Credit to Tim Buckley - Ctrl Alt Del

This is the exact same instinct that drives us to run away from the obvious path first. "Clearly that's where the final boss is. Let me just check what's down this way first..."

"...oh no wait, there's a point-of-no-return ledge here. Ok, so maybe that other way was actually where the secret was. I'll go back..."

"...hmm, there's another ledge on this side too. Let me just put in a save point and...ok, yeah, this one is the final boss. Let me reload and check the other path..."

"...ugh, it restarted me way back here? And respawned all the enemies when I reloaded? That's frustrating..."

"...THEY BOTH. LED. TO THE SAME. EXACT. PLACE."

That's why I find idea that no gamer in Ready Player One tried running a car backward offensive.

It's not just one game.

I still do this, and it regularly reaps benefits.

Donkey Kong Country did this to me forever

Developer: here's a fun little thing people will be excited to find!

Player: I will never trust anyone again

Every single waterfall I find I must check behind it, forever.

Donkey Kong Country…

Credit to Tim Buckley for briefly becoming one of the most widely mocked people on the internet and spawning a meme that lives on to this day but just rolling with it and continuing with his dream of making webcomics.

That's what's bugging me about Ready Player One the most. You can't tell me it took YEARS for gamers to figure out the secret about the racing track.

I always try to figure out which direction the game wants me to go so I can try going the opposite way first.

TIL CAD is still going and it looks different.

In Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Aladdin in several levels in the beginning you have go forward a bit and then return back to the start to find the secret. Needles to say, it also messed me up for life.

Also in this list: checking under stairs and behind waterfalls

Kids these days didn't know how to video game.

And then the movie adaptation of Ready Player One acted like placing something before the starting line is some kind of super-sneaky hiding method.

is this loss?

Sonic 1 for Master System...Bridge Zone, act 3...

Jeff Buckley was better tbh

Bum Tickley is still going after all this time?

As a Wolfenstein 3D player that checks every square centimeter of every wall for secret passages, I feel this pain.

For me it's waterfalls - have to check behind every single one for a hidden cave.

This has proven to be problematic in real life, like when I visited Niagara...

Doom ]['s chainsaw.

In Serious Sam there was a secret you could only reach by starting running backwards while the level was still loading. The hint was that you heard a "door closing" sound from behind.

Tons of games did this in the 2d side scrolling period.

Donkey Kong on gba

not one game at all, it's pretty much tradition.

Old school Armored core gamer here. This is me.

B^U

Note: Your character is highly unlikely to "Whump" into the left side obstacle. They are more likely to do the Michael Jackson standing walking in place motion while you try probing the left side for openings and weaknesses.

Doom 2

Ha! In Kirby they put stars or collectibles or plot items in obscure places in just about every game!

Aladin had that extra life at the start of the first level.

Chainsaw in the first level of Doom 2?

I mean, that's what being a gamer is. You know the tropes.

You know someone should know them as well. So they surely can and will apply them.

And you sure as fuck ain't letting another gamer get the upper hand on you, we don't do that here

Lego Star Wars instilled this as well as leaps of faith

Prehistoric had something on the left

It was Castlevania that did this to me.

Oh crap. I do it too. It's useful in Rayman Origins and Legends. (Maybe once)

Venom's 1up in Maximum Carnage

Based on a true story.

been awhile since i got on lemmy i was hoping this place was immune to "every aspect of my lack of personality is from my self diagnosed mental illness" posts that flood facebook and reddit...guess not. going by internet posts/comments more than half of humans have autism/ADHD/OCD, which makes them the neurotypical ones at this point.

Sackboy does this a lot

Has my guy never considered spinning around on spot, or is getting a screen full of up close wall texture just part of his gaming experience?