Whenever I break down and use a game walkthrough

Rocero648 · 1 month

Prince of Persia 2. Not the "new" series, but back when the games were 2D. I remember playing it as a kid and getting seriously confused at a couple parts.

i.e.: "he who holds the sacred flame must die". Apparently I was supposed to let myself get killed by the guard and then chill for a minute while "press space bar to restart" flashed at the bottom of my screen until my corpse eventually shat out a living shadow which absorbs a flame from an altar and returns to my body to bring me back to life. Or even the final boss. Trying to take him on in human form will get you destroyed. Apparently you're supposed to press left and right on the directional keys until you turn into a blue fire shadow and then chase down the boss until you're close enough to kamehameha his ass. And if you miss he'll wreck you. And you need enough extra health points in order to transform properly. And if you don't have enough health points, you need to drop through the one hole in the ground which doesn't wind up in a horrible death to fight a bunch of dudes on a giant spider until you finally get enough extra health potions. ...Yeah.

jivemasta · 1 month

How the fuck was I supposed to know I'm supposed to close the DS to copy the map?!

Randomtask3000 · 1 month

Sounds like you've been playing some old LucasArts games

Edit: To clarify, I love the old LucasArts games, as I'm sure most people who played them do. But they are fucking hard.

saysomethingdumb · 1 month

What? For me it's more like "Holy shit I'm a retard, that was obvious"

NJknick · 1 month

Diddy Kong Racing 64. Honking the horn at the billboard on the beach after winning the five trophy races to go to Future Fun Land.

marcelluspye · 1 month

This happens to me a lot in JRPGs, when there are scripted events at the beginning that force you to talk to everyone and their dog to progress. Then I read that I need to talk to the elderly nurse hiding behind the cleaning products in the storeroom of the church basement. Because she's just such an important story character.

Kongo204 · 1 month

There's always something behind the waterfall

StraY_WolF · 1 month

Instantly reminds me of games like the original Metal Gear on MSX, the original LoZ and a huge portion of FFX-2.

jx4 · 1 month

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GuideDangIt

nolwat22 · 1 month

In the First Silent Hill you have to find 3 keys across the town and go in to a house that looks like the other ones. Go in and unlock the backdoor. WTF!!!!!!!!

wbyte · 1 month

Probably worth noting that some old games with crazy puzzles like this provided telephone numbers which they made money from when people called to ask for help. That ploy has been around since ye good olde days of text adventures, I believe.

AMostOriginalUserNam · 1 month

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Carnival Night Zone. You know the bit.

Fuck you.

Unidan · 1 month

If you've beaten the Monkey Island series without any help, you're a fucking liar.

FireReadyAim · 1 month

The zodiac spear in FFXII is a great example of this. Nobody would fucking ever find that shit, ever.

Jballa69 · 1 month

there's a part in super paper mario that i'm pretty sure is impossible without a walkthrough, it's the part where you hit 3 blocks in a certain order 20 times.

kingwolfos · 1 month

Metal Gear Solid 3. Walking all the way to the end of that river of ghosts and then instantly dieing for no apparent reason. Did it three times before checking online. The game over screen is fake... You have to somehow know that the game over screen is a trick and use an item instead of hitting continue.

prettypleaseburrito · 1 month

Final Fantasy XII. This. Exact. Shit.

Ghidoran · 1 month

Getting the three Regi's in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald...

Saint_Arnold · 1 month

Super Metroid. You have to shoot one random block with a super missile to continue.

blending_options_fan · 1 month

http://www.uhs-hints.com/

I love this site, it gives you hints to solve puzzles without spoiling anything.

JBHUTT09 · 1 month

The only game I've ever needed a walk through to play was Minecraft. I have so much respect for anyone who mastered it without the use of the wiki.

bmelche · 1 month

Myst... Nough said

DavronM · 1 month

Halo 3 - jumping through the rings in the Prophets room. People had to get into the game code to even discover that you could get a skull from doing this.

clonetrooper250 · 1 month

More like "How the Fuck did I not see the goddamn door!?"

KBMXOR · 1 month

The one thing I will never forgive myself for is the valve in half life 2 I couldn't believe I didn't think of it.

dergster · 1 month

oh my god, the entire myst series

leoropes · 1 month

There were plenty of the Riddler trophies and riddles in Arkham City that I couldn't figure out. I check online for the solution and I can't believe how stupidly obvious some of them are.

squiremarcus · 1 month

dragon warrior 2. when you walk into the throne room for the final boss he isnt there. but when you search the ground behind the throne there is a staircase that leads to him and THEN you can fight him... i literally flipped a shit when i looked it up

puff_of_fluff · 1 month

Traverse Town.

Oh god, THE MUSIC

leujin · 1 month

This. I have such a hard time using walkthroughs because even once I know the answer, I have to figure out how I was supposed to figure that out within the context of the game. The puzzles in Assassin's Creed II are a perfect example of this. Okay, sure, the solution is 527, but how the hell was I supposed to figure out that the triangle equals 5?

couchifer · 1 month

It took me FOREVER to find the metal cap in Super Mario 64, and I couldn't even use a walkthrough because internet wasn't that huge then...fucking cap took a good 5 months to get.

Pykoh · 1 month

Especially Minecraft.

Milkman95 · 1 month

Silent Hill 2: Drop a can of juice down a garbage chute to collect a coin.

How is anyone supposed to make it through that game without a walkthrough...

caught_thought · 1 month

The psycho mantis battle in metal gear solid sticks firmly in my mind as a "now what tha??" moment.

PanagiotisG · 1 month

This is how I felt in the Black Ops campaign when you had to go throw the flaming barrels down the hill. I sat there and shot people for like 45 minutes and wasn't getting anywhere!

PewterCityGymLdr · 1 month

Any of the Kings Quest games for me (the sixth one in particular). How the fuck am I supposed to read the hieroglyphics on the wall while climbing the mountain when I clearly downloaded the game illegally??

zenith2nadir · 1 month

What about Excalibur 2 in FFIX? Get to the final dungeon in 12 hours?! WTF?!

toadthetoad · 1 month

There's one instance of this that still baffles me to this day and I'd love to hear from someone that figured it out without a guide.

On the 2002 Resident Evil remake for GameCube there is a new puzzle where you are suppose to figure out the password for a computer. Apparently to do this you're suppose to find 4 X-Rays and place them on a light board. Then look at each x-ray in turn and figure out which organ is highlighted on each, take the first letter of each highlighted organ and put it together to get "CELL" and then take that and use it as a password.

My first problem was that I found them out of order so even if I did figure out that the Colon, Esophagus, Lungs, and Liver (I think those were the organs anyway, just guessing at this point really) were what I was suppose to be looking at, I'd never have gotten them in the right order.

So random and obscure.

Viperbunny · 1 month

Oh, I was supposed to click that thing that is off screen in an area I never need to go again? Why didn't I look there?

This mostly happens with adventure games. Recently, my husand puurchased all the Sam and Max games from the Steam sale. We love to play adventure games together (I long for another Monkey Island...but I know not to hold my breathe). We are at the last chapter of the first game and only had one chapter where we didn't look at any spoilers. Usually, we go for a while and then get stalled on one part. When we look it up it is either something we tried but the game didn't register (trying to click on something) or it is something we would have never thought of.

Seriously worth the money for the dialogue alone.

literallyagooch · 1 month

I didn't grow up playing a lot of video games, so I had moments like this all the time when I'd try to play the same games that my gamer friends played. Then I'd discover I was awful at video games. The beginning cutscene of Eternal Darkness shows a digital clock, and then later you have to move the hands on a grandfather clock to the time the clock showed in that cutscene. There's also a part in the Resident Evil reboot for Gamecube where you have to take a certain key, but doing so sets off a trap. So you have to blow a dog whistle, kill the zombie dogs that arrive, then take the fake key that is inexplicably strapped to their neck and swap it for the real key. I still don't think I'm capable of figure that one out.

Dynoknight · 1 month

I feel like this all the time playing through Dark Souls, since the game is so vague about where to go.

"How was I supposed to know to roll off that, then carefully walk along that narrow tree limb, then roll off of that at just the right angle/speed to get to the next area?"

JOBSDONE · 1 month

Soul Blazer, emblem G. It's hidden under a random dresser. You have to run into the dresser for about 5 seconds IIRC. There is no indication at any point in the game that the emblem is there, and there is nowhere else in the game where you can push object like that.

The spot where the G was located was hard to find.

bouncingsouls · 1 month

There was this part in Skyrim where I had to get on top of a rock and whirlwind sprint to another ledge to get past a waterfall. That was retarded.

Also, a large portion of Paper Mario 2 and 3.

Journeyman42 · 1 month

ctrl+F for Riven, can't find any posts on it

Damn, that game was literally impossible without a game walkthrough. What the hell were they thinking?

Diemonx · 1 month

Castlevania Simon's Quest.

'Nuff Said.

Vzylexy · 1 month

Reminds me, I didn't know how to open up gates/doors when I first got Goldeneye. I never bothered reading the manual, and on the Dam level I thought you just had to run like a maniac before the doors closed. Wasn't until I was talking to an older kid on the bus when I said, "That first level is so hard, I can't get past the second gate in time." Kid just looks at me like an idiot, "You can open the gates..."

Aznb01p · 1 month

Well to be fair, most modern games aren't as complex as the older stuff. I remember that Ice cave from Pokemon Silver where you have to move the boulders was a pain. Also, the "super" levels on the Mario Gameboy game.

Lee13412 · 1 month

I had to look up a walk through for EVERY SINGLE PUZZLE in amnesia they were really fucking hard

Raknith · 1 month

Actually, This is pretty much how it goes when I use walkthroughs.

RandianHero · 1 month

Games are so simply designed nowadays, I feel really dumb when I have to look something up. It's not like when I was a kid and developers had no precedent for game design, so things often made no sense whatsoever.

Zeranual · 1 month

The Noveria memory core puzzle in Mass Effect made me want to cry. Even after watching a walk-through I still didn't understand the rules governing the puzzle, evidently it was the classic "Tower of Hanoi" puzzle except that it doesn't display the actual elevation of the pieces or let you know that you can only move from the top of the stack ~~to an adjacent space.~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J81R0vmWoKw&feature=player_detailpage#t=46s

iheartbono · 1 month

Fallout NV, the door to vault 3 "is activated elsewhere". Spent an inordinate amount of time looking for a switch around the ruins whilst being attacked by Fiends. The panel was next to the door..... I did this on my second play through aswell. I am not a smart man.

spanky6 · 1 month

Did Banjo Kazooie confuse anyone else as a kid? No?

okay.jpg

RandomIdiot256 · 1 month

End of Fallout 3... HOW THE FUCK WAS I SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER THAT SHIT?!

Nioxic · 1 month

its gotta be an older game..

new games wouldnt require a walkthrough :P

Klepto666 · 1 month

And then there's the game guides that don't even tell you everything.

I have a game guide for MGS3 and was using it to hunt the kerotan frogs. However, they actually don't tell you where the last 2 or 3 are. If I recall, they just put some question marks under the kerotan symbol (where they normally put a description and an arrow pointing to it on the map).

Desinis · 1 month

Mine was Limbo. You had to just keep hitting a lever over and over and over and over until one block fell out of synchronization.

Kevince · 1 month

"Why the fuck

is the image so small?"

minerfury · 1 month

I once had to look at help for portal 2, turns out my game glitched. I was not happy.

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