Alright (insert game here), how the FUCK was I supposed to know that?!
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I'd say getting the Gravelord Nito covenant in Dark Souls.
You have to stumble upon a random grave, climb into it and wait for about a minute. The grave isn't even unique in its appearance either.
You have to stumble upon a random grave, climb into it and wait for about a minute. The grave isn't even unique in its appearance either.
I think Dark Souls keeps me constantly asking this (in a fun-strating way).
"How was I supposed to know shooting a Dragon's Tail 50 times with a bow would give me a weapon to help newbies through the start?"
"Where the fuck do I go now?"
"What door did that just open?"
"You mean there's invisible walls that I have to hit to expose?"
"Oh of course, that chest eats you alive if you open it! Obvious!"
"It's so apparent that I can go back to the undead asylum by jumping off a lift as it starts to rise, roll onto the rooftops of firelink shrine, run up into the birds nest and curling up into a ball so that the huge bird takes me back there!"
"I have to kill a giant wolf so I can walk in the endless Abyss - of course!"
"This boss turns into a fucking beast and heals to 100% health when you kill his partner, lovely"
etc. etc.
"How was I supposed to know shooting a Dragon's Tail 50 times with a bow would give me a weapon to help newbies through the start?"
"Where the fuck do I go now?"
"What door did that just open?"
"You mean there's invisible walls that I have to hit to expose?"
"Oh of course, that chest eats you alive if you open it! Obvious!"
"It's so apparent that I can go back to the undead asylum by jumping off a lift as it starts to rise, roll onto the rooftops of firelink shrine, run up into the birds nest and curling up into a ball so that the huge bird takes me back there!"
"I have to kill a giant wolf so I can walk in the endless Abyss - of course!"
"This boss turns into a fucking beast and heals to 100% health when you kill his partner, lovely"
etc. etc.
Ah... Sonic 3. I love Sega, I do, but this was the only time where I actually hoped someone on the team got smacked in the face with a shovel that just got finished moving dog feces.RJ 17 said:
And, believe it or not, you can get through that part without manually controlling the barrel. But goddamn is it difficult to do.
Christ, I did that too, he gives you a fucking CD then says it's on the back of the case! IT MUST BE THERE, WHY CAN'T I FIND IT? I eventually just went through every frequency till I found her, ugh ¬¬.Rastien said:
Fucking christ.
I am sorry i was like 13 at the time and was not used to this 4th wall breaking bullshit.
"check the back of the CD CASE" I HAD A BLOODY CD IN MY INVENTORY! i spent hours banging my head against a wall on this shit >:C
Yes im still mad and bitter about this -_-
I won't argue the "Blizz changing WOW to appeal to stupid people and casuals RAWR!" thing here. I will however point out that in Pre-BC WoW there were tons of quests that essentially read thusly. "Those thieving razor beasts stole my Quantum Bifraculator! Head west to get it back."
45 minutes and hundreds of dead Razor Beasts later I find out that there are two Razor Beast camps...the one to the FAR west is the den of thieves. These guys were just chilling out when I came in and murdered them en masse for no good reason.
I won't say quest markers ans highlighted objectives are the best answer...but I'll take it over the alternative.
45 minutes and hundreds of dead Razor Beasts later I find out that there are two Razor Beast camps...the one to the FAR west is the den of thieves. These guys were just chilling out when I came in and murdered them en masse for no good reason.
I won't say quest markers ans highlighted objectives are the best answer...but I'll take it over the alternative.
What? What are you talking about? I've done that sequence tons of times (Half of which I was spotted so I ran to the exit) and never once has that been an issue. Colonel tells you to turn off the game no matter what.The Unworthy Gentleman said:
CAPTCHA: whoa there
OT: So I was playing Ocarina of Time Master Quest for the 3DS. Well at one point you get to a room where there's a rolling spike cylinder in the middle of the room. There's water separating the two ends of the room with a platform that goes under the spike. In the normal game you dive underneath the water to hit a switch to lower the water level so you can go beneath the spikes and get out of the room.
In the Master Quest however, there's a switch at the beginning that activates a torch for about a millisecond. You're supposed to light a stick with it to light up the torches on the other side of the room. Problem...there's the spikes and there's no way to lower the water level. In this mode damage is double so hitting the spikes can send you to critical health if you walk into it. I spent two hours trying to figure it out until I tried rolling underneath it. Bullshit; no way was that shown to be an option.
To me and my friends that was half the fun, when some guy who was a new student at the school told us he actually had Regis our mind was freaking blown, like "holy shit this guy is a god". WE seriously had no idea about it, and the whole language and thing, we didn't search tutorials or crap back then, we made a freaking alphabet in a blank page and deciphered it.370999 said:
Anyway, that was before I used the internet much, I hate my impatience nowadays because I have to deliberately force myself into not looking it up to keep looking, and when I do find it my mind is freaking blown.
This x10000 in fact irc one of the games had a puzzle that involved throwing a pie at a Yeti. How the heck are you suppose to figure that out without dropping the same amount of Acid as it took to come up with that puzzle.Dfskelleton said:
I was including the doll as a factor in the difficulty of figuring out how to reach Ariamis.auron200004 said:
Even if you know "where" Ariamis is, you still need to figure out where and how to get the doll before you reach the Painted World. Thus, I stand by my saying that it's difficult to figure out how to reach. 
Stalker: Call Of Pripyat, simply because it has no tutorial. I'd played a little SOC, so I knew to put my gun away when I talked to people. However, I didn't know how to do any of these things:
Holster my weapon
Use the artifact detector
Use Binoculars or Bolts
Equip weapon mods
Change ammo types
Those were the main problems, the rest were interesting to figure out. You need to holster your weapon in the first minute (ended up just dropping it). Also, the "echo" detector you get at the start is absolute trash that can't find artifacts, you need the "bear" detector. It isnt that hard to find if you know were it is, but if you don't you be stuck with a shitty detector for a long time.
Holster my weapon
Use the artifact detector
Use Binoculars or Bolts
Equip weapon mods
Change ammo types
Those were the main problems, the rest were interesting to figure out. You need to holster your weapon in the first minute (ended up just dropping it). Also, the "echo" detector you get at the start is absolute trash that can't find artifacts, you need the "bear" detector. It isnt that hard to find if you know were it is, but if you don't you be stuck with a shitty detector for a long time.
You opened the treasure chests that you weren't supposed to, didn't you? Why oh why would you open the treasure chests your weren't supposed to? Are you crazy? You never open the treasure chests that you aren't supposed to!ExiusXavarus said:
To be fair though, most of them were just guilty of being obscure - you just had to keep clicking on things in your inventory or the environment until you found the right one, and it's rare that they ever resulted in breaking the game or killing you: you were just stuck until you found the right combination.ThePenguinKnight said:
That said, the genre did have some notable exceptions to that rule. Anyone ever play Amazon: Guardians of Eden, for example? That game was full of them...
Holy shit, I feel like a genius.
Immediately upon getting to that one bit in Phantom Hourglass, I rolled my eyes and solved it. "Gimmicks, ahoy!"
I guess I just assumed Nintendo would use the damn thing in every single hokey way possible.
Immediately upon getting to that one bit in Phantom Hourglass, I rolled my eyes and solved it. "Gimmicks, ahoy!"
I guess I just assumed Nintendo would use the damn thing in every single hokey way possible.
Rayman forever. I replayed it over and over, thinking there was a bug in the game (I was 7 and not very smart) that kept me from unlocking the dessert level. How was I supposed to know you were actually supposed to save every last one of those pink things in cages. That game was my childhood and I've yet to beat it.
This pisses me off, you don't ever have a CD in your inventory.Rastien said:
Fucking christ.
I am sorry i was like 13 at the time and was not used to this 4th wall breaking bullshit.
"check the back of the CD CASE" I HAD A BLOODY CD IN MY INVENTORY! i spent hours banging my head against a wall on this shit >:C
Yes im still mad and bitter about this -_-
You do get an MO Disk, but it's not a CD.
In the first Metroid, the game doesn't tell you anything and doesn't help you along even slightly.
Whenever I think of a "classic game difficulty" I think of Metroid and how it doesn't tell you a fucking thing and your control has to be flawless at many parts near the beginning of the fucking game.
Metroid is one of the only games I have played that made me bust out a pen and paper to draw the map just so I knew where the fuck I was.
There are also a whole lot of puzzles in Fez that you solve by checking online and then saying "how the fuck was I supposed to know that shit?!"
Whenever I think of a "classic game difficulty" I think of Metroid and how it doesn't tell you a fucking thing and your control has to be flawless at many parts near the beginning of the fucking game.
Metroid is one of the only games I have played that made me bust out a pen and paper to draw the map just so I knew where the fuck I was.
There are also a whole lot of puzzles in Fez that you solve by checking online and then saying "how the fuck was I supposed to know that shit?!"
Haha... I remember that one. It was all about gentleness. You didn't press it so much as tap it. But yeah, we had no idea how to get past that when we were little. I'm pretty sure in the end, we used a cheat code to skip ahead to the final stage because our poor little minds drew a blank.Leemaster777 said: