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"How the fuck was I supposed to know that" moments in video games
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sameoldstranger
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It's still not conclusively 'solvable', right? There's still no definitive way to reach the end as far as I know.[/QUOTE]
It ends,
You just have to do the ending,
Its semi complicated,
And requires patience if it doesnt work the first time,
Go through the door and try again.
It ends,
You just have to do the ending,
Its semi complicated,
And requires patience if it doesnt work the first time,
Go through the door and try again.
LordAzrael
Banned
Yeah dude. A lot of us were kids at the time
Also I had never played a game that referenced the real world before it.crimzonflame
Member
Remember X-Men for Genesis?
eot
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I'll probably get shit for this, but I had a ton of those when I tried to play (well I did finish it) A Link to the Past. Like how to unlock the bird fast travel, just wtf. I admit I wasn't paying as much attention as I perhaps should've (because I was already not that into the game at that point), but I would never have known to go dig for the flute in some super specific spot. I had a few more moments like that, in particular I missed medallion you get by throwing something in the water. When I got to the place where I needed it (turtle rock?) there was of course no indication where to get it. At that point the options are a) search both overworld maps aimlessly b) look it up.
QuixoticNeutral
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Other M pixel hunts. The game just throws you into first-person mode and laughs at you. It stands out as probably the most undertested inclusion in any major Nintendo franchise because the solutions are exactly the sort that are obvious to the developer or someone who has played the game already, but completely opaque on the first run.
According to Ron Gilbert, the one puzzle in Monkey Island 2 where you use a monkey as a wrench confused absolutely every player who didn't speak English natively or otherwise missed the pun. It taught him an instructive lesson about constructing puzzles on puns.
According to Ron Gilbert, the one puzzle in Monkey Island 2 where you use a monkey as a wrench confused absolutely every player who didn't speak English natively or otherwise missed the pun. It taught him an instructive lesson about constructing puzzles on puns.
I guess that's why games nowadays highlight relevant parts of in-game text. But to be fair the game did break the 4th wall on this and sort of did it again later on with Psychomantis.
PseudoViper
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I feel like Minecraft is the answer for me.
Nothing in-game tells you how to make sh*t.
Nothing in-game tells you how to make sh*t.
the thread.
This shit was pure evil, I was stumped on it for days as a kid.
GlassEmpires
Member
You can find it in the manual available from hitting the PS button
MaximoffZero
Banned
the thread.
Thing is, I went back to the game years later as an adult and...it stumped me again!
Horseticuffs
Full werewolf off the buckle
I remember there being some parts of Dark Spire on the DS that made no goddamned sense to me and I NEEDED an FAQ for. I suck at those types of games really. I get lost super easy, but this game was totally hardcore. I loved the look of it. To this day one of my favorite art directions ever but, boy howdy, was it mind-bending!
zephervack
Member
Zelda Phantom Hourglass, closing the DS to mark a spot in your map, so stupid
ly cool
Krusenstern
Banned
World tendency events in Demon's Souls. How the friggin fuck.
MuddyDonut
Member
Having played this game for the first time within the year the o my part that had me scratching my heading was using a super bomb to blow up that one glass tube. Everything else is pretty straightforward in that you just go to where you haven't before.
UncleSporky
Member
Uh...I guess there's no hint per se but from the very start of the game you can see a platform above you that is too high to reach. I generally consider that a hint to get up to at a later point in the game.
But I mean, I understand not thinking to go back and check when you're a kid.
Hey i was 12 years old when this game came out (1999), give me a break. You can easily overlook that.
Yeah dude. A lot of us were kids at the time
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Adam Prime
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Yeah dude. A lot of us were kids at the time
You guys must've lost your freaking minds on the Psycho Mantis boss fight, huh?
nero2082
Member
that fucking pause menu in PT was the first thing that crossed my mind
In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, in order to see the true ending, you have to complete a set of tasks that the game never tell you to. That's fine because if you are a completionist, you'll eventually do it.
But the worst offender is that after you complete this prerequisite, you have to return to the very first Extra Ops (which you have no business at this point) to find a character who was not there before in a place you don't usually go.
And the game never tell you one iota of that.
But the worst offender is that after you complete this prerequisite, you have to return to the very first Extra Ops (which you have no business at this point) to find a character who was not there before in a place you don't usually go.
And the game never tell you one iota of that.
Waylon Drums
Member
There's so much shit in that game I would never have known about if not for this place. Factions? WTF?
SerTapTap
Member
Oh, isn't there a Fez puzzle we STILL don't know the "right" way to solve, that thing with the items in the menu screen? We know the solution but I'm not sure where you're supposed to find the solution, people we just trying crap.
IT was deliberately obtuse but still super BS, I gave up on it after the "crash".
What was the trick here? I don't recall ever looking this up, doesn't it just happen pretty naturally?
IT was deliberately obtuse but still super BS, I gave up on it after the "crash".
What was the trick here? I don't recall ever looking this up, doesn't it just happen pretty naturally?
I didn't use the back of the game. I found the code in the game.
A lot of this game was shrouded in mystery early on but I really liked that. I liked returning to an area I already beat and seeing a red phantom and getting my ass handed to me.
At least for the fight I think I remember the game essentially telling you exactly what you needed to do after a while.
That was a bit frustrating.
The forced stealth section late in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 where you have to use your mist ability to get through. The game up to that point had only ever had you use that to pass through bars and to avoid attacks. Game gave you absolutely no hint that you suddenly needed to use it in this really random and poorly designed scenario.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
I know what you're talking about... but are you sure the game never tells you? I think if you listen to the optional tape recordings (which are like LONG) there's messages in there that tell you the requirements.
I don't think it's completely hidden, but the hints are all buried deep in optional stuff that you need to go back to that one mission.
speculawyer
Member
I've mentioned this before . . . .
The train boss in Uncharted 2. You absolutely cannot kill him with guns & grenades. You have to do a QTE. I spent over an hour blowing him up with grenades and completely saturating him with bullets. But he will NEVER die. You have to do the QTE. (which is annoying on the hardest level because you have to get the timing just right)
The train boss in Uncharted 2. You absolutely cannot kill him with guns & grenades. You have to do a QTE. I spent over an hour blowing him up with grenades and completely saturating him with bullets. But he will NEVER die. You have to do the QTE. (which is annoying on the hardest level because you have to get the timing just right)
Taco_Human
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QUOTE=Inferno313;133781945]I was literally stuck in the Fire Temple of OOT for years as a child because I didn't realize how to swing the hammer horizontally to knock the totem poles out of the way.[/QUOTE]
Totem poles? You just hit them on the right or left side. No need for horizontal front attacks.
Totem poles? You just hit them on the right or left side. No need for horizontal front attacks.
sameoldstranger
Banned
Isnt that the one you do the charge spin and it goes up?
From Professor Layton and the Curious Village:
fuck this shit seriously
fuck this shit seriously
the letters correspond to locations on the keyboard and the bites are supposed to point to which letter you're supposed to actually use. So the G becomes a T, since the bite on the chocolate is above the G and T is right above G on a QWERTY keyboard.
Taken from another thread but still relevant >:-( :
Welcome toOz my nightmare
So young me is playing the Wizard of Oz graphical text adventure. And you'd think I'd know what to do, right? I mean, it's the Wizard of Oz and you're Dorothy. You'd think I'd know how to follow the plot.
And I did. For the most part.
Pictured: You are standing in an crashed house east of a wicked witch, with a crooked front door. There is a small dog here
Until I got to the gates of the Emerald City.
Bastard guards wouldn't let me in. No matter what I did, they would NOT let me in. I screamed. I begged. I pleaded. I swore as colorfully as young lil' me could. They didn't recognize any of my commands. My companions were no help. Finally, after days of trying to figure out how to enter the forbidden city, I gave up.
Something like two years later I had a dream about that dopey game for dopes. I woke up with an idea: I should ask Boq, the munckin that meets you when your house lands in Oz, about how to get in.
THAT WAS WHAT YOU HAD TO DO.
Wouldn't you know it, if you mention Boq's dumb name you can get into the stupid goddamn Emerald City of lies and tears.
Two years. My brain had been running a subconscious subroutine on that "puzzle" for TWO YEARS before I was finally able to figure it out. That Munchkin at the beginning of the game had been holding out on me and I've been salty ever since.
Screw you, Boq. I won in the end.
Welcome to
So young me is playing the Wizard of Oz graphical text adventure. And you'd think I'd know what to do, right? I mean, it's the Wizard of Oz and you're Dorothy. You'd think I'd know how to follow the plot.
And I did. For the most part.
Pictured: You are standing in an crashed house east of a wicked witch, with a crooked front door. There is a small dog here
Until I got to the gates of the Emerald City.
Bastard guards wouldn't let me in. No matter what I did, they would NOT let me in. I screamed. I begged. I pleaded. I swore as colorfully as young lil' me could. They didn't recognize any of my commands. My companions were no help. Finally, after days of trying to figure out how to enter the forbidden city, I gave up.
Something like two years later I had a dream about that dopey game for dopes. I woke up with an idea: I should ask Boq, the munckin that meets you when your house lands in Oz, about how to get in.
THAT WAS WHAT YOU HAD TO DO.
Wouldn't you know it, if you mention Boq's dumb name you can get into the stupid goddamn Emerald City of lies and tears.
Two years. My brain had been running a subconscious subroutine on that "puzzle" for TWO YEARS before I was finally able to figure it out. That Munchkin at the beginning of the game had been holding out on me and I've been salty ever since.
Screw you, Boq. I won in the end.
Q
Queen of Hunting
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halo 4 story withouht terminals lol
dark souls. After I got out of the prison, and got to fire link shrine, I kept going downstairs and running into these skeletons that kept respawning after I killed them. I wasn't really feeling the game anyway so I deleted it. I was watching a walkthrough a few months later and apparently I was supposed to walk around a ledge and go the opposite way to continue on.
How the fuck was I supposed to know that
Also the way to kill the skeletons required a special weapon that I couldn't get until later on.
How the fuck was I supposed to know that
Im not asking for hand holding, but at least give me some indication of whats going on
How the fuck was I supposed to know that
Also the way to kill the skeletons required a special weapon that I couldn't get until later on.
How the fuck was I supposed to know that
Im not asking for hand holding, but at least give me some indication of whats going on
First thing that came to mind
Dat Star Wars Galaxies Jedi.
InsaneTiger
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Destiny- the whole damn game. Three forms of currency...what is spinmetal? What is the Darkness?
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Wait...was that was actually solved with 100% accuracy?
the thread.
I've never played an old-school Sonic before, but let me guess: the "obstacle" is actually part of the background and you could just drop there?
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