Have you ever accidentally made a game harder for yourself on because you didn't realize a key mechanic of a game?

Have you ever accidentally made a game harder for yourself on because you didn't realize a key mechanic of a game?

>One of the first 360 games I got was Naruto Broken Bonds
>Got through the game and had to quit because it was too fucking hard
>every attack I used would only chip off pixels of enemy health.
>Damage from enemies would take 1/3 of my health bar.
>Got to the point where enemy encounters would give me literal panic attacks because I had to play perfectly with no room for error.
>Didn't realize you had to manually upgrade your character.

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I didn't realize how to swim faster in Banjo Kazooie until I had to free clanker.

>play oblivion for the first time
>don't understand/read up on the leveling mechanic
>don't know about most abusive things like enchants/custom spells/etc
>Daedra and shit eventually become really hard
>towers in Oblivion are actually pretty tense to the point the game because very immersive
>eventually learn all that stuff and break the spell

I kind of preferred being clueless desu

>The Evil Within 2
>just fucking forgot that field crafting cost more resources for a few hours

My friend beat Fallout 3 without knowing you could use the Pipboy as a flashlight.

>you could use the Pipboy as a flashlight
you can do this?

son of a bitch

happened to me with jew vegas

I knew about this, but I don't even think there are any parts of FO3 where you'd even need the flashlight.

The stealth suit chastises you if you crouch with the pipboy flashlight turned on.

I think you might have a bit of trouble navigating some of the darker dungeons and miss some items in them.

Didn't make the game harder exactly but I've beaten Rule of Rose twice and I still don't know how to pet Brown.

Does not learning how to win at Caravan count?

I was 3/4 the way through Assassin's Creed III and didn't know how to counter because I shut off most HUD elements

Xenoblade didn't know about ether crystals and near end game I had a ton cause I liked the sound of collecting them

Most people don't know you can free-target certain lock on aoe spells in Dragon's dogma by simply tapping down the left joy stick button.

I don't understand caravan

same thing happened with me user, & not knowing I could fast travel really made quests feel long & questy.

I beat Christopher Robin before I realized you could purchase upgrades.

>Play Oblivion for the first time
>Expect it to be like Morrowind and don't realise you can fast travel. All the way to the end.

It wasn't so bad. This was when Oblivion was new, the graphics were impressive, travelling everywhere was alright.

Damn I feel bad for anyone who's first 360 game wasn't Assassin's Creed.

>Zelda: Skyward Sword
>Having trouble gaining altitude on the bird
>Jump off and immediatey call bird to get that momentum to climb higher
>Keep doing this the entire game

Also
>Zelda: Twilight Princess on Wii
>Not used to motion controls for sword
>Spend half an hour trying to get past a blocked corridor
>Put Wiimote down to go look up answer
>Link swings his sword due to the motion and breaks the blockage

I'm sure I'm doing stupid shit in BotW too, but at least that game lets you approach situations in any way you want really.

Yeah I didn't realise at first you could fast travel or that there was a standing wait function. Made the game way more interesting since I had to plan my journey whenever I went somewhere, thinking if I wanted to take a shortcut through some forest that could be dangerous or go the road. Finding stuff along the way and stumbling on quests basically, it was great.

I missed the metal pipe in Silent Hill 2 so I spent the whole game hitting shit with the wooden plank and doing little damage

I played FF15 for like 50 hours before finding out holding the left stick in different directions made you do different attacks, didn't really make it harder but fuck me did I feel dumb.

I was on my 3rd playthrough when I found out about this

I just did 150 stars in Mario without being able to jump off the hat in the air.

I only figured out how to parry correctly in MGR around Monsoon

I beat Mario 64 without knowing how to long jump

I played MGS 3 entirely without CQC

In Final Fantasy XIV ARR, I didn't know you could teleport to aetherites until I was like level 40ish. I thought you had to walk everywhere and take the ships/airships to travel.

Thought you had to throw all three knives at the final boss of Hotline Miami before he shot you. Actually managed to beat it that way after about an hour.
I didn't even know enemies used ammo, I just assumed it was infinite.

I didn't use Drive Forms in KH2 until I arrived at The World That Never Was. I had to grind quite a lot to get basic abilities because of it.

I only found out that you could roll in Max Payne 3 when I was almost done the game.

Played through most of Parasite Eve without upgrading my guns at all because I didn't understand it.
Like I literally got past the museum and hit a goddamn brick wall, and that's when I sat down and figured it out

>Metal Gear Rising
>Didn't realise you could move the camera in Zandatsu mode until Armstrong fight

To be fair that was the only point (where he throws the rocks) where it was a problem, but playing through again knowing that made it so much better.

I didn't understand that the kick was a shield break. I just waited for the attack and parried.

Took a retard route to kakariko village and skipped the weapon slot upgrade for most the game

In Revengence I didn't know you could parry the first boss, metal gear ray or rex I forget which it was.
So I spent forever just whittling it's hp down

Metal pipe?

Well then maybe she should stop injecting me with med-x every 10 minutes.

Also
>Medium armor type
She thicc

I didn't know how to parry in MGR until the final fight with Jet stream Sam.

>finally kill final boss
>he shoots himself in the head
>bullet goes through his head and kills me since I was next to him when I finished him
>have to restart fight because I died
Kinda killed the mood for me

didn't know how to use rations or put on suppressors first time i played MGS2
it actually made it more fun as i was very careful to not get caught and used the tranq gun more than anything

>Link swings his sword due to the motion and breaks the blockage
Speaking of figuring things out by accident. Is there a single human being out there that didn't figure out this puzzle on accident?

Same
By the time I found him I had like, 200 seeds

I don't know man that sounds hilarious

I played through the entirety of the 3DS version of Metal Gear solid 3 without knowing how to switch the weapons you have equipped.
Though to be fair you had to like, touch them on the touch screen then push a button before you went out of the screen
Plus it was my first time playing a metal gear game, and honestly in my opinion the series and that specific game is overrated

Kek, same thing happened to me.
I think that's one of the few times I've audibly said "Are you fucking kidding me?" while playing a game

>Played through a good chunk of the first disc of FF7 due to not understanding the materia system.
>Pretty much all of FF8 due to its retarded leveling system.
>Not knowing how to parry in MGR until Monsoon. I had to go back and practice until I got the timing down.
>Skyward Sword and the stupid fucking bird controls. Part of it was also the controller fucking up, which added double bullshit.
>Not understanding a goddamn thing that was happening in Enchanted Arms, to the point where I accidentally fucked myself over when my party isn't available (I was trying to rush through it due to it being a rental, I might go and finish it one of these days just to say I did).

In Botw everyone forgets cryonis is a thing. And theres points later in the game where its clearly there to make your life easier, but since you can solve things in pretty much anyway everyone goes for much harder solutions instead of cryonis.

>FFX
>bumrush to save point
>pay no attention to the sphere grid tutorial
>forget it even exists when playing again a few days later
>hard mode unlocked

Playing Final Fantasy Tactics for the first time as a kid, did not know you could add more party members to the battle by using the L1 and R1 buttons when placing Ramza on the map. I had gotten thru most of the prologue just using Ramza, and Delita and Albus, who are place on the map for you.

Yeah, I quit Guilty Gear because I spent a fucking year playing and still don't know how to deal with most characters, especially Sin kiske, fuck that character and whoever plays him.

Since I was too much of a scrub I just accepted my fate and dropped the game. Not having Players on my level to play doesn't help either.

I have no other fighting game that I am interested this Gen besides DBZ but since it is arc sys I'm sure it will dead nafter a few months and the same thing will happen just like Gg.

I'll just wait for the next Gen fighters or something.

>Tenchu Wrath of Heaven
>Grandmaster all stages
>Found out I could rotate the camera
>I was using R2 for the entire playthough

Still to this day I wonder how I didn't just move the right analog stick but it's true.

played through 70% of "Buu's fury" for the gameboy advanced.
everytime you level up your base stats level up, and you get a few points to raise a skill a little more.

I went through 70% of the game without realizing i had skill points to spend, and I toughed through every boss with a shitty weak character, I was getting my ass handed to me by basic enemies.

When I found out about the points I used them all at once and then proceeded to 1 hit kill every enemy up to the final boss. feels good

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Woops, it's a "steel" pipe
Whatever

Same shit happened to me in MGS when Grey Fox blows himself up. It got me so pissed.

I never did the Pazaak or Swoop Bike minigames in KOTOR for the first couple playthroughs

I beat the entirety of half life 2 without knowing that the rocket launcher was laser-guided on the xbox version. I thought the rockets were just bugged to shit. The helicopter encounters were really fucking tense, it was actually great.

This too

>I don't read in-game text just like my favorite juetuber!
The Thread.

Knight and Merchants

1st playing it I didn't know really what villagers went to what buildings. how to manage my resources like food well. And battles usually went poorly because I would just brawl. This was all the first and second levels.
I was a kid playing this. And my older brother / self discovery eventually did fill in the knowledge gap some what. Still I suffered because a 12 year old isn't great at strategy.
I am proud though that where we generally struggled to win. I'd be the one to eventually overcome. Level 4 I broke the first line of defense when my brother couldn't. He managed to beat the 2nd final line. He was so excited I could get him there. And a long time latter I bested both levels 17 and 19 where you don't get bases. Tough levels indeed.
Now I'm very good at the game. Can balance my economy very well. Most battles are very easy because the AI isn't that smart and you just pack a lot of archers behind your men and send one out to draw them to the field of your choosing.
Still to this day though a very solid game that can prove challenging at times.

I didnt know you could drop guns in shadow the hedgehog so I just used the shitty pistols till they broke

Yes. In Star Ocean 3 I didn't realize you were supposed to hold down the button during skills to do more damage until the final boss

>play through the first 5 levels on hard before realizing i can upgrade damage
>game goes from sort of difficult at times to piss easy

>One of the first GBA games I had was Naruto Ninja Council
>Didn't know about the special screen nuke moves
>Couldn't beat the final boss because he was too hard with just the regular punches

Years later I popped it in and beat it

I didnt realize until 90 hours into New Vegas that I could repair weapons and armor myself. I though you could only repair it at a vendor.

I didn't realise you could heal outside of combat until my third persona 4 playthrough years later

>play oblivion for the first time
>didn't know about fast travel
>spent hours on simple quests because of how far certain points were from each other

Did you mod any weapons during that time?

to be fair, underwater gameplay didn't feature heavily until that level. So it's not a bad spot to learn it.

If you got to Rusty Bucket Bay and still not learned about it, THEN you're playing on hard mode.

>Dark Souls 1
>Get to Taurus demon before realising that I can change weapons from sword hilt.

Felt pretty stupid for that one.

Same

I beat the entirety of Megaman Star Force without knowing you could shield. Pic related took me forever to win against.

>Playing as knight
>Get to Taurus demon
>Somehow get the idea in my head that I can't block his attacks because he's too big or some shit
>Die 7 times trying to fat roll out of the way of his attacks
>Accidentally block one of his attacks
>Fight becomes a cakewalk

>Same thing happened with Moonlight Butterfly
>Spend 20 minutes dying while trying to fatroll away from piddly magic you can just block

Oddworld Stranger's Wrath

I was like 75% through the game and didn't realize pressing Y regenerated your health.

I only very recently learned you could make sharper turns underwater by holding R.

I only found out you can airdodge in melee after I already got to top 4 at EVO

i played a character in ffxiv up to level 40 without realizing i wasn't doing main quests, only guildhests ands duties. i was a lvl 40 conjurer and my main quest was lvl 8 or something. i also didn't realize you changed classes by changing items.

Stealth suit is a qt.

When I played Mega Man Star Force as a kid, I didn't know how to use cards. I beat the first boss with just the buster, it took forever.

>Pick up the Dragon Longsword +1
>Switch to it because it has bigger numbers
>Don't notice the fire damage effect since everything is red anyway
>Just assume the lava bugs bleed fire or something
>Wonder why I'm doing such terrible damage
>Figure the game is just hard
>Get to Flamelurker like this
>Hit him for 20 damage a swing
>Takes 30 minutes to kill him

I recall forgetting some key mechanic in Dark Souls 3.

played though 40 hours of skyrim before realizing that you could level up your skills

Brood War. I didn't know for the longest time that you could select multiple units at once.

I got like halfway through Skyrim without realizing that I could fast travel.

Funny

You can block in Hyrule Warriors?

I tried not to use it unless I absolutely had to, because I hated the color. Eventually I just modded it.

I got to Remilia in Touhou 6 not knowing I can hold shift to slow my character down. Woops.

I was deep into the postgame of Disgaea 4 Vita before I realized that the bars on the accuracy meter estimated how much damage your attack would do out of the enemy's current total. I had been looking at raw stats and guessing for at least a hundred hours. Boy, did I feel foolish.

I played destiny 2 for 100+hours without knowing the weak point on cabalshields was the centre red thing

which is stupid

Didn't realise you could level up in Arkham Asylum until the Ivy fight

>played Dark souls for 10 hours until he realized what souls were for
>played 100 hours until he realized you could lock on

In Final Fantasy VIII, I didn't realize how easy it was to refine magic from cards instead of drawing it from enemies, so I sat there in battles drawing spells over and over again like a dumbass. Refining cards wouldn't even have been that tedious, because I enjoyed the card game.

AAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

>Didn't know how to use the sphere grid in FFX up until the plant boss (I skipped reading that long ass tutorial)
>Didn't know about guarding in Crisis Core and FFX until well after I beat the games
>Didn't know you were supposed to use Steal constantly in every single FF game to make it easier
>Didn't realize FF Tactics Advance had multiplayer until after I beat it
There is definitely more I've missed, I go through games quickly without reading a lot of times. Apparently FF games were where I remember most of my fuckups.

I once played Elder Scrolls games without mods.

They literally tell you to put your map against the wall. If it took you more than 2 minutes to figure out you're retarded.

I beat fallout 3 without realizing you could jump.
I had to reload a few saves due to getting stuck and being retarded.

>Be me, little kid
>Didn't have many games on the Xbox, but I had Starwars Republic Commando
>Didn't realise that you could command the other guys
>Did everything myself while some guys idlely follow me
>Hit a brick wall where there were multiple Super Battle Droid spawners
>It wasn't until years later I realised I could tell squad mates to perform tasks