7 years old with the ocarina of time. Took me 4 months to find that damn hole in the wall in the starting area to get your sword.
Your worst "Oh hell I am dumb" gaming moment.
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In Little Big Adventure 2 the very first mission is to find the Weather Wizard and stop the rain so that you can get on the ferry. The island isn't that big, with not many people to talk to, and I easily found out that he had been near the cliffs.
The problem was I went near the cliffs and couldn't work out what to do then! I spent ages looking...
Then I found that if you buy a ferry ticket, get turned away by the ferry guy BUT then 'use' the ticket on the ferry from your inventory you will travel to the second island anyway, and can crack on with some of the locations there.
I then couldn't work out what to do here... There were now more cliffs, and it was still raining (although randomly sunny at the same time) and the new island was comparitively huge... Not only that, but I didn't have the maigic ball and tunic because I didn't see the open window in the museum... The whole ferry thing was a glitch and I was just wasting time and effort.
It took me ages to figure out that all I needed to do was enter a window, and change the view at the cliffs and down at the cave and ledges below...
So daft!
(Interestingly, getting to the 2nd island early meant I encountered aliens before they land... This then confused me for the rest of the game because I actually thought they were meant to be there!)
The problem was I went near the cliffs and couldn't work out what to do then! I spent ages looking...
Then I found that if you buy a ferry ticket, get turned away by the ferry guy BUT then 'use' the ticket on the ferry from your inventory you will travel to the second island anyway, and can crack on with some of the locations there.
I then couldn't work out what to do here... There were now more cliffs, and it was still raining (although randomly sunny at the same time) and the new island was comparitively huge... Not only that, but I didn't have the maigic ball and tunic because I didn't see the open window in the museum... The whole ferry thing was a glitch and I was just wasting time and effort.
It took me ages to figure out that all I needed to do was enter a window, and change the view at the cliffs and down at the cave and ledges below...
So daft!
(Interestingly, getting to the 2nd island early meant I encountered aliens before they land... This then confused me for the rest of the game because I actually thought they were meant to be there!)
In Fallout: New Vegas, I painstakingly murdered all of Mr. House's Securitrons using the magical power of Sneaking and disabling them.
Then I realised that they weren't hostile - or at least didn't start that way, and.... wow. derpa derp derp
I also circled around Freeside around 5 times before I managed to get in.
In Dark Souls, it took me for-freaking-ever to unlock the door to Blighttown. I had literally no idea where it was, I scrambled around the Depths for several hours before finding the door and smacking myself over the head. And it took me even longer to find the shortcut from the Bonfire to the boss arena. Oh, and I killed the male Undead Merchant because I thought he was an enemy... and Siegmeyer. And the Crestfallen Warrior. God I'm awful.
Then I realised that they weren't hostile - or at least didn't start that way, and.... wow. derpa derp derp
I also circled around Freeside around 5 times before I managed to get in.
In Dark Souls, it took me for-freaking-ever to unlock the door to Blighttown. I had literally no idea where it was, I scrambled around the Depths for several hours before finding the door and smacking myself over the head. And it took me even longer to find the shortcut from the Bonfire to the boss arena. Oh, and I killed the male Undead Merchant because I thought he was an enemy... and Siegmeyer. And the Crestfallen Warrior. God I'm awful.
Dragon age: Inquisition sera's starting mission I couldn't figure out how to search, for like three hours I kept running over the red bags trying to get them to give me a pick up icon and then I accidently hit the right stick down and felt like a complete idiot.......
I would say mine is Megaman Battle Network 4. Throughout many of the games puzzles have been involved in some form, (a few more cryptic and annoying than others), although this situation really ticked me off. After being told I would have to go to the undernet, I essentially wandered the game world for a few hours before figuring out I could jack into the mirror in a hotel room. From what I remember the only way of knowing is to search basically everything around you, though for some reason I hadn't bothered to check the mirror until that moment.
as someone who has been gaming for 17+ years I have a few
It is repeating trend for me to miss marked levers in dungeons and wander around 10-15 minutes not knowing what to do
(happens the most in third person angled games but I also have done it in skyrim from time to time)
I also got stuck for 2 days on a puzzle involving shoving blocks with math symbols to complete a math equation in Boktai (how was I supposed to know you were supposed to turn the GBA upside down) (this was back when I stubbornly refused to use internet walkthroughs)
It is repeating trend for me to miss marked levers in dungeons and wander around 10-15 minutes not knowing what to do
(happens the most in third person angled games but I also have done it in skyrim from time to time)
I also got stuck for 2 days on a puzzle involving shoving blocks with math symbols to complete a math equation in Boktai (how was I supposed to know you were supposed to turn the GBA upside down) (this was back when I stubbornly refused to use internet walkthroughs)
I also had a similar issue but with Sootopolis City on the original ruby the hilarious bit being this bit of stupidity was contagious as none of my friends could figure it out either *facepalm* I ended up finding it out by accident after about a week while derping aroundSomeone Depressing said:
It's summer 1996, friends traveled 2 and half hours to a city to watch movies and play video games at a internet cafe. Feels like yesterday, but it was 19 years ago... wow... Anyway, paying 10 cents a minute to play Duke Nukem 3D, owning like a boss... a terminator some might say. Having a laugh dropping pipe bombs on my friends from a jet pack above. I was playing keyboard only, yeah, had not even learned mouse and keyboard yet, page up and down to look up and down, how the Hell did I ever do that? Anyway, on the map Freeway, killing like mad, unstoppable, really cocky, smack talk everywhere. Running low on pipe bombs, pretty sure they are in the press room. Go to the room with the Terminator, feeling good, so good I didn't clear the room. Grab the pipe bombs, howl "Prepare for death from above!" Gate closes... desperately get to the hole to shoot the switch, open up with the pistol, watching the bullet hits everywhere but the button, clip is done. Screen turns red, press crushes me... Friends head pops up. "Terminated Mother$*^#er". I have never lived it down.
Dark Souls 2 I was invaded in Belfry Luna by a pyromancer he cast something that to my mind and spell-free build looked like the exploding balls of light from Demon's Souls in Stonefang Tunnel. So I kept rolling the hell away from it later to realise it was just a healing spell -_-.
In Fallout 3 I kept turning up the brightness settings thinking "How the heck do they expect me to see anything in these pitch black ruins?" before I finally figured out how to turn on the pip-boy light over halfway through the 'main' game.
Older one, and one I think is not entirely my fault, was Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the freaking Deku Tree, first dungeon in the game. I made it to the boss chamber only to find no boss. I spent massive amounts of time running around the large boss room, then backtracking through the dungeon assuming I had missed something, then backtracking through the rest of the game. I tried to find the solution online, and I even ended up buying the official strategy guide book(I might have even asked for it as a birthday present but I can't remember). None were any help, just telling me how to beat the boss battle but nothing on how to start the fight. Finally, in one of what had already been many button mashing rages in the boss room, the boss appeared. Turns out you had to go into the first person view and look straight up at the middle of the ceiling to trigger the boss. Even more frustrating was that doing the same with the slingshot(which also uses first person) would not trigger the boss, as I had tried shooting the ceiling bug boss hundreds of times, sometimes dozens of times in a row thinking I needed to knock him down. The nerd meme/saying "Don't make the Water Temple out of the Deku Tree" still drives me a little crazy because I breezed through the infamous Water Temple no problem even as a kid but that freaking Deku Tree was the bane of child me's existence. I maintain that it was poor game design but so far I have never met anyone else that had the same problem.
The Deku tree, man. That freaking Deku Tree. Still one of my favorite games, though.
Older one, and one I think is not entirely my fault, was Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the freaking Deku Tree, first dungeon in the game. I made it to the boss chamber only to find no boss. I spent massive amounts of time running around the large boss room, then backtracking through the dungeon assuming I had missed something, then backtracking through the rest of the game. I tried to find the solution online, and I even ended up buying the official strategy guide book(I might have even asked for it as a birthday present but I can't remember). None were any help, just telling me how to beat the boss battle but nothing on how to start the fight. Finally, in one of what had already been many button mashing rages in the boss room, the boss appeared. Turns out you had to go into the first person view and look straight up at the middle of the ceiling to trigger the boss. Even more frustrating was that doing the same with the slingshot(which also uses first person) would not trigger the boss, as I had tried shooting the ceiling bug boss hundreds of times, sometimes dozens of times in a row thinking I needed to knock him down. The nerd meme/saying "Don't make the Water Temple out of the Deku Tree" still drives me a little crazy because I breezed through the infamous Water Temple no problem even as a kid but that freaking Deku Tree was the bane of child me's existence. I maintain that it was poor game design but so far I have never met anyone else that had the same problem.
The Deku tree, man. That freaking Deku Tree. Still one of my favorite games, though.
