48b7e5 No.13877955
What Game Mechanics took you right before or after the end of the game to find? I didn't know that you create a Chao by throwing eggs at the wall until the last visit to Chao Garden
b10bdf No.13877976
>>13877955
No, you wait for them to hatch, or speedup hatching by shaking them, you imbecile. You hurt them by throwing eggs.
c89736 No.13877977
>>13877955
I didn't give up my shield and lock on crutch in Dark Souls until S&O. I also didn't realize there was different rolls until that point. But to be fair, I did go in blind for most of the game.
e39021 No.13877989
>>13877955
I had no clue you could dodge in MGR until I got stuck at the Armstrong fight on Revengance difficulty, I don't know how anyone was supposed to figure out "Offensive defensive" meant dodge.
73b315 No.13878018
I only discovered Shield Combos in SotN on my second playthrough
13a503 No.13878021
>>13877977
I was the opposite, I didnt know you could lock on at all
it was especially hard since I was using spears
same game I didnt know about the armor piercing mechanic on crits OR the one on thrusting swords until after like 3 or 4 playthrough
b10bdf No.13878034
>>13878021
>>13877977
And i was using a keyboard my first playthrough. Guess how i felt when i finally got to try DS on a gamepad and realized that difficulty i was loving was my keyboards self crippling.
6be988 No.13878073
>>13877955
I didn't know you could remove 2B's skirt by holding L3 and R3. I spent the entire game looking for the skin where she didn't have the skirt, only to find out on the internet I could remove it by self destructing, later.
93d208 No.13878163
>>13877955
I didn't realize that demons souls had a lock on at all until i used another controller that had a not busted r3 button and clicked it by accident. I dont quite remember where I was but it was after dragon god. Getting to that point as a royal with a spear almost made me give up on the game. Sure got easy as shit afterwards though.
1f36c9 No.13878266
>>13877955
>1989-90ish
>Final Fantasy I
>Heal wand doesn't do shit
>Heal helm doesn't do shit
>Thor hammer doesn't do shit
>etc.
>Sell them and buy potions
>Struggling against warmech
>Little brother's friend wanders over and asks why I'm not healing
>"I'm out of spells and potions!"
>"Use the heal helm or the heal wand."
>"That shit was useless! It never healed me!"
>"You have to use it as an item."
>mfw
>"Also, why is your kung-fu guy still using nunchuks?"
>"That's the highest level of weapon he can use!"
>"Unequip them and attack barehanded."
>do so after I restart the level
>mfw 8 hits that would cripple your average Sherman tank
7daa18 No.13878319
I played Sonic Advance 3 and I didn't know that if you used the tag action in the air, something different would happen. I also didn't know that knuckles could be used to break walls in the game so I couldn't get all of the Chao, thus all the Chaos Emeralds and thus I never saw the final boss.
f3f22d No.13878452
>>13877989
I actually beat the game without using a lock on system, since the game never tells you how to lock on (to my knowledge), in addition to it being tied to pressing down an analog button. Very odd choice
1b78c1 No.13878474
I didn't know how to unlock monster jobs in the Dragon Quest VII remake on 3DS until the end.
cf6ac4 No.13878529
>>13878073
Same. I thought self-destruct would actually kill you, like the name implies.
ce78f0 No.13878541
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - I didn't know you could "shield bash" to counter attacks until the very final boss fight, where he was kicking my ass. I had to learn on the spot, then and there, but once I did, I finally pulled it off and beat him once and for all. It felt so rewarding.
In my second playthough, I started using the shield bash more often and oh my god, I've been missing out on such an intregal part of the game. Making bosses that I otherwise found difficult (because I chose to dodge instead of counter with the shield) in the first game much, much easier. It's so satisfying now in the Ghirahim fights where he does that attack where he rushes directly at you at high speed, only to be stopped dead in his tracks by your shield.
471b47 No.13878593
>>13878541
>spent the whole game dodging instead of shieldbashing
You gave me an idea for a second run.
d6d4d7 No.13878656
>>13877989
Same shit happened with me. The game doesn't throw you enough unparriable moves to make you realize other options are also viable, so when I reached Armstrong I got thoroughly fucked.
a37394 No.13878730
>>13878656
>>13877989
Gets severe when you fight as Sam and his parry isn't worth shit and he's all about dodging instead. I guess these fuckers and their constant grabs and shit were SUPPOSED to encourage you to dodge more, but damn.
9a4bb2 No.13878738
>>13877955
I only discovered how to change the bullet type in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided during the breach mode tutorial after I had already finished the game. I must be completely retarded.
a37394 No.13878803
>playing Mario Party 2
>minigame coaster
>fuck this shit is hard
>trying to unlock battle minigames because Day at the Races and Face Lift were funny as fuck
>kicking ass at the games but get to Hot Rope Jump
>unlike all the other minigames where you just had to win, they make you successfully jump the rope 40 times
>you have to go through 7 other minigames to get to this one, each hard as balls
>the rope gets going at insane speeds
>would always start mashing jump and would get eliminated at around jump 35
>shelf the game for around 10-15 years
>get game again on virtual console
>decide I'm gonna fuck the coaster this time
>hot rope jump
<find out that, even with it going at super speeds, you need a delay before each jump otherwise you land on the roap
<aced it in one fucking try when I learned that it was timing and not raping the A button
<beat the coaster
<unlock the battle minigames
<brother moved out years ago, so no one to play these minigames wit and share chuckles
04a309 No.13878808
It took me over a decade to find out Megaman 7 had a shop menu.
I beat the game a million times without ever buying anything, I even had a ultimate password that gave me all the items you could buy at the shop and I had no idea how to get them without the password. I think I rationalized them as being password only items that you needed to know from a magazine or guide.
2337c3 No.13878867
>>13877989
>>13878656
Next time be less retarded.
cab609 No.13878870
There are consumable items in Xenoblade X.
They are only available for online missions and I pirated the game so I couldn't get them either way.
Still took me a while to find how even use them after I learned they exist.
6f335b No.13878898
Locking On to enemies in Hotline Miami
2cdf9d No.13878902
Didn't know star wars BF had a first person mode after I sank 1000 hours into it.
7daa18 No.13878906
In Sonic 1, I misunderstood the "boss fight" where the water is rising. I thought you had to follow Robotnik closely enough to be able to hit him and beat him, not merely stay out of the water so I kept getting hit by things and eventually dying. I never got to Star Light Zone as a child.
56df91 No.13879011
I didn't know you could catch Credo's spear, or that Nero's DT animation had invincibility frames until well after I beat the game on DMD.
In Ninja Gaiden 2 has this one boss that cases has a massive self destruct move that takes up the whole arena when you kill it. it kills you in one hit, to survive all you need to do is block it.
I some how beat the game without knowing this so on another play though I got stuck on this boss because I didn't know to block the move. To make things worse you fight 3 of these things, So I was able beat the game knowing to block the move 3 times but then forgot that I did.
df5016 No.13879063
>>13878266
Ask me how I know you got that game second hand. Also the Black Belt's fists were a glitch.
384eff No.13879075
>>13878474
>missing out on te best part of that game
Too bad. I would tell you to restart but that game is so huge its not worth the aggravation.
dddf2d No.13879111
>>13877989
you have to buy the move and it comes with a little video what the fuck did you think it was for did you ever even try it after you bought it?
b1102d No.13879131
>>13878898
The game forces you to lock on in the tutorial though.
082c0e No.13879135
>>13877955
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire: I played the whole game and didn't know you could strafe with the shoulder button.
56df91 No.13879143
>>13878867
>>13879111
Not knowing about the Defensive Offensive seems to be extremely common since i'v seen people say they didn't know about it a way too many times.
Tons of people give up when they get to Blade Wolf since they never learn how to parry properly.
6117b4 No.13879163
>Paper Mario
>got the game used
>one file already started, was at the very beginning of chapter 2
>start it up, fight a bunch of stuff, learn how the game plays including jump/hammer action commands, learn by doing a little before starting a file of my own
>seems pretty fun
>start new file
>progress through the game, confused why I don't have action commands
>get lucky star, tells you you can use action commands now
>suddenly understand
>bitch wants to give me a tutorial
>"Ha, I don't need any tutorial, I already know how to use action commands!"
>didn't find out you could block damage until long after I beat the game when I accidentally accepted the tutorial on a later playthrough
731f01 No.13879201
59af5e No.13879289
>>13878902
Do you mean the original? It still kind of bothers me they took out cockpits in BF2.
0653c4 No.13879407
>>13878738
there's no reason to use bullet types anyway since you can run through the entire game with just the taser
26331f No.13879432
Flash Guarding in Ys Seven. The first playthrough I'm just rolling around dodging everything like it's fucking Dark Souls trying to kill the HP-bloated bosses, and I find out by watching a gameplay video that you can block literally every attack and deal bonus damage with it on top of recharging your EXTRA Gauge faster. The tutorial never fucking mentions it, I'd suppose at least PC players would figure out its existence by looking at the options menu, but in the original PSP version it's never even mentioned at all.
11ab7e No.13879450
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>>13877955
>Devil May Cry 1
I didn't know that you could quickly swap weapons by pressing R3.
90c65a No.13879531
>>13877977
>>13878034
I got Dark Souls for PC, and every time I've tried setting up a different keyboard layout, the thing doesn't fucking change. It's absolutely obnoxious, and the control scheme is so absolutely awful that I just can't do it.
Who thought this was a good idea?
13a503 No.13879550
>>13879531
please just use a controller, even with the fanpatch the KB+M is pretty fuckin bad, its better then unpatched but still not good
3ba17a No.13879611
>>13878870
these items don't even serve a purpose if you're playing it on an actual wii u now that miiverse is shut down.
9c2244 No.13879623
>Battles give moneys
>You could retrieve them from the frog
>Spent an enourmous amount of time working for the short time it as available because it gave you money directly
>I'm dumb
Still the game was pretty easy with all the items you are given out in the wild
9c2244 No.13879636
>>13879623
I also laughed everytime i saw a shop because i thought it was an inside joke
c25df8 No.13879665
I didn't properly understand the skill system in Grandia until I accidentally found the list that tells you what level your weapons and elements need to unlock new skills while I was grinding to beat the Ruin Guard. Boy did I feel like a fucking dipshit when I found that out.
7916aa No.13879745
Megaman 2. Metal blades can be thrown in any direction.
d11a96 No.13879755
>>13877989
I had a nearly opposite experience. Rather than properly mastering parrying, I found that Offensive Defensive allowed me to dodge most attacks adequately, while also doing damage, which seemed better at first. I also didn't understand how to take full advantage of blade mode (by not using the right analog stick) so I worked around a lot of enemies by sticking way too close and mastering OD's timing, which allowed bullshit dodges. No need to ever break Sundowner's explosive shield arms. Just infinitely OD around him in a circle and phase through the explosions you cause. I didn't understand that parrying was overall better until my second playthrough.
f588b2 No.13879787
In Shatterhand, I didn't know that picking up the same sequence of emblems after summoning the droid would give you the SPESS SHERIFF armor, or that you could use the droid to lift you up in the air.
c25df8 No.13879788
>>13877989
I knew what Offensive Defense was, but I could never activate it for some reason. I'm pretty sure it was the first upgrade I bought, but pressing X and A never did anything. I'm not sure if it's only supposed to work when enemies flash, but I never experimented to find out.
1b78c1 No.13879848
>>13879075
No thanks, it's easily my least liked DQ, there's just too much backtracking, I forced myself to finish it, stumbled upon the final boss and wrecked his ass in one try, didn't even unlock the hero class
Fuck me for trying to do a blind playthrough and missing out on a main feature because the game doesn't explain how you unlock them
731f01 No.13880540
>>13879745
>Franchise is almost 30 years old
>Still misspelling the series' name
f16556 No.13880557
Holding E to drink water in New Vegas. Went through all of FO3 without knowing it.
aa53f2 No.13880591
>>13877955
Didn't know that I could perform holds in DoA4. I just juggled and did bounds to prevent them from countering me.
6ab587 No.13880637
Not quite until the end of the game, but I found the quartz mechanics confusing as hell until a few hours into Trails in the Sky. Something about how it was explained was really confusing and made me think it was completely different from what it actually was. It seemed far more complex than it actually was.
>>13880557
Several hundreds of hours into NV and I had no fucking idea that was a thing.
3d4428 No.13880681
>>13878906
You get extra points for killing Robotnik in Labyrinth Zone, though, even though you don't actually need to. It still only takes the same number of hits. You can also beat him in Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic & Knuckles if you hit him 256 times.
d11a96 No.13880748
>>13880540
>Franchise is almost 30 years old
>Still misspelling ロックマン
But really, it's hard to blame people for it too hard, since the way "Man" is treated in super hero names changes from hero to hero in America alone, (Superman/Batman vs Spider-Man vs Iron Man) and Mega Man been officially romanized both with and without a space repeatedly, especially on box art and title screens. Japanese doesn't have spaces, which means adding them in an ambiguous circumstance like that is up to the translator's discretion, and a series that old will obviously have been through a lot of translators.
3d4428 No.13880846
>>13880748
But Mega Man isn't even a translation, it's a (((localization))) of Rockman, a short sighted change that results in a whole bunch of names of other characters not making sense, since all the related robots are named after music except the main one. Plus it results in things like different games giving him different civilian names, like Mega, or just calling him Rock, or just dropping the concept entirely and replacing both versions of his name with Mega Man.
138dd1 No.13880883
Only learnt as adult that you can farm the red eggs in Yoshi's Island by bouncing them off walls and then catching mid air. Makes the 100 score much easier to get.
d11a96 No.13880894
>>13880846
I know that, but it still doesn't change the "man" issue, even if he was Rock in the West from day one. Is he Rock Man, RockMan, Rockman, or Rock-Man? The spacing would be a legitimate case of translation ambiguity, even without (((localization))) to cock it up.
ce78f0 No.13880896
>>13880540
Megaman
Mega Man
Rockman
ロックマン
abb515 No.13880931
I found out at the end of FEAR 2 that in order to do the slide kick you have to press run, then melee, then run again, which is fucking retarded. Run then crouch would make a whole lot more sense.
d11a96 No.13880965
>>13880894
More on topic for the thread, I just remembered that I beat Battle Network 2 without knowing about Program Advances. That's what happens when you take turns making progress in an RPG between three people.
>>13880557
Holy fucking shit, you just saved me a lot of time. I just started NV recently.
99f296 No.13881181
>first playthrough of MGS3
>wonder why I can't successfully sneak up on enemies
>figure that it's a design decision to make the game harder
>second playthrough
>find out that the d-pad is used to sneak slower than just using the analog stick
d11a96 No.13881197
>>13881181
>find out that the d-pad is used to sneak slower than just using the analog stick
You're supposed to tilt the analog stick more gently to walk slower.
99f296 No.13881227
>>13881197
I know that, but using the d-pad actually makes you move slower than if you just slightly tilt the analog stick. Using the analog stick alone will cause enemies to hear you when you get too close so the d-pad is necessary to remain silent.
3ffa5b No.13881238
>>13881227
its not necesary but i suppose it would make things easier, are you emulating? perhaps you analog's dead zone is too big
2554e8 No.13881253
>>13877955
There is nothing acceptable about being gay. Faggots will be institutionalized or executed.
99f296 No.13881255
>>13881238
I've played the original game on the PS2 as well as the HD version on PS3. It's just a weird design decision to place the slower sneak ("stalking mode") on the d-pad.
fc4ea4 No.13881642
I didn't think about using the A button until after getting 100%.
326700 No.13881709
>>13878870
I only found out that I can upgrade my arts about 152 hours into the game.
047bda No.13881792
I know a number of people who beat FEAR without knowing it had a bullet time ability.
12c5cf No.13881797
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>>13877955 (checked)
>gay is ok
no its not, its a byproduct of child abuse and a sign of mental illness. Can you please stop trying to passive aggressively shoehorn your liberal politics into a discussion about video games? Now that that's out of the way, to answer your question: no. No I am not retarded and it doesn't take me forever to figure out basic game mechanics. Likely because I wasn't raped by a pederast as a kid :^)
3d4428 No.13881829
I 100%ed Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z without strategizing about my characters or card placements at all. I just picked the strongest characters and put the strongest cards on them, instead of trying to build balanced teams with healing and such. I just got good at the actual fighting until I could beat the shit out of the enemies with the AI partners being cannon fodder.
>>13881797
Stop being an easily triggered /pol/faggot. That image was clearly posted because it's hilarious to see kids (as it was obviously made by a kid) mixing their autism with other topics. Plus, SJWs would say that pic is homophobic because it tells homos not to be flaming faggots and just act like normal people.
3337a1 No.13881844
2554e8 No.13881847
>>13881829
>Stop being an easily triggered /pol/faggot.
Cry harder, bitch.
>That image was clearly posted because it’s hilarious to see kids mixing their autism with other topics.
We understand the purpose and type of the image.
>Plus, SJWs would say that pic is homophobic because it tells homos not to be flaming faggots and just act like normal people.
Right, and it’s not okay for them to act in any way other than straight.
2e7430 No.13881855
>>13877955
I knew about it, but didn't even try docking or rendezvous in KSP for several hundred hours of gameplay. It's pretty easy to just use more boosters on and never have to refuel.
397b01 No.13881860
>>13881792
FEAR had bullet time? bullshit
3d4428 No.13881862
>>13881836
Fuck you and your identity politics, faggot. I just want to go back to pre-2010 before identity politics faggots invaded imageboards. Just because moot sided with tumblr doesn't mean you faggots didn't help ruin the site nearly as much as they did.
>>13881847
>We understand the purpose and type of the image.
Then don't be a triggered faggot and let people enjoy things like we used to 10 years ago.
1e4b38 No.13881865
I had no clue you could upgrade your weapons in MGR until I got stuck on the first phase of the Armstrong fight on Revengeance.
269bba No.13881868
>>13881836
>implying half of cuckchan's userbase aren't MAGAtards refugees from r/The_Donald shitposting on /pol/
>implying not being an easily bootyblasted right-wing SJW is bad
Gas yourself tbh.
2554e8 No.13881875
>>13881862
>you’re triggered because i say so
>live and let live
Nah. Not going to stop.
3d4428 No.13881890
>>13881875
>>you’re triggered because i say so
No, more like "you're triggered because you can't look at a silly deviant art absurd cringe image without sperging out about your politics."
>live and let live
Never said this at all. In fact I'd much prefer all you identity politics faggots died. Then maybe I could finally have my imageboards back.
2554e8 No.13881902
>>13881890
>you’re triggered because you don’t like lies
>>>/tumblr/
>never said this
See: >>13881862
>Then don’t be
Just get out.
871141 No.13881920
Don't you just love it when the goon busts out a VPN to try and cause interboard conflict?
1f4a17 No.13881928
>>13877955
In Shadow the Hedgehog you can plug in the second controller and another person is able to control your ally. That was for the gamecube version
9ffbf1 No.13881934
Tapping the fire button in gta iv stops recoil completely
0286d5 No.13881937
>you can customize Emerl in Sonic Battle
3d4428 No.13881940
>>13881928
This also works in Sonic Adventure when you play as Sonic and are in a part of the game where Tails follows you. The only Sonic game where characters follow you but this doesn't work is '06.
>>13881902
>you’re triggered because you don’t like lies
You're triggered because you have to flip out over stupid shit that is posted because it's stupid and everyone is expected to laugh at it for being stupid
>>never said this
See: >>13881862 (You)
>Then don’t be
Exactly. Please, stop being. This is exactly the opposite of live and let live. I would prefer if your kind (identity politics obsessed faggots) didn't live. Maybe then imageboards could live again.
871141 No.13881941
>>13881928
You could do the same with doppelgangers in DMC3.
d68a3a No.13881961
>>13881862
>I just want to go back to pre-2010 before identity politics faggots invaded imageboards. Just because moot sided with tumblr doesn't mean you faggots didn't help ruin the site nearly as much as they did.
You're right, but a Sonic maymay is not tumblr shit just because you say it is. You're the one pushing identity politics where there wasn't.
d6737f No.13881976
>>13877955
>I didn't know that you create a Chao by throwing eggs at the wall until the last visit to Chao Garden
Tossing the egg at the wall was the first thing that I tried. Little fucker was born with a derpy face though.
0286d5 No.13881993
>>13881829
>I 100%ed Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
What the fuck is wrong with you
4071d6 No.13881994
I didn't know you could lock-in an enemy in Dork Souls. Spent my whole playthrough wailing on enemies and players with my back exposed, yet I still won every now and then. Now I can't play while locking in.
fd8465 No.13882028
>>13879611
I thought they just shut down the Miiverse, not the entire online system.
d5c03a No.13882034
>>13882007
>I saved this
Digits of the worst year
fd8465 No.13882050
I knew about CQC in MGS3, but the inputs are complex and there's nowhere to practice it (just videos) so I only used it to KO enemies from behind. Beat the final boss with a handkerchief.
6d5f6b No.13882095
>>13882007
the fuck is that?
9f9e37 No.13882102
>>13882095
leftypol boardowner
90e0be No.13882115
>>13881868
Cuckchan is full SJW now you flaming retard.
6d5f6b No.13882116
>>13882102
WHAT??? You're kidding. How long have I been away for?
f6b25d No.13882137
I wouldn't say near the end of the game but I had to both learn and master parrying right when I had to fight Monsoon. The little tutorial they gave really just went by me.
e43f63 No.13882150
>>13877989
I didn't know you how to parry because the tutorial was complete shit and simply let you pass without being able to do shit. I then proceeded to jump my way out of every attack in the game until Monsoon when I finally figured out how parrying works by doing it by mistake.
ae9f22 No.13882198
>>13882116
I've never seen anyone substantiate this claim, I think it's just a smear tactic by /pol/tards.
56df91 No.13882206
>>13882137
The entire purpose of Monsoon's boss is to teach the player how important Parrying is, just like how the whole point of Sundowner's boss is to teach players how to angle cuts in blade mode properly. So when they get to Armstrong their ready.
Some how dumb asses still manage to learn nothing, and when they get to Armstrong they run away from those huge chunks of rubble he throws instead of cutting them, they then get no healing items and the boss is harder for them then it should be.
385198 No.13882223
>>13882206
You can just not get hit in the fight so you don't need healing items then it's way easier to just run around the debriss he throws.
56df91 No.13882252
>>13882223
Yeah, but do you expect people who don't know how to angle their cuts in Blade mode to be able to beat a fight without getting hit? The healing items are there specifically for those people, but they're too stupid to find them.
385198 No.13882266
>>13882252
actual angled cuts are hard as fuck, it's easier, faster, and better every time outside of that one part in the armstrong fight to just aim with the left stick and press x or y for horizontal or vertical cut.
56df91 No.13882319
>>13882266
Sundowner and the guys with the left Arms exist for a reason. it shouldn't be that hard for you.
ac4e40 No.13882352
>>13882206
I somehow couldn't get the controller to make a diagonal cut no matter how I did it. I also remember watching him heal over and over and had no idea you could interrupt it.
I still beat him but forgot how at this point.
7f950d No.13882378
I didn't know you could change weapons mid-boss fights in Ys Origin until the fight with Dalles. In my defense, the game never really teaches you or makes it apparent how you do switch weapons (unless I missed a tutorial popup mid game)
>>13882137
I didn't know until I tried a no damage run that you can parry the giant debris wheel monsoon summons twice then cut it up in blade mode. Made that no damage fight slightly easier.
9fd824 No.13882431
The first time I played Dark Souls I missed the depths entirely. Turns out the gaping dragon fight was pretty fun.
e43f63 No.13882499
>>13882198
/leftypol/ had a bunch of members doxxed a long time ago, but only a thumbnail of BO was saved and shared regularly. Pretty much everyone is certain it's him because of how quick he is to jump at deleting anyone and everyone who posts the webm on his board and comes out to deny everything when able.
Sage for off-topic.
3d4428 No.13882587
>>13881961
>You're right, but a Sonic maymay is not tumblr shit just because you say it is. You're the one pushing identity politics where there wasn't.
I'm not the one saying a dumb Sonic maymay is tumblr shit, the other guy was. I was the one telling him to chill out over a fucking dumb Sonic maymay.
sage for offtopic
>>13882007
>anyone who doesn't like identity politics and wants imageboards to be like they were 10 years ago must be from my boogeyman board that loves identity politics and only showed up in response to an invasion force that only got to 4chan around 2010
I didn't come to a fucking anonymous imageboard for identity politics, faggot.
7916aa No.13883477
>>13880540
I actually do it exclusively because I know it annoys you. I even typed Mega Man, but then I corrected myself.
e60a9a No.13883540
I made it through the entirety of Nocturne without realizing that Tarunda decreased both physical and magic attack. In my memory there was a separate Makunda skill that decreased magic attack.
dad20f No.13883545
>>13879111
Nigger you just explained how that shit is retardedly counterintuitive and you didn't even realize it.
e58cf4 No.13883581
I didn't know how to arrange the orbs to give you different Arts until I fought Loewe. That's what I get for not reading the Bracer handbook, I guess.
24485c No.13883600
>>13877955
I beat Shadow of the Colossus without ever jumping backwards from a ledge, or doing the jump attack. There was a tutorial in the beginning, but for the life of me I could never get it to work on a colossus so I just made the most of what little I got.
646226 No.13883613
Did my first playthrough of Dead Space 1 without knowing you could run. Hoo boy.
4ab779 No.13883620
I didn't know I could lock on or quick-throw grenades in MGRR until I watched that fat shit DSP do it, after I finished my first playthrough of the game.
292901 No.13883756
I didn't know about stylish moves in Paper Mario TTYD until years later watching people play it on youtube. Its now my favorite game so there's that.
568830 No.13883893
I completely forgot about Ki Pulsing in Nioh after the tutorial. Beat the game forgetting about it and the fact that I can get more than 8 item shortcuts.
Also >>13879450
4bc218 No.13884023
>>13877955
I finished Max Payne without bullet time.
6e1b60 No.13884063
>>13884023
Bullshit, they make you use it literally 5 minutes into the game
2ac403 No.13884092
>>13884023
Try doing the same with F.E.A.R.
It actually makes game even more fun.
6eff2b No.13884212
I went through Doom without running.I only discovered you could run when I got to Doom 2.
5742cf No.13884256
In Aquaria, you can use the spirit mode to absorb bullets and regain health.
54292d No.13884271
>>13879163
Similar thing happened to me.
I cleared the first one when I was a kid, played TTYD much later.
When the thutorial for action commands came up on TTYD I just skipped it because I knew how it worked from the first game, block included.
I only found out about the B-counter years after clearing it, while watching a speedrun.
7aa860 No.13884285
>>13884212
I'm the dumbass kid who got stuck in MAP02 from not knowing how to run, until someone showed me.
>>13884023
Dodge rolls work better funnily enough.
4232c0 No.13884418
>>13880557
Didn't know you could bind armor and healing items to your number keys.
Being able to swich from the Stealth suit Mk II to power armor when you're detected. Also binding stimpacks/nuka cola/ etc for health makes the game so less inventory intensive.
953b07 No.13884461
>>13877955
Not really a Singleplayer game but, i only found out TF2's inner workings of crits, backstabs, and all that deep shit after maybe 2 constant years of playing. Since its around that time i start to open the wiki and the wiki has went Valve approved™
Either way, random crits are bullshit
>tfw there will be another game like TF2 since its whole existence was a fluke and a curse in disguise
953b07 No.13884462
2c0177 No.13884470
>>13877955
In MGS2 when I got the katana only ever used the attack where you click the thumb stick to jab at people. I never once swung the sword except by accident when i brushed the thumb stick at the end of that part.
eb323f No.13884471
I played through the entirety of Resident Evil 4 without knowing that you could run by holding A.
Would have made this cunt a lot easier.
d68c47 No.13884600
>>13882198
>I think it's just a smear tactic by /pol/tards.
Nobody says /pol/tards but you, /leftypol/.
c5af29 No.13884741
>>13882266
>actual angled cuts are hard as fuck
>point the stick in the direction
>let go of the stick
>hard as fuck
Are you one of those idiots who thinks you need to move the right stick from one side to the other, instead of just letting it re-center itself?
514af0 No.13884817
>>13877989
>Buy dodge
>Fight Sundowner
>Whenever he pops up his blast shield I do dodge and it allows me to attack, causing him to blow up his shields and just pummel the absolute fuck out of him
>End the fight in a few minutes
>Confused for ages why everyone found this fight difficult when apparently I cheesed the fuck out of it
Feels good man
871141 No.13884837
>>13884471
Is that better or worse than not knowing about the quick turn or blowing your money on upgrading every single weapon the moment it appears and then selling it when a replacement shows up?
0cb0cb No.13884843
In Thief, I didn't know you could listen into other rooms by leaning into the door until about a year later when I accidentally did it when playing a fan mission.
485cbf No.13884961
>>13877955
In Dust I didn't realise you could craft shit telepathically. Beat the whole game without doing it and only remembered it was a thing near the end.
e58cf4 No.13885553
>>13884600
Uncle /pol/ forgets to take his meds too often.
75dc1f No.13885727
>>13877989
I had the exact opposite, I only understood how parrying works upon reaching Armstrong and used offensive defensive to give myself iframes.
>>13878730
Offensive defensive clearly isn't made to avoid them, since you have to do it twice in a circular motion due to how fucking fast they turn to avoid getting grabbed. They require you to actually dodge them.
8c4bfa No.13885788
Only figured out how to equip and use mana eggs in Grandia 2 before the final boss.
c5af29 No.13885863
>>13885727
Please don't tell me that's an actual scene in rogue one or something.
ecb05a No.13885972
>>13878529
It does when you're low level.
b0a846 No.13885979
I went through all of Magical Pop'n without using any magic like the kamehameha thing
fe18c4 No.13885994
>>13879063
Not that anon but I wanna know
40a487 No.13886106
This one will make you laugh. I never knew you could illuminate the pip boy until my second playthrough of New Vegas where l just happened to be paying attention to the loading screen hints. l sunk a few hundred hours into 3 before buying Vegas On a somewhat related note l could never get the hang of wall jumps in SM64. I only managed to not spill my spaghetti when l picked it up again on emulator about 9 years later.
68e9cc No.13886205
Not me but my friend didn't know that in ME1 when you are in that vehicle that you can zoom in with the gun to shoot vehicles from across the map.
In Xenoblade Chronicles I had no idea that skill linking existed and so I didn't know what the affinity coins were for, until near the end of the game.
>>13879115
There was so much I didnt understand about this game until I went back a couple years ago and replayed it, looking online on how to control the law vs chaos for each of your units and stumbled upon the difference between capturing a town and liberating it. Until that point I thought you captured neutral towns and liberated towns owned by the enemy. So much shit not explained in that game. I need to finish it.
ffa6a3 No.13886596
>>13884837
I had no idea maxing out a weapon got you a fancy upgrade until a friend told me. At this point I was doing knife only professional runs.
I got through most Bayo 1 on climax without knowing what dodge offset was until I decided to read the lore books.
c18c12 No.13886626
>>13884471
My friend Dylan (who died 2 years ago) got to Mendez without knowing you could run. What a dummy.
825386 No.13886685
>>13881937
>customization options not limited to moves
>can change atributes like emerl's gravity
>low gravity 2 plus ultimate jump, and Amy's double jump crosses maps in no time
>friends got angry when I didn't let them heal
>they had ultimate heal so fuck them
aace24 No.13887298
>>13879063
>Class whose entire gimmick is "this character does not need equipment"
>The fact that their stats go up when they have no equipment is a glitch
Yeah no.
047bda No.13887312
>>13879143
And they suck. Blade Wolf doesn't require parrying, he's actually a hell of a lot more fun to fight without it.
1f36c9 No.13887334
>>13879063
>Ask me how I know you got that game second hand.
It was, and I'm curious. Fire away.
>Black Belt's fists were a glitch.
I do not believe that.
397b01 No.13887388
>>13887334
>>13887298
not that anon, but, the story that I heard was that they had not intended to include a martial artist class but then at one point during development another class (thief?) actually ended up doing more damage without weapons due to a bug and someone went (!) and that's where the black belt/master class came from
871141 No.13887434
>>13887388
It's more likely they just aped DnD. Seriously, look at the monster list for FF1 and tell me it wasn't just a guy copying a Monster Manual wholesale.
11dda4 No.13887452
In Sonic Mania I beat the Silver Sonic miniboss by trying to bounce the balls in midair. I got called a dumb faggot for not knowing you could spindash into them on the ground for 100% reliable hits
The button mashing part at the end of Sonic Colors DS is an almost non-interactive cutscene and you can beat it by just tapping them casually once a second. Not at all like Rush, which takes actual physical exertion to beat.
871141 No.13887457
>>13887388
Also Mithra>Miqote or however you spell it just so we're clear.
b2f42d No.13887505
>>13879011
are you me?
>>13879450
What.
I did not fucking know that.
I might have to go back
I beat both Bayonetta's on the WiiU without knowing about the dodge offset, taunting for magic power or how wicked weaves refreshes the score.
Getting Platinum medals on the PC feels so satisfying now
7fc849 No.13888191
>>13885727
>>13885863
Holy shit that is such bullshit.
3863f3 No.13888265
>>13887452
>In Sonic Mania I beat the Silver Sonic miniboss by trying to bounce the balls in midair.
Same. There's really no reason to automatically think that spindashing into it would be the solution.
397b01 No.13888834
>>13887434
monk wasn't a class in dungeons & dragons though, it didn't show up until advanced dungeons & dragons (although AD&D existed at the time the game was made, so maybe)
there's actually a very interesting historical essay to be written about the effects of oddly-translated D&D books on early japanese video games because I suspect they are the source of many weird tropes in japanese games, like how kobolds are usually dog-like rather than lizards
>>13887457
oh absolutely, every single fucking day
although it really irritates me how almost no artists actually draw mithra correctly with fur, which wasn't represented very well in-game because LOL PS2 MMO but NPCs talk about it all the time
94a4c5 No.13889106
>>13881181
>>13881255
Wait MGS3 has a stalking mode? I've beaten this game multiple times and never learned about this.
a88265 No.13889270
>>13887452
>you could spindash into them on the ground for 100% reliable hits
0ead31 No.13890225
>>13881937
I'm ashamed to say I beat the game without doing this. When Sonic and Tails said that I could customize moves using the R button, I thought they were referring to being able to switch your special attacks right before dropping in a match instead of in the overworld. I was wondering what I was doing wrong since the story made a big deal about Emerl being able to copy others moves along with Eggman's Phi robots (to a lesser extent)
Although I emulated the game at first, so I figured it might have been some kind of anti pirate protection or something being off with the rom or emulator.
0ead31 No.13890251
>>13887505
The weapon switching in DMC1 is restricted to just Alastor and Ifrit and it makes Dante go through an animation that has no i-frames when using it though, so I found myself just sticking to switching through pausing.
21b6b8 No.13890265
>>13884843
You're required to do that for a mission in thief 2.
dfb947 No.13890538
In Dragon's Dogma, simply approaching a rift stone will fully heal your pawns, you don't have to touch it, you don't have to enter the rift, you just get close to the stone and they glow green and get healed.
I did several playthroughs without ever realizing this. Now all those repairable rift stones in BBI make a lot more sense.
c0eac0 No.13890546
I didnt know you can turn into a demon in the Dark Messiah until the very last boss battle
871141 No.13890971
>>13888834
The fur thing comes across a bit better in the pre-rendered artwork and I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in the manual since the wiki likes to CTRL-V official text.
0cb0cb No.13891144
>>13890265
You just need to stand outside the room. Leaning into the door just makes the conversation easier to hear.
5424be No.13891416
>>13881855
To be fair neither do I and I understand the mechanics a little bit. It's honestly too much of a pain in the ass to do, especially in a cartoony game like that. You have to perfectly synchronize orbits, ensure you have proper RTS fuel and boosters. And then you have to sit there for a while and play with the orbiting mechanics and navball just right. And that's just the actual act itself let and clone the amount of planning and design you have to do to make a multi part mission like that even feasible let alone successful. Compared to just making a fuckhuge rocket with lots of fuel and boosters to do a straight shot
731f01 No.13891428
>>13881977
Indeed, not even Capcom could keep it straight around mid-90's, when spaceless Mega Man became a thing. The blame is solely on the fact that they began to use the Japanese styled logo here and there, which spells it as one word, when in reality, it is two. This one can't even keep its title straight to begin with.
731f01 No.13891442
>>13880846
>a short sighted change that results in a whole bunch of names of other characters not making sense
Capcom couldn't license Rockman, because a game named that already existed on the C64.
>>13880894
In Japan, official romanisation of ロックマン is Rockman, as found in licensing information, but there has been few cases in magazines where he was called Rock Man, e.g. Bon Bon Comics. It would also seem like the Man of Action cartoon might end up being called Mega Man internationally, so there's that.
bd4895 No.13891460
>>13883581
I didn't until the final boss, he was so fucking fast that I started to wonder why I had no one with some kind of Haste-All spell. I had just assumed that more of Orb Color X = better spells of that type.
bd4895 No.13891466
>>13884285
>Dodge rolls work better funnily enough.
I remember beating the game with nothing but pipe/baseball bat and dodge rolls. If not the entire game then the majority.
1ef004 No.13891513
>>13881642
I didn't realize until recently an A press has three parts. I understand half A presses now.
bbc4c6 No.13891640
When you first play through Deus Ex, you won't realize how useful some augs are. For example, the Aggessive Defense System may sound uninteresting, but max out that shit and explosive-using enemies will only succeed in blowing up themselves. Very handy.
12c5cf No.13891765
>>13881862
>OP starts thread shoehorning identity politics into his first post
>fag spergs out when someone point this out
HeHeHeHeHeHe
>>13881868
the alt-kike fags from halfchan/pol/ is essentially r/The_Donald and /hwndu/ was proof. fucking nigger keep your shit straight. If you fags don't want politics in video games then stop trying to shoehorn your opinions on sodomy into everything you do. OP is an example of this cancerous faggotry. Its just like the furfags who constantly virtue signal that they are furries but act persecuted when someone tells where to stick it.
dd8a77 No.13891878
The lock-on in hotline miami.
61d021 No.13896880
>>13887452
>you could spindash into them on the ground for 100% reliable hits
huh, i got pretty good at hitting them in the air too
975afc No.13897602
>>13882206
I always hated the chunks of rubble that Armstrong throws at you, especially on very hard mode (revengeance is easier thanks to the insane QTE damage). If you try to cut the rubble as fast as possible, there's always a chance the cut will fuck up, because you need to hold the direction long enough for raiden to ready the sword. I never realized this, so I'd try to cut really fast and the input would fuck up because I never held the stick long enough. It's kinda dumb because no other blade mode segment works like that, except maybe Sundowner's.
a3cbfd No.13897620
>Most Darkest Dungeon characters can move more than one space at a time
a3cbfd No.13897659
>You can quickly swap relics in Shovel Knight with the bumpers
>Hacking an enemy who hasn't noticed you allows you to control them in Automata, then you can hack ever more machines as none of them notice you
>Didn't know crit heals were a thing until about 800 hours into TF2
>I knew chain drifting was a thing, but I didn't get the timing down or realise how useful/fun it is until the last level of Hyperlight Drifter
>Pretty much all of Lethal League
9bb665 No.13897838
>>13886685
>>13881937
>>13890225
I don't understand how you three could miss this part. Literally the selling point of the game was that you had a robot that you could customize. The damn cards flashing every battle wasn't a red flag at all for you? Ever even wanted to check them out? Man, I don't get ya.
But still, funnily enough NOT upgrading Emerl is way more effective in single player than actually doing what the game wants you to. You can use the odd way the default, weak moves are coded to OHKO enemies over and over, more specifically charge up your Special or whatever meter until it's full, then use Air Shot at about the last one-two frames before Emerl hits the ground, and presto, you bypassed the Shot Defense mechanic and got those dumbass CPUs killed. The only three skills I think you absolutely need to win the game are the E-102 Stance (because it self destructs and the AI is dumb enough to stand next to you when you're dead), Knuckles Heal (because of that cushy Special bar gains) and Sonic Walk because you don't want to stand around like an idiot for the whole match.
As for me, after having played the game for three years straight (until I stopped at the F2P update) I still don't fucking get the rates at which the Medigun builds up uber in Team Fortress 2. I just can't understand what the fuck's going on with that weapon, I just learnt from banter in the TF2V threads that the crit rates for the Medic depend on how much damage his healed target is dealing, like the Engineer with his sentry gun, and it feels so retarded in a way.
Oh, and also, I didn't know that you could exploit the AI in Advance Wars in so many different ways other than APC baits and mech spams. Said new (to me) strats involve:
>Storming their HQ with a unit they have no hard counter against
>Dropping an unit's HP to 1-2 when it's near a factory and watching the suckers just sit it there to heal up
>Most of the COs hardwired to use their COP over their SCOP if they have exactly that amount of stars
>Exploiting their fixed build order by forcing the AI to rebuild the same weak unit over and over again
>That Technique is utterly broken as a mechanic and you can get your units killed indiscriminately as long as it's in an arbitrary number or percentage based depending on the game
44c425 No.13897936
>>13877955
You wanna know a mechanic that you couldn't possibly forget or even oversee? A Flashlight. Try going through STALKER SoC without using a flashlight. But you find a helmet with Night vision, but that only works on helmets that have that feature. Cue getting an exosuit but having no Night vision. After going through the X-Labs, Underground and eventually the Sarcophagus, mannually adjusting my gamma and brightness each time I went in there, I got fed up with it. I literally asked "How the fuck is anyone supposed to play this game when its always this fucking dark!?" So I kept a helmet with Night vision in my inventory since I didn't know there was a flashlight. That was until after beating the game and then going through the controls did I find the 'Flashlight - F' command. Remember; always read ALL the controls BEFORE you play the game.
b7dc81 No.13898215
>>13879011
this was my first proper dmc so I didn't know lots of things. I discovered explosive trigger trying to button mash my way out of ice, but didn't know it did damage until it messed a showdown chance with creedo. I also had to look tutorials for dante because i couldn't finish his first mission(13?) on easy
83e370 No.13898495
>>13877955
You know how in Rocket: Robot on Wheels, you attack enemies by grabbing them and then slamming them into the ground? Well, I spent almost the entire game just running away from them. I thought the freeze ray was the closest thing to an attack in the game, until I accidentally stumbled across the slam attack in the last world before the final boss fight.
b7dc81 No.13898591
>the last remnant
>you can skip cutscenes if you press pause_key then s_key
spoilers in case you want to play and discover these by yourself
>monsters in a family drop more or less the same stuff
>you can reset agro by saving and loading in the middle of a chase
>remnant skills, take shitloads of time to use but increase evasion rate greatly
>gaining exp using level V skills, redistributes the experience to other skills in the same family
>you can predict crit QTEs based on the weapons
>don't bother trying to do everything your first playthrough, there is too much content and a game plus
>>13883540
I did know what a dungeon crawler was but never connected the dots to nocturne, i just assumed the game design was shit outside of battles
>>13897659
>Hacking an enemy who hasn't noticed you allows you to control them in Automata, then you can hack ever more machines as none of them notice you
I assumed 9s would be shit at combat, so i put 2b into aggressive mode, so i never didn't knew about hacking until the coliseum
fdbe36 No.13898942
>>13877989
Didn't know dodging until Armstrong either. I sat there for 3 hours getting my shit pounded by the fucking man until I somehow managed to learn how to dodge. I think I sat there for three hours trying to muscle my way through his health bar, but I think it added to the experience if anything,at least in making it memorable for me *although the music helped with it tol**
e43f63 No.13901753
>>13882252
Actually that's more a reflex thing, because it's the shortest window of time the game could possibly give you. Running under the debris is the smart move if you actually rationed and have healing items.