7 Simple Things In Games We Didn't Figure Out For Ages

[@blank-qm1xk]

I was very young when I played San Andreas so I thought the N for north on the mini map was a mission icon and kept chasing it

[@abhilashmessi31]

Same in liberty city

[@zwei4632]

HAA.... same.

[@loudboy11]

blank 001 I did that the WHOLE game. Even when I finished the story lol

[@AL-lz6px]

I'll found out what that N hides one day.

[@desertdust777]

I was smart enough to identify it's North!

[@jackhappens]

When I first played Skyrim, I didn't know you had to look at the claws in order to get the solution to the puzzle doors. I spent a lot of time in front of the door at Bleak Fall before my roommate came home and told me. The concept was so foreign to me at the time.

[@BlazeStorm]

jackhappens Yes! I forced the first door too! Only took around 20 attempts :/

[@floppydisksareop]

well 27 there are 27 combinations so it's not that hard to do... happened to me as well...

[@Cloud575501]

jackhappens yeah me too, until I looked at the part of my even that said R3 to look at item

[@mariosonicboom123]

Just doing 27 combinations isn't satisfying though

[@tearsoftelos]

same, but at least is was satisfying when you got the door open, i played like a 100h without knowing the solution was on the claws

[@tonybranch3391]

I know it's really late to say it, but I wanted to add that my older brother, who has never played any of the Souls series bought Bloodborne, and refused any help from me. He came to me two days later saying that the game was exceptionally difficult and that he couldn't get past the first area. I watched him play to see what he meant, and through the course of two hours realized his mistake. He played for about two days not knowing how to heal!! He just never thought to press the triangle button and never healed!

[@awesomeme9093]

Tony Branch Maybe he was being truly hardcore trying to finish the gane without healing once. Your brother has balls unlike you.

[@tonybranch3391]

awesome me hahaha, maybe so

[@lancemassey336]

Tony Branch How long did it take for him to learn the transforming attack combo? Also, your brother's savagery in waiting so long to get help for a expert, can know no boundaries.

[@tonybranch3391]

LmasterKindof he knew how to do that, he just infused his blood into the bullets, lost health and then told me since the game was supposed to be hardcore he thought there was no healing until he got past a certain point, and that he didn't want to press anything else, to avoid losing more health.

[@kidv2]

Oh my, I made the same mistake (also having never played a soul's game) and it seemed very natural to me that you couldn't heal I mean it's a Soul's game they're meant to be hard right?! And then 2 days later I found out about potions :/ what a dummy

[@Met182]

I watched this video for 5 mins and 34 seconds before realising it wasn't this week's latest video and that it's from 2017 and I've already seen it.

[@pviinikanoja]

I watched this comment and realised that I haven't seen this video before.

[@oldwilliam5]

same

[@James-gj8rn]

These are rewatchable so its fine :)

[@lucduncan3814]

I do that a lot with these access videos for some reason. :p

[@BMH91]

Took me 8 minutes... But I'd not seen it at least

[@rainbowdarth]

Well in Skyrim, the one thing I didn't figure out was there was stairs leading up the mountain. I actually thought you had to scale the mountain like a disabled rock climber. Finding the sweet spot that would let you go a few more feet up. Took me 2-3 hours but I did it and then a couple weeks later a friend told me there were stairs I could have went up.

[@wesleyeberly228]

Rainbow Darth it points you towards a town next to the stairs

[@Halo3machenima]

Well, mountain jumping was always the best physics defying thing you could do in the Elder Scrolls series. Much better, in my opinion, than the old climbing skill from the first couple games.

[@rainbowdarth]

Babitat 7 it does now. Back then it was just pointing at the top of the mountain. No clue why, it didn't show me the town.

[@afrog2666]

Wait.. What? STAIRS?

[@jonhasnogame1830]

Rainbow Darth that's the equivalent of going up 7000 steps and then realising there was an escalator right next to the stairs that take u right there

[@OLBICHL]

I spent way too much time trying to figure out how to escape the room in Dishonored 2. I was peeping trough the key hole, over and over trying to open the door, spinning the globe, crawling around the floor, looking out the window and climbing on top of the window while opening it... until I eventually made myself small and passed trough the open window. If I'm really quiet, I can still hear the echo of my face-palming.

[@ChanceUnfolding]

that was me also lol that one hurt my pride

[@pleasewait8765]

Wait, Delsin isn't really alive? Rob...that's like telling a child that santa doesn't exist

[@adaptations4402]

Please Wait Wait what?!? How leaves me my Christmas Presents? Next you'll say the Easter bunny isn't real! 😭

[@coreym8783]

Adaptations Neither is the tooth fairy. Sorry

[@vib2119]

Adaptations Whaaaat!!!?? Easter bunny doesn't exist then who leaves me the Easter eggs.😭😭 Thats like saying Tooth Fairy doesn't exist.

[@ohlookitsmikey]

Please Wait Don't listen to these lies. They are all alive!

[@Jamesucht]

Next you'll say that Slash doesn't exist, and it's just one of our parents.

[@MediaSubliminal]

Beat dark souls 3 several times before I learned before I learned that holding down on D pad automatically scrolls to the first item slot, which is usually the estus flask. I spent the whole game rearranging my items slot,like before boss fights so I wouldn't fumble around trying to scroll to the estus flask. Years ago, my wife got upset with me because I spent so much time playing dark souls. She eventually wanted to see what the big deal was. So I let her play from the beginning with a fresh character. "I bet it's not that hard" she said. She's not a video game person at all. You could sit her in front of super mario bros and she would say, "what am I supposed to do?" After a couple hours I went to check to see how she was doing, expecting her to have either given up or be still in the asylum. Nope. She was in darkroot garden and she asked me how to get past those NPCs that are in there. I asked her what stats she had been leveling and she looked at me like I was from Mars. She hadn't leveled at all. Then I asked her why she was using the shortsword... "because my weapons keep breaking so I have to get new ones. It's not easy killing them with broken weapons you know. Seems like you would know that." She had beaten asylum demon, taurus demon and gargoyles. I guess it's not that hard afterall.

[@blakebrown5855]

I feel like not being a major video gamer would help with playing Dark Souls. I personally found that a lot of things other games have conditioned me to or to not do certain things that would hurt or hinder me in the world of Dark Souls. Ive only played the first game, though, so I have no clue if that holds true for the whole series.

[@bmsvg7356]

Blake Brown I feel you man. I’m so conditioned to follow the unwritten rules in gaming that when I played dark souls I fucked up so badly. I’m always a tangy player in games so I go for the highest health/armour I can but I learnt embarrassingly slowly that blocking really doesn’t work that well.

[@gudhaxer41343]

I heard that DS3 was hard but imo it wasnt as hard people make it out to be. The only time i had a hard time was at the beggining coz i wasnt used to the controls.

[@TheIndigoSystem]

Marty Mcmarty I should be fine I never block in any gane lol

[@Gibbydude]

MediaSubliminal wait.... I didn’t know that was a thing.. I’ve gotten the platinum, played through the dlc, and did another run on pc... I need to rethink my life.

[@lucienthefirst8649]

*Playing MSG for the first time *Menu pops up *Goes to start game *Presses X on a PlayStation *Game goes back to tile screen Me: WTF!!!! *Repeats until an accidental press of the O starts the game Me: -_-

[@jier9904]

MSG? how do you play Monosodium Glutamate? most Japanese titles use O instead of X.

[@eshankarnik262]

DJ_K1LL5 it took my 1 hr I thought the game was glitched out

[@ronald7795]

Ahh I remember that

[@jackmeriustacktheritrix]

I went through this same thing for the first time recently with FF XV, I accidentally ordered the Japanese version though (thankfully changing the language was simple) so it might be different in the English version

[@RadiusNightly]

Japanese are smart, O means accept/correct, X means cancel/wrong, like when you are closing the application, you dont use CTRL+O, but you click X, IDK why the rest of the world means that X means yes, and O means no. However, in PSP they added an option to switch X and O because we are stupid. Anyway, square means script/text, and triangle means 3D/environment.

[@maxj9030]

I refused to fast travel in Red Dead Redemption. I could spend hours travelling from each settlement, getting distracted by hunting and random encounters. Plus that game was, and still is, beautiful to just ride around in

[@Down_Triangle]

Max Jones When i found out of fast travel while fiddleing with the game i never really used it. It was niver to just ride your horse through the world. Unless i needed to go reaaaaaly far. Like from one side of the map to another.

[@Walamonga1313]

I'm weird and so I fast traveled when the destination was close but when it was really far I got there on horseback.

[@Zaprozhan]

When I play Skyrim, I often don't fast travel. Scenery is gorgeous, more combat opportunities on the way, find new waypoints, and it's immersive to try to plan your routes based not only on what is most important, but what is closest. Occasionally, I get frustrated with a particular quest, or ridiculously high inventory, and decide to say, "Screw it! Fast Travel!"

[@radioatlast]

I'm the exact opposite in borderlands 2. I will literally save quit and reload the game to teleport back to the nearest fast travel location (it helps that the load times are a few seconds on my PC).

[@Down_Triangle]

The Lonely Taco I hate traveling in borderlands.

[@exiledwest]

His comments about ppl having to aggressively ignore the first hour of Fallout to not know about VATS is how I feel about 98% of the stuff people miss in games. Like...you what...just never press a particular button your entire playthrough? Just assume the developers want you to spend hours walking from place to place in their massive world RPG? Its like having a manual car and just assuming right off that the manufacturer only gave you the 1 gear and not trying to go for a second

[@Maren617]

exiledwest Lol, there are so many bad reviews on Amazon etc. about all kinds of games written by people who are oblivious about key features, whole game modes (such as the entire single player campaign) and how to do the most basic things and then complain about the game design! And then the developers react by making hand-holding obligatory tutorials that hit you over the head with everything repeatedly. At least lately, some of them have replaced this with "helpful tips" that only pop up if you seem stuck somewhere or haven't yet used an important function. Much better!

[@arenkai]

Well... I did my entire first playthrough of Skyrim without knowing you could sprint. Why on earth is it bound to Alt ?! And I noticed I could fast travel after 20hrs in... In Dark Souls I never used my Estus flask for the first 10h because I thought it would disapear once I'd use it entirely so I was keeping it for important fights... I never used VATS in Fallout 3 because I thought it was just a stupid gimmick... Those are the ones I can think of on the spot but I'm sure I'm missing plenty...

[@MaxBlasto]

how could you even wrote this comment then ?

[@jakebarlow100]

exiledwest on console i 100% agree, my sister beat dishonoured and nearly all of the dlc before it was pointed out that theres other powers to buy, she was sure her only power was blink for the entire thing. on pc i can see how some controls get missed but damn its not hard to check key bindings to find it all out

[@PlayThenSay]

I completed FFVII without thinking about about the ALL materia and how to use it. When round a friend I was amazed when I saw it. So not going to judge others lol.

[@clipsnchits4820]

that junction system REALLY hurt you on a deep level didnt it? its in so many of your videos

[@eimii5025]

bro I STILL don't get the junction system from ff8. I keep restarting the game and trying to learn it but it never works out

[@tomjordan4123]

@@eimii5025 basically you put your collected magics into your attributes to strengthen them. You can still cast magic that has been junctioned, it just get reduced its effectiveness because you spent the magic, since in FF8, magic is obtained like an item, not learned and spends MP to cast.

[@eimii5025]

@@tomjordan4123 bruh i have no idea what any of this says

[@L16htW4rr10r]

@@tomjordan4123 So you don't need to spend mp in this game?

[@tomjordan4123]

@@eimii5025 which part you still don't understand? Maybe I can help?

[@haflaen]

I was over twelve hours into Fallout 3 before I realised bottle caps were money, not miscellaneous junk. I had no idea how I'd got so far into the game without finding any money until someone pointed out that I had, but had been ignoring it because I thought it was rubbish.

[@commeric]

Same here, first time I played a Fallout Game was New Vegas. I ignored all the bottle caps I found for a very long time because I thought they were useless.

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

I guess the both of you reacted realistically. The Lone Wanderer had never been in the wasteland and would have no idea how it works, and the Courier got shot in the head and could have had memory loss.

[@samus8163]

My most embarrassing mistake was using only one Pokémon for the entirety of Pokémon Diamond. I somehow ended beating the game with one level 75 Pokémon and a bunch of level 10 Pokémon. I remember the league being hell.

[@TeriasModFaldom]

Same!!! TRaded with my sis to get her Empoleon on my team, ended up making it level 100 through the sheer trial and error of getting through the league.

[@Uvouvo05]

I did the same thing in heart gold with my cindaquil

[@mryell7681]

Fair play

[@DeepDishDepression]

@@TeriasModFaldom I did what you did with getting a single Pokemon to lvl 100, but I was strongly against spending any of my money, so I went and grinded my infernape to 100 purely using level 50-60 Pokemon on the final route...

[@TeriasModFaldom]

@@DeepDishDepression That's what I did just trying to get through the final area to get to the league I leveled most of my team to fifty and empoleon to 100

[@Raidsauced]

When I started Borderlands 1 I restarted my game twice because I picked up a weapon worse than the one I was wielding and had no clue that I had a backpack nor how to access it. :)

[@soulreaper1176]

I completed RE7 about 10 times and didn’t know you could turn 180 degrees until this video. 😂

[@medusathedecepticon]

At least you know now

[@vanshmahesh1695]

Play on pc

[@sirprintalot]

I knew about the turn but almost never used it, I'd panic and forget!

[@Yfelbar]

Hahaha. I didn’t know I could use cure on everyone at once until the final boss in Final Fantasy IX...

[@TheZephyrsWind]

Wow, that must have been tough.

[@RadiusNightly]

Did you bring your best gear into the inverted castle like me because of blah, blah, blah, skip, skip, skip?

[@thejetstarjump]

I was today years old when I found that out! Erm... how exactly do you cure everyone at once? Asking for a friend...

[@bellringer53]

Hey how do you do that, asking for a friend...

[@sumnewguy]

@@bellringer53 if I remember correctly when selecting who to cast cure on press L1 and it will select the whole group

[@BLAKSOLDIER]

i didn't know that in oblivion was a fast travel system until I told a friend how hard was traveling in oblivion and he told me: men you can fast travel. . . since then i read carefully every loading screen . . . . in every game. . . .

[@carlosryo]

I had no idea that in Shadow of the Colossus light beams that came out of the sword when you press circle told you where the next colossus is. I actually ran around the whole map for about 3 hours each trying to find the first 3 colossus until I realized I was I complete idiot and that circle button wasn't just a lantern (which didnt work in dark places).

[@Down_Triangle]

Carlos Alves They tell you that at the start of the game. It also shows a colossus weak spot.

[@carlosryo]

Enny1205 I know that now but when I played it back on ps2 long long ago I was just a kid Who paid no attention and wanted to climb big monsters xD

[@ChocolatierRob]

I only found out recently that if the birds start low flying above you it means you are heading in the right direction for the next Colossus. I always assumed it was random.

[@carlosryo]

ChocolateRob Is That actually true????? whaaaat xD i always saw them ans thought only thats pretty

[@ChocolatierRob]

Carlos Alves Yep its true. I only found out last year while watching a livestream, my mind was blown. I always just took it as an opportunity to try and jump up and grab hold for a short flight. No idea what caused it back then.

[@guien7492]

I have been playing Skyrim for many years now and a few months ago someone told me you can travel to the holds using the carriages. I thought you had to walk to each one separately every time and spent hours doing that

[@Nazo-kage]

In dark souls there is an area that is pitch black. I would slowly inche my way through narrow pathways hovering over bottomless pits. my shield constantly out in front of me to block any arrow that would suddenly appear, constantly worried that whatever sword swing that I make would throw me over an unseen edge. And absolutely aggravated that the lantern item didn't seem to work at all. I had found it and thought that this was the tools I needed to see in the dark only to equipped it and nothing happens. It wasn't until days later that I figured out you have to equipped to your shield arm for the lantern to light.

[@justsomeguygaming9271]

I played through the first few hours of Bloodbourne with my hands because I didn't know how to equip a weapon, including the werewolf

[@civoreb]

Just Some Guy Knowing how hard that game is, this must have been brutal lol

[@justsomeguygaming9271]

civoreb I thought you got to use the weapons after the werewolf, and then realized after hours that it's my fault and not the game.

[@civoreb]

Just Some Guy hahah Have you beaten it yet?

[@toongrowner1]

There are actually some gamers, who play this way on purpose for the extra challenge. XD

[@civoreb]

toongrowner1 Each boss would take 30 mins minimum. You get ganged up on in the game and no matter how high your strength or dex, a regular enemy takes forever.

[@kyrenity]

I sometimes find not locking on in Dark Souls is advantageous; especially if you play like me where you're rolling around instead of tanking hits with your shield.

[@darkwzrd4]

True. Sometimes locking on is a liability. It's only really useful if you are using spells.

[@gemain609]

kyrenity If you've played ashes of ariandel, the mob structure their, especially the wolves, almost require you to master combat without locking on due to how erratically the mobs move

[@seanwattsmoore8507]

Yea IKR

[@seanwattsmoore8507]

kyrenity also u can get further away from them

[@welcometovalhalla2884]

Playing Dark Souls 1 with lock on is a nightmare. There's nothing that has killed me more in any game than 4 direction rolling + gravity. I found the other games mostly easier while locking, but there's a few things (mostly on PVP) that you can only pull of while unlocked or switching between locked and unlocked.

[@kylepatrick2231]

I spent the first 30 - 40 hours on Bloodborne without knowing the following: • lock on to opponents • parry/stun with a pistol • how to heal You can imagine how well that went

[@chelsearamos3617]

HEAL?? Oh my god how did you even survive 😂

[@bloodborne8311]

thats what you get for not reading the tutorials at the beginning my mans

[@kylepatrick2231]

@@bloodborne8311 I didn't see them all and then I forgot some of the ones I read.

[@blooBerry371]

Wait.....what?!?!😂😂 didn’t you read the tutorials at the beginning😂😂

[@jeshonloonskin4176]

Explain how the hell did you didn’t know how to heal, it’s like basic knowledge that there’s a heal button in from software’s games.

[@MTronicPL]

My first Dark Souls encounter... I've killed gargoyles, capra demon, gaping dragon (after thousand repeats) and then realize how I can make my healthbar larger.

[@togobacko58]

My brother and I didn't know how to save in Borderlands because we didn't see the save option so we played the start of the game over and over again until our uncle showed us the save option.

[@dushyantdk2642]

wait what? i've never manually saved in borderlands and have never lost progress till date.

[@fluttershyisbestpony3265]

Honestly forgot their was a save button tbh

[@masterstepz9800]

Shameful that the Uncle has to be the gaming expert between you two.

[@elijahmullins3289]

Dushyant DK maybe it was a thing with the first one

[@fluttershyisbestpony3265]

Tbh mine autosaved,I remember manual saving on borderlands 1 but not 2 lol

[@3nfy]

When I started playing WoW my friend said I could make a lot of gold from having herbalism. So I started vendoring herbs not realizing there was an auction house...

[@LadyDecember]

I got through 40 hours of Dragon Age: Origins before I realized you could make Morrigan your group's healer... (I never recruited Wynne either, so Morrigan was the only mage I had.)

[@dmdizzy]

My entire first playthrough of Skyrim I spent thinking Stamina was useless. I looked in the menu for a "sprint" and I saw that capslock was "toggle run" so I was like, "Oh, I'm always sprinting anyways. And it doesn't cost Stamina, so that stat is useless!" and promptly spent the rest of the playthrough merrily ignorant of the function of the left alt key.

[@kuolemanlaakso1696]

Except Stamina is also used for attacks.

[@dmdizzy]

'Twas a stealth archer, so beyond the zoom function it didn't really come up.

[@kuolemanlaakso1696]

Ah, I see. Was just curious how it seemed useless but I guess if you aren't a melee character, you could see it that way :)

[@dmdizzy]

Yeah, maybe I wasn't specific enough with that. I knew Stamina was for Power Attacks, but I didn't ever do that. Just the zoom (and I remembered just now, the bow-bash) took Stamina for my character, so my immediate thought was "Well that's boring and useless guess these potions are sell fodder".

[@christofferrasmussen6533]

Wow... I really feel bad for you, but not for the reason you might think. Your first playthrough was a stealth archer, what a shame.

[@Mark-to5sh]

My friend started Destiny thinking he could change his appearance later. Now he's stuck with an ugly dude with a bowl cut and black lipstick. He hasn't changed his settings from "helmet always on" ever since...

[@christofferrasmussen6533]

That sounds magnificent, what a shame, he should be running Helmet Off, always.

[@Anubis-nk4zh]

Lmfao same. 2000 hours later and my warlock is still beyond ugly. Edit: Nice name my brother.

[@SteveGameSDG]

HAHAHHAHAHHAHA!!!

[@superemekiller466]

The lock on stuff in dark souls 3 Found that on Lothric Castle

[@themythicalwage]

my brother didn't realize there was VATS until he got past Kellogg. He's 30 years old.

[@Y0urPostman]

Kidpool gaming i completed the game then i realised

[@rayenbadis9058]

I barely used VATS

[@stanrobinson3838]

THE ULTIMATE THE INFAMOUS RAYEN I only used VATS

[@bcrichrave]

When I first play ff8 I didn’t know you could actually use the “gun” part of the blade when attacking to deal extra damage with a well timed button press

[@Mikehanson21]

I played Skyrim for 20 hours before I found out there was a main storyline about dragons. I spent 20 hours exploring cities and caves and fighting bandits and I loved it.

[@christofferrasmussen6533]

That's an obvious lie though. Sad.

[@Mikehanson21]

Nope. I never got far into the main storyline. I did the openening escape with the one dragon, but that was the only one I ever came close to. I didn't even know you could fight them. I still loved the game and don't regret buying it. I love the Witcher a lot more though.

[@robertstrickland441]

Yeah, not that obvious and probably not a lie. All you have to do is skip Bleak Falls Barrow. In fact, I do that intentionally on some of my more roleplay heavy playthroughs for a dragon free game world. Shout free too though.

[@kelvinkegel2304]

I didn't got into the main storyline for a long time too, I didn't even knew there was Shouts.

[@KivellOrr]

Yeaaaaaaaaa nah. 20 hours.. A game as big as Skyrim and you didn't know it had dragons? You saw no promo material or ANYTHING really then?

[@DannyMexen9]

60+ hours into Persona 3 Portable and I discovered you could command anyone in your party during combat.

[@SkeletorTclaws]

Danny Mexen I was the same in persona 4 golden. was half way through the the 3rd dungeon before realizing that. 😅

[@LumyTheQueen]

I kinda had the opposite effect. I'm used to traditional Megaten tittles and when I saw my party acting on free will, I flipped. "How dare you not wait for my specific command to attack!!!". But I learned how to turn it off pretty quick.

[@bloodybutterflygaming1242]

Danny Mexen that function is the main reason I barely touch my base or FES copies anymore. The party AI was just so irritating. I basically only touch them now when I miss the cutscenes and actually physically exploring the real world. Really misses those in Portable...

[@zxb995511]

My friends and I passed Shadow of the Colossus many times over when we decided to watch some tutorials on the net to figure out how the time trials worked, only to figure out that there were ways to actually increase the grip bar and the HP bar....

[@karmel9153]

I couldn't figure out that in Darkest Dungeon there's a gold stripe next to someone who used their turn.

[@flipflop8436]

I nearly finished all of Vanquish before realising that you can slow down time while sliding....by shooting.

[@niklasgjerset4268]

the first time i played Pokémon, i couldnt figure out how to exit the house at the beginning. i was like 7 or something, with no English skills.

[@piedfirecrest]

OverDoze_ Hacker That was totally me! I was in the first room in diamond and I didn't notice the stairs. I was 5, but still. I told my Dad I couldn't figure it out and he did it for me. Completely forgot about this

[@rewt3406]

So I'm playing Final Fantasy as a 13 year old and I'm doing well and all, but then it comes time to explore and find the next town/place I need to go to so that I could continue the story... well, I'm not joking with you, I spent the next 8 years occasionally going back to the game trying to continue the story thinking I needed to go into one of those caves that sends you up against a bonus boss battle and faced off against them... I think I did it about 200 times but gave up for a few years, came back to it and tried again later, which was another 50 times but then gave up, and eventually realized... I can look up a walkthrough... Yeah, I was so over leveled and had so much money, I was able to beat the rest of the game and the boss with no deaths... and the ending had some tough looking bosses.

[@Thecrazymerio]

I couldn't figure out how to cut the tree.

[@JMADBZfan]

Same here. Pokemon Silver when I was 6 and I couldn't get through the first cave after you beat the first gym. One of my non-pokemon playing friends ended up figuring it out for me in 2 minutes. Smh

[@MylesKillis]

OverDoze_ Hacker took me two years to beat halos library cause I kept getting lost

[@jackofkell1525]

I played the entire first Assassin's Creed game, up to the last boss, without knowing how to parry. There is no way to win the last fight without proper parrying skills. It took me about 20 tries, on the boss fight, before I figured it out. :( Needless to say, my second playthrough was much easier.

[@TheCosta5000]

Jack of Kell I still don't know how to use the grappling hook property lol im a noob

[@EonHSD]

Jack of Kell Oh god, this has happened to me, too. I had to learn how to parry and the last fight took me about 3 hours.

[@moth1234567890]

i did the exact same thing, tho i mannaged to beat him in the end running in cirkles for 15 min waiting for my health to go up is the way to go

[@jackofkell1525]

Frederik Weber Yah, running was one of the strategies I tried before discovering how to parry. It didn't work for me, I always got caught. lol

[@juanmiguelfernandez7993]

Jesus man, parrying is like 90% of my fighting in Assassins Creed

[@maliuslatto9202]

I got through most of the first Red Dead Redemption without realizing that Dead Eye was a thing. I reached the part where you learn it late at night and somehow forgot everything I had learned the night before when I picked it up the next afternoon. It wasn't till I reached a section where you're supposed to kill a bear that I looked up tips online and finally remembered that Dead Eye was a thing...

[@Jackrazorus]

I did the same with the Bullet time in Max Payne 3. Just wasnt sure how it works, so I havent used it.

[@rojosimmons952]

I also didn't realize that you could lock on in dark souls, my specific problem being that I chose a sorcerer class, and aimlessly flailed my spells into the sky wondering how to aim them.

[@Y0urPostman]

XD

[@dwagon8277]

Thing is that in Dark souls, Some bosses are easier if you dont lock on... And locking on in PvP isn't good. since you have more control over your characters movements when you're not locked on.

[@tracematson385]

Rojo Simmons I didn't realize you could roll in dark souls for 12 hours.

[@Night-bd7uu]

Bless your soul

[@1990mmaarrkk]

I once thought my copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on PS2 was broken because I couldn't move my character. I knew the game wasn't frozen because I could still cast spells, but it took me 30 minutes to realise you move with the analog stick and not the D-pad. P.S. I also have the exact same type of shoes as Rob and can confirm they always get in knots.

[@juicypineapple8725]

1990mmaarrkk Why did you think that you move with the d-pad?? I think most if not all 3rd person all direction moving games (harry potter, gta, kh) use analogue sticks.

[@1990mmaarrkk]

Naruto Uzumaki It was one of the first games I ever played on the PS2 and I only remember using the D-pad on the PS1. Also, I was only about 8 and had mostly played only racing games at that point.

[@Walamonga1313]

Because PS1 and Nintendo consoles used the dpad.

[@dnacid2071]

1990mmaarrkk the memories from that game... man I miss it sometimes :') back when we were kids haha

[@Thatguy1705]

When I was a kid on PS2 I didn't know you could save on any game. It was a long time until I finished a game.

[@mindyauron]

Thatguy1705 let me guess: never turned it off

[@Zeemas]

Thatguy1705 Memory cards are expensive though

[@drago2021]

My buddy wanted to beat FFX without saving, so he just left his PS2 on for two weeks with like, 3 fans aimed at it the entire time. I'm still kind of surprised he didn't burn his house down.

[@dusttodust915]

I did that for a few games on the ps1

[@corangulblock265]

Thatguy1705 Haha, I would leave on my ps2 for that reason

[@Jynxed_Storyteller]

The first time I was playing Kingdom hearts I didn't know how to change my equipment. I made it all the way to Ansem SOD before I finally figured it out. I laughed when I saw that it was an achievement to beat the game like that when I went for the platinum 17 years later. In my defense I was... 8 back then?

[@denisenaylor1229]

I applaud you

[@SakuraGirl21]

Kinda similar to yours, I went through my first Kingdom Hearts 2 playthrough without realizing you could level up Sora's forms. I went through the entire game without unlocking high jump, double jump, dash or glide.

[@demonic13100]

I walked for half the game of fallout 3 bc I didn't know what Overencombered meant 😑

[@Azby64]

omfg I love it. 😆 Haha sorry, man.

[@randomchurch536]

Did the same thing. You are not alone. First RPG of that style for me.

[@Dan...the_whatever_IDC]

Oh no... Sorry dude. Bwhahaha

[@guidoguido2245]

I didn't know how to beat the FIRST level of Lego Star Wars: the Clone Wars, because I didn't know, you had to stand on the Jedi Symbol with a Jedi in order to use your Lightsaber to cut through stuff! It was only HALF A YEAR later, that someone told me about it.

[@nathanlimm6811]

I used to have those sorts of troubles with the Pokemon games- they wouldn't tell you where to go next (or maybe I just didn't listen to the dialogue properly, I dunno), and I'd just sort of wonder round, get frustrated and give up. I think one time it took me like 2 months to figure out where to progress the story from, R.I.P hahahaha

[@matthewroberts198]

Nathan Limm Especially the first Pokemon games. Like how do I get past this old man who won't move in Viridian City? Or how do I get past these guards to enter Saffron City?

[@nathanlimm6811]

Sly Storm Hahahaha yes exactly!

[@tomguthrie3833]

Guido Guido 9

[@jonathannunes5150]

I didnt know that you can atk under water when you use your crossbow in The Witcher 3. That made me got angry a lot of times when I had to dive to take treasures and etc... Then I was reading the loadscreen and I read that, I was almost beating the game, man that was embarasing.

[@ΈκτοραςΕλευθεριάδης]

Jonathan Nunes You think that is bad. I spend half the game maybe more Without realise that you can upgrade your sings.

[@AlmostUselessPenguin]

I've played 31 hours of the Witcher and for less than 5 of those at most (I discovered this a while ago but I haven't played for ages) I didn't realise dodging was a thing. I only used roll which to be fair worked pretty well since difficult enemies can be attacked a couple of times then rolled away from (with protective signs). I also did know about heavy attacks but I never used them because of how slow they were and I heavily upgraded light attacks before adding a couple of points to heavy ones.

[@ytbdemetrius]

I didn´t know that I could lock onto enemies underwater so I don't have to manually aim at them for a long time!

[@jarltrippin]

I've beaten The Witcher 3 like 4 times... and I didn't know you could do this until I read this comment. I almost don't believe you.

[@riotangel4701]

It was such a cheese anyway. What typically took multiple sword hits to kill, bursts like a balloon if shot underwater. How much kinetic energy must the crossbow bolt carry to pull that off? Even real machine gun bullets don't travel far when fired off underwater (water resistance is very strong).

[@happyguycol]

As a child, my first gaming experience was sonic the hedgehog. I was 4 or 5. Someone turned it on for me and assumed I'd know what to do. Nope, I sat there for hours watching the demo that would play if you left the title screen alone for too long. I never even realised you could play it.

[@DeadCardinal]

I remember a puzzle in God of War (can’t remember if it was 1 or 2, it was on PS2) and I couldn’t figure it out so I called my friend from which I borrowed the game over the weekend and asked how to solve it out and when he told me I felt so stupid, because it was so obvious. But he had also been stuck at that particular puzzle for a while, then his little sister, about 6 or 7 at the time just said “try stacking them!” he told her to leave him alone and kicked her out of his room, but lo and behold; that was exactly what you were supposed to do.

[@DUB_87]

Playing God Of War 2 when I get to The Ruins Of The Forgotten I was stuck in a room. Now there's a gate right in front of me and a giant button in the middle of the floor. When I stepped on the button the gate opens but as soon as I get off to try to get through the gate it quickly closes. To my left and right in this room there's an opening with a river on each side. So I try to escape through those. Still stuck. For the longest I couldn't figure out how to get through the gate. I noticed there was debris and a corpse floating through the rivers. And after a whole week of being stuck and trying to figure out to get through the gate, it finally dawns on me, "maybe I should grab the corpse and put it on the giant button in the middle of the floor." Lol.

[@runner18x]

@@DUB_87 I was stuck on this exact same puzzle for probably 5 days before it hits me, my twin sister and I just stared at the screen wondering what we had done wrong

[@007goldeneye2580]

i was stuck in this part too, but i had the deadman body with me and was trying to jump the stakes with the body and kratos was like...nhaa can´t do it. until i finally realise the river on the back.

[@desertdust777]

I was only stuck where you have to slow time and spin around a pillar and jump and grab another pillar and spin around it!

[@moleshaman3040]

I hope he apologised and made it up to his sister !

[@FarmerDingus]

BRO. UNDEAD ASYLUM HAS MESSAGES FOR A TUTORIAL.

[@Y0urPostman]

Farmer Dingus who reads those messages anyway

[@freshpri1]

I legit thought the Dark Souls one would be the fact that people didn't know that they can rapidly descent of a latter.

[@Sysseth]

*Descend on a ladder. (Sorry to be that gal but it hurts me. D:) I'm one of those people, so I totally agree. I did it once in the Parish by accident, but it took me until...I think sometime around the Hydra in Darkroot? to figure it out. And I didn't go there until way later. Like, after Blighttown later. @_@ I also forgot, and it took me far too long to remember, that you could sprint. Considering that now I sprint pretty much constantly once I learn the path, the first half of the game was pretty painful. Especially any time I was supposed to jump instead of roll. I think I finally had that epiphany in the Painted World. ...I'm just kind of bad at Dark Souls in general, I think. XD

[@CdrChaos]

freshpri1 I didn't realize Dark Souls II let you rapidly climb ladders until I was in Drangleic Castle and was summoned in the part before the Looking Glass Knight and saw the dude who summoned me essentially fly up the giant ladder.

[@Moonbane]

Dude... I beat 2 and 3 before realizing it was possible in one. Because when I first attempted 1, before even trying 2 and 3, I assumed "Hold sprint" and not "dodge" cuz... Well, I assumed that's how it was, like how it worked in 2 and 3 lmao.

[@CdrChaos]

freshpri1 Dark Souls II let you rapidly CLIMB a ladder.

[@kumpel1531]

freshpri1 I learned that the hard way

[@AdityaKumar-mu9qz]

It's not very important but I finished GTA V without knowing how to reload

[@AsherDrums_]

are you serious

[@denisenaylor1229]

Oh my god

[@Rokithegamingpro]

I completed GTA5's story without knowing that you can use taxis as a fast travel

[@gabrielsrensen797]

Roki Gaming it's better that way

[@johnnix8981]

you can do that? i just steal cars and kill people on the way

[@praveensharma9893]

In Sleeping Dogs' entirety I used taxis about 2 times.

[@Tweezie1111]

i can do that? ohh, i feel stupid now

[@praveensharma9893]

It's better without taxis really

[@OPBPanzerBricks]

Most recent example: I found myself searching the "take photo" button for more than 2 hours in horizon zero dawns foto mode. Until I realized that i just need to use the build in ps4 screenshot function by holding the share button.

[@RandomEthan1]

PinderBrowne I did the exact same

[@DarkVariable]

He meant he didn't know how to actually take the screenshot in photo mode

[@Himbohipster]

PinderBrowne Packing to the choir haha

[@OPBPanzerBricks]

Sorry for causing confusion with my bad "leisure suit larry" english.... take photo, take rose, take taxi, give apple....

[@TheSpiritBeing]

I loved metal Gear solid for over twenty years, mentioned it whenever I got the chance, and mocked people for not knowing everything about it. And only over this last Christmas, did I learn that in the Jeep escape scene you can use first person to aim at liquid snake. Oh wait... Rob, that was you. Lol

[@plinkitee]

Playing Fallout I knew about VATS but it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to use it. 😓

[@holybacontoast9615]

I got through 3/4 fallout 4 before i started using it all the time, legitmentally forgot about it 😂

[@belland_dog8235]

Eh, I've always known about Vats. I just never use it because it I don't really like it.

[@MrFutago87]

So, does this regularly happen at the Access office, you do your normal tasks and then Nathan just comes in with some fact about his life out of nowhere? Like you are all sitting in front of your PCs doing your jobs and then Nathan, with no warning, just turns around and says "By the way, I killed man...with a spoon."

[@omegafoxxtrot7248]

I'm pretty sure that's about how it goes... But knowing Nathan's dislike of losing, he would probably use more than one spoon just to be sure.

[@MrFutago87]

But it's dull, it'll hurt more.

[@Dannymiles1987]

I didn’t have the CD case for Metal Gear Solid. I didn’t have Meryl’s codec. I had to scan every channel one by one.

[@acrosstheacross677]

Daniel Miles I actually HAD the original game. And when the game said that it was on the back of the CD case, I just assumed that it was talking about an in-game item, and spent a good hour or so backtracking looking for this CD case that I had missed. When I was sure that I had searched everywhere, I just went through the codec, signal by signal, until I hit Meryl. It wasn't until I was well into my second playthrough that I actually LOOKED at the physical CD case during a load screen and saw her codec signal. I was SOOOOOO angry at myself. It also wasn't until after my second or third playthrough that I watched my mate switch the controller from player one to player two during the Psycho Mantis fight on his playthrough, and absolutely walked right through that stage with ease in a couple of minutes, while I had just ground through it for an hour at least twice. So much facepalm on those two days.

[@deborahshepherd382]

Daniel Miles what a pain that was, i had to do that as well

[@zxb995511]

You sir are Hard-CORE.

[@dentuffakillen]

I did the exact same thing. I realised quickly that there are ”only” 200 or so channels, but still, it took its time. I played that game insanely many times and learned the number after a while. 140.15 ;) I dont know Why i remember that number, i usually can’t remember any numbers, not my age, which year it is or which date my child had a doctors appointment. But i do remember the number for Meryl in MGS1!

[@Deathgaze1]

Chiming in 10 months late. I'm confused why you just didn't search this up. Back in the day I'll print hundreds of pages worth of walk throughs at my local library. :p

[@suenzhong7891]

I played Mass Effect without knowing how to meelee for my first playthrough (just kept shooting like a maniac and screaming everytime an enemy came too close).

[@YuniorGamboa]

Suen Zhong hahaha

[@jaimebluesq]

Suen Zhong ...you can melee in Mass Effect?!

[@MadMikeRyan.]

YOU CAN MELEE IN MASS EFFECT 1?!!

[@JonatasMonte]

Mass Effect 1 or 2? In 1 I think your char would melee automatically. still it's a scary experience when they come close to you.

[@MadMikeRyan.]

Well I just used Overkill and dropped everything before it could get close, so I legitimately never knew there was melee in Mass Effect 1.

[@Chris-lt8up]

I played monster hunter world 200 hours before i realized you could go in your tent at base camp.

[@BullFrogFace]

Christopher Long Didn’t the tutorial have you go into the tent at the base camp?

[@jonrusso1293]

It actually took me a while to realize that in order to catch a Pokemon you had to weaken it and not let him faint. I made it all the way up to the first gym with an overpowered Charmeleon before someone pointed out my stupidity lol.

[@grandshadowseal]

I accidently caught a ditto with my masterball in Pokémon yellow as I didn't know how special it was until I was told by a friend....it didn't help that I had already saved the game so I had to replay the game from the beginning.....

[@MsWatismyname]

I caught the weakest legendary in emerald with it. Then because I felt stupid and really wanted to capture all the legendary I used a cheatcode for all the masterballs in the world. That cheatcode also gave you lvl up candy's but I never used those, pokemon is almost only about the grinding lol.

[@AlephSharp]

#gamingconfessions; I beat you guys with that one, I played through all of dark souls (1) without realizing you could lock on,.... TWICE. and one of those times I was running a no armor build. it wasn't until I showed a friend dark souls and let him play that I realized.

[@akirandrake414]

aesp51 Ouch that sucks, thats the worst way to find out.

[@snapdragon3790]

aesp51 i didn't know how to lock on or sprint on,my first,playthrough

[@jayson546]

Lol wow

[@ruofanyu6699]

lock on is just a crutch that actually makes some bosses harder, eg centipede

[@AllTheNamesIPickedWereTaken]

aesp51 looool how awful did you feel XD

[@alexblack1101]

I have beaten ffviii several times and I did not know that about the junction system until right now. The shame

[@Summer-us5ql]

Alex Black how?

[@alexblack1101]

Well I just didn't use it as I was supposed to. I just junctioned GFs early on and that was pretty much it. I think there was one point where they kind of forced you to, but in general I left the whole system alone.

[@kuolemanlaakso1696]

Er... What? It's literally an unskippable tutorial... lol

[@Summer-us5ql]

Fred Bedmo my thought exactly

[@deborahshepherd382]

Alex Black dont feel bad, i never understood the dang thing either... Then again i last played the thing when i was 10

[@Callimero89]

5:30 Me too... had played Dark Souls 3 without Locking On and watched a speedrun afterwards just to realize "Wow, u can focus on target?..." ._.

[@minneaux]

I guess it was just me who couldn't find Meryl's codec in MGS1 until accidently finding it 2 weeks later when tidying my room.....

[@GuitarAnime]

Minneaux Schandorf ey! Same here!

[@GerFubDhuw]

I couldn't figure it out. So I just went through every signal.

[@nealcropper]

Minneaux Schandorf I was sure this would appear in this video. This one had me for weeks.

[@MrSoKoLoVPS3]

"It's on the back of the cd case" - Colonel Campbell. Fortunately I found it but other stuff in the game had me puzzled.Especially the fight with Psycho Mantis.

[@colkent2193]

Thank god for that, I thought I might have been the only person who actually went through every frequency (but I owned the game with the original box though).

[@megasean3000]

In Pokemon Blue, I didn't train any other Pokemon except Blastoise and if Blastoise fainted, I would send out a level 3 Rattata I caught at the start. Then again, I was 9 :/

[@MrultiPaul]

mega sean didn't we all do that ? Fully train a pokemon and when he daints sends the level 10 rattatas to revive him x)

[@TheNorrie1000]

i had a lvl 100 tentacruel because he was cool in the series.

[@BlazeStorm]

mega sean Did that too with my Piplup/Empoleon. It was lvl70 and the rest were lvl30 catches, with one legendary of lvl45. I didnbeat the League a lot though, he was that strong

[@Itamiyumi]

mega sean I was 9 when I played Pokemon Blue for the first time. Got a little over a third of the way through without knowing about type differences and using them in battle. If I lost at a gym, I just figured I needed to level up more and grinded in the grass for a few more hours. My level 30 Charmelion did beat Misty though. lol

[@TheSupersaiyan2012]

Don't worry friend it's a classic rookie mistake. I did the same thing with Venusaur when I played Pokémon Blue for the first time.

[@mikeshaver-miller745]

when I was a kid, I played Final Fantasy 7 and got stuck in the cave of the GI. there was a boss battle with a death-type monster that killed me 100 times at least. I quit the game for 12 years. Eventually, I found out that throwing a Phoenix down at him would one shot him. This made me wait one more year to play, because in order to give myself the best chance of winning the fight, I had purchased 99 (!) Tufts of the stuff to get through the fight, and I just couldn't handle that.

[@Dannymiles1987]

Mike Shaver-Miller I died about 40 Times. I muscles him by grinding more levels from trash encounters. In fact till you told me right now. I never used PD on him.

[@mikemadden2092]

That's not always a guaranteed kill either..its more hit or miss and pds are expensive early on..

[@mryell7681]

When there's a few rooms that look the same and I need to activate something to open a door and I end up going in circles trying to find out where to go

[@brandonmedina3993]

I played through all of Persona 4 without realizing you could switch Personas. I played with Izanagi against every enemy and every boss. Now I look back and realize just how much easier the game is by having the ability to switch.

[@BlackTechs]

Brandon Medina damn bruh. you're the wild card. that's your thing

[@AJplaysgames8907]

I didn't know you could fuse personas

[@illburnmydread]

damn man, that means your main character is underleveled compared to the other characters? Because the main character's exp growth is intentionally slower than the other, to encourage you fusioning between personas. I say you're amazing, I can't imagine the hardship you're going through playing P4.

[@brandonmedina3993]

Tom Jordan Yeah man I thought it was impossible. But I loved the game so much I grinded until Izanagi was strong enough. I easily put in 100-150 hours. And it was well worth it.

[@shierubea]

Brandon Medina Jesus, man, you deserve an award or something

[@arrudalm]

I finished dark souls 3 without leveling up my estus at the bonfire.

[@vaeiskii]

I feel you, I did the same thing

[@omareky3980]

I'm a simple man...I see souls I click on the video.

[@RogueEchos]

Omar eky same(≧∇≦)/

[@CdrChaos]

Omar eky Praise that incandescent Sun. Do it for Solaire. Be the Sunbro he believed you could be.

[@phoenixhussey4930]

\[T]/ Me to in a way but if that's Nathan's gameplay, he is a guide-using casual. I say this because A)DRAKE SWORD and B)hiding behind shield like it's the bane of all evil.

[@theguywiththegrasses2467]

i am 1# loyal sunbro

[@unoriginalwarden6315]

Omar eky tbh I went through dark souls 1 with ought lock on cus I didn't like it but in dark souls 3 it is an essential

[@loneblainger]

I love this segment. I literally ran around for 3 hours after the boss fight in the junkyard at the beginning of FF7 befire i realized a pipe had appeared that i had to climb to the upper city.

[@aghostshell]

Wait! Delsin isn't alive? He's a puppet!? I never knew, my whole world has been shattered...

[@jasper9575]

I didn't realise I could upgrade my estus flask in ds3 until the last boss :

[@justindee5429]

Video?

[@timmyteaches7663]

Git gud scrub

[@ethanatherly769]

Respect

[@araghothetheprimordialdrag4898]

Good on you!

[@billiam21vii]

In December of 97 my brothers and I received a PlayStation for Christmas. The 3 games we got were Crash Bandicoot 2, Felony 11-79 and Final Fantasy 7. We played the first two games ok, but we couldn't figure out FF7. We'd start a game, go through the first cut scene, Cloud would flip off the train, and then we walked forward slowly. It was then when the 2 Shinra soldiers would attack: the first battle. The battle would begin and it was our turn to attack, but we just stood there. We'd get attacked, and Cloud would just sit there. Then, he's get knocked out and it was game over. For hours this would happen. My dad would sit there scratching his head trying to figure it out, but we couldn't. We put it down and forget about it. It was days later my dad discovered that the O button was the "ok" button and the X button was the "cancel" button. He also found out that holding the X button while walking allowed him to run.

[@ahmadgrb5055]

billiam21vii lol

[@DUB_87]

Wow Lol.

[@ZidaneOfTantalus]

The sad thing is all you needed to do was look through the instruction manual. That's one of the first things i did as a child when getting a new game. If it was a used game with no manual i would just try each button and button combination just to see what would happen.

[@forever_night1735]

I was playing tomb raider definitive edition and I didnt know how to dodge until I fought the storm guard.

[@DG-oc2uw]

We seem to keep catching Rob at something every week. It's like he has problem of some kind.

[@mfboodles9810]

Yeah always Feel sorry for paper chair dave

[@Zomborg-uz8gu]

I didn’t get until remastered came out that in Skyrim you could hold things like plates. While useless unless glitching through a wall I still feel dumb.

[@ghoulishgam3r508]

Wasn't useless though. You coyld put buckets over peoples heads and steal their stuff right in front of them.

[@TheNullreaper]

Skyrim was the first game I played with fast travel. I found it out by accident- ACCIDENT! when I got stuck in some of the wreckage surrounding Cracked Tusk Keep.

[@jasonolson7966]

My first time playing, i played for around 20 to 30 hours before discovering fast travel. Before then, I used carriages to go to the closest city to the waypoint and then ran from there. I found fast travel when I accidentally clicked on a city in the map and it offered fast travel. It took me a few more hours of gameplay to realize i could fast travel to more than just cities...

[@artofgameplaying]

Wait... so the fast travel option doesn't mean the carriages? oh dear...

[@jasonolson7966]

lol nope, fast travel doesn't require gold or to be at a stables. It does require you to not be overencumbered

[@mikemadden2092]

Jason Olson and outside

[@Motidur]

who needs lock-on? my playtrough of dark souls 2 was basically wearing light clothes and swinging [Greatsword] around like an idiot. worked like a charm. (played to half the game with minimum amout of health and light armor, yay me)

[@nasserfirelordarts6574]

In my 1st playthrough of ds3, I never used lock on, hell, I bet it 4 times without lock on, Sadly though, I had to WALK my way through Farron keep

[@NAcHO-wx5vg]

Here's a maybe topic. The 6 mini games we loathe in games that we love. If it wasn't one per franchise all of mine would be from dk64. Beaver bother, the minecart mini games, chunky' minecart run in fungi forest, lanky' beetle race, dk's ice puzzle thing where if you hit one of the icecicles you lose a third of your life, and the second rabbit race.

[@hendrikc.5984]

Man, DK64 is kind of a mess, isn't it? But it's a mess that's near and dear to my heart.

[@NAcHO-wx5vg]

A Game Of Lucky Hit amen. Also although Tiny's beetle race was annoying. It was fair. Lanky' race, you had to have basically a perfect run while grabbing coins and time your jumps perfectly. You are also already behind because you jump into the barrel and then if that was your first time jumping into one. You lose more time due to sqauwks.

[@hendrikc.5984]

I think the grand prize for most annoying mini-game in DK64 for me would go to the old Mario in Fatal Factory. Forget beating it twice to unlock the final boss, I didn't even manage to beat it once! To this day, I have never beaten K.Rool...

[@NAcHO-wx5vg]

A Game Of Lucky Hit I finally beat it after a few years. Both. Oddly enough I found the second run of it easier than the first. I had totally forgot all about the old Mario game in frantic factory.

[@ratchet2259]

NAcHO1713 final fantasy x chocobo race

[@lillianschneider548]

In oblivion I don't think that you were told how to level up in a load screen I'm sure I read it in the booklet. (Also your next list should be things older gamers miss case in point booklet)

[@ShaneMaesenko]

Like the list idea. I still miss booklets. If I'm buying used and I know the game came with one at some point, I won't buy it without it. And the actual cover art.

[@Halo3machenima]

It actually tells you periodically in a message at the top left corner of the screen. It even says "Sleep at a bed to level up"

[@cazgamer-lw7qj]

Played destiny for ages before realising you could shoot from cover

[@nekrosis13]

james greaves you can shoot from cover?

[@Brian-tn4cd]

David Schneider when you level up at the top left of the screen is says rest in a bed to level up

[@kobelemon8743]

For the first 10 or so hours of Fallout 3 I didn't know how to put a gun away. For melee weapons you just press square but I didn't know that you had to hold square to pocket a gun. I was never caught without my gun out though!

[@jacobdavis5178]

-after the first part of fallout 4, i never use vats, every time i come back to it and restart, never. i always just forget about it and move on.

[@xxmatsuomixx7304]

Jumping isnt required to beat the game though

[@ConnorDamewood]

This should be on the Friday features list about unintentional ways we made the game harder for ourself. Although it's very much intentional when you do it lol. Cheers to you for playing the game that way bud

[@lonethief6947]

I played through Dark Souls without locking on not because I didn't know how to,but because I find it uncomfortable.

[@pauliusthemad3498]

Lone Thief I am here with you. Also lock on is in idiotic place on pc

[@Joe-ji6rc]

As someone who has played almost the whole series of souls games ive noticed players who are far better at the game dont lock on. Not just for better aim but it keeps the camera from going crazy being locked onto a certain body part.

[@Kaunte]

Same. I rarely use the lock on in souls games. Better control of the camera and direction of swings that way

[@darkdiamondknight]

Me too, first i didn't know, and once i knew, i still didn't, cuz it was uncomfortable and messed me up

[@LoponStormbased]

I use it on smaller annoying enemies because there's no need to bother aiming when you're swinging a massive weapon which one shots them, but most bosses, enemies you need some strategy for, and PVP, it stays off.

[@i0rule]

i Finished the story and 85% of fallout 4 before knowing how to use vats i wouldn't even have known about it, if my little brother didn't tell me

[@i0rule]

the 85% includes all the dlc

[@joelhellsten6944]

Ultimate Gamer That reminds me of the time when my dad was playing Fallout 4 with his 38 level character. I asked him "Why didn't you use V.A.T.S?" His face was pure JOY when I showed him what V.A.T.S. is. :D

[@cutgodofwar]

I knew what VATS was for all the fallout games, but in a first person shooter it feels like they're making fun of you. "We know you suck too much to actually aim, so here's a literal aim-bot."

[@hexkirn]

Played Fallout 3 and New Vegas for the most part without it, it somehow feeled slower and immersion breaking. Occasionally used it for some of the tougher enemies for a breather and in order to get weak spots for the faster ones because I'm not that good of a shot either x)

[@ralfsstuff]

+hexkirn on ps3 i couldn't hit a thing without vats

[@thechloromancer3310]

"I was 11... and also an idiot." Hilarious presentation. Subbed. :)

[@elvancor]

In Final Fantasy VII, having crossed the swamp on a chocobo, I couldn't figure out you had to _get off_ the chocobo to be able enter the cave. I shit you not. I thought you had to beat the cobra, so I kept grinding around the chocobo farm until I had level 2 magic and level 3 limits. Forgive me, I was young.

[@OneGameOneStory]

I finished Crysis 2 without knowing I can detach mounted Heavy Machine Gun. 1 of my friend finished Resident Evil 4 without knowing can reload ammo into his guns.

[@xxscrublordxxx5652]

Drop the Drakesword and nobody gets hurt.

[@Sir_Bob_VII]

I think you mean "keep the drakesword and nobody gets hurt" :)

[@LionmaneElsie08]

I can relate so much to the Final Fantasy 8 one. It’s a damn confusing thing to understand, even now I think I would struggle to get it

[@PhoenixUltima]

Way back in the NES days, I played a fair bit of Ducktales before I realized how to do the pogo jump.

[@rll33490]

And since the old Disney Afternoon NES games are coming out next month on the PS4 it can count

[@Mandrake42]

I went through about 20 hours of Red Dead Redemption without knowing about Dead Eye. I don't know how I missed the tutorial on it......but I did.

[@fireinthediscord]

It took me several hours to realise i could use The Witcher 3's beastiary to find monster weaknesses. I completed the noonwraith contract at the well without actually physically hitting it once, Christ that took a long time.

[@lostleviathan2352]

Futiile uuuuhg same! that thing was a pain in the butt,

[@WulfLovelace]

Same.

[@technomage6736]

Morrowind had a proper lore friendly and even immersive travel system. Getting to know the best and fastest means to get from place to another across the map became strategic.

[@St0rmzxx]

Never used vats, ever in fallout 4. Except when trying to scout dark places for hiding enemies. The first person shooting experience was more precise without it. Fallout 3 on the other hand, was an rng fuckfest trying to aim and shoot without the use of vats.

[@weimertiler]

St0rmzxx why use vats right😂 i meleed through the game

[@tf-uderpy699]

never got to play fallout 3 as it crashed way too much for me to play for a decent amount of time the longest i played without it crashing was 10 minutes with all the crash fixes i could find.

[@SA80TAGE]

you can still use vats with melee... like watching a messed up version of the Matrix lol.

[@AaronBish]

VATS with melee is amazing. With the right skills you practically teleport forward and make your target explode.

[@jm1309]

I sucked at aiming in fallout 4. And when I got to diamond city that was when I found out about vats.

[@luiscencio]

60+ hours in Final Fantasy XV.... Discovered you could use Phoenix Down on yourself.... Imagine all those loading screens...

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Luis G. Yeah. FFXV has few loading screens, but those few are long enough to make the tips and lore useful.

[@decoy1359]

OMG SAME IT TOOK ME LIKE 40 HOURS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT (I only died once though because I leveled myself up to ridiculously high levels by doing all of the sidequests and storing my EXP for the x3 multiplier hotel in Altissia lmao)

[@m2000x]

Luis G. Yeah the game shouldn't be considered a legit Final Fantasy

[@Abai2000]

Seriously? Those 60+ without the loading screens and with the knowledge of Phoenix Down it's probably would've been 30+ maybe even 20 hours

[@beaublight]

... I didn't know this D:

[@RoyalRiku13]

My friend played Final Fantasy X up to before the Chocobo Eater not knowing about the sphere grid until I mentioned it...

[@badjohnnyisbad]

idk how many hours I got thru before I learned about the sphere grid lmao

[@Soul-fp8si]

Mark Gatongay that's like VATS in fallout they teach you at the start how do people miss this

[@JachAnen]

Nothing confusing about it. VATS, junction and the sphere system all have the same in common: they're boring to learn about, especially when 11. I pretty much figured them out myself and skipped the tutorial.

[@Soul-fp8si]

Jan Christoffersen Yeah but even at 10 when I played it I still payed some attention to a mandatory section of tutorial because if you skip stuff you won't know what your doing, vats isn't boring either it's just press a button and you'll lock on and choose a body part to hit. And plus the sphere grid tutorial makes you do the first move and purchase of a sphere so people can't just miss it

[@JachAnen]

But they can forget. I personally forgot all about VATS as well.

[@MGS4280]

I know this came out in 2018 but I didn’t know in Spyro Reignited Trilogy that Sparx could locate gems for you.

[@otchenashenko]

I'm ashamed I rage quit Dark Souls 1 after four weeks trying to beat first big enemy, while it was meant to be escaped through a door near by only to re-visit him later, all powered-up. I know there must be guys who have killed him in the beginning, but I guess I just didn't have the nerve. I also rage quit Batman: Arkham Asylum numerously and then left unplayed it for FOUR GODDAMN YEARS after a certain "glitch" when you're high on Scarecrow gas and your game "crashes".

[@Cillranchello]

If it makes you feel any better, you can't actually kill the Abyss Demon until you do the running about. Even if you choose bombs as your starting gift, his HP refills if you damage him too much.

[@sketnemesie]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't. If you take the black firebombs your basically choosing the demons great hammer as a starting gift because you're given that for killing him without leaving the room.

[@idoajda4920]

Cillranchello 1. Its an asylum demon not an abyss demon 2. Yes you can indeed kill him when you first encounter him... where did you even get the idea that you cant? You get the demon's great hammer as a reward.