Minimum time. Fewest jumps. Constant jump. Constant axe. One key combo tap per second. Any combination of the above (excluding completely incompatible ones, like constant jump and fewest jumps).

{{dotHack}}//Infection, starting weapons and armor, Kite Only when no Guest Star Party Members are required and ONE healer on major battles (remember, they'd be underleveled since you only use them otherwise when absolutely necessary). (It's possible to finish the goblin races, but it's ''annoying.'')

I have just beaten Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus with the highest death count of Mudokons. There are 300 in the game and they must be rescued. However, only 11 of those unlucky 300 are needed to continue with the game. That mean 289 mudokons died during my adventure through the game. Killing them includes:

Slapping them to death

Getting them...

Shot by sligs

Eaten by scrabs/paramites/slogs

Blown up by mines

Fallen to death

Hit by bombs

Walked into electric walls

Walked into meat drills

Made the depressed commit suicide

Overall... FUN TIME!!

This troper, an aspiring ''Tetris: The Grand Master'' player, is giving up rotation systems with the floor kick feature for Lent. Which means he's going 40 days without a feature he depends on for his survival in ''TGM'' clones.

His friend, on the other hand, gave up sex, porn, and masturbation. This troper commends him.

This troper is doing No Fap November, and feels your friend's pain.

This troper got over his StopHavingFunGuys phase by picking characters at random in Tekken, Soul Calibur and Guilty Gear.

While not mine personally, one {{GameFAQs}} member by the name of Mikkeldemey beat ''Pokémon Sapphire'' with just a single Wurmple (affectionately named "Uberwurm"), and posted videos and images to prove it. It was NOT an emulator run, and the Champion battle was actually streamed live. Image proof of the ending can be found here.

Also not mine (although I am not the above troper), another member called Animekitsune beat Pokemon Leafgreen with a Caterpie named Pwnage (she specifically stated that she was inspired by Mikkeldemey, and also expressed the desire to upstage him...). She had videos of beating Blaine, Agatha, and the Champion, and pictures of various other things. Also not an emulator run.

Possibly not the hardest challenge, but I've been trying to save the tank that appears in [=MGS4,=] you only have so much time to stop the Praying Mantis soldiers from getting to their positions, and it's almost impossible to get from one spot to another in quick time without injuring Snake and exposing yourself to the soldiers on the ground.

Oh, and starting a fresh file on The Boss Extreme creates plenty of challenges.

Lots-o-fun until you get to the second act and those rebels will always seem to do something stupid to get you spotted.

Not quite the 'challenge' in skill levels, but rather tallying mathematics. In games where you blow up lots of tanks, planes and so forth try and estimate how much damage that'll cost in real life terms, for me it started with Super Thunder Blade II on the Megadrive with the absurd bosses and military destruction.

I've played {{Wizardry}} VI-8 on expert twice without resurrections, so character death meant reload. Killing the two Beasts of a Thousand Eyes took a day. (They cast a spell causing everything from StandardStatusEffects to death every few rounds, and there is no way avoiding that apart from hoping for the best, being drastically overleveled or using the easy to overlook Weaken spell.)

The final level of the original {{Starcraft}} allows you to use Protoss and Terran units against the Zerg. So what's a bored player to do? Use only one race or the other, of course! This troper found it much easier to do so with the Terrans, as the limited resources at the initial Protoss base make it much harder to get a war machine going without building and defending multiple expansions from massive onslaughts.

Want to get abused? Attempt a SelfImposedChallenge on an {{MMORPG}}. This troper is trying to get to level 75 as a Paladin on ''FinalFantasyXI'', Midgardsormr server... using only Red Mage, not the community-approved Warrior, as a support job. In fact, she refuses to even level WAR in order to keep people from demanding it (resulting in odd subjob choices for some other jobs, too). Due to the means by which a PLD/RDM generates hate, that necessarily means no fighting Colibri either. She wants to see just what the limits of "the brick wall" are -- just how situational it ''really'' is... Unfortunately, refreshers are so commonly elitist jerks that it's gotten to the point where a friend of hers is levelling Red Mage ''just to support her PLD/RDM.''

This editor recently came up with one such challenge for ''DevilMayCry 3'' (though it could work for other installments) and even gave it its own name: called the "REI Run" - "REI" standing for "Rebellion, Ebony, Ivory" - the task is simply to beat the game with just Rebellion, Ebony and Ivory. The game's already NintendoHard. Needless to say, she's ''not'' suicidal enough to try it on Dante Must Die mode!

Dante Will Die challenge - Fresh file on Dante Must Die! Oh dear god.

This Troper is on staff at a {{Sonic the Hedgehog}} fansite dedicated to these kind of challenges. They start a bit simple, such as finishing an Act within a certain time, or finishing with more than 200 rings, but they do plan to get a bit masochistic.

This troper is planning to challange himself in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner -- Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army. He plans to play the entire game through using only Jackfrost in battle. The only time this rule will be broken is when I have no choice (Solo missions Jack Frost can't complete),sometimes outside of battle as an assistent since Cool Down isn't very useful for investigastion, and the time it takes me to get the money I need to recreate my Jackfrost. As I am going to do this for new game plus I'm sure that it's not that big of a deal...except I plan to do this for The Hard Mode....the only comfort is that I will be able to take advantage of my other challange a level 99 Jackfrost with max stats with Mabufu and Maagi which I plan to complete before starting hard mode since I may want a challange, but I'm not that suicidal.

This troper played Guilty Gear on a DDR mat against a friend... and won.

This trooper decided to play {{Mega Man Star Force}} using only the default deck and deleting any power of friendship}}Brother Bonds made. mechanic}} Sadly, the game didn't let me delete Brother Bonds. Once I figure out how, I would use a hacking device to make Geo Steller a loner kid in order to make the game harder.

This troper played Smash Bros. classic mode without attacking by waiting for all the enemies to eventually fall off the edge on their own. It was really only possible on easy mode, and he did have to attack Master hand at the end.

Tabletop Games example: This troper plays {{Warhammer40000}} using a vehicle-heavy, elites-heavy Chaos army specifically so I can skirmish with a friend's Tau army, almost all squads of which have at least one anti-tank weapon. On a map with very little cover. Hilarity Ensues.

Just out of interest, how exactly does a Fire Warrior squad get an anti-tank weapon given that the maximum strength of their equipment is 5?

They don't Fire Warriors don't have the option to get any, however they can still take out light vehicles

This troper has come up with the "do it all with drones" challenge (using Tau in ''DawnOfWar: Dark Crusade'' without the troops leaving the base and without building non-drone vehicle cap units, so the only units on the battlefront are drones), and the "Kill Maim Burn" ''StarWars: Battlefront'' challenge, in which the main point is simply to headshoot at least 25% of the enemy troops, with more than 20 kills in one lifetime.

{{Assassins Creed}}, using only the Hidden Blade. Gets easier later on, but before you can counter....grab, throw, and knife to the throat.

{{Left 4 Dead}}. Expert mode, two players, no bots, pistols only. (Final Destination.) The farthest this troper has gotten is the final part of No Mercy's third level, and he still hasn't tried the others campaigns.

Play any 2-D platforming game holding right, (unless it's like {{Metroid}}) stopping or using left as little as possible. This troper tries that on syobon action (or "cat mario").

How did ''that'' work out?

''Bloons tower defense 2 and 3'': beat the game with no road spikes, beat them with cannons only, or both (for the third game only, because black bloons are immune to bombs, but not frag bombs...)

BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing: win a race without using a glitch.

This troper is currently attempting a Fallout3 naked run with 100% completion. No weapons, no armor, no items at all except for skill books. Collect every item in the game, even the countless tin cans and burned books. 100 in every skill by level 30. So far he is up to level 10, and has successfully punched a Super Mutant Behemoth to death.

This Troper has become The Guy. Now how else could he up the challenge? Attempting Impossible is one choice, but there is also a game he likes to call 'Save Tag'. Get to the Final Tower of the Guy, save, restart, shoot the evil save point, but don't kill it. Enter the final boss battle and see how long you last with not only The Guy to contend against, but the Evil Save Point too. Oh, and you can't kill it. This Troper hasn't even made it to Phase 2 of the battle.

Having a pet rat on your shoulder while you're doing, well, anything, adds that extra challenge to your everyday life, as found out by This Troper and his family.

This Troper (Nightboomfer) plans to complete Fallout 3 on a "Kenshiro" run. ie; Using only unarmed attacks. Yes, even for the Super Mutant Brutes.

This troper has two:

''DawnOfWar'': Win a game playing as Tau without losing a single living being. Drones are OK, but other vehicles are not. Although he rarely manages, he's pretty good at keeping living, breathing casualties down.

''DwarfFortress'': in two different fortresses, there's the Absolutely Huge Dwarven Apartment Complex (with 200+ dwarves, it's easier to stripmine the lower levels if most of them are living in a spire sticking straight out of the ground...admittedly it's not very dwarfy) and the Horrific Goblin Maze [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom OF DOOM!]] As the name suggests, this second one is a horrific labyrinth of pressure plates, ceiling-mounted circular saws, and dwarven atomsmashers, as well as one trap designed to answer the ancient philosophical question "Can goblins be killed by plummeting five storeys?" He even has nicknames for each individual trap - an atomsmasher-heavy hallway is the PathOfInspiration, the retracting bridge is the Goblin Paladin (aka "Gravity Sucks"), and the endless wall of traps is known as the Mills of Armok, because it grinds slowly...but very small. (And by "grinds", I mean "goblin-burgers anyone?")

This troper, for 24 hours, tried to do a ThirdPersonPerson challenge in which he only spoke in the third person unless first-person was really needed. It didn't work out too well.

Only Doom can do the third person speak successfully.

Not much of a challenge, but that reminds me: try not speaking for a day, explaining yourself only in writing if necessary. It's not challenging in itself -- the challenge becomes explaining to people what you're doing (and sticking to it) without coming off as a total loon. If you're already a CloudCuckooLander, this is an item for your "Fun Things to Do" calendar, not a challenge.

I all but insist on playing through games without letting a single character die, and I only like to use items as a last resort. ...Although I still like FinalFantasyIII and FinalFantasyVI. Go figure.

This troper is considering doing nothing but fishing for several hours on WoW just to get it out of the way. Yes, he realizes the fishing skill is the most soul sucking skill of them all.

Fallout 3. One end of the wasteland to the other. Killing every man, woman, monster, Child and robot in my path. If it moves, I kill it.

For any 2D Super Mario game, mushrooms only (no fire flower, flying, etc) is a simple way to make any of them a good deal harder. It's so simple and effective that this troper is surprised that none of them have a "hard mode" to enforce it. Of course, if that's too easy for you, you can skip out on the mushrooms too.

This Troper would sometimes enter levels in {{Kirby}} 64 that contained the cute, Magikarp-like fish "enemy" named Flopper. He would then have Kirby pick up Flopper and attempt to "rescue" him. In some stages it wasn't possible (because Kirby can't drop through floors while holding something) so he would sigh and sadly make Kirby eat Flopper. In a different Self Imposed Challenge, he attempted to complete every stage in Space Station Silicon Valley using the first-person camera, and in yet another he went through Final Fantasy 1 (the GBA remake) without class-changing.

Back when this troper was younger, and had way more time on her hands, she decided to challenge herself on a replay of Pokemon Yellow. She had wanted to keep the starter pokemon Pikachu in her party all the way through until the end. Then, she decided that she wanted to see if she could beat the game with the rest of her favorite pokemon at the time, so her final party consisted of: Rattata, Pidgey, Jigglypuff, Staryu, Oddish, and Pikachu. There was a lot of level grinding involved before she actually manged to beat the game.

I am attempting to obtain every shiny Pokemon catchable in the fourth generation games, and photograph them as proof. No using cheating devices to generate shinies or asking someone to do so for me. Cloning of shinies is ok if used to create trade fodder, but a cloned shiny cannot be evolved until all the copies are traded away. Illegit Pokemon may be accepted from other people as long as they were not created for the sole purpose of helping me achieve this goal. Aside from Platinum-exclusive formes, all Pokemon must be photographed in PC boxes 17 or 18 in my Diamond version.

And yes, I plan to do this all over again in Black and White. Still deciding whether or not it's acceptable to transfer over shinies from the current challenge.

A relatively easy one, from ''FinalFantasyX''. Aurochs-only Blitzball challenge, aka no signing new players to the team. This Troper did it and was still able to get the item needed for Wakka's Infinity Plus One Ball.

This is how I improve my art style.

This troper went through the majority of GTA IV by ducking behind cover with a pistol and carefully lining up headshots. Mostly because of how humorous it is to run into an area with dozens of heavily armed thugs only to drop them all with the weakest weapon. I could imagine the survivors telling their friends and family: "He was a cold, merciless, Slavic angel of death. We had the best assault weapons money can buy and he had a $40 semiautomatic. We had no chance."

This troper played it on the PC and found that that was actually easier for most of the game, given the headshots are one hit kills

This troper used to be obsessed with handicapping himself as much as possible in ''OregonTrail''. The most preposterous run he's ever done? No bullets, no clothing. He sold his initial set of clothes (do the newer games still let you do that?) and spent all his money on two oxen and food. Somehow, he got it to work without SaveScumming. After several tries.

Same here. Chuck Norris's Oregon Trail: No hunting, only the bare minimum equipment, breakneck speed, starvation rations, leave as early as possible. I managed to get my whole family there alive. Starving and sick, but alive, dammit!

This troper's sister used to love the "How early can you kill your entire party" challenge. Her record? Just before reaching the first river. ...Er... impressive...?

This troper was so bored one day that he tried to beat the Arena mode in {{Kirby}} Super Star without using any abilities. He nailed it on his first try.

This troper has yet to finish a "make-everything-that-you-can-draw-invisible" run in DrawnToLife.

Play any game using a graphics tablet instead of the mouse. Watch what happens. Particularly fun ones for this are FPS and racing games.

I'm playing Megaman Battle Network 3. WITHOUT USING BATTLECHIPS. Buster only. It'll be alot easier once I get a style change, but at the moment I'm fighting the "Virus King" and the only way to survive his first wave (three mouse virus things) is to have more health than them and press the shooting button really fast.

Do you intend to beat the postgame stuff too? If so, how the heck do you plan to beat Bass GX?

Forget the BonusBoss, regular Bass will be tactically impossible buster-only (100 Aura, [=BusterMAX=] only goes up to 50).

Non-OP here, but there are three ways to do it: you get [=NaviCust=] programs that let your charge shots go through shields and barriers ([=BrakBstr=] and [=BrakChrg=], if I recall correctly) by level-grinding the Guts style, or you obtain the [=SetGrass=] [=NaviCust=] program, obtain a Fire style, and equip [=BusterMAX=]- the double damage gives you just enough power to break the shield, but you'll have to attack in a pattern so that the 3-square attack only burns the one square that he's on, in addition to 2 of your squares, or squares that you already burned, since you only get one grass-stage from the program, or, lastly, install ''two'' charge programs improperly- it causes your charge shot to change to a water-gun, which has a range of 1 square, but deals juuust enough damage to break Bass' aura. The first method works against Bass GS, too, but it'll still be crazy hard. Yeah, I play this game too much.

Oh and I've also played through the Cell stage of Spore without ever evolving. I was a herbivore, so I could run if I had to, but it was still difficult because I couldn't outrun, outfight or outeat anything else I met and I just had to avoid them by swimming through water currents. I'm pretty sure the creature stage is impossible without evolving, but I might try naked Tribal stage or play civilization stage with useless vehicles.

This troper had an idea, and is now carrying it out: PokemonMysteryDungeon Explorers of Darkness. No reviver seeds, no save scumming at the relay points, no getting wonder mail rescued. Poor Reno and Rude (because yes, this troper is enough of a dork to use the names of Those Two Guys from Final Fantasy VII...) are ''boned''.

This Troper got all the way to the last Komato assasin in Sector 9 playing a Sudden Death Pacifist--anything except machinegun, collision damage or pulse rifle is instantly fatal (and those kill after only a few moments) to both the player and the enemies, and I didn't kill anything. No stunning enemies by knocking them down nonfatally, no taking any hits, no using a shredder to speed past everything in sight, you can't even kick a turret without making sure there's not a grunt standing on the other side. Worse, since sudden death exists on a per-level basis all skill points are unassigned and all weapons lost at the start of every level until you can find an upgrade station, and none of the normal benefits for a pacifist character (such as the level 3 truce or the friendly trading Tasen replacing a berserker in level 7). This basically transforms it into a different game, as the game was balanced for pacifism to be possible but not safe; most enemies have a melee attack that can kill with next to no warning but many must be run right through to progress, and one bar of armor doesn't survive very many bullets. If anything the game gets much easier once the Tasen Commanders and their love of kicking are replaced by Komato and their love of easily dodged shocksplinters. And don't even start on the beasts; I beat sector 7 by pure luck. I'm sure I could finish 9 if I came back to it, but 10 without annihilator beta and with one hit point for the brutal final stretch sounds intimidating; even beating the first part on sudden death at all is tricky.

Another challenge by This Troper is ExitFate with no armor (or any equipment at all, in fact) and no items except brown potions and silver dust (and those only because they're more fun than wasting turns). This challenge comes HIGHLY recommended, as the combat is just too easy without it, needing something like this to keep it tense and challenging. It screws up the balance royally since your MDEF towers over your PDEF, but if anything it makes a combination of mages and fighters more important since your mages can't take any hits at all. I got all the way up to and through the Mt Ea sidequest, with random encounters who can kill almost any of your guys in no more than two hits and a boss who rather than being the monstrous challenge she was the first time around fell the very first time I tried, before being distracted by other games. Actually a bit farther I think; I think I got up to the library. I may come back sometime.

Update: Finished the game. Difficulty still slumps a bit near the end, but not nearly as much as normally.

I already have my next playthrough of ''Red Faction: Guerrilla'' planned. I'm going to (attempt to) play through Insane difficulty, with no armor upgrades or jetpack, using only the assault rifle, pistol, remote charges, and sledgehammer. Whether I'll allow myself to use turrets and walkers or not, I'm still debating.

This troper fairly recently played through Majora's Mask, with 3 simple rules:

The Song of Time could only be used a maximum of 5 times (not counting when it is first learned, but counting when you play it as a Deku the first time).

The Oath to Order could only be used once HundredPercentCompletion was achieved (excluding the final four Heart Pieces and the Fierce Deity Mask, because it is impossible to get those without playing the Oath).

No external help (such as GameFAQs) could be used.

After being told to write in third person for a psychology coursework, this troper proceeded to spend the whole of the next day speaking in the third person. It angered, '''everybody''' but made me smile.

This troper has found the ultimate Mario challenge: ''Super Mario Galaxy''. Dreadnought Purple Coins. Make your way through the stage without collecting ''A SINGLE PURPLE COIN'', except for the mandatory one at the end. This takes an already hard level and nearly boosts it into PlatformHell. And yet I have done it. I cursed like hell all the way, though.

You can do this on Battlerock Purple Coins, too, by collecting none at all. You even get a special message from the NPC, who ''really'' hopes you tried to do this on purpose. Yes. Yes, I did.

If you really want a challenge, check out some of the Uber Challenges Speed Demos Archive came up with. Some of them are fairly easy, and some are an absolute nightmare.

This troper's next challenge: Do a MinimalistRun of ''FireEmblem 7''--no using armories or shops, or utilizing the transfer data from the Double Dash bonus disc. He thinks the hardest part will probably be conserving the healing staves. Needless to say, it'll also have to be somewhat of a PacifistRun, and skipping most of the bonus chapters should help (not the first two, though, because I'll want Merlinus ASAP, and Canas is probably one of the easiest characters to fuel without buying anything (plus Port of Badon can be completed without battling many of the enemies).)

This troper now does this all the time for BattleMoonWars. She's completed two no-BP-used runs, a run where she stopped using her characters once they hit 50 kills, a run where she killed the BigBad without ever attacking or counterattacking her, and a run she lost the save to where she was only fielding the minimum required amount of units. Her next challenge is a guys-only run - ergo, no healers.

Playing a game of ''Asteroids'' while trying not to score any points, including crashing into asteroids is very hard.

This troper has completed ''BubbleBobble'' in two-player mode while being alone, controlling both dragons simultaneously.

Also, I've finished ''Tyrian'' on the fifth difficulty level, even though it normally only has three difficulty levels.

One of this troper's proudest gaming moments was completing ''AceCombat 04'' on Ace difficulty with the default plane. Imagine my disappointment when I went to a fansite to brag, only to discover that people (crazy, crazy people) were completing ''speedruns'' and '' '''no damage''' '' challenges with that setup.

To be honest, this is fairly easy. If you know the game mechanics on how to dodge missiles and know to avoid getting close to AA guns because the mechanics change so little between the various games you can do this on pretty much every single game. Anyone who can actually beat the game on ace can almost certainly do it with the worst plane and taking no damage.

This Troper, a known arena abuser in {{Fire Emblem}} not only challenged herself to not use the arena, but to get her units up to level 20/10 doing so. She completed that challenge with a grin huge as a crescent moon. :3

This tropeer likes to play all arcade light gun games with dual guns. Not usually a challenge, just fun, but I tried it on House of the Dead 3, which uses shotguns. Ended up being a little expensive, but I got on OK before someone else wanted to play. I beat Time Crisis 2 playing both screens, but once you figure out how to keep your balance it's pretty easy.

This troper has decided that his next play through of DynastyWarriors 6: Empires is going to play like this. Someone must unite all of China, but it can't be this troper's liege.

This troper has gotten so bored with Guitar Hero World Tour that whenever he plays guitar, All Slide is on and he only strums chords. He's already beaten songs with rapid strumming such as Scream Aim Fire this way without dropping into the red, too.

He also tries to avoid strumming at all during solos in Rock Band, although he makes a special exception for Green Grass and High Tides's solo #2

RL version with this troper, who sucks at languages and loves his first world comforts, who decided to see if he could survive life in the developing world without those comforts/his friends/etc. He's actually quitte proud of how long he lasted.

Another one for this troper: playing ''Minesweeper'' without actually marking the mines.

I also tend to create ones for myself in various puzzle/arcade games if I find them too easy; e.g. in ''Gemcraft'': Any time a monster reaches your tower (normally penalized with a mana loss), the mission is a failure. (Obviously, this makes the armor skill useless; don't spend any skill points on it.)

Halfway through the game I realized that the game wasn't fun any more (as I was way overpowered for the upcoming frames; this is made even worse by the fact that the game actually rewards you for playing an overpowered character - the worst being returning to early frames at level 50 - with extra experience, making it a self-perpetuating problem); so I restarted the game with a LowLevelRun instead.

In the flash game ''Dodge'': try to complete the game without spending points to recover your energy.

I also like the Solitaire game ''Prince Serg'', but I find it too easy; so I decided to deal about a third of both decks at the start of the game. (As a quirk, I also like to leave the last card left of the two deck unused until the end of the game.

Back when this troper used to play Pokemon competitively in early D/P, he got the idea of making a mono-special team--that is, a team that used absolutely no physical attacks, not even a mixed attacker or Explosion which most special-oriented Pokemon use to overcome special walls--to see if it would work in a time when people were saying Blissey, the (in)famous standard special wall, would stop that kind of team cold--or, if it did manage to get past Blissey, it would fail to be viable against other teams due to crippling overspecialization. Turns out, with some thinking outside the box (lots of Baton Passing, Taunting, Toxics, and Destiny Bonds), such a team was completely viable. This troper isn't sure if the same would work now.

I wonder if anyone has attempted to one-credit ''BattleGaregga'' with the rank maxed out.

I'm currently in the process of trying to beat {{Fable}} 1 without levelling up, with weakest weapons. I'm a little stumped as to how I'm going to beat the final boss though. He's got that damn unblockable lightning...

This troper does it in Port Royale 2. No building permits except the ones you get through the Turk Islands governor missions (creating a chronic meat shortage and at least two chronic colonial-goods shortages), no fighting or capturing towns (except that one unskippable "wife abducted by pirates" mission), settler delivery to Dutch towns only (which unbalances all the colonial-goods markets), and no using accounts receivable (via the town treasurers) to level up assets. Why yes, this troper is an accountant. How'd you know?

This troper has a challenge for ''{{RayCrisis}}'': The Encroachment Limbo Challenge -- Play Original mode, then after two stages, note your encroachment meter. Now, finish the rest of the game whilst keeping the encroachment between this lower bound and 100%. The higher you set your lower bound at the end of stage 2, the better. Any takers?

This troper beat Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin using only subweapons, kicks, and as little magic as he could manage. Also, aside from Dracula, all weapons could only be used until mastered. It worked shockingly well, actually.

This troper decided to play Halo 3: ODST's Mombasa Streets level again just for the purpose of finding all of the audio logs. Now that I've beaten the campaign, that's practically the only collector thing left.

This troper did this once with DiddyKongRacing; a no items challenge (I was not allowed to use them at all, with the exceptions of the two TT Challenges that required use of them (Darkwater Beach and Icicle Pyramid)). It was a pain, but I did manage to beat it.

This troper and his friend have recently begun doing "marathon" runs of some of our favorite games, such as VideoGame/SuperMario64 and ''{{Kirby}} 64: The Crystal Shards''. Basically, the objective is to play through the game's story mode(and, in the case of ''Kirby 64'', go for HundredPercentCompletion). It's actually easier than it sounds, however.

NARFNra is playing Advance Wars Dual Strike, and attempting all the War Rooms as Flak, no bonuses mode, no one else. Well, on the Dual Strike maps, he plays with Jugger, but that's it. You'd think it'd be easy, but...

This troper recently finished a challenge run of Pokémon Yellow; using only a Pikachu that knows Surf (Lovingly named "[=HAXachu=]") during the game, aside from instances where a HM slave would be needed. It was much, mush easier than I though it was going to be; Pikachu was nearly level 100 by the time I got to the Elite Four (As a note, I did not use Surf on Brock; instead opting to spam Quick Attack to make things a little more interesting).

This Troper likes to play age of Epires 2, limiting himself to gunpowder units only, with the exception of villagers, towers (though those aren't really units) and the starting scout unit. There are few things more satisfying in that game than seeing waves of imperial-aged swordsmen being scythed down repeatedly by lines of hand cannoneers.

Currently turning Rush of TheLastRemnant into a OneManArmy. I'm trying to use him and him alone as much as possible for the whole game. Its actually going quite well. He's a legendary monk with 700 HP and a Warriors Claymore, capable of taking down a Tornado on his own, and I'm not even past Elysion yet.

This troper likes playing Free Battle in Advance Wars: Days of Ruin by selecting a 4 player map, no CO for himself, 3 Caulders controlled by the CPU, and going into a 1 vs 3 fight against them. Fun times...

This troper played Geneforge 4 and killed every Shaper in the game, including the ones in the unimportant forts that spawn unlimited creations.

Although it's more out of habit, this troper likes to stick with the same character in a FightingGame walkthrough (no matter how often he loses). He also likes to play ''{{Worms}}'' and has taken to giving the CPU teams in a vs. computer game an advantage (such as more worms or starting health).

A few months ago his troper dug up an old copy of ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal to challenge himself a couple of things (optional in the game, as in not necessary to win it, which the troper already did): capture all the 77 unique fairies in the game (which he just did two months ago), and level up all of them to the highest experience level (Level 60), though he's currently on a break from that second challenge.

Also, the same troper enjoys challenging himself to certain tasks in Grandia II, which in the long run, would actually make things easier when finally dealing with the game's BigBad:

Obtaining all the Magic Eggs, and levelling up all their available spells.

Obtaining the Jet Black Cape, which grants its wearer an enormous amount of protection and resistance to all attacks. It's very difficult to obtain - it's found in the Raul Hills level after returning back from Valrmar's Moon, and can only be obtained by battling the Devils, which itself is quite tough.

Levelling up all of the party members' Special Attacks as early as possible.

Collecting all the Ability Books, and levelling up all the Abilities

Playing every custom Doom II level with the game mod Scoredoom with the add-on pack and with No Infighting mode on is this troper's challenge, particularly with the really brutal megawads.

This Troper likes inventing challenges for MountAndBlade. Most of these attempts have miserably failed, but my latest one seems to be working quite well. I'm not hiring any generic Mooks into my army. Only unique companions. It's quite playable. As long as you don't crank Battle Size above 50.

I started such a challenge in ''AceCombat Zero'': Ace mode, using only the F-15C, not allowed to use the QAAM missile. It went surprisingly well until mission 13, at which point I was shot down twice in a row and had to upgrade to F-15 S/MTD. I'm doing the same thing in ''04'', though in that case I'm using the F-22 and the only thing that's even managed to hit me so far was a flak turret.

This troper ''loves'' self-imposed challenges, and does'em as he doesn't know if it's competitive spirit of downright sadomasochism. After his Memory Card was erased, he decided to restart a Tales of Symphonia game. On hard mode. Without fleeing. While obtaining the "I hate gels" and "Friendship First" titles (for the first half of the game, not a single healing item, and no character is allowed to die ''once''). While defeating both the first Sword Dancer as soon as he could, and "optional" Kratos too. Oh, and without power-leveling, of course. Now he's gotten over it, and he has a ''slight'' idea of what hell might look like...

Another troper decided to perform a half-exp, no items, no changing equipment, no ex skills, no grade shop bonus, except the half exp and map, solo mania run. Completed several months later, hardest part being the solo Kratos fight and dragons after Rodyle.

And from the same Troper, a Kingdom Hearts II one. Sephiroth - Proud Mode - Level 50 - with the Sweet Memory keyblade, and with Double Jump as the only Drive Form Bonus. While using a single Elixir during all the battle.

Speaking of [=KH2=], this one attempted a low level Sephiroth battle without items, and without damage reducing abilities (so no Second Chance, no Defender, and no Once More). Still haven't beaten it yet, but it's only a matter of time now.

slain also has a completed SIC for ''{{Boktai}}''. Hard Mode, 0 times seen, no Azure Sky Tower (so no L4 Frames), no Spear series Frames (so no cheating by firing through a corner), no items (save for Redshrooms), no non-mandatory kills, all dungeons completed, no deaths, only use sun for segments that require it (such as Pile Drivers), no grenades, S-Rank. Fucking Steps - those and Cockatrices were the main sources of restarts during the run since one couldn't be stunned and the other was usually needed to shoot stone everywhere. That and those damned Stone Golems over in Sol City, blocking certain paths that made it nearly impossible to bypass without a banned Blueshroom.

This Troper got bored playing Sparkle, a light/darkness-themed MarblePopper game, because he had beaten the game before and it was too easy. Now, he decided to play using nothing but the Amulet of Simplicity (a wearable item that knocks out one color from the chains, making levels easier— but compensates by making those same levels fast, fast, fast!!). It is/was.... terrifying, really.

Non-video game example: get up, read favorite webcomic, write a FilkSong based on that day's strip, shower, dress, get to work by 8am. ''Every single day.'' Current record: 278 days in a row. For Expert Mode, don't re-use any melody that's been used before.

This Troper is currently doing one based on This Very Wiki - read the CrowningMomentOfFunny pages at work. That means no laughing, otherwise the people next to you are going to want to know what you're doing. The people in my office think I've got a very strange cough.

this troper came up with her own Pokemon challenge: The OC Run. as she described on the Pokemon Troper Tales page, it's a [=RPers=] challenge where you can only capture as many Pokemon as [=OCs=] you own. Said Pokemon must also share some qualities with your [=OCs=] and must also be nicknamed after them. She is currently trying to pull the challenge off in Pokemon Emerald.

This Troper and his friend once played SSBB with the same controller to battle another friend, as in I was in control of the Wiimote and my friend the nunchuck. Hilarity ensued and we actually won a couple of fights.

When this one was young, she learned that in Secret of the Living Volcano, the Faces Within the Face and Fish Within the Fish activities used a cypher language on all the cryptiles. She made it a challenge to complete these parts of the game without relying on the translator heads. Easy with the words for Fish, but she occasionally cheated on Faces because the numerals looked similar enough to be mistaken at times. She also attempted to fully read the Biospheric Containment chamber in the cypher before Laptrap would change it to readable English.

I'm in the middle of two right now. The first one: Fallout 3, try and get as close to 100 on all skills before level 20. I'm also considering a Very Hard run, and, assuming New Vegas turns out to be good, making the first play-through a Hardcore mode one. The second: Fire Emblem 7. If anyone dies, you restart. No questions. It has occasionally made me want to throw the DS at the fall but hey. (Honestly, I didn't even realize it was a challenge until someone pointed out you could just let them die.)

This Troper is trying to beat her God of War Collection on the hardest diffuculty settings, Without upgrading anything but "Posiedons rage" And "Cronos' Rage". I Don't think it can be done

This Troper's friend tried to be silent for a whole day, after our last teacher said he was talking too loud the day before. The teacher found out ahead of the class and tried to get him to speak. With around a minute left in class, he gave up picking on him and congratulated him for his accomplishment. Said friend screamed yes at the top of his lungs, before everyone burst out laughing, because the day was not yet over.

You know the Nitrome game Frost Bite? Think it's too easy? Well, this troper has the challenge for you guys! I call it the Injury Overreaction Challenge. The rules are normal, until you get hit. Then, if you got hit on the head, spaz out and mash random arrow keys at X-second intervals. If you got hit on the arms, you may not use your GrapplingHookPistol. If you got hit on the legs, you may only walk (just walking, midair movement doesn't count) by ButtonMashing, and if you jump, you must rest for X seconds. These injuries STAY until you get an energy boost or a checkpoint, and if you have more than one, you may only remove one of them. If you get stuck, then you must restart. If you lose a life and have no injuries, add one injury. If you have all three injuries, restart. Yeah, I know...

This troper has heard of a Gamer who is trying to get to Level 70 in [=MW2=] multiplayer WITHOUT KILLING ANYONE.

This troper cannot play a RTS without trying to get every last resource on the map.

I imposed a challenge of writing a song with Charms without rhyming it with Arms...IT CAN BE DONE! (after reading the cring worthy/cliche'd rhymes page)

UltimaOnline: I ran a "real mage" back before they were required or wise. Health as low as I could keep it (9hp for the longest time), so a single hit from anything would kill me, no armor, no weapons, only magic. I successfully killed an Ancient Wyrm like this, at the time the most powerful enemy in the game. It took two hours of poison spells and a lot of running/hiding/waiting. At the end of the two hours some prick came in and ninjad the kill. Bastard.

This troper has a strong tendency to do this. Most of the time, the challenges are completely spur-of-the-moment as opposed to actually being planned out. A few examples:

FinalFantasyVII: Ruby Weapon, no summon materia, no magic materia, no Mime, no accessories, no character over level 75.

VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine: collect that Shine that requires taking Yoshi to that tiny island on Delfino Plaza, without using the leaf raft. (Did this one just about half an hour before posting here, actually.)

IWannaBeTheGuy: Complete the game in under an hour and under 100 deaths.

Majora's Mask: Get 100% completion in 5 or fewer cycles. The first cycle, when you're cursed by the Skull Kid, does count.

This tropette has made it her goal to learn to beat every boss in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards blindfolded. She already has the BonusBoss Zero-Two down to a science due to sound cues, and Whispy Woods is almost down.

This troper has done a number of challenges with various video games

These involved some sort of variants of the NoDamageRun:

Playing through ''HalfLife'' without losing HEV energy

Playing ''FatalRacing'' at Impossible level and winning all 8 races of any cup in Championship Mode (thus scoring maximum possible points for that cup)

Creating a new car in ''WanganMidnight Maximum Tune'', then completing Story Mode, getting all the dressup parts in Ghost Battle, and Completing all 10 levels of 10-Outrun mode with S-Rank, all without losing any race in any of those game modes.

Recently in ''GranTurismo 5'', his new challenge is to collect all the Rare Cars.

Revenge of Shinobi speedrun on hardest difficulty (in other words, one life at the start of the game), no deaths (because saying no damage is just sadistic), no throwing knives and no ninjitsu. It is possible, but you'll probably not get past world 7 for years (there is a pixel perfect jump where failure means death in the first level of that world). I'll be honest and say I've not managed it. Yet.

CallOfDuty using only melee attacks and grenades, except where absolutely necessary (mostly the Russian sniper level and the tank level).

Getting to a somewhat-positive ending in a ChooseYourOwnAdventure book based on anything supernatural before "you" experience anything so weird that your character would necessarily walk away believing in the supernatural.

On Zombieville USA for iPhone, This Troper (Tropers/Inhumanundead made the One-Eyed Valentine Challenge. Here are the terms:

You have completed the challenge if:

You have made it to Lvl 100 with one weapon (upgrade as you wish)

To complete the Uebermensch version:

You use the hardest difficulty.

You only use the (upgraded out of hell) pistol

You make it to level 200.

No restarts, and you can only buy 3 packs of ammo.

Have fun in HELL!

This Troper has completed the "Knuckles in Sonic 1" romhack without collecting a single ring. Considering several of the levels FORCE you to collect rings, I had to get creative to avoid them, including a 6 month spell resulting in a video lasting around a minute.

While not particularly hard compared to some of the others on this page, this troper's doing a PacifistRun of ''JazzJackrabbit 2''. The only exceptions to the "don't kill" rule are the bosses. Suddenly the game's a bit harder than usual...

This troper has subjected himself to some ridiculous ones when it comes to {{Bemani}}. For instance:

In ''DanceDanceRevolution'', clearing songs with 0 points. He can only do this on very easy charts.

Also with DDR, playing with my own side on Mirror and Stealth, facing away from the machine and craning my neck to see the other player's arrows.

DDR again. Trying to drink a liter of water during an Oni course.

Double+Shuffle. 'nuff said.

This one wasn't self-imposed, but try playing DDR ''on mute''. It's much worse than it... wait, it doesn't sound.

Trying to play DrumMania ''with a bouncing ball''. This didn't go too well.

This troper just did it, after being really, really bored. The power of WikiWalk actually allows you to do it in just five clicks. (not counting the first one to get to JokerJury)

I do a non-video game version of this trope, if anyone is interested in reading.

If anyone's interested, this Troper did this: This Page>Joker Jury>Real Life>Duke Nukem Forever>VideoGame Culture>Self Imposed Challenge>Troper Tales.

The power of the search bar allows you to do it in less.

Not if you only use every other consonant.

This may be cheating, but This Troper did it. This page>JokerJury>The Home Page>Main Tropes Index (left side of Home Page), scroll down to Just For Fun, Troper Tales (on the right, in the box), This page again.

One-Upped. This Page > Joker Jury > Troper Tales (for Joker Jury) > Troper Tales Index > This Page. Alternatively, bookmark this page and do it in 1 or 2 clicks, depending on browser or placement of bookmark.

This Troper did it by going This page > Joker Jury > Videogame > Difficulty Tropes > Nintendo Hard> Self Imposed Challenge.

A similar challenge exists in TheOtherWiki. Click "random page" and see how many clicks it takes to get to Hitler's page.

For this troper, 5 clicks. (All pages are in the Main Namespace) The clicks were:

SettingUpdate, ComicBookTime, Comicbook/XMen, BackFromTheDead, and NeverFoundTheBody.

This troper thinks that CaveStory isn't hard enough. So he decided to start a new file on the WiiWare version and A: Get the Spur, B: Don't get Booster 0.8, C: Get the good ending.

To all members of the LiberalCrimeSquad, from leader Elodie Hiras: TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified! No attacking (exception: damaging conservative scum's ears via ThePowerOfRock is still allowed), no hostage beaten nor subjected to dangerous hallucinogenes (you can still tie them down). No squad members executed, nor send into suicide mission. Weapons may be carried, but only as means of intimidation.

Same troper: Done. during Nighmare mode AND with the CCS starting immediately active. none of my boys and girls even died. Next try: the Liberal Girl Power Crime squad: Only girls may be recruited via normal ways, only man will be abducted, and will be kept as servants (IE: no male sleeper agents, and male jobs restricted to low level tasks (legal fundraising, selling brownies, prostitution, liberal disobediance, community service, grafitis and outfit crafting). During Nightmare mode, We didn't start the fire, and with the above restrictions.

Donkey Kong 64

I have done Hideout Helm after only giving 5 blueprints to Snide. This meant I had 15 minutes to do what you can have a max of 50 for. Without getting the Bananana medals I managed it. With 30 seconds to spare. Of course in order to do this you had to give up 35 easy Gold Bananas. I had in fact considered not giving any to Snide and run it in 10. I now know it can't be done. And I screwed up ONCE in Lanky's maze challenge.

''Frostsabre.'' Many times:

WoW. Solo Van Cleef before level 40 and before 2006.

Beautiful Katamari. Hit 7500000 yen on the DLC stage.

RealLife. Complete a phone conversation and hang up as quickly as possible.

Desert Strike, a StarCraft II Custom Map. Defeat the enemy Nexus with only Marauders and Marines.

In a non-video game related example, in order to make my English class vocab quizzes more interesting, I've decided to theme all the sentences on any given test around various things. Today's test was themed around zombies.

{{Prototype}}. Kill as few civilians as possible. My record is 59.

This troper attempted the Court Bretonnian army. Minimum 2000 points, no peasants, every knight with unique personal heraldry, no transfers/decals. For those unfamiliar with the army list, that can run to well over 70-80 knights and other nobles, and the area you have for heraldic designs is a heater shield maybe an inch tall. For the record, this troper gave up after 27 (split between Knights Errant and Knights of the Realm), and bought some archers and men-at-arms to support the mounted nobility.

This troper also has the perpetual challenge of "no metal models" in his armies. If it doesn't have a plastic kit, I have to sculpt my own with epoxy, kitbash it from other sources or do without. Occasionally, I relax that rule for individual metal components, if they are sufficiently awesome and light enough that you wouldn't be able to tell without either weighing the two or stripping the paint off.

I've completed a Scoring}} seven-digits score run in {{House of the Dead}} 3's Trial}} Time Attack mode. I also got Inflation}} a global SS rank and a S at each level.

Beating Pokémon Platinum and then HeartGold in a total of under 12 hours. Will this Troper succeed? Stay tuned to find out!

When I get around to it I plan to play Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity without using any Gravity Powers. I'll post how it turns out after I do it.

In NewSuperMarioBros, I decided to do the final castle as mini Mario. As you know, Mini Mario can only take 1 hit and is dead. I managed to get to the boss room ''and'' beat it.

This troper Nuzlockes. Need I say more? ...OK, well, I've beaten Platinum, and I'm on my second run of [=LeafGreen=] while simultaneously doing Emerald. Then on to [=HeartGold=], and who knows where after that?

This troper is a big fan of Self Imposed Challenges and has put more time into Self Imposed Challenges on some games than playing it 'properly'. A few of the challenges I have attempted;

A Suit Only, Silent Assassin run on Hitman 2, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money. In other words, you have to use the default suit to finish the entire mission with the highest possible rating, Silent Assassin. You will be shot at if you are seen in almost every mission. There are some missions where it is EASIER to finish with the default suit rather than using a disguise, but in other missions, you are infilitrating heavily defended buildings where every inch is patrolled or guarded. It's not easy.

A Solo Run of every level on Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. A Solo Run is when you play a level completely on your own with no other survivors with you. The first levels of each campaign are rather easy, but anything other than that is a real challenge. The game doesn't scale down anything if you are the only one left alive, meaning you still have to brave hordes, common infected, special infected, tanks and horde events all on your own.

A Stealth/Pacifist run of Far Cry 2. This is exactly what it sounds like; a run of Far Cry 2 with as few kills as possible and without being detected whenever possible. This doesn't just mean the missions; I am attempting to get the diamonds and Jackal Tapes like this too. So far, I have gotten all of the collectibles in the top 3 sectors of Leboa-Sako without killing anyone or being detected (aside from safehouses). Yes, even the fort and Goka Falls.

Master Saves on GTA:San Andreas and GTA 4. That's completing absolutely everything that can be done at the start of the game, well, at the start of the game. In the other GTA games, it's not at all a challenge as you can gain access into the later islands using glitches and scoop up all the collectibles with ease as there is no wanted level for islands you shouldn't have gained access to, but in GTA:SA there is a 4-star wanted level, and in GTA 4, a 6 star wanted level.

This troper is planning a few rounds of Team Fortress 2 as the Spy with the following setup. L'Etranger (-20% damage, +15 cloak power on hit), Your Eternal Reward (no ability to choose your disguise), and the Dead Ringer (no ability to cloak at will), without the Sarahan Spy set bonus (much quieter decloak, much more visible when hit during cloak). He gets the feeling said rounds will be filled with frustration, but ultimately be hilariously rewarding.

This troper once did a playthrough of ''PrinceOfPersia: The Sands of Time'' without picking up any Sand Tanks. These expand how much sand you can carry, and therefore how many times you can rewind time, so I could only rewind time with the four pools of sand you start the game with. They are also the only way to give you more sand outside of combat. Unfortunately, it was surprisingly easy.

What about this, in Pokémon White the Go to Nuvema Town everytime I need to visit the Pokécenter to heal run. Without Fly.