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

Timbo_La · 21 Jan 2014 at 11:05

I completed DeadSpace without knowing you could use the stasis on the Necro-things to slow them down, thought you could only use it on Machinery.

I watched a video and saw the Necro-things slowed down by the stasis option I thought to myself ...that would have been handy.

Tim

TomProx · 21 Jan 2014 at 12:16

Xire said:
High end raiding and you didnt know about binds?!?

clicky clicky

I was a clicker back in the day, still managed to be in the top 5 DPS though, keybinds are 100x better.

AndyT · 21 Jan 2014 at 13:43

Flagging taxis in GTA4. Wasted hours driving.

TomProx · 21 Jan 2014 at 14:11

GTA2 i didn't realise you could actually make your guy burp and fart, thought he was doing that himself even though i was pressing circle.

pestt · 21 Jan 2014 at 14:25

AndyT said:
Flagging taxis in GTA4. Wasted hours driving.

I wasted hours sitting in taxi's.
Didn't see the 'cut to end of journey' option for ages!

bemaniac · 21 Jan 2014 at 16:21

I tanked vanilla wow from level 1-60 without using sunder........

Pawnless Endgame · 21 Jan 2014 at 17:09

PaddyMC89 said:
Reached disc 4 of final fantasy 8 without junctioning magic to anything.

Really? I'm playing FF8 at the moment (courtesy of Steam's remake), and there are automatic tutorials that pop up when something technical crops up. E.g. junctioning a summon to your character, how to draw magic, and then how to assign magic to the summons to boost their stats. Bit like using enchants or gems in WoW :-)

andrewohare · 21 Jan 2014 at 18:15

ak22 said:
2-3 hours into FEAR which out using slow motion....

same here

D18241 · 21 Jan 2014 at 20:26

Final boss of metal gear rising without parry

potatolord · 21 Jan 2014 at 21:16

I played engie on tf2 for about a month before I realised you could upgrade the teleporter.

HangTime · 21 Jan 2014 at 21:36

pestt said:
I wasted hours sitting in taxi's.
Didn't see the 'cut to end of journey' option for ages!

Heh. I took like 1-2 taxi journeys and thought "well that was boring", so never used them again - drove everywhere.

cypto · 22 Jan 2014 at 01:21

Not until getting a good distance through my first play through of fallout 3 did I realise you could "Fast Travel" literally walked everywhere for quests...

The only benefit being within a few days I knew the map like the back of my hand.

As I remember right there was one quest in particular for Moira (wasteland survival guide) in which you have to travel to minefield to collect unexploded mines.

Died a stupid number of times (not knowing how to disarm a mine) and walked back each time. 5 hours later quest complete... but boy did I know that route well.

jkb · 22 Jan 2014 at 06:49

COYS said:
Rememebr completing Quake on keyboard only before i realised that i could also use the mouse.

I thought I was the only person in the world who did this.

TriedandTested · 22 Jan 2014 at 07:53

I got to the last 10 minutes of The Last of Us without realising you could upgrade your player's stats. Was playing on hard too!...and got stuck in the last section of the game.

JHeaton · 22 Jan 2014 at 08:11

ak22 said:
2-3 hours into FEAR which out using slow motion....

I used it once, in the final fight.

I did spend several weeks playing Chivalry: Medieval Warfare without realising that you could zoom with some of the ranged weapons, and a few more on Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior without realising that you could drink rum to heal yourself as a pirate. Sometimes just jumping into games isn't the best way to learn stuff.

Diplexbullet19 · 22 Jan 2014 at 08:14

got max level 50 on lotro before finding out about athelas was a health potion.