Current Events > Has Jabba (the hutt) ever been a fightable boss in a video game?

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Just wondering if it'd be like the poo boss in conker's bad fur day
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In Super Return of The Jedi.
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Southernfatman posted...

In Super Return of The Jedi.

And it's impossible for Leia to beat him without cheat codes.

>_>

Deadly Premonition
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Southernfatman posted...

In Super Return of The Jedi.

Super return of the jedi?
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saspa posted...

Southernfatman posted...

In Super Return of The Jedi.

Super return of the jedi?

For the Super Nintendo. It was part of that system's naming convention to add Super to the front of titles.

pretty sure he was in Lego starwars
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The majority of opponents you face in online shooters would qualify
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yeah there sure were a buncha them. good times
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Irony posted...

Deadly Premonition

Watch out for those seeds
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Dark Souls 2
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Southernfatman posted...

In Super Return of The Jedi.

And it's impossible for Leia to beat him without cheat codes.

>_>

use the charge attack? Jabba is stupidly easy as Leia

now the Rancor, that's impossible to beat as Luke. I always use Han
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Charge... attack?

>_>

Skye Reynolds posted...

Charge... attack?

>_>

hold down the Y button until she flashes, let loose with a crazy-strong projectile

works in her Boushh form, too
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I spent FOUR HOURS trying to beat Jabba with Leia and she has a charge attack? I can't blame myself for not knowing about it. You have to hold Y for a solid 2 seconds and there's no visual indicator that she's charging an attack. She doesn't take a different stance. She doesn't glow. She just stands there until you've held it down long enough, then she flickers blue ever so briefly. Even after reading how to perform the move, I thought my copy of the game might have been an earlier release which lacked the charge shot.

I can't blame myself for not knowing about the attack or for assuming the worst when it comes to LucasArts. Like I said, there's nothing to imply that Leia is charging up for an attack. And the strategy for the rancor fight seems to be to switch to Han Solo. Winning with Luke is barely possible. It took 10 straight minutes of defensive strategy, after two hours of losses, to finally be able to eke by as Luke. For the most part, if there's someone better suited for the level that you could switch to, the programmers didn't care how impossible it was for another character -- even if that character was the most thematically appropriate.

people played as other characters besides Luke in that game? only when forced to do other people, and iirc Chewie was pretty baller

Wicket was great in his levels though
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Wicket's ability to turn arrows into makeshift platforms was pretty innovative. To be honest, an entire game could have been built around that mechanic.

Dark Souls 2.
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Skye Reynolds posted...

I spent FOUR HOURS trying to beat Jabba with Leia and she has a charge attack? I can't blame myself for not knowing about it. You have to hold Y for a solid 2 seconds and there's no visual indicator that she's charging an attack. She doesn't take a different stance. She doesn't glow. She just stands there until you've held it down long enough, then she flickers blue ever so briefly. Even after reading how to perform the move, I thought my copy of the game might have been an earlier release which lacked the charge shot.

I can't blame myself for not knowing about the attack or for assuming the worst when it comes to LucasArts. Like I said, there's nothing to imply that Leia is charging up for an attack. And the strategy for the rancor fight seems to be to switch to Han Solo. Winning with Luke is barely possible. It took 10 straight minutes of defensive strategy, after two hours of losses, to finally be able to eke by as Luke. For the most part, if there's someone better suited for the level that you could switch to, the programmers didn't care how impossible it was for another character -- even if that character was the most thematically appropriate.

Haha yeah, it also took me a while before I realized she had a charge move. In her slave form especially, there's barely any flicker in her sprite
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Southernfatman posted...

In Super Return of The Jedi.

good game
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HylianFox posted...

hold down the Y button until she flashes

I thought this was a kids game!
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I never knew about the charge attack either. I've had the game since I was a kid too. I always used Han on the sail barge level. Never was able to get past the very last level where you escape the Death Star.
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Yeah playing as leia just flat out surprises me
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Not only is Leia a playable character, but her gameplay mechanics change depending on her outfit. She uses a blaster on Endor, fights with a staff when disguised as Boussh on Tatooine, and uses her chains like a whip when she's wearing her slave outfit.

Speaking of which, I just cut through the first boss using her charge attack. The last time I fought that boss, it took five minutes to beat it playing as Leia and I won by the skin of my teeth. The time before that, I got decimated. Here, I beat the mechanic eye in about 30 seconds and barely got scratched.

I can still fault the game for making you hold the Y button for two whole seconds without so much as a hint that there's a charge effect in play, but it a helluva powerful attack once she launches it.

I thought playing as Leia was like playing the game on hard mode, and to some extent it still is, but that attack is crazy effective in a boss fight.

Why cant they make games like that anymore? Fuck loot boxes man.
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Southernfatman posted...

I never knew about the charge attack either. I've had the game since I was a kid too. I always used Han on the sail barge level. Never was able to get past the very last level where you escape the Death Star.

You need Jedi reflexes to get out of the Death Star
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