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hnd03 Parasol Star Memories from [REDACTED] Since: Jun, 2009
Parasol Star Memories
#151: Dec 5th 2010 at 7:23:35 PM

[up][up]Sounds like someone read hiimdaisy's comic or watched the dub.

So. Let's all pause for a moment to smell what the Rock was, is, and forever will be... cooking.—Cave Johnson
Dorkus Since: Aug, 2009
#152: Dec 5th 2010 at 8:24:57 PM

On Civilization 1, I hated hitting the wrong button while moving a unit and moving it off the railroad. So I railroaded everything. EVERYTHING.

Risetteer Since: Sep, 2009
#153: Dec 6th 2010 at 1:33:46 AM

[up][up] I didn't even find out about that until after I finished the game.

AJesterOnly Since: Jan, 2010
#154: Dec 6th 2010 at 12:06:35 PM

The year was... I don't know.. sometime in the 90s?

The game was Pokemon RED.

The 'mon was CHARIZARD.

ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE GAME.

Oh, hi there ANY OTHER 'MON, fuck you, I don't need you in my team, I banish thee to the PC!

This was the way I beat the WHOLE GAME. Holy dammit Christmas was Brock's gym hard.

Also, a little time before that I had this rad game called Super Street Fighter II: Turbo. There were only 3 characters in that game as far as I was concerned — E. Honda, Chun Li and motherfucking BLANKA.

If you're looking for a common thread connecting these three it was this — All I had to do to get a sweet-ass special was just hammer the living fuck out of one button. For the entire fight. Lightning shooting out of my back? Why, just mash that B button, my friend! A million flaming kicks? Say hello to the A button! A myriad of open-handed palm strikes? Hope you enjoy your thumb-localized carpal tunnel.

I also sold every non-restorative item in every game, unless it was the next-best weapon I could get. I never used buffs/debuffs (those are for strategy pussies, anyway). Same idea for brakes — only pussies brake in a race — that's why it's a race, dumbass, to see who's fastest, not looking the best when they cross the checkers. If I was playing a FPS like Goldeneye — every gun was too good to use, so I used the PP 9 or whatever other weak pistol the levels would start you with. I also would only buy enough restoratives to bring my number carried to a number ending in 5 or 0.

God, kids are fucking crazy.

OriDoodle Mom Lady from East of West Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#155: Dec 6th 2010 at 12:39:08 PM

Wow i did the exact same thing and yeah, Brock's gym murdered me. But by the time I hit the champions I just blazed through them—mostly cause by that point my beloved Charizard was lvl 99.

Doodles
Recon5 Avvie-free for life! from Southeast Asia Since: Jan, 2001
Avvie-free for life!
#156: Dec 6th 2010 at 8:19:53 PM

I used to turtle all the time in Total Annihilation and I would always tweak the Skirmish settings to allow that. The habit persisted even after one of my friends stomped me with a T1 rush several times over.

I picked the game up again recently and I was able to steamroll multiple hard A.I.s with T1 rushes and the default resources, sometimes even netting multiple opponents with the same cluster of tanks.

On the downside, the game's a lot more boring now that I know rushing is an option.

ARandomSerf Since: Dec, 1969
#157: Dec 7th 2010 at 2:52:48 PM

My cousin did the Charizard thing and compounded it with a moveset of three fire moves plus Cut. Not that I can ridicule him too hard: I once wasted my Thunderbolt TM on a Mankey.

OmegaKross Muhaha... haha... HAHAHAHAHA! from Nameless Dark Oblivion Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
Muhaha... haha... HAHAHAHAHA!
#158: Dec 7th 2010 at 3:09:15 PM

A Jester Only, I still do the 'brakes are for pussies' thing. Its why I cant play GRID.

Another dumb trait that has carried into adulthood is reaching LVL 100 with all characters in FFVIII. Its a little less dumb nowadays though. Now I only ever use Squall, Selphie and Rinoa/Quistis. Of course, that brings problems of it's own. And I still dont use Card-Mod.

Can't think of anything witty, so have this instead...
TsundeRay HOORAY! from Santa Clara, California Since: May, 2009
HOORAY!
#159: Dec 7th 2010 at 3:19:21 PM

Darius Twin: Refusing to press the bomb / secondary laser button because I thought I had a finite number of that.

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JackMackerel from SOME OBSCURE MEDIA Since: Jul, 2010
#160: Dec 7th 2010 at 5:19:10 PM

Einhander: Fly in front of all the bosses expecting to take them out and dodge at the last second.

I still suck at boss patterns to this day. :|

Half-Life: Dual Nature, a crossover story of reasonably sized proportions.
hnd03 Parasol Star Memories from [REDACTED] Since: Jun, 2009
Parasol Star Memories
#161: Dec 7th 2010 at 7:51:56 PM

[up]It's a legitimate tactic called "shotgunning." You just try too hard to get them before they can fire anything.

So. Let's all pause for a moment to smell what the Rock was, is, and forever will be... cooking.—Cave Johnson
onFyre Science! from Blighty Since: Apr, 2009
Science!
#162: Dec 8th 2010 at 4:59:07 AM

I saved over my neighbour's Goldeneye007 file (with all the cheats unlocked!) thinking I could switch off without saving.

Oh, and I thought I'd died in Ocarina Of Time when Jabu Jabu swallowed me.

RL_Nice Bigfoot Puncher from a computer. Since: Jul, 2009
Bigfoot Puncher
#163: Dec 8th 2010 at 2:59:56 PM

I learned that a six year old playing a complex simulation game like Mech Warrior 2 is bound to be funny.

A fistful of me.
Ultrayellow Unchanging Avatar. Since: Dec, 2010
Unchanging Avatar.
#164: Dec 8th 2010 at 8:06:09 PM

I would always mix up the control sticks for looking and moving, and never be able to see where I was going.

Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.
WingsToTheSky Since: Dec, 1969
#165: Dec 9th 2010 at 5:49:36 AM

In Paper Mario I poured all my level-ups into HP. I didn't realize until much later that the game is a lot easier when you balance things out.

TommyX from Atluff Since: Aug, 2010
#166: Dec 9th 2010 at 9:42:17 AM

When I was young, playing Smash 64 and Melee, I would mostly use B moves. Spamming Thunder and Ground Pound... good times.

Cyborgdreamer Bad Kitty Since: Mar, 2010
Bad Kitty
#167: Dec 13th 2010 at 5:16:32 PM

The first game I ever got for my Sega Genesis was Sonic the Hedgehog 3. I knew you were supposed to get rings but I didn't notice the ring counter on the screen. So I thought it was a great idea to repeatedly run into enemies and catch the rings that fly out.

I figured that one out pretty quickly but the Advancing Wall of Doom in Hydrocity Zone Act 2 really got me stuck. Instead of spin-dashing up the ramps I would (playing as Tails) try to fly away from the wall. Of course, when Tails tired out, I was dead foxmeat. I eventually gave up until about two years later when I beat the game without much problem.

It doesn't seem to understand the game is not rock-paper-scissors-spaniel
Klendt (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#168: Dec 14th 2010 at 4:36:08 AM

When playing RP Gs, I'd never buy any items that weren't either: A: weapons wot got bigger attack numbers than the ones I got, or B: revival items, if possible. Hey, why bother healing when you can just raise them from the dead, right?

Fighting games: I'm sure most of you can sympathize with this one: all fireballs, all the time.

In the N64 Zelda games, I basically acted like the jump and spin attacks were the only ones that existed.

As for shooters, I never used weapons other than the pistol unless it made stuff blow up. You know, I'm thinking there's a lot more stupid stuff I did, but I can't remember any of it for the life of me.

edited 14th Dec '10 4:37:07 AM by Klendt

Decimator Since: Dec, 2010
#169: Dec 14th 2010 at 5:47:58 AM

Add me to the "Hold the Accelerate Button and HOLD ON FOR DEAR LIFE" category. I suppose this counts, but in any Pokemon game i ever played, i always had attack moves on my pokemons movesets, and would readily swap a move for another if the new move did more damage, even if that wasn't the best move for that Pokemon, such as Thunderbolt on a Mankey. So, put me in the "If it doesn't hurt, i don't want it" category as well.

RL_Nice Bigfoot Puncher from a computer. Since: Jul, 2009
Bigfoot Puncher
#170: Dec 14th 2010 at 6:01:41 AM

I used to turtle in Real-Time Strategy games. Hell, I still do that now. That's why I never play them online.

A fistful of me.
OmegaKross Muhaha... haha... HAHAHAHAHA! from Nameless Dark Oblivion Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
Muhaha... haha... HAHAHAHAHA!
#171: Dec 14th 2010 at 9:11:20 AM

Isn't that a legitimate tactic though?

On the subject of RTS games, here's another helping of dumb: I used to build as many basic tanks as I could (and ONLY basic tanks) and just send them into the enemy base en masse while constantly building more. Then, when I discovered heavy tanks existed, I did the same thing, only now it was three times as expensive.

Can't think of anything witty, so have this instead...
hnd03 Parasol Star Memories from [REDACTED] Since: Jun, 2009
Parasol Star Memories
#172: Dec 14th 2010 at 8:20:23 PM

I rarely splurge money on anything more expensive than a light tank land wise or a duster air wise in ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin''. Sea units tend to be where I'm a lot less thrifty. My reasoning being you can't kill me if there's more of me than you. Yet I Zerg Rush anyway, and they all die.

That doesn't mean I never build Md. Tanks or Bombers, I just don't find the drawbacks worth the cost, which leads to my downfall usually. But I will never build a War Tank or Anti-Tank if I can help it.

edited 14th Dec '10 8:21:25 PM by hnd03

So. Let's all pause for a moment to smell what the Rock was, is, and forever will be... cooking.—Cave Johnson
Ultrayellow Unchanging Avatar. Since: Dec, 2010
Unchanging Avatar.
#173: Dec 14th 2010 at 8:34:29 PM

I used to play RTS's by spamming the key to build your most basic troop unit. I would then occasionally develop an obsessive love of one unit, and carefully steer him to safety by constantly altering his direction, paying no attention to anything else.

Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.
TsundeRay HOORAY! from Santa Clara, California Since: May, 2009
LolipodDistortion HIP HOP HIPSTER from Austin, Texas Since: Aug, 2010
HIP HOP HIPSTER
#175: Dec 30th 2010 at 1:10:25 PM

Using my strongest pokemon as an HM slave

Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped have all become my pets

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