Well, I think now we need a reverse video. 8 Instances in Which We Chose Murder Because Negotiating Is A Hassle and We Were Particularly Impatient That Day.
+Slug of Borg Thats literally me when I play video games. "Oh? You give up? You wanna negotiate? You have valuable information? Hmm.........NAAAAAH." *shoots person in head*
Speaking of Dragon Age: Inquisition what about the Empress' Ball Quest? Get enough approval from the court and you can confront the murderer Agatha Christie Style and have them arrested without having to deal with the infuriating boss fight with the waves of stealthed enemies.
Lanius isn't the first Fallout villain you can talk your way out of fighting. In the original Fallout, if you have 100% speech and charisma and you've gotten the autopsy report from the Brotherhood of Steel, you can convince the Master that his "Unity" plans are fruitless as all super mutants are sterile, causing him to kill himself and all his minions with a nuclear explosion. Much easier than trying to fight it.
you dont need to have a high speech check. you just need the report. you need to get what the master wants to do and then you can just tell him that his work may be well intentioned but ultimately fraught and worthless because all his children are sterile.. so what he wanted to achieve is impossible, so he stops
+xXx Fioletowy i długi banan który przemierza Redtu-, znaczy, TH-cam z Planety Teletubisiów xXx Talk your way out of fight or passing English classes??
+xXx Fioletowy i długi banan który przemierza Redtu-, znaczy, TH-cam z Planety Teletubisiów xXx If only it*, I guess you can't talk your way out of a fight...
In Planescape: Torment you can actually convince the final boss to surrender. In fact, there's only 2-3 fights in the entire game that are mandatory, since the game generally encourages you to take a diplomatic approach to situations.
for me it is as often as possible in all fallout games. Let's be honest, it is sooooooooo satisfying to talk your way out of a tough fight, it makes me feel like a charismatic god, if only i was like that irl
+Dust the worst part about doing that though is when all of a sudden your at a gunner camp with 3 assaultrons and a mr gutsy plus 5 gunners, then you are completely screwed
Honstly for the Dragon Age Inquisition post you should've gone with how you can avoid the boss battle against Grand Dutchess Florianne at the Winter Palace. Although I suppose Imshael is a harder battle... Also you could've gone with siding with the Dragon cult or gone along with Flemeth's deal about her grimoire, both found in Origins.
Even though I literally died to Flemeth like, 16 times, I persevered, and finally succeeded... and it cost me all my health potions. Totally worth. I saved Morrigan bae! ...except Flemeth just ends up surviving for no reason as stated in the Witch Hunt DLC. So all that dragon-killing effort was in vain. *GOD DAMMIT.*
I remember my first week of WoW. I rolled a human warlock and wandered a little too far from the starting area. I was chased by some unspeakable horror for many miles, right into a party of level 1 players who agroed the beast. I escaped. They didn't. Good times.
+Da' Melon Sometimes the game will reward players for being more pacifistic by granting access to certain rewards that can only be accessed through specific dialogue. Or in some RPG's, like Fallout 3 for example, you can get more experience points by using unique dialogue options. It all depends on the game. If there is no bonus for opting out of a fight, reload the checkpoint, then slaughter everything.
Because the thing you're punching/stabbing/shooting/magicking to death is basically god, and can literally stomp you out like you're a very small fire. Like, not even a small fire. A few embers. A single spark. A flea's cigarette bud.
in the vampire the masquerade ending, i just imagine the MC is Dio from JoJo's bizarre adventure, and hell get out in like 100 years and be even more badass.
I cant believe I weaseled my entire way out of the Saren bossfight on my first ever runthrough in the mass effect series going in with absolutely no knowledge of what to do ever
I still remember the best one of these I had was on PC in Baldur's Gate 2, where you get to talk to a Beholder guarding a crate with important stuff. Instead of starting normal hardcore boss-fight, he starts talking to you, and if you talk to him, you convince him that the person who summoned him really didn't want him to defend what's in the crate, but the crate itself, so he totally doesn't mind you opening the crate to look and, once you've emptied the crate, he decides there's not point guarding it any more and goes home. You even get to meet him again in the expansion and... so much joy...
@@medallionvaliance5349 It's not called pacifistic, it's diplomatic, as 66 Roses said. Sadly many present-day politicians lack even the most rudimentary diplomatic skills, putting their counterparts off which leaves them with no options but to resort to violence.
Fallout 1 let you talk your way out of the battle with the final boss. If you convince The Master that the super mutants he was trying to convert all human life into were actually sterile (using forensic data gathered by the Brotherhood of Steel) he realizes his entire plan was madness and destroys his headquarters... WIN!
...and then you proceed to try to leave the compound, and immediately get killed by the extremely potent series of traps set up just outside the area the conversation is held in.
Humberto Urdiales With that and the werewolf it really fits Geralt's character more than killing does. Geralt had a similar choice in The Witcher wrt another werewolf.
You know, I've actually NEVER fought Saren at the end of ME1. I've always made it a point to max out either Paragon or Renegade, as I always feel the "best" choice is always the one you worked hardest for. The fact that you still have to fight off "Reaper Meat-puppet" Saren afterward makes me feel like it was still a fight. Unlike when I accidentally negotiated Legate Lanius off at the end of New Vegas. Heh, whoops. :P
I want to know where was my army of soldier robots when it came time to fight Legate Lanius. They stroll up to the party just late enough to intimidate the NCR, but not help with horrible boss fight. There's a video idea, times your "allies" show up just late enough to not be useful.
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You can get out of the first boss of Cave Story. He asks if you're "sure you want to take him on with that pea shooter?" Answer no, and he's just like "ok," and flies off.
Oh come on! The "Talk to get out of fights" mechanic is a Bioware staple! It's been with us all the way since Baldur's Gate... I think? I know Kotor has quite a few of them, anyway. Yay cowardly persuasion!
GOD that fucking bird-borg was so annoying! And yes! i chose the virgins too, because on my second run my Ink was a pretty sassy ladyelf, and Cass was being mean...
***** well Imshael is one of the four most powerful demons in existance... Two if you played origins and 2 well. Killing him is not a matter of religion, is a matter of saving the world more or less.
The best part about asking Imshael for virgins is that, if Cole happens to be in your party, Imshael will comment that he does have a virgin, but you probably wouldn't want them. Poor Cole xD
Also, reading these comments makes me feel like a shitty player for finding Imshael really difficult and going for the virgins option instead (and even worse when my second play through defeated him with ease. Avoided him since.)
In the "In my Time of Need" quest for Elder Scrolls V, you can weasel out of the fight twice. When you agree to help the redguard woman, you go out and find her pursuers. They give you a choice. Fight all 15 of them at once, or agree to let bring the woman to them. If you do that, it takes very little effort to lead her outside the city and just let the lead assassin do his job. Or you could do what I did. Agree to help the assassin, and then murder him in a 1v1 fight rather than the 1v15. Cowardice! Now even stormcloaks can do it!
Have y'all played as Malkavian in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines? It's a really good time. You could be a persuasive Malk, which is epic, or have skill points in everything except persuasion skills, and it's still fan-fucking-tastic. So. Many. Lols.
You _have to_ play as a moon-mad childe of Malkav as your last playthrough. You won't get any of the in-jokes without going through the story once with another clan, and the whole "knowing already how the story plays out" works into the Malkavian mindscape.
I'm playing Witcher 3 on the difficulty just below death march (I forgot what it's called) I have attempted Wild at Heart 15+ times. I will GLADLY take not having to fight that werewolf a second time
U jus gotta come back when ur a higher level its unbalenced at this point in game. Hell when i played on normal when the game first released i had that problem. Gaisn too much health
I like diplomatic persuasive endings, not because I get to maybe skip boss fights, but because it makes me feel like a hero instead of just killing everything for fun... And it proves that battles can be won with words as well, limiting bloodshed, something that can't be bad, right?
Imshael wasn't hard (at least not harder than some others). In my playthrough he got stuck and my party rekt him >.> Actually, Inquisition enemy AI isn't very good, now that I think of it.
I clicked on this video thinking purely of Legate Lanius. I just recently discovered this channel, and am glad I did. It has quickly become my favorite gaming channel. Thanks to you all
No!!! The best talk out of a fight in DA inquisition is... Letting Morrigan use the spirit pool. If she gets in instead of the inquisitor, it avoids the fight with her mom later on. You know...all that weirdness of her mom being a goddess! Anyway, she doesn't turn into the dragon, the game goes on, and happy day!
Ming-Xiao was extremely easy, finished her right away during my first playthrough, just spam the firegun and you will be fine... Though I cannot believe anyone would really want to side with the Kuei-Jin
In Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark, if you were clever enough to learn the final boss's true name, you could magically command him to go away and skip the final battle entirely.
I just want to say, that in the dozen or so play-through I have on Mass Effect, that I have never actually battled Saren on the Citadel (first battle). He always shoots himself first lol.
+alejandra areco Even then, in the Genocide route you're purposely getting into fights and weaseling your way out of one ruins it. So, no, the game doesn't count.
Nooooo you absolutely forgot THE very best weaselling out ever. Takes suuper intelligence, super speech and charisma, but in Arcanum you can actually talk the ultimate bad guy, Kerghan, out of destroying the whole world. And it gives you the best ending stills in the end.
"Consider this, a 200+ pound gorilla who would happily rip your arms off and play a drum solo of in the air tonight with them" *Shows the old cadbury add of the gorilla and i proceed to get nostalgic and laugh*
That Legate at the end of New Vegas was the most insane difficulty spike i've ever dealt with. I went from playing on hard to save-scumming on easy for that one fight.
Combat in Mass Effect was great. Great in that you could load your weapon with mods that overheated it for massive damage gains. Nothing like overloading a gun with one shot and killing a Geth prime in one shot. :D
My favorite instance is in Planescape: Torment. If you're intelligent enough to think of it and charismatic enough to be convincing, you can make your own Mortality that has unbound itself from you bind back to you out of fear of being killed. It's the final boss fight and it takes incredible amounts of forethought, preparation and skill to beat. Or just enough points in Cha and Int.
Undertale most likely wouldn't count in this because it's in a way hinted to try. Well not exactly hinted it's literally shoved and rubbed in your face. It's literally included in the game mechanic, to talk it out to avoid confrontation in almost all battles (yes yes Undine fight but that doesn't count when you basically have to complete her quest much like sans and all others) it's basically the same effect they did in mass effect and dragon age complete potential friends quests and they may not brutally murder you or sacrifice you or turn on you. It's nothing new but in the games they shows these are examples of basically weasling your way out of a situation, especially if it's a very tough battle in a game. In Undertale you still have to fight in the end that life bar does go down even when you're doing a pacifist run for Asriel because your weapon is words and what not. So it wouldn't count because it's just how you end a game with speaking is included while these other games they mentioned still involved mass amounts of fighting and if you can just have a break on one boss like talking to them to avoid a fight or taking a deal or going around finding something to stop them or even weakening them people will do it.
Flight of the Amazon queen was one of my favorite things to play and watch my dad play when I was younger! I felt like me and my dad were the only people who knew about the game
In Undertale, you can talk your way out of almost any fight and don't have to kill a single thing. In fact, that's the happy ending: not killing anything and making friends with everyone.
In Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, you could talk or think your way out of almost every fight. Persuade the drunks to leave you alone, feed the Rancor a grenade, use the computers to blow up terminals or gas various rooms, make a peace treaty with the sand people, the list goes on and on.
Granny Rags in Dishonored. You can skip probably the hardest (at least most complex) fight in the game by agreeing to chop up Slack Jaw and help her cook him. She's also totally cool with you looting her house as well, so there's literally no reason to not help Granny Rags.
Reminds me of the Temple of Trials in Fallout 2, where you could just as easily talk your way out of the final trial - fight. Because intelligence and speech are the skills you go for in a post-apo wasteland. And guns. But who knew you'll start in a tribal village with no guns?
For that multi-stage demon fight in Inquisition, I didn't know you could talk your way out of it. Therefore, Varric, Cole, Cassandra, and my rouge fought in a hideous maelstrom of constant revives and dodge-rollings.
In Sonic Chronicles, you have to track down special items to pinpoint Eggman's base. One of these is guarded by Shadow the Edgehog (no that wasn't a grammar error). You can either fight him in an intense battle or literally just say "I'm not fighting you," in which he jumps away and drops the item you want. Keep in mind he was guarding it. 1/5, would not recommend.
there are several other occasions where this is possible in Mass Effect. For example, when nightclub bodyguards try to stop you, you can just tell them that now would be a good time to get a new job. And they're just like hey great idea thanks bye
Hey, guys, I just realized that Soul Caliber's Dampier is a near-twin of the shifty salesman/carnival barker from the Fable series (mmm, …. if I remember correctly, his name in Fable II was the appropriate Barnum, yes?); the same style top hat, ridiculous moustache, gaudy outfits, the whole schmeer. OR, WERE they twins? What if they both the same person, only making appearances in more than one video game, albeit in slightly altered personas?? And this isn't the only time the virtually same character shows up in different games by different companies. Worth a video from you folks, it seems to me.
The "A Night to Remember" quest in Skrim isn't as major a plot point as others in this list, but it is notable for letting you Speech-check your way through all steps of it. Sure you cost several people a lot of time and money, but at least you can go straight to getting the neat staff without any intended temple-cleaning, goat-stealing, or hagraven-killing.
You guys forgot about Skyrim! You could either Bribe, Persuade, or Intimidate some of the enemies to leave you alone or do what you want. And some items can influence the chances that these things will work. Its cool
Am I the only one who dies laughing every time I see Dampierre (from Soul Calibur PSP, on this list) go "TOH-OOH!" when his wrist blade pops out unexpectedly and scares the shit out of him? Idk why that's so funny to me 😂
I was hoping you'd mention the Gargoyle boss in Hollywood from VtMB. If you weren't a brawler or melee user, he was impossible to beat unless you put a ton of points into charisma and just asked him to leave. I think that was weasley enough :D
I always try to use my speech skill in Skyrim. Whether that skill is the intimidation or the persuasion, doesn't matter. Take Riften for example, you can pay the guy to open the door, use your persuasion, or you can threaten to kill the guy if he doesn't let you in... guess what I did...
Well, I think now we need a reverse video.
8 Instances in Which We Chose Murder Because Negotiating Is A Hassle and We Were Particularly Impatient That Day.
+Slug of Borg They'll get there. Particularly given how Mike plays we know he's played that option.
+Slug of Borg So ALL of a Mass Effect Renegade play through?
The Dark brotherhood storyline...
+Slug of Borg YES!
+Slug of Borg Thats literally me when I play video games. "Oh? You give up? You wanna negotiate? You have valuable information? Hmm.........NAAAAAH."
*shoots person in head*
"Sup, Legate Lanius. My arms are broken and I'm out of bullets; why don't we talk things out?'
I love being charismatic in NV
"Can't wait to test it on drunk people!"
Actually, that sounds hilarious...
let's test it
It was angry drunk people.
Speaking of Dragon Age: Inquisition what about the Empress' Ball Quest? Get enough approval from the court and you can confront the murderer Agatha Christie Style and have them arrested without having to deal with the infuriating boss fight with the waves of stealthed enemies.
I'd rather have the fight than speedrun that part.
Lanius isn't the first Fallout villain you can talk your way out of fighting. In the original Fallout, if you have 100% speech and charisma and you've gotten the autopsy report from the Brotherhood of Steel, you can convince the Master that his "Unity" plans are fruitless as all super mutants are sterile, causing him to kill himself and all his minions with a nuclear explosion. Much easier than trying to fight it.
Wow, I should replay that game to do that...
+John Reinke III You could do it with Colonel Autumn in Fallout 3 too
Agreed, fucking infinitely spawning mutants ;-;
Anarky17 and general autumn from 3
you dont need to have a high speech check. you just need the report. you need to get what the master wants to do and then you can just tell him that his work may be well intentioned but ultimately fraught and worthless because all his children are sterile..
so what he wanted to achieve is impossible, so he stops
There was a system in Bully where you could get the ability talk your way out of fights by passing English classes.
+xXx Fioletowy i długi banan który przemierza Redtu-, znaczy, TH-cam z Planety Teletubisiów xXx Talk your way out of fight or passing English classes??
+xXx Fioletowy i długi banan który przemierza Redtu-, znaczy, TH-cam z Planety Teletubisiów xXx If only it*, I guess you can't talk your way out of a fight...
You mean exactly the OPPOSITE of real life. Good at English classes and you get beat up.
+PavelKahun I wonder if you actually understand what his nick means?
My name??
I would be very happy to get an hd rerelease of Vampire the masquerade.
+Berelore I second that!
One can only hope
A remake was in the making but then some asshat that owned some rights had it shut down...
Fregler awe :(
World of Darkness MMORPG would be too awesome to get irl but srsly it would be absolutely awesome.
In Planescape: Torment you can actually convince the final boss to surrender. In fact, there's only 2-3 fights in the entire game that are mandatory, since the game generally encourages you to take a diplomatic approach to situations.
And that is one of the MANY reasons why Planescape: Torment is the best game ever.
I like how this was released a month after Undertale, i. e., an RPG where you can talk your way out of EVERY battle.
for me it is as often as possible in all fallout games.
Let's be honest, it is sooooooooo satisfying to talk your way out of a tough fight, it makes me feel like a charismatic god, if only i was like that irl
I did that in a hard core run of New Vegas, all speech and charisma. Just cheesed on through.
+Dust the worst part about doing that though is when all of a sudden your at a gunner camp with 3 assaultrons and a mr gutsy plus 5 gunners, then you are completely screwed
a great warrior wins battles, the superior warrior prevents them if he can.
not in video games, lad.
Your a coward
@@wendigo1619 ...and alive while the dumb hero ended up dead.
@@vladdracul5072 i survived more than most people wether on foreign soil or my own backyard, i always chose fight over flight
@@wendigo1619 Guess it was your choice, or was it?
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was an amazing game.
But damn did it have shitty boss fights and shittier endings.
Honstly for the Dragon Age Inquisition post you should've gone with how you can avoid the boss battle against Grand Dutchess Florianne at the Winter Palace.
Although I suppose Imshael is a harder battle...
Also you could've gone with siding with the Dragon cult or gone along with Flemeth's deal about her grimoire, both found in Origins.
Dragon Age is full of things like this.
Flemeth's grimoire, werewolves/elves, desire demons who've posessed innocent little boys...
Even though I literally died to Flemeth like, 16 times, I persevered, and finally succeeded... and it cost me all my health potions.
Totally worth. I saved Morrigan bae!
...except Flemeth just ends up surviving for no reason as stated in the Witch Hunt DLC.
So all that dragon-killing effort was in vain.
*GOD DAMMIT.*
@@masterblaster2678 Yeah it's more of a role-playing choice than anything else since the result is always the same.
It reflects poorly on our society that choosing non-violence is considered cowardly.
I remember my first week of WoW. I rolled a human warlock and wandered a little too far from the starting area. I was chased by some unspeakable horror for many miles, right into a party of level 1 players who agroed the beast. I escaped. They didn't. Good times.
Pre-Video Guess, bluffing Lanius into fucking off with 100 speech
But why talk your way out of a fight when you can punch/stab/shoot/magic to death the thing you're trying to talk out of a fight with?
+Sister and the fun in that is..?
+Da' Melon Sometimes the game will reward players for being more pacifistic by granting access to certain rewards that can only be accessed through specific dialogue. Or in some RPG's, like Fallout 3 for example, you can get more experience points by using unique dialogue options.
It all depends on the game. If there is no bonus for opting out of a fight, reload the checkpoint, then slaughter everything.
Because the thing you're punching/stabbing/shooting/magicking to death is basically god, and can literally stomp you out like you're a very small fire.
Like, not even a small fire. A few embers. A single spark. A flea's cigarette bud.
+Da' Melon Because just murdering your problem is the unintelligent solution.
+LordKame Guru well good thing im stupid
in the vampire the masquerade ending, i just imagine the MC is Dio from JoJo's bizarre adventure, and hell get out in like 100 years and be even more badass.
+ssgsorrels YOU WERE EXPECTING A VAMPIRE
_BUT IT WAS ME, DIO!_
+Shooterguy15 Isn't Dio a vampire?
Captain Vermillion yes he is. But anything for a meme, apparently
+ssgsorrels Oh my god, Cthulu monster vs The World....Fuck, now I'm hyped.
damn, I really should finish this series to avoid spoilers. I'm at the pillar men atm.
I cant believe I weaseled my entire way out of the Saren bossfight on my first ever runthrough in the mass effect series going in with absolutely no knowledge of what to do ever
I still remember the best one of these I had was on PC in Baldur's Gate 2, where you get to talk to a Beholder guarding a crate with important stuff. Instead of starting normal hardcore boss-fight, he starts talking to you, and if you talk to him, you convince him that the person who summoned him really didn't want him to defend what's in the crate, but the crate itself, so he totally doesn't mind you opening the crate to look and, once you've emptied the crate, he decides there's not point guarding it any more and goes home. You even get to meet him again in the expansion and... so much joy...
This is not fucking cowardness! This is the style of playing!
Am I just weird that I prefer diplomatic options?
no
Not at all.
nope, just becuase i both, spared the beast from the east, but i used oh baby on his shiny head, does not mean you are odd
66 Roses
No. That means your pacifistic for the most part. Unless I'm faced with treason or something really abhorrent, I'll be a pacifistic player.
@@medallionvaliance5349 It's not called pacifistic, it's diplomatic, as 66 Roses said. Sadly many present-day politicians lack even the most rudimentary diplomatic skills, putting their counterparts off which leaves them with no options but to resort to violence.
Fallout 1 let you talk your way out of the battle with the final boss. If you convince The Master that the super mutants he was trying to convert all human life into were actually sterile (using forensic data gathered by the Brotherhood of Steel) he realizes his entire plan was madness and destroys his headquarters... WIN!
...and then you proceed to try to leave the compound, and immediately get killed by the extremely potent series of traps set up just outside the area the conversation is held in.
Letho in The Witcher 2, aka the last boss in the game.
Humberto Urdiales With that and the werewolf it really fits Geralt's character more than killing does. Geralt had a similar choice in The Witcher wrt another werewolf.
You know, I've actually NEVER fought Saren at the end of ME1. I've always made it a point to max out either Paragon or Renegade, as I always feel the "best" choice is always the one you worked hardest for. The fact that you still have to fight off "Reaper Meat-puppet" Saren afterward makes me feel like it was still a fight. Unlike when I accidentally negotiated Legate Lanius off at the end of New Vegas. Heh, whoops. :P
+DeathKhan Same, lol. I have a tendency to talk my way out of fights if I can in games that have speech/charm/morality points.
I want to know where was my army of soldier robots when it came time to fight Legate Lanius. They stroll up to the party just late enough to intimidate the NCR, but not help with horrible boss fight. There's a video idea, times your "allies" show up just late enough to not be useful.
Dampierre is the most impressive of all. Convincing someone to abandon the fight... in a fighting game!
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In steamworks Arcanum Magick Obscura. I think I managed to go the entire game without fighting....or, at least, very little of it.
You can get out of the first boss of Cave Story. He asks if you're "sure you want to take him on with that pea shooter?" Answer no, and he's just like "ok," and flies off.
That fight in Dragon Age: Inquisition was easy.
"Jane Douglas Laughing With Water" is my new favorite thing.
Aww, no Agronak gro-Malok, a.k.a the Grey Prince from Oblivion?
+Roanne Rhinnos That ones a bit of a hassle either way.
+Michael Edmunds After the first time I always fought him the hardway. I felt bad killing a man who wanted to commit elaborate suicide
***** I always just use him as my ticket into the Dark Brotherhood, particularly since Crowhaven is good place to become a vampire.
It was easy because you were level 2.
+Michael Edmunds Yay level scaling! Stuff like that is the reason mods like Requiem exist.
Oh come on! The "Talk to get out of fights" mechanic is a Bioware staple! It's been with us all the way since Baldur's Gate... I think? I know Kotor has quite a few of them, anyway. Yay cowardly persuasion!
GOD that fucking bird-borg was so annoying!
And yes! i chose the virgins too, because on my second run my Ink was a pretty sassy ladyelf, and Cass was being mean...
***** well Imshael is one of the four most powerful demons in existance... Two if you played origins and 2 well. Killing him is not a matter of religion, is a matter of saving the world more or less.
qt
Edoardo Prevelato true. Fair point. But virgins.
Chose the absolute worst ending for VTMB... How can you trust that wench? I learned that lesson well in SWTOR- never trust the polite ones...
ikr, i just killed them both every time i finished the game
I was just going to post this. Never have I thought of trusting the Kuey Jin
She's hot though :(
But... I'm polite... :'(
The best part about asking Imshael for virgins is that, if Cole happens to be in your party, Imshael will comment that he does have a virgin, but you probably wouldn't want them. Poor Cole xD
Also, reading these comments makes me feel like a shitty player for finding Imshael really difficult and going for the virgins option instead (and even worse when my second play through defeated him with ease. Avoided him since.)
In the "In my Time of Need" quest for Elder Scrolls V, you can weasel out of the fight twice. When you agree to help the redguard woman, you go out and find her pursuers. They give you a choice. Fight all 15 of them at once, or agree to let bring the woman to them. If you do that, it takes very little effort to lead her outside the city and just let the lead assassin do his job. Or you could do what I did. Agree to help the assassin, and then murder him in a 1v1 fight rather than the 1v15. Cowardice! Now even stormcloaks can do it!
The Possession quest in Witcher 3. Fight the hym or put a baby in an oven to trick the hym. I wonder what Mike would choose.
I laughed so hard when I heard my Inquisitor say " I want to be showered with virgins"
I want a T-shirt which says "a hideo kojima fan"
+Aniket Gidye I NEED IT
+Aniket Gidye Or maybe a Hideo Kojima Production :)
ilyriandevil u alright?
Have y'all played as Malkavian in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines? It's a really good time. You could be a persuasive Malk, which is epic, or have skill points in everything except persuasion skills, and it's still fan-fucking-tastic. So. Many. Lols.
Best. Clan. Ever.
I couldn’t understand shit cuz it was my first playthrough
You _have to_ play as a moon-mad childe of Malkav as your last playthrough. You won't get any of the in-jokes without going through the story once with another clan, and the whole "knowing already how the story plays out" works into the Malkavian mindscape.
"I can't wait to test it on angry drunk people!"-Jane 2015
And there's every encounter in Skyrim which is done by shouting the opponent off of a cliff or mountain
Surprised you guys didn't do the final boss fight in The Witcher 2. If you let him Letho walk, he even gives you a side-quest in the third game!
I'm playing Witcher 3 on the difficulty just below death march (I forgot what it's called) I have attempted Wild at Heart 15+ times. I will GLADLY take not having to fight that werewolf a second time
U jus gotta come back when ur a higher level its unbalenced at this point in game. Hell when i played on normal when the game first released i had that problem. Gaisn too much health
I like diplomatic persuasive endings, not because I get to maybe skip boss fights, but because it makes me feel like a hero instead of just killing everything for fun... And it proves that battles can be won with words as well, limiting bloodshed, something that can't be bad, right?
Imshael wasn't hard (at least not harder than some others). In my playthrough he got stuck and my party rekt him >.> Actually, Inquisition enemy AI isn't very good, now that I think of it.
I clicked on this video thinking purely of Legate Lanius. I just recently discovered this channel, and am glad I did. It has quickly become my favorite gaming channel. Thanks to you all
No!!! The best talk out of a fight in DA inquisition is...
Letting Morrigan use the spirit pool. If she gets in instead of the inquisitor, it avoids the fight with her mom later on. You know...all that weirdness of her mom being a goddess! Anyway, she doesn't turn into the dragon, the game goes on, and happy day!
Wait, Andy's T-Shirt has 4 holes, Kojima is 1 word 4-1=3 CHAPTER 3 CONFIRMED!!!11ONE!!
+Jimmotep how bad must a game be if so many people expect a magic update that will fix everything that is never gonna happened (jk i love mgs)
Ming-Xiao was extremely easy, finished her right away during my first playthrough, just spam the firegun and you will be fine... Though I cannot believe anyone would really want to side with the Kuei-Jin
Hahaha Best line ever! Whoever wrote Andy's lines deserves a flying double high-five.
I must say that they really missed the very first combat with a human enemy in Fallout 2
In Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark, if you were clever enough to learn the final boss's true name, you could magically command him to go away and skip the final battle entirely.
What about Running Away in Pokemon?
I just want to say, that in the dozen or so play-through I have on Mass Effect, that I have never actually battled Saren on the Citadel (first battle). He always shoots himself first lol.
The.Whole.UNDERTALE.Game.
+Comrade Necron unless you are doing the genocide route
+alejandra areco Even then, in the Genocide route you're purposely getting into fights and weaseling your way out of one ruins it. So, no, the game doesn't count.
Nooooo you absolutely forgot THE very best weaselling out ever. Takes suuper intelligence, super speech and charisma, but in Arcanum you can actually talk the ultimate bad guy, Kerghan, out of destroying the whole world. And it gives you the best ending stills in the end.
Dont you tell me to subscribe lady... your not my real Dad!
YOUR NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!!
"Consider this, a 200+ pound gorilla who would happily rip your arms off and play a drum solo of in the air tonight with them" *Shows the old cadbury add of the gorilla and i proceed to get nostalgic and laugh*
What about Flemeth in Dragon Age Origins ?? you don't even need persuading skills
At 7:27, Jane surprised me with her swearing capabilities. I do not even know what word she used, but it was funny. XD
I didn't know this was a thing to do to bosses 😂
+Isaias Garza There are few things more satisfying than convincing the final boss to kill himself.... XD
That Legate at the end of New Vegas was the most insane difficulty spike i've ever dealt with. I went from playing on hard to save-scumming on easy for that one fight.
"Mano a wolfo". Considering "mano a mano" means hand to hand, that made me sigh a little. Good video though :v
Yeah but he could just mean hand to wolf
+Eminemgodful WOLFJOB!
+freakyskull516 that's freaky, freakyskull
+Eminemgodful comes with the madness. . .
+Sheogorath Gaming do i have to say it again?
Combat in Mass Effect was great. Great in that you could load your weapon with mods that overheated it for massive damage gains. Nothing like overloading a gun with one shot and killing a Geth prime in one shot. :D
I died 5 times trying to kill that wear-wolf before i skipped the fight
I tried it first when I was level 5, then I skipped it until I was level 30
+JeDk Videos just shut up, your try to act hard oh yeah who are u trying to impress your mom
+JeDk Videos oh now your trying to sound responsible
+John Murtagh Plot twisit HE's the mom
i killed him in level 6. with bombs and fire i refuse to skip the fight
My favorite instance is in Planescape: Torment. If you're intelligent enough to think of it and charismatic enough to be convincing, you can make your own Mortality that has unbound itself from you bind back to you out of fear of being killed. It's the final boss fight and it takes incredible amounts of forethought, preparation and skill to beat. Or just enough points in Cha and Int.
I know it's an indi game... BUT YOU DIDN'T DO UNDERTALE?!?!?!
I KNOW RIGHT tho this probably came out b4 undertale
Undertale most likely wouldn't count in this because it's in a way hinted to try. Well not exactly hinted it's literally shoved and rubbed in your face. It's literally included in the game mechanic, to talk it out to avoid confrontation in almost all battles (yes yes Undine fight but that doesn't count when you basically have to complete her quest much like sans and all others) it's basically the same effect they did in mass effect and dragon age complete potential friends quests and they may not brutally murder you or sacrifice you or turn on you. It's nothing new but in the games they shows these are examples of basically weasling your way out of a situation, especially if it's a very tough battle in a game. In Undertale you still have to fight in the end that life bar does go down even when you're doing a pacifist run for Asriel because your weapon is words and what not. So it wouldn't count because it's just how you end a game with speaking is included while these other games they mentioned still involved mass amounts of fighting and if you can just have a break on one boss like talking to them to avoid a fight or taking a deal or going around finding something to stop them or even weakening them people will do it.
Loved the ending: "Those are eight times when we chose to use our BRAINS, instead of our brawn. Or at least our COWARDICE, instead of our brawn." XD
Where is every single fight in Undertale?
Flight of the Amazon queen was one of my favorite things to play and watch my dad play when I was younger! I felt like me and my dad were the only people who knew about the game
Under tale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it's people like you that make me want to cut myself, people who obsess over something too much.
Jane cannot keep a straight face in any single OX video, i love it!!
then theres undertale lol
I was actually buzzing when I found out you could talk Saren to death, it took my second playthrough though
Hey I liked Mass Effect's combat. How rude.
In Undertale, you can talk your way out of almost any fight and don't have to kill a single thing. In fact, that's the happy ending: not killing anything and making friends with everyone.
Ok. Mike's little giggle is actually adorable
Yay for people who played Flight of the Amazon Queen! Also I only now got the 'Joe King' pun...
In Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, you could talk or think your way out of almost every fight. Persuade the drunks to leave you alone, feed the Rancor a grenade, use the computers to blow up terminals or gas various rooms, make a peace treaty with the sand people, the list goes on and on.
the little giggle at 10:13
10/10 would recommend
At 4:41 "I can't wait to test it on angry drunk people!" #LoL *;)*
I remember you can do a little quest for the Grey Prince in Oblivion. It's like talking your way out of a fight!
4:50 Jensen with the sass, I swear. "You came all the way to Paris to tell me THAT?"
Granny Rags in Dishonored. You can skip probably the hardest (at least most complex) fight in the game by agreeing to chop up Slack Jaw and help her cook him. She's also totally cool with you looting her house as well, so there's literally no reason to not help Granny Rags.
Reminds me of the Temple of Trials in Fallout 2, where you could just as easily talk your way out of the final trial - fight. Because intelligence and speech are the skills you go for in a post-apo wasteland. And guns.
But who knew you'll start in a tribal village with no guns?
For that multi-stage demon fight in Inquisition, I didn't know you could talk your way out of it. Therefore, Varric, Cole, Cassandra, and my rouge fought in a hideous maelstrom of constant revives and dodge-rollings.
In Sonic Chronicles, you have to track down special items to pinpoint Eggman's base. One of these is guarded by Shadow the Edgehog (no that wasn't a grammar error). You can either fight him in an intense battle or literally just say "I'm not fighting you," in which he jumps away and drops the item you want. Keep in mind he was guarding it. 1/5, would not recommend.
there are several other occasions where this is possible in Mass Effect. For example, when nightclub bodyguards try to stop you, you can just tell them that now would be a good time to get a new job. And they're just like hey great idea thanks bye
Hey, guys, I just realized that Soul Caliber's Dampier is a near-twin of the shifty salesman/carnival barker from the Fable series (mmm, …. if I remember correctly, his name in Fable II was the appropriate Barnum, yes?); the same style top hat, ridiculous moustache, gaudy outfits, the whole schmeer.
OR, WERE they twins? What if they both the same person, only making appearances in more than one video game, albeit in slightly altered personas?? And this isn't the only time the virtually same character shows up in different games by different companies.
Worth a video from you folks, it seems to me.
If there is one thing I learned from fallout it is that the fatman fixes every boss battle
The "A Night to Remember" quest in Skrim isn't as major a plot point as others in this list, but it is notable for letting you Speech-check your way through all steps of it. Sure you cost several people a lot of time and money, but at least you can go straight to getting the neat staff without any intended temple-cleaning, goat-stealing, or hagraven-killing.
You guys forgot about Skyrim! You could either Bribe, Persuade, or Intimidate some of the enemies to leave you alone or do what you want. And some items can influence the chances that these things will work. Its cool
Am I the only one who dies laughing every time I see Dampierre (from Soul Calibur PSP, on this list) go "TOH-OOH!" when his wrist blade pops out unexpectedly and scares the shit out of him? Idk why that's so funny to me 😂
I was hoping you'd mention the Gargoyle boss in Hollywood from VtMB. If you weren't a brawler or melee user, he was impossible to beat unless you put a ton of points into charisma and just asked him to leave. I think that was weasley enough :D
My favorite's in Cave Story. Sure it's simple, but when Balrog asks if you're ready to fight, if you just say No, he'll happily hop away
I always try to use my speech skill in Skyrim. Whether that skill is the intimidation or the persuasion, doesn't matter. Take Riften for example, you can pay the guy to open the door, use your persuasion, or you can threaten to kill the guy if he doesn't let you in... guess what I did...