Wait a second, that WORKED?!

[nokori3byo]

The first time you fight those sneaky little fuckers in Dead Space 2. Forgot their names. They're like velociraptors and they charge at you. Anyway the first time you fight them, rather than walk into their area and promptly get ambushed and rammed, etc, you can sit at this cage fence by a stair case. Step through the hole in the fence. They start moving around. Step back through the hole. They run and hide. Once I learned this I'd step through, lure them out, step back, kill them as they retreat or bump into each other.

Detonator/tripmines work like a charm too. So much so I took to calling them "Stalker Busters."

I was playing on the hardest difficulty (not hardcore) so I had basically no money throughout the entire game. Every cent had to be spent on ammo and health (and suits) lest I never be able to make any progress. I did not have the luxury of buying any new guns once I filled up my four slots. Never had the trip mines. What I did find however is that the line gun would tear their legs off and usually kill them in one hit. From there I'd use kinesis to take one of their claws and shoot at at new ones. Those one hit killed too. I'd then chain kills via claws until the room was cleared.

Fair enough. That approach sounds like it requires a bit of finesse. Laying mines and drawing them out is definitely the lazy man's approach as it simply requires you to cover your six. Despite their vaunted AI, the Stalkers will eagerly charge right into your trip mines and 'splode themselves. Quite satisfying given that the main purpose of having those things in the game is to remind the player periodically what his own ass tastes like.

 

[BoredDragon]

Every God of War game on the hardest difficulty. I never seem to figure out his pattern until I've tried about 10 times

 

[fanklok]

Anyone remember the dragon near Andrastes tomb in Dragon Age: Origins? Some say its an insanely hard battle, well I dont really think so. For some reason the dragon got stuck in a pillar and couldnt move, but it could still attack if I got close. So I just pulled my melee characters away from it and blasted it with arrows and magic from a distance. Seemed pretty easy to me

Lucky bastard, I had to stock up on roughly 7 metric fuck tons of Health Poltices and every one but Allistar still went down then it turned into heal after every two hits then finally he took off it's last tiny sliver of health and went into epic fantasy take down sequence and stabbed its brain out with a mace. Totally worth it.

The Dark King from Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest had 4 forms all with like 7 thousand HP his second form was undead and ultra weak against healing. I found this out about a year ago. I've had the game for 15 years.

 

[Rune342]

Tales of Vesperia: Every enemy or boss. Rita Mordio. Overlimit. Enough said.

Oh the fun I had with that. Blah blah blah, Tidal Wave! And it's also the best way to farm grade.

 

[snowman6251]

The first time you fight those sneaky little fuckers in Dead Space 2. Forgot their names. They're like velociraptors and they charge at you. Anyway the first time you fight them, rather than walk into their area and promptly get ambushed and rammed, etc, you can sit at this cage fence by a stair case. Step through the hole in the fence. They start moving around. Step back through the hole. They run and hide. Once I learned this I'd step through, lure them out, step back, kill them as they retreat or bump into each other.

Detonator/tripmines work like a charm too. So much so I took to calling them "Stalker Busters."

I was playing on the hardest difficulty (not hardcore) so I had basically no money throughout the entire game. Every cent had to be spent on ammo and health (and suits) lest I never be able to make any progress. I did not have the luxury of buying any new guns once I filled up my four slots. Never had the trip mines. What I did find however is that the line gun would tear their legs off and usually kill them in one hit. From there I'd use kinesis to take one of their claws and shoot at at new ones. Those one hit killed too. I'd then chain kills via claws until the room was cleared.

Fair enough. That approach sounds like it requires a bit of finesse. Laying mines and drawing them out is definitely the lazy man's approach as it simply requires you to cover your six. Despite their vaunted AI, the Stalkers will eagerly charge right into your trip mines and 'splode themselves. Quite satisfying given that the main purpose of having those things in the game is to remind the player periodically what his own ass tastes like.

Yeah my method made things rather tense outside of that first room because if done right, I could clear out every stalker on a single line gun round. The problem was that I'd usually have to walk around the tanker mazes with a claw in my hand and my back exposed. Those guys made me paranoid as fuck because I knew the little bastards would flank me. They even use distraction tactics. One would attack me from the front and another from behind. They're clever little buggers.

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

Mine was in Red Faction: Geurilla.

The final boss, general whatshisname in a tank. He spends the first minute or so of the fight monologuing, so I took the oppourtunity to shove a few thermobaric rockets up his tailpipe. IT FELT SOOO GOOD. Then used my last two rockets to annihalate the super troops and their troop transports and remove the endcap on the launcher. Alternately, if you want to spite him, the first gun you buy (ark welder) can also be used mid monologue to fry him alive inside his tank. Said tank can then be used to destroy the guard and tube endcap. Although I have to wonder what mason does with the charred corpse inside the tank...

 

[Raptorianxd]

Two of my most recent were in Dragon Age: Origins: Leilana's Song and Borderlands: Secret Armory of General Knoxx.

In DAO, you get to a point where a Mabari Trainer and his Four Mabari are waiting behind a door. With the fairly bad characters you're stuck with, this is a pain. After dying quite a few times, I finally, frustrated, started casting Tempest through the wall, and to my surprise, heard the Mabari whining and watched damage being counted through the wall. So I slaughtered them through the wall.

In Borderlands, I had an extremely lucky find of a "Bastard" Rifle, which regenerates ammo, does insane base damage, insane criticals and has a 180 capacity clip, as well as firing full auto. So when I got to Knoxx, I was getting aggravated as his attacks kept killing me, so I decided to pull up my scope, and hold down the trigger while aiming at his head. Thus followed a steady string of criticals and Knoxx stumbling until he died. SWEET.

-Raptor, out.

 

[wammnebu]

In KoTOR i defeated Makek by laying plasma mines over the bridge before the cutscene started.

 

[blankedboy]

It wasn't a boss, but I was a Pyro (this is tf2, btw (obviously)) in the enemy base (this is 2fort, btw), a Sniper drops down from his spawn with a Huntsman. He was point-blank, he fired, I airblasted to try to get him out of the way, the airblast hit the arrow and reflected straight into his head.

Best thing about it? It was one of my brother's friends. ^^

 

[sylekage]

Ninety- Nine Nights 2. I got to the first real boss, and all my attacks were weak as all hell. I learned that when you attack a shield bearer, a nifty little thing happens when you hold down the y button after hitting him, and if you do it close to the juggernaut, it takes away at least a sixth of health, which is a hell of a lot. I lost at least three times before that, and when I figured it out I beat it no problem

 

[nokori3byo]

Yeah my method made things rather tense outside of that first room because if done right, I could clear out every stalker on a single line gun round. The problem was that I'd usually have to walk around the tanker mazes with a claw in my hand and my back exposed. Those guys made me paranoid as fuck because I knew the little bastards would flank me. They even use distraction tactics. One would attack me from the front and another from behind. They're clever little buggers.

I can believe it. They were nerve-shreddingly irritating when I first encountered them. But the Det Gun is to Stalkers what the Contact beam is to the final Boss: it takes a painful ordeal and magically transforms it into a piece of piss (even on higher difficulties and with few or no upgrades).

 

[Trippy Turtle]

rayquaza in pokemon rescue team blue. i was out of pp and ended up winning with a geo-pepple.

Best day of my gaming life. it was like the millionth time i tried beating that dumb dragon.

 

[Varanfan9]

Mine was the second to last boss in Prototype. I spent at least half an hour using my strongest attacks and combos just trying to drain one health bar. Then I jumped into a tank and blasted her health away in mere seconds. I was so pissed.

 

[Gill Kaiser]

Can't remember any...wait, wait! Got an OLD one!

Baldur's Gate 2, there was an optional Dragon you could fight, Firkrag, who dropped the best sword in the game, The Holy Avenger. I couldn't beat him with my party, and I didn't want to leave the guy unharmed with me, no matter how underpowered I was. Was playing a mage, ran out of all spells other then "Flesh To Stone". That thing fails on most NORMAL guys...it worked, and the sword somehow was not destroyed like most items are.

Luckiest...roll...ever...

I tried that too. I was happy when it worked, but I felt like it was a bit of a cheat. So I rested then cast Stone to Flesh. It was only when I killed him that I realised that I had received XP twice, once for petrifying him and once for killing him.

So, I reloaded and proceeded to petrify and de-petrify Mr. Firkraag over and over again. It certainly contributed to my Bhaalspawn's rise to godhood.

 

[Nosense]

Pokemon emrald on my last pokemon i threw my last ultra ball it failed....

i see i have a pokeball i throw it

basically instant catch

i nearly shit myself

I have had that happen to me many a time in my playthroughs of the Pokemon games. One particular instance occurred in Dragon Age: Origins were my party had to hold out an attack in the Alienage in the final stage of the game. While the darkspawn (plus a troll) pounding on the gates I noticed I could position my mages on a rampart overlooking the assaulting force. One nicely placed Storm of the Century later and I cleared that area without any opposition. At first I was feeling good at my strategy but later I couldn't help but feel like I cheated hardcore.

 

[Gill Kaiser]

One time in Final Fantasy IX I got stuck on a difficult boss. I believe it was some kind of undead tree. After my party died a few times, I reloaded the fight and tried throwing a Phoenix Down at it, and it was a one-hit-kill.

 

[thahat]

not SO over the top, but functional.
playing gears of war 1 with a buddy of mine, defeating raam on insane difficulty.
that guy is a BULLET STOPPING DOOR OF ARMOUREDNESS.
so you run out of ammo soon.
desparate moove i shout throw all your frags!
so we spam him with 8 frags at once onholy bang: he's dead XD
we called it the german tactic

 

[Haydyn]

I asked a girl out to the movies as a joke, but she actually said yes.

Bt as far as games go? I guess I can only think of when me and some guys were playing Lord of the Rings II on the part where you have to kill these shade things armed with a torch and sword. I was the one with the bright idea that you should go to the firepit in the middle to relight your torch so you can use it on all the enemies.

 

[SagBag]

In Metal Gear Solid 2, I was fighting Solidus at the end of the game on extreme difficulty. I spent HOURS trying to beat the guy...Untill I found out that blocking with the sword stops pretty much all of his attacks. I beat him on my next attempt, jackass.

 

[Evilsanta]

Azzazeal (I think I spelled it name wrong) from Tekken 6 that boss can wreck your shit but going in nice and closely while he does his spike attack he is wide open.

Or you could just spam a fast combo, Which also wrecks his shit.