Oddly specific personal way to clear a boss, level or game

[Bakuma1997]

We all have our own quirks, and when it comes to gaming it is no exception, they not only not affect the game, but at times they make it harder, but you still play a game a certain way out of it fitting your own way to play, share yours

Crash 2 and 3 has a special gem behind a Not-really-that-hard side route that needs you to have all the Color Gems, when i replay the games, i enjoy to save it for last thing for the 100%, since the routes aren't as hard as the game they feel less like challenges and more like reaching Route 27

 

[moonbits]

I turn off tutorials even if I have never played the game before. Hardest difficulty or one below the highest, no user interface if possible.

Hopefully this keeps the Alzheimer away.

 

[Badseed Badseed]

Now that I'm old and apparently don't have the reflexes I did back in 1983 I have to play everything on easy so I even stand a chance.

 

[Advil Lavs]

I like getting lost in big platformer levels and collecting as much coins or their equivalents as possible. That's one of the reasons I suck at Sonic games

 

[Viviana Santos]

Naval Piranha from Yoshi's Island is a great example of a boss that can be defeated in a very specific way.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

I usually grind leveling up as soon as I start the game + always grind to have best gears and all, and then I always play safe by preserving my health and health items, go for "take no damage as much as I can" and then if I realize I will be beaten I take risks to find better weaknesses of the boss to try stuff as much as I can before I die. Sometimes I expect to die but I somehow survive by wasting my party and items lol.

 

[NeonKnights]

Using Holy Water on the Grim Reaper in Castlevania (NES), not really for the boss fight but for the knights in the Medusa hallway that take nine hits without it.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Beating the first encounter with Golbez using Rydia's Ice Dragon Summon

Think about it, you have the asshole that indirectly ruined your life, killing your mom and burning your village, then he indirectly splits you from your parental figure (Who unwillingly did the village burning) and now wants to kill your friends, you now have more power than when you were a mere child, and now can take on the responsible of our pain, now is time to beat him while simbolically avenging your mother, gentlemen, the summon gloves has come out

 

[nobitakun]

I kill the Spikey Tiger from Seiken Densetsu 2 in one hit.

 

[SliperyHippo]

My friends and I play a lot of fighting games and whenever we try a new one I always stay away from system mechanics: like Street Fighter 6's drive system or GBFVR's spot dodging and other mechanic I don't even remember the name of.

 

[Turbo Kid]

I have a lot of quirks, some of it is just OCD type stuff.

I always try to enter the boss room in a cool pose in Mega Man X games, since the games tend to freeze you in place for a second or two as you transition from the corridor to the room.

When I replay Mega Man X games I try to beat the bosses without using their weapon weaknesses as it makes for a more satisfying and more dramatic fight. It's the way I actually imagine Zero fighting them, X seems like the more likely one to rely on weapon weaknesses. He needs short cuts, while Zero is pure skill and power.

I don't use healing items in games unless I really have to. It feels like cheating. I also like doing no damage runs in many games, which can be both fun and frustrating in equal measure.

If I can finish a boss fight with a super move or something particularly cool looking I will always try to (like dashing towards them and firing off a fully charged blast with Mega Man X).

I must collect every ring, coin, etc. in a platform level including all of the hidden, collectible items.

I always do all side quests before proceeding with the main storyline in a game.

I will NEVER play a game on anything below normal difficulty. I have my pride.

I'm very anal about statistics in games. I actually hate when games have statistics pages. If a game tracks deaths I obsess about keeping them at zero. If I die and it gets recorded I will reload a previous save or overwrite my current save file with an older backup save. I also have to keep hospital visits at zero in a Grand Theft Auto game.

I always talk to every NPC no matter what the game is and multiple times to make sure they don't have additional dialog. People actually take the time to write this stuff and many gamers just ignore it.

 

[sneakyguts]

i do push ups if i die in games

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as punishment

 

[Deleted member 893927]

using Cait Sith useless ass to insta kill all of the 4 extremely powerfull weapons super bosses in the og FF7, just start battle with his Limit Break full and insta kill them.

 

[Leviafen]

i am very much a grandstander and will do anything for the clip. i am known for absolutely throwing or feeding in games just for the "what if" scenarios.

 

[Bakuma1997]

i do push ups if i die in games

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as punishment

Keep this guy away of IWBTG, he will become unstopable!

 

[sneakyguts]

Keep this guy away of IWBTG, he will become unstopable!

 

[phaztik92]

Well i had my experience with Dark Souls 2, and the specific Boss that had a "oddly specific way" to beat was Dragonrider.

Just wait until he takes 7 steps if i recall correctly, and then just roll to the right side just as he attacks. Which made him fall through the arena.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Play
Press buttons
Win
Profit

 

[Poppet]

I've never done a clean run of Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, and I kinda like exploring this game and finding bugs for the fun of it, lol. You can skip the whole basement section of the haunted hotel just by jumping over the hole that appears when climbing the stairs at the entrance. And if you max stealth, you can enter boss rooms without activating them, allowing you to position yourself better (Like getting over one of the columns/candelabrum things for the slug Ming Xiao fight) or have some bosses outright T-pose during the whole fight.

 

[Anoobis]

In DW2, I would play Yellow Turban Rebellion as Sun Jian, and beeline for Zhang Jiao without harming any other enemies, because I liked the aesthetics of fighting his all-elite unit in his stronghold with just my bodyguards. In DW3, I would play as the faction leader, and wait for the enemy to clear the entire map before doing a runback against the entire army. I'd also play Siege of Hei Fei Castle, Wu's side, with Dian Wei, specifically to duel Xu Zhu on the bridge.

 

[Turbo Kid]

There's a lot of neat scenarios you could create in the older Dynasty Warriors games. The newer ones...not so much. I used to love getting 1000 kos, then watching my armies morale max out and seeing them systematically start moving throughout the map killing everything in sight.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Due to how EXP works in that one, i will ALWAYS reach level 30 in Dragon Quest 1, yup, is doable even without EXP boosters, the game is beatable as soon as you get Healmore, but it feels so good to be unopossed by anything and the game even has a little Easter egg if you talk to the king at Maximum level

 

[mimindo]

Using the clock to stop time in the doppelgänger fight in Castlevania Symphony of The Night.
The fight without it is not even hard, but I still do it just because it's fun :)
Also in SotN, doing the "death skip" at the beginning of the game to get the best gear right from the start is very fun! It's a little complicated, and it needs a little set-up at the start, but I recommend trying if you love the game and likes speedruns.

I do remember seeing my boyfriend use a trick to kill a mega men boss by shooting a charged shot and pausing, so the shot moved way slower, hitting the boss multiple times per shot. He killed him with 3 charged shots, it blew my mind.

 

[Bakuma1997]

i love losing in my rival's first fight in any Pokemon fight, that way i look even more like a novice that raised naturally into Pokemon masterdom

 

[Turbo Kid]

I have ALWAYS won the required blitzball game in Final Fantasy X in all of my playthroughs. I refuse to accept any loss in any video game if winning is an option.