Boss battels you've find infuriatingly diffucult but found out to be easy (possible spoilers!)

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TheLastSamurai14

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Lieju said:
Also there was a big flashy red light where you are supposed to put it. And a splash of the blue gel where you're supposed to jump. I was just being a moron.
Is it wrong that I barely paid attention to the blue gel and never even noticed the light? Curse my ways of thinking.
 

Solo-Wing

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paintman said:
#3 Colossus XVI (Shadow of the Colossus) Reason: anyone that tells you they did it without looking up the strategy is lying

#4 Fortinbras (Onimusha: Warlords) Reason: kills the hell out of you the first few times. but had a very predictable pattern.
Then call me a lier. I actually DID get it. After 3 hours. I was a 14 year old with a lot of time and patience. And frankly I do not appreciate being called a lier.
Also I got Fortinbras down by the 3rd try. Helped when the only character you basicly use is the girl with the gun. (I can't remember her name. It has been 4 years since I played that game!)

Midnight Crossroads said:
That zombie boss in FF8 that you could kill in one hit if you used a pheonix down. FF8 is one of the few games that actually gave their bosses weaknesses like that.
Same with that weird tree shaped guy under the Lifa Tree in Disk 2 of Final Fantasy 9. Hey buddy. Have a Phoenix Down :D

the spud said:
Safer sephiroth from ff7.

At first, i tried many times to best him, but i could seem to pull it off.
I eventually had to leave and do the chocobo sidequest so i could obtain the knights of the nine materia. it took at least 4-5 hours. turns out, you can just continually cast slow.
Just don`t use Knights on JENOVA. Or both Bizaro and Safer sephoroth will have like triple HP.
 

Lieju

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TLS14 said:
Lieju said:
Also there was a big flashy red light where you are supposed to put it. And a splash of the blue gel where you're supposed to jump. I was just being a moron.
Is it wrong that I barely paid attention to the blue gel and never even noticed the light? Curse my ways of thinking.
It's very wrong.
Not as wrong as my approach, though, which involved trying to save Wheatley and tear him out of the thing and put the Space core in his place.
Despite GLaDOS directly telling you that your aim is to make another core transfer possible.
 

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newguy77 said:
DethI from Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. I spent hours trying to beat that bastard by jumping over his arms and hitting him in the eyes with arrows to finally beat him once. And later I learn that you can kill him in one hit with the boomerang.
Ha ha me too.Felt like such an idiot when I discovered how easy it was
 

paintman

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Solo-Wing said:
paintman said:
#3 Colossus XVI (Shadow of the Colossus) Reason: anyone that tells you they did it without looking up the strategy is lying

#4 Fortinbras (Onimusha: Warlords) Reason: kills the hell out of you the first few times. but had a very predictable pattern.
Then call me a lier. I actually DID get it. After 3 hours. I was a 14 year old with a lot of time and patience. And frankly I do not appreciate being called a lier.
Also I got Fortinbras down by the 3rd try. Helped when the only character you basicly use is the girl with the gun. (I can't remember her name. It has been 4 years since I played that game!)
First off the colossus comment was sarcasm... a language i guess you don't speak. I was implying that the battle was very clear on what to do at several points.

and second off you are talking about the wrong Onimusha game
 

Solo-Wing

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paintman said:
Solo-Wing said:
paintman said:
#3 Colossus XVI (Shadow of the Colossus) Reason: anyone that tells you they did it without looking up the strategy is lying

#4 Fortinbras (Onimusha: Warlords) Reason: kills the hell out of you the first few times. but had a very predictable pattern.
Then call me a lier. I actually DID get it. After 3 hours. I was a 14 year old with a lot of time and patience. And frankly I do not appreciate being called a lier.
Also I got Fortinbras down by the 3rd try. Helped when the only character you basicly use is the girl with the gun. (I can't remember her name. It has been 4 years since I played that game!)
First off the colossus comment was sarcasm... a language i guess you don't speak. I was implying that the battle was very clear on what to do at several points.

and second off you are talking about the wrong Onimusha game
Ok I thought you were being serious because I found Colossus XVI somewhat hard, Mainly becuase I dident know that had to have him step on the sides to lift you up.

Second I was thing Dawn of Dreams. Opps. My bad. Mainly because Fortinbras is the final boss in that game.
 

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Midnight Crossroads said:
That zombie boss in FF8 that you could kill in one hit if you used a pheonix down. FF8 is one of the few games that actually gave their bosses weaknesses like that. Also in eight, I made the final boss much more difficulty when I assumed she only had two forms and sacrificed Zell using kamikaze. I still beat her, but only because of a lucky limit break from Squall, and managed to finish her off with Rinoa.

The Frost titan in Kingdom Hearts is unbeatable unless you think to use block. I, having always relied upon dodge roll, was at a complete loss until I figured that out.
There was a giant dragon boss in FFX that was a zombie too, but didn't really look like one.

Anyway, in DMC3 there's some sort of succubus boss that throws ligntning in patterns you have to learn so you can dodge them. That part was a pain, but at the end, right as she's about to die, she flies over, grabs you, and mouth rapes you to drain your health and refill hers. I probably spent 10-15 hours replaying this, trying to get past it until I realized she was stuck to the ground and I could just jump into the air and fire handguns down at her to float in midair until she stopped.
 

paintman

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just to correct myself i meant to say very UNclear. the boss was not difficult because it was hard to perform the tasks but hard because i could not figure out easily what tasks to perform. Not to mention every time you die you get sent allllllll the way back to the beginning.
 

mireko

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Angel/Harihara
From Digital Devil Saga. This one is mostly my fault, since I used an almighty attack to gauge the cores' strength and assumed they were strong against all elements but the opposing ones. My levels were high enough to survive a single onslaught of cores, but when they started throwing Reincarnation I got completely massacred.

Turns out every mass elemental spell works. As long as you disable that element's core first, you can destroy everything in two rounds or less. This more less completely cripples the boss's attacks, allowing you to go on a full offensive.

Embarrassing.
 

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Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat(2011) seems incredibly difficult at first since players will likely be trying to use what they learned by fighting the other Kombatants to defeat him when that is exactly the wrong thing to do.
He is very vulnerable to cross-up jumping attacks and quick combos that either pop him up into the air or knock him to the ground after he whiffs an attack while one is behind him. Combos involving Scorpion's spear are even more effective than that.
Then again, if one plays Curtis Stryker, all of that can be disregarded if one has the timing on his gun attack [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZhaCC7h1U&feature=feedlik_more] down pat.

Figuring this out made him the easiest opponent in the final battle of the Challenge Tower. Mileena is the real threat to look out for in that battle.
 

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Lieju said:
There has been several, but one recent one was in Portal 2 boss fight.

When you have to attach the first core, I, for some reason, thought I'd have to put it where the main core is, and wasted several attempts in that.
Also any battle with a time limit is going to make me panic anyway.

So I got to hear the Space Core being happy about SPACE!!! for many, many, aggravating attempts. So I very much came to hate the little bugger and wanted to kick his little metal butt straight to the moon.
I was embarrased by how bad I was at the final encounter.

One was the last core. I thought there was some catwalk you had to go to, not jumping off a catwalk into a portal.

The second was hitting the failsafe button. I must've been running around for ten minutes, until I saw you had to stick a portal on the ceiling in the failsafe room. I felt so stupid.
 

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The final boss in The World Ends With You.

He has a lot of HP and heals himself from time to time, completely negating any damage you did in the last two minutes. And you have no partner. Also, you can't save before this fight.

Then I noticed that there is still a way to pass the light puck around. Turns out he doesn't live that long when you do five times as much damage as before. This is also the time that I realized how high the light puck's damage bonus can actually get.

Kariya and Uzuki are still really hard. And Pi-Face. So zetta slow, indeed.
 

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In the Witcher 2 where you fight Letho for the first time, I couldn't kill him using regular melee then roll away combo's, he'd just stun me and set me on fire every time. I just could't kill him before he killed me, even if I played really defensive. I'd been at it for more than an hour, then beat him after I found out that

you could just spam him with bombs. The impact makes him stagger, preventing him from casting or putting up his shield. I won the fight after roughly 30 seconds, with about 15 to 20 bombs thrown...
 

Lieju

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TheYellowCellPhone said:
Lieju said:
There has been several, but one recent one was in Portal 2 boss fight.

When you have to attach the first core, I, for some reason, thought I'd have to put it where the main core is, and wasted several attempts in that.
Also any battle with a time limit is going to make me panic anyway.

So I got to hear the Space Core being happy about SPACE!!! for many, many, aggravating attempts. So I very much came to hate the little bugger and wanted to kick his little metal butt straight to the moon.
I was embarrased by how bad I was at the final encounter.

One was the last core. I thought there was some catwalk you had to go to, not jumping off a catwalk into a portal.

The second was hitting the failsafe button. I must've been running around for ten minutes, until I saw you had to stick a portal on the ceiling in the failsafe room. I felt so stupid.
I had some issues with getting to the second core, I think I tried to get on the wrong catwalk, or something.

But once I had figured the first core (which took embarassingly long) it wasn't that difficult.
Jumping from a catwalk? I guess you can get to the third one like that. But didn't it quite pointedly splash the orange gel in front of a wall for you to run?
 

Rooster893

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John Cena in WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2006. Honestly, facing him in a First Blood match is Hell!

300 Bulldogs won't do it. 50 Reverse electric chair drops won't do it. At least 30 shots with the WWE title itself won't do it.

But one chair shot will.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
 

Harlemura

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Faux Furry said:
Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat(2011) seems incredibly difficult at first since players will likely be trying to use what they learned by fighting the other Kombatants to defeat him when that is exactly the wrong thing to do.
He is very vulnerable to cross-up jumping attacks and quick combos that either pop him up into the air or knock him to the ground after he whiffs an attack while one is behind him. Combos involving Scorpion's spear are even more effective than that.
Then again, if one plays Curtis Stryker, all of that can be disregarded if one has the timing on his gun attack [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZhaCC7h1U&feature=feedlik_more] down pat.

Figuring this out made him the easiest opponent in the final battle of the Challenge Tower. Mileena is the real threat to look out for in that battle.
Gotta go with Mr. Million Hammers as well.

Despite him being so easy to beat once you get to know his massive openings, I still screw up too much and get my butt whooped anyway.
I've taken to just switching to anyone that can teleport, usually Raiden, and following the general pattern;

Run away -> See Shao Kahn move -> Teleport -> Kick him a bit -> Repeat

Cheap, boring, but effective.
 

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hypovolemia said:
The final boss in The World Ends With You.

He has a lot of HP and heals himself from time to time, completely negating any damage you did in the last two minutes. And you have no partner. Also, you can't save before this fight.

Then I noticed that there is still a way to pass the light puck around. Turns out he doesn't live that long when you do five times as much damage as before. This is also the time that I realized how high the light puck's damage bonus can actually get.

Kariya and Uzuki are still really hard. And Pi-Face. So zetta slow, indeed.
See, that would have been awesome for me if 90% of the game's pins hadn't been slow set-up attacks like turning a physics object into a bomb or raining rocks down. I, for one, tried to make use of them. If ALL the game's pins had been just "tap/slash/drag upwards to hit the enemy with a quick attack" then it would have made more sense.

The final boss of Rayman 2 had you both over a pit of lava, and you had to hit his arms to drop him into it. This only took away a tiny bit of life, but what I didn't realize is you can continue to shoot him while he's down to do quite a bit more damage. I originally beat the final boss the very hard way.