In this thread "Game mechanics and stuff you didn't knew about until several playthroughs"
>Snake will do a combo In MGS4 if you press the R1 repeatedly, pressing the button with more pressure after the second hit will make Snake hit the guard with his knee.
>>253611023
In MGS3, I never learned CQC.
I thought the 3 button combo was it
I beat the game using only tranqs on ny firstplaythrough because of this
Focus mode in Jade Empire.
I thought that shit was just for weapons until the final boss used it against me.
>You can put human enemies in a full nelson in Dragon's Dogma by pressing down the grab button while they are stunned.
>Harpies and Saurians will be held to the ground.
>>253611250
What, the tutorial taught you how to use it
In Castlevania Rebirth, you can use the wiimote like a whip.
You can lean in MGS4 with the left/right buttons on the d-pad.
Not really something I found through multiple playthroughs but back when DMC3 was released I played it at least 2 hours every day when I got in from school for 2-3 years without knowing that jump cancelling was even a concept until YouTube told me.
I was like 10 when I got it.
>Sonic generations
>hold both triggers as classic sonic to uncap sonics speed
If you hold the activate button on Fallout 3/New Vegas, you can keep drinking water without stopping. I feel like a fool barley finding out in January
I didn't knew how to get past the spiderweb in the Deku Tree until I played it on the Gamecube.
>>253611291
No man, no fucking way. I got my platinum in that game from beating it so many times and I never knew this.
>>253611357
Must have missed it.
I though they got rid of it, I was playing it yesterday and accidentally pressed the wrong button the d-pad while trying to zoom in on the Mosin.
I didn't knew that putting on a different facecamo in Act 3 of MGS4 allows you to walk past the guards without raising suspicion
Shaking your PS3 controller gets rid of the currently used texture of Octocamo.
This also works during cutscenes.
>>253611735
are you kidding?
>>253613189
I wish
It took me several hours and coincidences to figure out I can run and jump in DaS.
I also played the first half of the game without realizing I can lock-on enemies.
>>253614832
Oh god, I feel you. I still play without lockon for the most part, just from already being accustomed to ARPGs like mhfu
>>253611735
Holy shit, seriously? I've put like 200 hours into those fucking games and never knew about this.
>>253614832
I had no idea you could do multiple estus chugs in one go until NG+.
I played through one entire story of Muramasa before I discovered the sword crafting.
>>253612617
shaking your controller during talks with rose wiggles her bossom
>>253615627
That was a cool feature. I found out about it when I mashed the use button in panic to heal before I get hit.
Of course, this was probably only later in-game when it actually wasn't a waste to drink twice in one go.
>>253611023
I had found out that I could upgrade/change my equipment in legend of mana just before I fought the last boss.
I thought scouts were a useless gimmik in Hyperdimension Neptunia V.
I've spent hours randomly grinding while trying to fing the quest objectives.
In Pokemon games, accuracy numbers on the moves are a percentage.
>>253616168
That's just fucking stupid. Scouts are super useful like 90% of the time. Did you just never bother to even try them out?
You can aim rifles in MGS3 using triangle.
>>253616168
Lindow was a fucking beast
>>253616290
Well no shit
>>253616306
I've tried them once, they didn't do anything useful so I stopped.
I am retarded sometimes. I grinded to level 30 in chapter 2 because "USE THE FUCKING SCOUTS, DON'T FUCKING TRY TO FIGHT THE METAL DOGOOS YOU FAGGOT" apparently wasn't clear enough.
In Mario Galaxy you can spin while crouching, and Mario will sweep his foot out in front of him. You can also spin just before a ground-pound, and he will home in on an enemy and slam them with his feet.
>>253611735
Are you kidding me right now? I wasted so much time drinking in that game.
Holding B/Circle on fallout 3 and new vegas turns on your pip boy light
I honestly had no idea until like three or four months after buying it.
>>253616290
NO THEY AREN'T.
>>253611729
What
>>253616968
Did you really fucking play Fallout on a console?
>>253617446
Do you really fucking care? Not that guy but I've played and enjoyed 3/NV on every platform they're on.
It's more on part of my dumbassness
>I never really knew how to CQC or hold people in MGS3, I was taken aback by the fact that unlike MGS2 where I think you could grab people into a chokehold with just fists, you needed something that had CQC.
>I never really used anything like radars in MGS3, I never knew I had them on my first playthrough in MGS3
>I died so many times at The Fear before realizing I could use heat vision goggles and hide behind a tree.
>>253617664
Fag.
>>253617746
You are a bad person.
In Total Annihilation:Kingdoms, the Tarosian monarch Lokken can make himself invisible. Though this ability is not represented in the UI (since his three spell slots are filled with the usual monarch spells), pressing 'n' will turn Lokken invisible, just as with the assassins of Aramon.
>>253617446
Yeah I did, want to fight about it?I don't regret it at all. At that time I'd always go crazy with the console and ruin the game in a flurry of god mode fuckery. I'm glad I was limited to glitches like escaping as a baby and hopping through rubble to get into the citadel immediately, and also the searching corpses through walls trick with the camera focus.
>>253617797
I know, but so are you.
>>253617874
Shut up you dumb nigger, stop arguing for the sake of arguing, go get human contact elsewhere. We're trying to talk about shit.
You can find mew under the truck.
>>253617994
You seem upset, faggot. It's not my fault that fags play games without mods.
I didn't know about the hold-button-to-keep-drinking shit either but it was inPrince of Persia Warrior Within
>>253615921
How.
>>253615921
Why the fuck.
>>253617829
Also in TA:Kingdoms. the Aramon monarch Elsin can raise dead units (including enemy builders), while the Dark Priests of Taros can only transform corpses into ghouls. In the Iron Plague expansion pack, the Creonite Chief Engineers can turn corpses into automatons.
>>253618147
But it's your fault that you find any relevance or significance in it
Video games arejust games. Sorry for not validating your 3000 dollar machine for your little hobby.
>>253618325
HA! it was only $2500.
And yes, someone playing iinferior version of a video game upsets my enthusiast spirit.
I only noticed you could equip 4 rings in dark souls 2 on my way to Nashaandra
In Metal Gear Solid 1, holding Square + X while running allows you to shoot the SOCOM while moving. The game doesn't hint at this even once, except for a tiny demonstration bit (if you complete all the VR Missions).
Also, remember when Miller told you about moving over grated surfaces? He was actually telling you to press a direction in the d-pad repeatedly, instead of holding it. It works.
In fallout 1 and 2 you can control your compannions during combat.
>>253618571
Well you're fucking retarded.
>>253618729
... How?
Fucking Burst guns.
Didn't know how to parry in MGR until my second playthrough on very hard.
Game was babby mode after that.I felt like DSP.
>>253618626
Wait, on the PS1 version?
>>253616845
More on that foot sweep thing, if you foot sweep into a long jump, you'll do the foot sweep during the long jump, kicking everything in your path
>>253611554
MGO taught me this.
>>253618872
Its in the settings.
Not the ones in the games, but the ones that open in notepad.
>>253618967
Yes. You can shoot the SOCOM and FAMAS while moving. Makes the Ocelot fight a lot easier.
>>253618872
>Fucking Burst guns.AAAAIIIGGGHH
>>253618954
I don't understand this. Did you people skip the tutorial?
Even then, did you somehow not press attack towards an enemy and wonder GEE I WONDER WHY RAIDEN IS GOING INTO A PARRY STANCE
>>253618492
Graphics enthusiast is not the same as a video game enthusiast.
As an idort I can safely sayIts a god damn video game man.
>>253611735
God damn anon you're retarded
In Ace Combat Zero, you actually have to wait until the word SHOOT appears on your HUD to fire a missile with 100% accuracy. If you only go by the Lock-On sounds and lights, you'll miss a lot.
I've gone up to stage 18 without knowing it. I wasted an average of 50 missile every stage. After realizing that, I didn't waste even 1.
First two playthroughs of Bioshock 1 had no idea you can aim down the sights
>>253618492
All people do with mods is download an assload, play for 20 minutes then download porn mods and do that.
>you can fast travel in Xenoblade on the classic controller by pressing -
>you can just press spacebar to do nothing for a turn in civ
>you can hold b in kirby returns to dreamland to block
>if you crouch and flick the wii mote in SMG mario does a kick and if he's a bee he has honey come out when he spins
>>253611859
Have you never had a fighter pawn? They do that shit constantly.
>you can autofight in persona 4
FUCK ME
>>253619305
Some people don't read manuals, or play the tutorials, or read the tips shoved down your throat all the way up to Bladewolf. Some people are natural retards.
>>253620346
It... Says right at the bottom of the screen.
Not that it's a very good tactic, unless you're plowing through an old dungeon or you're fighting Phys-weak enemies
The first time I played VTMB, I played as a Malkavian, and on top of it I'm not a native english speaker, so I didn't even notice that there was a tutorial.
I made my way through most of the first hub just by feeding and sneaking
>>253620595
If you don't want to be raped you have to go back to the last dungeon and grind a bit and go back and face the optional boss.
Its useful in that situation.
In P3FES auto attacking isn't too bad most of the time since your AI partners already help you.
>>253619305
Not that anon, but the issue is the tutorial just says "do a light attack in the direction of the enemy" which (to me) implies I can hold the stick in that direction and press L.Atk every time I want to parry. It never mentions the stick has to be reset for each successive parry.
I figured out how to parry, but I could never figure out why it only worked like 10% of the time, and only with the first attack of an enemy's combo. Later on I figured out it's because I was standing still, with the stick neutral.
>>253619516
I knew about that, but I find it's such a small icon that I barely notice it. I just fire on instinct and I usually hit. My instincts tend to line up with the SHOOT indicator.
>you can fly in pokemon blue and red
In my defense it was decently hidden.
Also when I did get it I was confused why it was an HM because it didn't do anything special for me because the only flying pokemon I had was Charizard so I assumed it was just a standard move that Gamefreak was nice enough to let use re-use on all pokemon.
>>253619516
As far as I remember, it wasn't only in Zero. I think I used it in 04 and 5 too.
>>253621337
uhh what
wasn't fly mandatory to complete the game
>>253621473
you can only fly to places you've already been
>>253621337
>In my defense it was decently hidden.
No it wasnt
>Wonderful 101
>Saur's videos
Made me feel like a goddamn fool.
>There's a different set of melee attacks in GTA IV
>>253621665
Isn't that how it's always been?
>>253620587
And those people have no right to complain.
>>253617684
DSP pls go
In jade empire chi focused spirit thief is the best style and it never runs out
>Mount and Blade Warband
>Ctrl+ space
>>253621720
Think that at least you completed the first "puzzle"
>>253621693
Fuck you what kind of cunt brings cut along with him everywhere
>>253621473
No, however its a fucking pain in the ass to go anywhere without it
>>253622320
Can you type that without sounding stupid?
In Jade Cocoon, if you die to the bee monster before you fight Mushroom Man in the first dream, the same cutscene plays but with the bee monster instead of Mushroom Man.
>>253622757
>Not having a HM slave
>>253611023
If she got breast cancer she would have more to lose.
>>253622868
Calm down and despair
>>253623329
I'm not sure if you're implying I didn't make it past the first puzzle, or if you're "congratulating" me for making it past it.
Either way, I was saying how I beat the game, then heard about Saur's videos and realized how in depth the combat really was.
>>253623661
I was saying "rejoice, at least you're not as bad as this guy"
>>253611023
That the blue crates in stalker were destructible
Went through re4 several times before I realized that flash grenades kill plagas instantly. I thought they were useless and always sold them.
