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

[Dr Jones]

Quicksave usually. Also, I do NOT use VATS in Fallout 3 or NV. I don't need it, the games aren't exactly difficult and I'm using a mouse-and-keyboard to play so using a crutch isn't necessary. Hell I don't even need armor!

Crank up the difficulty. You'd wish you had more AP then.

lolwut? I play both on max difficulty. It's still piss easy. And I suck at shooters.


I don't need VATS. I never use it. Never needed to use it.

Get realism mods! If that won't make it harder, I'm out <.<

 

[InvisibleMan]

I beat Halo: Combat Evolved on all modes (Legendary three times!), beat Halo 2 on Normal and Legendary and played multiplayer matches constantly, and it wasn't until some time in Halo 3 that I learned you could switch grenade types... Before that, I would have to throw all the regular grenades to be able to get to the plasma grenades!

 

[Sirron Kcuch]

Oh, when I discovered jump cancelling in DMC3

 

[Doopliss64]

I played through all of Phantom Hourglass without encountering the "equip fairy to boost stats" mechanic. It might have been helpful.

 

[liveslowdiefast]

Didn't know you could sprint in Minecraft.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

For skyrim I didn't realize that if you blocked with the shield at the right time it would deflect the blow and do no damage to you, I thought you could just hold it and take less damage or try to dodge out of the way entirely. I know next Patton over here.

Lol, really? I'm a block Advocate (My first major character was a Block Specialist and it was awesome) and I didn't know that

Yeah I was really surprised when I did it by accident but after a while I managed to get a pretty good pattern down, not that I need it so much because I spend a day working to make dedrick armor but it's still good to know that heavy piece of metal on my arm isn't just for decoration.

 

[Altorin]

For skyrim I didn't realize that if you blocked with the shield at the right time it would deflect the blow and do no damage to you, I thought you could just hold it and take less damage or try to dodge out of the way entirely. I know next Patton over here.

Lol, really? I'm a block Advocate (My first major character was a Block Specialist and it was awesome) and I didn't know that

Yeah I was really surprised when I did it by accident but after a while I managed to get a pretty good pattern down, not that I need it so much because I spend a day working to make dedrick armor but it's still good to know that heavy piece of metal on my arm isn't just for decoration.

once you get to a certain point that tidbit of info isn't very useful - with your shield up you're practically invincible with full Heavy Armor/Block. But it would have been nice of them to tell me that.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

For skyrim I didn't realize that if you blocked with the shield at the right time it would deflect the blow and do no damage to you, I thought you could just hold it and take less damage or try to dodge out of the way entirely. I know next Patton over here.

Lol, really? I'm a block Advocate (My first major character was a Block Specialist and it was awesome) and I didn't know that

Yeah I was really surprised when I did it by accident but after a while I managed to get a pretty good pattern down, not that I need it so much because I spend a day working to make dedrick armor but it's still good to know that heavy piece of metal on my arm isn't just for decoration.

once you get to a certain point that tidbit of info isn't very useful - with your shield up you're practically invincible with full Heavy Armor/Block. But it would have been nice of them to tell me that.

Yeah it would have made the beginning part's much easier.

 

[legendp]

I have had it happen a few times, 1st in me1 I didn't relise about about weapon mods until about halfway and I didn't know about slow mo in NFSMW until about 80% through the game.

These are the only two occasions I can think off, as since then I have always checked the controls and usually experiment with a game (mash buttons find out what stuff does). And figure out most features pretty quickly. I was surprised how many people didn't know how to sprint in a game or iron sight (bioshock). as soon as you start a game I find it's best to mash all the buttons and figure out what it all does.

 

[gideonkain]

In Witcher 2 I never once assigned any "mutagens" until the boss battle

 

[Redd the Sock]

I'm surprised at the lack of Metal Gear Solid series stuff listed.

I never used a cardboard box.
Never interogated a guard. (MGS3)
Never straped C4 to a guard's back.
Never listened for codec radio stations (MGS3)
Never blew up food and ammo stations. (MGS3)
Never called Nastasha. (MGS1)
Never listened to the ipod (MGS4)

And that;s just what I can't hink of off the top of my head.

Others:

Made it to the final boss of Dragon age origins without enchanting anything.
I've only ever seen a desperation movie in FFVI once.
Was several playthroughs of Resident evil before I knew you could rotate things inthe item screen.
Oh, and I have never picked up a prostitute in any GTA game.

 

[Gregg Lonsdale]

I played through Bioshock about 5 times and did not once figure out that you could press a button to aim down the sights until someone posted on this forum that you could

also, pressing ALT to sprint in skyrim. though i didn't technically play all the way through

 

[Altorin]

I've only ever seen a desperation movie in FFVI once.

yeah, Desperation Moves in FF6 were so rare that they were sort of like... urban legends. Most people who played the game probably don't even know they exist.

I mean, I've played FF6 several times over the years and I've only seen them a handful of times. Certainly haven't seen everyones.

I wonder if Relm's has ever happened in the history of the game.

cause who the fuck uses Relm.

Edit: excepting of course for glitching the game with hilarious results

 

[The Random One]

I had been playing Geometry Wars for months and didn't know about the bomb. I only found out it existed because my mom bumped into my controller when I was playing.

 

[Dr Jones]

And why would I want to make it harder? Harder is not necessarily better. Matter of fact, I prefer games that aren't hard.

A good challenge is always good fun >.>

 

[Idocreating]

In FFX i dint realise you could use the orbs to make your character stronger till i fought Yunalesca needless to say my hours of grinding payed off when i finally found it out

...but....but.... how!? (did you actually manage to get that far with characters you had left with 'level 1' stats. I can understand why you didn't know how to use the sphere system, i was smashing the 'o' and 'x' button as quick as i could through that boring text tutorial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW2MRBpTCps

That's how. And without abusing certain items like Trio 9999 or Aeon summons.

 

[Altorin]

And why would I want to make it harder? Harder is not necessarily better. Matter of fact, I prefer games that aren't hard.

A good challenge is always good fun >.>

Speak for yourself. I don't enjoy 'hard' games. I play games to feel like an absolute badass that doesn't give a damn about incoming damage and can wreck whatever he wants.

Then... why play it on the highest difficulty? didn't you say that you did?