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Posted January 20, 2018
Wow. I've been playing Age of Empires (the first one, the best one) since, oh I dunno, forever or something close to it. And I'd bet I have five thousand hours or more into it. And one of the things that bothered me was when you're done playing, it takes SIX CLICKS to get back to the desktop. You keep clicking "Cancel" to back up one menu at a time until you back all the way up to the main menu where you can click exit.

Then today. All these years. All these hours. The very fist screen (and each one after that) that you go to when you're finished playing has a little "X" in the upper right corner. Click that once and boom... you're back to desktop. All these years. I've played this game so long that I've probably got a whole lot of hours spent just backing out of those menus. And I can't get them back. lol Wow, I've discovered some really stupid stuff I've done before but this one might just take the take. I just can't believe it. But there it is, in the upper right corner, a little X. And I guess it's been there the whole time.

What a "moran."
Posted January 20, 2018
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OldFatGuy: Wow. I've been playing Age of Empires (the first one, the best one) since, oh I dunno, forever or something close to it. And I'd bet I have five thousand hours or more into it. And one of the things that bothered me was when you're done playing, it takes SIX CLICKS to get back to the desktop. You keep clicking "Cancel" to back up one menu at a time until you back all the way up to the main menu where you can click exit.

Then today. All these years. All these hours. The very fist screen (and each one after that) that you go to when you're finished playing has a little "X" in the upper right corner. Click that once and boom... you're back to desktop. All these years. I've played this game so long that I've probably got a whole lot of hours spent just backing out of those menus. And I can't get them back. lol Wow, I've discovered some really stupid stuff I've done before but this one might just take the take. I just can't believe it. But there it is, in the upper right corner, a little X. And I guess it's been there the whole time.

What a "moran."
Dude, with that big button on your case you can even skip going to Desktop and just switch off your PC altogether.
Posted January 20, 2018
I'm sure I can beat that.

It's late. Give me some time to think because I know I can top it.
Posted January 20, 2018
If it's official they better have given you a plaque. If it's just a certificate you might have just been a contender check the rankings online and get back to us.
Posted January 20, 2018
I might be able to beat that : I never knew that you could drag-select in the first Warcraft game :P

Another less embarrassing one : finished Bio Menace without having a clue about the special powers Snake Logan has. Should've read the menu or readme beforehand :P
Posted January 20, 2018
For me it is still playing Dungeon Master without finding the compass on the first level, making navigation in the game so much harder when you couldn't tell which way you were facing. My friend who was playing the same game pointed it out to me when I complained to him how hard it is to navigate in the game.

Admittedly, for some reason the game designers had put that compass into a hidden room which you had to find first...
Posted January 20, 2018
Windows has a standard keyboard shortcut for closing programs that even most games adhere to. Try pressing Alt-F4 whenever you want to get out of a game.
Posted January 20, 2018
Oh yes in Vietcong I didn't realize that I had a flashlight for the tunnelrat bit. I thought I only had the few flares they gave me and the brief light from a muzzle flash with my pistol. So it was with great difficulty I somehow managed to navigate those pitch black tunnels :P
Posted January 20, 2018
I would imagine that there are tons of stories such as yours. For example I love Heroes of Might and Magic 2. But I admit that the option from Heroes 3, that allowed you to split an army stack into multiple smaller ones is was an invaluable strategical adage. What I mean by that is this: consider you have a stack of 10 Titans, you could easily split this stack in to two stacks of 5 Titans, thus allowing you to finish smaller battles faster.

Well, it turns out that you could also do this is Heroes 2. Only that you didn't have an obvious UI button that you could press, and have a window pop-up that allowed you to do that. Instead you selected the original stack, then pressed the SHIFT key, and finally selected an empty army slot, for the window to split the original stack to appear. I felt just like you when I discovered this, especially since all my friends seemed to know this.
Posted January 20, 2018
Alt + F4 almost never fails, 0 clicks needed.
Posted January 20, 2018
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OldFatGuy: Wow. I've been playing Age of Empires (the first one, the best one) since, oh I dunno, forever or something close to it. And I'd bet I have five thousand hours or more into it. And one of the things that bothered me was when you're done playing, it takes SIX CLICKS to get back to the desktop. You keep clicking "Cancel" to back up one menu at a time until you back all the way up to the main menu where you can click exit.

Then today. All these years. All these hours. The very fist screen (and each one after that) that you go to when you're finished playing has a little "X" in the upper right corner. Click that once and boom... you're back to desktop. All these years. I've played this game so long that I've probably got a whole lot of hours spent just backing out of those menus. And I can't get them back. lol Wow, I've discovered some really stupid stuff I've done before but this one might just take the take. I just can't believe it. But there it is, in the upper right corner, a little X. And I guess it's been there the whole time.

What a "moran."
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ZFR: Dude, with that big button on your case you can even skip going to Desktop and just switch off your PC altogether.
Bah, too troublesome. Usually, when I want to exit a game, I just snap my neck.
Posted January 20, 2018
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Matewis: Oh yes in Vietcong I didn't realize that I had a flashlight for the tunnelrat bit. I thought I only had the few flares they gave me and the brief light from a muzzle flash with my pistol. So it was with great difficulty I somehow managed to navigate those pitch black tunnels :P
It took me forever to realise I have a flashlight in Dark Forces. I actually tried beating the sewer level by lighting my way for a split second at a time with blaster shots :P

Still, even with the flashlight that level sucks hard.
Posted January 20, 2018
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ZFR: Dude, with that big button on your case you can even skip going to Desktop and just switch off your PC altogether.
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Telika: Bah, too troublesome. Usually, when I want to exit a game, I just snap my neck.
XD
Posted January 20, 2018
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Ganni1987: Alt + F4 almost never fails, 0 clicks needed.
Was about to say the same :).
Posted January 21, 2018
I remember the "X", actually. Age of Empires had such a memorable interface, up to the font they used.

I played a lot of AoE during the late 90s and the 2000s. There is a remake in the works (which is apparenrtly just a graphic revamp), and even a new AoE IV has been announced, but what I would want the most it's an updated version of the first one with what is now considered standard in strategy games (a better scenario editor, more unique factions, basic gameplay elements such as gates in walls).
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