On Civilization 1, I hated hitting the wrong button while moving a unit and moving it off the railroad. So I railroaded everything. EVERYTHING.
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.
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.
DoodlesI 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.
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...Darius Twin: Refusing to press the bomb / secondary laser button because I thought I had a finite number of that.
http://twitter.com/raydere | http://raydere.tumblr.comEinhander: 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.
It's a legitimate tactic called "shotgunning." You just try too hard to get them before they can fire anything.
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.
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.When I was young, playing Smash 64 and Melee, I would mostly use B moves. Spamming Thunder and Ground Pound... good times.
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-spanielWhen 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
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.
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.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...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 JohnsonI 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.EarthBound. Frank. When I was 11 years old. I died because it did not cross my mind to use healing items.
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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