Most Stupid In-Game Mistakes You've Made-GO!

- Forgetting to re-equip everybody before The Battle of Narshe (FF6)

- Kept trying to jump on the Bomb-Omb King as a kid (Super Mario 64)

- Trying to suck people in as Kirby and spit them out under the stage. (Smash Bros.)

not knowing that I can use itmes to recover HP until the final battle, which is actually kind of impressive if you think about it :P (yggdra union)

Not spamming Mog's Desert dance in FF6.  I've taken bosses out with it before in one shot.

Also selling too many of my cosplay items in DQIX. I can;t compelte a quest now because of it :(

Too many to remember, especially in Starcraft 2 and Dota 2. For example, in Starcraft in 9/10 I forget sometimes to make an overlord. So when I am about to make my 11 drone I find myself to be supply capped. Those precious lost minutes mean I'm about to lose.

- Forgetting to reload
- Trying to throw a grenade when the enemy is just about to come around the corner

Various Shooters

Never knowing you could repair your own weapons in Fallout 3 (Yes, I never bothered to look in the upper right corner) :(

so in ocarina of time, link talks to someone and they say "press this button to give me item x." you exit the dialogue windows and hit the button to give them the item. in my first play through of majora's mask, i assumed it worked the same way.

there's this early quest where a witch is stuck in a forest in need of medicine. i went through the whole sequence of talking to her sister to get the medicine, following a monkey through the forest, and finding her. when she asked for the medicine, i treated it like OoT and waited until after the dialogue window to hit the button. this resulted in link drinking the medicine right in front of the dying old woman. yummy.

i kept trying the same thing and getting the same cruel results. this kept going until day 3. i rewound time and tried again, unwillingly torturing the old woman some more ( i was 12 at the time. this wasn't registering). eventually i figured it out though. you have to press the button while the npc is speaking.

I actually made a pretty stupid one last night. I was playing MGS 2 HD and was in the locker room right at the start of the plant chapter. I read on the Metal Gear wiki site that if you tap on the pictures of the Japanese models that are inside the lockers it will cause an immediate red alert or just make a funny noise, depending on where you tap it.

So I try it and of course within seconds, heavily armed guards fill the room. Thankfully I hid in the locker and they didn't bother to look in there.

Trophy hunting in Nier.  You had to beat some boss within a set amount of time.  Then a really long cutscene played.  No trophy, so I assumed I'd missed the time and did it over and over and over.  Got disgusted finally and let the cutscene play for like 20 minutes.  THEN the trophy popped.  :evil:  I was probably beating the damned time by a full minute after all that practice.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue - saved up 20 million to buy the F1 car.  Saving 20 million took a LONG time.  Only to discover the F1 car couldn't be used in any races. 

Mis throwing a grenade in (insert game name here) and not realizing it in time. So many needless deaths.

Forgetting what button was to pick pocket in Sly, started a few brawls.

I was one of the first players to buy a house in Ultima Online back in the day. I tagged the sign with the name Metal Mart because I was using it to store all my mining and blacksmithing goods, ingots and finished pieces. This was before they offered player stores for purchase.

I then tagged my key with the same name (Metal Mart) and got promptly slaughtered by a group of PKers.

Lost it all. Canceled my sub.:(

Probably walking around aimlessly in some open world or even linear level games getting frusterated on where the f*ck I'm supposed to go and then coming back to an area I was first at and finding out I was supposed to go that way.

In Ni no Kuni, I wasn't aware I was suppose to equip the familiar's abilities and spells once they learned them. I wasn't aware of this until I made it to Hamiltin, and was stuck on the "tank boss" (leaving out for spoilers), and learned that he was weak against wind spells. While browsing through my familiar list to see who had wind spells, I finally figured out you needed to do this. It would have made previous fights less tedious.

There have been several times where I realize how to use some useful tool, mechanic, or spell, that's been there all along, near the end of the game. Knowing what it did earlier would have REALLY made the game easier but for some reason I didn't realize how to use it until way later in the game.

For example, I didn't realize I could save during battles in Valkyria Chronicles until the second to last chapter. Fail.

There have been several times where I realize how to use some useful tool, mechanic, or spell, that's been there all along, near the end of the game. Knowing what it did earlier would have REALLY made the game easier but for some reason I didn't realize how to use it until way later in the game.

For example, I didn't realize I could save during battles in Valkyria Chronicles until the second to last chapter. Fail.

Lucky_Krystal

Ouch. The in-battle save feature was the only reason I managed to beat VC. Chapter 18 in particular (I think it was 18 - it's the one where you have to breach Jaeger's blockade) became a stop/start affair where I would save, move and take the shot, reload and try again if I missed, continue until I made the kill, move on to the next unit.

Ouch. The in-battle save feature was the only reason I managed to beat VC. Chapter 18 in particular (I think it was 18 - it's the one where you have to breach Jaeger's blockade) became a stop/start affair where I would save, move and take the shot, reload and try again if I missed, continue until I made the kill, move on to the next unit.

Business_Fun

The wiki says it was Chp 17. The battle with Jaeger was when I realized I could save. I don't think I could have won that battle otherwise. But man, the mission that gave me nightmares was the one where Alicia sprains her ankle and has to navigate through a dark forest with Welkin. It was super dark, my eyesight sucks, and I kept tripping those damn mines.  :lol:

[QUOTE="Business_Fun"]

Ouch. The in-battle save feature was the only reason I managed to beat VC. Chapter 18 in particular (I think it was 18 - it's the one where you have to breach Jaeger's blockade) became a stop/start affair where I would save, move and take the shot, reload and try again if I missed, continue until I made the kill, move on to the next unit.

Lucky_Krystal

The wiki says it was Chp 17. The battle with Jaeger was when I realized I could save. I don't think I could have won that battle otherwise. But man, the mission that gave me nightmares was the one where Alicia sprains her ankle and has to navigate through a dark forest with Welkin. It was super dark, my eyesight sucks, and I kept tripping those damn mines. :lol:

That could be annoying too. I seem to remember a major irritant being enemy scouts hiding in long grass and peppering me with debuffing shots. Wearisome.

There have been several times where I realize how to use some useful tool, mechanic, or spell, that's been there all along, near the end of the game. Knowing what it did earlier would have REALLY made the game easier but for some reason I didn't realize how to use it until way later in the game.

For example, I didn't realize I could save during battles in Valkyria Chronicles until the second to last chapter. Fail.

Lucky_Krystal

Ive beaten VC twice and didnt know that you could save mid battle :|

basically the same thing that happend with yddra union. you can use equipable items to recover HP, I didnt figure that out until the last boss :P

I don't know, I've lost count :lol:

There have probably been times where I didn't find out about a useful feature/ability/item until late in a game, times I've used powerful explosive weapons on myself or teammates in multiplayer games, or times I found out a game has falling damage the hard way.

Well not so much an in-game mistake, but I played through the DLC campaign of Ryder White without knowing it was DLC and wound up ruining the plot of Dead Island for myself (such as it is). At first I thought that was how the whole game played out until I realized it was just a really bad DLC and not indicative of the core gameplay.