Have you ever played through a game and completely missed a game play feature?

[kortin]

So your friend didn't know about Timed hits?

Nope. He somehow made it through the game without them. I salute his ability to continue playing the game without them.

 

[TheKruzdawg]

A friend discovered back button quicksaving in ME3 a good ways through the game, and then immediately told me.

You're not the only one. I'm getting ready to start my 2nd playthrough. Glad I know that now.

 

[Seagoon]

I went through Bulletstorm and didn't buy ammo or upgrades. I knew about it, but just wanted to see if it mattered.

Spoiler

It didn't.

Also, swapping ammo in New Vegas and the 1-0 mappable hotkeys.

what do you mean by ammo swapping in new vegas? that's one I might have missed..

 

[TheKruzdawg]

Mass Effect 2.

I was halfway through the suicide mission when I realized I could press "Back" on the Xbox 360 controller to holster my weapon. Not really useful in combat, but it surprised me nonetheless.

And I HATE how they took away that feature in ME3. Honestly, I feel like a complete idiot walking around with my gun pointed straight in front of me during during the entire course of a combat mission. "Hey, I killed all the guys! Can I put away my gun? No? Well then I guess I'll just walk around looking like Paranoid Joe, ready to shoot at absolutely anything.

Hold B or X(I think).

*SMASHES HEAD AGAINST WALL*

This is what happens when there's no manual, EA.

Does this apply to the final fight with Kai Leng? Where (at least for me) if I didn't run away fast enough he one-shotted me 10 seconds into the fight?

 

[Seagoon]

I didn't realise until completing GTA IV that while locked on I could slightly nudge the analogue stick up to get a perfect headshot.

#

wat... wat... when did this happen?...

 

[witness51]

I heard that I missed just about everything in Tales of Vesperia. I'd play through again to see how it was with all the non-story related stuff involved, but I hate Karol too much. And the princess girl. Fuck her. (But seriously how do you open the hot springs?)

 

[Nuuu]

I only recently found out that after all these years, there are hidden items in Pokemon. Found out by Chuggaconroy's pokemon LP, Never even knew there were hidden items in grass or rocks.

In Skyward Sword i rejected the Shield Bash as basically useless. It wasn't until near the end of the game that i found that the Shield Bash Counter is extremely useful, which makes that annoying pirate miniboss a piece of cake instead of the second hardest enemy next to the final boss...

I also went through Pokemon Crystal only leveling my Totadile, that was just me being bad at games though. Not sure how i got him past level 100 >.>

 

[Sack of Cheese]

Divinity 2: I didn't realised there are more skills underneath the Skills menu (you have to scroll down) which include Healing spell! I spent the first half of the game quick-save and quick-load to make sure I don't use up any health potions (they are in very limited supplies.)
Skyrim: I didn't realised you could dash!
Dark souls: I didn't realised I could zoom in and out when shooting with a bow!

 

[Joey Morris]

Got to the end of Final Fantasy VIII and never got my weapon past level 2 because of an enemy I was supposed to draw a specific Summon from in disc 1 so I would have the ability to refine a specific item necessary to upgrade my weapons so I ended up only doing about 700-800 damage per melee strike with my level 90+ characters and couldn't finish the game because I didn't like it.

 

[Negatempest]

I have a very sad story. I loved the game FF X-2. Dressing Sim aside, the fighting was frantic and the boss fights were extremely satisfying. AND you just had to manage 3 characters instead of 12+ where more than half of those you don't care about or use...

Now as anyone knows who may have played it...to get the best costume, but most silly looking, is to get a perfect 100% completion (Item Collecting). Okay, so after you get 100% a cut-scene is supposed to play to show you getting the costume, I skipped it by accident because I did not know that the cutscene was related to the costume...until it was too late. I had saved the game believing that I needed to do something else. I checked online and found out that there is a glitch where IF you skip the cutscene, you do NOT get the costume. T_T I died a little inside that day. The work to do all that is just...too much.... to do again...

 

[Altorin]

Oh, I know one, the Hacking in Fallout 3/NV. I played through both games 3-4 times each before learning that in the hacking mini game if you find [] {} () brackets, you can get duds removed and get your tries back.

I find it just makes it harder then just hardlining it

 

[Dogstile]

I finished Saints Row 3 without ever upgrading any weapon I had. Not that it mattered that much since you can overkill anyway but holy shit was I surprised when I discovered I could improve my weapons in the middle of the second playthrough.

...Wasn't that an objective in like, the first mission you get when you actually reach steelport as well?

OP: I never realised you could be stealthy in a lot of the Perfect Dark Zero missions. I have no idea why either.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I didn't know about horse tricks, lizards, or fruit the first playthrough of Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[Altorin]

I played through Metro: 2033 without knowing you could buy or upgrade your weapons..I played my whole first playthrough with the shitty weapons you pick up, and a sack full of moneyz

what. you can upgrade weapons in Metro 2033? Damn! That would have been helpful.

I have never used "throw gil" in any final fantasy game. i saw my brother do it and it was the most useless attack i've ever seen. I have however, used the 'bribe' skill in Final Fantasy 10, if only to get the rarest goodies from monsters.

In FFX i dint realise you could use the orbs to make your character stronger till i fought Yunalesca needless to say my hours of grinding payed off when i finally found it out

...but....but.... how!? (did you actually manage to get that far with characters you had left with 'level 1' stats. I can understand why you didn't know how to use the sphere system, i was smashing the 'o' and 'x' button as quick as i could through that boring text tutorial.

Well i just grinded alot i think i was around lvl 80 something in the zanarkland i think i spelled that right but i just thought it was meant to be a really hard game i had alot of potions and phoenix downs at all times and i allways kept all my armors as best i could i loged in that game over 120 hours lol

wait, but grinding a lot and getting your levels up doesn't actually make you stronger in FFX unless you use orbs. Levels in FFX are basically just tokens for moving around the grid, they don't make you stronger by themselves. I mean, without using any orbs, you'd have less then 500 health

 

[Resetti's_Replicas]

Paper Mario has items???

 

[Altorin]

In Fallout: New Vegas, I missed out on Caravan until my second playthrough.

Then I found out it's the biggest pile of shit, so never mind.

Caravan is the most broken game ever.

If you play it against shop keepers, they use their shop cap stockpile to play Caravan with

It's also stupidly easy if you build your deck with just 6s, 8s, 9s, 10s and Kings. Play your 10s, play kings on them, place 6s on those, and win. Alternatively, play 9s, Kings on those, then play 8s on top of those. It's stupidly easy to win at Caravan once you know how to play it.

So basically, buy everything, then play Caravan with them to get all of your money back, and then sell the stuff to vendors that don't play caravan for their caps.

Mind=blown?

Note that vendors who play Caravan (the courier guy in Primm, the NCR outpost lady, the Dinosaur Gift Shop guy in Novac) will only play a few games before the game realizes what the heck it's letting you do and they stop, so make sure those games count.

 

[Altorin]

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

It is very possible to play through Final Fantasy X without using the Sphere Grid, it's just really freaking hard, and most people that do it, do it on purpose because otherwise the game is too easy for them. It's meant as a Challenge. I've seen people who beat the game using only Tidus (killing off the other characters) and not levelling him up at all. The only more challenging thing would be No Sphere Grid, No Aeon, Yuna Only challenge. Play the game only with pitiful attacks, items and Cure

I'm sure someones done it though, people do crazy things in FFX.

I beat Final Fantasy Tactics (the first one) using only Ramza, and actually found it EASIER then controlling a whole army, except for a couple fights.

 

[ADDmuse]

This almost happened to me today. I was playing Curse of Monkey Island (while my dad watched) when he tells me I should save. To which I reply, "There's a save function?"
It's amazing how I completely miss this sort of thing with old games.

 

[Altorin]

For skyrim I didn't realize that if you blocked with the shield at the right time it would deflect the blow and do no damage to you, I thought you could just hold it and take less damage or try to dodge out of the way entirely. I know next Patton over here.

Lol, really? I'm a block Advocate (My first major character was a Block Specialist and it was awesome) and I didn't know that

 

[KefkaCultist]

Playing Skyrim for at least 100 hours when I finally figured out that I could have used all these saved up Dragon Souls to unlock all my shouts. I assumed that I wasn't able to use them because I hadn't really done anything of the main quest. I face palmed pretty hard.