I started playing Pokémon Red before I even knew how to read. I had no idea how to save and just assumed I would find a save point eventually like a bunch of other games. I have no idea how many times I dejectedly had to turn off the GameBoy halfway through Mt. Moon. I was convinced the save spot had to be on the other side.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I was almost done with the game before I realized you leveled up in camps and inns. Game went from really hard to pushover easy in 5 minutes.
Really? I didn’t do it on purpose because I knew it’d fuck up my fun with the game. And I was right. Friends told me it was too easy for them and meanwhile I was micromanaging everything.
This had the neat effect that, once I had the perfect setup, I even finished the superbosses easily.
When I first got Pokémon Red, as a kid, I didn’t know you were meant to use Flash to see in I think it was Mt.Moon? I just kept wandering around in the dark thinking it’s a puzzle or something. Didn’t find out about Flash until I think my third play through, when someone told me or I read it in a guide (I forget which).
Fun fact. You could talk to Pikachu when in the cave and he would burst some electricity for a short period so you could see the map for a little bit. Can make navigation a bit easier but still tedious.
Same here. But I can now recall the layout of the cave, items and trainers included, from memory anytime I want. A useless skill to have, but I’m sure it’ll come in handy someday.
As an 8 year old without much of a guide at all, I was a very proud Magician on MapleStory… one who dealt violence with her trusty magic wands and staves… physically.
I didn’t understand what skills and hotkeys were until several years down the line when reading comprehension and life experience improved.
Not a game but some of the stories here remind me of the time I discovered I could draw stuff on the screen with Omicron Basic on my Atari ST and I painstakingly entered every square by hand dozens of times to make squares move across the screen…until days later I discovered the magic of the for loop. I must have been maybe 10 or so at the time.
I didn’t realize metal gear rising had a block/parry mechanic. The tutorial talks about countering enemy blows with your own barrage of attacks so I figured I just had to stagger them and steal health regularly. Monsoon is the first fight with no minions to heal off of, so I got stuck and finally checked online.
Played far too much of Prey before realizing you can boost in zero G. I was wondering why people praised those sections so much when they were agonizingly slow.
I beat the original dark souls without realizing there were different weight thresholds for rolling. I fat rolled the entire game. Also didn’t realize boosting vigor was important for hp. I did 99% strength/stamina and only as much dex as required to weild my weapons.
Honestly, by now I’ve come to hate games where you can’t figure out how to play them from the game itself. It seems like nowadays you can’t play without a whole community figuring out what’s currently the meta way to play.
That’s the reason I couldn’t get into PoE. I’ve seen many critics about Diablo 3 & 4 being too easy and forgivable, but I’m not 16 anymore and I want to enjoy games without having to absorb a whole wiki beforehand. I even played Torchlight 2 with a respec mod because I don’t have time to fail a build.
I played Valhiem early in its launch for like two weeks on my own server. Once I finally got my friends to join they were dismayed as to why I had dozens of broken copper pick axes in storage boxes.
I had no idea you could repair things and kept mining barely more copper than was needed to make a copper pickaxe.
I was playing ESO for some time, finding antiquities by simply trying to find the excavation site by sight. Little did I know that there was a collectible that you can equip that point to its exact location.
Until you spend 30 minutes trying to find a digging site that you’ve walked by for 10 times already before you saw it in the corner of your eye / screen.
As a stupid 7/8 year old I couldn’t figure out how to catch pokemon on red/blue. I just figured that if I kept playing the game I’d eventually acquire pokemon(similar to the anime). I wound up playing the entire game with a charizard and nothing else.
It was brutal. Imagine my surprise when my friend showed me his team of 6 pokemon.
I think I may have gotten the Lapras as a gift? Or maybe it was a magikarp as a gift. I honestly can’t remember, but I distinctly remember only having Charizard in the Elite 4.
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I started playing Pokémon Red before I even knew how to read. I had no idea how to save and just assumed I would find a save point eventually like a bunch of other games. I have no idea how many times I dejectedly had to turn off the GameBoy halfway through Mt. Moon. I was convinced the save spot had to be on the other side.
When I first played I didn’t know what Pokemon centers were. Everytime I needed to heal I ran all the way back to Mom’s house in palette town
Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I was almost done with the game before I realized you leveled up in camps and inns. Game went from really hard to pushover easy in 5 minutes.
It’s extremely easy to entirely not understand a huge amount about that game because it outright doesn’t tell you most things, at least not very well
That combat system is dope once you get like 25 hours in lol
Really? I didn’t do it on purpose because I knew it’d fuck up my fun with the game. And I was right. Friends told me it was too easy for them and meanwhile I was micromanaging everything. This had the neat effect that, once I had the perfect setup, I even finished the superbosses easily.
When I first got Pokémon Red, as a kid, I didn’t know you were meant to use Flash to see in I think it was Mt.Moon? I just kept wandering around in the dark thinking it’s a puzzle or something. Didn’t find out about Flash until I think my third play through, when someone told me or I read it in a guide (I forget which).
I didn’t realise the dot puzzles in Ruby/Sapphire were Braille. Spent weeks trying to reverse engineer a cypher.
I did the same thing with Yellow!
Fun fact. You could talk to Pikachu when in the cave and he would burst some electricity for a short period so you could see the map for a little bit. Can make navigation a bit easier but still tedious.
Same here. But I can now recall the layout of the cave, items and trainers included, from memory anytime I want. A useless skill to have, but I’m sure it’ll come in handy someday.
As an 8 year old without much of a guide at all, I was a very proud Magician on MapleStory… one who dealt violence with her trusty magic wands and staves… physically.
I didn’t understand what skills and hotkeys were until several years down the line when reading comprehension and life experience improved.
I played Total War: Warhammer a distressingly long time before I found out you could pause
Not a game but some of the stories here remind me of the time I discovered I could draw stuff on the screen with Omicron Basic on my Atari ST and I painstakingly entered every square by hand dozens of times to make squares move across the screen…until days later I discovered the magic of the for loop. I must have been maybe 10 or so at the time.
I didn’t realize metal gear rising had a block/parry mechanic. The tutorial talks about countering enemy blows with your own barrage of attacks so I figured I just had to stagger them and steal health regularly. Monsoon is the first fight with no minions to heal off of, so I got stuck and finally checked online.
I am pretty sure in Witcher 3 I missed like half of the combat features - flasks, signs, rolling lol.
I apparently fucked up my W3 playthrough by sleeping with the first person who wanted to fuck in the first act.
Played far too much of Prey before realizing you can boost in zero G. I was wondering why people praised those sections so much when they were agonizingly slow.
I beat the original dark souls without realizing there were different weight thresholds for rolling. I fat rolled the entire game. Also didn’t realize boosting vigor was important for hp. I did 99% strength/stamina and only as much dex as required to weild my weapons.
Didn’t realize holding dodge would make me sprint in Elden Ring for like ten hours! oof
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Path of exile. Had no idea about builds and tried to just play casually lol
2nd character went a lot more smoothly
PoE is absolutely brutal, in so many ways. For me it’s one of the charms. But man once you figure out builds the game changes.
Honestly, by now I’ve come to hate games where you can’t figure out how to play them from the game itself. It seems like nowadays you can’t play without a whole community figuring out what’s currently the meta way to play.
That’s the reason I couldn’t get into PoE. I’ve seen many critics about Diablo 3 & 4 being too easy and forgivable, but I’m not 16 anymore and I want to enjoy games without having to absorb a whole wiki beforehand. I even played Torchlight 2 with a respec mod because I don’t have time to fail a build.
I played Valhiem early in its launch for like two weeks on my own server. Once I finally got my friends to join they were dismayed as to why I had dozens of broken copper pick axes in storage boxes.
I had no idea you could repair things and kept mining barely more copper than was needed to make a copper pickaxe.
The game got a lot easier after that.
I’m surprised you lasted that first two weeks
I was playing ESO for some time, finding antiquities by simply trying to find the excavation site by sight. Little did I know that there was a collectible that you can equip that point to its exact location.
Went from hating antiquities to being a level 10 when I found that out.
Also having too many Sixth House tables, but hey, every apartment has one now?
Finding by sight sounds funny though!
Until you spend 30 minutes trying to find a digging site that you’ve walked by for 10 times already before you saw it in the corner of your eye / screen.
As a stupid 7/8 year old I couldn’t figure out how to catch pokemon on red/blue. I just figured that if I kept playing the game I’d eventually acquire pokemon(similar to the anime). I wound up playing the entire game with a charizard and nothing else.
It was brutal. Imagine my surprise when my friend showed me his team of 6 pokemon.
And the old man part in Veridian city never clicked? Haha
I was a very, very stupid kid
How did you get to Cinnabar Island? That poor Charizard!!
I think I may have gotten the Lapras as a gift? Or maybe it was a magikarp as a gift. I honestly can’t remember, but I distinctly remember only having Charizard in the Elite 4.
That poor charizard only knew HMs.