Times where you forgot about a pretty important mechanic in a game

[Kalentan]

So I've been finally going to Xenoblade 2, I've been on and off playing it for a long long time now. I've gotten to Chapter 7 and I was thinking to myself: "Man, leveling is really slow and enemies are gaining a lot of levels over my party".

Thus I google how to level fast and a website tells me all about the whole: "Rest at inn and apply bonus exp to party" mechanic... I completely had forgotten that was a thing so I went literally chapter upon chapters not doing it and so my exp had a toooon of bonus exp and they skyrocketed in levels. It seems like it's the main way to level up in the game, since killing enemies doesn't net you that much.

When has this happen you ya'll? Either from playing a game on and off or simply not paying attention.

 

[Hawkster]

I forgot about the parry mechanic in MGR until I had to use it in the Monsoon fight

 

[nsilvias]

i remember back in the old place someone made a thread about metal gear rising and didn't realize that you could parry attacks because they skipped the tutorial

 

[Wrexis]

I played through all of Control without realizing there is a shield ability.

I forgot that Quickenings can be chained in FF12 as using the x4 speed option in Switch I never really needed them.

 

[ClickyCal']

I forgot to use grenades/ice grenades in doom eternal a lot, especially later game when things go crazy. Can only focus on so much and grenades are in the bottom rung.

 

[Santos]

Parrying on my first playthrough of Dark Souls. Only noticed it after going through the tutorial again in NG+.

 

[Deleted member 419]

Forgot about lightning parries for Sekiro's final boss. Fuckin yikes that was tough. But I did it after a few hours.

 

[Jane]

I forgot about using Chihaya to raise confidant points in Persona 5. Would have really helped me finish a lot of slinks, lol.

 

[Prinz Eugn]

I forgot to use grenades/ice grenades in doom eternal a lot, especially later game when things go crazy. Can only focus on so much and grenades are in the bottom rung.

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Same. Took me a while to remember they existed.

 

[Solobbos]

Didn't use the special attacks that used the paper doll consumables in Sekiro at all. Thought it was nicer to learn the bosses without additional help from stuns.

 

[Saturday]

Dark Souls: 'wait, parrying?'
DS 2: 'wait, parrying?'
DS 3: 'wait, parrying?'
Bloodborne, Maria Fight: 'OH GOD PARRYING'

 

[y2kyle89]

I hadn't realized that you could switch relics in Shovel Knight in my first playthrough .

 

[Anton Sugar]

I forgot that holding down your Sign button in The Witcher 3 is how you use a lot of your alt/upgraded abilities. Didn't know about the crazy OP spin attack until I played Blood & Wine.

 

[ScampyDamp]

Parrying on my first playthrough of Dark Souls. Only noticed it after going through the tutorial again in NG+.

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Forgot about lightning parries for Sekiro's final boss. Fuckin yikes that was tough. But I did it after a few hours.

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Didn't use the special attacks that used the paper doll consumables in Sekiro at all. Thought it was nicer to learn the bosses without additional help from stuns.

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Dark Souls: 'wait, parrying?'
DS 2: 'wait, parrying?'
DS 3: 'wait, parrying?'
Bloodborne, Maria Fight: 'OH GOD PARRYING'

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Oh thank god i'm not the only one. I forget about parrying in every single game.....also because I always suck at it.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Dodge Roll in No More Heroes 1. I literally didn't use it until the fight with Dr. Peace I think.

 

[Crushed]

I completely forgot about being able to set passives and combat arts for units in Three Houses for about three quarters of the game. The game was so easy that it never occurred to me that I would ever change anything other than equipment or battalions.

 

[Gabriel Hall]

I definitely forgot about Cloud's Punisher counter in FF7R until the last couple chapters of the game. And even then the boss fights and unique encounters in those chapters were so crazy and multi-layered that I had no time to safely experiment with it until I completed the game. Which of course was how I learned that actually the encounters were exactly that insane and crazy because I didn't know how Punisher counters worked, haha.

 

[pswii60]

Very first time I played The Last of Us back on PS3, I played for short while and stopped. Then when I came back to it a couple of months later I found the game really difficult and frustrating. And didn't enjoy it at all.

Wind forward to PS4 and I decided to give it another chance when TLoU Remastered came out. It was then that I realised I'd forgotten about Listen Mode which is why I'd found it so difficult before lol. Like, the main mechanic in the game. What a pleb.

TBF I used to do shit like this all the time because I'd always be juggling too many games. Now I only ever play one or two games at a time, so luckily I no longer face this issue.

 

[Hackworth]

I forgot about damage types in Xenoblade 2, with the result that I got ruined by Spike Damage until I looked up a walkthrough for the one story boss which deals lots of it.

 

[LaneDS]

Got to the end of Skyward Sword forgetting entirely there was a shield forward thrust move that you basically needed to use on the final battle, which produced a "good time" for me.

 

[JustinH]

I forgot to use grenades/ice grenades in doom eternal a lot, especially later game when things go crazy. Can only focus on so much and grenades are in the bottom rung.

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Same. Took me a while to remember they existed.

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That didn't happen to me, but I can understand that. The game gives you so many options to be aggressive that it's probably easy to forget about a certain move or ability that you have.

Reminds me of what JTB123 (the Ninja Gaiden streamer) likes to say about the new Doom games, "They're just as much action games as they are first-person shooters" ("action games" meaning like Ninja Gaiden, character/spectacle action games like DMC, you know...)

 

[Deleted member 1570]

I went my entire first run of Infamous (hero mode) not realizing that I could upgrade my powers. Needless to say, my evil run was much easier.

 

[Deleted member 8468]

I played through all of Control without realizing there is a shield ability.

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Huh, I just beat that the other day. You can add me to that list of not knowing about the shield.

 

[Nintendo]

Not me, but I know many people who didn't know you could integrate gadgets into combos in Arkham Knight combat.

 

[Carassius Auratus]

In Kingdom Hearts games I tend to forget to equip new keychains for a while.

 

[SalvaPot]

Jellyfying your team in wonderful 101. I kept forgetting I should do that instead of just evading.

 

[Jane]

Very first time I played The Last of Us back on PS3, I played for short while and stopped. Then when I came back to it a couple of months later I found the game really difficult and frustrating. And didn't enjoy it at all.

Wind forward to PS4 and I decided to give it another chance when TLoU Remastered came out. It was then that I realised I'd forgotten about Listen Mode which is why I'd found it so difficult before lol. Like, the main mechanic in the game. What a pleb.

TBF I used to do shit like this all the time because I'd always be juggling too many games. Now I only ever play one or two games at a time, so luckily I no longer face this issue.

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Listen mode makes things easier but as long as you have stereo speakers, you don't really need it. It's even disabled on the Survivor and Grounded difficulties.

 

[Darkwing-Buck]

The levels of materia in ff7r lol

it wasn't till CHapter 17 did I realize I have to scroll through the different levels of spells to use em lol

up until that point I was just getting by with the base versions

 

[SirNinja]

Parrying in Dark Souls. Only remembered how to do it at the final boss...and it trivialized him. I kinda wish I'd remembered during early NG+ instead, as it made the last showdown really anticlimactic. :-/

 

[Kasey]

Parrying in Dark Souls. Only remembered how to do it at the final boss...and it trivialized him. I kinda wish I'd remembered during early NG+ instead, as it made the last showdown really anticlimactic. :-/

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I picked up Dark Souls after giving up about 6 months prior. Took an hour or so before I remembered lock on was a thing.

 

[cvxfreak]

The augments in Final Fantasy IV DS... the original is way too ingrained in me.

 

[bananab]

Not the same thing but I basically don't know how to fight at all in BOTW. Never lock on or do any of that.

 

[Yabberwocky]

I recently missed the fact that, in FFVIIR, Cloud will auto-parry physical attacks in Punisher mode if you hold down R1.

I thought you could only parry manually.

 

[Scruffy8642]

I played about 40 hours of Breath of the Wild before I ever cooked something. First time I came across a pot, I chucked a few things in and ended up with rotten food every time. Just assumed I was supposed to use specific recipes that I hadn't come across yet. Didn't even really think about the mechanic until I was almost at the end of my run and decided to chuck some things in and they just worked lol. I really don't know what I cooked that first time to get rotten food, because I cooked dozens of things after that and never ended up with it again lol.

 

[Metalmucil]

Playing through Doom 3 ROE and I totally forgot about he time slowing artifact after I was required to use it that one time. Would have made that game a LOT easier!

 

[softtack]

Played 80 hours of Monster Hunter: World like fashion souls whilst completely ignoring Jewels, Elemental Boosts and other quality of life perks.

 

[LakeEarth]

Shields in DS games. Roll roll roll roll....

 

[//ARCANUM]

I played like 70% of Doom Eternal without realizing you use those points to upgrade the weapons. I thought you just unlocked the 1 or 2 abilities from the stations and that was it. LOL. Was making the game 10x harder on myself.

 

[Meriadock]

I used to love Sailor Moon and the first time I've played Sailor Moon Another Story on snes (it's a GREAT game) it was in japanese. I didn't know you have equips, so I've grinded A LOT to beat most of the bosses without gear.

 

[Listai]

I forgot you can hold items behind you in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

I bought the Wii U version on launch and new this but the last few months of playing it on Switch I completely forgot.

 

[est1992]

Forgetting I can heal myself in Fallen Order

 

[Sabretooth]

In a recent example, I played through Gears Tactics and kicked a ticker exactly once. It wasn't even that I wasn't aware of it, I just couldn't for the life of me remember that the option was there.

 

[DragonKeeper]

I've probably replayed Super Metroid 15 or so times. I always forget I can run. I always conflate running with the speed booster upgrade. Noob bridge gets me every time.

 

[Het_Nkik]

I played the tutorial of Fallout 3 and then saved and didn't pick the game back up till a couple weeks later. Boy was I having a hard time out in the Wasteland without using VATS.

 

[HeartlessNobody2134]

Parrying in MGR.

I didn't know you could change keyblades in KH1 until quite a while into the game.

Item Creation in Star Ocean 3. I honestly didn't forget about this one, I just didn't understand it on my 1st playthrough.

 

[Chettlar]

I had a classmate who got all the way up through Father Gascoigne in Bloodborne and beat him...and she didn't know about healing. I know the game teaches you so it's hard to say whether this is a case of forgot or not. But she didn't recognize anything was wrong because she had heard the game was stupid hard.

 

[Dakb]

I remember when I first started playing monster hunter as a kid many years ago and I didn't know about armor skills. Those were some rough times.

 

[Green Tentacle]

A little different, but I got pretty far into Dragon Quest 9 before I realized I could have recruited more party members like 15 towns ago...

 

[jokkir]

Good thing I looked at this thread cause I totally forgot about that Inn thing in XC2.

And going through XC1, I didn't know you could warp to older maps and I'm pretty much in the final few hours of the game :| Also, that there's a collectable thing (Critterpedia) that I had no idea existed until I was watching previews for the remake :| I don't think I was playing XC1 properly but here I am just about to finish the game

 

[Crossing Eden]

Kid me:
Jak 3 is pretty good but man it's stingy and should give me more health items from boxes instead of ammo and eco..

Spoiler

Jak 3 literally gives you the power to heal yourself and I never once used it.