I hate to admit that it took me a week to figure that out after I bought the game, while my friends were several hours ahead of me...Ryank1908 said:
"YOU CAN STEER THE TORPEDO?" moments
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... Fuck that ...SkarKrow said:
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 used to play the crap out of Worms Armaggedon, but the airstrikes were always a pain in the ass to do, since I thought that you could only do them in one direction. Well after accidentally clicking the directional buttons on the keyboard, you could tilt them to the left, rather than just the right. It really helped out -- I started winning a lot more matches.
Oh I got another one.
Final Fantasy 7 was my first real JRPG play-through and I was at Cosmo Canyon doing fine until that boss at the end of that place. You know, the undead guy. Obviously, the easiest way to beat him is to use some powerful healing item on it such as a Phoenix Down or an X-Potion. Things that you get moments before the encounter. However, being my first game like this, I did not realize that this tactic was a thing, so I tried to actually fight the guy. After something like 3 or 4 hours of dying, grinding, and repeating, I finally gave up and asked my brother to do it. I felt pretty dumb when he beat it in less than a minute then handed me back the controller.
EDIT: Should mention that my brother is kind of an ass and knew the whole time that I could beat it easily, but didn't tell me because my frustration was funny to him.
Final Fantasy 7 was my first real JRPG play-through and I was at Cosmo Canyon doing fine until that boss at the end of that place. You know, the undead guy. Obviously, the easiest way to beat him is to use some powerful healing item on it such as a Phoenix Down or an X-Potion. Things that you get moments before the encounter. However, being my first game like this, I did not realize that this tactic was a thing, so I tried to actually fight the guy. After something like 3 or 4 hours of dying, grinding, and repeating, I finally gave up and asked my brother to do it. I felt pretty dumb when he beat it in less than a minute then handed me back the controller.
EDIT: Should mention that my brother is kind of an ass and knew the whole time that I could beat it easily, but didn't tell me because my frustration was funny to him.
YOU CAN GET EXCALIBUR BY DIPPING YOUR SWORD IN A FOUNTAIN?
YOU CAN GET STING BY NAMING AN ELVISH DAGGER? AND ORCRIST?
Nethack is chock full of these. Throw cockatrice eggs. Float over a sink when unwillingly levitating. Chat with priests. Name unidentified-yet-known items. (Bags of holding, for instance)
YOU CAN GET STING BY NAMING AN ELVISH DAGGER? AND ORCRIST?
Nethack is chock full of these. Throw cockatrice eggs. Float over a sink when unwillingly levitating. Chat with priests. Name unidentified-yet-known items. (Bags of holding, for instance)
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.KefkaCultist said:
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 that with the undead version of Evrae in FFX too. Didn't know a Phoenix down would hit for 9999 damage. ¬_¬KefkaCultist said:
"YOU CAN CH- VAAN SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR A BIT YOU LITTLE SHIT- CHAIN QUICKENINGS?!"
In FFXII I had no idea you could actually chain quickenings. On my first playthrough, I never used them at all until I got to Archades, I just wailed on the bosses till they died. I had to grind so much to do that though, so by the time I got to there, I could literally one shot bosses with a quickening-chain. The first time I did that I felt like such a badass.
"YOU CAN USE ITEMS OUTSIDE BATTLE?!"
When I played the original Pokemon games on my GBC, I didn't realize you could use items outside of battle for a long time. Until I got HM01 I think. Would have been nice to know earlier, because getting through the cave path to Cerulean City was a horrifying ordeal.
In FFXII I had no idea you could actually chain quickenings. On my first playthrough, I never used them at all until I got to Archades, I just wailed on the bosses till they died. I had to grind so much to do that though, so by the time I got to there, I could literally one shot bosses with a quickening-chain. The first time I did that I felt like such a badass.
"YOU CAN USE ITEMS OUTSIDE BATTLE?!"
When I played the original Pokemon games on my GBC, I didn't realize you could use items outside of battle for a long time. Until I got HM01 I think. Would have been nice to know earlier, because getting through the cave path to Cerulean City was a horrifying ordeal.
And just to add insult to injury, there's a chest containing an X-Potion right outside the boss.KefkaCultist said:
Mine is probably even dumber than anyone else's...
I'm running through Skyrim, picking shit up but wearing strength enhancing gear and drinking strength potions when I carry too much stuff, halfway through a cave.
I'm carrying all this shit, wasting potions and wearing armour I don't like and behind me is a character I know CAN CARRY MY SHIT.
I'm running through Skyrim, picking shit up but wearing strength enhancing gear and drinking strength potions when I carry too much stuff, halfway through a cave.
I'm carrying all this shit, wasting potions and wearing armour I don't like and behind me is a character I know CAN CARRY MY SHIT.
WHAT!? ...thank you.King of Asgaard said:
Mine would have to be in Eve Online recently. I hadn't played in a long time, and used to fly with a very well practiced group in covert ops ships (recons/bombers) that could cloak. You used to have to maintain a minimum distance from all other objects to stay cloaked, making practice and knowing your position very important when working in a team. I re-subbed, started flying with a large bomber group and was scared out of my mind that I would decloak the rest of the fleet by getting out of position...
Then after a few nights of white-knuckle fleet actions and feeling of being very lucky and wondering why they were so careless, I found out they'd patched the game quite a while ago and now cloaked ships don't decloak each other.
Devil May Cry also had "buying" moves, but it also told you how to use them right in the place where you buy them.8-Bit_Jack said:
MGR did not have that. >_>
it had named moves "the flippy smashy shabang", "the all american strawberry blast BOOYAH", etc, but once you bought them, it never once mentioned how to use those moves.
I ended up having the same moment as Another because of that huge flaw.
and so did my friend. He told me after looking it up on YouTube.
In fact, I beat the last boss on hard not really knowing how to use the moves I bought at all. Just the dodge move.
When I was just a wee puff of smoke, I didn't know the bosses had rock/paper/scissors type weaknesses. Also, the oni face platforms, or as I called them when I was little, "The old lady heads."Sonic Doctor said:
Side note, since I couldn't read when I first played the game, I though Air Man was a washing machine, Wood Man was an American Football player, and Metal Man was a doctor.
I remember when I found out about this followed by the info that there was more bosses. Immediate fistpump and restart.Russirishican said:
OT: ENEMIES GIVE YOU HINTS WHEN THEY ARE ABOUT TO USE SPECIAL ATTACKS?!
-Final Fantasy VII
I was like four or five years old when I first played it on the PC and kept on dying whilst trying to escape the Mako Reactor at the start as the first boss always chopped my health down with his bloody AOE lazer attack. Que coming back six years later and discovering that Barrett actually does out of his way to inform you not to attack the thing when it raises it's tail. Derp.
YOU CAN BOOST BY BUTTON MASHING THE C ARROWS! followed by I CAN BUTTON MASH?!
-Mischief Makers
This was actually a real treat to learn and blew my mind when I first discovered it's concept. I was stuck on the sports festival/ olympics level/stage in Mischief Makers cause I could never get enough points to win as I always lost in the sprints. Master pretty much everything else but always get screwed at the races causing me to lose. Originally I thought that when ever it mentioned the [> style buttons for boosting and stuff in the tutorials I only thought of using the grey D-Pad to move. However much to my surprise a few years later I discovered that by mashing the C buttons that you could send Maria speeding off in any direction as well as get her to float for a long time in the air. Mind blown and obstacle passed with ease. I then wondered if this phenominal discovery of button mashing could be used in other games which I was estactic to find that it did work.
YOU CAN LEVEL MAX AND MONICA SO THEY ARE NOT SHIT?
-Dark Chronicle/Cloud 2
Though it requires a serious amount of grinding to pull off. But the fact I didn't figure this out the first few times I played may be due to the fact I relied on the Ridepod way too much.
BattleTanx: Global Assault (N64)
YOU CAN STEER THE MISSILES!!??
I never before held down the "A" button while launching those suckers.
....
Yeah i'm a old fart.
YOU CAN STEER THE MISSILES!!??
I never before held down the "A" button while launching those suckers.
....
Yeah i'm a old fart.
YOU CAN GUIDE THE AT ROCKETS???!!!!
In battlefield 2142, whenever you fired off a rocket from either faction's rocket launcher, the rocket would disengage you from the view finder. I was a little depressed about that since in previous BF2 installments you could guide the rockets via the viewfinder. It wasnt until the last days of the game i discovered by holding down the LMB you could guide them until they went out of sight or hit something. As an older Bf player i still look back and chuckle about such moments. Im a hopeless romantic in my video games, shut up.
In battlefield 2142, whenever you fired off a rocket from either faction's rocket launcher, the rocket would disengage you from the view finder. I was a little depressed about that since in previous BF2 installments you could guide the rockets via the viewfinder. It wasnt until the last days of the game i discovered by holding down the LMB you could guide them until they went out of sight or hit something. As an older Bf player i still look back and chuckle about such moments. Im a hopeless romantic in my video games, shut up.
In Fallout New Vegas- YOU CAN REPAIR ITEMS USING OTHER ITEM?!
I felt so stupid when I figurered this out, every time I had played before I never used the repair skill and my armor was in extremely bad condition but and my most recent New Vegas play though I had two 9 mm pistols and while scrolling over one I saw a prompt saying Y-Repair. I was in party chat with a friend who was playing Fallout 3 and when i told him about this it blew his mind too.
I felt so stupid when I figurered this out, every time I had played before I never used the repair skill and my armor was in extremely bad condition but and my most recent New Vegas play though I had two 9 mm pistols and while scrolling over one I saw a prompt saying Y-Repair. I was in party chat with a friend who was playing Fallout 3 and when i told him about this it blew his mind too.