Have you ever played through a game and completely missed a game play feature?

[SonOfVoorhees]

Also it wasn't till quite late in ME3 that I actually bothered to go down to the shuttle deck and find the shop to upgrade your weapons. I tried to avoid going to other decks as much as possible cos in ME2 it had overly long loading times to go to the Normandys decks.

Me to, hated the time it took to travel on your ship. I found that area early on but had no money to buy anything and then just forgot about. I probably would never of remembered the upgrade area existed if there wasnt an achievement to remind me. lol

 

[kortin]

Oh, I had a friend who also had no idea about the critical strikes in Super Mario RPG...somehow. He had a really hard time with the game.

 

[HappyNoodleBot]

Auto move in Fallout 3. I just held down W like a chump for lord knows how many hours.

EDIT: As a gamer of a certain generation I found this comic particularly poignant http://xkcd.com/667/

 

[Sexy Devil]

I would have probably never known about the carriages in Skyrim if I hadn't seen it on a tips website. The game does nothing at all to tell you that it has that. They could have done it as a loading screen tip instead of getting the dark brotherhood chant most of the time.

Also it wasn't till quite late in ME3 that I actually bothered to go down to the shuttle deck and find the shop to upgrade your weapons. I tried to avoid going to other decks as much as possible cos in ME2 it had overly long loading times to go to the Normandys decks.

They patched in somewhat of a fix for the ME2 load times. They're not overly long now, but they're not the half a second load times that ME3 has either.

 

[hermes]

I finished Batman: Arkham City and never did the counter on knife-wielding thugs.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

There is so much to do in Skyrim that I often feel like one play through isn't enough to truly experience everything.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Monster Hunter Tri. If you're using the classical controller pro, hitting the extra right shoulder button allow your characterto swim vertical when in the water. This is extremely useful when your character need air when you're in the water for too long.

 

[Agayek]

Isn't really a gameplay feature, but over 160 hours into Skyrim over 5 different characters and I never finished the main questline, not on a single character.

So you've never seen the wonder that is Brodahviing? That's something you should fix.

 

[Vrach]

78 hours into Skyrim, accidently wiped my saved. Started a new game and I found out you could use carriages to get to the main cities instantly instead of walking...

Ignorance is bliss there. You probably know of Quick Travel (if you don't, I'll repeat, ignorance is bliss), so at least you got to actually explore/use the world a bit before you were able to beam yourself everywhere by the click of a button.

OT: Not that I can think of atm (might be forgetting something or am completely oblivious of what I've missed still). There are features I avoid for a while, sometimes completely, but can't think of any that I just completely missed.

Closest is the fact I constantly cleaned up rooms of somewhat difficult mobs in ME3 only to realise once they were all dead there's a "pick up and fire to wipe out the entire fucking room with one shot" weapon standing like 3 feet away from me x.x

 

[ramboondiea]

took me like 40 hours before i realised i could quick heal in killing floor,

never really mattered that much i was quick enough so it never really got me killed or anything. but its certainly nice.

you can pimp stance your way to an objective in deadspace. which for a linear game its really easy to get lost.

for about half of resident evil 5 i didnt realise i could upgrade guns, no idea how i missed it, just assumed each new gun i found was an upgrade.....that game was a lot easier the second time around

 

[SEXTON HALE]

I never upgraded any of my augmentations in deus ex human revolution untill my second play through.I missed so much and never even knew that i had missed it!

 

[George Barrow]

40 hours into Oblivion, I had learned you could cast spells.
So much facepalm the day

 

[Yopaz]

There was this Ducktales game way back in the day. I have played and beat that game a lot of time as a kid. I wanted to play that again pretty recently since I remembered enjoying it. Turns out the game had a stock exchange system to earn money more quickly.

Also Xenoblade has a skip travel feature that I only found out about when I was getting close to the end.

 

[kasperbbs]

Block in witcher 2, i jumped a lot..

 

[FoolKiller]

When I was younger and only had a Gamecube, I managed to play all the way through Starfox: Assault without jumping.

Yes, I actually thought you could not jump.

That's an infection you picked up playing Zelda games over the years

For me its that in Metal Gear Solid you could have rations as active and you would be healed upon death if you had any available. I kept switching during fights to heal. Ugh.

 

[bluepanda 492]

Didn't know about fast Travel in Oblivion until a friend told me.
Didn't know you could sprint in Skyrim until the same friend told me.
Didn't know i could go back over the lake at night in Resident Evil 4 until yesterday.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Holding A in Fallout 3 & NV allows to drink continuously.

Really? I tried that and didn't work once, so I went on presuming you had to mash A.

I went 5 hours in to Mass Effect 2 without realizing the relevance of the minerals you gained. I had a large amount of E0 just stockpiled on the Normandy.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Holding A in Fallout 3 & NV allows to drink continuously.

Are you seriously? I've accumulated so many hours on both games,...and I had no idea. (Wait, PC and console? I played Fallout 3 on console, and New Vegas on PC - so doesn't matter) Either way, knowing that I could have pressed something to keep drinking instead of having to constantly sip a little bit at a time, is mind-blowing.

 

[Wierdguy]

I had logged many long days in Minecraft before a friend told me I can use L-shift to avoid falling off edges.

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You just blew my mind...

So, SO many deaths from falling that could of been avoided...

x_x