I'm the whale game devs never expected or wanted

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The goal is to beat the boss so bad he doesn’t finish his first line of dialog by time his last line starts playing:

  Mighty dra… Wel… I command th…

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The best is when the game isn’t programmed to stop their dialog when they die, so you get a dramatic soliloquy delivered by a ragdolled corpse on the ground.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So funny yet so satisfying in some games. Villains do their grand monologue and you just curbstomp them like common bandits.

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or you beat them easily, only for a cutscene to play where they’re kicking your ass and you barely escape with your life.

    Kai Leng pulling this on Thessia killed my Mass Effect playthrough. I was one-shotting you five seconds ago; stop smugging at me like you’re anything other than an author fiat wankfest.

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  • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly, I like the games where all the enemies simply level up along with you. That way you never get the super-boring enemies that you can just walk all over.

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• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah yes, my Elden Ring run in meme format.

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I did that when Fable came out. When I finally got to the big boss, I whipped his ass so hard I got to keep the sword of aeons without killing my sister.

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  End bosses hate him

  youtu.be/c4t7JnCW-48

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