"YOU CAN STEER THE TORPEDO?" moments

[demoman_chaos]

I couldn't ever get to the 2nd temple in the Dark World in LoZ: Link to the Past. I never knew until recently that pulling the lever in the Light World which drained the lakes (Which I thought was just for teh lulz of flopping fish and a heart piece) made it so you could get into the Dark World temple that was in the same location.

One for Dark Souls, which was actually pretty recent
"YOU CAN PARRY THE LIZARD MEN/Havel/the blighttown club giants/arrows/certain weapons/tower knights etc.??!?!!?!?"
Seriously, apparently just about everything in the game that wields a weapon (save for boss monsters) can be parried and most can be riposted. Even guys wielding gigantic weapons (anor londo giants) can be parried (in a way. you take SOME damage but suffer no knockback at all, yet neither does the attacker, so you can catch them in the open end of their swing where you normally would be jogging forward from sliding backwards after blocking a hit from a halberd twice your size)

I never got the timing down good enough to do that, found it easier to just beast with the Halberd of Kicking Tons of Ass and kill everything in 2 hits.

 

[rhyno435]

The year was 2001. Pokemon Gold was the game. Being 8 years old, I didn't realize you could use the spray bottle to fight Sudowoodo, so I just trained and trained and trained in the grass against level 15 Hoothoots until my Typhlosion was level 60. At least I had the sense to teach him Thunderpunch and break the game.

Between that point in Goldenrod and the Elite Four, he grew a total of three levels. I never fought a wild battle again.

 

[spacecowboy86]

My friend lost it when I told him you could finish off Vader in The Force Unleashed.

 

[George Francis Gaspar]

In Batman Arkham Asylum, I never knew how to do the special takedown moves. I finally figured it out in Arkham City only because I used them on accident...and thought to myself, "I wish they had it in the first game"...not realizing that it was in the first game...

 

[Lictor Face]

Supreme commander forged alliance.

YOU CAN USE YOUR ACU AS PART OF YOUR ATTACK FORCE?


I honestly have NEVER thought about it. All those mmulti matches having my poor t1 army get gutted by an acu. I never once considered bringing along my own ACU to even the odds.

facepalm

 

[The White Hunter]

I got all the way to Guadosalam in Final Fantasy X, my first RPG besides pokemon, without knowing how to open the menu.

So as a result I didn't know how to level up or anything. Never occured to me that triangle would be the menu, since Start was always menu in everything else I played. Try getting that far without levelling up I frigging dare ya > >

... Fuck that ...
Did you just grind your ass off for stats or what? Because Guadosalam is actually a decent ways into the game with some pretty tough bosses prior that pissed me off even with a developed sphere grid. lol

I had spent almost all my money on potions and yeah I actually was sphere level 99 when I figured it out. I was wondering why everything was so hard and bosses were taking hours and why those summoners were so friggin hard to fight (it still took me a while to figure out how to level up summons ¬_¬). As you can imagine once I found that menu opening button the game got a hell of a lot more easy.

Oh and I didn't have a manual, fucking pre-owned games. I can get throwing away a cardboard box but why the manual!?

Did u miss the tutorials that hold your hand thru the sphere grid at the beginning in Besaid? And u don't actually gain stats until you spend sphere points.
I honestly can't understand how you could get that far, even with potions because bosses will drop you in one hit and flyers will never die if your accuracy rating never gets raised (aside from no new spells/abilities and the like).

No, I saw those tutorials, but none of them told me that triangle opened the god damned menu. Also, no, they don't quite, and I'm well aware that the sphere level doesn't give you any bonuses, I was commenting that I had maxed it out from ignorance.

Bosses never quite managed 1 hit though some of there named attacks would put the party into severe condition and waste a number of turns healing. Flyers died because I used magic on them or Wakka's ball attacks.

 

[chinangel]

The most recent one was in Guild Wars 2:

THERE IS AN OPTION TO DROP CRAFTING MATERIALS INTO YOUR BANK FROM YOUR INVENTORY?

And any inventory management problems disappeared instantly...

oh. my. this.

I'm lucky my daddy helped me go through it and learn most of hte ropes, otherwise i would've emberreassed the hell out of myself

 

[Axel Slice]

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?! This blows my mind... Well, i guess that would be my moment then too

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Kingdom Hearts II - I CAN SWITCH DRESSES AND LEVEL UP MY DRIVES?! SO THAT'S WHAT THE DRIVE GAUGE IS FOR!

Bully - R1 BLOCKS!? (same deal with The Warriors)

 

[grey_space]

Don't know if this was mentioned before but

'YOU CAN FAST TRAVEL VIA THE MAP IN FALLOUT 3!!!!??' totally didn't know that until about 30 hours in...

I walked everywhere...so depressing...

 

[Kurt Cristal]

Saints Row 2, THERE'S A COSTUME SHOP?

Seriously, way to keep that thing hidden completely off the map until you do an entire gang story.

 

[Quantumsheep]

Alternate title: "YOU CAN TONGUE UP?"

Ever play a game so often, and feel like you know it so well, only to discover some major ability you never noticed before?

For example, Mega Man 2 is my number one favorite game. It was the first game I ever played, and I was raging over Air Man before I could read. Just a couple of days ago, I found out that you can shoot Metal Blade in any direction. WHAT? I had no idea. All these years. I thought the main advantage was just the bigger projectile.

Also, to a lesser extent, I was four hours into Fallout 3 before I found out you could jump.

So, how about you?

I have possibly the supreme on here.

I got all the way to Guadosalam in Final Fantasy X, my first RPG besides pokemon, without knowing how to open the menu.

So as a result I didn't know how to level up or anything. Never occured to me that triangle would be the menu, since Start was always menu in everything else I played. Try getting that far without levelling up I frigging dare ya > >

Also when I first played Sonic 3 I didn't know how to charge up a spin attack but that was when I was like 4.

A few incidents in RDR or something like that where I just had no clue how to do something.

I'll see you Guadosalam and raise you Home. I knew how to open the menu, but I didn't understand how the Sphere Grid worked. I thought the number was your level, and not the number of nodes you could move, so I was always trying to move to a node that raised the S.LvL, which, of course, wouldn't work. I actually got a little bit further than Home, to that fucking dragon that attacks you on the airship as you near Bevelle, and he absolutely wrecked my shit with one or two attacks every time. My friend told me what I was doing wrong a few days after I had given up on the game. Ahh, youth.

Other than that, I played Star Wars: Battlefront II in first-person mode for a long time before I realized I could change it to third-person. Then I realized I hated playing the game in first-person, so I never changed it again.

BATTLEFRONT 2 HAS FIRST-PERSON!?!?!?

 

[SonOfMethuselah]

BATTLEFRONT 2 HAS FIRST-PERSON!?!?!?

Battlefront II has first-person. At least, the PC version of Battlefront II has the option of first-person. I've never attempted to set the option on PS2 or Xbox, so I don't know if it's there. I wouldn't touch it, even if it was, though: the game is shite in first-person.

 

[kailus13]

WHAT!?, YOU CAN ACTUALLY POINT ANY GUN (EXCEPT THE STINGER) WITHOUT SHOOTING!?, AND EVEN SCARE THE OTHER SOLDIERS SHITLESS WITH THEM!??.

^ This when I learned, while playing Metal Gear Solid 2 for the third or fourth time, that the PS2 controller actually had analog buttons (ALL of them, except Select, Start, L3 & R3) and you could use this to point your guns without actually shooting, heck, you could even do this in first person mode. That game is so full of details and easter eggs, it's insane.

You can even do it with the stinger, although you do blow yourself up with the soldier you're shaking down.

 

[Andy Farren]

I played 'Sleeping Dogs' for 3 days before I realised it wasn't 'Watch Dogs'. I only realised *this* when a colleague (who I had shown the Watch Dogs trailer to on YouTube) also bought it, and sheepishly admitted our collective mistake.

And before you point and laugh at me; I know. I should probably leave the country or something.

 

[Pipotchi]

Until this thread I didn't know you could sprint in Skyrim 0.0

I just literally went and double checked, and I've played for 140 hours across PS3 and PC ffs.

I think I was near the end of Dragons Dogma before I realised you can roll as well. Although it did know about the rotating of the claws

 

[gandhi the peacemake]

Slight sidestory spoilers for Final Fantasy VI:

Spoiler

When you enter South Figaro's pub/cafe during the World of Balance, a young girl will eventually enter and sit down. You can talk to her; she's friendly enough, if a bit young to be a patron at a bar.

Come back in the World of Ruin, talk to the bartender, and he'll mention that the young girl doesn't stop by anymore.

I didn't realize this until a few months ago, and I've been playing this game literally twice a year since I was five years old. It's such a small detail, but it nearly broke my heart.

 

[TKretts3]

Metroid Prime.
For the LONGEST time I had absolutely no idea that you could perform Beam-Missile combos. I knew the Super-Missile - charge up a regular beam and press the missile button. But I had no idea about things like the flamethrower - charge up the plasma beam and hold the missile button. Oh boy, once I found those out I went nuts with them!

 

[Thamian]

In recent times, the only one that comes to mind is the quick select in the gamebyro Fallouts. I cursed so hard when I found out about that after spending so damned long opening up my pip-boy everytime I wanted to change weapons. Then I realised I could map aid items (including stimpaks) to the quick select keys and my mind was utterly blown.

Back in the day though (like, when I was like... six? seven?) and I was playing Total Annihilation, realising that I could skip ANY level that was being too much of a ***** (such as the missions on Thalassean) was the most incredible discovery of my youth.

 

[The Night Angel]

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 I did not know!! :O I think I may actually be sad enough to go dig out my copy right now to test this.... [small] I swear I have a life...[/small]

Thanks fellow arachnophobe!!