Useful features you didn't realize where in a game?

[wabbbit]

In Chaos Theory I didn't realise you could hack wirelessly till like 50% through the game - even then I didn't bother, which made my playthrough a lot harder! (but worth it)

 

[syaoran728]

I played all of Valkyria Chronicles without realizing that the weapon upgrades went beyond the first three. For some reason it never occurred to me to scroll down.

 

[teebeeohh]

I don't know how to parry in dark souls.
And I never knew the drinking thing in Fallout but I never felt the need to drink a lot so I may have already forgotten this by the time I replay it.
It took me three years to figure out you can bind camera positions in the original starcraft

 

[magicaxis]

I didn't realise you could throw grenades in Crysis 2 until my third playthrough

enchantments in oblivion

There were enchantments?

Yeah, apparently you could make your weapons set fire to things, or do more damage, etc

 

[Satan]

I finished red dead redemption not knowing of fast travel.

 

[That One Guy]

Yeah, apparently you could make your weapons set fire to things, or do more damage, etc

Oh yeah, you had to use the sigle stones you got from closing oblivion portals. That's probably why I had a pile in a desk in my Lyawiin house.