Wait a second, that WORKED?!

[Gemore]

jedi outcast. i was young, so i had a knack relying on cheats. Fighting dessan, everytime h killed me i would get angry, press escape and reload. eventually i turned on godlike (making it impossible for me to die) and spent half an hour hacking at him. I didn't kill him, so i checked it out online.

to get pass him the first time, you have to die. All i had to do was wait.

 

[Bugerion]

Drakensang the dark eye:river of time I managed to defeat one of the last bosses(there are 3 pretty hard one)that you have to fight one after another so it really sucks but I managed to defeat the stone golem just by running around with a fighter around him and shooting arrows with my archer,now some of you might think well that's not strange but that game has some pretty good AI and that's why I was surprised it worked

 

[dday4you]

something from halo, i was playing multiplayer with my friends and the other team had a banshee while we had a warthog. the banshee was flyung pretty low and i tryed driving my warthog up a slope to collide with it. it worked and the banshee and the worthog started rolling together and my friend in the banshee was dead and i was not

 

[dday4you]

and though it's not something I've ever done myself. I'm still shocked by Loop Zooking.

Wow...

That was awesome!

omg thread ender :O

 

[Thyunda]

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

I didn't have too much of an issue fighting the Shapechanger. Admittedly, I needed to replace Lelianna with Alistair, or Sten, since she just died when the dragon looked at her too hard. Between us, though, we knocked her down to a quarter of her health...but then it was just me fighting her on my own. Wynne had already died...even though she survived a fair while.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

In fighting Kefka's final form, I decided to mix it up a bit seeing as how I was just casting Ultima+Quick followed by a quad Ultima attack. I had Locke steal from every target on the way up to the boss, one of which was the Ragnarok sword. When I got up to Kefka, I decided to not cast Quick (unless it was to save my team) or Ultima, thinking it would add a little to the difficulty. Enter Shadow, who was also on my team at this time, who I had THROW the afore mentioned Ragnarok sword.

One. Hit. Kill.

I then spent the next 20 minutes explaining why I shouted "You've gotta be fucking kidding me!" as loud as I did to my mother. I didn't get grounded, though she did warn me to refrain me from using that kinda language loudly. When I retorted, "Kinda like you do when this sorta thing happens to you?", I got grounded for a week.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Not a boss exactly, but I was once playing MW2 and I randomly threw Semtex over a wall where I though someone was. It stuck on to someone who panicked and ran into someone else, killing them both. MY reaction was "Wow, that actually worked."

 

[bam13302]

not a boss per-say, but a multiplayer tactic in supreme commander
acu rushing
oh, and every level in portal prelude

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

First play-through of Mass Effect 2 I bought the Cain towards the end of the game. The only time I had enough ammo to really use it was on the final boss and ended up one hitting it. It was rather anti-climactic.

Oddly enough the other is another Bioware game. The Archdemon battle on my first play-through consisted of an archer rogue and I sat in one spot after the halfway point of the battle where no darkspawn would approach me and the Archdemon wouldn't move around. It then consisted of me sitting in that spot picking him off with my bow. Took far longer than it should have, but I was just sitting there sipping on my drink laughing that it was working. Mind you, getting to that point alone was a daunting task on hard.

 

[Project_Xii]

In Persona 3, there's a boss named Fortune, and a boss named Strength. Fortune is a spinning wheel, and if you stop it on the right space, you can force the boss to inflict status effects on itself. One of these status effect is Fear.

One of the possible moves you can learn, is called Ghostly Wail. Ghostly Wail automatically kills any enemy in Fear.

I did not think it worked on Bosses.

Hah! I just started Persona 3! This is awesome info, thanks

 

[zaiggs]

GTA IV

Spoiler

During this specific run I was going for a "Hitman"-style approach, meaning I tried to do every mission as efficient as possible.

I get the mission where Francis McCreary (the cop) sends you to kill a drugdealer in north Algonquin. I get there and check the surroundings, how can I do this without gunning down 40 gangmembers? That's when I notice the crane behind the buildings on the other side of the street. I climb up the crane, pull out my sniper rifle and take him out. Mission completed. I really didn't think it was going to work.

Wow! Same thing here! I must have tried to run-and-gun that mission at least half a dozen times before realizing that option!

 

[biGBum333]

And from Deus Ex:

Spoiler

On the carrier plane not too far into the game, you have the choice to either murder a prime resistance leader, or let your partner kill him, or kill your partner yourself to get all the info from the leader.

I could not kill my partner, since she was WAAAAY too strong. So I thought...Huh...she always runs in from this one hallway...what if I just stick a mine to the wall? And I did, and then when she was supposed to run in, on cue....BOOM. One hit kill, very big mess.

pretty much this but with gunther hermann in the cathedral.

 

[mighty_wambat]

every single enemy in xmen origins wolverine

 

[gigastrike]

I was just playing Pokemon: White, and I actually killed my rival's Servine with my weaker Drilbur.

 

[starkiller212]

Diablo 1. On my first play through, I just couldn't seem to beat Diablo, no matter what I did. Until one time he ripped me apart as usual, only to leave my blood golem still standing at the end. Because the enemies in Diablo keep on attacking your corpse once your dead, the golem was just left standing there, punching Diablo, and I decided to leave it, just to see what happened.

It seemed that, because you were dead, the golem no longer had a time limit, and he eventually punched through all of Diablo's health and the game popped up with the game complete cutscene.

It was awesome.

That is awesome, Necromancers FTW

OT, you can counter attack with the hidden blade in the final boss fight of Assassin's Creed for an instant kill. Nice way to skip a lot of annoying dialogue and running around
I have to admit that someone else's strategy of kneeing Cesare in the balls to death sounds even better though

 

[Mr Companion]

The big dinosaur boss in the goron temple in Zegend of Zelda oot. We spent ages trying to figure out what to do, I leave my brother fighting it but before I leave I jokingly say "Ha woundn't it be funny if you had to throw a bomb in its mouth?" and we both laughed. I come back later, find out that is EXACTLY what you have to do.

A prime example of a tactic that you wouldn't expect to work at all is the Krouser fight in re4. Knife the bastard and he goes down quicker than a virgins undies in a brothel.

 

[Kingsnake661]

Besides the ever common, "use a life item" to kill undead in FF, the one think that that springs to my mind come from Mass Effect 1.

The easiest way too kill a thresher maw. find the "sweet" spot, just far enough away it can't melee you, but close enough that it won't go under ground again. Then, shot it, and "hop" each time it fires it's acid at you. Once he fingls his head back to spit, hit the jets. You'll never take damage. Ever. Once he's down to a sliver, hop out, pop a cap in his head, and collect full XP.

Now granted, i never considerd the maw's hard per say, but more time consuming. This method is easy and fast, as they'll never reground themselves if your in the right spot.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Spoiler: Mass Effect 1

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

Spoiler

Yeah but he comes back to life afterwards and you still have to kill his posessed form.

OT: In Fallout New Vegas I mostly buggered about rather than follow the main mission. I had Rex and Boone with me. I went to Cottonwood Cove, quite by accident really. Managed to slaughter everyone there, got on the raft to Caesar's camp, walked right in with Boone and Rex and pretty much just let them tear everyone appart. Caesar and his entire army was dead in a few minutes. I was like... "Yeah so what was the problem then? Why couldn't the god damned NCR do that!?"

 

[BourneGamer]

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.

My method for her was, hide on one of the taller buildings, devour a couple hunters till I was critical mass. At that point I would take a flying leap above her and do a Groundspike Graveyard right on top of her, doing major damage to all portions of her body. Rinse and repeat.

 

[migo]

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

You can never do that on the bosses.