Computer game c**k-ups (should have read the manual)

[petrolsniffer]

Fallout new vegas

I've never played fallout or any rpg for that matter

When it came to levelling up I upgraded guns alot and neglected other things such as speech and barter which made things somewhat difficult later on...

Edited by petrolsniffer on Sunday 2nd January 08:24

[WeirdNeville]

y282 said:

militantmandy said:

Conian said:

y282 said:

on a completwly different and unrelated note i'm considering throwing red dead in the f**King bin as i still cant get the hang of shooting things.

Played this at a pal's, found it v dull at the start as that woman kept telling me to follow her here, do this, do that, got bored. Inevitably started trying to shoot her but it prevents you from doing it despite my best efforts.
So, got on a horse and rode over top of her. Game Over.
Yeah enough of that, next game...

It's a great game and the shooting is easy peasy! Dead Eye the fook out of everything!

see, i keep hearing this but i can't get it to work, i'm n the xbox and it just seems to be impossible to select deadeye. i couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo atm.

Red Dead has a 'cheat mode' aimbots built in. If you tap L1 to aim he point directly at the enemy nearest the middle of the screen, then R1 to shoot and they go down. It's just a matter of timing between button presses to score a hit every time.
I still don't have a clue when duelling though - it's just blind luck if I win or not.
Oh, and the 'horseshoes' mini game. Took me about an hour to realise you can switch view to an 'aiming sight' with makes it super easy to line up. An hour. On a console. Throwing horseshoes.

I lament the loss of the 'manual' games now come with a 4 sheet booklet of button lists and credits. I used to love the background stories and full on instruction manuals. Helped you get into the grove and showed the effort that had been put in to the back story.

Mine is Ninja Gaiden 2 though. Didn't realise you can 'wall run' round corners and ended up messaging someone on Youtube of all things to get the tip 'hold down Y' Doh.

[Scraggles]

play eve online a bit, last 2 times when was drunk, bought a skill worth 400 mil and a noctis bpo, seemed a good idea at teh time, then looked at mineral assets, I had 100 mil trit, now I have 5

[kazste]

X3 reunion for me.
Woo hoo that looks a big ship on the first screen let's shoot it down. Cue it stting lots of fighters out of it and me going down hard. Load it up try again same thing happens. I know realise that it was the main mother ship and should of been left well alone, but lost interest instead.

[Conian]

Sometimes ya dont have access to the manual, how many times have ya been at a pal's house and they stick on the latest driving or fighting games and don't tell you all the buttons.

Thank god the xbox 360 has a screen on most games labelling the buttons.

Worst contender I know for this is a chap called Lee, also known as the 'armchair ninja'
Every fighting game he will never mention if there is a 'block' or not, wrestling game he wont tell you how to bounce off ropes, pin or climb ropes etc, driving games tend to be simpler but you can forget knowing what the hand brake buton is. Of course you can find them given time, but by the time you even start to suss out which button might be block he's already pressed right up right right down X A B B Y and his character has performed the unblockable death somersault-kick and removed my player's spine.

GIVE ME THE fkING MANUAL!!!

[Mannginger]

Scraggles said:

play eve online a bit, last 2 times when was drunk, bought a skill worth 400 mil and a noctis bpo, seemed a good idea at teh time, then looked at mineral assets, I had 100 mil trit, now I have 5

[YourMother]

I'd been playing Resident Evil 4 on the PS2 and I was annoyed by the fact that the character was so slow in moving. Halfway through the game I discovered the run button.

[Conian]

YourMother said:

I'd been playing Resident Evil 4 on the PS2 and I was annoyed by the fact that the character was so slow in moving. Halfway through the game I discovered the run button.

I didnt know my mother had a ps2

[130R]

Completed Fallout NV and I never did bother to learn how to play that "Caravan" game.

Zod said:

The worst computer game cock-up by far is to play while drunk. The next time you play, you wonder how the Hell you got to where you are and find you made lots of bad choices.

Yeah I did this recently with black ops, played the next day to find I had spent all my CODPoints on emblems, backgrounds, gun camouflage and other useless crap.