Some bosses are just terrible. Whether its a final boss thats to easy or the first boss that will kill you in one shot.
I hated thed final boss in mass effect. Way to easy. even on hard.

I've had some pretty bad bosses. Mostly, they were just those types that hate their job, so they treat all their employees like dirt. Had one so bad, he got asked to leave by corporate before they fired him.

Ugh, Reflux in Rayman 3. Once he becomes huge and grows wings, he just becomes a pain in the ass to deal with because you have to kill him with this piece-of-gak plane that moves about as fast as an arthritic snail and has a gun that apparently shoots gentle puffs of air.

Platuan4th wrote:I've had some pretty bad bosses. Mostly, they were just those types that hate their job, so they treat all their employees like dirt. Had one so bad, he got asked to leave by corporate before they fired him.

Lol.

Gaming wise, I'd go for the Zelda bosses. You can never just hit them with your sword and hope for the best....

I think the bosses in LoZ: Ocarina of Time were fun. Phantom Ganon was the most annoying piece of gak though.

Avatar of Khaine in DoW2... Insta-kills everything, obscene amount of health. Took a good while to kill.

I had tons of trouble with all the bosses in Megaman X, until I figured out that they were really easy if you fought them in a certain order (usually starting with the Ice Penguin guy) and used the weapons on them that were their weaknesses.

Bosses from any of the Megaman games were pretty hard actually. I don't know if that makes them the worst, as they were cool and I liked the game...but I struggled to beat them.

Hordini wrote:I had tons of trouble with all the bosses in Megaman X, until I figured out that they were really easy if you fought them in a certain order (usually starting with the Ice Penguin guy) and used the weapons on them that were their weaknesses.

It's like you'd never played a Megaman game before this, ever.

I don't mean to be insulting, but that's always been the way it's worked since the original Rockman.

Last Remnant - Absolute Conqueror - its a crap shoot if he wants to just instakill everyone in a group. O it looks like your winning bam, maybe next time dork go suck down another mountain dew.

Mad Rabbit wrote:Avatar of Khaine in DoW2... Insta-kills everything, obscene amount of health. Took a good while to kill.

The Avatar is weakass. I killed it with a plasma cannon Devastator squad and a dreadnought.

Platuan4th wrote:

Hordini wrote:I had tons of trouble with all the bosses in Megaman X, until I figured out that they were really easy if you fought them in a certain order (usually starting with the Ice Penguin guy) and used the weapons on them that were their weaknesses.

It's like you'd never played a Megaman game before this, ever.

I don't mean to be insulting, but that's always been the way it's worked since the original Rockman.

Oh no, I figured it out retroactively. I felt kind of silly, becuase I had played plenty of Megaman games before. The problem is, I had never actually beaten another Megaman boss before Megaman X (although one time I almost beat Skullman - that was frustrating). To be fair, I was just a little guy for the early Megaman games and my video game skills were still being developed. At that age, if I even got to the boss at the end of the level, I felt like I'd accomplished something. I remember being annihilated by Pharaohman, usually in like a minute or less since I had so little health by the time I actually reached him.

I'm sure if I went back and played the old Megaman games now, I'd probably plow straight through them. At the time (we're talking Kindergarten or First Grade probably), I found them very challenging. Not knowing the "trick" made them nearly impossible.

I still loved them though.

Platuan4th wrote:I've had some pretty bad bosses. Mostly, they were just those types that hate their job, so they treat all their employees like dirt. Had one so bad, he got asked to leave by corporate before they fired him.

I feel your pain!

The last boss in Legendary.Well when I say boss I mean bunch of soldiers and invisble werewolves.It was stupid because even though the it was semi-hard(finished it in about 10 hours on normal,yet I did take alot of breaks)the last boss is man behined glass.You had to blow up 3 generators while fighting off people and werewolves,and in the end you don't even get to kill him a griffon does IIRC.

The Dahaka from Prince of Persia: Angst Mode On. My God... I couldn't beat him without cheating. He's fine when you're first fighting him, but if you don't kill him quick enough he starts jumping around the level like a melon-fether, and you just can't get him.

Another annoying terrible boss was the boss in Elite Force. Probably has the most health of any boss in any game, and also spawns the toughest enemies in the game. It's like a half-hour non-stop fight... with a time limit!!!!!!

Oh man. I just remembered.

Duriel from Diablo II.

What the feth were the developers smoking when they thought of that? Was he some kind of April Fool's joke? How am I supposed to beat that bastard with my summoning Necromancer? What good are my mighty skeleton warriors when there are no bodies around and no way to leave the arena to find some?

And his Holy Freeze aura. Oh God, that was horrible. My barbarian didn't stand a chance. Neither did my poor paladin, even though I had level 10 Resist Cold and a shield with three normal sapphires in it.

The final boss of Fire Warrior. It had broken hit boxes, could only be killed when firing besides the tip of the staff and it had these instant-death attacks.

The last boss scenario of Saints Row 2 is also horrible. You are required to operate an AH-1 which has bad controls, shoot at for tiny points on a building to disable the security while at the same time fighting off enemy AH-1's. Three hits and it's game over, you need to start from the ground again.

As I recall, the only place that the final boss of Fire Warrior is invulnerable is his head.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Duriel from Diablo II.

My whole meta for Acts I and II is how to beat Duriel. I ground my way to cLvl 6 in that game before I even finished the first quest just to make sure I was ready and in the sub-cLvl20's before I hit Duriel. Managed to do it with a Sorc and Paladin so far. The Sorc wasn't easy... she's so flimsy. Thank goodness for mid-level Ice and Fire spells...

I don't believe I've ever failed to kill the boss in Fire Warrior... I recall it being terrifically easy, although I only played through on medium.

Overall, that game had some great bosses.

The three-floating-heads boss in DMC2... he needed so many item uses to beat, and they became progressively more expensive, that by the time I was playing though in the final difficulty unlock, it took me half a day to beat. I have to say that game had the absolute best difficulty mode variety.
The tyrannosaurus in Turok (original) took me even longer, but I was quite young.

Bongo Bongo in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

So. Much. Health.

He's invisible.

He does scary amounts of damage.

He's actually harder to beat than Ganondorf.

If I rember right the last boss in lost planet was also rather easy to beat.

Same can be said of the big bad in Fable 2.

Proxy on the hardest difficulty in the Force Unleashed.

I believe I honostly used ever swear known to man and possibly alien.

The female robot thingy in DoA 3 was blinking annoying.

Seth in Street Fighter IV can be equally annoying if not more so.

Other than beat em ups though, where it often feels like the computer is cheating you (just due to the speed they can get off moves.)
The only other times I remember being really frustrated was over one of two of the Final Fantasy VII bosses.

Some in WoW can be annoying as well, but gear and learning their patterns make them not hard at all after a while.
Although on saying that the boss of Tempest Keep, Kaelthelas (bad spelling?) is still bloody hard even when you have 80's in the party if not everyone knows how to fight him.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Other than beat em ups though, where it often feels like the computer is cheating you (just due to the speed they can get off moves.)

Haha. Ever played any of SNK's beat'em'ups? Their bosses are so infamous that they coined the term "SNK Boss Syndrome".

Normal moves that fill the whole screen -
Heavily damaging special moves with insane priority -
Super meters that charge rapidly -
Super combos that deal 50-80% damage -

To make things worse, some of them didn't even have kneeling animations, meaning you didn't know if they'd go high or low. Ridiculous. God Rugal from the King of Fighters series is one of the worst offenders.

Fontaine in Bioshock.

Seriously, what the hell. You sneeze on him and he takes damage.

The orange cyclops in MegaMan 1.
I never could beat that guy.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:The female robot thingy in DoA 3 was blinking annoying.

Seth in Street Fighter IV can be equally annoying if not more so.

Other than beat em ups though, where it often feels like the computer is cheating you (just due to the speed they can get off moves.)
The only other times I remember being really frustrated was over one of two of the Final Fantasy VII bosses.

Some in WoW can be annoying as well, but gear and learning their patterns make them not hard at all after a while.
Although on saying that the boss of Tempest Keep, Kaelthelas (bad spelling?) is still bloody hard even when you have 80's in the party if not everyone knows how to fight him.

Two things:

First, Nice avatar I cant stop looking at it...

Two, Alpha-152 from DoA can burn in hell for all eternity with her brother Seth from Street Fighter IV.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Duriel from Diablo II.

My whole meta for Acts I and II is how to beat Duriel. I ground my way to cLvl 6 in that game before I even finished the first quest just to make sure I was ready and in the sub-cLvl20's before I hit Duriel. Managed to do it with a Sorc and Paladin so far. The Sorc wasn't easy... she's so flimsy. Thank goodness for mid-level Ice and Fire spells...

I actually found him easier with my Sorceress than my Barbarian. Course, with my Sorceress I knew about /players8 and all the other little tricks in the game, courtesy of the D2 forum Single Player Community. I think the fact my Sorc wasn't in the Frost Aura helped. But yeah, he's an utter bastard.

The final boss of Genji, the first time you play through it, is also a git. I can't quite remember why, as it's a while since I played it, but I seem to remember losing a whole load of health to one hit.

The last boss on the wierd RPG/RTS thingy mode in Soul Calibur 3 had me swearing at the screen, coming close to putting a contoller through the telly and generally being a surly whinebag for a good three weeks, probably closer to a month. Good grief that guy was fething hard to kill. Got him in the end though, I'm surprised the whole street didn't hear my yell of triumph.

Dragonlover

suikoden 2- luca blight....you have to fight him with 3 different parties of characters, and then a solo fight with your main character, and if you lost the 3rd or 4th fight you got to start over.

final fantasy x- final area bosses were a letdown......actual final boss took me something like 3 turns to kill

+1 vote for Duriel. I mean what the feth. Let's put you in a box with a giant maggot thing. Wait. Make it a tiny box so you can't run away. Oh, oh, and make him really fast. And while we're at it, why not make him slow down the players? Yeah! That'll be so much fun, I bet people on Bnet will just grind him for days and days at a time like they do with Mephisto.

These 2 assasin twins ...

They come in middle of the game , around 15 hours play time . On a lvl where you need to save a girl , if she dies its game over.
The problem is the 2 assasins are so fast , they'll always kill the girl in their npc turn before the player even get to press a button.

So its either restart the WHOLE game from the beginning , or if you remember to buy out dated armors that increases speed -_- before saving into the lvl.

Dragonlover wrote:
The last boss on the wierd RPG/RTS thingy mode in Soul Calibur 3 had me swearing at the screen, coming close to putting a contoller through the telly and generally being a surly whinebag for a good three weeks, probably closer to a month. Good grief that guy was fething hard to kill. Got him in the end though, I'm surprised the whole street didn't hear my yell of triumph.

QFT.

Also, any of the high-d + no interrupt Tower of Souls characters in SCIV.

LunaHound wrote:These 2 assasin twins ...

They come in middle of the game , around 15 hours play time . On a lvl where you need to save a girl , if she dies its game over.
The problem is the 2 assasins are so fast , they'll always kill the girl in their npc turn before the player even get to press a button.

So its either restart the WHOLE game from the beginning , or if you remember to buy out dated armors that increases speed -_- before saving into the lvl.

Eh, as with a lot of FFTactics bosses, it all depends on how much prep-time you have beforehand. You can choose to make that fight as easy or as hard as you want it to be.

Final Fantasy X had the worst. Jecht was just such a serious pain in the ass to beat. My god, and he just got harder and harder as it went on lol. But the biggest let down, was after him, Im expecting a super massive impossible to beat boss, until Sin pops out. Its a goddamn ZOMBIE! Say hello to phoenix down sucka! Killed him in the first turn lol. Talk about what the hell

BrookM wrote:Same can be said of the big bad in Fable 2.

Such a lame "Boss Fight"! I was hyped to fight him, too, then got shafted.

Jin wrote:

LunaHound wrote:These 2 assasin twins ...

They come in middle of the game , around 15 hours play time . On a lvl where you need to save a girl , if she dies its game over.
The problem is the 2 assasins are so fast , they'll always kill the girl in their npc turn before the player even get to press a button.

So its either restart the WHOLE game from the beginning , or if you remember to buy out dated armors that increases speed -_- before saving into the lvl.

Eh, as with a lot of FFTactics bosses, it all depends on how much prep-time you have beforehand. You can choose to make that fight as easy or as hard as you want it to be.

But they dont usually warn you that it'll be a boss fight , and sometimes they ask you if you want to save ( i really should get a clue and save in another file -.-)

Platuan4th wrote:

BrookM wrote:Same can be said of the big bad in Fable 2.

Such a lame "Boss Fight"! I was hyped to fight him, too, then got shafted.

I let Stephen Fry shoot him in the end.

dogma wrote:Also, any of the high-d + no interrupt Tower of Souls characters in SCIV.

Oh yes. Especially when they start pulling out linked up switch moves that the players can't do, and utterly obliterating you in 5 moves, none of which you are on the ground for. A mate of mine is on the final bracket of floors, and it got to the point where we had a good attempt if we didn't die on the first one.

Dragonlover

Recumen from Skies of Arcadia. Did you buy a secondary cannon? Great! Easy fight ahead! Wait, you didn't? I guess it's DEATH LASERS for you...

Seriously, even if you survive without using the cannon (that you have only a small window in which to buy, without any kind of prompt) there's another fight immediately afterwards. It's possible to do, but really, really hard.

Ok so you know how in Devil May Cry one you're going along in the beginning of the game, grab them Pride of the Lion then go back to the Chapel and Phantom the Magma Daemon Scorpion pops up? Yeah he was a huge pain in the ass the first couple of times. Now though he's easy.

Yeah, the Fable II "boss" confrontation at the end was about as anti-climactic as you can get.

Assassin's Creed had a fairly disappointing boss, although the combat was fairly easy all round in that game. Still very impressive.

Onaga in Mortal Kombat: Deception.

He can fly. He has an unavoidable throw attack. He can breathe fire which you cannot avoid. He has assloads of health.

It's just obscene.

Also, Night Terror in Soulcalibur III. Take Nightmare, combine him with Abyss, give him laser eyes and wings, and you have Night Terror. What a pain in the ass.

Final boss in MKII

Ridcully wrote:Assassin's Creed had a fairly disappointing boss, although the combat was fairly easy all round in that game. Still very impressive.

It was really annoying that you could not actually assassinate many of the targets though.

The number of times I stood on a roof out of sight and used throwing knives to "kill" the target to no effect so as not to wade through the 60000000000 guards that block your way after you are forced to walk up right next to your target and his bodyguards and watch the cut scene.

Then follows a huge fight/chase with the entire worlds population of guards before you can make your way to the actual target who you could have killed quietly about 3 hours previously had you been able to. Or had actually planned your attempt so as not to have occured when they were surrounded by goons (such as perhaps when they were asleep somewhere? Come on games designers, would an assassin really strike in the middle of the day, in the middle of a load of enemy soldiers?).

KingCracker wrote:Final Fantasy X had the worst. Jecht was just such a serious pain in the ass to beat. My god, and he just got harder and harder as it went on lol. But the biggest let down, was after him, Im expecting a super massive impossible to beat boss, until Sin pops out. Its a goddamn ZOMBIE! Say hello to phoenix down sucka! Killed him in the first turn lol. Talk about what the hell

Another vote for FFX. Any Final boss you can just "Doom" in 3 turns is weaksauce.

Although I once Killed Jecht in 2 hits... from Lulu.

yay for maxed Sphere Grid :3

Speaking of final fantasy, the undead thing at the bottom of the lifa tree in FF9. I just threw phoenix downs at it until it died instantly.

The Dreadnote wrote:Speaking of final fantasy, the undead thing at the bottom of the lifa tree in FF9. I just threw phoenix downs at it until it died instantly.

Yup, and that Underwater Zombie Werm in FF10. That was fun.

Necron from FF9 was awesome though.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Onaga in Mortal Kombat: Deception.

He can fly. He has an unavoidable throw attack. He can breathe fire which you cannot avoid. He has assloads of health.

It's just obscene.

Ah, ok, interesting point about Onaga. There is a sure-fire way to beat him that works with everone. Just find the simplest quick hit (two or three hit) combo that your character has, and use that. You do that, block, you wait, do that, block, you wait. Do that, and you'll win. You can't block his flame attacks, sure, but I've tried it every other way and it doesn't work. This applies to Blaze in Mortal Kombat Annihlation and mostly to Moloch in Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance. Moloch is a special case as his close combat attacks have the longest fething range on earth, so getting close to him is had. The strategy still works, you've just got to be really damned quick on that block button.

If only this strategy worked on Shao Kahn in MK3 and MK2 (I think he was in MK2). I have never defeated Shoa Khan. It's just insulting that you have to first suffer through Motaro before getting to Shao Khan. Actually, Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks had the same problem. You've got a shared health metre, which has all sorts of problems of its own, and then the final boss fight is:

Shang Tsung
Kintaro
Shoa Kahn

You fight them one at a time with no breaks or save points in between, so by the time you hit Khan, assuming you're doing well, you've got may 1/3rd to 1/4th of your life left. If you die, guess what, you start the WHOLE thing again. We gave up after a few tries.

The final boss in Morrwind is astonishingly easy to kill at level 125. Although I doubt that many people will have leveled themselves that much before starting the story quests.

LunaHound wrote:But they dont usually warn you that it'll be a boss fight , and sometimes they ask you if you want to save ( i really should get a clue and save in another file -.-)

True, but again, it all depends on how you've been building up your characters. If you had a Ninja with Two Hands + Martial Arts, you're pretty much going to breeze through that (all you need to do is critically wound one of the assassins to end that battle). If you built up as a summoner, you're screwed unless you levelled up like crazy.

SilverMK2 wrote:The final boss in Morrwind is astonishingly easy to kill at level 125. Although I doubt that many people will have leveled themselves that much before starting the story quests.

It was easy, but everything got easy the higher you went in Morrowind. I actually think i prefer that to Oblivion's way of upping the difficulty based on your level, such as the highwaymen you fight, though at a certain point even that didn't matter.

Morrowind>Oblivion anyway... heh.

Al Mualim from Assassin's Creed. WAY too easy for a final showdown climatic duel thingy. All you had to do was wait for him to attack you then do a counter attack and then find him again and repeat until dead.

LunaHound wrote:

Jin wrote:

LunaHound wrote:These 2 assasin twins ...

They come in middle of the game , around 15 hours play time . On a lvl where you need to save a girl , if she dies its game over.
The problem is the 2 assasins are so fast , they'll always kill the girl in their npc turn before the player even get to press a button.

So its either restart the WHOLE game from the beginning , or if you remember to buy out dated armors that increases speed -_- before saving into the lvl.

Eh, as with a lot of FFTactics bosses, it all depends on how much prep-time you have beforehand. You can choose to make that fight as easy or as hard as you want it to be.

But they dont usually warn you that it'll be a boss fight , and sometimes they ask you if you want to save ( i really should get a clue and save in another file -.-)

Heh, how about the Aries Zodiac guy?
You start the fight alone against him with your hero and he has this strong lighting sword attack at long range. >.>

ALL the bosses in FFT are terrible.
Either you're not prepared and have 99.9 (repeating of course)% chance of dying or you're prepared and you have 99.9 (repeating, of course)% chance of winning.
No middle ground.
They really should have made the story battles scale like the random ones do. That way you'd have all the skills you want but the battle would still be decent.

rubiksnoob wrote:Al Mualim from Assassin's Creed. WAY too easy for a final showdown climatic duel thingy. All you had to do was wait for him to attack you then do a counter attack and then find him again and repeat until dead.

Except the part when your sycronization bar was always automatically downed to a minimum each time he appeared, making it more likely he would "kill" you with one unlucky hit, but even throwing a knife at him would refresh the bar before he got close.

Ridcully wrote:It was easy, but everything got easy the higher you went in Morrowind. I actually think i prefer that to Oblivion's way of upping the difficulty based on your level, such as the highwaymen you fight, though at a certain point even that didn't matter.

Morrowind>Oblivion anyway... heh.

It is annoying that your things don't level with you in Oblivion. If you did the main quests early you got really weak versions of all the "best" items in the game. If you get past about level 25-30 it is almost impossible to kill things, as they just keep on healing as fast as you can chop bits off them, pretty much no matter what weapon you use.

But I really liked being able to enchant all my gear with fortify strength 1-max (so I had a strength of about 500) and laying waste to everything in Morrowind. Feels like you have achieved something, unlike in Oblivion.

UHG I think Oblivion was a serious waste of a game. I beat the whole game at lvl 12. 12!!!!!!


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SilverMK2 wrote:

Ridcully wrote:It was easy, but everything got easy the higher you went in Morrowind. I actually think i prefer that to Oblivion's way of upping the difficulty based on your level, such as the highwaymen you fight, though at a certain point even that didn't matter.

Morrowind>Oblivion anyway... heh.

It is annoying that your things don't level with you in Oblivion. If you did the main quests early you got really weak versions of all the "best" items in the game. If you get past about level 25-30 it is almost impossible to kill things, as they just keep on healing as fast as you can chop bits off them, pretty much no matter what weapon you use.

But I really liked being able to enchant all my gear with fortify strength 1-max (so I had a strength of about 500) and laying waste to everything in Morrowind. Feels like you have achieved something, unlike in Oblivion.

Shoot man I did the Corprus "cheat" instead. You just keep sleeping, making yourself stronger (and weaker) until you get as strong as you want. Then when you get cured, you keep the strength lol. I had an Orc that was strength 900 or something. It was insane, he broke weapons in one hit lol

Death Adder from Golden Axe. I never had enough fething money left to continue on the arcade version.

Dr. Nefarious from Ratchet and Clank 3. Man, nothing I had did enough damage to him. Black Hole Gun, wrench, whatever, nothing hurt him enough.

Worst bosses ever? pretty much anything from Ninja Gaiden 2 felt like the worst experience of my life lmao
A Giant lava turtle that explodes when you kill it and takes you down with it? Thanks Tecmo

My girlfriend - "Tom Nook from Animal Crossing, that guy was straight up evil." <---the slang suprised me too

Best bosses - Every Boss in Mega Man 2, Mega Man is definitely my favorite video game series i LOVE the stupid hard boss battles and ive spent WAY to much time beating MegaMan 2 over and over and over again

NeedsMoreDakka wrote:
Best bosses - Every Boss in Mega Man 2, Mega Man is definitely my favorite video game series i LOVE the stupid hard boss battles and ive spent WAY to much time beating MegaMan 2 over and over and over again

I'm actually a bit of a fan of mega man 3 over 2, but one of the best parts about it are the doc robot battles that emulate the mega man 2 boss battles.

Last boss of Ninja Gaiden Black. By the release of that game they had figured out all the ways that people had figured out to beat him, to the point that certain moves would literally bounce off of his exposed skin. First time I got to him, I had no healing items. Took me a few months there, considering all of the unblockable or undodgeable attacks he throws together that knock off more than half of your health.

Ps: Duriel can take a flying leap. I played a skeleton heavy summoning Necromancer BEFORE the 1.1 patch made them usable past act 1. Everything was like fighting Duriel, and fighting Duriel himself took far too many tries to be reasonable and sane. Diablo was worse. Without the Fire Golem skill he was impossible. With a simply swipe of his hands and one casting of fire nova your whole party/source of damage would be instantly be incinerated.

PPS: I've seen Fable 2 mentioned a few times. Is there anything I should know about that might make it not worth renting? I enjoyed the first one.

Halo 3

BrookM wrote:Halo 3

Overhyped shooters FTW

I think Halo has good reason to be hyped. It's a well-crafted, original game, and one of my favourite series.

Admittedly, the boss fights felt a bit tacked-on.

I dont like shooter bosses.
they make no sense. most of the times all you can do is pump them full of lead.
Again cheese im surprised most of the games i like you hate.

Command and Conquer: Renegade had pretty good boss fights, and Darkwatch's two bosses were really fun.

Emerald Weapon from FF7 (the greatest video game of all time)

Ruby weapon wasn't that hard, but Emerald Weapon was horrible... ugh... I almost broke a controller over that.

Cheese Elemental wrote:I think Halo has good reason to be hyped. It's a well-crafted, original game, and one of my favourite series.

Admittedly, the boss fights felt a bit tacked-on.

The original Halo deserved the hype it got, it had great weapons, features, was innovative, and had my favorite health system in any shooter to date
HOWEVER
Halo 2 and 3 i feel are WAY over rated by todays standards, it just feels like a generic first person shooter at this point, it just doesnt impress me much anymore.
The "Bosses" in Halo barely deserve that title

I've never played Final Fantasy 7.



There. I said it.

Railguns wrote:PPS: I've seen Fable 2 mentioned a few times. Is there anything I should know about that might make it not worth renting? I enjoyed the first one.

Never played the first one, but both my wife and I have greatly enjoyed Fable 2; well-worth buying. Usual quasi-sandbox game problem - fairly short main plot, but lots of other stuff to do.

I'm not TOO much into gaming these days (not enough time) but I remember enjoying the first one, and with the addition of firearms I hoped it would be good. I'll give it a rent but I don't think that if I bought it I'd have enough time to play it out like the first.

Content: Last boss of Lost Planet took far, far, far too long to kill with ranged attacks. You had to close and hope you could get off a nasty swipe off on him without catching his super-duper lightsabers to the face and killing you in 2 hits.

NeedsMoreDakka wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:I think Halo has good reason to be hyped. It's a well-crafted, original game, and one of my favourite series.

Admittedly, the boss fights felt a bit tacked-on.

The original Halo deserved the hype it got, it had great weapons, features, was innovative, and had my favorite health system in any shooter to date
HOWEVER
Halo 2 and 3 i feel are WAY over rated by todays standards, it just feels like a generic first person shooter at this point, it just doesnt impress me much anymore.
The "Bosses" in Halo barely deserve that title

Like I said in another post, Halo CE is my all time favourite of the halo games.

On topic, I forgot the full name but it was a game like street fighters but everyone were gansters. It's called something-something fight for new york city. HARDEST bosses of all time. Every battle was a struggle to get the KO.

Fable II's final boss fight was a joke.

But that was the point, wasn't it? I know it's all "OH Peter Molyneux's trying to be ABSTRACT again, woohoo." but I think I get it this time. The point was he was simply a man who was obsessed with power, and although he could control all the magic in the world that couldn't make up for his dwindling physical and mental strength. The point that one pistol shot can kill him is testament to the simple truth that he had grown too powerful and the mighty fall even harder than the weak.

If you get my drift.

But the hardest boss I remember fighting was.. possibly Umbra in Oblivion with the difficulty at hardest, at level 25? Christ, that girl had SO MUCH HEALTH. The only way I could do it was jack up a Paralyze spell for something like 15 seconds and just stand there hitting her body.

The easiest was Saren at the end of Mass Effect. That was a joke. I had my whole party with the Spectre XX weaponry, got Kaidan to lift him and then we just poured lead into him. I had managed to outfit everyone's gun so that they never overheated and had almost no kickback, so it was just a joke.

Oh, and Halo CE was definately the best. CE > 3 > 2. 2 was a load of horse gak.

sA

smiling Assassin wrote:Fable II's final boss fight was a joke.

But that was the point, wasn't it? I know it's all "OH Peter Molyneux's trying to be ABSTRACT again, woohoo." but I think I get it this time. The point was he was simply a man who was obsessed with power, and although he could control all the magic in the world that couldn't make up for his dwindling physical and mental strength. The point that one pistol shot can kill him is testament to the simple truth that he had grown too powerful and the mighty fall even harder than the weak.

If you get my drift.

Pistol? I used a shotgun; much more final that way.

smiling Assassin wrote:
But the hardest boss I remember fighting was.. possibly Umbra in Oblivion with the difficulty at hardest, at level 25? Christ, that girl had SO MUCH HEALTH. The only way I could do it was jack up a Paralyze spell for something like 15 seconds and just stand there hitting her body.

sA

I agree with you about Umbra, first time I went in there you kill me in less than 20 seconds! No matter what i summoned, sneak attacks, poison or anything at all could not kill her. In the end got every follower i could and then tried, only me and the adoring fan were alive at the end. And i traded in the goddamn sword as well!

Thats one of those situations where the weapon you need to complete the quest is the reward of the quest itself. I've never actually gotten to beat Oblivion, as my first copy was stolen by neighborhood kids that got into the house, and my X-box ate my Game of the Year Edition.

My Oblivion kept crashing a lot, as all Bethesda games are wont to do. Though it could be the ahem, mods that I installed.

Any one remember the final boss from rachet and clank 2? IT was hilarious. a giat fur ball

Mmm, Brook. That's why I bought Oblivion for the PC with Mods in mind, I'd done my research while my order was being shipped, meaning that I was prepared. I'd even made a castle in the TES:CS before my copy arrived

Some mods will FUBAR your game. Use with caution. Oh, and a Mod-Manager so that you can turn them on and off at will, surprisingly seamlessly.

sA

I just got tits, better textures and some performance fixes. Same with Fallout 3, another typical Bethesda case.

BrookM wrote:tits

sA

The Doom Soldier from Return to Castle Wolfenstein was a downright pain in the ass.

Odette from Odin Sphere.

There's so much stuff happening during the fight, the game has to slow down to compensate.

the last boss in serious sam. so much health!

Eldrith from Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. Kill her in like 3 hits with the Onyx Sword. Even without it she dies to sneezing (I played the archer and just sat there shooting her, with no skills used, she died in less than a minute).

Try the last boss of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II. Man, he doesn't die. When you finally manage to inflict enough damage on him while avoiding his mirror image, he does this stupid drain attack that refills his health and nearly kills you.

I don't remember Eldrith, but I remember that vampire guy from the second one Cheese is talking about. Holy cow he was tough, even on two player.

I sem to remember the big lizardman being a pain in the ass as well, but I can't remember why.

Dragonlover

Cheese Elemental wrote:Dr. Nefarious from Ratchet and Clank 3. Man, nothing I had did enough damage to him. Black Hole Gun, wrench, whatever, nothing hurt him enough.

QFT

never could beat that ing peace of robo sh

Blizzard and zant from legend of Zelda TP were pretty terrible. And you could distract Ganondorf with your fishing rod, which mae him open to attack. Too easy.

Melenas from wow.
i had such a hard tine with that guy.

Total worrier Spartan killing the last boss was so hard I never did beat him now that I think about it

Last boss on Dead space was a bit of a let down, the creature attached to the outside of the ship chucking stuff at you while you used the mass driver was more difficult

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Duriel from Diablo II.

My whole meta for Acts I and II is how to beat Duriel. I ground my way to cLvl 6 in that game before I even finished the first quest just to make sure I was ready and in the sub-cLvl20's before I hit Duriel. Managed to do it with a Sorc and Paladin so far. The Sorc wasn't easy... she's so flimsy. Thank goodness for mid-level Ice and Fire spells...

There is an 'easy' kill against Duriel. Just use the spell that trails fire when you run, cant remember its name, its been that long. this turns the small space against duriel, you have enough room to evade him, but not enough room for him to ecape the fire. Keep on recasting. You dont even need to know the spell, the one or two ranks from a staf are sufficient.

Doesn't he slow you down with a cold aura? Seems like that would ruin the plan.

It does, to an extent. It's very hard to kill him with Wake of Fire, because if you run from one end of the chamber to the next while he follows you, he'll slow you and whack you on your way back, as the chamber is quite narrow. I think the idea is to kill him in hand-to-hand combat, but it's really hard to beat him with anyone other than a Paladin, Werewolf Druid, or a Barbarian with high Cold Resistance. I use an 'Avenger' Paladin (uses Vengeance as the main attack with bonuses from the Resistance Auras), so I smacked him with ease.

I'd say (if it counts) the tank from left 4 dead on expert, bad thing is my teammates run ahead kills themselves and im stuck alone with a on fire rampaging tank...

blue loki wrote:The orange cyclops in MegaMan 1.
I never could beat that guy.

QFT. I HATED that guy.


Lamest baddie? As I can remember right now, Fable 2 final boss.

Don't ruin it! I rented it but didn't get to the end because I was sidetracked making enough money to buy all of the businesses in Bowerstone and machine gunning down slavers with the award pistol from the shooting gallery. I love the Red Dragon. I didn't really use firearms until I got that gun. It changed my whole game.

I had tried to use a Fury/Feral Rage Druid in Diablo 2. It worked for a little while (Duriel still killed me a dozen times). I got through Nightmare partying with people on Battlenet, but was stopped cold on Hell difficulty. I couldn't steal enough life from hitting things to survive being in melee with the enemies. It didn't help that most of my attacks auto-missed because although Fury made 5 attacks out of each one you made, if the target moved at all you were stuck swinging at the air.

I could never beat that guy at the end of Kirby's Avalanche, I think he cheats. Yes, really. That's the worst boss ever.

I once watched this guy beat Metroid Prime, which I would like to beat ... someday. That looked to be just stupid to me.

Vulkan77 wrote:Last boss on Dead space was a bit of a let down, the creature attached to the outside of the ship chucking stuff at you while you used the mass driver was more difficult

That was an Epic battle. Not hard granted, but just seeing that "silly lady" get smooshed made me smile. Worst boss ever has to be Gears of War 2's Lambent Brumak. Hit it with the Hammer a few times and it explodes.... yay...

one of the bosses on assasins creed was a bitch to defeat

templars who are generaly hard are the basic enemy with arabain foot soldiers and archers

and the guy couldnt be killed by falling or the secret blade or throwing knives

i gave up in the end

The final boss in advanced wars Days of Ruin. Its the only one I haven;t beaten in the series.

Dawn of War II bosses, they are too common and some of them as said earlier about the Avatar of Kaine, have way too much health and insta-kill everything

Doom3 - Run in a circle and aim on the same place over and over and over and over and over again.

Stitches from wow. lvl 35 elite an a lvl 25 - 30 area and is only beatable if you just sit back and lets the npc take care of him

Stitches is supposed to be tackled in groups.

WoW sometimes has that problem where you aren't ever really sure how many guys you need to fight something until you catch its attention and it eats you in 3 hits.

When the level says " " you need a bigger group.

Hands down worst boss ever?

the Final Boss of "Prinny: can I really be the hero?" on Hells Finest difficulty.... Sir Sweet.....

OMFG its impossible to win.

have you ever tried playing "I wanna be the guy"? the final boss is worse than playing that game. you have to mash the crap out of square a billion times per second while avoiding fireballs, comets, swooping attacks, etc. and you only have 3 mins to kill him. oh, and you can only hit him a couple of times at the apex of your jump, and you are on a small platform. so you have to angle jump off the platform, double jump backwards to not hit him, then you get one round of throwing swords before you land on the platform... then do it over again. and again. and again.

I ended up cheating to finally win, and even with infinite jumping and invulnerability it was STILL a HUGE pain in the ass, he cant be stunned or weakened at all, its like trying to carve through a mountain with your bear hands in less than 3 mins.

*edit* Did I mention that a single hit from him or any of his attacks instakills you?

Cheese Elemental wrote:It does, to an extent. It's very hard to kill him with Wake of Fire, because if you run from one end of the chamber to the next while he follows you, he'll slow you and whack you on your way back, as the chamber is quite narrow. I think the idea is to kill him in hand-to-hand combat, but it's really hard to beat him with anyone other than a Paladin, Werewolf Druid, or a Barbarian with high Cold Resistance. I use an 'Avenger' Paladin (uses Vengeance as the main attack with bonuses from the Resistance Auras), so I smacked him with ease.

Easiest way to beat him, necro with skelies and an act 2 merc, possibly a golem, get him to 24, decrepify curse, totally ruins duriel's day...

Demogerg wrote:

I ended up cheating to finally win, and even with infinite jumping and invulnerability it was STILL a HUGE pain in the ass, he cant be stunned or weakened at all, its like trying to carve through a mountain with your BEAR hands in less than 3 mins.

*edit* Did I mention that a single hit from him or any of his attacks instakills you?

That sounds really cool.



Decrepify is an essential skill for Necromancers trying to go solo, especially against bosses. Before you get it a Clay Golem isn't enough.

Decrepify is pure win, slow enemy with damage boost'? what more could you ask for? its funny, it makes duriel hit so slow, that he can even take out the skeletons, because he either auto targets your merc or a golem, which he cant kill quick enough, you just sit back and watch...

Decrepify, IIRC, is a combination Weaken(50% less damage), Slow(50%), and Amplify Damage(50%) curse. It's extremely useful for nearly any situation. Before the expansion, nobody ever used it because it only lowered movement speed of enemies or something. Now it's one of the most powerful utility abilities in D2.

I used to use a Cold Arrow Rogue mercenary, even if she made summoning a bit frustrating, because between her freezing arrows, my Clay Golem's slowing effect, and Decrepify bosses were a hair from helpless. Diablo would literally take at least 4 seconds for each attack. Before the expansion, you just couldn't beat Diablo as a Necromancer unless you had Fire Golem. It just wasn't possible.

The new Jousting boss in WoW's latest dungeon.

On 'vehicle' combat which has nothing to do with how skilled or well geared you are, full of bugs, in a boring room.

Since Burning Crusade though there have been some great bosses on WoW. Yogg-Saron is an epic fight.

Cheese Elemental wrote:It does, to an extent. It's very hard to kill him with Wake of Fire, because if you run from one end of the chamber to the next while he follows you, he'll slow you and whack you on your way back, as the chamber is quite narrow. I think the idea is to kill him in hand-to-hand combat, but it's really hard to beat him with anyone other than a Paladin, Werewolf Druid, or a Barbarian with high Cold Resistance. I use an 'Avenger' Paladin (uses Vengeance as the main attack with bonuses from the Resistance Auras), so I smacked him with ease.

I'm going back a ways here, but I don't remember having much trouble fighting Duriel with my Barbarian. I usually had a cold archer merc in tow, and my Barbarian was pumped up with Frenzy. *shrug*

I don't think I ever finished Baldur's Gate 2 because I never beat the end boss.

Farseer Idranel. She killed all four of Tarkus's terminators with one attack. They had previously been at full health.

The Star destroyer on Force unleashed. worst boss ever.

Matriarch Benezia off Mass Effect.

How many waves of Asari commandos will it take for you to head butt the TV screen in rage?

A lot? I found that fight pretty easy with judicious use of lift/throw and a shotgun. Overload is useful as well.

For Duriel I just town portaled in, used another town portal and walked away from it while firing off as many Bone Spears as I could before he killed me, and then repeated. I died at least 30 times, but still...

Also, Misty is a bitch to fight when you have a Charmeleon. I found Bide to work pretty well though.

Don't even get me started on the Pokemon bosses. In Emerald, Steven was an absolute bastard to fight because he's above and beyond the champion (Wallace is the new champ), and has crazypowerful level 70s and gak like that.

I found Pokemon bosses easy and Ive played them all apart from the first ones.

They've been SIGNIFICANTLY ramped up in power lateley, so I've read. But for the most part Pokemon AI isn't that great, even on gym leaders, so you can generally take them out through sheer leveling. The electric type trainer in Ruby was pretty tough because while I had the grass starter and a diglett(i think. maybe a geodude) that had magnitude, his pokemon were mostly magnemites that were steel type and resistant to most attacks, and had levitate as a passive ability and avoided ground moves. Worse still, they all had an attack that did a set 20 damage. It was tough when my pokemans were all level 17 or so and took 3 hits from that.

In gold I beat the Dragon trainer, and eventually lance, with a team of Dunsparce, Slowbro, Quagsire, Typhlosion, Pidgeot and Kadabra. No ice or dragon or even electic attacks. Tough but doable if you are careful.

Skarwael wrote:Matriarch Benezia off Mass Effect.

How many waves of Asari commandos will it take for you to head butt the TV screen in rage?

Her boss battle is pretty buggy as well. Twice she used a biotic power on me in such a way and timed at such a moment that my character lays on the ground in a distorted fashion quite unlike the game and thus I am unable to get up or continue.

Fricking General Adams in Killzone. Hardly a boss himself (no better than the average grunt), but the Helghast Honour Guards are crazypowerful and all have heavy machineguns.

Also, I forgot to mention Guilty Spark in Halo 3.

Spartan Laser.

Zap, zap, zap.

Hm. That was disappointing.

Could be worse. Could be halo 2.

+1 Matriarch Benezia from mass effect
+1 Duriel from D2
+1 for Kaelthas in wow' tempest keep.

I'd like to mention:
Baal Prinny from Disgaea (finally beat it, but 6 million fething health is too much man)

The necrogiant from painkiller was the biggest mofo... not only does he summon monsters during the encounter but halfway through he starts sucking you into a cyclone and dropping you onto pillars of bone that spawn from the ground.

Last boss of FF8 for nothing more than the sheer amount of time it took. If a character dies on that fight you cannot revive them and they dissappear. 4 boss modes.. jesus h. christ.

General Vezax and on in Ulduar... so many wipes I had to quit that game or watch my heart explode from the nerd rage

Chameleos from monster hunter freedom 2.
Kushala was also a pain.

Am i the only one who found duriel easy? just stack antidotes and use the belt with half freeze, palidin with zeal (2h) and i think it was might... long time...

The boss fights in GOW2 were pretty lame... very repetitive but i suppose the multiplayer is awesome god i love the feeling of punching the enemy in the face once they are down, or the explosion of guts and bones when you hit someone point blank with a shotgun.

umm a hard boss fight?... i think it was a medal of honor game, you had to go into hitlers(?) bunker and kill him, he had height advantage, the ability to summon extra troops, insane amount of health and machine gun and you had to kill him before he launched a nuclear bomb, jesus i could never do it.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Fricking General Adams in Killzone. Hardly a boss himself (no better than the average grunt), but the Helghast Honour Guards are crazypowerful and all have heavy machineguns.

Very similiar thing with Radeck from KZ2, his guards where hardcore, positioned all over the room and a couple were Scouts so were cloaked. Coupled with the fact that he can turn invisible as well, has a one-hit-kill knife and an infinite amount of grenades and ammo and you've got one hardcore boss battle, especially on the hardest difficulty.

Gutteridge wrote:
umm a hard boss fight?... i think it was a medal of honor game, you had to go into hitlers(?) bunker and kill him, he had height advantage, the ability to summon extra troops, insane amount of health and machine gun and you had to kill him before he launched a nuclear bomb, jesus i could never do it.

Nah, that wasn't Hitler, it was one of his generals who studies your character all the time for some reason. I couldn't get past him either, but that game was really hard overall, even with lots of revives and health packs. I died during the Battle of the Buldge missions so often it wasn't funny.

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:
Very similiar thing with Radeck from KZ2, his guards where hardcore, positioned all over the room and a couple were Scouts so were cloaked. Coupled with the fact that he can turn invisible as well, has a one-hit-kill knife and an infinite amount of grenades and ammo and you've got one hardcore boss battle, especially on the hardest difficulty.

I actually really enjoyed that fight...except for the RPG troopers. Running to pick up the grenade launcher so you can have a fighting chance? Sorry, no dice, 4 RGPs at any location you stop for even half a second.

The big elmusion mutated walker at the very end of Gears of War 2. Killed it without breaking a sweat and was suprised then it suddenly just died on me thinking that something else would happen any second ... ... but it never did, just the ending movie

Rainbow vegas 2 boss - easy, single shot kill

Infinate undiscovery serapic gate boss/s - very easy (allthough, somewhat time consuming)

+1 for Fable 2 having a crappy boss. I was so tired last night, first time I had played through it, wanted to keep going but didn't want to listen to another long dialog, wanted to shoot him during the first sentence, pressed the "Y" button, and next thing I know he flies over the edge of the platform. Now today I kinda wonder what I missed...

JD21290 wrote:Rainbow vegas 2 boss - easy, single shot kill

Yeah, but remember that Rainbow Six is one of the more realistic series in terms of damage.

In FF9 any boss that had the spell "mustard bomb." God that was too much unless you were prepared for it I have to say though, FF9 was probably the best of all the Final Fantasies that I've played. I found practically nothing in the game that I disliked other than the loss of my favorite character early on. Oh...and Quina...wtf..? Oh! For all of you FF7 fanboys...that game completely sucked.

s1gns wrote:In FF9 any boss that had the spell "mustard bomb." God that was too much unless you were prepared for it I have to say though, FF9 was probably the best of all the Final Fantasies that I've played. I found practically nothing in the game that I disliked other than the loss of my favorite character early on. Oh...and Quina...wtf..? Oh! For all of you FF7 fanboys...that game completely sucked.

This man speaks the truth! And yes, Mustard bomb was evil :(

Gwar! wrote:

s1gns wrote:In FF9 any boss that had the spell "mustard bomb." God that was too much unless you were prepared for it I have to say though, FF9 was probably the best of all the Final Fantasies that I've played. I found practically nothing in the game that I disliked other than the loss of my favorite character early on. Oh...and Quina...wtf..? Oh! For all of you FF7 fanboys...that game completely sucked.

This man speaks the truth! And yes, Mustard bomb was evil :(

What is Mustard Bomb? It sounds tasty.

I vaguely recall it being some super fire move that kept killing me. Almost as bad that OVER 9000 NEEDLES one.

That game's kind of a blur, though.

Orkeosaurus wrote:I vaguely recall it being some super fire move that kept killing me. Almost as bad that OVER 9000 NEEDLES one.

That game's kind of a blur, though.

It's an annoying move. It doesn't do too much damage, but it gives you a status effect where if you perform any action at all it insta KO's you.

What.


Good God thats awful.

Final Fantasy 3 - the Iron Giant. Impossible to kill unless you have a party of all Onion knights with maxed out health. ON EASY!!!!

I can't believe I haven't mentioned it yet, but Dullahan from Golden Sun:The Lost Age or whatever the title was. He was a secret boss that you could only fight by finding a particular dungeon and having collected all 18 djinni from BOTH games (by transferring over your old party data) to get through it. He had a severely large amount of health that regenerated partially every turn and was able to use any 3 of his attacks, many of which were one-hit KO's or caused doom, where that character would automatically die in x turns. His most annoying attack was using a Summons skill, Charon I think, that did a hefty chunk of damage, hit the whole party, and had a chance to insta-kill as well, so if he was particularly lucky he could wipe your whole party in one move. Dullahan was Bad News. The only way I beat him was setting up my two parties of 4 characters each to all be able to use the one summon attack he was weak to all at once. My first turn, I'd hit him with 4 summons for ~2500 damage each, and as the djinni recharged I desperately tried to keep the party alive as long as possible while damaging him. As soon as that party went down, the other 4 came out, did their 4 summons, and held out some more until they finished him off. It was tense.

Oh, God. Dullahan is an evil b@st@rd. I still can't kill him.

Daedalus in Resistance 2 so easy

Beat daedalus in easy steps

Step 1. shoot daedalus
Step 2. run into a house
Step 3. repeat
Step 4. shoot a small orb

U R THE WIINAH

Final boss in Fable 2.
Cut scene then you have about 5-10 seconds to one hit him, if you don't the guy on the right shoots him and one shots him. It doesn't make any difference in the game if you or the NPC kills him.

My brother beat the game before me and after seeing this fight I could never be bothered playing that game again.

OLD SCHOOL

The final 2 bosses of legend of Zelda 2 it was like yeah I killed you you fire spitting bird of death, to then face your own evil shadow with next to no life and magic... then DIE, as he was impossible to hit , and have to face that blasted bird again it drove me crazy. Ahh My first game I ever finished and still I remember how hard it was. Even now its hard as you can get it on wii blasted shadow Link

Not technically a boss, but try killing more than 50 guys in cruel brawl in super smash bros: brawl. My record is 5...

Yeah, but remember that Rainbow Six is one of the more realistic series in terms of damage.

I know, but you would think he is better armed than with just a fething pistol
Maybe full armour instead of his tux?

Mike Tyson from Punch Out was a PITA.

+1 for Duriel (Frost sorc on Hell difficulty = epic fail, regardless what you try)
+1 for the Avatar in DoW2
+1 for Fontaine in Bioshock, I'm pretty sure I didn't need the buttload of cash and all the vending machines even before going in)

FF9 - most of the Beatrix (the woman wi the funny eyepatch) fights. Every single time you fight her, she had a new weapon you could steal which was an insta-upgrade job. Staying alive long enough for your chimp (read: Zidane) to steal it was the annoyance.

Icewind Dale - The Idol. Dear god the vastness of this battle makes it both epic and fail. 'The Idol' was some well.....idol thing, that could literally gak level 6-8 spells at you faster than could can say "Oh balls". On top of that, the entire room is filled with undead, from zombies to wights and mummies. Oh, then it would throw in some fear spells at any caster in your group that would cause him to run around pissing himself until he runs into a group of as yet undiscovered undead and insta aggro's and dies. I broke my quick-load button on this fight. Oh and Yuxxahoxxamoxxamon-a-hey-hoo or whatever her name was....some serpent woman priesty thing. Every other inch of the floor was trapped and she like spamming fear and feeblemind.... /rage. Especially with a broken quick-load key


As for WoW bosses...most of them were in Wrath tbh, Quel'Thas in MgT was a pain tho. The dragon in the Nexus, i forget the name... where you have to keep jumping to remove the stacking debuff. Someone, somewhere musta had a hell of a bad day to think of that. Every boss in fact, that denies you use of your own character in place of something else, i.e that Jousty fella, final fella in Occulus, some of the mini-boss/quests in Zul'Drak too, err...Zul'Jin was it? Crap reward too.

Seth from Street Fighter IV.

Feels good to get that off my chest.

Emperor Otto Destruct from ratchet and clank: Size Matters.
Where to start, he has a shield, he has waves of energy that it's almost impossible to avoid, and so much health that you invariably run out of ammo before killing him.

Hitler in Bionic Commando. The last guy from Ultraman: Towards the Future. A large chunk of the incredibly slowed KoF bosses. Here's a hint: If your game has a save or password feature, any boss isn't that hard.

Final Fantasy 7 when you are underwater in the Shinra base and you must fight this annoying robot boss there.
I almost cut my game in half just because of that boss, he was so much pain in my ass. Had to try like 20 times before I killed him.
Oh yea and in Final Fantasy 10 the underwater big fish right when you leave the Besaid, after the disappointing Sin battle.
And the last two from FF 10 also, the boss you must fight when you join the big force of people in the beach trying to kill Sin, but then he just spawns a hell lot of fiends and the big prisoned fiend escapes and you must fight him. I HATE HIM.
And last one, the Eversor or whateveritwascalled, the one you fight before saving Yuna from Seymor in Bevelle.
Those are the bosses I REALLY hate.

Wow-Last boss in occ (whatever the dragon using instance is in coldara... not nexus but the other one... SHUT UP IM DRAWLING A BLANK)

Not that that boss is hard but i swear some people are so dumb its like impossible... WHAT?!? I HAVE TO PRESS 1.2.3.3.1.2.3.3.1.2.3.3. AND RUN OUT WHEN THE BEAM IS IN MY FACE?!?! TOO HARD TOO HARD

Icewind Dale - The Idol. Dear god the vastness of this battle makes it both epic and fail. 'The Idol' was some well.....idol thing, that could literally gak level 6-8 spells at you faster than could can say "Oh balls". On top of that, the entire room is filled with undead, from zombies to wights and mummies. Oh, then it would throw in some fear spells at any caster in your group that would cause him to run around pissing himself until he runs into a group of as yet undiscovered undead and insta aggro's and dies. I broke my quick-load button on this fight. Oh and Yuxxahoxxamoxxamon-a-hey-hoo or whatever her name was....some serpent woman priesty thing. Every other inch of the floor was trapped and she like spamming fear and feeblemind.... /rage. Especially with a broken quick-load key

I know how you feel, that one was just horribel. And the snake woman was just a cake walk, draw her in with you Sorceres and use the thife to take out all the traps and then spam acid spels on her scale arse

My boss kinda sucks.

Dark Jay from X-Blades, actually anything from X-Blades..

Oh dear god, the final bosses from Cave story (Spoiler, although I guess that's implied)

Here are mine....
Dr. Willy/Light from Megaman 4. He was just unfairly impossible so I gave up trying tbh.
Meta Ridley on Hard mode on metroid Prime was pretty tough as was that freaky Sallazars bodyguard in Resi 4.

And yes Warboss Gutrip is indeed correct
Cruel brawl= Impossible


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Some other one's I can remember.....

The Primagen from Turok 2.
You have to shoot his tiny little arms whilst on a platform that has no edge whilst he is flying around whilst you are trying to aim whilst it is glitching like there is no tomorrow. Oh and he regenerates his health. Just too hard in my opinion.

Those twin b*tches towards the end of Streets of rage. Brutally unfair when your playing just one player.

Also that guy with the mask on in Ninja Gaiden on the NES, he had homing fireballs and it was a matter of running up to him and mashing attack hoping you killed him before he killed you.

I have to say the worst game for me ever in scale of difficulty was Battle Toads. I never ever beat it and it was one the the few games I just walked away from. It started out pretty easy then went up to a hellish skill level hehe.

Good ol NEW games

Chi3f wrote:I have to say the worst game for me ever in scale of difficulty was Battle Toads. I never ever beat it and it was one the the few games I just walked away from. It started out pretty easy then went up to a hellish skill level hehe.

Good ol NEW games

I had battletoads on the Megadrive. Do you mean the one with the level on the hoverbike where you have to time your jumps or fall into the "balls"? Never completed it, impossible, evil game!

Yuxonimei or whatever her name is in Icewind dale- brutal. Traps, summoned monsters, and she is mean. If you've sold the wrong weapon she could END you as you flail ineffectually at her.

The Separatist ship at the end of Rebel Commando: Ok, get on a turret and shoot a still target that doesn't fire back to trigger the end of the game. :( Such a let down to an otherwise awesome game.

Jack of Blades from Fable. Took me 5 minutes to kill him. A dissaponting last boss.

Double Dragon, the guy with the gun.
Lifeforce, stage 2 boss.

Batman: Arkham Asylum. TITAN-enhanced Joker is an absolute pushover - I was really expecting something more for the last boss of the game. Easily the easiest boss fight in the game.

Jack 'I have undodgeable attacks' Krauser from Resident Evil 4. Man, this guy is annoying. It's so freaking hard to hit him when he's got his mutated arm up. The only way I've managed to beat him is by shooting the ground directly in front of his feet with the Striker so a few pellets glance his toes.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Oh man. I just remembered.

Duriel from Diablo II.

What the feth were the developers smoking when they thought of that? Was he some kind of April Fool's joke? How am I supposed to beat that bastard with my summoning Necromancer? What good are my mighty skeleton warriors when there are no bodies around and no way to leave the arena to find some?

And his Holy Freeze aura. Oh God, that was horrible. My barbarian didn't stand a chance. Neither did my poor paladin, even though I had level 10 Resist Cold and a shield with three normal sapphires in it.

Oh, i definately know the feeling i found that Durial was easiest to kill with the Amazon. Provided you had ample amounts of potions and you kept running around like a headless chicken. Oh and the poor mercenary would always die so quickly after a couple of times going back up to town he's not worth the trouble.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Oh man. I just remembered.

Duriel from Diablo II.

What the feth were the developers smoking when they thought of that? Was he some kind of April Fool's joke? How am I supposed to beat that bastard with my summoning Necromancer? What good are my mighty skeleton warriors when there are no bodies around and no way to leave the arena to find some?

And his Holy Freeze aura. Oh God, that was horrible. My barbarian didn't stand a chance. Neither did my poor paladin, even though I had level 10 Resist Cold and a shield with three normal sapphires in it.

OMG Dude thats bad. I dont know what you did but Duriel for me was the easiest. I was a barb. I counted it seriously i did....12 hits and he was dead....i was lvl 28 didnt even need to use my [3] health pots. if anything i think diablo is the most assiest out of all of them. that is untill i found a weakness..hehehehe...get your fire and lightning resists to 75% and let that ass flame/lightning you all day long...hehehehe you dont even need 1 pot it's funny. although now i think on it a necro is screwed lol.

Well if you grind the hell out of the game and fight everything over-leveled by 10 levels or so, then yeah it'll be easy. When I played through as a summoning Necromancer, just to beat Duriel I HAD to get the decrepify curse to keep him from eating all my skeletons(thus removing my ability to damage him). The only way I could beat Diablo before the clay golem slowed enemies was to level to 30 and get a fire golem to tank Diablo. Without a fire golem, I wouldn't have a chance because the sonofaB would cast fire nova immediately after the fight started and kill all of my skeletons, then lightning inferno my golem and leave me alone.

Railguns wrote:Well if you grind the hell out of the game and fight everything over-leveled by 10 levels or so, then yeah it'll be easy. When I played through as a summoning Necromancer, just to beat Duriel I HAD to get the decrepify curse to keep him from eating all my skeletons(thus removing my ability to damage him). The only way I could beat Diablo before the clay golem slowed enemies was to level to 30 and get a fire golem to tank Diablo. Without a fire golem, I wouldn't have a chance because the sonofaB would cast fire nova immediately after the fight started and kill all of my skeletons, then lightning inferno my golem and leave me alone.

I dont do that. Hows that grinding....fighting duriel at 28...i've had dudes lvl 35 and before act 5 and they struggled big time. it's not hard to get 75% resists... Anyway yes necros have such a hard time...i also had to get to lvl 30 for fire golem. You'll laugh though....My paladin (lvl 25-28 cant remember right now) died 20+ times lost most of my money doing it....he really does take the piss.

If you consider it a boss, rift worm from gears, sooo boring.
plus it wasn't interactive enough for me.

Wow: Black Knight is a F****** joke. As a hunter, my group put 300g down that me, the tank, and the healer couldn't beat him. We did, in 3 minutes Im MM wit a wasp.

Oblivion: Jygalag, the final boss in shivering isles is a joke. Ruin's Edge procced and I just stood over him railing on him with shadowrend, then running away and massacreing him, level 12 at the time. The guy that dropped the primal order sword was harder. Syl was insanely diffucult. Tried 17 times to do it. Then did godmode and just waded through everything. Took me like 4 hours just to do it still lol royal guards juggled me. Final boss, thing in original game. Not thar diffucult on my plate/dps/healer class like what 5 kaitiffs and bam I win? EAAAAZY mode, most "boss fights" in oblivion are waaay to easy on my sneaky argonian bloodrinker!

Mass effect the Matriarch lady took me and my pal 1 hour of switching on/off to understand why we were wiping. Killing her was easy, just shoot (overload? the shotgun explosive shot) ~1-2 times and bam choices!

Halo 2: The last boss, with 2 shotgun rounds and a full carbine with 1 plasma grenade was uber fun!

Dawn of war 2: Avatar was crazy gak hard, I mean it took me 6 hours one day just to have the PERFECT squad. Took me like 40+ tries. Thadius was doing like what, 2.5k a hit, leader was doing 1000, davian was pulling 2k in melle mode, and Avitus was plane and simple ownage at 2.8k. Thadius and Avitus both in termie armour. The Angel gate thing was a poisin joke >_<. I leveled up like 3 times there. Those 3 carnifaxes owned me and Avitus always bugged out and led the charge alogn with the rest of my ranged, while my CC units shot. Took me like 17 times to understand what the hell was going on. Last boss in DOWII was a joke, the chapter master took him on all by himself. The poisining of the nodes was waaaaaay harder, went in with a terrible squad makeup >_<

Gears of war II: the huge Hydra thing was a huge dissapoint in fun. The game saved to the point were my gun was already overheated and I had 1 swing lefr >_< till my reaver exploded, while the last boss and skourge was pathetically easy.

Oh, god the worst boss I had ever faced was the last boss of destroy all humans! She had like 50 of those giant robots and she could heal herself THREE times! It was impossible to beat her so I went to EB Games and got 10 bucks for it.

Elizabeth Greene in Prototype.

Holy gak... I mean, feth. The battle literally took me half an hour. The only effective way I found to fight her is to activate the Armour and Musclemass powers and run around her in a circle throwing cars at the tentacle things and trying to dodge the barrages of rocks and homing energy balls. When the Blackwatch came along I started hijacking tanks (which lasted about 30 seconds tops) and blasting away at the tentacles, and that worked pretty well as long as there were enough tanks spawning.

Then after the cutscene where Alex consumes her, it froze.

Bull-frickin'-horse-gak.

NeedsMoreDakka wrote:My girlfriend - "Tom Nook from Animal Crossing, that guy was straight up evil." <---the slang suprised me too

Tom Nook's only the one that's there incase something goes wrong, like Canairy M Burns in the Simpsons. The real evil in Animal Crossing is Mayor Tortimer

Stare into the face of evil

It's HIDEOUS!!!11!1!

Cheese Elemental wrote:Elizabeth Greene in Prototype.

Holy gak... I mean, feth. The battle literally took me half an hour. The only effective way I found to fight her is to activate the Armour and Musclemass powers and run around her in a circle throwing cars at the tentacle things and trying to dodge the barrages of rocks and homing energy balls. When the Blackwatch came along I started hijacking tanks (which lasted about 30 seconds tops) and blasting away at the tentacles, and that worked pretty well as long as there were enough tanks spawning.

Then after the cutscene where Alex consumes her, it froze.

Bull-frickin'-horse-gak.

Took me two hours. Mainly though i used hit and run tactics. run away for ten minutes then go back and hit her.

Most dungeon bosses in WoW kill you so easily. after dying 20 times, it gets frustrating.

UberKarnage. Thats why i love deing a hunter. they never come towards me. LOL

Saverok in Baldurs Gate 1, man I HATED that guy after twnty attemts to kill him! but it was worth it for the awesom cut scene

Wow Dungeon bosses are hard? Ever tried heroic toc 10 with 1 healer? its fun, lots of fun. If dungeon bosses are hard OUCH is endgame gonna hurt. I have yet to wipe on a dungeon boss Since I hit 78. Another frustrating boss to add is: Mad mel of borderlands, the only way to do it is to DIE, come back and use a sniper to kill him.

Saren from mass effect was surprisingly disaapointing. even the final version of him.

Werewolf in VtM: Bloodlines. Invulnerable & very fast, makes you very stressed.

That or the dopefish in Commander Keen 4

Gene from Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. Quite possibly the easiest boss I have ever beaten- shotgun which he can't dodge (for some reason, he can with every other weapon), four/five shots and hes down.

I expected more from the last boss tbh.

Eldrith from Baldur's Gate. Even on extreme it took me 5 and a half minutes to kill her. Very disapointing.

I hated mass effect boss too easy. I love WoW bosses though. The best boss of ALL TIME IS...... ( Drum Roll )
Super Mario Arch Nemesis... Browser... or whatever hes called


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I mean Bowser

Ares in spartan total warrior, why was the god of war easier to beat then every other boss!?

I personally hate the final boss from Actraiser: all earlier bosses + one or two more forms in one battle Good luck without any healing items!
Oh, and of course those darned ultimate weapons from FFVII...

Zinaida from Armored Core: Last Raven.

She's got insane accuracy with a railgun (typically they're moderatly-accurate, high power shots with high velocity, but she was fething sniping with it), infinite energy, obscene speed, and the ability to use a pulse cannon while moving.

The final boss of Shinobi (PS2)

In order to get enough tate to actually hurt him, you have to kill these tiny little talismans. But by time you get enough to do enough damage, he'll teleport away from you, or turn invincible for the 2 seconds that you can actually hurt him. He's nothing more then an excercise in frustration.

Lucifer from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

After hearing about how much of an insane melon-fether he was, and how hard the fight was, I was kind of worried. But once I actually got into the battle, I was dissapointed. He wasn't stupid easy, but he wasn't hard at all.

Brahman from Digital Devil Saga 2

Despite being an absolutely epic fight, he's easy as hell, and he comes right after the hardest non-optional boss in the game.

garret wrote:Saren from mass effect was surprisingly disaapointing. even the final version of him.

I disagree. I convinced Saren to commit suicide so I missed that fight but Sovereign's avatar was a pain in the arse.

That what im talking about i still consider him saren for names sake. Lol i didnt realise i posted it in the begining lol.

Well he's still called Saren in the game when his implants are being controlled by Sovereign. I didn't get it either until I read the official story.

Ok, bear with me, this one's a long one. I have a lot of things to say about terrible bosses.

First off, +1 for Matriarch Benezia from Mass Effect. I thought it'd be pretty easy, just a few minions to take down then her...about nine attempts later, I'm about ready to snap the Xbox controller in half. It takes them like three shots to take you out.

Oh, and I have to say, the Thorian from Mass Effect as well. Not so much because it's terribly difficult, but it's freaking long having to fight up the stairs taking on like 19 different waves of geth and those stupid asari. Extra difficulty since I was playing the Infiltrator class that only specializes in Pistols and Sniper Rifles...

Also a +1 for Saren/Sovereign in the end of Mass Effect. After some of the other tricky bosses in the game (Benezia, the Thorian, even the encounter with what's-his-face in the ruins) he was pathetically easy to beat. He took a long-ass time to beat using only a pistol, but the entire strategy was basically don't stop moving and you won't get hit. Ever.

And one more +1 to Jecht from FFX. The only annoying thing about him was trying to deal with him casting Stone every now and then, in which case Yuna had a Ribbon and Esuna. Jecht was a total cakewalk compared to some of the other bosses of the game, like the first time you fight the guardian of Bevelle (The second time was cake. One Phoenix Down and he's down for the count).

I'd also like to point out just about ANY boss from Final Fantasy III DS. I don't think I ever did beat that game...the farthest I ever got was Salamander. Fething insta-death attack for your entire party...

From Final Fantasy VII: Safer Sephiroth. Hope you have some really quick heals and/or auto-life. Every time I got him down any way, he would just cast Supernova, followed immediately by another Supernova. I had maybe two turns between them to do anything, and part of that had to be used to revive someone.

One more rant: the final boss from the NES game Silver Surfer. After seeing a review of it, I decided to try it out (It's really not that difficult if you manage to get up to full power...and have an autofire controller so you don't break your thumb smashing on the fire button). After spending a few days working my way through the levels and the god-awful Magic Zone, I finally got to the boss. And having spent so much time dodging projectiles throughout the rest of the game, he was completely pathetic.

Phew, rant over. God, there are some really bad bosses out there...

The last guy from Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes(really easy to kill een on nightmare)
The giant robot thing from Destroy All humans on the last level.(he'll kill you before you can get to your saucer)
The Protodeka from Star Wars: Clone Wars(2003 version[he throw a bunch of seeking missiles and the controller rumbles so much it feels your having a seizure])
The Dark Reaper from the same game. It's just stupidly over powered.