Wait what? That's what the whole thing was about pretty much! I can still remember the sound effect
What is the longest you have gone through a video game (PC / Console) without knowing a basic abilit
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Wait what? That's what the whole thing was about pretty much! I can still remember the sound effect
I sometimes think that I'm the only person who does know how to Q spot.
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Completed GTA5 and never knew each character has their own special ability
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An old build-a-city game called Alien Nations has kept me quiet for the best part of ten years now. Not the best game ever, but a slow-paced time killer- too slow, to be honest.
I discovered a week ago that you can change the game speed with the F-keys... D'oh!
I discovered a week ago that you can change the game speed with the F-keys... D'oh!
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I got to the final level of Medal of Honour: Airborne before realising I could shoot from cover mode...supposed to be a huge part of the game I think.
I also played an entire campaign of Empire Total War without realising I could earn loads of cash from trade fleets. Same game, I logged about 400 hours before I found out I could sack members of parliament.
I also played an entire campaign of Empire Total War without realising I could earn loads of cash from trade fleets. Same game, I logged about 400 hours before I found out I could sack members of parliament.
That's how I feel on a lot of pubs.
Six years of world of warcraft including high end raiding. Didn't know I could press B to open my bags
High end raiding and you didnt know about binds?!?
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Same but for the 5 or so years I played BF2, I found out in the first week of BF3.
Wow original running LBRS to forge the ring to enter UBRS, we took on a random paladin and ending up all dying apart from him, not an issue he can ress us all, but no he couldn't as he was unaware that he gained the skill from the quest that he missed...
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Same thing happened to me with Tomb Raider 1. To be fair, most games I had played up until that point didn't have a save feature; they relied on passwords to get to the later levels!
Sonic 3, never completed it in my youth due to the Casino Night Zone, those red and white drum things I thought you had to time your jumps to get them moving.
Also, LOTRO auto-attack, didn't find that until about 1 year into it. I had spent the entire time spamming the standard attack.
Also, LOTRO auto-attack, didn't find that until about 1 year into it. I had spent the entire time spamming the standard attack.
Soldier of Fortune 2 - MP. Guy running one of the biggest clans at the time comes into the server and after about a year playing finally realises that you can drop grenades instead of throwing them. Cue an hour of him not killing a single person, but going mental about how useful this 'feature' was.
He'd learnt all of the places in the map where you could effectively 'drop' a grenade for anyone attempting to follow you. The rest of us just used right mouse.
He'd learnt all of the places in the map where you could effectively 'drop' a grenade for anyone attempting to follow you. The rest of us just used right mouse.
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Played the water temple in Zelda OoT without the blue tunic. I would arm myself with multiple fairy bottles in order to progress, bit by bit...
Anyone who's played the game will be aware of how difficult a feat this was.
Anyone who's played the game will be aware of how difficult a feat this was.
Yeah, I'd only just got a PS1 as an upgrade from SNES so I was totally used to punishingly hard precision platformers and suchlike; frustration was part of the fun!
Just recently played minecraft for first time in years. I played probably a week straight before realising you could hold shift to stop yourself falling off a block. I had built massive bridges across magma in the nether without ever twigging that.
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Mine is WoW-related too. I knew about talent points early on, but I placed them all over the shop across all 3 talent trees, which meant that I had no high-level talents. This was an Alliance warlock in Vanilla WoW back in 2006. I believe nowadays though, Blizz have enforced a primary talent tree where you commit so many points to one tree to get the best talents there, which kinda dumbed the game down somewhat? Dunno, haven't played WoW for about 4 years now.
Another dumb mistake was choosing 'skinning' as one of the professions for my warlock. Got to about level 30, then I realised that I should have taken tailoring, which I duly did.
Another dumb mistake was choosing 'skinning' as one of the professions for my warlock. Got to about level 30, then I realised that I should have taken tailoring, which I duly did.
Reached disc 4 of final fantasy 8 without junctioning magic to anything.
and the obligatory WoW goof: wasn't until WotLK (as a vanilla player) that I realised you could buy and sell things other than random rare gear drops on the auction house - I had spent 3 years skinning and vending leather for my income.
and the obligatory WoW goof: wasn't until WotLK (as a vanilla player) that I realised you could buy and sell things other than random rare gear drops on the auction house - I had spent 3 years skinning and vending leather for my income.