Wait a second, that WORKED?!

[supermariner]

Final fantasy 7:

the leader of the GI tribe in cosmo canyon
One of my party died so i fished through my inventory super quick before the enemy attacked while i was scrolling
but in my haste i overshot and went past the fallen member and used a phoenix down on the enemy
which killed it for some reason

.... oh did i just win?

i've since learned that the Final Fantasy series loves to make zombie enemies weak to healing magic all the time

 

[Aurora219]

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...

Reminds me of IceWind Dale. Get teleported to the tropical region that you have to fight through all the Yuan-ti, and then the exit portal is guarded by The Guardian. Caps for emphasis.

a 30 foot pseudodragon that just spits acid and oneshots most things, as well as a number of other shitty spells.

Disintegrate!

Ooh, it worked. *steps through the portal*

 

[InsaneOne10]

Not a boss, but whenever my suicidal bayonet charges work in Red Orchestra or Darkest Hour.

 

[Lionsfan]

Got an old one from Gears of War. I was playing on Insane by myself and just couldn't close out the deal and kill him. Eventually I had to go to work so I just charged him (so that I would die faster) and randomly decided to stick a grenade on him. Turns out that was exactly when his shield went down and I ended up beating him

 

[mageroel]

Remember the first LotR game? There was this annoying boss at the end of like the second level (bear in mind my brother and I were young lads back then..), it was this bashing tree thing. Very annoying. We died like 2000 times, no kidding, and then finally gave in - we called dad to see if he could find out what to do. We had these crappy mouses with the little balls in them, which you had to clean every once in a while. It hadn't happened, and annoyed the crap out of my dad when he tried to fight it. We found a safe spot already, and all we could do was throw rocks and melee attack. As he was cleaning the mouse, he accidentally clicked and whacked the tree's 'arm' at just the right moment... BOOM! Boss dead.

Yeah... basically, that.

EDIT:
Also, I had this one epic bayonet fight in medal of honour: rising sun once... There were like 100s of the guys, I stabbed them all, and then a friend of mine was like: DUDE! That was awesome!! And then ONE samurai guy killed me. ._." All because I decided that I would kill him the fancy way xD

 

[Dfskelleton]

Absolutely Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. For sure, no doubts.
Mine is the super fembot boss in the penultimate chapter. I got there with a fair amout of health and ammo, yet I couldn't get it right. I kept jumping over her, only to freeze in the air and fall on her lightning whip. I found a little tactic that at the begginning she's slower on the attack, so I could waste down some of her health, but then she'd always somehow push me off the platform or beat me to death. Then, one time, I just sat there and fired, no stopping. The funny part: she didn't do anything. I sat there just laying down machine gun fire, and she did nothing. I didn't lose any health at all. It was hilarious.

 

[daltonlaffs]

Mine is from a game called Rune Factory 3, an awesome game that has totally slipped under the radar because of its mediocre predecessors. (Go play it. NOW.)

I was fighting the "+" form of a boss named Death Wall, which had separated his head from his titular wall and started floating around, attacking me by changing forms and firing lasers out of his eyes. I failed this fight several times, despite how overpowered my character was, because his "drill" form was way too fast to dodge, and took most of my life bar if I got caught in it, if it didn't outright kill me.

My eventual solution? Run right up to him when he gets into drill form. When I got right next to him instead of running away, the AI had a brain aneurysm, causing him to travel around me in circles instead of targeting me. Since my most powerful attack was fire-element (strong against his ice) and deals upwards of 10000 damage at extremely close range without a damage multiplier, he was in the ultimate vulnerable situation when he was supposed to be using his ultimate attack.

(Captcha: "ownalled Res". Well-said.)

 

[MegaR]

In magicka defeating bosses like Vlad by casting charm on them.

 

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[Altorin]

Probably the final "Boss" in Mass Effect 2. I remember playing it and shooting the "boss" with my Revenant Rifle.

Then, for the hell of it I got out the cane and fired at the "Boss"'s weak spot.

I won. and I was like "WTF.... that's it?!?"...."well that blows"

Spoiler: Mass Effect 1

Not much different from being able to convince the final boss to shoot himself in the fucking face.

Spoiler: Mass Effect 1

Second to last boss.

 

[Lazier Than Thou]

Not really a boss fight, but I remember playing a game of Counter Strike a few years back. I was crouched, waiting for the last person on the enemy team to come get the hostages when all the sudden my arm seizes up or I stretch or something, causing me to accidentally hit the mouse button. Headshot, through the wall with my Deagle.

I left the game soon after that, because there was no way I was going to be able to talk my way out of people thinking I was a wall hacker.

 

[Denamic]

I caught Mew using only a single pokeball.
This was back in the day when pokemon was black and white.
I smiled all week.

Edit: Err, that is black and white as in the colours in the game, not the recent Gen V versions of the games.

 

[dkyros]

Trying to beat the time challenge of 'The Cradle' in GoldenEye 64. Trevelyan threw a grenade which trapped in the room with him. I dropped down to end the level and boom the Cougar Magnum is mine.

Still can't do the Facility in 2:05 though...

I don't think anyone can do that. My proudest moment was on doing the train to get teh silver PP7.

OT: When i learned the Vigorian Flail pwns Zombie Fish in Ninja Gaiden.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I was playing Crystal Chronicles (gamecube) with my younger brother (I've played it severeal times, so I know how to kill most of the bosses). I play a clavat (human, high defense fighter guy) and he plays a Yuke (weird armor-like mage guy, can turn invisible if they hold the "defend" command)

We went up against the orc king (boss for the mines). We bring his health to 1/4, triggering his self-destruct-charge-up-move (you need to kill him before he fully charges it). Due to the fact that my bro spent 10 seconds mashing the attack button when he was set on magic (which needs to be charged to use it, not mashed!), and then panicking, the boss one-hit-kills us.

The second time around, the boss triggers the attack again. I tell my brother "Ok, THIS time, we don't panic, we just mash attack and kill him before he kills us!". ...My brother doesn't listen and panics, deciding to instead turn invisible and freak out. I find myself being the only one hitting the boss, and then...*MASSIVE KABOOOOOM WITH SCREEN ZOOM!!!!*. I turn to my brother and say "DAMMIT, I told you to attack! The only way to kill that boss is to kil him before he-". And then I blink in surprise as the boss teeters over and dies, and we go to the results screen.

....Yeah, the invisibility made my brother invulnerable to the one hit kill full-screen explosion. I was shocked.

 

[BobRedshirt]

The one thing that comes to mind is KotOR. I remember having a lot of trouble with Calo Nord for some reason, so eventually I just set about 50 stacked mines in front of him and ran like hell. He died a horrible death. It was funny.

 

[Sparrow]

In Dragon Age, when you do Morrigan's quest which (spoiler alert, folks) puts you against Flemeth... well, she absolutely destroyed me the first time. Took the quest waaaay too early. However, I noticed she spawned on a hill - a seperate location from where she's standing when you speak to her.

So I headed to the keep, got out all the damaging traps I'd made, and placed them in the spot she's meant to spawn. I spoke to her, initiated the fight... she died before she could even hit me. I was laughing for a solid minute at my genius.

 

[PureIrony]

I was having trouble beating Shadow Link in that accursed Water Temple, and after I was down to my last 4 hearts, I threw my hands up and tried hitting him with Din's Fire. And it worked.

Apparently the Dev team didn't think of a counter for that.

 

[Alphakirby]

Mine is is Megaman 2,when I found out that bubbles kill the spring enemies

 

[Crusnik]

Almost any race in The Simpsons: Hit & Run.

They usually don't start until you get into your car, so I'd park it by the finish line, then run all the way back to the start, commence the race, run all the way back to the car and cross the finish line 2 minutes before my opponent.

Easily the best Simpsons game ever created.

 

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