"Wait, I can do that?"

[waj9876]

I completely forgot about the Item World in Disgaea Hour of Darkness. Made leveling up the most tedious thing I've ever done after a while.

 

[devilofthemist]

In fallout 3, where you press the button to drink water? Hold it down. You keep drinking. The amount of bricks I shat when I first found this out. Last year. November. I've been playing Fallout 3 since the month it came out. The amount of time I've spent pressing buttons to drink water for radiatio n when I could have spent more time in VATS with my fists.

holy shit really? i just spammed the button

thank you stranger

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Final Fantasy IX

Targeting multiple enemies/allies with magic.

It took me till my fourth playthrough till I finally found out, thanks to my brother who told me during his first playthrough. Christ, did I feel like an idiot!

 

[The Funslinger]

Snip

Oh no, no!

I was near the end of Mass Effect when I realized the Mako has missiles.

 

[5-0]

I played through the whole of GTA IV the first time without realising when locked on you could nudge the thumbstick up a little bit in order to get the perfect headshot. Yes, I'm an idiot.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

Shooting from cover in MGS2/3 HD. I discovered it three quarters of the way through MGS2. Yes i'm late to the MGS party.

Still there's an obnoxious amount of button holds/presses to do it so you're better off just not bothering. MGS controls are needlessly complicated anyway but the cover shooting's the worst offender.

I discovered on my third play through of MGS3 that sometimes when you interrogate guards they will give you the frequency of their favorite radio station. Listening to the radio heals you.

 

[lacktheknack]

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.

[freezes in place]

Um, how do you do that?

[prepares for bricks to be shat]

 

[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.

[freezes in place]

Um, how do you do that?

[prepares for bricks to be shat]

On Ps3 you hold either L2 or R2 and then R3 to rotate.

In fallout 3, where you press the button to drink water? Hold it down. You keep drinking. The amount of bricks I shat when I first found this out. Last year. November. I've been playing Fallout 3 since the month it came out. The amount of time I've spent pressing buttons to drink water for radiatio n when I could have spent more time in VATS with my fists.

I did not know this.
Seems to be a lot of Fallout related ones on here..

 

[217not237]

When I replayed Silent Hill 2, only to discover that you can control the camera a bit by pressing L2... Probably would have helped a bit to end frustration, even if I played through the first time without getting close to dying, had enough ammunition to turn 50 elephants into Swiss cheese, and enough medicine to make 50 elephants OD.

 

[dangoball]

I was near the end of Mass Effect when I realized the Mako has missiles.

Heh, I had the opposite problem. Though it didn't take me more than a few missions, at first I didn't realize Mako could shoot a machine gun. Not that much of an issue, since most damage comes from canon.

And I guess my very first and most stunning moments was when I discovered just how powerful Magic Missiles are in Baldur's Gate 2. Since that time I read all spell and skill descriptions.

 

[ADDmuse]

I was playing Riven for the first time and got to the very last puzzle. For some reason I couldn't figure it out and slapped myself later when I actually thought about it. Also, I didn't figure out there was a save function. Did the whole thing in one go, then just quit.

 

[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

"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)?

Lol actually my mother took it rather well. It's not that she didn't think I couldn't play them because I grew up playing video games, tetris, super mario land 2 and begging my brother to let me play with his sega back when Sonic was actually cool. It's just she never really thought of me getting my own console or being as into them as my brother cause video games were exclusively marketed to boys, something I probably fell for myself cause on tv it's obvious what's meant for boys and whats meant for girls and video games was for boys. But once I started asking for my own console (more like on my knees begging "MOMMY!!! if you get one thing for christmas get me a Playstation! please please PLEEEEEAAAAAASSSSEEEE!!!") she obliged me. I think she was disappointed I wasn't a girly girl like she had been when she was a child, but she knew I was a tomboy and didn't deny me that.

As for the difference in graphics...well I was disappointed. I had seen the cover and the pictures in the manual and it was all the same beautiful bishonen and the somewhat scantily clad women that had been in FF8 and 9 so I figured the graphics might not be as pretty, but not that different. SO imagine me going "WTF?" when I first saw this oddly shaped Saiyan Goku blonde lego man coming off the train. I mean the world around him was beautiful, but Cloud wasn't so much. I had actually gotten into gaming just as graphics became really good (for the time) and virtual people actually looked like people, not polygons so you could say I was a spoiled gamer, but not so spoiled that I didn't play it and I loved it!

 

[CaptainOctopus]

gravity gun + manhack vs zombie

oh yeah ^^

 

[Lunar Templar]

took me 14 + hours in Amalur to figure out how its fast travel worked -.-

 

[BehattedWanderer]

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...

It blew my mind to learn about it. I suggest trying it. It's not an easy fight to win at all, and will drastically change your opinion on the importance of winning the door's challenges.

 

[Zydrate]

One of my first playthroughs on Deus Ex: Human Revolution... I was taking advice I found on the internet about only buying praxis kits with the credits you get.
So I went to China in the story, furiously trying to save up my credits only to find TWO occasions where I had to bribe someone.

I later read that one guy you have to bribe for 1000 credits, you can just simple punch him the fuck out and get his information off his unconscious ass.

Apparently I'm able to do that a lot more, too. But I'm not very far in the game.

Was quite hilarious.

 

[DioWallachia]

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?

How does selling corpses to the rest of the world makes any sense at all?? Isnt the player base the ONLY one existing and CAPABLE of defending against UFOs? Remember that if you bite the dust then the world gets conquered because apparently they got their asses handed without the tech that your base (barely) has. Why in the bloody do they need the corpse for??

 

[Spectral Dragon]

One of my first playthroughs on Deus Ex: Human Revolution... I was taking advice I found on the internet about only buying praxis kits with the credits you get.
So I went to China in the story, furiously trying to save up my credits only to find TWO occasions where I had to bribe someone.

I later read that one guy you have to bribe for 1000 credits, you can just simple punch him the fuck out and get his information off his unconscious ass.

Apparently I'm able to do that a lot more, too. But I'm not very far in the game.

Was quite hilarious.

Wasn't going to post here, but I knew I had to when I saw your username. That is just awesome.

OT: I forgot how to change weapons for most of my first playthrough of Kingdom Hearts II, and didn't get how the skills worked in Musashi: Samurai Legends - whenever I got a new one, it was automatically equipped, and I rolled with it, and missed a previous one... Oh, and it took me hours to figure out how to fight effectively in FFXII, I just ran a lot, and spammed mist or whatever it was at bosses for most of it. When I understood how to equip/change skills/fight well, things got WAY more interesting, and fun!

 

[bliebblob]

I won't bore you with the entire story, only the end: I came into the possession of morrowind with no manual or any pre-existnig knowledge about it whatsoever.
So figuring out pretty much ANYTHING (besides wasd = move) was a glorious moment.
Bear in mind that morrowind was nowhere near as user-friendly as oblivion or skyrim. You pretty much just pick a race and some favorite skills and than you're thrown into the streets.
And you know what? Looking back, I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Several hundred playing hours later, I get this novel idea to check this odd new system called the interweb for some info on enchanting in morrowind and stumble upon some site called the unofficial elder scrolls pages. Today it's known as the elder scrolls wiki.

My mind was blown so many times that day, it never quite recovered.

 

[Bad Jim]

How does selling corpses to the rest of the world makes any sense at all?? Isnt the player base the ONLY one existing and CAPABLE of defending against UFOs? Remember that if you bite the dust then the world gets conquered because apparently they got their asses handed without the tech that your base (barely) has. Why in the bloody do they need the corpse for??

Well plenty of universities would pay good money to dissect an extraterrestrial corpse. A more pressing question is why you have so little funding that you must sell them to get extra cash.