Has this ever happened to you in a game?

All the time...it's not limited to gaming. I'm pretty oblivious.

I don't know, but sometimes it feel better to play with a non overpowered weapon that doesn't make everything so easy :)

Thanks for giveaway :)

Happens quite a lot, in first Metro Redux game, I didn't knew that you can re-charge your night vision googles, so whenever I found myself in a dark environment I had a real struggle with the level :D

Yes, the first time it had a big inpact for me was a month ago. While struggling with the very last level of Luxor HD I've accidentally found out that if the current ball color doesn't work for you, you can switch it with the second ball in the queue by pressing RMB. I'm pretty sure it wasn't explained in the tutorial and even though I must have clicked LMB many thousand times during the game I've never thought that RMB could actually do something. If I knew it from the start I would probably finish the game in 11h instead of 16h (or something like that)...

The first thing that comes to mind is me realizing there's a button to run away from fight in Coin Crypt (awesome roguelike game with coins) only after playing it for like 10 hours. I could have avoided some deaths during those 10 hours if I realized it's possible to escape sooner.

yes its happened but its more like theres to many damn things and i use the same beginner skills to force my way through the games. played football game with younger brother the other day, forgot i could run didnt get told/remembered until the second half!

Too often. I wish I could remember the game but I had a case of this at the very end of the game that I could have been using tor nearly the entire thing.

I don't remember such a situation, but it certainly happened.

Like you, I can't think of any specifics, but this happens to me pretty often. I'm used to it by now, so I try not to be frustrated by it!

Hmm. I usually forget about things that make my life easier. Does that count? :P

Styx: Master of Shadows. Thought the final amber skill only showed objects through walls and enemies like it stated. Turns out it showed the EXACT location for the damn tokens even if they were far away. I spent more time looking around for them than I needed.

Bump.
Hasn't happened to me in a while, but I know the feeling.

Some skills I just forgot in a game, even when I knew about it. Max Payne trilogy, I didn't use bullet time a lot.

Batman Arkham City: I learned how to glide and then fly higher about halfway through the game.

Also, in Fallout ( it was the third or New Vegas, I can't remember) I found out that the PipBoy had a light on it.

Happens every now and again, yeah :)

I spent probably 20 hours grinding away in WWE 2K16’s career mode before I realised that there was an ability to instantly boost all my skills.

Had something just recently in Dead Rising 2:
The way Combo weapons were explained via cards I thought you could only make them after getting the card...turns out you could always craft them just wouldn't get the double-xp effect the combo-card gives.
Thus I never made knife-gloves and those pesky psycho-fights were damn annoying/hard.
After I crafted those gloves once near the end, the psychos just kept dying...such an OP weapon (and worst it's even one of the easiest to craft items because both "ingredients" are near the starting craft-table)🙄

So many games but the most recent one is the game Hover. The game doesn't explain much of anything past the basic tutorial. My friend and I took 15 hours to beat a 6 hour game because we didn't know there was a button to show objectives. Also we didn't know there was a button to create energy so we didn't have to run around like idiots trying to build up the energy. Needless to say, we found that out in the last level lol

Playing Saints Row IV, decided to hack all 34 stores near the beginning of the game because they were just logic puzzles that did not require me having a high level or upgrades or anything.

Immediately after I hack the last store, I play a mission whose reward is...
"Hacking Reward" -- Function: Increases cache and XP from hacking stores.

:P

Divinity Original Sin.

I had no idea that I talk to an NPC with one character to change and lock their line of sight , and then use another character to sneak into guarded areas , steal items from around the npc, and even pick pocket the NPC.

the game was way easier when I found out about it.

even better than the Skyrim bucket.

I'm playing grow up now and it's taken me ages to get where I'm now. But come to think of it I'm only using half of my abilities so maybe I should look into that... :)

I'm lazy so I purposefully seek these opportunities but there were probably times I missed something, I just can't remember.