Did you ever play a game wrong?

[Not So Tuesday]

I put 100 points into Barter on my first playthrough of Fallout 3

 

[TheTim]

When i was a kid i always played pokemon wrong.
I would only level up my starter so everyone else would be weak and pathetic.

 

[SD-Fiend]

scribblenauts I died so many times killing when I didnt know I couldnt

 

[cainx10a]

Splinter Cell: Double Agent, I just wanted to finish it for the story, so easy mode, run and gun. I felt bad about myself, most of the time.

 

[Master_Corruptor]

i remember in portal after you encounter your first rocket turret there's a hole (slightly to high) to crawl through.

and i think i had to think of something clever. instead i stacked computers and chairs to climb up to it.

That. I did it on all my Portal playthroughs.
I still don't know how you actually are supposed to get through that hole without the loveable Aperture chair. <3

Redirect the rocket so it hits the pipe. A cube will fall out. Use that instead.

Hmmm i never saw that. I allways used furniture as well. Then i dragged it with me and tried to stop the huge fan by cluttering it with said furniture.
The other big fail I did was on oblivion after the emperor is killed. I could not find any way out of there. I searched pretty much everywhere (That includes the spawnpoints of the assassins and even bactracked as far as possible) for 45 minutes before i noticed the hole in the wall

 

[ultrachicken]

Half-Life 2
The puzzles kick my ass every time

 

[ultrachicken]

I put 100 points into Barter on my first playthrough of Fallout 3

That's not actually a bad way to play, because it means you can buy an item from a vendor and sell it back for more than you bought it (so long as the vendor has 2 of that item)

 

[Signa]

I remember playing Thief using stealth more as a gimmick than a mechanic. I was pissed when I found how many healing potions I needed per level and how retardedly expensive they were for how often I needed them. I kinda remember the game getting easier as I went along (at least until the chapel) so I must have started to do something right.

I re-beat the game last year on expert without ever taking a point of damage. If I got seen or fell too far, I'd load. It made me best friends with the quick-save key, but I rarely had to visit his neighbor, the quickload key.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

I tried to play Fallout 3 without the strategy guide. I swear it seems that game was made so that you have to spend the extra $20 on a book to do what your supposed to. (Or it could be I just suck at it, which is probably the real reason)

 

[likalaruku]

Oh yes, the first time I played Morrowind, I was so awed by the open world, that I turned on god mode & decided to wonder the land, never touching the story. The Red Plague Storm never activated. I also mangaed to bump into the main bad guy with no sword or any idea of what he was talking about.

 

[Spy Killer]

i remember in portal after you encounter your first rocket turret there's a hole (slightly to high) to crawl through.

and i think i had to think of something clever. instead i stacked computers and chairs to climb up to it.

Same here. Office chair stacking, it's the only way to be sure.

 

[Master_Corruptor]

Oh yes, the first time I played Morrowind, I was so awed by the open world, that I turned on god mode & decided to wonder the land, never touching the story. The Red Plague Storm never activated. I also mangaed to bump into the main bad guy with no sword or any idea of what he was talking about.

Hahaha. I did nearly the same thing.
I leveled up a few levels, then went exploring. I fought my way down to him and repeatedly got my ass handed to me. On a side note the same exploring made me find some hidden away warhammer of doom and despair, that wtfpwn'ed pretty much everything =)

 

[matrix guardian]

About every single free-roam game I don't do missions, I just free-roam with the mentality "screw the system! I have weapons!" (GTA4, Red faction, farcry 2, fallout 3, ect..)

I do the same thing, except it's not so much a "screw the system" mentality, but more of a, "Oh what's this? Where does this lead to? Let's try this." and simply forget to do the main quests out of distracion by the side stuff. In Oblivion, I had played the game for HOURS without ever going through the first oblivion gate.

 

[Manji187]

The first time I played TES III: Morrowind...I completely screwed up my custom character in terms of skills and specialization.