Skandis said:
The 2nd encounter of Plesioth in Monster Hunter 2.
I have seriously tried killing him 40+ times. Tried switching up my entire equipment, reading guides on the net (like 6 gamefaq guides), watch youtube clips on people killing him and even taking a break to absorb all the info I had.
In the end, I returned and tried for another two weeks then gave up.
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I haven't touched the game for several months now.
Plesioth is a badly rated son of a monster, especially if you are a longsword user because you can't defend by blocking against its attacks, it gets angry quickly and deals a tonne of damage. I've found myself using Bows quite often on Plesioth, as most of their attacks are easy to dodge when you are far away.
by second encounter, what do you mean? do you mean the green one for the elder? or do you mean the Hunter Rank 4 version?
Plesioth is a sillily positioned monster though. i mean, its gigantic, has a bigger attack range than its actual body length (seriously, that step and shove it's own body forward attack seems to always hit) and does loads of damage. and you've got to fight it early on!! its a toughie.
I know its hard to not just give up, even after all you're efforts seem to have not done anything. but you've got to work off your own Biorythm on that game. i totally suck at it after playing it for about 2 weeks, but if i leave it for a month then i seem to be a total master. You've also got to try find techniques to using every weapon type, because Plesioth is very hard to defeat with a longsword because trying to dodge its attacks don't work. Lances are very good because you can take little jabs whilst defending and charge whenever its knocked down.
oh, and i know its annoying to get out the water, but using a Sonic Bomb on it automatically places it in Rage Mode, even if it gets it out the water, thats not always worth it.
sorry, you probably don't even want to try it now, but i love offering Monster Hunter advice, because its such a good game, just hard to appreciate because of its difficulty curve being like the frikking tides!
Now to answer the question of the thread, I struggled for ages against many Monster Hunter monsters... i remember Kirin being a pain in the but for ages, but now i can own that thing with ease (its all about timing).
Ninja Gaiden, i remember that being difficult too... but i prefered watching people play it anyway, so meh.
Metal Gear Solid 2, European Extreme mode. Now me and my Brother still swear thats impossible. Not the game, (its impossible for me, i suck at the game) my brother got all the way to the choke scene after fighting all the Metal Gear Ray's... He tried to do it with his humble human fingers, couldn't do it... he's tried tens of times, and he's even done it on all the other modes... just this one he can't quite do. He survived for like, a minute once, but he says it will probably go on for even longer. We even borrowed one of those 'Turbo controllers' and that didnt' work. Though the game might make it so that they don't work... i don't know >.>... Ruddy choke scenes.
Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, i swear thats ruddy impossible. but i know it isn't, because i think both my friends on this forum have already completed it on Hardest difficulty. don't have a ruddy clue how, i swear every single one of the enemy units is stronger and better equipped than one of your individual characters!
Trying to think of others, but then realised this post is already massive XD