I know it has near certainly been done before, but I'd love to hear other peoples' experiences.... I could use the calming balm of collective comradeship to help turn my bitter memories into something I can look back on and one day laugh........ heh.
Mild 'The Witcher' spoiler ahead!!
For me, a more recent experience was the pre-modified PC release of The Witcher. The first 'boss fight' was some sort of Hell-hound thing. Essentially, you enter the fight with an ally that has the power to heal you (Madame Ineffective) and the enemy hound-thing (General Ulysses S. Dogface).
The idea is that you fight, you get a bit injured, the bird heals, you fight some more, Gen. Dogface dies, everyone has cake.
However, for all I know this is the bloody pinnacle of the bloody game. Perhaps this one dog thing was the damned ultimate evil! Perhaps if you ever manage to kill the sodding thing it turns out to be a ruse made of some fur and gaffer tape containing all the major antagonists and a hand-written explanation of their evil plans... That £$^&%$ dog may very well drop an animated, lightning-striking, diamond-encrusted sword voiced by Sean Connery!
I wouldn't know. After around 30 attempts of starting the fight, getting stunned by the dogs first attack and dying, or having the creatures first attack kill the prancing healer, or struggling for a bit and having my pox-riddled white-haired avatar die for sheer Hell of it, I very calmly closed the game, deleted my savegame and uninstalled the entire thing.
So that was that. Anyone else care to share?
Mild 'The Witcher' spoiler ahead!!
For me, a more recent experience was the pre-modified PC release of The Witcher. The first 'boss fight' was some sort of Hell-hound thing. Essentially, you enter the fight with an ally that has the power to heal you (Madame Ineffective) and the enemy hound-thing (General Ulysses S. Dogface).
The idea is that you fight, you get a bit injured, the bird heals, you fight some more, Gen. Dogface dies, everyone has cake.
However, for all I know this is the bloody pinnacle of the bloody game. Perhaps this one dog thing was the damned ultimate evil! Perhaps if you ever manage to kill the sodding thing it turns out to be a ruse made of some fur and gaffer tape containing all the major antagonists and a hand-written explanation of their evil plans... That £$^&%$ dog may very well drop an animated, lightning-striking, diamond-encrusted sword voiced by Sean Connery!
I wouldn't know. After around 30 attempts of starting the fight, getting stunned by the dogs first attack and dying, or having the creatures first attack kill the prancing healer, or struggling for a bit and having my pox-riddled white-haired avatar die for sheer Hell of it, I very calmly closed the game, deleted my savegame and uninstalled the entire thing.
So that was that. Anyone else care to share?
