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[Telgin]

"Bombs away, boy scout!"

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Deux Ex: Human Revolution.

I'm a few years late on this one, but someone gave it to me for Christmas.  The game's quite fun, and actually lives up to most of my hopes.  The difficulty compared to the first is pretty jarring, but it's not too hard to adjust.

The boss fights, however, are a different matter.

Funny thing is, I knew this, because I'd read in a number of places that the boss fights were shockingly hard compared to what led up to them, and that players who hadn't specialized in combat were in for an even harder time.  I knew this, yet I still got my butt handed to me over and over again by Barrett.

At first I just tried hiding behind a barricade and emptying three magazines of assault rifle ammo into his face.  No dice: "Bombs away, boy scout!"  Huh, where did that grenade-boom.  Next time I tried shooting him in the face with a pistol, wondering if it had some magical headshot properties like the pistol in Deus Ex: Invisible War.  If it did, it didn't help.  So, since I knew this would be hard, I grabbed the rocket launcher and 3 rockets I found and kept them for this fight.  I called BS when he didn't die after the third rocket hit him.  Eventually I had to abuse his AI by hitting him with EMP grenades, then shooting rockets and multiple magazines of various weapons into him.

I am not looking forward to the next boss fights.

This isn't even the hardest difficulty.

[EnigmaticHat]

They get less fun the more stealthy your character is.  They're pretty normal encounters with a straight combat character (apparently?  I don't usually run that kind of character) but absolutely miserable if you're a stealth character.  And god help you if you're on a pacifist run.  Especially because you have to kill them.

But yeah, there's a trick to each boss fight, that makes them at least easy to ignore.

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This is an actual spoiler, albeit not a plot spoiler.
The first boss fight can be accomplished by throwing barrels at him, the stun from each explosive or gas barrel giving you time to reach the next one.
The second boss can be beaten much more easily if you have electric resistance or the terrorist wet dream vest thing.  Both upgrades generally best on combat characters, but the electric resistance is good with stealth if you can tolerate taking the reduced bullet damage first.  The first upgrade of the vest can work, just remember you need ammo.
The third boss can be taken out with a combat takedown (as should have been the case with all of them), but only in an obscure case that involves the boss jumping over a wall.  Hit him right when he lands.  ALSO, there's a story situation that can make this fight ridiculously hard, so... spoil yourself or don't.
The final boss involves either killing a bunch of robots and security personal pretty unavoidably iirc, OR carrying an experimental laser thing around for the last act of the game.  So be prepared for one of those things.

[Rolan7]

That's something I liked about Alpha Protocol, points in stealth were useful in the boss fights.  I focused on stealth and pistols and didn't have any particular trouble.  Towards the end I think I could cloak in plain sight, relocate, then ambush the boss with a barrage of slowmo tranq rounds.  Evade for a while, then ambush again.  Felt really appropriate for a superpowered spy game... that whole game is underrated.

I loved the "hospital bills" stat for enemies you incapacitate, hehe.  I think there was an "orphans made" stat too.

[Greiger]

Opened the door to start the level and came face to face with a horde of enemies, everything from zombie soldiers to Hell Knights.  I went through a couple stages and was reasonably armed so I switched to a plasma rifle and started unloading into the horde.

Afterward I'm at 2% hp, no armor.  Surrounded by death and carnage.  I hear a wounded soldier, but can't find it with a quick look among the corpses, and decide that it will bleed out on it's own just fine and start slowly looking for some health, going a little slowly to make sure no specters lived to ambush me.

I see a health pack and move to it  but die to a gunshot right before I reach it.  The camera shows me what killed me... it was the wounded soldier, it had gone into it's last stand where it takes potshots with a pistol before bleeding out.  It dies seconds after I do.

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Doom 2 With the Brutal doom mod, on an oblige generated random map.

[UltraValican]

Decided to explore an underwater cavern,  got critically wounded from falling from the water fall and shot by a Skeleton

Minecraft

[Meme]

Vaegir arrow to the face

Mount and Blade Warband

[wer6]

Awh yea! just finished a VERY sucessful mission!(forgets to save and leave))

next day: wut...

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Xcom enemy within

[Thexor]

They get less fun the more stealthy your character is.  They're pretty normal encounters with a straight combat character (apparently?  I don't usually run that kind of character) but absolutely miserable if you're a stealth character.  And god help you if you're on a pacifist run.  Especially because you have to kill them.

But yeah, there's a trick to each boss fight, that makes them at least easy to ignore.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is an actual spoiler, albeit not a plot spoiler.
The first boss fight can be accomplished by throwing barrels at him, the stun from each explosive or gas barrel giving you time to reach the next one.
The second boss can be beaten much more easily if you have electric resistance or the terrorist wet dream vest thing.  Both upgrades generally best on combat characters, but the electric resistance is good with stealth if you can tolerate taking the reduced bullet damage first.  The first upgrade of the vest can work, just remember you need ammo.
The third boss can be taken out with a combat takedown (as should have been the case with all of them), but only in an obscure case that involves the boss jumping over a wall.  Hit him right when he lands.  ALSO, there's a story situation that can make this fight ridiculously hard, so... spoil yourself or don't.
The final boss involves either killing a bunch of robots and security personal pretty unavoidably iirc, OR carrying an experimental laser thing around for the last act of the game.  So be prepared for one of those things.

Slightly late to the party, but apparently the Director's Cut adds alternate solutions to all the boss fights. You still have to kill them all (sorry pacifists!), but supposedly it's a lot fairer for non-combat characters.

Also, it's really cheap if you own the original game and/or DLC!

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Tried to jump into a window and fell to my death.

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Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

[Akura]

Damaged the final boss to about half of his health before everyone started to run out of steam. Unfortunately, this guy is fast enough to attack twice in between my characters' turns, and his normal attack is an AoE.

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Grandia III. Went back to it after nearly a year. What's also irritating is that several of the cutscenes at this point seem to be outright missing, probably due to a poor-condition disk, so I have no idea what the hell happened in the godawful plot up to this point. Also, the final boss looks goddamn stupid, a big black outline of some dragon or something with a pair of ridiculous googly eyes on his chest.

I think their creative budget ran out about halfway through the game, if not earlier.

[MonkeyHead]

Oh, look, a lone warrior - he will be easy prey.

*hit enemy with 2 arrows*

*The warrior has picked up the arrow*

*The warrior shoots the arrow at you and it strikes you in the eye!*

*You have died*

:/

[Jacob/Lee]

Oh, look, a lone warrior - he will be easy prey.

*hit enemy with 2 arrows*

*The warrior has picked up the arrow*

*The warrior shoots the arrow at you and it strikes you in the eye!*

*You have died*

:/

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[flame99]

A full list of the actions completed by Flame the Demonspawn Warrior:
Entered the dungeon.
Explored for a few turns
Killed a newt
Explored for a few turns
Get massacred by a really OOD gnoll pack all wielding spears.

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DCSS again. The Out of Depths can get really infuriating at times.

[choppy]

Oh, look, a lone warrior - he will be easy prey.

*hit enemy with 2 arrows*

*The warrior has picked up the arrow*

*The warrior shoots the arrow at you and it strikes you in the eye!*

*You have died*

:/

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Haha that is a artful meteor swarm.

[kisame12794]

Artillery barrage you say? Meh, I can avoid it.

*Several seconds later*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! RUNRUNRUNRUN!

*Boone has fallen unconscious!*

THE FUCK MAN, I TOLD YOU TO STAY BEHI-BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!

Fallout: New Vegas.
Boone. I appreciate the fact that you'll follow me into an artillery bombardment, but next time, when I tell you to stay put, STAY PUT.