hahahahahaha! this is a brilliant post! made me laugh a lot.
I didn't realise in Halo that you could stop charging that lazer cannon thing until my brother told me. I always assumed it would just continue to charge anyway, not realising if i merely took my finger off the right trigger it would power-down.
In Kingdom Hearts I never knew that you could switch weapons. I beat the game using all defaults. I even beat Lance Bass.
In Final Fantasy X I didn't know about the sphere grid or until near the end of the game.
I went through most of Dragon Age: Origins without choosing any specializations.
I never knew you could taunt in Devil May Cry 3. Didn't know about swapping weapons and styles either.
In Fable III I completely forgot about buying property until I was about ten million gold in debt. Needless to say I was ever so slightly pissed.
I beat InFamous without knowing that you could switch which arm you shoot with by hitting an analogue stick. Not too useful, sure, but still a feature I missed.
I didn't know I could issue orders in Mass Effect.
And I didn't know about upgrading in the first few Ratchet titles.
There are more, but my memory isn't what it used to be.
In Kingdom hearts i purposefully use the default weapon until i get a worse one (such as "Sweet Memories" in KH2)
and someone else made a similar comment about Finak Fantasy 10 and i still can't understand how you actually managed to get that far through the game. I can understand missing out on the sphere grid, its got a stupidly long and boring tutorial 20 minutes in that i remember blindly pressing 'x' to skip through. But i had difficulty with some of the bosses and I did use the sphere grid. I can't see how someone can get through the game with level 1 characters... Unless they were purposefully trying to? (http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/197344-final-fantasy-x/faqs/16203). I suppose I am more congratulating you though for such persistence! some of those bosses must have been a right ***** and you'd have never realised why until you discovered the sphere grid.
Speaking of Ratchet and Clank, I've never actually gotten the RHINO weapons... -_- the shame
Not sure if this counts as a feature (probably more like "I missed an entire level"), but I just remembered another good one from Kirby Super Star. In the sub-game "Milky Way Wishes", you can't eat enemies to gain their powers like you normally can; you have to find them within the seven levels you play through, and then you can switch to that power whenever you want (kinda like Mega Man's powers). I managed to get 18 of the abilities you can claim and use over and over. But when I looked at the menu for my powers, something bothered me. Next to the bar that listed controls for the menu (looking up the moveset or selecting it), there was one blue space left that looked like the size of the other images that represented your powers. I was, in fact, missing a power that I could get. I suspected it was the Copy Ability, but I looked everywhere in "Milky Way Wishes", and I couldn't find Copy anywhere.
I didn't know how to get that last 1% until I looked on GameFAQs years later (this was probably around the time the DS version was coming out). As it turns out, the Copy Ability IS in "Milky Way Wishes", but it's found in an EIGHTH level that you can visit. This eighth level (titled "?" when you visit it, but I think the walkthrough called it the "TAC Homeworld") can be accessed on the map screen for "Milky Way Wishes", but
the TAC Homeworld is a tiny green planet on the map. It's a lot smaller than any of the other seven planets you visit, so it's easy to mistake it for just part of the background.
It's one of those things that you can easily overlook at first, but once it's revealed to you, it sticks out like a sore thumb and you feel stupid for not noticing that before.
Through my first Skyrim playthrough, I didn't realize that I learned spells by using the spell books. I never touched them because I thought they were one-time use like the scrolls...
Though I was playing a warrior, so it didn't really matter that much.
In Kingdom hearts i purposefully use the default weapon until i get a worse one (such as "Sweet Memories" in KH2)
and someone else made a similar comment about Finak Fantasy 10 and i still can't understand how you actually managed to get that far through the game. I can understand missing out on the sphere grid, its got a stupidly long and boring tutorial 20 minutes in that i remember blindly pressing 'x' to skip through. But i had difficulty with some of the bosses and I did use the sphere grid. I can't see how someone can get through the game with level 1 characters... Unless they were purposefully trying to? (http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/197344-final-fantasy-x/faqs/16203). I suppose I am more congratulating you though for such persistence! some of those bosses must have been a right ***** and you'd have never realised why until you discovered the sphere grid.
Speaking of Ratchet and Clank, I've never actually gotten the RHINO weapons... -_- the shame
I honestly don't know how I got so far. I got to the part where Sin is trying to get to the air ship and you have to stop him. I finally decided to go to the menu and look at everything. I eventually figured out the sphere grid and spent lord knows how long using up all my points.
The bosses up until that were so damn hard. Took me ages to beat any of them. I thought the game was supposed to be impossibly hard. Needless to say my facepalm shook the earth. I literally almost cried (I was very young!).
Still, I can pat myself on the back about it now. It was pretty impressive. I tried to replicate the magic on purpose and I couldn't get past that one part where Seymour joins the party.
I think I was a better gamer when I was younger . . . Or at least more patient and persistent.
I played through Catherine . And didn't realise there was a "back" button go go backwards in moves in case i made a mistake . So many deaths could have been avoided . But i did manage to beat it so ...
finished no more heroes and got the bad ending.
looked online for details and found out you could shadowstep around enemies.
not a single mention of it anywhere in the game as far as i can tell.
Today I found out something by accident. In Castlevania Symphony of the Night, you can get a sword called "the Sword of Dawn" which has the description "a sword that can summon an invincible legion." Now if you know Castlevania, all items and monsters have very cryptic superficial descriptions that usually don't mean anything. You already can summon a few familiars (one at a time via the menu) and they don't do much other than minor assistance.
But in this case, while button mashing, I found that it is not lying. Using the right combination of buttons you can summon a portion of the legion and it is very effective.
riottrio said:
hahahahahaha! this is a brilliant post! made me laugh a lot.
The really long getting killed by a grapple animation in ME3 singleplayer were apparently quicktime events. I had no idea until I beat the game and played multiplayer.
The really long getting killed by a grapple animation in ME3 singleplayer were apparently quicktime events. I had no idea until I beat the game and played multiplayer.
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