"Wait, I can do that?"

[Bloodtrozorx]

I recently walked up to my brother who was playing Fallout: NV (Xbox) and noticed he was selling all of his ECP and was manually scrolling up to the max and it was taking awhile. So I asked him why he didn't use RT to jump by 25%. 3 clicks and he'd be at max. He had gone through 5 Fallout 3 characters and Fallout: NV characters without knowing this was possible.

 

[renegade7]

EVE Online. The first 7 months of my career, I didn't know that you were supposed to sustain an active tank for PVE. ...I was strapping on loads of buffer and speed tanking through Sleeper sites and the L4s that I could run with a buffer tank and a faction Afterburner...in a Cyclone Battlecruiser.

 

[Manji187]

I love playing JRPGs. For those of you who remember FF8 and FF9 and the like, probably remember the tutorials for weapons and equipment, various powerups and gems used to do this or that...And I remember when I was 12 when I got my first console. I got Final Fantasy 8 and barely paid any attention to the instructions, partially because I was impatient, partially because I didn't really get it (mostly because I wasn't willing to take the time to consider the meaning of the words I was reading), and partially because I didn't think it was important (12 year olds, think they know everything).

Imagine my surprise when I'd come up to a boss I couldn't defeat and I didn't understand why. Hmmm maybe it's the fact that you haven't upgraded weapons or powers dumbass. So imagine my further surprise when a few years later I'd replay FF8 and find that it's actually quite simple if you just read the tutorial and pay a sliver of attention.

Why are you describing me at age 12? XD

Got FF8 for full price (almost a year's worth of saving) a few weeks after release, didn't read the manual, didn't read the stuff in Squall's desk terminal, must have skipped Quistis' mini-tutorial at the gates. Got out of Balamb Garden, started fighting bugs, giant caterpillars and whatnot, wondering all the time why I could only attack and use items. Yeah, Day 1 was spent in confusion. Good times.

Did you by any chance also manage to attack FF7's robotic scorpion boss while its tail was up?

 

[RustlessPotato]

This was my friend actually, but he played through the entirety of Dead Space without knowing about stasis.

But aren't there a couple of puzzles that require you to uses stasis? I can't really remember.

O.T Fallout 3, i didn't realize you could have followers.

That's what I thought at first, so I'm not sure. Looking back though, I think it's all doable without stasis.

If that's true I think I might do a non-stasis run

 

[Caine Master]

On my third playthrough of Mass Effect 2 I learned that during Arcangle mission there is a room with YMIR mech in it, and that you can hack the mech to make it attack everyone. This made things a lot easier.

I also didn't realize that you can roll bombs in Zelda Skyward Sword. I spent a couple of days trying to figure what to do in the desert.

 

[Dragoon]

Finding out you can stop for a smoke in Vanquish AND that the thrown away cigarette butt can be used as a distraction. That's pretty bad-ass.

 

[Something Amyss]

It may be mild dyslexia, it may be sleep deprivation, but I read that as "double dunk fetus blasts"

And now, I can't UNSEE it.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

All the time with life and video games. I tend to think too hard about solving obstacles that I end up missing the obvious.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Forgetting I can run in Super Meat Boy. Doing the first boss was torture. Took me about 103 deaths, but then I did it, and felt so proud! Then I remembered that I could run. I did in 2 tries...

Heh, wow. That's actually possible without running? I never would've guessed.

 

[redisforever]

Forgetting I can run in Super Meat Boy. Doing the first boss was torture. Took me about 103 deaths, but then I did it, and felt so proud! Then I remembered that I could run. I did in 2 tries...

Heh, wow. That's actually possible without running? I never would've guessed.

I just managed to do it. And then promptly rage quit on the next level, because I suck at Super Meat Boy. Yeah, I don't know. I died about 50 times at the end there, about a pixel from where I needed to go. I wish it showed the replay, but apparently it doesn't for bosses. Would have been hilarious to see a mass of red advancing down the level, exploding everywhere.

 

[Ashadow700]

Well, figuring out that your party would get healed up when you rested in Baldur's gate 2, if you selected the "rest untill healed" option.
What? The game never told me I could do that.

 

[Weaver]

In fallout 3 it took me a million years to realize that holding down tab (the pip-boy key for me) would activate a flashlight.

In my defense, "hold down the main menu to activate a flashlight" is a pretty stupid way to do it.

 

[Screamarie]

I love playing JRPGs. For those of you who remember FF8 and FF9 and the like, probably remember the tutorials for weapons and equipment, various powerups and gems used to do this or that...And I remember when I was 12 when I got my first console. I got Final Fantasy 8 and barely paid any attention to the instructions, partially because I was impatient, partially because I didn't really get it (mostly because I wasn't willing to take the time to consider the meaning of the words I was reading), and partially because I didn't think it was important (12 year olds, think they know everything).

Imagine my surprise when I'd come up to a boss I couldn't defeat and I didn't understand why. Hmmm maybe it's the fact that you haven't upgraded weapons or powers dumbass. So imagine my further surprise when a few years later I'd replay FF8 and find that it's actually quite simple if you just read the tutorial and pay a sliver of attention.

Why are you describing me at age 12? XD

Got FF8 for full price (almost a year's worth of saving) a few weeks after release, didn't read the manual, didn't read the stuff in Squall's desk terminal, must have skipped Quistis' mini-tutorial at the gates. Got out of Balamb Garden, started fighting bugs, giant caterpillars and whatnot, wondering all the time why I could only attack and use items. Yeah, Day 1 was spent in confusion. Good times.

Did you by any chance also manage to attack FF7's robotic scorpion boss while its tail was up?

Actually I didn't know about FF7 until about 4 years later when I was a little wiser. I hadn't really even learned what a JRPG was at 12 cause while I was always allowed to play video games, my mother never really thought I was all that into them (because while girls can play video games on occasion, they're REALLY for boys, right? /sarcam) until I started begging for a playstation 1. So after I got a little further into the gamer culture that's when I learned of FF7 and didn't fuck up that one quite as bad XD

 

[TsunamiWombat]

I've been getting into X-Com (the first one), I bought it back around Christmas but only got to it now.

I was having a HELL of a time doing anything, as I'm only getting a few million and the end of each month and could't afford the space or engineers required to keep a factory-for-profit going, nor could I afford the space or manpower needed for intense research (and my "Potential Tech" list was ballooning!). So here I was, scrounging and using ammo as conservatively as possible, until I actually took a good look at the "Sell" list...

...and found out that I sell the alien weaponry, UFO pieces, and alien corpses for millions of dollars.

Durr hurr hurr hurr.

So, after three restarts, six hours and a bit of cursing, I finally realized that I can sell the stuff I get off the UFOs. How... obvious.

Ever had a moment like that, where you missed something extremely obvious that made the game a lot easier or less frustrating?

I really want to get into XCom but...i'm scared :\

 

[lacktheknack]

I've been getting into X-Com (the first one), I bought it back around Christmas but only got to it now.

I was having a HELL of a time doing anything, as I'm only getting a few million and the end of each month and could't afford the space or engineers required to keep a factory-for-profit going, nor could I afford the space or manpower needed for intense research (and my "Potential Tech" list was ballooning!). So here I was, scrounging and using ammo as conservatively as possible, until I actually took a good look at the "Sell" list...

...and found out that I sell the alien weaponry, UFO pieces, and alien corpses for millions of dollars.

Durr hurr hurr hurr.

So, after three restarts, six hours and a bit of cursing, I finally realized that I can sell the stuff I get off the UFOs. How... obvious.

Ever had a moment like that, where you missed something extremely obvious that made the game a lot easier or less frustrating?

I really want to get into XCom but...i'm scared :\

Whycome?

It's a bit of a time-sucker, but it's pretty fun. And I've only leaped out of my skin three or four times!

 

[Manji187]

I love playing JRPGs. For those of you who remember FF8 and FF9 and the like, probably remember the tutorials for weapons and equipment, various powerups and gems used to do this or that...And I remember when I was 12 when I got my first console. I got Final Fantasy 8 and barely paid any attention to the instructions, partially because I was impatient, partially because I didn't really get it (mostly because I wasn't willing to take the time to consider the meaning of the words I was reading), and partially because I didn't think it was important (12 year olds, think they know everything).

Imagine my surprise when I'd come up to a boss I couldn't defeat and I didn't understand why. Hmmm maybe it's the fact that you haven't upgraded weapons or powers dumbass. So imagine my further surprise when a few years later I'd replay FF8 and find that it's actually quite simple if you just read the tutorial and pay a sliver of attention.

Why are you describing me at age 12? XD

Got FF8 for full price (almost a year's worth of saving) a few weeks after release, didn't read the manual, didn't read the stuff in Squall's desk terminal, must have skipped Quistis' mini-tutorial at the gates. Got out of Balamb Garden, started fighting bugs, giant caterpillars and whatnot, wondering all the time why I could only attack and use items. Yeah, Day 1 was spent in confusion. Good times.

Did you by any chance also manage to attack FF7's robotic scorpion boss while its tail was up?

Actually I didn't know about FF7 until about 4 years later when I was a little wiser. I hadn't really even learned what a JRPG was at 12 cause while I was always allowed to play video games, my mother never really thought I was all that into them (because while girls can play video games on occasion, they're REALLY for boys, right? /sarcam) until I started begging for a playstation 1. So after I got a little further into the gamer culture that's when I learned of FF7 and didn't fuck up that one quite as bad XD

"Hah! They ARE really just for boys!" At least that's what my 12 year old self would have proclaimed. My world would have been shaken if I saw a girl holding a controller back then.

I'm sorry, but I'm really curious now. How did your mom "take the news" of her daughter's unmistakable interest in digital entertainment? Was it easy acceptance or something more along the lines of "Oh lawd...why!?" XD

Also, how did FF7, with its terribly polygon looking characters and relatively bland world-map, measure up after FF8 (and also after 9, I presume)?

 

[s0p0g]

maybe not really some surprising/secret stuff, but it was so awesome when i played Max Payne II and thought: hey, why not try sniping during a bullet-time shoot-dodge with the mp5?
it worked, and quickly became my favourite kill - jump, zoom in, fire 5 bullets to enemies head, zoom out, land, watch him drop 5x dead ^^

 

[Mozza444]

Rotating the camera in Fallout 3.
I spent around 100 hours with the only glimpse of my character from the front being from kill-cams.
I'd seen i be done on youtube, but i thought it was a console command.

 

[Yopaz]

I recently found out that if you fail the third door's challenge in Bowser's castle in Paper Mario, you can challenge three Anti-guys. Years of playing this series, and I was missing out on a whole level worth of experience and one of the most challenging, tactical fights I've ever had in a turn based RPG.

Say what? Do you mean I have played through that entire game 4 times and not noticed? Now guess who feels like he missed out...

Xenoblade. I had played through half the game when I found out how to make use of skip traveling outside of the area you're already in. So many sidequests skipped because I didn't want to walk for an hour just to get to the place where they were... because of that I've been severely under leveled.