Gaming oversights/dumb moments.
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Little Big Adventure: IIRC I got stuck and couldn't figure out how to go back to a previous area to complete something or other, this was nearly 17 years ago....
I never did figure it out
same, that game was awesome. - though parts of it made no sense at all.
When I first came to MMOs I had zero concept that stats did anything. So I would just wear stuff that I thought looked good which would often be basic/statless items. I had a high level character in Anarchy Online which may as well have been naked for the stuff I had on him and it wasn't until I was nearly 60 on my first WoW character that I had my eyes opened to stats making a difference. Been a die hard min-maxer ever since to atone for my crimes 
To be fair I did that with the hovercraft and wondered why there was so much hovercrafting
Nothing matches whoever on here accidently did the hovercraft section in HL2 without the hovercraft and wondered why there was so much walking
To be fair I did that with the hovercraft and wondered why there was so much hovercrafting
On W@W on Vendetta, I was aiming at every building (when you need to kill the sniper), and was thinking where the hell am I getting shot from...
Nothing matches whoever on here accidently did the hovercraft section in HL2 without the hovercraft and wondered why there was so much walking
****ing lol
My first ever play trough of Final Fantasy 7. By the time I got to the part where Aries snuffed it I was 40 odd hours in. Not because I wanted to level my characters up to the max but because I kept getting lost in simple areas.
I was lost in the Midgar junk yard for about 10 hours because I didnt know where the exit was.
When I got out of Midgar I was lost for about 16 hours maybe more because I had no clue where I was going.
Do you want to know the worst part of all this? I had a guide for the game which I was using and I still kept getting lost :\
I was lost in the Midgar junk yard for about 10 hours because I didnt know where the exit was.
When I got out of Midgar I was lost for about 16 hours maybe more because I had no clue where I was going.
Do you want to know the worst part of all this? I had a guide for the game which I was using and I still kept getting lost :\
PS3 with Fallout New Vegas, I didn't know about the Auto Aim system, I wasted so much ammo flailing around trying to shoot critters before I discovered I could lock onto a target, in all I'd say it took me 10 hours of play before I realised my error. FACEPALM
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Nothing matches whoever on here accidently did the hovercraft section in HL2 without the hovercraft and wondered why there was so much walking
Hahaha! That's brilliant.
You must have kicked yourself
Discovering autoaim was like winning the lottery but I also felt too ashamed to reveal this skeleton until this thread popped up. Man it feels good!
Two stand out for me, the first playing The Getaway on PS2. I got right to the last mission of the game and discovered that if you rested against a wall you could heal yourself, knowing that sooner would have made the whole game a lot easier
My second was playing Hidden & Dangerous on the Dreamcast, for nearly all of the game I didn't know that you could use quick commands to make people follow you, so I had to keep clearing the levels solo and walking each guy to the end, or ordering them all individually every minute through the tactical menu
My second was playing Hidden & Dangerous on the Dreamcast, for nearly all of the game I didn't know that you could use quick commands to make people follow you, so I had to keep clearing the levels solo and walking each guy to the end, or ordering them all individually every minute through the tactical menu
Nothing matches whoever on here accidently did the hovercraft section in HL2 without the hovercraft and wondered why there was so much walking
That was one of the funniest things I have ever read on here. I remember the first time I read it I was at work and lol'd to the point where people were looking and asking what it was all about. I made up someone sent me a joke. My other geeky friends that "do gaming" I showed much to their amusement. Ahh. Classic. Off to read it again.
Also the below I posted on here in 2010 as part of a "fail" thread. Gaming related so...
"ALso got to add my personal FAILURE as a teen. When I didn't used to know anything about computers, my mate gave me a copy of the original quake on floppies! Yes floppies before we had CD rom drives. It was on about 15 floppy disks and my mate wrote me out instructions on paper on how to use pkunzip. After a few hours of noobness I was really impressed with myself managing to get quake installed and up and running.
A few weeks passed and I was feeling confident in my "ability" with computers and decided to try to link up with a couple of mates on quake multiplayer over dialup. This was back in the day when modems were hot stuff and only just becoming popular. My Dad had just got his first pentium PC and it had a modem built in supposedly, not that we knew how to check. Anyway, I spent many evenings after school that week trying to get quake multiplayer to work over dial up and then one day in a conversation about it at school, I realised my error as I heard others talking about dial up....I didn't have a phone cable going into the back of my PC. I somehow believed it would simply work and I'd be able to see my friends online. < Nublet. "
"ALso got to add my personal FAILURE as a teen. When I didn't used to know anything about computers, my mate gave me a copy of the original quake on floppies! Yes floppies before we had CD rom drives. It was on about 15 floppy disks and my mate wrote me out instructions on paper on how to use pkunzip. After a few hours of noobness I was really impressed with myself managing to get quake installed and up and running.
A few weeks passed and I was feeling confident in my "ability" with computers and decided to try to link up with a couple of mates on quake multiplayer over dialup. This was back in the day when modems were hot stuff and only just becoming popular. My Dad had just got his first pentium PC and it had a modem built in supposedly, not that we knew how to check. Anyway, I spent many evenings after school that week trying to get quake multiplayer to work over dial up and then one day in a conversation about it at school, I realised my error as I heard others talking about dial up....I didn't have a phone cable going into the back of my PC. I somehow believed it would simply work and I'd be able to see my friends online. < Nublet. "
I've had quite a few of these moments over the years, although I can't remember many of them.
One of them, on Halflife Ep2(?) is where you have to plant a grenade under plank then stand on it, and it catapaults you up to a ledge. But I spent about 5mins before hand trying to do sprint ramp-jumps and grenade-jumps up to the ledge, it was really frustrating because it felt like I was getting enough height from the jumps. The big box of infinite grenades in the room was a bit of a giveaway but I thought it jump meant I needed to do a grenade-jump
In FPS games I frequently go the wrong way after clearing a room i.e. start heading back out the door I came in... I'm very easily disorientated and it takes me quite a while to learn new maps.
One of them, on Halflife Ep2(?) is where you have to plant a grenade under plank then stand on it, and it catapaults you up to a ledge. But I spent about 5mins before hand trying to do sprint ramp-jumps and grenade-jumps up to the ledge, it was really frustrating because it felt like I was getting enough height from the jumps. The big box of infinite grenades in the room was a bit of a giveaway but I thought it jump meant I needed to do a grenade-jump
In FPS games I frequently go the wrong way after clearing a room i.e. start heading back out the door I came in... I'm very easily disorientated and it takes me quite a while to learn new maps.
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Lotro, got all the way to 50 (the first level cap) before knowing i could use health and power potions. Might of saved me a few times.
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I've had quite a few of these moments over the years, although I can't remember many of them.
One of them, on Halflife Ep2(?) is where you have to plant a grenade under plank then stand on it, and it catapaults you up to a ledge. But I spent about 5mins before hand trying to do sprint ramp-jumps and grenade-jumps up to the ledge, it was really frustrating because it felt like I was getting enough height from the jumps. The big box of infinite grenades in the room was a bit of a giveaway but I thought it jump meant I needed to do a grenade-jump
In FPS games I frequently go the wrong way after clearing a room i.e. start heading back out the door I came in... I'm very easily disorientated and it takes me quite a while to learn new maps.
I think quite a few people over thought that bit