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
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) anonymousI'll drink to that
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.
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)
Bcs if there is a skill issue, we work on it, not cheese around it.
no need to change when you already know your tactic will work, but you just lack the skill to execute it
Me playing Another Crab’s Treasure over break
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.
This time I'm going to try rolling anticlockwise
In the specific case the "boss" happens to be a timer, this is a more or less accurate description of speedrunning.
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. 🙂
The only way to learn how to read is to look like an idiot until you get it right.
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.
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.
