The First Thing You Do

The first thing you do in FFX is sign autographs

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The first thing you do in Plok, if you know what you’re doing, is jump into the ocean on the left instead of going to the right, taking massive damage, landing on an island, punching a fruit until it explodes revealing a secret level, and flying a helicopter through a bonus stage to skip to the first boss.

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Torment Tides Of Numenera

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Darkest Dungeon: company bonding

I always like to test (in environments) if fire is hot and will hurt you, because it’s not like there’s a game where smoke inhalation is the bigger killer.

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King’s Field (US) (II in Japan): Take a step forward and die screaming.

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The first step death, and the “Dead. (OK)” message box are pretty great running gags for a company to have

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the combat tutorial in trials of mana if you’re playing as Kevin makes you kill your own dog, it’s brutal

you find out at almost the very end of the game that the dog is ok though

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First Thing You Do in Quest 64 is go down a bunch of stairs.

if you are speedrunning baroque the first thing you do is punch an npc 100 times until he kills you with a sword

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the first thing you do in revelations: persona is endorse one of two of your dumb ass friends about whether or not you believe in urban legends/demons.

the first thing you do in smt1 is distribute 18 points among your stats so you have the strength to buy your mom coffee in the morning.

the first thing you do in smt2 is prove your strength to some old pervert so he can continue using you and making money off of you as a slave gladiator.

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the first thing you do in smt nocturne is step off the subway, put some change in a vending machine, and obtain a “mysterious drink”

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the first thing you do in smt3 is have a psychedelic vision of your weirdo, hot wiccan teacher about the end of the world, and then she asks you which jacket you want to wear because you can’t walk face-forward into the rebirth of the world looking like a square asshole.

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the first thing you do in soul hackers is commit a cybercrime to get into a beta for an MMO based on a city because kitsune mulder told you to and then you’re interrupted by a techno shaman who wants you to go on a wicked vision quest right now but the fuckin’ cops are about to show up. you don’t even take two minutes to get your pretty cool girlfriend into the beta, either.

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The first thing you do the first time you ever play Gran Turismo is go full speed into a turn, full lock the steering in the direction of said turn, and careen directly into a wall.

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The first thing you do in Receiver 2 is check that your weapon is loaded and ready to fire.

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Was just about to post that one. Although after a recent learning experience for me it has become “The first thing you do in Receiver 2 is crouch”.

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any 3rd-person action game: spin around in circles as fast as possible to see how the character controller handles it

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any game with a controllable camera: check to make sure that the Y-axis is inverted.

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the first thing you do in EVERY game is check the options

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