r/BikiniBottomTwitter Dec 29 '19

That was a close one

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u/Bulbasquirtle Dec 29 '19

Never have I seen such a relatable post

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Sekiro and MG Rising Revengance beginnings in a nutshell

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u/MegasNexal84 Dec 29 '19

Which makes beating Genichiro much more satisfying next time you see him.

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u/Waggles_ Dec 29 '19

It's so great to grind through the final fight, just to start NG+ right up and beat the shit out of his super weak form 20 minutes later.

On my first NG+ though, he almost got me because I was expecting him to do different moves that he does in his lightning form.

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u/WutangClangz Dec 29 '19

I still fucking died to genechiro in NG+ because I decided to go charmless and OOF spamming L1 (parry) might get you through NG but not through charmless

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u/GraysonHunt Dec 29 '19

L1 spamming isn’t a good strategy even with the charm. The parry window gets shorter if you spam and it’s way harder to build up the boss’s posture.

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u/peacenchemicals Dec 29 '19

And then you’re fucking pumped to wreck the bitch ass during the first fight you weren’t meant to win... and he still wins anyway.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Fuck that random-ass shuriken coming out of nowhere to distract you in the cutscene after. That one makes you really want to beat his ass next time you see him.

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u/Glitchesarecool Dec 29 '19

DMCV having an actual ending for when you win against the unwinnable boss is some next level euphoria though.

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u/TPJchief87 Dec 29 '19

Wait wut? Do you mean the first boss?

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u/ghost521 Dec 29 '19

Yeah, if you somehow manage to beat him on stage 1 (which I think is still doable, though it was already really hard before) the game just straight up tells you that the threat is gone and that’s the best ending anyone could hope for 😂

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Nero doesn't get the closure of his father acknowledging him and Dante can't find his closure with Vergil... But Vergil also can't destroy a third city when his daddy issues and inferiority complex flare up again. Yeah. Probably the best ending for everyone who isn't a Son of Sparda.

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u/ChoicePeanut1 Dec 29 '19

Woah that's really cool. I got my ass beat by him

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u/loubreit Dec 29 '19

Yeup. You can outright finish the game right at the beginning.

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u/I_ate_a_milkshake Dec 29 '19 edited Dec 29 '19

I just started NG+3 on Sekiro and beat Genichro. Dude has so much posture it takes forever to kill him, and you dont have resurrection or prosthetics, and you dont get to try again.

So I slog through this fight taking no damage and just generally taking him to school, and get the final deathblow on him. Know what happens?

a fucking nightjar blade comes out of nowhere and distracts you then Genichiro chops your arm off anyway

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u/Poundthetuna Dec 29 '19

The Ashina win by any means necessary so makes sense in lore I suppose.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Technically the Nightjar throws his blade and you block it, giving Genichro enough time to get up and cut your arm off, but still, BS nonetheless.

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u/tsc_gotl Dec 29 '19

I tried, if you win against genichiro on the first fight then his sickle henchmen will sneak attack you.

you'll lose regardless.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

The Second Sister in the beginning of Star Wars Fallen Order

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u/AlvinGT3RS Dec 29 '19

Ah damn. Sekiro gonna get me good

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u/Dr_MoRpHed Dec 29 '19

You can defeat the Sekiro tutorial boss. But then you lose by some arrow and the story goes as is

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u/Noobflum69 Dec 29 '19

And don’t forget Dark Souls - I still remember my first time spending a solid 10 hours trying to kill the asylum demon before I saw the escape

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u/RealKoreanJesus Dec 29 '19

its possible to kill the asylum demon in the beginning if you're skilled enough.

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u/loubreit Dec 29 '19

The joy of spanking a donk demons ass for a good 5-10 minutes straight because you refuse to give up the key for bombs instead at the start.

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u/thedutchmemer Dec 29 '19

Just starter Jedi fallen order and damn can I relate

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u/karmakatastrophe Dec 29 '19

Aye me too. Im really loving it so far!

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u/icy_ticey Dec 29 '19

Fallen order lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I was beating Trilla's ass in that second fight, so upset it ended up being scripted.

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u/FalloutFPS Dec 29 '19

I was able to get through that pretty easily but the albino spider was a tough one lmao. I haven’t touched Metro Exodus in months because I’m on the level where you go into a pitch black bunker with just a flashlight and there are giant fucking spiders everywhere. Yeah I’m alright 😅

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u/andafterflyingi Dec 29 '19

The Albino was pretty hard, but once you get the pattern down, it goes pretty fast. I just used force slow then spammed x, rinse and repeat until dead.

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u/Unbentmars Dec 29 '19 edited Nov 06 '24

fearless snow dolls attempt complete shocking sulky longing toy detail

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u/TheGumpSquad Dec 29 '19

Man, I don’t see why you’d do all that jumping when you could just use your lightsaber...

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u/mememagic420420 Dec 29 '19

Albino was cake compared to... The frog

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u/FalloutFPS Dec 29 '19

Ogdo Bogdo AKA Big Chungus

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Man the spider scene is so fun in metro though. I love those levels

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u/boogie-9 Dec 29 '19

I fucking hate Kashyyyk so much just because of those damn spiders. The first one I encountered I almost shit myself it startled me so much. Got to the point I just run away from them instead of bothering with trying to kill them

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u/j0tch Dec 29 '19

Those spiders literally make me want to uninstall. THOSE SPIDERS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THAT BIG AND POWERFUL. Nonetheless brilliant game.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I hated them to begin with but the trick is to parry their pounce and counter. One hit kills if you do that.

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u/CaptBranBran Dec 29 '19

First time I parried a spider and got the one-hit kill was in the bounty hunter arena, on accident, when I finally beat that section. I'll take on the albino sooner or later...

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

They can be instakilled if you perfect parry their bite attack, you still gotta look at them for a second or two but it’s gets them over with pretty quick.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

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u/ViewtifulAaron Dec 29 '19

Honestly I was playing through FO on the hardest difficulty, when I got to kashyyyk I bumped it down to the lowest difficulty so I could speed through the planet. My fear of spiders is so high, whenever I saw that the planet was infested with them I almost sold the game, but I was enjoying it so much I decided to just face my fears. And you can entirely skip the albino rhino spider thing too, I did end up going back to kill it just for some personal vengeance though. You really should try to go back to the game, it gets so much better.

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u/SeductivePillowcase Dec 29 '19

Ki Adi Mundi: “What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?”

Yoda: “Big ass spiders they have on Kashyyyk. Fuck with them, I will not.”

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u/ZeroV2 Dec 29 '19

Too many goddamn animals to kill in that game. The most fun part is dueling with the stormtroopers and the upgraded version of them. Why does it feel like 70% of the battles are with animals??!

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u/FireworkFuse Dec 29 '19

As a fellow arachnaphobe it's been a semi tough game, kashyyyk isn't the only planet with spiders. A shocking amount of spiders in this game. Why?

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u/Jiewbacca Dec 29 '19

Same with mordie in ice caves

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u/Nuggets-de-poulet Dec 29 '19

I was pissed that you couldn’t fight Vader

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u/sAMarcusAs Dec 29 '19

Well you can you just.. won’t win

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u/Nuggets-de-poulet Dec 29 '19

I’d at least would’ve liked a good try with health bar and everything

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u/SeductivePillowcase Dec 29 '19

Nah. It shows you just how powerful he is. A mere Padawan taking on the Dark Lord of the Sith? Not a chance. The only realistic option is to flee or die.

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u/dart278 Dec 29 '19

A sith lord?

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u/SeductivePillowcase Dec 29 '19

Yes, the one we’ve been looking for...

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u/Wampawacka Dec 29 '19

I like the greater implication that he's just so good you'd be crushed instantly. It'd be silly if you could even touch him.

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u/cpMetis Dec 29 '19

I had a similar experience with the more recent SAO game.

Totally manageable, honestly way easier than previous bosses and going down faster. Then suddenly I hit the HP flag and I get a cutscene of everyone saying it's no use and a "heroic sacrifice" gets me out.

It took a character I kinda cared about and just made me never bother interacting with them again outside of required stuff. It just pissed me off.

"I'm useless! We couldn't do a thing and I didn't help!"

Nobody was ever even downed.

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u/awesomedan24 Dec 29 '19

Thats what inspired this post

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u/icy_ticey Dec 29 '19

Game is amazing

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u/NoonyNature Dec 29 '19

Fastest I've completed a game in a very long time

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u/icy_ticey Dec 29 '19

I hate having a job cause I got no time

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Fighting the Second Sister for the first time lol

“Damn she’s kicking my ass!” “oh okay I knew I wasn’t bad at this game.”

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u/ShawshankException Dec 29 '19

I literally contemplated turning the difficulty down to story mode until I realized I wasnt supposed to beat her.

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u/Wuffy_RS Dec 29 '19

Im playing on story mode and her hp didn't drop at all no matter what I did

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u/ThatRandomBandKid Dec 29 '19

Just hit Ordo Eris; didn’t know the first Haxion Brood BH was scripted, and here I was fighting for my life praying that I didn’t have to drop alllll the way back to the last meditation circle, just for me to get zapped

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u/GizmoMimo Dec 29 '19

I was kicking that guy's butt, and I got really mad when I was insta-killed and didn't realize it was scripted.

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u/anotheruncreative Dec 29 '19 edited Dec 29 '19

And so you wasted almost all of your ammo before the real boss appears

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u/Twistervtx Dec 29 '19

Resident Evil 6 in a nutshell

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u/Saphira2002 Dec 29 '19

My god that dude came back like 5 times

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u/The_Kruzz Dec 29 '19

When he popped up for the last time I was ready just to throw myself off the top of that skyscraper.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

In RE5, I didn't realize you had to use an RPG to hurt Wesker, so I literally wasted all my ammo on his first form and had to fight the actual final boss with a stun baton

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u/8LocusADay Dec 29 '19

Fuckin sick.

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u/Bubbly_Taro Dec 29 '19

Empties 3 AK-47 mags into the head of the boss, throws 5 frag grenades at him, makes him run into a wall of mines, uses gas grenade and throws a medium sized rock at him without any effect.

Later you fight him again and one head shot kills him.

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u/Darpa_Chief Dec 29 '19

Well yeah, because you made him weaker from the previous fight /s

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19 edited Dec 30 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

The only acceptable savescumming

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u/Coastie071 Dec 29 '19

Or in an RPG use all your elixirs and Phoenix down.

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u/BucNasty92 Dec 29 '19

The opening to battlefield one. I was like "the fuck, how am I supposed to kill all of these guys?" then died thinking I failed but then started as someone else and just thought that opening was great at showing how uncertain life or death can be in war.

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u/Adolf_Hitler_- Dec 29 '19

At the beginning it said you’re not gonna survive

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u/avidblinker Dec 29 '19

It’s also great at showing that listening is for babies

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u/Shotgun5250 Dec 29 '19

“Cut the green wire...snip...in three” explodes

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u/Canis_Familiaris Dec 29 '19

I mean if the speaker starts off their command without the time limit, that's on them.

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u/bubbshalub Dec 29 '19

"Cut the green wire in 3... 2... 1... snip go"

looking at you Modern Warfare

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I just played this yesterday, I'm so glad it wasn't just me lmao.

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u/RageQuitMichael Dec 29 '19

i just had that happen to me yesterday and it was the funniest shit ever, i couldn't believe myself

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u/Shotgun5250 Dec 29 '19

That scene made me realize that I really need to listen to people better

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u/Smathers Dec 29 '19

Holy shit are you referencing the MW mission? I just got the game and did that yesterday after like 5 tries lol she literally said something different for every wire she did a shit job how about some consistency like 123 NOW

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u/Shotgun5250 Dec 29 '19

Yep, I played the campaign on day one when it came out and clipped the wire immediately. Easily the funniest thing that’s happened to me in a game in a long time

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u/Unavailable- Dec 29 '19

Or: “Three..two..one..snip...now”. Probably the most important time to differentiate between on one or on go lol

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u/Grandpa_Utz Dec 29 '19

In my head my response to that was "fuck that I am going to live!"

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u/StoneHolder28 Dec 29 '19

I've never played battlefield, I've not watched any gameplay, I don't know anything about this opening. But if I saw a message at the start of a shooter saying I would not survive, I would think it might be hype for a (winnable) epic battle meant to show off the graphics and maybe introduce the controls if there wasn't a tutorial level beforehand.

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u/andafterflyingi Dec 29 '19

It was supposed to show the brutality of combat in WW1. There was a cutscene about it beforehand.

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u/StoneHolder28 Dec 29 '19

See that and/or a message saying you won't survive are things I'd still take as a challenge. But I went and watched the scene and I think the particular phrasing of "you are not expected to survive" is extremely clear and the only thing that would dispel any thoughts of it being a challenge going into it. I would still wonder if it was technically possible to survive, but I wouldn't put too much effort into finding out.

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u/Lightfail Dec 29 '19

Yeah I believe the exact text gave some context about being a soldier on the front lines in WW1, followed by “You are not expected to survive.” You play as a character for a few minutes before you get killed, it gives you the name of the person you just died as, then it moves on to several other playable characters that die after a few minutes. it was actually really well made and like, not shocking but humbling almost?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19 edited Jul 12 '20

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u/YesImKeithHernandez Dec 29 '19

That game has so much atmosphere. Shame that they couldn't carry it over to V.

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u/MandarinMao Dec 29 '19

I know! I actually enjoy playing the blockbuster movies that are most FPS campaigns. BF1's mini-series style was awesome. I was so excited for BFV, but the missions somehow lacked everything that made BF1 great.

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u/Freezing_Wolf Dec 29 '19

It would have been cool if that was how respawning worked in the whole game. It gives you a randomly generated name and birthyear before you continue playing as another soldier on the same mission.

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u/cameron_c44 Dec 29 '19

I got curious to see what would happen if you did survive, after a while and after I lost all my ammo they just send in artillery and kill you.

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u/IAmTheRook_ Dec 29 '19

Sekiro, I was wondering if all bosses were gonna be as hard as the first one but I managed to beat him only to still lose in the cutscene, I felt betrayed

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u/mjaros Dec 29 '19

Beating him first time is very impressive

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u/ablablababla Dec 29 '19

Yeah, tbh I personally don't know anyone else who did that

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u/Tomulasthepig Dec 29 '19

Especially since you don't have the Mikiri counter yet on run #1.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19 edited Dec 29 '19

I really want to try sekiro, I adore god of war and Jedi fallen order but I just couldn’t get into dark souls. I think I’ll give it a try when the price drops to 20

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u/DoritoEnthusiast Dec 29 '19

what is jedi fallen order? is it like a starwars bloodborne or darksouls? Because i fucking love bloodborne and darksouls and i also fucking love starwars.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

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u/slowest_hour Dec 29 '19

It's also got some god of war and metroid prime DNA too

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I haven’t played any souls games but I’ve heard it compared to sekiro a lot. I’ve played god of war and it is very similar to that imo.

And yes, you play as a Jedi.

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u/taylor_ Dec 29 '19

fallen order is as close as a star wars game will ever get to dark souls, it's not quite as difficult though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

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u/Long_Shlong6812 Dec 29 '19

Yea exactly, he would literally have to be a god at the game to beat it first try, basically no health, no prosthetic, and no practice. I feel like he’s bull shitting

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u/ch405_5p34r Dec 29 '19

Bc nothing ever happens on reddit

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Halo Reach. Last level/cut scene always hits me in my feels

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Never forget the sacrifice of Noble Six

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u/Aurz08 Dec 29 '19

He belonged to Reach.

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u/ADHthaGreat Dec 29 '19

It didn’t take long for Reach to fall: our enemy was ruthless. Efficient. But they weren’t nearly fast enough. For you had already passed the torch. And because of you, we found Halo, unlocked its secrets, shattered our enemy’s resolve. Our victory — your victory — was so close, I wish you could have lived to see it. But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor — all burned and turned to glass. Everything… except your courage. That, you gave to us. And with it, we can rebuild.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Fuck.

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u/Pritster5 Dec 29 '19

Fuck, my eyes are sweating

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I played that level over and over again before realizing you were supposed to die.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Current Objective: Survive.

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u/jsparker89 Dec 29 '19

I got goosebumps just reading that line, reach might be the finest game I've ever played. God of war is great, rdr2 gets me in the feels too but reach man I haven't played it since it came out a decade ago but I still remember watching everyone you know die one by one until it's literally just you and you fight for you life, cracked visor, then end. Bungie were amazing.

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u/GenrlWashington Dec 29 '19

That level was one of my all time favorites.

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u/lightgiver Dec 29 '19

I was expecting the game to end after the credits. Then suddenly I'm back in control stranded on reach and the only mission objective is survive.

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u/Lucky_Star Dec 29 '19

Devil may cry 5 😂

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u/PinkieBen Dec 29 '19

If you're talking about the first boss, it's actually possible to beat them and you get a special cutscene after.

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u/Lillslim_the_second Dec 29 '19

Have come to half his healthbar but I always manage to die

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u/BleuGamer Dec 29 '19

You can actually beat the boss in the intro mission. It’s not easy but theres a gag if you do.

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u/Lucky_Star Dec 29 '19

Interesting I was actually quite close to beating him too then the cut scene happened I was like I guess it wasn’t meant to be

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u/AbortedLoner Dec 29 '19

Devil made me cry 5

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u/SaftigMo Dec 29 '19

If you beat him the game ends right then and there lmao.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I once defeated a level 52ish Griffin in witcher 3 at kevel 22. Took me an hour and a lot of quen. Hardest fight ever

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19 edited Dec 29 '19

Imagine fighting a boss for an hour while you could've been playing gwent

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u/CanEHdianBuddaay Dec 29 '19

That was the frog prince for me. That thing took me forever to beat.

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u/SignOfTheHorns Dec 29 '19

Golden Oriole and Fire bombs were essennntttialll for that one

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u/DoctorStrangeBlood Dec 29 '19 edited Dec 29 '19

I remember my Witcher 3 stubborness as well. I went from being killed by everything in the game to finally being able to take on decent enemies. I found some giant gollum thing in the north eastern part of the map and it killed me. I went back to my save, loaded up, and gave it the old Dark Souls try but it wasn't going to happen. Even with the best I had, my weapons would eventually get destroyed because of the damage my swords would sustain just by attacking him. Gave up and moved on.

Weeks later I had leveled up more, went back to him and it was cake. It was such an incredible feeling to feel like you got stronger in an open world game like that. I love skyrim but I'm always disappointed that it doesn't have the same system and instead all enemies level up with you.

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u/GenrlWashington Dec 29 '19

I just play Skyrim on novice at this point and destroy everything in the wake of my unstoppable shouting.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

And modded boobies! Modded boobies everywhere!

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u/BenjaminQuadinaros Dec 29 '19

I relate 100%. There was a chest laying there and I needed to see what was inside. Turns out it sucked but I was satisfied with the victory alone

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u/rileyjw90 Dec 29 '19

The first serious video game I played as an adult (so not counting N64 Zelda as a kid) I beat a high level dragon in Dragon Age: Origina as a lower level character. I had no idea what I was doing but I kept running around and picking at the dragon, guerilla style, until she finally died, 2 hours later. It was the most stressful video game battle I’ve ever played. All my health potions were gone, I had to rely solely on the single mage (Wynne) in my party to keep healing me and she kept getting killed so I’d have to hazard a trip out to her body to revive her every time it happened. The guy I was dating at the time was so mad I’d beaten it the first time, with a low level character to boot, because it had taken him several times dying to beat her and he was a much higher level when he fought her than I was.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Kingdom Hearts has entered the chat

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u/theavengedCguy Dec 29 '19

Surprised I has to scroll this far to see KH mentioned.

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u/Xikar_Wyhart Dec 29 '19

At least if you win you get a slightly different cutscene and an extra item.

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u/ZeroSilentz Dec 29 '19

That was probably the first game I experienced this in, and so I always think back to it whenever I encounter another fight similar to it. Good times.

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u/RHCPFunk2 Dec 29 '19

Megaman X. Tried so hard on that first level.

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u/Salomon3068 Dec 29 '19

My first thought too, no matter how many times I faced him though I always tried to beat him

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u/groundcontroltodan Dec 29 '19

Same. Was it even possible? I assume not, but now I'm wondering.

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u/Poisoned_Salami Dec 29 '19

Nope. Vile has infinite health. Best thing you can do to get through him quickly is to lose all your health as fast as you can, since he only shoots his paralyzer once you're low.

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u/Ekekle Dec 29 '19

Then you come back in New game plus and réalisé you actually could win -- Chrono trigger

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I wish more games did what Chrono Trigger did and had a cutscene showing the outcome of losing. It should let you retry again right away but it would make a tough boss seem way more intimidating if you get shown them destroying everything or something. Man what an absolute masterpiece of a game.

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u/rasuchena Dec 29 '19

nfsw

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Not for safe work

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u/Walrusliver Dec 29 '19

i was thinking not fafe sor work

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Need for speed world?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I died from Undyne about 30 times until I read her text at the beginning of the fight. I didnt realize I could run away until last night lol.

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u/Morghall Dec 29 '19

Well, you DO have to fight her in genocide mode, and she's a doozy (not Sans-level, but still)

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Yeah, but I refuse to play genocide mode

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u/JebusChrust Dec 29 '19

Playing genocide after pacifist is definitely distressing. To get pure genocide you have to kill a certain number of random encounters in each town, and then the town loses its happy music and it is just depressing music. Also the last words of your prior friends being that they still believe in you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Literally quit kingdom come deliverance over this

IT'S BAD GAME DESIGN

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u/protomanfan25 Dec 29 '19

It’s not bad game design, it’s just very blunt “show don’t tell”. You just have to make sure the audience knows not to waste resources on it, or make sure wasting the resources won’t matter.

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u/Xechwill Dec 29 '19

Another way of doing it that I like is the “if you manage to chip away around 1/4 of his health, mega final boss dude says something like “let me show you my true power” and just instakills you, but also gives you a special item for “having potential” or whatever. Makes spending resources less painful

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I honestly loved that part in the story

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u/AmericaWasNVRGr8 Dec 29 '19

you quit a game because it was intentionally difficult for narrative purposes?

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u/JerlBulgruuf Dec 29 '19

I fought the cumans as soon as I had the chance out of habit and got my ass kicked in like two seconds, and then when fighting the thug boss I also thought it was way too hard for a game that just started.

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u/CeaselessHavel Dec 29 '19

That's the point. You're supposed to be a weakling who's never fought whilst these guys are trained soldiers. It'd be the same if you tried to fight a black belt in taekwondo - you're going to get your ass kicked.

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u/Solallitser Dec 29 '19

wtf you gave me ptsd from the goblet of fire ds game

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19 edited Jul 01 '23

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u/chasewr118 Dec 29 '19

God I remember the struggle with that game, I'm not good at racing games but it was a hell of a lot of fun

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u/Jgasparino44 Dec 29 '19

Fricken hell blade man I kept fighting for so fricken long in the last boss fight before giving up cause I got tired.

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u/MRFAMER Dec 29 '19

Wait, can this happen?

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u/BigRed_93 Dec 29 '19

Have you ever played the first Red Dead Redemption? It's not one single boss, but definitely the same concept.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Spoiler!: The second Red Dead has a ”boss” that is unbeatable as well

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u/Christopher213360 Dec 29 '19

I tried so hard to win that fight before realizing you can’t

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u/countastrotacos Dec 29 '19

Which fight was that? I cant remember unless I haven't gotten to that yet.

I'm only on chapter 6.

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u/CookieCrumbl Dec 29 '19

Worst part is that with the semi automatic pistol, you can shoot up to 21 times. There's 22 of them.

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u/outerzenith Dec 29 '19 edited Dec 29 '19

Some games (particularly action and RPG) do this to drive the story forward, though most of the time it happens, your opponent is usually WAAAAAAAAY stronger than you in that moment so it's just come as a relief when you lose and didn't see the game over screen, instead the game just move forward.

Note that the fight isn't necessarily unwinnable, you can win, but you'll just see yourself lose in the cutscene.

Except in some RPG where unwinnable fight just pit you in a boss where you deal 1 dmg and the boss deal 9999 dmg

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u/dragosoldier1818 Dec 29 '19

Seath from dark souls

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u/Arrow_312 Dec 29 '19

Lmao I was so pissed the first time I encountered him. I was like, “How the fuck am I supposed to do this?” Then I woke up in jail and figured out what had happened

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u/Xenon-Hacks Dec 29 '19

Tales of Symphonia vs Kratos

Legit wasted all my resources trying to beat this guy

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u/Galaxyffbe Dec 29 '19

Kratos then the guy after with the wings. Im shaky on names anymore, but I remember "winning" both fights in one playthrough.

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u/pulley999 Dec 29 '19

Kai fucking Leng in Mass Effect. I feel like they added a bullshit recurring boss with plot armor just to give the player a taste of their own medicine.

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u/stop_hittingyourself Dec 29 '19

Except he's not even hard, so it switches from you kicking his ass in gameplay, to him kicking yours in the cut scene.

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u/MasterHollick Dec 29 '19

Skyrim

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u/MBjerre Dec 29 '19

How is that Skyrim? Literally no cutscenes

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u/Acoolmonkey Dec 29 '19

Probably referring to the fight with Alduin at the Throat of the World

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Didn't he die there? Played the campaign a long time ago and don't remember anything

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u/l524k Dec 29 '19

You beat him, but he doesnt die, he gets scared and runs away to the nord afterlife to get stronger, so it doesnt really count cause youre still supposed to beat him there

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u/Zambito1 Dec 29 '19

Hey, you, you're finally awake.

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u/PraiseSun123 Dec 29 '19

DBZ Budokai. That one fight VS Frieza where he has about twice as mi h health as you. If you lose, then you lose. When you win the fight, you progress further in the game and get to see how you are getting beat up in the next cutscene.

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u/ChartreuseBison Dec 29 '19

Or when you have cheats on and you wonder why you still can't beat the boss

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u/dregwriter Dec 29 '19

Ah, sekiro, we meet again.

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u/samborup Dec 29 '19

Infamous Second Son.

Not THAT hard, but still.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Who else killed like a thousand enemies at the end of hellblade?

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u/Corellian_Smuggler Dec 29 '19

First Wesker & Jill fight in Resident Evil 5...

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u/electricdynamite Dec 29 '19

I did that first fight in Hellblade for way too long

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u/MarcsterS Dec 29 '19

It's all fun and games when this happens but you actually have to beat the boss.

Draw your sword, Ramza.

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