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:
Alright (insert game here), how the FUCK was I supposed to know that?!
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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:
The whole Romance thing in Dragon's Dogma. If you're not careful, you can end up making sweet gay love to the blacksmith or innkeeper.
That certain important subplot story quests can auto-fail or no longer be available; which also mean that further quests won't be available.
That the dash button can be used to manually aim spells while casting. I didn't realize that till the end of my Mage play-through. I was frantically casting spells and wanted to sprint while channeling and then I saw the target reticule moving, which normally auto-lockons .
That certain important subplot story quests can auto-fail or no longer be available; which also mean that further quests won't be available.
That the dash button can be used to manually aim spells while casting. I didn't realize that till the end of my Mage play-through. I was frantically casting spells and wanted to sprint while channeling and then I saw the target reticule moving, which normally auto-lockons .
In Overlord, there's this objective to find a maiden for the castle or something. I spent about an hour talking to every woman I could find, and nothing.
I still don't know how to finish that.
I actually quit that game because of how directionless it was. It was also a little too difficult, but maybe I was just bad.
I still don't know how to finish that.
I actually quit that game because of how directionless it was. It was also a little too difficult, but maybe I was just bad.
...What? I thought that door was not meant to open! So I just left! Mother of god, after all these years, I find out this! I must go undust my Emerald version!Shax said:
Exactly. It was only because I had the guide that i was able to figure out not to open certain chests throughout the game. That's just mean, Square. Who could possibly guess that without a guide?!ExiusXavarus said:
And of course and as always, when i got the spear, I didn't need it anymore.
You know what sucks, though? When you buy the PS2 Collection and there's no such thing as looking in the back of the disc case. I literally checked every single codec channel until I found her. THAT is how I solved it.WanderingFool said:
Anyway, for a new one. I was playing Minecraft for the 360. Mind you, I've never played the PC version. Ever. And it is up until recently that I've found out about this game (A month ago, maybe?). So I decided to build a Nether gate because it said obsidian can cast a portal and stuff. So I did. But I decided to create a big gate so that my friends and I could go through without any problem, maybe all of us at the same time. But as many people know, you can only create small 4x4 (More or less) gates. My friend had to tell me that.
Oh, and the reason why i figured something was wrong was because I saw no portal when I finished building it. Once I made it smaller, I still saw no portal. Turns out, I need flint and steel to set it on fire and boom. Done.
I'd say Minecraft is the master at being ambiguous about stuff. I appreciate the game thinking I'm pretty smart to figure it out but...some help might be nice.
NO! Not TV Tropes! What have you done?! Don't you know that's like drugs?! NOOOOOOOOOO--Theminimanx said:
Damn your sharp ears, and damn Pritchard's smart-alec mouth. And damn Sarif HQ for having so many candy bars to steal. ;-)dogstile said:They do tell you to hurry, I just assumed they meant it and actually went. I figured i'd be coming back to HQ later
I have STALKER Call of Pripyat and Shadow of Chernobyl, but I never got that far into them because I just could not figure out the game. So many things didn't make sense. I never fully understood artifacts, or how to find anything, or complete a shit ton of quests (and the timers......gggggrrrrrrrrrrr quest timers). I'm not bad at video games so I could give it another shot maybe, but its not very clear on its direction. Darn Russians...Mr Pantomime said:
Me to! Oh, I can top that. I wasn't to familiar with the DS's microphone, so I got stuck on the first temple, because I didn't know you needed to blow into the microphone to put out the candles.Leemaster777 said:
I was playing through Ico recently. There's this one puzzle area where you have to swing on a rope over a chasm. The only problem is, tilting the control stick doesn't change your direction while swinging, and you're forced to swing at the wrong angle to make the jump. I spent probably an hour searching every square inch of the area for some clue, item, secret path... This was like 10 hours into the game, and the whole time I had believed that there was no way to rotate while hanging. Because I hadn't tried the shoulder buttons. Of COURSE ICO, the SHOULDER buttons. Not the analog stick, which up to this point was the only way to direct the character! There are actually a lot of really terrible puzzles in that game and SoTC. I love 'em, but wow. All the traditional game mechanics are horrible.
And then of course, there's the infamous Gabriel Knight Cat Hair Moustache puzzle. I don't even think that Acid could make someone dumb enough to think that spraying a cat so it runs through duct tape, and then combining the cat hair from the duct tape with syrup to make a disguise to fool a moped shop owner would make even the slightest hint of sense.Mr.PlanetEater said:
In Spyro 1 in the Haunted Towers level there's a dragon and heap of gems that I just couldn't figure out how to get to. Turned out you have to go down both power ups and circle back around the outside of the tower, go up a ramp and then glide over to an island that has a whirly thing that lifts you up to the top of the tower. How the hell was I was I supposed to work that out!
Ah, great days! I also spent hours crawling around Shadow Moses looking for a CD case before the penny dropped...Leemaster777 said:I've actually never played MGS, but I do know about that boss fight. Apparently, if you call your commander or whatever enough times, he flat-out tells you to plug the controller into port 2. It is a bit ridiculous, though.RJ 17 said:Leemaster777 said:
Now I've never played MGS (I played MGS 2, but by all accounts that's one that is best left forgotten
MRMIdAS2k said: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.
It does look like a CD and how we were supposed to know about this 4th wall breaking x)