I was young when I played kingdom hearts the first time. Had no idea you could change keyblades
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Basic things you didn't figure out until late in a game
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I just figured out a few weeks ago how to properly roll up my sleeves. I always would roll them in and they would fall down easily. If you roll them up by turning the cuff out it sticks much better. It really blew my mind when someone showed me that.
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yeah this got me too. I wondered, why is this shit suddenly so hard? Well turns out using a keyblade with poor stats wasn't making my life any easier
I'm playing the first Nier now and only hours in did I realize you can fit two Words (charms) on each weapon/spell. I was wondering why I couldn't use some of them I found and then I finally saw you could move to the right in the menu and even pick a time-saving 'equip best words' option.
Most recently, I didn't understand how to break monster shields or why that's useful in Three Houses until my second playthrough. Total gamechanger lmao.
I think I was about 4 playthroughs in before I realized that.
In fallout 3 and new vegas, you can hold down the action button to keep drinking water instead f having to watch that drinking animations a billion times. Makes healing much faster, especially in 3.
I thought Ys: Oath in Felghana was just hard but it all came to a head during the Ice Dragon Fight where I was regularly doing 1 -10 damage per hit and couldn't take more than two hits. I'd spend 30 minutes whittling his HP down only to die because of a falling icicle and in my rage I decided to just start upgrading my gear.
Went back to town, upgraded the gear, went back to the exact same situation with the boss, and was confused. So I open up the menu and it turned out I wasn't equipping my gear for 2/3 of the game. JFC. I stomped it easily afterwards.
Went back to town, upgraded the gear, went back to the exact same situation with the boss, and was confused. So I open up the menu and it turned out I wasn't equipping my gear for 2/3 of the game. JFC. I stomped it easily afterwards.
That's me - but in the third playtrough.
Also, I noted half-way in Red Steel 2 that you can shoot the red hinges of some boxes to open them (this was even shown in the beginning level, but for some motive I forgot it)
A friend of mine played the ENTIRE game without realizing you could run. Jaw dropped when he told me.
I misread the Ocarina of Time manual and thought it said that the Fairy Ocarina disappeared once you used it, so I never played any songs on it and couldn't figure out how to progress.
(The manual actually said it disappeared once you got the Ocarina of Time.)
(The manual actually said it disappeared once you got the Ocarina of Time.)
not me but my brother didn't know you could upgrade yourself in the first God of War until after he beat the minotaur boss in Pandora's temple. He got really good at the game and when he game himself upgrades, he breezed through it
Same! I also didn't know that tip about Fallout 3, so cheers for the TIL!
There's a what now? Had no idea and I played through the game three times.
Some others that come to mind are parrying in Lords of Shadow. Didn't know about it in my first playthrough, It makes the game way easier. And in Final Fantasy VIII, there's a whole list of things I didn't really grasp, but most prominent was probably refining items from cards, which you can then refine into magic.
I did not know this. I guess I need to pay attention to Navi more
Yeah you can see from the sculptor's idols by pressing Y
at first it's obscured but then it slowly reveals areas as you visit them
Same for me except it was Hydroid's tentacle ability. I was always wondering how you were supposed to farm items off of it with such limited range lol
Holy crap! This was almost my exact same experience and I came into this thread to post this exact thing! I wasn't 95 hours in, but I had defeated three of the divine beasts and probably had about.... oh.... 40 hours into the game when I decided to go clean up some missed shrines. I know the exact shrine she is talking about in this video because I wanted to go around and start cleaning up my missed shrines and found the one that I somehow missed near Kakariko.
My face was identical to hers when I found this stuff out. Sure glad I found out before I ended up fighting Ganon, that's for sure. But the entire first 40 hours I spent in this game, I was completely reliant on shields to stay alive.
The full extent of Xenoblade 2's element combo system. I was able to chain element breaks like crazy once I figured it out, like I was fighting with one hand tied behind my back the entire time.
The first time I played Kingdom Hearts 2 I never bothered with the Drive Forms, thinking they just got in the way of my intense button mashing action
I once took my PS2 to a university event and challenged people to beat Sephiroth with my save file. They were utterly flabbergasted they couldn't high jump or glide. Needless to say I played it properly from then on.
I once took my PS2 to a university event and challenged people to beat Sephiroth with my save file. They were utterly flabbergasted they couldn't high jump or glide. Needless to say I played it properly from then on.
This was my exact first thought. I was tooting around and suddenly thought what happrlena if you press L3. Suddenly went oh - I'm an idiot.
Although Sam then said 'This is just like Ride with Norman Reedus' which, given his lack of pretty obvious historical knowledge was a bit of a headscratcher.
Back in the day the first Mega Man game I played was Mega Man 1. We had borrowed the game, just the cartridge and no manual, and ulike it's sequels Mega Man 1 doesn't mention you getting the weapon from a defeated robot master so I had no idea you did. It wasn't untill I had gotten good enough to defeat five of them using buster only that I paused the game and wondered what all those bars were for. Game suddenly go a lot easier.
It took me 3 playthroughs in Devil May Cry 5 to figure out you can do a well timed grab on enemies before hits with Nero, so they won't get knocked away by the sword attack.
I didn't know you could run in Deus Ex Mankind Divided by pressing the least expected button used for running in FP perspective. Or any perspective.
I just jogged. It made saber cats and trolls terrifying though.
Same and, in the end, it wasn't really worth all the stress. I just let my Guardian Force use his normal attack
Tbf that ability is only unlocked after beating the game for the first time, there's also no tutorial for it and you only find out about it by looking at the movelist
30 hours in game and I didn't max out certain items to get skills or summons in Final Fantasy 9 :(
I didn't realize you could fast travel in Tales of Vesperia until the second time I played the game, on the Definitive Edition.
It's not the greatest fast travel ever, but you spend so much time going back and forth between places to complete side quests in that game that it helps a lot.
It's not the greatest fast travel ever, but you spend so much time going back and forth between places to complete side quests in that game that it helps a lot.
Found out that there's a dodge in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance after starting a second playthrough
But how do you not find that out? Shield surfing I get it since it requires a specific set of buttons under certain circumstances, but side dodging and backflipping it's just jumping while locked on an enemy. How do you NOT find that out?
Oh, man.
You reminded me that I beat WarCraft 2 without using the right click once.
God, I was a lost cause before the Internet.
Wasn't Warcraft 2 available before right mouse buttons started to become ubiquitous?
