Lessons you probably shouldn't have learned from games but did anyway.

[hopeneverdies]

You know how we always have those topics on best thing you learned from a game? How about the things they probably didn't want you to learn, but did anyway? Those things that are probably really bad to know but you figure out anyway.

For me it's Fire Emblem 6's chapter 8 Gaiden.

It's perfectly okay to slaughter people who are just living their lives if you can explain it as trying to get some divine weapon.

 

[Soulgaunt]

How to make a molotov cocktail. Made worse by the fact that I have the materials lying around my house.....I will kill you, you damn ants!

 

[V379]

Your superiors will always hate the decisions you make, no matter what the circumstances are. Thank you mass effec for making me a pessimist.

 

[Blackadder51]

Crates have everything you would ever need in them (money, guns, health)

 

[Flying-Emu]

The princess never puts out.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Don't smoke near red barrels.

 

[Frankydee]

GTA taught me a few things. 1) how to get your money back from a hooker and 2) running over pedestrians is a lot of fun.

 

[newguy77]

Always eat food lying on the ground. OOOOOH, Potato Chip!!

 

[lostclause]

If a problem is difficult to overcome, look for glitches!

 

[1066]

Actually helped me stay out of an accident once: Playing carmageddon taught me how to properly recover when your car fishtails due to a slick road.

 

[Scrythe]

The world is very brown, and very shiny.

 

[Biosophilogical]

the top of a parking garage is the best place to hide from the cops WHILE shooting them with a rocket launcher

everyone but me is stupid (AI's)

 

[V379]

punching people repeatedly will not kill them, they must be knocked off of the level to die.

 

[ObadiahBlack]

If you can't get a good aim on your target, use V.A.T.S.

 

[ZonerZ]

You gotta shoot 'em in the head.

 

[Worgen]

that life needs save points

 

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[V379]

The world is very brown, and very shiny.

Or it is very white and shiny, with patches of red to show you where you can run on walls.

 

[TaborMallory]

Shotguns have are effective up to 2 inches.
Goddamn you, Halo. You messed up my skills with shotguns for every other game...