In Dragons Dogma, there's a quest where somebody is looking for a powerful spell. You can give them a dupe item and keep the one for yourself. Later on in the story, you fight a major boss and said character comes to save you. If you gave them the duped item, the spell will fizzle and the boss fight stays difficult. I thought this was hilarious.
True but if you're already a powerful sorcerer throwing around tornados meteors miasma and so on. It's not really gonna make that much of a difference XD I still give him the book though anyway. It's more useful to him than it is to me. It just lets the player call down a singular meteor spell. Something sorcerers can do whenever they please. (Unless that changed. I haven't played that part in quite a while. Since before dark arisen was released.)
Even after all of my Mass Effect trilogy playthroughs, I've never *NOT* fully upgraded the Normandy - I didn't know that you could shoot yourself in the foot that badly before even fully starting the Suicide Mission lol
Oh man, playing 1 int characters in the original Fallout games was so hilarious. My friends and I laughed our asses off at the dialogue throughout the games.
Telltale's Walking Dead Season 4. The mistake? Listening to James about AJ. He pleads with you when AJ has Lily at gun point that it'll turn him into a murderer. Now, some players were smart enough to know not to let her live after all the, you know, teenagers she'd probably murdered in cold blood, but some listened to James and stopped AJ killing Lily. What happened next was predictable: she stabs him through the throat and runs away to kidnap, torture and lead more teens to their death. Rule 1 of a zombie apocalypse: bad guys can't be spared. They always come back to kill more people.
now this is the weird part,i have 2 friends who played the game..1 killed 2/3 and still got good ending..while the other killed 1 by accident and auto bad ending
Despite it’s inclusion on this List, I would encourage any Fallout Player to do a Low-Intelligence Build at least once….. Interplay & Bethesda both put quite a bit of effort into making these special (especially in Fallout 2 where there is actually an entire Ending Path JUST for Dumb Characters). 👍👍👍
I would like to but all the games up to 3 tie the amount of skill point you get to how much int you have, so a low int character is literally just worse then someone with max int from the start.
This entire list could have been made just from Sierra games. Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, will give you a randomized code at the start of the game that only becomes important much later on when you've already completed most of it. This is a procedurally randomized code, meaning you can't just look it up online. If you forgot to write it down, you will have to start the entire game all over again.
pah! A low Int run of Fallout 1 and 2 is fun as heck! Low int paired with high Charisma and you will convince everyone with your caveman noises! xD in the later titles, especially New Vegas, there are several hillarious interactions with some npc's xD
Just to add to the misery of Code Veronica. If you want the best score at the end of the game, you CAN NOT save, at all, until after the Tyrant fight on the plane. Because reasons apparently.
I actually enjoyed the planet-mining… however I was disappointed when my materials/resources didn’t transfer to ME:3. I mean, I’d prefer if those mining planets were worlds we could just travel to with one side quest per planet, that would’ve been fun… With the Mass Effect games, I often find myself stopping before any point of no return and try to do everything I can, just to get the most out of the game.
I feel like I've played through ME2 three times or so, I've never considered not fully upgrading the Normandy, and I don't think I've ever lost anyone on the Suicide Run, either. I'm a completionist, and I don't think I've ever met anyone who isn't one.
I actually got jack killed on my 2nd because I stopped talking to Jacob. I didn’t talk with him for a while n just forgot about his upgrade which was armor plating for the ship. To be fair some of these guys upgrades were just better guns for them specifically- like grunts shotgun.
Uhm, the Tyrant fight in CV is explicitly programmed to be beatable without expending a single round of ammo. If you keep trying to knock him out of the plane enough times, he will eventually be knocked out whether you damage him or not. It's designed this way so you can leave ammo and weapons in the box for Chris.
In Soul Reaver, If You Kill The First Crossbow Vampire Slayer On Your Way To Melchiah's Area, All Slayers Will Attack You On Sight And Civilians Become Scared Of Raziel. However, If You Simply Don't Engage Him, Then All Humans Outside Of Zephon's Cathedral Will Instead Willingly Offer Their Life-force. (Just Don't Drain Them.)
The Chaos Frame in Ogre Battle 64. How you capture/liberate cities adds or subtracts to a behind-the-scenes counter that isn't revealed until the end. It ranges from 0-100, and will change the dialogue some NPC's have, which ones will join you, etc. Also, recruiting or dismissing some special characters will make others possible or impossible impossible to recruit.
In the Witcher 3 i misunderstood the vague dialogue choices and i accidentally rejected triss and found out i ruined it about 30+ hours later. (I got the worst ending)
I'm dating myself here (no one else will,) but in the text based "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," you could failed to get a babel fish early, later the game you were just SOL. Also there was a PC game where you're going into space, but if you didnt grab something early, like a wrench or spanner, it would dead end you at the end of the game.
In Final Fantasy Tactics, the game prompts you to save before what will be a 1 on 1 fight. If you don't have the right gear or jobs unlocked, it's an impossible to beat boss. That's why I always have like 5 different saves in rotation. I didn't know that part when I first played it as a kid.
They did the same thing on FFTA for GBA. I lost almost 40 hours of gameplay cause I forgot to save before the final boss. Plus I made a lot of dumb decisions in character classes.
@@Dtgray12 I didn't make the same mistake in FFTA! It's something we all did on our first playthrough and probably kicked off my "have a dozen saves" mentality.
I suck ass at FFT. I have beaten plenty tactical/strategy rpgs but in this game, My recruited lvl 1 stock characters cant even level up because the enemies target them and they keep dying. That game i will probably never beat. Also, grinding takes a century lol
In Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon (NDS) If you choose to keep the experience Paladin Unit instead of sacrificing him for your party's safety it comes back to haunt you later. He maxes out too early and becomes useless to your party. Same for Fire Emblem Awakening, Not recruiting the farm boy or neglecting to train the dancer comes back to bite you as they're the strongest units in your party by 3rd job advance and max level.
Omfg yes to the Tyrant fight in Code V!!!! I had to do trial and error. All I had was 26 hand gun rounds, 6 Shotgun, 3 regular grenades 3 BOW grenades and like 16 arrows. Those BOW grenades which seem useless helps me finally beat him after about 20 attempts.
You can actually weaken him wo ammo! The crate launcher does damage !but! You have to hit him like 3-5 times to weaken him enough. Tough, but it doesn’t lock you out like most of us thought.
Resourse management is a big part of all the resident evil games, if your're getting to any of the bosses having used all your best ammo on regular enemies that's not an early mistake, you're just no good at the game.
Permanently hardening Leliana in DA:I because at the beginning of the game I (a nobody she has never met) didn't tell her (the battletested SPYMASTER) not to do her job.
In the original dark souls, Gwyn was one of the few bosses that you could parry for a crit. If you can, you trivialize him, so you may not want to even do it. It’s helpful in the other games, but DS1 really doesn’t need parrying.
Theres an older game that has this down expertly - Space Quest 5 (from 1993). This is a classic point and click Adventure game, but in good Sierra tradition, it is brutal and can and will kill you for any reason they considered funny. In the case of Space Quest 5 however, there is a built-in no-win scenario that only shows itself several (as in 5 or so) hours after you missed one critical item - a Banana. Yes, because you did not pick up a random Banana near the beginning of the game, you can't plug it into the exhaust pipe of a Terminator kill-bot, which then does not die, and subsequently kills you. Only way to fix is a reload to an older save and to play 2/3 of the game again (including a very, very unfair and exhausting maze sequence).
That was the first character I ever played in that game and maybe it's because my mind works in weird ways too the poetic way my character spoke actually made sense to me.
I had that the problem with a checkpoint in call of duty would war 2 where you have to fight the tiger tank, i was playing on vet so you die in like 3 hits and i was already low from earlier but if you was wondering i did beat the game on vet after dying a good 40 times
A friend of mine saved her game at the exact moment an enemy threw a grenade at her lmao. There was no way out of it she'd die everytime and it's so funny to me 🤣
Eternal Darkness, Sanity's Requiem- Miss the three effigies in the stages for Karim, Roberto, and Michael means losing the Enchanted Gladius, the best melee weapon in the game. It has a seven point enchantment of the superior alignment in your run through, can be thrown like any thrown or ranged weapon and always returns to your hand. Also in game, you need to use Dispel Magick in several rooms on Edwin Lindsey's stage to break the barrier in one hallway on the first floor, than use Summon Monster go summon a Trapper to walk through the hole in the wall. Once the Trapper is on the sigil of Matarok, release it and prepare to fight a Horror. Once the Mantarok rune is claimed, you have the ability to heal Sanity and Health in one rune and the Mantarok rune gives you the ability to go invisible with the Reveal spell, and offensive magick have a corrosive or poison feature to them.
Modifying cars in Gran Turismo 7 really coming back to bite me in the rear end with new PP system and modifications you can't remove without replacing engine or chassis and losing said modifications
Not strengthening your magic skills in Secret of Mana. When you get to the dread slime, if you have low magic points and no magic walnuts and/or your spells are really low level, you can't fight back since the slime makes it so you can't move and therefore can't attack.
YES! Your very first interaction in the game; you could pull it up and it would die, you could use your knife and cut it and it would die, or you could use a hand shovel to dig it up, a pot to put it in, and water to keep it alive til the VERY LAST MOMENT OF THE GAME!!!
@@wadecheek7359 Thanks for the reply. Its been years since I've played the game, and only vaguely remember those things. I am glad you remembered. I need to go back and play it again because "Want some rye? Of course ya do."
I just had one of these situations on Chrono Cross I beat it again but missed the concert bit to save the inhumans and it made me miss so many characters and even the ability to get the hammer to make the rainbow weapons It saddened me deeply lol
I've beaten "Prey" multiple times now and can say 100% without a doubt that you can find upgrade both the final and the alien upgrades and still get the good ending if you know know what you're doing. Please do more research before you just open mouth insert foot.
In the clip it even showed the player making the choice to kill them all vs taking his hand. Showing that the good ending was on the table. He didn't even need to research, only needed to glance at the clip he was presenting.
In Kings Quest 7 if you forgot to grab the troll kings staff, or whatever item it was, you would have to restart the game once you got locked in a coffin
I am surprised Galactic Civilizations III nor any RTS with a research system in them. 4 to 20 hours in to realize that in the first few things you should have done should have been different. For example going the research victory but forgetting the diplomatic stuff to keep your side at peace with everyone or going for the strongest military but forgetting to grow your civilization so you fall behind everyone else. Both ending in a losing game.
I was playing a bo2 zombies game and I changed the M1911 (starter pistol) with a decent gun. In later rounds I only got bad guns and the decent gun didn't work that well even after getting pack a punched
So I only know about this cuz my best friend accidentally saved over my save he was as far as me in this game but missing one thing. in the PlayStation 2 game rogue Galaxy there are three keys each unlocking specific types of chests in the game if you rush through the story the just that contains the second of these keys gets blown up as part of the story this locks you out from about half of all the treasure chests in the game.
Starfox 64 missing the secret level procs, so you dont get to take the back path into andross and getting the true ending, also wasting all your bluebonbs before fighting the starwolf team just before you enter the andross’s brain fight. Theres a way to pull them into a diagonal corner and flipping on them and hitting them all with multiple blue bombs doing serious damage to all of them. Without useing this tactic the fight is extremely difficult, and youll likely waste most of your extra lives right before andross’s brain, which is. Much harder than the regular last boss
I honestly beat tyrant in cvx without the bow rounds or the explosive arrows my first time through the game. A pain in the ass to be sure and it took me god knows how many tries but doable.
Killing some random lady in the desert in red dead redemption because she wouldn't follow me into town dispite asking me to help her caused me to end the came at 99%
I don't think the video was trying to say that low-int builds are bad to do or make the game unwinnable-- I think it was just trying to point out that you do miss out on being able to complete certain quests because your character lacks the understanding of them.
@@DRCEQ perhaps, but it should not be on a list of "mistakes", since it in 1, 2, and New Vegas opens up to new options, as well as close some others off, in a more or less balanced way. And in 3, 4, and 76 it has near to no effect on available content or quests.
@@marcusc9931 The focus of the game isn't figuring out how to unlock hidden endings like NeiR. The game literally sets out every other ending in front of you at the same time. Except the death wish ending. Because of one sentence from 40-60 hours earlier. You don't lock a player out of the most important ending of your expansive, player choice oriented, 100+ hour open world RPG based on *one line of dialogue* with a character (Johnny) that you spend dozens of hours talking to. That is bullshit
Completed all before I learned - think it was on the Knights in 3 on the lothric wall haha couldn't be more telegraphed. Struggling hard in elden ring to parry though only landed one or two it's not worth riskig health when there's a guard counter eh?
First time I played mass effect 2 I spent the whole getting to know the characters just to see 3 of them die in like seconds because I never thought to upgrade the ship
You dont get the bad ending in Prey if you only take alien upgrades, you get the bad ending if you just kill everyone. the only real downside to Alien powers is the turrets will fire on you if you dont hack them
I must be the only person who liked all the things in the Mass Effect trilogy everyone hated: ME1 Mako, check. ME2 Mining, check. ME3 ending, check. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.
Mass Effect 2, that's fair. Mine, harvest, etc everything. Don't need it? Don't care. Parrying in Dark Souls I wouldn't really say is something that came back to haunt you. Dodging is the core mechanic of all fromsoft games, if you missed THAT, then yea, you're screwed. Parry was just helpful in some instances. Except DS2, where you could block ad infinitum and it was king. Prey made it pretty clear that using alien upgrades was bad from the start, so if you were surprised, well, I'm impressed.
This one might be from the 1980's, but it still haunts me to this day. Letting the alien with the big red lips kiss Roger Wilco in Space Quest 2. It seems harmless enough at first, but will cost you any chance of completing the game in that run through. And to add insult to injury, not only will you be less than 30 seconds away from completing the game before this reveal occurs, but if you haven't saved a game at an appropriate time prior to the incident, you'll have to play through the whole game again. Groan.
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i mean why bother expand your horizon since your journalist skill are only based on google reddit not an actual news diggin am i right?people will click anyway
I once forgot to get the Icarus augmentation in Deus Ex... which made going through a platforming section impossible. Had to do a bunch of side-missions to get enough credits to get the upgrade before I could progress. Was rather eye-watering.... :-P
How about missing a single side objective in the Original Marvel Ultimate Alliance. That scene before the credits really puts your ass in check if you thought you were sweet just for beating the game 😂
Assassin's Creed is a lot harder is you don't learn to parry.. Especially King Richard's men .. You're surrounded, and if you aren't good at parrying, you die pretty quick
A coworker told me about the Normandy upgrades after he failed that mission. 🤣 Mining resources was so boring and time consuming. Of course they made it essential to finish the game.
My favorite story for this is when I played divinity 2 DKS and at the end of the game you meet a person begging you to be let out of there jail so they can help you. You are told not to and ultimately is your choice. If you let him out later during the final fight he will fight against you making it MUCH harder during an already hard fight.
In code Veronica you don’t even have to use any ammo. You can weaken him with the crate launcher thing. 3-5 hits with it will weaken him enough to smack him out the back.
I only had the knife, everything else was in my stash (I was ten and knew nothing of tropes. I tried my best, I had made it almost 20 minutes at the time, but didn't get to beat that run.. lol
The mistake that I regret the most is not visiting thane in the hospital and getting a message from him I about cried haha and that's also the reason I stopped playing me3 again recently...m
In Dragons Dogma, there's a quest where somebody is looking for a powerful spell. You can give them a dupe item and keep the one for yourself. Later on in the story, you fight a major boss and said character comes to save you. If you gave them the duped item, the spell will fizzle and the boss fight stays difficult. I thought this was hilarious.
that is funny.
True but if you're already a powerful sorcerer throwing around tornados meteors miasma and so on. It's not really gonna make that much of a difference XD I still give him the book though anyway. It's more useful to him than it is to me. It just lets the player call down a singular meteor spell. Something sorcerers can do whenever they please. (Unless that changed. I haven't played that part in quite a while. Since before dark arisen was released.)
That game was pretty fun
Im so glad somebody else remembered this. I fucking loved DDDA
Yea and then comes a Mystic Knight that leveld on bitterblack isle how one shots the boss
Even after all of my Mass Effect trilogy playthroughs, I've never *NOT* fully upgraded the Normandy - I didn't know that you could shoot yourself in the foot that badly before even fully starting the Suicide Mission lol
Oh man, playing 1 int characters in the original Fallout games was so hilarious. My friends and I laughed our asses off at the dialogue throughout the games.
Telltale's Walking Dead Season 4. The mistake? Listening to James about AJ. He pleads with you when AJ has Lily at gun point that it'll turn him into a murderer. Now, some players were smart enough to know not to let her live after all the, you know, teenagers she'd probably murdered in cold blood, but some listened to James and stopped AJ killing Lily. What happened next was predictable: she stabs him through the throat and runs away to kidnap, torture and lead more teens to their death.
Rule 1 of a zombie apocalypse: bad guys can't be spared. They always come back to kill more people.
The first bioshock only gives you the good ending if you harvest zero little sisters
That was a direct choice from the creator to push their favourite ending as the canon one, it’s in the documentary in the remaster
@@kiaelinkx it makes sense though. i mean you cant kill the tutorial one then say "but i only ate one kid!" and expect to be considered a good guy.
now this is the weird part,i have 2 friends who played the game..1 killed 2/3 and still got good ending..while the other killed 1 by accident and auto bad ending
Actually you’re allowed to harvest one and still get the good ending but any more than one and you don’t.
You most certainly can get away with one or two in game
Despite it’s inclusion on this List, I would encourage any Fallout Player to do a Low-Intelligence Build at least once….. Interplay & Bethesda both put quite a bit of effort into making these special (especially in Fallout 2 where there is actually an entire Ending Path JUST for Dumb Characters). 👍👍👍
Just gotta be careful with a low INT/high CHA female character with Myron in the party. That... gets dark.
I would like to but all the games up to 3 tie the amount of skill point you get to how much int you have, so a low int character is literally just worse then someone with max int from the start.
Res Evil Code Veronica got me!!! Reappearing enemies and limited ammo just wore me down! I did not finish it!
To this day its the only RE I havent beaten.
This entire list could have been made just from Sierra games. Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, will give you a randomized code at the start of the game that only becomes important much later on when you've already completed most of it. This is a procedurally randomized code, meaning you can't just look it up online. If you forgot to write it down, you will have to start the entire game all over again.
Brutal
OOF
Silent Hill 4: The Room, picking up that doll given to you by Walter Sullivan on the stairway. Completely fucked the game for me and it was amazing!
What about the undertale subversion of killing everything in sight
pah!
A low Int run of Fallout 1 and 2 is fun as heck!
Low int paired with high Charisma and you will convince everyone with your caveman noises! xD
in the later titles, especially New Vegas, there are several hillarious interactions with some npc's xD
Just to add to the misery of Code Veronica. If you want the best score at the end of the game, you CAN NOT save, at all, until after the Tyrant fight on the plane. Because reasons apparently.
Playing CVX on ps2 when I was young, gaining an action replay as well as a codebreaker changed my gameplay of that game so much.
It's a RE thing... The fewer saves, the higher your score. I'm glad the remakes of 2&3 autosave. I can play through the whole thing without saving
I actually enjoyed the planet-mining… however I was disappointed when my materials/resources didn’t transfer to ME:3. I mean, I’d prefer if those mining planets were worlds we could just travel to with one side quest per planet, that would’ve been fun…
With the Mass Effect games, I often find myself stopping before any point of no return and try to do everything I can, just to get the most out of the game.
Luckily they do transfer in a way in legendary edition. Your resources become war assets depending on how many you collected.
I feel like I've played through ME2 three times or so, I've never considered not fully upgrading the Normandy, and I don't think I've ever lost anyone on the Suicide Run, either. I'm a completionist, and I don't think I've ever met anyone who isn't one.
I actually got jack killed on my 2nd because I stopped talking to Jacob. I didn’t talk with him for a while n just forgot about his upgrade which was armor plating for the ship.
To be fair some of these guys upgrades were just better guns for them specifically- like grunts shotgun.
@Anigurl28 Jack is my favorite... :'(
Duck Season: The more you shoot the Dog, the more health he gets for the boss fight and the more dark the game gets.
Uhm, the Tyrant fight in CV is explicitly programmed to be beatable without expending a single round of ammo. If you keep trying to knock him out of the plane enough times, he will eventually be knocked out whether you damage him or not.
It's designed this way so you can leave ammo and weapons in the box for Chris.
In Soul Reaver, If You Kill The First Crossbow Vampire Slayer On Your Way To Melchiah's Area, All Slayers Will
Attack You On Sight And Civilians Become Scared Of Raziel. However, If You Simply Don't Engage Him, Then All
Humans Outside Of Zephon's Cathedral Will Instead Willingly Offer Their Life-force. (Just Don't Drain Them.)
The Chaos Frame in Ogre Battle 64. How you capture/liberate cities adds or subtracts to a behind-the-scenes counter that isn't revealed until the end. It ranges from 0-100, and will change the dialogue some NPC's have, which ones will join you, etc. Also, recruiting or dismissing some special characters will make others possible or impossible impossible to recruit.
Omg yes. I beat that game so many times getting the bad ending until I learned this. I love that game now 😅
In the Witcher 3 i misunderstood the vague dialogue choices and i accidentally rejected triss and found out i ruined it about 30+ hours later. (I got the worst ending)
I'm dating myself here (no one else will,) but in the text based "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," you could failed to get a babel fish early, later the game you were just SOL. Also there was a PC game where you're going into space, but if you didnt grab something early, like a wrench or spanner, it would dead end you at the end of the game.
not even something useful like a wrench or a spanner - a toy that you need to use to distract a monster later on...
In Final Fantasy Tactics, the game prompts you to save before what will be a 1 on 1 fight. If you don't have the right gear or jobs unlocked, it's an impossible to beat boss. That's why I always have like 5 different saves in rotation. I didn't know that part when I first played it as a kid.
They did the same thing on FFTA for GBA. I lost almost 40 hours of gameplay cause I forgot to save before the final boss. Plus I made a lot of dumb decisions in character classes.
@@Dtgray12 I didn't make the same mistake in FFTA! It's something we all did on our first playthrough and probably kicked off my "have a dozen saves" mentality.
I suck ass at FFT. I have beaten plenty tactical/strategy rpgs but in this game, My recruited lvl 1 stock characters cant even level up because the enemies target them and they keep dying. That game i will probably never beat. Also, grinding takes a century lol
@@Dtgray12 have you played Tactics Ogre the knight of Lodis?
The background music for this video is dreadful and completely distracts from what Josh is saying. Really bad editing choice!
Thank you! It's way, way too loud.
Lol its very ‘west coast G’ and quite mismatched with the content.
In Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon (NDS) If you choose to keep the experience Paladin Unit instead of sacrificing him for your party's safety it comes back to haunt you later. He maxes out too early and becomes useless to your party. Same for Fire Emblem Awakening, Not recruiting the farm boy or neglecting to train the dancer comes back to bite you as they're the strongest units in your party by 3rd job advance and max level.
Good to know
Look I’ve gone this long without learning to parry I refuse to start now.
Omfg yes to the Tyrant fight in Code V!!!! I had to do trial and error. All I had was 26 hand gun rounds, 6 Shotgun, 3 regular grenades 3 BOW grenades and like 16 arrows. Those BOW grenades which seem useless helps me finally beat him after about 20 attempts.
It doesn't tell you in the game but they actually lower the enemies health by half haha.
You can actually weaken him wo ammo! The crate launcher does damage !but! You have to hit him like 3-5 times to weaken him enough. Tough, but it doesn’t lock you out like most of us thought.
But unless you do bottom intelligence in fallout you never know about the in depth conversation with the otherwise grunting npcs
Resourse management is a big part of all the resident evil games, if your're getting to any of the bosses having used all your best ammo on regular enemies that's not an early mistake, you're just no good at the game.
Permanently hardening Leliana in DA:I because at the beginning of the game I (a nobody she has never met) didn't tell her (the battletested SPYMASTER) not to do her job.
In the original dark souls, Gwyn was one of the few bosses that you could parry for a crit. If you can, you trivialize him, so you may not want to even do it. It’s helpful in the other games, but DS1 really doesn’t need parrying.
I've beaten all Souls game and I'm still not good at parrying 😅
@@mac1bc learn to parry Champion Gundyr and Pontiff Sulyvahn and remove two of DS3’s biggest hurdles.
@@fiddlinman_1playsgames641 I believe you. But I was able to get through it using a massive greatsword.
Theres an older game that has this down expertly - Space Quest 5 (from 1993).
This is a classic point and click Adventure game, but in good Sierra tradition, it is brutal and can and will kill you for any reason they considered funny.
In the case of Space Quest 5 however, there is a built-in no-win scenario that only shows itself several (as in 5 or so) hours after you missed one critical item - a Banana.
Yes, because you did not pick up a random Banana near the beginning of the game, you can't plug it into the exhaust pipe of a Terminator kill-bot, which then does not die, and subsequently kills you. Only way to fix is a reload to an older save and to play 2/3 of the game again (including a very, very unfair and exhausting maze sequence).
Not saving Solaire in Dark Souls, although isn't something you know the first time you play it
A little surprised Until Dawn wasn't in this list
Playing Malkavian in Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. All the text options are weird and obtuse when it comes to storyline narrative.
That was the first character I ever played in that game and maybe it's because my mind works in weird ways too the poetic way my character spoke actually made sense to me.
Great fucking choice I loved this since canonically all malkavians are insane
I'm surprised no one mentioned Chrono Trigger. This is the original "your actions have consequences" game.
In basically any game that lets you save-spam, saving just before dying comes back to haunt you pretty quickly.
I had that the problem with a checkpoint in call of duty would war 2 where you have to fight the tiger tank, i was playing on vet so you die in like 3 hits and i was already low from earlier but if you was wondering i did beat the game on vet after dying a good 40 times
A friend of mine saved her game at the exact moment an enemy threw a grenade at her lmao. There was no way out of it she'd die everytime and it's so funny to me 🤣
Nice to see Prey getting some love
It's kind of backhanded love on a list like this but I'm always glad to remember that game. Such a great time exploring it!
Eternal Darkness, Sanity's Requiem- Miss the three effigies in the stages for Karim, Roberto, and Michael means losing the Enchanted Gladius, the best melee weapon in the game. It has a seven point enchantment of the superior alignment in your run through, can be thrown like any thrown or ranged weapon and always returns to your hand.
Also in game, you need to use Dispel Magick in several rooms on Edwin Lindsey's stage to break the barrier in one hallway on the first floor, than use Summon Monster go summon a Trapper to walk through the hole in the wall. Once the Trapper is on the sigil of Matarok, release it and prepare to fight a Horror. Once the Mantarok rune is claimed, you have the ability to heal Sanity and Health in one rune and the Mantarok rune gives you the ability to go invisible with the Reveal spell, and offensive magick have a corrosive or poison feature to them.
Number 11. Having auto save on Pokémon arceus
Modifying cars in Gran Turismo 7 really coming back to bite me in the rear end with new PP system and modifications you can't remove without replacing engine or chassis and losing said modifications
Yeah that's some bs
Not strengthening your magic skills in Secret of Mana. When you get to the dread slime, if you have low magic points and no magic walnuts and/or your spells are really low level, you can't fight back since the slime makes it so you can't move and therefore can't attack.
The bonding plant in “Return to Zork.” If I remember right, you have to dig it up otherwise it’s impossible to complete the game.
YES! Your very first interaction in the game; you could pull it up and it would die, you could use your knife and cut it and it would die, or you could use a hand shovel to dig it up, a pot to put it in, and water to keep it alive til the VERY LAST MOMENT OF THE GAME!!!
@@wadecheek7359 Thanks for the reply. Its been years since I've played the game, and only vaguely remember those things. I am glad you remembered. I need to go back and play it again because "Want some rye? Of course ya do."
@@hipster818 I remember so vividly because it was at that moment I quit the game forever.
I just had one of these situations on Chrono Cross
I beat it again but missed the concert bit to save the inhumans and it made me miss so many characters and even the ability to get the hammer to make the rainbow weapons
It saddened me deeply lol
I've beaten "Prey" multiple times now and can say 100% without a doubt that you can find upgrade both the final and the alien upgrades and still get the good ending if you know know what you're doing. Please do more research before you just open mouth insert foot.
In the clip it even showed the player making the choice to kill them all vs taking his hand. Showing that the good ending was on the table. He didn't even need to research, only needed to glance at the clip he was presenting.
In Kings Quest 7 if you forgot to grab the troll kings staff, or whatever item it was, you would have to restart the game once you got locked in a coffin
Im playing the 2016 remake. Very fun game. I dont know which game it remakes but I didnt know there were 7 of them.
I am surprised Galactic Civilizations III nor any RTS with a research system in them. 4 to 20 hours in to realize that in the first few things you should have done should have been different. For example going the research victory but forgetting the diplomatic stuff to keep your side at peace with everyone or going for the strongest military but forgetting to grow your civilization so you fall behind everyone else. Both ending in a losing game.
I had that same problem with Code Veronica! I ended up not beating the game sadly
Shows how much they've played RE CV. It doesn't take 10 hours to reach the Tyrant plane battle and it's not on the back end it's around the 50% mark
Building your character wrong in Morrowind
I was playing a bo2 zombies game and I changed the M1911 (starter pistol) with a decent gun.
In later rounds I only got bad guns and the decent gun didn't work that well even after getting pack a punched
So I only know about this cuz my best friend accidentally saved over my save he was as far as me in this game but missing one thing. in the PlayStation 2 game rogue Galaxy there are three keys each unlocking specific types of chests in the game if you rush through the story the just that contains the second of these keys gets blown up as part of the story this locks you out from about half of all the treasure chests in the game.
Starfox 64 missing the secret level procs, so you dont get to take the back path into andross and getting the true ending, also wasting all your bluebonbs before fighting the starwolf team just before you enter the andross’s brain fight. Theres a way to pull them into a diagonal corner and flipping on them and hitting them all with multiple blue bombs doing serious damage to all of them. Without useing this tactic the fight is extremely difficult, and youll likely waste most of your extra lives right before andross’s brain, which is. Much harder than the regular last boss
I honestly beat tyrant in cvx without the bow rounds or the explosive arrows my first time through the game. A pain in the ass to be sure and it took me god knows how many tries but doable.
Killing some random lady in the desert in red dead redemption because she wouldn't follow me into town dispite asking me to help her caused me to end the came at 99%
Siren.... You have to leave things in certain places for other characters later. Put a towel in the freezer, leave the hammer in the shed, etc.
Those old Resident Evil games is why Im always conservative with ammo and save as much and often as I can til this day lol.
I had to defeat the last boss of re 2 remake leon campagne with a knife cause the checkpoint was after i wasted my ammo.
Forgot to consume the umbilical cords in bloodborne
Low-Int plays are valid in Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas, and those games are actually easier at some parts should the player character have 1-2 Int.
I don't think the video was trying to say that low-int builds are bad to do or make the game unwinnable-- I think it was just trying to point out that you do miss out on being able to complete certain quests because your character lacks the understanding of them.
@@DRCEQ perhaps, but it should not be on a list of "mistakes", since it in 1, 2, and New Vegas opens up to new options, as well as close some others off, in a more or less balanced way.
And in 3, 4, and 76 it has near to no effect on available content or quests.
That *one* fucking line of dialogue in the middle of Cyberpunk 2077 that locks you out of the secret, 'death wish' ending if you don't choose it
well, that's what a 'secret ending' means
@@marcusc9931 The focus of the game isn't figuring out how to unlock hidden endings like NeiR. The game literally sets out every other ending in front of you at the same time. Except the death wish ending. Because of one sentence from 40-60 hours earlier. You don't lock a player out of the most important ending of your expansive, player choice oriented, 100+ hour open world RPG based on *one line of dialogue* with a character (Johnny) that you spend dozens of hours talking to. That is bullshit
Yes I failed a lot of required missions for xcom 2...
Parrying in Dark Souls isn't necessary only in Bloodborne and Sekiro
it isn't necessary in bloodborne either
Completed all before I learned - think it was on the Knights in 3 on the lothric wall haha couldn't be more telegraphed. Struggling hard in elden ring to parry though only landed one or two it's not worth riskig health when there's a guard counter eh?
This is why I ALWAYS have 2 or 3 back up saves.
First time I played mass effect 2 I spent the whole getting to know the characters just to see 3 of them die in like seconds because I never thought to upgrade the ship
Which ones died on you?
Also "This war of mine"
You dont get the bad ending in Prey if you only take alien upgrades, you get the bad ending if you just kill everyone. the only real downside to Alien powers is the turrets will fire on you if you dont hack them
The tyrant in code Veronica is killed by shooting the ankle. There's a clue in the cut scene when it zooms in on it.
For me with code Veronica, I forgot to bring the fire hydrant with me and I got stuck on the second part of the game and couldn’t finish it
I must be the only person who liked all the things in the Mass Effect trilogy everyone hated: ME1 Mako, check. ME2 Mining, check. ME3 ending, check. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.
Same. Cant name how many times people complained about endings in movies l, books and games and I liked them.
Yup 👍
Mass Effect 2, that's fair. Mine, harvest, etc everything. Don't need it? Don't care.
Parrying in Dark Souls I wouldn't really say is something that came back to haunt you. Dodging is the core mechanic of all fromsoft games, if you missed THAT, then yea, you're screwed. Parry was just helpful in some instances. Except DS2, where you could block ad infinitum and it was king.
Prey made it pretty clear that using alien upgrades was bad from the start, so if you were surprised, well, I'm impressed.
In code Veronica I did that battle with a knife. I ran out of ammo. Was hard but I did it lmao
Uhh as someone who's went through DS1 2 and 3 you don't need to learn parrying lol
This one might be from the 1980's, but it still haunts me to this day. Letting the alien with the big red lips kiss Roger Wilco in Space Quest 2. It seems harmless enough at first, but will cost you any chance of completing the game in that run through. And to add insult to injury, not only will you be less than 30 seconds away from completing the game before this reveal occurs, but if you haven't saved a game at an appropriate time prior to the incident, you'll have to play through the whole game again. Groan.
MEMO
How to write a whatculture list
Final fantasy
Bioshock
Resident evil
Dark souls or a fromsoftware game, if not call it a soulsbourne like game so that what people with think
Fallout
Skyrim
If jules is presenting near automata potato potata
Metal gear solid
Something from the Persona seris
But every list must mention mass effect, no mass effect no list
A sprinkle of “rougue like” or “metrovania” to show we are hip and with it especially Miami hotline bling if scott is presenting or tim or fez or undertale something like that
Halo if possible
Wonder why. More clicks/views?
i mean why bother expand your horizon since your journalist skill are only based on google reddit not an actual news diggin am i right?people will click anyway
I love whatculture but they are getting formulaic
Plus they're all British. Like, really!?!?
“Bullshit” moments in games. For example, watching Arthur Morgan die. Literally moments that made you look at your game and go “that’s such bullshit”
I once forgot to get the Icarus augmentation in Deus Ex... which made going through a platforming section impossible. Had to do a bunch of side-missions to get enough credits to get the upgrade before I could progress. Was rather eye-watering.... :-P
How about missing a single side objective in the Original Marvel Ultimate Alliance. That scene before the credits really puts your ass in check if you thought you were sweet just for beating the game 😂
Dark Souls. Not once did I use the parry mechanic the whole game. Then came Gwyn, and suddenly, I turned into a parry god. Defeated him the first try.
Assassin's Creed is a lot harder is you don't learn to parry.. Especially King Richard's men .. You're surrounded, and if you aren't good at parrying, you die pretty quick
A coworker told me about the Normandy upgrades after he failed that mission. 🤣 Mining resources was so boring and time consuming. Of course they made it essential to finish the game.
My favorite story for this is when I played divinity 2 DKS and at the end of the game you meet a person begging you to be let out of there jail so they can help you. You are told not to and ultimately is your choice. If you let him out later during the final fight he will fight against you making it MUCH harder during an already hard fight.
Assassin's creed brotherhood when you sell shrunken heads. Because they're gross. And you don't want them. Like I did when I was a kid.
I dont understand why the hell you took out the intro song of your channel, bring it back ASAP or I will stop viewing your videos, thanks
I instantly recognised FightinCowboy's DarkSouls footage! hahahha
Bioshock Infinite, not leveling up your powers really makes the last fight nigh impossible…
I'm one of the dorks that liked mining in Mass Effect used that time to roll a blunt and smoke. Reading about planets is fun when you're high
In code Veronica you don’t even have to use any ammo. You can weaken him with the crate launcher thing. 3-5 hits with it will weaken him enough to smack him out the back.
I am one who wasted my special ammo before the tyrant
I only had the knife, everything else was in my stash (I was ten and knew nothing of tropes. I tried my best, I had made it almost 20 minutes at the time, but didn't get to beat that run.. lol
With Sifu it is actually any Age after 70. So once age 70 or higher, next death is permanent.
sometimes mistakes were made.
It took me a few months to beat the tyrant in code Veronica.. I'd play it once or twice every week for a few hours and rage quit...
The mistake that I regret the most is not visiting thane in the hospital and getting a message from him I about cried haha and that's also the reason I stopped playing me3 again recently...m
I liked the mining game from Mass Effect. I'm not Everyone :')
Choosing the barter 50 option with dean domino in fallout new Vegas dead money.
You guys have got to have the most clever titles out of all the channels I subscribe to. Even your channel name is clever lol
Gwyn at the end of dark souls is super easy beat him without parrys. I thought that was the point of the fight
I nearly got my entire crew killed the first time I played ME2.
No Elder Scrolls or Fable games. Interesting
Ive beat all darksouls gsmes no parrying.
Video about early game mistakes - no strategy games mentioned.
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