Most of these misses wouldn't happen if Skyrim had a semi-decent tutorial (which is my biggest issue with this game).

Remote follower commands were like this for me.

Yes, you can remotely command your follower from 100 feet away by mousing over them and holding down your activate key.

Got to level 63 before I realized that the claws had the puzzle door combination on them. Well over 100 hours of gameplay, I was still essentially hacking the puzzle doors. Bird bird fish, no, bird bird snake, no, bird bird bird, no, bird snake bird, yay. Was annoying. Now I understand that "close at hand" hint from one of the first puzzle doors I encountered.

I didn't know you could move bodies until about 60 hours in.

Not only can you zoom in, you can also rotate them, so you can read them better.......

the first thing i do in a game is press all the buttens to find out what does which, did not help me find out about hotkeys any faster, took an age and a half to figure that out (and the help of theforums no less)

I didn't know how to use Soul Trap or know where the active effects menu was for like 50 hours, boy was I for a while.

Hi all,

Ok, so one of the things I've learned to do very early when I start playing any PC game, is that almost universally, they have an option screen with controls, where you can *change* the controls, but hey, you can also see what the controls currently are. You can learn about all sorts of nifty abilities you might not have guessed you have by looking at that controls screen. No need to switch out to a manual - *it's right in the game*.

If I don't understand what one of the controls are, I just try it out. Imagine that.

LOL at some of these.

I did not know about the zoom feature on the inventory 3D images but it has not been a problem.

Reminds me of a thread last weak complaining about a lack of wait feature. I always look through the manual for controls before I play a game.

I JUST found out about the hotkey for the magic menu... 321 hours in...

It sounds like a lot of these things are only easy to miss on the PC version. All of these mechanics are impossible to miss on the Xbox 360.

This is the TL;DR generation. If it has more words than a tweet, then assume nobody read it.

I found the sprint button the first time you get to move by yourself xD

Maybe the game should come with horrible key bindings. Then at least you'd be forced to remap your keys and maybe have a discovery or three.

Is it bad if my mage did?

DAMN YE, BOOK SMARTS!