Your "I'm an idiot" moments in gaming.

[cthulhuspawn82]

Not a video game, but I did have a big "duh" moment in the board game "Arkham Horror". For those who don't know, its a fully cooperative board game where all the players work together, and there is no player on player conflict.

I was playing a solo game and was finding it nearly impossible with one character. It wasn't until I read about other solo plays online that I came to the realization that there is no reason, just because you are playing alone, to restrict yourself to playing just one character.

It seems like such an obvious thing, but it never occurred to me, and now I feel dumb for not thinking of it. Of course, from what I have seen, many people, and developers, make the same mistake when trying to do a solo run of a cooperative board game.

 

[Vegosiux]

Not a video game, but I did have a big "duh" moment in the board game "Arkham Horror". For those who don't know, its a fully cooperative board game where all the players work together, and there is no player on player conflict.

I was playing a solo game and was finding it nearly impossible with one character. It wasn't until I read about other solo plays online that I came to the realization that there is no reason, just because you are playing alone, to restrict yourself to playing just one character.

It seems like such an obvious thing, but it never occurred to me, and now I feel dumb for not thinking of it. Of course, from what I have seen, many people, and developers, make the same mistake when trying to do a solo run of a cooperative board game.

What? Seriously?

...now I feel like an idiot, too. Hah, gotta try that solo with multiple characters then. Oh boy, am I laughing at my lack of imagination now.

 

[4RT1LL3RY]

Most recently. Dark Souls, after the easy fight with Pinwheel I couldn't find any way out. I walked around the tiny room looking for a way out. Took me 5 minutes before I noticed the ladder made of stone embedded into the wall. I facepalmed.

 

[Xeorm]

Playing the new XCOM on classic, and getting to my first exalt mission, while conveniently also being my first mission with the mectrooper. Luckily, it's the type where the exalt troopers are being absolutely suicidal in trying to hold the area with no cover, so I'm absolutely slaughtering them.

I decide to get fancy when a group presents itself, so I launch a rocket into the group. Of course, it goes off-course into my mectrooper. My mectrooper, conveniently located near two explodable objects also caught in the blast, goes from full to dead my first mission using one. That was pretty much the only damage during the fight too.

Seems to happen every time I try and get a little fancy with rockets; I swear the game can see that.

 

[solemnwar]

Discovering the sprint button in Skyrim about 20 hours in really had me facepalming, the amount of time I could have saved had I known that.

i can beat that

it took me 18 months and a thread like this to discover you can continually drink in fallout 3 just by holding down the use button

... YOU CAN?! O_O Well, fuck.
How long have I had Fallout 3 for now? A few years? ;u; I wonder if this is repeatable in NV.


OT: Anytime I need to find a thing. Just... always the finding of "the thing". I always run around in circles and then I look it up on the internet and I'm like ".... oh fuck me".

 

[Drummodino]

Figuring out how to actually make a good deck in Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories with a proper strategy, rather than just using random cards.

I got all the way to the first battle with Larxene before I figured this out -.- she was much easier when I started spamming the blitz sleight.

 

[YingDerpington]

Discovering the sprint button in Skyrim about 20 hours in really had me facepalming, the amount of time I could have saved had I known that.

i can beat that

it took me 18 months and a thread like this to discover you can continually drink in fallout 3 just by holding down the use button

Wait... What? You can do that? I have had Fallout 3 for three years and I did not know this. I feel rather quite silly now.

OT: The puzzle doors in Skyrim that require the dragon claws, it took me 10 minutes of trying to get through one before having the idea of comparing the pictures on the door to the claw.

 

[superdelux]

This happens to me in every game I play, I have a special talent to miss the completely obvious. Unfortunately for me this carries on into real life as well, I could know you five months then suddenly notice the fact that you wear that same green jacket every day.

 

[Storm Dragon]

In a game of LoL a few days ago, I chased Singed. I deserved what happened as a result.

I was playing Don't Starve yesterday. Doing really well. I had got this really nice ecosystem. Pig houses on the edges of spider lairs. Big clusters of berry bushes.

Then I realized I'd completely forgotten about winter. I made it into the third or fourth day of cold.

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/37/3747cc8e77636bd52b9e3ddc572c13a5bfc6810bcd1bb503d8cce478978e6899.jpg

 

[blazearmoru]

Way back in MEGAMAN X! After I killed the bee and it feel down... I got stuck and didn't know that I could wall jump... at all... After 20 mins I gave up.

 

[ecoho]

resident evil 4 when I finally realized there was a QTE when fighting the giant....I wasted so much ammo on that basterd and all I need to do was jump on him back and knife him. whats worse it took 6 playthroughs for me to realize this

 

[The Enquirer]

Sometimes it takes me an embarrassingly long time to find the door I'm supposed to go through in games only to find it was right in front of my face. I'm not sure if that's a testament to repetitive level design or me being an idiot. Probably the latter as I do think the level design in the Arkham games is quite good. At least the first 2. I have yet to play Origins.

 

[blackrave]

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Yeah, I feel your pain
I personally discovered this only after I finished FO3 and was half-way through FO:NV
That was totally embarrassing moment

 

[-Dragmire-]

Played Fallout 1 for the first time last week:

The title screen

"Why won't these buttons do anything, I keep fucking clicking them!"

"...Oh, it's the little red one, not the frame itself..."

Spoiler: Cannot figure out how I didn't immediately understand

 

[bigfatcarp93]

Well, I WAS about three hours into Fallout: New Vegas before I figured out what VATS was.

That was some awkward combat.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

I actually had one in WindWaker as well. Later on in the game you beat an enemy in Ganon's Castle and this supposed "puzzle" was to pick up the enemy's sword and use it to smash the door that was blocking your path forward.

I dunno how many times i hacked at that wall with my master sword or indeed how many light arrows and bombs i used to try and pry that thing open before picking up the enemy sword off the ground and yelling "FUCKING DOOR!" then throwing the blade at the wall to trigger the scene of the door crumbling.

Even now, years later, i still feel like an idiot over that...

 

[Loreley]

I had a giant one in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. I think my brain was as bugged as the game for those parts. Minor spoilers for a storyline:

Spoiler

So that club owner who's a Malkavian with a split personality pretending/thinking she is twins? Yeah, I didn't get that until one of them started wrestling with the gun in the almost last scene with them, where one has to shoot the other and I was wondering why it looked so weird. I didn't realise they were one person when the camera did the Gollum-cut back and forth in their discussion. Worse, I didn't realise it even though I myself was playing a Malkavian who kept calling her the daughter of Ianus and and I know that legend, so I don't have any excuse. I really felt like an idiot.

 

[Anthony Wells]

I biotic charged a banshee in me3 multiplayer a few weeks ago, nothing wrong with that since I know the signs of when and how to avoid a sync kill and do this safely... so that was cool, what I DIDN'T factor in, was the second banshee who was so merrily strolling along next to the first, cue me getting sync killed, and me facepalming so hard that i think I still have the bruise.



Also same game, same scenario, except this time I charged right into the sync kill because I'm an idiot, I knew she was primed, I knew it would happen, but I did it anyway.


OOH OOH don't let me forget the time i medigelled right next to a sync kill primed phantom (this was on bronze too...the shame... oh the shame). that was a fun one.

Honestly I could probably go on for a long time with my "I'm an idiot" moments in the me3 multiplayer.

 

[Ninjat_126]

I had a giant one in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. I think my brain was as bugged as the game for those parts. Minor spoilers for a storyline:

Spoiler

So that club owner who's a Malkavian with a split personality pretending/thinking she is twins? Yeah, I didn't get that until one of them started wrestling with the gun in the almost last scene with them, where one has to shoot the other and I was wondering why it looked so weird. I didn't realise they were one person when the camera did the Gollum-cut back and forth in their discussion. Worse, I didn't realise it even though I myself was playing a Malkavian who kept calling her the daughter of Ianus and and I know that legend, so I don't have any excuse. I really felt like an idiot.

Yeah, I heard the Janus thing and immediately went "oh they must be twins or something" when the name connected with something at the back of my head, but I was lucky enough to figure it out.

Most recently. Dark Souls, after the easy fight with Pinwheel I couldn't find any way out. I walked around the tiny room looking for a way out. Took me 5 minutes before I noticed the ladder made of stone embedded into the wall. I facepalmed.

Did this one too. Wasted a Homeward Bone, then went back after looking up the map online, then wasted another when I realised I'd forgotten a light source.


My personal examples are probably all League of Legends, forgetting to check my HP bar, or accidentally wasting Flash AND Barrier trying to write a message to my team.

I biotic charged a banshee in me3 multiplayer a few weeks ago, nothing wrong with that since I know the signs of when and how to avoid a sync kill and do this safely... so that was cool, what I DIDN'T factor in, was the second banshee who was so merrily strolling along next to the first, cue me getting sync killed, and me facepalming so hard that i think I still have the bruise.

I don't even watch the tells, to be honest. I just charge in, spam Nova back out.