Who was your hardest video game boss? : Othor Games

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:51 am

The final boss in Kingdom Hearts took me days to beat. Could never beat Sephiroth either.

Oh, I remember Sephiroth. Yeah, that guy was tough. Been too long since I did it, can't remember how many tries it took me or how long.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:21 am

*confused turtle*

I didn't understand this either. You don't really fight dagon in Oblivion or even in Battle Spire.

The hardest boss for me had to be Seth on insane on Super Street Fighter IV.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:16 pm

In the old era the final boss of Wrath of the Demon [Amiga, 1991] was known as the hardest game boss in history. I couldn't agree more, it took me ages to beat it.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:46 am

http://youtu.be/wG6KQtIFsps?t=3m11s - DeathSmiles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrPLhATu9pU - Mushihimesama Futari

Neo Exdeath (Final Fantasy V) is one of the few non-optional bosses in an RPG that I had trouble with beating legitimately (i.e. not Mimicing Bahamut summons or Mixing to 1HKO his first form, avoiding Neo all together). I'd probably say that Final Fantasy V was the hardest in the series overall, though that's not saying much.

Just about every damn boss in Resonance of Fate. :meh:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:45 am

Malak from KotOR. I didn't have any of the abilities that could destroy his health recharge things, so I had no way of preventing him from reversing all of the damage I could do to him multiple times. i actually had to start over from a much earlier save and replay the game (leveling my character a lot better), I was dying so much.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:11 pm

The Tempest from Gears of War 3 is an absolute [censored].

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:49 pm

The Empress of Time from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. The mid-game-ish boss fight, that is, not the end boss. I never fought her as the end boss--I went for the hidden canon ending instead--because if I had to fight her again, I was going to wind up putting my computer in the car, driving to Montreal, and chucking the tower through Ubisoft's front windows. :swear:

It's not so much that she's hard. I'm down with hard boss fights. We're cool. It's that she's both hard and the most stupidly unfair and ludicrous boss in what is already a ludicrous and terrible game. Just thinking about that fight inspires feelings of ragequit, and it's been about a year since I finished the game.

I think part of a blog post I made on that fight, shortly after finally beating it (after two hours and umpteen tries) about sums up all the many, many things wrong with it:

I've been playing Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, like I mentioned in an earlier post. It's...a special kind of terrible. It so obviously wants to be taken as all advlt and SRS BUSINESS, but it goes about that like a eleven year old boy who's just discovered swear words, which just makes me giggle and want to give it a pat on the head and lollipop for trying. So it's bad, but an almost enjoyable sort of bad. Except then. I got to the part where you fight the Empress of Time (...look, it makes sense in context), and all I have to say is: that is the worst designed boss fight I have ever played. Ever. Of all time. (And this is coming from someone who survived the Gonarch and Nihilanth. ...You were doing so well up until then, Half-Life!)

It took me eleven tries to finish it, because it's a maelstrom of bad design: she has staggeringly high health, even on easy difficulty; she has unbreakable combo attacks that will take off a third of your health before you can say "oops, rewind"; she can teleport more or less at will, and directly into your path, leading to you accidentally getting locked into one of her combo attacks from hell. All that would be obnoxious enough, and turns the fight into a drawn out, "death by a thousand tiny papercuts" kind of fight in which you run in, nick off a bit of her health, and then flail away again. But I think the worst part is that, even though this is a 10+ minute fight, interspersed with stages and multiple cutscenes, there are no checkpoints. So--when you die, even if you've finally whittled the Empress down to a tiny sliver of HP, you go back to your last manual save. Before the fight starts. And then you have to do the entire thing ALL OVER AGAIN.

In short: that boss fight is the story of how I almost chucked my computer out a window, and came to believe that whoever designed that should be sentenced to a special circle of hell where they are forced to actually play it. Over and over again.

:banghead:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:48 pm

as i'm not a great gamer,i was chuffed to beat sephiroth finally in ff vii.the annoying thing was,that i got the game when it came out,and my friend had a go on it and just shrugged his shoulders.well not so long after,not only did he get the game for himself,but he got a gold chocobo AND beat sephiroth :verymad: many years later (about 12-13) i bought another ps1 and copy of ff vii and got my gold chocobo but most importantly handed sephiroth's [censored] to him on a plate :thumbsup: it is one of my most proud moments playing a computer game :biggrin:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:44 am

To add on my previous post, the tigrex and khezu in Monster Hunter are another set of bosses I despise.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:45 pm

I didn't understand this either. You don't really fight dagon in Oblivion or even in Battle Spire.

Spoiler

My troll post strikes again!

Of course you don't fight Dagon silly.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:02 am

Freaking Gyorg the fish boss in the water temple in Majora's Mask. That's one that comes to my mind. I just remember at the time I think I just kept dying to him somehow.

Now though I could probably beat him easy as pie.

Oh wait, now that Alecto brings up metal gear solid.

I don't know why but Raven killed me more then any boss in that game to a point I felt like stopping.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:33 am

Metal Gear Solid 2, either Solidus or Fortune. I can't work out what was harder, that [censored] Fortune's lightning gun or Solidus choking me every 10 seconds. :banghead:

And Ray, [censored] everything about Ray.

Also, the final boss in Super Meat Boy was the first time I've ever punched something whilst playing a game. That game pisses me off so much. :banghead:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:37 am

The last 3 big bosses in [Prototype]. All of my rage. ALL OF IT.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:25 pm

Freaking Gyorg the fish boss in the water temple in Majora's Mask. That's one that comes to my mind. I just remember at the time I think I just kept dying to him somehow.

Now though I could probably beat him easy as pie.

*Remembers the constant switching between Link and Zora Link*

:shakehead:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:50 pm

The Empress of Time from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

Now i remember playing that game further than that, the game had abug after some griffon boss that would've required restarting, but i don't remember that boss fight. Maybe that's a good thing :hehe:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:31 am

Memories of the Yellow Devil in the original Mega Man make me sad. I can't think of much else, though, since hard bosses rarely seem to be an issue...what drives me nuts are the ones I feel are too easy. Including several mentioned in this thread...

Ming Xiao from Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines. If you use guns and/or the Flamethrower, she's not so bad. But if all you got are melee weapons, ugh, good luck.

My poor, not-a-single-point-in-any-combat-skill Toreador.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:44 pm

Freaking Gyorg the fish boss in the water temple in Majora's Mask. That's one that comes to my mind. I just remember at the time I think I just kept dying to him somehow.

Majora's Mask was hard in general lol.

But seriously, I have to say the hardest boss for myself that made me want to take a hammer to my game was Unlimited Hazama from Blazblue.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:59 am

Barret from human revolution.

I was on hard difficulty. All of the bossfights are easy if you have explosives. 20 clips do less than a grenade

I did not have explosives.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:08 am

My poor, not-a-single-point-in-any-combat-skill Toreador.

Ouch...though the fact that you made it that far is certainly impressive.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:04 am

Majora's Mask was hard in general lol.

Ikana Canyon...

:shakehead:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:27 pm

Jinpachi Mishima from Tekken 5 :swear: Seriously, he had an attack that took about half of your life, if not more, so sometimes he'd with just a bit of health left and then he used that attack and since he had already landed a couple strikes, you died. Not amusing...at all :stare:

Also, Chairman Drek from the original RnC game. The fight itself is quite hard but the main thing is you spend almost all of your money during the battle itself buying more ammo, which means that if you die you lose all your money meaning you will run out of ammo and therefore die. So the only way to do this, without doing it for the first time (which is defintiely the best option) is having a separate file so even if you die you can load that one instead and not lose your money, that said you still have to do the whole final level again which is a pain and very difficult as well.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:42 am

From Mega Man 2:

Mecha Dragon - First you must run from him across an extremely large pit with very small platforms (you miss a jump, you die, you take too long to jump, you die). It was fairly easy to kill him one I got to the battle proper

http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Boobeam_Trap - requires the Crash bomb to take out, it also has several destructible blocks (requires Crash bombs to destroy), the problem, you only get 7 uses out of your crash bombs (and you need to hit all 5 of the things with them).

The Alien - can only be hit by the bubble Lead, of course with that weapon being next to useless just about everywhere else and the fact that it hits hard...

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:35 pm

The second Ansem battle from Kingdom Hearts. You know, the final level where theres like 10 boss fights in a row and and breaks.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:12 pm

Luca Blight from Suikoden II. That guy just never died.

But my characters always did...

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:00 pm

Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts II