[General Discussion] Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Ever had a moment in a video game where you did something incredibly unwise? Have you been stuck at a spot in the game for hours, only to realize that the answer was incredibly obvious?

I remember, in Okami, being stuck at the Gale Shrine because

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I didn't know there was a certain direction I had to make the wind blow in order to get the banners up so that I could walk on them. Boy, that was smart.

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I remember not being able to save the game at one stage in Valkyrie Profile 1 because I didn't even know how to properly use the magic dust crystals as stepping stones, forcing me to back track to the first save crystal.

Bonehead.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

In Donkey Kong Country 2, I first thought that bumping into the grey Klobbers was giving me extra life balloons. I spent a large amount of time gathering all of the balloons that popped out from said Klobbers until I realized that my total amount of lives were actually decreasing. I should have realized sooner that those "extra" lives were actually coming from me.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

In a few RPGs, I've often accidentally gone into the final battle without saving the game at the last save point. In some games, the save point is hard to miss. I've also seen warnings that told the player that there was "no turning back" after a certain point so going back was easy when I knew the game was nearing the end. But for other RPGs, it was sometimes easy to continue going forward without stopping to save.

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Brain Lord's door puzzle. The hint sign next to it didn't say a thing. Press the Y button and you got it open. :\ That's like a totally out of left field sort of thing. But that game was pretty awesome puzzle game, and I recall one other game that mentioned silence is golden and if you don't move, the door opens after a few seconds.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I got stuck in Terranigma for hours at one point. I had to use a special item to advance, which I thought I had. When I tried to use it, nothing was happening, so I figured I didn't have it. I spent hours backtracking through the game to find it before I realized I had been pushing the wrong button.

There's also all those random instances where I play a game for the first time and walk into some random colorful thing, expecting a power-up and it's really an enemy.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

The first Silent Hill 3 puzzle fucked me over for days.

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There's a bunch of books on the floor of a bookstore which you pick up, and written on the back of the books are numbers. There's also a riddle on a sign near a door which says "Put these out of order."

So of course I inspected the books, wrote the numbers down, tried it on the number pad on the door. Didn't work. Hell, I even restarted the game a couple of times in case it was a glitch.

But no, the numbers are given to you once you PUT THE BOOKS BACK ON THE FUCKING SHELF. You don't inspect them or anything like that. Blatantly obvious shit which I didn't think of for the longest time.

FELIPE NO

I'd have to go with the first time I played Seiken Densetsu 3.

I was walking around in the forests to find the Leaf Spirit because the first time I landed there was day time, and those flowers said nothing. So I was wandering around like an idiot, wondering why every screen looks the same, and how I always ended back at the entrance.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

My absolute dumbest moment in a game was probably FF VI, sadly. It was the first real RPG I played, and on my first run-through in the World of Ruin I figured "Wow, the Hidon Cave was pretty easy! I'll just jam Cyan into my party now and take the same guys straight over to Doma." Everything went swimmingly until I encountered the boss, Wrexsoul. What did I bring to a fight that forces you to kill your own party members several times? Three phoenix downs and not one damn person who knew a Life spell. My Strago barely knew anything at all, Mog was good but lacked any healing spells, and Umaro couldn't even be controlled and was damn hard to kill with his Rage Ring equipped since the boss' minions were continually healing him with attack spells. I refused to restart my game, so I ended up being stuck there for something like three years.

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I spent a day trying to get through the first part of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, not seeing any clear area to go through, when I finally realized the floor I was standing on was one of those floors you can jump down through. Derp!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

yes i remember being stuck on games for hours and noticing the item/part was right in front of me this also happened during boss battles in FFX and FF7 too

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The beginning of Twilight Princess for me. I thought I put two and two together when you saw that monkey holding the cradle and added in the fact you needed a slingshot. So for about three hours I was throwing rocks wondering how the hell I could hit that damn monkey from the little piece of land near the monkey.

It didn't strike me until I found that reed you played to summon that hawk and you could actually aim in that direction to get it.

I felt so stupid. That was on the GC version... When I played the Wii version, I blazed through that and never looked back.

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I guess i couldn't really help this one, but i felt kinda really annoyed when it happened.

I was fighting th Melc Crystals in Grandia III, and my party members weren't at full health, but they were at an acceptable level. Basically i would've been screwed if both side monsters used the BOOM-OR spell. It looked like i would be able to defeat the entire thing if i used this one spell, so instead of healing to be cautious, i used an attack, which left the main monster with 1 HP. The two side monsters then used the BOOM-OR spell, and the main monster transformed into the bird form, making him almost three times as fast, and his main attack deals 400 damage per hit. Killed two of my guys, and brought the other two down to something like 300 each. I couldn't beleive how well it all worked out in the boss' favour. And if any of you know that boss, it has an obscene amount of health, and the battle can take well over an hour in many cases. It took me two days to mentally recover from that, and try again.

Once, on my first runthrough of Resident Evil GC, when i first met with Lisa Trevor (i still get shivers remembering that night. About 4 years ago, at midnight, home alone, with all the lights off, freaked out of my head) i panicked and proceeded to shoot her with every last shot gun shell i had, then ran away, and without thinking used my last ink ribbon to save the game. That is quite possibly the stupidest move i've ever made in a video game. I was not thinking, at all. Needless to say i restarted my game.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Oh man, I can top you all. When I was around 10, I rented my first RPG, Super Mario RPG.

I couldn't get out of Mario's Pad, because I didn't realize that the little tab in the area leads to the next one.

- WraithTwo -

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

how about this one when i was 10 none of my family (inc. me ) couldn't beat Jenova after Aeris got stabbed.. but now 6 years later i kicked the living shit out of that Jenova and got my revenge

Current party when facing Jenova

26 Cloud
26 Tifa
27 Barret

FELIPE NO

Maybe not as obvious when I was young, but I was playing Chrono Trigger on emulator. When I went to Arris Dome, or wherever you have to enter the L+R+Y code at the terminal I was baffled. I kept doing it over and over and was stuck. I didn't realize until I picked it up years later that of course three buttons held simultaneously jam a keyboard. So I held L and R and kept tapping Y and it worked.


Another emulator related instance, I was playing Final Fantasy V. The part where you enter Exdeath's castle and it looks normal. So I walk in the room and says "there's nothing here, I went the wrong way, let's load state." I did this like five times and then a couple of days later I figured out that you actually have to walk in and then back out for the scene to trigger and the illusion to disappear.

How ya doing, buddy?

I beat about 3/4 of "Star Ocean III: Till the end of time" without realizing that there actually is an item to make the dead character alive again

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Ok, we goin' for REALLY dumb ones here? On my first RPG, Mario RPG, i couldn't pass the sunken ship cause i didn't know how to spell Pearls. I thought it was Perals, and was so pissed of when it didn't work i just gave up on the game. For a loooooooong time.

How ya doing, buddy?

Metal Gear Solid.
''look behind the package for her code''....my first play whit metal gear solid was a rental...stupid fucks.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It didnt happen with me but I bet that someone will mention the Barrel from Sonic 3 Carnival level. You know, the one where you couldnt figure out that you need to press up and down.

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When I first played Chrono Trigger (the first time I seriously picked up a RPG) I couldn't beat the Dragon Tank because I still had all the starting gear on, and I was underleveled. I didn't know there was a option to change equipment...

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I spent about 2 months in Shadowrun trying to get in a door. It was the gate that led to the Rat Shaman's lair. I got so upset trying to find out how to open it that I nearly pushed someone's grandma down the stairs. Then one day, I decided I would try to run through the gate...success!!! Why? The door was open. I always tell myself that the door magically opened right then and there.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

In Rogue Galaxy, there are special boss-type monsters that require you to hold up and item in order to "summon" the monster and fight it.

Well, on the planet Alistia, there's this big ol' deathscythe in a beached boat concept, and in order to summon him, you have to hold up an item that quenches the thirst of pirates, or something along those lines.

So I try everything I browse through everything in my inventory -- potions, tri-elixirs, resurrections, etc. Nothing's working. I look up and down and I'm just not seeing it. So I go to my strategy guide (where I could have looked all along...dur dur durr) and found that, lo and behold, it was an item called Pirate's Grog. Yeah. I had 5.

Another one's from MegaMan Legends. At the near-beginning of the game, you have to fight the Tronn family and the towers and tanks they've set out in a big field. I'm on the field running around destroying the tanks and towers and I can't figure out for the life of me what I'm supposed to do next. Now, the NPC I had spoken to said I should track them to the northern part of the field.

Of course, by field, the NPC meant the whole field, not just the northern part of the section I was in. That took about three hours.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by evilboris

It didnt happen with me but I bet that someone will mention the Barrel from Sonic 3 Carnival level. You know, the one where you couldnt figure out that you need to press up and down.

FUCK that barrel. God.

You know, I actually got past it once by timing my jumps to "stomp" it down far enough that I could go through the opening (or so that it shot me up high enough to jump to the ledge, forgot which mechanic that puzzle operated on).

I lost countless lives to the 10-minute level time limit thanks to that red-and-white checkerboard cocksucker.

Also, X-Men for Genesis. Mojo's Crunch. "Reset the system!!11!!!one" Lame.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

the first time i played FFXII i got stuck in the temple i think, i forgot to buy some Pdowns and potions, i got threw the dragon part easy then i thought i was done then......that dumb snake came out of the wall and i kept diein there. i was lucky i made a save before goin in there lmao

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