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[Wolock]

Got torpedoed in the back. "Friendly fire" they call that. I had sunk 4 enemies at that point of the game...

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World of Warships

[Spehss _]

Died while farming nightmare to prepare for hell. I teleported into a mob of venom lords in the chaos sanctuary. Not the best of ideas. Couldn't get a chance to teleport out of it due to hitstun.

There goes another hardcore character.

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Diablo 2

[Rolan7]

Almost every enemy attack can be "countered" by bringing up the shield at the right time.  It requires good timing but it returns very strong damage, even against ranged enemies.

There's exactly one attack, a slow moving purple energy ball which homes in, which AFAIK just exists to punish people for countering.  It becomes much faster, at *least* 10X deadlier, and circles around to hit you from the back.  I think I've countered it twice in a row, but that's almost impossible since the character automatically faces the nearest enemy (not bullet).  I died from about 30% health, normally it takes off a smidgen.  Guess you're just supposed to run or tank them...

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Bastion, challenge mode with all shrines active.  The game's actually really fair without the shrines, and is great just for the narration and music.
Worshipping gods makes the game vastly more difficult.  The Pantheon... well, the song really sums it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s3b5OR2YhE

[hops]

Almost every enemy attack can be "countered" by bringing up the shield at the right time.  It requires good timing but it returns very strong damage, even against ranged enemies.

There's exactly one attack, a slow moving purple energy ball which homes in, which AFAIK just exists to punish people for countering.  It becomes much faster, at *least* 10X deadlier, and circles around to hit you from the back.  I think I've countered it twice in a row, but that's almost impossible since the character automatically faces the nearest enemy (not bullet).  I died from about 30% health, normally it takes off a smidgen.  Guess you're just supposed to run or tank them...

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Bastion, challenge mode with all shrines active.  The game's actually really fair without the shrines, and is great just for the narration and music.
Worshipping gods makes the game vastly more difficult.  The Pantheon... well, the song really sums it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s3b5OR2YhE

I think you're supposed to just block that...

[blazing glory]

Almost every enemy attack can be "countered" by bringing up the shield at the right time.  It requires good timing but it returns very strong damage, even against ranged enemies.

There's exactly one attack, a slow moving purple energy ball which homes in, which AFAIK just exists to punish people for countering.  It becomes much faster, at *least* 10X deadlier, and circles around to hit you from the back.  I think I've countered it twice in a row, but that's almost impossible since the character automatically faces the nearest enemy (not bullet).  I died from about 30% health, normally it takes off a smidgen.  Guess you're just supposed to run or tank them...

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Bastion, challenge mode with all shrines active.  The game's actually really fair without the shrines, and is great just for the narration and music.
Worshipping gods makes the game vastly more difficult.  The Pantheon... well, the song really sums it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s3b5OR2YhE

I think you're supposed to just block that...

Nah, purple ball shots are pretty much impossible to block after the first time.

What you need to do is quickly destroy the turret, after the turret is destroyed, the ball will stop homing and just run off in a direction until it hits something.

[hops]

Really? I recall being able to block them just fine, although since I usually run Mortar and Hammer when playing with 10 shrines, I suppose I might have knocked the turrets down fast enough for them to not be a problem.

[blazing glory]

Well I dunno, it's been a while since I played Bastion and I never did the shrine stuff, from what I remember, the balls tend to bounce and hit you in the back after being blocked.

[Rolan7]

I know they don't go crazy deadly from regular blocking.  Not sure if they still hit you, but they certainly don't do alllll the damage.

[Akura]

Carrying some highly unstable explosives - which explode(in your pocket) if you fall more than an inch or take a single hit, through a massive room full of clockwork, starting with a narrow bridge, godawful camera angles, and lizardmen breathing fire. I slip off the bridge. As I fall, I meant to hit the loadstate button, accidentally hit savestate.

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Castlevania 64.

Managed to bypass the death using the emulator's GameShark function to enable invincibilty, but I had to go pick up another bottle of unstable explodium.

[Tawa]

This game is hard.

Like, really hard. This friggin' monkey thing just will not die and tore me to shreds several times.

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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

[Twinwolf]

The answer to all difficulty complaints in an RPG: Grind. Grind to hell and back. Even in Monster Hunter, just grind up for a crap ton of potions.

On topic, nobody died but I was pissed. Ironman/Classic. During the early game, I'd lost at least half the squad each mission, not used to the jump from Normal. Now I'm further in, using Plasma weapons just after the Mutons showed up and while sectoids are still common- I skipped lasers entirely, by the way- so I was confident. A pod of 2 mutons shows up, gets in cover. Then 6 sectoids show up. Sectoids are no problem whatsoever. The mutons, one is killed while the other is brought to 1 hp. Arc thrower... on a 90% shot, it missed. Chased it for a while, then accidentally killed it with overwatch.
Kept going, found the outsider, brought it to 1 hp... and then shouted in frustration as a second consecutive 90% arc thrower shot missed.

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XCOM: Enemy Within. Not Long War like most others, I have it on the Xbox 360 because my computer sucks. It can only run the Crusader Kings 2 demo 50% of the time, and that isn't even a graphically impressive game.

[Dutrius]

Another day fighting the Vanu in Planetside 2. Pushing slowly down the eastern side of Indar, supporting the tanks and Sunderers when suddenly, on the southern horizon, I notice some Vanu aircraft.

No problem, I thought. We have decent anti air. We should... Wait a moment... WTF?

FIVE Galaxies?? With air support??

Cue the repeated dying to the Vanu zerg. Within half an hour, a couple hours of progress was lost.

[SOLDIER First]

After a rousing fight between Androids 17 and 18, Cell (Full Power) and I prevailed. But... What? WARNING? Warning of what--
Warning of a second Cell (Full Power), apparently. And of the two Androids reviving. With full health.
;-;
Dragon Ball: Xenoverse

[UXLZ]

The WORST fight is the one against 17 and 18 where they go villain mode in the wasteland area after fighting 18 (with Vegeta ally) and 17 (with Piccolo ally). That fight is SO HARD. I'm level 84 and I still find it a pain in the ass, though I can beat it every time of course.

[Rolan7]

Another day fighting the Vanu in Planetside 2. Pushing slowly down the eastern side of Indar, supporting the tanks and Sunderers when suddenly, on the southern horizon, I notice some Vanu aircraft.

No problem, I thought. We have decent anti air. We should... Wait a moment... WTF?

FIVE Galaxies?? With air support??

Cue the repeated dying to the Vanu zerg. Within half an hour, a couple hours of progress was lost.

My brother (Vanu) is always doing "gal drops".  The outfit loads into a Galaxy as heavies, airdrops on armor, fires once or twice and redeploys/dies back into the galaxy ASAP.
I dunno if I'd call it zerging since they generally survive to redeploy, leaving tank husks in their wake...  They play a LOT though.  I found it amusing and a bit interesting, but not really fun.

Oh hey, a werecreature!  Antelope I think.  This'll be a laugh, they always turn back after a couple of ticks.
...  Dammit there goes one of my founder-lords.  RIP 'Fishcatcher' Desormeng, lord of the first level (surface).

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Dwarf Fortress, finally succeeded in getting interested again.  Now that I've figured out the military interface, going to make a new world that actually has any gobbos.  1x1 with a brook ideally, if that's possible without an aquifer.