Fahzgoolin
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Sprint + Slide + Block + Strike = instant kills in Dishonored 2.
Can take on a while crowd of guards without getting hurt.
Can take on a while crowd of guards without getting hurt.
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"One weird trick" that completely breaks a game
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killatopak
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Once you get the bow girl in eternal sonata it essentially switches to ultra easy mode.
Just fire your arrows a far as possible as her damage is multiplicative of her range.
Just fire your arrows a far as possible as her damage is multiplicative of her range.
reelbigtink
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I kinda wish I hadn't read this thread because now I'm going to unlock my Z target in BotW to make fights easier and also use the ice block trick (which I'm embarrassed to say wasn't painfully obvious to me).
I mean, Jeff literally showed it in their quick look. Definitely seemed pretty busted (and no, I haven't played it, maybe they fixed it, but he was definitely able to work it just fine on dudes in endgame).
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People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
Not really a weird trick but more of a game breaking feature in NieR: Automata (no story spoilers)
auto-attack for the battles. You just move your direction controls to the enemy and it will execute auto combos without pushing any buttons at all to the enemy and avoid the enemy's attacks 99.99% of the time.
Wait what's that about Z target? I think the person was talking about Skyward Sword
They improved the Ass Creed parry system a load in Unity and Syndicate. Much harder now. Still not hard, but harder.
Jimnymebob
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The slow zoom red hot one hundred on Viewtiful Joe trivialised a lot of fights, and would just chew through some bosses HP.
YourMaster
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In the original Fable you can quickly gain access to a spell that makes you impervious to getting hit, but it also stops the hit from registering. In this game you get an experience multiplier based on not-getting hit so you quickly get 10 times the xp. This makes you powerful enough to not only have this spell always active, and complete the game without getting damage.
I found snaking annoying too. However I'm wondering it counts as a breaking game since everyone has access to it. Are you saying that it broke the game or it changed it irrevocably? I think they're similar, but subtly different. It's like cancels in Street Fighter. Can't play without them, but everyone has them now.
Rabid-Coot
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Deus Ex Human Revolution/Mankind Divided luring enemies one at a time with the noise from thrown objects for stealth takedowns.
SeriuzBiznus
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Playing as a Knight Enchanter in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Even with the nerf, Spirit Blade was OP as hell.
Airola
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You could also beat Rise of the Robots on PS1 (maybe on other platforms too) by using certain fighter and spamming one move for the entire game. I can't remember what it was but I remember finishing the game doing so.
XANDER CAGE
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Isn't this only on Easy?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
FF8 - junction 100 of any strong spell to Str and you will now everyone down.
There are other tricks related to this in terms of how you get 100 of a strong spell but it isn't hard.
There are other tricks related to this in terms of how you get 100 of a strong spell but it isn't hard.
The Wonderful 101: Attack Liner + Energy Converter
Remember how hard the fights against Prince Vorkken are? Yeah... they're actually impossible to to lose with this. Because drawing into his team with the Attack Liner and the Energy Converter installed does THIS! A full heal on command in some of the toughest fights in the game? Yes please!
Remember how hard the fights against Prince Vorkken are? Yeah... they're actually impossible to to lose with this. Because drawing into his team with the Attack Liner and the Energy Converter installed does THIS! A full heal on command in some of the toughest fights in the game? Yes please!
I never finished the game myself, but I recall people saying that the basic plasma cutter in Dead Space was the best weapon by some margin, which made it absurd that there was an achievement for completing the game using only it.
Edit: One other: The combination of Boots of Blinding Speed (Makes you ridiculously fast, but you can't see anything) and an orc character (magic resistance, so the blind effect is weakened) in Morrowind makes it ludicrously simple to get around.
lvl99 Pixel
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it stopped being mario kart imo, having to constantly mash on the dpad just to move on a straight, while ruining the experience for people who didnt enjoy it (it was pretty much necessary to even compete). Thats how its broken.
In Mass Effect 3, if you play as a vanguard there's a nice combo that consists of spamming the Charge and Nova powers repeatedly. Using the latter lowers your shields, while the former raises them, so it balances out. It's really effective. The only trouble comes when fighting the 1-hit kill enemies that appear often during the last missions, because there's a chance you'll die after doing the combo (Charge puts you within melee range of the enemy), but it works well against pretty much everyone else.
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You should play BotW how you want. Rafts have their own advantage because they're not nearly as repetitive and demanding. You're also more at risk while using ice to cross bodies of water.
As for the combat, that was a trick in Skyward Sword, not BotW. AFAIK, BotW's enemies don't care if you're Z-targeting or not. They'll try to kill you no matter what. They're quite effective at it, too.
In Oblivion, use dark soul gems to cast chameleon on a piece of armor, giving it 20% chameleon. Do it on four more pieces of armor. Congratulations, you're permanently invisible! You can whack a monster on the nose and they still can't tell you're there, or you can just walk past everything in the rest of the game.
in F-Zero GX, releasing the accelerator when your speed is going down from high speed makes the speed rate go down slower.
that in turn lets you do a lot of insane shit by getting massive speeds from dives and then going a lot faster with the reduced speed loss rate once you don't have boost or land.
that in turn lets you do a lot of insane shit by getting massive speeds from dives and then going a lot faster with the reduced speed loss rate once you don't have boost or land.
Vorg
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Streets of rage 2: hit stunning enemies by carefully timing your punches. Works on streets of rage 3 too, but the window is a lot tighter and it's harder to do.
It breaks the game completely and even works on some bosses. The enemies just stay in place taking punches and losing life until they die.
It breaks the game completely and even works on some bosses. The enemies just stay in place taking punches and losing life until they die.
The metal blade in Mega Man 2. Go to Metal Man first, beat him, and enjoy an OP weapon with unlimited range, that you can use in eight directions, and also has near-unlimited ammo. Also, a lot of the bosses are weak to it.
Failing that, Alchemy in Dragon Quest 9. If you know what you're doing, you can craft stupidly powerful weapons/armour that you can't buy in shops until a lot later on in-game. This makes boss battles a lot easier than they're supposed to be. Doubling your defense just by equipping something you're not supposed to have for another two towns' worth of story is so satisfying.
Some of the skill point allocations are OP in that game too. For example, with the martial artist, if you just put all of your skill points into Focus when levelling up, you'll get a huge max HP boost when you hit Level 21 that lets them take way more hits than any other people in your party. Add that to the fact that the martial artists pretty much always attack first, do tons of damage, and they can increase their own tension, increasing their attack power more (combined with the primary party character's 'egg on' skill that increases any chosen character's tension), and you can see why you'll need a martial artist in your party.
Failing that, Alchemy in Dragon Quest 9. If you know what you're doing, you can craft stupidly powerful weapons/armour that you can't buy in shops until a lot later on in-game. This makes boss battles a lot easier than they're supposed to be. Doubling your defense just by equipping something you're not supposed to have for another two towns' worth of story is so satisfying.
Some of the skill point allocations are OP in that game too. For example, with the martial artist, if you just put all of your skill points into Focus when levelling up, you'll get a huge max HP boost when you hit Level 21 that lets them take way more hits than any other people in your party. Add that to the fact that the martial artists pretty much always attack first, do tons of damage, and they can increase their own tension, increasing their attack power more (combined with the primary party character's 'egg on' skill that increases any chosen character's tension), and you can see why you'll need a martial artist in your party.
On a somewhat similar note, Paper Mario: TTYD allows you to pick an upgrade each time you level: +5 heart points, +5 flower points, or +3 badge points. Except... three badge points are what it costs to equip a +5 HP or a +5 FP badge, so if you pick the badge points every time you have the freedom to rearrange your health, flower points or other traits contextually based on each encounter.
chaobreaker
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For those who don't know: The boots of blinding speed are a pair of enchanted boots that give you a huge boost to your running speed at the cost of completely darkening your screen with its passive 100% blindness status effect.
This trick works because the Breton race have a innate 50% resistance to magic, which results in the boots only partially darkening the screen.
This also works with any race if you chug a resist Magicka potion before wearing the boots. Only catch is that when they eventually break from enemy damage and are automatically unequipped, you have to do the potion chugging process again.
Fuck I love Morrowind.
In Bioshock throwing things with telekinesis costs the same tiny amount of eve (mana) regardless of what you throw. It just so happens that corpses hit like a truck when thrown and are, understandably, hard to miss with.
So you can just run around throwing corpses at everyone which makes all your fancy weapons all but pointless.
So you can just run around throwing corpses at everyone which makes all your fancy weapons all but pointless.
Unaha-Closp
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In Persona 4 you can get an ability called Victory Cry on a Persona which refills all your HP and SP after a battle. So no good for end of dungeon bosses but you can waltz through them blasting fools and equip your persona with this ability and your fully stocked again. If you can pass it on in fused personas then happy days. Not a break as such but after juggling items and conserving SP as you make your way it's very very cathartic to not have too with this ability. I still feel bad for Vinny and Jeff (Giant Bomb) in their Endurance Run - I don't think they ever got it lol
1.21Gigawatts
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There was a cheese in Soul Calibur V
In the story mode you could just take Viola and do the same attack over and over again and the AI couldn't deal with it properly.
In the story mode you could just take Viola and do the same attack over and over again and the AI couldn't deal with it properly.
Barrel Cannon
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Snaking in MK or F-Zero
Ludger Kresnik
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Equip the purple gem in Sonic 06 and hold L1/LB. You can now jump infinitely. The game lets you unlock this item about halfway through and it lets you break this already thoroughly busted game even further.
Mihos
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On atari and intellivision football, throw the ball right? run left, you scroll through the screen and catch your own pass in the endzone
Camp Freddie
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Just as bad as the boots, Morrowing had the amulet of shadows, which you get in a sidequest I stumbled across very early in the game.
It gives 80% chameleon, which is enough to be invisible in a fight or for the purpose of stealing anything.
I also remember Oblivion having the invisibility spell be really cheap to cast. For missions where killing the enemies was just an obstacle and not the quest objective, you could just go invisible and run past them all.
You could close oblivion gates by just casting 60 seconds of invisibility at the start of each zone. You only had to kill the keymaster and the gatekeeper to close the gate. And they were usually in a room by themselves, so you won't get ganked when invisibility stops. It's also a quick way of getting daedric stuff and other high level equipment..
Jawmuncher
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Yeah. I couldn't beat the last boss. Used that and obliterated him. Felt cheap as hell but oh well.
Yesterday as I was playing breath of the wild
I was in a shrine and it had a marble maze puzzle whereyou had to use the joycon's motion sensors to replicate tilting the maze to move the marble around. I found if you flip the joycon upside doen it flips the whole maze as well with a flat mazeless surface. When the marble drops you can guide the marble to its destination forgoing the maze entirely.
ForkNetwork
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Up B Hammer in any Kirby game, watch enemies drop like flies
darthsontin
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Standing 5 feet out of the enemy aggro range using ranged weapons in the Souls games.
AirPowerFTW
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This. Jeff G from Giant Bomb mentioned it in a podcast before I got the game and like an idiot I spec'd it immediately. It does generally make early encounters seem overly easy (and I'm still early game) but playing on Hard at least means you can screw it up now and again.
Playing a Knight-Enchanter in Dragon Age Inquisition. The game is very easy even on its hardest difficulty setting, but the K-E absolutely breaks the game. It regains barrier when it deals damage. And since it's always dealing damage, it's always regaining barrier. It's so freaking broken.
Speaking of broken, I've been playing Horizon and the lure ability you get early on... man. Neither man nor machine can resist the whistling sound coming from a pile of bodies next to some bushes.
Speaking of broken, I've been playing Horizon and the lure ability you get early on... man. Neither man nor machine can resist the whistling sound coming from a pile of bodies next to some bushes.
Seraph_Nicholas
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In MKX on ps4, connecting a fightstick requires a DS4 connected on the same profile - but the game reads inputs from both. Test your Might is pretty trivial with two people working eight buttons.
I did something similar by going Reaver and purposefully avoiding the 'spend health' skills in favor of the lifesteal ones. It's the only class in the game with true healing.
I did something similar by going Reaver and purposefully avoiding the 'spend health' skills in favor of the lifesteal ones. It's the only class in the game with true healing.