All Time Hardest Boss

[herman9000]

awwww, i cant beat mike tyson, he is one-hit K.O.

[Meiguoren]

You have to just sit and dodge his dynamite punch for about the first minute of the match. After that he breaks into different things, things that won't put you down with one punch. Then and only then can you get a hit in. If you're lucky. Play well, ready your nerves of steel, take a deep breath and go to it. Just memorize his signs and you shouldn't have a real problem.

Best of luck to you.

[Native Jovian]

You want hard? Try and beat Radius! In the very beginning in the training session! Sure he whoops you, and it's the first game right?
So we jump in there with the game/continue+ option. He still crushes us. He'll take more turns if necessary to rapidly cast enough blue spells to kill you. Then we discover the wonders of the color plates :) After going through the game twice (being roughly * level 96) and armed with blue plate.

Finally, we can take him down, and he can't stop us. Does he lose? Nooooooo.....he only comments that he must have trained you well!

Dude, I whooped the tar out of that little geezer on my first time through New Game +... He wasn't all that hard. Hell, I'm pretty sure I've gotten him to critical status on the FIRST time though. Tablets = Good.

[Mina]

Hardest final boss if you're clueless: Terranigma. That is, if you have no idea how to block. :wink: Probably wouldn't be possible to kill him anyway, but it's sometimes funny to watch people scream in panic over it. ^_^;

Hardest bosses I've run across so far.. The Four Abyss Gate Guardians in Romancing SaGa 3, but the second time around. (Before you fight the last boss.) Aunas and anything associated with him are permanently set in my mind as 'PURE EVIL.' :P It took me a while to get to the Fairy Village, and it took me DAYS to get to the Fire Palace. (I followed the Black Butterflies, as best as I could, for a day or so. Then, I just resorted to walking in and out randomly of exits. Heh.) Anyway, as far as the second Aunas battle..I cannot begin to tell you people how many savestate loads I did. I cannot imagine trying to beat him fairly on a SFC.

The others were pretty much as much of a pain as he was, but not QUITE as much. Though, I must say that Byuunei was particularly harsh. -.-;

[Krav]

i can't think of the hardest boss ever, but I can think of a pretty damn hard one.

I'm talkin about Prince Amrius in ogrebattle64. unless yew had like, godly weapons and high level paladins and wizards and stuff, yew were cooked. he had that pedra of bane-like spell that could totally take down yer entire front row of soldiers, man. it was tough.

The kingpin fer spiderman (on genesis) was pretty tough too because if yew didn't beat him in time Mary Jane would be dipped into that vat of...whatever that stuff was and then GAME OVER. tough stuff.

Final dracula in castlevania64 when he was in that dragon form was both tiggety looking and harder to beat than changing the lightbulb at the top of a stadium. he was just like...wow. tough.

I thought the Original mother brain from metroid was pretty tough too. all those freaking guns shooting at yew at the same time and then if yew fell in the lava between MB and that column thing yew were pretty much screwed because yew couldn't jump back out. bah.

final mizar isn't so bad if yew have a friend playing as floyd shooting at those freaking meteors he threw at yew.

but bob the goldfish....whenever I open my eyes at night...I still see his unblinking little goldfish eyes... staring at me...staring into my soul...

[Mina]

18 pages and you guys are still typing about hard bosses? This has to be a world forum record.

Though I'm new to these forums, I've been with a couple of other forums for a long time. I haven't read ALL 18 pages of this yet, but perhaps I will soon.

And, the only thing I have to say is:
It's more of a miracle (for any board) that after 18 pages, people are still STAYING ON TOPIC. :lol:

[Krav]

oh yeah, and Giga bowser in SSBM on very hard mode. getting through very hard without continuing and actually being able to face Giga bowser is a feat in itself, but very hard giga bowser? jesus christ, man! yew could blast him with god-knows how many charge shots and he would barely budge! I only tried him once because it took me so many tries to get through adventure mode without continuing, it's just frustrating. especially that damned pokemon level! damn yew pikachu! damn yew to hell!!

Andross from Starfox (NES) was a pretty big bad-arse too. mainly because the ol' SNES could barely handle that many polygons and it made the game slow down a lot. ~_~;;

[Zeromus]

Some of the end bosses in Radiant Silvergun are HARD!!! Like the Phoenix, once he lights up - geez! That game is so fun, it makes me want to marry my friend that owns it, just so I'll have access to it always. Not that it's a guarantee, but better than nothing! :wink:

(Sorry, Steve, just kidding)

Z

[omegaslade]

Ok how about r-type 3 final boss second mission with the first force weapon. you wanna talk abotu insanity. i barly made it throguh it( its not immpossible but really really really hard) you've got a guy that only lets you do so much damage to him cause he opens his misshappen mouth and lets roaches every where that are liek minature bosses them self plus he has big balls of light jsut hovering every where. then if that isn;t enough after you beat him you have to fly liek mad to avoid his arms then when you think your done he sticks his ugly head back out of his dimension and spews little light balls that not only hom ein on you while going out but make a u turn after they are off screen and come back towards you . sound liek fun well it was (^)_(^)

[herman9000]

i still cant beat him, hey, is mike the last person to fight?

[ddjk]

Yes... he is the last one.

How far are you getting?
He will try to one shot knockdown you for the first 1:30 of the first round. Dodge each one and give him 2 shots to the head. ONly 2!
Next he'll go into the blink and hook routine. Dodge the hook and hit him in the head some more. Its either 2 or 3 shots per punch ( i think 3). If you do this right you should be able to knock him down sometime in the 1st round.

2nd round gets a little tougher. Lets see. If he blinks both his eyes a bunch of times, prepare to block like you've never blocked before. Dont try to dodge them. He will still flicker before every big uppercut he throws. He might string together more than one in quick succession. Otherwise, he'll just mix in a combination of the punches i've explained. So just dodge and hit, dodge and hit.

Take deep breaths. Sit on the edge of your seat. Get those reflexes workin, cause without quick reflexes youre down on the mat. In all reality, if you get knocked down twice in the first round, just start over. Hope this helps. Good luck.

[herman9000]

awww i almost beat him!! but it went to the next round and i lost

[Native Jovian]

yew

Do you really HAVE to do that? I mean, seriously. It's spelled Y-O-U. Hooked on Phonics is not your friend.

[RPD]

00 Agent on the Aztec level was HARD. .
for some reason i rule multiplayer but not single player..

also i never got to play starfox for snes and super metroid.. i wish they will come for gameboy adv.. or some link to emulate at least..

[{BloodStar}]

I notice people on the board and in real life mentioning that the conclusion of Xenogears was the hardest fighting ever, or at least the hardest RPG fighting. This will probably spoil just a little, but I'll keep it to a minimum. I know the secret. It's magic. And expensive. But maybe it can help people.

First of all, get 3 GNR500's for Fei, each of which give you 50% increase in engine output . Second, get Fei the Omega 100 engine, which gives him only 1000 fuel, but an insane amount of output, therefore giving him insane damage. For armor, I recommend the Z alloy 800/30... It's 800 normal AR and 300 ether AR. Yes, 300. Equip it and see for yourself. It doesn't SAY 300, but the stat will increase by 300 all the same. These items can be bought in the lighthouse from the merchant, for a lot of money. And now, give Fei's character (not gear) speed shoes if you have them. They give his gear the haste effect when he wears them while piloting. You cannot buy them anywhere. That way, you can ignore booster. Now, grasshopper, you are ready.

Get to the end battles. Easier said than done, but www.gamefaqs.com has excellent strategy guides. One of them may have done my trick already. If so, know that I did this on my own, and do not mean to steal from anyone. Anyway, go straight to the fight with [insert boss name here], and ignore his four "supports." Make damn sure Fei is ready. Then waste the sucker. Just hit him repeatedly with Fei and he goes down like a sack of potatoes. No need to heal. Fei kills him too quickly. Then, just let Fei attack constantly for any further battles you may or may not have to fight. Hope that helps anyone having trouble, didn't ruin the game for anyone, and didn't take too long.

[ella guro]

I haven't read the whole huge thread, so I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the second time you fight Mizar in the underrated n64 game "Jet Force Gemini", is one of the toughest boss battles of all time, imo....

[luminaire23]

Some of the bosses that annoyed me include: FinalHazard(Sonic Adventure 2), Criosphinx(Chrono Cross), Sigma(MMX5), and Deadbeard(Golden Sun).

[Kitsune Sniper]

Since I don't have time to read through eighteen pages of posts, I'll just say the name of the single boss I have never beaten: Gill, from Street Fighter III: Third Strike. He was beatable in Second Impact. I can't even beat him one round in Third Strike.

There. *poof*

[The Coop]

Since I don't have time to read through eighteen pages of posts, I'll just say the name of the single boss I have never beaten: Gill, from Street Fighter III: Third Strike. He was beatable in Second Impact. I can't even beat him one round in Third Strike.

He's beatable, but he's cheaper in tactics than he was in Double Impact. To beat him, you have to use either upper cuts or round houses to knock him out of the air (Dragon punched and the like only get you hit as your landing), trip him (this works a good 50% of the time for me) after which you throw a well timed fireball to nail him as he gets back up, and occasional jump kicks (followed up with a "trip and fireball" attack).

Going nuts with supers on him is useless. Ya gotta stick with the basics. Again, he still isn't easy, but he's beatable.

[herman9000]

cool, I like to play street fighter 3 :D :) :( :o 8O :? 8) :lol: :x :P :oops: :cry: :wink: :roll: :twisted: :evil: :!: :?: :idea: :arrow:

[{BloodStar}]

Some of the bosses that annoyed me include: ...Criosphinx(Chrono Cross)...

Hey, I don't know about the rest, but I think I can help you out on this one. You have to steal from the yellow dragon earlier in the game, and get his yellow armor. It absorbs earth attacks. If you play through more than once, steal every time from every dragons for more armor. Equip as many characters as possible with yellow armor before fighting Criosphinx, and every other turn, his earth attack will fully heal you. Makes him quite the pushover.

[SiKrAiKeN]

Dude, ever beat MS3? 8O That game has some f--king hard bosses! especially the one where the alien head is connected to the room and shoots these huge balls one after another, and you can't dodge them all unless you are like one foot tall, which your not.

Over at MARP, they have recordings for both Metal Slug 3 and Metal Slug X, finished on one credit.

http://marp.retrogames.com
http://marp.retrogames.com/index.cgi?mode=search&short=^mslug3n$&table=y&per_game=1000&tourn=0

[Nex]

For me, the hardest boss I had to fight was the first boss, on Dr. Wiley's first stage of Mega Man. (the first one.)

I coudln't beat him. I never used the "select cheat" either.
-J

sorry dude...beat him when i was 4...no cheats...

~nex

[Nex]

Hardest boss of all time would HAVE to be the computer 2nd player on MONOPOLY!!!! I have never beat him....within 20 turns he ALWAYS has Boardwalk and parkplace with atleast 3 houses on each...ITS INSANE!!!! If anybody knows a weak point(s)...please tell me. I need it!!!!

~nex

[Bahamut]

Let's see, all time hardest...how about Lavos in CT the first time you fight him at the Ocean Palace (and no new game +)?

[Kitsune Sniper]

He's beatable, but he's cheaper in tactics than he was in Double Impact. To beat him, you have to use either upper cuts or round houses to knock him out of the air (Dragon punched and the like only get you hit as your landing), trip him (this works a good 50% of the time for me) after which you throw a well timed fireball to nail him as he gets back up, and occasional jump kicks (followed up with a "trip and fireball" attack).

Going nuts with supers on him is useless. Ya gotta stick with the basics. Again, he still isn't easy, but he's beatable.

Beatable with Hugo? :P I almost beat him one round yesterday. But then he took out 70% of my life in fifteen seconds.

And here I thought Rugal '94 was difficult...

[titanjedi]

Some of the bosses that annoyed me include: FinalHazard(Sonic Adventure 2),
Sorry man. He's easy in both matches. :lol:
I think the hardest boss in anygame I ever played was Event match 51 in SSBM. Giga Bowser, Ganondorf, and Mewtwo. Everyone says you can only beat it with Jigglypuff. But I did it with fox. It was hard the 1st time, but now I can do it just about every other time. :wink:

[The Coop]

And here I thought Rugal '94 was difficult...

Rugal in KoF '94 was hard. Hard as bared nipples in an Alaskan winter. He wasn't much easier in '95, or in '98. Hell... Rugal has always been a cheap bastard, regardless of what game he's in (even Capcom vs SNK). As much as I love the KoF series, I HATE Rugal.

[Rurouni]

The F#%&ing Mana Beast at the end of 'Secret of Mana'...I only ever beat him once, and it took me almost and hour to do...I hated casting Lv 8 Barrier everytime he charged at me...drained every walnut I had...but you'd have to have played the game to understand what I mean :D

[Kitsune Sniper]

Rugal in KoF '94 was hard. Hard as bared nipples in an Alaskan winter. He wasn't much easier in '95, or in '98. Hell... Rugal has always been a cheap bastard, regardless of what game he's in (even Capcom vs SNK). As much as I love the KoF series, I HATE Rugal.

You freakin' kidding me?! Omega Rugal 98 was a WIMP! I beat him the first time I got to him! And he wasn't that hard in '95. Saisyu Kusanagi was much harder than him.

Also, he's a wimp as God Rugal, CvsS2. His moves do take out three times the normal amount, but once you know his pattern, he's easy. :)

You want hard in KOF? Try Igniz. He's not -that- difficult, but he can juggle you and take out 75% of your life.

I wonder what Eolith has in store for us in 2002...

[Meiguoren]

The F#%&ing Mana Beast at the end of 'Secret of Mana'...I only ever beat him once, and it took me almost and hour to do...I hated casting Lv 8 Barrier everytime he charged at me...drained every walnut I had...but you'd have to have played the game to understand what I mean :D

Are you serious? All you have to cast are the mana spells on the sword and heal spells. If you had the time to level up Barrier to level 8 then you are obvously strong enough to survive the little charge attacks. The beast was a cakewalk.

[The Coop]

Saisyu Kusanagi was much harder than him.

Saisyu Kasunagi?!?!?! Hell, I whipped him like a red headed step child (no offense to the red headed step children of the world :D ). I had no problem with him. Rugal kept knocking me out of the air 90% of the time, and kept using the same moves to keep me back on the ground. He also jumped over damn near every projectile shot.
Maybe it's because I keep the difficulty setting on 4 for the KoF series.

[Bahamut]

Are you serious? All you have to cast are the mana spells on the sword and heal spells. If you had the time to level up Barrier to level 8 then you are obvously strong enough to survive the little charge attacks. The beast was a cakewalk.

He just didn't know about casting Mana Sword to revive it I guess...one of my friends didn't know about that and kept charging to level 8 sword attack. Took him about an hour to win. And anyway, you don't need Mana spells levelled up that high for Mana Sword - it's automatic 999 damage for each sword hit anyway.

[The Coop]

Here's one that probably only a few people have gotten to try. The entire final stage of Gradius II.

I know, bosses, not stages... but hear me out. The ENTIRE last stage of Gradius II is just boss fights. Bosses from LifeForce, the previous Gradius, and a new one or two... one after the other. I believe you have to go through about seven bosses before it's finally all over and you move on.

God help you if you killed, because you are SERIOUSLY screwed at minimum power and the slowest ship speed... as you start from the beginning of the stage 8O ! Yep. You die, you gotta go through them all again with the weakest weapon and a painfully slow ship.

Doesn't it just sound like it oozes fun?!

[Kitsune Sniper]

Here's one that probably only a few people have gotten to try. The entire final stage of Gradius II.

Konami's EVIL.

Try playing all the way through Axelay, making it to the final boss in hard mode, just to spend HALF AN HOUR shooting at it and not even fazing it.

And this was seven years ago, in a real console. Christ, I hate Konami. >_<

[overZEALous]

Not that I've played the hardest games on earth, but in my opinion, the hardest boss I've fought (and I know this is not an RPG) would have to be Epyon from the Gundam Wing game on the Super Famicom. Hard Difficulty, obviously. Hell, I have a tough time with him on easy! RPG-wise, however, I'm gonna have to say Arch-Demon from Seiken Densetsu 3. I don't pride myself on being a good RPG player, but that took way too much thinking and considering moves to beat (and that was the FIRST stage). And then when he got into the second phase, I just said "I'm screwed." and kept fighting. I won, after a few tries, but I just thought he had it in for me. But that's just MY non-experienced RPGer's opinion, lol.

[The Coop]

Konami's EVIL.

Try playing all the way through Axelay, making it to the final boss in hard mode, just to spend HALF AN HOUR shooting at it and not even fazing it.

And this was seven years ago, in a real console. Christ, I hate Konami. >_<

I don't know about EVIL, but they can be damn mean sometimes. Death in the first Castlevania ("hard" is an understatement for that boss), trying to see the full ending in Rocket Knight Adventures (on Hardest... which makes the final pig leader FUCKING hard with the "one hit and your dead" setup), handing over the Contra name for the two Playstation episodes <shudder>. But, if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have the Castlevania series. Back to the topic at hand...

I agree though, Axelay's last boss on Hard is a vicious little son of a...

[The Coop]

A blast from the past. Anyone remember Hellfire in the arcades or on the Genesis? Anyone ever get to the end end boss on the "Yeah... right" difficulty setting? If so, you know what I'm talking about. If not...

Imagine a large robot. The top half looks like a futuristic knight in armor, the bottom half looks like a hover ship. He has a lance that he thrusts out at you, which fires about a dozen bullets in all directions once it's extended... which happens about once every five seconds. His ONLY weak spot it his head, which is blocked by a very large shield over half the time. The Hellfire missle (your "bomb" in the game) does little to him. He takes a lot of hits before he goes down, even more (like A LOT more) if you wind up dying and having to fight him with the weakest weapon level.
I beat him, once, on that setting. Not a fair fight.

[Chewy McBitems]

Hardest boss of ALL TIME is that RETARD AOIFAHAARRHHGHHHH SUPER R TYPE 3 LAST BOSS. No way in hell you can beat it, try, seriously.
Damn blue orbs....damn them to hell.

[Chewy McBitems]

Oh and on the topic of the Mana Beast in Secret of Mana, he is probably the easiest final boss of any game i have ever played. There is no reason you should even come close to dying...

[Walrusgumbo]

Well, I'm sure someone'll disagree, but I'd have to go with the final boss of Terranigma. The advent of the 'save state' feature mad him (somewhat) easier, but before then, he's nearly impossible. Get this, he launches these myriad attacks at you, each doing obscene amounts of damage. Then he launches an attack that is impossible to dodge and drains away half of you hitpoints for a long time, eventually bringing you down to one hit point, regardless of how many hit points you've got, it is also one of the few times that you can hit him.. To top it off, his defense is so high that you can only do 1 or 2 points of damage to him on a hit, so you have to sit their pounding away for a good hour before he finally dies. Oh well, I guess if it were any less difficult I'd be disappointed.

[Mr Fiend]

Hardest boss?

Mishaela from Shining Force.

you fight through her minions, you get to the bottleneck leading up to here, you get her surrounded and start pounding on her... then she casts level 2 bolt and takes half the life from about 10 members of your party.

Of course, you have plenty of others, but then she starts whacking people around for 1/4 health a pop.

Funny thing is, she only has about 60 health.

Man, what a bitch

[Vash the Stampede]

Well, throughout my videogame experences, the hardest boss I've ever come across was: The Egg Viper in Sonic Adventure. The 1st time I faced him I almost went insane. Finally did beat him, and at about 4:20 AM if I recall correctly, and I have gone back and beaten him many times again since.

[The Coop]

Hardest boss of ALL TIME is that RETARD AOIFAHAARRHHGHHHH SUPER R TYPE 3 LAST BOSS. No way in hell you can beat it, try, seriously.
Damn blue orbs....damn them to hell.

I have R-Type 3 on my ol' SNES. I have yet to get to the last stage, but now there's a little voice in my head saying "Go on... you know you wanna get there so you can get your ass kicked too!". Guess I need to up my medication dosage :D .

[Wonder_Hamster]

AHA! None of you probably remember me (or my much earlier post in this thread), but after months of frustrating gaming I have FINALLY BEAT MR. BIG!!! The NES version of NARC sucks, and I've given up on it since it makes you use 2 buttons for 5 commands. Damn that's annoying....
Anyway, I have found a pretty cheap way of beating Mr. Big in the arcade version (but do what works, right?)
Collect every missile that you can in the game and save them all for the last fight. You should have 99 of them by the end. After you destroy his 3 wheelchairs, his sunglasses, and all the flesh on his head, make sure you have a couple of lives left. Let him kill you once. Then, on your next life, during that precious few seconds of invincibility, walk up as close to him as you can and empty as many missiles you can at the base of his spine. Each time you do that, you should usually get enough points for another life. That may be really cheap, but it's the only way i know to get rid of him. Shooting anywhere else seems to be ineffective, and it's impossible to get close enough to clear shot of the base of his spine without his huge freaky skull biting you, and the tongues. OH GOD, THE TONGUES!
After a few turns, his head should start spinning and debris will fly everywhere, until his skull explodes and comes off of the freaky purple head-transportation thing.... Then big cockroaches fly out of the skull and try to bite you. Yuck.
You now have access to his secret room, which is filled with lots of 24k gold bars, and is guaranteed to get you enough points for the number 1 high score. Then you get some lame-ass ending:
"Congratulations! You have completed your NARC training mission.
Contact your local DEA recruiter."

How freaking stupid is that?

Now I'm trying to beat the last boss in NAM-1975. And when you die, the world explodes or something and it's automatically Game Over.
http://mvt3k.overclocked.org/guest006.htm

[Squishy Penguins]

I can't beleive I found the willpower to trudge through 20 pages of this.. I am tired, so I won't take any detours.

I agree with most bosses posted here, and I wish to add another game into the mix : Y's III on the SNES.

I might only be my young age at the time, but two bosses where pratically impossible for me at the time. The fire snake-dragon thing in some caves, and the last boss. I don't remember much, except that I have waisted a sizable chunk of my time on those two.. I think the fire boss is near the middle of the game, though...

Gah, me iz too tired to think anymore. I'm off to bed.

[The Coop]

I can't beleive I found the willpower to trudge through 20 pages of this..

Is a serious read isn't it? 300 replies, over 10,000 views and 21 pages. I can honestly say I never expected this thread to hang on for so long. I guess that just shows you the power of a vicious boss battle... you never forget it and you never forgive both the boss itself, and the programmers that made it :wink: .

Here's another boss. I dug out The Terminator for my Sega CD (yep... it's still going 8O ). I was doing quite well, until you come to the part where you have to lure the Terminator's endoskeleton through a large factory, find the right path to get the weapon to blow of its legs, and then lure it towards the crusher. One wrong turn, you're dead. Miss the weapon, you're dead. So much as glance the endoskeleton chasing you with a thread of your clothing, you're dead.
I eventually wound up cheating and using the stage select so I could get back there and find the way the kill to bastard again (I hadn't played it for about a year or so). Cheating? Yes. But I did it :D .

[Merid]

I don't know if you'd really call him a boss, but what about Scissorman. That dude's a real pain in the ass when you're trying to LIVE! Senario 2 is hilarious though (hide in the pantry from scissorshmoe. He comes in and leaves. Leave pantry, look around. Open pantry again, and oh my god, it's scissorshmoe out to gut ya. Now that sucks!

[Yuffie_Acolyte]

I dunno... the votes for the hardest bosses in RPGs would have to go to...

A) The end bosses in Valkyrie Profile (the ones in the Seraphic Gate)

and

B) The Dark Aeons and Penance from Final Fantasy X International

...

But overall, I'd say the final area in Might & Magic VII (the one with all the little droids running around firing particle beam weapons at you, just as you enter the starship) was ungodly insane. The new version of Chaos for the FF1 Wonderswan is no joke either; they gave him two new attacks. A Kefka-ish Fallen One style attack, and a Death To All attack.

[Squishy Penguins]

I just remembered a boss I never, ever have beaten in my life...

Is any of you familiare with the Parodius series by Konami ? Well, in Parodius 2, there is this secret level you sometime stumble into ( for no reason that I can tell ) where you're flying around this big ship covered with Maoi heads while the March of the Valkyries blares in the background. Anywho, the boss of this level is a giant Maoi head, femal, who spits out these pahlic shaped green heads. I never was able to beat her. Good thing you don't have too..

[SSJ HBK]

Is any of you familiare with the Parodius series by Konami ? Well, in Parodius 2, there is this secret level you sometime stumble into ( for no reason that I can tell ) where you're flying around this big ship covered with Maoi heads while the March of the Valkyries blares in the background. Anywho, the boss of this level is a giant Maoi head, femal, who spits out these pahlic shaped green heads. I never was able to beat her. Good thing you don't have too..
What's the name of that movie? Hunt for Red October, I think. You know, the one where they're in the Vietnam War, and the Apache helicopters fly over to bomb the city, and they start blaring Flight of the Valkries on their loud speakers. "What's that for?""So you don't get your balls shot off." :wink:

Anyway, did anybody beside me have trouble beating Ultros? I don't know if he's already been mentioned, I'm gonna go through this thread little by little, but not all at once.

[Xplo]

Well, I'm sure someone'll disagree, but I'd have to go with the final boss of Terranigma. The advent of the 'save state' feature mad him (somewhat) easier, but before then, he's nearly impossible. Get this, he launches these myriad attacks at you, each doing obscene amounts of damage. Then he launches an attack that is impossible to dodge and drains away half of you hitpoints for a long time, eventually bringing you down to one hit point, regardless of how many hit points you've got, it is also one of the few times that you can hit him.. To top it off, his defense is so high that you can only do 1 or 2 points of damage to him on a hit, so you have to sit their pounding away for a good hour before he finally dies. Oh well, I guess if it were any less difficult I'd be disappointed.

What was the final boss in Terranigma? Was it that big mechanical thing? Because if so, leveling up on those floating cube things will quickly make that boss a pushover.

[omegaslade]

heres another oldie but a goodie. the last boss on axley on hard with the 2nd first arm the 2nd second arm and the 3rd third arm ( thats teh homing lasers the morning star and the clister bombs for thoses who dont; know what i am talking about.) if any one else has done it let me know cause it took me forever to do it lol.

[joe_cam]

I had a good one to name about 2 hours ago.....WHEN I FIRST STARTED TO READ THIS GODDAM THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe I just wasted all this time reading all 21 pages here. Someone shoot me.........oh hey...I downloaded 11 songs while reading all this....

Cam

[DarkCecil13]

Sword Master for the NES - I can make it to the wizard in the first level no problem, but then he kicks my ass. I could probably kill him if I leveled up to level 3. Though, I'd probably run out of continues by then. Oh well.

[Dinobot 2]

When I was younger, I remember all the bosses in Kickle Cubicle (Nes)were always hard.

[Lunar[Blue_Star_Moon]]

How about the Water Dragon in Lunar: Eternal Blue on PS1? I've owned the game for over a year and I've been stuck there for eight months of it 8O ! Or Ghaleon at the end of Lunar: The Silver Star Story on the Sega CD? On the PS1, he was a breeze compared to his first appearence on the Sega CD.

:D yeah i can say for myself the water dragon was indeed a battle but not impossible to be stucked in this game for eigth months i´ve beat him in my first try but with little luck and only hiro´s standing with low hp. I don´t know how hard ghaleon was on sega cd version but in the psx version he was a dirty looser you only have to take the right strategies

[Lunar[Blue_Star_Moon]]

Well, I'm sure someone'll disagree, but I'd have to go with the final boss of Terranigma. The advent of the 'save state' feature mad him (somewhat) easier, but before then, he's nearly impossible. Get this, he launches these myriad attacks at you, each doing obscene amounts of damage. Then he launches an attack that is impossible to dodge and drains away half of you hitpoints for a long time, eventually bringing you down to one hit point, regardless of how many hit points you've got, it is also one of the few times that you can hit him.. To top it off, his defense is so high that you can only do 1 or 2 points of damage to him on a hit, so you have to sit their pounding away for a good hour before he finally dies. Oh well, I guess if it were any less difficult I'd be disappointed.

What was the final boss in Terranigma? Was it that big mechanical thing? Because if so, leveling up on those floating cube things will quickly make that boss a pushover.

:lol: sorry but i´ve to laugh but the final terranigma boss was a piece of cake i said earlier in another post that with the right strategies and tactics every boss is easily beatable and so with terranigma...simply level up in the neo tokio canalisation until you ´ve level 57 or so it takes you only 2-3 hours of your spend time nothing more and the final boss of terranigma can say goodbye :D

[Blaster Atoms]

ruby and emerald weapon. i cant so much as touch them. any tips on how to last at least 5 minuetes with either? a link would be greatly appreciated.

[omegaslade]

Its simple ok you can do it one of two ways you can eiter get all teh way up to level 99 and find the final attack adn master a pheonix( combine them adn you er revived after you die) or you can do my favorite and go to the beack over be yuffies place. why you ask? simple just go there and make sure you are under 7000 hp. get into a battle with the turtle thingy and hit your self while minaturized untill the last two digits are 77 then just use potions untill it is at 7777 but make sure you have the materia you want so that the health dosen;t change then just go into battle. that works for emerald you will sit there and hit him for a log tim eif he actualyl does hit you make sure oyu have knights of the round and mine and a ass load of ethers and just go from there now ruby is harder and i haven;t actually beat him yet (V)_(V)

[Blaster Atoms]

what do you get from beating emerald?
i heard about a special materia in that island that isnt on the map, that looks like a volcano. i think its called "Round table"
is this bullshit?

[omegaslade]

Nope its true its up in teh north east part of the map yo uneed a gold chocobo to get it it has the all powerfull knights of the round table materia in it. as you can tell from the name all 13 knioghts ( aurthur included) coem out and attack from 9999 which is good but on ruby it won;t work cause you will get countered wit ultima. and you get teh the dang i forget what you get for beating emerald of yeah the desert harp. and you get the dessert rose from ruby

[Blaster Atoms]

gold chocobo?
desert harp?
desert rose?
what the fuck is the "tissue" for?

[omegaslade]

LOL check the chocobo bredding part of yoru guide ( if you have one ) if not go to http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/game/20052.html and read the faq on chocbo breeding and on any thign else you might need and as for the rose and the harp. well teh harp gets you thee master materias( master magic command and summon) which lets you use any i mean all spells and the rose gets you a gold chocobo. (^)_(^) any thign else?

[Blaster Atoms]

thanks much. its time to kick some weapon ass!

[SSJ HBK]

Probably already mentioned, but Kefka was a tough buy to beat. Always healing himself, and always taking your parties hit points down to 1. Damn you, Kefka!

[stp_rocker]

ozma from final fantasy 9. hands down.

[omegaslade]

lol kefka? an offering and a genji glove took care of him in one round. altime hardest woudl have to be either ruby or omega weapon from ff8. i woudl mention the omegas on x but they were how shall i put it REALLY GAY and easy.

[The Coop]

Allright folks. We're digging back a bit for this one. Red Zone on the Genesis. Final Boss of the game. Fat guy floating around wildly, shooting at as he zipped on and off the screen. Nearly impossible to hit, only beaten him a couple times since I bought the game back in mid 1990s.

Now that I think of it, just getting to fat prick is an accomplishment :D

[Magus]

I think that the hardest boss that I've ever fought in my gaming experiences would be the last boss from Vagrant Story. I won't say the name cause I don't want to spoil it for anyone who might be playing it. Now, this was over two years ago, and I still haven't beaten him/her yet. I gave up :P

[omegaslade]

How about the last boss to streets of rage three. that guy was hard ( i am talkin about the final mister x robot at the end of the factory) i mean beating it is one thign but beating it in the time limit that gets to be difficult.

[The Coop]

I concur with you on that one. That time limit was the games final kick in the nuts. One slip up, and the game was over, period. No recovering. And thusly, you start from the beginning of the game. No FUCKING FAIR!

[Lightbunny]

I'd have to log the last boss from Final Fight as my pick for hardest boss ever. He's an old guy in a wheelchair...WITH A CROSSBOW!!! Oh well, after you beat him, he falls out a really high window.

--LB

[Cannon Fodder Frog v2.0]

The Final Boss in Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master for Genesis...That guy could kill a player in one hit. Forget about living through his attack either he has a whole arsenal of them.

And am I the only one that can play this game on a keyboard?

[Vertigo]

"Well, I'm sure someone'll disagree, but I'd have to go with the final boss of Terranigma. The advent of the 'save state' feature mad him (somewhat) easier, but before then, he's nearly impossible. Get this, he launches these myriad attacks at you, each doing obscene amounts of damage. Then he launches an attack that is impossible to dodge and drains away half of you hitpoints for a long time, eventually bringing you down to one hit point, regardless of how many hit points you've got, it is also one of the few times that you can hit him.. To top it off, his defense is so high that you can only do 1 or 2 points of damage to him on a hit, so you have to sit their pounding away for a good hour before he finally dies. Oh well, I guess if it were any less difficult I'd be disappointed. "


"What was the final boss in Terranigma? Was it that big mechanical thing? Because if so, leveling up on those floating cube things will quickly make that boss a pushover."

I don't know how to do quotes, so don't kill me. And that boss was Dark Gaia, version two. Pretty easy if you used X guard when he fires off his catastrophe maker and leveled up enought (level 32 or so I think). Also had to go to the back of the room so he'd come close (which is what I hated the most). Loved that game, but I didn't like the final boss music. I like the Dark Gaia music from Illusion of Gaia better.

Personal most hated boss? Zophar. How many hitpoints DOES that guy have anyway? I didn't have triple sword when I first fought him, and didn't win. So I had to go back to an earlier save (which I had TONS of. I must have saved on a different file every hour of play) to go level up on some Chiro Mongrels until I got the tech. As well as the other ultimate techs. Even then, Zophar was one major headache. Still, you gotta love an enemy who is stubborn about dieing. Made getting there all worth it. Wish they had used the Star Dragon theme with the Star Dragon, though. It's such a good song...

[SSJ HBK]

I don't know how to do quotes, so don't kill me.
The simplest way to do quotes, if you're just quoting one person, is to find the post of theirs you want to quote and click the "Quote" button on the top right corner of the post. You could also do it by typing in [ quote ] without the spaces. If you want to put the name of the person you're quoting, type in [ quote="name" ] without the spaces. To end the quote, type in [ /quote ] without the spaces. Or you can click on the "Quote" button at the top when you are typing a reply.

[soup]

M. BISON
STREET FIGHER 2 TURBO (super nintendo)
Turbo level 4
Difficulty 7

IM-fucking-POSSIBLE

[omegaslade]

Final boss of sonic blast man 2 . Well not the final final boss but the guy that looks liek blast man he was hard as hell expecailly on hard. It took me forever to beat him.

[LordGerald]

Alot of the FF8 bosses were the hardest I have ever encountered (then again it was pretty much my first RPG).

Omega Weapon in the Undersea Research lab has my vote. I can NOT beat that thing. ITs exhausting and depressing, but for the life of me, I just cant beat him.

[omegaslade]

that ones easy all you have to do is make sure you are a good level and have plenty of arua and also make sure you have teh lion heat. a few lion heats and the guys dead also have irvine and use fast ammo ( if you have a controler with turbo that really helps lol) and it shoudl be a peice of cake

[Lord Spaz]

Anyone try giving ff7 a ring, maybe Ruby Weapon WITHOUT KOTR! I've done it and proved it can be done! with kotr and mimes it's easy though.

[Lord Spaz]

Lord Gerald is a moron... FF8 was just about the easiest FF ever!!

Jeez, Omega weapon was a breeze, so was the ending battle w/ Ultimecia was also easy. The hardest battle in that game was probably jumbo cactuar *chuckle, chuckle*. U cant convince me that a boss in FF8 was the hardest boss ever

[Lord Spaz]

Lord Gerald is a moron... FF8 was just about the easiest FF ever!!

Jeez, Omega weapon was a breeze, so was the ending battle w/ Ultimecia was also easy. The hardest battle in that game was probably jumbo cactuar *chuckle, chuckle*. U cant convince me that a boss in FF8 was the hardest boss ever

[omegaslade]

First of all omega weapon was in teh castle not the underwater thing. you ar refering to ultimate weapon. any how you had problems with jumbo cactaur? man that is sorry he was one of the easiest bosses in teh game i mean a few of irvines specails and he was trhough.

[Merid]

For FF8, even without Lionheart or Aura's just have Quistis with Degenerator or Mighty Guard and all battles are a sinch.

As for FF7, I beat Ruby with Cid (sure I called Highwind a lot, but there was no KOTR) and I beat Emerald by miming my own Omnislash (probably the coolest FF trick I've ever seen).

[Wairata]

I'll probably get flamed for saying this, but I hated the last boss for Chrono Cross. It wasn't necessarily hard, but damn was it annoying. Trying to get those stupid elements to make the right melody in order to free Schala and thereby get the best ending was a pain in the a$$!

[The Coop]

Here's a fun one. Star Wars Arcade for the 32X. The final boss? The Death Star trench of course... ON ACID!!!!!!!!!

There were three times as many guns and things to avoid hiting than there was in the entire trilogy of films. Of course, that was simply to capper for a game that was harder than a goddamned rock (I beat it twice... I recorded the ending the second time... and I still don't know how I got through it!)

[FLiPpIeS]

the weigraf/velius battle towards the end in final fantasy tactics. u need some good strategy and stats to win that battle

[The Coop]

Dug up yet another one from the 32X bin. T-Mek.


The final boss? Nazrac. Seen him once. Got my ass thrashed in twenty seconds and have yet to see him again (I've owned the game for about four years). Unless there's a damn good cheat, I doubt I'll ever see that damn games ending :cry: .

[DL-Oddeye]

Hardest boss I ever faced..

Star Ocean the second story.. the secret final bos you need the evil trumpet to call.. she hit for ungodly damage.. had some ungodly defence.. paired with undogly speed... I think her name was isobel or something I forget..

I beat it using blood armor and having rena casting alot of curing.. Claud Dias and Ashton all with top equipment and blood armor made it easy.. I did beat here once normal took me over 1 hour of battle..


Final Fantasys

Omega weapon in ultimicias castle.. came down to the invinciblility item.. I used one of my card to create like 20 of them omega couln't hit me

the Ff7 weapons came down to KOTR mimic and alot of clounter paired with KOTR

Final Fantasys none of the fights were hard.. if I ever ran into a hard fight.. I just made my guys all lanceds and jumped my way to victory.. make most fights a joke.

Shining Force 2.. no egress and the final fight was very hard.. kill galam and Zeon one after the other was an excesize in skill all its own.. not for me cause I waited to promote till level 40 and ended up with characters that all had well over 125 hp and ?? for stats.. they are now like lvl 50 each and did I mention I have logged over 200 hours on that file in the last 6 years lol

Legend of Legia.. try Lapis out.. no mp.. no spells.. kill any of your characters in one hit practicaly.. and a lot of hp.. even at level 99 he can still take all my characters out but gala in one attack round.. and he sometimes gets 2 in a row lol.

Zophar in Lunar 2 was hard till I figured out the trick.. kill the 2 hands befor he goes into attack mode.. makes the fight a heack of alot easyer.. leave the back part( i dont remember what it was) alive since you cant kill it.. kill the heands then go for the main part.

Ok this post got way to long

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sorry for the star trek sig.. I made it myself and sumaraly attacked it to any post I make on any board.. it does however sport 2 shining forrce 2 characters.. :)

[omegaslade]

Dude just because it sports shinging force two characters it is cool. and how can you say that last battle was hard i mean that was an easy battle. it was no diff from what the y did in the first one. they mad you figfht dark sol then dark dragon but in the first on you had enimes that coudl apear. in teh second one you didn't the only battle that was remotly hard was the battle with odd eye and thats cause he coudl hit you crom a good distance plus you had to figure out how to get around the thing and avoid from falling

[DL-Oddeye]

Chess fight in Shining force 2 was hard if you tried to kill everything lol..
and oddeye was a hard fight... and a good one hence why I use his name and have him on my pic lol

oh oh here is a hard boss.. yu yevon ffx... man.. can you not win.. your invincible can reflect full heal spells.. what was square thinking.. it was way to easy lol

[Cpt_Zach]

There is nothing more annoying in Castlevania than destroying the really hard boss, Dracula to find that he has a true evil form that rapes you and makes the other form of Dracula look like a castrated monkey. Or in Castlevania III: not 2, but three forms. Not fun unless you have Alucard.
And not to mention Death... cause he is in EVERY SINGLE AKUMAJO.. er Castlevania game!! Makes me angry. Cause you really can't kill him for good, because he is death. Kinda cheap, at least that's what I think.
At least the recent games, Drac has gotten fat and lazy or something. He was a breeze in Symphony of the Night. While he was a bit harder in Circle of the Moon, If you put up the poison shield, it keeps you fairly safe. Except for the 500 dammage Kamikaze attack of his. Also, he was fairly easy in Harmony of Dissonance aka white night concerto. But back in the day man, dracula would kill random Belmont's like it was his job.

[Cpt_Zach]

Super Drunk at the end of Bubble Bobble always cleans my clock. Maybe it's because the rare times I actually get to him, I don't have enough lives left to get his pattern. Whatever, he always puts the boot in.

HDS

You are right, I should get real drunk and play Bubble Bobble. It would be a blast!

[Cpt_Zach]

The hardest bosses I have ever come across have been Chaos from the first Final Fantasy (2000 hit points and liberal user of magic that FULLY restores him) and Zoda from both StarTropics games. While he was rough in the first one, he's even harder in the second. I haven't been able to beat the second one yet.

And then there's the old standby, almost any form of Dracula from Castlevania (the exceptions being Castlevania II and Symphony of the Night).

See? Dracula is hard in the old games, except Castlevania 2, I killed drac in like, 4 hits and I was all ready for the true evil form to appear, but it didn't.... Konami really dropped the ball on that one, or dropped the eye of vlad, but anyway in Final Fantsy, Chaos was very ruff, what with the nuking and the full recovery, but for some odd reason when everyone in your party was at least level 30..... he became nice and tame... hmm... Come on!! Zoda??? Yeah, I know you are a kid named Mike with a yoyo as a weapon facing a alien leader, but If you get a ray gun he is toast, but In Startropics two, I remember there being several incarnations of Zoda, but I remmeber I used the gun and no the yoyo to do it.

[Cpt_Zach]

I think the hardest boss of them all would have to be Ultima Weapon from FF8 in the deep sea deposit area with about a million HP and no knights of the round summon in this game to help you either. Its not a required boss to beat so thank god for that but if you wanted the most powerful summon in the game (Eden) then you would have to face him it took me a few times to beat him I tell you that. Also notable is the Emerald and Ruby weapons from FF7 with a million HP each but can be beaten much more easier with KOTR.
yes, I remember the weapons of ff7 wiping their faces with my party on many occaisions....... at level 99. But like you said, with a painfully long spell called knights of the round....

[Cpt_Zach]

I'm hearing some pretty good arguments in here, though I mostly have to agree with the RPG boss thing. I've beaten every single "super hard" boss in all the FF's, and never had a problem with ANY of them. Yes, I'm talking about Omega Weapon (both of them), Emerald, Ruby, Ozma, Warmech, ALL of them. Dude, a friggen YAN is harder than any of these guys! I beat all these faggots my first try. It's pretty sad. I had more of a problem with that one portal-looking boss in FF5, I never got farther than that point, I could never beat him. Ah well, I will someday.

The secret boss in Gem's place in Illusion of Gaia is so friggen hard, it took me forever to finally beat that dude, and this is WITH full stats and everything. I spent nearly every herb and...AGH! I DID finally beat him, but it took me an hour of trying to get through the mansion witout getting too hurt, then just trying to hit him once every 30 seconds...agh, so tedious. Also, it wasn't really worth it, but...hey, beating these kinda bosses usually aren't, you know? =)

K, almost every boss in EVO kicks so much butt...they are so impossible....k fine, not impossible, but darn close...probably because I didn't spend enough time getting my character up...

Honestly, I usually find levels more difficult than their bosses most of the time. It was like that with the 2nd and 3rd Mega Mans. Ay carumba, I've never beat any of those games, and I lost my NES cartridges, so I can't play them on my SNES anymore...waaaaaaah!


FINE! ok, the weapons are easy, ruby weapon you just have to use death or whatever to freeze him, warmech only looks tough blah blah blah... but you nailed it when you said the illusion of Gaia sucked you kill the bastard, and ..... well let's just say you get NOTHING... stupid gem...

[Cpt_Zach]

The hardest boss for me would have to be Miguel in Chrono Cross. Of course, that's because I have two black innates in the party and his two whitey spells in a row usually kill both of them immediately.

So far the EASIEST boss I've seen would have to be Shaft from Castlevania SOTN, especially if you're equipped with the



*SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER*



...shield rod and the right shield.

-steve

...crissaegram and ring of varda...the only thing sicker than a ring of varda is two...

The game is already easy, then there is this evil sword which you get from something called a schmoo that is called the crissaegram.... yeah. Now you can just walk through the game slicing everything up like it was your job. You would think that KONAMI would take the chrissaegram out of the Saturn version of SOTN, but no, it's there, ready to rape everything.

[Cpt_Zach]

Anyway, played Castlevania 1 again... I think Deaths incarnation in that game just moved itself up a couple notches. Cuz if you don't have the boomerang, and the "III" symbol? You're f*cked... :?[/quote]

Screw death, use a crucifix, what a NAZI. I hate death as well.

[Cpt_Zach]

No need. Dracula goes down in a matter of seconds. He usually doesn't have the chance to pull off a single attack with me. Mwa ha ha ha!... I played that game too much.

You remind me of my friend. He plays through SOTN and gets 200.6% like, once a month or more. He has beaten it with 200.6% in under five hours before. Of course, he used the luck cheat and whizzed by death and kept the stuff, but yeah, that game has the tendency to make you want to play it more.

[ZeroEdge]

Hardest boss...Jason, in Friday the 13th (for nes), after you kill him 2 or so times. He comes back and he's really pissed. You can fight him in 1 of two ways. 1, is inside the house of the his current victim.

But that's a bastard, as he moves side to side incredibly fast, so it's first off, hard to hit him. Secondly, if he does hit you, your life bar loses a very large piece of it.

OR! You could always fight him outside, where its just forward and backwards, not side to side. He's still really fast, and hits really damn hard, but at least you can't miss.

Never did beat that game...By the time I had killed him twice, I had maybe 2 counselors left :(

[Cpt_Zach]

Alright, I know some of you have N64s, and though the system and most of the game sucked, there's one game that had the HARDEST boss I have ever played. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (yeah yeah I know, only the snow level was any fun). You could save every single weapon you ever got and only use the laser on any of the other enimies, never miss when you shot him...AND HE STILL LIVED!! Then you shot him with the laser three times and he fell over... Not to mention the really sucky controls in that game....gods, I'm glad I only borrowed a friends copy and didn't actually buy that Game.

Oh also, on Mime+Limits for FF7, you can't do that on the original version, only the cheap $20 green edged version...why I don't know, but I didn't make it.

Hey, I spent two or three years everyday playing n64. Except, the games we played were goldeneye, and smash Bros. Those two games made the system, and on that subject, I though Alec in bond was hard, until he blew himself up with a grenade... loser.

[Cpt_Zach]

I remember a japanese game that was like Super R-Type. The game was near impossible and the last boss was so huge the screen had to pan so that you could see his face. He was so powerful that the game wasn't supposed to be beatable without cheats I think.

The hard part is that when you die, you start at the beginning of the level. Now that's just not Kosher!

[Cpt_Zach]

I don't know if anyone's said this yet because I haven't read the entire 11 pages of this thing the answer is simple. For anyone who was dumb enough to try their shot at it the Guardian in FF3 (6) could not be beaten. It was, indeed, impossible.
It's funny 'cause it's true! he was impossible in a very literal sense.

[Cpt_Zach]

maybe Chaos was hard cuz I ran through the game with 4 black mages cuz Lit 1 looked so cool :P
YOU WENT THROUGH THE GAME WITH 4 BLACK MAGES?? you are a beast, I hope you know.

[Cpt_Zach]

00 Agent on the Aztec level was HARD. .
for some reason i rule multiplayer but not single player..

also i never got to play starfox for snes and super metroid.. i wish they will come for gameboy adv.. or some link to emulate at least..
So back to one of the worthwhile games on n64.... YES this level took me days to beat. And it had a boss, Jaws, he was kinda easy cause he was so massive you could duck under him and completely beat him in a cheap fashion... but he is a boss, nonetheless, and it is semi-on topic.

[Cpt_Zach]

Let's see, all time hardest...how about Lavos in CT the first time you fight him at the Ocean Palace (and no new game +)?

With new game plus, sure I've beaten him, AT LEVEL **. No new game plus? His rain from the heavens just wipes the floor clean with your characters.

[Cpt_Zach]

Konami's EVIL.

Try playing all the way through Axelay, making it to the final boss in hard mode, just to spend HALF AN HOUR shooting at it and not even fazing it.

And this was seven years ago, in a real console. Christ, I hate Konami. >_<[/quote]


Yeah, KONAMI MADE CASTLEVANIA. grumble

[Cpt_Zach]

Ok, everyone seems to talk about RPG's on this Forum. I'll agree with whoever it was who said 8-bit bosses were the worst. Like Ninja Gaiden, the boss who throws you back five levels if you lose, mega man had some crazy bosses, and of course I am going to mention Castlevania. But yeah. It's all about the Nintendo Entertainment System..

[The Coop]

Allright video game fiends. Here's another from the past.

The Dragon from the Genesis game "The Immortal". You have to do the exact move at the exact time in the exact sequence... or your screwed. If you miss an object during the game and don't have it for this boss, you're screwed... have to start over from the beginning. It's just not a fair fight... big suprize there huh :wink: ?

[Old Omen]

Bahamut and Cpt_Zach: Yeah, I beat Lavos at the Ocean Palace without New Game +. I did use the Game Genie code for 1-hit kill on ZSNES... hee hee. That ending is weird. You get to go off the Epoch dock and talk to the programmers with oil drum and cat avatars. Freaky.

I'm probably not going to get many people to concur with this, but for me, I hated the 5th level boss in Legend of Zelda IV: Link's Awakening for GBC. He was a giant segmented worm that popped his head out of one of four holes in the wall, randomly. Then he'd open his mouth and roar. You had to fire the hook shot (great weapon, till the omnipotent boomerang) into his mouth with precise timing, from enough of a distance to pull the bugger out far enough to get a few good hits on his beating heart with your sword.

Sometimes, however, he'd trick you; it'd be a fake worm that would writhe around, then explode (hurting you). I was really confused by those for quite a while. I chased them with my sword, then wondered why it wasn't doing anything. Oh, the naïveté... On top of all of that, you had the really long tail sticking out of a hole in the center of the floor. It swung around in a circle, and encompassed nearly the whole room. I developed a strategy of some sort, but I forget what it is now. It took SO long to beat...

Strangely, the eigth-level boss was pretty easy. It took me scarcely seconds to beat him. Just stood on the edge of the lava pool and shot fireballs randomly... he never had a chance. Fire conquers all!

[omegaslade]

Ha ha i remeber that boss and yeah he was a pain in the ass to beat. i woudl have to say he was the hardest boss fo the game. adn for all that work what happnes you find ou tit was all a dream lol. you shoudl at least get teh girl

[Old Omen]

Yeah, that did suck. I mean, Link coulda lived in paradise with Marin. But no, he had to wake up. When you had her following you after you went to the beach to get her to wake up the walrus at Animal Village, you held her up like an item. It looked like you were looking under her dress. I thought that was so funny.

[The Coop]

Wait! Here comes another...

The final boss of Gun Griffon on the Saturn.
Remember this guy? You're in a somewhat dark room... giving him the option of vanishing into the night for periods of time. When he finally appears in the light (assuming he's even in eye shot of you... his arena is HUGE), he's moving so damn fast you can't hit him bit a couple times and then he's gone again.

Over course, as you fight him, a clock is counting down. You have to beat him, find the exit and get out before the missle hits and vaporizes everything. If you don't... game over.

[Korgath13]

Ok, there is this old nes rpg called Destiny of an Emperor by Capcom. The boss of the game Si Ma Yi was next to impossible. He had 40k life, could kill any of your stupid guys (intelligence wise) in one hit, could refill his life to full at any time, had a team of other bad asses with him, dished out 4k damage a hit and could do 5k to all your guys with one of his tactics (spells), and you had to kill him 3 different times. The max damage your guys could go at max level (50) was 2k, or 10k with magic (which you can't refill during battle), and the most amount of life my best guy had was 30k. He was a friggin party.

[Archaon]

ARGGHHH...and so this thread continues it's stubborn refusal to DIE. This is incredible...

[sfried]

All time hardest boss battle...hmm, let me think...

Most recent: Phantom Ganon - Even Ganon is a schwartz compared to him...
Mini-boss - Dark Link, without the hammer cheesiness...

The last level of 'Toys', I belive, were you fly a plane into the Manhattan model, tough as hell... so tough I never got to finish the game...

[The Coop]

Tunnel B-1.

I can breeze through the game in general and reach the final boss with all sorts of great weaponry. But I have yet, in over 3 years, to beat the final boss of that game. I can even survive for quite a while in the fire fight full of bullets, homing shots and the like.

[nbdyfcnsqnc]

The one at the end of Blaster Master was pretty hard, because I was so afraid I'd die after a whole day of playing the game my hand were shaking and my heart was pumping like pumping was going out of style. And I think I had to replay the whole game 2 or 3 times.

[Old Omen]

Blaster Master? Uuurrrgh... I hate that game. I bought it for my Game Boy, 'cause there was a guy standing near the cabinet recommending stuff to me, and I took his word, thinking he knew what he was saying.

Well, either he didn't, or he was far better at that sort of game than me. I suspect the latter. I couldn't even get past the first boss. Argh!! Stupid flower! And the music got stuck in my head, and I got lost (!) in the sidescroll world with the tank, and I kept walking into mines. And I completely suck. But hey, what's new?

[The Coop]

Agreed. The last boss in Blaster Master is a prick. Here's another such boss...

The last boss at the end of Stellar Fire on the Sega CD. His head and hand are all that pop up out of the ground. If his hand hits you as you aiming for it's head, you get hit, take a nice chunck on damage, and get sent spinning. By the time you stop spinning, the boss is right back next to you and hits you again... and again, and again, and again... until, BOOM!... you're dead. Start the whole long, last stage over again.

[Walrusgumbo]

I'm not sure this one counts, but the Weirdbeast on the 6th floor of the Cave of Trials on SO2. The first time you fight him.

He has over 800000 hp, and all of your attacks do 1 point of damage or nothing at all. I hacked at him for 6 hours. When he FINALLY died, the came continued as if I had lost the battle.... It was supposed to be Undefeatable.

[Sephka]

Yunalesca from FFX...She just wouldn't die. He first for is kinda hard, but then she has a second. And she turns you all into zombies, so it's hard to heal. Then when you get you people healed, she casts Mega-Death. Instantly kills everyone who isn't a Zombie. Then when you think she's dead. Ta-da! Another form! Oh joy! This one is even harder than the last ones. Plus stronger.

Another one would have to be Seymour Flux (third form). He's turn you to a Zombie, use full cure on the now Zombied person, and then Cleave (-2500 HP) the other two people. I had a hard time even touching him. Thank god for Summons...

[The Coop]

The final boss in Giga Wing 2 on the Dreamcast. 2 forms, bullets flying anywhere and everywhere there's room, a body that just keeps getting damaged and damaged but never seems to blow up and an attack where she flies from bottom to top on the screen REAL FAST shooting all the way (have yet to find a safe spot 8O ).

[Jivemaster]

Magneto in X-Men: COTA is a total whore on occasion. That proved for many frustrating battles!!

-Jive

[Merid]

What about that last boss in Vagrant Story? If you don't follow the same sequence of attack and weapon restoration with magic barriers, you're screwed. And it's not exactly a short battle either.

[Dak]

I think that the the last mission fight with Marduk in the game Sacrifice was quite a challenge. (Did anyone else play Sacrifice? Great game, but it did very very poorly at market.)

[The Coop]

The boss with the chainsaw in House of the Dead 2. I can get by it now, but before, I was going John Woo all over that things weak spot and never getting a hit on it. Now I know the secret to it, but until I learned that, it was one nasty SoB!

[omegaslade]

yeah having the grenade cut and a quick trigger / reload button lol but the empror and magicain weren;t no easy walk in teh park neither

[The Coop]

Tell me about it... I had to beat the bosses with a regular controller. Damn near wore out the buttons. Instead of "A", "B", "X" and "Y", the tops of my Dreamcast pad's buttons just have a smooth surface :lol:

[Meiguoren]

Yunalesca from FFX...She just wouldn't die. He first for is kinda hard, but then she has a second. And she turns you all into zombies, so it's hard to heal. Then when you get you people healed, she casts Mega-Death. Instantly kills everyone who isn't a Zombie. Then when you think she's dead. Ta-da! Another form! Oh joy! This one is even harder than the last ones. Plus stronger.

Another one would have to be Seymour Flux (third form). He's turn you to a Zombie, use full cure on the now Zombied person, and then Cleave (-2500 HP) the other two people. I had a hard time even touching him. Thank god for Summons...

There's no such thing as a diffcult FFX boss. It just doesn't happen.

[omegaslade]

greater shpere was pretty hard and so was that gigantic flan adn nega elemental . alll the ones that reacted with ultima . i beat them but didnt; have any extra life jsut the normal 9999

[The Coop]

Geese Howard from Capcom vs SNK. M. Bison in that game is a complete puss. But Geese Howard is a complete prick. On anything but easy, he knocks you out of the air when you try and jump in, he keeps throwing shit to keep you back and when you try a projectile attack, he jumps over it.

Somehow, Capcom made him even more of a dick than SNK did.

[Ndstrukt]

You must be kidding Ace! sure FFX had some hard bosses, Nemesis (Omega Gold) was one of them. However, the hardest boss that I've ever faced hands down was Ozma from FFIX. That spinning orb kicked my ass ultra hard. In fact, he was so good that he scared me and my party into killing ourselves just so he wouldn't have too. To this day I've yet to beat Ozma and I am on the verge of givining up, I sincerely hope Square doesn't include someone as hard as him in FFXI.

[StriderYoko]

Yunalesca from FFX...She just wouldn't die. He first for is kinda hard, but then she has a second. And she turns you all into zombies, so it's hard to heal. Then when you get you people healed, she casts Mega-Death. Instantly kills everyone who isn't a Zombie. Then when you think she's dead. Ta-da! Another form! Oh joy! This one is even harder than the last ones. Plus stronger.

Another one would have to be Seymour Flux (third form). He's turn you to a Zombie, use full cure on the now Zombied person, and then Cleave (-2500 HP) the other two people. I had a hard time even touching him. Thank god for Summons...

There's no such thing as a diffcult FFX boss. It just doesn't happen.


I thought that boss was pretty easy.. you dont even need to unzombify (is that a word) your characters. All you have to do is cast reflect on every one, her counter attacks and cure spells get reflected back to her and her only physical attack (the hellbitter ) only takes of about 200-400 damage. .. and when in zombie mode, mega death has no effect.

[ChopperDave]

I agree with ndstrukt. Ozma its the hardest boss that I have yet to face in all my RPG endeavors, and I have had many. I have beaten every thing in FFIX save for the little stupid orb and it's driving me insane!!!!!!! Every week or so ill go back and put in FFIX and give it a shot but the little thing just won't die! Im forced to get pissed off and turn off my psx for another week. To quote the simpsons: "there is no emoticon for what I am feeling!"[/quote]

[omegaslade]

no way i just heard soem one say nemisis was hard. nemisis was a wuss. i had no extended life or any thign and i kicked his ass easyly. all it takes is every one knowing quick hit 3 final weapons and a whole lot of aeons being sacrificail lambs hahaha. nemisis was a major disapoint ment after all that work i did to unlock him. coem to think of it omega dosen;t even deserve the name omega cause he was a wuss too.

[Merid]

But he dropped excellent equipment. Break HP limit and Break Damage limit. Great for making better ultimate weapons than what you were given.

[The Coop]

After getting my copy of King of Fighters 2000 for the Dreamcast, I came across yet another boss that deserves to be here. I don't know his name (it's in Japanese), but he's the new final boss for the series. He is, in short, a dick.

He's definitely going to be keeping Rugal company, as this new guy is nasty. Even on "Normal" (3 in the settings), he knocks you out of the air, keeps you at bay with long range attacks, is able to attack you EXTREMELY fast, and can do some nasty damage with his Special moves and his Super attacks.

I waited for this game for what seemed like forever, and it's KICKING MY ASS!

I love it :)

[omegaslade]

ok is any one else getting false messages cause ever time i get a message that some ons posted it is the same thing?

[supertrip15]

hardest... most definitively would have to be... ah man i dont know... probly deus from xenogears. either form of him, final boss or first time.hes a b.

[Khrystoph]

I'm finding Street Fighter Alpha 3's M. Bison to be the toughest boss I've yet encountered. He can throw you from sweep range, but you have to be practically INSIDE him to throw him. Even though X-Ism chars. can't air block he can. He's Chun-Li's size with Sagat's reach. A full-screen Super that does about 75-80% damage unblocked, and can ONLY be blocked on the ground; AND near-perfect timing (even on diff. 3? WTF?!) for launching it so that when he does throw it, you're doing something else and CAN'T block. Or worse: he does it after you start to whoop his ass then he gets mad and you know the Psycho Crusher's coming but you try to push your luck and press him but then he Psycho Crushes you and you feel like a RETARD because you KNEW IT WAS COMING... SONOFABITCHIHATEYOUDIE!!!!!

Ahem.

Well, I finally beat him with DAN HIBIKI, eroding my left thumb nearly to the bone in the process. I was to the point of trying to get Bison to throw his Psycho crusher for the sole purpose of me blocking it.

I tore him a new one with Chun-Li though. In fact, she's the only one I've beaten the game with so far and had a 6-figure score (from beating Bison in one match.) For some reason, I'm apparently extremely lucky with her... She was the first character I beat any Street Fighter game with, and the only character I could beat my roommate with (who eats diff. 8 Street Fighter 3 for breakfast).

Beat him with with Karin too (I got bored... soon I'm gonna have to learn how to use "charge" characters). I actually managed to lock him up with her... one good way to beat a cheap fighter is to be a little cheaper.

[The Coop]

Here's a fun one...

The final boss in Weapon Lord. Some of the characters are semi easy, but the final boss, Zarak, is a complete and total tool. On anything but easy, he beats you into a corner and basically keeps you there. You jump, you're hit. You attack, you're hit. You block, he just keeps hitting you with supers that do a little damage at a time until you either die or run out of time.

Cool game, but damn man....

[Xiomega]

The final boss in Zelda, Majoras Mask!!!!!

[KeeganTheFox]

This might have been said already but who cares.

Omega/Ultama(sp) Wepon from FF8, he took 5 Lionharts and a whole shitload of pulse ammo, jeez.

[omegaslade]

hahaha that omega has been mentioned so many times. i only went against him twice. first time i instaltly died( damn level 100 they shoudl leave it at 99) second time i got murdered adn i havent tried since haha. personally the first time i found ruby had and heck even emeradl before i figured him out lol. ever notice thoguh that the final bosses for final fantasy are gettign dumber and dumber

[Lat]

400!!! Man, i just claim milestones like they arent even there...or something...

[Merid]

Wow, this thread is still alive and kicking? How cool is that! I haven't encountered any new hard bosses lately, but we find a new game everyday.

[Ignis]

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this yet (there's 27 pages of posts. I'm not gonna read them all) but in FFX International, there are dark aeon bosses who can have nearly something like 35mil hp and Omega Gold who has like 70mil hp.

[NeoAqu]

It took about 2 hours but i read all of the 27 pages of this post! Cant believe i made it out alive! lol

Some of the toughest bosses I fought were the Navis in Megaman Battle Networks 2. They are already hard but if you want HubStyle (which is a pain to get and when you have it you dont care anymore cause there is nothing else todo) you have to beat them with a Rank S! Thank you for savestates!

On a similar note, Rockman Zero inHARD Mode is quite impossible. The first boss was easy the first time around but now he destroys you inless than 20 seconds. Help!

[FireX]

RPGs: Dark Falz in Phantasy Star 2, the last Dharma Shrine boss in Dragon Quest 7 (please, don't make me laugh by mentioning FF bosses. the only way Square can make them "hard" is to give them instant-kill moves where 1-2 overlooked abilities will make them a complete wuss).
Shooters: Gradius 3's Stage 3 boss. It's not impossible, but I find he's damn hard, harder than any other boss in the game.
Fighters: Nightmare, on the hardest difficulty, is a pain. But Cervantes in Soul Edge was more of a pain. Well, anyway, there's also the aforementioned SNK bosses.

[truazn78]

I find the hardest bosses are none other than the human minds itself!!
people like Slayers_'Boxer', NC..yellow, Grimato, and The Marine just to name a few.. I probably wont last 10minz with them yet I can rape an average bw player anyday.

[The Coop]

Found a copy of Art of Fighting for the Genesis a while back. Got pretty good at the game... could even get to the final boss without continuing. Getting past the final boss? That's a different story all together.

Mr. Big is his name, and fucking you up is his game. I had the thing on "Easy" and he was beyond cheap. You could see his weapons weren't hitting you, but you'd still have to block, or they'd still knock you back/down. Air attacks work allright for a round, but then he blocks anything and everything you do on the second and third rounds. Not to mention the guy's big, so he has a helluva reach.

SNK... leave it to them to make bosses so damn brutal :wink:

[XseCrystal]

Hands down winner is: The last Boss from Fester's Quest. I used everything in my full arsenal and I still couldn't get him to flash. Not to mention once you lost you had to travel all the way back to begining

Runners-up: Mike Tyson and the Head from NARC

Honorable Mentions: Ruby Weapon, The Spider from Zomies Ate My Neighbors, Sabertooth from Wolverine (NES), Shao Khan from MK3 on the "Master" path, Great Tiger from Pro Wrestling (NES), And The AIRCRAFT CARRIER OF DOOM from Top Gun.

[TheHylianScribe]

I think maybe my vote goes to Biolizard in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (and dc version). For some ungodly reason I can't beat it.

[Khrystoph]

Biolizard is hard, but just takes a good eye and a little patience... and Ruby isn't that hard. Use Hades. Trust me. Hades casts STOP (!!!) on both Weapons. That was the only way I even stood a chance.

[Khrystoph]

Biolizard is hard, but just takes a good eye and a little patience... and Ruby isn't that hard. Use Hades. Trust me. Hades casts STOP (!!!) on both Weapons. That was the only way I even stood a chance, since the game was on loan to me I didn't have the time or patience to Master any Materia.

[Species8472]

As I can't think of any others right now I'll have to say Biolizard inside the Ark as well. Outside is a whole nother story

[TheHylianScribe]

Biolizard is hard, but just takes a good eye and a little patience... and Ruby isn't that hard. Use Hades. Trust me. Hades casts STOP (!!!) on both Weapons. That was the only way I even stood a chance, since the game was on loan to me I didn't have the time or patience to Master any Materia.

uhh... dude?

*nudges khrys*

The OTHER Biolizard...

[Merid]

You know who's real hard, that fuckin Older Brother Shark boss of Stage 4 in T&C2: Thrilla's Safari. Dude can kill so fast it's not even funny.

[Khrystoph]

Biolizard is hard, but just takes a good eye and a little patience... and Ruby isn't that hard. Use Hades. Trust me. Hades casts STOP (!!!) on both Weapons. That was the only way I even stood a chance, since the game was on loan to me I didn't have the time or patience to Master any Materia.

uhh... dude?

*nudges khrys*

The OTHER Biolizard...

Prolly shoulda mentioned I meant BOTH of them, huh?

[TheHylianScribe]

OOH!

heh, okiedoke.

Thanks.

[Species8472]

The second one is easy to medium difficulty, unlike the first one. Not to mention the second one is also the most fun boss I have ever played against.

[GameBlazer]

The, no THE hardest and most awe-inspiring final boss fight is against the final boss in Serious Sam. Think it's too easy? Beat him on Serious difficulty. I did. That son of a bitch.

For those who have fought the bastard, you know of what I speak. For those who don't, find out! The game costs like $10, so there's NO excuse not to grab a copy of one of the most fun FPS's ever.

[DarkestVillain]

:evil: Star Desa from Princep was ahard boss. Not cheap like some RPG bosses, just hard beond all reason. And then, AFTER you beat him...

[Black Darius]

Hmm, hardest boss? None. Most annoying boss? LOTS. Ultimecia's million forms fro FF8 and Sephiroth's several in FF7. What is it with Square and doing that? There are really no hard bosses, just the ones that can be extremely annoying (think Shao Khan in MK3...LOSER!).

[LuckyXIII]

Link's shadow in Zelda II. Hard as nuts.

Easiest boss? Or most disappointing? Ganon at the end of Ocarina of Time. Just roll between his legs and literally hack his tail off. And who cares if he whops the Master Sword beyond the fire? Just use the Goron Sword and slice him up! That ten foot masterpiece forged by a living rock did more damage than the supposed mystical weapon of legend ever could!

[Rawnblade]

Death and Dracula from Castlevania 1. . .how the heck did anyone finish that game on the NES?

[Mamour]

Dracula from Belmont's Revenge on GB was one hell of a boss... Never beat the guy!! :lol:

Let me see if there's something else... Ummmm....

How about Xan from Unreal Tournament? :wink:

[Xaleph]

in beauty & the beast, the beast's story...

the entire game is impossible on the actual system... you die WAY to quickly, and the bosses are freakin impossible

[TheCore]

The cyberdemon from Doom. Sorry kiddies but he ownz you.
http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/~phib/images/doom/anim/cybr1.gif

Oh and that one level In Doom II where both the cyberdemon and http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/~phib/images/doom/anim/spid1.gif fight you at once.

[Mamour]

in beauty & the beast, the beast's story...

the entire game is impossible on the actual system... you die WAY to quickly, and the bosses are freakin impossible

WHAT?? Disney made a hard game?? Man... So they've lost their old recipes way too long ago...

[Xaleph]

I want a copy of doom

and yes, that disney game is hard, try to get the rom

it's hard as F@#$

[Mamour]

I want a copy of doom

and yes, that disney game is hard, try to get the rom

it's hard as F@#$

Stop by id software's website, they still got the good ol' shareware version, it's better than nothing ;-)

[z-Lo]

I think the hardest bosses are Baramos and Zoma from Dragon Warrior 3, especially when they "fire an icy pulse." But the all-time most annoying enemies in the game would have to be the butterflies around Aliahan that cast surround and make it so you can't hit anything and then a mass of Slimes come and take you down, 1 hit point at a time...

[TheCore]

Shareware doom lol! That's the only "game" that has a last level where you die no matter what. Even with god mode on they still own you when you teleport.

Besides the shareware doesn't even have the cyberdemon in it... or Mastermind for that matter. (or even heaven-for-fend the Arch vile, guy who would set you on fire and blow you 20 feet in the air if even 1 pixel of your player model stepped into his view.)

[Mamour]

Sounds like fun... NOTHING beats Duke Nukem 3D when it comes to FPS though, and I can't play it on XP... Partially because I lost the CD. :roll:
It's just pure fun gameplay!!

About bosses, I remember the Golem Twins from Chrono Trigger being one true pain in the ass... The first time I arrived there, at least. When I restarted a game, I paid more attention to leveling up :wink:

[The Coop]

Got a new one. The crab boss in Zone "X" in Darius Gaiden. This thing, is HUGE. The Black Hole Bombs don't do much damage to it. It takes up over half the screen, has two large claws that move around as it does, it takes a rediculous amount of hits to die and if you lose you weapons by having your ship blown up... it's over.

One of the hardest bosses in the Darius saga.

Oh yeah. Those looking for Doom? Get Doom: Collector's Edition ($14.99 now). It's all three on one CD. And pick up JDoom. It's a great OpenGL addition to the original games that adds lighting effects, higher resolutions, new effect for the weapons (the plasma gun looks awesome firing), and all sorts of gameplay additions. And, it's free :D

[FireX]

the doom games are fun, but the cyberdemon and spiderdemon are too easy to kill... just use a BFG and circle-strafe them.

[Cpt_Zach]

The, no THE hardest and most awe-inspiring final boss fight is against the final boss in Serious Sam. Think it's too easy? Beat him on Serious difficulty. I did. That son of a bitch.

For those who have fought the bastard, you know of what I speak. For those who don't, find out! The game costs like $10, so there's NO excuse not to grab a copy of one of the most fun FPS's ever.

Tha boss took forever to kill in the easier difficulty modes, wow, you are a very serious player.

[Cpt_Zach]

Death and Dracula from Castlevania 1. . .how the heck did anyone finish that game on the NES?

Once again, it comes back to Castelvania, I think that we can agree that Konami makes some truly vicious games ( say, maybe, gradius).[/quote]

[Teknobunny]

Death and Dracula from Castlevania 1. . .how the heck did anyone finish that game on the NES?

Once again, it comes back to Castelvania, I think that we can agree that Konami makes some truly vicious games ( say, maybe, gradius).[/quote]
and im just going to add to that Red Falcon on hard mode in contra 3. ive said that, like 5 times b4 in this thread, but hey, for those who dont wanna read all 20 pages. Konami DOES make some hard ass games

[Dem]

Killing Dracula in CastleVania 1 is simple once you get the technique down. However, your clone in CastleVania 3 was a bitch to clear. And ... Gannondorf from Zelda 64? I had a hard time with him.

[FireX]

i think the stage 4 boss of Mars Matrix is pretty hard. then again, I'm probably missing something obvious about his patterns...

Edit: I also went through a couple hard boss fights in Dragon Quest 6 recently...
1) The series of battles vs Duran (don't wanna give too much away, it's a cool spoiler in the story), even though he restores you to full HP/MP and revives any dead chars before the battle starts he's insanely hard.
2) Akbar, he's hard too. There's one spell that can work on him to make the fight a lot easier, but even with that spell he'll kick your ass.

[ella guro]

Killing Dracula in CastleVania 1 is simple once you get the technique down. However, your clone in CastleVania 3 was a bitch to clear. And ... Gannondorf from Zelda 64? I had a hard time with him.

When it comes to hard bosses on the n64, I think Jet Force Gemini has that covered (I didn't really find any of the Zelda bosses THAT hard). But overall, I think we can all agree that Konami games have the most difficult bosses.

[Khrystoph]

About bosses, I remember the Golem Twins from Chrono Trigger being one true pain in the ass... The first time I arrived there, at least. When I restarted a game, I paid more attention to leveling up :wink:

I find the easiest way to dispatch them--the first time through, anyway--is to use elemental 2x or 3x Techs. Their copycat version of Shadow is their weakest attack. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you use ANY PHYSICAL ATTACK, as their version of that is the strongest (five energy balls come out of them and smack you for about hlaf your life, and don't forget about the Iron Ball, which DOES take half your remaining HP and they can do at any time). Having Marle on your team and Hasting everyone is a good idea. With Ayla on your team, she can steal Magic Tabs from each of them and the first Golem, but if you don't care about that, use Lucca and Marle's Antipode. Use Crono's magic at your own discrecion (sp?), as the Golem's version is pretty nasty too.

See? Simple. 8O

EDIT: Actually, forget everything I just said. I just remembered that Ayla and Robo's Boogie (casts Stop on all enemies) works on the Golems. If you're lucky, BOTH get stopped, and you can you whatever you feel like to them. AND you can swipe their Magic Tabs. :twisted:

[FireX]

golem twins aren't too hard, you just need to have one person with a vest/mail that absorbs one element, then another person who has magic/techs of that element... use that always (you can mix and match, too, like give one person a yellow vest, another person a blue vest, and the last a red vest) and each counter attack will heal one person.

[The Coop]

Here's one. The Red Dragon at the end of King of the Dragons on the SNES.
That boss is nasty. Big time life bar, little damage done with even the highest level weapon, half the spells are useless on it, the other half only do a little more damage than your weapon, and between the head and two claws of the thing, you're constantly being knocked down, set on fire and chewed on.
Definitely a nasty boss... cool looking, but nasty.

[Kyosuke]

Yeah right Yu Yevon was THE HARDEST EVER in FFX ! :lol: :lol: :lol: Ok sarry couldnt say that without laughing....can you say "WASTE OF MY TIME !?!?" that boss was WAY TO EASY !

Back to the thread.....

The one battle.....well series of battles in FFT when you went to the Church again.....where you first fought the lancers....then you had to kill this IMPOSSIBLE GUY then i was like "damn out of potions...oh well i can buy more !" OHHHHHHHH WAIT A SEC another TOUGH BATTLE !

[The Coop]

Geonitz from KoF 96...

He's almost as cheap a final boss as Rugal, but he's got one move that oin anything but easy he loves to use. He says something, and a column of air rises at a random point on the screen. It does a good amount of damage and he can call it up over and over many times in a row so all you do is block and lose health.

Glad he didn't come back as a final boss a second time...

[Cpt_Zach]

[quote="TeknoBunny on hard mode in contra 3. ive said that, like 5 times b4 in this thread, but hey, for those who dont wanna read all 20 pages. Konami DOES make some hard ass games[/quote]
Yeah, hard mode contra three red falcon did suck real bad, yet again, Konami at its worst.

[Khrystoph]

It's kinda silly, really... I should try casting Stop on all nasty bosses in Square games...

:arrow: Golem Twins fell to it
:arrow: FF7 Ruby and Emerald fell to it... eventually...

Hope they don't catch on... just remember kids, if all else fails, STOP!

[Eddiebear]

l'm not sure if anyone mentioned them, but the two one on fight in ff 10 between khimari and the other two ronsos lasted me 4 hours, no lie. mostly because l didn't realize they were supposed to be like 20 time stonger then you when the fight takes place, and l was maxxed out. l probably should have used magic, but it was a pride thing. :roll:

[RichardKimble]

I'm probably the fiftieth guy to have done this, but I have just dropped into the thread and read all the previous ones. Anyway, I kind of have a short list hardest bosses, some may have been mentioned fifty times, some may not.

Death-Castlevania I can beat Death on every other Castlevania, but I cna't beat him! Why?! Maybe it's because I rely on the whip and never use secondary weapons, but it wasn't so much Death as the full room of Knights and Medusa heads before him that made it hard.

Jacquio (sp?) Ninja Gaiden- Like Castlevania, I can beat every other sequal of the these games, but not the original! Stand still punk and then we'll see how bad you really are!

Final Boss of Super Ghouls and Ghost: Considering you got this far, you had to deal with a five-story boss in the realm of Ghouls and Ghosts where the difficulty of everything goes to 11.

And while we're on the topic of huge bosses, The stadium-sized beast from Duke Nukem 64. It's not bad enough it's the stripped down, slightly sanitized N64 version of the game, but oh yeah, there's a HUGE beast with a never-ending supply of rockets out to kill you! I just wanted to set it on God mode, stand at its foot, and fire at it with my pistol just to see how long it would take to die.

Nei's clone-Phantasy Star II, Now Dark Force and Mother Brain were no problem for me, but it was a matter of circumstance. Awhile ago, I bought an original cartridge of PS II from a friend, and I spent the following THREE YEARS trying to get all the Legendary weapons from those overcomplicated dungeons (OK, the PS I dungeons were harder, but that's because they were 3-D dungeons. Man, I HATE 3-D dungeons!) and thus, had WAY overleveled my characters by the time I finally found full-color maps on the internet, and completely eradicated the final bosses (Short, but great ending, but NOTHING in the ending could top the satisfaction I had in just completing it). But as for Nei's clone, wander through a complicated dungeon for an hour, find her, have her kill off a vital character, then go at it until she kills you. Start all over again. Of course, there IS That reviving Nei thing, but I never tried it. After three years, you can't blame me for not wanting to go through it again.

Smithy-Super Mario RPG Now granted I rented the game once and ran straight through and never touched it again, but Smithy was an hour-long marathon of patience. I just wanted to finish it and be done with it because unlike the rest of the world, I really didn't like the game and I wanted no excuse to play it again. So, I probably went up against Smithy about 5 levels under what i needed to be (But HOW? I fought every battle I could!). I beat the sucker.... eventually... those Power Ranger rip-off punks also rank.

Eve-Parasite Eve II The Eve on top of the Chrysler Building would probably easily top this.... if I could get more than five feet in the Chrysler Building and find out for myself. But still, Eve making a shadow clone of itself that immediately dispatches you sucks. Big time. Plus, there are NEVER enough item pouches on your armor!

General Baal's final form-Grandia OK, even though he probably one of the harder bosses on the spectrum, my problem is not that I couldn't survive him. I couldn't survive his VOICE ACTING! I know I know, there's something on TVs called volume. I was making what is called a joke... oh, and while we're here, Ghaleon from Lunar? Batty from Blade Runner called. He wants his line back (Not that the voice actor of Ghaleon was bad in any way. Just, couldn't they think of DIFFERENT things for the final boss to say?!).

Hat Guy from Total Recall-Normally, I can tolerate bad movies-to-games. Sometimes their badness drives me along through their loose gameplay and unpolished mechanics. But Total Recall was TOO MUCH! I made to this guy who threw his hat at you a la Oddjob, but no matter what I did, I couldn't get ANY further. Then I just shut that game off for good.

EDIT: I forgot to add the final level of back to the Future. Granted, it's not a boss per se, but still, you're driving and you have to hit the final point at EXACTLY 88 MPH or else everything you fought for for the entire gaming session means nothing! I did it... once... the ending sucks.... it's NOT WORTH IT! SAVE YOURSELF!

[Lavitz]

I think that the hardest boss was asura from skyblazer on the snes. I always had a hard time, and he always seemed to hit me even when i was hitting him...

[ella guro]

And while we're on the topic of huge bosses, The stadium-sized beast from Duke Nukem 64. It's not bad enough it's the stripped down, slightly sanitized N64 version of the game, but oh yeah, there's a HUGE beast with a never-ending supply of rockets out to kill you! I just wanted to set it on God mode, stand at its foot, and fire at it with my pistol just to see how long it would take to die.
...
Smithy-Super Mario RPG Now granted I rented the game once and ran straight through and never touched it again, but Smithy was an hour-long marathon of patience. I just wanted to finish it and be done with it because unlike the rest of the world, I really didn't like the game and I wanted no excuse to play it again. So, I probably went up against Smithy about 5 levels under what i needed to be (But HOW? I fought every battle I could!). I beat the sucker.... eventually... those Power Ranger rip-off punks also rank.

I honestly don't think Smithy was too hard. Really, if you think he's hard, you should try Culex in his SMRPG cameo. He's very very difficult, and almost impossible unless you have the lazy shell armor on someone. I do agree with you about the stadium boss in Duke3D...he's VERY difficult and take forever to die...

[Beast]

The Final Boss from one of my favorite sleeper hits, Polterguy!
(someone should make that a remix)

[Meiguoren]

The Final Boss from one of my favorite sleeper hits, Polterguy!

Yeah! That game was great, up until the last boss. I shot at him for over an hour, he just changed colors. I never did beat him. I figured that I had played well and that the ending would suck anyhow. So I quit. Yes. I'm a quitter.

[The Coop]

O-kay. This one, is simply pure insanity.


Serious Sam: The Second Encounter.

The final level is made up of two parts. The first, is the HUGE area before an equally HUGE cathedral. A storm rolls in, and with lightning, thunder and fire raining down, a twenty minute battle begins... where you fight EVERY kind of enemy in the game, and large multiples of them.

Should you survive all this, you go in the cathedral walls where you fight the final boss. This BIG wizard casts a spell that conjures up enemies. As you progressively do more damage to him, the monsters he conjures up get more or more powerful. Since they're more powerful, they take more damage to kill. So, while you're trying to hit the wizard and hold back the higher Hit Pointed monsters, they keep piling up until you're surrounded by hordes of creatures as the wizard reappears safely far away... and summons more of the damn things.

That's one helluva boss fight.

[Strider Kyoden]

Hardest Boss? Well...Let's see, I do believe there is only ONE boss I have yet to conquer. Heh, I'd have to say OMega Weapon off of Final Fantasy 8. If any of you have ever fought against this Tyrant. You'd know how much of a Pain he is. Final Fantasy 8 was my first Final Fantasy, Besides 3, So...I was just getting intune with RPG's. So, I am still trying to beat him. Even with Maxed out stats. 255 On almost all of my stats. Building up Irvine, Squall, and Zell. Unleashing Mega-COmbo's form Zell Averaging around LEt's see...5,000 Damage per hit mainly, hitting around 30 hits per combo(I practiced too much...Hitting only two easy combos alot.) So that's 150,000 Per Limit Break. Squall's LionHeart, Averaging around..I dunno. Well, I think he's the worst because...Terra Break! Argh! *Runs off in torment of the mentioning of Terra Break*

~*~Strider~*~

[Cyro Xero]

Hell I know a few. If you guys have ever played Amored Core 2 then you that Mathiaas is a fucking BITCH! Though he's not a boss. He'll shoot your mech down in LITERALLY a matter of seconds! Other hard-ass enemies would be from FFX. At the monster arena on the plains. Anyone who's played that knows what I'm talking about. I'm sorry , but Omega Weapon, although incredibly strong as it is, doesn't come close to what Ive fought in this arena. I'm almost certain that the producers of FFX designed these monsters to test the Break HP/Damage limits abilities. These things, most of them, have hit points well over 10 million, some even 15! I literally spent half and hour trying to beat one particular monster when only one of my characters had Break Damage Limit on. He was doing 99,999 dmg and it still took that long. Can you imagine trying to kill something that has that amount of life with 3 characters and your hitting it for only 9,999 at max all the time if your lucky? Do the math. One monster called the Earth Eater......Damn! Not only does he have a shit load of life, but it also does a double attack for at least 8000 on ALL 3 characters at once...twice! 16000 x 3 x 2 = death within 15 seconds of the battle, even with Break HP Limit ability. To this day I still haven't beaten it. And then there are the 3 or 4 monsters that cast Ultima after EVERY attack you make on them. That was bitch, but i managed to beat them...except one. Stupid imp monster. Anyway I've put my 2 cents in....plus a quarter more.

[Cyro Xero]

And there is one more that I forgot to mention. in Chrono Cross towards the end of the game you can choose to go up against this Chimera thing in the sand cave in Other World i think. You're SUPPOSED to answer his riddles and get a prize from it if you answer everyone correctly. BUT, you can attack him and try to kill him with your weapons to get an even better prize, the sunglasses. After every attack you make he always casts the long-ass spell Earthquake. Through a little planning and hightly built characters I managed to beat it in about a hour. If it werent for the Earthquake spell he could be beaten in about 20 minutes.

[Zarla]

There's always Orion.78 Civilization Mix on Maniac. But that's not technically a boss. ^_^
Um...Gradius in general was really freakin hard for me...I also found Mother Brain from da original Metroid really irritatin as well.
Master Gizamaluke in FFIX is drivin me nuts. ^_^o
Jabberwock from Alice. Emotionally terrifying. ^_^o
And that one frickin level in Black and White where Lethys steals yer creature and ARGARHAHGRAHR
Ghouls and Ghosts in general...::shudder::
Dragon Warrior Monsters in the second time you go back into the monster world and you're invited to the big tournament. Friggin hard.
Da endguy in Wizards and Warriors was irritatin, but there were no penalties fer dyin there.
Queen Metroid in Metroid II...::shakes fist::
King Boo in Luigi's Mansion gave me trouble fer some reason. ^_^o It was cause I couldn't figger out what I was supposed ta do fer a long time. Ah well.
Giga Bowser and da last event battle is pretty easy if ya break it with Jigglypuff or Kirby. Crazy Hand and Master Hand at once though...argh.
The Giant Bulborb (Emperor Blublax? Is that it's name?) in Pikmin! ARGH! I friggin HATED THAT THING! Especially when it made me think I had it and then it sat on all my Pikmin and CRUSHED THEM or jumped in da air outta NOWHERE and ARHGHAHR. Took ferever.
And there's always the Legend Cup in Monster Rancher II. Curse you you friggin skelly-dragon.
That FRIGGIN QUEEN BEE in EVO! Took me friggin FEREVER.
Lunar Star Story Complete and that driggin Green Dragon in da sewer. ARGH.
Majora was irritatin if ya don't have da Oni Link mask. ^_^o
Da boss in da second level of that Ghost in the Shell game was friggin irritatin as well.
And Fred the ogre in Quest for Glory I was annoyin too unless ya were really compulsive about levelin.
Bubble Bobble end guy ARGH! ARGH!
Earthworm Jim too and that friggin race with Psycrow...
Getting Balloon Pikachu in Pokémon Snap was really hard as well.
Odell Lake. Anyone remember that?
Da last boss in Spyro. Anyone else have this problem?
Warrior Monks from Shogun Total War.

[Dragonking]

oyyyyyyyy try fighting those green and red Weapons from ff7 without being prepared. you guys know what im talking about. i had to meticulously place my materia and plan out a strategy for each one. but oh how sweet it was when i killed all of them and reaped the rewards of those one slot materia that have all the spells in teh game in, all the sumons and all the skills. if theres is someone out there who hasnt beaten those Weapons, brush off the dust from your ff7 and get at it. its worth it :)

[Elex Synn]

I just remembered. That damn black shadow car from the original ridge racer.

:evil: How on EARTH were you suppose to beat it? The only thing I could come up with, is to constantly get in front of it.

[Meiguoren]

THE last boss in Spyro is a cakewalk. You just have to learn to dash the entire thing and find the shortcuts. Then you jump on all THE platforms until you reach him and you win THE game.

[Neb]

Exdeath from FF5 was one hell of a mean bitch. Toughest endgame boss from FF4-7. In the end I only beat the bastard by making all of my characters Mimics and cheesing through it by constantly Miming Bahamut summons, Flares and Holy spells. He really fooled me at first, too. I started out thinking that he'd be as easy as Zeromus or Kefka after bitchslapping his first form. Then out comes this second form and I think, "Ah, another easy battle....." About six losses later I'd changed my opinion.

Emerald Weapon from FF7 wasn't too bad. He did 1111 multiplied by the amount of Materia that a character carried. So you just had to go down to one Phoenix linked to a Final Attack for each. A high-powered Knights Of The Round for one. And then Mime/Master Command materias for the other two. Just keep miming the KOTR summon and whenever you die you'll be resurrected with full HP AND do some damage as well.

Ruby Weapon, though..... Even worse than Exdeath. After being beaten in about one minute by him once I just plain gave up. He slaughtered me so easily....

Omega-thingy in FF6(or was it FF5? Or both?) was also pretty damn lethal. Approach it expecting just another easy battle..... Die within five seconds.

Chrono Trigger had one tough boss that I remember. Second boss that you fight in the game, I believe, or the third. The Dragon Engine, the one that you battle while in the Present Time prison. You more or less HAVE to find the hidden Lode Sword to defeat it, and even then it's a challenge! Usually takes me about 3-5 fights to defeat it if I haven't done any purposeful levelling earlier on and just engage it in a fair battle.

Can't really think of any other tough bosses that I've had problems with....

Btw, I've heard a rumour that Ruby Weapon will die if you smack him with 55 Phoenix Downs or something akin to it, is this true? Might give me a chance next time I fight the bastard :P

[The Coop]

New boss...

The Eternal Champion in the Genesis version of Eternal Champions.

The Sega CD version kinda toned this guy down, but the Genesis version of him shows no mercy whatsoever. He's fast, does a lot of damage with just a weak hit and not only do you have to beat him, you have to beat him 5 TIMES!!!!! That's once for each form 8O

If he beats you, game's over. No continues, no nothing. GAME OVER!!!! That's just damn cold...

[Pogo]

i'm gonna have to go with Omega Weapon in ff8, but only on the condition that you don't use Hero or Holy War...

Of course, Omega in ff5 kicked my ass too... i guess i'll go back and fix him...

[Kyosuke]

Toughest boss.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Hey what lvls were you guys when you faught Jenova on the ship ? My friends were like lvl 25-30 and said it was cake....i had to beat her at like lvl 7......thats tough !

[Dj Shade]

The EGG GOLEM in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.
There is an annoying bloody glitch that makes sonic do a jump dash when you only want him to jump, which most of the time sends you off the edge into the quicksand. I'm not sure if it's on the DC version, but on the GCN it's the most frustrating boss i've ever versed.

[Khrystoph]

oyyyyyyyy try fighting those green and red Weapons from ff7 without being prepared. you guys know what im talking about. i had to meticulously place my materia and plan out a strategy for each one. but oh how sweet it was when i killed all of them and reaped the rewards of those one slot materia that have all the spells in teh game in, all the sumons and all the skills. if theres is someone out there who hasnt beaten those Weapons, brush off the dust from your ff7 and get at it. its worth it :)

Since these two pussies--I mean, PUSSIES--keep getting mentioned, I will once again reiterate the strategy that llowed me to conquer them with a minimal amount of effort: do whatever preparations you usually do; Final Attack=Phoenix, Mime, KOR, etc. Make sure someone has Hades. Hades STOPS the weapons. As in the Stop spell, meaning that they shouldn't be counterattaking. The best team to use is Cloud, Cid and Barret, since their limits all do over 10,000 HP apiece (if you're feeling lucky you can sub Tifa for one of them, but those 3 do THE most damage IMO). Don't remeber too clearly, but I think Ruby was still able to counter KOR with Ultima despite being Stopped, but you can just use Bahamut ZERO instead until your limits fill again. I usually have my active party in Fury at all times (Limit fills faster), but I finally realized what made it a negative status: apparently, you take more damage from attacks. Butagain, if you feel lucky, it's something to consider doing.

[Cid Highwind]

Shinryu from Final Fantasy 5. That son of a bitch, he's the only obstacle in the way for me to say I've beaten every optional boss in every Final Fantasy game. I'll beat hi someday, for now I'm lazy.

Also Val Kena in Legend of legaia 2. Probably not the hardest boss ever, I only say that now cause I'm stuck on him and it's pissing me off.

[Trinity_Zequal]

I'm too lazy to read through this crap but anybody ever had trouble with Ozma Weapon from FF9? He's still a pain in the butt for me :x I wanna kick his butt :evil: :twisted:

[Psychonaut]

Shinryu from Final Fantasy 5. That son of a bitch, he's the only obstacle in the way for me to say I've beaten every optional boss in every Final Fantasy game. I'll beat hi someday, for now I'm lazy.

Also Val Kena in Legend of legaia 2. Probably not the hardest boss ever, I only say that now cause I'm stuck on him and it's pissing me off.

Waiiiiit a minute, isn't shinryu that WICKEDLY hard guy does like a billion damage no matter what, and... yeah, the dragon thingy... jeebus that guy's tough... I beat him ONCE. just once. and it was insane, and I don't know why I tried so hard, becuase I spent like 3 days on it and he's totally optional... *shrugs*

Chaos in the first Final Fantasy was tough. You spend SO much time whittling off like maybe 2000 of his hit points, and then *swoosh* he instantly regenerates them... very frustrating.

Xan at the end of UT was damn hard, the guy was SO cheap the way he played.

And the SD Lucifer and SD Sathanas destroyers from Descent: Freespace 1 and 2 respectively were RIDICULOUSLY hard to take down.

[Sureshot]

Got to page 12 :/

M. Bison, SF2, Full Stars, Nails. That phantom bloke off Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story was impossible as well.

[The Coop]

The Lich at the end of Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom. I have died, SO many times fighting that little shit. It's almost impossible to hit him with your weapon, and the fact that he has magic coming out of his ass doesn't make things any easier. He casts spells left and right and knocks you down with ANY attack he uses. Even when you do hit him, he takes a little damage, and most magic spells are useless against him.

Someone with a sick sense of humor made that boss.

[Baron Harkkonen]

The only two bosses in the videogame world that EVER gave me problems were
Eyedol from Killer Instinct, but only on normal or hard, and
Frank Horrigan from Fallout 2. I swear, if he gets ONE MORE critical with that 'god gun' of his, i'm going somewhere and punching something.

[Moonster45]

I'm too lazy to read through this crap but anybody ever had trouble with Ozma Weapon from FF9? He's still a pain in the butt for me :x I wanna kick his butt :evil: :twisted:

Yeh, it took me a while to beat this guy. Actually, i had to re-play before i could beat him. My party contained Zidane (obviously), Quina, Steiner and Garnet/Eiko. The key is to equip each character with armour that absorbs shadow. There are two Pumice pieces available b4 fight him (one available from fighting ark at Oielvert, and the other from a chocobo treasure), so thats two of your characters sorted. There's an armour that Zidane and Amarant can equip that absorbs shadow (Dark Vest or sumthin like that), and i didnt find anything for Steiner (although im sure there's some out there) so I gave him armour that halves Shadow damage.

I had Quina in my party from the start everytime s/he was available, and constantly took her to Qu's Marsh. I got so many frogs, that when I got to Ozma frog drop (10mp) did 9999 damage! Zidanes Thievery does damage based on how many treasures you have uncovered (I don't know exactly how this is measured), anyway mine did about 3000-4000 damage but i'm sure it could do more. Steiner's Climhazard is helpful for a mean 4000 ish damage, and i had Garnet/Eiko healing people after each of his attacks.

Well, I hope that gets you started on your way to beating him.


Geez, do ya think I shud of just put a link to a guide or sumthin?

[Azirphaeli the Oracle]

I dunno if it's been mentioned before, but ANY BOSS OR NORMAL ENEMY FIGHT in Vey on Sega CD...

[Pineconeboy]

What happened to the other thead? Did it get deleted altogether? Or am I just blind?

edit: definitely blind

[engelus]

in xenogears the last time you fight krelian right before you get xenogears. then you fight miang....those two are mean. especially if you dont know how to beat miang.

i couldnt kill ozma.

when i finally killed ruby weapon i kept that damn rose cause i didnt care about the chocobo.

[The Coop]

Got another one.

Anyone ever played G-Darius on the Playstation? Even go up against the boss that's at the end of the level who's Greek letter looks like a lowercase "N"? You know the one... it looks like a giant sea horse.

This boss, is hard. I don't know how many times I died fighting it, but I ran out of continues after fifteen minutes. It has somewhere in the realm of about 5 or 6 different modes of attack... including one where it circles the edges of the screen (its circling gets faster and faster with each time it does it).
I must have hit that thing was a dozen super blasts, and it was still going strong. I think part of it's head came off at one point, but that just seemed to piss it off more and it began attacking with a new attack method on top of the older ones.

I don't think it liked me much :D

[FOTEK]

The "last boss" from Actraiser (what a game!) on the SNES. Actually it was a collection of ALL the Main bosses from the whole game PLUS if you survived that... you had to face the Mean Mofo himself!! what a biatch! I don't think I ever completed that game...

[Alceste]

Uh. The last boss in Snake Rattle N' Roll. It's a foot that jumps around the summit of a mountain.. Yes, a foot. No matter how much you lick it, it will not die. I never finished the game.

Crap! I could never beat that thing, either!

[SirNick]

Yeah, the last boss from Actraiser was tough...

...almost as tough as any given level from Actraiser 2.

[snarfoogle]

The EGG GOLEM in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.
There is an annoying bloody glitch that makes sonic do a jump dash when you only want him to jump, which most of the time sends you off the edge into the quicksand. I'm not sure if it's on the DC version, but on the GCN it's the most frustrating boss i've ever versed.

You think HE'S tough? Go fight the Biolizard, if you haven't. *shudders*

[Daishi]

I'd say the Dark Mana Beast from Seiken Densetsu 3...
Bloody Mary from Terranigma was hard too... but eventually I leveled enough to do serious non-magirock damage. Yay!

[Rollerblade Samurai]

1) That f*cker Red Falcon or whatever his name is... the last boss in Contra... WITHOUT the 30 lives cheat

2) 25 Metal Gear RAYs on Extreme

3) Ragu O Ragla from Wild Arms 1 and 3

4) Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts

5) Kiyora in Robotech: Battlecry on HARD

6) The final hidden boss atop the Chrysler Building in Parasite Eve

7) Chryosphinx in Chrono Cross

8) Any frelling boss in Vagrant Story just because of how sheerly annoying it is to fight anything in that game.

9) More Mega Man bosses than I can count...

10) Myself... in the sense that no matter how hard a boss is... the bigger battle is fighting myself to not stop and be persistant til i kick that bosses sorry ass!

[Z31RaM]

The Dark Demon from Demons Crest >=( ASSHOLE.

[Cuddly PyramidHead]

8) Any frelling boss in Vagrant Story just because of how sheerly annoying it is to fight anything in that game.
Or not. Vagrant Story has one of the best battle systems of any action RPG. Compare it to the Summoner battle system, which clearly took inspiration from VS, or the battle system of the original Parasite Eve, which served as the stepping stone to VS, and you'll see just how good it is. The weapon system is almost a game in itself, and I'll take a good Vagrant Story battle over Star Ocean 2 any day.

[Rollerblade Samurai]

Don't get me wrong... I love the Vagrant Story battle system... because I love the Parasite Eve battle system... it's just that some things in that game have SOOOO much HP compared to how little you can do that sometimes it gets very tedious to battle numerous enemies at once... especially when some can kill you in a single blow.

[Fletch]

Hardest boss ever:

Dark Dream (DQ6). He slew my entire party in a hit. My party was L65. That's something right there.

[engelus]

the cryosphinx was easy as (insert somthing very easy here) i killed it in just over an hour. i didnt even come close to dying...all you gotta do is use your summons and triptechs as well as use the chronocross every once in a while to recharge your elements

[Juste]

My hardest boss is...
Breath Of Fire IV - the consectutive Tyrant Dragon > Astral Dragon battle. That battle is just insane. I mean, sure I beat them both, but it's frigan hard once Astral rips out a Soul Rend (HP goes to 1 for whole party). Why Ryu's dragon HP can't be restored by items other than Ambrosia is beyond me. There is one Ambrosia in the whole game and you're expected to make do with it. Ok, fair enough, I was able to finish the game with that alone, but it's still hardddddddddd :( But I have to say, I loved every minute of the final battle. I was literally on the edge of my seat, yelling at the screen and begging Fou Lu not to slaughter me after every Soul Rend. I distinctly remember the first time I defeated him I pointed at the screen and yelled "YOU DUMB BITCH!!! YOU THINK YOU CAN SCREW ME OVER??? YOU STUPID SHIT!!!". I was thrilled! Haha.
Final bosses in RPG's these days are becoming far too easy. Take a look at FF6 - 9 (I haven't played the others, but I've heard 10 is weak too), Vagrant Story (how pathetic was Guildenstern!!), CastleVania (I couldn't believe Dracula's 10 second effort in SOTN). It's pretty sad, we play through a whole RPG and the boss goes under so quickly and effortlessly. I think the Breath Of Fire series has the perfect standard of final boss. They belt the crap out of you, make you heal every 2nd turn, take ages to finish off, and best of all, they get me really involved personally, I start cursing them and yelling at my party to do a better job.
However, I am all for being able to beef up your characters so they absolutely slaughter the final boss as long as beefing up takes a lot of effort. Think Parasite Eve! The Chrysler Building is my all-time favourite dungeon. It's so perfect! There are lots of high-powered weapons and armour, Tools, Super Tools, and Rare Trading Cards there, but the enemies and bosses make it very hard to acquire them, which is what I like. There's nothing like a damn good challenge with a great payout in the event of success. Also the fact that you had to level up and utilise your BP if you were to stand a chance in hell against true Eve. And once you had done all that it took to defeat True Eve, the normal Eve and The Ultimate Being were a walk in the park! They were nothing! But the point is, it took effort to attain that kind of power. All the Final Fantasy's took so little effort in order to rip the final bosses in half with as little effort as possible. It didn't leave me feeling satisfied at all. I don't particularly like it when it's easy to reach Lv99. It's nice sometimes when Lv99 is unattainable, because it just makes you strive to get there and it's fun!

[Chorozon ID]

Final Deus was awesome. I've only beaten him once. I had three GNR50 attack enhancement parts EACH equipped on Fei, Citan, and Emerelda... I was r0x0rd brutally. (Even though I won)

EVEN HARDER!!!

Tyrant/Astral Dragon combo boss from Breath of Fire IV. AT LEVEL 50!!!!! If anyone can beat this boss at THAT LEVEL in less than five hours... you are God. Tyrant had the whole shebang: HP to one, negation of special attacks and magic, basic attack dealt Instant Death, not to mention ONE MILLION FRIGGIN HIT POINTS!!!!!!!

[matus]

OLLLLLD! :roll:

[NightWish]

Duh. Emerald Weapon from Final Fantasy 7.

If you didn't have the water breathing device, you are DEAD. NO MATTER HOW FAST YOU DISH OUT THE PAIN ON THE BOSS...


Nemesis in FFX is pretty tough, but atleast you don't need a water breathing device...

[Omega]

Harry Potter and philosopher's stone. That stupid bald guy with face on neck really burnded my lil sis down. :lol:


WOW, This was my 400th message

[Z31RaM]

8) Any frelling boss in Vagrant Story just because of how sheerly annoying it is to fight anything in that game.


a farscape fan...coo'

[The Coop]

Here's a boss for ya.

For the proud few who have gotten to play this beast of a game, the stealth bomber-like jet in Battle Garegga. First you have to fight five small versions that die easily enough. Then, you mean the main jet... and the party starts.
He's got three or four type of firing patterns, and one of then (where the bullets sweep back and forth a few times) is nearly a guarenteed kill for that boss. But, if you manage to beat it, you face it again two stages later... more armor, faster shots, more types of shot patterns and MUCH faster movement. You will loose ships on v2 of that boss, and you will loose many. If you manage to beat it, then you march on to the final boss, who's actually easier :?

[tatsujin]

I'd say the Dark Mana Beast from Seiken Densetsu 3...
Bloody Mary from Terranigma was hard too... but eventually I leveled enough to do serious non-magirock damage. Yay!

heh, I walked right in on that dark mana beast thing WITHOUT A CLUE!!!!

somehow, I kicked it's ass the first time.(I was using the beastman monk, sorceress, chick, and the ninja, theif), it just suprised me when it transformed, revived itself, and grew another "head". That was a piss off.

I still havn't beaten that game, because I can't pass the goddamn triple death jester boss. It's impossible to cast magic on him without BEING KILLED while standing still, the ninja was just too weak, and I had only 1 fighter(acually, a white mage/fighter too... :x )

[Allison_Axe]

the final boss from "Demon's Crest" on the SNES. I loved that game, and it had many tough boss encounters, but the very final one was damn near impossible. I never got the real ending for that game, just the one that you get if you haven't gotten all the crests and don't get to see the bad guy's final form. :(

[The Coop]

I'm probably the only one who had trouble with his thing, but the werewolf boss in Castlevania Chronicles (I think :? ) that jumps around a clock face, pulling pieces off and throwing them at you. I had so much trouble avoiding those clock chunks long enough to any damage to the damn beast, but then trying to hit it after it ran out of ammo wasn't overly simple either.

I don't even wanna think about how many times I fought that damn thing before I finally got past it...

[Straziante]

I'll say Criosphynx from Chrono Cross, Deathevan from Breath of Fire 2, and Ozma was slightly difficult, considering I forgot to re-equip strong weapons after my trek to Ipsen's Castle...

[Chorozon ID]

Final boss for Star Ocean 2 on universal mode. PAIN!! PAIN I TELL YOU!!!

[Chorozon ID]

Or maybe the final bosses on Strikers 1945 1 and 2. Ginat space crabs of doom shooting solid walls of plasma at your piddly little P-38 Lightning. I have never seen anyone face these bosses and not use an extra credit.

[Cpt_Zach]

I'm probably the only one who had trouble with his thing, but the werewolf boss in Castlevania Chronicles (I think :? ) that jumps around a clock face, pulling pieces off and throwing them at you. I had so much trouble avoiding those clock chunks long enough to any damage to the damn beast, but then trying to hit it after it ran out of ammo wasn't overly simple either.

I don't even wanna think about how many times I fought that damn thing before I finally got past it...

HAHAHA!! see!!??? Castlevania strikes again! I say that this is the hardest game series ever!! Once again, Konamia is evil.

[The Primoris]

History can be conquered as easily as any land.

[Wang]

I'll say Criosphynx from Chrono Cross, Deathevan from Breath of Fire 2, and Ozma was slightly difficult, considering I forgot to re-equip strong weapons after my trek to Ipsen's Castle...

The criosphynx was a pus