All Time Hardest Boss

[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.

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.

I'll post what I feel like, thank you very much.

On Ganon: Meh, by that time Link's powerful enough that I'd be surprised if an armor division could take him down. Hell, I'd be surprised if he didn't singlehandedly defeat an orbital bombardment from a fleet of invading aliens by using the Master Sword and Mirror Shield to reflect their n00b energy blasts right back up their ass.

Aliens = ZeldOWNED.

[J2L]

im sure its been said, but here goes. Lavos from Chrono Trigger.

[J2L]

oh man here's one, Onslaught. jesus in MvC: clash of the superheroes. i have never to this day beat him. ive beaten apocalypse and cyber-akuma, but never apocalypse. well actually i think i might have beat him once. but still

[53phy]

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.
I can testify to this. Kurt Zisa was MUCH harder than Sephiroth, though. Sephiroth was at least beatable as low as level 60-70, Kurt Zisa was next-to-fucking-impossible even at level 99. Both great and fun bosses, though. Sephiroth seemed to require faster reflexes while Kurt Zisa was more about tactics and stamina.

Kurt Zisa gets my vote for "Hardest Boss Ev4r".

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

4th boss in Trojan wasn't too easy IMO.

[mammothtank]

I can add a few cents here.

Shinryuu (FFV): Locked inside a chest deep in the final dungeon, Shinryuu is a massive water dragon that I never challenged more than once. (Thankfully, I didn't have to beat him; he's optional.) The battle only lasted about 30 seconds; after I smacked him a couple of times, he hit me with Tidal Wave, which dealt around 7000 damage to my entire party. None of my characters had more than 4500 HP. You do the math. Needless to say, the next time around I completely skipped the thing and beat the game without the help of whatever was inside that treasure chest.

Dullahan (Golden Sun: The Lost Age): Dullahan is nearly impossible to beat without the right strategy. He attacks three times per turn and can do things like hit you with summon attacks and completely destroy your stats.

Evil Wall (FFIV): I HATED THIS STUPID THING. It starts the battle at the far left of the screen. Every few seconds, it moves forward a little, slowly approaching your side of the field. Once it's close enough, it proceeds to Crush your characters, wiping them out one by one. Once this starts, you're doomed; it's impossible to revive people as quickly as they're falling. Your only chance is to blast it with everything you've got and hope it dies before it reaches you.

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.
What's wrong with explaining? If no one says anything more than "Oh, I thought this guy was tough," then there's no discussion. Plus, people who haven't fought these bosses might like to know what they're up against should they decide to play these games.

[synthetic_realities]

Shinryuu isn't that hard to beat if you know what to do. Just equip CoralRings on your whole party, and they will abosrb the huge wave attack instead. He's not too bad after that. Omega is weak against lightnig, but since he has wall on him, you need to use summons or use lightning sword magic and attack him with that. Having Big Guard also helps a lot, since he does lots of attacks that hit every member. Regen, Big Guard, and hit him up with as much lightning damage as you can.

While I'm thinking about it, there is one level in Doom 2 that can be pretty hard if you don't know what to do. (emphasis on if you don't know what to do) It features both the Cyber-demon (a tough boss that fires rockets and can kill someone with %200 health and armour in about 5 hits) and the Spider Mastermind (a big mechanical spider thing with a big chaingun). Trying to dodge both of their attacks at once can be interesting (the easy way to do it is to just run around the room until one hits the other, then they'll fight each other to the death, and you are left with just a somewhat weakened Cyber-demon). Sorry if this one has already been mnetioned, it's a huge thread.

[Deej Valen]

-Big Doom 2 Thing-Yes, but I prefer to unload my BFG on them... ::knows almost every secret about Doom 2:: I just can't remember how to open the panel to the rocket launcher on the first map! I remember no clipping mode is how I first found it, then the wall just opened...

But IMHO, I believe the hardest bossES are on The Guardian Legend. I'm on the final boss and NOTHING seems to even faze the bastard! And the big seaweed monster wasn't very fun the first 2 times around ¬_¬

[Magical Ninja]

I can add a few cents here.


Dullahan (Golden Sun: The Lost Age): Dullahan is nearly impossible to beat without the right strategy. He attacks three times per turn and can do things like hit you with summon attacks and completely destroy your stats.Oh man. He was..Oh Man! And that guy you fought at the bottom of Cross-bone Isle on the First one, DAMN! And these games hold the honor of being damn near the only games ive played with difficult final bosses.

Evil Wall (FFIV): I HATED THIS STUPID THING. It starts the battle at the far left of the screen. Every few seconds, it moves forward a little, slowly approaching your side of the field. Once it's close enough, it proceeds to Crush your characters, wiping them out one by one. Once this starts, you're doomed; it's impossible to revive people as quickly as they're falling. Your only chance is to blast it with everything you've got and hope it dies before it reaches you.
Man, EVERY BOSS in FF4 was Hard! You dont wanna know how long it took me to beat odin.

[Axel B.]

[/quote]Man, EVERY BOSS in FF4 was Hard! You dont wanna know how long it took me to beat odin.[/quote]

Try in in FFL with a chocobo alongside with him... Hell to beat... but not as hard as apollo was

freya (who was a secret boss in SO3) also deserves the hardest boss spotlight[/quote]

[Gendo-Ikari]

Anyone remember Culex from Mario Rpg? lol

[Magical Ninja]

My friend was raving about him a while back.
I honestly never got past the guy you fight after Johnny th sharky-pirate dude.

[Ænru]

Some of the tough bosses I remember were only hard because I was inexperienced with the game, or simply at low level.

Lost Number - from Final Fantasy VII

I remember getting to this guy, and I started my usual routine of summoning and healing. It was going fine until he broke out with his All Physical form. He simply ran up and beat on my party for 2000 damage at a time, when I only had 1500 or so HP.

I ended up getting stuck on that thing, and trained for hours in the Shin-ra mansion. I got my Fire Materia to level three before I went back and tried him once more. Turns out that while I was training, I unknowingly passed the point in strength to beat him easily. I kicked his ass after that.

[Magical Ninja]

Which reminds me:
Godo.
What a dirty Fucker.
If you fight him when you're supposed to, anyways.(disk 1)

[RaikenEdge]

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.
I can testify to this. Kurt Zisa was MUCH harder than Sephiroth, though. Sephiroth was at least beatable as low as level 60-70, Kurt Zisa was next-to-fucking-impossible even at level 99. Both great and fun bosses, though. Sephiroth seemed to require faster reflexes while Kurt Zisa was more about tactics and stamina.

Kurt Zisa gets my vote for "Hardest Boss Ev4r".
o man do i agree......i was able to beat Sephiroth with the Kingdom Key, and STILL get my ass handed to me by Kurt

[Ænru]

Godo.
What a dirty Fucker.
If you fight him when you're supposed to, anyways.(disk 1)

This is debatable. There's hardly any evidence that you 'should' go to Wutai before the Northern Continent. Sure it's suggestive, but no where near forced.

Besides, if you fight Godo in disc one, it's impossible to get all the Enemy Skills trained on all four of the E-Skill Materia.

You must wait until you have all four of the materia (disc 2) and then go back to Godo, and he will teach you Trine. At the point where you find the fourth E-Skill materia, there are no more enemies who know it, besides Godo if you saved him to the last minute. (make sure not to have any of the materia that already have Trine equipped, or Yuffie will ignore the skill - otherwise, All of the materia will learn Trine at the same time).

[Magical Ninja]

I didnt know there were more than 2 e skill's...

[RaikenEdge]

really? i found em all but never bothered to get all the skills for more than one.....chocobuckle annoyed me to get, an i never found who else other than ultima weapon had shadow flare

[Magical Ninja]

I never bothered to get more thaan one either. And Zombie Dragons also have Shadow Flare.

[Ænru]

...i never found who else other than ultima weapon had shadow flare

Dragon Zombies bust out with a Shadow Flare every now and then. Getting Pandora's Box is the most delicate procedure, however.

Dragon Zombies cast it as they die, and ONLY the first Dragon Zombie you ever face. After that, that's it. (Silly it may sound) Even if you reset without saving...they won't want to cast Pandora's Box anymore.

Enough talk about E-Skills here. If you have any detailed questions about Final Fantasy VII, feel free to PM me.

Back to the topic at hand...

[Teh Anti Bison]

Steet Fighter 3rd strike

GILL!!1!!
Cheap @ss mo fo with his ressurection i can honesty say hardest boss ever in a video game



ps sry if this has been posted b4

[RaikenEdge]

right the topic......hmm..another i found to be evil was in Resident Evil 3, the fight with nemesis after he shoots down the helicopter at the clock tower

[Magical Ninja]

I gotta say, ANY boss fom Panzer Dragoon Orta or ANYTHING from Virtual On: Orotorio Tangram.

[RaikenEdge]

Not sure if this was mentioned but it had to be, boss#2,3,4......o hell ALL of Ikaruga was hard a as SHIT!!

[Magical Ninja]

No way in HELL its more difficult than anything in CT:VO:OT.

And I gotta give props to Nero Angelo. Never could beat him.

Also, in DMC3, I only got to Cerberus, But I tossed it aside. The only thing difficult about it was the fact that a skeleton could poke you in the sholder, and you'd lose half your health. It was like Metroid Fusion without the Fun.

[RaikenEdge]

No way in HELL its more difficult than anything in CT:VO:OT.
wha? well anyway Ikaruga is hard......and to quote maddox, "harder than blind a lesbians nipples in a fish market"

[Ur-Draco]

I just can't remember how to open the panel to the rocket launcher on the first map! I remember no clipping mode is how I first found it, then the wall just opened...
It is either A) a timer, B) kill all enemies in the level, or C) when you open the last door. I forgot which...

Ur-Draco

[Magical Ninja]

Dont tell me you've never heard of Cyber troopers: Virtual On: Orotorio Tangram. You probably havent even got a Dreamcast.

[RaikenEdge]

actually no and no, but if its that good/hard ill be sure to get it, thanks for the suggestion

[Magical Ninja]

It Is greatness.

[J2L]

i used to play virtual on all the time at the arcade. so much fun :D

[Magical Ninja]

Yes!

[SetzerGabbiani]

Any boss in an RPG isnt hard IF youve trained and prepared ahead of time, nuff said. Now, Apocalypse/Cyber-Akuma on Marvel vs SF (i think thats the game), that's a helluva challenge right there IMO, cause Cyber-Akuma is the undisputed heavyweight champion of cheap :banghead: :banghead::banghead:

[Magical Ninja]

I dont remember which, But I was playing some MarvelxCapcom game on the dreamcast, Damn that Last Boss!

And the King of cheap is either Heavyarms or Epyon on Gundam WingEndless Duel, which is probably th best gundam game made.

[SetzerGabbiani]

I dont remember which, But I was playing some MarvelxCapcom game on the dreamcast, Damn that Last Boss!

And the King of cheap is either Heavyarms or Epyon on Gundam WingEndless Duel, which is probably th best gundam game made.

Well,MvC 1: Onslought (2forms) Last Boss, and MvC 2: Abyss(3forms) Last Boss.

and is that the Gundam Game for the SNES?

[Magical Ninja]

I dont remember, I just remember he looked like a sentinel

And yes, it is.

[SetzerGabbiani]

Marvel vs Capcom 1 then =), and yes, Epyon was a cheap mofo too :x bad times....bad times

[Magical Ninja]

Loved thatMxC game tho9ugh. Never have been able to find it.

[Ænru]

I remember having a hard time on-

Thardus - Metroid Prime (Hard Mode)

I had as many missles and e-tanks as possible when I was fighting him, and after many tries, I just couldn't beat him.

Eventually, I learned a few tricks, like taking out the rocks he throws at you with missles to get them out of the way quicker, and saving super missles for when his protective armor is gone.

[Ænru]

Alright, I've just gotta ask.

Why do I have a Snacks 'N Jaxson (+25) under my username?

I'm quite positive that this is not of my doing.

[SoloGamer]

Alright, I've just gotta ask.

Why do I have a Snacks 'N Jaxson (+25) under my username?

I'm quite positive that this is not of my doing.
That's your post rank. There's a list of all the rankings here (http://www.ocremix.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=37242&start=720) (scroll down a little).
If you're curious as to what they are, a simple google search, or hell, even a Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) search might yield something.

[Magical Ninja]

I remember having a hard time on-

Thardus - Metroid Prime (Hard Mode)

I had as many missles and e-tanks as possible when I was fighting him, and after many tries, I just couldn't beat him.

Eventually, I learned a few tricks, like taking out the rocks he throws at you with missles to get them out of the way quicker, and saving super missles for when his protective armor is gone.
Man, Thardus was easy not matter what. the first Metroid prime didnt get diffiuclt til the Phazon Mines. That Damn Omega Pirate. I was fighting him for 3 hours!!! And dont get me started on Meta Ridley.

And on the note of MP, one fight in #2 that was far too easy was Quadraxis. You're fighting some bigass mech, It should be a Gunfight, not bombing strategic places.

[Ænru]

Man, Thardus was easy not matter what. the first Metroid prime didnt get diffiuclt til the Phazon Mines. That Damn Omega Pirate. I was fighting him for 3 hours!!! And dont get me started on Meta Ridley.

Interesting. I found Omega Pirate and Meta Ridley relatively easy compared to Thardus. I guess it's just that our techniques differ.

Another hard boss would probably be-

Poseidon - Golden Sun: The Lost Age

During that battle was the only time I have ever seen an instant death attack in Golden Sun. It was madness, and he did it every other round too.

Can't Remember his Name - Golden Sun: The Lost Age

Poseidon's probably a joke compared to the secret bosses on that game. I found this wizard dude, accompanied by these little magical ball creatures. I don't remember his name, but I flat out gave up on him. I vowed to return to fight him when I was at a higher level, but I never got around to it.

[ubernym]

The first time I fought that one big breasted demon chick in Ninja Gaiden, I died like 20 times. Then, I was so furious (and had studied combos so much) that I killed her on my 21st play in less than a minute. It was AWESOME.

[Kefjkarp]

Can't Remember his Name - Golden Sun: The Lost Age

Poseidon's probably a joke compared to the secret bosses on that game. I found this wizard dude, accompanied by these little magical ball creatures. I don't remember his name, but I flat out gave up on him. I vowed to return to fight him when I was at a higher level, but I never got around to it.[/color]

Oh, I remember him. I think I beat him eventually...

Anyway, if I were to choose a hardest boss I'd have to go with... Let's see... The final boss of Metroid Prime 2 was hard. You know, the...

Dark Samus one that appears once you escape from the Ing Temple or whatever. I never did beat her... :cry:

[Halberdier]

Eyedol on Killer Instinct on Hard is Hard. He whooped me in a one whole combo. I didn't even get a hit in.

[Ænru]

Dark Samus one that appears once you escape from the Ing Temple or whatever. I never did beat her...

I think it's pretty much general knowledge, Kefka. Anyone who potentially will play Prime 2 knows about or can guess too easily what the main adversary is.

-

Most bosses I've faced in Star Ocean - The Second Story were insane.

I got stuck on this one meachine guy who you fight in these mountains. The battle takes place on a bridge, and he likes to go into the ground and shoot you with his laser scope for massive damage, all the while immune to damage himself. I was at a pretty high level for where I was, and I just couldn't find a way to beat that thing. I haven't played the game since.

[synthetic_realities]

After reading through this thread a bit, I take it I'm not the only one that had a tough time with Dark Link in OOT. The biggest part of the problem was that I was Z-Targeting him ( :banghead: ) and attacking him with my sword. Then, I tried to go after him with the bow. Still Z-Targeting. Then the hookshot, and bombs too (never taking off the Z-Targeting) and none of it worked. Finally, I figured out enough to take off Z-Targeting and just go apeshit. Worked for me! :D

As for RPG bosses, most bosses can be killed very easily if you level up enough, and if you have some idea of what you are doing, you can enter a boss battle a good bit under leveled and still beat it. I beat the hardest version of Lavos in CT (the one where he appears in the Underground Palace in Zeal) with only Crono alive at lvl 60. I beat Diablo in D2 with a lvl 24 Barb. All you really need is a shitload of healing items, and to practice accessing them with a ridiculous amount of speed. Secret of Mana really took that away from you, because it will not let you have very many of an item.

[PJesus]

I would have to go with the first boss on the Sonic 2 Gamegear game! Out of everyone who i've talked to who's ever played the game (15+) Only one person has beaten the first boss.

[Big_Daddy]

For the longest time, I thought that Shadow Link in Zelda 2 was one of the hardest bosses of all time, and then I replayed it recently and discovered he is really, really easy if you just stand at the left side of the screen and keep swinging your sword. Shadow Link jumps right into your swings!!

I would have to say that the Tri-Ace post-game dungeon bosses are the all-time hardest bosses of any RPG. Well, in Valkyrie Profile, the Seraphic Gate bosses were not too bad if you could get all the secret characters in there.

[Ænru]

When I think of Enix, I think of a group of game developers who look like mad scientists that sit around a table and laugh about all they ideas to piss us all off; ideas for the hardest crap we've ever seen in video gaming.

Gabrie Celesta - Star Ocean: The Second Story was one of those madman ideas.

She may have been somewhat difficult the first time through, but try turning off her limiters (you talk to this one guy in a battle arena, and he'll turn them off), and all hell breaks loose.

Level 250? Get your ass handed to you. I don't know all that much about how she beats you to the ground, but my brother has horrid stories to tell about it, as he's the one who played.

[Princess_Of_Memories]

Hmm.. Personally I found Seymore in Final Fantasy X when they were up climbing the mountain and he was useing the instant death on everyone..... seriously irritating. Someone said something about having another aeon that I didn't have.... That must have made it tougher.... Took me forever.
I am sure though that the rest of the world had a much easier time than I did though.

p.s. no guarantee that the name is spelt correctly.

[Ænru]

I am sure though that the rest of the world had a much easier time than I did though.

No worries Princess. I was stuck on that version of Seymore on Mt Gagazett for a while as well. Pardon my mispellings.

Making the battle has something to do with making your party invincible against the Zombie status effect, as that's how his death attack works. If my memory serves, a phoenix down will do much damage to him, but I'm not sure.

Has anyone tried beating Emerald and Ruby Weapon without using summons?

[Metsuo]

Legend of Dragoon - Kraken

That thing took about twelve tries to beat. Then again, my lazy ass never bothered to get any attack higher then Volcano during the whole game. Also, I think this game had the highest random encounter rate ever.

[Holmium]

I am sure though that the rest of the world had a much easier time than I did though.

No worries Princess. I was stuck on that version of Seymore on Mt Gagazett for a while as well. Pardon my mispellings.

Making the battle has something to do with making your party invincible against the Zombie status effect, as that's how his death attack works. If my memory serves, a phoenix down will do much damage to him, but I'm not sure.

Has anyone tried beating Emerald and Ruby Weapon without using summons?

I haven't tried, but I think using the 7777 fever would make that very possible.

[Ænru]

Has anyone tried beating Emerald and Ruby Weapon without using summons?
I haven't tried, but I think using the 7777 fever would make that very possible.

I've only seen that once. No, you don't need the fever to beat those guys. I didn't think it was possible, but all it takes is strategy...and a lot of patience.

I've seen it done.
Emerald and Ruby.
No summons.
I can vouch for that.

[GNU1516]

chrono triggers mechanial dragon.

[Ænru]

I had a hard time on-

Cyber Peacock - MegaMan X4 (As Zero)

What a bitch.

[Eccles]

Professor Fortesque from The chaos engine.

Most other bosses of the time had some kind of pattern for you to memorise and take a pot shot when a lull in the attack came up. Fortesque, on the other hand, was just a mechanical onslaught...there was NO let up. He just kept on gunning and gunning until you died. I mean, DAMN...

[RaikenEdge]

Speaking of FFX, the hardest boss in there had to be a tie between Yunalesca, and Braska's Final Aeon(Jecht) GOD I hated those bastards.

[Trump Ice]

Sigma's final form in Mega Man X... I dunno what the deal is but I just cant beat him. I did it once, but I had the assistance of my Game Genie. I still love the game though.

[RaikenEdge]

Sigma's final form in Mega Man X... I dunno what the deal is but I just cant beat him. I did it once, but I had the assistance of my Game Genie. I still love the game though.
the easiest way i found is using the Rolling Sheild weapon, or are u talking bout stategy wise?

[AznJake]

chrono triggers mechanial dragon.

Is that really the hardest boss?

[RaikenEdge]

It kinda is at that point and time, but mainly hes more of a pain in the ass than hard

[Eccles]

Another one that really pissed me off was De Roi Le from Phantasy Star Online. Especially in that stupid mission when you had to protect Dr.Mome from the snakey onslaught...hate him so much.

[AznJake]

Do you think walkthrough can make any game easier to play?i mean i dont really have any problems playing games with big time super bosses if i dont have a game guide for me.

EDITED:Btw,megaman bosses are freaking hard and i mean really really hard if you dont know how to dodge their attacks and how to kill them.

[RaikenEdge]

at times they can make things easier, as sumtimes all u need is a slight nudge in the right direction

[Ænru]

There was this one boss I faced in this Game.

Christ it took a long time.

[Vilecat]

Emerald and Ruby Weapon are friggin long without summons, but it can be done.
For FFX, having zombie immune makes the battle against Yunalesca and Seymour on Mt. Gagazet far easier. The fights are incredibly more annoying without that (without mentioning they take ages to end), but not impossible.
And Faust, the secret boss of Legend of Dragoon is probably the toughest boss in that game. The others weren't all that bad, but i did have to use quite a few items for some of them.

[Raven Leader X]

Hardest boss? Which system?

GC: Meta-Ridley from Metroid Prime. I broke a controller while fighting that dirty so and so.

PS2: Duragon from "The Bouncer" on the third fight. No energy, and can't use the Trinity Rush. 'nuff said.

XB: Once I get a few more Xbox games under my belt, I'll get back to you.

And from the old school generation, I'd definetly say it would be Death from the original Castlevania by far, because I could never get to him with the Ax!

[Eccles]

GC: Meta-Ridley from Metroid Prime. I broke a controller while fighting that dirty so and so.
Really?
Cause...like...it's not actually that hard. Even on hard mode. You just have to know the tricks.

Don't fire missiles (or super missiles) at him while he's flying, but just use charged shots. Just before he lands on the platform, turn into the spiderball and drop a super bomb...it burns his wings off as he lands ,takes him down to 1/3 health in one hit and automatically starts stage 2 of the fight.

And when he's charging at you during the second phase, just use the side-dash bug and there'll be no problem. It also helps to use the wavebuster instead of super missiles at this point on account of how the wavebuster tends to keep firing at him when he goes back down on all fours.

[Princess_Of_Memories]

I think that the bosses difficulty depends on the person.
Generally bosses arn't that hard for me and it's the endurance I have problems with. I never like to heal anyone. I find it a waste when I am low on cash... so I usually die on the way.

[Archaon]

Hah. I laugh at those who did not steam through every FFX boss beyond The Calm Lands by either bombarding them constantly with Aeon overdrives or simply using Trio of 9999. Yunalesca, Seymour and everything (in the main story) will fall to this, zero difficulty.

[NotSoSuperMario]

First boss of Ninja Gaiden (Xbox version). Not hard in the long run but you arrive completely unprepared for him, particularly if it's your first time playing.

[Dead Hex]

First boss of Ninja Gaiden (Xbox version). Not hard in the long run but you arrive completely unprepared for him, particularly if it's your first time playing.

Not really. I beat him first try, you just have to pay attention to his pattern. A much harder boss from that game would be Alma (Very Hard), who is a bitch to beat.

[Antipode]

GC: Meta-Ridley from Metroid Prime. I broke a controller while fighting that dirty so and so.
Really?
Cause...like...it's not actually that hard. Even on hard mode. You just have to know the tricks.

Don't fire missiles (or super missiles) at him while he's flying, but just use charged shots. Just before he lands on the platform, turn into the spiderball and drop a super bomb...it burns his wings off as he lands ,takes him down to 1/3 health in one hit and automatically starts stage 2 of the fight.

And when he's charging at you during the second phase, just use the side-dash bug and there'll be no problem. It also helps to use the wavebuster instead of super missiles at this point on account of how the wavebuster tends to keep firing at him when he goes back down on all fours.

Meh, I prefer to just hammer at him with charges and super missiles. I think it was intended to be pretty hard, so I don't want to just kill him like that.

[Ænru]

...Hardest boss for me is Deadbeard.

Ah, Deadbeard (Golden Sun)

I fought this guy twice over my history of gaming. The first time the battle simply was a Very Long sequence of doing damage and staying healed. I had to use my Psy Crystals, which I didn't want to use, but I figured what the hell.

The Second time, more recently, I absolutely kicked his ass. I don't know why, but I guess I just busted out with all the right summons and attacks. For instance, I knew that time that he was strong against Water, so I didn't use Mia to attack at ALL, she was 100% healer/assist. He's weak against Earth, so Isaac was particularly valuable. Many earth summons and whatnot.

I ended up accidentally killing him with the overkill method. I used the Sap djinni on him and was intending to build up another summon, but he just turned multi-colored and gave me 20% more exp and gold. It was awesome.

[RaikenEdge]

...Hardest boss for me is Deadbeard.

Ah, Deadbeard (Golden Sun)
I still think Dulahan is THE bastard, i remember the only way i beat him was putting ALL my djinni on standby and had the 4 characters of GS go first and summon, then after they all died finished off with the GS2 characters summoning. I know it was cheap, but i was desperate.

[Ænru]

I'm afraid I never got that far in Golden Sun 2. I beat it, of course, but I never finished all the sidequesting.

I really oughtta go finish that game sometime.

-

I remember seeing-

Dr Wily - MegaMan 8

It's a mystery to me how you're even supposed to inflict damage on him...

[RaikenEdge]

I'm afraid I never got that far in Golden Sun 2. I beat it, of course, but I never finished all the sidequesting.

I really oughtta go finish that game sometime.

-

I remember seeing-

Dr Wily - MegaMan 8

It's a mystery to me how you're even supposed to inflict damage on him...
aw man....i HATED him.....i think ur supposed to.......aw crap i forgot, thanks now im gonna hafta play the game over again>< lol.

[deXtra]

I remember seeing-

Dr Wily - MegaMan 8

You sure? Don't remember having trouble with him, IMO he was waaaaay harder than in MM7....Maybe if you could tell us what you're having trouble with, orrrrr there's always the ever-lovin www.gamefaqs.com :wink:

[Princess_Of_Memories]

...

How has this thread survived for THREE YEARS?

MAGIC!

Ironic how the one with the Vivi aviator and picture signature stated that.

[Princess_Of_Memories]

...

How has this thread survived for THREE YEARS?

MAGIC!

Ironic how the one with the Vivi aviator and picture signature stated that.

That's just a normal Black Mage.
What are you talking about? Vivi is awsome! Far from normal!

[Princess_Of_Memories]

But he is soo cool....

[Princess_Of_Memories]

Seeing as I have never played FF IX, I can not agree or disagree with you. But, yes, Black Mages kick ass in general.
Really? FF IX was my fave!
I am not sure why, but I liked it the best for sure!

[dPaladin]

...

How has this thread survived for THREE YEARS?

MAGIC!

Ironic how the one with the Vivi aviator and picture signature stated that.
Actually, that would be the opposite of ironic: fitting.

[Princess_Of_Memories]

...

How has this thread survived for THREE YEARS?

MAGIC!

Ironic how the one with the Vivi aviator and picture signature stated that.
Actually, that would be the opposite of ironic: fitting. Hey! you know what I ment.. It's all good. It was noticable.

[Brycepops]

...

How has this thread survived for THREE YEARS?

MAGIC!

Ironic how the one with the Vivi aviator and picture signature stated that.
Actually, that would be the opposite of ironic: fitting. Hey! you know what I ment.. It's all good. It was noticable.

This thread is the all time hardest boss, IMO :lol: :wink: .

[Princess_Of_Memories]

Sorry...

[Halberdier]

All time hardest boss is my Dad. :)

[Magical Ninja]

Back on topic though, I never did beat King boo on Luigi's mansion, that is, until I got a gameshark.
Just when you think you can sit back on this easy game, Boo. Get assraped by bowser.

[Nozomi]

I don't see why people are still posting because I alraedy said who the hardest boss in Video game history is. :P

I laughed so hard when I read about that boss! I have no idea of the game but just reading about it...lol "mexican guy in poncho with six shooter!" LOL! :lol:

[AznJake]

All time hardest boss is my Dad. :)

You should have seen mine,his hard like all the bosses of the games mixed together!!

[K-roz]

MY hardest boss would probably be the Time devourer from Chrono Cross. Even with the help of the chrono trigger, he just flicked me around like a rag doll. The battle lasted for 6 hours. Then i finally killed him with a summoning element Unicorn. I kicked his ass bad .

[dPaladin]

That first Goomba. I always run into that little son of a bitch.

[K-roz]

HE was like ......

[Foxxiña]

...

How has this thread survived for THREE YEARS?This must be the oldest thread on any forum ever.

[K-roz]

well heres one
http://www.creativeuncut.com/album/album7a.jpgFighting legendary adamantoise is a good way to stay in shape. Wielding a 130 lb buster sword helps a bit too.
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[Princess_Of_Memories]

MY hardest boss would probably be the Time devourer from Chrono Cross. Even with the help of the chrono trigger, he just flicked me around like a rag doll. The battle lasted for 6 hours. Then i finally killed him with a summoning element Unicorn. I kicked his ass bad .
I actually beat this guy on my first try.
I was crazy with the weapon ungrades and stuff though.

[Kiyosuki]

http://img63.echo.cx/img63/6388/neogranzon21dg.gif
hosted on my image shack account but image belongs to www.destiny3fates.net
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/rhophiehalul78/dario-b.jpg

http://www.capcom-central.com/DevilMayCry/DevilMayCry/images/boss/nightmare.gif

http://www.mcediciones.net/psm2/music/screens/gradius4.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/myPlace/justice.GIF

http://kattuggla.oru.se/dmd01/dm0103/test/fighters/ss_mizuki.gif

http://kattuggla.oru.se/dmd01/dm0103/test/fighters/kf_goenitz.gif

In no particular order.

[Javis]

A friend of mine would probably put his vote in for DeRose from RoboTrek. It's probably the only video game he hasn't beat because of DeRose. Of course, that was 10 years ago. He may be able to beat her now.
As for my vote, it would have to go to Ozma from FFIX. I tried everything to beat it and couldn't. I then watched the friend mentioned above take my file and beat Ozma practically with his eyes closed. If that didn't add insult to injury...

[jpiumelli]

I had this old game based on The Addams Family. It was called Fester's Quest. and for anyone who played this game. The first boss is absolutly IMPOSSIBLE. I have never beaten it to this day.

[Ænru]

I think that the bosses difficulty depends on the person.
Generally bosses arn't that hard for me and it's the endurance I have problems with. I never like to heal anyone. I find it a waste when I am low on cash... so I usually die on the way.

Leave it to Princess to generalize and bring closure to a discussion, rendering the topic more or less invalid.

Cheers Princess :D

[Noodle]

WOOHOO STILL POSTING!! :twisted:
Heh I just found this forum decided to comment off Castlevania SoTN page 3 or 4 methinks..
Crisaegrim is better than any other wep or combo in game its pure damage.
Makes Drac so easy I wupped him in 90 seconds....
Ok tks for having my off-topic rant.
dont hurt teh n00b!

[Ænru]

I remember seeing-

Dr Wily - MegaMan 8

You sure? Don't remember having trouble with him, IMO he was waaaaay harder than in MM7....Maybe if you could tell us what you're having trouble with...

I'm pretty sure, especially since I've never played Megaman 7. I wasn't the one having trouble. It was my friend I was watching some years back. He tried several times, and couldn't land a hit on the bastard.

...there's always the ever-lovin www.gamefaqs.com :wink:

I know this. I have seen the light.

In times of great need, gamers knew defeat, and gamers united.

And gamers said "Let there be GameFAQs (http://www.gamefaqs.com/)."

And thus was this.

And they saw that it was good, and gamers rejoiced.

:D

[Maco70]

I don't really think it's fair to call one boss the all time hardest. It's all relative to the person or to the times. Ristar was once the hardest game ever to me.
But I guess I'll give it a shot... Leaving out RPG bosses, I'd have to say Solidus Snake from MGS2: Substance, while playing as snake in the snake missions. It's really really hard without the sword I think. Took me a while to beat it. I enjoyed it, unlike fighting him as Raiden. Raiden Sucks.

[Ænru]

I don't know why I didn't remember this before, but some guys in FFT were really nutty.

Elmdor - Final Fantasy Tactics

The most unfair dude I had yet to encounter. He supposedly had abilities he didn't even use in the game. Fortunately I made up a small FAQ that turned him into a wuss.

I eventually got it just right to completely dominate that battle, steal everything from him easily, and make him harmless.

But for anyone who doesn't know what they're getting into, and playing the game like an average gamer...Yes. He is the devil. And in that sense, so are

Weigraff and Gafgarion

[The Coop]

You know, in a different thread I was mentioning how well I was doing in Doom 3 on the Nightmare difficulty. I also said I was waiting for something to come along and hand me my ass after kicking the spider chick's butt. Well, that very thing just happened.

I won't say who or what the game's second boss is, just incase someone hasn't played it yet or gotten that far. However, I will say this... it is damn hard when you only have 100 health that dwindles by 5 every few seconds. There's only one real weapon at the boss' disposal, but all it takes is a single hit from it to kill you. Even a tendril from the BFG shot kills you in two or three hits as it goes by when you play on Nightmare. And standing around those massive electrodes was a near instant death before... now it is instant death.

I know it's a simple pattern, but trying to not get hit even once is proving to be pretty hard. I'm pumping rounds into him, trying to duck behind things, setting up shots to try and hit the BFG blast the moment it appears... it's all not working. I'm pretty sure you can kill the boss without using the BFG shot technique, but it takes a while... and lasting that while has thus far eluded me. Hell, lasting more than ten seconds has eluded me :lol:

[Dew]

You know, in a different thread I was mentioning how well I was doing in Doom 3 on the Nightmare difficulty. I also said I was waiting for something to come along and hand me my ass after kicking the spider chick's butt. Well, that very thing just happened.

I won't say who or what the game's second boss is, just incase someone hasn't played it yet or gotten that far. However, I will say this... it is damn hard when you only have 100 health that dwindles by 5 every few seconds. There's only one real weapon at the boss' disposal, but all it takes is a single hit from it to kill you. Even a tendril from the BFG shot kills you in two or three hits as it goes by when you play on Nightmare. And standing around those massive electrodes was a near instant death before... now it is instant death.

I know it's a simple pattern, but trying to not get hit even once is proving to be pretty hard. I'm pumping rounds into him, trying to duck behind things, setting up shots to try and hit the BFG blast the moment it appears... it's all not working. I'm pretty sure you can kill the boss without using the BFG shot technique, but it takes a while... and lasting that while has thus far eluded me. Hell, lasting more than ten seconds has eluded me :lol:

Soul cube.

He was rather easy for me on Nightmare. I just waited for the first BFG shot to go off, then fired the Soul Cube at the same time he fired the BFG. Also, the Chaingun seems to be the most effective weapon against him, even though you've got more powerful stuff.

[The Coop]

Gave the Soulcube a try. I'm so used to not using it until the end (never needed it in the "Veteran" setting). Finally beat him, and blew through the rest of the game without it. Damned demons.


Anyway, I was on a Capcom kick the other night, and was playing U.N. Squadron. I was having fun and doing rather well... until the second to last stage.

Anyone whose played this game knows the boss I'm talking about. On the ground, there's a pair of conveyer belts that bring flame throwing machines and S.A.M launchers from both sides of the screen. Above you, is the actual boss. The thing is, it's shielded from all attacks except for those which come up from below. This mean to have to use weapons that fire upwards to do any amount of damage.

How many swear words did I use? Many. I had gun pods, ceiling missiles, super bombs... I even had the best plane by then so I could have extra amounts of all these weapons. But even though the battle starts off pretty easy, as you damage the boss, more and more of those flame throwers and S.A.M. launchers come onto the screen. Then the boss starts shooting flames downward, and everything gets rather hectic.

I can't tell you how many times I got the little blue orb to turn red before getting blown up. I used every ceiling missile, both super bombs, the gun pods... this thing wouldn't die. Hell, the final boss isn't as much of a pain in the ass and this ceiling crawler boss.

Reminded me of the Gradius series. The bosses get harder and harder until you reach the final one... which is then simple as hell to beat. Granted, I did eventually get by this boss solely for the principle of it, but damn...

[eternal Zero]

Anyway, I was on a Capcom kick the other night, and was playing U.N. Squadron. I was having fun and doing rather well... until the second to last stage.

Anyone whose played this game knows the boss I'm talking about. On the ground, there's a pair of conveyer belts that bring flame throwing machines and S.A.M launchers from both sides of the screen. Above you, is the actual boss. The thing is, it's shielded from all attacks except for those which come up from below. This mean to have to use weapons that fire upwards to do any amount of damage.

How many swear words did I use? Many. I had gun pods, ceiling missiles, super bombs... I even had the best plane by then so I could have extra amounts of all these weapons. But even though the battle starts off pretty easy, as you damage the boss, more and more of those flame throwers and S.A.M. launchers come onto the screen. Then the boss starts shooting flames downward, and everything gets rather hectic.

I can't tell you how many times I got the little blue orb to turn red before getting blown up. I used every ceiling missile, both super bombs, the gun pods... this thing wouldn't die. Hell, the final boss isn't as much of a pain in the ass and this ceiling crawler boss.

Reminded me of the Gradius series. The bosses get harder and harder until you reach the final one... which is then simple as hell to beat. Granted, I did eventually get by this boss solely for the principle of it, but damn...

I agree wholeheartedly. That boss was a major pain and/or impossible if you didn't have the proper equipment at that point or used it during the level.

[Childe Roland]

The "Hell" level at the end of Doukutsu Monogatari (did I spell that right?). Hard stuff. I'm sure there was a boss in there somewhere, but I couldn't even get to it. =[

The "Weapons" from FF7. Obligatory. The desert and underwater ones. Ugh.

I also remember fighting a boss from FFX-2 for about an hour and a half straight. Wasn't really hard, just tedious. Honestly, though, I'd rarely consider RPG bosses 'hard'. Hard should be reserved for those bosses that require inhuman reflexes and skill, not simply gaining more levels.

[whatfruit]

Can nobody remember the Dragon from Wonderboy in Moster Land on the sega master system. I only beat him about a month ago.

[Trygon]

Indalicio, sans Limiter. If you don't know about the limiter, then break out your old copy of Star Ocean Two with your Mastered save, hike back to Central City, and start a personal action. Look around. After the scene with Filia, I think her name was, the final boss gets roughly twenty times harder.

I've found one refrence to someone beating this form of the boss, apparently with all characters in excess of level 215.

[Thornless Rose]

Hardest, Most Frustrating & WORST GAME ENDING... was for me, Skies of Arcadia...

I played that game, loved it.. but then came the end.. and it was so disatisfying.. it just ended, right when things were picking up pretty nicely.

Unfortunately there were like a hundred millions mini bosses before the actual boss (no save point before the real boss) and then there were so many bosses.. it just sucked.. I died so many times... apparently wasn't leet enough to face him..

when i finally beat him, it just ended. i hate that game now.

[megadave]

Here are a few: Mike Tyson on Punch Out, Jacquio from Ninja Gaiden, and the final dragon boss from Karnov.

[Styrochrome]

Has anybody ever heard of Takeshi no Chousenjou? Apparently the last boss has to be hit 10,000 times to be killed or something?

Oh, and the game opens with the line "This was made by a man who hates video games."

I think that was the article I read about it...made by God-among-men Beat Takeshi.

or somethin'...I'm probably drunk again...

[Trygon]

Here are a few: Mike Tyson on Punch Out, Jacquio from Ninja Gaiden, and the final dragon boss from Karnov.
Jacquio was a sumbitch, but I ignored him mostly because he was flatly impossible, in typical NES fashion. Karnov I wasn't too put out by, however.

[The Damned]

Descent 2 and 3 final bosses. In D2, you could only hurt it on a tiny spot on its back, which of course was impossible to get to because everytime you went for it, the boss would turn to face you, perfectly putting the rest of its non-destroyable body in the way.

In D3, it fires twelve frag missles at once, then switches to a laser that can cut through the walls of the level. Then it fires homing missles, then uss micro black-hole generator to suck you in close and kill you in one shot.

[Bummerdude]

Ozma, from FF9, is a real pain, that I can say. He may just be a ball that looks like it been bathed with 100 kinds of paint buckets, but if you make him angry, like standing in front oh him/her, he either puts some real bad fog on you, makes a giant flare or drops an asteroid in your petit videocharacter head.

Now there´s a nasty guy!

[Shadow Wolf]

Metroid Prime, and the Essence thereof. Those were hard friggin bosses.

[prophetik]

didn't this thread die yet?

[The Damned]

Not as long as people have submissions for the topic!

[Miletus]

This thread answers itself.

Also, Ozma was easy.

[Shwenky]

This thread answers itself.

Also, Ozma was easy.

Metroid Prime was too.

[Nat]

Hmm...can't think of any game in quite a while that actually got me frustrated....haven't beat ninja gaiden yet, its sorta hard but I think its due either to the super loose controls, my ability to not be able to adjust to the xbox controller, or the fact im not that entertained by it....the only person who gave me trouble for more than a few days was Vergil on Dante must die mode on DMC 3; nothing says fun like trying to cut down a boss with quick as hell health regen at 50 percent, had to max out those things that give you maximum health and max devil trigger, which also took hours upon hours of getting orbs....also a few bosses and areas on the way to him as well it was extremly fun to fight him though, it felt good finally beating him and breezing thought the rediculous heaven or hell mode - I remeber hearing every game reviewer on the net complaining on how this is the hardest game in recent times...and that was just on the normal difficulty setting...

[CIaude]

At the very moment, the boss's of PainKiller are kicking my ass.

[Prokop]

In general, I don't think you can discuss difficult bosses until you've played the SaGa series.

[Styrochrome]

In general, I don't think you can discuss difficult bosses until you've played the SaGa series.

Dude, Fook bosses...I died to very first encounter in Saga Frontier 2.

There are a few games where this has happened...The Aforementioned Takeshi no Chousenjou and Saga 2, and something else with escapes me at the moment...

Oh, the first enemy in Sonic Advance when playing with Amy...

[Darth GourryGN]

In general, I don't think you can discuss difficult bosses until you've played the SaGa series.

Dude, Fook bosses...I died to very first encounter in Saga Frontier 2.

There are a few games where this has happened...The Aforementioned Takeshi no Chousenjou and Saga 2, and something else with escapes me at the moment...

Oh, the first enemy in Sonic Advance when playing with Amy...

Saga Frontier 2? Ha. You call that hard? I laugh heartily at you, sucka.

I am the hardest boss.

You have a drinking problem, don't I?

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

This thread is the hardest boss. I mean, it just won't die!Not that I want it to of course.

You ,my dearest apprentice. You are the hardest boss !

Just looking at your profile makes me shiver. Hot damn man. 33 posts per day ? Jaysis! You're improving all the time 8)

[Bummerdude]

This thread answers itself.

Also, Ozma was easy.

Probably fair enough, he could be beaten if you had big level characters that in some way could strike 9999, and after around like 37 tries, I finally got that dude. And I did it before Terra, my brothers did it, so to not to be pointed out, I had to to it too of course.

But I was wrong, Emerald and Ruby weapon from FF7 are the hardest or at least one of the hardest bosses ever. Okay, not Emerald, but surely Ruby.

[meccaneer]

Yeah, I didn't think Ozma was too difficult. Nor was Metroid Prime. Conker's Bad Fur Day was damn hard but, I don't remember the bosses... Sephiroth was hard wasn't he? Maybe just because I sucked at FF7. That ball-thing at the end of Ikaruga is certainly the craziest boss. Yeah, I'm gonna vote for Ikaruga. All those bosses are insane.

[beneath the sea]

Ozma, from FF9, is a real pain, that I can say. He may just be a ball that looks like it been bathed with 100 kinds of paint buckets, but if you make him angry, like standing in front oh him/her, he either puts some real bad fog on you, makes a giant flare or drops an asteroid in your petit videocharacter head.

Now there´s a nasty guy!

You just drain his mp. With Queina. Yeah.

[Styrochrome]

Or just wear armor that absorbs Doomsday/Anything of a Dark Element...

It just makes things hilarious that way...

I still vote the fabled boss from Takeshi no Chousenjou.

[Bummerdude]

Ozma, from FF9, is a real pain, that I can say. He may just be a ball that looks like it been bathed with 100 kinds of paint buckets, but if you make him angry, like standing in front oh him/her, he either puts some real bad fog on you, makes a giant flare or drops an asteroid in your petit videocharacter head.

Now there´s a nasty guy!

You just drain his mp. With Queina. Yeah.
I tried that, it was never ending. I think, or maybe I wasn´t patient. Meh, I took the hard way. I kicked his ass.

Or just wear armor that absorbs Doomsday/Anything of a Dark Element...

It just makes things hilarious that way...
Like egoist armlet. Some of my guys had that. Or maybe everyone, it´s quite easy that way.
My use of characters were Zidane, Freya, Eiko and Quina.

[Ralphis]

I seem to remember a few battles in Shining Force being incredibly hard when I was in 5th grade. The circus and mountain laser beam battle are the two I recall taking a long long while.

I think the circus ended up being easier though

[Brycepops]

I'd say the fight in the Mirror Room in Vandal Hearts 2 but I don't think that would count as a boss, since you're only fighting against a copy of your party.

[Faustt]

I seem to remember a few battles in Shining Force being incredibly hard when I was in 5th grade. The circus and mountain laser beam battle are the two I recall taking a long long while.

I think the circus ended up being easier though

I still to this day have not beat Shining Force 1 or 2. I must have rented SF2 for at least 3 weeks. I could never figure out what to do after you got lemon. you had to get mithril weapons I think, but could never figure out where the damn dwarves were. thanks to gamefaqs I have an idea now, but refuse to sit through those long ass battles again.

[Bummerdude]

That boss that guarded Columbus in Terranigma, she was a tough one. Had to use all of my rings, that was the only thing that was working. Had to reset and buy as many as I could. Got broke, but I DID beat her.

[Butterball]

Any Boss in "God of War" when it's on God Mode.Its not only the bosses,its the little guys,too.I ran outside of my house and started yelling at the fist person I saw about how "Litte green dogs who vomet other little green dogs can suck my mother :::Explicit:::ing :::Explicit:::".
I'm still not aloud in that park anymore.

[The Coop]

You know, a while back I mentioned the green boss in MegaMan Zero... Harpuia I believe. Yes, it took me a retardedly long time, but I did eventually get past him/her. I was proud of myself, and that proudness lasted right up until I reached the final boss in that game.

Since I know not everyone has played it, I won't ruin anything and mention the boss' name. However, I was stuck on this boss for weeks. Nothing I did seemed to really give me an edge. Oh sure, after a few days, I figured out why I was doing no damage whatsoever, but even after that, it didn't matter. I was usually lucky just to get the boss half dead.

Besides being a pain in the traditional MegaMan sense (fighting every level boss again in sequence), this final boss has two forms. The first form, has this boss in a rather familiar state, with every weapon and the best armor from a piece of his past (you'll understand what I mean if you've fought him). He zips all over the place on the ground and in the air, sends varying types of long range attacks at you, and is just generally a pest. It took a good number of tries, but I eventually found a way to get past him without too much trouble. That's when I hit his second form.

This, was a pain in the ass. The edges of the stage are taken out, so you can fall to your death if you're not careful. You can only damage his head, and the only way to reach his head is to do the old wall jump technique. There are no actual walls though. Instead, what you have are two hovering blocks with spikes on their tops and bottoms, and these blocks drift up and down opposite each other (when one's going up, the other's going down). Now, add in the several attacks the boss has. These consist of ringed lasers that come at where you're standing (and pin you in place if they touch you), a double shot of 360 degree laser beams, and a laser that sets the entire ground you're standing on, on fire. To this, you add in the fact that as you damage him, he starts attacking faster and with a greater number of shots for the ring laser.

I announced it in the AIMMS thread in UnMod when I finally beat the bastard. I've owned MegaMan Zero for over a year, and while I haven't played it everyday, I've played it pretty regularly. Harpuia was embarrassing enough, but to then get stuck on another boss in the same game for a good while... well, that's just mean :lol:

I never was all that great at the MegaMan games. I'm decent on the original games, but the "X" series and the "Zero" series... well...

[Bummerdude]

This, was a pain in the ass. The edges of the stage are taken out, so you can fall to your death if you're not careful. You can only damage his head, and the only way to reach his head is to do the old wall jump technique. There are no actual walls though. Instead, what you have are two hovering blocks with spikes on their tops and bottoms, and these blocks drift up and down opposite each other (when one's going up, the other's going down). Now, add in the several attacks the boss has. These consist of ringed lasers that come at where you're standing (and pin you in place if they touch you), a double shot of 360 degree laser beams, and a laser that sets the entire ground you're standing on, on fire. To this, you add in the fact that as you damage him, he starts attacking faster and with a greater number of shots for the ring laser.

I have only played the first 6 games of Megaman, so I can´t really fully understand your pain in the ass, but of the look of your description, he really does sound like a pain in the ass, so I say congratulations for giving him a pain in the ass.

[+Persona Fiend+]

I just bought Guilty Gear X2 #Reload and I-No at the end of arcade mode is a real bitch for people just getting into the GG series. Probably the hardest fighting game boss I personally have ever fought. In story mode, though, she's a breeze.

Oh, and I got the hell smashed out of me in the first encounter in Saga Frontier 2 also.

[deshrill]

The Zero series is very fun, yet brutally hard in an old-school way. It will make most modern gamers cry. :)

That being said, I honestly suck at the game, though I've been gaming since 1986 or so when I owned an Atari 2600. I'm looking forward to Capcom's upcoming Mega Man X Collection.

[BlueMage]

The Zero series is very fun, yet brutally hard in an old-school way. It will make most modern gamers cry. :)

Trust me, it does :)

That said ... MMZ3 is strangely easy .... I mean, sure, the last boss is, like in MMZ, a nice surprise, but when you consider who you're fighting against .... it seems too easy.

Bummerdude - very much a pain in the arse. You'd understand why if you knew who that final boss was. And you really should try the X series of MegaMan games - after 3, the NES ones were all pretty much the same over and over.

That said, I'm considering getting X8 for PC.

[Bummerdude]

The Zero series is very fun, yet brutally hard in an old-school way. It will make most modern gamers cry. :)
Bummerdude - very much a pain in the arse. You'd understand why if you knew who that final boss was. And you really should try the X series of MegaMan games - after 3, the NES ones were all pretty much the same over and over.

That would be quite possible, the console for the X-series is Playstation right? I have a PS2, so that would work out.

[deshrill]

You know, I had MMX 4-6 for the PSX then had to sell them, but the upcoming Mega Man X Collection makes me feel less bad about that. :)

The Mega Man series has always relied on formula. I really enjoy the style of detailed anime-style stills for the cut-scenes in the PSX MMX games. I've haven't tried the MMX PS2 games and want to try them out, despite their less than stellar reputations.

I did enjoy the Mega Man Legends series though, although the Misadventures of Tron Bonne spin-off was arguably more fun.

[Lavant]

Maat from Final Fantasy 11.

[Gruntguy]

Jecht from Final Fantasy X. Took me something like 3 weeks worth of leveling up to finally beat the douche bag.

[Blackwinged Saron]

i actually had one hell of a time beating Sigma in MMX5. his attacks were almost impossile to dodge...and i never fould a weapon that worked REALLY well against the first form. it sucked.

[- Zero -]

The Boss from Solid Snake 3. I still don't get the cqc how do you beat her like that I dunno just hide.

[Bummerdude]

Jecht from Final Fantasy X. Took me something like 3 weeks worth of leveling up to finally beat the douche bag.
I did also has some trouble with him, but that was before I knew how to get attack reels. But the most disappointing thing with the final boss of FFX is that it SO MUCH EASIER than Jecht. You have autolife on you the whole time, it´s impossible to lose.

Wait a minute, was that a spoiler?

[Vilecat]

Wait a minute, was that a spoiler?
By now, i doubt. It's been mentioned before quite a few times, if i remember well. And probably in the "All Time Easiest Boss" thread too.

[Blackwinged Saron]

Wait a minute, was that a spoiler?
By now, i doubt. It's been mentioned before quite a few times, if i remember well. And probably in the "All Time Easiest Boss" thread too.

actually i was just about to get there, you see, i've never played FFX before. so yeah...you ruined it. thx.




j/k it's not ruined, but yeah im almost done beating it for the first time, thx for the tip.

[Gruntguy]

Wait a minute, was that a spoiler?
By now, i doubt. It's been mentioned before quite a few times, if i remember well. And probably in the "All Time Easiest Boss" thread too.

actually i was just about to get there, you see, i've never played FFX before. so yeah...you ruined it. thx.




j/k it's not ruined, but yeah im almost done beating it for the first time, thx for the tip.

Man, even if it did spoil it for you, you should beat it anyways. I thought that was the best FF game out there. FF X-2 on the other hand sucks. I got 7 hours into it and was embarresed by how bad it was.

[Blackwinged Saron]

Wait a minute, was that a spoiler?
By now, i doubt. It's been mentioned before quite a few times, if i remember well. And probably in the "All Time Easiest Boss" thread too.

actually i was just about to get there, you see, i've never played FFX before. so yeah...you ruined it. thx.




j/k it's not ruined, but yeah im almost done beating it for the first time, thx for the tip. <--

Man, even if it did spoil it for you, you should beat it anyways. I thought that was the best FF game out there. FF X-2 on the other hand sucks. I got 7 hours into it and was embarresed by how bad it was.

notice final comment, i am still playing it.

[Arek the Absolute]

i actually had one hell of a time beating Sigma in MMX5. his attacks were almost impossile to dodge...and i never fould a weapon that worked REALLY well against the first form. it sucked.
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You serious?

[Magicshmop]

I'd have to say the hardest boss I'v ever played was that one boss from Phalanx,the last boss. I never got past him, and most people never even got that far. His attacks were litterally impossible to dodge,or get an attack on him. Was tottaly gay, I ended up getting it on zsens,and playing him in slow-mo.

[Bummerdude]

Wait a minute, was that a spoiler?
By now, i doubt. It's been mentioned before quite a few times, if i remember well. And probably in the "All Time Easiest Boss" thread too.

actually i was just about to get there, you see, i've never played FFX before. so yeah...you ruined it. thx.

j/k it's not ruined, but yeah im almost done beating it for the first time, thx for the tip.

Man, even if it did spoil it for you, you should beat it anyways. I thought that was the best FF game out there. FF X-2 on the other hand sucks. I got 7 hours into it and was embarresed by how bad it was.
Don´t remind me of their exciting dance in Kilika, brrrr.

[Drack]

The cyclops in mega man 1, from one of the wily stages.

He came back in an easier form in mega man 3. Easier primarily because you could slide in MM3, and that you had a more damaging weapon (Hard knuckle).

Wily in mega man 7.

Sigma in mega man X4 when you're zero. Just because of when he does the attack where you see a big face .. hard to hit him with a melee attack without getting hit yourself.

Funny, to me Atma Weapon in FF6 was a pushover. Didn't drain his MP either (only used osmose when I got low).

[Denzel]

But I was wrong, Emerald and Ruby weapon from FF7 are the hardest or at least one of the hardest bosses ever. Okay, not Emerald, but surely Ruby.

Just use Dazers on him. He'll stay stunned for like.. ten rounds.

[sakura_luv_sasuke]

"Great challenges you can overcome, yes you can. But many game bosses whoop your ass, yes? Well it's not my fault you don't listen!"

Ok, the toughest girl boss battle would be... Lenus, from "Legend of Dragoon" for the PS1. I still havent't whooped her wingly butt yet!

Toughest guy boss, Vergil from DMC3. I sware, i just beat him this week, and it took me 8 TRYS! 8 FU**ING TRYS! God, i hate his attacks!

But the hardest creature boss, well that goes too...Ultima Wepon of FF8, he's very tough, and i still havent whooped his ass, i'm so weak!

[hazardous]

"Great challenges you can overcome, yes you can. But many game bosses whoop your ass, yes? Well it's not my fault you don't listen!"

Ok, the toughest girl boss battle would be...Lenus, from "Legend of Dragoon" for the PS1. I still haven't whooped her wingly butt yet!

Toughest guy boss, Vergil from DMC3. I swear, I just beat him this week, and it took me 8 TRYS! 8 FUCKING TRYS! God, I hate his attacks!

But the hardest creature boss, well that goes to...Ultima Wepon of FF8. He's very tough, and I still haven't whooped his ass. I'm so weak!
Fixed. Learn to type.

Nah, it didn't bother me that much. I just felt like being a bitch about it.

[Kutrayn]

Long time since I posted here (thread/GenDisc)...

I don't know if it has been said, I don't know if it's close (but I'm posting it anyway).

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Mutated Emperor Ing. Hard Mode. (Helps that I did not remember to use the Annihilator). He kicked my butt time and time again. After beating the previous two E.Ing incarnations with no problem, I would get this dude down to half life and die. Max missiles, max beam ammo, max Energy tanks. Basically, I had completed the file on hard for 100% complete save for beating this dude (and what follows).

:oops: Then I remembered the Annihilator Beam/Sonic Blast and I beat him after a couple tries. :oops:

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

I've said it way back before...but i'll say it again..

The Trojan bosses !!

[Bummerdude]

I´m currently playing Zelda:Oracle of Ages, and many bosses are just UUNNNNGAH!, but I have beated them in next, third or first time. I made one this morning, was nearly beaten before I knew how to do. It was the one in the....I don´t know what it´s called, but the fifth temple.

[+Persona Fiend+]

Does it/should it count as a boss character if...oh, say you are playing Street Fighter III: Third Stike on Xbox Live, and you have a match against a top ten ranked player (out of 40K registered players, from what I understand)? Do they HAVE to play GILL (the normal boss character from arcade mode)? A lot of the people I play online are a lot harder than the original boss character.

I guess what I am saying here, should anyone pay attention, is that online gamers sometimes seem harder than the BOSS counterparts of the very games being referenced. Anyones feelings, here?!

[ZeroBass.Exe]

I've said it way back before...but i'll say it again..

The Trojan bosses !!

You don't mean Trojan for the NES, do you? They were wimps!!

[redunz]

ok, the all time hardest boss? easy. Sorry if this has already been menioned, but I really can't be bothered going through 140+ pages of replies.

There is a game called Slime Volleyball. If you havent played it, go here:

http://oneslime.net/

The final boss is this evil flashing slime that is faster than you, and always screws you over. Then when you finally beat it......you have to play it again. This time without making a single mistake, as now instead of having to beat you six times, and vice-versa, it only needs to beat you once, but you have to beat it the full six times.

Most. Annoying. Boss. Ever.

[south pacific islander]

ridly in metroid zero mission on hard mode. GOd that thing is hard to kill.

[Bummerdude]

Those beastmen in Seiken Densetsu 3 are really annoying, but they´re not bosses.

[whatfruit]

Mate i'll say it agian the dragon at the end of WonderBoy in Moster Land on the Sega master system!!!!

[Seth]

I would have to say Hitoshura from SMT: Digital Devil Saga...

[reachme100]

skeith from .hack infection was a dick to fight :x

[Bummerdude]

Maybe this thread is the hardest boss, it won´t just die.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

I've said it way back before...but i'll say it again..

The Trojan bosses !!

You don't mean Trojan for the NES, do you? They were wimps!!

I am not a hardcore gamer mind you :twisted:
Even though i am somewhat old-skool.

[Soujiro Seta]

All time hardest boss? That doggone Phoenix-whatever from Megaman Zero 2.

[Ristan]

The Dark Disciple on Ninja Gaiden Black on Hard.
I haven't past Very hard of Master Ninja, but 16 tries is more than too many.

[Z-Saber]

SotC #16. I spent a good three hours yesterday trying to get him in under 9:30. Won't go into detail though because spoiling that game to anyone is a crime.

[chickenchasr]

hardest boss... how about Seymour (3) from FFX

[The Author]

This thread holds my very first post.

Kinda historical.

[The Tiger]

This thread holds my very first post.

Kinda historical.

Wow...that is pretty cool. I cannot remember when I first posted here.

[The Author]

It would be cool if it held my 20 000th post as well.

[Pallad]

SotC #16. I spent a good three hours yesterday trying to get him in under 9:30. Won't go into detail though because spoiling that game to anyone is a crime.

SPOILERS

I swear, I got lucky on time attack and found a shortcut at the first blast gates. After that, the only advice I can offer is to position yourself just barely touching the symbol on his head. He won't be able to shake you that way.

END SPOILERS

I guess I'll throw my lot in and declare the hardest boss I ever dealt with to be Robotnik from Sonic 2 & Knuckles. Now I know I can simply hit him when he plops down on the ground, but I've only ever done the fight when I was younger, and I was damned impatient after spending the (usually) afternoon on the game; so I'd get to him and take every risk I could to get just one more hit in.

Then it would happen. Knuckles would float through Robotnik and die. I can recall beating him once or twice, but it was so enraging that I almost never play Sonic 2 with Knuckles.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Bowser was so hard in Yoshi Story.

JUST KIDDING!

Shadow Ganondorf or whatever he was called in the Forest Temple in OOT gave me a real hard time.

Some of the bosses in LTTP were pretty tough, though none in particular jump to mind as the hardest.

[btangel]

currently...Soul calibur III computer AI is kicking my ass -"-

[SilentMartyr]

currently...Soul calibur III computer AI is kicking my ass -"-

Heh, nub.

[btangel]

currently...Soul calibur III computer AI is kicking my ass -"-

Heh, nub.

not until I noticed that they never escape a grab... :lol:

seriously the game's AI is godly and stupid at the same time.

[SilentMartyr]

currently...Soul calibur III computer AI is kicking my ass -"-

Heh, nub.

not until I noticed that they never escape a grab... :lol:

seriously the game's AI is godly and stupid at the same time.

The best time to grab against the AI is when it is attacking, and you are not being hit by that attack. It does have some crazy abilities when it is just plain blocking, but it rarely breaks the throw if it is in action.

[btangel]

currently...Soul calibur III computer AI is kicking my ass -"-

Heh, nub.

not until I noticed that they never escape a grab... :lol:

seriously the game's AI is godly and stupid at the same time.

The best time to grab against the AI is when it is attacking, and you are not being hit by that attack. It does have some crazy abilities when it is just plain blocking, but it rarely breaks the throw if it is in action.

haha I know how to play the game. I played a bunch of SC2 and had bi-weekly get togethers with 5 other friends on a regular basis. It's just damn frustrating when you throw in a 5 hit combo with mixups and the AI blocks them all flawlessly, but doesn't escape a simple A+G grab o_O||| godly and stupid is right about SC3s AI.

[Warmech]

Well, despite all the hating on FFX-2, I beat it last night and enjoyed it. For everyone who says it's too girly and other various whinings, get over it. Anyway, the game was fairly easy for the most part. No bosses ever gave me too much trouble, until I went into the Bevelle secret dungeon in Chapter Five.

This place is home to the nastiest creatures in the game. It's 100 floors with bosses on floors 20, 40, 60, 80, and two on floor 100. The first two bosses are easy, but the next two sport over 300,000 HP each and have attacks that do well over 9,999 points of damage to characters. However, with the Cat Nip accessory equipped you can down them in two rounds each without suffering much damage. The real pain comes at the last cloister.

You see, you're in this dungeon to find a man named Trema. All the while you've been tailing this one apparition who is with all the bosses. You meet him at cloister 100 and he turns into a big Ultima Weapon-looking thing called Paragon. Well, he only has 200,000 HP, so a Cat Nipped gunner can down him in two turns, one if you hit him enough and have two strong characters attack after that. You want to make this battle quick though, because he has REALLY powerful attacks and you want to be at full strength when the battle is over because you immediately go into the fight with Trema.

Trema...is one bad dude, to put it simply. He sports high HP too just like the other bosses in this place, but he has the whopping 999,999 HP! Still, that only means you have to get him with about 5-6 Trigger Happies with the Cat Nip, but that's the hard part. He is MUCH faster than everyone in your party, usually getting in two attacks before you have the chance to attack. He mainly uses physical attacks that combo a single character for 1500-4000 points of damage. After you take away about half of his hit points he starts busting out Meteor. If you have all three characters alive the damage is lessened, but the fewer characters you have, the harder it hits. It WILL kill just one character by herself, and could kill two if they have low HP. After that he goes back to beating on you for awhile. When he nears death, he breaks out Ultima, which does 9,999 damage to everyone. If you have the Break HP Limit in effect, this doesn't affect you, but I didn't. After trying MANY times to outlast him and beat him before he used Ultima (which never worked), I finally drained all his magic. Once I did that, and equipped my other two characters with an auto-protect accessory, he went down fairly easy.

[Stalwart Jester]

currently...Soul calibur III computer AI is kicking my ass -"-

Heh, nub.

not until I noticed that they never escape a grab... :lol:

seriously the game's AI is godly and stupid at the same time.

The best time to grab against the AI is when it is attacking, and you are not being hit by that attack. It does have some crazy abilities when it is just plain blocking, but it rarely breaks the throw if it is in action.

haha I know how to play the game. I played a bunch of SC2 and had bi-weekly get togethers with 5 other friends on a regular basis. It's just damn frustrating when you throw in a 5 hit combo with mixups and the AI blocks them all flawlessly, but doesn't escape a simple A+G grab o_O||| godly and stupid is right about SC3s AI.

yeah...I admit sometimes the AI can mess me up good, but then I always come back and toss it's ass back to kingdom come. Ninja with sickle for the win.

[I-n-j-i-n]

Trema...is one bad dude, to put it simply. He sports high HP too just like the other bosses in this place, but he has the whopping 999,999 HP! Still, that only means you have to get him with about 5-6 Trigger Happies with the Cat Nip, but that's the hard part. He is MUCH faster than everyone in your party, usually getting in two attacks before you have the chance to attack. He mainly uses physical attacks that combo a single character for 1500-4000 points of damage.

I agree. FFX-2 wasn't THAT bad (though the pop-star thing is still a bit ridiculous). That, and Trema reminds me of Nemesis in FFX. Both great boss battles. And IMO some of the few truly challenging bosses in recent RPGs. I wish they had bosses like that in games like real time action RPGs.

[ChefOfDeath]

The one boss that immediately jumps out at me was the fortress boss in Aerofighters Assault on the N64. That thing was beastly. After weeks I finally developed a strategy for beating it, but it was slow, painstaking, and not always successful (it involved much kamikaze...).

Some of the bosses in Zelda II on the NES were pretty hard, too.

[The Coop]

Okay.

So I'm playing Shining Soul on my GBA (yeah, I know what the reviews said, but it's not that bad). I'm playing along, battling bosses and leveling up. Around the fourth dungeon, I think I'm a big bad stud muffin for kicking the asses of every boss thus far. Well, you can imagine what happened on this dungeon's boss since I'm posting here.

I reach Michaela, sit through the slowly scrolling speech she gives, and then proceed to get my ass kicked. Her attacks are quite simple. She has four or five clones that shoot out ice, while the real Michaela shoots out a lightning bolt. If the ice hits you, you slow down for a time, and take damage. If the lightning hits you, you just take damage, but more of it.

So I'm running around, trying to find the real version of this bitch. I'm swinging my charged up Axe, throwing my charged up Morningstar-like weapon... but all I'm hitting are the clones. I can never get all the version on screen at one time to see which one casts the lightning. The few times I did, I was on the other side of the screen avoiding the ice shots. By the time I got over to where she was, all the characters has moved around and I didn't know which one the real one was again.

To say this was frustrating would be quite truthful. Now, after a few tried, I got good at staying alive for long periods of time. Healing my character, avoiding the ice rocks... I was doing alright. But I couldn't get to the real Michaela. It was like she was always on the opposite side of the screen from me... always.

Now granted, I did eventually beat her after a long series or randomly swung charged axe attacks, but I still don't know a pattern to this boss. I know there has to be one (in theory), but I'd like to know what it is so I can go back and kick her ass just to make myself feel better, considering even the final boss was easy for me to beat.

[redchlorine]

I'm not sure this counts as a boss, but...
In Arcanum, right at the first town, there are 3 guys blocking the only bridge out of town. One human and 2 half orcs, all of whom love to use their fists. Not much of a problem, unless you consider the fact that fists take away a large abount of fatigue, of which you might be lucky to have 60 at that point. After a few fist strikes, you hit 0 fatigue, fall down, then they start kicking you. Your fatigue then goes into the negatives, while your helath quickly follows suit.
It doesn't help that they almost always hit you, while your character is completely inept at anything. This includes [but is not limited to] sword swinging, gun slinging, grenade flinging, arrow zinging.....anythinging!
And there isn't much to level up with at this point.

Of course, you could always 'convince' them otherwise, but where's the fun in that? :wink:

[Conan-the-3rd]

I freaking hate Monster X in Cave Stroy and from what I see, the core ain't going to be any more fun once I get to it.

Monster X is a freaking cheap ass bastard that just seems to conveniantly hit you dead just before his HP Is due to run out.

[Navi]

Well, despite all the hating on FFX-2, I beat it last night and enjoyed it. For everyone who says it's too girly and other various whinings, get over it. Anyway, the game was fairly easy for the most part. No bosses ever gave me too much trouble, until I went into the Bevelle secret dungeon in Chapter Five.

This place is home to the nastiest creatures in the game. It's 100 floors with bosses on floors 20, 40, 60, 80, and two on floor 100. The first two bosses are easy, but the next two sport over 300,000 HP each and have attacks that do well over 9,999 points of damage to characters. However, with the Cat Nip accessory equipped you can down them in two rounds each without suffering much damage. The real pain comes at the last cloister.

You see, you're in this dungeon to find a man named Trema. All the while you've been tailing this one apparition who is with all the bosses. You meet him at cloister 100 and he turns into a big Ultima Weapon-looking thing called Paragon. Well, he only has 200,000 HP, so a Cat Nipped gunner can down him in two turns, one if you hit him enough and have two strong characters attack after that. You want to make this battle quick though, because he has REALLY powerful attacks and you want to be at full strength when the battle is over because you immediately go into the fight with Trema.

Trema...is one bad dude, to put it simply. He sports high HP too just like the other bosses in this place, but he has the whopping 999,999 HP! Still, that only means you have to get him with about 5-6 Trigger Happies with the Cat Nip, but that's the hard part. He is MUCH faster than everyone in your party, usually getting in two attacks before you have the chance to attack. He mainly uses physical attacks that combo a single character for 1500-4000 points of damage. After you take away about half of his hit points he starts busting out Meteor. If you have all three characters alive the damage is lessened, but the fewer characters you have, the harder it hits. It WILL kill just one character by herself, and could kill two if they have low HP. After that he goes back to beating on you for awhile. When he nears death, he breaks out Ultima, which does 9,999 damage to everyone. If you have the Break HP Limit in effect, this doesn't affect you, but I didn't. After trying MANY times to outlast him and beat him before he used Ultima (which never worked), I finally drained all his magic. Once I did that, and equipped my other two characters with an auto-protect accessory, he went down fairly easy.

Bevelle's secret dungeon is a nightmare. One of the most tedious, nail biting dungeons in any game I have ever played. The bosses were...worthy of being noted in this thread, to say the least.

FFX-2 <3

[Indalecio]

I'd have to say the hardest boss in any game would have to be Indalecio from Star Ocean 2 with his limiter removed of course, with that limiter in place the guy is a push over. With his limiter removed he has around 2-4 million hp and can down your entire party in one attack regardless of level and gear.

If thats not bad enough try removing his limiter in universal difficulty. I've heard he's impossible to beat in universal difficulty with no limiter.

[redchlorine]

I'm not sure this counts as a boss, but...
In Arcanum, right at the first town, there are 3 guys blocking the only bridge out of town. One human and 2 half orcs, all of whom love to use their fists. Not much of a problem, unless you consider the fact that fists take away a large abount of fatigue, of which you might be lucky to have 60 at that point. After a few fist strikes, you hit 0 fatigue, fall down, then they start kicking you. Your fatigue then goes into the negatives, while your helath quickly follows suit.
It doesn't help that they almost always hit you, while your character is completely inept at anything. This includes [but is not limited to] sword swinging, gun slinging, grenade flinging, arrow zinging.....anythinging!
And there isn't much to level up with at this point.

Of course, you could always 'convince' them otherwise, but where's the fun in that? :wink:
Lukan is only hard if your character isn't some sort of badass melee character and if that is the case, you shouldn't be trying to solve such situations with violence anyway. It's a hell of a lot easier (and more rewarding in the long haul) to convince him you are part of the Thieves Underground. But even if you wanted to, it's possible to kill them with a wussy character if you pick up the Half-ogre follower and level up in the mines and outside of the town for long enough. You can easily get a level 7 or 8 character while still in Shrouded Hills. Oh yeah, you could also just pickpocket him and take the key.

Arcanum is a great game.
Or abuse the game's AI and simply use harm on them from outside their perception range...
I was talking about the first time you meet them in your first game, you have no idea whats going on, and you waste sooo much time trying to get past them.
Might be why the game never really took off. Too damn hard in the beginning for nubs trying to be a generic good sword swinging hero.

[Z-Saber]

I freaking hate Monster X in Cave Stroy and from what I see, the core ain't going to be any more fun once I get to it.

Monster X is a freaking cheap ass bastard that just seems to conveniantly hit you dead just before his HP Is due to run out.Been a while since I've played Cave Story so I don't quite remember Monster X, but I do remember the core. The core itself is godly, but the trip there is almost equally so as well.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

Trema...is one bad dude, to put it simply. He sports high HP too just like the other bosses in this place, but he has the whopping 999,999 HP! Still, that only means you have to get him with about 5-6 Trigger Happies with the Cat Nip, but that's the hard part. He is MUCH faster than everyone in your party, usually getting in two attacks before you have the chance to attack. He mainly uses physical attacks that combo a single character for 1500-4000 points of damage.

I agree. FFX-2 wasn't THAT bad (though the pop-star thing is still a bit ridiculous). That, and Trema reminds me of Nemesis in FFX. Both great boss battles. And IMO some of the few truly challenging bosses in recent RPGs. I wish they had bosses like that in games like real time action RPGs.

I think it's just the return to the Active Time Battle system that makes boss battles harder ,compared to FFX.

[Bummerdude]

Trema...is one bad dude, to put it simply. He sports high HP too just like the other bosses in this place, but he has the whopping 999,999 HP! Still, that only means you have to get him with about 5-6 Trigger Happies with the Cat Nip, but that's the hard part. He is MUCH faster than everyone in your party, usually getting in two attacks before you have the chance to attack. He mainly uses physical attacks that combo a single character for 1500-4000 points of damage.

I agree. FFX-2 wasn't THAT bad (though the pop-star thing is still a bit ridiculous). That, and Trema reminds me of Nemesis in FFX. Both great boss battles. And IMO some of the few truly challenging bosses in recent RPGs. I wish they had bosses like that in games like real time action RPGs.

I think it's just the return to the Active Time Battle system that makes boss battles harder ,compared to FFX.
FFX has very hard bosses, the Battle Arena is full of them. If you don´t plan your battle right or makes one mistake, that´would be nuff to end thy game dude.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

FFX has very hard bosses, the Battle Arena is full of them. If you don´t plan your battle right or makes one mistake, that´would be nuff to end thy game dude.

True, but with the CTB at least you have the time to plan your moves right.

[IcePick]

I don't know if this one was mentioned yet, but even if it is, I still feel the need to bring it to attention.

The Genesis game Dynamite Headdy is a fun-as-hell game. A unique game from Treasure where you use your head to attack stuff. Anyways, the boss for the eight stage is without a doubt the hardest boss in the game, even harder than the final boss.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/VicViper_/twinfreaks.jpg

Twin Freaks. The heathen that he is. The tough part about this boss is actually a few things:
1. Auto-scrolling stage that varies speed.
2. In order to get through the stage, you have to hit a switch that flips the stage upside down. They were featured in the last stage, but they are in this stage also. However, when you flip the stage, the boss changes heads from a nice slow-walking green head to an angry fast-walking red head.
3. When you switch to the red head, the scrolling speed speeds up, he moves closer to your side of the screen (making it easier to squish you), and you can't deal damage to him.
4. You have to hit the ear of the green head in order to do damage. The red head will take no damage (besides, you'll be too worried about surviving to attack that side).
5. Spikes. Thousands of them.
6. Did I mention the scrolling speed speeds up when you go to the red head?

All of this makes for a damn hard boss fight. I've never heard of anyone beating him without losing health, and dying alot at this point is not uncommon. Maybe not the hardest boss of all time, but certainly one worth mentioning in my opinion.

[Amayirot Akago]

I don't know if this one was mentioned yet, but even if it is, I still feel the need to bring it to attention.

The Genesis game Dynamite Headdy is a fun-as-hell game. A unique game from Treasure where you use your head to attack stuff. Anyways, the boss for the eight stage is without a doubt the hardest boss in the game, even harder than the final boss.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/VicViper_/twinfreaks.jpg

Twin Freaks. The heathen that he is. The tough part about this boss is actually a few things:
1. Auto-scrolling stage that varies speed.
2. In order to get through the stage, you have to hit a switch that flips the stage upside down. They were featured in the last stage, but they are in this stage also. However, when you flip the stage, the boss changes heads from a nice slow-walking green head to an angry fast-walking red head.
3. When you switch to the red head, the scrolling speed speeds up, he moves closer to your side of the screen (making it easier to squish you), and you can't deal damage to him.
4. You have to hit the ear of the green head in order to do damage. The red head will take no damage (besides, you'll be too worried about surviving to attack that side).
5. Spikes. Thousands of them.
6. Did I mention the scrolling speed speeds up when you go to the red head?

All of this makes for a damn hard boss fight. I've never heard of anyone beating him without losing health, and dying alot at this point is not uncommon. Maybe not the hardest boss of all time, but certainly one worth mentioning in my opinion.
I've never played the game, but I hate him already.

[gleipnir binds]

magical drop is hard as hell... and G4 had a bad guy countdown where sephiroth (FF VII) was voted "most kick-ass badguy" or something like that... I wouldn't know... i never got passed the 1st disk... got boring

[Wing00]

The hardest boss of all time in video game history was the last boss in Metal Gear for the NES. For the simple reason that Konami forgot to program him to die. Thats right, he litteraly can't die.

[about:blank]

The hardest boss of all time in video game history was the last boss in Metal Gear for the NES. For the simple reason that Konami forgot to program him to die. Thats right, he litteraly can't die.
O RLY?

Honestly though...I think that Final Fantasy IV had the all time hardest bosses, almost every boss in that game was impossible, and they just kept getting harder and harder after that.

[Bummerdude]

The hardest boss of all time in video game history was the last boss in Metal Gear for the NES. For the simple reason that Konami forgot to program him to die. Thats right, he litteraly can't die.
O RLY?

Honestly though...I think that Final Fantasy IV had the all time hardest bosses, almost every boss in that game was impossible, and they just kept getting harder and harder after that.
Nah, not really, but the never ending supply of Behemoths and Purple heads in the final cave was a menace.

[Nineko]

I don't know if this one was mentioned yet, but even if it is, I still feel the need to bring it to attention.that, and I don't want to read 150 pages of thread.

Lucifeller, the final boss in Kabuki Clash, is hard as hell.

[ZeroBass.Exe]

How about the bosses in the last fourth of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories! They were hard as hell because of the games card based battle system, the longer the fight dragged on, the weaker you became because you keep losing your spelll cards when Sleighting and what not!

[The Coop]

Ever had one of those games that you can kick the ass of, but as soon as you reach the end, it decides to go ballistic and kick your ass? After a visit to a local flea market a couple months back, I've found just such a game.

Captain Skyhawk for the NES is really an easy game. Sure, at first the altitude aspect takes a bit to get used to, but within an hour, you get the hang of it. I can get through the game's main stages with little trouble. I can get the best weapons lickity split, and kick the asses of those little "bonus" stages that try and mimic After Burner. But for the life of me, I can't beat the final boss.

It's attacks are pretty straight forward. It fires quickly at you as you move about a stationary screen with the boss in the background, and your plane in the foreground (like a non moving After Burner). All it does, is shoot a lot of bullet streams that move pretty quick. But the controls for your plane suddenly get very floaty. Perhaps it's because you're in space, but since the rest of the game has rather crisp control, this makes maneuvering and getting out of the way of the bullets seemingly impossible. It's a rather abrupt shift in way things control.

I know I have to be missing something... some trick or maneuver that would give me the upper hand. But I'll be damned if I can find it.

[Drack]

The hardest boss for me would have to be Miguel in Chrono Cross. Of course, that's because I have two black innates in the party and his two whitey spells in a row usually kill both of them immediately. Miguel didn't give me too much trouble. Yeah, his Holy Drag Sword would 1shot people and occasionally he would kil lynx, but not much more to it than wearing him down. Black Dragon and (believe it or not) highwayman and Hi-Ho Tank gave me more trouble than miguel. Not that they were overly hard. Chrono Cross bosses weren't that hard in general.

[Drack]

Metroid Prime, and the Essence thereof. Those were hard friggin bosses. I found Ridley harder than Prime. Omega Pirate too.

Prime is a respectable final boss though. Not among the hardest imo.

[ZeroBass.Exe]

Metroid Prime, and the Essence thereof. Those were hard friggin bosses. I found Ridley harder than Prime. Omega Pirate too.

Prime is a respectable final boss though. Not among the hardest imo.

It is possible to kill Omega Pirate in one round, but you need to make EVERY Super Missile count. And if you can get about 90% of the missile upgrades, after Ridley loses his wings, you can hold a Flamethrower on him until he croaks without letting up. Easy kill.

[Drack]

All-time hardest boss of ANY game, I would say Overlord Mata Muram in Everquest.

I'll try to find a good writeup on his encounter as most people here wouldn't know WTF I'm talking about.

Edit: I wavebuster'd ridley's second form when I felt like being cheap, ha!

[ZeroBass.Exe]

Yeah, I meant Wave Buster, my bad!

[MasterMargie]

Guilty Gear X2 - I-no
WTF, she doesn't die. Ever. On top of that, her special (which only the CPU can use) interrupts any combo you have her in, and she can take half your life bar in two hits.

Also, props to Zophar from Lunar 2. It took me like a week straight of attempts to finally take him out. I'm pretty sure that's more time I've ever spent on a boss from an RPG. (period)

[Skilless]

Have we come to a conclusion yet?

[Dew]

Guilty Gear X2 - I-no
WTF, she doesn't die. Ever. On top of that, her special (which only the CPU can use) interrupts any combo you have her in, and she can take half your life bar in two hits.

You just suck at GGXX. Like every other person who complains about her.

[Bummerdude]

Have we come to a conclusion yet?
This thread is the hardest boss. It cannot die.

[DJ Skratch 'n' Sniff]

The hardest boss I've ever come across would have to be either Omega Weapon or Shinryu from FF5. I say that only because I fought them once and died horribly... too ashamed to ever face them again. Any strategies?

[Bummerdude]

The hardest boss I've ever come across would have to be either Omega Weapon or Shinryu from FF5. I say that only because I fought them once and died horribly... too ashamed to ever face them again. Any strategies?
You have obviously not met Gogo. But yes indeed, Omega is hard, VERY hard. Took awhile to realize that you could pass by him. I actually think I defeated Shinryu, but I don´t remember how. Maybe I was throwing coins. That´s how I defeated the Final Boss.

[sephfire]

The hardest boss of all time in video game history was the last boss in Metal Gear for the NES. For the simple reason that Konami forgot to program him to die. Thats right, he litteraly can't die.

Same with the final boss in FarCry: Instincts if you're unlucky enough to experience the glitch. You can shoot/punch him for hours and he'll keep on coming at you like a tank. A tank with infinite ammunition and no character depth.

[Wolt]

I'm too lazy to read the whole thing...
I managed to get thru Snake rattle n' roll when I was like 9 or 10.
One really fun game, still my favorite NES game.
Seiken Densetsu 3 isn't hard at all.
It's just bout getting best weapons,classes and some levels so the bosses don't spank you with their mean deathspell.

oh! the hardest boss?
Have yet to complete Super Mario RPG, Im stuck at the stupid axem-rangers.

[Bummerdude]

Have we come to a conclusion yet?
This thread is the hardest boss. It cannot die.

That's been said about 34 times.
Cannot you call that a conclusion? It got 34 votes!

[Wolt]

Now when I think...
Andross from starfox adventures was really frustrating but not impossible.

[Warmech]

I know there's a cheap way to beat Shinryuu from FFV, something involving some sort of rings that absorb it's water attacks and then having all dragoons in your party with powerful lances and jumping all the time. I never tried it. As for Omega Weapon...I'm not sure. I only fought it once and it beat me pretty soundly.

And I've also beaten the original Metal Gear. You must've done something wrong.

[Tsumetai]

Maybe the thread should be refined to the hardest boss of all time excluding bosses that are glitched or poorly programed so they can never die.

[The Author]

Have we come to a conclusion yet?
This thread is the hardest boss. It cannot die.

That's been said about 34 times.
Cannot you call that a conclusion? It got 34 votes!

As I have said before: This thread is historical.

My first post on OCR is in it.

[Bummerdude]

Have we come to a conclusion yet?
This thread is the hardest boss. It cannot die.

That's been said about 34 times.
Cannot you call that a conclusion? It got 34 votes!

As I have said before: This thread is historical.

My first post on OCR is in it.
::runs to first page to look at the date::

I didn´t realize this thread was so old.

[The Author]

Have we come to a conclusion yet?
This thread is the hardest boss. It cannot die.

That's been said about 34 times.
Cannot you call that a conclusion? It got 34 votes!

As I have said before: This thread is historical.

My first post on OCR is in it.
::runs to first page to look at the date::

I didn´t realize this thread was so old.

You can also see how long I lurked, and how long it took for me to go to unmod and call it home.

[shpladoink]

I never beat the final boss in "Where's Waldo" for NES.


oh wait



there wasn't one.

[SPDeath]

The 3 bosses in Duke Nukem were pretty hard. I think the one thing that kept me going in that game was Duke nukem's witty comments.

http://www.chez.com/flavnet/duke/images/boss.gif

http://www.sanfords.net/Free_Games/images/boss_3.gif

[megamanx.sam]

What about lavos Core from CT? that took hours cuz the stupid lavos bits kept on reviving lavos. :x :x

[The Author]

What about lavos Core from CT? that took hours cuz the stupid lavos bits kept on reviving lavos. :x :x

...


Kill left bit.

Kill right bit.

Kill lavos.

5 minutes tops.

[Bummerdude]

What about lavos Core from CT? that took hours cuz the stupid lavos bits kept on reviving lavos. :x :x
That´s was a peace of cake. But the hardest version of Lavos though, is when you fight him when that queen in the dark age awakens him. It has the strongest attack possible and that rain hurts alot. And about the core, yes, it´s irritating, but I think the left one was weak for physical attacks and the left one magic. Just keep kickin ass and you might eventually make it.
If not, go away and train.

[The Author]

You most likely cannot kill Lavos at the undersea palace unless you use New Game+


...



Ah dammit, now I want to try.

[Bummerdude]

You most likely cannot kill Lavos at the undersea palace unless you use New Game+


...



Ah dammit, now I want to try.
That´s the hardest boss in the game.
SPOILER
And in the beginning of the New Game+, you can touch a shining sparkle in one of Luca´s telepods, and you will then stand in front of Lavos, alone or with the girl depending if you walk in there before or after the girl has been teleported to the past.

[The Author]

You most likely cannot kill Lavos at the undersea palace unless you use New Game+


...



Ah dammit, now I want to try.
That´s the hardest boss in the game.
SPOILER
And in the beginning of the New Game+, you can touch a shining sparkle in one of Luca´s telepods, and you will then stand in front of Lavos, alone or with the girl depending if you walk in there before or after the girl has been teleported to the past.

Dude, in New Game +, I have soloed Lavos.

In an actual game, killing Lavos in undersea palace, with little equipment...

gotta be hard.

[Stealthshark]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

[The Author]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.


Unless you create a new game, use new game plus and use that save as the original save.

[Bummerdude]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.
In New Game+, you can touch a shining sparkle in one of Luca´s telepods, and you will then stand in front of Lavos, alone or with the girl depending if you walk in there before or after the girl has been teleported to the past.

[Black Chakram]

I'm still holding it was the Shadow Link for the end of Adventures of Link. for 4 reasons!

1) That last castle is so freaking long, it drains you of what you've got anyways

2) That odd flying boss you have to fight right BEFORE shadow link is tough in his own right

3) The trick that works to kill a lot of the armos knights (jumping at them and then thrusting your sworf forward while coming back down to cut right through their shield) doesn't work too well on shadow Link

4) and if all that wasnt bad enough, you have some jerk-ass wizard laughing at you the whole fight.

[Bummerdude]

I'm still holding it was the Shadow Link for the end of Adventures of Link.
Shadow Link in Ocariana of Time is a pain in the ass too.

[Stealthshark]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.


Unless you create a new game, use new game plus and use that save as the original save.
Maybe that's what I ended up doing. Been so long I can't remember. All I know is I saw a little shiny thing on the ground, walked over to it, and next thing I know I'm fighting Lavos with no gear and my lvl below double digits.

[PassivePretentiousness]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.


Unless you create a new game, use new game plus and use that save as the original save.
Maybe that's what I ended up doing. Been so long I can't remember. All I know is I saw a little shiny thing on the ground, walked over to it, and next thing I know I'm fighting Lavos with no gear and my lvl below double digits.
wuss. zeality would have one.

[gleipnir binds]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.


Unless you create a new game, use new game plus and use that save as the original save.
Maybe that's what I ended up doing. Been so long I can't remember. All I know is I saw a little shiny thing on the ground, walked over to it, and next thing I know I'm fighting Lavos with no gear and my lvl below double digits.
wuss. zeality would have one.

I coulda took him