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[digitalrelic]

I'm well into my current (first) playthrough of The Witcher 2 and I swear I don't know how half of the game mechanics work. I pretty much just swing rapidly with my sword and use my spells as much as I can. Works okay so far, haha.

 

[David Incorporated Esq.]

I had no idea enemies scaled to your level in Oblivion. I spent a good 5-6 hours of the game maxing a few levels and then I got to level 25 leveling only non-combat skills.

I then proceeded to get killed by everything, from spiders to daedra. Wasn't fun.

I'll never understand how they fucked up level scaling so badly.

Want to be the world's best thief?! Sure! Just remember you're not allowed to fight anything ever again.

I'm well into my current (first) playthrough of The Witcher 2 and I swear I don't know how half of the game mechanics work. I pretty much just swing rapidly with my sword and use my spells as much as I can. Works okay so far, haha.

Don't worry, the combat mechanics in that game would really have to try to be any clunkier.

 

[gaiages]

In Ys Seven, I forgot that I could guard. For the entire game. It certainly would have made bosses a lot easier :/

In fact it wasn't until someone else was playing the game and I was talking to them that I realized my folly.

 

[Sophia]

R is correct anyways.

Because you were (almost) doing it right - i always used L

Always made the PS1 Mega Man X games enjoyable. Double shoulder buttons let you put dash and weapon change up there. <3

The double tap thing did make getting the upgrade in Flame Mammoth's stage way easier tho.

 

[Hiltz]

Xenoblade - Figuring out how to use the gem crafting system worked. I was still somewhat confused by how exactly it worked despite looking at the in-game tutorial and checking out the instruction manual.

Monster Hunter - While I knew how to basically dodge attacks , I took me a while to figure out the exact timing of the player's invincibility frames.

Also, I had no idea you could roll dodge or side-step dodge through some of the boss monster breath attacks. I saw a player do this against Deviljho's black breath attack during an online match and my jaw dropped when he went right through the fire attack and came out without getting hurt or killed.

 

[shark sandwich]

I didn't realize you could save in Final Fantasy the first couple times I rented it as a youngster.

 

[mnz]

I feel really bad for folks that didn't party in MGS Rising. Yikes.

You should always party. Hard.

 

[psylah]

I didn't know you could run in Golden Sun until I started the 2nd game.

 

[AntiFacebook]

I spent an hour trying to throw a frozen enemy on a button in wind waker before discovering i can actually drop him...

 

[SoldnerKei]

Xenoblade - Waiting a long time to figure out and use the gem crafting system

this, I went almost 70% of the game with crap gems because I didn't know how to craft properly

same goes for Atelier games, even as of now, I don't use the homunculus to do stuff that much if not at all

 

[Max Knight]

I didn't know about CQC in Metal Gear Solid 3 until I read about it on GAF about a year ago.

I didn't realize you could change sub-weapons in Shovel Knight until new game plus.

 

[pje122]

I just figured out that the light on the PS4 controller shows your health status in RER2... I'm almost done with the game...

 

[brink22]

Pretty sure I played the entire original DMC without knowing about devil trigger.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Didn't know there was a lock-on in Hotline Miami until the last boss for Jacket.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

I still havent learned dodge offset

Me neither.

When you need to dodge, just hold down the current attack button and then dodge while doing so. After dodging, release the attack button and continue your combo. That's all it is.

To practice, hold down each button in a combo as you press them for a few seconds instead of just pressing them. Then throw in a dodge somewhere.

 

[UberLevi]

I think I spent the first 20 or so hours playing Oblivion before I realized I could fast travel.

 

[Muffdraul]

In GTA IV I played through it more than once I think before I found out that pressing down on the d-pad displayed the name of the street you were on and the name of the specific section of the city you were in, and if you were in a vehicle, the make/model. Up until then, I never understood why the characters in the story ever referred to streets by name. And I had no idea how they expected me to find most of Stevie's cars.

 

[Chaos17]

Fantasy Life : there was an airplane for fast travel xD

 

[jacobeid]

You can double tap in Mega Man X (and it's sequels) to dash. Didn't realize it as a kid until after I had beaten the game a few times. I always just reassigned it to R.

R is correct anyways.

No.

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Street Fighter player.

Dodge offset in Bayonetta 2 for me. I can do it, but I don't do it consistently. I don't know why....bad habits die hard I guess.

 

[Infernostew]

Final Fantasy IX. Didn't realize that pressing R1 or R2 to target your whole party. Didn't find out till the final dungeon how to heal my whole party without the use of White Wind.

 

[todahawk]

Someone in the Bloodborne OT was 10+ hours in and didn't know you could run.

 

[KoopaTheCasual]

I feel really bad for folks that didn't party in MGS Rising. Yikes.

Yea man, life should always be one big party.

 

[JMDSO]

Resting in FFXI. Kept going to Mog House over and over.

Holding the button in Fallout 3/NV allowed you to keep drinking.

 

[Simon Belmont]

Holding the button in Fallout 3/NV allowed you to keep drinking.

Well this would be my one, and from right now too!

 

[Windhorst]

I had no idea there was a lock-on mechanic in either Hotline Miami game until I read about it on GAF. I probably made those games unnecessarily difficult for myself.

 

[animax]

Didn't realise Hotline Miami (Vita) had touch screen lock on until after I completed it

This! But still couldn't enjoy the game

 

[CloudyTuba]

The first time I played MGS3 I couldnt figure out how to grab somebody and interrogate them. Every time I ran up behind somebody and grabbed them it would do a throw down. All I had to do was not move the stick while grabbing. I was still holding it forward from walking up behind them. I got near to the end of the game this way. I was not smart.

 

[gutterboy44]

The more of a spell you drew, would stack their stat bonus in Final Fantasy VIII. I made it all the way until disc three before knowing this.

 

[SonyToo!™]

Ninja Gaiden Black, I played half the game without the homing jumping attack, it was like switching to easy mode after that.

 

[emperorspride188]

Use of bronze mirrors in Muramasa.

 

[Andrain18]

played over 100 hours of Oblivion before i realized there was fast travel.

 

[AsianOni]

I used to travel in Skyrim without fast travel... then I read the HUD (after more than 40hours in).

 

[RealMeat]

Moving silently with the D-pad in MGS3. Seems really weird that it's not on the analog.

 

[Soul Lab]

trading and making gifts in Xenoblade ^^

 

[balohna]

Aiming ranged weapons in Demon's Souls was my most recent one.

Self revive in Gears MP.

Z targeting in OOT (gotta be the most painful one)... I used it for side steps and certain attacks but severely under utilized it during my first playthrough. Especially bad for bosses, and any -lfos enemy.

 

[GhaleonEB]

In Oblivion, I didn't know that that one gem recharged enchanted weapons. I just thought it was more valuable at the vendor when I sold my loot. Until I was like, 200 hours into the game. :\

 

[bobbychalkers]

-Dodge Offset in Bayo 1 (and Wonderful 101 for that matter)
-Lock-on in Hotline Miami
-Flash HM in Pokemon Red and Blue (still got through caves without ut)

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Totally forgot to use Blacksight in The Order: 1886. I didn't remember it existed until I saw my wife playing the game once I completed it.

 

[Peltz]

Couldn't fly in Super Mario Bros. 3 until I was about 5 or 6 years old.

4 year old me didn't understand the P-meter on the bottom of the screen... or how to run in general.

 

[balohna]

Couldn't fly in Super Mario Bros. 3 until I was about 5 or 6 years old.

4 year old me didn't understand the P-meter on the bottom of the screen... or how to run in general.

Running in Mario is a barrier most new gamers need to work through. My girlfriend struggles with it and I've seen others do the same.

 

[Sotha_Sil]

You can swing/attack pick axes at mine ores in Skyrim to mine instead of going through the ridiculously slow animations.

 

[Azure J]

I left the Windwaker right at the Deku Tree scene for almost a year and a half because it was my first Zelda and I never thought to roll into the tree (or used rolling much in general).

 

[Mr. Nice_Guy]

Dodge offset in Bayonetta 2

That was me in Bayo 1.

 

[Woffls]

Fast-travel in Oblivion until I was 20 hours into the game... at which point I hadn't even bothered doing the main quest. Fun times.

 

[JMDSO]

Well this would be my one, and from right now too!

Ironically enough I learned it from a thread like this here.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I had no idea how dark souls weight system worked, so I played the whole first playthrough wearing full giants armor when I got it.

 

[Mr. Poolman]

I know a person who was stuck at Super Metroid's noob bridge for YEARS!

 

[LSauchelli]

In Super Mario World, I spent a LOOOOT of time looking for the 'remaining 4%' because I didn't realize that the 96 didn't mean '96%'.

 

[Ashtar]

Use of bronze mirrors in Muramasa.

How do you use thosewhats the purpose? I beat the game with the girl having no clue what they do

 

[Mass Effect]

Dodge in DMC4. Didn't know about it at all when I played it on 360.

L being the accelerator in the Dreamcast version of Hydro Thunder. Didn't learn that until months later. No wonder I could never win (I had only played the Arcade version prior to that).