I found it really a challange, everyday I would just go kill monsters for 1-2 hours, give it a try, fail and close the game and play something else, then one day the snake died and I was like, YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and I couldn't wait for the next hard boss, but that never happened xD

I guess I made it into a dark souls experience

When I first truly got into Shmups I focused looking at where enemy ships are rather than the bullets they shoot. It's nice to know both but I mainly focus on bullets esp when my weapon is powered up.

When I first played Phantasy Star I didn't understand why everything killed me. I had not grasped grinding yet in RPGs.

Fighting games I used to mash all the buttons mindlessly and wonder why I kept losing at Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat 1-3.

Final fantasy 8..... "what the fuck, i cannot out grind the enemies"

Me and my cousin used to see who could outrun the cops the longest in GTA (original). It was the best way to share the game when family was visiting, as it never took long between turns and it kept everyone engaged.

Years later we were talking about the game and all the missions at a family function. Another cousin, who had owned the game himself, piped up with “what missions?”

He had watched us playing and thought that was the whole game.

Not using my while-rising punishers in Tekken.. Leaving so much damage on the table!

Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor.
Actually... that was the first time I took a SMT game to play seriously, like, from beggining to end. The game itself is very difficult but I made the dumb mistake of playing it entirely without paying attention to buffs and debuffs, what made everything so much harder.
I just learn my lesson when trying Soul Hackers.

I wouldn't say it was the wrong way but doing the story portion of Super Mario Odyssey, I didn't take the time to experiment with the controls that much so I up to the point you beat Bowser, I did it with just jump, triple jump, long jump and the occasional dive.

It's only when I was trying to get the Koopa races moons that I spent time learning the jump, cappy throw, dive, cappy jump, cappy throw, dive technique. I'm currently replaying the game from scratch and it's a totally different experience when you can do this consistently.

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Playing Bayonetta, I kept interrupting my combos to dodge but at one point I kept dying a lot so I went online to check some things out and that's when I learned that if you hold the punch or kick button while pressing the dodge button your combo will go on that was very useful and made the game much easier.

Must have been so long to build anything with only 4 SCVs.

Master of Orion 3, because I have no freaking clue how to play it well.

final fantasy 1 : ok remember this was way before internet, and i had the game, but not the manual. so i played that game, leveling my team, always putting them the best equipement that i could find, but i was trhinking, man that game is really tough. each cave i explored was taking me forever, and use tons and tons of potions. i had maybe half the game done, when a friend come over, saw me playing and told me : hey, you didnt equip your gear !

so yes, basically i've played have of final fantasy 1 without armor or weapon equiped because i didnt understood that you need to actually press the equip button for a gear to be in action...


Bioshock. i had the french version, however, i'm not french, i'm french canadian. Bioshock for pc had the controls on the keyboard locked, so you cannot change them. it's the standard WASD controls. however, in france, they use azerty keyboard, so the controls were ZQSD. But a french canadian keyboard is qwerty...