Oh, I get it now?

[Captain Schpack]

What in your gaming career, have you experienced a moment where puzzle or section of a game was instantly made clear by something you misunderstood or ignored? Whats your greatest "oh, I get it now" moment.

Mine had to be in Battlefield: Bad Company. I was finally playing through the game on the hardest difficulty and was getting my ass kicking by the artillery barrage on the last level (the sand dunes with a fuckload of tanks.

I start the section over a again and hear Sweetwater yell out "Those artillery guns are still operational!" I start yelling at him to shut the fuck up and the i hits me; I can use the operational guns to take out the tanks.

And so i take them out but not before around 7 of them close in on my position and have to be taken out with a series of jumping, C4 and RPG's. Needless to say i got all of the achievements and finished the level.

 

[Cherry Cola]

When I learned that I could not only reflect bullets, but throw them back in Afro Samurai.

I was stuck on a boss for 1 hour because of that

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

The last room before the boss in Ocarina of Time's Forest Temple. I know it had something to do with those blocks sticking out of the wall, but I had no idea that they could be pushed. I was trying to destroy them =P

 

[anthony87]

Yeah those riddles on Batman: AA where you have to line up the riddler symbol that's hidden somewhere. It was annoying as hell trying to figure out what the riddle itself meant at first but once I got it the rest were easy.

 

[Jonny49]

Pretty much everything in Uncharted 2. The amount of time I've spent looking for ledges/paths to get up somewhere probably amounts to the length of MW2's campaign.

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

Prince of Persia the 2 Thrones. Found out on that boss fight with 2 weapon wielding maniacs that you have to get them in the exact precise position so that you can perform a QTE attack that absolutely raped their health.

Only took 2 months to figure this out.

 

[Radeonx]

Pretty much everything past the first few levels of Braid.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Pretty much everything in Uncharted 2. The amount of time I've spent looking for ledges/paths to get up somewhere probably amounts to the length of MW2's campaign.

So you spent 5 minutes looking for them?

[sub]zing![/sub]

 

[Omikron009]

When my friend learned that you can knife enemies through their riot shields in modern warfare 2 the game got easier.

 

[Dr. Wily III]

Call of Duty 4 - There were you have to run to an heli, I though I must survive long enough but they just kept coming, argh!

 

[El Poncho]

Well, I guess on the mirrors edge demo at the end I didn't know where to go until I realized that the flashing bar in the air was an helicopter that I could jump on.

 

[asleep at the comp]

getting lost in a level back tracking for 3 hours then find the exit was right in frount of you all along..this happens to me frequently in games

 

[tijuanatim]

I usually play Rock Band, and when it's a hammer on the next note appears smaller to let you know. 12 songs into Guitar Hero and I FINALLY realized the Hammer Ons slightly glow on top. All my friends thought I was retarded...

 

[AlexWinter]

Ocarina of time - The ice cave before the second water temple. Using the blue fire to melt the everlasting ice. It took me a week to realise you had to catch it in the bottle. The 'OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH' In the middle of a bus journey earned me a lot of weird looks.

 

[TheRocketeer]

My copy of Ico had no manual, meaning I had to puzzle out the controls on my own. You can swing on chains by holding a button when you're climbing one, but you never have to do this until pretty deep into the game. Naturally, I had no idea how to do it and got as stuck as I would get the whole game.

When I started swinging by accident, it was AWESOME.

 

[Luke5515]

When I played Starfox: Adventure, which I loved, I got stuck on a puzzle where there is a giant rotating totem poll. I had no idea what to do and after trying everything I could think of, I gave up. About a year later, my friend came over and after we got on the topic of the game, told me I had to use the first ability that you got to stop the peices in the right spots.

 

[MetaKnight19]

The water temples in nearly any given Zelda game (except Twilight Princess, that was fairly easy). They are ridiculously hard (for me anyway), until something in your head goes *CLICK* and then you say 'How did I not see/think of that before'. The water temple as Adult Link in OoT had me completely stumped for ages, I found the Spirit Temple (and to a lesser extent the Shadow Temple) easier than the water temple.

 

[ribonuge]

Pretty much everything past the first few levels of Braid.

This is it for me.

Spoiler: Totally ninjar'd

 

[Simalacrum]

a HELL of a lot of time in Portal was spent with "ooooh I get it now!"

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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