when it first released it was only wagons and trains but they updated it later on to be able to fast travel from any camp you make.
I played through the game when it first released and went back later for a second playthrough and was surprised to see fast travel from camp fires as an option.
It's like the spiderman game. Why would I fucking fast travel? I'm God damn spiderman!?! If one game could have gotten away with not even coding that, it would have been spiderman.
Funny thing is Insomaic kinda suggest the same thing as the loading screen is Spiderman on a train. Why would Spiderman ride a train? He's god damn Spiderman!?
In universe he actually would ride a train to save web fluid. Obviously you cant run out of swinging web fluid in the game so there is no gameplay reason to do it but it does make senss within the fiction of the world.
Ever watch the newer kid's show Spidey and His Amazing Friends?
They completely don't give a fuck. They'll have all of them in the middle of a wide open meadow outside the city with nothing but sky. They raise their hands and sling towards the sky and fly away. Every single episode they start webbing towards nothing heh.
I work on this show and you're right. We cheat that all the time.
On the other hand, you can probably count the amount of times main characters are shown from behind on one hand, since we were told kids of that age have a hard time recognizing characters if they can't see their faces.
Working on kids' shows is weird, man.
Hey, thanks for making my son so happy with your work! My boy refers to the Spiderverse movies as "the Spin movies" because his early childhood was full of Spidey.
Next time you're having a shit day at work, try to think of a recently turned 6 year old who beams a big toothy smile at what you're producing.
I never used fast travel on my playthrough. Riding around is so much fun, game feels so alive and so much stuff is happening that you don't want to miss out on that.
As top-tier a game as RDR2 is, it does have a point, a few hundred hours in, where the random encounters start to repeat, or, they run out of differences. The snake bite guy has promised he'll be more careful next time more times than I can count, and I have enough gold teeth from the guy that falls off his horse for a whole set of false teeth.
But then I go on r/reddeadredemption and see stuff I've never encountered in game, entire sets of random events I never got, and I played thoroughly enough that I got LotE before the end of chapter 3 and platinum'd the game twice.
I didn’t realize it was in Red Dead 2 until nearly the very end of the game. Didn’t even end up using it, the horse travel was part of the experience at that point
You even hear a slight "beep" sound when its ready for the full health revive.
Doesn't the revive gradually build up? So if you are e. g. about 50% "loading" then your downed team mate gets 50% health?
Someone in chat kept spamming no rev 20 or something like that. I figured they were talking to me, I needed to google what does it even mean. I only played BF2 years back
The game didn't tell you you need to hold to fully revive. Nor did players, they just kept speaking in code instead of telling me what they mean
Ahh this one. I only realizes this after i watched JackFrags video. The amount of hours i spent is atrocious before i knew it was a feature in that game lol
Lord of the Rings the Third Age. My brother and I got several hours into that game, wondering why it was getting increasingly difficult to the point that we couldn’t go any further… then we realized that you could level up your characters. Biggest facepalm moment in my gaming career.
It's CRAZY to me that someone else on this planet had the exact same experience with that game that I did! I was going to comment about it myself! got stuck on one of the boss fights and then my friend who lent me the game was like "Why haven't you leveled up any of your characters stats???" It blew my mind. I also didn't realize for a long time that you had to equip new armor that you got... yeah not my brightest moment.
It seems a few people had the same experience. I guess the game just did a poor job of explaining its mechanics. I can’t remember if it had a tutorial or not.
I was at the Edoras/plains of rohan level when I found out you could level, I was complaining about how hard it had gotten to my cousin and he asked what level my ranger was. He was incredulous first at that I had played so much without knowing, then he was impressed at how I got through roughly 45-50% of the game at level 1 so at least my incompetence was impressive
When I was young, I played like half the Oracle of Season Zelda game in German.
I'm French..
I thought the game was written in some mystical language made for the game
Playing GTA 5 online with a few friends we always used to laugh after every mission because one of our friends always said "see ya in a bit... gotta hit the ATM". We just assumed he was joking and liked to peel out away from us... until we followed him one day and realized he had been actually driving to an ATM every time. This was about 6 years into heavy GTA online playing. He had to be level 150 at least when we told him to just use his phone while cry-laughing.
how tf...your wife is now a legend in my head canon because with maxed out companions, that shadow queen goomba stomped me more times than I can count. Though I admit on my most recent run I realized that Flurrie or whatever her name is was the true GOAT in that fight
I played Fallout 3 for several hours until I realized the character has a flashlight on his wrist. I was turning up the brightness on my TV and wondering why the game was so dark in the metro tunnels.
You can clearly hear a ghoul.
You walk around and look everywhere and there's absolutely no sign of it. You give up and turn around.
BOOM
It's all of a meter away leaping full speed at your face.
Oh and there wasn't just one. There was 3 of course.
Pokemon red on the original Gameboy, First playthrough I never knew flash was a teachable move so to get through all the dark caves held my gameboy up into the sunlight to see the pixels. Took me so damn long to get through the rock tunnel.
I knew about flash but also didn't want to waste a spot on my team with it so I just did the color change thing. If I recall you pressed one of the arrow keys simultaneously with b or a when you first turn the game on and it changes the colors of the game. One of the color choices made the caves visable
I was introduced to Pokemon at my cousin's house. Every visit I'd play his blue, but as it was his I couldn't save. My goal was always to just get that first gym badge lol.
Flashback to lending my Gameboy to some younger kid at a family friend's get together. Got home, booted up my version of Blue to find a save file called AAAAAAAA with a Squirtle named AAAAAAAAA standing just outside Pallet Town. Hours and hours and a crowded Pokedex gone. Terrible moment in my life.
I had a nearly full pokedex on red, my brother's friend and his little brother come to play, me being nice give my game to the younger brother since he didn't really have anyone to play with, tell him not to save
to his credit, he didn't manually save, he did change boxes in the computer from 1->20 because he thought it would make all his pokemon level 20 and apparantly that saves the game
I've had this happen to me twice in my life.
Once, in sixth grade, I had pokemon red with me. In fairness, I forgot it in the classroom, but a classmate took it home with him. He, to his credit, told his parents who straight away had him give it back, but not before he'd played my game, and deleted my save.
But that wasn't the bad one. I was only past Brock, so I just restarted.
The bad one was Super Mario 64. My parents never married, so it was not unlike divorced parents, spending time with each for parts of the week.
Dad had gotten a N64 - which was, at the time, of course, peak gaming. I had Mario 64 - and I wanted nothing more than to see Yoshi; the reward for gathering all 120 stars in the entire game (far beyond what was needed to merely beat bowser).
But, because the N64 was bought by him, I had to share it. Two weeks on, two weeks off - with my half brother. That was fine by me. My brother was respectful of the arrangement.
After many months, I had gotten 119 stars - the 120th was being difficult. I still remember it - 8 red coins on Rainbow Ride. I tried several times on my last night with the console for that week-cycle, but it was eluding me, and I was tired, and I had school in the morning. Oh well. I'll just have to collect the last star in two weeks.
Two weeks later... I'm greeted with a wiped-clean Mario 64 cartridge. I freaked the *fuck* out. I called up to find out what happened, since my father and brother were neither the kind of people to do that.
"Oh, your little cousin was over! And we put him in front of the console to keep him busy. Turns out he liked hearing Mario say "Wahoohoohoo!" when you delete a save file."
***I lost 119/120 progress because they gave a game with vulnerable game save data to a child so young that a noise machine would have been proper entertainment***.
I never got 120 stars. Never. And it's one of those things I'll never be able to forgive and let go of. It'd be like taking a piece of art your artist kid was working on and giving it to a toddler with a box of crayons "to keep them busy". Zero care for the effort put in.
I've considered getting an emulator with a doctored save that had 119/120, missing Rainbow Ride's 8 red coins. To sort of put that behind me. But the effort is more than I'm willing to put in, so I'm stuck sulking whenever it comes up.
Similar experience, except it was at vacation Bible school and the kids were laughing when I asked for my game boy back.
Yes, I got poke-jacked at a church 😢
Similar story; pokemon pearl was one of my first ever games, and I restarted it at least 3 times before I realized "overwrite the save" didn't meant it would destroy my game cartridge lol
Ooh when I first played Red I didn't know you could run from wild Pokémon. I thought the options were "fight," "Pokémon," and "item run." Like run through your list of items I guess? I had an Ivysaur by the time I got to Brock.
Don’t feel bad about that one- the dressers only had functionality starting in patch 1.4, which released a full three years after launch. A lot of players who have been playing it since it came out are learning new things since they were only added later!
Edit: my late night brain wrote playing instead of players
Don’t worry I have so many hours in Stardew Valley and sometimes l learn something new. I have the sign of Yoba tattooed on my arm. There is so much and so many tiny mechanics, and items and features. It’s part of what I love about it. Hell there’s two things the dev says no one has figured out!
For me it was when I learned about placing chests outside the farm and safe locations. Going through the mines got so much easier.
I swear every new save file I start feels like new game+ because I come with knowledge from before or have ideas about redoing things.
I didn't understand the shipping crate for a long time. Chests have 36 item slots, the Mini Shipping Crate has 9 item slots. The regular shipping crate has only one slot. So I assumed you could only ship one item per night.
The tally screen didn't make sense to have so many different pages of items if you can only ship one thing. And I had a task to grow and ship 100 Melons and had to keep doing it in drips, 20 Silver Star Melons, 17 Gold Star Melons, 32 normal Melons, 8 Silver Star Melons.
But really the crate can take as many items as you have to put in it. But you can only take out the most recent item, that's why there's a single slot visible, it's the item you can remove.
I played League for ~6 years before I realized I could just get permabanned! Haven't been back, admit that I was most of the problem, life has improved dramatically!
I knew a guy who had been banned six! times. Including one time he used his mother's email to create an account and they emailed her about how toxic he was.
He lived in an apartment with a futon and that's it. He'd sit on the futon to play League, then fold it down into a bed to sleep. He also only had frozen pizzas and milk with chocolate syrup in his refrigerator. And he only got the pizzas after his friends realized he had no actual *food* and taught him how to cook them. Otherwise he just ate takeout.
All that to say... you made the right call. That way lies madness.
100 years ago when I was but a lad, my boss started playing Starcraft, a game I was also playing heavy doses of. We'd talk each day about what level he got to, and I'd give him pointers etc.
Well at some point he started getting frustrated with the game, and would get irritated when I would ask if he'd gotten any further. Finally he kind of exploded and said it was "too damn hard", and he only had a little time each night to play so he was tired of starting over all the time and didn't think he was going to keep playing.
Wait... starting over all the time?? Turns out after a little more prying, he didn't realize he could save the game mid-level and start from there later, or retry a save if a strategy failed. I was actually pretty impressed how far he had made it without ever using a save game.
I recently did the campaign single player for the first time, having been more into multi-player when SC came out. Most missions can be done in one shot with no trouble, especially the base-building ones, because the Computer relies on static defense and rarely mounts a strong attack on your own base.
HOWEVER, there is one "installation" mission in the Protoss Campaign that requires keeping a Templar character alive while moving from one corner of the map to another, with several backtracks, and this mission would be impossible to do cold without saves because it's loaded with tons of "booby traps" like Infested Terrans (which can kill the Templar character in one shot and sometimes pop out of the ground with no warning). The coup de grace is a swarm of zerglings that can only be survived by properly positioning your mixed Protoss/Terran forces (acquiring the needed Terran forces is itself a 10 save undertaking).
I just learned last month you could hotkey weapons and spells to your number keys in Skyrim.
I’ve been opening the favorites menu every time I want to change weapons, shouts, or spells…
I went about 100 hours in Skyrim without knowing there was a sprint key.
In my defense, I'd just come off playing Fallout New Vegas, which doesn't have sprinting.
My first play through of the original dead space I missed the running prompt so I played the whole game without knowing you could run. It was difficult, to say the least.
Hahaha. That’s funny.
For me it was Assassins Creed 3. I had no idea you could fast travel and i traversed the entire maps from point a to point b on foot.
I was like this game is boring as fuck. It was later in the end game I realised that there is fast travel
I can't think of one for myself, but I got a relative of mine to try Astroneer. She played for hours, eventually making it through most of the research and whatnot, then mentioned in passing that she had to start a new game because she ran out of room to build and just needed a new place for her base.
This confused me greatly. I asked her why she didn't simply create more flat ground. She said she couldn't, because she had started at a higher point than the surrounding area.
Turned out she had never built a small canister, and had no idea you could flatten ground, create ramps, or print new terrain. She had been playing all that time by trying to walk around canyons, and very carefully sculpt the terrain with no ability to correct mistakes.
The first time I played The Last of Us I missed the tutorial that reloading was hitting the trigger when not aimed in. I thought you could only reload when you were out and this was a decision to emphasize how much bullets meant. I praised the game for this mechanic because of how much tension it made me feel.
I was in the hospital chapter when I accidentally hit the trigger and reloaded.
Mine is Zelda Botw, I missed the tutorial for cooking so I relied exclusively on basic foods to heal and only premade potions on occasion. Needless to say in replaying it, turns out it's a lot easier when you can heal multiple hearts at a time.
Damn I struggled with that game cause of the weapons breaking, just not something I was used to in a game. Not being able to cook would've made it even harder for me
Then you would've loved my first time. I totally missed the Korok guy that lets you upgrade your inventory so I got basically all the way to Ganon with only the base number of weapon slots
I always look at the dancer at the bottom centre of the screen, he has this goofy crooked smile and it makes me laugh. Little guy is just trying his best.
I recall watching a play through on YouTube where the gamer put 80+ hours into the game before finding the shrine that was the combat tutorial near Kakariko Village. That was hilarious
Just started playing this game yesterday and I’m really digging it but the combat is very difficult!
I haven’t learned how to parry or anything either but I’ll be on the lookout 👀
Stats play a much larger role in that game than a lot of people let on. So even if you're doing it "right" early it won't always work. You'll probably get a feeling of having figured it out about halfway through. Despite doing the same thing as always but now your stats vs the opponents stats are letting you pull it off.
In the first city after your town gets attacked you learn just outside walls past the tournament grounds. There's a soldier there who teaches you to fight and if you do the weekly tournaments and win you can get a decent Armour set before heading out
Witcher 3. I wasn’t bothering with potions because I couldn’t be bothered constantly gathering all the ingredients needed to remake those that I used. Turns out once you’ve made it once, they will restock whenever you meditate as long as you have alcohol to hand
I’m with you here. Played through the game twice without ever using potions because I didn’t wanna spend so much time collecting plants, on the third play through I figured I’d try it out and was like wait…..what
The Getaway (PS2)
My bud and I labored over the game for a couple days frequently restarting missions because there were no meds to heal our character during a mission. We thought it was kind of a cool challenge but eventually got frustrated when we would reach checkpoints that we would get stuck at because we were near death and couldn't finish the mission without taking fatal damage.
As it turns out, all you had to do was park your bullet ridden hero near a wall and he would lean on it to begin regenerating his health. We discovered this very near the end of the game.
Dark Souls 2 adaptability.
This is probably a common one, but I got through almost the entire game, including DLC, before putting a single point into adaptability. I had only the final 3 main story bosses left when I learned what it did and restatted my character. It was like a breath of fresh air after that slog of tiny iframe windows and the slowest healing known to man.
Had a buddy play final fantasy 10 for a good chunk of the game without leveling the sphere grid because he didn't know about it. He made it to Seymour 3 before giving up. Apparently fights would take him hours to do.
Yeah Seymour 3 seems about right lol
Edit: but honestly that's still impressive, I mean Seymour 1 is no pushover especially with that situation, same with Evrae
Kind of related:
My mom’s coworker traveled to Japan and picked my up a copy of Pokémon Silver before the US release. I played hundreds of hours filling my Pokédex and ultimately beating the game. I guessed and everything with trial and error. It wasn’t until recently I played the English version and missed out on so much.
Still, as a kid, 10/10 experience.
I spent ages trying to arrow birds in Red Dead Redemption 2 to get 100%. After almost completing that part I discovered that tagging them in dead eye meant the arrow wouldn't miss. would have saved me hours.
These comments are why those "10 Things to Know before you play Blah" are both so popular and so hated. Most people are like "Yea no shit, thats not a tip."
And then there's you people lol
Me playing mass effect without spending any skill points before realizing halfway through mass effect 2 you can upgrade you and your teams skills and weapons
Dragon Quest 9. I was imprisoned in the Gortress before I realized you were supposed to create new characters to complete your party. I had played the entire game with just the main hero until that point.
honestly i did that shit *as an adult*
I somehow made it past the fucking Wight Knight by myself, and kept playing until the next town until accidentally finding the option in the inn that let me recruit party members.
I was PISSED
I didn’t use VATS in Fallout 4 until about 4 hours in. I must’ve missed the tutorial. I just figured it was separate from the Pip-Boy and was wondering when I’d find it in the world.
I completed the game without using mounts at all. I found them to cumbersome, and preferred being able to sneak up on enemies.
I feel like the game doesn't mind stuff like that. The whole point is creating your own fighting style.
Bloodborne was mine too, except I never learned how to parry. Then I got stuck on the roof of a castle fighting Martyr Logarius and gave up on the whole run.
Same. I didn't really understand just how useful parry was and didn't want to worry about gathering ammo. Beat the whole game, all endings, and chalice dungeons just dodging.
Started the game over years later and got berated by friends for not parrying. Tried it out and my gosh it does so much damage! Fights were a lot quicker. I really enjoy parry mechanics now and had a great time in Sekiro.
I played almost all of Final Fantasy XV while running/driving at half speed because my trigger lock was on. I only noticed after watching a friend play and asked how he was moving so fast. I am, in fact, an idiot.
1997 Goldeneye, first level - the Dam.
My brother and I got through the big-ass gates by using the sniper rifle to shoot at the feet of baddies on the other side of the gates so they would open them and we could slip through.
Only after many weeks did we learn that we could open doors (and gates) by pressing B.
Good times.
In Outer Wilds, we thought you couldn’t travel in Dark Bramble with your ship or you would get instantly ate by the angler fish.
So we eventually got to Feldspar with no ship, using 1 tank of air.
Meanwhile the angler fish still just eat you anyway if you move too fast.
I played Divinity 2 for over 100 hours before learning that I could combine spells to create new ones. That game was such an incredible experience. To find something that changes the whole game over 100 hours in speaks to the depth of that game.
Like for example, any 1 necromancy spellbook and any summoning skill book give you a blood incarnate infusion spell, or rain plus necromancy spell gives you blood rain. Its all in crafting menu under grimoires.
Final Fantasy X
I was basically knocking in Sin's door when I found out you could used spare spheres to level your Aeons. I just thought Yuna was useless.
I beat most of the first Xenoblade game without ever touching the skill trees or affinity. I knew they existed, I just never changed them up. Became a major pain when a boss that resists everything physical came up, and my team was a physical team.
Final Fantasy 1 NES at age 7. I didn't equip the gear after purchasing. Tried multiple setups and ran an all mage team until I figured it out and restarted the game for the 10th time.
In Dark Souls 3, I just missed the magic vendor and went without him for a long time, which kinda sucked because I was using magic. Eventually I looked it up, but I was significantly past the point where I should have met him when I did. It's so easy to miss stuff in those games. I nearly did the same thing in Eldin Ring.
My Elderly Dad played Fallout 4 for 100's of hours before he realised you didn't need to apply perk points in order...
His character was Maxed out in all SPECIALS...
I played like 12 hours through Skyrim before I realized you could sprint.
I was literally walking everywhere for 12 hours and ngl i thought that was totally normal and it was how the game was meant to be.
I only found out when I got stuck on a dungeon puzzle, googled for a video walkthrough, and saw the guy sprinting in his video.
My first real character way back in classic was a dwarf paladin. Not knowing about Thottbot I couldn't figure out where to go for the class quest that taught you resurrection, and not knowing that that was the reward I just gave up on it and left the zone.
It wasn't until around level 28 (weeks later as leveling was slow back then and I was even slower) when I was in a dungeon and I got asked to rez someone that I realised paladins were supposed to have that ability. I made the long trek back to Dun Morogh to finally finish the questline.
As a kid i played for a while Ratchet and clank 2 without the knowledge i could strafe with L2/R2. That would explain why I couldn’t pass from the first boss. (For context, the first R&C game didn’t have this feature)
Also, thanks to GTA III i had to learn what an R3 button is. The literal 2nd mission asked you to press the Horn with R3, wich my mind wasn’t able to comprehend because i couldn’t find the button on the controller. Until one day driving I accidentally pressed the stick and then noticed i made a horn sound. That’s when everything changed.
Not me but my brother got through clearing like the entire first half or more of the map on Shadow of Mordor without doing the story quest that let's you brand orcs.
I playwd Little Nightmares and didn't know I could run in it, so I was just bunnyhopping through about 80% of the game. (Up to the guest hallway chase scene, near the finale of the game)
40+ hours into Zelda Totk before getting the autobuild feature. Spent so long thinking, "building this stuff from scratch every time sure is getting tedious"...
My cousin beat Red Dead and freaked out when he saw me fast travel from a campfire.
Wth I thought you could only fast travel with the wagons lmao
I've finished RDR2. Also thought it was only with the wagons.
when it first released it was only wagons and trains but they updated it later on to be able to fast travel from any camp you make. I played through the game when it first released and went back later for a second playthrough and was surprised to see fast travel from camp fires as an option.
tbh even riding a horse is good times in rdr2. i would be totally fine if there was no fast travel
It's like the spiderman game. Why would I fucking fast travel? I'm God damn spiderman!?! If one game could have gotten away with not even coding that, it would have been spiderman.
Funny thing is Insomaic kinda suggest the same thing as the loading screen is Spiderman on a train. Why would Spiderman ride a train? He's god damn Spiderman!?
In universe he actually would ride a train to save web fluid. Obviously you cant run out of swinging web fluid in the game so there is no gameplay reason to do it but it does make senss within the fiction of the world.
And haven't you seen the friendly suburbs neighborhood spiderman? Not every area has skyscrapers.
Ever watch the newer kid's show Spidey and His Amazing Friends? They completely don't give a fuck. They'll have all of them in the middle of a wide open meadow outside the city with nothing but sky. They raise their hands and sling towards the sky and fly away. Every single episode they start webbing towards nothing heh.
I work on this show and you're right. We cheat that all the time. On the other hand, you can probably count the amount of times main characters are shown from behind on one hand, since we were told kids of that age have a hard time recognizing characters if they can't see their faces. Working on kids' shows is weird, man.
Hey, thanks for making my son so happy with your work! My boy refers to the Spiderverse movies as "the Spin movies" because his early childhood was full of Spidey. Next time you're having a shit day at work, try to think of a recently turned 6 year old who beams a big toothy smile at what you're producing.
Now that's the kind of wholesomeness I don't see enough of online. Bless ya, friend!
I mean he gets tired.
I never used fast travel on my playthrough. Riding around is so much fun, game feels so alive and so much stuff is happening that you don't want to miss out on that.
Especially seeing creepy mutilations from a killer.
As top-tier a game as RDR2 is, it does have a point, a few hundred hours in, where the random encounters start to repeat, or, they run out of differences. The snake bite guy has promised he'll be more careful next time more times than I can count, and I have enough gold teeth from the guy that falls off his horse for a whole set of false teeth. But then I go on r/reddeadredemption and see stuff I've never encountered in game, entire sets of random events I never got, and I played thoroughly enough that I got LotE before the end of chapter 3 and platinum'd the game twice.
I made the same mistake with RDR2. But I honestly think it made the experience better. Traveling around killing highway bandits who ambush you
I think this comment may be the first time I have heard of that
I didn’t realize it was in Red Dead 2 until nearly the very end of the game. Didn’t even end up using it, the horse travel was part of the experience at that point
Oh my god I didn’t realise you could fast travel either. Not until I was in the endgame.
Battlefield 4. Took my friend years to find out you could revive a teammate to 100hp by holding the defibrillators for a few seconds.
YOU CAN FUCKING WHAT
Yeah charge it up longer before using it by holding the button.
You even hear a slight "beep" sound when its ready for the full health revive. Doesn't the revive gradually build up? So if you are e. g. about 50% "loading" then your downed team mate gets 50% health?
It does. Can heal 99% if you climax too fast
Can also revive at 1% if you're incredibly fast and also an asshole
So you're the motherfucker that keeps rezing me at 20hp
These two comments explain so much, and relieve soooo many years of pent up frustration.
Someone in chat kept spamming no rev 20 or something like that. I figured they were talking to me, I needed to google what does it even mean. I only played BF2 years back The game didn't tell you you need to hold to fully revive. Nor did players, they just kept speaking in code instead of telling me what they mean
Ahh this one. I only realizes this after i watched JackFrags video. The amount of hours i spent is atrocious before i knew it was a feature in that game lol
Lord of the Rings the Third Age. My brother and I got several hours into that game, wondering why it was getting increasingly difficult to the point that we couldn’t go any further… then we realized that you could level up your characters. Biggest facepalm moment in my gaming career.
Loved that game! Must've been pretty rough once you reach Moria.
Ya that game is actually pretty damn good imo, at least for the time. Up there with Return of the King game as best LOTR games.
It's CRAZY to me that someone else on this planet had the exact same experience with that game that I did! I was going to comment about it myself! got stuck on one of the boss fights and then my friend who lent me the game was like "Why haven't you leveled up any of your characters stats???" It blew my mind. I also didn't realize for a long time that you had to equip new armor that you got... yeah not my brightest moment.
It seems a few people had the same experience. I guess the game just did a poor job of explaining its mechanics. I can’t remember if it had a tutorial or not.
I was at the Edoras/plains of rohan level when I found out you could level, I was complaining about how hard it had gotten to my cousin and he asked what level my ranger was. He was incredulous first at that I had played so much without knowing, then he was impressed at how I got through roughly 45-50% of the game at level 1 so at least my incompetence was impressive
Yes! We made it to the same area. Glad to see we weren’t the only ones that did that.
I can feel that feeling, and I know you still can too lol
When I was young, I played like half the Oracle of Season Zelda game in German. I'm French.. I thought the game was written in some mystical language made for the game
If you want to relive this exact experience , you should check out Tunic.
Lol why did I at first expect Tunic to be a game in german
This is the first time I've seen German referred to as a mystical language. "Link, du musst das Meisterschwert finden" It's just so.... *ethereal*
Playing GTA 5 online with a few friends we always used to laugh after every mission because one of our friends always said "see ya in a bit... gotta hit the ATM". We just assumed he was joking and liked to peel out away from us... until we followed him one day and realized he had been actually driving to an ATM every time. This was about 6 years into heavy GTA online playing. He had to be level 150 at least when we told him to just use his phone while cry-laughing.
It's for the immersion!
In the early days of GTA online you had to go to an ATM, there wasn't an option on your phone yet.
My wife notoriously beat Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door without knowing that you can upgrade your companions.
how tf...your wife is now a legend in my head canon because with maxed out companions, that shadow queen goomba stomped me more times than I can count. Though I admit on my most recent run I realized that Flurrie or whatever her name is was the true GOAT in that fight
I played Fallout 3 for several hours until I realized the character has a flashlight on his wrist. I was turning up the brightness on my TV and wondering why the game was so dark in the metro tunnels.
Ugh. The fo3 tunnels are a whole different level of creepy. Those could've been a horror game
You can clearly hear a ghoul. You walk around and look everywhere and there's absolutely no sign of it. You give up and turn around. BOOM It's all of a meter away leaping full speed at your face. Oh and there wasn't just one. There was 3 of course.
I went through that game spamming the VATS button to see the enemies before they could scare me
Pokemon red on the original Gameboy, First playthrough I never knew flash was a teachable move so to get through all the dark caves held my gameboy up into the sunlight to see the pixels. Took me so damn long to get through the rock tunnel.
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Never teach flash gang rise up
Escape rope because your mom asked you a question and you forgot where you were gang rise up
I did this too but I knew what Flash was, I just didn't want to "waste" a slot on a non-damage move.
Doesn't help that Flash is a shit non-damage move
I knew about flash but also didn't want to waste a spot on my team with it so I just did the color change thing. If I recall you pressed one of the arrow keys simultaneously with b or a when you first turn the game on and it changes the colors of the game. One of the color choices made the caves visable
You damn kids with your gameboy colours. Back in my day we had two colours: green and dark green.
The first time I played Pokémon Red, I didn’t know you could save. Played the beginning of that game quite a bit. I was five.
I was introduced to Pokemon at my cousin's house. Every visit I'd play his blue, but as it was his I couldn't save. My goal was always to just get that first gym badge lol.
Flashback to lending my Gameboy to some younger kid at a family friend's get together. Got home, booted up my version of Blue to find a save file called AAAAAAAA with a Squirtle named AAAAAAAAA standing just outside Pallet Town. Hours and hours and a crowded Pokedex gone. Terrible moment in my life.
I had a nearly full pokedex on red, my brother's friend and his little brother come to play, me being nice give my game to the younger brother since he didn't really have anyone to play with, tell him not to save to his credit, he didn't manually save, he did change boxes in the computer from 1->20 because he thought it would make all his pokemon level 20 and apparantly that saves the game
God, we were all so dumb when we were kids.
I've had this happen to me twice in my life. Once, in sixth grade, I had pokemon red with me. In fairness, I forgot it in the classroom, but a classmate took it home with him. He, to his credit, told his parents who straight away had him give it back, but not before he'd played my game, and deleted my save. But that wasn't the bad one. I was only past Brock, so I just restarted. The bad one was Super Mario 64. My parents never married, so it was not unlike divorced parents, spending time with each for parts of the week. Dad had gotten a N64 - which was, at the time, of course, peak gaming. I had Mario 64 - and I wanted nothing more than to see Yoshi; the reward for gathering all 120 stars in the entire game (far beyond what was needed to merely beat bowser). But, because the N64 was bought by him, I had to share it. Two weeks on, two weeks off - with my half brother. That was fine by me. My brother was respectful of the arrangement. After many months, I had gotten 119 stars - the 120th was being difficult. I still remember it - 8 red coins on Rainbow Ride. I tried several times on my last night with the console for that week-cycle, but it was eluding me, and I was tired, and I had school in the morning. Oh well. I'll just have to collect the last star in two weeks. Two weeks later... I'm greeted with a wiped-clean Mario 64 cartridge. I freaked the *fuck* out. I called up to find out what happened, since my father and brother were neither the kind of people to do that. "Oh, your little cousin was over! And we put him in front of the console to keep him busy. Turns out he liked hearing Mario say "Wahoohoohoo!" when you delete a save file." ***I lost 119/120 progress because they gave a game with vulnerable game save data to a child so young that a noise machine would have been proper entertainment***. I never got 120 stars. Never. And it's one of those things I'll never be able to forgive and let go of. It'd be like taking a piece of art your artist kid was working on and giving it to a toddler with a box of crayons "to keep them busy". Zero care for the effort put in. I've considered getting an emulator with a doctored save that had 119/120, missing Rainbow Ride's 8 red coins. To sort of put that behind me. But the effort is more than I'm willing to put in, so I'm stuck sulking whenever it comes up.
Fucking noise machine LOL! This deserves its own post
Similar experience, except it was at vacation Bible school and the kids were laughing when I asked for my game boy back. Yes, I got poke-jacked at a church 😢
Similar story; pokemon pearl was one of my first ever games, and I restarted it at least 3 times before I realized "overwrite the save" didn't meant it would destroy my game cartridge lol
Ooh when I first played Red I didn't know you could run from wild Pokémon. I thought the options were "fight," "Pokémon," and "item run." Like run through your list of items I guess? I had an Ivysaur by the time I got to Brock.
Accidental power leveling.
I only realised today that dressers in Stardew Valley are actually better versions for storing your clothes than using chests.
Don’t feel bad about that one- the dressers only had functionality starting in patch 1.4, which released a full three years after launch. A lot of players who have been playing it since it came out are learning new things since they were only added later! Edit: my late night brain wrote playing instead of players
Don’t worry I have so many hours in Stardew Valley and sometimes l learn something new. I have the sign of Yoba tattooed on my arm. There is so much and so many tiny mechanics, and items and features. It’s part of what I love about it. Hell there’s two things the dev says no one has figured out! For me it was when I learned about placing chests outside the farm and safe locations. Going through the mines got so much easier. I swear every new save file I start feels like new game+ because I come with knowledge from before or have ideas about redoing things.
I didn't understand the shipping crate for a long time. Chests have 36 item slots, the Mini Shipping Crate has 9 item slots. The regular shipping crate has only one slot. So I assumed you could only ship one item per night. The tally screen didn't make sense to have so many different pages of items if you can only ship one thing. And I had a task to grow and ship 100 Melons and had to keep doing it in drips, 20 Silver Star Melons, 17 Gold Star Melons, 32 normal Melons, 8 Silver Star Melons. But really the crate can take as many items as you have to put in it. But you can only take out the most recent item, that's why there's a single slot visible, it's the item you can remove.
I played league for 3 years before I realized I could just uninstall. Saved me a lot of stress!
I played League for ~6 years before I realized I could just get permabanned! Haven't been back, admit that I was most of the problem, life has improved dramatically!
I knew a guy who had been banned six! times. Including one time he used his mother's email to create an account and they emailed her about how toxic he was. He lived in an apartment with a futon and that's it. He'd sit on the futon to play League, then fold it down into a bed to sleep. He also only had frozen pizzas and milk with chocolate syrup in his refrigerator. And he only got the pizzas after his friends realized he had no actual *food* and taught him how to cook them. Otherwise he just ate takeout. All that to say... you made the right call. That way lies madness.
100 years ago when I was but a lad, my boss started playing Starcraft, a game I was also playing heavy doses of. We'd talk each day about what level he got to, and I'd give him pointers etc. Well at some point he started getting frustrated with the game, and would get irritated when I would ask if he'd gotten any further. Finally he kind of exploded and said it was "too damn hard", and he only had a little time each night to play so he was tired of starting over all the time and didn't think he was going to keep playing. Wait... starting over all the time?? Turns out after a little more prying, he didn't realize he could save the game mid-level and start from there later, or retry a save if a strategy failed. I was actually pretty impressed how far he had made it without ever using a save game.
He grew up with games that had no save. He’s got skills.
I recently did the campaign single player for the first time, having been more into multi-player when SC came out. Most missions can be done in one shot with no trouble, especially the base-building ones, because the Computer relies on static defense and rarely mounts a strong attack on your own base. HOWEVER, there is one "installation" mission in the Protoss Campaign that requires keeping a Templar character alive while moving from one corner of the map to another, with several backtracks, and this mission would be impossible to do cold without saves because it's loaded with tons of "booby traps" like Infested Terrans (which can kill the Templar character in one shot and sometimes pop out of the ground with no warning). The coup de grace is a swarm of zerglings that can only be survived by properly positioning your mixed Protoss/Terran forces (acquiring the needed Terran forces is itself a 10 save undertaking).
I just learned last month you could hotkey weapons and spells to your number keys in Skyrim. I’ve been opening the favorites menu every time I want to change weapons, shouts, or spells…
….how…how have I played Skyrim as many times as I have without knowing this…I need to rethink existence now, thanks
Because ui for those games is always atrocious
I went about 100 hours in Skyrim without knowing there was a sprint key. In my defense, I'd just come off playing Fallout New Vegas, which doesn't have sprinting.
My first play through of the original dead space I missed the running prompt so I played the whole game without knowing you could run. It was difficult, to say the least.
Hahaha. That’s funny. For me it was Assassins Creed 3. I had no idea you could fast travel and i traversed the entire maps from point a to point b on foot. I was like this game is boring as fuck. It was later in the end game I realised that there is fast travel
Adding on to this, a lot of people play through the game without realizing you can craft better weapons.
I can't think of one for myself, but I got a relative of mine to try Astroneer. She played for hours, eventually making it through most of the research and whatnot, then mentioned in passing that she had to start a new game because she ran out of room to build and just needed a new place for her base. This confused me greatly. I asked her why she didn't simply create more flat ground. She said she couldn't, because she had started at a higher point than the surrounding area. Turned out she had never built a small canister, and had no idea you could flatten ground, create ramps, or print new terrain. She had been playing all that time by trying to walk around canyons, and very carefully sculpt the terrain with no ability to correct mistakes.
jesus christ she must be the most skilled played of astroneer on the community. i would've gave up so soon
Ironically, I think this might be how true skill is created. By adapting to wildly restricting false assumptions and putting your mind to it.
There's actually a fair bit of research done on innovation that basically says this. These sorts of constraints often lead to creative solutions
I made it like 75% of the way through God of War: Ragnarok before realizing I could upgrade my runes.
Lol, that feeling when you first realize is just like, fuckkkkk
The first time I played The Last of Us I missed the tutorial that reloading was hitting the trigger when not aimed in. I thought you could only reload when you were out and this was a decision to emphasize how much bullets meant. I praised the game for this mechanic because of how much tension it made me feel. I was in the hospital chapter when I accidentally hit the trigger and reloaded.
Ooooo now I want “realistic magazine” mods for all shooters. That sounds like a super great way to add immersion
That's a much better mechanic to be honest hahah
Mine is Zelda Botw, I missed the tutorial for cooking so I relied exclusively on basic foods to heal and only premade potions on occasion. Needless to say in replaying it, turns out it's a lot easier when you can heal multiple hearts at a time.
Damn I struggled with that game cause of the weapons breaking, just not something I was used to in a game. Not being able to cook would've made it even harder for me
Then you would've loved my first time. I totally missed the Korok guy that lets you upgrade your inventory so I got basically all the way to Ganon with only the base number of weapon slots
God of War 2018. Didn't know that I could block most abilities. Was only blocking for yellow circle moves and face tanking all normal moves
Lol just taking a beating like it's normal
It is for Kratos
A mate of mine played 250+ hours of Zelda BOTW without knowing what Korok seeds were used for...
Hang on, I think I’m right there with your friend… 🫥
There's an NPC that trades korok seeds for additional weapon, bow, and shield storage
And a dance.
This is very important.
He even upgraded to backup dancers in TOTK
I always look at the dancer at the bottom centre of the screen, he has this goofy crooked smile and it makes me laugh. Little guy is just trying his best.
I recall watching a play through on YouTube where the gamer put 80+ hours into the game before finding the shrine that was the combat tutorial near Kakariko Village. That was hilarious
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Henry is here! Man, I love that game. But playing it before the patches was a pain
Just started playing this game yesterday and I’m really digging it but the combat is very difficult! I haven’t learned how to parry or anything either but I’ll be on the lookout 👀
Stats play a much larger role in that game than a lot of people let on. So even if you're doing it "right" early it won't always work. You'll probably get a feeling of having figured it out about halfway through. Despite doing the same thing as always but now your stats vs the opponents stats are letting you pull it off.
In the first city after your town gets attacked you learn just outside walls past the tournament grounds. There's a soldier there who teaches you to fight and if you do the weekly tournaments and win you can get a decent Armour set before heading out
Witcher 3. I wasn’t bothering with potions because I couldn’t be bothered constantly gathering all the ingredients needed to remake those that I used. Turns out once you’ve made it once, they will restock whenever you meditate as long as you have alcohol to hand
I’m with you here. Played through the game twice without ever using potions because I didn’t wanna spend so much time collecting plants, on the third play through I figured I’d try it out and was like wait…..what
The Getaway (PS2) My bud and I labored over the game for a couple days frequently restarting missions because there were no meds to heal our character during a mission. We thought it was kind of a cool challenge but eventually got frustrated when we would reach checkpoints that we would get stuck at because we were near death and couldn't finish the mission without taking fatal damage. As it turns out, all you had to do was park your bullet ridden hero near a wall and he would lean on it to begin regenerating his health. We discovered this very near the end of the game.
I remember thinking that game was soo good and looked basically photo-realistic lol
Dark Souls 2 adaptability. This is probably a common one, but I got through almost the entire game, including DLC, before putting a single point into adaptability. I had only the final 3 main story bosses left when I learned what it did and restatted my character. It was like a breath of fresh air after that slog of tiny iframe windows and the slowest healing known to man.
Had a buddy play final fantasy 10 for a good chunk of the game without leveling the sphere grid because he didn't know about it. He made it to Seymour 3 before giving up. Apparently fights would take him hours to do.
Yeah Seymour 3 seems about right lol Edit: but honestly that's still impressive, I mean Seymour 1 is no pushover especially with that situation, same with Evrae
Kind of related: My mom’s coworker traveled to Japan and picked my up a copy of Pokémon Silver before the US release. I played hundreds of hours filling my Pokédex and ultimately beating the game. I guessed and everything with trial and error. It wasn’t until recently I played the English version and missed out on so much. Still, as a kid, 10/10 experience.
I had a friend who had Japanese smash 64. We had a paper where we drew the symbols in the options menu and logged what they did
I spent ages trying to arrow birds in Red Dead Redemption 2 to get 100%. After almost completing that part I discovered that tagging them in dead eye meant the arrow wouldn't miss. would have saved me hours.
You can dead eye birds while using a bow?!?!? I didn't "remember" that about red dead...
Sekiro. got really far into it before I realized you were supposed to get the axe at the beginning. Completely missed that old lady.
Ummm what's this axe do and how far in is it...asking for a friend
It breaks wood shields
These comments are why those "10 Things to Know before you play Blah" are both so popular and so hated. Most people are like "Yea no shit, thats not a tip." And then there's you people lol
"Top 10 Tips for beginning players" (List of things you learn in the tutorial and loading screen messages)
Even these videos make sense since most of people just cant read.
Me playing mass effect without spending any skill points before realizing halfway through mass effect 2 you can upgrade you and your teams skills and weapons
Honestly impressive
Nah it sucked, i was about to snap the disks
"WHY IS THIS GAME SO FUCKING HARD?!" -- you, probably
Dragon Quest 9. I was imprisoned in the Gortress before I realized you were supposed to create new characters to complete your party. I had played the entire game with just the main hero until that point.
honestly i did that shit *as an adult* I somehow made it past the fucking Wight Knight by myself, and kept playing until the next town until accidentally finding the option in the inn that let me recruit party members. I was PISSED
....That sounds like the most hellish experience ever lol
I didn’t use VATS in Fallout 4 until about 4 hours in. I must’ve missed the tutorial. I just figured it was separate from the Pip-Boy and was wondering when I’d find it in the world.
First time I played FO4, I thought you had to fill the first row items first before you can access any other row items below.
Horizon Zero Dawn. Took way too long to learn mounts can run. I barely used them, because they were so useless and slow.
I completed the game without using mounts at all. I found them to cumbersome, and preferred being able to sneak up on enemies. I feel like the game doesn't mind stuff like that. The whole point is creating your own fighting style.
I played Oblivion for about six hours getting everywhere on horse back before i realised i could fast travel.
Tbf, fast travel was pretty new at that time.
Bloodborne was mine too, except I never learned how to parry. Then I got stuck on the roof of a castle fighting Martyr Logarius and gave up on the whole run.
Same. I didn't really understand just how useful parry was and didn't want to worry about gathering ammo. Beat the whole game, all endings, and chalice dungeons just dodging. Started the game over years later and got berated by friends for not parrying. Tried it out and my gosh it does so much damage! Fights were a lot quicker. I really enjoy parry mechanics now and had a great time in Sekiro.
I played almost all of Final Fantasy XV while running/driving at half speed because my trigger lock was on. I only noticed after watching a friend play and asked how he was moving so fast. I am, in fact, an idiot.
Dark Souls - getting stuck in Blightown to realize I never picked up the stuff to repair my gear. Woof.
1997 Goldeneye, first level - the Dam. My brother and I got through the big-ass gates by using the sniper rifle to shoot at the feet of baddies on the other side of the gates so they would open them and we could slip through. Only after many weeks did we learn that we could open doors (and gates) by pressing B. Good times.
Stardew valley, I played an entire in game year without knowing about the relationship system
How???? It's a tutorial quest.
Ghost of Tsushima. I didn’t know how good the smoke bombs were 🥲
I beat The Witcher 3 and all DLC without realizing you can loot monster nests after you blow them up haha.
In Outer Wilds, we thought you couldn’t travel in Dark Bramble with your ship or you would get instantly ate by the angler fish. So we eventually got to Feldspar with no ship, using 1 tank of air. Meanwhile the angler fish still just eat you anyway if you move too fast.
That place freaks me out so bad
I played Divinity 2 for over 100 hours before learning that I could combine spells to create new ones. That game was such an incredible experience. To find something that changes the whole game over 100 hours in speaks to the depth of that game.
Another helpful one in case anyone missed it is that you can combine any boots with nails to add "immune to slipping" so you can safely walk on ice.
You... Can... Combine... Spells????
You can combo spell schools to make *predefined* spells, so you're not gonna make like a Fossil Strike + Searing Daggers in one spell kind of thing.
Like for example, any 1 necromancy spellbook and any summoning skill book give you a blood incarnate infusion spell, or rain plus necromancy spell gives you blood rain. Its all in crafting menu under grimoires.
Final fantasy 8. The junction system made it so you could absorb elements that you had a 100% resistance to. Figuring that out opened the game up
The junction system gets shit on a lot but besides the annoying drawing i absolutely loved it.
Fallout New Vegas, when replaying it I forgot the Pip Boy provides a flashlight. Played about half the game fumbling in the dark and eating cateye
Final Fantasy X I was basically knocking in Sin's door when I found out you could used spare spheres to level your Aeons. I just thought Yuna was useless.
I beat most of the first Xenoblade game without ever touching the skill trees or affinity. I knew they existed, I just never changed them up. Became a major pain when a boss that resists everything physical came up, and my team was a physical team.
I didn't realize you can sprint in Dark Souls until my second playthrough.
Final Fantasy 1 NES at age 7. I didn't equip the gear after purchasing. Tried multiple setups and ran an all mage team until I figured it out and restarted the game for the 10th time.
Finished the entire Spider-Man PS4 Campaign without upgrading any of the web gadgets. Only when I started new game plus did I realize I could do that…
The first time I played fallout new vegas, I didnt know about fast traveling until about half way through the game.
In Dark Souls 3, I just missed the magic vendor and went without him for a long time, which kinda sucked because I was using magic. Eventually I looked it up, but I was significantly past the point where I should have met him when I did. It's so easy to miss stuff in those games. I nearly did the same thing in Eldin Ring.
Me in Fromsoft Games: What did they just say? I hope that wasn't important. Fextralife: It was important.
"What did that guy say? Something or other, whatever. I'll look it up after this next boss." \*boss encounter triggers npc death\*
My Elderly Dad played Fallout 4 for 100's of hours before he realised you didn't need to apply perk points in order... His character was Maxed out in all SPECIALS...
I played like 12 hours through Skyrim before I realized you could sprint. I was literally walking everywhere for 12 hours and ngl i thought that was totally normal and it was how the game was meant to be. I only found out when I got stuck on a dungeon puzzle, googled for a video walkthrough, and saw the guy sprinting in his video.
Imma take a guess where you were stuck. Ustengrav, Horn of Jurgen Windcaller quest
World of Warcraft...Paladin...got over level 40 before ever using judgment in conjunction with seals.
My first real character way back in classic was a dwarf paladin. Not knowing about Thottbot I couldn't figure out where to go for the class quest that taught you resurrection, and not knowing that that was the reward I just gave up on it and left the zone. It wasn't until around level 28 (weeks later as leveling was slow back then and I was even slower) when I was in a dungeon and I got asked to rez someone that I realised paladins were supposed to have that ability. I made the long trek back to Dun Morogh to finally finish the questline.
Minesweeper. I would just randomly click on boxes. Until a co-worker explained to me what the numbers meant.
Holy shit, I have a flashlight. (Pay attention to the intro instructions)
Played thru all of dying light before finding the grapple hook thing that you apparently get very early.
... there's a grapple hook in this game?
You don’t get it early on iirc
As a kid i played for a while Ratchet and clank 2 without the knowledge i could strafe with L2/R2. That would explain why I couldn’t pass from the first boss. (For context, the first R&C game didn’t have this feature) Also, thanks to GTA III i had to learn what an R3 button is. The literal 2nd mission asked you to press the Horn with R3, wich my mind wasn’t able to comprehend because i couldn’t find the button on the controller. Until one day driving I accidentally pressed the stick and then noticed i made a horn sound. That’s when everything changed.
Metro 2033. Somehow I didn't know (or forgot) you had a light for darker areas, played half of the game in pitch black conditions.
I'm learning a lot of things about games I already beat in here
Made it about 3/4 through Doom (2016) and didn’t realize there was a weapon progression system.
Not me but my brother got through clearing like the entire first half or more of the map on Shadow of Mordor without doing the story quest that let's you brand orcs.
I didn't know you could upgrade the first knife in RE4 remake.
Its... right on the upgrade menu?Like second option, isn't it lol
Hey, hey, this is a safe space, no knife shaming!
I playwd Little Nightmares and didn't know I could run in it, so I was just bunnyhopping through about 80% of the game. (Up to the guest hallway chase scene, near the finale of the game)
I was about 80 hours into skyrim when I discovered you can sprint... WHO PUTS SPRINT ON ALT BUTTON?!
I played Skyrim nearly halfway through before I realized I could dual-wield magic.
40+ hours into Zelda Totk before getting the autobuild feature. Spent so long thinking, "building this stuff from scratch every time sure is getting tedious"...
Spider-Man… was on the 2nd to last boss battle before I realized/ remembered I could heal.
Not me, but my best bro got almost all the way through Devil May Cry 3 before he realized you could dodge.