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Classic mistakes rookies always make

If you see someone do any of these, shout 'Noob!'

Words: Justin Towell, GamesRadar UK
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Gamer231  - 4 months 21 days ago 
But my favorite horror movie is "A Nightmare on Elm Street", not "Coin."

lol

Me:
-Failing a QTE (When I first played God of War and didn't realize there were QTE's in most of the scenes)
-Moving an analog stick while turning on the machine
-Doing a Shoryuken when trying to do a Hadouken
-Pressing the wrong button in menu screens (For FFVII)
-Wondering why PSP's battery runs out so fast with non-use


Go me!
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Bambell  - 4 months 21 days ago 
Lol. Red ring. My brother shouted this at me when he got all 4 lights. I told my friends and one got a proper red ring and actually brought over the broken 360 to show what a "real" red ring is.
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Stabby_Joe  - 4 months 21 days ago 
Its mostly small children who play pre-played demos in stores... usually thinking they're playing it for real.

I'm sorry but theres a limit you can cut them some slack...
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BigGinger55  - 4 months 21 days ago 
I have to admit, ive done the very last one were you lift up the xbox while the game was on. Left me without playing GTA IV for a full year...bad times :(
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RichieJr  - 4 months 21 days ago 
You know, the traditional "Red Ring of Death" is only 3 of the 4 lights - you can't criticise someone new to games about thinking that the full 4 lights is the RROD because IT'S THE ONLY ONE THAT'S A RING!

Heh :D everything else in the article is spot on, I've done a few of these myself.
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RichieJr  - 4 months 21 days ago 
Also just to add, the pressing wrong button on menu's - most of the older PS1 games used triangle for back, not circle - I remember that transition feeling very weird for me but now thinking of triangle as back seems so very, very wrong.
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BluePikmin  - 4 months 21 days ago 
Almost all of my non-gaming and even my PSP owning friends try to use the top DS screen with a stylus, even after I constantly remind them, it only works on the bottom
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Awesomeitude1523  - 4 months 21 days ago 
you forgot NOT shooting players in the head in aan online match. Empty a full clip into the body to take someone down, or us 2, maybe 3 bullets on their head,
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Synster  - 4 months 21 days ago 
Haha.
I remember when I first had my PSP and I was like "WTF" because it was on Hold.

That, and funny that, I've also had the same problem with the original Metal Gear Solid. It took me a while to figure out O is select and X is back.
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MGS4SolidSnake  - 4 months 21 days ago 
plosive59 - 2 hours 29 minutes ago
why did snake in the picture have a beard not a mustache?

nice catch that is weird.. i still dont know how to turn off my psp instructions r for chumps...i didnt know about the analog one it never happened to me
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MGS4SolidSnake  - 4 months 21 days ago 
ive failed a qte lots of times on my 360...prototypes r pretty hard to do when ur not used to playing the 360
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EmmaXII  - 4 months 21 days ago 
lol!
Wedding coin!I tried 2 drive carefully in gta4 but it gets boring fast lol
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DoctorFruitbat  - 4 months 21 days ago 
Not only have I played as the wrong person, but I've completed at least five laps of Micro Machines V4 and held my own pretty well for all of them while looking at entirely the wrong car. It's surprisingly common during four player when seven people are vying for a controller.
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PinkLenny  - 4 months 21 days ago 
How about when a non gamer plays an FPS
I dare someone to find a person who doesnt spend the entire match staring at the ground or the sky.
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Thelonius  - 4 months 21 days ago 
Great article!!! lots of little insiders.....i thought i was the only one that sat there at the MGS title screen confused for 5 minutes.
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WrathLord03  - 4 months 21 days ago 
Well, the only time I've failed a QTE was in Quantum of Solace for PS2, but only because it came out of nowhere and because it was completely unnecessary. The God of war ones are much more expectable, constant and fun too.
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blu_dud  - 4 months 21 days ago 
LOL at nubs!
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GoldenMe  - 4 months 21 days ago 
For those wondering about that picture with Snake having a beard, I believe it's an old picture of 2006-2007 MGS4, a prototype version of Snake. Before they went to him only having a mustache.
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smallberry  - 4 months 21 days ago 
No-one plays games to sit in traffic, do they?

Mafia. It had speed limits too. But I loved it.
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sgloomy  - 4 months 21 days ago 
the street fighter thing happens to me but in an opposite manner, i end up doing a hadouken when i wanna do a shoryuken, it is really annoying online cuzz it leaves you wide open
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