"YOU CAN STEER THE TORPEDO?" moments

[IamLEAM1983]

ok, i know it look silly, but i swear it did happened. i wasnt very good at english back then, and i had no instruction manual. also internet didnt really existed

so i was playing final fantasy (the first one, when it was still fresh and new) and i was stuck at the marsh cavern because, man that game was difficult. the enemies were so strong and took so long to die...

so i was at school talking to a guy who was playing too and he asked me if i had equip my weapons

I NEED TO PRESS EQUIP BUTTON TO ACTUALLY EQUIP ARMOR AND SWORDS ?!?

so yeah i played 20 hours of final fantasy 1 without any equipement on my caracters

To be fair, the FF series as a whole has always had terrible menu designs. You have to race through panel after panel in the middle of a fight, hoping you'll get to queue up your MP-based attack in time to nuke the weakened boss before he nukes you.

Or, shit, I remember spending Final Fantasy VII going "FUUUUUU, YUNA, BREAK YOUR FUCKING LIMIT ALREADY!"

My personal derp has to be finding out that you can craft something other than health injections in FarCry 3. With me at the helm, Jason Brody's always had a full stock of ten health syringes - but nothing to help him hunt or survive a slog through tiger-infested locales.

As a result, I utterly loathed the Path of the Hunter missions.

Game: "Kill sharks with a bow, nyuck-nyuck-nyuck!"
Me: "Dafuq?! How is that even possible?!"

 

[Starke]

Game: "Kill sharks with a bow, nyuck-nyuck-nyuck!"
Me: "Dafuq?! How is that even possible?!"

Stand in a boat and pepper the bastards with arrows. That one you can do without needing hunting syringes.

Also, any Path of the Hunter can be completed if you kill the target with your machete.

Game: "Kill sixteen dogs with two rockets! "
Me: "F--- you."

 

[Do4600]

Planetside 2

YOU CAN STEER THE DROP PODS?!

No more landing on cliff sides. Still haven't managed to land on any enemies though.

I saw a Galaxy and intentionally slammed into it, blowing the plane to smithereens.

Then I learned it was an allied Galaxy fully loaded with friendlies. WHOOPS.

And this is why you don't steer towards aircraft, I have personally had my liberator destroyed about eight times in two weeks by friendlies.

I didn't know you could pick up guns on my first play through of Mirror's Edge.

YOU CAN PUSH THE LITTLE HOOD BIT UP OFF THE CLI

*ahem*

Planetside 2: YOU CAN STEER THE DROP PODS?!

No more landing on cliff sides. Still haven't managed to land on any enemies though.

I landed on on plane once. I just pissed it off, while I was treated to a fiery inferno

This is another reason why you don't steer towards aircraft. Collisions in Planetside 2 are unpredictable.

 

[cojo965]

Was playing Metal Gear Rising last week.

The last boss was kicking my ass, when I accidentally pushed a and x at the same time, and discovered that there is a dodge move. WHAT!?!?!? This entire game I had a dodge move!!!!

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Fuck you Metal Gear.

 

[uchytjes]

I CAN HOLSTER MY WEAPONS!?

Fallout: New Vegas. God damn any game that doesn't explain how to do stuff until you look it up. see also: YOU CAN DROP STUFF!? -oblivion

 

[TheFunPolice]

Half Life: "YOU CAN CROUCH JUMP?"

Not a major ability, but it's required to get through certain parts of the game. I spent an hour roaming the halls of Black Mesa for a secret vent or tunnel or something when all I had to do was crouch jump over a box.

Shit. dude. My friend just bought Half Life and we were playing it together

I actually can't believe we had the EXACT same experience as you....I actually said to her as a joke "You should try crouch jumping over that box, it would be hilarious if it worked"

she tried and it worked first time...

We just stared at the screen like ._. for what felt like hours....CROUCH JUMPING SHOULDN'T BE SOMETHING YOU USE AS A PUZZLE, VALVE. THAT'S A COMPLETE DICK MOVE

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I had plenty of those moments in Dark Souls.

What? I can stack my favourite magic and get more charges?

Someone I know actually beat the Stray Demon with his non-upgraded starting weapon. At first, he sobbed and cried out of relief and significant emotional stress levels before and after he finally beat it. When I told him he's supposed to upgrade his gear, the sobbing turned into wailing and he decided to give the wikis some attention, even though he was in terrible fear of having things spoiled for him. Ah, gamers these days.

Much earlier, there was the ass-mode that is crouch jump (as mentioned above). Yeah, crouch jumping is something that has changed me for life. So much despair, so much terror. No matter the game, I always see if I can crouch jump. Always happy when I can't.

 

[Darren716]

YOU CAN KILL AND EAT THE ANIMALS?! -MGS3.

Yes, past me, you can eat the animals.

The game is called Snake Eater I knew that and I haven't played a single MGS game

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Metal Gear Rising, YOU CAN DODGE!?

Aye.

They only could have added some more lulz to the obvious trolling by either adding a very quick or very hidden FMV or scripted scene/QTE at the beginning or an end boss that laughed in your face, actually telling you that you could have dodged pretty much since the beginning. Or... imagine some other, random Psycho Mantis guy going into your menus and highlighting the dodge move... erasing it if you haven't already picked it up by the time you face him in mortal confrontation.

Just had something along those lines happen to us in Tomb Raider yesterday.

Oh. Yes, please, Madam or Sir. Might I have the upgrade that allows me not to fall to my death with the grace of a brick? Thank you very much and have a good day.

YOU CAN KILL AND EAT THE ANIMALS?! -MGS3.

Yes, past me, you can eat the animals.

The game is called Snake Eater I knew that and I haven't played a single MGS game

Can't wait for Metal Gear: Not So Solid Stool - Bear Grylls Edition.

 

[Skeggers]

"YOU CAN FLIP THE V TO THE GUARDS?"
Mirror's Edge. What a game.

 

[Naqel]

I wish I had a cool one to share, but sadly, reading the freaking manual was the first skill I picked up after learning to read at all.

 

[Dogstile]

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 have like, 400 hours on that game and I never knew. Holy fuck that would have made getting irradiated for moria SO MUCH EASIER.

 

[Smeggs]

"A Pokemon's Nature effects their stats?"

Dead Space 2: THE RIVET GUN HAS AN ALT FIRE THAT BLASTS THE RIVETS OUT OF WHERE THEY'RE STUCK LIKE BULLETS?!
I set up many traps with it on my second playthrough.

While playing through Dead Space 3, I didn't know I had a roll if you clicked the L-bumper. Even after the game specifically told me, I forgot again because I never really needed it, until accidentally hitting it in a fight near the end...fucking snow beast was a pain in the ass without dodge.

And, Dark Souls: "I'll put all of my points into STR and END! I'll be able to carry all the strong weapons! Wait...What's this 'scaling' crap I'm hearing about?"

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.

You can also open the XBOX menu right before the timer for the Wait function begins, and the hours fly by super quickly. Like 24 in-game hours will go by in about five seconds. I believe the same is true for Skyrim. I use that to restock merchant gold faster so I can sell more junk.

Kingdom Hearts 2. My first playthrough, The Castle that Never Was. I CAN SWITCH MY MAIN KEYBLADE?!

Was still fun, beating the game with the starting keyblade though.

How could you...you unlocked a new keyblade after literally every world you completed. It even has its own screen that comes up and tells you about it before you continue the game. How could you have not known about them? Were you playing with your eyes closed?

 

[Jmp_man]

A more recent one was "I CAN DIG A HOLE BEHIND ME TO GET MORE MONEY FROM THE MONEY ROCKS!?" Animal Crossing.

IF YOU PLANT BELLS IN A GLOWING HOLE THE TREE THAT GROWS THERE BECOMES A MONEY TREE!?!? (Suck it Tom Nook)

Another Animal Crossing one: YOU CAN PLAY CLASSIC NES GAMES IN YOUR HOUSE WITH THE RIGHT FURNITURE!?!? (Many long hours were wasted playing balloon flight)

 

[uchytjes]

When i was a kid, in MGS 1 I didn't know that i could use lorazepam to stop the sniper rifle from shaking and then i felt like a badass because i was doing thing the "hard way" without even realizing it.

lol "lorazepam". If I remember correctly it was called "diazepam".

 

[deserteagleeye]

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.

This and that there was a hot key system.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I can promote my party members to make them waaaay more powerful?! This was after what was probably the 50th attempt on the boss, Chaos, a giant robot who could one shot almost everyone in my party and only took about 1-2 dmg.

Ya, turns out that's a pretty core mechanic to the game but that was in my first few years of gaming when I was still pretty stupid.

YOU CAN GO FASTER THAN THE YETI?

I think that's the most mind blowing to guys who played Ski Free when they were kids.
Death by yeti is not inevitable. You can hold F to outrun him.

+1 for this. I accidentally hit the button one day and pretty much lost my shit.

 

[MajorTomServo]

A more recent one was "I CAN DIG A HOLE BEHIND ME TO GET MORE MONEY FROM THE MONEY ROCKS!?" Animal Crossing.

IF YOU PLANT BELLS IN A GLOWING HOLE THE TREE THAT GROWS THERE BECOMES A MONEY TREE!?!? (Suck it Tom Nook)

Another Animal Crossing one: YOU CAN PLAY CLASSIC NES GAMES IN YOUR HOUSE WITH THE RIGHT FURNITURE!?!? (Many long hours were wasted playing balloon flight)

Balloon Fight is such a good game! I actually got the actual physical NES cart at a Goodwill the other day.

 

[Dr. Paine]

I CAN CHANGE GUNS?!

Me, about 3/4s of the way into my first playthrough of Mass Effect and finally discovering how you changed weapons in battle. Up until then I had been using nothing but pistols.

... I still just used increasingly powerful pistols after that though, I hated the rest of the guns. ME2's controls were so much better.

 

[Movitz]

Playing through all of Fallout 1 without noticing that you can aim.

It was like playing a whole new game.. *Teary-eyed*