>that one mechanic you didn't learn after you finished the whole game
What it's her name, /v/? Mine was parrying in Dark Souls

>>716373060 (OP)
Dodging in KCD2

>>716373060 (OP)
stepping on downed enemies in silent hill 2

>>716373060 (OP)
She looks like she needs to use the restroom

>>716373060 (OP)
You’re certainly not alone. No one learns how to parry in Dark Souls because retard video essayists tell people the best way to play is to roll around naked with a greatsword, and that using shields is bad.
Shields and heavy armor are fun in Dark Souls because it’s meant to be a heavy, clunky game where it feels like you’re a knight carrying heavy equipment.
Elden Ring even added a cool shield counter that no one fucking uses. It’s easy to execute, and feels good when it lands, but you need to time it right like anything else or you’ll take a hit during the animation. But fuck all that! Just roll around naked dual wielding heavy weapons (which work better for tanky shield builds because they’re slow, but no one cares) and bumble you’re way through the game like all the video essayists. The same video essayists who think they can critique the game design after they ignored half the mechanics.

>>716374160
>No one learns how to parry in Dark Souls because retard video essayists tell people the best way to play is to roll around naked with a greatsword, and that using shields is bad.
I didn't learn to parry in my first playthrough because I chose the knight class. Since you heavy roll from the very start, you're conditioned to use your shield whenever possible to block enemy damage.

>>716373060 (OP)
>Close the Gates of Oblivion
>wait, I can fast travel?

I beat elden ring without using spirit ashes because im an idiot.

>>716375307
You gotta hate yourself and be quite stubborn to not at least use them for the late game bosses.

>>716373060 (OP)
I never beat Christopher Robin, but stat upgrades in the Pooh baseball game

>>716373060 (OP)
No surprise you didn't learn parrying because most of the enemies are immune to parrying. What, are you just gonna trial and error figure out which human looking enemy can be parried and which can't after learning the right part of their animation for your animation speed parry? it doesn't even do much damage without the right weapon and ring for the risk you take.

>>716375385
The truth is i never figured out how to use them and never bothered to look it up. I still had summons so it wasn’t that bad anyways but i still think its funny how important they are and I completely skipped them

>>716375307
Same, also that flask and those weapon skills

I didn't beat the game obviously, but I got way too far into Persona 3 without understanding what fusions did.
tbf it was my first time ever playing a Persona game, but I still think back to how retarded I was back then.

>>716373954
Nah, she's only full of hot air

>>716374160
>play through dark souls 1, know nothing about it, have to have "tips" from my friend because i don't play RPGs or action adventure games
>tells me to get uchigatana because it's good, tells me how, ok sure
>tells me to use a shield in my off-hand, ok, do it all game
>get to the point i need to do blighttown
>don't know how to deal with poison and i'm terrible at the game, think i'm doing something wrong
>ask friend, "oh dude you need the poison resistance ring!"
>ok, where do i get it
>"uhhhh, i think in the forest from a boss"
>only one i can find is a big dog
>ask him if that's the boss because i don't do any damage to it(my uchigatana was probably +5)
>he says yes and that i need to "git gud"
>end up beating sif after over a hundred tries(i remember it took me many hours)
>no poison resistance ring wtf
>friend goes "oops lol"
>play through the rest of the game without his help
>get to gwyn
>getting completely shit on
>ask /v/ for help, tells me to just parry him
>end up grinding gwyn for ages practicing parrying because i had never done it once before in the playthrough
>end up beating him with parrying
My first run was definitely fucked, I'm pretty sure my friend at the time was fucking with me. I can parry extremely well in all souls games now though and I can beat Sif at any level with any class with any weapon now. Sif's moveset is just ingrained in my head permanently, like I was branded or some shit.

>>716374160
>Elden Ring even added a cool shield counter that no one fucking uses.
This is a lie. People just don't use it as often in PVP, but it's one of the most risk free ways to punish NPCs.

>>716373060 (OP)
Bloodborne's gun parry, never could get the timing right.
I only found out you could break those big tarp covered boxes in HL1 for loot at the very tail end of the game.

>>716376551
Honestly, I never touched it in Elden Ring until I did a Patches cosplay playthrough. As for Nightreign, on the EXTREMELY rare occasion that I play Guardian, I do use guard counters since it's amazing for staggering bosses.

>>716373060 (OP)
marriage in Fable

>>716373060 (OP)
90% of prosthetic tools in Sekiro
Firecrackers are free against beast enemies
Spear can pull out worms out of immortal enemies
The umbrella owns a lot of enemies in the game
Shurikens knock down any flying enemy

No one bothered to use them cause no one has time farming for ammo and like casting magic in Dark Souls, it triggers to autism in retards "You didn't beat the game."

>>716373060 (OP)
Bone dust being used to upgrade your estus in DS2. I figured it out during the DLC.

>>716375434
I only ever used the parry in DS1 to cheese Gwyn

>>716376862
I did that on my first run like I said above, but now I use parrying every run where my build involves a medium or small shield. I'll also use it on any boss or NPC I can in DS2, DS3, or Elden Ring.

>>716373060 (OP)
Pokémon Types.
>Be 10 year-old me
>Pokémon Red is my first RPG ever.
>Get Bulbasaur
>Work and catch a level 2 pidgey
>Try him out
>"What the fuck? This thing is nowhere near as strong as my level 8 Bulbasaur. I'm putting Bulba back in."
>Catch a Kakuna
>"WHAT?! This isn't ANYWHERE near my level 17 Ivysaur. I'm putting Ivy back in."
>Some time later
>At elite 4
>Team consists of level 90 Venusaur, Level 2 Pidgey, level 3 Rattata, Lv 7 Kakuna, Lv 26 Lapras, and Lv 7 Pikachu
>Destroy them all up to Gary
>This is it
>The ONLY Pokémon in the game that could put the fear of God into me: Charizard
>Try my Razor Leaf. Barely anything.
>Try my Vine Whip. SHIT! That did less!
>Okay, time for my most powerful attack ever.....SOLAR BEAM GO!
>Barely anything
>He full restores up
>"CRAP! HE'S SO STRONG!"
>"Well...the only thing I got left is this Body Slam that I randomly put onto him as part of a TM. I guess give that a uselss shot or whatever."
>It one-shots him
>"YOU WIN!"
>I'm staring at the end of a 40 hour game, only now of all times going "...ooooooooooh. Types! I see! I get it now!"
The moral of the story is don't be retarded and read.

>>716374160
>DSII lets you parry with twohanders using left and right handed configurations without needing to use your offhand
>couldn't get the timing right on either side
I know there was a cool execution that you could do on a successful parry but I was too much of a shitter to get it consecutively.

>>716376113
Akko S T I N K Y

>>716373060 (OP)
I never parry in souls games. The risk to reward ratio is shitty.

>>716375846
My first time playing persona 3 was hilarious too.
There was no way to check what the weird spell names meant (bufula? Tarukaja? Tetrakarn???) unless you went into battle and checked them there. It was like learning a new language since it was my first SMT-related anything.

>>716374160
>No one learns how to parry in Dark Souls because retard video essayists tell people the best way to play is to roll around naked with a greatsword, and that using shields is bad
Rolling is much easier than hitting the parry window and people go naked so they can avoid fatrolling with minimal points invested.

>>716373060 (OP)
my friend could beat almost anyone in mario kart 64 with toad
when we started playing i had an edge on him because evidently he never learned to power slide. after he picked it up, we got a lot more competitive, and our group kinda transcended to the point where we could hustle fools had we wanted to

>>716373060 (OP)
I went through all of mgs3 without knowing how to cqc.

>>716376587
>figured out about loot from crates at the end
wtf lol.

For me it was "JUST ACCELERATE" in Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Instead of holding throttle down before race starts you can time it for when the race starts and you get a big acceleration boost

>>716373060 (OP)
I played DKC for the first time a couple weeks ago and I didn't know you could switch between DK and Diddy until like the last 3 stages of the game. I just assumed you had to hope you were on whichever character was better for that stage.

>>716373060 (OP)
Blades in Xenoblade 2. I cared only about covering many elements and using unique ones, I didn't know what a single one of them specifically did.
Also actually using pouch items. I just spent the entire game trying to suss out everyone's tastes. Oh, and aux cores, every one I found for the first, like, 10 hours was analogous to one of the shittiest gems in XC1, so I wrote them off and stopped equipping them.

>>716373060 (OP)
I completed all of the combat challenges with all medals in Arkham City and Arkham Origins without knowing that evade gives you invincibility frames. I just mastered beatdowns and used that in all challenges.

>>716373060 (OP)
Finished Pikmin 1 without knowing that red pikmins are immune to fire and deal the best dmg

wasnt the whole game but I played maybe the first 2/3 of dyson sphere program without knowing you could raise belts or stack certain buildings

>>716373060 (OP)
A friend of mine finished Dark Souls 3 without upgrading his Flasks with the undead bone shards.

I went through F3 missing two things about hacking:
1 - that brackets trick you can use to remove a wrong word
2 - that you could just stop hacking with one guess left and immediately start over with full guesses. I never tried it since it made much more sense to me if you were stuck with your guesses. Otherwise what's the point? If you can just start over again and again there would be no challenge. Turns out that was the design all along.

I can't think of any specific examples because I have brain damage but I know a thing that's happened to me multiple times is a mechanic will be briefly mentioned at the start of the game and seems useless so you forget about it then it suddenly becomes essential later in the game but the game doesn't remind you so you hit a wall.

I didn't know you could use the chainsaw in Doom Eternal even when you haven't ran out of ammo and I was like 7 hours in

Alchemy in any game that has alchemy.

In Alan Wake 2, the remedy menus are awful and for basically 70% of the game I didn't know you could upgrade saga weapons, not that it's easy considering it requires a shitload of material

>>716373060 (OP)
I finished DeS, DS1-3, ER and BB and I can't parry. Needless to say I did not finish Sekiro. It's a rolling life for me

>>716373060 (OP)
Crafting

I'm playing 100 Line right now, got the first ending a couple days ago. I only just today figured out you can move while queueing up your Special Move.

>>716373060 (OP)
I only learned how to parry in revengence during the final boss.

>>716373060 (OP)
Chariot in Tactics Ogre Reborn

>>716373060 (OP)
???
How?
You just tap a button and then attack.
I don't think you can even call it a "mechanic" just one of your basic moves like blocking and attacking.

>>716373060 (OP)
the first time i played mega man 7 i didn't know about the super adaptor. never made it past the second fight with bass.
felt pretty silly afterwards

>>716373060 (OP)
I didn't know I could save at any point in Valkyria Chronicles until the final stage.

>>716373060 (OP)
Fast traveling in Oblivion when I first got it on the 360, took me forever to beat it.

>>716373060 (OP)
Most recent in Boltgun.
Finished the game and DLC without knowing you can charge at the enemies.

>>716391224
used to play skyrim with a potato pc back in 2011.
finished the game and only then i found out that the dragon claws turny wheels had the solutions on em.
Couldn't see it in 800x600.

>>716373060 (OP)
>Playing DA1 on spanish
>The health potions were called "Cataplasma"
>Haven't seen that word in my life so I just decided to ignore them
>Went the whole game without healing from them a single time
>Didn't find out until in the endgame I fought the dragon in the temple and I was so desperate that I began clicking random shit on my inventory

>>716392295
Plasma from Catalonia?

>>716373060 (OP)
Parrying in MGR lol
I barely skirted through Monsoon with those emp grenades, was using the evasion slash the whole time before

12 year old me and my best friend beat devil may cry 3 on dante must die difficulty without knowing that devil trigger explosion existed

in case you have never played this game before, when you hold the transformation button for a while, you will perform a devil trigger explosion which causes massive damage around you

whenever you kill an enemy in dante must die difficulty all other monsters get stronger, so having the option to defeat all of them at once is extremely useful

>>716395939
DMD without DTE might as well be a challenge run, congrats

>>716375307
I only use them against bosses that come in pairs.
It's too easy to fight an enemy that has their back to you half the time.

I played through Dark Souls without upgrading any of the fires, because I didn't understand the mechanic.
I didn't understand you could use humanity for that.

>>716373060 (OP)
I completely forgot in Sekiro that you can follow-up most parries with an attack by pressing R1 afterward and it completely fucks up bosses' stamina meter

>>716373060 (OP)
Rail signals in Factorio. I just had completely separate railways for each separate resource I wanted to transport with a train on my first run.

I didn't know you could lean forward in Thief
I also thought you needed holy water to kill haunts and thought ghosts were immortal
Needless to say many pants were shat during my first playthrough

>>716395939
>>716396261
Guess I'm adding another mechanic to the list because I am only just now finding out this exists.
I completed everything DMC3..

>>716398864
>fiend show me his dual lane, universal train system
>pic related is me with single lane, per resource lines with messy waiting lanes and random segments where trains can pass each other

>>716373060 (OP)
I didn't know you could make kneeling suspects/civs crawl towards you in Ready or Not, we've always been walking up to them (risky) since they can and will get back up and rearm themselves if you leave them alone.

In nuHitman you can grab people using the pistol to shoot them in the stomach/back twice

>>716373060 (OP)
Dodging in MGR. You don't even have it by default, you have to buy it in the store but it's absolutely necessary to fight some enemies properly. The Wolf and Sam DLCs give it to you as part of the basic moveset but it never tells you about it. There's also being able to go in Blade Mode while sliding and being able to walk in Blade Mode but those aren't as useful as the dodge

>>716385207
it took me around 70 hours to find out that spring traps exists

>>716400204
>go in Blade Mode while sliding and being able to walk in Blade Mode
what

>>716400628
When you do the sliding move with triangle on Ninja Run you can go blade mode while on the slide animation.
Also yeah, you can walk in blade mode by pressing on the left stick and moving it

>>716373060 (OP)
Blocking in Stranger of Paradise
Too many buttons for me lol, I just pressed soul shield instead

I did most of the story of freedom wars without realising you can upgrade added elemental damage seperately from the base weapon upgrades

>>716397693
If i didn't accidentally do it my first time at firelink i don't think i would have realised, i thought kindling activated online and being human was cosmetic only at first

I recently played the original RE trilogy and didnt know you could point the shotgun upwards to one shot zombies.

Blocking in Kirby Super Star/Ultra. I legit did not know I could do that, I just thought I had to get good at dodging.

>>716373060 (OP)
unlocking movement abilities from leveling drive forms in KH2

>>716373060 (OP)
Got all 150cc gold trophies on the Maro 64 Recomp without knowing that drifting can make yellow smoke and get boosts. Just taking good lines and being aggressive with items was enough

>>716380290
Wtf I picked Toad because he sounded funny, is he actually strong?

>>716381883
I still have no idea how this minigame works. I just space 3 guesses and then hunt for all the dud removal and try resets and guess for 3 more.

>>716373060 (OP)
When me and my brother were kids, we beat Crash Team Racing adventure mode multiple times without knowing about drift boosting.

>>716373060 (OP)
I never changed Keyblades in kingdom hearts 1.

>>716376113
>>716373060 (OP)
Whats her name, can't find the qt on yandex

I 100%'d Metro Gravity and I still don't entirely understand the arrow blocks. I get how they move, but not how they interact with their destination. I just fucked around until that shit solved itself each time.

upgrading your katana in mgr revengeance

>>716373060 (OP)
Didn't level up any of my units in battles in Brutal Legend until the last boss, where I got walled.
RIP Ozzy.

>>716373060 (OP)
I never learn to kick in ds games. I always fail it when I try to kick and success when I don't intent to do it.

>>716373819
Holy shit are you me?
I couldn't believe myself when I found out, so many enemies I had to either waste bullet after bullet or avoid because of this

I love farts

>>716373060 (OP)
Never happened to me ever. Back in the day I read the manual and shit all over everyone who didn't. Now I pay attention to tutorials and shit all over people who don't.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.

>>716373060 (OP)
CQC in Snake Eater

>>716406675
When clicking on a word the game tells you how many letters are in the same position as the code-word.
Let's say the code-word is "TASK",
You randomly pick "MASK", and it would say 3/4, since they both end with "ASK". Three out of four words are in the correct position.
You now know that the word "MASK" is just one letter away from the code-word.
You pick "MASH", get the result 2/4 (since "MASH" and "TASK" has "AS" in the same location), and you now know that "MASK" is one letter closer than "MASH".
So it's about figuring out the code-word based on the clues you get from the other words you pick. It's not a bad mini-game, if only you couldn't restart it constantly. That's like saying "you have to roll a 5 or 6 to continue" and then giving you all the rolls you want.