I didn't know that...

[excalipoor]

My moment was when I was playing through FF7 for the first time, years ago. I was having a terrible time with the first Jenova fight, and I just couldn't get past it. My cousin said, "Weird, that fight was pretty easy for me. What materia are you using?" I replied: "What's materia?"

Turns out I just socketed everyone's weapons completely randomly sometime early in the game, then forgot about it. To my chagrin, linking two All materia was not particularly effective.

Hand to God: the first time I played Final Fantasy 7 (my first RPG ever) I didn't know you could revive with Phoenix Downs until the serpent boss at Junon beach. Apparently I was being really, really careful.

Yeah? Well, when I first played FF7, I was 9-years old, and my English vocabulary was about 15 words total. My first time I managed to die in the very first battle, because I kept targeting Cloud's attacks on himself. I thought I was choosing who would attack, not who to attack.

And Guard Scorpion, it took me 6-7 times to beat him, not because of the bad wording, but because I literally had no idea what was being said. I got lazered to death every time, and it felt like a huge accomplishment when I finally figured it out.

Due to not understanding where to go, I also spent quite a lot of time grinding in Midgar. I think I was level 25 or something before reaching Kalm. Anyhow, I had quite a few limit breaks learned, but it took me until disc 2 to learn how to change limit levels, and I only did because a friend told me about it. Going from Braver and Cross Slash to Meteorain was flippin' sweet.

 

[Eddie the head]

I was level 70 in WoW (Before WotLK came out) before I realized I could eat and drink at the same time.

I was level 40 before I realized that food and water were good for anything.

Yeah this happened to me as well. To be fair though I was a Warrior. I figured it out on my Warlock by like level 10 though.

 

[King Aragorn]

Hmm....in Mortal Kombat, every single one of them, I always assume the uppercut was just a one attack sort of thing, or a combo finisher, turns out *atleast in MK 2011* you can actually continue a combo off of one...
Damn, my life is a lie.

 

[Filiecs]

In Half Life 2, I got all the way to the Antlion Queen in Nova Prospect before I realized that the red packs on the walls healed you. When I watched a video of a guy playing and saw him use one of the packs my face fell to my keyboard.

 

[byte4554_v1legacy]

In Half Life 2, I got all the way to the Antlion Queen in Nova Prospect before I realized that the red packs on the walls healed you. When I watched a video of a guy playing and saw him use one of the packs my face fell to my keyboard.

Ho.Ly.Shit. How the hell did you make it?

 

[Skorm034]

I just found out that in gotham city imposters, there is a melee button...derp.

People started playing that game again? Why didn't anyone tell me...

 

[byte4554_v1legacy]

I just found out that in gotham city imposters, there is a melee button...derp.

People started playing that game again? Why didn't anyone tell me...

We started playing in our super-duper secret clubhouse...no skorms allowed... in all honesty though, it does still have a small, yet dedicated fanbase surrounding it...for the F2P version...for PC. On that note, I also recently discovered that you could cancel throwing objects...how I got to level 17 already, I'll never know.

 

[FalloutJack]

Nobody, but NOBODY - fucking told me that I could save Cid in Final Fantasy 6. Nobody in the ENTIRE WORLD ever even hinted at in ANY WAY that you just feed him fast-moving fish you catch and he'll get better. THOSE BASTARDS had me condemn him to an unnecessary death!

 

[mysecondlife]

Its not a gameplay feature but I didn't know you could slap someone in LittleBigPlanet2.
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In Borderlands, I didn't know you could use auto lock-on with vehicles if you ride solo.

In 1st Gen Pokemon, I didn't know you could use fly. But the world is soo small that you could just use bike to get around within a minute.

In HalfLife2, I didn't know you could drop grenade. When I was tryin to destroy turrets, I spent minutes trying to throw the grenade inside the turret opening without much success.

 

[White_Lama]

Well.

I didn't know you could level up in Oblivion.

Or rather, I knew you could but couldn't figure out HOW. Took me a few days of gaming to finally get a loading screen that said that I needed to sleep and meditate on what I've learned or something like that and sure enough, got to an inn and slept and leveled up.

Was level 15 by then.

Geez.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Looks like I'll be posting this gem again:
In Fallout 3, you can keep drinking from a source of water if you hold down the button (the interact key), instead of tapping it.

 

[Meatspinner]

Took me 2 years of playing WoW to get the " I'm a TeePee, I'm a WigWam" joke

Needless to say, I felt really stupid

 

[Alexi089]

My finest (and most recent) derp moment has to be The Golden Cat mission in Dishonored, where I didn't know that I could open up a no-kill ending by talking to Slackjaw in the distillery. When I actually listened to the cutscene at the beginning of the mission I learnt of my bonus opportunity.

A mate of mine had a great one where he never read any control instructions for MGS3, so he spent the entire game struggling to sneak up behind enemies because he was using the control stick rather than the D-Pad and they kept hearing him. Fair play to him, he didn't quit or lookup any walkthroughs.

Edit: Another Dishonored one: I assumed the Dark vision would gradually drain my mana whilst I used it, and it appeared to drain fairly quick looking at the meter just after I cast it, So I kept using it for 'little peaks' for almost all the 2nd mission, until I just left it one time and realised it takes the mana cost upfront.

 

[byte4554_v1legacy]

After logging several hours on the third penny arcade game, I just discovered the run and autorun keys.

 

[Dead Seerius]

In Borderlands 2 you can mark guns in your inventory as 'favorite' or 'remove' by pressing the left stick. It makes selling guns you don't need much, much, MUCH more efficient.

And I didn't know about it until half-way through my second playthrough.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I didn't realise I could slide down ladders in Dark Souls until my fourth playthrough.

WAAAAAT

In harvest moon ds you can press the left bumper and cycle through tools I didn't not find this out until I was an in game year into the game.

 

[maninahat]

I didn't know how to sneak past land mines in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. You aren't told that walking is effective, or even what the walk button is (the PC version requires you to press a toggle, unlike on the consoles, in which speed is controlled by the sticks). I just set them off on purpose whenever I saw them.

It never told you that? damn. Thats been the rules for mines in each deus ex, so it just came naturally to me

It was my previous experience of Deus Ex games that were getting me killed. I always knew you could crouch and move up to them, grabbing them off of the wall as they bleeped. In DX:HR crouching does nothing but make it all the more embarrassing when the damn things insta-explode in your face.

 

[vid87]

My moment was when I was playing through FF7 for the first time, years ago. I was having a terrible time with the first Jenova fight, and I just couldn't get past it. My cousin said, "Weird, that fight was pretty easy for me. What materia are you using?" I replied: "What's materia?"

Turns out I just socketed everyone's weapons completely randomly sometime early in the game, then forgot about it. To my chagrin, linking two All materia was not particularly effective.

Hand to God: the first time I played Final Fantasy 7 (my first RPG ever) I didn't know you could revive with Phoenix Downs until the serpent boss at Junon beach. Apparently I was being really, really careful.

Yeah? Well, when I first played FF7, I was 9-years old, and my English vocabulary was about 15 words total. My first time I managed to die in the very first battle, because I kept targeting Cloud's attacks on himself. I thought I was choosing who would attack, not who to attack.

And Guard Scorpion, it took me 6-7 times to beat him, not because of the bad wording, but because I literally had no idea what was being said. I got lazered to death every time, and it felt like a huge accomplishment when I finally figured it out.

Due to not understanding where to go, I also spent quite a lot of time grinding in Midgar. I think I was level 25 or something before reaching Kalm. Anyhow, I had quite a few limit breaks learned, but it took me until disc 2 to learn how to change limit levels, and I only did because a friend told me about it. Going from Braver and Cross Slash to Meteorain was flippin' sweet.

I'm going to guess half the grinding was in the train graveyard before the pillar fight with Reno? That took me forever. Also, in a recent playthrough, I found out A)the Red Dragon in the Temple of the Ancients dies from one Meteorain, when before I must have replayed it about 50 times, and B)you can skip limit breaks by fulfilling requirements for the advanced one (ie get the "80 kills" one before the "use previous 8 times" one). I'm still wondering if skipping lets you learn the final "item" limit break or if you really need them all.

Also, a tidbit (not sure if actually true) from a gaming forum or something: Safer Sephiroth gets an extra 10,000 hp every time you use Knights of the Round inside the crater dungeon.

 

[Fimbulvetr3822]

My moment was when I was playing through FF7 for the first time, years ago. I was having a terrible time with the first Jenova fight, and I just couldn't get past it. My cousin said, "Weird, that fight was pretty easy for me. What materia are you using?" I replied: "What's materia?"

Turns out I just socketed everyone's weapons completely randomly sometime early in the game, then forgot about it. To my chagrin, linking two All materia was not particularly effective.

Hand to God: the first time I played Final Fantasy 7 (my first RPG ever) I didn't know you could revive with Phoenix Downs until the serpent boss at Junon beach. Apparently I was being really, really careful.

Yeah? Well, when I first played FF7, I was 9-years old, and my English vocabulary was about 15 words total. My first time I managed to die in the very first battle, because I kept targeting Cloud's attacks on himself. I thought I was choosing who would attack, not who to attack.

And Guard Scorpion, it took me 6-7 times to beat him, not because of the bad wording, but because I literally had no idea what was being said. I got lazered to death every time, and it felt like a huge accomplishment when I finally figured it out.

Due to not understanding where to go, I also spent quite a lot of time grinding in Midgar. I think I was level 25 or something before reaching Kalm. Anyhow, I had quite a few limit breaks learned, but it took me until disc 2 to learn how to change limit levels, and I only did because a friend told me about it. Going from Braver and Cross Slash to Meteorain was flippin' sweet.

I'm going to guess half the grinding was in the train graveyard before the pillar fight with Reno? That took me forever. Also, in a recent playthrough, I found out A)the Red Dragon in the Temple of the Ancients dies from one Meteorain, when before I must have replayed it about 50 times, and B)you can skip limit breaks by fulfilling requirements for the advanced one (ie get the "80 kills" one before the "use previous 8 times" one). I'm still wondering if skipping lets you learn the final "item" limit break or if you really need them all.

Also, a tidbit (not sure if actually true) from a gaming forum or something: Safer Sephiroth gets an extra 10,000 hp every time you use Knights of the Round inside the crater dungeon.

just a heads up, you need all the limit breaks to be able to use the LV 4 one, was not fun figuring that out

OT: I found out today that Cheddar cheese is named because of the process for manufacture rather than the village in England where it was first made, mind=blown

 

[Keneth]

After having played and beaten Final Fantasy VIII twice already.

Me: God I hate these fucking Tutorials. They are so fucking long.(Spamming X madly)

Buddy: Dude, just skip it.

Me: You can't!

Buddy: Yes you can... (Reaches over and hits Triangle)

Me: Son of a...