"YOU CAN STEER THE TORPEDO?" moments

[Gennadios]

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.

Holy sh--

To this day I had no idea, and I played the game to death in the late 90's.

Now I have to go find a download.

 

[Monster_user]

I didn't know that about Ski Free either. I thought that was just a creative way to end the freeware version of the game.

Only found out a couple years back.
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Mass Effect 2. I never watched any of the advanced tactics videos.
On my second play through I realized you could specify a target by pressing the "move" button while aiming at an enemy. Would have made that first play through much easier.

I'm sure there are a few that I've forgotten about.

Tribes 2 had one of those, but in reverse for me.
"Wait...missiles don't lock on without a heat signature?"

Does anything other than a vehicle have a heat signature?

I never was able to get a LAN game going with more than 3 players, so I never got to try the missles. (Wish that game had Co-Op). Never played it online until a couple of years ago, after it went free to play.

 

[Traveling Hero]

In Fallout New Vegas, I had wiped out the Legion town of Cottonwood Cove, including the ferryman who takes you to the Fort. Later, Mr. House still gave me the quest to go to the Fort, but I thought I couldn't now. So even though I had been intending to do the House ending, I killed him to clear the quest "House Always Wins" from my quest log. It was weeks later when I found out that I JUST HAD TO LOOK DOWN AT THE RAFT! >:0

 

[sXeth]

Skyrim claw (I T&E'd Bleak Falls and looked up another one) and Dark Soul jumping.

Reversals in UFC, I figured it was just some technique you unlocked later on, or unique to fighters that let them sweep.



Oh, and the syringe hot key in Far Cry 3.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Sonic CD.
You know how holding down while mashing jump is the spin-dash?
Well, holding up and then holding the jump button makes him quick-charge a run up to his fastest speed, you let the buttons go and ZOOM.
I was like, "Well, I'm using this all the time!"

 

[PsychicTaco115]

YOU CAN IRON-SIGHT AIM IN BIOSHOCK!?

Yeah, for the pistol, machine gun and crossbow, you can look down the sights...

I had a derp moment that day >.>

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Lol jontron <3

YOU CAN SHOOT UP? in Cave Story + I felt like a total idiot ><

Related...

YOU CAN SAVE CURLY BRACE? *cue tears of joy and immediate restart of game*

Also jontron? Where?

Jontron did not know you can tongue up or steer the torpedos

And agreed on Curly Brace. I felt so guilty after I found that out.

 

[momijirabbit]

"YOU CAN STRAFE!?" Ratchet and Clank 2

Found this out on planet jova, this is what the first game feels like.

"YOU CAN RING DASH!?" Sonic Heroes

I love this game so much that I hate it.

 

[Alssadar]

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.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Does anything other than a vehicle have a heat signature?

I never was able to get a LAN game going with more than 3 players, so I never got to try the missles. (Wish that game had Co-Op). Never played it online until a couple of years ago, after it went free to play.

Pay attention to the heat bar on your Jetpack. It's there's for a reason.
If your Jetpack heat reaches above half, you too are a legal target for missiles.

 

[HellbirdIV]

Only one I can think of off the top of my head, is my friend telling me you can hold down the mouse button to move in League of Legends instead of spastically clicking your way everywhere like the ol' Diablo 2 days.

"You can? Well now I feel like a fucking tard."

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

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!!!!

WHAT?! Against every boss i had to keep parrying like hell (a real ***** against Monsoon), and i kept thinking "Oh man, i wish this game had a fucking dodge move". I feel pretty stupid now :/

 

[Grottnikk]

I got all the way to Adon in the first Street Fighter. Years later I learned about all those special attacks like the fireball, dragon punch and such...

 

[l0ckd0wn]

Fallout 3: I was 1/2-3/4 through the game before I figured out what VATS was... And then it was so easy I finished the last 1/4 in like an even smaller fraction, like 1/8 or something, time.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Lol jontron <3

YOU CAN SHOOT UP? in Cave Story + I felt like a total idiot ><

OH OH epic story. Went to play Fallout 1 my ex and his best mate where like 'It's a bit pants you can't run' and that's when I found it right there in the settings. They had been doing it by clicking on people and things for like the entire game. xD

Wait...you can move without clicking on people and things? HOW?!

Seriously, I have a digital copy of the game that didn't come with an instruction manual and I never bothered to download one, please tell me your glorious secrets.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Lol jontron <3

YOU CAN SHOOT UP? in Cave Story + I felt like a total idiot ><

OH OH epic story. Went to play Fallout 1 my ex and his best mate where like 'It's a bit pants you can't run' and that's when I found it right there in the settings. They had been doing it by clicking on people and things for like the entire game. xD

Wait...you can move without clicking on people and things? HOW?!

Seriously, I have a digital copy of the game that didn't come with an instruction manual and I never bothered to download one, please tell me your glorious secrets.

well you click to move but they didn't have auto run on so they walked everywhere unless there was a door or person they could click on.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Lol jontron <3

YOU CAN SHOOT UP? in Cave Story + I felt like a total idiot ><

OH OH epic story. Went to play Fallout 1 my ex and his best mate where like 'It's a bit pants you can't run' and that's when I found it right there in the settings. They had been doing it by clicking on people and things for like the entire game. xD

Wait...you can move without clicking on people and things? HOW?!

Seriously, I have a digital copy of the game that didn't come with an instruction manual and I never bothered to download one, please tell me your glorious secrets.

well you click to move but they didn't have auto run on so they walked everywhere unless there was a door or person they could click on.

Oh, I see. I thought you meant you'd found how to move with the WASD keys or something.

 

[flyer son of no one]

you can fast travel?! first time playing oblivion i was so excited to get into the cities and look around, sell my stuff ect. that i skipped over the message telling me you can fast travel, i went through about half the game taking the long route, until i looked on the map and and accidently clicked to fast travel.

the most recent one though was on my new game plus of dark souls, in Anor Londo trying to hit the silver knights on the roof with arrows and my house mate comes in and goes "why dont you zoom in?", blow my mind that hitting up on the dpad zoomed in!!

 

[Doclector]

So, I was playing vanquish last night. One feature I discovered fairly quickly in the game is that if you press the thrust button while in cover, your character lights a cigarrette, smokes it a little, then throws it away. Nice touch adding to the eighties action movie absurdity of the game, I thought.

Last night, for the first time, I noticed that you actually have three cigarettes per level. This limit suggested to me that smoking actually does something, but I couldn't figure out what.

So, I just looked it up, and apparently, the cigarette being thrown away can actually distract the enemies! THERE'S EVEN A GODDAMN ACHIEVEMENT FOR DOING IT!

Unbelievable.

 

[DigitalSushi]

This whole thread could be about Deus Ex with every new find on subsequent playthroughs.

My first was "YOU CAN KILL

Spoiler

ANNA NAVARRE IN THE AIRPLANE?!

"

You can also kill her and the big german fellow too using a killphrase if you hack the correct terminal, it was for the higher ups to use on them if they ever turned on them.

I'm certain Anna's is flatliner lady, pick it from your dialogue list and she explodes.