Have you ever beaten a game without knowing or using a major/important game mechanic?
I beat MGS3 without knowing how to CQC until my 3rd or 4th playthrough
>>344106575
I beat the grand majority of Dark Souls, including Gwynn, without parrying.
>>344106575
I beat all the Souls games without knowing you could die.
>Bayonetta
>Dodge Offset
>>344106575
The first kingdom hearts as a kid I didn't know you could lock on until Alice. I also didn't know what abilities were and how to use them until Maleficent dragon
>>344106575
FFX without using guard. I just thought it was a really hard game.
>>344106678
Parrying wasn't too major in PVE.
I've beaten mario 64 without jumping
I beat Metal Gear Rising without knowing how to deflect/parry. After around the time I beat Wolf I just forgot it was even a mechanic.
>>344106575
I beat hard mode with the best ending in Starfox 64 without knowing that you can lock on to targets.
>>344106957
To be fair, they do a horrible job of explaining what it is and how to use it properly
I beat god hand without knowing about the non-assigned moves like the axe kick and leg sweep.
Uh when I first played DS i didnt know you could lock on until after the Gargoyles.
>>344107108
Why does everyone say this? You have to perform one to progress in the tutorial.
I beated DS1 without rolling
>>344106575
carmaggedon tdr 200
i didnt know i could repair the car in the middle of the fucking race
I beat Dark Souls 2 without getting gud.
>>344106957
Truth is, up until the wolf fight you are absolutely never incentivised to use it. They kinda go over it shortly in the tutorial but why would you give a fuck when just hacking your way through everything is way more effective.
And then once that one bossfight forces you to get proficient at it, you can beat the game by not doing anything other than waiting for attacks to come in and parry them. MGR's difficulty curve is a joke.
On that note I also never knew there was that dodge / sidestep kinda move until after I finished the game. Cause the game doesn't really tell you about that either. All of the optional moves you can buy suck ass, and iirc it was very poorly explained what it did so I never bothered.
In das3 I genuinely couldnt figure yhorms gimmick so I just brute forced his boss fight by shooting him in the face so he would fall down and I could critical hit him with my zweihander for like 20 minutes
turns out that was more fun than what I was sopposed to do
>>344106575
Beat Hotline Miami without ever using lock on
>>344106575
I beat KH2 without knowing I could switch weapons for my normal form. I thought I could give the other keyblades to only the drive forms for whatever reason. I think I found out about it when I was having troubles beating Sephiroth
>>344107630
theres lock on in hotline miami??? what the actual fuck?
>>344107703
I think it was added to the console ports.
>>344107630
HLM has lock-on? Nigger what? I don't believe you for a second
I'm bout to go look this shit up
>>344107703
Middle mouse button
I still got A+ on every level
>>344107703
In 2 they added it for casuals
I never used it anyway, and hardmode disables it
>>344106575
I didn't know you could lock on in Bloodbornemy r3 was actually broken and i didnt know until i looked at some videos after beating it
>>344108113
In a lot of instances, not locking on is vastly superior to locking on in Bloodborne
>>344106575
More or less, i didn't experiment with gems in Xenoblade Chronicles, only equipped the ones that give you more HP and Atk ignoring everything else, so a lot of fights were longer and harder, very satisfying to defeat enemies this way though. Didn't got the mini "gem crafter" neither.
didn't beat the game without it but I got across the noob bridge in super metroid before I knew you could run
>>344106957
How the fuck did you beat Monsoon?
>>344106575
First Dark Souls without lock-on. R3 button was dead and I figured it was done via some cryptic horse shit and that tutorial messages on the ground was missing something. Found out it was my controller when I got it on the PC a year later.
>>344108193
Souls game in general really. Locking on to the bigger bosses fucks your camera up really badly in any of the games.
Winnie the Pooh Homerun DerbyI didn't know about upgrades until CR
>>344108113
>>344109051
Samefag, at least change your story up retard.
>>344106575
This
I needed to watch that guy beating the Boss with CQC only to learn that was possible. Which later made me hate how easy is to pull off in V.
Another case for me was Contra the Hardcorps, I got every ending and more before realizing you could change your mobility while shooting to fixed position.
>>344106575
I played through all of MGR without knowing knowing you can get more health and stamina and upgrade your sword.
>>344106575
I played the entirety of the Tales of Symphonia without knowing about the Unison attacks until I accidentally pressed Q outside that one port city in NG+ like a year later. At first I thought the game broke because it was just Lloyd standing there. Then I did a Photon Tempest
>>344109030
EMP nades, the shit he throws at you either dumps this or energy packs, at least that's how I beat him the first time.
>>344109241
You poor, stupid fuck. I'd call you heroic, but goddamn.
>>344106575
I beat MGS3 on the 3DS without knowing how to change weapons or cqc
I beat the whole game using the knife and the starting pistol
Beat Red Dead Redemption without knowing about Dead Eye. The game's easy as piss anyway.
>>344106575
Chivalry, I don't know how to drag.
>>344106732
>Seath the Scaleless
No You Didn't.
>>344106575
I beat doom 4 on nightmare without knowing you could upgrade armor/weapons which was my first playthrough. I turned off all the ui crap and figured I'd never use the map, which is apparently where you access such things. When I got runes I figured they were just passives that didn't change much.
The only way I figured out how this was a thing was by showing my friend that you could rocket jump with the gauss cannon and he noted I didn't have any runes equipped.
I reached G rank in MH Freedom without knowing crafting was a big part of the game.
I never figured out that I had to buy weapons in dead space 1. I thought I would find them in the story but when I beat the final boss I got the achievement for beating it with the starting gun.
>>344107582
Why did I kek so hard at this?
I beat FFVII when it came out without equipping extra materia. I was 6
>>344110029
psst, you could skip it
>>344107631
I beat KH2 Sephiroth but I ddn't know how to level up master form so I didn't have aerial dodge
Everytime he did Heartless Angel it was super close because I had to quick run into high jump and hit him and the timing was very strict
I also didn't have second chance because I didn't know it existed so it was almost always a one hit death
Every single attempt was the most intense thing ever
I beat PMTTYD without ever really knowing how to Super Guard. I know the tutorial shows you but I never was actually able to pull it off
>>344106575
I didn't realize this sticky bastard was the best character in the game until the very end of Xenoblade. Jesus fucking Christ his damage output is retarded.
I beat muramasa without realizing there were special attacks.
I beat Deadcore without picking up the Blast powerup.
(it enables rocket jumping, essentially)
>>344106575
I almost beat Super Mario 64 without usingCamera controls
Beat the first Raidou Kuzunoha Devil Summoner without know you could upgrade your sword.
My highest demon was also level 43, so I don't know what the fuck I was doing.
I didn't know you could upgrade Emerl in Sonic Battle.
I beat the fucking game with default Emerl. I still don't know how that's possible.
>>344107195
The tutorial's way of describing it is
"To parry incoming hits, throw out your own barrage of light attacks while your foe is on the offensive"
It doesn't translate well to the specific way you're supposed to parry, as if there's more button presses to it.
>>344106575
I didn't know that you could recharge to regain health in inFAMOUS
I beat every Mega Man Zero game without sacrificing a single Cyber Elf. It took me a long time and endless practice, but I just refused to kill those little buggers.
>>344106575
i beat pokemon gold without knowing how to use items
>>344115583
holy fuck, I thought I was the only one
>>344106575
Beat KH1 and 2 without knowing you could change keyblades. On hardest difficulty.
I got to like level 50 in WoW without knowing you could autorun.
I still dont know how to cqc in metal gear solid, desu. I always rely on tranq just punch-punch-punch over and over
>>344116732
I do that for the lels man, those games are easy as shit. Hardest fight is riku in the first one because of no summons
I put 300 hours on Oblivion without knowing I could fast travel. I was used to Morrowind.
>>344109854
You didn't realize something was off?
How did you beat the Pain?
>>344113520
I never used drives, so I didn't have any of the abilities that came from them, I beat the game on proud thinking game, and Sephiroth were just really hard.
>>344107631
Same, but I found out during post-game stuff. I also didn't realize you could level up abilities till I started leveling up the forms for that 100%.
In KH1 it wasn't till Olympus Colosseum or Deep Jungle that I found out you can switch out Keyblades.
I finished my first OoT playthrough without ever releasing Epona.
I beat the first Splinter Cell without using the weird leg-propping between two walls thing. I don't think it actually hindered me at all, though.
>>344106575
Fucking how? Not the beating the game part, but how do you not understand the basics of CQC? Not only do they extensively explain it to you in-game, but it's thoroughly explained in both the manual and the menus in-game. First fucking thing I did when the game booted up was go through the list of all the new shit you could do that they showed in the trailers. Actually, I can guarentee that any real Metal Gear fan did the exact same shit and you're probably some young little faggot who only played the HD collection. Same kind of cancerous faggots who praise MGSV. God, fuck this board, I was way too old for this place 5 years ago.
>>344107630
If you think you beat Hotline Miami, then the dev won because you got tricked into playing what is to indie games as Hillary Clinton is to career politicians.
>>344115583
>>344116713
Fucking how
>>344109895
You have to use it to shoot the bottle out of the air. You cannot progress without using it. Even if you could, the entire mission is dedicated to telling you about it, how the fuck would you not know?
>>344115592
What fucked up translation are you playing? It says to attack in the direction of the oncoming attack at the last possible moment. Even uses on screen visualized control prompts.
>>344106678
Same here, both DS and DS2. I'm shit at parrying but never had too much trouble PvE.
>>344117714
I was 8 when I did KH1, and 11 for KH2. Mostly just impressed that I was that young when I did it and had no problems.
>>344106575
I played a semi melee build in fallout 4 without knowing you can do special moves to knock the enemy down. that and apparently you can peek around cover in first person.
I only know about those from a recent yt video, however I still don't know how to do it and not interested in finding out, fuck that game
>>344107053
Explain yourself
>>344118416
You're much more enlightened now that you're 15!
>>344118416
Hey relax okay?
This probably doesn't count as major but TTYD with stylish moves and superguarding. The game was already easy and then knowing this completely broke it.
>>344115358
I almost beat it without usingmore than 2.5 A presses
Beat MGS3 without knowing how to sneak up on enemies, always wondered why even if I was very slow and gently tapped the analog stick I'd still get caught.
Turns out you had to use the d-pad to sneak properly.
>>344107053
How? I'm pretty sure the lock on bonus hits are required in some levels to get metals.
Also, Slippy, and Peppy tell you how to do it.
>>344117580
You can't CQC in Metal Gear Solid. 3 and beyond though is a different story, and you'd have to be retarded to not now how at this point.
I beat Sonic 3 without knowing Sonic's feet could magically move barrels up and down
>>344106575
Were you skipping the cutscenes, retard?
MGS3 you first MGS game? Holy shit.
>>344119045
Fucking same man.
I would always crawl up to them.
>>344106575
I couldn't figure out CQC until I foughtthe Boss.
>>344118923
>>344113662
I had to look up Super Guard and I've beat the game twice now. Never knew that was a thing. Seems hard to pull off though.
All these idiots claiming they did not know how to do CQC.
The autism was real even back then.
>>344118807
I was 15 when the game came out on PS2. Which makes it even more mind-boggling how kids these days can miss out on basic gameplay functions even with the HD collection which had revised codec dialogue to better explain the basics to the ADHD trophy-collecting children.
>>344118841
Fuck off Daniel you know I'm right.
>>344118036
It was quite painful
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>Playing classic WoW
>I'm about thirteen at the time but english isn't my first language just moved to the UK from Eastern bloc.
>Didn't pick up arcane shot or any integral abilities at the initial trainer in the Valley of whatever
>Can't learn the ability anywhere else just the new ranks
I literally melee huntered until 60.
>>344117537
I got 2 100s and a 70 before I found that out. To be fair though that was only a month.
>>344113662
I'm pretty sure the tutorial doesn't show you that, its only implied.
>>344119452
Its actually not that hard. You can get used to it pretty quickly over the course of a playthough, maybe 2. Its broken enough for you to beat Bonetail before Chapter 1 is even over ffs.
>>344119045
>Turns out you had to use the d-pad to sneak properly
You would have known this if you'd paid any attention at all.
>>344106575
Almost, In Star Ocean 3 I didn't know about cancel bonuses until the final boss
I beat DMC 4 without ever using the exceed thing or using devil bringer on most bosses.
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>>344118357
Bullshit, you need her to cross the broken bridge.
>>344119935
Not like you need to on casual difficulties like normal
Beat RE4 without knowing how to reload.
>>344119838
Why would I do that
>>344119976
No you don't, you can longshot across
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>>344120569
What?
>>344106575
I beat DaS3 without ever using weapon arts. Oh wait you said important game mechanic.
>>344110029
>Duke Skip
Now I'm not saying you're wrong because no one duke skips on their first playthrough and the skip itself is inconsistent as fuck / leads to death when you fail it just right, but it is possible to beat the game without dying.
>>344118416
I ain't the OP, but my first runsof MGS3 were completely CQC-free because I had a very basic understanding of English at the time. I skipped/missed a bunch of shit, naturally – and not only on Snake Eater.
>mfw playing the legacy collection earlier this year and picking up on everything I previously didn't, all the way up to 4
>>344106575
My younger brother had no idea how to parry in mgr and finished the game and its dlc without it. Took him forever tho.
![Croc_Legend_of_the_Gobbos[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gdR12qm.jpg "Croc_Legend_of_the_Gobbos[1].jpg")
I remember when I was a kid I went to a friends house and he was playing Croc.
Him and his mother had gotten to the final boss and they told me how they just couldn't beat it and didn't know what to do.
I gave it a couple of tries and nothing really worked. Then I asked them something like "have you tried attacking him?" and they were like "What?"
Turns out they had apparently gotten to the final boss of the game without knowing that there was attack button.
Is it even possible to get to the final boss without attacking? Because I vividly remember this happening.
>>344120628
Second anon here, can confirm. I didn't get Epona my first time around either.
That wasn't through lack of trying though. I was 10, and had trouble deciphering the clues in-game and the strategy guide I had been given was written in a very non-spoilery manner.
>>344121996
>Is it even possible to get to the final boss without attacking? Because I vividly remember this happening.
I've never played this game, but I do know that there are a lot of games that do pacifist runs where they don't kill or harm anything they do not physically have to in order to complete the game. Maybe Croc just supports that playstyle up to the boss?
Finished resident evil 5 around 4 times without knowing you could skip cutscenes
Not exactly on topic but I remember beating Dead Rising without being able to read shit because of the widescreen meme at the time.
>>344109241
I didnt know about upgrades until the English version...
>>344120956
>I had a very basic understanding of English at the time
This is the only valid excuse I guess, but I mean if you can understand the other controls, how do you not pick up on repeated mentions of "CQC" alongside the "circle button"?
>>344121996
There are other bosses before that, obviously, and you need to attack to get past several parts of levels. You could get somewhat far throughout the game, I guess, but I call bullshit.
Finished Fallout 3 without knowing what the fuck the beds were for. I thought it was to "fast forward" time so the ghouls wouldn't be out or some shit. Was thinking of Castlevania II. idk
When I was young and stupid I played through Deus Ex without using any augs outside the flashlight which was just always there.
I cant remember how young I was exactly, but apparently young and stupid enough to miss it. Didnt understand much about what was going on either until some years later when I played through the game again and learned to love it.
>>344124318
Could you jump on their heads or some shit? I'm talking specifically about the tail swipe.
I beat Doom without knowing you could strafewalk
>>344115016
How the hell? You never managed to accidentally press the special attack button?
I beat Red Dead Redemption without deadeyeI didnt even know that joysticks clicked
I beat Dragon's Dogma on PC without knowing the game gives you an infinite use fast-travel item.
I beat No More Heroes without knowing about the darkside
>>344125880
I used it once by accident right at the end, didn't know what it was.
>>344126031
And the funny thing is the darkside is real op in the first game.
>I used it once by accident right at the end, didn't know what it was.
Me too when I replayed the game on Bitter against Henry
I beat NGB without ever upgrading weapons.
Though I did beat Alma 2 with the TDS, because fuck her fight
>>344125108
I assumed you were talking about the tail swipe, and yeah, you could jump on their heads. But I'm sure you needed to use the tail swipe on some enemies or objects to proceed, as jumping wasn't effective against everything. I could be wrong though.
>>344106575
>beat Dark Souls without parrying / backstabbing (i knew about the mechanic but was so discouraged from trying it I gave up at the Asylum)
>beat the tomb of giants without a lantern (tried everything except putting it in my left hand)
>beat KotoR 1 thinking you can only use one medkit in a fight because I didn't know it was turn based
I beat Silent Hill 2 without ever using rifle ammo or ampules.
>>344118590
Not that Anon but I also didnt use dead eye.
I just shot it.
SOMEHOW
>>344106575
I beat dark souls without knowing how to move forward.
I beat Super Mario 64 without knowing how to align QPUs or manipulate the scuttlebug.
Beat MGSR with out knowing how to parry
I beat Demon's Souls without knowing how to level up. Took for fucking ever but I got good enough to dodge everything.
>>344126871
absolute madman
>>344126871
top kek, I'm familiar with that dank meme
>>344126871
Kill yourself back to /r/4chan
I beat Mortal Combat 9 without combos except uppercuts.
I was so fucking confused about why I couldn't throw fireballs and shit.
Only found out at Shao Khan when i paused and saw the combo list option.
>>344106868
>FFX without using guard
There's only one part it's needed, Seymour on Gagazet. Otherwise, you don't need to use it.>>344106905
I beat Super Mario 64 without knowing about parallel universes.
>>344127527
best bait of the thread so far
Not major, but I beat Sniper Wolf without using the painkillers because I didn't know you were supposed to use them, so the whole fight was really shakey.
>>344106575
this happens a lot for me. I finished nmh without knowing how to sidestep.
finished FFX without knowing how to use the grid system/level up.
>>344125729
>>344127734
I ALREADY MADE THIS JOKE DON'T TAKE MY FUCKING JOOOOOKE
I beat the last of Us without knowing you could shiv.
Vampire Bloodlines
I didn't even know you could use blood magic abilities.
>>344106575
When I was a kid I beat Sonic Riders without knowing you could do tricks to restore your fuel/energy for your board.
>>344106575
I became king of Calradia in M&B: Warband without knowing you could speed up time in the map mode.
It was a long and a tedious ride.
>>344125729
Calling your bullshit as there is atleast 2 different instances it forces you to deadeye during snakeoil hat shooting and landon ricketts training
In super monkey ball 1 and 2 there's this minigame called Monkey Fight.
I used to play it with other people from time to time, and only recently did we discover that you can charge a morep owerful punch by pressing "b" instead of "a" in Monkey ball 2. I still don't know if you can do that in the first one.
I know it'sj ust a minigame but it blew my mind anyway.
Not me, but I remember watching a friend play KH2 and the fucker would sell the AP Ups. He was legitimately surprised when I used them and found out how they worked... We were 10.
>>344106905
t. pannenkoek
I didn't know Summons and Reflect were god tier in KH2
>>344128035
>reddit memer autist is a shitposting weeaboo underaged faggot
No surprise there.
>>344106575
I beat a lot of games before I could speak English.
>>344106575
Beat Pokemon FireRed with only my starter. Got the game from a friend who only completed up to the tutorial. I always wondered why I only ever had one Pokemon. Charizard had to work overtime...
>>344128820
I've been here longer than you, little man
I was like three fourths into Godhand before I figured out what the hell duck dodging did. It wasn't until later playthroughs that I actually started using the free moves.
In MGR, I managed to beat most of the game without doing the zandatsu once. As in, I kept having my health whittled down slowly but surely, and had to be careful with how I played. Literally the only time I did it was against Armstrong, as the QTE prompted me to.
I mean it's not that big of a deal, but still.
>>344107195
Yeah, only one. It'd be better if it said "perform 5 consecutive parries" to you know, TEACH people what should be done.
>>344127957
I managed to cream 18 people at a lan for 6 hours in Unreal Tournament 3 with the sniper riflewithout knowing how to zoom in on the scope.I had never played the game before, and asked what button it was to zoom in on the sniper rifle, and some asshole shot out to me that there isn't one. So I just played without. I didn't figure it out until I went back next month.
>>344131090
>Posting a canon whore
>>344132524
>Canon whore
I missed that scene. Elaborate.
I beat MGS3 without using the D-pad
I got to the space pirate homeworld in Metroid Prime 3 without knowing I could jump in the morph ball by flicking the wii mote.
>>344118797
>panicked
>alarmed
What a redundant folder name.
>>344107630
I knew it had lock on the entire time but it's more satisfying playing without it
>>344129802
Oh, this. Me too.
It was ridicolously hard with puzzle stuff.
>>344131729
You were doing it right though.
I beat Zelda Twilight Princess without knowing what a QTE was. In the last fight against Ganondorf you had to rapidly press the A button to leave him vulnerable to attacks so he can't simply block with his sword. Because I didn't understand what the game was asking me I failed the QTE every time.
In the end I defeated Ganondorf after fighting with him for 2 hours. I discovered that there was a tiny window of some frames after he jumped and did a sword attack that he couldn't block and that's how I ended damaging him enough for me to be able to kill him.
>>344128426
are you me
>>344106575
Pokemon Red.
I don't know how the fuck I got through that final tunnel before fighting the Top 4. I know I wasn't using any guides or anything.
99% of people who've beaten Knights of the Round dont know how to block, prove me wrong
>>344136703
I did all the tunnels that needed flash without it by hugging walls. I don't know why but my younger self never discovered flash
>>344106575
I literally played call of duty world at war zombies for a full year without ever touching perks cause i didnt know what they did.
>>344137123
Kids can do amazing(ly stupid) things.
>>344136703
>>344137123
Same, I just kinda hugged/stumbled my way through. Even now I can't think of where you get flash, but I have a general idea how to get through the tunnels.
>>344119707
>Tfw I superguarded the final boss's attack after being 1 hit away from death with literally 0 visual cues and only relying on memory
That was so fucking hype when I killed her the next turn.
>>344107898
>In 2 they added it for casuals
it was in one you retard
>>344106905
fuck off, how did you get off the Fire Sea Pole?
>>344106575
Dsp pls leave
>>344120628
Not him but that's what i did my first try. Shoot the sign hanging above the bridge with the Longshot next time you play.
>>344106575
Beat first Hitman for 3 times and then found sneak button (on fucking numpad).
I beat Mario Kart 64 without knowing about drifting
I beat Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts using just the Attack command.
>>344125872
Does it actually? I thought you could get those stones that teleport you but they're single use only.
RE4 no knife
I beat Banjo Kazooie without learning the Wonderwing (the invincibility) and I think it was on the GBA game but I forgot. I had to tank all fire damage, also I could not take a single hit from the final boss as the damage from the previous stage (which I was supposed to use invincibility for) brought me to 1 hp.
>>344122604
I played OoT again recently. I was just kind of winging my playthrough and I had sworn you pull your orcarania out in front of maron to get epona. I fucking tried it like 10 times, then gave up, only to look it up later and find out that's exactly how you get epona. I went back and got it right away.
I don't know what the deal was but I can definitely see why you'd miss that fucking horse.
>>344122843
you're a fucking saint
I never parried in any Souls games untill i got to Martyr Logariusi played every game on release
>>344125108
You could not beat the first boss without the tail swipe because if you tried to stomp him, you would just bounce on his belly.
In Spyro Enter the Dragonfly I only ever got up to the cloud level. I accidentally found the swimming in air glitch at that point to get to the final boss early on in the game from then on.
I beat Megaman X with only 2 E-tanks because I thought that's all there were, I didn't have a guide or the internet, probably only half the heart tanks tooand without the chest/helmet upgrade
I also thought the only way to get the arm upgrade was from zero
Got about halfway through DS2 without finding the level up and Estes lady
>>344106575
First play through of STALKER I didn't use any anomalies, because I didn't want to put up with the radiation.
What was I missing out on?
Didn't use VATS in FO3
>>344118376
The Split Jump? That was an useless gimmick that was barely ever needed at any point throughout the game. They do teach you this in the first tutorial level, so you can't say you didn't know about it.
On my first playthrough, 11 year old me was just killing his way through the game by killing people. Somehow made it to the CIA level and I couldn't do that anymore, but I wasn't ready yet to git gud.
So I kept trying and failing until I found out something impressive:You can headshot guards with sticky cameras, and that will knock them out non-lethally. Then you pick up the sticky cam and reuse it.
Neat trick. In later games this still works, butit kills the guard instead.
>>344141229
Oh, I knew I was forgetting something. Just months ago, when I was playing Ar Tonelico 2 for the first time. I did not know what the purpose of the using the different directional keys to change attack patterns was for. I was always using whatever did the fastest/most consistent damage for like more than half of the game. Obviously, because of this, I was completely unable to charge any song magic beyond tier2.
It was only during a very difficult boss battle that I realized that I had to to try and fit the shape shown in blue on the bottom right corner to evolve the current spell to the next tier. Fuck me.Still one of the best RPGs ever.
>>344140671
I was somewhat similar, except that I missed two heart tanks (Storm Eagle and I believe Chill Penguin?) and the Arm Upgrade from Flame Mammoth.
Missing two health upgrades did mean you had as much HP as you had weapon energy, so it felt natural.
>>344140671
When I was a kid I didn't know about any of the upgrades. I only picked up a handful of life expansions, and 1, maybe 2 E-tanks.
I don't think I was ever able to beat Sigma with that loadout, though. Even with everything and as an adult, it's hard for me to do.
>>344142057
The entirety of the Hadoken trick sounds like something THAT KID would say too.
>you need to get every item in the game
>and then go to Armored Armordillo's stage and die in it 5 times
>when you do this the hidden alcove above the boss door will have a capsule
>Dr Light will show up in it
>he'll be dressed like Ryu from Street Fighter
>he'll shout WE'RE NOT WORTH WE'RE NOT WORTHY like Wayne's World
>then you'll get the Hadoken and it can kill ANY BOSS in one hit
In the final mission of GTA: SA I thought Sweet was supposed to fall onto your car, I didn't realize you could literally just drive right under and he'll jump on.
Also, beat Super Mario RPG without using the Flower Tabs. I guess I thought they were for regaining FP and stockpiled on them without ever reading their description.
I beat MGS4 without knowing you could customize weapons.
I beat Devil May Cry 3 without knowing you could buy upgrades (game was in japanese)
>>344139530
>wasting bullets to break barrels
>>344106575
Is there even a cqc system? All I remember was pressing O (and then holding it I think?) just makes you grab an enemy and then slamming him to the ground. And then I think holding a direction while slamming lets you slam the target in that direction, which can knock out a 2nd target if they're in the way.
It feels more like a throw button more than an actual cqc system, from what I remember. I beat the boss with that button and I think she has some resistance to it but I dont actually remember ever being able to do the stuff snake does with the boss in the cutscenes (like some gun kata shit into throw breaks into throw breaks into throw breaks, etc).
>>344118797
>>344119114
Super late reply but whatever. I was a retarded kid, do I didn't learn. I played the game a lot and got good at shooting things.
I was well into my 20s when somehow the matter came up, and someone informed me that you can lock on to targets. I was baffled.
>>344146004
Yep, when they're talking about "CQC" they're talking about the throw/grab button.
I was super-confused by how many people say they 'didn't understand CQC' when it's the most basic shit possible. I thought maybe there was something about melee combat I didn't understand because of how many people said this. But no, they were seriously so retarded they didn't understand they SHIT THAT THE MANUAL TELLS YOU HOW TO DO
Similar feelings to all of the people saying they didn't know how to parry in MGR. It's literally just pressing the attack button and moving toward an enemy, yet I saw dozens of posts whining about how they didn't understand it.
I think Metal Gear fans might just be retarded.
>>344115583
Same! God I broke my R button playing that game
>>344146454
Might be retarded?
I beat Fallout New Vegas without understanding how to do the hacking minigame
>>344106575
I sure as hell did. Finished DMC3 on PC BEFORE the patch was released. It was impossible to use like 90% of the moves.
>>344139359
It's PC only I think.
>>344118605
That's the in-game explanation Boris(?) gives you over codec when you're playing the main game after you're done with the intro mission.
It's a bit poor choice of words, since they could have simply said "hold directional input towards opponent and press attack" or something of that sort.
I beat Christopher Robin without knowing that you could upgrade.
>mfw that whole ordeal
>>344106575
I beat Dark Souls 3 without parrying or using any embers.
>>344146790
I chuckled
>>344125880
Best part of the game, I beat it thinking the game was broken because I never heard Sylvia's voice during her calls, I turned the subtitles on so it wasn't that bad.
>>344119976
The longshot seemed like an obvious choice, the game never forces you to unlock her, which is bullshit since Hyrule field becomes awfully boring after a few hours.
>>344107630
Came here to post this. I beat it, then I started trying to get A+ in every level.
After Igot the platinum trophy, a friend started playing in front of me and used the lock on. I was mindbroken right there
>>344106575
Beat Darks Souls up to NG2+ without figuring out how to lock on.
My game was actually better before I learned how to lock on for a long time.
I didn't know you could turn dimensions in Fez the first time.
>>344106575
I beat Valkyrie Profile 2 without learning the skill system.
Funny thing that on my second playthrough I learned how to utilize it yet the game appeared to get significantly harder.
>>344106575
When I was 7 years old I grinded to 60 in vanilla WoW without knowing you could accept quests, buy new spells, or do talents. Every single piece of gear I had was either gray, white, or a random green that dropped and one world drop cloth epic headpiece when I hit 60. I was a tauren warrior warrior.My first day of WoW consisted me as a level 1 running from mulgore to dun morogh to try to play with my father who rolled a dwarf only to find out I can't play with him since he's alliance and he ganked and camped my corpse the next week.
>>344147127
every time you mention it someone is still surprised that clicking brackets gives you an answer or additional tries
>>344125880
I'm confused, are you talking about the super mode when the slots line up?
I almost always win at slots at least once per level, are you all saying you never got lucky a single time throughout the whole game?
>>344150890
>getting ganked and camped by your own dad
>>344121996
Perhaps they used ground pounds since that would require simply pressing the jump button a second time?
Usually in cases like this, it's an instance of the players getting used to and tied down to using just one button, forgetting about the others.
>>344106868
FFX is perfectly and easy beatable without guard
Carmaggedon.
Didn't even know you could properly win by racing until many years later
>>344150890
Jesus
These threads always make me happy that I didn't grow up as an illiterate literal retard.
>>344106575
beat mh3u without knowing about crit range or those air shots using a bow.
Each hunt i was nearly running out of time or ran out of time.
>>344152062
d-don't blame me, WoW was my first game that wasn't a N64 platformer
>>344106575
Completed Valkyrie Profile for the DS without "sacrificing" a single unit.
I went halfway trough Geneforge before finding out how beneficial it is to buff your creations.
i beat monsoon without knowing about emp nades first time i played. It was also on hard difficulty and i didnt wanna continue until i beat him without him hitting me. So after days of ragequitting i learned to parry like a crazy motherfucker till i beat him perfectly. That experience made rest of the game piss easy since i learned to parry so good. It was after beating the game when someone from /v/ told me i coulda just stun monsoon with emp grenades, but i regret nothing
When I was 7 or so I used to own Final Fantasy X on ps2. Being young, I never bothered reading and had lost all my memory cards.
For some reason I didnt realise you could continue after dying even without a memory card so I would play the game from the start everyday and would choose the exit option everytime I died, think i only ever got up to the second time you fight sin or whatever its name was.
Good times.
First time I played MGS3my first metal gear gameI didn't understand how to properly hold dude in the CQC neck lock. I remember the manual saying something like press and holdBbut whenever I did it he would just throw the enemy. Took me far too long to realize you couldn't be holding a direction.
>>344106575
I don't think it's quite what you're after, but when I played Shadow of the Colossus as a kid I played through twice on Normal and once on Hard without knowing about Time Attack.
So I never got any of the items until I replayed the HD version later on.
I beat kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance without levelling up my dream eaters
I felt like a fucking idiot when I realised on my second playthrough
One of my buddies played Fallout 3 and NV without realizing about Pip-Boy flashlight. Must have been seriously fun to scrounge through all sorts of dark corners half blind.
>>344150890
I don't believe you.
As someone who playedand levelled/quested asa Tauren Protection Warrior in Vanilla, that would have been practically impossible, especially killing level-appropriate mobs in grey/white gear.
If you didn't quest then I would assume you also couldn't manage professions or go to stores so I doubt you had food/bandages either, and at the rate you gained XP in Vanilla, compounded by passive healing and no items/gear meant you'd probably still be fucking doing it.
Amusing to imagine, but there is simply no way.
Plus, at 7 your Dad would have been paying for your sub. You'd have found something out from him.
>>344153135
When I first hit level 20 I walked into a level 20 zone, got raped repeatedly so I went back and grinded level 16s-18s. I rinsed and repeated this whenever I hit a roadblock, or there would be the occasional player who'd group up with me without knowing I was the biggest noob imagineable and helped kill a few mobs.My father was the kind of cunt who didn't really tell me how to play the game and teased me when I was doing something wrong, proceeded to gank me numerous times
It's not that hard to imagine because the Iron Man challenge existed back in vanilla, too, which was the same general concept of being a dumb noob.
>>344119167
I DIED SO MANY TIMES
>>344106575
I beat Tales of the Abyss on 3DS without using Free Run or Lock On because my L/R buttons were broken.
>>344120956
what's your native language anon?
I can't believe you never had an instruction booklet or subtitles
>>344106575
I use insect glaive without nutrient extracts
>game turns out to be more fun without a major game mechanic
I remember doing those stupid ksp satellite missions without knowing about Patched Conics.
>>344106905
Tell me how. Buy first, we should talk about scuttlebug stacking
>>344106575
Finished Red Dead without using Dead eye
>>344109854
You are an impressive retard if this isn't a falsehood
