That best part of modern games. Couldn't do that in the old school games.

The final level of Mario Odyssey.

Beating Isshin is so dang satisfying! I really wish Fromsoft would bless us with another Sekiro.

Isshin is one of the greatest boss battles in gaming. He's a brutal, but fair, test of everything you learn in the game. The best part is you get to kill Genechro over and over.

IMO the Demon of Hatred is way harder because so few of your skills are useful in that fight.

Isshin only took me a few days to beat. Owl (father) on the other hand, took me a couple of months.

Seconding Isshin SS, I'm also stubborn as hell, sekiro is one of my favorite games and that fight took me so many attempts that I almost gave up multiple times. Felt so god damned good when I finally beat him though

I love this contrast with the top comment (about lowering difficulty). Yeah, it was a struggle, but we got through, and it felt all the more satisfying for it! It doesn't feel satisfying to, for example, chop a tree in a game, because there's no challenge. Something can only really be satisfying if it challenges you (emotionally, intellectually, and/or in ability).

I think an additional undervalued part of not having difficulty settings is that we have a shared experience. Everyone who did it has shared in it. We know what they went through because there's only one way to do it. We don't have to ask about settings or anything, only that they accomplished the task.

For me though, the one I remember struggling with the most is O&S in DS1. I don't think they're actually the hardest boss FromSoft has made, but I've gotten far better at their games since then. Even their hardest bosses now I personally feel like they could be more challenging.

Practice down below. He's no harder than NKG. The real final pantheon takes so long I haven't done it again since getting to radiance and losing. Instead i occasionally try to beat the first two pantheons all binds

I got stuck on Absolute Radiance and my thumbs took a break and haven’t made it back yet. It’s been at least a year.

Same. I think there's something of a skill cliff here.

Abs radiance is worse, but not just because it's more difficult. It's also a lot less fun, at least in my opinion. Think buffed Markoth kinda BS (which I just now realized, makes a lot of sense thematically/lore-wise).

Pure vessel was one of my favorite fights despite taking me many many attempts to beat.

FYI the last pantheon isn't a % point, if you're at 111 you're missing something else

That version of the 8-bit Ghostbusters game ending (just get past Stay Puft and your guys automatically go up to the building's roof, cross their streams, and complete the game) is so much more merciful than the versions which added on extremely bullshit bullet-hell boss battles with Gozer afterward.

Killed him once legit and then cheesed him off the cliff on every subsequent playthrough. Fuck that boss.

If you’re still interested, I could give you some easy to execute strategies to beat the final Elden Ring Boss and some decently easy ones for the final DLC Boss.

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Excel is like grind, grind, grind. You can level up a little and then it's even more work. One column after another, then, row, row, row.

I like the sql better.

Pivot tables are quick. If used properly you can summarize data much quicker than any excel formula. When I use them it pretty much always takes under 30 seconds to get what I want. Imo, there are 2 things every user of excel should learn to use. Vlookup (edit: or xlookup, see below) and pivot tables. Once you learn to use both, you will use them all the time.

Pivot tables are great because they force people to put their data into tables.

Formulas suck. You only need sum. Everything is a sum, if you enter your data correctly in a table.

Want to substract? yes, that is a sum in which one of the numbers are negative. Multiply? Yes that is more sums.

What about IF statements then? No, no, no. Conditions are simply factors in a sumproduct.

Learn the keyboard shortcut for sum. It's the straight edge and compass of excel math.

Anyone else constantly looking up tactics with AI? This game is so difficult, you have to memorize a lot of combos and the strategy to use them really takes time to click. I'm getting into this one again after a long hiatus

A legitimate victory by forfeit.

Same for me but with TOTK. I spent hours upon hours doing everything else in the game, but the final boss fight seemed deliberately too hard, and I just really have no interest in forcing myself to beat it. I won’t get any more satisfaction out of the game just by seeing the final cutscene. Probably helps that I didn’t find the story particularly interesting and just played for the gameplay and atmosphere.

The amount of grinding necessary to beat all of the Weapons was ridiculous. I got tired of trying.

Beating nightmare grimm is where I peaked.

Just gotta master that parry timing. Oh, and just wail on him and his clone when he summons it. With enough damage it won't be a problem at all.

Lol, I was going to say the same thing. Fuck that level.

Perhaps you might find it easier to archvile jump into the exposed brain and chaingun it to death.

I got the Xbox port of this a few years ago, and the last level of Doom 2 was a bitch to play. I died so many f’ing times before I finally got it.

A real Kobayashi Maru, you say?

OMG, that's terrible!!! 😭

I did this one not too long ago! One thing that helped was recognizing that there's no "roar" delay like when the first one shows up. You can just attacking as they fall down from the ceiling. Second was trying to optimize for damage to take one out asap, and reduce the amount of time you need to dodge both of them simultaneously. For me that looked like Barbed Bracelet, Flintsteel, and Beast Crest. Good luck!

I should pick Silskong back up. Stuck in the Karak Sands area.

I hear many players struggle with this one. For me, it was Groal. Must have take me a hundred tries.

Riku is definitely it for me. One of my friends brought me in as a ringer to get past that fight when she was playing the remake and it still took hours of retries despite being able to skip the cut scene.

I ended up cheesing this fight with the “embrace the stinky water” strat

You mean the jump-dash right at the beginning?

Defeating Cuphead felt like an achievement to me. I'll never 100% that game, but it sure was brutally fun

my friends don't get that. its an extra credit boss in a single player game, why would I spoil that for myself with a guide someone else made?

i haven't beaten him yet, I give it a few tries every month or so. my way of prolonging the beauty of the game I guess lol

Seemed to be a lot of the postgame bosses in CO. After one try, I understood them all as extra challenges available for those who want them. But given they’re literally just rhythm timing that eventually makes you invincible, I don’t quite know who’d find that interesting.

For Super Mario Bros 3, it was only recently that I beat it without using a cloud to skip the maze fortress a few levels before Bowser's castle. And even then only because I looked up how to get through it.