Your Annoying Video Game Mistakes?

When I try to focus while playing a game that pays close attention to small detail, I always feel the urge to scratch my nose or yawn, which distracts me a lot and makes me lose. It's one of my worst habits, and I've been trying to break it for years. It's kind of funny, actually.

 

In some tactical games that involve creating a character with specific skillsets, I often make terrible choices at it my first time through. I'll play with awful stats, get halfway through, and restart. XCOM, Final Fantasy Tactics, Fallout, Dark Souls, Pillars of Eternity. I understand the appeal of in-depth stats that make characters seem more unique, but it would be nice if they were more digestibly explained. Either there's no explanation at all, or there's way too much explanation and after ten minutes of reading what each stat does, you forget what you were doing. So here I am playing Fallout with high Speech because I'm told it's important, or playing Pillars of Eternity with low Might because the game never told me my mage benefited from it, or whatever the heck else and I need to start over from scratch, and it feels like one big mistake that ruins the experience for me.

I know it's going to happen to me again when I start playing Fallout 4 soon. I'm not going to get attached to my first character, it will be my second one who matters. At least I'm willing to adapt to my mistakes.

 

For me it was in Fire Emblem 6: The Binding Blade. I didn't know you had to collect all of the legendary weapons to unlock the true ending so when I missed one I was like "Eh, I'll be fine killing dragons with the ones that I have". But noooooooooope. After all the trouble that game gave me with how it's difficulty comes from bull crap I couldn't even actually finish the game. I really wish I had studied up on the game more before I skipped over that weapon.