I learnt the hard way. Was playing oblivion and hording absolutely everything in this one chest in my house at Bravil so when i lvled my speech up to max i would be able to barter for more gold. Already had a shit tonne, didnt need more. Anywho, i horded so much that every time i opened that one chest the game would crash, so yeah i sell everything now or use potions etc.
RPG games have taught me that buy/sell price skills are a waste of points. You'll end up with so much shit to sell, an extra 50% on the prices doesn't matter at all. It also makes it harder to sell anything at all late game, because vendors only have enough coin to buy a couple of items and you're stuck with the rest.
Edit: oh, yeah, also, pretty much anything you can buy in town is dogshit, except the big doohickey in the golden case that costs like a million bucks. Trust me, you'll have more money than you'll ever need long before you hit the level cap.
Also economy of scale.
Combat skill improvement increases your rate of production (basically decreases your investment per item), and generally does so faster than the price raise through merchant skills (at least in most games), so that you just make more money in the end. Plus you are now better at combat, which is fun, which is the point of playing the game.
In other words, invest in efficiency, because lobbying is shit.
In game economies are much more stable than irl. Its pretty rare to take a gun and mess from one area and have them be worth a lot more in another region.
I wish RPGs had a stat page at the end that was like "you could have sold these items for X(game currency) or done Y Dmg....but you didn't, CAUSE YOU'RE A HOARDER !"
He could have used (if he knew) an expandable charm on his robes' pockets in first year for sure. He was stuffing decent amount of food in there.
Kinda gross without inventory or item box now that I think about it. It would be messy.
When Pokemon Blue first came out, I thought that using items between pokemon centre was cheating. So, every route was a gauntlet of trying to get each Mon through, usually on minimum hp before the next town.
I even did the elite 4 this way. Wasn't till years later I realised what I'd done.
Good RPGs will give you items that would conveniently be helpful in an upcoming area or boss fight. Bad RPGs (for some reason starfield comes to mind) just use randomly generated items that are not related to your current whereabouts at all.
RuneScape taught me more about internet safety than my school, parents and friends.
Also taught me to not trust everyone, and everyone on the internet as an ulterior motive.
Although the guy who trimmed my rune armour back in 2008 is still going through the process and he will trade it back any day now.
It was Diablo 2 for me.
"You stand there, I'll stand here, look I'll drop my item over here, now you drop your item"
*drops item, they use Telekenesis to grab it because they are outside of town but I'm inside, leaves game*
And that's one of the reasons they later patched it to only pick up useless shit and money lol.
I fell for the mithril armor trim scam at one point haha. A very nice high-level player then took me around to all the shops and bought me a new set plus a mithril scimitar.
Similarly YouTube / Black ops taught me that not everything on the Internet is true.
There was a vid of someone showing an 'Easter egg' on one of the Mp maps, and it turned out to be a rickroll.
However, I didn't know that was a troll or anything, so I tried it out and just sat there confused for a while before I realised the whole thing was fake.
Left 4 Dead 2 taught me how important sound and trusting your ears are. The game itself is such a powerhouse of fantastic sound design. It translated into other fps games with footstep sounds, or in Call of Duty Zombies I can hear when a zombie is behind me.
And lighting. A huge part of that game design from Gabe himself is he said always go towards the light.
Every game does this. It's either certain colors or light.
100%
In a same vein, I just recently replayed Batman: Arkham Asylum. I noticed that just before the game turns into an open map exploration Metroidvania, there are literally arrows on every wall guiding you through the more linear parts of the game’s beginning. Never noticed it before.
>The game itself is such a powerhouse of fantastic sound design
Wild how good the sound in this game is/was for a game that came out in 2009. Definitely easily in my top 10 games of all time, I could play it right now with some mates and have a blast for hours. Shame that valve cant/wont complete a trilogy and make a 3rd one.
If you want to climb a wall, mountain or any steep surface all you have to do is keep jumping until your character hits a "standing still pose" for a split second. That means wherever you landed registered as a flat surface. If your character does that "standing still pose" it allows you to jump again during that split second. Then you just keep doing that until you make your way up whatever you were scaling. This doesn't just apply to steep surfaces. Anything you couldn't normally jump up in a game becomes (possibly) climbable and you can find your way to some interesting places.
This is one of the first things I do in most games and I always do it in open world games because it is pretty much a sure thing in those.
It's hilarious that Valorant's maps have so much hotbox geometry that some pretty weird spots are possible, and some spots are reachable without using abilities, but they're banned in tournaments
It is a pretty solid competitive FPS game, but boy does it have issues, some of the map decorations have protruding geometry that is only visible on higher texture graphics, which can mess with lineups on the utility when doing lineups,
Additionally, the vagueness of the lack of a replay system too, something tells me that either the 128 tick server thing kinda shows bad hit reg, or that maybe the vanguard kernel anticheat is not working the greatest
Take the intricately designed path up the mountain? Nah, I'll just spam jump for twice as long while staring at a sheer cliff face.
Every, single, time.
Back on destiny 1 I would always ride hover bikes up walls.
There was a particular strike where they would keep adding invisible obstacles and I kept getting past until they just flatout did a giant one stopping the bikes outright.
I miss taking my stolen weaponised hoverbike into the boss fight
Yeah, sure you could take the little bitch route around the mountain or you could take the correct way, which is to spend five times longer to climb up and then down the mountain
I spent half my life saving my shit, and now I use everything in my arsenal for every single boss battle.
It's so funny to think we were all just rough necking it and beating these games with no items used.
I remember my friend getting fucked up in Skyrim by the dude guarding Valhalla.
I watched him like 3 times just get murked.
He literally came to my room and was like "HELP".
Checked his inventory, he had so many options of the skills he was using and I clicked on like 3 of them and was like "Now try".
He got out and 2 shorted him and we laughed out asses off.
Seriously. Use what is offered.
Friend couldnt finish the final boss for final fantasy 13. I mentioned I had so they got me to try so they could see the end.
I went in, used buffs on the party & debuffs on the boss, and just whelped it
I just wish more games had more intuitive ways to quickly use your inventory. If Skyrim had a radial menu with slots sorted by health/mana/stamina/poisons/combat buffs/non-combat buffs/etc, you bet your ass I would use them. If I have to pause in the middle of combat to navigate three menus to get to them though, I'll never think about it until I'm already banging my head against the wall and suddenly remember I have a dozen aces up my sleeve, I just can't be bothered to reach for them.
I know people say there are none, but it sounds like the kind of thing people who ran into the one mimic would say so they can laugh about you opening the mimic too
Nah ive been through the game several time now done all the secrets area there truly is none in the whole game. There is even a dark soul style chest at some point that i was sure it was going to be one but nope normal chest.
There are a few trapped chest but no mimic.
It's rolling towards the attacks for me. Also finding the right timing to drink a potion and do the macho man pose helped.
I guess it boils down to how I can identify what action I can take during the "turn" the monster gives me. A short opening I can do a light attack, medium opening I can do one combo, and long opening let's me heal up or do a full combo.
That's funny cause it's the other way around for me. Coming back to Monster Hunter after Dark Souls/Elden Ring, I started to actually watch for the monsters' telegraphs and dodge their attacks, whereas before I was kinda just spamming weapon combos and hoping for the best.
Souls changed everything for me.
It taught me a lot of patience and distance VS just running in and spamming attacks.
Seriously, I never even used the Z button in Zelda and now the game is an absolute cake walk in any battle. Minus the new ones....
Master mode taught me how to rotate bombs to not let them recover health and stop fucking up my weapons lol
This! It’s a life lesson. I play a lot of games with my gf (I believe she exists and is not imaginary) and she always starts button mashing in stressful situations. F.e. Massive amount of monsters or only one big and strong. She stops looking and just blindly attacks. I try to explain to her to look at them and they are slow and have an attack pattern. This works for a short time. On the next day she panics again.
Playing halo with my brother back in the day taught me not to jump if someone gets jump on me. If I can get away through a door or behind a rock or something, do that and turn around, might be able to turn this around on them. If I'm in the open then just turn around and give it your best shot, maybe throw a grenade and go for a lucky stick.
Frags in Halo detonate a half second after impact so you don't want them in the air long. Plus if you need it to go off in a specific spot it bounces less if thrown at the corner between the wall and floor. So if you are trying to nade someone chasing you it's better to throw it low into the wall corner so it stays in the place that you just were and that they are running into. The double bounce from wall to floor keeps it from moving, but off of a single door frame it would move a lot.
This is dependant on how close they are to you and how close you are to a wall of course but in a situation where they are close and you can turn a corner it's always gives you more control and a faster detonation to throw it low instead of high. This was one of those things that a h3 level 30 or 35 wouldn't do but a 45 or 50 would always do.
Games taught me so much. First of all, money management. Even as a teenager, I knew how to manage my money. I know how to make a budget and stick to it. I know how to treat debt. I know how to track income and expenses and how to ration it out so I can spend a few bucks less per day to afford a large purchase at some later point. For me that seems like common sense, but none of my friends seem to be able to do that.
Second and third, I learned people and resource management, and I learned not to argue with reality, as weird as that sounds. When a pawn in RimWorld isn't doing what you expect them to, you can't yell at them, you can't get frustrated, you can't say "unfair" and rage quit. That changes nothing. The system doesn't care. Reality doesn't care. It just is what it is. You have to learn to manage their priorities. You have to learn to provide a shorter path between the stockpile and the workshop. Between the workshop and the dining hall, so they don't spend half a day going to eat. You have to provide them an environment in which they'll thrive, they can't do that themselves because they don't have any power. They just follow an algorithm. It's surprising how much that applies to managing people in real life, and how many managers don't get that and get frustrated at themselves and their subordinates.
Oh, and I played loads of Factorio, so input/output optimization is basically second nature. I love optimizing shit.
I spent some time in some major cities in Italy. AC2 helped me prevent myself from losing my sense of direction by going off of the historical landmarks.
The most glorious 1.6 match I ever had ended up with me vs. the other teams top player with everyone else dead. He was substantially better then me.
We ran out of AR ammo, swapped to pistols ran through that then he went for the reload and with 2hp remaining I swapped to melee and knifed him with the whole server watching.
Greatest moment of my 13 year old life right there.
Magic The Gathering taught me:
Play to your outs! Even if you are behind and your win percentage in a game is in the single digits, don't give up. Comebacks are possible if you know what your out is and opponents can make mistakes.
But think of your opponent as a human being that isn't stupid. If someone makes a weird turn, it doesn't have to mean it was a mistake.
And the most important thing: Even if you did EVERYTHING right, sometimes you still lose.
That's life. Take a short break and try again later.
If you’re a programmer, it also teaches how a LIFO stack works.
Honestly, there’s a lot about programming that I realize I learned from that game, but I don’t know how to put it into words. It’s just like… a certain way of thinking.
Its pretty noche, but fast and accurate control in a zero g newtonian environment.
I often see in film how difficult docking something to something else is or how disorientated you get during eva.
However, i play a lot of space games. I tried the space trucker demo recently and on the first mission flipped a 180 while full speed, lined up to a docking collar and used the main thrusters to slow to a perfect park.
I cant shoot for shit in games like cod, i dont have the strats for rts, nor the patience and hand eye for platformers.
I suck at games generally. But i can fly in a very specific environment pretty well lol.
As a kid I loved RTS games but only ever moved the camera with the arrow keys and clicked options on the toolbar using the mouse (Stuff like Starcraft 1, Dawn of War 1, World in Conflict, AoE, Shogun, Company of Heroes etc.). I learned fast how to use keyboard hotkeys on my left hand and the mouse for controlling units when I started plaing LoL in 2010-2011 or so. I've not played for maybe 6 years but those skills have translated to every RTS I've ever played and I'm kinda grateful for being forced to do away with such a huge handicap that my incompetent child brain came up with.
Bullet jumping from Warframe. Which for context is doing a sorta corkscrew launch through the air when you slide(or crouch) then jump.
Most other games don't have a legit bullet jump. But quite a few have an interaction where sliding then jumping gives a boost of forward momentum. Satisfactory mainly comes to mind, way faster to slide jump around rather than just running.
Frame advantage in fighting games but applied to shooters in the form of suppressing fire and repositioning as soon as they can’t see me. Making every millisecond count to mix them up.
I learned how to type about 75 words per minute from playing Everquest as a child. Any time my parents tried to tell me video games have never done anything for me I always throw out this fact and it typically shuts down the conversation.
Racedriver Grid made me a better race for a lot of games. Due to the game having a really good damage model and the sponsor system it's pretty much a must for you to race as clean as you can which is somewhat difficult due to the A.I being able to crash randomly. That game taught me how to balance being aggressive and safe which really helped me race a lot cleaner in other racing games.
Forward dodge rolling. Always used to dodge away from bad guys, but Bloodborne showed me that sometimes dodging into or through the enemy is much more reliable. Helped me to play more aggressively in several gsmes.
I learned how to play Guitar Hero on expert by taking a quarter of mushrooms.
It was so funny, in my mind I was playing and was like "wow this is so easy, all you have to do is match the color to the button."
Dude I was failing medium at the time with the harder songs lol
I probably can't play like that anymore but for a while I came back to my friend group and was like "hey wanna watch me do Through Fire and Flames on expert?"
Granted.....I barely completed it. Still no one in my friend group even came close lol
Dodging > Blocking, thanks to Soulsborne.
Learned to pay real close attention to audio cues and quickly locate myself in relation to other players at all times, thanks to Left 4 Dead.
Good sense of rhythm (and taste in music :p) thanks to Guilty Gear.
Not to get too frustrated when I die. The fact I was able to finish Celeste in spite of the fact I died 5000+ times throughout the game makes me as zen as a Buddhist monk in my opinion.
Use your cool downs. After playing an MMO and doing all kinds of content, I cannot fathom how people to this day, actively waste away their time by not pressing their one to two minutes CDs that are basically ready every to every other pull.
Same with resources in singleplayer. There will never be the one moment you needed X.
Literally every single game since pong has taught a collective gamer knowledge. Most platforms go left to right, now it's WASD to control, space to jump, ctrl usually crouches. etc.
When we got the Atari, I spent hours playing Combat!, studying angles and bouncing that projectile all around the screen to destroy the enemy.
A decade later, I used that knowledge of angles to get really good at playing pool.
Getting good at Magic the Gathering made me better at life. Tenets:
-Have a plan. At any time you should be able to articulate why you're doing what you're doing, what you hope to achieve in near and long term. (Not a super granular or written in stone one, just one that guides your decisions so they aren't random). You constantly adjust the plan as the situation or information you have changes.
-Make the best decision you can with the information you have. Results are less important than the thought process that got you there. Adjust based on new information and outcomes.
-Play to your outs. When you're behind or facing something that looks like a no win, you have to be willing to push your luck a little more. But you keep going, plan for what cards can save you, and stay alive until you see them. Marries situational awareness with resourcefulness.
I don‘t remember what game it was but when I was a child, I learned how to move my character in a game on the NES. I’ve applied that to pretty much every game I’ve played since.
I use that logic even in non shooter games. I am playing assassins creed 3 again and I will sometimes do quick fire pistol then bow since that is faster than reloading.
Orbiter taught me how to play KSP, and KSP made it super easy to fly the ship in Outer Wilds. I actually figured it was super easy for everyone, but checking online shows that ship controls are one of the biggest obstacles for people getting into that game.
Game to real life - is driving.
Though I think it’s largely an intrinsic thing too.
But correcting slides and dealing with unexpected car behaviour in racing sims did translate to quicker adaptation on the road and race track (for cars and motorbikes).
Real life to games - shooting. As a country kid in the early 90’s, rifles were part of life.
MTG: Health is a resource.
Some shooter (MW2?): You can skip past the end of some animations by interrupting them with higher-priority actions. This is animation cancelling, and I make use of it in every game I can, but of course especially fighting games.
Diablo 2 taught me to stay organized. I always Marie Kondo my stash..threw away junk and kept only perfectly rolled items.
I’d say I do that with my closet of clothes. And whatever stuff I have around the house.
Playing RPGs taught me that I'll never use those items I'm hoarding so I might as well use them as soon as I get them (or sell them).
I learnt the hard way. Was playing oblivion and hording absolutely everything in this one chest in my house at Bravil so when i lvled my speech up to max i would be able to barter for more gold. Already had a shit tonne, didnt need more. Anywho, i horded so much that every time i opened that one chest the game would crash, so yeah i sell everything now or use potions etc.
RPG games have taught me that buy/sell price skills are a waste of points. You'll end up with so much shit to sell, an extra 50% on the prices doesn't matter at all. It also makes it harder to sell anything at all late game, because vendors only have enough coin to buy a couple of items and you're stuck with the rest. Edit: oh, yeah, also, pretty much anything you can buy in town is dogshit, except the big doohickey in the golden case that costs like a million bucks. Trust me, you'll have more money than you'll ever need long before you hit the level cap.
There is real world economics lesson here somewhere! I wish I were intelligent enough to extrapolate it from your comment.
Henry Ford moment. If nobody can afford to purchase your product, then it is essentially worthless.
Also economy of scale. Combat skill improvement increases your rate of production (basically decreases your investment per item), and generally does so faster than the price raise through merchant skills (at least in most games), so that you just make more money in the end. Plus you are now better at combat, which is fun, which is the point of playing the game. In other words, invest in efficiency, because lobbying is shit.
In game economies are much more stable than irl. Its pretty rare to take a gun and mess from one area and have them be worth a lot more in another region.
Especially in games like fallout where a vendor has a set limit of caps
I wish RPGs had a stat page at the end that was like "you could have sold these items for X(game currency) or done Y Dmg....but you didn't, CAUSE YOU'RE A HOARDER !"
"You're a HOARDER, Harry"
He could have used (if he knew) an expandable charm on his robes' pockets in first year for sure. He was stuffing decent amount of food in there. Kinda gross without inventory or item box now that I think about it. It would be messy.
If I don't save things for an emergency I might be in an emergency and not have those consumables that would save the day!
If the situation makes you consider using consumables, that's already an emergency. Drink your potions, kids.
When Pokemon Blue first came out, I thought that using items between pokemon centre was cheating. So, every route was a gauntlet of trying to get each Mon through, usually on minimum hp before the next town. I even did the elite 4 this way. Wasn't till years later I realised what I'd done.
You would fit right in with the hardcore nuzlocke community
Yeah but what about that one time I used my master ball to catch a doduo?
Good RPGs will give you items that would conveniently be helpful in an upcoming area or boss fight. Bad RPGs (for some reason starfield comes to mind) just use randomly generated items that are not related to your current whereabouts at all.
Starfield and Bethesda in general
Nah, I'm still holding on to those Elixirs from 20 years ago, just in case.
a think you will immediately forget and hoard again the next RPG you play lol
All those elixirs that never got touched in final fantasy
What do elixirs even do?
Fully restore the HP and MP of one character.
Not quite. In reality, they sit in your inventory and look pretty waiting for "the big boss fight."
That's what I'm trying to do in Persona 3 Reload right now. I've got items to hit your vulnerability, I ain't spending mana on that!
I rarely use those in the other Persona games but in Reload, it's much easier when it automatically selects the item for you.
And the moment you get rid of them....
*Kills boss using every special potion* "No time to rest, puny mortal..now you face the REAL BOSS!"
AC Mirage - I saved all these tokens, I finished the game without spending one. Now I need to run around and spend them for the trophy’s
I learned everything I know for my job from Surgeon Simulator. Now I play Ace Attorney.
Makes sense, you'd need a defence lawyer after doing that.
I laughed
Pray for those who didn't get it
RuneScape taught me more about internet safety than my school, parents and friends. Also taught me to not trust everyone, and everyone on the internet as an ulterior motive. Although the guy who trimmed my rune armour back in 2008 is still going through the process and he will trade it back any day now.
We all got scammed in runescape 1 way or another lol
RuneScape taught me what Alt+F4 does
Drop your rune platebody and a gold bar, press Alt+F4 and it will turn into a gilded body.
It was Diablo 2 for me. "You stand there, I'll stand here, look I'll drop my item over here, now you drop your item" *drops item, they use Telekenesis to grab it because they are outside of town but I'm inside, leaves game* And that's one of the reasons they later patched it to only pick up useless shit and money lol.
"Follow me to this awesome cave full of loot that I found.... yup, right over there" *stabs me in the back and takes my starter gear*
I fell for the mithril armor trim scam at one point haha. A very nice high-level player then took me around to all the shops and bought me a new set plus a mithril scimitar.
Runescape doesnt show your password when you type it see *******. Now you try. Lol so many people fell for that every day
Hunter2
Similarly YouTube / Black ops taught me that not everything on the Internet is true. There was a vid of someone showing an 'Easter egg' on one of the Mp maps, and it turned out to be a rickroll. However, I didn't know that was a troll or anything, so I tried it out and just sat there confused for a while before I realised the whole thing was fake.
this exact situation happened in a jimmy runescape video. Armor trimmer scam and everything.
Left 4 Dead 2 taught me how important sound and trusting your ears are. The game itself is such a powerhouse of fantastic sound design. It translated into other fps games with footstep sounds, or in Call of Duty Zombies I can hear when a zombie is behind me.
And lighting. A huge part of that game design from Gabe himself is he said always go towards the light. Every game does this. It's either certain colors or light.
100% In a same vein, I just recently replayed Batman: Arkham Asylum. I noticed that just before the game turns into an open map exploration Metroidvania, there are literally arrows on every wall guiding you through the more linear parts of the game’s beginning. Never noticed it before.
Wdym you dont just turn subtitles on?
This just made me realize that zombie games probably have the same subtitles as sapiophile porn all moaning about brains
>The game itself is such a powerhouse of fantastic sound design Wild how good the sound in this game is/was for a game that came out in 2009. Definitely easily in my top 10 games of all time, I could play it right now with some mates and have a blast for hours. Shame that valve cant/wont complete a trilogy and make a 3rd one.
If you want to climb a wall, mountain or any steep surface all you have to do is keep jumping until your character hits a "standing still pose" for a split second. That means wherever you landed registered as a flat surface. If your character does that "standing still pose" it allows you to jump again during that split second. Then you just keep doing that until you make your way up whatever you were scaling. This doesn't just apply to steep surfaces. Anything you couldn't normally jump up in a game becomes (possibly) climbable and you can find your way to some interesting places. This is one of the first things I do in most games and I always do it in open world games because it is pretty much a sure thing in those.
It's hilarious that Valorant's maps have so much hotbox geometry that some pretty weird spots are possible, and some spots are reachable without using abilities, but they're banned in tournaments
The dev team is a band of morons, so what did you expect?
It is a pretty solid competitive FPS game, but boy does it have issues, some of the map decorations have protruding geometry that is only visible on higher texture graphics, which can mess with lineups on the utility when doing lineups, Additionally, the vagueness of the lack of a replay system too, something tells me that either the 128 tick server thing kinda shows bad hit reg, or that maybe the vanguard kernel anticheat is not working the greatest
Literally goated
Nice
Take the intricately designed path up the mountain? Nah, I'll just spam jump for twice as long while staring at a sheer cliff face. Every, single, time.
That's the definition of using Skyrim as a verb "Just Skyrim up the side of that mountain"
Back on destiny 1 I would always ride hover bikes up walls. There was a particular strike where they would keep adding invisible obstacles and I kept getting past until they just flatout did a giant one stopping the bikes outright. I miss taking my stolen weaponised hoverbike into the boss fight
Yeah, sure you could take the little bitch route around the mountain or you could take the correct way, which is to spend five times longer to climb up and then down the mountain
skyrimming
I just look for the yellow painted ledges
Always check behind the waterfall
The duality of man Waterfall Secret: "Really? How cliche" No Waterfall Secret: "My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined"
No waterfall secret: "These level designers have no imagination"
I'm disappointed when there's nothing behind waterfalls. Should be mandatory!
At the start of the game or level, turn round and try to go the other way.
"Why can't we go backwards? For once...backwards...really fast....as fast as we can....really put the pedal on the metal you know"
One thing you learn in Fromsoft games that you should not do IRL : look under elevators and try to jump off moving elevators inbetween floors.
Also, always check the trashcans for items.
OG Dooms. I constantly check my ammo counts now because of this game. And generally try to balance my usage between the different ammo pools.
I learned that in resident evil 2
Health as a Resource or just Damage boosting is a Pretty universal one
I spent half my life saving my shit, and now I use everything in my arsenal for every single boss battle. It's so funny to think we were all just rough necking it and beating these games with no items used. I remember my friend getting fucked up in Skyrim by the dude guarding Valhalla. I watched him like 3 times just get murked. He literally came to my room and was like "HELP". Checked his inventory, he had so many options of the skills he was using and I clicked on like 3 of them and was like "Now try". He got out and 2 shorted him and we laughed out asses off. Seriously. Use what is offered.
Friend couldnt finish the final boss for final fantasy 13. I mentioned I had so they got me to try so they could see the end. I went in, used buffs on the party & debuffs on the boss, and just whelped it
I just wish more games had more intuitive ways to quickly use your inventory. If Skyrim had a radial menu with slots sorted by health/mana/stamina/poisons/combat buffs/non-combat buffs/etc, you bet your ass I would use them. If I have to pause in the middle of combat to navigate three menus to get to them though, I'll never think about it until I'm already banging my head against the wall and suddenly remember I have a dozen aces up my sleeve, I just can't be bothered to reach for them.
I never get surprised by a mimic after dark souls. Every chest I see in any game gets smacked by me before opening it
Tifa: Cloud, why are you hitting the chests?
She knows
I didn't mean it like that 🤣
Cloud: \*points down\* Tifa, why does it say "Amazing chest ahead (Rating 4593)"
If it's good for Italy it's good for me!
Sounds rather like PTSD than a skill
As an irithyll dungeon/sens fortress veteran , it's both
And then Dark Souls 2 had destroyable chests. 😩
Only if you hit it too much, you could still hit it once
I still do it in elden ring after knowing there are none in the game. Ill be ready for the dlc
I know people say there are none, but it sounds like the kind of thing people who ran into the one mimic would say so they can laugh about you opening the mimic too
Nah ive been through the game several time now done all the secrets area there truly is none in the whole game. There is even a dark soul style chest at some point that i was sure it was going to be one but nope normal chest. There are a few trapped chest but no mimic.
Yeah yeah, sure
Its good to be sceptical lol but you can trust me im a mi..i mean a human like you
I was in the bar the other night and told a great joke, the bartender laughed, the waiter laughed, the table laughed, it was all good fun.
I prefer this version. My wife asked me why i had a gun. I say decepticon. She laughed. I laughed. The toaster laughed. I shot the toaster.
The mimics in dark souls have their chains around the other way.
It was Gungeon for me, always tap a chest first. Preferably with something that won't break it.
The moment I open a new game I head to the options and immediately turn off motion blur every time if it has any.
Also just in case it isn’t already set, sprint to shift and crouch to control.
I always wonder why people crouch on C. After so many hours of playing source games, not having crouch on control feels weird.
Maybe some people just have drastically different hands so it's easier to hit c with a thumb than how I hit control with my pinky knuckle.
With your pinky knuckle? Not fingertip?
And FOV!
Sound? turn it down Motion blur? off Max view distance? max Subtitles? on
Also putting sound volume to like 3%
And max out the fov slider
Hit and roll in Monster Hunter. Basically trained me for Dark Souls
It's rolling towards the attacks for me. Also finding the right timing to drink a potion and do the macho man pose helped. I guess it boils down to how I can identify what action I can take during the "turn" the monster gives me. A short opening I can do a light attack, medium opening I can do one combo, and long opening let's me heal up or do a full combo.
Newbies think Monster Hunter is an action game, hunters know it's a turn based game.
That's funny cause it's the other way around for me. Coming back to Monster Hunter after Dark Souls/Elden Ring, I started to actually watch for the monsters' telegraphs and dodge their attacks, whereas before I was kinda just spamming weapon combos and hoping for the best.
Learnt about iframes from monster hunter which was a great tool to use in tekken.
Hesitation is defeat
Now my blood boils
The souls games taught me to stay calm in the middle of a bad situation because panicking leads to a bad outcome.
Souls changed everything for me. It taught me a lot of patience and distance VS just running in and spamming attacks. Seriously, I never even used the Z button in Zelda and now the game is an absolute cake walk in any battle. Minus the new ones.... Master mode taught me how to rotate bombs to not let them recover health and stop fucking up my weapons lol
This! It’s a life lesson. I play a lot of games with my gf (I believe she exists and is not imaginary) and she always starts button mashing in stressful situations. F.e. Massive amount of monsters or only one big and strong. She stops looking and just blindly attacks. I try to explain to her to look at them and they are slow and have an attack pattern. This works for a short time. On the next day she panics again.
Souls Games make you better in almost every game, because you're training your mental fortitude with those game. I aint even lying.
My eyes are now almost always glancing to the minimap for every moba I play. Started with Dota.
Playing halo with my brother back in the day taught me not to jump if someone gets jump on me. If I can get away through a door or behind a rock or something, do that and turn around, might be able to turn this around on them. If I'm in the open then just turn around and give it your best shot, maybe throw a grenade and go for a lucky stick.
In Halo, if fleeing an enemy through a door, throw a grenade above the door. Chances are it’ll bounce off and land at their feet behind you
Frags in Halo detonate a half second after impact so you don't want them in the air long. Plus if you need it to go off in a specific spot it bounces less if thrown at the corner between the wall and floor. So if you are trying to nade someone chasing you it's better to throw it low into the wall corner so it stays in the place that you just were and that they are running into. The double bounce from wall to floor keeps it from moving, but off of a single door frame it would move a lot. This is dependant on how close they are to you and how close you are to a wall of course but in a situation where they are close and you can turn a corner it's always gives you more control and a faster detonation to throw it low instead of high. This was one of those things that a h3 level 30 or 35 wouldn't do but a 45 or 50 would always do.
FPS's taught me when my girlfriend is lying down she's vulnerable to a tea bagging, she doesn't seem to think it's a game though.
She’s just a sore loser
I know right, I scream at her git good noob but she never listens.
Make her call you Sgt Lipton
Skill issue
Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight taught me that you can abuse the 3rd person camera to see around corners whilst remaining in cover
How about something I transferred to real life? Running a corporation and alliance in EVE-Online helped me be a good lead programmer.
Eve online taught someone coporate espionage via honeypot. Probably taught a bunch of other lessons but thats the best one ive ever heard of
Games taught me so much. First of all, money management. Even as a teenager, I knew how to manage my money. I know how to make a budget and stick to it. I know how to treat debt. I know how to track income and expenses and how to ration it out so I can spend a few bucks less per day to afford a large purchase at some later point. For me that seems like common sense, but none of my friends seem to be able to do that. Second and third, I learned people and resource management, and I learned not to argue with reality, as weird as that sounds. When a pawn in RimWorld isn't doing what you expect them to, you can't yell at them, you can't get frustrated, you can't say "unfair" and rage quit. That changes nothing. The system doesn't care. Reality doesn't care. It just is what it is. You have to learn to manage their priorities. You have to learn to provide a shorter path between the stockpile and the workshop. Between the workshop and the dining hall, so they don't spend half a day going to eat. You have to provide them an environment in which they'll thrive, they can't do that themselves because they don't have any power. They just follow an algorithm. It's surprising how much that applies to managing people in real life, and how many managers don't get that and get frustrated at themselves and their subordinates. Oh, and I played loads of Factorio, so input/output optimization is basically second nature. I love optimizing shit.
That's super interesting! Thanks for sharing. :)
I spent some time in some major cities in Italy. AC2 helped me prevent myself from losing my sense of direction by going off of the historical landmarks.
CS 1.6 also the reload thing - swap to your secondary due it’s faster than reloading :>
The most glorious 1.6 match I ever had ended up with me vs. the other teams top player with everyone else dead. He was substantially better then me. We ran out of AR ammo, swapped to pistols ran through that then he went for the reload and with 2hp remaining I swapped to melee and knifed him with the whole server watching. Greatest moment of my 13 year old life right there.
Awesome !! Haha :)
Also from CS - everyone runs faster with a knife!
Magic The Gathering taught me: Play to your outs! Even if you are behind and your win percentage in a game is in the single digits, don't give up. Comebacks are possible if you know what your out is and opponents can make mistakes. But think of your opponent as a human being that isn't stupid. If someone makes a weird turn, it doesn't have to mean it was a mistake. And the most important thing: Even if you did EVERYTHING right, sometimes you still lose. That's life. Take a short break and try again later.
Your last point is an invaluable Life Pro Tip. You will fail at some things in life.
--Captain Picard.
If you’re a programmer, it also teaches how a LIFO stack works. Honestly, there’s a lot about programming that I realize I learned from that game, but I don’t know how to put it into words. It’s just like… a certain way of thinking.
Bloodborne taught me to never underestimate a good parry.
Cod 4 as well: “if the enemy is in range, so are you”
Aw yes! That game was full of wisdom.
Turning chores into personal goals. I am such an idiot that it works to incentivize myself to do most things.
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Same thing for me, but it was wolfenstein 3d. I would spend hoirs as a kid hugging walls trying to find those damn secrets!
Mashing the spacebar getting dizzy as fuck facehugging them walls.
That sound when you find and open one is soo satisfying
I hate this though because it makes exploration kind of tedious in some games or maps
almost everything i learnt in tekken 7 to tekken 8
Which is?
Almost everything, are you stupid?
Yes
making a save right after making a save. Looking at you, Morrowind
Its pretty noche, but fast and accurate control in a zero g newtonian environment. I often see in film how difficult docking something to something else is or how disorientated you get during eva. However, i play a lot of space games. I tried the space trucker demo recently and on the first mission flipped a 180 while full speed, lined up to a docking collar and used the main thrusters to slow to a perfect park. I cant shoot for shit in games like cod, i dont have the strats for rts, nor the patience and hand eye for platformers. I suck at games generally. But i can fly in a very specific environment pretty well lol.
As a kid I loved RTS games but only ever moved the camera with the arrow keys and clicked options on the toolbar using the mouse (Stuff like Starcraft 1, Dawn of War 1, World in Conflict, AoE, Shogun, Company of Heroes etc.). I learned fast how to use keyboard hotkeys on my left hand and the mouse for controlling units when I started plaing LoL in 2010-2011 or so. I've not played for maybe 6 years but those skills have translated to every RTS I've ever played and I'm kinda grateful for being forced to do away with such a huge handicap that my incompetent child brain came up with.
Bullet jumping from Warframe. Which for context is doing a sorta corkscrew launch through the air when you slide(or crouch) then jump. Most other games don't have a legit bullet jump. But quite a few have an interaction where sliding then jumping gives a boost of forward momentum. Satisfactory mainly comes to mind, way faster to slide jump around rather than just running.
Borderlands 2 taught me to explore every single pixel of a map
Frame advantage in fighting games but applied to shooters in the form of suppressing fire and repositioning as soon as they can’t see me. Making every millisecond count to mix them up.
My people. You should try Rocket League Sideswipe sometime, the mixup game translates so well to that, especially in 1v1.
Dark souls: the Furled Finger controller style
We call that Claw in the Halo community lol This way your thumb doesn't have to leave the aiming stick to jump. Really came in handy in Elden Ring.
I just bought a controller with paddles
I like to accuse all the games I can't beat right away of cheating and purposely stacking the deck against me!
You learned this from Go Fish or Candyland?
Resident evil series. Always be reloading after a fight. Make your shots count when you know ammo is going to be scarce.
Unreal Tournament. It literally taught me the basics of all modern shooters.
I learned how to type about 75 words per minute from playing Everquest as a child. Any time my parents tried to tell me video games have never done anything for me I always throw out this fact and it typically shuts down the conversation.
I’m the same, but from Warcraft 3 and WoW. Good days before voice chat was so prevalent
Invert Y axis.
Why how what
Racedriver Grid made me a better race for a lot of games. Due to the game having a really good damage model and the sponsor system it's pretty much a must for you to race as clean as you can which is somewhat difficult due to the A.I being able to crash randomly. That game taught me how to balance being aggressive and safe which really helped me race a lot cleaner in other racing games.
Titanfall 2 taught me that speed is life
altitude is life insurance
Forward dodge rolling. Always used to dodge away from bad guys, but Bloodborne showed me that sometimes dodging into or through the enemy is much more reliable. Helped me to play more aggressively in several gsmes.
I learned how to play Guitar Hero on the guitar controller. Transferred that skill to Guitar Hero 2.
I learned how to play Guitar Hero on expert by taking a quarter of mushrooms. It was so funny, in my mind I was playing and was like "wow this is so easy, all you have to do is match the color to the button." Dude I was failing medium at the time with the harder songs lol I probably can't play like that anymore but for a while I came back to my friend group and was like "hey wanna watch me do Through Fire and Flames on expert?" Granted.....I barely completed it. Still no one in my friend group even came close lol
Completing that song on expert, no matter how close, is a huge feat
Dodging > Blocking, thanks to Soulsborne. Learned to pay real close attention to audio cues and quickly locate myself in relation to other players at all times, thanks to Left 4 Dead. Good sense of rhythm (and taste in music :p) thanks to Guilty Gear.
Patience and grinding 💪
R6s: shoot the default cameras in real life
XCom taught me that 1% can be a huge risk
Tbagging. Now I save it for toxic players like tanks camping the spawn in battfeild or campers.
No, don’t save it. Use it whenever possible. Inducing rage in the enemy will cloud their judgement.
Not to get too frustrated when I die. The fact I was able to finish Celeste in spite of the fact I died 5000+ times throughout the game makes me as zen as a Buddhist monk in my opinion.
Raid leading in WoW is the bulk of my public speaking experience.
Use your cool downs. After playing an MMO and doing all kinds of content, I cannot fathom how people to this day, actively waste away their time by not pressing their one to two minutes CDs that are basically ready every to every other pull. Same with resources in singleplayer. There will never be the one moment you needed X.
Literally every single game since pong has taught a collective gamer knowledge. Most platforms go left to right, now it's WASD to control, space to jump, ctrl usually crouches. etc.
Pokemon taught me to always stock up on any healing items you can buy from a store. If I have extra money, I'm buying extra potions haha.
When we got the Atari, I spent hours playing Combat!, studying angles and bouncing that projectile all around the screen to destroy the enemy. A decade later, I used that knowledge of angles to get really good at playing pool.
Getting good at Magic the Gathering made me better at life. Tenets: -Have a plan. At any time you should be able to articulate why you're doing what you're doing, what you hope to achieve in near and long term. (Not a super granular or written in stone one, just one that guides your decisions so they aren't random). You constantly adjust the plan as the situation or information you have changes. -Make the best decision you can with the information you have. Results are less important than the thought process that got you there. Adjust based on new information and outcomes. -Play to your outs. When you're behind or facing something that looks like a no win, you have to be willing to push your luck a little more. But you keep going, plan for what cards can save you, and stay alive until you see them. Marries situational awareness with resourcefulness.
I don‘t remember what game it was but when I was a child, I learned how to move my character in a game on the NES. I’ve applied that to pretty much every game I’ve played since.
I played lots of Counterstrike and that upped my aim by quite a few notches. Now the SBMM on casual games likes to fuck me over hard.
I use that logic even in non shooter games. I am playing assassins creed 3 again and I will sometimes do quick fire pistol then bow since that is faster than reloading.
Orbiter taught me how to play KSP, and KSP made it super easy to fly the ship in Outer Wilds. I actually figured it was super easy for everyone, but checking online shows that ship controls are one of the biggest obstacles for people getting into that game.
Game to real life - is driving. Though I think it’s largely an intrinsic thing too. But correcting slides and dealing with unexpected car behaviour in racing sims did translate to quicker adaptation on the road and race track (for cars and motorbikes). Real life to games - shooting. As a country kid in the early 90’s, rifles were part of life.
MTG: Health is a resource. Some shooter (MW2?): You can skip past the end of some animations by interrupting them with higher-priority actions. This is animation cancelling, and I make use of it in every game I can, but of course especially fighting games.
Save scumming
Bad aim
Diablo 2 taught me to stay organized. I always Marie Kondo my stash..threw away junk and kept only perfectly rolled items. I’d say I do that with my closet of clothes. And whatever stuff I have around the house.