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okenny said:
I found the Silent Hill nurses attractive... I'll leave it at that :(
...the movie didn't help this personal defect in my humanity ;_;
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There was another embarrassment thread recently where a bunch of posters admitted to fapping to certain characters. Can't remember which ones exactly, but there were some... interesting choices.
 
I bought this:

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for some reason


:/
 
I just started playing FF9 for the first time ever...

And this evening right at the beginning of the game during the fighting teaching about Trances, when Garnet is in the cage, whom do I accidentally select to attack with Zidane's trance move right from the get-go? ... Not the monster.
 
SlipperySlope said:
Raise your hand if you've played the Barbie NES game.

*raises hand*
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I played Barbie Race and Ride on the PSX.

I also bought Lair thinking it couldn't possibly be as terrible as I'd read/heard.
 
I beat off to Alisia Dragoon's box art, a few times.

Also, on my first Ocarina of Time playthrough, I didn't even find the horse at all.
 
I got stuck looking for how to get the sword in Secret of Mana for like an hour. At the absolute beginning of the game you have a step on a tile where the hero says "I'm going to have to cut these bushes down." every time you step on it. I assumed that meant I couldn't progress. I eventually gave up, and tried some other day.
 
I got stuck in the first dungeon of Link's Awakening because I didn't know that you could push blocks. To be fair, it was my first Zelda game and I was a child. Still kind of embarrassing, though.
 
In the Magitek Factory in Vector in FF3 for SNES, I didnt know to press A when next to Ifrit to progress the story, fight them and ride the train... I wandered the game for 2 weeks without knowing what do.
 
revolverjgw said:
I beat off to Alisia Dragoon's box art, a few times.

Also, on my first Ocarina of Time playthrough, I didn't even find the horse at all.
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Don't you need the horse to beat the game? Like entering the desert place?
 
I've never beaten a console Zelda, not Ocarina, not Windwaker, not even ALTTP, I've left unfinished all of them. AND I have never played a Sega console. :(
 
DR3AM said:
I was playing GTA4 online, helicopter race. I had the lead and I asked the people how to shot the guns. Someone said press Y, I did and I fell out of the helicopter. People are dying of laughter. FAIL
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This was delicious.
 
Recently, I played through The World Ends with You without realizing that you could eat food, or that it increased stats, until post-game.

Old shame: I rented Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts and didn't know you could double-jump. I never made it past the second pillar of the first screen.
 
I die in the beginning snow area of Twin Snakes. I really, really suck at the stealth thing. I've never bothered with the game after that.
 
Drkirby said:
It took me 5 minutes to figure out how to walk though the Door in Pokemon Blue. Was used to Dragon Warrior, so I figured I first had to open the door, so I was trying the buttons and checking the menus for the door command.
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Holy shit! I had the same problem. That was back when I was pretty little, but still, I even felt embarrassed back then about it.
 
SabinFigaro said:
Recently, I played through The World Ends with You without realizing that you could eat food, or that it increased stats, until post-game.
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I didn't know yellow herbs increased your health in RE4 until I randomly used a few late into the game.
 
I bought the following games on launch day.

- Enter the Matrix
- The Matrix: Path of Neo (I don't even care about the movies. I only saw the first one!)
- Driv3r
- True Crime: N.Y.C. (I also bought Streets of L.A., but that was okay.)
- Alone in the Dark (Collector's Edition! It was a gigantic box that had a Edward Carnby action figure, a Zippo lighter and some other bullshit.)
 
Just about anytime I try and snipe in a PC game (TF2 especially), I'll line up the perfect shot and then flail the mouse wildly a second before firing. Some sort of excited panic just takes over and crushes any chance I have of accomplishing things as a sniper.

Also, I've never beaten the first part of FF7, when everything is exploding and you're under a timer. It's the damned boss of that section. That boss has destroyed me each time and I don't think there's even a strategy involved there. :(
 
rasberryjam said:
Just about anytime I try and snipe in a PC game (TF2 especially), I'll line up the perfect shot and then flail the mouse wildly a second before firing. Some sort of excited panic just takes over and crushes any chance I have of accomplishing things as a sniper.

Also, I've never beaten the first part of FF7, when everything is exploding and you're under a timer. It's the damned boss of that section. That boss has destroyed me each time and I don't think there's even a strategy involved there. :(
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IIRC... did you ever heal during that battle? I think you have potions or cure by then or something right?

Man you have to get past it, the game is awesome. Though if you can't get past that guy maybe you wouldn't like it lol.
 
rasberryjam said:
Also, I've never beaten the first part of FF7, when everything is exploding and you're under a timer. It's the damned boss of that section. That boss has destroyed me each time and I don't think there's even a strategy involved there. :(
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Listen to what Cloud tells Barrett during the battle.
 
greyshark said:
Listen to what Cloud tells Barrett during the battle.
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If this is the Guard Scorpion battle, that message is so poorly translated and written. IIRC Cloud says "attack when the tail is up" but you're supposed to NOT do that.
 
greyshark said:
Listen to what Cloud tells Barrett during the battle.
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Does Cloud tell Barrett to use a limit break or some such? I don't remember.

All I know is many first bosses in Final Fantasy games have some sort of trick to them. For example, the first boss in FF 4 is a turtle who will occasionally go into his shell. If you attack him in this state, you will get a massive lightning strike on your party. Do it a few times and it'll wipe you out. You have to actually wait for him to exit his shell, which is something completely new to Final Fantasy games at the time (the early ATB system). In FF 4, they tell you during the battle to not attack the shell, FF 7 probably has a similar message of how to beat the boss.
 
KittenMaster said:
If this is the Guard Scorpion battle, that message is so poorly translated and written. IIRC Cloud says "attack when the tail is up" but you're supposed to NOT do that.
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Really? LOL. In that case I guess it's a case of trial and error. What an odd mistake, very first boss...
 
okenny said:
I found the Silent Hill nurses attractive... I'll leave it at that :(
...the movie didn't help this personal defect in my humanity ;_;
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You are not alone.
isn't that the whole purpose of them being in the game and their design?
Internal conflict of would and would die in a gross way.
 
SlipperySlope said:
Does Cloud tell Barrett to use a limit break or some such? I don't remember.

All I know is many first bosses in Final Fantasy games have some sort of trick to them. For example, the first boss in FF 4 is a turtle who will occasionally go into his shell. If you attack him in this state, you will get a massive lightning strike on your party. Do it a few times and it'll wipe you out. You have to actually wait for him to exit his shell, which is something completely new to Final Fantasy games at the time (the early ATB system). In FF 4, they tell you during the battle to not attack the shell, FF 7 probably has a similar message of how to beat the boss.
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I remember using a phoenix down or x-potion or whatever it is on some undead boss, killing it instantly. So funny. I don't remember which game or anything now. Too many FFs. ~_~
 
KittenMaster said:
If this is the Guard Scorpion battle, that message is so poorly translated and written. IIRC Cloud says "attack when the tail is up" but you're supposed to NOT do that.
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This made me give up on the game for half a year when it was first released, I shit you not.
My first real rpg (I'd never been interested in them before) and that fight was a bit of a cockblock when listening to barret.

opticalmace said:
I remember using a phoenix down or x-potion or whatever it is on some undead boss, killing it instantly. So funny. I don't remember which game or anything now. Too many FFs. ~_~
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Haha yeah, the smugness when you first find out you can cast life or life 2 or regen or full heal on undead back then.
Hur hur hur I heal you to death =)
 
I tried looking up all my favorite characters in Phoenix Wright in Google and I forgot to turn on the safe search. I first inputted this guy:

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*shakes*
 
SneakyStephan said:
This made me give up on the game for half a year when it was first released, I shit you not.
My first real rpg (I'd never been interested in them before) and that fight was a bit of a cockblock when listening to barret.


Haha yeah, the smugness when you first find out you can cast life or life 2 or regen or full heal on undead back then.
Hur hur hur I heal you to death =)
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Regarding healing the undead, I never knew you could do that until a couple years ago. And that was only because I read it on the Internet. I would never have tried something like that on my own.

Even today, I fight the train boss in FF 6 using the usual attack methods. I kind of consider Phoenix Downs/life on Undeads kind of like cheating, so I try to avoid it when I play. Just a personal choice. I don't like instant death attacks, but I love using Ice on a fire enemy, fire on an ice enemy, etc. I'm weird that way.

Edit - And my main spell against Undeads is fire.
 
Huge Sonic fan here. I beat Sonic 2, only once....and it was by some dumb luck. Every time I try to beat the last boss I just cant do it....even to this day. :/
 
Playing Modern Warfare training course for the first time on my dorm mate's computer:
- Guy in game yells "Flash Bang, through the door!"
- I throw Flash Bang at wall, stun myself.

So my dorm mate liked to yell "Flash Bang, through the door!" at me periodically. :P

SlipperySlope said:
Raise your hand if you've played the Barbie NES game.

*raises hand*
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It was my cousin's, but I played and enjoyed the GBC Barbie's Genie Adventure or whatever it's called.

It's actually pretty good. Good music, too. Made by Vicarious Visions.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOK21wvV5gs
 
That Singer Guy... said:
Bomb a certain wall on Metroid:Other M.

I swear that crack didnt look bomb-able
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lol this for me i spent hours walking around, i thought it was the glitch in the game once i was past that bit it was ok from there i still need to 100%

edit: yesterday, I was helping someone film a peice to camera about the killing of osama bin laden and fps', how the arabic world is portrayed etc so I had to play MW, I sucked I played the 360 version sitting 20 feet away and with the night vision goggles on the whole time...

should have played MW: Reflex
 
MisterAnderson said:
I could swear it has the option to invert camera controls, no?
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It does; sorry if my post wasn't clear. I meant that while Heavy Rain lets you switch the orientation of the camera controls, some games don't, and if that right-stick-requiring game had also forced the "wrong" camera orientation on me, I probably wouldn't have been able to play through the game.

This FF4 talk is reminding me of one of my own failures in that game: I lost the fight to Antlion again and again as he continuously countered my attacks with needles. Nowadays enemies switching their attacks in response to what you do is standard, but not 20 years ago. I had assumed that all enemy activity was either a pre-programmed series of commands, or were selected randomly. (I'm pretty sure FF1 and Dragon Warrior, two RPGs I'd played previously, were like this.) The idea of the enemy seeing what you do and then choosing something different was literally a new revelation to me then.

Fast forward a decade or so to when I'm reading Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene as a college senior. In a chapter on the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (try it yourself here), he describes a contest in which people were invited to submit strategies. Only one, the eventual winner, hased his aciton directly on what the opponent had done previously; all the others didn't know you could do this. He praises the person who submitted that strategy and makes fun of the other so-called 'experts' who submitted what turned out to be losers. Thinking back to my travails with the Antlion, I couldn't help but feel sympathy for the 'losers' as the obviously had no way of knowing that the rules of the game allowed for strategies to take into account earlier actions by the other player!
 
cosmicblizzard said:
Replayed the first mission in Final Fantasy Tactics about 30 times before I realized I could use more than just Ramza.
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Oh wow! Me too. I was so frustrated and annoyed and deciding the challenge was even more than I had imagined it would be. Then I figured out you could add other people by accident (read:pressing random buttons in a rage).
 
I got defeated by Bongo Bongo in Ocarina of time in what was like my tenth file, no special runs with say three hearts or anything, just a standard run through, I still don't get how I flubbed the battle so bad.

Though one of my friends is victim to the following....
He beat Bayonetta on infinite climax and was understandably bragging about it.......only to get defeated by Bowser (2nd battle) in Super Mario Galaxy 2 later that same day, it was both painful and hilarious to watch.
 
Playing MGS4 I tried switching my wireless controller to second player while fighting Psycho Mantis - Didn't work.

I got to the end of Resident Evil 2 and only had a handgun and one clip of ammunition left. I really wanted to beat that game too.
 
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