What is the most mind-blowing, insane, incredible, epic fight you've ever had (and survived) in a videogame? I'm talking about coming back from the brink, or totally humiliating the enemy, or finding a new way to kill a boss, that sort of thing. What are the fights you tell your friends about even years after they've happened?
Even better, what are your fights your friends tell their other friends about?
Here's two of mine to start things off, and a little bit of humor from SSB: Melee.
Chrono Trigger:
So imagine this. I started up a New Game Plus and immediately kitted Crono out with the latest in previous-game pimp gear, Rainbow Sword, Rainbow Helmet, Gold Earring, etc. I go to the Millenial Fair to pick up Marle for the baddest-ass fight of their tiny short in-game lives. Crono's level 54, Marle is 52.
We enter (foolishly) the Gate to Lavos at the teleporter.
Crono and Marle hand first stage Lavos his own ass (well, face/mouth thing) with Luminaire and lots of buffs. The two waste second stage Lavos's left arm, doing all that damn healing, so we can actually get the prick's health down. Lavos's right arm quickly follows, but here's where things get messy; his mouth attacks kept stripping large amounts of health, eating into my MP and stocks of items, especially Elixers. However, due to my mad skills he quickly falls to my blade.
Third stage Lavos is far harder, and here's why: Three characters are needed to really do damage to the left Bit, the "real" Lavos so to speak. With two, you get healing (if fast enough) and one lone swordsman, Crono, to whale on that Bit in the horribly short window of time it's vulnerable. The rest of the time, the right Bit was healing away all that lovely damage, while the center monster thing crushed us with Iron Ball (1/2 of a character's current HP removed) and other annoying attacks.
Two thirds of the way through this fight, Lavos busts out with the ultimate cheap attack (name forgotten) which strips Crono down to 1HP, and by some cheapness from the Bit, he kicks the bucket. Crono is down, and Marle (who had valiantly been healing his ass for the six prior turns) is down to about 125HP.
OH, SHIT...
I bust out Life on Crono while hoping like hell none of the Bits do anything. I was lucky; the right Bit healed the Left Bit and the Left Bit scratched its ass for a while. Mere milliseconds before I'm about to inhale my very last Megalixer (being otherwise out of healing items) the center monster lets go of his Iron Ball attack again, and Crono's down to 60 HP and Marle is down to about 65. I breathe a huge sigh of relief, pop the cap of the last Megalixer, and drink that sweet, sweet second chance. My final buff came just in time for the Bit's foolish dropped guard, long enough to waste his ass and beat the game.
Two characters, 2/3 of the way through, main tank dies, leaving only the healer; and I refresh the party and kill the final boss. Only took 1.5 hours...
Second best epic game fight:
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
I'm in the Cave of Ordeals, beating the stupid out of Moblins and other assorted annoyances, (as always) unprepared as far as items go. Halfway down, I run out of arrows and spend at least 10 minutes near a wall while Moblins fire arrows at me and miss, and I pick them up. Having achieved a full stash of arrows (and consumed a health potion) I proceed through the next levels until the end of the cave, where three Darknuts await.
THREE EFFING DARKNUTS. These aren't like the darknuts even in OoT, these are vicious powerhouses. These are the kind of mofos where, if you meet them in a dark alley--well, you'll never make it to the dark alley. His bigass sword slices you in half from across the street.
I have six hearts, no healing potions, and no hope. The only way I can keep them tame is by endlessly circling them into a little herd, stripping one from the group by getting too close, and hoping like hell the ten-foot sword whistling through the air doesn't catch me mid-dodge across the part of my head that has "stupid" written all over it for attempting the Cave of Ordeals without enough items.
Luckily a pattern develops where I can keep the other two distant enough to go smack the badass armor off the chosen Darknut's back, but this is a double-edged Claymore of death; once I stripped enough off, he threw his cow-cleaver directly at me, shook off the rest of his armor, and went for the jugular with a rapier as long as he is tall. Plus, he's suddenly faster than me.
With four hearts to go before death, I strip two Darknuts of their armor and planet-splitters, apparently thinking that trading slow tanks for just as deadly psychotics with pig-stickers is any better. The third Darknut has been calmly watching the battle from the center of the stage where my circling has kept him, while the other two go apeshit, trying to turn me into an effeminate elf kebab.
The first second-stage Darknut wastes all but 1.5 hearts while I figure out just how to keep a second stage-2 Darknut from shafting me in an uncomfortable place, like I'm in the back of a Volkswagen. The first has plenty of opportunity to find out what color an elf bleeds, but I eventually (with some luck) get him to finally eat dirt just in time for the second one to decide he wants Link hash for dinner. We spar for a bit, and because the first one got in his potshots the second one falls with me untouched.
However, fresh from the kill, the screen is obscured (Darknut smoke) just long enough for crazy tank Darknut to find an opening, and his three-mile razor slices the part of my head that says "moron" just enough to shave me down to 1/2 heart.
OH, SHIT... I have two stages of crazy Darknut to go, no health potions, no fairies, 1/2 heart, no hope.
Owing to my mad skills with stage 1 Darknuts I quickly divest him of his stock options in Overcompensating Armor, Inc., dodge the idiot slicer he chucks at my tiny elf manhood, and proceed to dance a lovely tango of brutal death with the coked-up addict he becomes. Through sheer force of awesome (luck had nothing to do with it and anybody who says otherwise is a liar) I perforate the meth-head with my tiny, tiny Master Sword. If I could have teabagged his corpse I would have done so for at least an hour.
My reward, of course, is to get mostly-useless gifts from a fairy that looks like a spacey little kid. Oh well, at least it's not a slug, but I would have preferred the vine-wrapped vixens of OoT and a permanent health buff, or a never emptying potion, or something eminently useful like that.
But three Darknuts on no health potions, wasting the last full Darknut flawlessly, all the way at the end of fifty levels of pain? BOOYA.
SSB: Melee:
I'm Marth. Marth throws a Fan at Sheik, who's holding an explodey box, which blows up. Sheik (Friend One) slams into Fox (Friend Two), who's holding a Bob-omb, which blows up. Sheik rockets to her doom while Fox flies across the stage, striking a spawning Barrel, which explodes. Fox flies in the opposite direction back towards me. Fox slams into Marth, who slides off the stage with Fox to our mutual destruction.
Even better, what are your fights your friends tell their other friends about?
Here's two of mine to start things off, and a little bit of humor from SSB: Melee.
Chrono Trigger:
So imagine this. I started up a New Game Plus and immediately kitted Crono out with the latest in previous-game pimp gear, Rainbow Sword, Rainbow Helmet, Gold Earring, etc. I go to the Millenial Fair to pick up Marle for the baddest-ass fight of their tiny short in-game lives. Crono's level 54, Marle is 52.
We enter (foolishly) the Gate to Lavos at the teleporter.
Crono and Marle hand first stage Lavos his own ass (well, face/mouth thing) with Luminaire and lots of buffs. The two waste second stage Lavos's left arm, doing all that damn healing, so we can actually get the prick's health down. Lavos's right arm quickly follows, but here's where things get messy; his mouth attacks kept stripping large amounts of health, eating into my MP and stocks of items, especially Elixers. However, due to my mad skills he quickly falls to my blade.
Third stage Lavos is far harder, and here's why: Three characters are needed to really do damage to the left Bit, the "real" Lavos so to speak. With two, you get healing (if fast enough) and one lone swordsman, Crono, to whale on that Bit in the horribly short window of time it's vulnerable. The rest of the time, the right Bit was healing away all that lovely damage, while the center monster thing crushed us with Iron Ball (1/2 of a character's current HP removed) and other annoying attacks.
Two thirds of the way through this fight, Lavos busts out with the ultimate cheap attack (name forgotten) which strips Crono down to 1HP, and by some cheapness from the Bit, he kicks the bucket. Crono is down, and Marle (who had valiantly been healing his ass for the six prior turns) is down to about 125HP.
OH, SHIT...
I bust out Life on Crono while hoping like hell none of the Bits do anything. I was lucky; the right Bit healed the Left Bit and the Left Bit scratched its ass for a while. Mere milliseconds before I'm about to inhale my very last Megalixer (being otherwise out of healing items) the center monster lets go of his Iron Ball attack again, and Crono's down to 60 HP and Marle is down to about 65. I breathe a huge sigh of relief, pop the cap of the last Megalixer, and drink that sweet, sweet second chance. My final buff came just in time for the Bit's foolish dropped guard, long enough to waste his ass and beat the game.
Two characters, 2/3 of the way through, main tank dies, leaving only the healer; and I refresh the party and kill the final boss. Only took 1.5 hours...
Second best epic game fight:
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
I'm in the Cave of Ordeals, beating the stupid out of Moblins and other assorted annoyances, (as always) unprepared as far as items go. Halfway down, I run out of arrows and spend at least 10 minutes near a wall while Moblins fire arrows at me and miss, and I pick them up. Having achieved a full stash of arrows (and consumed a health potion) I proceed through the next levels until the end of the cave, where three Darknuts await.
THREE EFFING DARKNUTS. These aren't like the darknuts even in OoT, these are vicious powerhouses. These are the kind of mofos where, if you meet them in a dark alley--well, you'll never make it to the dark alley. His bigass sword slices you in half from across the street.
I have six hearts, no healing potions, and no hope. The only way I can keep them tame is by endlessly circling them into a little herd, stripping one from the group by getting too close, and hoping like hell the ten-foot sword whistling through the air doesn't catch me mid-dodge across the part of my head that has "stupid" written all over it for attempting the Cave of Ordeals without enough items.
Luckily a pattern develops where I can keep the other two distant enough to go smack the badass armor off the chosen Darknut's back, but this is a double-edged Claymore of death; once I stripped enough off, he threw his cow-cleaver directly at me, shook off the rest of his armor, and went for the jugular with a rapier as long as he is tall. Plus, he's suddenly faster than me.
With four hearts to go before death, I strip two Darknuts of their armor and planet-splitters, apparently thinking that trading slow tanks for just as deadly psychotics with pig-stickers is any better. The third Darknut has been calmly watching the battle from the center of the stage where my circling has kept him, while the other two go apeshit, trying to turn me into an effeminate elf kebab.
The first second-stage Darknut wastes all but 1.5 hearts while I figure out just how to keep a second stage-2 Darknut from shafting me in an uncomfortable place, like I'm in the back of a Volkswagen. The first has plenty of opportunity to find out what color an elf bleeds, but I eventually (with some luck) get him to finally eat dirt just in time for the second one to decide he wants Link hash for dinner. We spar for a bit, and because the first one got in his potshots the second one falls with me untouched.
However, fresh from the kill, the screen is obscured (Darknut smoke) just long enough for crazy tank Darknut to find an opening, and his three-mile razor slices the part of my head that says "moron" just enough to shave me down to 1/2 heart.
OH, SHIT... I have two stages of crazy Darknut to go, no health potions, no fairies, 1/2 heart, no hope.
Owing to my mad skills with stage 1 Darknuts I quickly divest him of his stock options in Overcompensating Armor, Inc., dodge the idiot slicer he chucks at my tiny elf manhood, and proceed to dance a lovely tango of brutal death with the coked-up addict he becomes. Through sheer force of awesome (luck had nothing to do with it and anybody who says otherwise is a liar) I perforate the meth-head with my tiny, tiny Master Sword. If I could have teabagged his corpse I would have done so for at least an hour.
My reward, of course, is to get mostly-useless gifts from a fairy that looks like a spacey little kid. Oh well, at least it's not a slug, but I would have preferred the vine-wrapped vixens of OoT and a permanent health buff, or a never emptying potion, or something eminently useful like that.
But three Darknuts on no health potions, wasting the last full Darknut flawlessly, all the way at the end of fifty levels of pain? BOOYA.
SSB: Melee:
I'm Marth. Marth throws a Fan at Sheik, who's holding an explodey box, which blows up. Sheik (Friend One) slams into Fox (Friend Two), who's holding a Bob-omb, which blows up. Sheik rockets to her doom while Fox flies across the stage, striking a spawning Barrel, which explodes. Fox flies in the opposite direction back towards me. Fox slams into Marth, who slides off the stage with Fox to our mutual destruction.
