Ever done anything stupid in-game? Missed something really obvious or made a glaring error and afterwards thought "What was I doing?!"

On my 3rd play through I was determined to get the T-51 armour from Fort Constantine as I thought I'd messed it up on my previous game.

The reason I thought this? I got all the way through the bunker area until the locked door at the end. When it wouldn't open I assumed I messed up getting the keys when in fact what I was looking at was the exit. I'd walked straight past the door to the T-51 armour and Tara's body which held the key to said exit. Then walked straight back past it again without noticing. D'oh!

I killed the super mutant behemoth in the beginning with a 10mm pistol ,and right after I did I noticed the fat man. :I

Nope. Ive never done anything wrong. Im completely perfect in everything I do including video games. My kill to death ratio on ANY FPS is 13555324 kills to 0 deaths.

your playing wrong if you havent failed miserably at something.

STOP WATCHING PLAYTHROUGHS!!

Uhhh my post was a case of extreme sarcasm. Of course ive screwed up. One time in NV I tried to enter a vault( the one in the north west covered by raiders) and I kept getting that message " this door is activated somewhere else" it literally took me hours of thinking where it could be activated( while playing else where) untill I realized that you need to hit the control panel NEXT to the door.

That was one of those face palm moments followed by silence realizing how [censored] I was.

I've done that a couple of times. When it said elsewhere didn't think it meant right next to it!

In my first game, I spotted an area on my map marked as "Oasis". Perhaps you've heard of it. Setting out, I get near the location, and see nothing but rocks. So, I start searching for a way in. Left, down, up, and right, for two real life hours, and finding no way in. I even extend my range, thinking there's a sewer grate or something to get it. Nope. Nothing. At this point, I had to use the restroom, so I entered VATS to pause my game. On my way back, I stop to get some milk and oatmeal raisin cookies. I get comfortable again, cursing I'll be spending another two hours looking, and resume my game.

Then I see it. A small fissure. I walk up to it, and sure enough, there's a path leading straight to Oasis. The number of times I passed this fissure, to say the least, had me fuming I missed it completely many times.

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To this day, I still don't understand the layout to the Metro tunnel system. I see the directory, but yet I find it confusing how the White Line and the Red Line can run opposite each other at a specific station, yet the directory never shows this.

Speaking of the Metro, I always forget the fastest way to the Mall is via the train station at Rivet City, which takes you directly to it.

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Mines. Yep, even today, I can't seem to see them. The only time I notice them is when my arms and legs are lying a few feet from me.

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It wasn't until my third game I found the Scrapyard, home to one canine everyone found but me: Dogmeat. You've seen it, right? One of the largest areas in the game and I completely missed it. Twice.

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Super Duper mart, I find this robot. I'm so excited I can hack the terminal and call it. It comes out, and "registers" me as a hostile, then starts firing on me. I eventually take it out, but I'm thinking "WTF?" This event, of course, lead me to leave every Protectron in their stasis machines in the game. In game two, I see the ID atop the very terminal I just hacked.

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Swimming is an option in the game.

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I can't remember what building it's in, but there's a high level lock safe. Due to my level, I couldn't open it, but I eventually game back to crack it only to find a few bottlecaps, pre-war money, a stimpak, and some .32 ammo. As I turn to walk out the door, there's a key on the desk. It opens the safe.

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Yao Guai. I'm trucking along, scoping out my path before I take it, see nothing, then walk right into them. Every time. Yes, they're camoflauged a bit, but damn, this got ridiculous. In my last game, it lead me to take the best perk in the game: Animal Friend.

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So, did you hear about the traveler who waltzed right into Old Olney and fell into the grate, only to die because of the two Deathclaws down below? Yeah, that was me.

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Bottlecap mines on the workbenches throughout the game. I just thought they were lunch boxes.

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"They call me Stumpy on account ah mah missin' arms 'n legs. Done got blowed off by them hidden shotguns."

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So, wait. I needed to press a button to open the floor to open my path? Curse you, Bethesda! Damn switch looks like every other damn switch in the game!

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I met this old lady once. Her name was Agatha, and she lives in a nicely secluded hole in a rock. She pleaded I find her family's violin, and I agreed, but she didn't know where the vault was. She said a company called "vault tech" may have the location, so I set off to find the place. After dodging more bullets than I was carrying, I get lost downtown trying to find this building. While the bright side was clearing out the area, it still took me forever to find out where it was.

Yet all I had to do was look a bit higher and see VAULT-TEC written on one of the buildings.

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I can't tell you how many things I've missed in my games over the many times I've played it, for each time I do play this wonderful game, I find new things. Things on the floor, or sitting on a bookshelf in a burned out remnant of a house (the house burned, but the paper book did not? Huh.) Things found simply by accident, usually stumbling. Each game, and I find something new in them every time.

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So, those are just a few, so if you're a numpty, I'm the King Numpty, Master of Numpty.

yes, you win

Mind you on the metro thing, I still get hopelessly lost. Was trying to find the blasted Rangers Compound (on my THIRD playthrough) earlier this week, running all around the mall metro stations only to realise I just needed to get the tunnel at Anacostia Crossing (next to Rivet City). Was there in 30 seconds.

Kudos for taking down a SMB with a 10mm.

Have you tried it with a .32?

Yeah, there's something wrong with those tunnels, ie, developers who said "We don't have a map, so we'll let the players figure it out."

I get lost as well, but only because I don't travel them much. It's unfortunate, but the only way to navigate into the downtown/Mall areas is via the tunnels. Anocostia station is my best friend, once it's cleared out.

That complex maze of lies and deceit known as the "Red" and "White" lines are bitter enemies, and I avoid them as often as possible.

I'd rather take the long way in, traversing through the Capital Warzone, than hit those tunnels.

Oh, Mr Eve. You make me look like a scavanger extraordinaire!

In truth though, I′ve missed alotta things too in my days. Mostly it has been stuff that blended in with the background though. One particular note comes to mind. I knew exactly where it was (thanks, wiki!) and I was standing right in front of it. Yet I couldn′t see it and left. As I didn′t want to give up as I knew it was there, I turned around and gave it another look and then I found it