Beating Bosses or Solving Puzzles in Ways Never Intended.

[Hippobatman]

Oh, I got one.

In Morrowind I had a Vampire character, which disease amplifies your acrobatics skill quite significantly. I was walking around the swamps in the Seyda Neen area, and that dude with the insane acrobatic buff scrolls fell down right in front of me. I took his scrolls, used them all, totalling the acrobatics skill to a ridiculous number I can't remember.

Then I jumped north-eastish. I landed in the middle of Ghostfence, at that Dwemer ruin where you find the dagger you need to kill Dagoth Ur. Of course, I hadn't gotten that far into the main story yet, so picking up the dagger killed me.

 

[cameron196789]

Legend of zelda: ocarina of time, ghost Ganon thing on the horse that goes through pictures (I forget its actual name, i think you fight it as the boss for the forest temple). You fight him in this little arena, and I went into a corner of it and found myself invisible to some of his attacks, then I just shot him down with arrows.

 

[ace_of_something]

I seem to remember in the first neverwinter nights, or maybe one of the expansions, a giant cave where you had to fight a dragon. If you could pick locks you could open a door to a very small room. So the dragon couldn't get at you if you stood in there and shot it with arrows/spells what have you.

 

[ace_of_something]

I'm surprised nobody has shown Sabin suplexing a train yet.


'TILL NOW!

That's because it was waaay easier just to use a fenix down on the train to make it die instantly, if memory serves.

 

[Malkavian]

Not sure it hasn't been mentioned, but in FFIX, you could defeat the Tree of Life boss by feeding it a Phoenix Down... Yeah...

 

[MorphingDragon]

On the first Ratchet and Clank there were a few clipping glitches, made some bosses pretty easy. Glitched out to get some of the Gold Bolts too.

 

[Mordekaien]

Diablo 2 Kiling the Mephisto.... You can Lure him into an edge and there he will be stuck. You can then simply shoot him with any ranged weapon.

 

[Tohuvabohu]

Borderlands: The fight against Baron Flynt.

You fight him on top of that giant trencher. After a gauntlet of his goons come after you, he starts fighting you himself and is open to attack. As soon as we were able to attack him, me (lilith) and my friend (Brick) rushed him, while our Mordecai stayed below mopping up the rest of the goons.

Brick activated berserk and unleashed the usual screenshaking exploding wallop that Brick dishes out with his fists on Baron Flynt. I backed him up immolating him with my fire SMG and dealing some pretty nasty damage together. This only went on for a few seconds before suddenly, my friend stopped throwing punches. And once the flames in the air dissipated, I noticed that Baron Flynt was gone.

While still in Berserk, he turned to look at me. And he was like "uhh where the hell did he go?"
Our Mordecai ran up to the platform with us and said "Wtf did you guys do?"
My response was "Did.... did you just punch him off this thing?"

We looked down and saw a large pile of purple and blue loot, and proceeded to crack up.

 

[MercurySteam]

Fighting the High Dragon in Dragon Age: Origins...

My other three companions had fallen (I think this character of mine was a dual wielding rogue), and I was low on health.

That would work. Though I always bring Morrigan with me and so once everyone falls I buff her up with fire resistance balm and spam Winter's Grasp and Cone of Cold, all the while chugging lyrium potions. This tactic never fails.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm surprised nobody has shown Sabin suplexing a train yet.


'TILL NOW!

That's because it was waaay easier just to use a fenix down on the train to make it die instantly, if memory serves.

Ah, but that's a'no true. That IS an intended beat-it trick. Ghost Train... Bit of a giveaway, yeah? Undead, cure kills zombies, etc.? Whereas...the Suplex was an accidental glitch in the game. It was never intended to work and doesn't on the other bosses.

 

[Cpt Combofumbler]

Killed Umbra in Morrowind at a really low level by standing on a nearby rock out of his sword reach and filling him with arrows. The shame....the loot!

 

[Scarim Coral]

I'm not sure if this counts seeing how you had said Boss and Puzzle only. I'm referring to the last level in these RTS game which in a way is still very hard (almost boss like?).

Anyway in Red Alert Soviet Union side I got my engineer to capture their damage naval base meaning I get to build some cruisers (the long range attack boat). After building a few of them and beef up my defences to my base entrance I started attacking the ally base from a far.
I had lay way to their base with my cruisers and not once did they even try to attack me via the entrance (although I wasn't playing it on hard). The only thing that was left of the base was some soldiers on a hill that was out of the cruisers range including my units (since they were on a hill). I decided to use my paratrooper onto the hill and they finish them off, mission accomplice!

I had use a similar tactic in the game Total Annihilation on the Core side but with long range cannon this time and a front line of my robots. This time however their commander unit (the leader) walk toward my base during the long range bombardment and attack the middle of my front line. They took him out however the commander unit tend to leave a huge explosion which result a gap in my front line but I quickly refill it. After that it was an easy victory with the long range cannon.

I am pretty sure both levels should of gone one in one huge epic battle but I took the sneaky and cowardly tactic to finish the final levels.

 

[Trivun]

Using a combination of the Shadow Operative (turns you invisible) and Chain Shot (marks targets like Dead Eye in Red Dead Redemption) in Alpha Protocol can end pretty much every boss fight in under a minute.

So... the sam fisher strategy

Yeah pretty much, only instead of hiding in the shadows, I'm "hiding" while running straight at them to instantly line up 6 headshots with an overpowered pistol.

Chain Shot (6 slow motion critical headshots) and then brilliance (resets cooldowns) then Chain Shot again for a total of 12 instant critical headshots, I'm sorry was that a boss? I didn't notice.


Also Final Fantasy X-2. The item "Catnip" makes characters do 9,999 damage with every hit when their health is critical, combine with gunner's trigger happy ability (How many times you can press a shoulder button in a short space of time is how many times your character attacks) for complete abuse of the system.

Ah, that's exactly how I beat the final boss in X-2. That, plus the insane amount of grinding I did completely by accident in the Via Infinito, without even meaning to...

Also, I beat Captain Hook in Kingdom Hearts when a glitch caused him to freeze and spin in place for no reason, which meant easy work just whacking the hell out him for about a minute. I don't see it as cheating here, by the way, as I'd completed the game previously using the more 'traditional', non-glitching, method.

 

[onewheeled]

In Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD, in maybe the third or so level, you're in a huge room with a bunch of square pillars all over the place, with the double-barrel shotgun in the middle. Once you take out a few swarms of dozens of enemies, a boss appears in the middle: He's essentially a man-scorpion with miniguns for arms. There is no other way to explain it.

Anyway, I managed to position myself around one of the pillars just right, so he couldn't see me, didn't know where I went, and I was able to shoot him without him doing anything. So I just camped there, broke out the new shotgun, and beat him without breaking a sweat at all.

 

[TheRocketeer]

There are a number of levels in the Ace Combat series that consist primarily of boss fights mammoth 'flying fortress' aircraft like the Hresvelgr and the Aigaion.

The easiest way to beat these missions is to take a ground-attack oriented plane with the strongest bombs you can carry, and bring the thunder.

You can win these missions with barely any effort, and since they aren't really very much fun in the first place, there isn't really any incentive not to do so. I wonder how many people realize you can beat them this way?

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

I let my friend play Half-Life 2 on my computer once. He was at the beginning of the game at the part where you're escaping the city and have to jump to a ledge off a see-saw type thing but weigh the other end with bricks down first. He couldn't figure it out FOREVER. He tried running up the ramp and jumping before it sunk about a thousand times.

Finally, I said "You know this game has a pretty realistic physics engine. Your character has mass and so do all those bricks." Trying to give him a subtle hint. A look of inspiration suddenly appears on his face and he grabs the bricks.... and builds a staircase out of them.

I laughed for hours.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

theres a whole questline in Fallout:NV where Benny gets captured by the legion and crucified and you can let him go or kill him.
women with Black Widow can fuck him and kill him in his sleep (which is biased against male characters)

 

[Apollo45]

Gears of War, the big baddie at the end that's supposed to be at least a bit of a challenge? Two sniper shots to the face did him in. Took me all of three seconds to beat him.

Edit: Also, Fallout 3, where you're supposed to go talk to three dog or whatever? Ya, skipped that whole part by exploring, finding the carrier, then talking to the scientist. Jumped me ahead by a few missions instantly.

 

[Averant]

Playing AssCreed2, I was hunting one of the targets of the second bunch, the guy who was shouting things from a huge tower (could anybody even hear him down below?), and I was just about to finish the guards off who were patrolling right under him. I had just picked up and thrown a body off the tower, and was about to go assassinate another one, when my target jumped right down in front of me.

Scared the living hell out of me and made me automatically try to assassinate him. Only problem was, I just picked up a body, which reset my weapons to my fists.

I ended up punching him twice and sending him flying off the tower. Made me stand there for a few seconds wondering "was that supposed to happen?"

Went into a cutscene of me stabbing him anyway.


Same game, but not a boss. A guard whacked me off a ledge in Venice, then jumped after me. I grabbed a ledge as I fell and chuckled as he landed right in the middle of a canal.