What is the longest you have gone through a video game (PC / Console) without knowing a basic abilit

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I saw this thread on Reddit & found it funny and interesting, so I thought I would ask it over here. My first thought upon reading the title was some of the things I have done in my gaming history!

So here we go! I will start;

  • World of Warcraft. Remains one of my favourite games of all time & I have played since release, however it took until a friend came over and saw me playing without talents that I learnt about talents. I would have been in to the late level 40's. I always assumed when Guild members or friends on voice chats talked about talents they were just talking about abilites you learned :o.
 
8 years on gears of war 1 and rainbow vegas 2 for xbox 360 every day. kinda pointless thinking back at it now.

vegas did not know how to duck till they took the servers offline

gears of war how to throw 2rd grenades
 
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When WoW was released my MMO experience was Legend of Mir and Lineage 2 which didn't really have a heavy emphasise on questing! I spent the first few months of WoW not doing a single quest as I had no idea on how integral to the MMO genre they really were haha!
 
Not sure if it fits in but I've played League of Legends since February last year and I never knew that two particular champions involved with slaying each other in the lore (Kha'Zix and Rengar); if they were both in the same game and on opposite teams, the first player on either character to score a kill on the opposing one would grant a unique feature/item. Head of Kha'Zix is actually pretty damn OP. Came about finding it when I was in a game with a guy who mained Rengar, searched him up after the game and in one of his recent games he had the head. Was like, ***** is that?
 
I played SC2 for way too long before figuring out you can press shift+control group to add things to a control group rather than only being able to make new ones.
 
Probably when I first started on World of Warcraft. Managed to drag a skill off my skill bar and couldn't understand where it went or how to get it back. Assumed it was broken, deleted my character and started again. This happened twice. :(
 
I put about 20hours onto Starbound beta over Christmas, all the while dragging and dropping loot from chests into my bag. Only to watch a YouTube video of how to defeat the 3rd boss and i saw the guy magic the stuff over, turns out holding shift whilst clicking things moves them for you.
 
I had been playing battle for middle earth for months (one of my fav games when I started gaming) and my friend sat down and grouped a bunch of units. I had been moving them all individually.
 
Devrij said:
I had been playing battle for middle earth for months (one of my fav games when I started gaming) and my friend sat down and grouped a bunch of units. I had been moving them all individually.
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Dune 2 sounds like the perfect game for you :)
 
Far too many to list, if we include forgetting about skills.

-Typically in shooter games that have a 'bullet time' type feature I just forget I have it 90% of the time, likewise with lean
-RTS games often I complete without learning basic shortcuts like jumping to buildings, how to group only military units etc (so I'll send out an army and then have to manually 'pick off' the non-military units!
-AOE3 I think I got to the end of the second Act before I learned how to pause the game
-NFS Undercover I didn't realise the map didn't list a lot of available races by default until really near the end
-GTA4 I never really did get the hang of using the mobile phone :)
 
I'm sure there has been something but nothing springs to mind :|

I remember many years ago a friend of mine had no idea you could use weapons other than the axe in quake 1 and completely a large part of the game before someone showed him.
 
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