"YOU CAN STEER THE TORPEDO?" moments

[White_Lama]

So many people in here not understanding the dragon claw puzzle in Skyrim.
Am I the only one that actually tried to look at the claw in the inventory for more than a minute before becoming bored and starting to push in random combinations?

I mean, jeez.


For me it probably have to be that you had to sleep to level up in Oblivion, I never slept in any bed until it popped up a loading screen that I had to rest to level up, which was when I was about level 12.

Way to be informative game.

 

[Zefar]

I find it hilarious how so many people have problem with the claw in Skyrim. When I first saw the wheels I was like, there gotta be a picture somewhere telling me the combination. I looked around a bit and then on the claw in the inventory.

If I had made that puzzle I'd made it so that if the sign was a bunny you'd have to pick Wolf because wolf kills bunnies. Butterfly would be plant because that's what they eat to stay alive. Well it's more of like nectar that they need. So if the puzzle had been like that people would go raving mad.

But man I can see why game developers have to put in these Captain Obvious guides into the game to help players.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM

Skip to 6 minute mark. That stereo type seems to be more and more true.

I will say though that the Crouch jump in Half-Life was something I didn't learn until I played the tutorial after I got stuck in the game at some point where I just couldn't get up on a thing. But that feature isn't all that obvious.

That was like 15 years ago and I hadn't played that many FPS games to begin with. These days there is nothing in games that are hard to learn or difficult to learn.

Also not finding the menu in a Final Fantasy game? Really? No I don't buy that. It has to have been used at some point. Maybe like saving.

 

[Madbomber]

when i first played heavenly sword for the first time when ps3 was launched, the beginning part where your firing off cannon shots at these walking seige towers, i kept adjusting my aim and after 5 goes and 100 shots i got frustrated and slouched an odd way where my hands tilted towards me upwards, then i noticed the cannonball went into orbit.

had to make sure that was the case so did it a couple more times, then my asshole of a brother told me it had motion sensors in it lets just say picard and riker had bruises on their face

 

[KillaBC]

I can sprint in Just Cause !?! Yeah, on my second play through I thought the LB was just for rolling, then once I held it down and started sprinting some new opportunities popped up for AWESOME!.

 

[Machine Man 1992]

Fallout 3

"I CAN PICK THINGS UP?"

 

[Evil Raccoon]

I CAN TURN THIS SENTRY AS I BUILD IT?!

Team fortress 2, I found this in 2011
I've been playing the game since '08.
Ouch.

 

[bojackx]

I can sprint in Skyrim?

No honest, first character, a two handed Nord, who could knock enemies down by spitting in their general direction, never once sprinted over those lush green plains!

I was 20 or so hours in before I learnt about it in a conversation with my friend. I immediately went over to another friend of mine and told him, and he was as shocked as I was.

A much obscure one which I don't think anyone else will have fallen prey to was that on Ratchet and Clank: A Crack on Time, there is a part where you have to use a laser to destroy meteorites, and I couldn't for the life of me get them to explode. After restarting the game twice (I was sure it was a glitch) and getting up to the same point, the same thing kept happening. Turns out you had to hold R1 and not just press it, even though pressing it made it look like it was shooting a beam pretty successfully. Man, I was so pissed...

 

[Soxafloppin]

I CAN TOUCH THIS THING AND IT FEELS NICE? ... took my like 15 years to realise that in real life.

In seriousness I beat Ratchet and Clank: Qforce before I realised I could upgrade the character at all.

 

[Karfroogle]

You can hold down the action button in Fallout 3 to continually drink from a receptacle, instead of having to press the button over and over.
My mind was blown when I found out on the forums a few months ago.

WHAT?! I've been doing it individually out of desperation when I was out of stims! This is GAME CHANGING!!

 

[Laser Priest]

It wasn't until halfway on my second playthrough of Fallout 3 that I discovered you could fast travel.

A whole lot of walking before that.

 

[Alcaste]

As far as the claw thing goes, the dude that has the claw in the first place actually has a journal that tells you that the code is on the claw itself - At least, as far as I can remember.

My own moments have pretty much all been said in the thread already. Actually...

I didn't read any of the explanations in Dredmor after a couple of patches in, I figured that I had the whole game pretty much down pat. Only recently (after like 200+ hours) did I find out you can hold CTRL+SHIFT when clicking on something to automatically turn it into lutefisk. Blah.

 

[StashAugustine]

I didn't realize you could wait in Fallout 3. Noticed it in Skyrim, tried it out in New Vegas, felt pretty stupid when I realized you could in the original.

 

[teh_Canape]

I can sprint in Skyrim?

No honest, first character, a two handed Nord, who could knock enemies down by spitting in their general direction, never once sprinted over those lush green plains!

well, to its somewhat credit, it at least has a rather tolerable default speed
it's not like it was Morrowind or Oblivion

 

[Frostbyte666]

For me playing Resident Evil 1, could not find the eagle or wolf crests anywhere though I knew it had something to do with the 2 books with those emblems (though I did search through every area I could to see if I missed them). Gave up in disgust in the end. A couple of years later was again at the same point check the books in the inventory again, rotated them so that I had the pages facing me press x and the books opened! Oh look the crests I'd been looking for! At this point I calmly left the room took a deep breath and ********!

 

[Full]

I didn't know you could sprint in Resident Evil 4 until one of the swinging blade puzzles about 60% into the game.

However I still liked the slow pace and chunkiness of just having to walk.

Like, I understand not trying each key on a keyboard (I always check the bindings/buttons when I start a game and press all buttons as well) but I do not understand not even trying out what each button does with a console controller.

I'm slow, alright.

 

[Ocelano]

I didn't realize that you could press 'C' to bring up the character screen in World of Warcraft until many hours in. Before that, I put equipment on my hotbar and clicked it to equip it.

I have a warcraft admission in that I played my first few characters without even knowing the there were skills or skill trees I'd be going well then start noticing that I was getting comparatively worse I put it down to me just being a shitty player, which was true but not in the way I thought. My first shaman after skill tree's discovery was a comparative powerhouse and a drastic improvement on my prior thieves mages and priests

 

[Starke]

YOU CAN LURE WHOLE ENEMY ARMY WITH 1 ARCHER? CERTAINLY NO WAY TO ABUSE THAT NOW IS THERE?
-War and peace, good old days.

yes, i play too much strategy.

You can hold down the action button in Fallout 3 to continually drink from a receptacle, instead of having to press the button over and over.
My mind was blown when I found out on the forums a few months ago.

i finished fallout 3 twice, spent over 200 hours and i still didnt knew it till i just read your post.

Either of you know you can remove false solutions on the hacking minigame by looking for paired sets of , {}, [], and ()s on the same line?

 

[Lord Penney]

YOU CAN TAKE OUT GUARDS BY GIVING THEM POISONED FOOD?!

and

IF I BLOW UP THE HELICOPTER NOW I CAN MAKE A LATTER LEVEL EASIER?!

 

[Starke]

I was looking through the controls for STALKER SoC, and apparently there was some way you could through rocks to distract enemies.
Of course, this was after I had beaten the entire game and was finally deciding to alter the multiplayer controls for ease of access.

Weapon 6? Those are bolts, they don't distract enemies, but they are useful for pinpointing anomalies, and finding safe paths through anomaly fields.