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During our younger, dumber years there were games that confused us. Post stories about misguided playing experiences. SimCity 2000: When 8 year old me unwrapped this Christmas gift I was thrilled with the idea of my first city building game, and carefully read the back of the box that promised I could build vast metropolises, call down natural disasters, and if I didn't like how my airport was doing, fire the air traffic controllers. Not understanding a joke about Reagan's policies, I spent many hours zoning airports and carefully clicking on every building searching for a "fire employees" button. Rebel Assault: There is a level where you fly a snowspeeder through an ice cavern chasing a probe droid. This level is a maze with branching paths and you need to go left-left-right-left-left. I didn't catch on and flew endlessly through the caverns, thinking I needed to shoot every possible enemy and eventually dying from collision damage.
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Dec 19, 2017 20:00
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that one is basically from last year because I'm a colossal idiot : Binary Domain : you can buy little nanomachine implants for your squad that make them better at some things here and there, most aren't really significant, like it's a +10 damage resistance or whatever, but I finished that game like 4 times before I realized I had to actually equip those in a menu, and just buying them isn't enough to get the effects. So I finished the game several times on super hardcore difficulty with a handicap because I'm a real dumb dumb.
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Dec 19, 2017 20:08
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Super Mario Bros 3 - I never pressed the B button
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Dec 19, 2017 20:10
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i loving suck at the new xcom games
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Dec 19, 2017 20:15
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The Knockout Game- I'm white (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dec 19, 2017 20:22
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Raise your hand if you spent hours spam clicking every enemy in Diablo 2 until you realized you could just hold down the mouse button to continuously auto attack.
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Dec 19, 2017 20:24
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craps. i thought you were supposed to put the dice in your butt
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Dec 19, 2017 20:27
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Chomp8645 posted:Raise your hand if you spent hours spam clicking every enemy in Diablo 2 until you realized you could just hold down the mouse button to continuously auto attack. Yeah that was me. I have a friend that still spam clicks to move to this day and knows full well he can just hold it down but spam clicks anyway and it bugs the crap out of me lol.
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Dec 19, 2017 20:27
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Magic: The Gathering. When I started playing in like 1995, I thought you had to keep the mana tapped, so my deck was like 90% mana
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Dec 19, 2017 20:28
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mucho money maps on starcraft got me hooked on internet gaming installing the quake 1 mod deathmatch extras and grappling hooking dudes to death made me the man I am today pathetic
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Dec 19, 2017 20:33
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Everquest: A friend thought that you could loot the corpses of any dead enemy, but he didn’t know this only worked if you had killed the creature. So I watched him wander an open world playing CSI: Everquest, inspecting endless dead creatures but not being able to loot them, as I wondered what the hell was the big deal about MMOs.
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Dec 19, 2017 20:38
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Iron Crowned posted:Magic: The Gathering. When I started playing in like 1995, I thought you had to keep the mana tapped, so my deck was like 90% mana Paper magic in the 90's is cheating. Absolutely nobody played it correctly.
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Dec 19, 2017 20:42
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THE GAME OF LIFE
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Dec 19, 2017 20:43
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Chomp8645 posted:Raise your hand if you spent hours spam clicking every enemy in Diablo 2 until you realized you could just hold down the mouse button to continuously auto attack. i knew that and still went to click city
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Dec 19, 2017 20:55
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Thought I could only depress the A button once for my whole playthrough of Super Mario 64
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Dec 19, 2017 20:57
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myDad posted:Thought I could only depress the A button once for my whole playthrough of Super Mario 64 I feel like there is a joke here but I don't get it.
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Dec 19, 2017 21:06
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Chomp8645 posted:I feel like there is a joke here but I don't get it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
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Dec 19, 2017 21:17
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I got Warcraft 2 for Christmas as a kid, and I made my grunt manually attack and kill all my workers and set the village on fire and thought it was the coolest game ever
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Dec 19, 2017 21:23
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I have an overwhelming urge to find this nerd and give him a 0.5 punch, which is here you forcefully apply your fist to someone's face but DON'T release.
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Dec 19, 2017 21:32
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true story when i first got a PC and played Glover on it I thought to press the ALT button you had to press A L and T at the same time
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Dec 19, 2017 21:40
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When I was like 5 I was playing Jeopardy for NES, and I didn't know what negative numbers were yet so I thought the game was rewarding me for giving wrong answers. drat I was dominating that game.
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Dec 19, 2017 21:41
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SimLife - I still have no idea how you play this, or if it was even a game. I just drew monsters in the sprite editor.
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Dec 19, 2017 21:42
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X-wing: had a copy from a "friend" and with no manual didn't realize I could change the power to regen lasers or shields. Got pretty good at hitting things in the early stages so I didn't waste my ammo.
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Dec 19, 2017 21:47
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Martman posted:When I was like 5 I was playing Jeopardy for NES, and I didn't know what negative numbers were yet so I thought the game was rewarding me for giving wrong answers. drat I was dominating that game. In Star Wars: Rebellion I built a Death Star and systemically began destroying the universe, Rebel, Imperial, neutral, every planet got vaporized. My galactic approval rating went into the sewer, but as the game was poorly made once I reached rock bottom approval scores, they glitched and every planet loved me.
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Dec 19, 2017 21:51
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Zorodius posted:SimLife - I still have no idea how you play this, or if it was even a game. I just drew monsters in the sprite editor. I'm not sure if anybody really 100% knows how to play SimLife. The game is just that baffling.
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Dec 19, 2017 21:52
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Hyrax Attack! posted:In Star Wars: Rebellion I built a Death Star and systemically began destroying the universe, Rebel, Imperial, neutral, every planet got vaporized. Glitch? Buddy, that’s totalitarianism
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Dec 19, 2017 21:53
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Monopoly: house rule was to start with 5 of each bill. No wonder games never ended. Final Fantasy: my brother and I would buy weapons and armor but didn't know what it meant to equip something. Our go-to party was 4 red mages because they had more HP than black mages and could learn FIRE. Final Fantasy: I was convinced that beating Garland and crossing over the bridge was the end of the game, because it rolled the credits. Man I was a dumb kid.
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Dec 19, 2017 22:01
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It took me 75 hours to beat Megaman Legends 1 as a kid. There's a point where you need to take the underground ruins into an inaccessible part of the city, but I had no idea I was supposed to do that, and the hint character gives a really vague clue at that point. So I spent hours playing that game just loving around, exploring the underground ruins, seeing all the poo poo you could do in the eastern part of the city, I hosed around for like 50 loving hours. After loving around in the underground ruins long enough, I found an exit I hadn't seen before. I took it up and a cutscene played, I don't think I have ever felt more accomplished or happy since that point.
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Dec 19, 2017 22:04
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Spore: I played the space phase
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Dec 19, 2017 22:05
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Starcraft: Just save all your money, you'll probably need it later.
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Dec 19, 2017 22:07
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Deus Ex - Played it for an hour on the PC, couldn't figure out the gently caress I was supposed to be doing. So I returned it and got the PC version of Final Fantasy 8 instead. Final Fantasy 8 - Relied entirely on summons and never junctioned anything.
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Dec 19, 2017 22:09
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it took me forever to beat mega man legends as a kid because i didn't know about circlestrafing also gently caress the purple frog fight, that sucked as a kid. and gently caress the lake jyun dungeon with the freaky invisible stabbing murder robots, those were scary as poo poo. it's my favorite game ever but there's a ton of pacing bullshit in it. you fight one tutorial boss, get to the main island and shoot some snakes, and then the immediate next thing you have to do is this boss rush gauntlet starting with the servbots in their blumbears, then tron in her spider bot thing, then an action defense sequence against more servbots as they attack city hall, then you fight a giant floating baby voiced by pikachu, then rush through a forest full of loving tanks before finally facing off against teisel in the marlwolf, a construction robot thing as big as a house. this is all before the first main dungeon so unless you've gone out of your way to get the Powered Buster (which is only available between Bon and Tiesel so it only helps you for the last one of these fights) your only weapons are some lovely mines and your barely-upgraded regular arm buster
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Dec 19, 2017 22:12
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Diablo 2 - played as a necromancer and put stats in strength. Called myself a *Strength Necromancer* and melee'd my way to the end of the game. My brother didnt like playing with me.
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Dec 19, 2017 22:19
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Solar Tornado posted:Diablo 2 - played as a necromancer and put stats in strength. Called myself a *Strength Necromancer* and melee'd my way to the end of the game. My brother didnt like playing with me. I did that too. Necros own
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Dec 19, 2017 22:21
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phasmid posted:Starcraft: Just save all your money, you'll probably need it later. tbqh, being horribly stingy with money, ammo, healthpack and all that is a mistake I still make to this day. I blame RE, RE2 and RE3 for that.
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Dec 19, 2017 22:24
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Solar Tornado posted:Diablo 2 - played as a necromancer and put stats in strength. Called myself a *Strength Necromancer* and melee'd my way to the end of the game. My brother didnt like playing with me. what the gently caress?
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Dec 19, 2017 22:27
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L.A. Noire: Instead of tediously driving across Los Angeles to crime scenes you can let your partner "do the driving" to warp to the location. I thought if I let him drive I would have to sit there and watch the computer drive the car for ten minutes, so I never tried it. Battletoads We would Game Genie to the final stage where you are at the base of the Dark Queen's tower and there is a rhino with an axe to defeat before ascending. We just endlessly fought each other and the rhino without trying to finish the stage. It was much more fun than playing as intended. Tomato Burger posted:Final Fantasy: my brother and I would buy weapons and armor but didn't know what it meant to equip something. Our go-to party was 4 red mages because they had more HP than black mages and could learn FIRE. Haha dang. We believed the ideal party was a fighter, thief, and white/black mages. We thought the weakling thief helped us "escape from battles", but his uselessness in combat made the game too hard. I finally tried an all-fighter party and it was like playing on easy mode.
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Dec 19, 2017 22:30
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Chrono Trigger I never recruited the frog
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Dec 19, 2017 22:36
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When I was a kid I was terrified of having my party wiped out in RPGs, so I fought only the bare minimum of battles I could get away with. Cue me being massively underpowered for huge chunks of a game, and me dying anyway.
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Dec 19, 2017 22:38
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Every open world game ever: spend ages doing stupid sidequests and collect-a-thons and either : (a) get bored of the game and never finish the main storyline; or (b) end up way over-powered and breeze through the second half (thereby removing dramatic tension, etc.).
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