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Controls / game mechanics you didn't know about for a long time
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I got about 50 hours into Witcher 3 on PS4 before I figured out I could swipe up on the touch pad to access the map quickly. I had spent the first 50 hours laboriously opening the menu and switching to the map.
Hmm... There's lots of mechanics I didn't know about until very far along in the game that I felt like a fool for not realizing, but I don't think I can beat not knowing for 20 years. :O
Didn't know you could parry attacks in Metal Gear Rising until I did it by accident against Monsoon.
In Valkyrie Profile 2 I never leveled up my disposable Einherjar and instead focused on the main characters. Then at one point near the end of the game you're basically left with mostly disposable ones so I was forced to level some of them up. Then I tried releasing one of them (basically letting them go after they reach their level cap) and it gave me a shit ton of items to permanently buff my regular characters. Basically I missed a lot of powerups that would've helped a lot more than just using the same characters over and over.
While I was playing Xenoblade for the first time on the Wii, I didn't know how to quick travel for ages. Felt like an idiot once I learned.
The fact that posture regenerates faster when you're blocking in Sekiro. I didn't realise that until just before reaching the
It's literally the other way around in all the other Souls games and I don't know if I missed something in the tutorials in Sekiro but I imagine that made my run so much harder because I was running around like a madman to regenerate my posture instead of blocking.
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In Ghosts of Tsushima, I didn't realize until the last five hours that there's an option to actually make charm loadouts for your armor sets. So you can have charm combinations for different situations. It's an option within the gameplay options you have to enable.
I was a little annoyed that was not the default.
I was a little annoyed that was not the default.
That was added in a later patch, I believe. You couldn't do that at launch. So there's a good chance it wasn't there based on when you played it.
This feature was not in the game at launch, it was added in a later patch. So, depending on when you played it, it might not have been in the game at all when you started!
Sonic Advance/Sonic Rush series, you can use the homing attack. People harshly criticize Sonic 4 (rightfully so) but a unfair judgement is that it introduced the homing attack in 2D Sonic, when in actuality it's been there since Sonic Advance 1. If you play as Sonic in the advance or rush games, you can do the homing attack by pressing one of the shoulder buttons when near an enemy and Sonic will do a homing attack. It's bit clunky, but it's there and I didn't realize was thing until I read the instructions booklet.
Golden Sun GBA, didn't know you could run lol. Got through the whole game walking...until the last dungeon where you could not reach the last area without running across quicksand waterfalls.
Also, Overcooked. 3 starred the whole first game with my wife without knowing you could do the little boost. Some levels were craaaazy hard to get 3 stars because we were so slow moving around the maps lol.
Also, Overcooked. 3 starred the whole first game with my wife without knowing you could do the little boost. Some levels were craaaazy hard to get 3 stars because we were so slow moving around the maps lol.
I played trough Valkyria Chronicles and didn't know you can save mid way to the mission (I noticed this when playing DLC). Would have saved countless hours as if I failed I always needed to start the mission from the very beginning.
Long press of the view (select) button does this as well on Xbox for those that don't know.
I just finished it after starting on PS5 and I didn't know that.
Damn it
Was that added in a patch? Cause when I played it during launch, there was no load out option.
I didn't realize I could switch weapon aspects. I read about it in a wiki when I was trying to figure out what titan blood did.
Didn't know there was a flashlight in Fallout 4 until a loading screen told me about it around 40 hours in. Also didn't know Oblivion had fast travel until I played Skyrim and someone compared fast travel in the two games. Happens to me a lot in Bethesda games, I miss some little QOL thing and just learn to play without it. I didn't know Morrowind had a main quest until I'd sunk over 100 hours into the game.
Also playing through the Yakuza Kiwami games, didn't know there was a map until either close to the end of Kiwami or a few hours into Kiwami 2. I'd spent the first game just kind of memorizing the street layout and landmarks, the map makes things a lot easier I'll tell you what.
Damn it. Bethesda games, every time. I never knew Fallout 3 had fast travel until right now.
Also playing through the Yakuza Kiwami games, didn't know there was a map until either close to the end of Kiwami or a few hours into Kiwami 2. I'd spent the first game just kind of memorizing the street layout and landmarks, the map makes things a lot easier I'll tell you what.
Damn it. Bethesda games, every time. I never knew Fallout 3 had fast travel until right now.
Played all the Souls games (3 of them to the Platinum) and still don't know how to drop off a ladder. I could probably Google it and find out, but I'm too stubborn/don't care. 1 day I'll figure it out.
Miles' just has a more in-depth, easier to use system. Spidey PS4's is very basic in comparison.
I learned that I can update my character stats in Control at the save points. I wasn't super far in but I didn't more than enough hard battles with no health upgrades before I noticed the menu for it. I figured it would have been an in your face tutorial and that I just didn't reach the story beat yet.
Gravity Boots in Symphony of the Night. I just thought they made your jump height slightly higher, had no idea for the longest time you could press Down-to-Up and jump to ROCKET straight up.
My girlfriend and I somehow played through almost all of the horde levels in overcooked 2 without knowing that you could fix barriers. We got to the last level and just couldn't beat it. We looked up a video to see what strategies people recommended and I saw someone repairing one of the barriers. After that we beat the final level in one try.
The first time I played through Bioshock Infinite I'm pretty sure I didn't buy a single vigor or weapon upgrade.
Oh my god.
When I had to review the DaS remaster for PS4 I found out my joystick was busted because I could only run for a second or two before stopping. It was beyond infuriating. I have no idea how you got that far by walking the whole time. Were you even enjoying the game?
I played FPS games (DOOM, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, etc) on PC in the mid-late 1990s for maybe 5-6 years using only the arrow keys with my right hand for movement. It wasn't until I started playing Counter-Strike in university in 2001 that I learned about WASD and using the mouse to aim.
Yeah, i was loving it from the start actually. I always walk as slow as possible to observe everything without getting in the aggro of multiple enemies, so it was fitting my play style.
I had to learn how to run on O&S because it's really really hard to defeat them without running from one side to another, atleast alone.
The best part is that i got stuck on them for a week, and then i was showing the game to my friend, that begun a new save file. Turns out there's a tutorial sign explaining how to run in the first corridor that i missed somehow. Thanks to him i learned how to run, which was essential to defeat O&S haha
Oh, I played a TON of Destiny this year without realizing I could swap my subclass and powers etc. It had been so long that I thought it was something I chose at the start of the game and was stuck with until I created a new character.
I also didn't realize 1) that there was an item vault and 2) that yellow items were special, so I was disassembling all the yellows I was carrying to free up space to pick up purples and blues. Ugh.
I also didn't realize 1) that there was an item vault and 2) that yellow items were special, so I was disassembling all the yellows I was carrying to free up space to pick up purples and blues. Ugh.
Wasn't it part of the in-game tutorial at one point? Like the tutorial prompts that appear on screens early in the game. š¤
You just took the scenic route. š
