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[JamesCorella]

Killed a drake. Bastard didn't want to die, took half an hour and multiple almost-party-wipes, but he was not being offered a choice.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

"but he was not being offered a choice."

LOL made my day.

[IronTomato]

Started my first survival game, and began flying around the ice cap of the starting world searching for minerals and building my first base, where I planned to construct my first real ship and enter teh spehss. I got back in the lander that you start the game with and attempted to fly somewhere else. Upon attempting to land I discovered that it had mysteriously lost its ability to move downwards or strafe and was mysteriously floating in place, I flipped over, and attempted to use my upward thrusters to propel myself towards the ground, but all I did was slam myself into the ice and kill myself by accident. Ragequit and deleted save after respawning halfway across the planet with just a spacesuit for no reason.

Space Engineers.

[Carefulrogue]

I was able to sneak behind enemy lines with only 9 or so grenades a rifle, and some scattered materials to build a tent.  After erecting said tent, I begin to selectively destroy foxhole after foxhole with grenades and well placed shots.  I collect more materials, craft satchels, and destroy the outposts (spawn and objective points.)  I do this twice over, going deeper and deeper behind their lines.  No one noticed that they were losing bases.  After finally destroying the deepest base, I return to the front.  The Colonials notice about half an hour later (I think,) after our active population plummets.  We ended up losing that game. 

In another game, I managed to sneak behind the lines again, via the same path, with similar results.  This time, me and another guy built a base at their starting point.  A couple of Colonials got really mad as a result, but eventually we lost our main encampment and the map was inverted.  They held our side of the river, we held theirs.  It stayed that way for a few hours, and then our population plummeted again and we simply could not hold the line any longer. 

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Foxhole Prototype

[Eric Blank]

"but he was not being offered a choice."

LOL made my day.

Sometimes you just have to make it clear they will not under any circumstances be getting their way.

@ A thing; I was lvl 30 too. I remember testing myself against it on the Xbox console version, was lvl 24 or something. Complete and utter crapshoot, that. Lost main and support pawn, the remaining fellow and I got ambushed by a chimera in the woods southwest of there and nearly died as well. Told myself never again.

I wonder if there's some grand strategy besides button mashing at the heart for half an hour tho. If there is, none of my pawns were experienced enough to provide any other useful insight.

[Cyroth]

Some guy summoned a raid tier demon in Dalaran (it had over 300m health) and ran away, while I was standing a few meters away with my paladin tank. So I did what every player would do, I started hitting it.
After getting its aggro and using up most of my slowly recharging defensive cooldowns it used some knockback ability that threw me several dozen meters backwards and cost me most of my health.
I was catapulted directly into the well in front of the horde bank, which contains a portal to the dalaran sewers. Which currently had its free for all PvP active.
Two demon hunters, levels 109 and 110 and from the same guild saw me landing there with my remaining 30% or so health and attacked me.

Turns out a half dead level 110 paladin tank with no long cooldowns left still eats demon hunters for breakfast.

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World of Warcraft: Legion

[Arx]

Four Kings and Bed of Chaos down. Neither of those was that difficult, honestly.

Four Kings- took me a while to figure out their attacks (and why some of them seemed to do almost no damage), but they went down fairly easily with Great Magic Weapon and glorious estoc R1 spam.

The Bed of Chaos... was not as terrible as I'd heard. Pits killed me all of four times: once when I didn't realise your progress didn't reset when you died. Once when the game decided that lolnope, you're a little to close the edge there mate. Once when I completely flubbed the jump at the end, and the last time when the Bed actually managed to push me off.

But every time I died, I could identify the mistake. I would rate Bed of Chaos as easier than Four Kings, since the Four Kings were mostly 'I appear not to be gud enough', whilst the Bed was more along the lines of 'in hindsight, I really should have seen that coming.'

Oh, and Nito was the first one I killed. He was... absolutely trivial once I worked out what the heck was even going on.

Dark Souls.

[SOLDIER First]

>estoc spam
vomits

[pikachu17]

I got all the emeralds, with Tails, Sonic & Tails, and Knuckles! I won the game!

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

[Akura]

Challenged Chateline Morgan(Rotation Battle). I knew it was going to be a bad fight when she opens with Sawsbuck, Mantine, and Swalot(I think? I forgot). Even worse, when I changed from Rapiddash trying Flare Blitz(which has always resulted in a mutual kill) to using Flame Wheel, Sawsbuck lands a critical hit with Double-Edge(reason for previous mutual kills). Gardevoir replaces Rapidash, but also goes down to a Double-Edge. I'm down 2(of 4), and the only damage inflicted was recoil from Double-Edge.

Mawile Mega-Evolves and steps forward. Morgan rotated Swalot in, who takes an Iron Head to the face and goes down. Klefki comes out, and wastes a turn trying to use Metal Sound, and barely survives another Iron Head. Sawsbuck rotates in, deal a lot of damage to Mawile, but goes down. Now it's 1+1 vs 1+1, with both metal fairies hurt bad, but Mantine is faster than both Mawile and Garchomp. Even so, Garchomp is still at full HP and presumably faster than Klefki assuming Klefki doesn't use a status move(I assume it had Prankster).

Since Dragon Claw can't hit Klefki and Sand Tomb can't hit Mantine, I pick Take Down instead. Mantine rolls in, and instead of the expected Ice Beam, it used Scald. Hurts, but not less than half, even after Take Down's recoil. Take Down inflicted about 66% damage to Mantine. I select Take Down again. Morgan rotates to Klefki, taking it out before it can act. Now I have a big problem, and am hoping Garchomp can take another Scald. If he can't, I've lost since there's no way Mawile would survive whatever Mantine threw at her.

"The foe's Mantine used Scald!"
Garchomp survives.
"Garchomp used Take Down!
The foe's Mantine fainted!"

Garchomp survives the recoil with 12 hitpoints left.

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Pokemon Omega Ruby. Also, what the hell is with Morgan's hair? A single green drill pigtail, which I can only assume was sealed in a hardened plaster so she can stab people in the face with it.

[Eric Blank]

Had more fun, fought a griffon. It's a bit of a spoiler if you haven't made it that far, so:

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Quest starts as a presumed easy ambush and kill atop a bluff near the capital. Use a dead goblin as bait, griffon shows up and makes itself an easy target. Get a few hits in, it takes off. You have to walk to blue moon tower to pursue it, and when you arrive you get a pretty intense cinemtic fight all the way around the tower before going up the stairs. Most of your NPC fellows end up dead.
The last stretch of the trek around the tower, the griffon is wrecking pillars behind you and dropping the floor into the sea below. Have to stay ahead of it to get inside before it drops the walkway out from under you. One of my support pawns, a ranger I hired for the extra muscle seeing as we would need rangers and mages on this, didn't make it. She was distracted by some damn trinket she wanted to pick up and wound up in the drink.

The fight with the griffon in the arena at the top is good fun. However, if in a previous quest you had gotten Steffen Salomet's grimoire, the real one not a forgery you could make, he shows up and starts dealing some damage as well. Which is appreciated, since we were one pawn short (Because her master was a dumbass and let one of her primary inclinations become collecting shit during combat) and still a ways to go.

It's particularly satisfying because I've been harassed by griffons and been unable to agro them because my stupid spells have a short range and travel slowly. Not good anti-air.

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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

[Sean Mirrsen]

How many things can an unarmed little schoolgirl kill with just her quick feet and a bicycle?

A thirty-strong horde of zombies, a pack of wolves (at night!), a rampaging moose, and a deranged military chicken-walker tank.

Somebody put minefields on the two roads leading to the emergency shelter she evacuated to. She could spot the mines. The dumb/rampaging enemies that tried to chase her down did not.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.

[Arx]

Seath got Dragonslain a while ago. Deadly creatures of Lordran: a man in pyjamas (Painting Guardian set), a mask (Velka's), and a green shield sprinting around with a bow weighing as much as the rest of his gear combined (maximum curse resist, and the Dragonslayer Greatbow). I broke the primordial crystal with an offhand fist punch, for additional shenanigans.

Now alternating shots at Oolacile's second boss and the final boss. Not having too much luck with either, in large part because I find them very similar and I mess up my dodge rolls against both.

On the plus side, I've got to try out a variety of different weapons now. The uchigatana is blitsvinnig, my gosh. There is basically no ending lag on its attacks, which is quite incredible.

Dark Souls.

[Arcvasti]

You'd probably be better off with your old Estoc. Hella ripostes > moderate bleed

[Arx]

I don't have the nerve to try to parry Gwyn, sorry. And I actually mostly pick weapons based on the moveset - in the late game, the actual damage differences outside of criticals tends to be minimal IIRC.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Parrying Gwyn is actually the easy mode way of fighting him. I tried to fight him with a tower shield once and found it was much, much harder to defeat him without the ability to shut down his attacks instantly. But aside from that, yeah, the good thing about DS1 is that you can get by using pretty much any weapon once it's max level (except for the Astora Straight Sword and the non-scaling Dragon weapons), so you might as well pick what you like. I favored the Gargoyle Halberd and the Broadsword myself.