>struggle with a boss for hours >give up and look it up

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>>385512685

>retry the same section 50+ times
>look for advice on forums
>"oh yeah that part was pretty hard took me like 3 tries but I finally got it haha :D"

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>struggle with life for years
>give up and look it up online for tricks or hints
>"just be yourself"

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>>385512685
You know that a lot of those posters lie or omit details (cheats or exploit abuse), right?

>struggle with boss for hours
>give up and look up a guide
>the solution is git gud
Fuk

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>>385512685
>search up boss fight guide
>person playing is overleveled, min-maxing and using the most overpowered weapons

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>Almost beat the boss first time
>Die to it while it has a sliver of HP
>From then on never get that far, boss is hard as fuck

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>>385512685
>struggle with boss for hours
>give up
>go to sleep
>wake up and try again
>beat him first try

>>385513945
can't stand this shit. although i guess it is pretty pathetic to be looking up a guide in the first place. but still.

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>fighting a boss for hours
>he seems to hit like a goddamn truck while you may as well be trying to fart on him during a hurricane
>look up a guide after the 900th failed attempt
>turns out you're pretty underleveled for the current boss, and have been getting by due to the fact that the enemies are above you but not unreasonably so and you have enough skill to not die trying to beat them

>>385514828
The amount of times this has happened to me is ridiculous

>>385515165
This messed me up real bad in La Mulana

>>385514828
>try mile high club veteran for like 3 hours straight and fail
>wake up the next day and do it on the first try

>>385515195
what's ridiculous about getting better performance from rested muscles?

>>385515195
Aren't our brains like specifically good at doing/causing this?
Gotta restart your brain to apply updates

>>385513753
>just hang on anon it get's better :^)
FUCK YOU IT NEVER GETS BETTER IT'S BEEN SHIT LIKE THIS FOR OVER A DECADE

>>385515195
>>385515667
>>385515768
It's not rested muscles or surprising. Your brain consolidates memory during sleep so you learn much better. Practice anything before bed and try it the next morning and you'll probably do your best.

That's why you should always get a good night's rest :^)

>>385512685
>Fight boss for hours
>Finally beat him
>His HP goes up to full again and it's phase 2
Soul of Cinder gave me some sort of feel.

>>385515667
I just wanna beat the boss then and there and progress, not go to sleep and beat him the next day

>>385516041
it is rested muscles and better reflexes, because it only works when you get a full night's sleep, and it works despite the fact that i use the exact same strategies i was using before i went to bed.

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>consensus on a weapon/ability is that it's op as fuck
>do really poorly with it

>>385516214
Unless your hands hurt before going to bed, it's unlikely to be "rested muscles". Your brain probably does a lot of motor co-ordination learning during sleep so your hands would probably perform better though.

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>>385516123
>finally beat a boss after hours of failed attempts
>there's a third phase

>>385515768
>Aren't our brains like specifically good at doing/causing this?

Yup. Your stats only level up after you sleep, not while you grind.

Looks like Todd Howard was right.

>>385514828
Literally happened to me yesterday with Demon's Souls. Had the hardest time with Flamelurker all afternoon, took a break, then came back at night and bodied him first try.

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>>385516123
>Soul of Cinder
I beat him first try without summons.
Sister friede however was a real fucker.
Died to her 20 times in a row not even making it past the 1st phase.
Had to ask some guys from the Souls general to help

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>PVE
>struggle
what did he mean by this?

Shit was way worse back in the days of GameFAQs

>struggling on RPG boss
>find info on page 45 of 375
>As you know this boss is very difficult unless you followed the guide and have magic item from 9 hours ago

>>385516638
>Had to ask some guys from the Souls general to help
casual fucking SHIT

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>>385512685
>struggle with boss for hours
>just can't do it
>decide to say fuck it and quit
>try again next day
>do it on first try

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>>385516123
Legit thought they were going for some kind of left field shit with Soul of Cinder at first. I don't know why, but watching that second health bar pop up with the music slowly turning into Gwyn's theme, part of me truly thought that you would continue to fight the Soul of Cinder as it refused to give in, and as you fought the screen would slowly just fade into black, symbolizing that not only will struggle and conflict always happen, but that not matter how long your struggle lasts, it ultimately means nothing and that you can't always stop the world from ending nor delay it.

>>385516674
I was tired of the fucking boss, alright.

>>385513945
>search up boss fight guide
>the trick is to use a secret weapon that is in the middle of nowhere near the beginning of the game that you can't actually go back to get
>all of the guides tell you to use this weapon

>use some guide to level in vanilla wow
>tells me to pick up an elite quest
>"just kill it it should pose no challenge at all ;^^)"
>tfw I was a fucking warrior

>>385514828
Fucking Friede.

It's so fucking unreal how big performance increase it is. Also happened on smelter demon in das2 DLC.

>>385515195
>>385516537
>>385514828
That's normal. Brain process this kind of information while you sleep.
This applies to real troubleshooting too and not limited to gayming.

>>385516750
You sicken me. You actually physically SICKEN me. How the fuck could you summon for a boss on your first playthrough? God you're fucking pathetic. Fuck you.

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>>385512685

>struggle with a boss for hours
>it's because I am intentionally 20 levels below what I'm supposed to be
>never use guides
>kill the boss using copious amounts of skill and developing advanced new strategies
>discuss online
>everyone else just button mashed their way through with their brains turned off while overleveled, or used some cheap no skill method from a youtube guide
>the only people who play underleveled like me are turbo autists who are following a spreadsheet and exploiting the game to make it easy even at low levels

I am better than all of you and none of you understand.

>>385516901
DaS3 has difficulty spikes like that frequently IMO.

>>385516841
>not leveling in prot
shiggy

nobody on /v/ has finished a dark souls game without looking for help online

>>385517004
Unlike you, right master hardcore gamer?

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>>385516965
>waltz through the early game, hit a bit of a snag with Abyss Watchers but nbd
>Catacombs are a bit more challenging, but still pretty easy stuff and the boss is a joke
>get to Irithyll

>>385517064
*shoots magic at you while you're fighting dogs*

>>385517060
i quit dark souls because i couldn't beat the butterfly boss

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>>385516123
>tfw finally beating Champ Gundyr with a slow ass Zwei and not knowing that you could parry him after 20 tries

I would destroy my pants if that motherfucker had a 2nd bar of health.

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>>385516990
>prot leveling
>vanilla

>>385516959
>Implying the boss won't instakill your entire party if you're 20 levels under

>>385517004
i looked for the bonfire spots in lower blighttown and sen's fortress, and i'm ashamed to admit i also looked up how to beat Seath. i wish his cutscene played more than once, i didn't think twice about that crystal the first time i saw it.

>>385517161
3 did get a little overboard with the multiple phase meme. I get it, some I wish they had more varied movesets from the start instead of "lol u just got tricked!" like 50% of the time.

>>385517004
I only looked up how to upgrade weapons and what the fuck humanity did.

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>>385516674
>>385516947
I know this is probably ironic shitposting but I wanted an excuse to post this somewhere

>>385512685
>Boss onehits your entire party as first move and always goes first because of absurd amount of initative
>Look up online help
>"Just survive the first hit and the fight is easy"
>T-thanks

>>385514828
This actually happened to me with the Flamelurker. Spent probably 2 solid hours of attempts, gave up, woke up the next morning and that was that .

>dismiss an ability/weapon because it doesn't seem really practical
>look up a guide/forums later and find out everyone thinks said ability/weapon is incredibly OP

>>385512685
>have troubke with boss
>look up guide
>"its reccomended you be level 25 because your healer gets.."
>be level 18

>>385517428
>I know this is probably ironic shitposting
some people take it way too serious
that's probably why things like "dark souls really needs an easy mode" exist

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>never have any trouble with bosses
>never struggle for hours
>dominate pvp
>stomp shitters every time
feels good to be good at vidya
if only i was good at anything else

Advise on how to beat the orphan in bloodborne?

>>385513910
why though, there's nothing to gain

>struggle with bullshit fight for hours
>ragequit
>come back some hours later
>beat it first try with little damage

>>385518285
First phase look for openings to visceral him in his back. For phase two you just gotta git gud

>>385517259

>implying I won't find ways to avoid getting instakilled

I don't play garbage games, and unless the game is garbage there's always a way, even if it's something desperate like stacking all my magic defense equipment and buffs on a single character and having them revive the rest after the attack.

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>Bored of pokemon games being babby-tier
>Use randomiser
>End up with terrible starter
>Can't get any good wild pokemon because all legendaries with horrible catch rates

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>Stuck on a level
>convinced it's nigh impossible
>Take a break/go to sleep
>Clear it easily

Anyone else?

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>>385516959
I admire you

>check out boss battle video after beating the boss myself, just to see how someone else mighy have approached it
>they're always overlevelled as shit

>find a weapon you think is amazing and high in tier list
>it's below mediocre and everyone says it's nothing special
>still love it

>>385513753
haha

>never struggle with bosses
>have more trouble with normal enemies
?

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>if you've been following my guide up to this point you'll have no problems here, now moving on...

>try and beat game on hardest difficulty
>think my equipment is pretty good and am well stocked on items
>get decimated
>turns out everything I have is maybe ok for the last difficulty mode
Phantasy Star Online, the one game I never beat on every difficulty since multiplayer died just before I hit Ultimate

I played a HUcast as well, the final boss is literally impossible solo without plunging so many hours grinding

>>385512685
>struggle with boss for a while but eventually win
>later on in the game, backtrack to that area and find a room that i didn't go in before
>has an item inside that turns that boss into a complete joke when it's equipped
i still don't know how i managed to miss that

>>385513585
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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>>385512685
fucking Twinmold I swear to god

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>if you've been following the walkthrough...

>>385524039
>MM boss
>hard

>>385518793
Phase one is pretty easy once you get the timing down for his attacks

Phase 2 you need to be incredibly aggressive. I know that advice applies for most Bloodborne bosses but you need to be stuck firmly up his asshole the for the entire time

Playing defensively and looking for an opening will always get you killed

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>Struggle on a boss in co-op for days
>Look up guide on youtube
>The guy says to pray to god and hope you get lucky with the enemy spawns
>mfw

>>385516214
You sound like a fucking moron and a fat ass. How tired are you when you play games?

>>385523787
> get to Yhorm
>just fight him normally, beat him after 10 or so tries
>pick up storm ruler
>"I'll never hit anything with this slow ass charge" and store it away
>never conct the dots
I don't usually feel like such a masive fucking retard, but that one hitted hard.

>struggle with boss for a few runs
>eventually figure out what I'm supposed to do
>second phase
I wouldn't mind multiple phases if you didn't have to go through the first phase over and over just so you could learn what attacks the next phases have

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>guide gets info completely wrong and screws you over numerous times

>>385524918
This, everytime I've been stuck on a boss and looked up tips on how to beat it

Either their setup is completely different from mine or their tips are useless. I eventually just beat it my own way

>>385524918
who even writes these

>>385514828
>last boss of Gun
you had to shoot dynamite arrows at geysers even though the bad guy was only wearing armor on his torso

>>385524664
there's muscles in your hands, and they become less effective if you use them continuously. for example, when you're writing a long paper, and your handwriting starts to get sloppier after a while. your reflexes naturally deteriorate as the day goes on and you become more exhausted. also, the nervousness and reluctance to fail accumulated the night before while facing the boss will have disappeared.

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>advance wars hard mode guides
>"OK the enemy artillery has a 16% chance to move to tile A on it's turn, otherwise it moves to tile B. if it moves to A, restart the mission.

>theres minimum four of these junctions per level

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>do boss
>lose
>have to wait twenty minutes for your hands to stop shaking

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>stuck in game
>look up guide online
>mentions methods you weren't even aware of in the game
>backtrack through walkthrough to find out what the fuck they're talking about
>give up after digging through the thousands of pages of words

>>385517671

Hate it when they only type the best spec/lead-up to each encounter. What if I DIDN'T spec into fucking alchemy?

>give objectively good advice on how to get past a boss
>"yeah thx but that doesn't work at all :/"

>>385515515
>underleveled
>in la-mulana
???
Are you just talking about the life/whip upgrades or what?

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>>385525582
>they're talking about really obvious things you somehow missed/forgot about
>can't play the game without feeling like a total retard anymore

>>385527067
>all those fucking materials you've been colecting since level one in case crafting/upgrading sistem is introduced
>you still have them by late game
>you missed that mechanic in first town

>>385517161
Beating Gundyr with an ultra greatsword is not bad though

>>385512685
>struggle with a boss for hours
>give up and look it up online for tricks or hints
>"Oh haha. I actually beat that boss on my first try he wasnt that hard duder"
Fuck you. FUCK. YOU.

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>>385512685
I finally did it, lads.

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>Beat game
>Check online to see if I missed anything
>There were a fuckload of unmarked sidequests that required backtracking and talking to random NPCs after every little event

>>385530536
Good luck with the penultimate boss, dork.

>>385530563

>Not always doing that anyway

>>385530563
Stupid fucking BB and the automatic ng+

>>385530818
>being that autistic

>>385514828
>Spend days losing to boss
>Try to show boss how fucking impossible it is
>Win

Granted, Elements probably wouldn't have kicked my ass so hard if I didn't run from fucking EVERYTHING, but I was a child back then.

Healing me before battle doesn't mean shit when it's 2 feet from a save point, Rubicant.

>>385514828
F-zero GX, everytime.

>>385530959

>being this casual
>complaining about missing stuff anyway

>>385514626
I find that the best solution is giving it time, what happens when you die in a game is you get frustrated and you start rushing, and when you rush you make mistakes, or if your playing a stealth game you aren't synced up with enemy patrols, you start alerting them by trying to go fast, etc etc etc.
>get up
>walk away
Alternatively
>play a different game and come back

>>385531170
You sound like you had your feelings hurt. It's not that deep bruh

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>>385512685
>online tip: the boss has a set attack pattern that is easy to avoid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCjrpghCYc

Look up guide for some tips, guy has like 999VIT and completely over levelled and just tanks damage. >Yeah it's an easy fight, just avoid these mo*gets hit* hehe don't do what I just di*gets hit again* heals his bajillion health back

>>385524918
Basically every neutral guide for SMT4, literally have to 'tism it up and make a damn spreadsheet.

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>>385531364
Me in the kayran boss fight in Witcher 2

>>385525315
I usually just walk away or lay down after this.

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>trying to get an item that has a rare drop
>at it for more than 10 hours and still nothing
>ask forum how they got it or any tips
>"haha i just got in my first try!!"
This is like another version of "works on my machine"

>>385531296

Not as deep as your anus when I explore it at night, that's for sure.

>>385531836
Ok

>>385512685
this literally doesnt happen in nowadays video game you idiot

>game has collectible bits of lore, like stories or character interviews
>you almost always end up collecting them out of order

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>>385512685
>think the boss is complex and needs serious planning in order to win
>follow complex plan
>loses
>loses for 10 minutes straight
>get bored and decide to just spam attack
>boss battle was actually a piece of cake

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>>385517869

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>have trouble on boss
>can't look up a guide or anything because you're purposefully gimping yourself in a really stupid way and you seriously doubt anyone else has even played the game like you have, let alone wrote a guide for it

>>385523787
laughing spoony.jpg

>be neither over- nor underleveled
>boss completely wrecks my shit
>try different party setup
>still not working
>after 5th try, look it up online
>several people suggest using a completely OP skill that's too costly for mobs but I didn't think it would work on bosses
>skill literally freezes boss in time for 7-9 turns and have a free turn to apply it again
>connects first try
>completely wreck boss
>all further boss fights are trivial