FrostuTheNinja
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I forgot about the "super hearing mode" in The Last of Us until the final moments. Could've used that. -_-
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Times when you completely overlooked certain game mechanics
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Arkos
Nose how to spell and rede to
I still hardly ever actually notice it, I don't see how it's supposed to help you lol. Maybe I just suck (I don't think that's it though)
Dog food is delicious
Banned
Final Fantasy XI
Didn't know about resting so I would run back to my Mog House to recover HP and MP.
Didn't know about resting so I would run back to my Mog House to recover HP and MP.
HORRORSHØW
Member
lol. This was me. Maybe not 40 hours into it, but it took a considerale amount of time before I figured out the game had fast travel.
Oh man, Viewtiful Joe was one of my big ones too. During a timed escape segment you needed to drop through the floor to platforms below but I had no idea how to do it. You never were required to do it anywhere else in the game and I couldn't find it in the manual. Took me hours to figure out it was just Down+A
WeAreStarStuff
Member
Um wow..
In Deux Ex: Human Revolution I didn't know you could carry and move the turrets you hacked up until the
fight. I was on a hacker/stealth build so that fight was a nightmare. I looked up online for strategies and found out I could just bring a turret inside and let the turret fight for you.
Namir
85% of people who played Mario Strikers Charged didn't understand chipping and trickshotting. If any people here knew about this game, this would be "MSC: The Thread". Also, even the people who constantly played this game discovered new mechanics up to 6 years after its release. I don't think that goes for most games.
But anyway, as for myself:
- ME3 bonus powers. They never told me about that fucking room until endgame!
- Mega Man Zero games on Hard Mode. The shield boomerang literally turns from being a piece of crap gimmick into your main mode of attack.
- When I first played FE games, I overlooked supporting. How wrong I was. I know a friend who almost went through the beginning of FE:A of all FEs without pairup and I literally saved his midgame.
- When I was younger, I thought Amnesia sucked in RBY. Then I tried it on my Mewtwo and beat the crap out of every kid at school with it. I proceeded to GameShark amnesia onto every one of my Pokemon just to torture them.
But anyway, as for myself:
- ME3 bonus powers. They never told me about that fucking room until endgame!
- Mega Man Zero games on Hard Mode. The shield boomerang literally turns from being a piece of crap gimmick into your main mode of attack.
- When I first played FE games, I overlooked supporting. How wrong I was. I know a friend who almost went through the beginning of FE:A of all FEs without pairup and I literally saved his midgame.
- When I was younger, I thought Amnesia sucked in RBY. Then I tried it on my Mewtwo and beat the crap out of every kid at school with it. I proceeded to GameShark amnesia onto every one of my Pokemon just to torture them.
Chuck Norris
Banned
Hahaha old school NeoGaf reference right hurr
boredandlazy
Member
I didn't know how to use the cure spell in Final Fantasy VII until after Nibelheim...
It was my first JRPG and I was still fairly young, pretty funny when I think about it. I remember I kept having issues beating the Nibelheim boss using only potions to heal myself, so I just grinded until I was about level 33-34 so I could beat it.
It was my first JRPG and I was still fairly young, pretty funny when I think about it. I remember I kept having issues beating the Nibelheim boss using only potions to heal myself, so I just grinded until I was about level 33-34 so I could beat it.
Spring-Loaded
Member
lol
I made it to probably mission 15 or 16 in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening before realizing I should be purchasing health/devil trigger upgrades. Kept wasting demon blood on yellow orbs, ugh
Oh fine, I'll post it.
Oh, and of course, this is the thread conqueror. Most people and this fucking barrel, lmfao.
Chuck Norris
Banned
You played it how it's meant to be played
boredandlazy
Member
Game was better without it. I played it on hard with Listen Mode turned off on my playthrough.
Psychoward
Banned
Didn't know you could sprint on foot in RDR by tapping the A button. I held it the entire first playthrough.
Oh I also went through a good portion of Dragon Age: Origins without unlocking a heal spell for Morrigan or Wynne.
Oh I also went through a good portion of Dragon Age: Origins without unlocking a heal spell for Morrigan or Wynne.
Chinpoko_Master
Member
I got to the end of disc 3 in FFVIII without knowing how the junction system worked so I never properly utilized it. I used summons to progress through the game. Needless to say, it was a huge pain in the ass. Getting through the part on the Ragnarok was next to impossible and I'm amazed I got as far as I did.
I eventually did a new playthrough a few years later and figured out how it worked. Game still sucks though.
I eventually did a new playthrough a few years later and figured out how it worked. Game still sucks though.
When I imported Xillia, I forgot that you had to donate stuff to shops so they could get new equipment.
Xenoblade, I knew about topple, but I never knew how good it was in most cases.
Xenosaga, never used those mechs since I never bothered buying new parts.
Viewtiful Joe, I didn't know how strong RHOH was until the last area.
Xenoblade, I knew about topple, but I never knew how good it was in most cases.
Xenosaga, never used those mechs since I never bothered buying new parts.
Viewtiful Joe, I didn't know how strong RHOH was until the last area.
Dog food is delicious
Banned
And changing the battle speed in the options made a huge difference.
ST2K
Member
Please tell me you mean a medical kit. Because if not, I think I missed it too.
Mmm... the problem is that realizing this is the only way to proceed, unless you get really lucky with the jump timing (I never did.)Oh fine, I'll post it.
My example would be Psychonauts. I got to a part where I needed to buy a certain item, and proceeded to run around the camp scavenging arrowheads (the currency in the game) one by one, which took me a lot of time. The next day I was talking to a friend about the game, and I told him about that boring part, and the fact that it took so damn long to get the required amount. He then laughed and told me there was an item I could have bought for really cheap that would have helped me with that, picking a lot of arrowheads at the same time therefore cutting the time spent doing that in more than a 90%. I wanted to punch myself afterwards, having lost over 3 hours grinding those stupid things (good thing I loved the game, or I would have stopped playing right there never to come back).
soxinthebox
Member
Played 40 hours of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate without touching the farm and the kitchen outside of the tutorial.
EDIT: Also never once bothered to look into the EV/IV stuff in Pokemon.
EDIT: Also never once bothered to look into the EV/IV stuff in Pokemon.
I'm sure the majority of people that played GTA IV don't know about these two.
- While aiming a gun on foot, press the back button or the button that changes the driving camera. It'll zoom out each time to a different distance, gives you more vision around the main character while aiming.
- Press the key or click and hold the right analog stick while on foot, you'll get a camera angle behind the player character. If you have a weapon out, press/click in the button, hold it, and press the aim button. You'll do a 180 degree turn instantly and be facing where you were aiming behind the main character.
- While aiming a gun on foot, press the back button or the button that changes the driving camera. It'll zoom out each time to a different distance, gives you more vision around the main character while aiming.
- Press the key or click and hold the right analog stick while on foot, you'll get a camera angle behind the player character. If you have a weapon out, press/click in the button, hold it, and press the aim button. You'll do a 180 degree turn instantly and be facing where you were aiming behind the main character.
Seven Force
Banned
I made it through 75% percent of Breath of Fire III before realizing that you can learn enemy abilities with the "Examine" command. Suffice to say, the game got a lot easier afterwards.
My first time through Kingdom Hearts, I got up to around Neverland before realizing you can equip different keychains.
My first time through Kingdom Hearts, I got up to around Neverland before realizing you can equip different keychains.
Wait, what?
I missed that entirely. Mine was a Pacifist run, but still...
Two old-school game things I missed:
* In Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, there's a long stretch where the ground is flooded with bloody water, which poisons you. I never figured out that you could turn off the poison and make it regular water, and instead I leaped through it avoiding the poison the entire time.
* In Golgo-13, I thought that all the laser barriers in the labyrinths were instant death if you touched them. So I had gotten so good at timing my path through them that I managed to get most of the way into the Fangbacks Building without ever touching one. Just steps from recovering my M-16, I touched one and was about to rage until I noticed that Mr. Duke Togo still had some health left. "Wait, those things don't kill you instantly!?" ;_;
mrmickfran
Member
I never knew that you could stand on The Imprisoned's head in Skyward Sword.
spookyfish
Gold Member
I was almost completely done with Mass Effect 1 when I realized that I could zoom in the cannon's sights while in the Mako, and that the planets you landed on had a map you could access.
I was shooting enemies from a huge distance and just driving around looking for the elements and treasures.
Not quite as bad as not knowing how to level up, but i felt stupid nonetheless.
I was shooting enemies from a huge distance and just driving around looking for the elements and treasures.
Not quite as bad as not knowing how to level up, but i felt stupid nonetheless.
In Ys 6: Ark of Naphistim, I didn't realize there was a weapon-switch button until the final boss fight. Any time I needed to switch weapons, I brought up the menu and did it from there.
(The final boss requires you to use all three weapons' elemental effects, but you can't open the menu during boss fights. "Oh...")
(The final boss requires you to use all three weapons' elemental effects, but you can't open the menu during boss fights. "Oh...")
Psychoward
Banned
Playing Fallout 3 now, about 25 hours in. Never knew that, lol.
This post reminded me that the specials I completely forgot about in Gungrave were crucial to beating a late game boss. I had one hell of an hour trying to beat him without them
I remember someone once explained how the controls in MGS3 worked. I went through the game only knowing how to slit someone's throat.
I didn't know the slow + zoom trick in Viewtiful Joe until after I beat Bruce the Shark. Not as bad as the one user who beat the entire game without it though.
Spent a while playing Xenoblade before I realized you could fast travel between major locations. I would fast travel as close to an exit that was closer to where I wanted to be, run to the next zone, and then repeat. About 20 hours before I figured it out.
The first time I played Dragon Quest, must have been in the late 2000's, I didn't use buffs/debuffs. I think at that point I hadn't really played anything that used them effectively.
When playing Pokemon Red/Blue, I didn't realize you had to catch them. I thought there would be other professors that gave you a choice between more pokemon. I also didn't get Flash until after the Elite 4.
I didn't know the slow + zoom trick in Viewtiful Joe until after I beat Bruce the Shark. Not as bad as the one user who beat the entire game without it though.
Spent a while playing Xenoblade before I realized you could fast travel between major locations. I would fast travel as close to an exit that was closer to where I wanted to be, run to the next zone, and then repeat. About 20 hours before I figured it out.
The first time I played Dragon Quest, must have been in the late 2000's, I didn't use buffs/debuffs. I think at that point I hadn't really played anything that used them effectively.
When playing Pokemon Red/Blue, I didn't realize you had to catch them. I thought there would be other professors that gave you a choice between more pokemon. I also didn't get Flash until after the Elite 4.
Fucking this. I almost ragequit on the final boss when I realized that learning how to do this was mandatory. What made it worse was that missing those strikes instantly kills you in the final boss fight, which made learning how to do it quite a pain in the ass.
whatsinaname
Member
I think my friend completed the original Splinter Cell without realising the Shift key stabilises the bouncing reticule of the sniper rifle. He still dismisses any prompt/hint that a game throws up without reading it.