"YOU CAN STEER THE TORPEDO?" moments
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I was well into the first Mass Effect when I found out, after unintentionally hitting the right bumper, that it is possible to fire a cannon. You know, like a tank tank cannon. I could not believe what mad fuckery had just transpired.
What was once the most inefficient sniper class tank in the history of pea shooting became a glorious geth decimater from then onward.
It still handled like shit though.
What was once the most inefficient sniper class tank in the history of pea shooting became a glorious geth decimater from then onward.
It still handled like shit though.
FLYING SUITS ACTUALLY FLY?!
It took me a long time to realise where the name "Flying Suit" actually comes from in the original XCOM.
Looking back, that was pretty dumb, but I was just a kid.
It took me a long time to realise where the name "Flying Suit" actually comes from in the original XCOM.
Looking back, that was pretty dumb, but I was just a kid.
THE CODE IS ON THE CLAW???!!!!
Well don't I feel stupid.
This thread is the first I've heard of this! I thought the clue was the walls too, and I was always frustrated when the combo I tried wouldn't work.
On a side note, when Mercer Fray uses the (concealed) Skeleton Key to get past a Claw Door on your quest with him, it was one of the most infuriating moments of my play through as I had knew he didn't have a claw and couldn't figure out how he did it.
Well don't I feel stupid.
This thread is the first I've heard of this! I thought the clue was the walls too, and I was always frustrated when the combo I tried wouldn't work.
On a side note, when Mercer Fray uses the (concealed) Skeleton Key to get past a Claw Door on your quest with him, it was one of the most infuriating moments of my play through as I had knew he didn't have a claw and couldn't figure out how he did it.
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OT: You don't want to know how long it took me to figure out where the training stages were in Street Fighter IV.
Not exactly the same thing but in FF7 when you need to command an army to defend the mountain with Pheonix on it - I tried about 2-4 times and thought I was doing really well each time but my army kept on getting overwhelmed eventually. I lost all my troops and was just waiting for the enemy army to finish advancing so I'd lose and retry AGAIN when I pressed a button by accident.
I realised you could freeze the battle and pay to bring in more troops. That was a real "YOU CAN DO THAT!?" moment.
So as any sensible person would do, I traded the vast majority of my gil to f*cking SURROUND their army with an infantry three times their size. Probably not the best use of cash but I just wanted to eradictae them violently X)
I realised you could freeze the battle and pay to bring in more troops. That was a real "YOU CAN DO THAT!?" moment.
So as any sensible person would do, I traded the vast majority of my gil to f*cking SURROUND their army with an infantry three times their size. Probably not the best use of cash but I just wanted to eradictae them violently X)
I played through the entirety of FF VIII my first time without knowing you could hit the trigger on Squall's gunblade every attack, dramatically increasing his damage output. They teach you how to do it in the beginning of the game but I must have forgot or just not been paying attention.
I've got two. I didn't know Vincent even existed in Final Fantasy VII, and this was after after beating it TWICE.
In Valkyria Chronicles, I didn't know you could actually save your game mid battle until I was at the final boss. That really could have come in handy for when I was an hour and a half into a fight and made a fatal error.
Edit: Make it three. In Final Fantasy VIII I didn't know how to upgrade my weapons past level 2 (I never drew Leviathan from Norg, that somehow ruined EVERYTHING) so Squall was level 87 at the penultimate boss on the fourth disc taking less than 700 damage per attack. I've never beaten that game because of this.
In Valkyria Chronicles, I didn't know you could actually save your game mid battle until I was at the final boss. That really could have come in handy for when I was an hour and a half into a fight and made a fatal error.
Edit: Make it three. In Final Fantasy VIII I didn't know how to upgrade my weapons past level 2 (I never drew Leviathan from Norg, that somehow ruined EVERYTHING) so Squall was level 87 at the penultimate boss on the fourth disc taking less than 700 damage per attack. I've never beaten that game because of this.
YOU CAN SPIN THE LOADING SCREEN ICONS?
As a reaction to Skyrim around 20 hours in. A moment that would change the way I saw loading screens in that game forever.
As a reaction to Skyrim around 20 hours in. A moment that would change the way I saw loading screens in that game forever.
Never played that game but I personally if cash is abundant will just bulk buy my skills without always reading through them as it is generally more useful than not even if I'm not entirely sure about everything I buy so can at least understand how he may have purchased skills he didn't know he had.GrimHeaper said:
Okay my turn now first time playing disgaea had no idea of the effects of reincarnation and the carrying over of stats I just thought it was a way to have a swordsman with magical skills and who the hell would want that
Yeah, i had the same moment in fallout 3 as well, but i found out when looking through the key bindings seeing if there was a jump button, since there was no other way for me to get to that one pipe leak in magaton and it drove me nuts trying to stack shit and walk up it for.... at least an hour, i can't remember too well because it was a LONG time ago.MajorTomServo said:
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)
And then for supreme commander (the old RTS, one of THQ's old properties i think. They at least published it).
BUILDER UNITS CAN SPEED UP FACTORIES' PRODUCTION OF UNITS?!?!?! AND UPGRADES!!!!!!!!!!
really, this changes the whole dynamic of the game since for higher tier units, build times go into several minutes, and even for low tier units this means you can get a guy out every other second at the most extreme. it also speeds up tier upgrades for buildings which again takes 5 or 8 minutes or so for each tier (1-2 is 5 minutes. 2-3 i cannot remember, but i think its 7 or 8). changes the pacing dramatically. now if only land units would move in sync this game would be fuckawesome rather than just awesome.
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YOU CAN PICK UP AN ITEM AT A FROM B?!
Alien 8 was kicking my butt until I figured that out - I was blowing about five lives in the one room.
THE GAZE OF DESPAIR ACCESSORY DRAWS ALL ENEMIES TOWARDS YOU?!
And suddenly all those out-of-body Alfheims in Bayonetta got a crapton easier.
MOST OF NETHACK?!
Someone has already mentioned the artifact naming trick for type IDing, but price-iding the ID scroll was one of the most powerful things I learned in that game.
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YOU CAN PICK UP AN ITEM AT A FROM B?!
Alien 8 was kicking my butt until I figured that out - I was blowing about five lives in the one room.
THE GAZE OF DESPAIR ACCESSORY DRAWS ALL ENEMIES TOWARDS YOU?!
And suddenly all those out-of-body Alfheims in Bayonetta got a crapton easier.
MOST OF NETHACK?!
Someone has already mentioned the artifact naming trick for type IDing, but price-iding the ID scroll was one of the most powerful things I learned in that game.