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First, let me apologize if this has been covered recently, but in all honesty, I have no idea how these threads are moderated. I see two topics on the exact same thing within a week of each other, then I see another thread get locked because "we just had a thread like this a couple months ago." So, if this falls into some forbidden category not mentioned in the forum rules, sorry for rocking the boat.
Anyway, I was intrigued by the recent thread where the guy used Google as his home page for years, apparently, without noticing the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. This type of situation always amuses me. Here are some of my own misadventures:
- One of the very first FPS's I played... I don't know, Wolf3D or Doom, maybe, I didn't know you could switch weapons. I thought you were stuck with the first weapon you picked up. I must have gotten at least 3/4 of the way through the game before someone told me.
- Beat Chrono Trigger at least twice before I realized you could save Crono. Didn't know there were multiple endings.
- Didn't even come close to getting Yuffie in my first playthrough of Final Fantasy VII. I'm surprised that this doesn't happen to more people... think about it; you have to get into a certain battle when walking through a certain type of terrain in a certain area just to even catch a glimpse of her. It's not like you spend hours upon hours wandering blindly through forests.
Any other instances you'd like to share?
Anyway, I was intrigued by the recent thread where the guy used Google as his home page for years, apparently, without noticing the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. This type of situation always amuses me. Here are some of my own misadventures:
- One of the very first FPS's I played... I don't know, Wolf3D or Doom, maybe, I didn't know you could switch weapons. I thought you were stuck with the first weapon you picked up. I must have gotten at least 3/4 of the way through the game before someone told me.
- Beat Chrono Trigger at least twice before I realized you could save Crono. Didn't know there were multiple endings.
- Didn't even come close to getting Yuffie in my first playthrough of Final Fantasy VII. I'm surprised that this doesn't happen to more people... think about it; you have to get into a certain battle when walking through a certain type of terrain in a certain area just to even catch a glimpse of her. It's not like you spend hours upon hours wandering blindly through forests.
Any other instances you'd like to share?
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Also, I didn't know you could change characters in Kingdom Hearts 2 until I got to the tron fight at the very end of the game(I guess I should have remembered from part 1, but that was years ago). I had to get on GameFAQs and find out how to swap characters.
I thought you were just always Sora.
Either I don't remember being able to or I just never did and thus don't remember that, but wow.
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I got halfway through Julius mode before I realised you could switch characters.
It made finding the right evidence with no hp left so much more intense, though.
I meant the teammates, I always just stuck with Donald/Goofy, but for the MCP fight you need Tron, and can't exit into the menu, so I was stuck for hours, until I learned, oh click the left and right on the control pad.
Gotcha.
I did the same thing! I never knew.. until now
I didn't know about the Genji Glove in FF6 until the recent Advance release.
I didn't know how to use the junction system in FF8, and therefore didn't junction anything to my characters until Disc 3. I was wondering why it was so hard.
I wasn't aware of the M4 silencer swap trick in Counter-Strike for a pretty long time. I also never used flashbangs for like the first year I played.
I started over from the beginning of Super Mario brothers a lot before realizing I could continue from the first stage of the level I died on.
It still sits there, mocking me.
Wouldn't open.
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I always beat Sigma with the X-Buster too! I didn't know any other attack worked well until.. now!
>get pitchfork
No dice.
>pick up pitchfork
Nuh uh.
>take pitchfork
Nope.
It goes on for a little while in this fashion. I run to the other room and ask my unsuspecting parents, "what's another name for a pitchfork?" They tell me to try 'fork'. You can guess that didn't work, either. I gave up in frustration, and forgot about the game, playing KQ5-7 when they came out but ultimately forgetting all about KQ2 until I got to college.
I found a copy of it on a floppy in some bargain bin, so I picked it up and tried to find nostalgic value. I load it up, jump through hoops in XP, and lo and behold, I'm wandering around, just looking at things, when I come back to the beach. And all the frustration of before comes flooding back to me in a wave of anger, which is only fueled by the fact that, over ten years later, I knew the difference between a pitchfork and a fucking trident.
Yeah.
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People still don't know about that. Like, pick 10 random ex-80's gamers and six of them will be like
WAIT WHAT
ALL THIS TIME
So dumb.
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Oh shit thats news to me....
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I didn't even know you could use the scope until the 6th or so level.
I can proudly say I never made that mistake.
I never did beat King's Quest 2, though. I got to the tower with Valencia in it and couldn't figure out how to get her to leave.
Did you tell her to leave?
I last played this game when I was like, your age. So that's like ten years ago.
But yes, I told her to leave. She would say something about the lion outside. The lion I killed to get into her room.
i beat all of megaman 2 with just the regular attack. never even tried the other weapons.
On the NES? OMG... I might actually finish the game, now.
...How? I thought you always restarted. I call shenanigans.