HamsterPackage
Member
Closing the DS in Zelda Phantom Hourglass because it asks you to stamp a book or something.....I triggered it by accident getting frustrated.
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"How the fuck was I supposed to know that" moments in video games
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chaostrophy
Member
Getting the A ending in Valkyrie Profile. It's such a beautiful, brilliant game, with the one big flaw of it being extremely counterintuitive to unlock the best ending and some huge chunks of the game's story.
Doesn't the colonel tell you this? Or maybe I am remembering Twin Snakes.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Fucking P.T.
Playing it with some friends who had no idea what the fuck to do for about 3 hours. Luckily i'm a GAF member and rescued them from their sorrows
Playing it with some friends who had no idea what the fuck to do for about 3 hours. Luckily i'm a GAF member and rescued them from their sorrows
mcz117chief
Member
I had the same problem, but I realised I was going the wrong direction when I reached the orange wall, then I looked on the internet to see WTF is going on. Yup, I got all the way through Valley of Giants on my 1st playthrough with the most basic character
joecanada
Member
In most mgs games they would tell you alot if you pestered them alot
You know, having finally finished the original Castlevania Lords of Shadow I'm inclined to say that there are a LOT of sections that fit this thread in that game. Far too many times I was left uncertain how to proceed due to some obscure action you needed to perform.
No, not at all. That stupid spinning drum thing is the issue and you need to get below it.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?
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Maybe just a side effect of being a kid at the time, but using magic powder on the pots to open the grotto dungeon in Link's Awakening.
Someone else figured it out for me.
This pre-dated GameFAQs, so no getting help from the primitive internet at the time.
Someone else figured it out for me.
This pre-dated GameFAQs, so no getting help from the primitive internet at the time.
Mexican Sting
Member
He should eventually, in both games. Also, I think if you die 3 or 4 times he'll call you and tell you to shoot the busts of mantis on the side of the room, instead.
Oh god, FF 6 does this. Thankfully in FF 6 the items aren't that important.
DJ_Lae
Member
Tales games and their sidequests. I remember following a walkthrough on my second playthrough of Vesperia and wondering who on earth thought it was a good idea as well as who figured it out in the first place.
Sidequests generally involve talking to people repeatedly, in areas you've long since passed by and have no other reason to visit, in sequences that make no logical sense.
Sidequests generally involve talking to people repeatedly, in areas you've long since passed by and have no other reason to visit, in sequences that make no logical sense.
moltonasty
Member
the thread.
I keep seeing people mention this but I passed this part easily as a kid, I don't even get what was so complicated about it? Or maybe I'm just a gaming god :shrugs:
As for the OP, this has happened to me A LOT in the 2D Zelda games, and a lot of the puzzles in the first Silent Hill were just pure WTF.
Reaganomics
Member
I remember the first time approaching the windmill there. I summoned a player to help me through the area and he grabbed a torch trying to point me in the right direction. I had no idea what he wanted me to do and I eventually figured that I was supposed to jump off.
I was wrong.
Burnout Paradise.
If you're in a single-player race and it's clear you're going to lose, you'll quickly notice that there is no menu option to quit the race. You have to finish the race no matter how far away you are.
That is, unless you just so happened to know that you can quit an event by parking your car for 5 seconds. IIRC the game never tells you about this trick; you had to have done research online to know about it.
If you're in a single-player race and it's clear you're going to lose, you'll quickly notice that there is no menu option to quit the race. You have to finish the race no matter how far away you are.
That is, unless you just so happened to know that you can quit an event by parking your car for 5 seconds. IIRC the game never tells you about this trick; you had to have done research online to know about it.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
This is the best way of putting it. Everything up to that point leads you to believe that it should work in a different way, and it does basically nothing to indicate what you need to do (except move the barrel very slightly if you do end up pressing up or down)
To think that such a horrible idea came from Sonic Team... it's amazing really.
PT really shouldn't count, guys. The stuff you gotta do to "beat" it isn't meant to be "solvable". They just made it so that eventually someone would trigger the ending at random. They didn't expect anyone to stumble on it as quickly as they did.
The barrel in Sonic 3, however, is a great example. That made no sense.
The barrel in Sonic 3, however, is a great example. That made no sense.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
How was anyone supposed to figure this out without The Wizard? How did anyone figure it out within The Wizard?!?
Of course it's tough to figure out, it's a secret area. Bad post.
I couldn't figure out how to kill the snake lady before the poison killed me, I was convinced it was a race against time thing. So I summoned two players to help me do it.
We were almost at the boss gate when they stopped following me and guided me all the way back to the bonfire to show me how to do the windmill thing.
I still remember them cheering when I did it, lol
Man, digging deep here. I think the game was called Brandish for SNES, top down RPG, Zelda like. In the 4th world, there was a point I think you needed to find a hidden wall...was stuck forever, had to call the company and have the guide sent over, after a couple weeks we got it and were finally able to progress. It is hazy since it was 20+ years ago, but I think that was the gist of it.
Only know about the Metal Gear Solid one.
You are told to contact someone with the radio and you should look for the needed frequency on the back of the CD case.
You have to look at the actual CD case of the game and not some item within the game.
superpickleman
Member
The forced first person sections of Other M where you're supposed to point at a something specific. There's one in particular where you're supposed to spot a green stain on the ground but because the textures are so muddy it didn't look out of place.
Thanks for the deep reply. Have you seen The Wizard? My post is on point.
First time I played this game was last year...digital...-_-
Deified Data
Banned
How was anyone supposed to figure this out without The Wizard? How did anyone figure it out within The Wizard?!?
They read the script in advance
SliceSabre
Banned
The character Pip in Chrono Cross.
The game at no time tells you or even hints that depending the the Elements you use in battle and how many times Pip or party members use them, Pip will evolve twice into more powerful verisons of himself. I found this out entirely by accident when I played the game and was shocked when he suddenly exploded mid-battle and looked like a chubby little angel.
The game at no time tells you or even hints that depending the the Elements you use in battle and how many times Pip or party members use them, Pip will evolve twice into more powerful verisons of himself. I found this out entirely by accident when I played the game and was shocked when he suddenly exploded mid-battle and looked like a chubby little angel.
Battlesmurf
Member
This one. I borrowed the cartridge as a kid, didn't have a manual with it at the time.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
It was explained on the previous page.
This took me forever. They needed a different onomatopoeia for stomach growling for that to make any sense.
Diablohead
Member
Sonic 3 barrel: you have to stand on it and press up and down to throw sonic's momentum up and down to move the barrel, however no where in sonic 1,2 or 3 uses this method of control apart from looking up and down with the camera, jumping on the barrel also made it bounce up and down so it was really confusing.
MGS: you have to contact meryl at one point in the game, you have no number to contact her but you do get told to look at the back of the box for clues.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Eh? What are you referring to?
plagiarize
Banned
Wait what?
The only complex thing is making the chemical to kill Plant 42, and that's totally optional.
disappeared
Banned
Sixteen years later and I'm still discovering new things about MGS. Never knew about this. Always just did the second-port trick.
BassForever
Member
Gabriel Knight 3
The puzzle to get the disguise
By far the most bat shit thing ever in a point and click adventure game
The puzzle to get the disguise
By far the most bat shit thing ever in a point and click adventure game
Welcome to the wonderful hobby of gaming. Hopefully Destiny being your first game won't give you a bad first impression
mcz117chief
Member
When I re-bought the game on PSN I immediately knew that I should look in the manual for the game when I had to contact Meryl and there it was, really not that hard to find.
KojiKnight
Member
The thing is, I remember Baker telling me the back of the CD case... but it was so outside of the box, I was playing the game looking for a CD case. My inventory even had something (forget what) at the time that looked like a CD case and I kept trying to use it.
The only other game I was ever exposed to that had something so 4th wall breaking was Star Tropics and having to have the original manual/paper to drop a page into water to reveal the code... But even then, there was so much time between those two games it never came to me that I was LITERALLY being told the answer.
XANDER CAGE
Member
This part is stupid on many levels, but the stupidest by far is that the thing you stand in front of and ignite is made of fucking metal.