If there is a big scary bad guy that you defeat and then the castle/fort/cave/whatever collapses on him, he WILL be back later.
Bronze things are ALWAYS inferior to iron things which are ALWAYS inferior to steel things.
Just because my character runs around stealing everything that isn’t nailed down, killing things for no reason (or for profit), doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.
Running diagonally is almost always faster than running straight ahead.
Discoloration = secret.
I am Error.
Not necessarily. If the game engine uses a metric of “longer plus half shorter” (AKA “diagonals cost 1.5”), as many do, then running diagonally will be slightly slower than straight ahead.
In fact, being told to hurry up and do something actually means you should avoid that objective because doing it means that you may move out of your current area (possibly missing out on valuable loot and experience), and you’ll be unable to return until much later.
Crouching equals stealthy.
In MMOs, key binding is vastly superior to clicking.
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If an enemy looks harmless one of two things will happen:
1.) It will utterly destroy you. Run if you can.
2.) It will sit there and do nothing as your attacks bounce off harmlessly. Eventually it will get bored and leave and you did nothing but waste time.
When you enter a new area (usually signalled by a dramatic change in the way the world looks) early in the game, a new mechanic will be required, and probably heavily used in that section.
Likewise, availability of a new weapon likely indicates that a foe you have either just met or are just about to meet is particularly vulnerable to it.
Gold is usually weightless, but armor and weapons are not. However, you can usually carry several dozen swords & aces and such, without the advent of a packhorse, wheelbarrow or other contrivances. And, you can usually run full speed up a flight of stairs whilst so encumbered.
My favorite version of this was being told “we have no time to do anything except this right away, hurry before it is too late!” and then noticing the next part required several hours of grinding first to reach high enough level for it.
If you can make it move, it’s important. Useless things are welded to the floor so strongly that you couldn’t move it with high explosive.
You ain’t seen real one size fits all design until you see a gnome grab a fallen giant’s plate hauberk and wear it straight away. Then again, talk about stain-repellant…
I see you didn’t play, or don’t remember, Morrowind. I envy you.
You can carry approximately double your weight in inventory with no penalty; however, going above this limit by one ounce will make you virtually immobile–aside from jumping, which you can do normally.
When you meet someone, if the first thing out of their mouth isn’t directly applicable to whatever you’re currently doing, there’s no point in continuing to talk to them.
If something above you is just out of reach, and you don’t have a chair, crate, or barrel to stand on, heavy ordnance detonations make for a handy stepladder.
In life, there comes a time when everything you’ve worked for will be forcibly taken from you, up to and including the clothes you’re wearing at the time. There’s a better than even chance that you’ll see this coming a mile away, but inevitably, you’ll walk straight into it anyway. Take heart, though — you might have to murder a few guys with your bare fists, but once you do, you’ll find everything you wanted is just a few short steps away…literally.
If it glows red, shoot it.
Don’t become a bard.
The magic/mysterious technology user might start off weaker than the tough guy who uses brute force but he’ll be a demigod by the last third of the game.
Do you see a crate made of brown wooden planks? Break it with a melee weapon for equipment and supplies.
Can you see the bottom of that body of water? If not, it’s extremely risky to even touch the water.
Yes, the shotgun is a good weapon (if you shoot within 10 feet).
Of all the foes you see, can one of them raise the dead? KILL HIM!!!
Heh, that’s what I came here to post. Inquire, explore and otherwise investigate what the next step is. Then go everywhere else.
In other items:
- old legends, rumors spread by tavern drunks and musty prophecies are always 100% accurate.
- convenient healing shrine, ammo dump & savepoint combos means imminent pain.
- talk to everybody until dialog loops.
- Store everything. EVERYTHING. Unless there are weight and/or inventory space considerations, never ever sell your loot - if you need cash, kill moar stuff for pennies. Whatever “it” is, it’s going to be used later for alchemy/conversion/mech building/melting it for components/plot coupons. In a pinch, it can also be thrown at enemies (e.g. breaking final fantasy VI in half by breaking magic staves). This goes double for obviously useless items like broken swords (I’m looking at you, Dark Souls), and triple for your starting equipment (you listening to this, Shin Megami Tensei:Nocturne ?).
- personal property is a wholly relative concept. Desire implies ownership. For example, if it’s in your inventory or home, it’s yours. If it’s in someone else’s barrels, cupboards, shelves, pots or home it’s *also *yours. If it’s in someone else’s locked chest, the key of which requires a lot of effort to get, it’s even more yours. NPCs generally know this, except in deviant games like *Fallout *or the Elder Scrolls series, where for some reason the townsfolk will call the guards whenever you pick up what’s self-evidently yours.
- you’ll never use that rare potion/limited use item. It’s simply too useful to afford to waste. Then it’s just not useful enough to bother with.
- Chicks fight better in skimpier bikinis. Dudes fight better the moar cumbersome oversized chunks of metal they strap to their bodies.
- Fingers, schmingers: you can only wear two rings.
And a more meta one: if there is a boss, and that boss is a specifically unwinnable fight for story purposes: someone, somewhere has grinded long enough or gotten unbelievably good enough at the game or found a glitch to beat it anyway. And posted the video on YouTube.
No matter how badass and heavily armed a soldier you are, if you see a scientist in an orange suit with a crowbar coming towards you, run away!
There was a video game I was playing where the city that sold the best items vanished after a certain event. Man that was annoying.
I can rarely ever use red barrels effectively.
You’ll be fighting that mid-boss at least three times.