>that game mechanics/feature you discovered way to late

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>Warframe
For my first 10 hours I thought you had to add polarity to a mod slot before you could equip a mod to it.
I felt retarded.

>>384344378
So this is the f2p games audience.

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>>384344732
I.. I deserve that.

You can endlessly make neuromods in Prey 2017.

each fatality needs to be done at a different distance

you need to double tap A on sonic riders to grind on the rails

>>384345213
How long did it take you?

You can slide under every single enemy attack in MGR

Half A-press

in GTA san andreas, i thought you had to eat to not starve

Finished P3rd and made it to G rank in MHFU not knowing you can get out of stuns

You can hold up guards in MGSV and they stay down infinitely (or until you trigger a full alert).

So many times getting fucked by guards waking up from being knocked out and snitching on me.

Lock on in Monster Hunter.

>>384345314
i had done perfectly all the missions exept the ones that involved grinding, so a few months

>>384344274
Overcast spells on total warhammer

>>384344274
>Xenoverse 2
Beat the game and dlc, most pqs and did a lot of PvP, and just yesterday found out how to hit backwards when someone teleports behind you

changing radio stations on vice city, finished the entire game without knowing that.

>>384345459
Game becomes easy mode once you work this out unfortunately.

>knock guard out
>drag him somwhere out of site
>wake him up
>point gun at his back
Rinse and repeat.

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You can switch personas mid fight in P5. Didn't realize it until I beat the game and saw other people handle fights

that you could run in Super Mario Bros. by holding B

>>384345683
You mean the thing you can do in every persona game?

>>384345759
/v/ is too young to have played the previous Persona games.

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>>384344274

Parry halfway through Metal Gear Rising

Didn't know about purchasing dodge until I had finished it and looked it up.

You can reverse a kick in an angle lock in some smackdown

>>384345960
How do you get past that robot dog fight without knowing parry?

>>384344274
Defending in Etrian Odyssey. It took me several playthroughs to realise that if an enemy has an extremely powerful attack that you know when it'll use it, you can use the defend command on that turn to survive.

>>384345759
P5 was my first persona game guy

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recover health by resting in the wall

>>384345960
There is a dodge???

In Blood you can tap Spacebar to shrug The Thing (cut off hand) off your neck.
Discovered it 10 years later after playing the game.

In Hlaf Life 2 if you crouch while jumping you can jump a little higher.

Why wasn't this in the tutorial? Fuck PC gaming.

>>384344274
I beat Resident evil 4 without using the A button to run.

>>384346212
It's an oversight in most, if not all quake-derived games

>>384346212
no

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>>384345960
>tfw never beat this game because I kept restarting every fight unless I got an S or A rank

>>384346157
OH SHIT! THIS! you have won the thread. This was the most bullshit unexplained vital mechanic in any game i've ever played. How the fuck did you supose to know?

>>384346414
>He never S ranked the whole game while purchasing nothing but new moves

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>Play through God Hand in 2013
>Finish it in around 15 hours or so
>Love the game to death
>Try a Hard run in 2014
>Get fucking destroyed
>Look up videos on God Hand
>Find a basic and advanced tutorial video
>Already think I'm hot shit at God Hand so look at the basic video for a joke
>The first few things they said are shit I didn't even know existed and actually shock me because it's so basic
>Enemies glow when you select them in the roulette wheel, moves do different damage at different levels, Axe kicks and Jumping Kicks exists in the game
>When I get to the advance tutorial, it's full of stuff I never even knew you could do, didn't even know enemies had such basic attack patterns you could abuse

In a similar vein, when I played MGR for the first time I couldn't even pass the first Gecko's you fight.. Looked up a basic video, and discovered that I was playing the game totally wrong. Bought Offensive Defense, and learnt how to Parry, and the game became so much more fun.

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>>384346095

Med Paste, and button mashing. Parry didn't really become an issue until Monsoon, which is when I learned it.

>>384346414

I do the same thing, even with the Arkham games that grade you. I hate it.

>>384346212
>if you crouch while jumping you can jump a little higher.
Technically you don't jump higher you just pull your legs up midair so your feet don't bump into the wall you're trying to jump over.

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>>384346414

>>384346212
It was in the tutorial for Half-Life 1. Don't tell me you played 2 without playing 1 first?

>>384345683
This is the exact reason why games have so many tutorials now. Hell, this WAS a tutorial for this so I don't know how you missed it.

I was neglecting to save or merge good personas halfway into P4 and shit got real hard

>>384346289
>>384346212
I know you said HL2 but you cannot pass the HL1 training course without crouch jumping a couple times

>>384346625
>>384346757

I played HL1 like 15 years ago how the fuck would i remember that?

Played genji for 5 months without realizing that your swift strike has a cd reset when you kill an enemy

>>384345395
If you runa lot You have to eat from time to time or your muscle goes down or do I remember wrong?

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You cant beat this

I discovered the sprint in skyrim after 100 hours of gameplay.

>>384346804
well, HL2 happened 13 years ago

>>384346804
TF2 was my first can-crouch-while-jumping game and since then I just tried crouch jumping naturally in every game just in case if it works.

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>>384346520
>>384346578
>>384346617
Maybe it was because I was playing with KB+M but I really was not enjoying myself and had to just give up. Maybe because "correct play" favors a very defensive style.

>>384346804
10 years of counter strike?
I smell underage

>>384346869
I think you actually get skinnier or fat if you eat to much.

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You can backstab in Bloodborne
Didn't know about it until logarius

>>384346937
Its really so much better with a controller. I rarely use my 360 PC controller but for games like hack n slash and RPGs it's a must.

i did the water temple without the blue tunic, it wasnt too bad tho...

>>384346938
Okay now, say the same thing but better

>>384346996
Whats wrong with the colors here.

>>384346872
I discovered fast travel in M&B after 150 hours.

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>>384347023
I think it's also really just a bit too slow for me, I prefer fast gameplay and high risk:reward playstyles

I didn't discover you could run in dark souls 1 until after entering blighttown. I'd gotten an iron armor drop from the knight in the undead parish too and fat rolled the entire game up until after anor londo

I didn't discover until after beating Fallout 4 that you can HOLD activate to drink from a water source indefinitely rather than having to wait for the animation to reset between each sip you take. This works in Fallout 3 and New Vegas as well

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>>384346872
Oh yeah? I've been playing Morrowind since release and only discovered that you can hold down the attack button to charge a power attack this past year.

>>384347306
When you see damage numbers on your weapon that are like 5-15 that isn't random damage that is dependent on how long you hold the attack button a quick press is 5 and if you hold it down until you pull the weapon all the way back is 15.

>Play Ori
>Think there are some really fucking hard parts
>Turns out I was missing a vital movement ability
>Only found out after I was done

>>384344274
That Niko Bellic can perform Martial Arts. But to be fair, while the fighting mechanics are way better than in GTA V, you can win every fist fight just with walking around your enemy and punching a few times.

But I've played IV probably 10 times and only found that out after my 8th or so playthrough.

>>384347203
nice bullshit anon, i think you can't pass the turorial without running and jumping

>>384347306
Same but happened with the Witcher, I discovered you can keep A pressed and attack continuously on my second playthrough

Took me 14 years to learn how to wavedash

>>384347478
you never have to run and jump anywhere in dark souls 1 in order to reach blighttown

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>Made it through the whole Tomb of the Giants without realising you could use the lantern

fast travel in oblivion after i walked all way back to chorrol after kvatch

shit ruined my gaming experience, i wish i never found that out

>>384347763
same here

I didn't realize you could change your skills in Devil Survivor until the 6th day.

>you can sprint in re4

Discovered after el gigante

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The fact that you could speed up your game in Mount and Blade: Warband. I must've logged in 500+ hours before discovering that fucking feature.
Do you know how much time I've spent staring at my army marching across the map? Fucking hell

Didn't realize you could fast travel in Skyrim until like half the game. Made the game more fun to be fair.

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>units cause more danage at close range
I thought this was c&c

I missed the High Jump boots in Super Metroid and thought I was supposed to bomb jump through the entire game. I did.

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>>384344274
Hotkeys for quick skill switch in Diablo 2

I discoverd that aiming was binded by default to z in bioshock when I started the DLC after finishing the game.
I don't use a qwerty keyboard so I had rebinded walk to z.

You can do fine hipfiring in the game so it's not that big of a deal, but for the research camera it made things a whole lot slower and I felt stupid when I learnt that.

>>384344274

elective mode in diablo 3

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>>384344274
>Parasite Eve
I made it through the entire game without ever using tools and holy balls was it hard.
Man I was dumb.

>>384347203
Are you me? I don't think I ran until I got to sens. In hindsight it's too easy to overlook the soapstone message explaining running

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>>384344274
>you can choose prodigies in Tales of Maj'Eyal as you reach level 30 and 50.

Beat the game without prodigies on my gay ass paladin

Didn't know about the super and miracle arts in legend of legaia and beat the game only using hyper arts.

>>384348083
I had the same thing, I was only 100 hours or so into it though.

I didn't understand Recettear's haggle mechanic until after I already beat the game.

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>the Last Remnant
>literally fucking everything
There's two whole games worth of mechanics and side content that are completely hidden

Getting death metals from tokyo death metro in let it die

On that note, it says you get one for every 1000 tdm points you get in a war, but the last two times i've done it none dropped, anyone know why?

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>MH4U is my first Monster Hunter game
>Find out 300 hours in that you can dung bomb a monster that has you pinned

>>384344274
Using the dpad to move silently in MGS3.

Took me three playthroughs.

>>384344274
dot hack

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Ctrl+Space in Mount and Blade Warband

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>>384344274
>those illusionary walls that you have to manually click on in Dark Souls 2

some walls can just be hit normally to open a secret so I just assumed all the secret walls were like that

>>384344274
found out about dodging in God Hand during the 2nd Devil Hand fight

>>384345460
Congrats, you manage to git gud from the nastiest monster in the game. The camera control.

>>384344274
Manual aim in Dragon's Dogma

>>384344274
More accurately "forgot" but motherfucking Charge Beam in Super Metroid. Got damn Ridley took me 30 tries only using Power Bombs rationed Super Missiles.

>>384346937
>kb+m
>in a platinum game
>dat retarded negative acceleration
There are less painful ways to commit suicide anon.

>>384344274
I played most of MGS: Portable Ops without knowing you could drag bodies to your other soldiers to teleport them back to the truck. I dragged them all back to the truck myself. That game took me so goddamn long to finish.

>>384344274
you lose all your plug-in chips when you die in nier automata

discovered it about 25 hours in after I was fucking decked out and unkillable

died from an environmental hazard and lost all my hard work and grinding

safe to say I haven't touched it since

you can press circle to roll in dark souls and it actually lets you dodge some attacks, asylum demon took me forever

>>384349792
Nice b8 m8.

>>384344274
Wallstacking in rust

learned how to do it 1 week before the twig update

I didn't fully understand the Junction System until my 2nd play through of FF8

>>384349643
Last time I played, I forgot there was a run button and spent at least an hour trying to figure out where I was supposed to go when I reached the part with the crumbling blocks you have to run over.

>>384349158
To be fair they tell you the wrong things in the tutorial anyway

>>384347429
Holy fuck

>>384349905
I've played the game quite a few times and still don't really understand it. I usually just pick a spell and junction it then leave it.

>>384349826
no, I actually played the game blind, unlike /pol9v/. you would have had trouble too if you had considered playing the game as intended like I did.

>>384347205
oh shit

>>384349506
>you have to manually click on
What did he mean by this

>>384347429
what the shit

>>384347205
webm or you're lying, fuckhead

>>384344274
didnt know you could by new moves and upgrade weapons until after i beat metal gear rising twice.

>>384349643
>>384344274


tfw i beat am2r finding the charge beam after the ice beam

>>384350052
Press the *INTERACT* button

My girlfriend played through the entire bioshock series without ironsights, i showed her them after watching her struggle but still manage to beat all the games. Was proud.

>Strange Journey
Holding B for crabwalking. Took me around 100+ hours to realize it.

>>384349996
No, you'd need to be retarded not to realize the evasion maneuver lets you evade attacks.

>>384344274
It's not that I discovered this late, but I completely neglected the horse taming in BOTW until after I had beaten the game. I believe I rode one horse early on, said "this is shit", didn't bother registering it and just didn't use it again. I went back to it later, like I said, but I don't feel like the horses would have made the game any easier. I feel like horses were just thrown into the game because they've become a bit of a staple in LoZ and open-world RPGs. I didn't use mounts in Skyrim or Horizon either.

>>384344274

Insta reload in gears of war at the final boss.

I went through the whole game without the reload timing

>>384350052
You have to go up to a wall and hit the general interact button to open it, where in DaS1 you just hit walks with your weapons. They had to change it because DaS2 has shitty quick-degrade weapons, and they had to change the weapons to that because there are too many bonfires, and they had to put in too many bonfires because the world layout is gay and the world layout is gay because the DaS2 devs are retarded.

>>384347429
Fuck everything

>>384344274
My friend went through DarkSouls 1 with a shitty Logitech controller, not knowing that you could lock ennemies.

>>384350190
I think the Charge Beam was literally the last thing I found in the game, including ammo expansions and energy tanks.

>>384347068
There's fast travel?

Took me half the game to realize weapons in Dark Cloud don't have a max level. So I got so stressed out trying to get super strong synthspheres for hours hoping the weapon I liked wouldn't get capped making it useless. Damn Dark Cloud was great.

Also never realized you could sell parts back full price in Armoured Core 2. So much time wasted thinking and trying to predict usefullness when I could have experimented easily and/or completely overhaul for no cost.

>>384347478
I don't think you have to jump at any point to finish the game. The tutorial messages in Dark Souls 1 never even tell you how to jump.

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>>384347763
Fuck that place, I knew about the lantern but I didnt think it made it any easier. I just ran through it all until I got it right.

I didn't know you could jump cancel in DMC3. I beat it when I was a kid thinking the game was alright but nothing special. I replayed it like a couple years back, and holy shit it's fucking 10/10.

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I figured out you can lock onto targets in Dark Souls after I finished the game when watching a lore video with gameplay in the background.

Yeah I played the entire fucking game without lock-on. And I still can't play it with lock due to me being uncomfortable using it.

>>384349905
I still don't fully understand all of its intricacies, although it was more than 15 years since I last played it

>>384347068
It's a cheat.

>>384350385
ctrl + space

>>384350482
>skip tutorial
>WOOOW this game is hard wtf

>>384344274
I finished Sinner's Rise before I realised there was a bonfire or the herald in Majula. I just came out of Things Betwixed, took the first turn and just kept going...

>>384346872
Skyrim has a sprint button?

>>384346212

I'm a bit older, but it was this way with most games from that time. I assume it was the engine or something? I still try to crouch jump in modern games, pure out of automation.

>>384350618
There was a tutorial?

Holding down on the dpad takes you to your first item in dark souls 3.

>>384350680
Are you retarded or something?

>>384346872
Sure I can. I've played for about 200 hours and, before your post, thought that all that sprinting I was seeing in videos was from installed mods or something.

>>384344274
friend played fo3 without knowing about v.a.t.s. somehow, even though the game explains it. I told him about it later and he reinstalled it and replayed it using v.a.t.s. nonstop. I'm guessing he just thought it was a pause or information menu

>>384347478

You're confused with DaS2.

>>384350710
I just went blind into the game and started to play it. I never saw a tutorial option.

I didn't know about switching controller ports for the Psycho Mantis boss fight so i just punched him...for half an hour.

>>384350761
we all know that feel anon

Gave up on ff6 when I was young because I had no idea who to use blitz.

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>>384347429
No fucking way. Seriously? It thought every hit will produce a random damage between those 2 numbers

>>384350752

You literally need to pass the tutorial in order to start the game. They literally teach you the basics, including lock-on.

>>384350628
I knew there had to be someone like you out there. That's actually awesome.

The Mass Effect 1 Mako had a main cannon alongside it's machine gun.

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>walk halfway across the world for a quest battle
>could teleport the whole time

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>>384347763
I made it to the bonfire without a divine weapon by pushing skeletons off the cliff for an hour.

>>384350861
Actually there's nothing preventing you from skipping all those messages.

>>384350847
it does. Power attack just gives you a 1.5x modifier. It's literally based on the tabletop rpg system.

>>384349506
Yeah, for many times I read those messages by other players saying that there's a secret wall around many times, tried hitting a wall with weapon because that's how one opened up secret walls in DS1 and when it didn't work, I thought that all those messages were an elaborate community prank.

But then I talked about it with a friend, and he told me that you have to interact with the wall instead. How fucking stupid I felt, too bad that I had already beaten the game and all the DLC by that point.

>>384350873
I wish it was, but it took me fucking ages. I just kept bashing my head against it refusing to backtrack because I was mad.

>>384347763
same here

>running in Doom

Disgaea 5
The ability to use maid skill to share Elixirs / Shards with 5 characters instead of one
The fact that if your party is towered, enemies cannot target held characters (so they will always go after the one on the ground) - which is useful when you're against an enemy who can oneshot your main character and you want to ensure their survival.

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>You can parry bosses in DaS2

It wasn't until I saw a naked greatsword-wielding madman parry the Twin Dragonriders that I actually found out.
It was only around 15 hours of gameplay so it wasn't THAT late.

>>384347068
WHAT

>>384350916

Yeah you can skip the messages.. the entire area is still designed to be a tutorial.

Fast travel in Xenoblade.

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I'm like 10 hours into BotW and I just realized that climbing the towers will give you a map of the area.
I kept thinking I had to buy maps somewhere late game eventually.

I've only activated ONE other one aside from the tutorial one in the beginning

I don't know that you can watch TV in GTA IV and V until one of my friends point that out. That was after I finished both games with the DLCs.

>ape escape
Sling shot infinite jump

>tenchu
Infinite front tuck
moonsaults

>sf3:third strike
Makoto's 100% stun combo
Roo's denjin can be charged faster with mashing punch buttons and diagonal inputs

>megaman x
hadoken

>>384344274
I played Darkest Dungeon for like 22 weeks without knowing that you can easily unlock every skill for the characters in the guild instead of being stuck with the 4 they have from the beginning.

>>384348083
HOW

>>384344274
>total war attila
I forgot about immigration and it fucked my wre campaign

Just about every mechanic in resonance of fate felt like a revelation.

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>>384351096
Sup, Onsoku

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>>384344274
I didnt know how to shoot while moving in MGS2.
Time: about 3-4 years.
(No bait, MGS2 was my first btw)

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>>384346212
>there are people that don't know about crouch-jumping

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I figured out that you jump higher when you push X harder in Crash Warped when I was in second or maybe even third area. Also I discovered that you can jump and glidespin during postgame cleanup.

>>384350052
Oh just shut up

>>384350885
what game?

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>>384344274
Turning 180° on the spot.

>>384351198
Wait, did he just kill the boss before the battle started?

>>384350885
They made the teleport button a lot more obvious because of this. I didn't know you could do it either until they updated the game.

>>384351367
yes.

After like 600+ hours of NV i found out you can filter your inventory to specific things in the trader screen.

>>384344274
>it's a "/v/ can't read manuals or go into the game settings" episode

>>384351424
>manuals

this isnt the 90s grandpa

>>384351424
I will kill you, fucker

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>>384344274
You can use the c-stick for smash moves in melee. Found out a couple months ago because my bros are autistic as shit over it.

>>384344274
You could jump and parry in Dark Souls. I thought that parry was a bugged shield bash that did no damage.

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Never used the Glass artifact on Risk of Rain until a few years later when i saw videos of some dude doing a 6 hour run where he obliterated errything.

Somehow i didn't think the big fat 500% damage modifier was worth the hp penalty.

>>384350885
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>DOOM had weapons wheel with slowmo
>Literally accidentally discovered it after beating the game and on my way to finishing collecting every collectable.
No regrets though.

Also at about the same time I discovered my 970 could perfectly run the game on Ultra at 60+ FPS.
That I regret.

>>384351545
>that pic

fuck me man, its all ogre

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I didn't realise Demon's Souls had a Lock On function untill I got to the Storm King, about 3 quarters the way through.

I must have wasted an extrea 20 hours of play time dying because I needlessly gimped myself.

If you're wonder how the hell this happened it was my first PS3 game and I had no idea what R3 and L3 were.

>>384351471
no, instead every fucking video game has about 20 hours of mindless, bullshit, immersion-breaking tutorials in it.

I'll take my 200 page manuals back, please.

Magic in SOTN

>>384351281

Total War Warhammer

>>384351498
But literally every single one of the things in this thread are explained in the manual, tutorial, or can be seen from the controller configuration, except for maybe >>384345459 , and it's a loading screen tip.

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>>384344274
> Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Quicksave/quickload

>>384351647
Thick manuals were the best. I remember when I would read the prologue and character info in the car as a kid.

>>384351636
Yeah there are multiple people ITT saying they didn't know about the souls lock-on feature.

They are really bad at explaining that part. Especially if people get into that game without having seen gameplay of it before.

>>384351545
what if I never love again

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>>384349496
>fast travel in M&B

Do none of you retards press every button to see what it does?

>>384351636
Pretty sure that's one of the first things the game tells you.

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I didn't know about the cover system in Human Revolution until I was near the end of the game. Didn't feel like I was really hampered by not using it, though.

>>384349751
It's in the tutorial that you're told about this. You're also told that you can go back and get them from your body.

>>384351917
Yes and like I said I had no idea the analogue sticks counted as buttons so I just kinda put it to the back of my mind.

>>384351908
>See this "Uninstall" button
>What could it possibly do?
>Click on it
>I don't have the game anymore and need to install it once again

Never skip tutorials, guys

>>384351992
My controllers never had an uninstall button.

>>384351880
>again
you don't belong here

>>384351926
Like most posts in this thread, it was explained to you in the tutorial. You're right about not needing it though.

>>384351926
wait it this post satire?

>>384346869
if you hit zero fat then you will lose muscles so yeah

>>384351992
go home, DSP

>>384352041
you'd have a point if he said that he had a gf.

>>384346460
I knew. I don't know how I knew, but I knew. Shit was boring as fuck, having to stand still and lean against a wall for a minute after every gunfight

>>384352101
I've had a few. Only loved the one in high school though and I think she broke me

>>384352219
you're a pathetic failed normie bitch

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>>384345626
Or you just fulton everything.

>>384352190
I don't think anyone gives a shit about this one, but you could regenerate stamina faster in RE6 by leaning against a wall, too.

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>>384352037
>his controller never had an uninstall button

How does it feel to be poor?

>>384352302
Does it help that I don't have a job and I sit in my room and play video games all day?

>Dodge offset in bayonetta
Finished game on non stop climax before I found it out...

>>384352382
no. you will never be one of us

Martian Memorandum
Broke into Dick Castro's vault without realizing there was a way to see the invisible lasers.

There is an invisible laser MAZE.
You have to go through it twice.

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>>384352423
>you will never be one of us
as if it's a bad thing.

>>384351545
time to get riped

Sonic Spinball.

If you collect all the rings on a stage, a portal opens and you go to a bonus stage. 21 years.

>>384349342
Well I'm only learning this now

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>>384344274
Realised after 30h of farm and try hard to beat the minotaur that I could heal myself with an Estus flask

Except I've somehow missed the estus flask in the tutorial zone and as of today I still wonder how the fuck I've managed to get past the tutorial zone without it

>>384349643
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>>384350190
Jesus christ.

Only thing that really surprised me in Super Metroid was the Charge Jump, basically a ghetto Screw Attack. I had no idea that it existed and was fairly useful in the earlier parts of the game. I also knew about the super moves you could do with the various beams the first time I played through the game and even exploited them to beat almost every boss.

I found out you can quickly travel in Mount and Blade rather than wait for your party to slowly move across the map, about 800 hours in.

>>384352962
at least you got gud

>>384351249
Wait, what?

>>384344274
>max payne 3
>you can lay down and roll
>discover it in second playthrough

>>384353349
Hold square to aim the weapon, then hold L1. You can move around while shooting.

It's the same in MGS1.

Save scumming in the DS Ace Attorney games. I assumed saving during gameplay was one of the usual "suspend and quit" deals, but nope it's a permanent save.

>>384349398
me too. I thought tilting the stick slightly like in mgs2 would be sneaking.

also learned about cqc halfway through the game.

Just found out that you can auto skip cutscenes you've already watched in FFXIV.

>>384344378
Jesus Christ how did you even last 10 hours without mods

Hold B to skip all the owl dialogue scenes in OoT.

>>384349398
I'm at the end of my fifth playthrough and only just discovered it this time 'round.

>>384353461
how bad are you that you need to savescum in a phoenix wright game??? There's like maybe 2 parts in the entire game where it's a little obtuse; everything else gives you multiple chances and extra clues if you start fucking up.

>>384347763
same

>>384344274
I learned how to block in Metal Gear Rising while fighting Monsoon.

>>384351908
not in pc games

Super Metroid - basically everything

>>384353823
I learned how to block while fighting the final boss

>>384346414
I kinda-sorta do this in Ninja Gaiden Black, constantly restarting fights to get the best karma score I could possibly get and also optimizing my healing potions usage so I never have to use any.

Speaking of, I played through that game without realizing you could drag in essence to activate a UT, without knowing about on-landing charges, or without realizing how useful UT/ETs were until my second playthrough.

>>384353736
Maybe the first and third, but Justice for All was such a pile of shit that I wish I'd known I could save scum back then.

>>384353425
>It's the same in MGS1.
I think you meant mgs3. All L1 does in mgs1 is equip/unequip items. Unless you meant twin snakes in which case I know nothing about.

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In Darkest Dungeon you can swap hero skills during dungeon crawling (not mid fights tho) and you can trade heirlooms with eachothers while in town.
It took me 30 in-game weeks.

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I played through No More Heroes 1 multiple times without knowing how to Dark Step.

>>384354119
I didn't know the first one and I've finished the game after a couple failed saves.

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This doesn't happen to me anymore because Kojima trained me to look for hidden mechanics in games.

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If you orient your ship correctly the translation controls actually make sense, they aren't really slapped on random buttons

>>384352583
>Having sex before 18 is "well-adjusted"
Americans

>>384354040
I felt so fucking stupid once I figured out you can dash.

>>384351249
I didn't know you can do this.

>>384354119
During forced interactions with curio due to quirks you have a short window of opportunity to use corresponding items to prevent negative outcomes.

>>384350921
No it doesn't look up the equations for damage...

>>384350921
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Combat read the damage category...

>>384351096
tripfag

>>384346937
>Maybe because "correct play" favors a very defensive style.
>platinum game
yeah no

>>384354290
That's neat. Do you just drag the item quickly then or do some extra imputs?

>>384351545
Literally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1zFeHJzS5E
Good thing I got lucky way back when

>>384351157
how could you even build parties like that?

>>384354151
Forgot to mention, this took me 700 hours to figure out

>>384344274
In true crime new york you could change your guns if you checked your cars trunk

>>384346460
I'm positive this is in the manual but I've pretty sure they tell you in the first level too.

I'm fucking retarded.

I uh... didn't know you could run in resident evil 4 until I got to the castle section of the game. Made a lot of those fights in the village pretty horrifying.

My first interaction with chainsaw dude coming at me and not being able to run away was a shit show.

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I've almost finished Risen when I realized that you have to time your attacks.

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>>384344274
You can parry a Fleshpound's attacks

>>384348453
I played bioshock on xbox 360 and didnt know you could aim

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i thought that the bunny amulet and super carrot in rabi ribi were absolutely horrible until the final boss of hard in rabi ribi

>>384354962
I never played any of the bioshock games because I disliked the controls (the aim button specifically) in the original on 360.

I didn't realize I kept fucking up those platform leaps in Sonic Adventure 2 for the longest time because I was using a wavebird controller and the input lag is bad by half a second.

>>384354135
W-what's dark step?

>>384354601
Just rightclick them

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You can move in Blade Mode

>>384354029
Nope you can also run and shoot in MGS1 on PS1

>>384355223
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWqWjKt-oc4

>>384355013
What was the aim button on the 360? iirc the left trigger and bumper was for plasmids and the right trigger and bumper was for weapons?

>>384355667
click right thumbstick

>>384355667
it was right stick which is really fucking awkward when you have to do aiming with the same stick
I don't know why they couldn't just use L2

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>>384351082
This. I knew you could warp IN the map, but not between. Found it out when I couldn't get out of Alcamoth.

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>>384355809
oh shit, yeah thats really awkward placement. Oh well, got through the game perfectly fine without it

>>384346872
It took me a few hours before i realized it. I guess i just never ALT in many games. My character already ran fast enough so i never guessed that there would be sprinting.

I discovered you could choke out enemies in mgs after I beat 1-3

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>>384355995
How the hell did you even beat the games

>>384355467
Not him but I was just reading about that now. Never knew it, but it's not surprising because it's unintuitive as shit, and it's not in the instruction booklet. I at least got a codec call telling me I can't walk slowly

>>384347763
>tomb of giants
>dark as fuck but hey this game is supposed to be shit so it may be intentional
>evetually get frustrated and look around my items
>"lantern"
>put it in right hand slot
>press every button
>nothing happens
>when finish my first run and look up things about the game it turns out it only works in left hand slot

>>384356086
Using tranq and other guns

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I forgot that you could hold down square to grind on rails in Jak3. The last section in the ruins before the final boss was absolutely fucking brutal because of this.

>>384344274
I never knew that you could use the bacta tanks you pick up in Jedi outcast as first aid kits. Literally only found out this year when i decided to replay it. So i would go through the game without using any of them, just the heals you got through the levels from those machine things. And when i couldn't beat the level i would just use god mode

>>384346872
>>384347306
>>384350631
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>>384355951
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>>384355995
This is some DSP-tier shit, holy fuck

I finished KOTOR1 healing my characters only once per fight because I didn't understand it is turn based. Every time I stopped time to use medpacks I could use only one and I thought you can't use more.

>>384344274
Allies in Fallout
There was some text about returning the first party member to his town which I did and let him go.
then juiced drugs and savescummed nearly the whole game because I had no idea what it was supposed to play like.

>>384355006
It's not like you couldn't tank out most of the atta-
>hard
wait hold on

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>>384345683
Mine wasn't as bad but made me feel like a dumbass.
I got halfway through the game before I realized you can press a button on the map to show which social link is in which area.
I just went of memory of where they usually are or if they texted me.

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I've never understood how people have these things happen, do you not even look at binds when you start up a game?

I can fully understand M&B:WB Ctrl+Space and ones like that.

That being said,
400 hours into DA:I realized a certain upgrade item isn't consumable, so i was waiting until i got the right rare item to use on my next piece of gear instead of just transplanting.

And maybe... Using enemies as human shields in dishonored 2? probably got that about 15 hours in.
that's about it.

2B selfdestruction. REEEEEEEEE

>>384344917
how did you miss that? did you never use the fabricator?

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>>384352356
kek

>>384346118
Fuck me, I didn't know this, does it make much of a difference?

>>384357009
to be fair, that's basically how you had to do it in the previous, less casual persona games, so I don't blame you.

>>384344274
Quick medpacs and bandages in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I only found it out in the second game.

I didn't know rolling had i-frames until after I finished Dark Souls. I got through the entire game by blocking everything.

Once I did find out, I ditched the shield completely and my second playthrough was much, much faster.

>>384357359
Yeah the only one I had played previously was P3 and I don't remember having them on the map.

>>384357385
Sounds like you played it the proper way, no game like that should have press-button-receive-instant-healing, atleast going into inventory meant you had to find cover.

>>384346157
i should buy this

i found out you can parry in MGR when you fight with Sam

>>384347067
someone cranked the brightness

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>>384357683
How did you even manage Monsoon without parries?
That is pretty much the fight that forces you to git gud at it.

>>384344274

Weapon scaling in Dark Souls, I didn't fully understand it till about half way through Dark Souls 2.

>>384346863
if it took you 5 months to figure that out then i wonder how much longer it takes other people to figure out even simpler shit than this.

no wonder im forever stuck in diamond

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straferunning.

>>384344274
Entire playtrough of stalker without knowing you could trade.

>>384351367

It's technically not a boss, just an invisible enemy used in a scripted encounter to teach the player to use the Thermal Scanner.

>>384358401
>stuck in diamond
That's not even a bad place to be stuck. If you ever end up in bronze or silver, you are fucked no matter what your skill level is as your team will practically be brain-dead.

>>384354178
>being this prude

>>384358361

Oh, and I had played through Dark Souls 1 twice by that point.

>>384358540
>to teach the player to use the Thermal Scanner.
what.

Thermal scanner doesn't do shit, you have to fight him regularly without being able to lock on. The miniboss music comes on when you fight him too.

Using cheats, people found out that if you give yourself the x-ray visor you can lock on to him, even though you're not supposed to have the visor at that point in the game.

>>384344274
>You can switch party members outside the end of time in Chrono Trigger

Only found out once you got to the part you need Ayla in prison and I was mashing every button.

>>384345160
So that's why they never worked....

>that game mechanics/feature you discovered way to late
VATS

Then again after discovering it I'm not sure if it's a bad thing.

>>384346872
Stupidly, I did the same. Hadn't really played a lot of PC games before and just assumed Skyrim was kinda dull and shit and no sprint was just another reason not to like it. Then I accidentally pressed Alt and started to run. Felt stupid as fuck, deservedly so.

>>384351636
i dont usually use lockon. Never played the souls series but in games like devil may cry, lockon is just too much of a chore.

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>>384350898
My sides.

>>384358540
You're thinking of the regular non-invisible drones in phendrana, the one in the webm is hours after you get the thermal visor and has a lot of health (35 missiles to kill), but for some reason one super missile kills him.

>>384350898
They stop reviving if you kill the necromancers, bruh.

>Yakuza 2
Booze. The finale was fucking brutal even before getting to Ryuji, so many retries, even on easy. Got Kiryu sloshed and breezed right through the Korean gangbang.

>>384357456
Sword and board 4 lyfe brother

>>384358361
what do you mean fully understand? memorize the formulas for calculating exact damage? or the 40 cap? or just how it even works?

I could NEVER beat Riku on Destiny Islands in KH1 so I never fought him until i recently got kh 1.5 and found out he kicks at you every 4th hit

Now i have a stack of potions before ever leaving the island

Also, never used summons until lv. 1 run

>>384344274
CQC in MGS3. Thought it just was the punch-kick combo and got my mind blown off when I discovered all the techniques after completing the game and starting a new savefile.

>>384350213
you can do that?

>>384344274
Defensive Offensive in MGRevengeance.

Didn't know what it did or how to use it until NG+
Needless to say I didn't much care for that game the first time round. It got better with every higher difficulty though.

>>384359136
It's perfectly viable to get through Dark Souls without ever using lock-on, but it has a function in that when you lock on to an enemy your shield will always face them no matter what direction you're moving.

>>384344274
I didn't know iframes were a mechanic until I'd beaten Dark Souls 1 and got to 3/4 of the way through Dark Souls 2.

>>384360984
I just finished the game for the first time the other day and never tried Defensive Offense.

I've seen some videos of it now with people spamming it constantly and it almost looks like cheating.

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>>384358089
This, I didn't know about parrying until I got to Monsoon. How on earth anyone could beat monsoon without parrying is beyond me.

>>384345376
But first

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>>384345376
That was already in the manual you dumbfuck.

>>384347205

I PLAYED 3 AND FUCKING NV BEFORE FIGURING THIS OUT

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK

Branding in Shadow of Mordor. It's a mechanic that allows you to convert enemies to your side and adds a whole new dynamic to the game's central gimmick of persistent, unique opponents that level up. The developers thought it'd be a good idea to lock it behind one of the very last story quests, which I only got to after clearing 100% of the side content.

Probably the best mechanic in the entire game and I got to use it for what felt like a fraction of a second. Looks like it's just a default ability in the second game.

>>384351545
no wonder why i started lifting

>>384346157
I was told it was a cheat for infinite health.

>>384361150
This as well. It actually annoyed me that 2 and 3, it felt necessary to learn about iframes. During 1 I never felt it was needed to learn about it to beat the game.

>>384345395

If hunger bar depletes then muscle starts depleting then health starts depleting and you can finally go outside

>>384346872
You never pressed shit in 100 hours?
Jesus fuck

>>384344274
The witches 3 over 10 h before I realized that silver sword is for monsters and steel is guys