Bcs if there is a skill issue, we work on it, not cheese around it.
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no need to change when you already know your tactic will work, but you just lack the skill to execute it
A good portion of my failures in boss fights are due to getting the boss low and thinking, "I can just spam attack until he's dead now" and then getting caught by attacks I was avoiding prior to that.
And a decent portion of the ones left after eliminating those ones are due to not being used to the attacks enough to avoid them consistently.
Assuming soulslike boss fights.
Me playing Elden Ring
The only way to learn how to read is to look like an idiot until you get it right.
Wait, how else are you suppose to beat boss fights without just keep trying until you do?
As the meme implies, stop and think about how to change tactics.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
— (alcoholics) anonymous
I spent 172 hours retrying the final boss fight on ff8. I mistakenly saved just before the end boss with 2 phoenix downs, a handful or potions and ethers, and not much else. It took weeks to beat her alone.
I learned many things in those multiple weeks of doing basically the same thing over and over again, with minor tweaks to strategy.. the first of which is always maintain a second save at least 3 hours prior to the current save. The second thing was never have an empty inventory even if you legit never bother using any of it. Don’t sell anything until you hit max stax.
And finally I learned that sometimes trying the same exact thing for the 20th time actually does work for reasons. And that was on like ps1 framework. A lot more stuff is a lot more random now.
As the meme implies, stop and think about how to change tactics.
Uhhh no? Especially if your playing a game that your suppose to try multiple times like hades.
I guess it depends on the game but imo the best boss fights are puzzles (god of war style) where you don’t change tactics, you keep playing until you figure out the puzzle.
Idk if I call that changing tactic, I just keep trying until I figure it out.
I mean if you want to keep running bleed against a boss immune to bleed go ahead, but I'll probably switch to an occult infusion.
I like your funny words, but I'll just continue to hit him with my Heavy Warped Axe until he falls over.
If you never consider more than one possible tactic, then by definition you're not solving a puzzle, you're just executing a fixed series of instructions.
You give Hades as an example of a game where you're doing the same thing every run, but on the contrary the game is specifically designed so that no two runs are alike. It's trying its best to force you to change tactics each run, that's the point.
Agreed, but adjusting tactics often is part of the puzzle, no? You need to solve the puzzle (find out what work = changing tactics) and then executing that solution
The idea is that you wear them down, not that they wear you down. Its a battle of attrition, and the winner takes all (or not very much)
In the specific case the "boss" happens to be a timer, this is a more or less accurate description of speedrunning.
Okay here's the plan.
I gonna slam the door open, run straight in, and attack with the most basic of attacks I can think of.
It's foolproof.
Me playing Another Crab’s Treasure over break
As a newish gamer this meme actually made me feel better. I keep telling myself… I’ll figure it out eventually and beat this boss/mob/alien/etc. 🙂
This time I'm going to try rolling anticlockwise
It took quite a while in Dark Souls 3 before I conceded that I should actually level up my VIT so the Abyss Watchers didn’t just one-shot me every time.
I swear even the time I finally won I successfully clawed at Scar's face over a thousand times before I realized you just throw him off the cliff.