Wait a second, that WORKED?!

[gamemeister27]

Guide Dang It [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GuideDangIt]

And I got trapped in Tv Tropes again. I've been stuck in this site so many times over the years that if I have more than 5 tabs open, I automatically assume that at least one of them was TV Tropes and a tab explosion is occurring.

DAMN YOU! I can't leave. Ever.

 

[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."

 

[Andifferous]

I always had a hell of a time getting past the first boss in Solar Striker for the gameboy. Then I discovered by accident that I could hide up in the corner, out of the range of the boss's guns, and simply wait the battle out.

 

[The Night Shade]

A boss in Castlevania sotn you just stand beside him and keep hitting him and he can't do anything about it

 

[Nieroshai]

Spoiler: Spoiler for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

Hilariously kneeing Cesare's balls over and over again to keep him down worked amazingly in that game. Did I mention it was hilariously cheap?

As long as you take care of the adds with smoke bomb and blade, that move assures you'll never take a hit.

 

[redisforever]

On the last level of 007: From Russia With Love, you have to destroy a plane, one of the enemies is in. It's parked at the end of the runway, firing rockets at you. You have a jetpack.

Now, there is a little alcove near the end of the runway, where the plane can't hit you, but you can shoot it just fine. Win, and continue with the level.


Also, in Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl, during the first mission, you have to clear out a bandit camp. You can climb up into the 'attic', and there are 2 planks over a hole. Stand on them, and the bandits can't shoot you, but they will gather underneath you, and let you shoot them. Easy.


Note: Both of these I found after beating that part normally, (and painfully) many, many times.

 

[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.

 

[Cooperblack]

Dead space 2 - Final boss shot C-beam in her head then at the marker, The her head again and then marker.. it all took 20 sec

I didn't even know there were other enemies at that level until i saw a game play vid on youtube

 

[Lord Legion]

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...

That's a damn sweet statue...
I have a similar tale involving Firkraag, but I was a wild mage (coupled with the Rhihalto's Wild magick mod - basically improved wild magick spells and more random modifiers)

Anyway, I cast chromatic orb as an opening gambit...and the world went nuts. About every crazy spell fired off on him. There was even a herd of cattle summoned in for some reason.

 

[La Barata]

Mine is facing Jormungandr in Magicka. Giant snake, holds its head off the ground so you can't hit it until it's about to attack. I accidentally cast Grease on the ground in front of it, then set it on fire. It then proceeded to take off 7/8ths of its health bar by DIPPING ITS HEAD IN THE GREASE FIRE. Do that once more, and it's done.

Apparently there's a sword that kills it in one hit. I killed it by casting a shield before it hit. He would whack himself on the shield, and burrow away. Rinse, repeat, dead.

Mine is for the same game. I forget which level, but you're travelling through some swamps and you go into a church. Suddenly 3 wizards come out and each summon a dozen zombies each. After about 10 tries of me getting poisoned and killed in a matter of moments somehow I blew something up and they all died suddenly. Not a clue how that happened.

...so THAT'S what that "DRAGON SLAYER" sword I was holding did...

 

[kael013]

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

When anything can seem pretty easy when it completely bugs out and the boss cant touch you.

Sure is. I guess I just got lucky that time. I had to

Spoiler

Fight Flemeth in her dragon form without any bugs

That one was pretty hard. Harder than the Archdemon

Alistair, Oghren, Leliana (archer), and a dual-wielding dexterity-based rogue tank PC. Flemeth knocked out Alistair and Oghren pretty quickly, then I had my PC run circles around her until Leliana finished her off.

 

[La Barata]

Mine is facing Jormungandr in Magicka. Giant snake, holds its head off the ground so you can't hit it until it's about to attack. I accidentally cast Grease on the ground in front of it, then set it on fire. It then proceeded to take off 7/8ths of its health bar by DIPPING ITS HEAD IN THE GREASE FIRE. Do that once more, and it's done.

Holy shit! that worked? I never found a use for that spell! i always cast a shield spell and watched him bash his face into it for a bit of damage.

I've got one from borderlands though, fighting Krom in that one canyon. He shoots at you the entire time with his turret, the fight never actually gave me much trouble but one time my brother blew up the turret with a rocket launcher from all the way across the canyon and killed the boss. We still had to walk over and pick up the loot though

Dude, are you SERIOUS?! Grease is my #1 spell. It's ridiculously useful if you use it right. I just spray it everywhere, then do a fire area attack, and everything turns to die. Seriously, I play it single player (as nobody I know has it), so it's massively clusterfuck difficult. Grease is so useful for taking out mobs of enemies. Just plant it at a choke point, fire and forget.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Like 1000 JRPGs where the boss dies when you heal/resurrect him.

this, times 100000, when i figured out that worked...i was like "wow..really? after all that strategy and dying, this works??"

 

[aashell13]

In Star Trek: Elite Force i was fighting the final boss and getting my backside handed to me on a platter. i had been using the photon burst (think antimatter bazooka) which under normal circumstances is one of the most powerful weapons in the game. after getting vaporized for the umptillionth time i switched to the arc welder (shoots giant lightning bolts) early on. like 30 seconds of zapping and battle's over.

 

[Arsenic and Happiness]

Dr Hax in gmod. Friend dropped him in to hurl computers at me, I put some sheet metal in front of me to block them, it rebounded and killed him.

 

[xFullmetalx]

lol usually for me its coming across a puzzle, having no clue what to do, and randomly completing it.

 

[La Barata]

Comix Zone.

FREAKING HARD GAME.

Anyways, I was constantly stuck on the mother-boss thing at the end of the first level, but then it set a barrel on fire. I decided that pushing the barrel under would cause some extra damage, but she'd just attack and destroy the barrel. I tried anyways.

IT ROASTED HER ALIIIIIIIIIVE!

Seriously, get the barrel under her, end fight. She can't even attack while she's on fire.

I remember this. Love Comix Zone. Love the invincibility cheat. But even still, the barrel on fire seemed pretty obvious to me. What gave me trouble-and-a-half was the second boss and figuring out "Oh, I have to impale him on his own fingernails. Because everyone knows that! SURE!". Well, because I was invincible, it wasn't much of a loss, but I did get pissed.

Final Fantasy 7...Ruby Weapon

Could never beat him as he would remove my 2 companions before i could start hurting him then i took a risk by killing my companions before the battle started and what do you know he sticks his hands in the sand straight away and then cast phonix downs to revive the other 2 and then hades to paralyze him and then hammer away with Kinghts of the round and mime it till he's dead.

I then took my reward and got it exchanged for...... A Bloody Golden Chocobo of which I already had one as I needed it to get Kights of the round.

Took me nearly 24 hrs to create a golden one so I was mightly pissed off when I got a second!

I remember this! A friend of mine found this out shortly after I worked on an easier strategy against Emerald Weapon. (It's not to say that that made it any easier to kill Emmy, but seriously... Low materia into battle, miming Omnislash, awesome.)

OT: Now then, my actual entree into this is from Final Fantasy 6...


And that says it all.

Jesus CHRIST that guy has stones. He just suplexed a goddamn TRAIN

 

[SilverStuddedSquirre]

Ridiculously Difficult Bosses. We've ALL had our share. You pick away at its monstrous health bar and try to dodge its ridiculously cheap attacks. Time after time, though, it curb stomps you American History X style. Then, it happens. In either a flash of genius or an accidental screwup, you find it. A cheap little trick. A stupid little tactic. Something simple. It completely wrecks his shit. You've completely destroyed this previously unstoppable juggernaut with a simple move. You have now facepalmed so hard you can feel the back of your skull.

What's your favorite "Wait a second, that WORKED?!" moment?

THANK YOU! you restored my faith in humanity! Grease, Web, throw torch = poor man's fireball, the oldest trick in my D&D wizard repertoire.

Min actually comes from real life. Myself and a co-worker, Peter are doing the trim on a roof, and our boss says"That's Low, peter." Perter replied ""No, Its just not as high as it should be." Boss walked away happy. I was spluttering

Mine is facing Jormungandr in Magicka. Giant snake, holds its head off the ground so you can't hit it until it's about to attack. I accidentally cast Grease on the ground in front of it, then set it on fire. It then proceeded to take off 7/8ths of its health bar by DIPPING ITS HEAD IN THE GREASE FIRE. Do that once more, and it's done.

 

[SilverStuddedSquirre]

Comix Zone.

FREAKING HARD GAME.

Anyways, I was constantly stuck on the mother-boss thing at the end of the first level, but then it set a barrel on fire. I decided that pushing the barrel under would cause some extra damage, but she'd just attack and destroy the barrel. I tried anyways.

IT ROASTED HER ALIIIIIIIIIVE!

Seriously, get the barrel under her, end fight. She can't even attack while she's on fire.

I remember this. Love Comix Zone. Love the invincibility cheat. But even still, the barrel on fire seemed pretty obvious to me. What gave me trouble-and-a-half was the second boss and figuring out "Oh, I have to impale him on his own fingernails. Because everyone knows that! SURE!". Well, because I was invincible, it wasn't much of a loss, but I did get pissed.

Final Fantasy 7...Ruby Weapon

Could never beat him as he would remove my 2 companions before i could start hurting him then i took a risk by killing my companions before the battle started and what do you know he sticks his hands in the sand straight away and then cast phonix downs to revive the other 2 and then hades to paralyze him and then hammer away with Kinghts of the round and mime it till he's dead.

I then took my reward and got it exchanged for...... A Bloody Golden Chocobo of which I already had one as I needed it to get Kights of the round.

Took me nearly 24 hrs to create a golden one so I was mightly pissed off when I got a second!

I remember this! A friend of mine found this out shortly after I worked on an easier strategy against Emerald Weapon. (It's not to say that that made it any easier to kill Emmy, but seriously... Low materia into battle, miming Omnislash, awesome.)

OT: Now then, my actual entree into this is from Final Fantasy 6...


And that says it all.

Jesus CHRIST that guy has stones. He just suplexed a goddamn TRAIN

It's Chuck Norris. He worked with the animators to help get that scene just right.

 

[Imat]

Mine is facing Jormungandr in Magicka. Giant snake, holds its head off the ground so you can't hit it until it's about to attack. I accidentally cast Grease on the ground in front of it, then set it on fire. It then proceeded to take off 7/8ths of its health bar by DIPPING ITS HEAD IN THE GREASE FIRE. Do that once more, and it's done.

The fight with the dragon in the same game. I may or may not have kept Gram the entire game.

Also in Magicka, using Death to kill the second to last boss. Tricky to pull off, but it was the only way I could do it solo.