Wait a second, that WORKED?!

[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.

 

[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).