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[Akura]

Wasn't quite prepared for the final boss, even though I made it to what I think was its final form.

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Fairune, a ~$3 game I picked up on the 3DS eShop this morning. It plays a lot like the original NES game Hydlide. Except for the final boss which is suddenly a bullet hell shooter across both screens. It recently got a sequel.

[Tiruin]

Wasn't quite prepared for the final boss, even though I made it to what I think was its final form.

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Fairune, a ~$3 game I picked up on the 3DS eShop this morning. It plays a lot like the original NES game Hydlide. Except for the final boss which is suddenly a bullet hell shooter across both screens. It recently got a sequel.

Hydlide ;~; I remember playing Hydlide on a GBA when I was around 7 years old--not knowing how stuff worked due a total lack of help manuals or stuff, and learning by experience. I made it to the seeming final boss (that dragon on the isle, flying around with firebreath?) and won the game--I just remember now how lacking the end is.


This is a very difficult roguelike that I dislike how instant-one-shot-kills-happen just because your build isn't combat oriented :I

I stepped into a room. I got one-shot-killed by a snapjaw archer. All 15 hp minus leather armor and cap and stuff. GAHH. (Before that in another character was glowmoths. :V WHYY)
And this run I was lucky to come across a dromad merchant who sold the eigenrifle, and my tinkering allowed access to a solar cell! ;~;

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Caves of Qud

[itisnotlogical]

Doing the quest where you have to rescue prisoners from a Stormcloak fort, then use them to take said fort. I didn't realize that you had to actually tell them to join you. I rushed out into the courtyard and found myself fighting 20 stormcloaks with no backup at all. Adding insult to injury, what finally got me was an execution move when the killer was several feet away and the animations weren't aligned at all.

Skyrim.

[miauw62]

Ironically, despite Civ's innovation and allure, the series has possibly the worst-ever way to determine who wins.

Eh I like most of the victory types. Time/Turn Limit is just really shitty, which is why basically everyone turns it off :v

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Hooooooo boy, who doesn't love enemies which are pretty much designed to screw with your style? Eh? EH?!

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Dark Souls 2: Scholar Of The First Sin, I just got into the Sunken King DLC, and wow I'm using a bloody greatsword and I can only barely make those knights stagger while double handing and giving a perfect strike.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Yeah, those guys have a lot of poise, but little tracking and slow attacks - you're meant to backstab 'em. You'd probably like Iron King a little better, since IIRC the enemies there are the opposite - little poise, but they track and attack fast, so the idea with them is to outrange them with powerful strikes.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Yeah, those guys have a lot of poise, but little tracking and slow attacks - you're meant to backstab 'em. You'd probably like Iron King a little better, since IIRC the enemies there are the opposite - little poise, but they track and attack fast, so the idea with them is to outrange them with powerful strikes.

Well, I'm trying, but I swear the hitboxes for the backstabs are off with them, I'll be directly at their back and it'll give me the standard wide swing which gives a plentiful amount of time for me to get punished for it, but sometimes a good 45 degrees off I'll get given it, maybe I'm too used to fucking with the really easy backstabs for the Eleum Golems in the Ivory King.
Do'h well, I keep a ceastus as a backup for a reason.

Oh, that reminds me, WHO LIKES MID-BATTLE MULTIBOSSES?! NOT DIS' GAI!

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Again, DS2, not only am I talking about the two ''queen's pet" leopard fight in the frigid outskirts, I'm also talking about the goddamn Darkstalker fight.
GODDAMN YOU AND YOUR SPLITTING WAYS YOU ANGELIC PRICK

[SeriousConcentrate]

Yeah, fuck Darkstalker. I beat him once just to do it and then 'never again'. Same with 2cat, cool ranch, and the gank squad; I don't particularly care for the items they're guarding and I don't need the levels, so I consider those guys one and done.

[USEC_OFFICER]

_{I found Darklurker to be way easier than that Havel knock-off in the final Chasm.}

Cool Ranch can definitely go fuck themselves though. The only way I managed to beat them was by having a horde of summons. That way we could duck out and heal up while the others occupied his attention. Mind you, I think the biggest problem with him is the gauntlet leading up to him. Makes him difficult to figure out his patterns, since it takes so long to return to the fight. I think it's best to kill the enemies enough times that they no longer spawn before going after the boss. That way it's not as frustrating running up to him and you get a ton of souls to improve your level.

_{I need to get back into DS2 at some point and actually finish the game, now that I think about it. I burnt out in the middle of the second DLC with visiting the memories left to do. Wherever the memories are again.}

[SeriousConcentrate]

The memories are the next to last thing to do in the game, so you're pretty close to the end if you skip the DLCs.

[itisnotlogical]

I painstakingly created a new character, agonizing over every step of the process. Do I want to be a Khajiit thief-warrior like usual? Do I want to be a more tanky warrior class? Or maybe I'll pick High Elf and primarily use magic, something I've never done before? Should Long Blade be a primary skill instead of Block? Do I want to go with Light or Heavy armor? There's plugins that add better medium armor, but what if they're not good enough?

I finally make my character with everything in order, start looking for Fargoth to give him his stupid ring...

The game minimizes itself and crashes. I hadn't saved at this point, so my character is gone and all the time I spent wasted.

Morrowind.

[Rince Wind]

I painstakingly created a new character, agonizing over every step of the process. Do I want to be a Khajiit thief-warrior like usual? Do I want to be a more tanky warrior class? Or maybe I'll pick High Elf and primarily use magic, something I've never done before? Should Long Blade be a primary skill instead of Block? Do I want to go with Light or Heavy armor? There's plugins that add better medium armor, but what if they're not good enough?

I finally make my character with everything in order, start looking for Fargoth to give him his stupid ring...

The game minimizes itself and crashes. I hadn't saved at this point, so my character is gone and all the time I spent wasted.

Morrowind.

Had something similar happen to me in Mass Effect 1:
I played as a good guy in my first playthrough.
So I wanted something different, and managed to make a female character that looked absolutly the part she was about to play, an arrogant bitch that just knew the world (universe) rotated around her.
The game crashes while making landfall on the first planet. And I never managed to get that look again, not on a female and not on a male character. Never replayed the game...

[Akura]

Pippin Barr killed me. _{^{To be fair, I killed him first.}}

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The Trolley Problem Revisited.

[Greiger]

Friend wanted to test out their new build for pvp.  So we do a duel. 

Fight goes about as usual, we both immediately go into stealth, I find him first and get first hit. (Everybody can stealth to go invisible, but there are set bonuses and races that can make a char better at it than others. My char is effectively capped at it. I'm not seen in pvp unless you step on me without detection spells)

We trade hits and he drops.  I am a bit higher level than him so it wasn't unexpected.  I open up my combat stats addon to send him the damage info so he can study it for any adjustments he wants and suddenly I'm dead. 5 seconds after the battle ended.  Turns out his new build includes a fancy new incredibly powerful bleed effect, I didn't notice because my lifesteal and heal over time spell was counteracting it during the fight.  But with the fight over suddenly I was taking 10% of my hp in damage every second and didn't notice.

Elder Scrolls Online

[nogoodnames]

Started Caves of Qud for the first time and rolled a random character. After testing a few keys, I set off to explore the first town but was immediately charged by Mehmet who was hostile for some reason. He took a swing at me, so I opened fire with my revolver. Big mistake. The warden was watching and vaporized me in a single turn.

My next character started out with 4 grenades, so I chucked them all at Mehmet and got my revenge. Then I was killed by the farmers who were outside the blast radius.