All Time Hardest Boss

[Brycepops]

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

SERIOUSLY! He takes all damn day to beat :cry: .

[Gendo-Ikari]

Lol, I didn't even know Bubble Bobble had a final boss.

[Mahjong No OujiSama Yoshi]

Lol, I didn't even know Bubble Bobble had a final boss. Dude, You never made it to the end of Bubble Bobble OR used the code to fight him? Wow...

[Gendo-Ikari]

Hey don't flame me.. I never got to the end. I don't have time to spend as a stupid dinosaur eating food.

[Mahjong No OujiSama Yoshi]

Uhhh, is it me, or did you just say "flame"? Dude, I didn't flame (and if I did, I'm sorry) but still, I can't believe you never used a code to access the final boss. However in BB:OAN (Old & New) you have to go through the stages, unlike the NES game.

[Gendo-Ikari]

Ya I use flame a little too liberally but still I don't like Bubble Bobble

[Mahjong No OujiSama Yoshi]

Oh, that'll explain it. Sorry.

[SoloGamer]

Was it just me, or did the final boss in Bubble Bobble: Old and New seem a little easier? It could just be that when I first confronted the boss, at the tender age of 4, my skills weren't up to par.

[The Instrument of GAWD]

The final form of the SA-X (forgot the name) in Metroid Fusion was pretty fusterating.

[Masa_and_Mune]

Since i suck at space-ship top down shooters, Ikagura was freaking impossible for me.

Never did make it to the end :cry: . Might have if i did not rent it but the game just bored me.

[Warmech]

So, the Onimusha trilogy has made a pretty good reputation for itself on the PS2 wouldn't you say? I've really had no interest in the series until I actually was told by some reliable sources to check it out. So, I picked up Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny. I haven't played the first one yet, and someday sure I'll get it, but as of now I'm not to worried because I'm pretty sure I have an okay grasp on the story.

So! The game provides a decent challenge throughout. Magic attacks will be your best friend in this game, without them...the game would take sooooo much longer. Anywho, all the bosses provide an okay challenge, but then you get to the big kahuna himself, Lord Nobunaga. He immediately transforms into a demon and the battle starts. He starts off on the ground just like you do, and while in this state, I found that he could not be hit by regular sword attacks. He blocked everything I threw at him. So, one-by-one, I went through my four weapons and hit him with all my magic attacks until he took off in the air. This is where the fun starts. He will then unleash a possibility of four magic attacks on you. The easiest to dodge is a lightning based attack where he sends four circles on the ground at you, and wherever they stop lightning strikes them. Easy enough to dodge, just run away from them. He can send up to three sets of four at you. His next move is to hurl four or five rocks at you. These are a little harder to dodge because they move really fast, but still simple if you just run. His third attack is to send a large tornado your way. The tornado itself is really slow, but travels a long distance before it dissipates. Make sure you are about fullscreen distance from him and you'll be fine. His final magic based attack is a ultra-fast downward strike towards you that when hitting the ground shoots up icicles from the ground in front of him. This reaches pretty far in front of him, so make sure you're far enough away or you'll get damaged and partially frozen for a time. Also at any time during the fight he can engage you in regular swordplay, either diving across the screen at you with some extreme force or just slashing at you. All I can say is block, block, block. Finally, you'll beat the dude, but is it over? Of course not! He then fuses with his big ass statue to become huge statue thing.

For this round, you're in your transformed state as well, and all you can do is shoot lasers that automatically target something you have to destroy. The battle is also a head-on fight, with the boss behind you and you in a third person perspective looking behind Jubei. You have five targets total, two legs, two hands, and the head. The legs do nothing, just run at you every now and then, which is easily avoided by running away, same with the fire breath the base shoots, just keep running. The right hand will shoot four or five fireballs at you, which sort of home in on you, but can be avoided by running from one side of the screen to the next. The left hand, once it lightens up, will make spike pillars shoot out of the ground at various points. These points light up on the ground, so they're easy to spot too. The head can also shoot two lasers at you. These can be hard to dodge, because they move to pretty much where you are standing, but go real fast and are hard to dodge. Once you destroy the hands and legs, the head starts sending out some skulls to have some fun with you. The first wave goes in a straight line off the screen, then come back and turn around in front of you to emit some sort of gas that damages you. The second wave start off in a formation in front of the statue's face. Then, they start dive bombing you left and right. These are kinda hard to dodge, especially when you have both waves of skulls coming at you, and he decides to shoot some lasers as well. Just....keep running around and get your shots in when you can, and he'll fall eventually.

[Edited for redundancy]

[LuckyXIII]

the cyclops in mega man 1 gave me heck until 17 years later i learned of the pause trick with the elec beam and had an emulator with save states

and the mummies in castlevania...ugh

[The Tiger]

[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...

No kidding, I just pwn3d his ass with that fire bubble magic.

[Hot Monkey Love]

As long as you don't swing your sword, Dark Link won't fight back...

[Dunnowhathuh]

I remember killing Dark Link with me sword. Doesn't he open up now and then to let you attack? Guess I'll have to check it out again one day. I agree with the Bubble Bobble boss, that guy gave me crap too.

[Sinewav]

The final form of the SA-X (forgot the name) in Metroid Fusion was pretty fusterating. Not to flame, but I remember that being one of the easier bosses for me. How about that big rockmonstertypething and the Omega Pirate from Metroid Prime? (Haven't played MP2 yet)

I'm not gunna go through 119 pages of this to see if it's already been suggested, but why don't we nominate two bosses, and argue about which one is better? Minus the flames, of course.

[SoloGamer]

I'd have to pick Shao Kahn from MK Trilogy for hardest boss, at least for me. My cousin and I just cant beat the bastard, and I play KoF games on a regular basis so I'm used to cheap bosses, but there is no beating the mighty Kahn.

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN!

[Sable]

All-time hardest boss... New-school, anyway, I have to go with both Mach Jentra and Great Redips in Megaman X Command Mission.

Jentra, at the level I fought him, was so very, very frustrating... He's FAST, and he's a TANK. The second time you fight him (Late in the game, like every other Mega Man game in existance, duh), he's hella-easy. It's embarassing, really.

Great Redips. Oh dear GOD. Between his Momemto Moria (Inflicts EVERY status effect on the party all at once) and his Carpe Diem (Depletes all of the party's Weapon Energy/MP), he was really annoying. Not HARD. Just frustrating.
Just say you get up to 90% Weapon Energy with X. Great! Next round, he'll be at 100%, and you can shift into the X-Fire hyper mode and whack him with a Charge Collider for STUPID amounts of damage.

BAM. Carpe Diem, buddy. NO W.E. FOR YOU!

I don't like that guy one little bit.

But perhaps the most frustrating part about MMXCM is ... NO NEWGAME+!

I am sad.

[SubSpecies23]

I did it! I just read all 120 pages! Over only two days too. I should get some kind of medal for that.

And on the topic? I suck, I've hardly ever played any final boss of any game ever. I've been gaming for almost 20 years, and I've beat probably 7 or 8 games in that entire time. Usually I just get bored with the game and give up long before reaching the end, especially on RPGs, which are my favorite genre.

I'd probably have to go with the last boss on FFIV, I've been stuck on that guy ever since the game came out. I'm sure there's just some trick I'm missing, someone earlier said something about stealing something from him? I've never tried that, in fact, I've hardly ever used the steal command in any FF game.

Also, I've never been able to get past that big rock guy in Metroid Prime, of course I've only tried twice. I have a big problem with losing in video games, I always play everything on easy mode, and then if something beats me more than once or twice, I never play the game again.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

I'd have to pick Shao Kahn from MK Trilogy for hardest boss, at least for me. My cousin and I just cant beat the bastard, and I play KoF games on a regular basis so I'm used to cheap bosses, but there is no beating the mighty Kahn.

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN!

Really? I've always had great trouble with beating Kintaro however , the precursor fight to Shao Kahn in MK 2.

[maniacodepressif]

Ninja Gaiden...must of been said in 120 pages at least once.

I must of finished over 1000 games in my life, and, the last boss in that game was really hard.

Doom 3's last boss at nightmare is quite a pain, but nightmare isn't supposed to be balanced.

Castlevania 3 was the hardess versions of dracula, the first ones last boss was tough with no trick too.

Zelda's hardess, Link's shadow...zelda 2 :p

Megaman, yeah rockman megaman 1 and last boss.

Bubble bobble? nah...but, princess tomato's last boss was one heck of a good paper, rock, scissors challenge.

[wmeadd]

If you guys have play Altered Beast for the sega gen. then you know those bosses got pretty damn hard!

[Conan-the-3rd]

This topic: man, you can flame it to high hell and it still won't go down! :D

[Poiso]

I don't how a discussion about hard bosses can last 2 years.

[SoloGamer]

I had no idea this thread was that old.
Well anyways, I just remembered another boss that has given me trouble: Sissy.

Sissy is the final boss from Matrimelee, for those who don't know.

[Skilless]

If it can be a series of bosses that lead up to and include the final boss fight without being able to go back and buy potions and what not then I would have to say Ninja Gaiden for Xbox. That game is a beast. Its the hardest game I've played and beat ever.

[The Tiger]

I have heard that Pennance from the international version of Final Fantasy X was one of the hardest bosses. I wouldn't know though, I have not played it.

[anclunn]

Bail from Disgea or that freak'n vampire couple from Illusion of Gia.

[Amayirot Akago]

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN!
Godammit, that was my line! 8)

Maybe not THE hardest boss ever, but quite a tough one, was the skeleton on the ropebridge in Prince of Persia 2. I'm sure everyone who's played that game has been done in more than once by that fucker :|

[conker]

not sure about last boss but i've been playing kingdom hearts:COM and the 4th encounter with riu is one hell of a fight - i cna't even get him out of his first bloody hearth bar out of like 3 or 4. hate to see waht last boss would be like

[Mr.Roboto]

Hardest Boss Ever:

Those god damn bosses in games like Blazeon(Side Scrolling spaceship games)that use attacks that are almost immpossible to dodge.

[Sly Fox]

This is an easy one for me. In Shinobi for the PS2, as you beat the game, different difficulties become available. It goes from Normal to Hard to Super. At first, I thought the final boss on Normal was hard. Then I got to Super. It took me roughly a year to a year and a half to finally beat the final boss on Super! Sometimes, I would die 30 times a day, 7 days a week. Finally, one sunny morning, I figure what the heck. I'll give it a another whirl. It was lookin' pretty much the same for the first 10 deaths. Then, suddenly, I realized I had depleted 90% of his energy. Then... 95. And then, the moment of truth... with one final shuriken to the bastard's neck, 100%. On that day, I felt better than I had for a really long time. He was truly the hardest boss ever.

[The Coop]

After having my time taken up by a lot of school work, this Christmas break gave me a chance to get back to a few games I was in the middle of enjoying... one of which, is named Alien Hominid.

Besides having a great visual style and fun, old school gameplay, this game also has a few bosses that can be a real pain... one of which, is the one I reached before I had to put it down for school work. On stage 3-3 if I recall, there's a huge two armed robot that moves on tank treads. It's got six variously sized guns long it's top and shoulders that fire different types of ammo (all of which must be destroyed), it's rather large hands are great at pounding you into the ground and flattening you between them, and it fires quite a bit as you're hopping around trying to avoid being grabbed (which is easy to get out of), shot, burnt, squished and generally killed. It's a fun battle, but goddamn did I have to redo that boss quite a few times because of its head blocking my shots.

The other boss, is the final boss. I won't say what it is, but know that it takes place on several battle grounds, and while I enjoyed it, it was hard. Just when you think you've won, you got a whole new battle to endure. It's probably one of the longer, and more diverse, boss battles in a game like this. On the ground, in the air... it's a fight to be sure. I'd love to tell about it, but I know it's a new game, and I don't want to spoil it for anyone. So, just know you've got a fight waiting for you... especially if it's on anything above "Easy" :lol:

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[Navi]

Trying to tranq and/or sneak up on The End in Snake Eater. Tedium tedium!!!

[Poiso]

Hey guys, this thread is almost on page 3, maybe it'll really die this time!

[I-n-j-i-n]

Trying to tranq and/or sneak up on The End in Snake Eater. Tedium tedium!!!

Ever try using the microphone?

It's MUCH too easy if you try that. Look at the demonstration below:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v462/I-n-j-i-n/SteveYunSomethingAwful.gif

[Red Light District]

Oh this is way too easy

The MATERIA KEEPER in final fantasy 7 nibleheim mountain!
and the HYDRA from Chrono Cross!!!

they are just horrid

[The Coop]

Samurai Shodown. Amakusa.

Cheap. Cheap cheap cheap.

This is an SNK game that teases you. The first few characters are pretty easy, no matter who they are. But once you hit the halfway mark, the game starts getting pissed... even if you've continued a dozen times up to that point. But when you reach Amakusa at the end... God help you.

First off, if you get thrown, you are screwed. AS throw from this guy, even on easy, does quite a bit of damage. If he hits you with the rapid fire bitch slap he dishes out if you're too close, you watch that health meter drop like a man's chances of getting sex after he called his date a slut. His "screwy controls" attack, is cheap. His normal electro ball, hurts.

This thing with this boss is, his warps result in many missed attacks on your part. And when he's not warping out of the way, he warps back and forth, closing in on you each time he stops... even if you jump around, he still homes in on you. He blocks like mad, even on "1" difficulty. And of course, all his attacks do more damage than any comparable attack you can dish out.

Then, once in a great while, it's like he just stops trying. You kick his ass like a red headed step child. The next round, he hands your ass to you. And if you won the first round, he hands you your ass again in round three, smashing you lofty dream of "victoly".

SNK is notorious for making bosses that seem to be impossibly powerful, or stupidly quick, or cheap as hell... or all three. Amakusa in SS1, is no exception.

[SonSpike]

Nope, I got the hardest GAME of all time (including the bosses). Ikaruga. For gamecube (and the much harder to find Dreamcast) owners. Its the hardest game I've EVER played. For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, the concept is simple. You fly a plane with two modes: black mode and white mode. The enemies fire two color shots: black and white. When you are black, you absorb black shots and are killed by white shots, and vice versa for white mode. Sounds easy. Sure, the first level is deceptivly easy. But when you have hundreds of shots all going in random tragectories, it can get very confusing. Trust me, if you have a gamecube, BUY IKARUGA!!! Its the hardest, and one of the best games out there.

[Lone_elf]

if any of are reading this then gl for comming this far... any one ever play a game called kid cameleon... idk if this was just a personal phenomina or what but every time i got to what im prettty sure was the final boss, the game froze during the battle. and it made me sooo mad cause i could never beat the game>?

[The Coop]

... going old school isn't always a good thing, as it shows you not all 8-bit classics age well.

I was playing Thunder Blade on my old Master System yesterday. A fun little game... until you reach stage 3. Then you get into a canal that's nearly impossible because the bullets that the enemies shoot follow you... all of them. BUT WAIT... there's more. Then you get to stage 4, and you're bobbing and weaving, trying to avoid the bars going across the area you fly in. And finally, you reach the last boss of the game.

Basically, it's a big metal structure with many guns. It fires like there's no tomorrow, and it's damn sturdy. The bullets follow you as you move. Not literally, but rather in a way that makes them "hook" rather than travel a straight line. Your helicopter doesn't exactly move very quickly, so as these things hook, they just barely miss you the entire time. So now you're trying to lure then around the screen and not get cornered by the constant barrage so you can get some shots in on the final boss... which takes a lot before you hit it enough times to actually win. This thing must have inspired such insanely bullet riddled shooters as the Donpachi and Giga Wing series.

Now, why did I mention stages 3 and 4? Because these stages generally suck up every last continue. Shots that don't visually hit you, still kill you. Because of this interesting use of collision detection, you're left trying to find little areas to move to where there aren't any bullets when enemies come on the screen... even thought it doesn't matter, because you'll still get hit even if they miss. While stage 3 doesn't have anything to run into, stage 4 does. The same odd collision detection seems to make bars that you're currently right in the middle of make you explode. It's almost like the game doesn't want you to discover the dark secret that's at its end... not because it's a hard game or programmed to be one, but because it knows after all the hell you went through to get to it, the ending'll piss you off more than the cheap shots dealt out by the two last stages and the final boss ever could. What that secret is, I won't say beyond... "Don't blink".

Anyway, it's a game that actually doesn't try to be hard, but instead becomes cheap. And it succeeds nicely at it. It's a shame too, as it had a lot of fun qualities for it's day. Good thing they didn't pull the same stuff in Super Thunder Blade though :lol:

[patella femoral syndrome]

That psycho robot from Hell in Dynamite Headdy (level 7?). He's probably the most awesome boss ever, too.

[The Coop]

I hate this guy.

For those not familiar with Painkiller, it's a FPS. Not a bad game, won some awards, and is generally entertaining. It got an expansion pack called Painkiller: Battle out of Hell, and it really only has one boss... but what a pain in the as he is.

Besides being absolutely huge, he's got a number of attacks. Fire that spreads out from him when he hits the ground, the ability to just stomp on your tiny ass, summoning fireballs from the sky that track you... fun stuff. Somehow, someway, you have to kill him. And that's where we get to a bump in the road.

I have literally run out of ammo firing at this guy, only to see him unaffected. I've learned all sorts of nifty tricks to avoid him, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what to do to hurt him. There's a series of "pads" around the level you fight in. Some are just there at times it seems, while others have little glowing orbs rising off of them. I'm thinking there's a connection between them and being able to beat the final boss, but nothing's come from any of the things I've tried.

I'm not surprised really, as most of the bosses in the regular game have little hidden things you have to do to beat them, and even the mid bosses in BooT (especially the last mid boss) have a trick to being able to hurt them. But right now, I'm damn near out of ideas to beat this damned boss.

[GhostMercXIII]

The hardest boss is that piece of shit fag Doku from Ninja Gaiden. When you fight him in his ghost form he is so damn hard without the maxed out fire scroll. Even when you have the maxed out fire ninpo he is still a bitch especially when he does the attack when he drains your life and gains life. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After a good 50 times of dying I finally kicked his ass gloriously with only getting hit once. I thought the end of the world was upon us when I handed him his ass on a silver platter. Ninja Gaiden is defintely is a game that should win the controller smashing award.

[SoloGamer]

Slipknot's "I Am Hated" song on Amplitude on Insane difficulty was pretty tough for me. Of course, it doesn't help when I hate the damn song.

[AmishNinja]

i would say jynx lvl 3 from mario rpg. though i was only about lvl 18 when i fought him, the only way i could beat him was to fill my entire inventory with revival items

[ubernym]

The hardest boss is that piece of shit fag Doku from Ninja Gaiden. When you fight him in his ghost form he is so damn hard without the maxed out fire scroll. Even when you have the maxed out fire ninpo he is still a bitch especially when he does the attack when he drains your life and gains life. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After a good 50 times of dying I finally kicked his ass gloriously with only getting hit once. I thought the end of the world was upon us when I handed him his ass on a silver platter. Ninja Gaiden is defintely is a game that should win the controller smashing award.

And that is why you suck at this game. Team Ninja actually punishes you for button mashing. I'm serious. I tried to play the game that way, and I eventually got frustrated with dying so much. Then I started all over. I learned the combos (placed conveniently in the inventory screen for easy access) and I learned to DODGE (essential life-saving tactic), and suddenly I was actually good at the game, and not using my Ninpo all the time.

Button Mashing=teh suck
Combos+Dodgin=Master Ninja

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

I hated the bosses from the old NES game Trojan ,so fuckingly frustrating ones..

http://emulazione.multiplayer.it/mamend/png/troj0017.png

Here they are ,all of them.

[Zelinko]

i would say jynx lvl 3 from mario rpg. though i was only about lvl 18 when i fought him, the only way i could beat him was to fill my entire inventory with revival items

I believe its safety badge [found in the sunken ship, it 'protects against mortal blows'] make Jynx pretty much meat

[Linearity]

It seems somebody already mentioned Sonic 2 for Game Gear. Robotnik from Underground Zone is very hard for no particular reason.

[operawonderdude]

Haha, in Mickey's Magical Quest, the boss for the ice world (the damned peguin on skis) is prolly the hardest boss i've seen in a while (although for an rpg noob...Ultimecia in FF8 was pretty close to being the hardest for me). And what really sucked was that the game doesnt have a save...so yuore screwed if ya get game over :)

[Being]

Emerald Weapon in FFVII. Though an optional boss, it was difficult to beat (unless you're one of those people who used GameShark invincibility code).

[Ffej]

RPG bosses are never hard. Ever. All you have to do is level up, which isn't difficult; it is simply tedious. All-time hardest boss? M. Bison on the highest difficulty in any Street Fighter 2.

[Ferret]

Why the fuck does Gradius 3 have a boss weaker than the one on the first level, and whose stage is insanely harder than anything else in the game (save maybe the part where the floor chunks try to kill you)?

[mink]

Mizar from Jet Force Gemini is a bitch whore cunt fucker!!!!

[Dr. Marius]

In Circle of the Moon, Hugh on Shooter mode is hard as hell. Took me over 20 tries to kill him. Now.... just to take care of dracula.

[Antifreeze23]

Hardest Boss Ever:

Those god damn bosses in games like Blazeon(Side Scrolling spaceship games)that use attacks that are almost immpossible to dodge.

I actually own this game, and I think I've only ever made it to the...5th level in it?
The first boss is actually easy (I guess I played that level over and over) but the others...well...let's just say you had better steal another ship. (If you remember doing that)

[GhostMercXIII]

Another hard boss are the ikuruga bosses.

[GhostMercXIII]

The hardest boss is that piece of shit fag Doku from Ninja Gaiden. When you fight him in his ghost form he is so damn hard without the maxed out fire scroll. Even when you have the maxed out fire ninpo he is still a bitch especially when he does the attack when he drains your life and gains life. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After a good 50 times of dying I finally kicked his ass gloriously with only getting hit once. I thought the end of the world was upon us when I handed him his ass on a silver platter. Ninja Gaiden is defintely is a game that should win the controller smashing award.

And that is why you suck at this game. Team Ninja actually punishes you for button mashing. I'm serious. I tried to play the game that way, and I eventually got frustrated with dying so much. Then I started all over. I learned the combos (placed conveniently in the inventory screen for easy access) and I learned to DODGE (essential life-saving tactic), and suddenly I was actually good at the game, and not using my Ninpo all the time.

Button Mashing=teh suck
Combos+Dodgin=Master Ninja
I suck at Ninja Gaiden? Hell I've beaten it on the hardest difficulty and I don't button mash dip shit. Looks like you read my post wrong dumbass if you look at the new EGM you'll see it got the controller smashing award cause it's so damn hard at certain points. And who says I use my ninpo all the time? I guess cause I used it for one boss you assume I use it all the time. Go interior decorate you homo. Even if you are better than me I could care less what does being better than me on a game accomplish? Absolutly nothing maybe some bragging rights that no one would care about"Hey guys I'm better than GhostMercXIII from OC remix forums at Ninja Gaiden!!"-Ubernym. I beat the boss battle and accomplished the same thing you did kicking the shit out of doku. Which you would likely reply "I did it better than you so that makes me more superior than you and Team Ninja should punish you!!!" You make me sick you worthless piece of shit nerd.

Ubernym = Richard Simmons
Ghostmerc = Badass Nerd Smasher

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

In Circle of the Moon, Hugh on Shooter mode is hard as hell. Took me over 20 tries to kill him. Now.... just to take care of dracula.

Yea , Hugh and Drac were pretty tough on low level Fighter and Shooter modes ..mainly because you had to make do without DSS magic.

But Thief mode is the best challenge IMO. Low stats.

[luminoire]

You thought Dr. Wily was hard in MM4? Figh Dr. Wily in MM7.

heh, i wouldn't call him hard, beat him without using subtanks.

his second form was predictable as hell. the only thing that even bothered me was getting frozen - and that only happens when i don't pay attention.

and i wouldn't say any RPG boss is hard...unless there's a limitation to experience points, all the bosses are easy, it just takes time.

MMX7, on the other hand...the whole game was just a friggin hassle to deal with...mainly due to poor game design.

[Shadowe]

The Forward Base in Starlancer for the dreamcast. It CAN die... eventually.

[segahikui]

Freya on Star Ocean 3
....so.....many....deaths....and....still.....no.. ...wins....*weep*..........

[Zelinko]

You thought Dr. Wily was hard in MM4? Figh Dr. Wily in MM7.

heh, i wouldn't call him hard, beat him without using subtanks.

his second form was predictable as hell. the only thing that even bothered me was getting frozen - and that only happens when i don't pay attention.

and i wouldn't say any RPG boss is hard...unless there's a limitation to experience points, all the bosses are easy, it just takes time.

MMX7, on the other hand...the whole game was just a friggin hassle to deal with...mainly due to poor game design.

Yea... it was almost imposible to grip onto platforms at times and fucking Glide mode would turn on at the worst instants for X...

[AcAcAcAcAc]

Ugh, that secret boss Culex in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Never beat him -.-

[Brycepops]

Ugh, that secret boss Culex in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Never beat him -.-

I had to use like 3-4 red essence in that damn fight, but I beat him :D .

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

Dracula in Simon's Quest




just kidding. :twisted:

[HunterKiller]

Well, he's easier now, but I'm gonna say Mike Tyson in MTPO.
Shit it took me like 12 times to beat him. The first 11 times weren't even close too.

[Wingsinadream]

Warning: Sarcasm and Minor RE4 Spoiler Alert!
The all-time three hardest bosses, in order of appearance in time.

1.Sephiroth's Final Form from FF7 (Regular Sephiroth)

2.Mysterio from Spiderman 2 - The convience store battle!

3.Salazar from Resident Evil 4 - He can hit you everywhere!!!

I think Salazar is the most sad, because he was supposed to be hard to beat. OH NO! HE CAN'T HIT ME WITH REGULAR ATTACKS, I'M DOOMED UNLESS I STAND HERE AND SHOOT AT HIM, OCCASIONALLY EASILY DODGING TENTACLES, BUT I THINK I'M DOOMED! :lol:

[Masa_and_Mune]

I honestly have a real hard time with the first boss in Onimusha 3 on hard mode. The bosses after were
easy.

[Axel B.]

Luther from Star Ocean 3... and i though firghting Victor Delicroix (chaos leigion) was hard... especially when your doing it on hard mode

[The Coop]

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I'm not good at Diablo. In fact, it could be easily argued that a suck at it. Now, I know what you're thinking... Diablo isn't that hard. Well, he was hard enough, but he's not the boss in question. The Butcher is.

I kid you not, I don't know how many times I've died on that guy. You open the door, out he comes with his taunt, and then he just proceeds to chase you around. He can't throw anything, he can't cast spells... he doesn't even have a projectile weapon. But I'll be damned if I could beat him... for a good while. By the time I got to him, I always seemed to have very little in the way of life replenishers, and I could never get more than a single swipe or arrow in on him before I had to turn and run again for a while. It was getting to point that I kept expecting the Benny Hill theme to start playing.

Now yes, I did eventually beat him, but not before I had every last bit of my Diablo dignity beaten out of my gaming pride.

[Conan-the-3rd]

Volt (Tales of Symponia) was a bitch.

Infact, the begining of Tales of Symphonia was very hard if you had no idea of how important guarding was.

[Thrull]

I haven't read the rest of this thread, but I'd just like to say that the only boss I never had the willpower to beat, was that goddamn blob at the end of the incredibly long "random dungeon" side-quest in Lufia 2.

So you go through this incredibly long dungeon full of random crap, and you start it out with NONE of your equipment and ALL levels gone, and the whole point is to build up from nothing, beat the last boss, and get some special prizes, like a miniature game within a game, except that the prizes help you in the real game. Some really good equipment.

Thing is... the last boss has a set amount of HP and you have only a few turns to kill him. Meaning, if you went through that entire goddamn dungeon (going from level 1 to higher than you are outside the dungeon), and didn't get powerful enough for him at the end, you are screwed! I spent days working through the dungeon in what I considered an "optimal" fashion (cheating with state-saves to try for the best random factors each step) and he owned me, over and over, no matter how many ways I tried it.

[Crimson Wolf]

Dracula X goes behind Castlevania Adventure and Chronicles as one of the harder ones I have played in the series - not unmanageable, but requires a certain amount of memorization and creativity. That's due in part to regenerating enemies like the Medusa heads and bats appearing in abundance throughout the levels - particularly irritating when you're jumping around on moving gears in the Clock Tower level while attempting to get in a shot a Skeleton Spears, who have a large range and the ability to block your projectiles. The level finishes off this crescendo of pain with the only thing that could conceivably be more annoying - Death.

The first half of his life bar is spent doing his standard technique, except that he can now slow you by touching you and his scythes have varying speeds. This has enough potential for annoying, random hits in and of itself, but the second half of the fight gets much worse. After spending a moment with his arms spread and mouth open as if enraged, he jumps onto the platform, pulls out a scythe, and starts swinging. At any point, he can jump up into the air and spin at you with his scythe extended. To avoid this move, you have to be walking away right as he starts spinning at you, THEN jump and barely clear the edge of the blade. If he gets you next to the edge, the only thing to do is hit him repeatedly and hope he backs off instead of gutting you right then and there. When he feels particularly nasty, he may send out a salvo of homing sparks, then do the somersault. The backflip may be useful somewhere in all this, but chances are good that you'll just end up sliding off the ledge or into another attack. Groan.

And, of course, if you run out of lives, guess what happens? Hope you don't get too frusturated by being randomly hit and juggled by a bat until it finds a convenient pit to deposit you into.

[Emerald]

I don't know if this counts, but I've been playing Tales of Symphonia. Which i think is a wonderfull game!! :)

BUT!!! here i am ready to fight the final boss, but before i want to finish off the side quests, i have 3 left.
One consist of fighting Abyson (spelling?) related to the Devil's arms. I'm at level 75 and he has 120,000 HP he freakingly can KIll me in one farking shot!!!
so i go try if i can level up with another side quest.. The UnderWorld. I end up going into this strange book that has tougher enemies, which would be a great place to level up.. only thing is you CAN'T leave until you beat the boss, you are timed and you don't have save points!! after spending 2h doing the first 10 levels...i meet this boss... when i finaly beat him.. (a good 30 mins. later...) i thought it was the boss... but no!!! it's a mid boss and i didn't have anymore and i was game over...
so basically i lost 2 1/2 hours and 4 levels :evil: :evil: :evil:

By then i gave up on the third side quest... and tried to fight the final Boss.... surprisingly too easy!!


It's a good ending but those unrealisticaly hard side quests put a down to it i find... especially that there wasn't a good efficiant place to level up...

[Zelinko]

2.Mysterio from Spiderman 2 - The convience store battle!

Greatest Gag Battle EVER! Had me laughing for about 10 minutes just at how easy it was after seeing the health bar rise up and go over 4 or so times.

"Give me all of your Earth Currency!"

[Z_A_X]

I think mother brain was a B**** to beat yeah but it was hella fun!!! :D

[CopycattVII]

Ivaldi from Gunvalkyrie.... jesus...

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

Kintaro ,from Mortal Kombat 2

(although Shao Kahn who comes next was a real pushover).

[halberd25]

Omega weapon, Final Fantasy VIII.

Some of the last bosses in Saga Frontier were really hard.

I also find Lavos from Chrono Trigger very difficult.

[SoloGamer]

Kintaro ,from Mortal Kombat 2

(although Shao Kahn who comes next was a real pushover).
Man, I hate Shao Kahn in MK Trilogy. My cousin and I just can't beat him (might have something to do with the fact that I suck at MK).

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

Kintaro ,from Mortal Kombat 2

(although Shao Kahn who comes next was a real pushover).
Man, I hate Shao Kahn in MK Trilogy. My cousin and I just can't beat him (might have something to do with the fact that I suck at MK).

Just out of curiosity...Did you ever find Motaro (MK3) difficult to beat ?

[PriZm]

M. Bison in SF Alpha 3 for GBA or the two last bosses in Ninja Gaiden 1 are hell

[mecca]

I think mother brain was a B**** to beat yeah but it was hella fun!!! :D

Your sig fucking rules.

[!Nekko!]

One of the bosses that I can remember is final Cell on DBZ: Budokai. I just remember fighting him so times and almost throwing the controller at the wall after most of those attempts.

[SoloGamer]

Kintaro ,from Mortal Kombat 2

(although Shao Kahn who comes next was a real pushover).
Man, I hate Shao Kahn in MK Trilogy. My cousin and I just can't beat him (might have something to do with the fact that I suck at MK).

Just out of curiosity...Did you ever find Motaro (MK3) difficult to beat ?
I haven't played MK3 in a long time, and I didn't even play it much back then. My guess is, I never even faced him. If he's anything like Khan in Trilogy, then I guess I'd find him difficult.
I think I'm going to try it when I get home today.

[Conan-the-3rd]

Dyne (Final Fantasy 7) was a pig-fucker to beat.

[U N N]

From my experience, the game gear has the most difficult bosses. I rarely beat Dr. Robotnic when you fight him for the first time in Sonic 2, all bosses for dynamite heady are a pain in the ass and the last boss for this batman game I have seems almost impossible.

[RoboPanda]

Omega weapon, Final Fantasy VIII.



Dude, I killed that motherf***er by accident. I wanted to draw all sorts of stuff from him but my guys, and considering I thought he was going to be hard, my guys were at level 100. He went down in all sorts of funny colors too because my playstation was reading the disc all funky.

[Mr. 47]

Olga flow on Ultimate from Phantasy Star Online II. That son of a bitch was impossible if you fought him alone. Let's take a look at his cheap attacks, shall we?

-Step on you. Yeah. He's that much taller than you.
-Randomly swing his sword and let out a shockwave that is incapable of NOT hitting something.
-Make giant rocks fall on you. This attack + shitty camera angles = PISSED OFF.
-Creates stupid enemies that respawn and explode in your face. Or something.
-Oh yeah this is my favorite, he'll occasionally (and when I say that I mean every 2 goddamn seconds) turn you into an old man. If you attack him, any damage you deal him will be dealt to you. That's a problem when you can dish out more damage than your hp.

I hated him. Both forms.

Oh yeah, and the final boss of Tactics Ogre for GBA. Played it for 6 hours straight (you couldn't really save) just to die against the boss' 2nd form. That made me so enraged I think I may have killed a small child out of anger.

They really need to make a button that covers controllers and gameboys with steel plating so you can throw them at whatever you want without damaging them. Or have a little warning pop up on the screen before a boss fight:

[WARNING! Fighting this boss may result in EXTREME anger. We ask that all young children leave the immediate area, lest they be scarred for life from the expletives you will be screaming.]

[bottle_rawket]

from mr47:
-Oh yeah this is my favorite, he'll occasionally (and when I say that I mean every 2 goddamn seconds) turn you into an old man.

ROFL. That's one of the funniest posts I've read in a while. I know how you feel. :D

[Mogman]

I'd have to say Abyssion from Tales of Symphonia.


I had to use AR to beat him and when I tried without, he pretty much turned the game into Tales of Presea!

[Jenga]

Imposter Vyse from SoA: Legends.

[Zelinko]

Sopot (Red Faction II)- Man its hard to get him dead... Just got to find the button and launch the missile...

[Being]

I hate the final boss in Tales of Destiny 2. I can't beat her no matter how hard I try. I know you have to do this specific thing, but it never works for me.

[F'lar]

Volt (Tales of Symponia) was a bitch.

Infact, the begining of Tales of Symphonia was very hard if you had no idea of how important guarding was.Volt was really hard, but he's easy for one main reason: He's only one enemy, and you have your entire team. The Lloyd vs. Kratos Fight near the end of the game was much harder, and MUCH more fun!
As for the gurading thing, I never really guraded, I just relentlessly pinned and diced all the one-on-team bosses. The team-on-one hero fights are EVIL, such as the Colloseum.

[Brycepops]

Volt (Tales of Symponia) was a bitch.

Infact, the begining of Tales of Symphonia was very hard if you had no idea of how important guarding was.Volt was really hard, but he's easy for one main reason: He's only one enemy, and you have your entire team. The Lloyd vs. Kratos Fight near the end of the game was much harder, and MUCH more fun!
As for the gurading thing, I never really guraded, I just relentlessly pinned and diced all the one-on-team bosses. The team-on-one hero fights are EVIL, such as the Colloseum.

The last fight in team battle kicked my ass a few times...until I figured out you could use items :o.

[F'lar]

I'd have to say Abyssion from Tales of Symphonia.


I had to use AR to beat him and when I tried without, he pretty much turned the game into Tales of Presea!
It became Tales of lloyd running for his fricken life, only saved by the All Divide that Rain used in the beginning of the 55 minute insane boss battle. Abbysion was EVIL. he was doing 1000 damage er hit to me, evn when I had the best armor in he game coupled with the All divide (50% damage reduced on all attacks from everyone.)

[F'lar]

Volt (Tales of Symponia) was a bitch.

Infact, the begining of Tales of Symphonia was very hard if you had no idea of how important guarding was.Volt was really hard, but he's easy for one main reason: He's only one enemy, and you have your entire team. The Lloyd vs. Kratos Fight near the end of the game was much harder, and MUCH more fun!
As for the gurading thing, I never really guraded, I just relentlessly pinned and diced all the one-on-team bosses. The team-on-one hero fights are EVIL, such as the Colloseum.

The last fight in team battle kicked my ass a few times...until I figured out you could use items :o.
You can use items against the three earlier Tales Series people? Wow. That would help.

[Conan-the-3rd]

Volt (Tales of Symponia) was a bitch.

Infact, the begining of Tales of Symphonia was very hard if you had no idea of how important guarding was.Volt was really hard, but he's easy for one main reason: He's only one enemy, and you have your entire team. The Lloyd vs. Kratos Fight near the end of the game was much harder, and MUCH more fun!
As for the gurading thing, I never really guraded, I just relentlessly pinned and diced all the one-on-team bosses. The team-on-one hero fights are EVIL, such as the Colloseum.

The last fight in team battle kicked my ass a few times...until I figured out you could use items :o.
You can use items against the three earlier Tales Series people? Wow. That would help.I'm just at the watter Ranch (Rodyle) and I've read up on his HP (30,000) that doesn't seem an awful lot concidering... Betcha he has some realy cheap ploy though.

I also think I've somehow stunted my Skill learning (I inaventertnly slaped a good few people towords the "S" side of the T/S scale.

But I did learn a nice little trick in comboing "Sword Rain Alpha" and "Raging beast".

If you prefom Raging Beast just before Lloyd does the vertiacl jump slash that finishes SRA, he'll pull off Raging Beast. It takes a good bit of TP but the damage is great :D

[Bladewind]

Ok no matter what any of you say, I know for a FACT who THE hardest boss to ever star in a video game is.

Ever hear of an old NES game called "Time lord"? It was actually made by Mattel. Yes the toy company.

Well. The game goes pretty smooth until you get to the 3rd level. While traveling through time you somehow end up in the wild west with cowboys shooting bullets up your ass from all directions. Well, if you manage to survive the level, you are rewarded with meeting the HARDEST BOSS IN VIDEO GAME HISTORY! I KID YOU NOT!

Basically, the boss is this gigantic Mexican looking dude with a poncho, sombrero, and a six-shooter.

Well I fought him a couple of times and died after a few minutes or so, but eventually I found his pattern. My brother and I would sit there and keep fighting him, but we could never win.

Well, one day we were determind to defeat this pesky villain! We got to the end of the level, and began to fight him. And fight him. And fight him........Then we realized we had been fighting him for THREE HOURS on the same life! WE NEVER DIED! WE FOUGHT THE BOSS FOR 3 HOURS ON THE SAME LIFE! We must have hit him a MILLION times!! Pow! Pow! Pow! 4 Hours passed.......5 hours passed......still the same life.....took a few breaks.....took turns fighting....still the same life......HE WILL NEVER DIE!!!! HE IS FREAKING IMMORTAL!!!!! We finally gave up and turned the game off in grave dissapointment.

Well, now you know who THE hardest boss in video game history is. The stupid mexican guy in a poncho and sombrero with a six shooter. :evil:
LOL!

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

The first 3 bosses from Trojan (NES).

[Bladewind]

Ok no matter what any of you say, I know for a FACT who THE hardest boss to ever star in a video game is.

Ever hear of an old NES game called "Time lord"? It was actually made by Mattel. Yes the toy company.

Well. The game goes pretty smooth until you get to the 3rd level. While traveling through time you somehow end up in the wild west with cowboys shooting bullets up your ass from all directions. Well, if you manage to survive the level, you are rewarded with meeting the HARDEST BOSS IN VIDEO GAME HISTORY! I KID YOU NOT!

Basically, the boss is this gigantic Mexican looking dude with a poncho, sombrero, and a six-shooter.

Well I fought him a couple of times and died after a few minutes or so, but eventually I found his pattern. My brother and I would sit there and keep fighting him, but we could never win.

Well, one day we were determind to defeat this pesky villain! We got to the end of the level, and began to fight him. And fight him. And fight him........Then we realized we had been fighting him for THREE HOURS on the same life! WE NEVER DIED! WE FOUGHT THE BOSS FOR 3 HOURS ON THE SAME LIFE! We must have hit him a MILLION times!! Pow! Pow! Pow! 4 Hours passed.......5 hours passed......still the same life.....took a few breaks.....took turns fighting....still the same life......HE WILL NEVER DIE!!!! HE IS FREAKING IMMORTAL!!!!! We finally gave up and turned the game off in grave dissapointment.

Well, now you know who THE hardest boss in video game history is. The stupid mexican guy in a poncho and sombrero with a six shooter. :evil:

I still think this is funny as hell. I'm going to get Timelord just for that purpose.

[Brycepops]

I hate the final boss in Tales of Destiny 2. I can't beat her no matter how hard I try. I know you have to do this specific thing, but it never works for me.

When she starts using it, just hold the 3 buttons instead of mashing them. It's a lot easier this way :wink: .

Speaking of which, I think I'm going to load the save I made before I fought Dhaos...I mean Sekundes.

[The Coop]

Kintaro ,from Mortal Kombat 2

(although Shao Kahn who comes next was a real pushover).
Man, I hate Shao Kahn in MK Trilogy. My cousin and I just can't beat him (might have something to do with the fact that I suck at MK).

Just out of curiosity...Did you ever find Motaro (MK3) difficult to beat ?
I haven't played MK3 in a long time, and I didn't even play it much back then. My guess is, I never even faced him. If he's anything like Khan in Trilogy, then I guess I'd find him difficult.
I think I'm going to try it when I get home today.


From what I remember, Motaro was pretty susceptible to jump kicks and combos (combos usually hit him at least once). He's not a push over, but there have been plenty of times where I was able to beat him with little trouble. His attack that's a big pain is his tail shot. Otherwise, he's not too hard to beat.

Edit: I just remembered. One of the best ways to hurt him, is to jump in the air and kick him whenever he jumps in the air. It's virtually a guaranteed hit every time. if he gets on a jumping spree, you can beat him easily with this. Also, stay moving. His warps are a pain, but if you jump around with a purpose (i.e., not randomly like a spaz), you can hit him when he warps back in quite a bit too.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

From what I remember, Motaro was pretty susceptible to jump kicks and combos (combos usually hit him at least once). He's not a push over, but there have been plenty of times where I was able to beat him with little trouble. His attack that's a big pain is his tail shot. Otherwise, he's not too hard to beat.

Edit: I just remembered. One of the best ways to hurt him, is to jump in the air and kick him whenever he jumps in the air. It's virtually a guaranteed hit every time. if he gets on a jumping spree, you can beat him easily with this. Also, stay moving. His warps are a pain, but if you jump around with a purpose (i.e., not randomly like a spaz), you can hit him when he warps back in quite a bit too.

Thank you for the tip :D I've always had major trouble with Motaro myself. IMO the hardest MK boss.

[TwinTurboTerrorist]

Bolbox from EVO: Search for Eden (for the SNES). Still never beaten him, and I own the game. HOW THE HELL DO YOU BEAT HIM???

[jordex]

That Butterfly bitch from Link to the Past was always a pain in the ass. Everytime I've had come to the forest world I shivered 'cause I knew it meant I had to fight ol' Butterfly Man

[dragon1130]

Hmm the all time hardest boss to me has to be... Jictice from the original Guilty Gear game I stil can't beat him

[JFM]

This one's open to all game catagories. Now, I'm not talking about a game who's control was so bad it made fighting/playing hard. I'm talking about a boss that was just plain nasty, viscious, could take a beating and dish one out, and took seeminly forever before the bastard/bitch (both sexes are covered here :D ) finally fell.

For me, that honor goes to......

Mother Brain and Dark Force!!!!!!
Mother Brain from Phantasy Star II was a complete bitch to beat. No matter how many times you hit her, no matter the strength of the magic cast, you got your ass kicked in a big, big way.
Dark Force from Phantasy Star III gets the tying nod because of the exact same thing. It took forever to disable it's hands, just so you could start beating on its head... which was another battle in itself. While it was also a sh*t to beat to Phantasy Star IV and I, the third game had the nastiest version on it.

Special honors go to Death from Castlevania I... GOD that was an unfair boss...

One of the hardest bosses I've ever faced was Sigma's 2nd form at the very end of Mega Man Xtreme 2 (Game Boy Color).

Another really tough boss was the boss of Level 4 of R-Type 2 in R-Type Deluxe (Game Boy Color). My hands were sweating when I beat him!

[jordex]

There was this one boss on Terrignma that I just couldn't beat, I would only hit it 1 damage each time and he had 300 hits. I stopped playing at that point

[Kireek]

The hardest boss I went up against was probably Meta Ridley on hard in Metroid Prime. Took me almost two hours to kill it. :x

[Zelinko]

This one's open to all game catagories. Now, I'm not talking about a game who's control was so bad it made fighting/playing hard. I'm talking about a boss that was just plain nasty, viscious, could take a beating and dish one out, and took seeminly forever before the bastard/bitch (both sexes are covered here :D ) finally fell.

For me, that honor goes to......

Mother Brain and Dark Force!!!!!!
Mother Brain from Phantasy Star II was a complete bitch to beat. No matter how many times you hit her, no matter the strength of the magic cast, you got your ass kicked in a big, big way.
Dark Force from Phantasy Star III gets the tying nod because of the exact same thing. It took forever to disable it's hands, just so you could start beating on its head... which was another battle in itself. While it was also a sh*t to beat to Phantasy Star IV and I, the third game had the nastiest version on it.

Special honors go to Death from Castlevania I... GOD that was an unfair boss...

One of the hardest bosses I've ever faced was Sigma's 2nd form at the very end of Mega Man Xtreme 2 (Game Boy Color).

Another really tough boss was the boss of Level 4 of R-Type 2 in R-Type Deluxe (Game Boy Color). My hands were sweating when I beat him!

Sigma's 2nd form was Easy! Just give X Hyper Dash and ultimate buster and constantly dash into the opposite edge when Sigma's invulnerable. and then put on the +2 Buster when he's outa the suit. If you get Giga Crush use energy saver to be able to use it twice!

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

The hardest boss I went up against was probably Meta Ridley on hard in Metroid Prime. Took me almost two hours to kill it. :x

Then at least he was a good challence for you.
Some speedrunner named Kip i think, took MR down in less than 2 minutes (although he used an in-game glitch).

[Lavant]

Valius from Final Fantasy Tactics.
Luca Blight and the Beast Rune from Suikoden 2.

[Halberdier]

Has anyone ever beaten M.Bison on 8 star rating on Street Fighter 2 Turbo Snes. I couldn't beat him on 3 star. So you might consider that a hard fight.

PS. I'm crap at beat'em'ups

[SHOK13]

unbeatable bosses, beak(1) and Tiga from BoF2.

sigma in any form. partly because i suck at most sidescrollers.

most rpgs i blow through but never get around to finishing because im prone to perfectionism.

death is an ass to kill, you can do it if you have the triple threat and the holy water, but it only works if you time it just right and freeze him in the flame on the first pass or so.

need more remixes for mystic quest, faxanadu, FFadventure, and more good metal mixes >D

[The Coop]

Has anyone ever beaten M.Bison on 8 star rating on Street Fighter 2 Turbo Snes. I couldn't beat him on 3 star. So you might consider that a hard fight.

PS. I'm crap at beat'em'ups

I've beaten him on 8 stars. I believe you have to in order to see the full ending on SF II. If memory serves, playing "turtle" works well, in that you wait for him to attack first, then use a move to counter it (like a roundhouse kick or dragon punch if he jumps into the air). I remember getting my ass beat regularly by him when I was the one doing all the attacking. But then I switched tactics a bit, and started being patient until I saw an opening... and then attacking.

Also, if you hit him out of the air or knock him down, throw a fireball so it's timed to hit him as he lands or gets up. It's a fifty-fifty chance that it'll hit him, but even if he blocks, it's at least a little more damage to him and it knocks him back a little as well.

Oh... and fireballs work really well against his psycho crusher attack (the one where he dives across the screen while eveloped in blue flame). Again, it comes down to timing. Good luck :)


As for me, I have a new story to tell, but it'll have to wait until I get back from classes later this afternoon. A definite cuss-fest inducer, this boss is. But I gotta get some sleep now.




Edit: As promised...

I've been playing a game by Irem called Image Fight. Not the NES version, but the Saturn port of the arcade version. It's not an easy game, but there's a boss on stage 5 that is just flat out... prickish.

Remember the giant brain with an eye and claws from Life Force? It's a little like that. There's a huge body that makes it tough to move around the screen, two homing orbs that follow you as you move, and a giant set of pinchers at the top that block all shots. If the pinchers open, you can get at the eye that opens and closes on the body behind the pinchers... as long as you have orange lasers.

See, there are two laser types. Blue, which only fire forward, and orange, which fire in the opposite direction you're moving. You NEED the orange lasers to have any hope, and you NEED more than one. Now, as you move about, those two blobs are out there. One is outside of the body slowly coming at you, and the other is behind the pinchers, bouncing back and forth slowly above the eye. They're indestructible, and if you shoot them, they stop right where they are and continue to block your shots.

So let's say you get there with two orange lasers, dodge the body and outer blob, and get set up right above the pinchers. They open, the eye opens, and THAT is when the blob between the pinchers is right in front of the open eye. You shoot, it stays there continuing the block the shots. You wait for it to move, and the eye closes back up, followed by the pinchers. Now the outer blob has caught up to you, and you begin the whole "lure it away" thing again.

I'm normally good at shmups, but I have not been able to find a pattern to beat this boss... or hit it more than a couple times before having my ship blasted apart. You need a lot of shot power to really have a chance at winning, but if you die at the boss, you get sent back a bit where there are only two shot powerups to grab... and one of them is placed in the worst spot.

I've beaten every Irem R-type game, their In the Hunt submarine shmup, and several others. But this... this one boss is frustrating the hell out of me.

[ElectricCatfish]

Bonetail bloody stupid Bonetail in paper mario raaaagh I can take down any of the FF secret bosses like theyre not there but this stupid thing is beyond me....grumble....

[furymaster]

I'd have to say any of Devil May Cry and Devil May Cry 3 bosses on Dante Must Die/Heaven or Hell Modes.... Just no freakin way...

On normal they were hard... but come freakin on! I guess I like that in DMC though lol.

[Klunzo]

Bonetail bloody stupid Bonetail in paper mario raaaagh I can take down any of the FF secret bosses like theyre not there but this stupid thing is beyond me....grumble....go into the forest infront of Boo's mansion and pummel those amazee daisy things they will level you up fast, and be sure to carry life shrooms, he was an easy win if memory serves.

[The Coop]

You know, sometimes it's amazing the difference between versions of a game.

I recently found a cheap copy of Sunset Riders for the SNES. Now, I have the Genesis version, and I thoroughly kicked it's ass. And I've even gotten good at getting through the SNES version... up until the final boss.

His name is Sir Richard Rose, and he's a pain in the ass to get to. First, he's behind a balcony that you have to destroy to get to him. While you're blasting away at this thing, there are four men who appear on the top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right respectively, all coming out blasting for you. If you shoot one, he's replaced a few seconds later. So now you're hopping around trying to shoot the balcony and the guys. If you get rid of balcony, then Sir Richard begins his attacking along with the continual flow of helpers he has.

Now you're jumping all over the damned place. Sir Richard is blasting away at you as he jumps around, and you're trying to hit him while avoids bullets and men. Now if you're fortunate enough, you knock him down. YOU'VE WON!!! Guess again...

He gets up, and reveals that he had a chest plate under his shirt. Now you get to do the whole battle all over again... assuming you still continues and guys in reserve after going through it all the first time.

Don't know what the ending is like on the SNES version yet. I just can't seem to get a pattern working long enough to knock him down a second time for the win. Couple all this with the fact that there's no auto fire, and you've got a damn tired firing thumb by the time you get to end... as well as a burning hatred for Sir Richard Rose :lol:

[Dhsu]

It took me no less than four hours to beat Cerberus in DMC3. Now that I've figured it out, he's not that hard anymore, but that's probably the longest time I've ever spent on a boss.

Besides Sephiroth.

[Karka]

Sepheroth from Kingdom Hearts in Expert mode.
Also one of the funest things I have every done.

[Lavant]

Sulpher from Phantom Brave

[Dryft]

The boss at the top of Kefka's Tower in FF6 would have gotten my vote a couple of years back. Only being able to use magic was a pain...and he kept changing his barrier at random. And then he nukes you with Ultima when he dies which has a pretty good shot of killing your entire party. But one day, genius struck.

I went to town and gave each of my dudes a wall ring, providing perma-reflect. The guy just shoots himself to crap and doesn't bother with the barrier change. Oh, and interesting fact, Life 3 goes through reflect so Ultima was nothing.

[Dew]

The boss at the top of Kefka's Tower in FF6 would have gotten my vote a couple of years back. Only being able to use magic was a pain...and he kept changing his barrier at random. And then he nukes you with Ultima when he dies which has a pretty good shot of killing your entire party. But one day, genius struck.

I went to town and gave each of my dudes a wall ring, providing perma-reflect. The guy just shoots himself to crap and doesn't bother with the barrier change. Oh, and interesting fact, Life 3 goes through reflect so Ultima was nothing.

I Osmose'd him to death. When he runs out of MP he dies and can't cast Ultima.

Also, one time I played through the game... can't remember what level I was... but my Sabin was strong enough to survive Ultima.

[The Coop]

I was sitting back, relaxing with a game of Ghouls and Ghosts on my Genesis. I say "was", because it's been quite a while since I played the game last... which brought me to a certain boss in that game which I had forgotten about in regards to how brutal it can be. That boss being, the giant fly-like demon Beelzebub.

It's bad enough that you HAVE to play through the game twice to get the most powerful weapon from the goddess. But trying to hang onto the best armor so that said super weapon can destroy enemy shots is a real pain... especially through the section of level five where all those skeletal dragons are coming out in large quantities.

Anyway, I get to the bug boss, and what happens? I get me ass kicked... again, and again, and again. I couldn't make it to the thing with the best armor, which meant a lot of running, jumping and trying stupid things so I can keep hitting him. But all that was for nothing, because I think I must have gotten locked into some kind of vicious pattern. Beelzebub would appear in the middle of the fight area, I'd hit him a few times, and then I'd run away. The thing turns into it's long line of swarming flies, and come right at me. I'd be in the left corner of the fighting area, firing upwards because the boss formed right above me. I'd hit him a few times, and then I'd haul ass to the right. I'd reach the other half of the fight area, and that's when it'd all go wrong. Over, and over, and over again, the swarm of flies traveled completely across the screen, hitting me. If I had armor, it was knocked off me. If I didn't, the heroic knight bit the dust right there. If I was lucky enough to survive, the boss formed so high up, that the super weapon couldn't reach him. Then he'd go into a fly swarm again, and no matter where I was, he'd hit me. Stay in the corner? I got hit. Run across to the left side of the fight area? It'd travel completely across. Run the middle? It'd travel completely across, forcing me to run to the left side and die.

It has to have the single most mean spirited attack pattern I can recall seeing in Ghouls and Ghosts. Loki at the end is a completely predictable and easily beaten puss compared to that damned Beelzebub when it gets going with one of it's patterns.

[Pepz]

The last bosses in Ikaruga : Tageri & Ubusunagami Okinokai (The Power of the Gods). Doing that on hard and staying alive is still hard for me!

[The Coop]

I have to admit... sometimes, the simplest and correct way of beating a boss, completely eludes me.

Case in point, the second Hunter in Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil. He's a tough looking SOB, with electricity as his weapon. Now, I figured that the "Hell Time" option of the artifact needed to be used. As such, I used it. As I moved about him, blasting away with everything I had in my arsenal, minutes went by. I kept emptying shot after shot into him, dodging his electricity balls and his larger electrical attacks. I ran under the floor picking up what ammo and health was down there. I mean, this went on for good stretches of time before he'd eventually get the best of me. I was having flashbacks to the final boss in Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell... no matter how much I shot the guy, regardless of what type of weaponry I was using, nothing made him go down for the count.

I spent so much time avoiding the Hunter's attacks and trying to stay alive, that I missed a very important clue about how to kill him. Now, I won't say what that clue is on the offhand chance someone's playing the game and hasn't gotten there yet. But, I will say that when I figured it out, I beat the demon on the second try. It was so simple, that I didn't see it... much like how to beat the final boss in Quake.

[jpiumelli]

anyone remember Jack Of Blades from Fable? He was hard :sarcasm:


seriously though. The final battle in Lunar 2 is a royal pain in the ass.

[Argorak]

Kintaro ,from Mortal Kombat 2

(although Shao Kahn who comes next was a real pushover).
Man, I hate Shao Kahn in MK Trilogy. My cousin and I just can't beat him (might have something to do with the fact that I suck at MK).

It's not too hard to beat him with Sub-Zero. Just use his ice shot, and Kahn does his knee move -- and ends up in upper-cut range at no danger to you. Do an uppercut, then repeat. If you do it fast enough, you may even catch him as he gets up! (Or did you have to use a roundhouse???)

[Refelos]

anyone remember Jack Of Blades from Fable? He was hard :sarcasm:


seriously though. The final battle in Lunar 2 is a royal pain in the ass.

the fight with zophar where he grabs lucia and then she like sacrafices herself to heal you back to full and you have to fight him when hes got like 6 parts? its been a while since ive played it.

[BladeKnight]

I fucking hated fighting King Blue in Viewtiful Joe on Super V Rated. He was cake on normal mode but on super V he gets an ass-load more hit points that just takes forever to get down. All attacks hit you for 4x damage, which means 4 hearts for every hit, 8 for certain attacks (which is more than half your health). It's also to screw up hitting him the one time he's vulnerable, and if you do, that means a whole nother round of attacks to dodge. He's really not that bad when you get his pattern down, but the fight is just so damn long. There's a follow-up fight after that one too that isn't nearly as hard, but if you get game over you'll have to fight King again.

EDIT: and Akuma from Super Street Fighter II Turbo arcade was fucking impossible. I would pay to see someone beat him on a machine.

[darthseb]

Hardest freaking boss EVER was Galda from Radio Dojo Mai-Mai. Galda would NOT die, even WITH the Flame of Warrior Blade. Good game, though. It took me at Least 2 hours to beat her.

[SoloGamer]

Kintaro ,from Mortal Kombat 2

(although Shao Kahn who comes next was a real pushover).
Man, I hate Shao Kahn in MK Trilogy. My cousin and I just can't beat him (might have something to do with the fact that I suck at MK).

It's not too hard to beat him with Sub-Zero. Just use his ice shot, and Kahn does his knee move -- and ends up in upper-cut range at no danger to you. Do an uppercut, then repeat. If you do it fast enough, you may even catch him as he gets up! (Or did you have to use a roundhouse???)
Like I said, I'm not very good at MK, any of them. I just played MK Trilogy because my cousing brought it over on that day. If he brings it over again, I will have to try that strategy on him.

[Argorak]

Well, I know these have almost certainly been mentioned before, but any boss past the 3rd boss of Ikaruga.

Phalanx on "funny" mode was just...evil. "Do I leave this fleet alone and have to dodge 50 bullets, or destroy them and still have to dodge 50?"

The S.O.R.N. on Wizardry V was pretty hard too. Blasted out massive spells at you, AND was resistant to spells himself. Then again, the data got wiped after I got to him...

Also, try Bagan in Super Godzilla...without turning into Super Godzilla.

Edit:
Sologamer, I'm not very good at MK either, it was just something I found out by accident.

Oh, and on SSBM try out the Insane(?) Melee . The one with the wireframes that smack you around like a rag doll. Can only take out 6 or 7 at most (I forget which). The event battle with Ganondorf, Mewtwo, and Gigabowser is pretty hard too.

[The King of All Kupos]

Well, I know these have almost certainly been mentioned before, but any boss past the 3rd boss of Ikaruga.

Phalanx on "funny" mode was just...evil. "Do I leave this fleet alone and have to dodge 50 bullets, or destroy them and still have to dodge 50?"

The S.O.R.N. on Wizardry V was pretty hard too. Blasted out massive spells at you, AND was resistant to spells himself. Then again, the data got wiped after I got to him...

Also, try Bagan in Super Godzilla...without turning into Super Godzilla.
Edit:
Sologamer, I'm not very good at MK either, it was just something I found out by accident.

Oh, and on SSBM try out the Insane(?) Melee . The one with the wireframes that smack you around like a rag doll. Can only take out 6 or 7 at most (I forget which). The event battle with Ganondorf, Mewtwo, and Gigabowser is pretty hard too.

I refuse to believe that that's actually been done.

[Kutrayn]

.....
Oh, and on SSBM try out the Insane(?) Melee . The one with the wireframes that smack you around like a rag doll. Can only take out 6 or 7 at most (I forget which). The event battle with Ganondorf, Mewtwo, and Gigabowser is pretty hard too.

I refuse to believe that that's actually been done.So far, I can defeat 5 "Cruel Melee" opponents (Roy or Kirby) 4 opponents (Y. Link) or 3 opponents (Jigglypuff) in one game. My total is 27. 6 or 7 sounds impressive but possible... darn it! Now I have to play to find out!

More Difficult bosses:
~ Bonetail (Paper Mario TTYD), yeah, yeah, I know I can level up...
~ Emporor Ing: Hard mode (Metroid Prime 2), kicks my ass with near-100% completion...
~ Cerberus Alpha: Perfectly (Mischief Makers), took many-a-tries, but I finally got him. Has anyone else ever played the bosses in Mischief makers for N64? The game is odd, but the bosses kick ass(in one manner or another)!
~ I know there's more but I can't think of them (to be fair, majority of what I've been reading are of games I haven't played :oops: )

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

http://img84.exs.cx/img84/7/mp2_boost_guardian_2.jpg

Boost Guardian from MP2 was horrible to beat on Hard.

[mecca]

In my oppinion, King K-Rool in the secret world in DKC 3 (in a volcanoe or something) is the most difficult boss I've faced.

[Halberdier]

Not the Hardest boss but one of my most 'pain in the ass miniboss'. The Tyrant on the plane in Code Veronica, damn bastard knocking me out the back.

Georgia (I think thats his name. The zombie boss in FF8) whilst playing a no Junction game. I gave up on this because of him, oh and Sephiroth at the end of FF7 in a no Materia battle, thats pretty hard.

Sturm on Advance Wars on hard. And Advance wars 2 on Normal. The Last mission on AW2 on hard I found easier than on Normal :p

And it just came to me. Penance on FF10. aaahhh, took me near 2 hours to beat that bastard. Well more like 8 hours if you include all the times he killed me and I had to start over.

Just completed RE4 on pro. 4th play through. Love that game.

[DMC_Freak]

The dude with long blonde hair at the end of KOF 01.

I still haven't beat him he's super strong.

[DarkErdrick]

The Hito-Shura in Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga.

Hardest RPG Secret Boss ever.

[Kindo]

The hardest boss I went up against was probably Meta Ridley on hard in Metroid Prime. Took me almost two hours to kill it. :x

Then at least he was a good challence for you.
Some speedrunner named Kip i think, took MR down in less than 2 minutes (although he used an in-game glitch).

I need some serious help with this one. My friend and I have attempted to beat this SOB for hours upon hours on end (at least twenty tries, all taking about 40 minutes each) on Hard difficulty. If there is a glitch that lets you beat Meta Ridley in two minutes, I would very much like to know about it. Or at least tell us some kind of tactic that works (so far it's been Super Missiles during his second stage; but once he doubles his speed, there's no time to hit him with them anymore).

Please... We're getting suicidal here. Help!

[Kindo]

Just completed RE4 on pro. 4th play through. Love that game.
Ah, yes. That's probably one of my greatest achievements. I bested Krauser in 15 seconds on Pro, hehe...

[The Coop]

I was out and about the other day, and I decided to stop off and pick up some cough drops (an ongoing hack I have from allergies, which the cough drops stop for a little while). I'd never been in the store before, but when I went into the little lobby area just inside the sliding doors, what did I see? Karate Champ.

I used to play this game pretty regularly when I was a kid. Thankfully, the moves list on the machine hadn't been completely scratched up beyond readability. So, after I bought my cough drops, I figured what the hell. I popped in a quarter, and gave the game a try for the first time in about ten years.

I'll admit, I got my ass kicked by the third fight. I gave it another whirl, and eventually a third whirl. Something must have clicked into place, because I started handing the CPU character it's ass. I went through round after round, scoring full points and half points without taking a full point's worth of total damage. I was smoking... until I reached the character in the black Gi.

I got MY ass handed to me. That bastard was fast, and I just couldn't adjust to the big time increase in speed over the previous fighter. He also never got a half point on me. It was always two "full point" moves and out. I gave the game two more tries, and got to the black Gi wearing character both times... and lost in ten seconds both times. It was sad, and a bit humbling. I was getting beaten by a game that was older than a good portion of the people visiting this site.

But, I picked up my plastic bag, and walked away. Nothing quite like having your ego trip punctured by a heavily pixilated, black Gi wearing little douche bag.


...

At least I got the high score though.

[Azurewind]

anyone ever play a SNES game called "King of Dragons"? it's pretty much a cheesy D&D ripoff :lol: i sometimes just laugh at the music and corniness...but somewhat fun...

anyways, the last boss, the Grand Wizard or whatever-his-face is just plain idiotic...

1 attack homes in on you blowing up the ground (which is great when you can jump worth of crap) and is about 4-5 strikes...then his other attacks simply just fill the area with fireballs and other nasty magic surprises (yeah, you guess it, small fighting arena, yipee :evil: )

actually, that whole game is absurd...i've already came very close to smashing this very keyboard because some bright bulb made treasure chests/vase/and other places (where you thought something good would pop out) instead spit out a spary of ice THAT YOU CANNOT escape from!! (and you freeze and die shortly thereafter) and the slimes are just a pain in the arse :evil:

other than that, gilgameshDG ( think i got that right =P) posted before about the SNES game Robotrek? yeah, De Rose is a massssive bitch :evil: :evil: just about every attack is death or leaves you in critical condition><

FFT: the first boss to become 'possesed' by the zodiac stones (or whatever they were, i haven't played this in a looooong time) Simon was his name i think...he uses looooots of status afflicting ninjary...try fighting him without anything to protect against status ailments..and it won't happen>you are scewed beyond belief...

and yes, Death in Castlevania I is yet another threat to my keyboard...i just 'limp whip' his little sickles away in a corner (crouching though) and then rush him after he throws his scythe, jump scythe, avoid getting sucked into him...and then run like hell when he commences his rain of sickles>limp whip time again...what a bastard..he takes forever!! :evil:
alright, i've babbled enough now :lol:

[Back_Lit]

Actually I can't think of a boss I ever had a really difficult time with...except for one, and only one...The Mongoose in XIII *glare* dirty bastard always gets a cheap shot in on me at the last minute --;

And what was so hard about Meta Ridley in MP?

[Szweit]

I'd have to say the hardest boss I fought in a game would be either the Alien Queen in any of the Ecco the Dolphin games or "The Egg" from Saga Frontier 2. I won't even mention Rockman Zero bosses..... Capcom... Why?

[Ferret]

I'd have to say the hardest boss I fought in a game would be either the Alien Queen in any of the Ecco the Dolphin games or "The Egg" from Saga Frontier 2. I won't even mention Rockman Zero bosses..... Capcom... Why?

Well apparently at least someone at Capcom has their act together, but as for hard bosses...

Let's take a gander at a little sidescroller called Thunder Spirits. Screw the bosses, even reaching them was a challenge in and of itself! I mean but damn, I was playing it yesterday, and I used up all my continues just getting to level 2!

[anclunn]

That stupid bat from Wizards and Warrioirs 1. I could take him half the time if I had all the best equipment and stuff, but if you died, you came back right before him with just the basic stuff and NO WAY OF GOING BACK! Oh how I hate that bat...

[BreakbeatBeatnik]

Crowe's weird cyborg-slug form from Timesplitters 3 (second-to-last boss). The bastard took me a while to realize his attack pattern and some of his weak spots...

[The Coop]

You know, there have been a lot of Breakout clones over the years. There's one on the Genesis called Devilish, which has a number of interesting qualities. A story, decent graphics, some rather nice tunes... and one of the cheapest final bosses around.

The game's hard enough since the ball doesn't quite obey the laws of physics as we know them. It might go where you're aiming, it might not. Your two paddles might be detected when the ball hits them, they may not. But when the time comes and you finally reach the big bad boss at the end (assuming you haven't thrown the game away in frustration), you get treated to a very unfair game of "try and get the ball to hurt me".

So here you are. There's a big heart in the middle, and then three figures appear around it and start rotating their way around the heart. You have to get the ball between the figures to hit it. From time to time, the figures stop, and produce many balls that look like yours. Now, the whole goal is to do damage to the heart, but you have only a limited amount of time to do it. Run out of time, and you start over. 30% of the time, your ball with tap the heart once and fly away. The other 70% of the time, it hits a figure. There will be times when you don't get to do ANY battling against the boss for a good minute, because the ball is bouncing side to side off the screen edge and the figures, or off your paddle and the screen edge... and you can't get it to bounce off anything at an angle. This pretty much spells doom for you, as again, the battle has a time limit. The attack patterns of so simple it's sad, but the ball physics just eat your patience alive during this fight.

Now, just for the sake of argument, let's say you somehow manage to beat the boss (it takes many, many hits to do this... pray the ball gets stuck between the heart and a figure). Then you have to hurry up and guide the ball to the exit. Run out of time as you do this? Yep... you start over.

It's mind numbingly frustrating, because you're seemingly barely in control of the ball, and it'll pass through your paddles when you are in control of it. Breakout and Pong gave you more control, and they're some 15-plus years OLDER than Devilish... and they had better hit detection.

[Cooler1011]

JINPACHI FROM TEKKEN 5


I literally sat there trying to beat him for literally straight 50 times. He is the cheapest (cheaper than Goro from Mortal Kombat), most infuriating boss character i've ever played, and it makes the whole game so much worse because he is impossibly hard, especially with certain characters.


I honestly think its impossible to beat him with King or Steve. I really cannot do it. And i'm fairly good with those characters.

[Amayirot Akago]

The MGS bosses, as I recently discovered, are quite challenging on any level higher than Very Easy... which until recently was the only level I played at.

Heresy, I tell you! The bosses were meant to be fought at Normal or higher. Vamp in MGS2 took me one helluva long time to beat, not to mention Metal Gear RAY.

[SilentMartyr]

Garai from Chrono Cross gave me a really hard time the first run through. I spent a good half hour trying to beat him, and I swear it was luck that I even took him down. But I was playing like an idiot and still learning the battle system by that point.

In God of War the second to last fight against the hundreds of Kratos's in God mode is rediculously hard. You have to have a spider sense to be able to survive that part.

[28% Will Do Fine]

What Egg Emperor in Sonic Heroes?
The best time I defeated him was 1'34" (Team Dark), but it took me days to do that. If anyone did better than 1'34", I'd love to hear.http://games.kikizo.com/media/shadow_the_hedgehog_new/shadow350.jpg
P.S. Sonic Adventure 3 out xmas!

[vaxne]

Hmm the hardest boss of all time for me was Osma for Final Fantasy IX. Took me forever to finally beat that mo fo!

[vaxne]

Osma from Final Fantasy IX. Took me years to beat that guy

[Blue Magic]

P.S. Sonic Adventure 3 out xmas!

Woah!!!

There is a new one coming out?

I heard about the Shadow game coming out, but is there a new Sonic Adventure coming out as well?

[Maco70]

Hardest boss... I'd have to say The final Boss from Ristar, just because it took me so friggin long to do it. The final boss from blinx was challanging, just because you had to do half the bosses from the game again. And maybe last boss in Ecco the dolphin: Tides of time. I was only able to get there with a code, and it's so hard. If you feel like counting RPG bosses, it'd have to be Emerald Weapon. I have yet to meet some one who beat it without using some code or trick.

[darthseb]

Another REALLY hard boss was the Big Crush in his second form. He's the final boss from Full Clip Man. A good strategy, though, is to strafe and fire like those were the only things you knew how to do. And even with a strategy like that, he moves around alot, so you may run out of bullets just shooting at the air. Then you're only armed with the stupid Bo-Ken. Man, and then there's the special attack that he saves for Hard mode, with that giant cannon. All that in a game WITHOUT any sort of Co-op.

edit: Also, can anyone tell me where the Easter Egg Crystal is on Moto Island?

[ILLiterate]

I'm pretty sure someone probably said this fuck...Shao Kan in MKIII...jesus christ impossible like

[dPaladin]

The MGS bosses, as I recently discovered, are quite challenging on any level higher than Very Easy... which until recently was the only level I played at.

Heresy, I tell you! The bosses were meant to be fought at Normal or higher. Vamp in MGS2 took me one helluva long time to beat, not to mention Metal Gear RAY.
I beat Vamp on extreme uber mega hard by claymoring him to death with the wigs. I'd lay my claymores, use the infinite grip one to hang from the rail, wait for him to hit a claymore, and repeat.

Ray was hard, though. You have to go through 24 of them on like 2 rations.

[Niccon]

Is was and always will be Rugal Bernstein in KoF 98.

He cancels EVERYTHING you do with a Genocide Cutter, and I loathe him for it.

[Amayirot Akago]

I'm pretty sure someone probably said this fuck...Shao Kan in MKIII...jesus christ impossible like
Three words: Baraka, Blade Fury.

Otherwise: the only other solution (http://www.khaaan.com)

[ILLiterate]

OOO! How'd I forget, DMC3 has fucking relentless bosses, takes a while to get past them but once you learn to play the game correctly you're gold

[Metsuo]

~ Bonetail (Paper Mario TTYD), yeah, yeah, I know I can level up...

I actually thought the final boss was more trouble than him. Bonetail seemed to miss a lot, and only had one really dangerous attack.


~ Cerberus Alpha: Perfectly (Mischief Makers), took many-a-tries, but I finally got him. Has anyone else ever played the bosses in Mischief makers for N64? The game is odd, but the bosses kick ass(in one manner or another)!

Beating those bosses without getting hit is the real challenge. Especially Merco and the Phoenix. Catching the missiles during the final part.. man, that was all about luck.

[IAMERROR]

Don't know if this was already posted...

I would have to say the hardest boss I have ever faced in any game is Alma from Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox. I hate that bitch, no matter what difficulty your on, she is still hard. Hard like a priest at a playground. I stopped playing it for like 2 months, and when I came back to it I was able to beat her my first try. I hate when shit like that happens.

[SoloGamer]

Is was and always will be Rugal Bernstein in KoF 98.

He cancels EVERYTHING you do with a Genocide Cutter, and I loathe him for it.
Hardest KoF boss I've faced is Igniz in '01 (and I've beaten all the KoFs except for '95) and the easiest has to be Duke from Maximum Impact. You can literally run circles around the guy while he punches and kicks away at thin air. I just love toying around with him.

[stratos]

Are we counting MMORPGs? I think that if we are we should definitely list certain creatures from games like Everquest as the hardest boss ever. It takes hundreds of people to beat some of those guys.

[TomahawkMan]

The hardest boss I've ever fought was Wily from Megaman 7.

I can only beat him with 5 E-tanks(One of them is naturally an S tank) and a heckuvalot of luck and perseverence.

[Cooler1011]

Is was and always will be Rugal Bernstein in KoF 98.

He cancels EVERYTHING you do with a Genocide Cutter, and I loathe him for it.


The guy from the 3-D King of Fighters is literally impossible. I used an overpowered character, and he was just....


You had to block every hit, use every opening, and destroy him with an endless combo ending with a super that means his demise at the very instant you can, because thats exactly what he did.



EVERY HIT... Blocked. EVERY OPENING... Exploited. Every time he hits you, its either the beginning of a combo you simply cannot stop, or a setup for a super. He's a real bitch and I hate him.


OOO! How'd I forget, DMC3 has fucking relentless bosses, takes a while to get past them but once you learn to play the game correctly you're gold


I can't get past the first boss no matter what I do. And i'm really not bad at games, its just... I can't do some.

[SoloGamer]

The guy from the 3-D King of Fighters is literally impossible. I used an overpowered character, and he was just....


You had to block every hit, use every opening, and destroy him with an endless combo ending with a super that means his demise at the very instant you can, because thats exactly what he did.



EVERY HIT... Blocked. EVERY OPENING... Exploited. Every time he hits you, its either the beginning of a combo you simply cannot stop, or a setup for a super. He's a real bitch and I hate him.

Like I said before, Duke is one of the easiest KoF bosses out there, if you know what to do. I just sidestep his attacks and he keeps flailing away, leaving him open for attack from behind. I can beat him with just about any character now, even those I have little to no experience with.

To be honest, though, I had plenty of trouble beating him at first. Once he hit me with a single attack, it was pretty much all over for me. He wouldn't even let me get up, much less fight back.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

I always thought Dracula (both forms) from the original Castlevania was pretty hard to beat.
To finish him without taking any damage requires great timing and patience.

[Niccon]

Hardest KoF boss I've faced is Igniz in '01 (and I've beaten all the KoFs except for '95) and the easiest has to be Duke from Maximum Impact. You can literally run circles around the guy while he punches and kicks away at thin air. I just love toying around with him.

Oh well see what I just did was utilize Kyo's uber-speed (Yeah, he's so sped up it ain't funny) But I'm talking about the most annoying boss, though Rugal was hard. He cancels EVERYTHING and I do mean everything, into a genocide Cutter.

Orochinagi! -Genocide Cutter-
Maiden Masher! -Genocide Cutter-
ARE YOU OKAY?!!! BUSTER WOLF! -Genocide Cutter-

Duke just had that crappy unblockable Super known as...

Ground Zero.

Just hit him when he's charging it and you're fine.

YURI FOREVER!

[Dahlia]

Are we counting MMORPGs? I think that if we are we should definitely list certain creatures from games like Everquest as the hardest boss ever. It takes hundreds of people to beat some of those guys.

I solo'ed Baphomets on Ragnarok Online with my level 98 Assassin. That was really hard.

For RPGs, a really hard boss was that guy near the end of Sion's part in Rudra no Hihou. The guy you fight after killing Rudra. He slaughtered me about a dozen times.

[talon2004]

I always thought that Nightmare from "Metroid Fusion" was hard. Man, I cussed my gba as thouhg it was a living, breathing person over that stupid boss.

[Trenthian]

Im going to end this thread cause I have the clearest most precise answer to this question. it is irrefutable.

"The Holes" from Atari's E.T.

[IAMERROR]

^
changing answer. He is right...

[The Coop]

After finally achieving a victory over a certain game, I've come to the conclusion that its final boss is... cold. Quite cold actually. I am speaking of the Master System version of Fantasy Zone. Sure, it's a blindingly colorful almost "kiddy" shooter when you first glance at it. But under those pastel colors, is the dark heart of a mean spirited little game at times.

You start off with nothing but a single bomb and pissy little shot. Through the course of the game, you earn money and get chances to by upgrades for your weapons. This is handy, because as the game goes along, the enemies become more numerous, and the generators take more hits. The bosses aren't too bad. Most have an easy enough pattern to figure out... until you get to the final boss.

There are either five or six things you have to destroy to win the game, and they all come out of the nose of the boss. The first couple are simple to get rid of. The next two are a bit of a pain, and the fifth one is rather fast. You have to move quickly and avoid it as it goes from one side to the other. If you get it, then comes the final one.

This thing, hauls ass. There is no way to shoot it fast enough to destroy it before it hits you. Even with the fastest speed upgrade, you only move a little faster than it (which by the way, makes you virtually "out of control" fast). As such, dodging it is pretty much pointless, as it'll be right on your ass the whole time and never give you a chance to turn around and try to damage it a bit more. There are no bullets to evade, no super shots to be wary of... it's just this little blue thing that moves extremely quickly.

However, there is a way to beat it, and it's a weapon you wouldn't expect in the "shop" you go into. Like the final boss of Quake, once you figure this out, it becomes simplicity itself to win. But until you do, it's mind numbingly frustrating as you keep getting to the end, and losing... over and over and over.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

The final level of Xenon2-Megablast for Amiga acts kindof like a boss. It's a real pain to even get there because of the limited lives and continues.
Plus the game is a murder on your trigger finger..

[Dead Hex]

Ruby Weapon and Emerald Weapon from FFVII. They were pretty hard.

[Atomos]

Im going to end this thread cause I have the clearest most precise answer to this question. it is irrefutable.

"The Holes" from Atari's E.T.

Fun fact: There's millions of copies of the game in a New Mexico landfill because no one wants to buy the turd about a space turd.

As for hardest boss, I'd say Emerald or Ruby Weapons from FFVII are extremely hard.

[Strider Kyoden]

Still. Omega Weapon from FF8 was a bitch...I don't think Ruby or Emerald compare to him. Especially when you get him to 300 HP and BAM! Terra Break and your party is dead.

But...What about Sephiroth from Kingdom Hearts? He was a S.O.B., Still haven't beat him.

Or how 'bout on the super hard difficulty on full turbo on SFII turbo, M.Bison? As a child, I could never beat him...Not even now!!

[Dead Hex]

Final Sephiroth when you are at lvl 99 in FFVII. Impossible.

[darthseb]

Oh, man, yeah, Sephiroth, man. I'm not talkin' idiotic lil' FF7 battles, i'm talkin' about Kingdom Hearts. I just wanna beat that sucka, though, cause i have the Japanese version, where you get the One Winged Angel keyblade for beating him. Okay, top three hardest bosses for me are: 1. Sephiroth-KH 2.Swatter-B,VB 3.Galda-RDMM, sucka!

[Skilless]

We should skip boss and go right to game.

Gradius V

I beat it with 12 credits used on very easy. The game is a beast I tell you!

[Halberdier]

How is Sephiroth on FFVII hard when you're lvl 99. If you wanna make it hard. Be no higher than lvl 60 and use no materia whatsoever. Thats a challenge.

I just recently finished Mario and Luigi Superstars on GBA. How nasty is Cackletta at the end. You start with 1HP each and have to dodge some of her attacks before you even get a chance to heal. I died about 5 or 6 times before I could blink. That was hard.

[+Persona Fiend+]

Ok no matter what any of you say, I know for a FACT who THE hardest boss to ever star in a video game is.

Ever hear of an old NES game called "Time lord"? It was actually made by Mattel. Yes the toy company.

Well. The game goes pretty smooth until you get to the 3rd level. While traveling through time you somehow end up in the wild west with cowboys shooting bullets up your ass from all directions. Well, if you manage to survive the level, you are rewarded with meeting the HARDEST BOSS IN VIDEO GAME HISTORY! I KID YOU NOT!

Basically, the boss is this gigantic Mexican looking dude with a poncho, sombrero, and a six-shooter.



I think I remember fighting that bastard. Your story about fighting him portrays the hideous agony that is fighting him.

I still couldn't help but laugh my ass off at the memory of what sad boss that was.

[halc]

omigod Omega Weapon.

Speh in KH doesn't even compare. Kurt Zisa was WAAY harder than Seph.

[GreyFox587]

Sorry if this has already been said, but I'm not too big on reading 130 pages to see if it has.

Culex from Mario RPG. Insane.

[Langriman]

I just fought Bloody Mary in Terranigma. Every single attack I used only did 1 hp of damage, and every time she hit me I lost 20% of my hp. I had ten magic spells on me, and somehow, miraculously, one did more than 1 hp. I went back to town and bought a bunch of copies of the spell and finally took her out.

I can't believe this topic is still going...

[Joshea]

Seph-man in KH was a bitch.. Took forever. Gigas in EB if you dont know what your doing lol ( that was my case the first attempt.. lasted about 2 hours). and Omegaweapon on FFVIII.. OW was the only " secret" boss i couldnt beat.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

We should skip boss and go right to game.

Gradius V

I beat it with 12 credits used on very easy. The game is a beast I tell you!

Rockcrusher (level 5 boss)

Evil on Hard :twisted:

[Skilless]

We should skip boss and go right to game.

Gradius V

I beat it with 12 credits used on very easy. The game is a beast I tell you!

Rockcrusher (level 5 boss)

Evil on Hard :twisted:

The asteroid level right? If its the boss that catches all the rocks, then yea youre right, hes tough. Sometimes im able to get into the area where the switch is and the rocks prevent him from shooting the "diamonds" at me. If someone beats that game on very difficult and makes a vid of it, then they are god in my eyes.

The game might be harder for me because im playing with my friend and with 2 spaceships at a time is hard to keep track of stuff. I haven't been able to sit down with the game and play it because my ps2 has the disc read error problem and I have yet to fix it, so I can only play it at his house. Im a really big fan of the game (as well as series) so I suggest this game to all of you who like fast pace 2-d space ship games (also have a ps2 without the disc read error problem)

While on the subject, does anyone have the plans on how to fix my problem with the blue bottom discs. Please link the site if you do.

[Fritz the Cat]

The Majin Fiends from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.

Some of 'em are absolute whores.

[Pallad]

The Majin Fiends from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.

Some of 'em are absolute whores.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that can complain about how some of those bosses were complete bastards. I can recall a couple of instances where I was literally forced to fight a fiend to progress with the story and it required at least five levels over what I had to even put a dent in its health.

[Pattest]

I've got 3.

First.

Velius from Final Fantasy Tactics. You can't uberlevel with Tactics because every NPC that you fight is 1-2 levels higher then you. Second, Velius starts off with 3 Ultima demon he-bitches that enjoy summons as much as Velius himself. You were lucky to get a few shots in on him before he wiped you out. Since you don't have Cid, this boss is the hardest in the game, including St. Ajora at the end.

Second and third.

This isn't so much the bosses as it is the games themselves. Gradius V and Ikaruga were so hard I went to sleep with tears rolling down my cheeks. If I wasn't weeping, I was as frustrated as a porn star suffering from impotence.

Getting past the FIRST LEVEL in Ikaruga ranks above figuring out nuclear physics formulas in your head. Gradius wasn't as bad until the third level or so, when you had to destroy a boss that had like 3 forms. (I'm not sure if he had anymore since I kept dying.)

[Halberdier]

HAHA, Omega Weapon is Easy (FF8). Just make sure your characters have 255 agility with auto haste and put the game battle speed on slowest. Use auras and you get at least 6 or 9 limit breaks in one of his attacks. Easy. You could make it really hard by putting the speed on max. Then he will hit you around 3 times before you even think of your next move :(

I saw my friend get whooped by Omega Weapon (FF5 I think, could be FF4). I never fought it but that could be one of the hardest bosses of all time. It looked as so from where I was sitted.

I gave up trying to complete Metroid Prime on Hard cause of the massive Pirate thing (can't remember his name). That was a hard battle. I don't even wonna attempt Meta Ridley. Uh uh, no way.

[Shattered]

I think I posted something here before my computer croked...

Anyways, I'd have to say Genobee from Armored Core Nexus. Hes a friggen beast! Normally, he'd be pretty simple, however, he doesn't have to deploy to fire his high power grenades. The reload time on those grenades has no real impact on him either, since he can be flying and firing.

Another boss, or group of them is in Armored Core 3, or Armored Core 2 Another Age. There is one mission where you have to explore some new area. You get 1 easy enemy at first. Then you get another one, then another one, I do believe there are 3 of them. They're only difficult because you don't get repaired or more ammunition through it.

Warhammer Dawn of War... Anything involving 2 squiggoths is hard.

[Maco70]

Final Sephiroth when you are at lvl 99 in FFVII. Impossible.

Only if you really don't know what you're doing... it's really not that hard at all. Sephiroth was actually very easy. Just throw everything you have at him, how could you possibly lose?

[Doc Funky]

Velius from Final Fantasy Tactics. You can't uberlevel with Tactics because every NPC that you fight is 1-2 levels higher then you.

Now...I haven't played FFT for a little while now, but I seem to remember that the only NPCs that leveled up along with you were the ones you met in random battles on the world map. It seemed like the ones in story sequences had fixed levels.
Because I specifically remember power leveling really, really early in the game (right after you visit the castle, and set out to clear some bandits out of a town) and destroying everyone there with my Calculator, Samurai, and Ninja while Delita and the other NPCs waddled around at, like, level 5.
But I might be wrong...and yes, Velius was a bitch and a half. I had to start my entire game over because I saved RIGHT before the fight with him, and (as everyone knows) you can't go anywhere else when you do that.

Anyway, to stay on topic...
Ricardo Martinez in the Arcade mode of Hajime no Ippo 2: Victorious Road (a.k.a. Victorious Boxers 2) has got to be one of the most impossible "bosses" ever. I've heard of people going through upwards of fifty matches without even knocking him down ONCE. Your punches hardly even faze him, and of course he can send YOUR sorry ass to the canvas with only one or two punches.

The only proven solution seems to be to cheese your way past him by initiating your slow-mo special and then throwing nothing but uppercuts to the body. And even then, you need to be landing about fifty to a hundred of those per round, along with avoiding every single one of his punches, before you can even THINK about beating him.

What's that, you ask?
Have I beaten him?

Goodness no.
I can't even get to him.

I can't even come close to winning the rematch with Sendo, for the Japanese title.
As far as I can recall, he's got a height, weight, and reach advantage on poor Ippo (who I suck with anyway!) and can stagger me with just a few hits, while nothing I throw can even slow him down. If I try to dash in, I eat a monster combo. If I try to duck and weave to avoid his punches, he shrugs off everything I send back at him and staggers me with another combo.

Lord, Arcade mode is frustrating.
I can destroy just about everyone I face in Boxer's Road, but Arcade just kills me.

[Zyith]

I've got 3.

First.

Velius from Final Fantasy Tactics.

Uh. I beat Velius in two hits last time I played. Maybe the first time you play him, he's hard, but when you figure out to Accumulate/Yell (or whatever) with Ramza during the previous fight, you can just walk up and kill him. It works REALLY well with a Two Swords ability.

[Doc Funky]

I beat Velius in two hits last time I played. Maybe the first time you play him, he's hard, but when you figure out to....

See?
That's the catch.
Sure, he's easy as pie once you know what's coming so you can properly prepare for it, but when it's your first playthrough, and you don't know that there's one hell of a battle coming up immediately after the one you've just completed...

And, while they're not "hard" by any means, some of Namco X Capcom's bosses can be quite infuriating, what with their ability to spontaneously get their turns all at the same time, regardless of where they actually sit in the cycle of things. It's almost as if the game says to itself, "Whoops! I haven't screwed you over nearly enough yet! I better let all the boss characters have their turns now", automatically boosting them past everyone else that's been waiting when they should be 14th, 15th, and 16th in "line".

[dPaladin]

I've got 3.

First.

Velius from Final Fantasy Tactics.

Uh. I beat Velius in two hits last time I played. Maybe the first time you play him, he's hard, but when you figure out to Accumulate/Yell (or whatever) with Ramza during the previous fight, you can just walk up and kill him. It works REALLY well with a Two Swords ability.
It's pretty hard to do that when you've saved in-between fights, sport.

[Hyperion5182]

I think I posted something here before my computer croked...

Anyways, I'd have to say Genobee from Armored Core Nexus. Hes a friggen beast! Normally, he'd be pretty simple, however, he doesn't have to deploy to fire his high power grenades. The reload time on those grenades has no real impact on him either, since he can be flying and firing.

Another boss, or group of them is in Armored Core 3, or Armored Core 2 Another Age. There is one mission where you have to explore some new area. You get 1 easy enemy at first. Then you get another one, then another one, I do believe there are 3 of them. They're only difficult because you don't get repaired or more ammunition through it.

Warhammer Dawn of War... Anything involving 2 squiggoths is hard.

SPOLIER ALERT!




AC2 AA was the one you are thinking of...and i almost wet my pants when i encountered the last guy...its an old friend...Remember Nine Ball? From Master of Arena...HEEEEE's BAAAAAACCCCCKKK.... And he is even harder than before

[Shattered]

I know that, I'v beaten every Armored Core thats out there! Any ways, Nine Ball wasn't that powerful, just annoying because of the other 2 enemies.

But thanks, Couldn't remember which one it was.

The very last AC in Nexus was a joke. My all grenade AC destroyed him completely.

Did you have alot of trouble with Genobee too?

[Hyperion5182]

I know that, I'v beaten every Armored Core thats out there! Any ways, Nine Ball wasn't that powerful, just annoying because of the other 2 enemies.

But thanks, Couldn't remember which one it was.

The very last AC in Nexus was a joke. My all grenade AC destroyed him completely.

Did you have alot of trouble with Genobee too?

Torched em

I have beaten every AC game in all 4 and now all 5 core types... Scary isnt it?

[Hybrid_Demon]

I know this is sad. The hardest thing I've played in a while is a LttP. It's not Ganon thats hard, its the level! If I had one more bottle I could of beaten him.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

Dracula in Castlevania 2 - Simon's Quest.

Hehe just kidding :twisted: (takes 2 seconds w holy water.)

Gaah ..I just perverted the thread.

--------------------
Just remembered.

Death in Lament of Innocence was pretty tough if you had very few healing items left. You always had to rely on jumping skills.

[Dahlia]

Orgulla from Xenosaga II is really hard. She can combo boost herself and go like 3-5 times in a row, airing and downing your characters. She can do 900 damage to a character without Ice Coat, even without doing her strength-buffing move. She can poison you, heal herself, and heal status effects you cast on her. She can hit everyone at once for high damage, and she will hit the person with the lowest HP.

The fight in FF:Tactics where you can steal the Genji equipment is pretty hard, and extremely hard if you go for the stealing.

[Khift]

I don't remember Velius being all that hard at all. I do remember failing the first time I faced him, so I reloaded and tried things a little more cautiously and put all emphasis on taking him out, and I came out with a relatively easy win.

Hmm, the last boss I remember having any difficulty with was the Ice Golem boss in Kingdom Hearts. And that's just because I didn't know to reflect his attacks back at him, so I just super-glided around casting Graviga whenever it was safe for 45 minutes. Eventually he died. Compared to that, Sephiroth was pretty easy, although much more intense.

I also remember Luca Blight, in Suikoden 2, to be exceptionally difficult -- but then again, even he crumbled when I actually bothered to prepare all three teams for the fight. Normally I'd just have my main team and two filler teams with little to no armor, no runes, and piss-poor weapons. That just won't do, now will it?

Surely there are some other difficult bosses I can think of... but not right now.

I will testify, though, that Bladed Aatxes (Guild Wars, Underworld) are complete bitches. They can hit me, a warrior, for 1/5th of my life -- and will take out a caster in two hits. When three of them swarm you, you really wish your monk had brought Pacify.



Edit: Soloing dragons in UO... with a swordsman. Once I decided to try this. Thanks to insta-hit hit-and-run tactics and constant (I do mean constant) bandaging, I was able to get him down to a little over 1/2 health before I failed a critical bandage and died nearly immediately. The whole ordeal took fifteen minutes. When fighting something with five times your health that can melee you for a third of your health each hit and can fireball you for twice that, it's wise to bring a mage. (Which, actually, was pretty easy, IIRC.)

Once I heard rumors of someone soloing a Balrog...

[Azurewind]

there was once a time i actually fought some of the dragons in FF6 w/o the vanish/doom trick....

and then i fought the blue Ice dragon and White dragon...and i'm not sure if i ever want to return to the old days :x :x

man...freeze in that was B.S!!! no relics to protect against. nothing.zilch, nadda, nope!

and white dragon's 'X-magic' or whatever he has to allow a casting of 4 Pearls in a row can just shove it...what a bastard..

i should play Guild Wars sometime...

[Black Chakram]

hardest boss ever would have to be the end boss for "The Adventures of Link". I somehow beat it as a kid on the actual cartridge when a few years ago it took me half an hour to beat that boss using a ROM and save states.

[Black Chakram]

hmm.. i just realized. The hardest sort of "secret boss" ever would have to be the Black Rabite from Seiken Densetsu 3. But I think Squaresoft intended for that one to be impossible :D

[Warmech]

Ah yes. Shadow Link. A bane to many old school gamers. I've beaten him before. Was quite hard indeed.

Been playing Tales of Symphonia for awhile now. No bosses really worthwhile to mention in this thread yet but I'm about to go and take on some secret bosses, so I might be getting back to you.

[Strider Kyoden]

Culex from Mario RPG. Insane.

Are you weak? Culex is a CAKE boss.

All you have to do is take out his Crystals, then slaughter him. If you have Bowser and Peach in your party...It's not a big fight at all. If your gonna do bosses from SMRPG. Why not say Jinx is harder? Even though he's not. I find that SMRPG was rather easy.


...As for Orgulla. *Shakes fist* It took me forty minutes to kill that *Insert major profanity*. I hate her. And for that, I don't feel like playing XenoSaga II ever again(That and it was a MAJOR let down to Gears and #1).

~Kyoden

[Doctor Shaft]

Shadow Link is really hard...

unless you use the "corner of the room" trick, in which case he actually becomes easier than all of the bosses in the game.

It's strange. When you fight him standing up, it's like you can't really hit him. The duck/jump trick that you used on the armored knights doesn't work on him. You have to be really good at blocking and countering.

But, if you just crouch in the left corner and stab-stab-stab, Shadow Link will simply run into your sword, so to speak, and kill himself quite handily.

Problem solved, Shadow Link becomes easy.

Hardest boss I ever fought, considering I played so few console games, was that Underwater Weapon in FF7. Unlike some folk, I wasn't the slightest bit interested in leveling up all of my materia, setting my equipment correctly, and figuring out that Aire Tam was actually "materia" spelled backwards and that the damage for that beam was calculated by how much materia you had on your person. So this Weapon literally crushed me in like five rounds, and i eventually just gave up and never tried to defeat him. I think these days I'm a lot better at playing with the ATB system, but I'm pretty sure I still wouldn't beat this guy.

[Dahlia]

hmm.. i just realized. The hardest sort of "secret boss" ever would have to be the Black Rabite from Seiken Densetsu 3. But I think Squaresoft intended for that one to be impossible :D

Thanks for saying that, I totally forgot to go try to beat it last time I played through that.

[Janus]

I didnt like the boss from Final Fantasy 1. Freakin prick. Or Lavos from Chrono Trigger.

[The Coop]

This past week I decided to play some Diablo II. I haven't played it in a while, and I figured I'd have some fun. Well, "some" is the key word there. I was having fun, until I got to the end of the second set of missions with my level 23 assassin... and met up with Duriel.

I must have been choosing the wrong skills to upgrade or something, as I could do virtually no damage to him. As soon as I would enter the cave, it'd run up to me saying "Looking for Baal?", hit me with a cold slap that slowed my character down, and then proceed to pummel my assassin into the ground within a few seconds. On the few times I would avoid that thing, I couldn't outrun the bastard enough to even try a ranged attack. Basically, running only prolonged the inevitable.

The first time I play DII, I used the sorceress, and I kicked some righteous ass with the powered up fireball and chain lightning spells. Even then, Duriel gave me problems with his fast speed and freezing hits. I recall dying and returning a number of times, picking away slowly at its health until I finally won (and had bodies of my sorceress littering the cave floor). But this time? I couldn't do squat. Either that assassin is worthless (even though I was kicking some righteous booty with her before Duriel came along), or I really screwed up in choosing her skills. And now I know, Duriel is not the boss to get to unprepared (even Diablo himself was easier with the sorceress).

Edit: Quite a few typos.

[mink]

im having that exact prob using the paladin, i leveled up thorns aura expecting it to do the job for me but he is immune to thorns! blah i seem to do piss weak damage to him and its robbed me of my desire to play diablo 2 now!

[Julio Jose]

^ Stack paladins zeal.... Unstoppable.


Ninetails from X Command mission. Holy shit that dude was hard.

[Zutnunzor]

I don't have time to read 133 pages of thread but...

Has either the last boss or secret boss from Demons Crest been mentioned? I remember having a rough time with them both.

[Coldphoenix]

I'm not reading the 133 pages either, but I agree with Zutnunzor, the secret boss from Demon's Crest wins. Hands down.

[The Coop]

You know, sometimes it's both a blessing and a curse to find something you thought you'd lost.

A little while ago, I finally found my copy of Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000 for the 32X that had been missing for a while. I just kind of stumbled across it someplace where it shouldn't have been (how it got in with the Master System games, I don't know).

Anyway, I played it, and came face to face with the same thing that stopped me the last time I played it... the boss at the end of level 6.

See, at the end, there's the weird... rock thing. It has a head, it has hands and feet, but it has no body. The head in sitting on the ground, and the hands and feet try and either grab or stomp your ship. The boss is pretty simple to begin with, as all it really does at first is just spit out some destructible blocks, then uses the hands and feet to go after you. It's all pretty easy to avoid. Once you do enough damage, phase two begins... and that's where it gets a wee bit harder.

The head rises into the air. As it does, it shoots out these tiny little homing darts that go out a certain distance, and if you're close to it, it goes after you. It does this several times, during which you can't hurt it. The head and hands then begin circling around you once it reaches a certain height. It does this twice, and then it goes a bit nuts.

The head comes out from between the hands, and starts spinning around, shooting little blocks in random directions. It gets pretty close to you, so you really can't dodge much. Then the head returns, and the hands start throwing things at you while blocking you shot at the head. The hands come apart, and the head rushes you. Then it all starts again.


The problem, besides avoiding all this, is finding the right weapon to kill the thing quickly before you reach it. Considering the number of weapons you can grab, this took a while... a good while actually... before I came across one that gave me a real chance at the thing. But it's easy the boss that gave me the most trouble ion that game.

[+Persona Fiend+]

Umm. Gill, from SFIII sucks. Especially when someone is playing him online, and you don't expect it, because he is hidden at the top of the screen.

[Atomic Skull]

Hardest boss ever:

Vrtra

http://www5.plala.or.jp/SQR/ff11/img-ff11/Vrtra.jpg

Runners up..

Vrtra's sister Tiamat

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/images/mobs/Tiamat.jpg

http://f59.aaa.livedoor.jp/~shuhei/top/tiamat11.jpg

And their brother Jormungand

http://www5.plala.or.jp/SQR/ff11/img-ff11/Jormungand.jpg

These guys are so hard that they often wander around unmolested for days on end. Few want to bother with them because your entire alliance will most liklely be wiped out.

[bouncerboy15]

Uber Diablo.

[Hadriel]

Sephiroth in FFVII has variable hit points; a formula is used to calculate how much HP he has. He has no fewer than 80,000 in any case. A few additions and subtractions are done for various quest items, but they're negligible; the end result of that is multiplied by your number of Level 99 characters. If everyone's at level 99, Sephiroth will have over 5,000,000 HP; Ruby and Emerald Weapon have 1,000,000. Of course, by that time most of your characters will have their Magic stat maxed, meaning KOTR will do like 150,000 damage. W-Summoning and Mimicking it is still the best way to whip his ass. I've never personally played Kingdom Hearts; I find it impossible to treat the storyline of a game infested with Disney characters as anything approaching epic or insightful. But from what I've heard, Kurt Zisa and Sephiroth are EEEEBIL.

Some of the bosses in Kefka's Tower in FFVI were really hard; in fact, I found them to actually be harder than Kefka, because you have to divide all your good characters up. I only had one or two characters per party who could actually do something worthwhile, mostly in the interests of surviving. Inferno, the Dragons, and the Guardian were atrocious bitches, whereas in the final battle against Kefka I could pick all my best party members, so I had Terra, Celes, Gogo and Sabin with all their best skills (Ultima for Terra and Celes, X-Magic on Terra, Sabin's Bum Rush). Bye bye Kefka.

I've got to give props to Lavos for just being a prick. Even at level 99 he'll decimate you if you aren't careful. The Criosphinx in Chrono Cross was a bastard, too; I'm pretty sure he had more HP than the CC incarnation of Lavos. In Diablo II, Duriel's an ass the first time you meet him, and again in Hell. In the 1.10 patch, they introduced Uber Diablo; several of my friends died literally 20 times in a row trying to beat him. In the 1.11 patch they've added Lilith and Uber Duriel as well as Uber Diablo; I had enough problems with the Lord of Pain the first time around, but I mainly play Sorceresses so it evens out. Once someone gets all three of the body parts from all three uber-bosses, they can synthesize them in the Horadric Cube to open a portal to Tristram and fight all three Prime Evils at once. I'm not even going to try to imagine all the dead players.

I've heard evil stories about Draco'dur in World of Warcraft; two of my friends play it CONSTANTLY and are obsessed with it. They've related stories about how armies of forty max-level players have allied and tried to beat him and have all been killed. The Omega Pirate in Metroid Prime was pretty hard, as well as Meta Ridley and Metroid Prime; you run out of missiles awfully fast when fighting them.

Desann can also be a bastard in Jedi Outcast; in single player mode, you don't have Force Absorb...I wonder what the developers were smoking that led them to do that. He'll throw you around like a rag doll, especially on Jedi Master difficulty level.

I remember beating Shadow Link when I first played him. That was pretty hard.

[SilentMartyr]

Shadow Link is easy, use the hammer. I never understood his difficulty.

[[\(-_-)/]]

All the Metroid Prime bosses were easy compared to any one of the bosses in MP2.

They wiped me off the face of the planet several times, especially the Boost Guardian.It doesen't help that when you are fighting him your health constantly drains due to the fact the Dark Aethers atmosphere is toxic.

[The Coop]

I was playing Star Fox last night, and I was reminded of something... there's one boss in there, that I feel is the hardest boss in the game. Is it Andross? Nope. Frankly, I had no real problems with the bosses in the game... save one.

In the "level 2" path, as you get near the end, there's a boss called Metal Smasher (I believe that's its name). It has a simple attack pattern. The first half of its health bar consists of it opening up, releasing several metal containers that can hit you, and then drifting towards you until it's on both sides of you... then slamming shut for big damage. The second half of it's life bar, has it opening up, and firing a barrage of ring lasers at you (I'm almost certain they're tracking shots too).

As I said, simple. However, I've yet to get past the damned thing. I've almost gotten to the point that I can time slowing down so I don't get crushed, but somehow I have a hell of a time shooting the metal containers so they don't slam into me. And the ring lasers? They get me every time. I've had less of a problem with the bosses on level 3 difficulty.

I don't know why, but I just can't beat that damned Metal Smasher.

[Shwenky]

I was playing Star Fox last night, and I was reminded of something... there's one boss in there, that I feel is the hardest boss in the game. Is it Andross? Nope. Frankly, I had no real problems with the bosses in the game... save one.

In the "level 2" path, as you get near the end, there's a boss called Metal Smasher (I believe that's its name). It has a simple attack pattern. The first half of its health bar consists of it opening up, releasing several metal containers that can hit you, and then drifting towards you until it's on both sides of you... then slamming shut for big damage. The second half of it's life bar, has it opening up, and firing a barrage of ring lasers at you (I'm almost certain they're tracking shots too).

As I said, simple. However, I've yet to get past the damned thing. I've almost gotten to the point that I can time slowing down so I don't get crushed, but somehow I have a hell of a time shooting the metal containers so they don't slam into me. And the ring lasers? They get me every time. I've had less of a problem with the bosses on level 3 difficulty.

I don't know why, but I just can't beat that damned Metal Smasher.

Maybe if you had any depth perception in that game...

[parasoul]

Hardest boss I ever fought was in one of the NES Mega Man games. Dr. Wily's final form in one of the games had an attack that shot 4 shots at once that homed in on you from 4 different directions and was nearly impossible to avoid. I beat it on emulator with tons of state saving/loading and it was still incredibly difficult. I can't imagine anyone actually beating it legitimately AFTER going thru all of his previous forms and whatnot in one continuous fight.

[iskyoork]

Sounds like 7.

Ive done it, three times.

Springs are the weakness

and bring lots of E cans and such

[ZangZip]

Desann can also be a bastard in Jedi Outcast; in single player mode, you don't have Force Absorb...I wonder what the developers were smoking that led them to do that. He'll throw you around like a rag doll, especially on Jedi Master difficulty level.

The first time I beat him, I didn't even mean to. I was told to take out the pillars in the room. So I was hacking away at one with my lightsaber, Desann walks up behind me right as I do an overhead slash. The tip of my lightsaber touched his head and killed him instantly.

I felt so cheated...

[Dew]

This has probably been said, but Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts.

Only several hundred.

[brinmat]

Sephiroth in FFVII has variable hit points; a formula is used to calculate how much HP he has. He has no fewer than 80,000 in any case. A few additions and subtractions are done for various quest items, but they're negligible; the end result of that is multiplied by your number of Level 99 characters. If everyone's at level 99, Sephiroth will have over 5,000,000 HP; Ruby and Emerald Weapon have 1,000,000. Of course, by that time most of your characters will have their Magic stat maxed, meaning KOTR will do like 150,000 damage. W-Summoning and Mimicking it is still the best way to whip his ass. I've never personally played Kingdom Hearts; I find it impossible to treat the storyline of a game infested with Disney characters as anything approaching epic or insightful. But from what I've heard, Kurt Zisa and Sephiroth are EEEEBIL.

Some of the bosses in Kefka's Tower in FFVI were really hard; in fact, I found them to actually be harder than Kefka, because you have to divide all your good characters up. I only had one or two characters per party who could actually do something worthwhile, mostly in the interests of surviving. Inferno, the Dragons, and the Guardian were atrocious bitches, whereas in the final battle against Kefka I could pick all my best party members, so I had Terra, Celes, Gogo and Sabin with all their best skills (Ultima for Terra and Celes, X-Magic on Terra, Sabin's Bum Rush). Bye bye Kefka.

I've got to give props to Lavos for just being a prick. Even at level 99 he'll decimate you if you aren't careful. The Criosphinx in Chrono Cross was a bastard, too; I'm pretty sure he had more HP than the CC incarnation of Lavos. In Diablo II, Duriel's an ass the first time you meet him, and again in Hell. In the 1.10 patch, they introduced Uber Diablo; several of my friends died literally 20 times in a row trying to beat him. In the 1.11 patch they've added Lilith and Uber Duriel as well as Uber Diablo; I had enough problems with the Lord of Pain the first time around, but I mainly play Sorceresses so it evens out. Once someone gets all three of the body parts from all three uber-bosses, they can synthesize them in the Horadric Cube to open a portal to Tristram and fight all three Prime Evils at once. I'm not even going to try to imagine all the dead players.

I've heard evil stories about Draco'dur in World of Warcraft; two of my friends play it CONSTANTLY and are obsessed with it. They've related stories about how armies of forty max-level players have allied and tried to beat him and have all been killed. The Omega Pirate in Metroid Prime was pretty hard, as well as Meta Ridley and Metroid Prime; you run out of missiles awfully fast when fighting them.

Desann can also be a bastard in Jedi Outcast; in single player mode, you don't have Force Absorb...I wonder what the developers were smoking that led them to do that. He'll throw you around like a rag doll, especially on Jedi Master difficulty level.

I remember beating Shadow Link when I first played him. That was pretty hard.

The idea of the thread is to name who you believe is the all-time hardest boss, not to explain every boss you thought was difficult in detail.

[CaptainCoke]

The dude at the end of Rygar on NES.

I never beat him as a kid, but recently played it again and beat him.

I guess he wasn't so hard after all....

[Magical Ninja]

Hmmm...This'll take some thinking....
Actraiser had some pretty wicked bosses...
Then again...there is that 2 screen tall Triceratops Guy you fight in the Reverse mines in SotN.....
Ridley was Really hard in Super Metroid,
That brings up Omega Pirate in Metroid Prime( I was fighting him for 3 hours over Many, Many Attempts my 1st time)...
And then in ZoE2 when you fight Jehuty inside the Compressed Space....God....Took Me Months! (literally!)

But Truly...Nothing Can compare to the Final form of the Last boss in Panzer Dragoon Orta. I mean, Practically the only attack he uses is the Big Gren Lasery Move(sorry, I dont know a better name...) And since him doing that means he is Completely concealed...He is all but Invincible...

[Moose Of Woe]

This was mentioned on the very fist post in this thread....

The JAQUIO from Ninja Gaiden 1. On the NES version (not the Xbox one)

On NES, if JAQ (the hardest)
the boss prior to him (your dad)
or the demon (very last boss, but easier than JAQ)

killed you then you were warped BACK to the beginning of the last level. (6-1 I believe) 6-2 was hell with those bottomless pits, and then of course you had 6-3 with the boss trio.

Also mentioned was Ghaleon in the Sega CD Lunar 1....nods to that. "COWER....IN FEAR! AS I DEMONSTRATE MY...TRUE.....POWAH!" The psx lunars are cake compared to the sega cd ones. BORGAN! Need I say more?

[physcho20x9]

I just came across this forum, and I'll get to the other 130 pages I haven't read yet at some point :-D But I know most of the NES bosses I used to have trouble with I could probably take out easily nowadays.

But one of the recent bosses I came across that was especially troubling to me was the Forgotten One, the three screen mummy in Castlevania LoI, but doing so with the sword-wielding character Joachim. I had never played the game as Belmont, so I didn't know what to expect. That boss took me hours and maaaany many attempts (when I should have been working on my master's project :-D) And of course, the payoff, absolutely nothing but bragging rights...

[Nomad]

Metroid Prime gave me a run for my money, but I think Lavos from Chrono Trigger when you take the Black Omen way. After fighting the Queen many times, you get to fight him, so in reality it's like five boss battles.

[Gendo-Ikari]

I'd have to say that guy at the end of Ninja Gaiden II.

[vert1]

I'd have to say that guy at the end of Ninja Gaiden II.

You got past fighting those two Jaquios and the boss is even harder? Shit...

[synthetic_realities]

The last two bosses from U.N. Squadron were pretty tough (this game has amazing music and needs more remixes!) on the secret Gamer mode. The second last one is a machine that hangs from the ceiling with flamethrowers that fire downwards. It only has one weak point (a blue glowing orb) and you can only hit it with special weapons that fire upwards or everywhere. To make it more interesting, there is a conveyor belt on the floor which rolls past more flamethrowers that fire up and SAM's that fire homing missiles (which are damn fast on Gamer mode). That one takes forever.

The last boss is just big. And it fires shots everywhere. And you have to destroy sections of it to get at the weak point. The best way to beat it was to leave the bottom section below the blue orb intact, and to drop napalm bombs like crazy on it, which also hit the orb. It gets interesting.

Easy bosses were Ganondorf and Ganon from Zelda: OOT. You should not be able to kill the final bosses without getting hit once. At least, I shouldn't be able to. Then again, none of the bosses were very hard at all.