Have you guys ever finished games without knowing about core mechanics?

have you guys ever finished games without knowing about core mechanics?
like mechanics you (supposedly) need to kill bosses or to finish levels.
I finished metal gear rising without knowing how to block and other m without those quicktime event instakills and self healing
i just did not know how you could do any of that.

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i beat every dark souls game without parrying once

Thread sounds like a fun read. I can't remember any of mine. I know there was an NES game that used the select button for something. I got pretty far without using it.

I finished Witcher 3 without knowing what 95% of the potions and oils do.
I pretty much brawled my way unto the end.

First time I played through The Wind Waker, I didn't know you could stop swinging from the grappling hook and climb its rope until the post-Puppet Ganon room forced me to figure that out. Subsequent playthroughs of the game have left me trying to remember what kind of back-assward workarounds I putzed my way into for a few situations.

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i beat this game without upgrading Emerl once

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Just finished FF7 Remake without realizing that Punisher style is for counter hits.

The only one I can think of is that I beat Arkham Asylum and City without realizing you could use gadgets during combat.
Like I knew you could throw batarangs in the middle of combos but I didn't know stuff like the freeze and proximity bombs worked until I saw a guy doing the challenge mode on youtube.

I beat both campaigns of Zoids Battle Legends without knowing you could lock on. I melee'd or used lock-on missiles for everything.

Beat Awakening without recruiting a single child unit

Not super crazy but I beat uncharted 3 on crushing without blocking any melee attacks. It doesn't show you the button prompt on high difficulties so I just assumed I was supposed to eat the damage. It got me killed often and made the final fistfight with the British guy a pain.

When I played oblivion for the first time I didn't know you could fast travel and I beat the entire game and many of the side quests without fast traveling at all. The vampire cure quest was especially difficult because I had to go all over the map. I ended up going from the imperial city to skingrad by stealing a horse, but I went too far and ended up in Kvatch. The sun was rising too and I needed a place to wait before traveling again, so I hid in one of the refugee tents to wait out the day, but apparently it wasn't shielded from the sun and I fucking died.

It wasn't until fallout 3 game out and I got the message that said "you've discovered several locations. you can fast travel between them using the world map" that I thought to myself "I wonder if I can fast travel in Oblivion"

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I beat a majority of the Pokémon games by just leveling my starter and brute forcing my way through everything.

Didnt finish nioh 2 yet but I don't understand half of the mechanics in it. Such as gear, dark realm phase of bosses, and lowering yokai stamina

I was a dumb baby child when I played Pokemon (Gen I) for the first time, and I had no prior experience with RPGs. I went through the whole game without ever using items in battle, because the characters on the show didn't do it, and I considered it "cheating."

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That sounds like hell, user. How did you even manage that?

i also beat luigi's mansion without the elemental ghosts because in the room where you get them i somehow glitched into another room that you can step on the ceiling if you touch some panels and i was going up and down cause i thought the animation was funny, then suddenly i clip thru the ceiling into a void then spawn in the "bowser" boss fight.
to this date i have not seen a single speed runner replicate that.
also beat some other hack and slash without knowing there was a secondary attack button

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ho god ho fuck, how long was your playthrough?

I had purchased Metroid:Samus Returns for the 3ds an beat it fairly quickly. It wasn't till i saw a speed run that i realized you can do cinematic type attacks to metroids when doing a certain new mechanic at the right time.

I beat kingdom hearts without being able to read at all. This is not a joke. I was 4 years old when the game came out and I got it for my 5th birthday that October. I didn't know what any of the abilities, items, or equipment did. All I knew is that the green potions healed you and I just kind of figured that the keyblades you got in the later levels were better than the ones you got from prior levels.

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Only one I can specifically think of is XC2. Hate shitters that block trial and error as a proper part of gameplay so I just ignored almost all of the tutorial bullshit that popped up. Beat everything without knowing what the fuck orbs did and what exactly driver combos were.

Didn't bother learning them until I did most of the DLC shit in preparation for maybe someday playing NG+ a few months ago. That was also the day I realized how retardedwhoever made and a-okayed the combat was.

All they had to do was leave those out and reduce the HP of everything they had to bloat due to feature creep and it would've played perfectly fine.

>SotN without knowing the proper use of the Shield Rod in my first playthrough
Combined with not knowing about other good weapons like the Crissaegrim either, this made Galamoth a total bastard.

I never finished the game, but when I played FFX I never knew how the grid sphere worked. I was under the assumption you just leveled up naturally. I made it to the Al Bhed machina boss that kidnaps Yuna and you have to fight it underwater with only Tidus and Wakka. Never could beat it, because I had NO CLUE about the grid sphere. I was a dumb kid.

Metal gear without knowing that you could run and gun at the same time
Goddamn that tower...

I finished Three Houses without realizing that you could reverse time.

I played minecraft without knowing how to sneak.

no idea. It was a really long playthrough though. The mages guild questline took the longest and I still hate doing it to this day because I always associate it with endless walking.

also this post reminded me that i beat a ton of games without reading, because i did not know english at the time
paper mario tyd was specially difficult and persona 3

usually if a game is that shit I can't bother to complete it. sometimes I will use a core mechanic though and not really understand exactly how it works. Like I don't think I ever checked how exactly pairup affects my stats and shit in fire emblem.

Not sure if it counts but i managed to snipe the bumblins in the hidden village without the hawkeye

BotW without using the flurry attack, or using shield reflect. I didn't realize shield reflect was a thing until after I beat ganon.

Whats the flurry attack?

how the fuck

I beat Circle of the Moon without realizing there was a map screen.

TMNT II on NES without knowing about the jump-slash attack

>avoid attack at the last moment
>spam attack button so you do a ton of damage in slo-mo

reminds me of when I use to let my little brother play my xbox and he'd constantly ask me for help because he couldn't read the messages on the screen.

I think if you jump out of the way of an enemy attack, time slows and you can unleash a bunch of attacks in slowed time. I wasn't very good at it.

Same, but with pokemon silver. I had to give the game to one of the older guys because I got stuck at the tree branch maze thing

I don’t know if I would exactly call it a core mechanic, but I finished Skyrim without realizing that it has sprinting functionality. Didn’t expect it to have it because older Bethesda games didn’t have it either, and it was bound in Alt at default, meaning that I never ended up pressing it when walking around, because Alt isn’t exactly binding to see used for anything in vidya.

I remember beating OOT the egoraptor way, aka without using items like deku nuts or the ice arrows

Beat ASSCREED 1 without realizing weapon counters existed like Bamham but it clicked at the last large fight in the end game that it flowed so beautifully like an austistic painting. Then the game ended.

I beat Ninja Gaiden Black on Master Ninja not knowing you could block.

For my first ever playthrough of Deus Ex, I used the Baton for all my non-lethal KOs without knowing that the prod was way more efficiant

I beat Assassin's creed brotherhood without recruiting npcs or using any weapons other than hidden blade. It was piss easy too

i wasnt a smart kid and i used to be able to beat games by power of pure autism

How did you beat THOSE things?

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ngl the fun part of the combat for me was figuring these out. Highest difficulty is spoiled for me now because it is pretty easy once you understand the oils

I completed Megaman X without using elemental weaknesses because I didnt know the boss order, I just used what looked cool

same. When I was a kid you just did stuff until you won.

I played through pokemon Colosseum up to Miror B without snagging any pokemon.

Same, and BotW as well. I just don't do parries.

I beat Mario 1 without the run button, I only found out it had a run button 17 years later

Not beat, but I went through Super Mario Bros. Deluxe as a kid not knowing you could hold B to run until World 4-3, when there's seemingly no way to win without running.

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beat megaman zero 1 without using any lv 2+ elf, spend so much time on that game that i will never play any zero game again

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>game with guns has unlockable melee combat mechanics
>never use them during the entire game since either shooting or default melee attacks is enough to defeat 99% of enemies

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