Hey you! Dumbass! Tell us about your gaming idiocy.

[saluraropicrusa]

It took me about 40 hours of gameplay to realize that I could continually drink water in Fallout 3. All that frustration for nothing!

I believe I didn't find that out for a long time as well, until I read it somewhere--possibly in a thread similar to this one, where people were posting about things in games they didn't realize until much later.

As for other moments of gaming stupidity... I'm playing (slowly) through Mass Effect series again, as a vanguard. I lovelovelove the vanguard charge move, but tend to use it to charge into the worst possible things. Playing a Krogan vanguard in ME3 multiplayer, I continually push my luck (and sometimes lose) by charging banshees and then trying to back the fuck up before they insta-kill me.

I'm sure I've had such moments in Skyrim, but none come to mind right away aside from really dumb modding fuck-ups.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

Borderlands 2...Claptrap tells you repeatedly to go through the electric fence in order to get the button or something...I died...every. single. time. "No it's okay, keep trying to go through!" "Ddduuuuhhh, okay boss." *continuously gets shocked until death*

 

[Pink Gregory]

Legend of Zelda Wind Waker.

Soo turns out that I have to pick up Makar (a little tree person with a fiddle, who is adorable) from a place and take him to another place, as I learn on his home island. So I go out to sea, and I can't find him, I'm not carrying him, so I figure that I have to pick him up from the island or something. So I search the entire island, all it's ins and outs, for at least half an hour, maybe more, and find nothing; so eventually I give up and go back to the boat until I can think of something.

He's been sitting on the prow of the boat since we left the first time.

Crumbs.

 

[FancyNick]

In Phantom Hourglass for the DS there was this one puzzle that said "Copy symbol onto your map" or some such and I couldn't figure it out. I tried blowing at it, drawing it, hitting every god dang button on that thing over and over. In the end I threw a fit, closed the game, and went to do something else. Came back and opened the DS. Turned out that was the puzzle the whole time. Felt pretty silly about that,

 

[Da Orky Man]

Fallout: New Vegas. I was well into maybe my third playthrough when I realised you can hold down the 'drink' button when over water to keep drinking. Up until then, I'd just tap into a thousand times, patiently waiting for my health to be restored.

Mass Effect. It took until the Virmire ground assault before I realised it had a cannon. Yeah, I got past Noveria using just the pathetic blue thing.

 

[Collegeboy21]

Mass Effect 1. The Mako can fly? WHY DID NO-BODY TELL ME? All those times I got stuck and could get out :'(

Don't worry, my friend did the same thing. When I told him it had little rocket boosters, he about lost it. Then when I told him that the cannon can zoom in several times, he about cried.

 

[Superlative]

I often ride the line between bravery and idiocy whenever I play LoL

"Dan, what are you doing?"

"We go in HARD!"

"YOU ARE JUMPING INTO THEIR ENTIRE TEAM!!"

"I DON'T GO IN SOFT!"

Hey it works more often than not. Someone pointed out I subconsciously play nothing but all the manly characters. Pantheon, Hecarim, J4, Ezreal and so on

I just started LoL and i do the same thing. When ones paldons are the size of washing machines I think the human body is hardwired to "Go Hard in the Paint" even if it means frequent death, as it does for me.

Also, I got Zelda on the NES when i was about 8. I loved running around and fighting things but I didn't know there was a story line or a save system.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Skyrim. I thought that whirlwind sprint worked by pointing at an area and you would basically teleport like the blink from Dishonored. So I decided to do this off the side of a mountain. It... didn't end well.

 

[shadyh8er]

Two instances:

1) I gave up trying to beat Resident Evil 4 on Professional. Then my brother made the GENIUS suggestion that I try again, except this time, DON'T kill every single enemy.

2) Played God of War 2 on Hard for the first time. Didn't keep track of my health. Colossus killed me in three hits. The Game Over screen made me jump since I wasn't expecting it.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Dark Souls.

When I found out you can jump. May not seem like a big deal but mind you I've played Demons which had no jumping. I was 3 hrs into Dark so when I jumped randomly for the first time (WHICH BLEW MY MIND) I eventually figured out the button configuration and thought:

"WHAT IS THIS BLACK MAGIC!?!?!? WHAT IS THIS!?!?!? WHAT IS MY LIFE!?!?!?"

 

[6_Qubed]

First character in Skyrim....

didn't know you could run, walked everywhere!

First character in Skyrim, playing on a SD television that cut the sides of the screen off.

Spent the first month or so not knowing how to assign spells to my right hand, or weapons to my left.

My weapon is lacking a single round of its 32 round magazine. I must reload.

Does not help when playing Anarchy Mechromancer in Borderlands 2.

As a compulsive reloader, I feel your pain. Took Discord just so I wouldn't lose all my stacks by accident.

AND A FEW ALL MY OWN:

Bought and started Dead Island, was playing with the "auto drop-in" option on without realizing it, had dudes randoml;y appearing in my game without rhyme or reason. Met one by accident who was the epitome of a "chill bro", he hooks me up with a pistol that does functionally infinite damage, with functionally infinite bullets. All this happens within the space of an hour. Once I get to the part in the hotel, I can't play anymore because, while I can handle creepy environments just fine, I'm such a jumpy bastard that the thought alone of jump scares and ambushes is paralyzing. I haven't made progress in Dead Space 2 for much the same reason.

Mind you, none of this compares to the time in Morrowind that I turned my character into a physical god by accident and spent the rest of my time in that game carrying around every enchanted/silver dagger I could find because while I could kill any enemy with one hit, any weapon I used would break after one hit.

 

[Ben P]

I only found you could jump in dark souls when fighting an enemy who moved just after i managed to do this leaving me to fly straight off a bridge.

 

[Dandark]

I play on the LoL american server, feel free to send me a friend invite if you want and i'll probably join if you invite me to a game on league
LoL name is "Dandark6"

The yank server.... You're making me cry here Dan.

I am deeply sorry.
I have American friends which is why I have my account on the yank server. It isn't actually too bad other than the random and unpredicatble lag spikes where my ping jumps to OVER 9000!(No seriously, it goes that high) and the the incredibly fun and friendly American youth, sorry did I say fun and friendly youth? I meant the local wildlife, it's pretty vicious.


EDIT: To also add to the thread again.
Reloading. I don't care if my magazine has 5000 bullets in it and only fires a rate of 2 per minute. I am missing a bullet AND I WILL RELOAD DAMN IT!

This of course caused me to be always out of ammo in a game like the Darkness where reloading made you lose all the unused bullets in your current clip/magazine/Don't hate me gun whisperers.

 

[porous_shield]

Half Life 1 there was a room where you had to hold down a button to spin a wheel that opened a door. I didn't know you had to hold down the button and spent forty minutes looking around the room for a way out. I don't know how I figured it out eventually since I didn't have internet at the time.

My brother didn't know you could repair weapons with other weapons of the same kind in Fallout 3 and spent the entire game, and loads of money, getting vendors to repair what he had. This meant he never had any weapons near 100% because none of the vendors repaired that well, spent tonnes of money, and had all his unique weapons degrade to uselessness. He was speechless when he saw me repair a weapon with another for about ten minutes.

 

[austinmus4]

First character in Skyrim....

didn't know you could run, walked everywhere!

When somebody told me this I didn't believe them until I looked at the hotkey menu.

My first paladin on Diablo 2: I must have points in EVERY skill!

 

[Tearopenthelives]

In Phantom Hourglass for the DS there was this one puzzle that said "Copy symbol onto your map" or some such and I couldn't figure it out. I tried blowing at it, drawing it, hitting every god dang button on that thing over and over. In the end I threw a fit, closed the game, and went to do something else. Came back and opened the DS. Turned out that was the puzzle the whole time. Felt pretty silly about that,

I had to look this one up too, ON MY SECOND ATTEMPT.

Fallout three I entered a room and thanks to a wasteland survival guide knew there was a mini nuke in there. Problem was it was in an upturned office box they show on tv all the time. I decided I would solve this with an explosion. 20 or so hand grenades later I had my nuke.

The foolishness was that I had already played many hours of oblivion and when starting f3 specifically mapped the grab button to be the same as oblivion and forgot about it for that room and that room only