house rules

what game rules have you enforced or had enforced on you by friends?

the main one i'm thinking of is super street fighter, there's one character where if you know his really good moves you're invincible, so:

house rule - you can't play as that guy

or another SSII rule - no "turtling"

i ask this because in "everybody's tennis" there's a player who can serve the ball so that it curves completely out of the field of play and is impossible to return

house rule - you can't play as her

No choosing Oddjob in Goldeneye.

(Shorter = harder to hit)

Also, no humming in singstar.

And no Eddie Gordo in Tekken.

haha eddie gordo is so easy to beat u lamerrrr

you can't play as that Guy
...in Final Fight, because I always play as Guy.

Dude, it was YOU who wouldn't let me play as Eddie!

lies i tell you lies. i could beat him with one hand behind my back.

No choosing Oddjob in Goldeneye.

this may be the most ubiquitous house rule ever

Totally no Oddjob!

For SF games:
- no Akuma in... one of those marvel/capcom games, i think x-men vs street fighter?
- No Link or Spawn in Soul Calibur II
- No Yoda or Apprentice in Soul Calibur III
- No Mortal Kombat, ever

For the most part though, no rules anymore... everyone's pretty good about being "honorable" and not doing really cheap gamebreaking shit (and game developers have gotten better about getting rid of this shit in playtesting).

no being that panther headed wresting douchebag in tekken and shin kicking your way to victory

never had the oddjob rule but if you picked up the rcp-90 when playing goldeneye in my house you could go hang out on yr own in future... even if we are playing power weapons!!

no liu kang

No choosing the 49ers in Tecmo Bowl.

no playing blades of steel sober.

no oddjob is classic but no rcp-90 is some pussy ass shit, learn 2 play the game cozen

I am hott at goldeneye, rcp-90 is noobish

Ha, I'm so dumb. I was going to mention Free Parking here, but maybe this isn't the place.

- no going mike in SNES smash tennis
- 2 games of press random twice (clubs or international) on PES, then 1 game you get to choose any team

the main one i'm thinking of is super street fighter, there's one character where if you know his really good moves you're invincible

we just played "no constant hadoukens" or "no constant sliding hundred hand slap"

confession: i could never do the hadouken for some reason but i still played a great ryu

oh wait i mean shoryuken, the upper cut bullshit

oh man the shoryuken was hard as SHIT when i was a kid

but then i got to high school and some of my buddies were MAJOR LEAGUE about that game so i had to learn!

No choosing Oddjob in Goldeneye.

haha it makes me smile that this rule went universal

Def. no OddJob. I remember my next door neigbour selecting OddJob and we all scowled at him.

Also, in Sensible Soccer you could always score from the half way line if you did a long ball forward in exactly the right space. So none of that when I was playing with my brother.

no Mileena teleport-kicking spamming in MK2.

No being a really big baby about losing and sinking into sullen silence within 20 minutes.

Unfortunately this rule gets broken all the time at my house.

random team selection, up to three goes but no going back if your third is kuwait.

and in pro evolution 2005, you weren't allowed select ruud gullit if playing as classic netherlands. total bullshit rule.

No throwing balls in RBI Baseball or you automatically lose. As long as the other guy swings for it, it is a strike however, so you throw outside the zone at your own risk. Also if the nintendo resets itself mid-game the game is forfeited (always a thrill when you're down 20 runs in the ninth).