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What's the longest you've enjoyed a game while completely misunderstanding how to play it?
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I finished Vanquish and to this day have no idea how people are pulling the stuff I see on youtube for that game. All I remember was I kept running out of battery and thinking this game sucks and could have been so much better.
I also finished Metal Gear Acid and have no idea how the card system works. I just used the cards I had available.
I also finished Metal Gear Acid and have no idea how the card system works. I just used the cards I had available.
Ah yes, the "getting sniped immediately by Widow on King's Row Point A" special. Or "what do you mean I can't just stand in the gate on Hanamura?"
My entire first playthrough of Infamous (hero mode) I completely missed that I could buy upgrades in the pause menu. Still loved the game though, and evil mode was a lot easier with that information.
Well considering I've owned BOTW since launch and only just completed it tonight, seems like a shoo-in. The other thread about the lightning and weapons made it painfully obvious to me I've not been creative enough in that game. Masterpiece.
I got to level something stupid as a hunter (that was my main character) in WoW without ever using feign death. It would have been tough to play the character more wrong.
Baten Kaitos card numbers
The spirit numbers are the way to create combos. If you have sets of numbers (in other words, at least two of every number you use, like 22333, or 223344) or if you have a straight set (like 1234 or 4321) then you get big bonuses to your damage. You can change the numbers with the C-Stick which i never even touched.
When i played this at aged 14, I kept only using the strongest cards, i didn't evwn asked myself why there was numbers on the cards
I put like 90 hours into the game, saw the credits, and played through a lot of its other content, and I don't think I ever really bought gear. I had the alternate outfits that were required like the geurdo outfit set but that was it.
Absolutely. I spent a dozen hours hating the combat system because battles took way too long, levels seemed superflous when I was still getting rocked by monsters 5 levels below me and updating my equipment only for it to show minimal improvement was soul crushing. Turns out ignoring the prompts for orb combinations up top and just letting the AI do whatever it wanted is not the way to play the game, and the entire combat system is based on chaining orbs. Not that the game explained the importance of blade synergy to get off combos, because well, dunno.
I managed to beat Tales of Rebirth the first time without knowing how to manually switch lines. The game is much more fun knowing that.
Also when ff8 came out, I imported with very little Japanese and didn't junction anything. I made it to the ice dungeon on disc 3. I also level grinded on the island closest to heaven.
Also when ff8 came out, I imported with very little Japanese and didn't junction anything. I made it to the ice dungeon on disc 3. I also level grinded on the island closest to heaven.
Not me but I remember a friend of mine playing WoW for a considerable amount of time without learning new skills. He played warrior and only used mortal blow.
Oh and also no talents lol
Oh and also no talents lol
Probably Eve Online and Path of Exile. I love both games but generally just grind away barely scratching the surface of what is possible by better players.
I don't play as much Factorio, but it's a similar experience.
I don't play as much Factorio, but it's a similar experience.
The very first time I played Bloodborne I got very far into the main game without upgrading my weapon. The worst part was that I was following a guide!
First time playing ace combat it was 4. Never saw the buy sell planes menu.
Always ended up in hangar for plane selection, always empty with only starter plane available. Almost finished the game with starter phantom before understanding how to buy planes.
Always ended up in hangar for plane selection, always empty with only starter plane available. Almost finished the game with starter phantom before understanding how to buy planes.
I think this counts: in Spider-Man PS4, I didn't realize I could upgrade my gadgets until somewhere around 40-50% story completion (and also having completed a large percentage of the different collect-a-thons already by that time).
The worst thing is I knew the gadgets could be upgraded, I just didn't notice that the first upgrade for multiple of my gadgets was "unlocked" and ready to be upgraded. For some reason, I kept thinking all the upgrades were locked and I was wondering when I'd get to the part in the story where they'd unlock.
By the time I noticed, I had so many different tokens that I was able to upgrade a lot of my gadgets close to fully upgraded.
The worst thing is I knew the gadgets could be upgraded, I just didn't notice that the first upgrade for multiple of my gadgets was "unlocked" and ready to be upgraded. For some reason, I kept thinking all the upgrades were locked and I was wondering when I'd get to the part in the story where they'd unlock.
By the time I noticed, I had so many different tokens that I was able to upgrade a lot of my gadgets close to fully upgraded.
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I beat the first four bosses without parrying, wildly dashing around like a maniac, before finally accepting that you just can't play the game like Bloodborne. I had decided based on trailers that the game was going to play exactly like BB, just with a different setting.
I was a kid and I always assumed you just stack the djinns to their elemental counterparts, like Isaac gets all the Earth djinns, etc.
I think it broke something in my brain when I looked things up on the Internet and saw all the advice of switching djinns around to gain different powers and abilities.
I don't if it counts, since I have been aware of my cluelessness for years, but every RTS ever. I just suck at strategy games, yet I still enjoy playing them.
The Total War games in particular are a good example. I always let the computer auto-resolve the battles, I have no idea how to compose a balanced army, my city management skills are poor and my diplomats and merchants starve from boredom. I play on the lowest difficulty level and still struggle at times. Any Total War veteran seeing me play would weep.
But goddamn do I just love the empire building aspects to death. I still play (read: stumble my way through) Rome and Medieval 2's campaigns from from time to time because I love pretending my hand is actually shaping history on a global scale despite having no idea what I am doing.
The Total War games in particular are a good example. I always let the computer auto-resolve the battles, I have no idea how to compose a balanced army, my city management skills are poor and my diplomats and merchants starve from boredom. I play on the lowest difficulty level and still struggle at times. Any Total War veteran seeing me play would weep.
But goddamn do I just love the empire building aspects to death. I still play (read: stumble my way through) Rome and Medieval 2's campaigns from from time to time because I love pretending my hand is actually shaping history on a global scale despite having no idea what I am doing.
Back when Vanilla WoW released originally I was playing a rogue and I was convinced +hit% was a stupid stat.
I fundamentally didn't understand the way hits and misses worked but in my mind the world worked like this.
Crits can't miss
A crit does double the damage of a regular hit
If your critting more you're not missing and doing twice the damage
Therefore hit gear is pointless
What I didn't know is that the game first checks to see if a hit lands before it calculates if it is a crit basically rendering my entire thought process moot.
I legit thought like this still a year into TBC.
I fundamentally didn't understand the way hits and misses worked but in my mind the world worked like this.
Crits can't miss
A crit does double the damage of a regular hit
If your critting more you're not missing and doing twice the damage
Therefore hit gear is pointless
What I didn't know is that the game first checks to see if a hit lands before it calculates if it is a crit basically rendering my entire thought process moot.
I legit thought like this still a year into TBC.
Probably vanilla wow, didn't know to use slice and dice on boss fight till MC, as someone who maimed rogue, lol.
Not a big one, but when I first playef superstar saga, I didn't know what the stache stat was and never bothered using exp points for it.
I made it to the end of horizon before seeing a clip online that made me realize as you flee you should pan the camera to look behind you. You're able to target enemies still even though your characters back is to them. Till then it was run hide or dodge at random and shoot for me. Had no clue I could lure them Into a chase then take my time to aim while I could still see them and bullet time a fancy shot at them.
Just never occurred to me the entire world was generally open field so itd be safe to point the camera at what's chasing me and flee without looking where I'm going like that. Makes combat far easier.
Just never occurred to me the entire world was generally open field so itd be safe to point the camera at what's chasing me and flee without looking where I'm going like that. Makes combat far easier.
Literally all my playtime with the Grand Strategy genre (Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, etc).
I can play them and get by most of the time, but I feel there's so much more I could learn and do. It's like knowing just enough of a language to carry a basic conversation vs. actually being fluent in it.
I can play them and get by most of the time, but I feel there's so much more I could learn and do. It's like knowing just enough of a language to carry a basic conversation vs. actually being fluent in it.
I have played many many games of Tetris while oblivious to the existence of the hold piece feature.
I just finished Breath of the Wild, having found the guardians so intimidating since my first encounter with one that I never learnt the 'shield reflect' move that has a tiny window to reflect a laser blast. I just used the bow, where if you shoot them in the eye, it disables them for a few seconds, allowing you to go in with melee weapons or run away. That was the first thing I learned as a strategy against them as the shield reflect got me killed the first time I tried it in the early game, so I looked elsewhere for tactics. Often I just teleported out rather than deal with one stalking me. Imagine my surprise to run into a late game boss fight and not ever having successfully used the technique that I'm supposed to have mastered. Same goes for several other systems- I don't think I ever used fire for updrafts, hit an electric enemy at the right time to force an explosion, chopped down a tree to make a bridge, or ever sailed a raft with a korok leaf. There's just so many ways to do everything and get anywhere that when I ran into 'you must do it this specific way' in boss fights it was like my old Zelda mindset of 'relax, run through your armoury and skillset until you find the one thing that works' had disappeared as the game elsewhere had said 'do it however you want'. Absolutely magical game.
Played through the single player mode of Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 without ever snapping to cover. Played it like a pure FPS because I was dumb.
does using gameshark to beat the game while I just mash button to win?
well, i kinds did that at my early years of playing jrpg on ps1 :P
mainly played for story back then.
well, i kinds did that at my early years of playing jrpg on ps1 :P
mainly played for story back then.
I made a thread about it last week, but I got all the way to the last boss in Bloodstained before I realized that first time food buffs were permanent, that many of the buffs were related to magic recovery, luck, and exp, and that overlevelling passive shards could make them permanent skill shards.
My experience with the game changed drastically after that, as did my experience with the last boss and farming the secret bosses.
My experience with the game changed drastically after that, as did my experience with the last boss and farming the secret bosses.