All Time Hardest Boss

[SLyGeN]

KRAID from NES metroid when you go about it normally and fight him first (before ridley).

I fought ridley first and he was easier than kraid :? so after beating ridley i found tons of expansions and gave kraid a full frontal assault. it worked :)

[Ghost of ???]

KRAID from NES metroid when you go about it normally and fight him first (before ridley).

I fought ridley first and he was easier than kraid :? so after beating ridley i found tons of expansions and gave kraid a full frontal assault. it worked :)

That's the way to do it, Sly. Come readily prepared
to beat the boogery-flavored snot outta those punks!
Play on, Playa' ! 8)

[Jenga]

Megaman 7's Final Boss was friggin hard.

[Ghost of ???]

Megaman 7's Final Boss was friggin hard.

Yes it was, even for me. Aarrgh, I forgot exactly
what the pattern was for defeating him! I know that
it was tight.....I'll try to figure it out, real quick!

[Sable]

Sigma in X7? X's charged buster shots have more range then him. Just a little bit, but with X you can pelt him from outside his reach.

Easy. As every MMX game ever is.

But they're still awesome.

Edit:
Where's my friggen' head? Naturally, I have to add my own idea for toughest boss.

Uranus, Bloody Roar 4.
She's not that impressive when controlled by a player, but the CPU is bloody EVIL with her.

A runner up would be the Axem Rangers in Super Mario RPG. And they were annoying to boot.

[Something Else]

The first fight against Magus in Chrono Trigger was hard to me.

But nothing can compare racing against one of the bosses in Diddy Kong Racing... Didn't you have to race against an elephant.. and that pig dude? I don't remember, but there was a really hard boss that I could never beat.. Makes me cringe when I start to think about it. :banghead:

[Ghost of ???]

Sigma in X7? X's charged buster shots have more range then him. Just a little bit, but with X you can pelt him from outside his reach.

Easy. As every MMX game ever is.

But they're still awesome.

Edit:
Where's my friggen' head? Naturally, I have to add my own idea for toughest boss.

Uranus, Bloody Roar 4.
She's not that impressive when controlled by a player, but the CPU is bloody EVIL with her.

A runner up would be the Axem Rangers in Super Mario RPG. And they were annoying to boot.

**Spoiler**

Power Ranger Spoofs, eh? Take out Pink and Green
first, then focus on Black and Yellow. Defeat Red
and then it's time for the ship. After each blast
of the Breaker Beam, Attack with 2 of your strongest
and heal with the weakest (Toadstool is best at healing).

6 enemies can be a chore, but its easy with the right
strategy.

As for Sigma, well , you said it yourself! :wink:

(Darn, Mega Man 7 crashed on me!)

[Jenga]

[quote="Sable"]Sigma in X7? X's charged buster shots have more range then him. Just a little bit, but with X you can pelt him from outside his reach.[qoute]

Nah I meant the original megaman series. Megaman 7 for the snes.

[Sable]

Another pair for you guys to chew on.

'Another' from Another Zero was a royal PAIN. Damn near impossible 'less your timing is just right. Given the game itself is really hard, though, I guess it's to be expected.

Then there's Lloyd in Legend of Dragoon. The ... second time you fight him, I think. He becomes a Dragoon, and the only way to beat him is to transform your characters into dragoons as well..

...Except he's got that friggen' Dragon Buster sword that insta-kills anyone in Dragoon form.

[Ghost of ???]

[quote=Sable]Sigma in X7? X's charged buster shots have more range then him. Just a little bit, but with X you can pelt him from outside his reach.[qoute]
Nah I meant the original megaman series. Megaman 7 for the snes.

That last part quote have had a / in it.

Oh well, and he wasn't answering you, I don't think?

My game crashed on me so better luck next time!

[Ghost]

Man, I've read up to around page 25.

Here are some of my characters.

Almost any boss I've fought in Devil May Cry.

The Weapons in FFVII (I only actually attempted Ruby once, and that was years ago, and I didn't even prepare for it, nor do I really care to beat them.)

Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts - The problem with me and him is when he starts casting Sin Harvest, and I mis-time my attack, and instantly sends me down to critical.

One of the creatures from FFX's battle arena - he's the guy who has the attack convergance. He's one of the creatures that seriously annoyed me, besides the Jumbo Flan. That battle took awhile since I had to contantly switch people and heal and prepare for its attack.

Some Bosses that were mentioned but I beat/wasn't to happy with.

FFIX - This is going to sound odd, but I found Ozma to be a dissapointment. The thing is, after losing to him twice (without really preparing), I decided to go out of my way to prepare for him (lv to 99 and such). At around 70, I decided to see where I stand with him. I had Zidaine with Thievery at around 8000, Freya with a decent Dragon Lance, Aramant, and Vivi.
I beat him in 10 minutes, if that. He didn't cast curse once, and he used Meteor once (killed my party, but had auto live with auto-regan)

FFVIII - Omega Weapon. However, I did the Gllgamesh trick and used Squall, Zell, and Irvin. Here's the thing, I beat him at LEVEL 7 (Which means no Lionheart for me). (I beat the entire game without leveling up).

FFX - Nemesis/Omega God. After the struggle just to make it to him, he's a completely joke.

Skies of Arcadia - Rameriz final battle. ...It's a shame that he wasn't all that strong.

There are others, but till next time...

HOW IN GODS NAME DID U BEAT FF8 WITH OUT LEVELING UP... THATS IMPOSSIBLE!!! unless u have no life

Strange...I can tell you were "attempting" to quote Anti-freeze, but it didn't work right. :? Oh well. Your message is clear. Hey by the way, shouldn't you be chasing Pac-man in a maze, somewhere? :)

I looking for pac man but cant really find him, but ill get him one day!

[Ghost of ???]

Did you check the Arcades? Maybe he's off-line or
something? :roll:

[Gendo-Ikari]

What about Ruby Weapon in FF7? He was a real bitch.
Also the last boss in EarthBound was a real bitch.
And you can't forget Luca Blight in Suikoden II.

[Ghost of ???]

This thread is incredable! Let's keep it going. Oh and don't mind all the rambling between me and SlyGlen!

Who's the Hardest Bosses?

[Raenok]

I have another.

Necron, FFIX: I never really fought him, but I saw him. He looked HARD! And he was, too. Killed my friend in 20 minutes, i think. Anyways, I want to see a picture of him. In fact, I NEED that picture. The only thing I remember about Necron was 2 floating rings around him....

And also, Protoman, from stages in MM3. I could defeat him, but he kept jumping, and took out mosst of my life.

[SLyGeN]

Did you check the Arcades? Maybe he's off-line or
something? :roll:

you talking about me again? this is what happens when i just got Vexx and Eternal Darkness!

hey Shen_Long, how many thread topics have i warped since i've joined OCR?
there was this one boss in return to castle wolfenstein, he kept releasing these curse spirits and they would take off around 50 health points each.

[Blaster009]

Protoman, from stages in MM3. I could defeat him, but he kept jumping, and took out mosst of my life.

All you have to do is get behind him and open fire, all he does is jump and fire and the only time he because changes direction is when he hits a wall...

I dunno what boss was the hardest for me... can't really think of one right now... I think that one eyed boss from the second level of wily's castle in MM3 was pretty tough since he deformed himself every 5 seconds...

[K@ned@]

MGS 2 Sons of liberty on extreme mode fighting metal gear rays... was hell

[Domukaz]

At this point, I REALLY don't want to check if I've already posted here...

The hardest, most annoying boss in recent memory is Dr. Wily from MM7. Maybe I just missed a secret weakness, but it's nigh-impossible to dodge his attacks in his final phase. His super-powered attack.

[The Coop]

I little while ago I found a game at my local EB Games that I figured "what the hell" and bought. It's called Wonder By in Monster World. Oh sure, it's got bright and cutesy graphics with SD characters and big eyed monsters and such, but it's also got one of the nastiest final bosses.

You begin with a robotic looking thing that you have to hit on it's front. As you do this, lasers occasionally drop down and ride along a series of rails and fire at you. Now, this part is rather easy. It's what comes next that it a complete bitch.

If you destroy it's first half, everything goes nuts. A conveyor belt starts moving, pushing to either rapidly towards or away from the boss, two lasers are now always on the rails shooting at you, and now there's a buzz saw blade moving back and forth along the conveyor belt. If you touch the boss, laser cannons, buzz saw or get hit by the lasers, you loose health AND get bounced back... usually into one of the other objects moving around.

Somehow, you have to hit the boss in the eye a bunch of times to kill it with your sword, but you're too busy getting bounced all around and pinned in place to even get the thing half way dead before you run out of potions and such to heal yourself.

It's amazing how easy that little game is up until you reach that final boss.

[BladeKnight]

At this point, I REALLY don't want to check if I've already posted here...

The hardest, most annoying boss in recent memory is Dr. Wily from MM7. Maybe I just missed a secret weakness, but it's nigh-impossible to dodge his attacks in his final phase. His super-powered attack.

If he's out of your range, stand directly below him, wait for the balls to appear. They move in two thrusts, one that moves in your general direction and one that moves to the end of the screen. The moment they move for the first time, slide to the left or right, whichever side you have more room. And in one great leap, jump over all four of them. Try to do it at the last possible second, it's kind of tricky. If you have take a hit, take the lightning (yellow) one. That does the least amount of damage.

If he IS in range, hit him with a charge shot and quickly follow up with a shot of Thunder Bolt (You'll probably want to pick it from the menu). He'll be shocked, but won't do any damage. It'll cancel the normal energy ball attack and he'll two lightning orbs downwards, which is very easy to jump over.

If you're feeling lucky, you can try using Freeze Cracker when he's out of range, but this usually messes up your rythm and you'll have a much harder time dodging the energy balls. I also hear Wild Coil does a decent amount of damege but I didn't notice anything. Just stick to charge shots.

Any way you slice it, it's going to be a very hard, very tedious fight. There's really no way around it. Be sure to bring a full stock of E-Tanks and don't start using them unless you're confident that you have a chance of beating him.

[BobChillingworth]

I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but I'm pretty sure that Dullahan from Golden Sun the Lost Age was impossible to beat. The sucker could get 200 hp back every turn (So you couldn't get into a battle of attrition), could randomly summon Charon to do massive damage to your entire party, and had, among various nasty psynergiey attacks, something called "Formosa Sage", which did a very large and nasty sum of damage to a single character, usually enough to kill them if they were trying to summon anything.

[Sir Toaster]

Wind Waker's Puppet Ganon was tough, way harder than the real Ganon.

The only hard part about the fight with Ganon was not killing Zelda after she shot me with a light arrow. That hurt emotionally (and it was before the part where I had to bounce it, too!)

[Sir Toaster]

Wind Waker's Puppet Ganon was tough, way harder than the real Ganon.

The only hard part about the fight with Ganon was not killing Zelda after she shot me with a light arrow. That hurt emotionally (and it was before the part where I had to bounce it, too!)

[Blue_Drac]

Shodan was the hardest boss for me.

(System Shock 1 and 2 for the un-initiated)

[TheHylianScribe]

I like the way this thread managed to outlast the Catgirl thread, the Spork thread, and Yuffie Mae's 'Hi!' thread. Of all of them it was the least subversive, had the smallest impact, and seems to be the only one left standing. This is the Cockroach Thread of OC.

Good job Coop!

Anywho, I have trouble beating the Green Goblin in the first Spiderman game, but everyone else seems to have no trouble killing him... go figure...

[Geod]

Wind Waker's Puppet Ganon was tough, way harder than the real Ganon.

The only hard part about the fight with Ganon was not killing Zelda after she shot me with a light arrow. That hurt emotionally (and it was before the part where I had to bounce it, too!)

Still havent beaten the real ganon....
Anyway try going up against the last boss in Phantasy Star Online 2 at level 43 *cough* i died many times...

[j0f00]

Wind Waker's Puppet Ganon was tough, way harder than the real Ganon.

The only hard part about the fight with Ganon was not killing Zelda after she shot me with a light arrow. That hurt emotionally (and it was before the part where I had to bounce it, too!)

dude that game was so easy.... play ninja gaiden for NES for a while and you'll see what I mean lol

[Warmech]

I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but I'm pretty sure that Dullahan from Golden Sun the Lost Age was impossible to beat. The sucker could get 200 hp back every turn (So you couldn't get into a battle of attrition), could randomly summon Charon to do massive damage to your entire party, and had, among various nasty psynergiey attacks, something called "Formosa Sage", which did a very large and nasty sum of damage to a single character, usually enough to kill them if they were trying to summon anything.

Heh, I beat him.

[MISTagent01]

Either Sephiroth on Kingdom Hearts. Damn that Sin Harvest. Or just about any boss on Ninja Gaiden on Very Hard mode. X-Box Version that is.

[SLyGeN]

I like the way this thread managed to outlast the Catgirl thread, the Spork thread, and Yuffie Mae's 'Hi!' thread. Of all of them it was the least subversive, had the smallest impact, and seems to be the only one left standing. This is the Cockroach Thread of OC.

Good job Coop!

Anywho, I have trouble beating the Green Goblin in the first Spiderman game, but everyone else seems to have no trouble killing him... go figure...

i'll be happy when it outlasts that horrible Magic thread.

[Samurai Jin]

*bump* The Original Guilty Gear getting to Baiken, no continues used and then actually beating her. I could never do it.

[fullkitty]

The liquid/clay boss near the end of Mega Man 1. He would separate and fly across the screen at you in an undodgeable barrage of brown clay after you hit him. It's impossible to beat him without the pause trick.

[Aerospace]

I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but I'm pretty sure that Dullahan from Golden Sun the Lost Age was impossible to beat. The sucker could get 200 hp back every turn (So you couldn't get into a battle of attrition), could randomly summon Charon to do massive damage to your entire party, and had, among various nasty psynergiey attacks, something called "Formosa Sage", which did a very large and nasty sum of damage to a single character, usually enough to kill them if they were trying to summon anything.

Yep, I mentioned him around page 80-90....lazy butt, go search ;)
and it's "Formina Sage."

I beat him - naturally you have to have all the Djinni to get to him, so I summoned him to hell. Make sure your agility's way up there, and just summon summon summon as much as you can. If you're lucky you'll get two turns off with your first party. When they're down, the parties swap automatically, and you do the same thing over again.

Took me a couple tries while tweaking my summons and strategy....actually it took me a lot of tries....
Just hope ya get lucky :P

And btw, Sephiroth in KH is easy once you get Aeroga - makes a huuuuge difference, at least in Normal mode....and that's assuming you're not too lazy to keep one up.

and it's NOT SIN HARVEST. It's HEARTLESS ANGEL.
He says "Descend, Heartless Angel", if you listen close.

[Dontcareaboutmyid]

*bumpo* Might have been said in the some 100 pages of random jabberings, but sephiroth in kingdom hearts is a bitch. It took me 20 level ups (lvl 65 to level 85) before i beat him and thats beforei learned the key trick and using some 6 elixers within the battle. I got it down to only 2 now, but still.

[Dark0Swordsman]

I think that the dragon towrds the end of fire emblem was pretty tough. you couldn't kill it unless you were athos and even then it took 8 turns, his damage was like 45-55 and yours does like 45 each turn. . .and then you need to heal and it's a vicious cycle!

[Steele]

By no means a "hard boss", but I think Dyne in ff7 deserves an honerable mention. Here's a guy you fight one-on-one (with a character most people usualy don't level up...), and can kill you in 4 turns if you're not careful. It's one of those "One one one? Shit, i didn't equip a restore materia! SHIT, he can attack 3 times in a row.. SHIT... ah screw it *reset*" kind of bosses. Not hard if you know what you're doing, but everyone i know got pwned their first playthrough by this jackass.

I'd mention a few more, but at 10*4* pages, anyone else i can thik of has proobably already been mentioned o_o

edit: okay, more than 103 pages.. o_O

[uber1337dryad]

These choices suck, except for a few.

Have none of you ever played Castlevania 3 without using stupid glitches or cheap tricks? I can't decide who was harder: Death or Doppleganger (CV3). Btw, both of those bosses do 4 bars of damage per hit, so they can kill you in 4 hits. And it takes 16 hits to kill them. Enjoy the unfair battles of Castlevania III! Oh, Death has two forms. Doppleganger has only one, but will mimic whichever form you pick. Try doing Trevor vs Doppleganger. Enjoy dodging his cross he throws at you (4 bars!)

Dracula from CV3 deserves an honorable mention as you must hit him FOURTY EIGHT TIMES before he hits you four times.

[Zoast]

I always thought Castlevania 1 was harder to beat than 3, not that either are easy.. but I know they are doable.... I used to have problems with ng's Jaquio as a kid too, but Drac from cv 1 & 3 are much harder

[Arianos]

Has anyone already said the final version of Sungai in Legend of Legaia? I'm not reading all 104 pages, so if they did, sorry.

[Random Fox Thought]

dunno if it's been said, but I'll list a few.

sigma from mega man X4, final form (provided, you don't cheat with X to get the ultimate armor/infinite nova strike).

death from simon's quest (don't kill me I'm joking :))

balio and sunder from breath of fire 3 (which are only unfortunately defeatable through rumor for most people)

in terms of attempting to beat a game without dying, the energy zone boss from contra 1 (for me anyway, I haven't figured out this how not to die strategy, maybe I'm just slow ^_^)

and last but not least because I can't think of anything, if optional bosses count, emerald weapon on disc 2 of final fantasy 7, if you pursue fighting it before you get any of that over-powered materia or underwater materia.

Also I've had people tell me diablo from diablo one is kind of rough.

I know most people hate devil may cry 2, but how about it's end boss? If you could stand getting there the thing is pretty rough.

[OmegaPhoenix128]

Ive always thought the final boss of Xenogears was pretty hard to beat. That or the Sigma and his damn dog thing from MMX. Gay dog always tore me up. Before I even got to sigma.

[damienkrauss]

the hardest fucking game ever would have to be super ghouls and ghosts.

[Dhsu]

I remember MMX being freaking hard when I was a young 'un. But I just beat it, and it was still difficult, but well within the bounds of reason. The dog shouldn't give you too much trouble if you stay on the walls. I used the charged up Chameleon Sting and the wind attack for Sigma.

Or you could just Hadoken them both. ;)

[Ghost]

I think that the dragon towrds the end of fire emblem was pretty tough. you couldn't kill it unless you were athos and even then it took 8 turns, his damage was like 45-55 and yours does like 45 each turn. . .and then you need to heal and it's a vicious cycle!
Actually the dragon is very easy if you have your lords at a high level and assuming u gave the legandary weapons that athos has on him when u first get him. Then allow all of ur lords to attack him and heal them every after they all attack the dragon with a staff that can heal from a distance, and continue the next turn

[Hell Marine]

The icon of Sin in DooM II in NiGhTmArE difficulty is by far my hardest boss to beat I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS. Ive been stuck on the same level for 3 years and still cant beat it. :evil:

[SoggyOrigami]

The warmechs in the first final fantasy (yeah, im pulling back from way in the past) were harder than any of the bosses in the entire game. They were a rare enemy, but once you found one, you might as well have kissed your 8-bit bootay good bye. I fought one for twenty minutes one time before dying in a skin melting blast of nuke. Killing me dead like a green plastic army man under a magnifying glass.

bad grammer is so awesome.

ims a rebel :roll:

[Happy_Metroid]

well, since I don't have the time to go through 104 pages of this I hope this hasn't been mentioned yet. I think it's pretty obscure though.

Those three damn mages in Valkyrie profile in the ruined city(of course that damn Barbarossa was hard too since you had to fight him twice without a chance to heal). I remember I was on a high enough level with enough skills to last for awhile but it took several hours of hp chipping to kill the bastards. Even with the ultra magics you get with those staffs.

[The Coop]

I have a confession.

I enjoy the Sonic games, and generally the bosses in the 2D ones are pretty easy to dispose of. However, there is one that I have trouble with.


In Sonic Advance, there's a boss towards the end that consists of three tiers of rotating platforms stacked on top of each other, with Dr. Robotnick's orb sitting atop them. On the bottom of each of these platforms, is a laser that can be destroyed. All along the sides of these platforms, are spikes to nail you with if you don't jump on them at a good angle.

Now, these three platforms come out as seemingly random times, pause, shoot at you, and then return. The object is to hop on these platforms and hit Robotnick's dome to damage him... and that's where I get screwed. For the ease at which I can get rid of all the other bosses, my timing always seems to be off on this boss. Either the plat forms are too close and I get hit by one, the damned laser on one of them comes out and gets me in mid jump, or I finally get on the damn thing and try to hit Robotnick's dome only to see I don't have enough momentum to make it all the way to said dome.

It's a simple boss. It only takes like 8-10 hits to destroy it, and the laser can be destroyed so they don't pose a threat anymore... but damn if my sense of timing, or the random patterns this boss puts out with its platform movement, will ever allow me an easy win over it. I've beaten it and seen the end, but every single time, that boss is a major pain in the ass for me. It's almost disheartening :lol:

[John Revoredo]

8) Lavos spawn (chrono trigger) are pretty hard to beat, but they're not bosses.
Lavos wins the prize. I had to beat the game four times to be able to defeat him ( Chrono Level 56, Frog Level 52 and Marle Level 48). And it is one of the most time consuming bosses. It takes a lot of time to beat him. You gotta fight it from outside, and then from inside. When you beat the "inside lavos" then, lavos core appears. The worst thing is that it heals itself, sou you gotta have a lot of healing items, elixir, etc... to survive the long combat.

[Yellow 13]

-Golem Twins from Chrono Trigger
-Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts (Not from FF7, had no trouble with him in that game)
-Ruby and Emerald Weapons from FF7
-The Skedar Priest from Perfect Dark (until I found out that you had to destroy the pedestal)
-The painting monster in FF6 (or 3, whichever you prefer)

[CapnHulk]

-Golem Twins from Chrono Trigger
-Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts (Not from FF7, had no trouble with him in that game)
-Ruby and Emerald Weapons from FF7
-The Skedar Priest from Perfect Dark (until I found out that you had to destroy the pedestal)
-The painting monster in FF6 (or 3, whichever you prefer)

Why does everyone think Sephiroth was hard in Kingdom Hearts? That battle is like something out of Megaman. He has a simple pattern and if you pay attention he's a piece of cake.

[Faerie Chef Scorchio]

The hardest boss of all time, without a doubt was "Fire Leo" from Viewtiful Joe. If you didn't know what to do or didn't seek for help on an FAQ (like I did), you were generally screwed! Anyone agree with me?

[Super_Sonic_SSJ]

The hardest boss of all time, without a doubt was "Fire Leo" from Viewtiful Joe. If you didn't know what to do or didn't seek for help on an FAQ (like I did), you were generally screwed! Anyone agree with me?

No. It's not THAT hard to figure out his patterns.

The liquid/clay boss near the end of Mega Man 1. He would separate and fly across the screen at you in an undodgeable barrage of brown clay after you hit him. It's impossible to beat him without the pause trick.

I will happily admit that this guy kicked my ASS the first ten or so times. However, although it's very hard to dodge his blob-shift at first, it always follows the same pattern, and once you've got it down it's not that hard to dodge.

[Prokop]

Chaos, from Unlimited Saga.

You fight some sort of variation of him at the end of each character's game, and on most of the paths, he is just a giant bitch. HUGE BITCH, I say. The fight is just really, really long, it is hard to do more than a few points of LP damage per turn, and his last forms hit all of your characters for about 2-3 LP, and he can attack up to 5 times per turn. Oh yeah, and LP can't be restored at all, the most anyone has is 17, and there is no effective way to heal HP (which only acts as a barrier to increased LP loss.)

[Yellow 13]

-Golem Twins from Chrono Trigger
-Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts (Not from FF7, had no trouble with him in that game)
-Ruby and Emerald Weapons from FF7
-The Skedar Priest from Perfect Dark (until I found out that you had to destroy the pedestal)
-The painting monster in FF6 (or 3, whichever you prefer)

Why does everyone think Sephiroth was hard in Kingdom Hearts? That battle is like something out of Megaman. He has a simple pattern and if you pay attention he's a piece of cake.

Yeah, the fact he has a pattern to his attacks makes it easy and I almost beat him once, but I have problems when he does that "Heartless Angel" attack. He slashes me up before I can even think to use an elixer.

[The Coop]

Here's a game I literally have never beaten, and I've owned it since shortly after it came out. The reason isn't just the "bosses", but the game itself.

In Road Rash for the Genesis, you have to go through five rounds, with five races in each round. Each round gets harder as you go along. Now, I've been on Round 5 with two races won, and three races yet to be qualified for I don't know how many years now. You have to get 4th place or higher to qualify, but the lead bikers are so insanely fast, it's not possible to catch them. And they obviously never crash into anything, because the leader board never seems to change.

I have the fastest bike, the best handling, and I'm pretty good at the game. But there is no way to catch these guys even if it was a flat barren wasteland with no objects anywhere on the road. But it's not like that at all. See, you need the fastest bike to have any hope in winning, as the lead bikers have them... or bikes close to them. The terrain is seriously hilly with damn sharp turns and traffic going both ways constantly. You have to go fast, but in doing so, you get launched off hills into cars, trees, and bad landings that result in big wrecks... which usually eliminates any progress you may have made up to that point. It takes about ten wrecks for your bike to break and knock you out of the race, and those ten wrecks come mighty quick in Round 5.

So besides having insanely fast lead bikers, you have to choose with Road Rash. Do you wanna go slow and not even finish in the single digits, or do you wanna haul ass and wreck constantly? You don't have a middle ground, as slowing down for hills and turns makes anyone you passed come flying up behind you and either pass you or knock you off your bike.

It's a no win situation as far as I can tell.

[CapnHulk]

Here's a game I literally have never beaten, and I've owned it since shortly after it came out. The reason isn't just the "bosses", but the game itself.

In Road Rash for the Genesis, you have to go through five rounds, with five races in each round. Each round gets harder as you go along. Now, I've been on Round 5 with two races won, and three races yet to be qualified for I don't know how many years now. You have to get 4th place or higher to qualify, but the lead bikers are so insanely fast, it's not possible to catch them. And they obviously never crash into anything, because the leader board never seems to change.

I have the fastest bike, the best handling, and I'm pretty good at the game. But there is no way to catch these guys even if it was a flat barren wasteland with no objects anywhere on the road. But it's not like that at all. See, you need the fastest bike to have any hope in winning, as the lead bikers have them... or bikes close to them. The terrain is seriously hilly with damn sharp turns and traffic going both ways constantly. You have to go fast, but in doing so, you get launched off hills into cars, trees, and bad landings that result in big wrecks... which usually eliminates any progress you may have made up to that point. It takes about ten wrecks for your bike to break and knock you out of the race, and those ten wrecks come mighty quick in Round 5.

So besides having insanely fast lead bikers, you have to choose with Road Rash. Do you wanna go slow and not even finish in the single digits, or do you wanna haul ass and wreck constantly? You don't have a middle ground, as slowing down for hills and turns makes anyone you passed come flying up behind you and either pass you or knock you off your bike.

It's a no win situation as far as I can tell.

Road Rash isn't exactly a gem. The first one on Playstation though....mmmmmmm.

[MysticStampede]

LOL...I just thought of a boss that truly is impossible to defeat....Metal Lobster from Kirby's Super Star (more specifically, the sub-game called Meta-Knight's Revenge). No matter how hard you tried, you couldn't kill that thing without the airship's engine's turning on, blowing everyone away...Although you got to kill it later on in the game.

As for boss's that were hard for a good reason, I had trouble with Dark Link from Link's Adventure and Dracula from the first GBA Castlevania game. I used to think Coolix from Super Mario RPG was impossible, but then many years later, I played the game again and handed it to him...0_o

I bet I've played bosses that were just as hard or harder but my memory of the video games I have played isn't too good right now for some reason.

[grayfox9996]

Absolute worst boss for me...Nightmare fight 3 (in Devil May Cry). I was stuck on that boss for months, literally. I started another save afterwards on Hard...yeah, I haven't even fought him, I'm pretty much scared to. And that was a year ago. :oops:

Love the game...HATE that boss...and MAN is the sword-wielding boss in that game fun! (can't remember the name right now...)

[Super_Sonic_SSJ]

Absolute worst boss for me...Nightmare fight 3 (in Devil May Cry). I was stuck on that boss for months, literally. I started another save afterwards on Hard...yeah, I haven't even fought him, I'm pretty much scared to. And that was a year ago. :oops:

Love the game...HATE that boss...and MAN is the sword-wielding boss in that game fun! (can't remember the name right now...)

That's Nelo Angelo. And yes, he's freaking awesome. :)

You should go face Nightmare 3. Once you've really got down how to handle him, he's actually very fun to fight. I don't blame you for being stuck on him, though, he's one of the few bosses who still gives me trouble (on DMD mode...did I mention I've played this game far too much?). :lol:

[llirium]

The last few bosses in Final Fantasy Legend II were damn near impossible. It took me forever to beat Venus, then right after her is Odin with his pets (whom you must beat in eight rounds, if I remember correctly) then Apollo, then a tower climb THEN a crazy gun machine that was damn near impossible.

Oh yeah.. I'd forgotten about Venus.. :dstrbd: Glad I was using my Super Game Boy at the time.. or I would have been using up many, many sets of batteries. :oops:

[Blakmoonz]

i would have to say emerald weapon in final fantasy 7 my jebus it was hard!!! :D

[Sir Toaster]

i would have to say emerald weapon in final fantasy 7 my jebus it was hard!!! :D

Not really. Just don't have much materia, and give Yuffie the conformer and 4x-attack. I beat him at level 70.

Ruby was hard if you didn't have KoTR. I couldn't do that.

[Northern_Fist]

Hardest fighting game bosses:

3D:
Dural - Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution (I think I've beaten her only once)

2D:
Geese Howard -SNES Art of Fighting

Hardest Action Game Bosses:
Various Contra Bosses
Various Gradius Bosses
Various R-Type Bosses

[Mr.Roboto]

PSO episode 1: on Extreme:The Ice Dragon.

The horror.

[Ghost of ???]

2D:
Geese Howard -SNES Art of Fighting

SNES Art of Fighting? I recall Geese as the boss of AoF 2, but wasn't Takuma (alias Mr. Karate) the boss of AoF 1 ? Hmmm...I could be wrong.

[Lizz]

-The Skedar Priest from Perfect Dark (until I found out that you had to destroy the pedestal)

Hm, I beat the bastard on my first try with only a mauler (non-charged). I used up all the callisto ammo and realized, "Wait, this isn't getting me anywhere..."
But I guess some things are harder for other people. That being said, I am the WORST at Pac-man. That little yellow pizza... GRR... all he says is "WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA"
I HATE YOU, PAC-MAN! You've eaten at least $10 in quarters!

[MangoMan]

Draconis from Baldurs Gate II: Throne of Bhaal

have never hit my monitor so many times as from that fight.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

I wonder how many people have beaten Metroid Prime's 1st and 2nd forms on hard difficulty on their first run ? ..it took me (fairly skilled at MP) at least 10 tries to beat the bitch properly 8)

[Strife.]

-The Skedar Priest from Perfect Dark (until I found out that you had to destroy the pedestal)

Hm, I beat the bastard on my first try with only a mauler (non-charged). I used up all the callisto ammo and realized, "Wait, this isn't getting me anywhere..."
But I guess some things are harder for other people. That being said, I am the WORST at Pac-man. That little yellow pizza... GRR... all he says is "WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA"
I HATE YOU, PAC-MAN! You've eaten at least $10 in quarters!

Hey, I had trouble on that boss as well. One of the most annoying bosses would have to be the last guy in the original Syphon Filter. It wasn't that he wasn't hard to kill, it's just that you ended up killing yourself a lot with those friggin gas grenades.

[Ghost of ???]

Hey, I had trouble on that boss as well. One of the most annoying bosses would have to be the last guy in the original Syphon Filter. It wasn't that he wasn't hard to kill, it's just that you ended up killing yourself a lot with those friggin gas grenades.
Rhoemer was easy! Just climb up after shooting the guys up above, spot Rhoemer and toss one at him. He's easily defeated in less than a minute. As far as hardest bosses in that game, the Helicopter scene was the hardest for me! Antwon Girdueaux was probably the easiest. Hit him once, then hit him again and again and ....

[Northern_Fist]

2D:
Geese Howard -SNES Art of Fighting

SNES Art of Fighting? I recall Geese as the boss of AoF 2, but wasn't Takuma (alias Mr. Karate) the boss of AoF 1 ? Hmmm...I could be wrong.

You know, it's been so long since I played the series- you could very well be right.

[Ghost of ???]

2D:
Geese Howard -SNES Art of Fighting

SNES Art of Fighting? I recall Geese as the boss of AoF 2, but wasn't Takuma (alias Mr. Karate) the boss of AoF 1 ? Hmmm...I could be wrong.

You know, it's been so long since I played the series- you could very well be right.
Let's just say, I have a vast collection of fighting games on my PC.

[Mongrol]

I-no from Guilty Gear XX... I never could beat her on my first try (usually took about 15 and a little over an hour)

[Psychochild]

-Golem Twins from Chrono Trigger
-Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts (Not from FF7, had no trouble with him in that game)
-Ruby and Emerald Weapons from FF7
-The Skedar Priest from Perfect Dark (until I found out that you had to destroy the pedestal)
-The painting monster in FF6 (or 3, whichever you prefer)

I am probably the only person around here that had no problem at all with the Golem Twins ><;

Party- Robo, Aya, Crono.

Start off the battle with Robo and Aya's Boogie Double Tech. This ALWAYS stopped both of them my 9 or so times through the game ><; Then, when they are asleep, assign Robo Healer Duty with his Cure-All ability (The name escapes me right now). Then use Crono's and Aya's Falcon Hit. Over. And Over. And Over. And Over. Boogie when you need to, and just spam Falcon Hit.

Such an easy boss.

I think the hardest boss I ever had to deal with would be...

(Spoilers)

The Captain Blue robot fight on Ultra-V mode in Viewtiful Joe. The guy was a pain in the butt on Kids mode. On Normal, he was aggrivating. On V-Mode, he was very challenging, and on Ultra-V.... ARGH!!

[Flash Strife]

Mysterio in the Speedy Mart in Spider-Man 2. :x

[SLyGeN]

just fought him today, eternal darkness: the guardian of Ulayoth. he pissed me off.

[I3lack Templar]

Some one Said Something about Time Lord for the Nes?

Ok i Actualy Defeated that Mexican Poncho Guy (Only ever did it once and that took 2 HOURS!

One Hard as hell boss i fought was the Final Boss for doom 2

Without Cheats its Hard as hell, Trying to stick on the platform to get that one lucky shot into that deamons brain.

Sigh Good times Good times

Doc Oc From Spiderman 2 Was VERY irratating for the Final Fight. MAN! GRRR!

Another hard boss was Abbads Uber Dragon From Panzer Dragoon Orta. I had a bitch of a time till i learned how to shoot down his Magenta Bolts

Oh ya then there is Some Bosses from the Rockman Zero Series On the GBA
Those who have played it know what i am talking about.

[Ganit]

Vamp out of MGS2 on Extreme... He cheated like a fricker bug is what he did.

But dont worry I wasted him and the rest of the game.. Missed two dog tags though.....So frusterating.

[SLyGeN]

I wonder how many people have beaten Metroid Prime's 1st and 2nd forms on hard difficulty on their first run ? ..it took me (fairly skilled at MP) at least 10 tries to beat the bitch properly 8)

not my first run, but MP wasn't too hard. I think i died maybe once or twice.

this is another one of those games where the last boss is one of the easiest (im talking about MP's essence)

[DarkAndrew]

Sigma from Megaman X4...to this day i think he is impossible

[Raenok]

Sigma from Megaman X4...to this day i think he is impossible

My friend beat him as X. Pretty easy, if you know what to do. On each form.

[Crimson Wolf]

I happen to think that Death from Castlevania: Chronicles in the Original mode is a bit excessive. The original Death was hard enough, but you could get lucky and get a triple-shot Holy Water or Cross and spam him to death. This guy can now throw his scythe wherever you're standing while you try to dance your way out of the rain of tiny blades or just decide, "Gee, I'm getting hit pretty hard. But I don't have to put up with this, so I'm just gonna go invincible for a moment and then trap you in place while spewing homing skulls non-stop." Jerk. Thank heavens for Herbs and an almost endless supply of hearts.

A more current one would be a game I played briefly a while back - Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee. Almost every fight pits you against Mechagodzilla at the end, who has the arena rigged in his favor with dozens of turrets and spacecraft that chip away your health unless you manage to break through the forcefield and hide behind a building. And as for the boss itself? It laughs at edged attacks, instantly heads for power-ups whenever they appear, and on Hard, blocks most of your attacks and retaliates by grabbing you and propelling you up into the air with his laser eyes. Attempting to fire back from a distance? It interrupts your attacks with a quick burst of laser and then lets loose with finger missiles. And if you get hit by its Rage attack, then congrats, you just discovered the most damaging move in the game, the hard way.

This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that in order to unlock more characters, you always have to beat the game with whatever monsters you currently have available. And some of them are just screwed right at the starting gate. Gigan has almost exclusively edged attacks, a cruddy beam weapon, and lacks hands, which obviously makes grappling a problem. Orga is slow as %&^! (and looks like it, too), which means that any attempts to grab or punch will be blocked, dodged, or cut off with a quick one-two. Megalon...hey, it's like Gigan, but with an unbelievable weakness to getting hit with blunt objects. You know, like fists. Anguirus, lacking damaging attacks or a decent breath weapon, relys on blocking with his spiked back and then attacking the opponent while they shake their wounded limbs after being so dumb as to punch a pincushion. Of course, Mecha simply shoots a plasma bolt out of his gut and laughs, then unloads with those ^$#&* rocket fingers.

So on Hard mode, the best thing you can do for these characters is try to hunt down power-ups and pelt Mecha wih buildings from a distance. Occasionally, try for a throw and stomp on his limp body afterwards. And that takes some luck - pray for health.

[DarkMessengerIX|LOA]

ridley, super metroid.. was really hard for me

also, the dude in chrono cross (forgot his name) who had the masamune, when you kill him you get the mastermune

also, the last boss of arx fatalis.. he was insanely hard.

EDIT: yeah, the last boss of arx fatalis would use magic to suck you in, then swipe you with his tentacle thingamajiggy..

i had to get all metal gear solid on his ass, hiding behind crap...

if all of that wasnt enough, he summons demons left and right (demons are really kinda hard in that game)

[Tatan0x!]

Omega Weapon FFV of course...

[DarkMessengerIX|LOA]

oh, and the phantom dude from kingdom hearts.. still havent beaten him

[DarkMessengerIX|LOA]

oh and one more...

guilty gear XX, some of those missions are insanely mo' trucking hard.. i dare to see any of the most experienced fighter game people to beat those...

i mean, i'm really good at GGXX, believe me.. and i cannot, simply cannot beat some of those missions.

[Mercuryus]

Sigma from Megaman X4...to this day i think he is impossible

I agree, sigma is way hard. I got to him and spent a couple hours getting my ass kicked before i gave up. i havent picked it up since.

This is by far not the single hardest boss ever, but i think Sagat (not Bison) is one of the hardest. How many other players have noticed once uve finally beaten him, Bison is nothing?

[Lightbunny]

Sweet chickens...

This thread is still alive? Amazing.

Um...the penultimate Doc Ock fight in Spider-man 2 is tough, in an annoying sense. You know, the one where you have to shut down all the panels, while an invincible Doc Ock wails on you?

Logic dictates: "Keep moving!"

...but it's kinda hard to keep moving when 90% of the room is engulfed in an unpassable fusion reaction. I blame poor game design.

[Mongrol]

oh and one more...

guilty gear XX, some of those missions are insanely mo' trucking hard.. i dare to see any of the most experienced fighter game people to beat those...

i mean, i'm really good at GGXX, believe me.. and i cannot, simply cannot beat some of those missions.

I'm glad it wasnt just me that couldnt beat those

[Soma]

Sweet chickens...

This thread is still alive? Amazing.

Um...the penultimate Doc Ock fight in Spider-man 2 is tough, in an annoying sense. You know, the one where you have to shut down all the panels, while an invincible Doc Ock wails on you?

Logic dictates: "Keep moving!"

...but it's kinda hard to keep moving when 90% of the room is engulfed in an unpassable fusion reaction. I blame poor game design. I hated the mysterio fight, the one on Elis Island and you have to swing up the statue of liberty and hit those baloons, that was just annoying.

[DarkMessengerIX|LOA]

oh and one more...

guilty gear XX, some of those missions are insanely mo' trucking hard.. i dare to see any of the most experienced fighter game people to beat those...

i mean, i'm really good at GGXX, believe me.. and i cannot, simply cannot beat some of those missions.

I'm glad it wasnt just me that couldnt beat those


yup... insanely hard.... some random asian 4 year old can probably beat it though

[Atomic Dog]

Gato

That silver coin hoarding mother fucker.

[Mr.Roboto]

Gigas of Earthbound..only for the first time though.

you would never think you had to Pray to kill gigas's last form.which was a massive pain in the ass to finally discover it.

[omega_squid]

Has anyone said MAX300 yet? My feet think that should count as a boss.

No, I never said I could beat it.

[Drin Tragen]

I wonder how many people have beaten Metroid Prime's 1st and 2nd forms on hard difficulty on their first run ? ..it took me (fairly skilled at MP) at least 10 tries to beat the bitch properly 8)

not my first run, but MP wasn't too hard. I think i died maybe once or twice.

this is another one of those games where the last boss is one of the easiest (im talking about MP's essence)

Metroid Prime was to easy, it took me 4 tries on normal to beat the first and second forms, and when I got to it in Hard mode I beat it in one try. Or at least that's what I remember, this all happened in one night with my friend.

[F'lar]

Tales of Symphonia. Try Beating the Ramiel and Kratos back to back. Then try the ! on 1 duel between Kratos and Lloyd, the 1 on 1 with Sheena and Kuchinawa. think those are hard? Complete the "Devil's Arms" sidequest (abyssion wants you to get all nine cursed weapons) And when you finally do, You have to fight a punk with 120,000 Hp! He does over 1000 per hit, WITH the All Divide (halves the damage you give to the enemy, halves the damage you take) And did i mention, That he has Skyrocketed defense? Much harder than the last boss back to back fight. At least Yggdrasil got hurt! And what do you get in reward for beating the sucker? The weapons, that have NO power. . .

Or so you think. Anyone that wants more info on ToS please PM me. I'll be glad to help.

[F'lar]

Oh yeah, there always is Niflheim. (PM me to ask how to get to that secret area)

[The Womb]

Sweet chickens...

This thread is still alive? Amazing.

Um...the penultimate Doc Ock fight in Spider-man 2 is tough, in an annoying sense. You know, the one where you have to shut down all the panels, while an invincible Doc Ock wails on you?

Logic dictates: "Keep moving!"

...but it's kinda hard to keep moving when 90% of the room is engulfed in an unpassable fusion reaction. I blame poor game design.

I haven't been able to try out Spider Man 2
But is it just me or does this boss sound like the DOC OCK boss in the Spider man that came out for the 64 where you have to shoot pannels with web to get a reactor thing to come down and then hit ock

[RoeTaKa]

he's my friend, and then his sister is right there and she's so beautiful.....

Bang on brother! :)
hehe hardest boss, hmm, I'd say last boss of half life but everyone knows that. But it could possibly be the level 8 boss in the cathedral in Gitaroo Man on Master Mode, boy that was harsh for my poor old thumbies.

[Airwalker]

Gigas of Earthbound..only for the first time though.

you would never think you had to Pray to kill gigas's last form.which was a massive pain in the ass to finally discover it.

Yeah, I agree. I actually had to use my strategy guide that came with the game to find it out.

[RoeTaKa]

Gigas of Earthbound..only for the first time though.

you would never think you had to Pray to kill gigas's last form.which was a massive pain in the ass to finally discover it.

Yeah, I agree. I actually had to use my strategy guide that came with the game to find it out.

Sort of hard, I did figure out eventually, but dont you think it was a really beautiful way to do the game and how everyone fights together? I thought it was an excellent way to do it. Although it does remind me of mystic quest where if you attack you do like 300 but if you use cure on the final boss it does like 20000

[Jordo867]

all the legendary dragons in ff6 and all the secret bosses in wild arms two

[Jordo867]

oh and yes some ddr songs can definately be called bosses

[magicbob2588]

MAX300 *Shudder*

[Super_Sonic_SSJ]

MAX300 is FAR from the hardest song in DDR. MaxX Unlimited, The Legend of MAX, and, of course, Paranoia Survivor MAX (oni difficulty) are much, much harder.

But that's irrelevant because Pump It Up's hard songs make anything in DDR look like a cakewalk. Slam, anyone? Mr Larpus? Will O' the Wisp? Pump Me Amadeus? Winter? Dignity? And let's not even get started on Nightmare mode.

[Kreig]

I don't know if he's been mentioned before (can't bother reading 120 pages of thread O_o) but Barubary from Breath of Fire II would definitely take the prize imho. I mean, he wasn't even an optional boss. I know I just got lucky and killed him because he missed a lot of attacks, but I know a friend who played the game through 3 times, starting over when he got to Barubary, trying to power up enough to be able to beat him. No other RPG boss has claimed so many lives. After that... the Stratagem Satellite from Einhander. That boss (on hard mode) was absurd, You barely got enough ammo to blast some of its weapon parts, and had to chip off its health with the standard pea-shooter the ship comes with @_@

Besides, the ambience... the music... man that was a badass boss O_o;

(yeah, I just created an account and am "delurking")

[Kreig]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention Cless' cameo appearance in Tales of Eternia. Anyone ever manage to beat him on hard?

(Cless was the main character from the first tales game, in the final battle of the colosseum in the third tales game, you get to fight him. On easy he's, well easy. on normal, he's hard as hell. On hard, he's a badass _and_ instead of a one-on-one battle, he brings the wizard of his party to blast and annoy you)

[The Coop]

Typhon.

For those who don't know this guy, he's part of the last boss at the end of a Genesis game called Phelios. But it's the other part of that last boss that's a real pain in the ass.

See, Typhon has a little pet demon. After you defeat Typhon who fires a pretty simple pattern, you get to face his demon pet. And oh what a fun fight it is. First, you can only hurt him by pegging him in the crotch. Odd spot, but it works. Also, you can only hurt his crotch, by using a fully charged blast from your sword... a blast that can only be used if you collected all the letters to spell out Phelios.

So now you're fighting him. One attack just has him firing a steady stream of destructible bullets at you. You'll need a fully sword charge to blast a hole big enough for you to slip sideways through. You won't get to hit him much here, but some luck shots can be done. Then he attacks you with a second set up. He closes his wings, and them opens them for a series of tri shots that go forward in a spreading fashion. None of this is really hard to dodge, but trying to hit him gets old. The part that makes him hard as hell, is the fact that the longer the fight goes, the lower down on the screen he gets... until he's literally so close you can't move forward without dying by contact with him. You have to knock him back by crotch shots, but after a while, he's so close that you can't fire the full blast fast enough to really push him back. So eventually, he's in your face attacking with both forms of shots.

Oh... and you best hope you get the two options to help out. If you should miss one, you may as well let him finish you off and try again to get both. Cuz you're pretty well dead otherwise.

Fun game, but it's got a ramp up in the difficulty that's rather abrupt at the end.

[The Coop]

Sure, I mentioned him before in one of his previous incarnations, but Death from the Castlevania series was harder than hell on the first game, and considerably easier in the games that followed... until I reached him in Castlevania: Lament if Innocence.

Maybe it's just me, or perhaps I'm just being given a really bad series of algorithms with this game, but every single time I try and get close to him, I get hit with his "DIE!" attack that knocks you back some 1/2 - 2/3 of the platform you're standing on. And by the time I get close enough to hit him, I get hit by it again... and again... and again.

Sure, I've gotten by that attack and battled Death with his "MINION!" exploding skulls that follow you around for a short while, and his multiple scythe attacks (the slash and the "boomerang" throw)... and I even got far enough to battle his dual "DEADLY TEMPEST" blast. But while I am proud to say I beat him... once... I gotta say that either my luck is just bad in how many times I get that "DIE!" attack, or the game hates me :lol:

[Raenok]

Robot Clown, Robot Museum, MM7.

Took me a couple of tries, but I beat him. Hard, too.

[Thalzon]

Those damn Mimics from Tales of Symphonia. I fought one which had 2800 HP, and I was doing 1 HP at a time to it. I finally gave up at 1500 HP and ran away.

[Warmech]

Heh I knew this thread would be back. I personally didn't have a problem with Death in LoI I don't think. I'm pretty sure he didn't kill me......or maybe he did once because I got careless and was hit by an attack that I shouldn't have been, can't remember.

However, a boss that does deserve a mention? Nyarlathotep.

Now before you go and try to pronounce that name, he's the final boss of Persona 2, an otherwise fun game that has its fair share of challenging bosses, but I had never really run across one that just made me so freaking mad (with the exception of maybe three little fun guys you fight in this place called Torifune whose names will remain secret because it kinda is part of the story).

Anywho, we all know that massive leveling is the trick that most of us try and pull whenever we run across bosses that are to strong for us to kill right? Well, a few games have found ways to remedy that situation. FFVIII and Lunar had the bosses level up as you did to prevent that far of a gap between power. Persona 2 went and did the other way of preventing mass leveling. They made the last boss level 99. My levels when I went up to fight him were mid-60s. Ouch!

So, the guy's got 18,000 hit points, and my max spell which is this Nuclear Fusion spell only did around 800-900 damage to him, and that was after the magic attack up castings. The other three characters were there to heal and heal often. This boys attacks were no joke! Most of them were easy to survive sure, but you'd be pretty much dead and would require 2-3 healers to get you back to full health, which was a must to stay at at all points of this battle. However, two of his spells were instant kills on some characters. His uberspell, Shadow Kill, was a physical spell that did about 500 points of damage to everyone except Tatsuya, who had a Persona weak against physical stuff, so he took about 900 points of damage. And boy did he like casting that spell! There were times I'd face it three or four times in a row! His other spell I don't remember but it only would hit Ulala and Katsuya and would always kill him for some reason. As the battle wears on, I could tell that his attacks were getting stronger, because Shadow Kill started doing 550+ damage, and he also broke out this new attack called Crawling Chaos, which hurt everyone majorly and cancelled any actions of their's whatsoever. So no healing afterwards, except for items. He also has an attack that he uses early that disables your ability to switch Personas.

After stocking about a dozen Somas, which revive and heal all characters, I was finally able to just outlast the beast.

[Emanon]

I'm probably going to get flamed from the nintendo fanboys for mentioning this, but the majority of the bosses on Ninja Gaiden for Xbox were amazingly difficult. DAMN YOU ALMA!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!


........(ahem.)Surprisingly, the very last two or three bosses weren't very hard at all.

[Jam Stunna]

Its not really a boss, but the entire last chapter of the GBA Fire Emblem is incredibly difficult, especially if you're trying to beat it without having any of your allies die. Nergal himself isn't that bad and *SPOILERS* the dragon isn't too bad if you use the right people against it *END SPOILERS*.

[shrouded_valentine]

ruby weapon... nuff said

the final boss from golden sun 2 was pretty damn hard too.

[Redlight]

Shredder at the end of TMNT 3, for NES, is extremely hard to beat. I have trouble beating him even when I'm playing co-op with a friend.

[dPaladin]

Holy shit, this thing's still here!

[grhradhdahdzsfhzd]

The remedy to a difficult boss:

Get drunk off your ass....THEN you win EVERYTHING, so games aren't difficult anymore. Sure the games tell you that you've lost, but you know better.....you know everything when you're wasted.

But once upon a time, I had a problem beating Jet Force Gemini. I think the hardest part about Mizar was playing the game to get to him without killing all those sweet innocent little tribals or whatever they're called.....heh heh heh, little bastard didn't even see that rocket coming...

[oO0Phoenix0Oo]

T-Rex boss from Parasite Eve.




















Oh, Bump.

[Thalzon]

I would say Adel from FF8, but then i got pissed off because i wanted to kill Rinoa also, I used eden and he killed adel in one hit, WITHOUT calculating Rinoa's damage. Lil trick there, But anyway without Eden, HARDEST BOSS EVER!

Why does everyone think Adel's so hard? She's a total pushover. Just use a Hi-Potion on Rino every now and then, and physically attack Adel into submission. Adel's one of the easier bosses in a game full of easy bosses.

[Thalzon]

I would say Adel from FF8, but then i got pissed off because i wanted to kill Rinoa also, I used eden and he killed adel in one hit, WITHOUT calculating Rinoa's damage. Lil trick there, But anyway without Eden, HARDEST BOSS EVER!

Why does everyone think Adel's so hard? She's a total pushover. Just use a Hi-Potion on Rino every now and then, and physically attack Adel into submission. Adel's one of the easier bosses in a game full of easy bosses.

I used Eden, that one turn beat the boss, its a pushover if you know the trick.

No, she's a pushover even without the trick.

[DeeJay_Toon:)]

M.Bison. SF3. knocked my Blue Toon block off. even with my ace characters (Cody, Ryu, Chun Li and Blanka) i couldn't beat him. then my 10 year old cuz comes round and blasts him in one turn.

i'm 17 now and he still doesn't let me forget it. he can beat me at any fighting game though. yep. the toughest boss in the world at the moment is Blaize Andrew Frost. my 10 year old cousin

but when i bust out Street hoops vol 2 i'm unbeatable muahahahahahahahaha

[Super_Sonic_SSJ]

I have recently discovered that the NeSlug in FFX can be extremely annoying if you're not able to deal magical damage (or use lots of powerful overdrives) extremely quickly. At first it's not too bad: he has some fairly powerful attacks, but if you can handle Earth Eater or Greater Sphere you can deal with them. But once you deal enough damage, he goes into his shell. When he's like this, he's immune to physical attacks and is automatically in Regen status, healing upwards of 40,000 HP a turn, and won't come out until he's completely healed. I suppose he's easy if you know that Overdrives like Blitz Ace and Attack Reels still damage him normally, and have enough people with full overdrive bars and Entrust to be able to use them repeatedly, but if not you're gonna have to do it using magic, which is a pain in the ass unless you have three characters who can deal lots of magical damage extremely quickly.

[Tasogare No Kin Ryu]

Forum Newbie Alert!!!Be Warned, and Be Very Afraid!
I’d be surprised if no one indicated Star Ocean 2 yet. It’s the only game out there that I know of that you are almost obligated to find the secret area of the game to level high enough just to take the final boss… Sure, at level 110 or so, Indelacio is a cinch, but there is no way you can get that on the robots in Fineal. The real challenge is when you decide that you are going to max out the difficulty, and take on Filia upgraded Indelacio on Universe. Yes, I did try the angel in the dungeon and for some reason she was way easier on Universe than Normal… But Universe difficulty Filia-Indelacio is Stinking MAD LUDICROUS!!! They give no creature in the game Combat Casting (he has the ability to start chanting a spell while still running from you) until him at this point, and with over 300000 MP, it’s going to be a long while until your done dealing with his grand waves. I never saw a normal item break until that battle, after so long, equipment just starts wearing out. FCOL! No enemy should take over two hours to chase down and smack with a Mirror Slice. Bunny shoes, Angels Armlet, Levantine Sword and all… I did it with Claude at level 231, but I’m sorry, two hours in one battle is just irrational…
But now, I’m level 250 with my main crew, and I still can’t beat the Angel in the Trumpet on Universe… The only reason I beat her on Normal was because I forgot to save before playing it right after killing the first angel… When a boss has auto-kill on touch regardless of equipment, even when you’re all max level, I think that Qualifies as being the most difficult boss known to humanity!!!

Also, I’d like to see someone beat Super Metroid’s Ridley with No Energy Tanks, No Screw attack, the Space Jump, 1 Missile Pack, 1 Super Missile Pack, 1 Power Bomb Pack, and a Charge beam (which wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for Botwoon in Meridia…) Mother Brain simply cant be done without the E-Tanks, so Ridley is the last challenge…

[Trash Man]

Hardest bosses..

Start a turn on Hard Mode in Metroid Prime, and go face Thardos, he's the toughest boss in hard mode, and I don't know why.. After I finaly beat him, the rest was a snap.. But that FIRST time I fought him on hard mode was a real kick in the ass..

Though I doubt he's the hardest boss ever .. Hardest boss ever? Play a game called Snake Rattle n Roll (NES or Master System). If you manage to make it to the end of the game, (and trust me, making it to the end is a very hard task) then go beat that damn foot on top of the mountain. Its nearly impossible to survive what few lives you will have left by the time you get there.. I've only ever beaten that game ONCE.

Or better yet, Jaws (NES) that game was HARD.. It took FOREVER to finaly be able to beat JAWS. What really sucked was how you had to harpoon the shark, or it just gets all its life back and you end up losing a life (I think, not sure about the life lost thing, its been a long time)

Friday the 13th.. I don't know if that game has an end.. It probably does, but I've beaten Jason like 5 times or so, and it just keeps on repeating, making him stronger each time.. He can kill you in one or two hits if you kill him enough times.

[oO0Phoenix0Oo]

Forum Newbie Alert!!!Be Warned, and Be Very Afraid!
I’d be surprised if no one indicated Star Ocean 2 yet. It’s the only game out there that I know of that you are almost obligated to find the secret area of the game to level high enough just to take the final boss… Sure, at level 110 or so, Indelacio is a cinch, but there is no way you can get that on the robots in Fineal. The real challenge is when you decide that you are going to max out the difficulty, and take on Filia upgraded Indelacio on Universe. Yes, I did try the angel in the dungeon and for some reason she was way easier on Universe than Normal… But Universe difficulty Filia-Indelacio is Stinking MAD LUDICROUS!!! They give no creature in the game Combat Casting (he has the ability to start chanting a spell while still running from you) until him at this point, and with over 300000 MP, it’s going to be a long while until your done dealing with his grand waves. I never saw a normal item break until that battle, after so long, equipment just starts wearing out. FCOL! No enemy should take over two hours to chase down and smack with a Mirror Slice. Bunny shoes, Angels Armlet, Levantine Sword and all… I did it with Claude at level 231, but I’m sorry, two hours in one battle is just irrational…
But now, I’m level 250 with my main crew, and I still can’t beat the Angel in the Trumpet on Universe… The only reason I beat her on Normal was because I forgot to save before playing it right after killing the first angel… When a boss has auto-kill on touch regardless of equipment, even when you’re all max level, I think that Qualifies as being the most difficult boss known to humanity!!!

Also, I’d like to see someone beat Super Metroid’s Ridley with No Energy Tanks, No Screw attack, the Space Jump, 1 Missile Pack, 1 Super Missile Pack, 1 Power Bomb Pack, and a Charge beam (which wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for Botwoon in Meridia…) Mother Brain simply cant be done without the E-Tanks, so Ridley is the last challenge…

Cloud at level 99 with Omnislash and knights of the round, and equipped with final summon-phoenix could take care of that star ocean boss on his own. Ruby weapon pwns that thing.

[grhradhdahdzsfhzd]

Hardest boss....now that I think about it, there was this guy at McDonalds once...yeah. So this kid I hated worked there, and he spit in my food. Then, I spit in his face to retaliate. Well, the little pansy starts to cry and his boss comes out....damn McDonalds boss....that was one hell of a fight. He probably would have beaten me had I not run him over with my car. That was 300 pounds of pure caucasion fatassedness coming towards me, though, can you blame me? So yeah, that was the hardest boss fight I've gone through, I've still got a couple scars from that one. Plus, I'm not legally allowed within 200 feet of a McDonalds for the next 50 years...whatever, though.

Arg! Kefkai! Huuuuge sig!

1.) kef A kai (has nothing to do with FF6, by the way, the name came before I had even HEARD of the game)

2.) is my signature better now?

[Random Fox Thought]

SotN/NitM galamoth -- no equipment

FF8 omega weapon -- level 99, all weapons downgraded to basic, no items

the mudman from megaman 1 NES -- no elec man trick

blaster master NES level 3 boss -- no grenade trick

the guardian legend NES final boss -- no subweapons

dragon spirit NES the 'decisive battle' with the orange/gold firey dragon type things at the last area -- no upgrades

contra NES the energy zone boss -- rifle (without dying)

ruby weapon -- no summon/gold saucer/northern cave materia

emerald weapon -- level 40 no KotR no final attack

ultemecia/griever succession -- no support commands unlocked

megaman 5 NES protoman castle final boss -- no stone man weapon (no he's not actually /that/ hard when you fight him, but he'd have kicked your ass without protoman)

willow NES -- second to last boss without equipped shield (I forget the guy's name, the one with the skull face)

final fantasy tactics -- stealing from elmdor without a mediator/oracle/temple knight (I know this isn't really a main part of considering the boss's difficulty, but YOU try stealing from him that way =p)

final fantasy tactics deep dungeon final boss -- no chantage or angel rings

jurassic park NES -- second level boss (rescuing the girl from the t-rex is a complete pain)

sonic 2 and knuckles -- final robotnik form (pretty difficult, maybe not hardest ever)

sonic CD race with metal sonic good future (not really a boss, and again not hardest ever, but fairly difficult if you get a good future there)

megaman 7 -- the greater majority of wily's castle bosses, no e-tanks

yeah I know the better portion of those are self handicapped, and aren't harder than things like I-no in GGXX hardest difficulty, but I figured I'd throw out some thoughts.

Final note -- the albatross from bionic commando NES with the original weapon (I don't know if that's possible as you may need to blow up a barricade when you first start with the proper weapon, but still)

[Predmid]

i always play rpgs without strategy guides...and what the hell is KotR in ff7? Ive beaten ruby & emerald weapon, but they were my hardest fights.... just what the hell is it/how do i get it?

[Redlight]

i always play rpgs without strategy guides...and what the hell is KotR in ff7? Ive beaten ruby & emerald weapon, but they were my hardest fights.... just what the hell is it/how do i get it?

KotR= "Knights of the Round" summon.

[Dahlia]

I definitely agree with the special Star Ocean 2 Indalecio one. My favorite is Tiamat from Xenosaga Ep 1. You really have to make full use of your strategic options to fry him. I love that sort of challenge in a game.

[Funny how I happened to play FFX for the first time right afterwards...

[BreakbeatBeatnik]

Star Wolf on Hard Route Venom in Star Fox 64. Or at least they were hard back when I was 10 or so and the game had just been released. Man, were they a pain...

Goras from Titania in the same game at the same age for similar reasons. He/she/it was freaky.

Final fight against Molov in Red Faction II. Pure insanity.

The first airship fight against the Valua chick in Skies of Arcadia. I shoulda levelled up more...

[Shrikekeet]

The bosses from Legend of Legaia (original)
The bosses from Einhander (one of the best games of all time) are one of the toughest you can play. (although I would not mind considering
that they look so cool blowing you away!)
And of course we cannot forget Emerald & Ruby WEAPON.
(but you can always beat them pretty easily if you combine KOTRT with Magic Plus Materia-average damage: 250,000 points.(no lie) after using that about four times, even Ruby is finished.)

[prophetik]

I got one that I haven't seen in a while.

The boss in the game Final Fantasy 3 (thats NOT narshe) is one of the most difficult ever. Granted, the thing was a freaking 'cloud of darkness' but still - the freaking gaspass took forever. All I wanted to do was just fart the damn thing away. Buncha friggin idiots that thought up that as a boss.
:twisted:

[phantomINTELLECT]

A lot of the Bosses in Doom 3 are hard, and I always play FPS's on there hardest difficulty

edit: yes I know I made a grammatical error, but I don't give a fuck, THEIR you go!!! HAHAHAHA

[Dark Mercenary]

that last boss on Golden Sun was damn hard. or at least until you realize that if one of your party members heals every turn, you will probably survive long enough to kill him, or her, or..... its a big dragon.

[Blackwinged Saron]

i can't beat the damn smithy in Mario RPG

[grhradhdahdzsfhzd]

i can't beat the damn smithy in Mario RPG

Uhhh, put that special armor shit on peach. Lazy shell armor or whatever the hell that was. She's fucking invincible, then. Serious, his worst attacks did 1 hp of damage to her. Plus she can heal herself when she is low on health. She frying panned his ass to hell when I tried that....took way too damn long, though. Thank God for turbo controllers and paperweights...

[Orithil]

I sat and thought about this really hard, and I can't recall any game newer than something like FFIX that I've played that even HAD a boss...so, I'm gonna be stupid and say the final boss on FFIX, which is lame, and the ending of that game, by the way...let me down very very much.

[Marco]

Fucking Metal Slug 3 on the XBOX. Jesus, FUCKING CHRIST! Even I can't cuss enough to express the difficulty of that last level. I can't even get close to the boss on easy mode. SHIT is that hard. Talking about it makes my thumbs sore.

[Lacour]

i can't say any cuz its been forever since i've tried to beat a game :oops:

[Dragoon]

im goin through ff4 right now, and i cant help but notice, its a lot friggin harder than it was when i beat it at age 8....WTF...haha....even though ive HEARD that ff4 is suppose to be the hardest of the final fantasies....

[Antifreeze23]

Man, I've read up to around page 25.

Here are some of my characters.

Almost any boss I've fought in Devil May Cry.

The Weapons in FFVII (I only actually attempted Ruby once, and that was years ago, and I didn't even prepare for it, nor do I really care to beat them.)

Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts - The problem with me and him is when he starts casting Sin Harvest, and I mis-time my attack, and instantly sends me down to critical.

One of the creatures from FFX's battle arena - he's the guy who has the attack convergance. He's one of the creatures that seriously annoyed me, besides the Jumbo Flan. That battle took awhile since I had to contantly switch people and heal and prepare for its attack.

Some Bosses that were mentioned but I beat/wasn't to happy with.

FFIX - This is going to sound odd, but I found Ozma to be a dissapointment. The thing is, after losing to him twice (without really preparing), I decided to go out of my way to prepare for him (lv to 99 and such). At around 70, I decided to see where I stand with him. I had Zidaine with Thievery at around 8000, Freya with a decent Dragon Lance, Aramant, and Vivi.
I beat him in 10 minutes, if that. He didn't cast curse once, and he used Meteor once (killed my party, but had auto live with auto-regan)

FFVIII - Omega Weapon. However, I did the Gllgamesh trick and used Squall, Zell, and Irvin. Here's the thing, I beat him at LEVEL 7 (Which means no Lionheart for me). (I beat the entire game without leveling up).

FFX - Nemesis/Omega God. After the struggle just to make it to him, he's a completely joke.

Skies of Arcadia - Rameriz final battle. ...It's a shame that he wasn't all that strong.

There are others, but till next time...

HOW IN GODS NAME DID U BEAT FF8 WITH OUT LEVELING UP... THATS IMPOSSIBLE!!! unless u have no life

Strange...I can tell you were "attempting" to quote Anti-freeze, but it didn't work right. :? Oh well. Your message is clear. Hey by the way, shouldn't you be chasing Pac-man in a maze, somewhere? :)

I looking for pac man but cant really find him, but ill get him one day!

Actually Ghost, it wasn't as bad as you think.
The amount of time I would of spent leveling up I spent Drawing magic, then Junctioning them to my weapons/health. I spent about 11hrs out of the 14 on the first CD just drawing magic. Once I got "Encounter None"...I decided to actually go thorugh the game.

There were sometimes I had to reset cause I'd forget that certain battles have unavoideable EXP, so I would have to plan accordingly.

I guess in total it took me about 40hrs (incluidng resetting). Game time was 34hrs though.

And to answer your question, I did this on my spare time when I wasn't working last summer.

[SixteenthRebirth]

im goin through ff4 right now, and i cant help but notice, its a lot friggin harder than it was when i beat it at age 8....WTF...haha....even though ive HEARD that ff4 is suppose to be the hardest of the final fantasies....

Actually... ff5 was the hardest.. in fact that was Square's official reason for not releasing it stateside.

[Hokusai]

If anyone has ever played Gitaroo-Man (An incredible game) I must submit to memory that entering into master mode and attempting to beat the Sanbone Trio on Born to be Bone (download the mp3) is the hardest boss I have ever faced, and I have beaten the Emerald Weapon (I'm not bragging, cause I know I beat him simply because he decided to use weak attacks in sequence on characters at full health till he died.) It stumped veteran video game players for months, nearly breaking several fingers. After literally around a thousand tries, we finally began to reliably reach the ending, and we were finally able to move on to the rest.

[Northern_Fist]

Grr!!! I can't seem to defeat Dural in Virtua Fighter 4 (on hardest mode) - even with my strongest character Lei Fei!

[Thalzon]

im goin through ff4 right now, and i cant help but notice, its a lot friggin harder than it was when i beat it at age 8....WTF...haha....even though ive HEARD that ff4 is suppose to be the hardest of the final fantasies....

Actually... ff5 was the hardest.. in fact that was Square's official reason for not releasing it stateside.

But, FF4 was dumbed down for the North American release on the SNES. Play the Playstation version to get a taste for the real game (which is very, very difficult. I haven't been able to beat it yet. For example, Odin may use Zantetsuken on his first turn. Blarg.)

While FF5 was challenging, it's just not as insanely difficult as FF4('s rerelease).

[rhinotheking]

NO

you are all wrong.

the hardest boss in videogame history is Alma from Ninja Gaiden for xbox.

I cried, i swore, I cried some more, I stayed up into the wee hours of the night fighting her over and over again.

[Thalzon]

NO

you are all wrong.

the hardest boss in videogame history is Alma from Ninja Gaiden for xbox.

I cried, i swore, I cried some more, I stayed up into the wee hours of the night fighting her over and over again.

My friend beat her on his third try.

[Dragoon]

im goin through ff4 right now, and i cant help but notice, its a lot friggin harder than it was when i beat it at age 8....WTF...haha....even though ive HEARD that ff4 is suppose to be the hardest of the final fantasies....

Actually... ff5 was the hardest.. in fact that was Square's official reason for not releasing it stateside.

But, FF4 was dumbed down for the North American release on the SNES. Play the Playstation version to get a taste for the real game (which is very, very difficult. I haven't been able to beat it yet. For example, Odin may use Zantetsuken on his first turn. Blarg.)

While FF5 was challenging, it's just not as insanely difficult as FF4('s rerelease).

ahhh maybe thats why its harder then, lol

[One_Winged Angel]

I saw a bunch of Ninja Gaiden posts but if you use the Vigoorian Flails and the Windmill shuriken, almost any boss is a breeze.
Anyway, I think the hardest boss is the final boss from Arc the Ladd:Twilight of the Spirits... he was such a lameass

[Skilless]

I think Ninja Gaiden has the hardest bosses. When you beat the game you think that it was easy and you would be able to do it on Very Hard. I was sadly mistaken.

[Thalzon]

I saw a bunch of Ninja Gaiden posts but if you use the Vigoorian Flails and the Windmill shuriken, almost any boss is a breeze.
Anyway, I think the hardest boss is the final boss from Arc the Ladd:Twilight of the Spirits... he was such a lameass

I know. What a cheap little bitch he was, eh?

Him: I'll spit out these little eyeball-thingies!
Me: Alright! I attack you!
Him: Ha ha! You can't hurt me until you kill five of the eyeball thingies!
Me: Okay, I killed five! Now I hurt you!
Him: Not so fast! I'll either drain back all the HP you took from me, or I'll do a super attack which not only will probably kill you, but also give me back my dark shield, which you must get rid of by destroying ANOTHER five eyeball-thingies!
Me: Shit.

[Lacour]

all the bosses i've yet to beat would be the hardest...

[Beatdown]

NO

you are all wrong.

the hardest boss in videogame history is Alma from Ninja Gaiden for xbox.

I cried, i swore, I cried some more, I stayed up into the wee hours of the night fighting her over and over again.

Only on the hardest difficulty, which is great because it's almost as much fun to watch yourself fight/die miserably than it is to actually do it. Otherwise it shouldn't be that much of a problem to have her screaming your name before you send her packin. You just gotta suck less.

Take this guy for example... (http://www.master-ninja.com/ng/)

[Pallad]

NO

you are all wrong.

the hardest boss in videogame history is Alma from Ninja Gaiden for xbox.

I cried, i swore, I cried some more, I stayed up into the wee hours of the night fighting her over and over again.

Only on the hardest difficulty, which is great because it's almost as much fun to watch yourself fight/die miserably than it is to actually do it. Otherwise it shouldn't be that much of a problem to have her screaming your name before you send her packin. You just gotta suck less.

Take this guy for example... (http://www.master-ninja.com/ng/)

I already had the videos before this post, and I must say, he puts on quite a show.

[nostril6669]

too many cheese flavored besses cant pick
8O

[tyler_lucero]

The Earth Eater, found in the Monster Arena in FFX. I'm not sure about all-time toughest, but that bastard definatly ranks up there on my list. Magaton Punch (instant death) as a counter for any physical attacks...I had to level-up for about three straight hours before I could sufficiantly beat him down.

Ugly little bugger, too...

[tyler_lucero]

BTW, I never actually finished going through the Monster Arena, (I borrowed the game from my roomate and the semester ended...we all went our seperate ways) so I'm sure there are some even more difficult bosses after Earth Eater, but that's the toughest one I faced.

*end transmission*

[Antifreeze23]

BTW, I never actually finished going through the Monster Arena, (I borrowed the game from my roomate and the semester ended...we all went our seperate ways) so I'm sure there are some even more difficult bosses after Earth Eater, but that's the toughest one I faced.

*end transmission*

Yes.
Yes you are right.

Earth Eater was an adventure (if I remember...it's been a year).

But I wouldn't consider him the hardest out of the battle arena.

[Wallace Guyford]

SA-X

[Dr. Marius]

I'm completely stuck (I think this counts as a boss battle) in Ghosts 'n Goblins, the first time you have to fight two of those giant troll thingies that shoot fireballs at you. One jumps over you, and after that they're movements are truly completely random. Which means half the time they meet in the middle, leaving you no room at all since they start on both sides of the screen.

[The Coop]

Anyone ever played a game called Fighting Masters on the Genesis? No? Well, then here's a little taste of what awaits you.


The game is simple. The Galaxy is about to be destroyed, and you gotta fight through everyone for the right to be chosen as the single race that will be saved from destruction. But no matter who you pick, or how well you do, an ass beating awaits you when you reach the final boss.

I can even remember the guys name. All I know is that he's bigger than you, just as fast, and has a single move that is the move cheap and damaging move in the entire game. Now, he can do some good damage with just a simple kick or punch, but God help you if he grabs you, and does his 3-hit "throw". He grabs you, hits you once with his fist, then kicks you twice. This simple move does almost half a bar of damage. But the fun doesn't end there. When he releases you, you fall to the ground... right at his feet. This of course, make it easy for him to grab you and do the 3-hitter again... and again. I've lost to this guy with him just doing the same move three times back to back to back... and I never even got a chance to attack.

It's a simple fighting game, with painfully basic controls... and one of the cheapest final battles out there. Makes me appreciate Rugal of the KoF series' "easiness" more.

[SixthFlyingMan]

I'd have to say Kaiser Sigma from MMX3. And the toughest RPG boss to date would have to be the Black Rabite from SD3. I kid you not, he's tougher than the Arch Demon!

[The Triumvirate]

Megaman 1-6 - Dr. Wily. HE usually kicked my ass a bunch of times. But he was easy in 7 & 8.

Contra Shattered Soldier - The mission 6 boss. I can get through it's human form and frog form. But it's Squid and egg mode can be a real bitch.

[One_Winged Angel]

One_Winged Angel wrote:
I saw a bunch of Ninja Gaiden posts but if you use the Vigoorian Flails and the Windmill shuriken, almost any boss is a breeze.
Anyway, I think the hardest boss is the final boss from Arc the Ladd:Twilight of the Spirits... he was such a lameass

Thalzon wrote:
I know. What a cheap little bitch he was, eh?

Him: I'll spit out these little eyeball-thingies!
Me: Alright! I attack you!
Him: Ha ha! You can't hurt me until you kill five of the eyeball thingies!
Me: Okay, I killed five! Now I hurt you!
Him: Not so fast! I'll either drain back all the HP you took from me, or I'll do a super attack which not only will probably kill you, but also give me back my dark shield, which you must get rid of by destroying ANOTHER five eyeball-thingies!
Me: Shit.


I love the way you put it... however we're 2 of the only 6 to buy the game

[-RK-]

I thought that Raem at the end of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles was tough on single player mode. Maybe that was just me though.

[screwedchopped]

To me, by far the HARDEST, TOUGHEST, and MOST SINISTER of all the video game bosses I've ever fought was Malebolgia from Spawn on the SNES...

[Ghost]

I'd have to say Kaiser Sigma from MMX3. And the toughest RPG boss to date would have to be the Black Rabite from SD3. I kid you not, he's tougher than the Arch Demon! Yea I have seen the Black Rabite... It gave me nightmares!! that dam thing just would not die, and its attacks hurt like crazy!!

[ekm]

Fucking Metal Slug 3 on the XBOX. Jesus, FUCKING CHRIST! Even I can't cuss enough to express the difficulty of that last level. I can't even get close to the boss on easy mode. SHIT is that hard. Talking about it makes my thumbs sore.

Dear lord yes. My roommate and I literally spent a whole weekend playing that together, even trying to cheat the system by adding the second player at the right time, and we couldn't even make it past the giant glowing ball boss on that stage.

I downloaded a Neo-Geo emulator and MS3 rom, which lets you continue right where you died, and I had to continue so fucking many times it made me want to hit somebody.

We finally got the XBox version to a point where both of us had the pattern of EVERY ENEMY IN THE LEVEL off by heart. For those who haven't played the game this might sound like no big deal, but let me point out that this is a level that takes about 30 minutes to play. Non-stop platform shooting the whole time. The final boss was a piece of cake after the horror that is that damn ship.

[Ferret]

Did anyone ever manage to kill Ra in Stargate? I could never do it...

[gallanon]

Chances are no one here has ever played Inindo Way of the Ninja for the SNES but Oda Nobunaga, the last boss in that game is insanely difficult. I wouldn't say that he's impoosible, merely that he can't be beaten by any of us mere mortals. I had that game for years without being able to beat it, eventually I had to get the rom and then fight him using save state and loading the state every time he didn't miss in his attack.

[Lacour]

one of the bosses in final fantasy IV...eh either odin, zemus, or bahamut...god that sucked

[Thalzon]

Megaman 1-6 - Dr. Wily. HE usually kicked my ass a bunch of times. But he was easy in 7 & 8.


Wily was easy in 4 and 6. He was ass-rapingly HARD in number 7 (that goddamn light show he pulled before every attack always screwed me over...) In number 2, it depended on what difficulty you played. Can't speak for the rest, though.

[Zerbo]

wily? hard? I don't think I've ever heard those two in the same sentance before if it didn't refer to 7, and even then it lasted only a while...but i digress.

I agree with the jaquio from ninja gaiden 1 thing, i HAD to get a rom to beat that guy...still feeling the shame...

But the HARDEST bosses I've encountered in games were:

4.Anubis from MMX6: Not neccesaraly hard, but if you ran out of ammo of the power stone weapon, you couldn't do ANYTHING to him, but that usually never happend.

3.Sigma from MMX4 (while playing as zero...or x for that matter): Zero just wasn't made to beat sigma..or any of the bosses for that matter, you can be shot down REAL quick if you don't know their patterns AND what you're doing. As X, another ammo problem, if you ran out of those stingrays...GAME OVER! They didn't even do that much damage, but they are the only things that would kill that stupid face-on-the-ground trick.

2.The Queen Alien in Alien vs. Predater (SNES): That biznatch just wouldn't let you touch her with any more than a 2 hit combo, and when you knocked her down in any way, she'd turn invincible and charge you! The only way to deplete her INSANE amount of health was to use a fully charged laser shot, which unfortunatly hurt you for the same amount of damage...you just had to pray you had enough extra lives...

But the number One hardest boss in the whole friggin world is...

1. Those dragon ship things in Rampart: Those things...there's no word in even the NEWB language to describe the immense hatred I have for them, they'd kill your wall, and leave a friggen burning hole! Just so you couldn't build your walls there anymore! Even if you had 50 cannons, they would deplete down to 20 in just ONE TURN because you couldn't seal them!...DAMN THOSE VIKINGS!!!!

Ahem...yeah, im done.

[Crimson Wolf]

I thought that Raem at the end of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles was tough on single player mode. Maybe that was just me though.

No, it's defintely not just you. Now, I probably could have leveled up some more, but the fact that my character had aged 10 years and still had no clue what shaving was had been creeping me out. So into the last dungeon I go, to meet everyone's favorite King Ghidorah-ripoff. I think I went through about 15 Phoenix Downs and 7 food items before he finally fell over and died, and I then looked up at the clock and realized that I had spent about an hour running around like a maniac and slashing randomly.

Running from constant homing energy orbs (is it just me, or are Clavats slower than the other races at everything?), an endless stream of powerful minions, flame-circles (which can kill you instantly and have a huge radius), quick-firing ice beams, and energy blasts that fill the screen. And being right next to him, hacking away merrily, then suddenly hearing an ominous sound and realizing that one of his hands is about to crush me and remove one of my last three Downs...that's pants-filling material, right there.

But the real fun will come if I ever get my group together again and we get that far. "Okay, I'll just walk over and PWN him - oops, I'm dead again." "Agggh! Why the hell did we let you have all the extra hearts!?! Hey, look ou-Dang it, I'm dead too...but I wouldn't be if SOMEBODY hadn't wasted all the Phoenix Downs!" "Stop waving at me, I KNOW you're dead, I just have to - wait, who had the Life Stone?...oh no."

[The King of All Kupos]

one of the bosses in final fantasy IV...eh either odin, zemus, or bahamut...god that sucked

...but...Zemus was invincible...

[Lacour]

one of the bosses in final fantasy IV...eh either odin, zemus, or bahamut...god that sucked

...but...Zemus was invincible...

after you used the crystal on him, the second form of him...

[The King of All Kupos]

one of the bosses in final fantasy IV...eh either odin, zemus, or bahamut...god that sucked

...but...Zemus was invincible...

after you used the crystal on him, the second form of him...

Oh, Zeromus. Yeah, he was pretty tough.

[The Coop]

Wow. Just, wow.

I finally beat a game I've had for a while now. It's only six levels, but it's a challenging six levels. But of all the challenges (including going backwards in one level), the final boss of R-Type III: The Third Lightning was a nasty little buttwad.

You start off fighting a four armed "Brundle Fly" looking mutoid, that throws slow moving, but tracking, energy balls at you... usually three in succession. After that, one of the arms fires a good sized beam of energy. After You've been shooting the head for a while, the head opens up and about ten little nasty robotic bug like things come out. These things are tough, and take a good amount of shooting to kill off as they make their way towards you.

Should you do enough damage to the head, it gets blown off, and now you can attack the body, which is the main area to damage so you can kill it. Well, you only get a short time to attack before a new head grows in, and you have to repeat the process. Eventually, you beat the body... and the arms then fly off.

Now the arms are darting and spinning randomly around the screen. You have to shoot them a certain amount to trigger the next event. You can't destroy them, just shoot them. Should you survive long enough, the next phase kicks in. The postal that you had been sucked into just prior to the final boss, begins to shrink. The arms go out and grab the edge of the portal, slowing it's closing down. Once it's small enough, the thing's head appears in the opening, and it begin firing one homing (and fast) energy ball every few seconds. How you gotta shoot behind you. If you manage to beat that form, the head flattens out... and your ass gets kicked.

It starts firing the speedy homing energy balls like there's no tomorrow. You gotta dodge, duck, weave, and pray like hell that you can last long enough, cuz this part in just nasty.

I don't know what I did, where I hit it, or if I just outlasted it's bombardment, but I beat it. But I gotta say... that was a boss that did not go down easily. Hell... I was starting to wonder if the boss COULD be killed, having fought the thing so many times :lol:

Edit: Major typos fixed... minor ones likely still present.

[professor_scissors]

Wow. Just, wow.

I finally beat a game I've had for a while now. It's only six levels, but it's a challenging six levels. But of all the challenges (including going backwards in one level), the final boss of R-Type III: The Third Lightning was a nasty little buttwad.

You start off fighting a four armed "Brundle Fly" looking mutoid, that throws slow moving, but tracking, energy balls at you... usually three in succession. After that, one of the arms fires a good sized beam of energy. After You've been shooting the head for a while, the head opens up and about ten little nasty robotic bug like things come out. These things are tough, and take a good amount of shooting to kill off as they make their way towards you.

Should you do enough damage to the head, it gets blown off, and now you can attack the body, which is the main area to damage so you can kill it. Well, you only get a short time to attack before a new head grows in, and you have to repeat the process. Eventually, you beat the body... and the arms then fly off.

Now the arms are darting and spinning randomly around the screen. You have to shoot them a certain amount to trigger the next event. You can't destroy them, just shoot them. Should you survive long enough, the next phase kicks in. The postal that you had been sucked into just prior to the final boss, begins to shrink. The arms go out and grab the edge of the portal, slowing it's closing down. Once it's small enough, the thing's head appears in the opening, and it begin firing one homing (and fast) energy ball every few seconds. How you gotta shoot behind you. If you manage to beat that form, the head flattens out... and your ass gets kicked.

It starts firing the speedy homing energy balls like there's no tomorrow. You gotta dodge, duck, weave, and pray like hell that you can last long enough, cuz this part in just nasty.

I don't know what I did, where I hit it, or if I just outlasted it's bombardment, but I beat it. But I gotta say... that was a boss that did not go down easily. Hell... I was starting to wonder if the boss COULD be killed, having fought the thing so many times :lol:

Edit: Major typos fixed... minor ones likely still present.
You can actually beat the last form in about one second. It's immune to your normal weapons... you have to launch your Force at it.

[Ghost]

8) Lavos spawn (chrono trigger) are pretty hard to beat, but they're not bosses.
Lavos wins the prize. I had to beat the game four times to be able to defeat him ( Chrono Level 56, Frog Level 52 and Marle Level 48). And it is one of the most time consuming bosses. It takes a lot of time to beat him. You gotta fight it from outside, and then from inside. When you beat the "inside lavos" then, lavos core appears. The worst thing is that it heals itself, sou you gotta have a lot of healing items, elixir, etc... to survive the long combat. OMg u suck at those lvls I lvls I would of Owned Lavas I fought him at like lvl 40-47

[Lizz]

8) Lavos spawn (chrono trigger) are pretty hard to beat, but they're not bosses.
Lavos wins the prize. I had to beat the game four times to be able to defeat him ( Chrono Level 56, Frog Level 52 and Marle Level 48). And it is one of the most time consuming bosses. It takes a lot of time to beat him. You gotta fight it from outside, and then from inside. When you beat the "inside lavos" then, lavos core appears. The worst thing is that it heals itself, sou you gotta have a lot of healing items, elixir, etc... to survive the long combat. OMg u suck at those lvls I lvls I would of Owned Lavas I fought him at like lvl 40-47
AANVAOH
In case you didn't understand, Abbreviations Are Not Very Appreciated here.

[Rodin]

Final mission of Wing Commander:Prophecy was simply insane. The mission is a MINIMUM of 30 minutes long, and takes longer if you don't do it exactly right. The vast majority is spent running away like a little girl from the infinite number of enemy ships that get sent at you. I actually started cursing when I was forced to fire my final missile...

Yeesh. I still have nightmares about that.

[CruelOldMan]

Hmm... I'd have to say Alma (1st Form) from Ninja Gaiden, and... well, that's it. I've actually managed to beat bosses from other games fairly quickly, although I've heard things about the Contra series. But I've never really been interested in playing them, so... I guess I'll never know.

[patella femoral syndrome]

Just reading back a few pages, I'm really starting to doubt the integrity and skill of modern day gamers.

[professor_scissors]

Metroid: Zero Mission.
Mecha Ridley.
Hard difficulty.
10% Run.

[panic!]

The fourth level boss in Ikaruga. Hell, the entire fourth level of Ikaruga.

[prophetik]

8) Lavos spawn (chrono trigger) are pretty hard to beat, but they're not bosses.
Lavos wins the prize. I had to beat the game four times to be able to defeat him ( Chrono Level 56, Frog Level 52 and Marle Level 48). And it is one of the most time consuming bosses. It takes a lot of time to beat him. You gotta fight it from outside, and then from inside. When you beat the "inside lavos" then, lavos core appears. The worst thing is that it heals itself, sou you gotta have a lot of healing items, elixir, etc... to survive the long combat. OMg u suck at those lvls I lvls I would of Owned Lavas I fought him at like lvl 40-47
you can always see a n00b...

DUDE DON'T USE NOOBSPEAK CAUSE NO ONE UNDERSTANDS IT, MORON.
:twisted:

[Terrascape]

Fou-Lu, the last boss of Breath of Fire IV. He had this one cheap attack called Soul Rend that would make all you characters hp go to 1, and right after he'd use another attack that took that last hp. To this day I haven't beat him.

[One_Winged Angel]

8) Lavos spawn (chrono trigger) are pretty hard to beat, but they're not bosses.
Lavos wins the prize. I had to beat the game four times to be able to defeat him ( Chrono Level 56, Frog Level 52 and Marle Level 48). And it is one of the most time consuming bosses. It takes a lot of time to beat him. You gotta fight it from outside, and then from inside. When you beat the "inside lavos" then, lavos core appears. The worst thing is that it heals itself, sou you gotta have a lot of healing items, elixir, etc... to survive the long combat. OMg u suck at those lvls I lvls I would of Owned Lavas I fought him at like lvl 40-47
you can always see a n00b...

DUDE DON'T USE NOOBSPEAK CAUSE NO ONE UNDERSTANDS IT, MORON.
:twisted:

HAHAHAHAHA
NOOBSPEAK
I find that funny because I just recently finished "1984" by George Orwell and never thought of that

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

Just reading back a few pages, I'm really starting to doubt the integrity and skill of modern day gamers.

I suppose so ,because in the old days one didnt have the chance levelup to lv.99 before fighting a boss.

And no lifemeter or hitpoints in the old classics of shmups..One buttonpress wrong and Vavoom! -off to yer grave u go 8)

[Warmech]

Fou-Lu, the last boss of Breath of Fire IV. He had this one cheap attack called Soul Rend that would make all you characters hp go to 1, and right after he'd use another attack that took that last hp. To this day I haven't beat him.

Interesting story on this one.

When I got to him to fight him, I realized that I had missed one of the dragons after I had already initiated battle with him. That meant that I could still have Ryu become the Kaiser Dragon of course, but I couldn't control him and therefore he would always use his Kaiser Breath attack.

So for the first form I transformed Ryu into Kaiser Dragon and had him in the back using the breath attack all battle, and then I think Cray and Ershin/Scias just pound away at him. I totally played that battle to die, and intented to, so I could go back and get the last dragon, because I was sure I couldn't beat the final boss without having control of Kaiser's attacks. However, the fight went on and on, and sure enough, eventually the dragon fell.

After some dialogue, he transforms into his second form. Now I'm pissed, because I didn't want to have to fight that first form again, so I played this one to win, and I beat that fucker without Kaiser by using just about all my healing items, especially the big time dragon form healers, because I used all of my other dragon forms twice.

[AbyssWyrm]

The last boss of FFIX gave me some serious trouble. Took me a while to figure out exactly what pattern to attack/defend in and how to defend against Grand Cross followed by Neutron Ring. I guess that's the price for trying to beat a 4-disc game in 30 hours.

[The Coop]

Having finally beaten Alien Soldier last night, I found a new boss to loathe.


Now, while the game is filled with bosses (it's on the verge of being nothing but boss fights the entire time), there's one boss on level 20 (yes, level 20) that proved to be a real bitch... in several senses.

See, the boss is a female character that morphs into a big beast that you have to fight called the Valkyrie Force. Here, she throws a huge boomerang shot as well as shooting one of her arms at wherever you happen to be standing.

Now, should you beat that form, she morphs again into Medusa Force. This is just a big "buzzsaw"-like form that you have to avoid being hit by as it moves forward and backward along the ground. Of course, there are periodic min fields to dodge and the only weapon that does any good in the homing shot.

Beat that form? No problem, as she now morphs into Sylpheed Force. Here, you're constantly plummeting and drifting towards her... and literally the only weapon you can use in the homing weapon. Sadly, this runs out pretty quick again this form and you spend a lot of time dodging her dash attacks as you let the weapon refill. You have to get close to hit her, and one slight slip and you loose a big chunk of health should you bump into her.

Bested that form? Now try Artemis Force. It's a cat-like form that's not too bad to beat. Should you get by that one...

... then you reach Sirene Force. Here, you're underwater and the super shot you can acquire to help with boss fights is useless. The boss swims around in a circle while it shoots out little energy balls that circle it. The only thing that'll help you here is the quick "block" attack that destroys bullets, and you'll need it here as getting hit regularly happens. Hitting the boss is a pain in the ass and sometimes the only way to hurt the thing to any great degree is to sacrifice your health and charge in.

Five forms for one boss. No weapon rechargings with the exception of a couple power ups that go by pretty quickly during the second form... which you best make sure you get. Five different environment to battle in. I could beat all the bosses up to this one, and after this one, without much trouble. But the five form level 20 boss just gave me a fight that I just couldn't get past for what seemed like dozens upon dozens of tries.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

very interesting Coop :o

hmmm my only recent hard boss encounters was from Gradius 5 :

the Rock Crusher at end of stage 5 (hard mode)
,and one of the stage 6 mini-bosses (the one in a very tight space,and rotates while dropping cannons to every wall) - (very hard mode)

and as usual the FINAL boss is a total JOKE (the eyes and brain) , like most Gradius LAST bosses are.

[The Coop]

Now, I'm still pretty new to the world of MegaMan and it's bosses, but there's a boss in MegaMan Zero that's been a pain in the ass for a little while now, and nothing I do seems to get me past the thing.

Named Harpuia, this boss is just owning my ass regularly. Between his being airborne most of the time, his downward slash attack, his triple wave combo (which I've gotten pretty good at avoiding most of the time), and the attack where he dives down and grabs you, lifts you way up and then slams your butt to the ground, I just can't beat the guy. The best I've done against him is getting rid of 1.5 bars of life. Eventually, he wears my character down and then it's over everytime.

I know there's way to beat him, but I refuse to look up a game faq. I've beaten the first six MegaMan games from the NES days (thanks to the "Anniversary Collection" that came out), and I've beaten MegaMan X as well. All bosses have a weakness, and they all have a way to work around the attacks they use. I just have yet to find the right system (or get enough luck) to beat Harpuia.

[bloodydust]

the megaman zero series are absolutely ASSFUCKING hard.

ironically, the final boss of MMZ3 is a complete pansy. oh well.

[Bren]

Hardest boss of all time eh? Ill go with Mack's bodyguards from SMRPG...*thinks* yes...the bodyguards.

[Narzack]

The bloody General Kim at the end of True Crime. When you fight him at the airport, damn, that took me a few hours of reloading and replaying.

DAMN YOU KANG! JUST SHOOT HIM!

[ILLiterate]

Hardest boss ever for me goes straight to South Park for N64's final boss(I forgot his name), in god mode I fought him for like an hour because HE HAS A LIFE REGENORATOR!!! CHEAP!!! Never beat him without god mode

[Warmech]

Now, I'm still pretty new to the world of MegaMan and it's bosses, but there's a boss in MegaMan Zero that's been a pain in the ass for a little while now, and nothing I do seems to get me past the thing.

Named Harpuia, this boss is just owning my ass regularly. Between his being airborne most of the time, his downward slash attack, his triple wave combo (which I've gotten pretty good at avoiding most of the time), and the attack where he dives down and grabs you, lifts you way up and then slams your butt to the ground, I just can't beat the guy. The best I've done against him is getting rid of 1.5 bars of life. Eventually, he wears my character down and then it's over everytime.

I know there's way to beat him, but I refuse to look up a game faq. I've beaten the first six MegaMan games from the NES days (thanks to the "Anniversary Collection" that came out), and I've beaten MegaMan X as well. All bosses have a weakness, and they all have a way to work around the attacks they use. I just have yet to find the right system (or get enough luck) to beat Harpuia.

That's teh game with the four warrior dudes right? Harpuia, the Neptune girl, and the other two? If I remember correctly, Harpuia had a really easy trick to beating him. I'd have to play it again to make sure, but I think that when he does his downward slash attack, you can power slide either under it or slide behind him before it hits you, then you can hit him with your sword. I forget what attack he always uses when he gets hit, but he might just go back to trying to downslash you, which you can avoid. Once I learned the trick, I beat him in about 10 seconds without getting hit.

[Drama Lion]

Fire Leo in Viewtiful Joe... oh my lord, I can't remember how many attempts it took me to beat that bastard the first time, on Kids difficulty mode no less. I can only wonder what frustrating bad-ass Capcom will through at us in the sequel which, for the record, I can not wait for!

[Bodster]

Last boss of Jet Force Gemini was tough

The third boss of Splatterhouse was impossible without a shotgun (or 2...)

[Tauman]

Now, I'm still pretty new to the world of MegaMan and it's bosses, but there's a boss in MegaMan Zero that's been a pain in the ass for a little while now, and nothing I do seems to get me past the thing.

Named Harpuia, this boss is just owning my ass regularly. Between his being airborne most of the time, his downward slash attack, his triple wave combo (which I've gotten pretty good at avoiding most of the time), and the attack where he dives down and grabs you, lifts you way up and then slams your butt to the ground, I just can't beat the guy. The best I've done against him is getting rid of 1.5 bars of life. Eventually, he wears my character down and then it's over everytime.

I know there's way to beat him, but I refuse to look up a game faq. I've beaten the first six MegaMan games from the NES days (thanks to the "Anniversary Collection" that came out), and I've beaten MegaMan X as well. All bosses have a weakness, and they all have a way to work around the attacks they use. I just have yet to find the right system (or get enough luck) to beat Harpuia.

yay for MMZ! ^_^

1. equip the ice chip
2. charge up the Z-Saber
3. as he dives down at you let him have it!
4. rinse and repeat

that game is sooooo hard but i wouldn't have it any other way...

[progressive]

Let it rest, stop posting. This thread's days are over.
I love how you kept the thread alive with a post telling everyone to let it die. Good job, thread Nazi.

[speculative]

After spending ~1,000 hours playing/levelling up in Might & Magic II, I ran into a group of monsters called the 99 Devil Kings (right before the last boss). I don't know if they are a true "boss" in the truest sense of the word, but man... Even with casting Divine Intervention as much as possible, and having pretty much every possible weapon in the game maxxed out, I could only kill about 5-7 out of the 99 total there were.

So, take your hard boss battle, and multiply it times 99,and you've got that boss battle. I might look up some FAQs, but the game is so old I never really found any good ones that mentioned how to beat the devil kings. I still have my Apple IIgs and the game and my save-game if I ever run across one lol!!

-speculative

[Arigeitsu159]

At the moment, it's Ninetails from MegaMan X Command Mission. The guy kills my party on his first two turns. And I can't stand the fact the guy can restore his LE every time his turn comes up.

[egyptianpirate]

final fantasy 8 was so hard. all 5 forms of it.

[BardicKnowledge]

Most difficult game: Ninja Gaiden III.

Most difficult boss: Tied with World 4 and up's bosses from Amagon (without morphing) or Marion/Cleopatra from Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (NES).

[Pfife]

Dragon Emperor from Seiken Destenku 3 (Secret of Mana 2); the last boss for Duran/Angela's quest. I had max level, max stats, Duran(light/light), Angela(light/light), Carlie(light/light), and it took me an hour and a half for my final try to finally kill him. This is freaken endurance. Only one character was useful because the boss changed his element so much, I would usually heal him whenever I cast a spell. When I beat him I got up, did a victory dance, and rushed to the bathroom.

[aragornx45]

All time hardest boss...

This thread!!! AHHHH WILL IT NEVER DIE!??!?!?!?!!?!?!?




NOOOOOOOOO....it still lives...failed again...................................

[Vaashwolf]

All time hardest boss...

This thread!!! AHHHH WILL IT NEVER DIE!??!?!?!?!!?!?!?




NOOOOOOOOO....it still lives...failed again...................................

Has anyone come up with a definitive hardest boss yet? Because we might as well say it's the Tetris blocks. I know what the ugliest boss is. It's the last boss in the Genesis version of Ecco the Dolphin. That thing is straight from hell. Or another planet, whatever.

[Mr. Bottle Rocket]

Robo Robotnik from sonic 2. No rings, had to beat metal sonic first, the attack window was minimal in size and time, his attacks were tough to evade...never did beat the s.o.b. ;_;

that is untill i got a genisis emulator and could save. Take that you fat bastard!

[oO0Phoenix0Oo]

Has anyone come up with a definitive hardest boss yet? Because we might as well say it's the Tetris blocks.

Going with the tetris theme, I remember trying to beat Bowser in Tetris Attack was quite the feat, when I first played through the game. Man that shit was kinda tough, what with the blocks rising so fast and having to do combos to hurt him. A nightmare when you aren't pro. I can do it a little easier now, but it still takes me a few tries.

[Angelus Laminarum]

Definitely, the hardest boss for me would have to be

*SPOILER*

Yunalesca from Final Fantasy X... her damn triple casting Zombie, Life, then blast, blast, blast, blast... it was like, gawd! I have triple the people you have, and I get one attack for one of your seven! This is the Medusa looking version, that is... I think... not sure.

She was tougher than the last three bosses...

Jecht, Seymour, and even Yu Yevon... those three you could figure out and take down...

Yunalesca was just a bitch, hehe.

*SPOILER END*

Though the Spoiler warning's don't exactly work too well, as no one can just stop reading in the middle of a post... oh well, sorry for anyone...

:roll:

[Jenga]

Filplanet. You know....from that game called internet.

[Hyperion5182]

Definitely, the hardest boss for me would have to be

*SPOILER*

Yunalesca from Final Fantasy X... her damn triple casting Zombie, Life, then blast, blast, blast, blast... it was like, gawd! I have triple the people you have, and I get one attack for one of your seven! This is the Medusa looking version, that is... I think... not sure.

She was tougher than the last three bosses...

Jecht, Seymour, and even Yu Yevon... those three you could figure out and take down...

Yunalesca was just a bitch, hehe.

*SPOILER END*

Though the Spoiler warning's don't exactly work too well, as no one can just stop reading in the middle of a post... oh well, sorry for anyone...


You got to be kidding me right? Good lord some of the recent suggestions are off the wall stupid

I beat all 3 forms of Yunalesca with in less then 10 minutes. Its easy if you know what you are doing. Seems you didnt. Since you got me so ticked off let me break it down for ya.

Dont use Overdrive in the first 2 portions

Always keep yuna or rikku in for healing purposes

NEVER LEAVE ZOMBIE ON A CHARACTER

Haste if you have that spell is a godsend

When you get the final form let it rip with everything you got! Start with the overdrives If you are smart you have Yuna at overdrive at this point let it rip with Bahamut!Follow that up with Shiva asap. The combined effects of the overdrives should cut her health in half right there also one key thing...ANTI ZOMBIE omfg how anyone can forget that kind of armor right then and there is beyond me. :roll:

As for the last boss in 8 This is one case where one of the side quests wasnt just a good thing its essental. The Card Game in that is so friggin vital cards you need for this fight are as follows

Angelo=100 elixers

Gilgamesh (ESSENTIAL!!!!)=10 Holy Wars (COMPLETE INVINCIBLITY FOR A LIMITED TIME)

Bahamut 100 Mega Elixers

(Forming the ulitmate team no matter what)

This is a long process but worth the trouble

First off you need every card level 4 or higher
Preferably mutliples of those

All the 8-10 cards are once and done refining. If you were smart and got the refining ablites right out of the box you will be able to take full advantage of your collection.

If you manage to get every card in the game then you will be able to create superior GF's And superior characters without having to use the devour ablitiy.

which route you take is up to you. Honestly if you got Angelo Bahamut and Gilgamesh you wont have too many problems. (Weapon Refinement is essential though)

Hardest boss i have ever faced. Try the CNC general's Boss in General's challenge mode then tell me one of the above ones are harder.

[Warmech]

Actually for Yunalesca I did leave the Zombie on my characters so her Mega Death attack wouldn't have any effect on them. Then I beat the crap out of her. Didn't take me that long either.

[K-roz]

Yeah, Masa and Mune weren't all that difficult. I'd have to say the hardest boss... For me, anyway, it would have to be the Omnidragon from Chrono Cross. DAMN, that thing took a beating before it went down. And what with all the switching innate elements, you have to have a really balenced party to the the maximum damage possible. He was hard without being cheap (as in one really hard hit that whipes out/significatly drains your party). Actually, that can be said for most of Chrono Cross's bosses.
omni dragon takes it

[Angelus Laminarum]

You got to be kidding me right? Good lord some of the recent suggestions are off the wall stupid

Well, thanks for the belittling...

I had actually known for the most part what I was doing... I think the most trouble for me was that at the time, my brother and I were cooperatively playing the game. Though he always told me not to play the game without him, he had no problem doing the opposite on his own time...

Without the guide, without any prior knowledge of even such a thing as Anti-Zombie even existing, let alone what items were needed to add them to armor, or even how to do it... I guess being handed the paddle accompanied by a "you try beating her" doesn't work too well...

Hmm... I'll have to play through that game again some time.

Hehe, thanks for bringing Anti-Zombie to my attention, among other things... though I'm sure there was a better way :wink:

[Angelus Laminarum]

You got to be kidding me right? Good lord some of the recent suggestions are off the wall stupid

Well, thanks for the belittling...

I had actually known for the most part what I was doing... I think the most trouble for me was that at the time, my brother and I were cooperatively playing the game. Though he always told me not to play the game without him, he had no problem doing the opposite on his own time...

Without the guide, without any prior knowledge of even such a thing as Anti-Zombie even existing, let alone what items were needed to add them to armor, or even how to do it... I guess being handed the paddle accompanied by a "you try beating her" doesn't work too well...

Hmm... I'll have to play through that game again some time.

Hehe, thanks for bringing Anti-Zombie to my attention, among other things... though I'm sure there was a better way :wink:

[Angelus Laminarum]

You got to be kidding me right? Good lord some of the recent suggestions are off the wall stupid

Well, thanks for the belittling...

I had actually known for the most part what I was doing... I think the most trouble for me was that at the time, my brother and I were cooperatively playing the game. Though he always told me not to play the game without him, he had no problem doing the opposite on his own time...

Without the guide, without any prior knowledge of even such a thing as Anti-Zombie even existing, let alone what items were needed to add them to armor, or even how to do it... I guess being handed the paddle accompanied by a "you try beating her" doesn't work too well...

Hmm... I'll have to play through that game again some time.

Hehe, thanks for bringing Anti-Zombie to my attention, among other things... though I'm sure there was a better way :wink:

As far as Masa and Mune... the first time I took those guys on I didn't know what to expect and got slightly thrashed... the second time was complete and utter obliteration of those two...

Omnidragon... I can't remember what fighting him was like... yet another of those games I had a struggle knowing completely about because of my brother... hmm... well, I've never liked fighting bosses with the whole elemental shield change spell... it just sucks... Though I did enjoy killing that one mage on top of the Fanatics' Tower in FFVI - with four people who knew Ultima, it being a non-elemental spell, and having Life3 was fun - ... Chrono Cross... Another game I need to play through again...

[Vaashwolf]

I know what the ugliest boss is. It's the last boss in the Genesis version of Ecco the Dolphin. That thing is straight from hell. Or another planet, whatever.

Let's add ugly bosses in the mix. I've got the first one, exactly what I said it was above. A stupid jellyfish got in the way, and his head is too big to fit.

Nasty (http://www.geocities.com/vashwolf12/NastyBoss.JPG)

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

then lets change this topic into "the ugliest and easiest bosses of all time" ?

My contribution to that is :

1st boss of Lifeforce , in view of it being a huge brain with 2 big eyes watching your every move ...it sure is pretty pathetically EASY and ermm.. Ugly.

[Sibtiger]

The only boss I've been unable to defeat is really kinda pathetic... I could not, for the life of me, get past the part where Solidus strangles you in MGS2 on Extreme. I couldn't do it. I just gave up....after beating all those freaking Rays, it was pretty disappointing.

[shrimpchips]

Super Punch Out had some good ones.

[Angelus Laminarum]

Oops, sorry about the triple post...

[Angelus Laminarum]

Oops, sorry about the triple post...

[south pacific islander]

Dullahan from GOlden Sun: The LOst Age. When a headless kinght can summon CHaron and able to drain all your Djinn in one turn, that is something to fear.

[Uberwulf X]

Mr. X, Streets of Rage 2. Welcome to my SPOILER ALERT.

Beating Shiva is hard enough... he breaks through any of your combos of +3 hits, and likes to back-slam you all over the place. It's a pathway straight to hell on Mania difficulty.

But Mr. X? Not only does he move around all the time, not only does he have a seemingly infinity number of drones to help him fight you (emphasis on "seemingly..." he does run out after you beat about a million of them), but he also has a machine gun that he likes to shoot. All the time.

The normal strategy against him is that if you have Skate, you can just skate (run) past the stream of bullets if you time it right, and get by him. But if you're late at all, then he'll turn around and crack your skull with the butt of his gun. More baddies keep coming, so they can break your combo, team up, and it's hell from there.

Anyone else? Stand still and do the special attack- it doesn't take energy unless you hit someone, and it makes you invincible as the bullets pass. You know, unless he catches you in that .05 seconds while your char comes out of his move. Or if you're out of energy- can't do the attack.

Or if he gets bored and decides to run at you, swing his gun at your head, then stand over you and laugh, just to spite you. :x

SoR3? Time limit, bomb? Oh hell no. I hope you burn long and hard, Mr. X.

[Odd_Eye The Sasquatch]

As for hardest I would have to go with either Dr. Wily's second form in MM7(Super Nintendo) or Emereald Weapon From Final Fantasy 7.
MM7, I just couldnt dodge those stoopid balls of fire and such no matter what I did. And you only do 1 damage no matter what weapon you used and most didnt even effect him.I have the rom of it and all weapons and abilaties and still get owned each time T_T.
But unlike Dr. Wily I beat Emerald Weapon after about 15 Game overs. All i had to do was Equip Cloud with 8 Counter materia. Do you know what 8 X 9999 is? A SHIT LOAD OF DAMAGE THATS WHAT!!! He got owned after a couple of rounds of that. Plus Knights of the Round X 2 didnt hurt either.
As for ugliest....ummm im not to sure. I supose it would be Andross from Star Fox 64. I mean common you have to kill him alot and his brains come out and stuff. He was a fruitloop.
As for easyest it would have to be Ifrit form FF8.A couple of attacks and shiva atacks and he was out like a light.

[cheese-cube]

[quote=Ace!]Anyone remember Dark Link from Zelda: Ocarina of Time? DAMN, I hate that bastard. Everyone was like "Just use the hammer!" and you know what? I used the hammer. And it didn't work. He either used his shield to block it, or stabbed me before I had a chance to connect. Then everyone told me "Damnit, man! Just use magic!" and you know what? I used magic. I spun around with my flaming magical sword so many times that it made me dizzy. Then I ran out of magic power, realized I had no green potions left, and died. Then they're all "No, you ass! The OTHER magic!" so I used Din's Fire. The bastard STILL kicked the shit outta me, because I kept running out of fooking magic!! I swear to God, that little Dark Bastard still pisses me off. Because, for some unknown reason, he suddenly became massively easy. I finally connected with the freaking hammer, and then it was child's play. He never came back from that first blow, I just kept whacking him before he recovered. Go figure.

Dark Link was incredibly easy. I don't know why you found him hard...

[cheese-cube]

Filplanet. You know....from that game called internet. Yeah Fileplanet is the hardest. I tried to register then they charged me money to use their servers. Bitches!

[Masa_and_Mune]

I have to say METROID PRIME on hard mode is really hard. Took me three tries to beat OMEGA PIRATE
but some reason i just cant take down METRIOD PRIME.


That is really irritating :( . The art gallery better be good.

[Masa_and_Mune]

FUCK YEAH

I just beat METRIOD PRIME on hard mode... so useless but yet such a great accomplishment for me

[The Triumvirate]

King DeeDeeDee in Kirby Air Ride(if you're not some weakling who goes for the Hydra machine). I got my ass kicked alot by him!

[Red Light District]

I hated the materia keeper in ff7....

OH! and the Hydra from Chrono cross.

[Decrescendo]

The boss at the end of Bubble Bobble... *cries*

[Dean Valent]

I hated the materia keeper in ff7....

Does everyone have to say this is hard?
And how come people say the wepons from FF were hard? If you get to level 40 they are easy without KOTR.

As for hardest boss. that damned Lisa Trevor, I know you can't kill her but I tried for a whole 20 hours to kill her dammit...

And then I realisd you had to push rocks into the ground... DAMN MY DAMNED STUPID DETERMINED BRAIN.

[The Coop]

Way back when, back in the days of the Amiga, a friend of mine had a game called Shadow of the Beast. Very pretty game, great music, and hard a hell. Having never owned an Amiga, I was happy the day the Genesis version of SotB came out. It looked just as good, was just as hard, but the sound suffered. Still, I enjoyed it. A couple years later, Shadow of the Beast II arrived on the Genesis. With better sound quality (though worse tunes) and nice graphics, it was the challenge of this game that was killer.

SotB II was twice as hard as the first game. Everything had to be done in a precise order throughout the game (like the first one), but now the enemies were tougher, there were more traps to kill you, and dead ends that couldn't be gotten out of until you died. It was a mean spirited game... and I loved it. But while the boss at the end of SotB was a wuss, the boss at the end of SotB II, Zelek, was anything but.

He had few attacks... namely, a fireball shot if you were further away from him, and a downward flame stream if you were below him. He bobs around in the air, floating back and forth in the area where you fight him. If a fireball hits you, it does a nasty amount of damage. If the flame stream hits you, your health vanishes steadily at a quick pace (and in this game, you don't have much in the way of health). If you come in contact with the boss, it drains your health just as quickly as the flame stream. To hit him, you need to make sure you grabbed a special weapon in one of the areas earlier in the game. If you missed it, you can't win. If you did get it, you still have to jump up in the air and fire it to hurt him... as he follows you back and forth. You have to be far enough away to jump so he can't touch you, and time it between fireball shots so you don't get hit. It seems simple, and at heart it is... but with how fast you lose your health on this final boss, the fact that at most you get a couple life replenishers (and that's assuming you didn't use them up just getting to the final boss), and no continues too boot, this makes this "simple" patterned boss a real pain.

[MolotovCocktaiL]

Metroid Prime was the hardest boss I've actually ever beaten.

But I've beaten Final Fantasy VII without even putting a dent in either Emerald or Ruby weapons. I'm a little weak against it at level 77+ with not-very-high materia levels.

Poor :(

[The Coop]

I'm not the best gamer when it comes to actions titles. I admit it. Most of my gaming prowess comes with shmups. But, I'm not a newbie at the genre either. I've beaten some tough games. But there's one old school game that just bugs me to this day. While I enjoy the Shinobi series, and can readily whoop the asses of Revenge of Shinobi, Shadow Dancer and Shinobi III, the original Shinobi on the Sega Master System has a final boss that I've only ever beaten once.

First, he has a barrier around him. You can only hurt him at certain times (I believe when he lands on the ground). He jumps around, trying to hit you, all the while being impervious to your attacks. Should you manage to hit him a few times, then he changes his attack. During this phase, you can only hit him up close. Not too bad. But his third phase is mean. Here, he starts hopping around again, except when he hits the ground, he make a clone of himself... and that clone starts attacking you as well. And unless you can time it so you hit him before he hits the ground again, you're going to have clones all over the place attacking you.

But, if you should get through all that, then he goes apeshit. His attacks are hard to dodge, and the only way you can hurt him is by hitting him in the back. While this boss doesn't do really any more damage than other bosses, he does the damage a lot faster. It's just frustrating as hell, as his attacks come so fast and frequently, it becomes... maddening.

All I gotta say is I'm glad the bosses in the rest of the Shinobi series aren't like that final one, in that being skilled is somehow replaced by just being lucky.

[SLyGeN]

Metroid Prime was the hardest boss I've actually ever beaten.(

I hope to god you aren't talking specifically about the Essence of Metroid Prime.

God, what a cakewalk.

[Prokop]

I don't know if it counts as a boss battle, technically, as it is the final strategic batte that ends the 70 year story of Gustave XIII, but I'll say The Battle of South Moundtop from Saga Frontier 2. Earlier in this thread, I stated the battle that ends the other half of the game, but I think TBSM is flat out unreasonably difficult.

[Jenga]

Prince of Persia:The sands of time. omg old man was hrd!lol.

[Julio Jose]

mgs 2, hard difficulty, the metal gear fight.

[Gendo-Ikari]

I'm going to go with Luca Blight from Suikoden II.
I confronted him with a party of six of my strongest, and he beat them. (I lvled these guys like I had no future) And then a second wave of six of my guys, a fierce battle ensued, and again, Luca was the victor.
My third party rode into battle, and he wiped five of the six members out. I survived with one person (Nanami)
and was like "Ohhh damn.. I lived?"