Beating Bosses or Solving Puzzles in Ways Never Intended.

[thedeathscythe]

Actually in Darksiders, shortly after you get that horn, you are jumping from piece of broken bridge to piece of broken bridge. This big demon follows you and it fights you on one of the pieces. It has a really sporadic attack pattern, and moves really slowly. Problem is, you have to get close to him to attack him, but I found that if I used the horn to make him stumble, it also did a bit of damage, so I just tapped the R2 button to use the horn, and I beat him with absolutely no trouble. I haven't tried it on any other bosses yet (he was sort of a miniboss, not sure at all if it will work on anything else) but it made me think "Wow, did no one do this during a playtest?"

 

[crimson5pheonix]

As it turns out in OoT: The Biggoron sword is long enough that you can go toe to toe with Ganon and mash attack. You're too close for him to hit you somehow and your attack still hits his tail.

 

[DanielBrown]

In MGS4, during the Wolf boss, I crawled under a tank with my new sniper and shot the boss in the head until it died. I doubt it was the way the fight was intended.

 

[Silverfox99]

55 Monk from Guild Wars. You were the most powerful character in the game and had the least hp.

 

[Hartmansgrad]

I beat some of the puzzles in the original Portal after adopting the party escort submission position by climbing on stacks of chairs to reach platforms rather than using cubes.

 

[Gabriel Dragulia]

In TES Oblivion, of course getting full chameleon with all the stuff, and basically being invincible because nobody could see you. but that got boring real fast...

or in Guitar Hero 3, the final battle against Lou, get the whammy bar attack, wait for a certain moment where he had a ton of notes after eachother, and he wouldn't be able to hit any of them, resulting in a REALLY fast win.

 

[sb666]

Escaping with huge weight of gold in the first Fallout New Vegas expansion when i was obviously not suppose too. You know what I'm talking about if you played Dead Money.

how did you do it i must know

 

[WorldFree55]

Escaping with huge weight of gold in the first Fallout New Vegas expansion when i was obviously not suppose too. You know what I'm talking about if you played Dead Money.

how did you do it i must know

YouTube my friend!

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfPfhBAVqA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Reaper195]

Not exactly a boss or a puzzle, but I remembering skipping about half of the Cartographer level on Halo CE. I accidently went to the place that unlocks the main building, and then accidently fell off a ledge and missed having to fight about half the enemy force. Good days.

 

[noble cookie]

Not really a boss but in Fallout New Vegas I went straight to the strip after doing the starting area missions, there's a way filled with deathclaws but you can just about sneak around them on the cliffs.

 

[LorisBoi]

Not really a boss, but I did once accidentally kill a UNATCO guard by dropping my GEP Gun on his head from the top of a building...

 

[lukenhiumur]

Magicka-when I fought the orc king(or general, i dont remember) he ended up outside of the map and died instantly. It was hilarious.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

As it turns out in OoT: The Biggoron sword is long enough that you can go toe to toe with Ganon and mash attack. You're too close for him to hit you somehow and your attack still hits his tail.

The Biggoron sword ANYTHING in OoT. It is hell to get, but it kicks everything's ass.
Notably: You can stab shadow link underneath his sheild, and Bongo Bongo goes down after two spin attacks (which you can do stunning hhim only once.)
Also in OoT, Pushing the Amoeba boss into a corner. Too easy.

Then there's magicka, where the tried and true Steam, Steam, Arcane, Lightning, Lightning will take care of pretty much everything.

 

[Minjoltr]

The Nihilanth from the original Half Life. Used the magnum on the crystals before the fighting properly started, bounced up to one of the platforms and hid behind a rock where I could see him but he couldn't see me, then emptied weapons into his face until he died. No teleporting, no flinging myself over his head, no health or armour lost.
I was disappointed because someone told me he was tricky so I went through the whole of the rest of the base using the bee gun thing and saving all of my other ammunition for the final fight.

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Using a combination of the Shadow Operative (turns you invisible) and Chain Shot (marks targets like Dead Eye in Red Dead Redemption) in Alpha Protocol can end pretty much every boss fight in under a minute.

So... the sam fisher strategy

Yeah pretty much, only instead of hiding in the shadows, I'm "hiding" while running straight at them to instantly line up 6 headshots with an overpowered pistol.

Chain Shot (6 slow motion critical headshots) and then brilliance (resets cooldowns) then Chain Shot again for a total of 12 instant critical headshots, I'm sorry was that a boss? I didn't notice.


Also Final Fantasy X-2. The item "Catnip" makes characters do 9,999 damage with every hit when their health is critical, combine with gunner's trigger happy ability (How many times you can press a shoulder button in a short space of time is how many times your character attacks) for complete abuse of the system.

 

[Cpt Combofumbler]

Crackdown1. The street races (think it was download content). Got out of the car at start line and built roadblocks from the movable scenery. The opposition came around and got caught in the mess and I blew them all to crap. Finished the race at my leisure although with a slightly dirty feeling.

 

[Mr Companion]

In alpha protocol when Brayko tries to disco teleport, punch him. Dont worry about having any points in martial arts, just punch him over and over until he dies cause so long as you keep it up he aint going anywhere. If you do have points in martial arts punch every boss to death because its hilarious.

 

[theCOLONEL]

Algol on the top level of the tower challenge in Soul Calibur 4

He was impossible to fight normally so you just crouch on the side of the arena and he just jumps out himself