IIRC, the punch kick punch combo with Shuraba (katana) is a pretty easy & quick way to decimate everything in sight with a powerful Wicked Weave move in Bayonetta. You still have to do some dodge offsetting/dodging but other than that you could basically repeat that move & get rid of every enemy relatively quickly. If you have nimble enough fingers, with some super quick dodge offset whoring you could repeat the wicked weave constantly.
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Simple strategies that completely break games
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Grinding. 90% of the time it works.
Intercept in Ninja Gaiden.
Grenade rolling in Devil May Cry.
Submachine guns/DT gunfire in DMC2.
Devil Trigger Explosion in DMC3.
Level 2 Full Steam w/ Distortion in DMC4.
Devil Trigger in DmC. DT then use Trinity Smash with Arbiter. Repeat x amount of times to win game, then have a cup of tea.
Grenade rolling in Devil May Cry.
Submachine guns/DT gunfire in DMC2.
Devil Trigger Explosion in DMC3.
Level 2 Full Steam w/ Distortion in DMC4.
Devil Trigger in DmC. DT then use Trinity Smash with Arbiter. Repeat x amount of times to win game, then have a cup of tea.
Neoleo2143
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I've always viewed Grinding as more of a crude difficulty scale. One that's more dynamic than most difficulty selects.
Vulcano's assistant
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Melee builds in Bioshock and System shock 2
Regginator
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Super Metroid and wall jumping. It takes some practise, but if you can do it at will, you can completely change the linearity of the game (which is a huge advantage obviously).
Weeaboosuke
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I cheesed a couple of survival fights in DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 by abusing heavy finishes, which were basically stun punches that the AI couldn't do shit about if you chained them correctly.
Fuck you Kid Buu.
Fuck you Kid Buu.
Crimsonclaw111
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Bayonetta - punch, kick, punch.
Lumpy Onion
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Final Fantasy V becomes a joke when you start abusing coin toss. Basically use money to inflict great damage to every enemy on screen...assuming you have the funds.
Frankenstrat
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Sprinting through Tomb of the Giants to Nito.
Melee weapons in all difficulties below Expert in L4D2.
Melee weapons in all difficulties below Expert in L4D2.
What it means is that by doing some realtively easy card battles in the early game, combined with the card mod ability (turn cards into stocked magic spells), you can get 100x (the max allowed) of certain very powerufl spells extremely early without ever using Draw. Using the Junction system you simply equip those to your characters weapons and/or HP steam roll the game with almost no challenge.
Characters can have like 4000 HP at the end of disc 1, or 255 STR very quickly. It makes the game completely trivial.
Tavernacle12
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I saw someone give a bad review to Her Story because they realized they could rename every video after watching it, repeat, and eventually watch all of the videos in order without having to do anything. I can't say the reviewer wasn't smart but that's not the point of the game. The fun comes from trying to piece it together from what clips you manage to uncover.
Also, Scibblenauts: Roc + Rope = Win on nearly every level that just requires you to get a Starite. You can just keep adding rope too until you can pull it somewhere safe.
Also, Scibblenauts: Roc + Rope = Win on nearly every level that just requires you to get a Starite. You can just keep adding rope too until you can pull it somewhere safe.
InfiniteCombo
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What the hell, so many wrong posts...
Roll canceling is not something a beginning player can easily do.
If you're playing against the computer in Mortal Kombat II, the AI will catch on to you real fast. You won't be able to make it past the third or fourth opponent with this strategy.
Nope. IIRC, you can't suplex all enemies, only monks or military base dudes, under certain conditions. Also, suplexing has a chance of one-hit killing, or even decapitation, but neither is guaranteed. If you're surrounded by a mob of enemies, suplexing might be the last thing you want to do.
Finally, we have a winner! Also, being on Yoshi more or less breaks the game, you don't have to do anything fancy.
Capcom vs Snk 2 I frame roll into special moves.
Loved playing with blanka
Roll canceling is not something a beginning player can easily do.
If you're playing against the computer in Mortal Kombat II, the AI will catch on to you real fast. You won't be able to make it past the third or fourth opponent with this strategy.
Nope. IIRC, you can't suplex all enemies, only monks or military base dudes, under certain conditions. Also, suplexing has a chance of one-hit killing, or even decapitation, but neither is guaranteed. If you're surrounded by a mob of enemies, suplexing might be the last thing you want to do.
Finally, we have a winner! Also, being on Yoshi more or less breaks the game, you don't have to do anything fancy.
letmetrythisname
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Spending just a few minutes messing with junctions will render the entire game piss-easy.
Tyrant Rave
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Pressing the shoot button in DMC2 more or less breaks the game
malboroking
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Step 1: Play card game.
Step 2: Convert cards to magic
Step 3: Junction magic
Step 4: Roflstomp game
Hitman: Blood Money - Using the pistol to take NPC's hostage and knock them out. Who needs syringes anyway?
Hearts of Iron IV - As Germany, fabricate on Great Britain from day one, invade the British Isles with your starting force. Congrats, you've now won World War II three years before it's supposed to start.
Hearts of Iron IV - As Germany, fabricate on Great Britain from day one, invade the British Isles with your starting force. Congrats, you've now won World War II three years before it's supposed to start.
malboroking
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Nah, you can break the game on the first island. You can convert cards to Tornado and have 5000 hp for everyone at level 6. You can pretty easily get 160 strength for Squall. Then it's just a matter of keeping his HP around 400 and Renzokukening everything in the game.
Lord of the Rings the Third Age.
Use nothing but spellcraft for Idriel. Once you gain Aura of the Valar the rest of the game is basically broken, as you can cast it on her and the rest of your party to revive mid battle with half health and half AP only to cast it again with the free turn you get.
Alternatively
When you recruit Morwen and Eaoden, team them up with hadhod. Go back to Moria and just use Morwen's steal ability on the trolls. You'll get Arnor mushrooms of them, which you can give to Hadhod and basically have him cast his stone shield. It isn't as broken as Idriel's Valar powers, but still makes getting through wavy sections in the game absurdly easy, with the added benefits of taking next to no damage during battle. FYI, Arnor mushrooms basically gives the character that eats them, infinite AP during the battle.
Disciples II(Gold/Servents of the Dark). In one of the missions for the legions of the damned, I think 5th, in the northwest corner of the map there will be a mini faction of giants. They have roughly 3-400 HP or so, but give absurd amounts of XP. The giants will basically spawn infinitely into randomize groups until you kill their leader in the mountains. Assuming you capture the city in that area, you can basically have the Giants repeatedly try to retake that city against your strongest party, which ideally has the leader you have chosen to take with you from the first mission and thus easily be able to max him for that mission and better prepare him for end game.
Forza Motorsport: Upgrade any Car in your ownership to S class and train your Driveatar to race at the Donught racetrack. Easily looking at 15-25K credits per race while doing nothing. I personally did this with a Class D Saab.
Use nothing but spellcraft for Idriel. Once you gain Aura of the Valar the rest of the game is basically broken, as you can cast it on her and the rest of your party to revive mid battle with half health and half AP only to cast it again with the free turn you get.
Alternatively
When you recruit Morwen and Eaoden, team them up with hadhod. Go back to Moria and just use Morwen's steal ability on the trolls. You'll get Arnor mushrooms of them, which you can give to Hadhod and basically have him cast his stone shield. It isn't as broken as Idriel's Valar powers, but still makes getting through wavy sections in the game absurdly easy, with the added benefits of taking next to no damage during battle. FYI, Arnor mushrooms basically gives the character that eats them, infinite AP during the battle.
Disciples II(Gold/Servents of the Dark). In one of the missions for the legions of the damned, I think 5th, in the northwest corner of the map there will be a mini faction of giants. They have roughly 3-400 HP or so, but give absurd amounts of XP. The giants will basically spawn infinitely into randomize groups until you kill their leader in the mountains. Assuming you capture the city in that area, you can basically have the Giants repeatedly try to retake that city against your strongest party, which ideally has the leader you have chosen to take with you from the first mission and thus easily be able to max him for that mission and better prepare him for end game.
Forza Motorsport: Upgrade any Car in your ownership to S class and train your Driveatar to race at the Donught racetrack. Easily looking at 15-25K credits per race while doing nothing. I personally did this with a Class D Saab.
And with Blood & Wine, the Euphoria mutation. Who needs Quen when everything dies in two or three hits?
Zeuanimals
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Well, Quen and actually using potions, concoctions, and oils. I didn't start using everything until Blood and Wine, but man, they completely change the game. The fact that all I have to do is meditate for a bit (and have one bottle of strong alcohol which is readily available throughout the world) to refill everything means that the game could easily be a cakewalk on Death March, even for someone's first run, so long as they actually use everything in their disposal.
SuperChoco
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The dodge roll in Dragon's Dogma. So many i-frames that you can manipulate with instant reset and just allows you to pretty much cheese so much of the game.
Peterthumpa
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Medieval 2: Total War:
Huge, angry army stomping your way? No problem, just place a single squad of light cavalry in its path. When the enemy engages, retreat to a corner, then kite the army round in a circle until time runs out. Congratulations, you just beat 2000 heavily armed soldiers with six farmboys on horses.
Also, once you get long range artillery, getting besieged is no problem, just sortie out, roll your artillery just outside the city gates and leisurely blast the enemy to pieces while they stand around muttering.
Edit: Crusader Kings 2: the old ladies strategy and the old men strategy:
The old ladies: Once your ruler gets eligible heirs, get rid of the wife and find a new one. Now, whenever the ruler gets married in CK2, your vassals give either a pile of money or prestige as gifts. So, just scour Europe for the most eligible 80+ bachelorettes and widows. With luck, you could pull off half a dozen weddings in a year.
The old men: Vassals are such petty creatures, aren't they? They get pleased when they get titles, but that wears off in a decade, and then they croak and their heir shows no gratitude at all. But what's this? If a vassal dies with no heirs, the ruler inherits him? Well, just invite every lowborn geezer 60+ to your court, marry them off to women in their late 40s, and whenever you get a surplus title, parcel it out to the oldest whoreson still around in your court. Within the week, old men will be running the world!
Huge, angry army stomping your way? No problem, just place a single squad of light cavalry in its path. When the enemy engages, retreat to a corner, then kite the army round in a circle until time runs out. Congratulations, you just beat 2000 heavily armed soldiers with six farmboys on horses.
Also, once you get long range artillery, getting besieged is no problem, just sortie out, roll your artillery just outside the city gates and leisurely blast the enemy to pieces while they stand around muttering.
Edit: Crusader Kings 2: the old ladies strategy and the old men strategy:
The old ladies: Once your ruler gets eligible heirs, get rid of the wife and find a new one. Now, whenever the ruler gets married in CK2, your vassals give either a pile of money or prestige as gifts. So, just scour Europe for the most eligible 80+ bachelorettes and widows. With luck, you could pull off half a dozen weddings in a year.
The old men: Vassals are such petty creatures, aren't they? They get pleased when they get titles, but that wears off in a decade, and then they croak and their heir shows no gratitude at all. But what's this? If a vassal dies with no heirs, the ruler inherits him? Well, just invite every lowborn geezer 60+ to your court, marry them off to women in their late 40s, and whenever you get a surplus title, parcel it out to the oldest whoreson still around in your court. Within the week, old men will be running the world!
Stallion Dan
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Pull out the knife and sprint through 90% of Killzone 2, the enemies in your way get out the way, and you run through the levels faster than the enemies spawn in. Even on hardest difficulty.
You might die once or twice per level, but just respawn and keep sprinting.
You might die once or twice per level, but just respawn and keep sprinting.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Chronospherics
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Giefs double lariat beats all the AI in SFIV right?
Fighting Force has a pretty amusing oversight: When grabbing enemies, the character Hawk Manson can either punc or kick them. Normally, if you do three of either in a row, Hawk finish off with an headbutt that kicks the enemy down, freeing them from your grab... except there's nothing preventing you from just mixing the punchs and kicks, making the grab an easy infinite. It even works on all but one of the boss, including the final boss!
I remember people just abusing unblockables whenever they were trying to speedrun Tekken arcade mode.
https://youtu.be/PXXJGMInCww?t=5m44s
Paul probably had some guaranteed setups against the AI as well.
https://youtu.be/PXXJGMInCww?t=5m44s
Paul probably had some guaranteed setups against the AI as well.
slappingoysters
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E Honda thousand hand slaps.
Also any game that let's you just charge to a checkpoint taking hits on the way (Halo, Call of Duty)
Also any game that let's you just charge to a checkpoint taking hits on the way (Halo, Call of Duty)
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Doing almost anything in FFVIII?
You can refine powerful items from cards.
You can refine powerful magic from items.
You can skip random battles to keep your level low so bosses have low HP.
You can keep your health low so you can spam limit breaks.
It's just not a very well thought out game.
You can refine powerful items from cards.
You can refine powerful magic from items.
You can skip random battles to keep your level low so bosses have low HP.
You can keep your health low so you can spam limit breaks.
It's just not a very well thought out game.
Cirekiller
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJHxIjBlq0
First thing that came to mind. Secret boss KH2 spoilers I guess.
First thing that came to mind. Secret boss KH2 spoilers I guess.
KittenMaster
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Probably the most detrimental thing you can do in FF8 is use damage dealing magic which are all very under-powered.
Nightshade
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I think all the area of effect contextual melees help with combat significantly. Seeing an enemy reeling from a knee or face shot gives serious incentive to sprint in and drop the whole group with a round house.
Mortal Kombat 1: Hold up+left so you jump continuously into a corner. Kick on the way down from each jump. This works 100% against everyone but Kano and Scorpion; when fighting them, you`ll need to stop and block every now and then to avoid their somersault and grappling hook attacks, respectively.
Poimandres
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SwiftDeath
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Baldur's Gate 1 -> Ranged Weapons on your entire party
That's about it
That's about it
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Sandbags in the original command & conquer.
InfiniteCombo
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Huh, that's cool to know.
Does it work even on Shang Tsung?
I always thought the AI in the first 3 Mortal Kombat games was broken as hell. Even worse than SNK's AI.
The Master Plan
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Dark Souls: Any bow + running away
Overwatch: Lucio speed-boosted Reaper Ult
Skyrim: Double dagger with Dark Brotherhood gauntlets and sneak tree.
Dishonored: Fully upgraded mobility and blink spam makes it easy to drop kill ANYONE!
Morrowind: AOE paralyze spell combined with AOE damage spell.
Overwatch: Lucio speed-boosted Reaper Ult
Skyrim: Double dagger with Dark Brotherhood gauntlets and sneak tree.
Dishonored: Fully upgraded mobility and blink spam makes it easy to drop kill ANYONE!
Morrowind: AOE paralyze spell combined with AOE damage spell.
Mexen
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Grinding in JRPGs when you are a NEET. These days, I level up just enough to employ actual strategy because my parties are not OP because I don't have the time to max out everything. And you know what? Best fun in years! The tension of deciding between healing or attacking on your next turn is almost unmatched.
MoaM
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In every X game, dashing is fairly over-powered, but in Mega Man X4 you're pretty much not playing the game right if you stop dashing or dash-jumping.
As seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZMV4l4drm0
As seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZMV4l4drm0
Bandersnatch1
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TheRedSnifit
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In TF2 4v4 matches, it's illegal to run a Heavy and a Medic at the same time.