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Alright, my hardest enemy is a tie between Dr. Neferious from Ratchet and Clank: Up your Arsenal, and Tarturas from Halo 2.
Yeah.... thinkl I spelled his name wrong. Sorry. Please post.
The guy at the end of Ikari Warriors 2 for the NES, anyone who has played it knows exactly what I am talking about.
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Demi-Fiend from Digital Devil Saga. Hardest (beatable_ boss in any videogame ever made, period.
He has an attack that does 10x the max HP allowable by the game, and he'll use it if you block any of his attacks, he has friends who are more then happy to fully heal him, and he has a health count that's simply massive. Even with fully maxed stats and at the highest level, you're still lucky to even make it halfway through the fight. He also gets criticals all the time, which if you know anything about SMT, means he gets tonnes of extra turns with which to wreak havoc upon you and your party.
Of course, it's fairly appropriate that he's the ultimate boss fight, I mean, in his game, he gets the option to destroy the universe.
Zeus on God of War II on Titan mode. If you fail to reflect a single lightning bolt, you die.
Chief Mendez on Resident Evil 4 was really hard on Pro mode, as was Super-Salvador (giant chainsaw guy) in Mercenaries mode.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
HFJor wrote:Wiegraf in Final Fantasy Tactics (well, depends on how well prepared you are for it, and what job you choose)
By the time I got to Wiegraf on my second play through (The War of the Lions), I had all jobs mastered on four different level 99 characters, and had three Dark Knights w/ Mathematics, Counter, Dual Wield, and Teleport, and then a Summoner w/ Mathematics, Magick Counter, Magick Boost, and Teleport.
Needless to say, one of the easiest boss battles ever (Then again, when you master every job with your full party by the time you even get to Dorter, every boss in that game is the easiest boss battle ever).
I'd have to say, as for the Hardest enemy ever, I'd have to say nearly anything on Master Ninja mode on the first (XBox) Ninja Gaiden, or anything on Dante Must Die Mode from the North American original release of Devil May Cry 3 (Not the special edition. Too easy). Both of those games require ridiculous reflexes and rythm, and cause possibly more frustration than any game ever made. Probably the most ridiculously hard video games (on hard mode) ever.
As for singular enemies, I'd have to say Eve from the Original Parasite Eve. So difficult that the only way I could even beat her was through a random glitch.
Though I found that Super-Salvador was pretty intense, he wasn't too hard to kill, once you actually figure out a method. I do have to say that I've played the Japanese Demo of Resident Evil 5 so much that me and a friend actually managed to kill the Chainsaw guy in the second level with knives only. Yes. You read that correctly.
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HFJor wrote:Wiegraf in Final Fantasy Tactics (well, depends on how well prepared you are for it, and what job you choose)
By the time I got to Wiegraf on my second play through (The War of the Lions), I had all jobs mastered on four different level 99 characters, and had three Dark Knights w/ Mathematics, Counter, Dual Wield, and Teleport, and then a Summoner w/ Mathematics, Magick Counter, Magick Boost, and Teleport.
Needless to say, one of the easiest boss battles ever (Then again, when you master every job with your full party by the time you even get to Dorter, every boss in that game is the easiest boss battle ever).
Ergh, maybe I got the wrong name - I was thinking of the guy that you have to fight by yourself until he turns into the zodiac monster. If you're not prepared for that fight, you're gonna get schooled (Monk w/ Two Swords and Basic Skill ftw).
What I love about Tactics is that you can make the game so much more difficult simply by choosing different professions. The Gafgarion fights with pure Summoners are hard as sin.
Slight Threadjack: How is The War of the Lions and the 2 new classes? (I've only been playing the old PS1 version of the game).
The boss (Anubis??) of the Zone of the Enders 2 demo. You were supposed to lose. There was simply no way to win at that point. He was faster, stronger, and meaner by many orders of magnitude beyond what you were capable of. I lasted about 2 minutes of dodging, boosting and running like crazy with the occasional pew pew back at him before getting smashed by his beam attacks.
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What are you talking about? They're Space Marines, which are heroic. They need to be able to do all the heroic stuff. They fight aliens and don't afraid of anything. -Orkeosarus
Any enemy from the NES era of games. Seriously, back then many games had plain enemies that instakilled, much less bosses. And then you start the level over. Until you lose three lives then GAME OVER.
HFJor wrote:Ergh, maybe I got the wrong name - I was thinking of the guy that you have to fight by yourself until he turns into the zodiac monster. If you're not prepared for that fight, you're gonna get schooled (Monk w/ Two Swords and Basic Skill ftw).
What I love about Tactics is that you can make the game so much more difficult simply by choosing different professions. The Gafgarion fights with pure Summoners are hard as sin.
Slight Threadjack: How is The War of the Lions and the 2 new classes? (I've only been playing the old PS1 version of the game).
Nope. You definetly got the name right. Wiegraf is often toted as the hardest boss in the game, considering how early in the game he comes along. If you zip right through the game without leveling up your jobs at all, he can be extremely difficult. But when you spend so much time min/maxing your characters before you even get into the fourth story battle, everything (besides random battles) becomes astronomically easier. Hell, the last boss is only level 65.
The War of the Lions is brilliant, but it has it's downsides in comparison to the PSone original (though very few). The new cutscenes are beautiful, though the voice acting can really throw you off, especially when you're used to silent characters, imposing their voices however you please. The biggest problem I have with the game is how much the localization team changed the script and the names of the characters. Sure, all the typos and engrish are gone, but I don't know why they felt the need to change everything into unnecessarily arcane English. It completely ruins all the favorite quotes from the original game; none of the script is the same as it was. Most of the character's names have been changed for no reason. Algus is now Argath. Balbanes is now Barbaneth. And Count Draclau (The first Zodiac encounter) is now Count Delacroix. The worst heresy, in my opinion, is how they changed Velius, the name of Wiegraf's Zodiac Transformation (also used in some historical cases as 'Satan') into Belias, the name of some Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced Summon. Too many locations are changed to name.
As for the jobs, the Dark Knight is what you would think, just like having the option to turn any of your characters into Gafgarion (Now Gaffgarion) and use his Night Sword abilities, as long as they have at least one Knight Sword equipped. A very good job to have, but a pain to unlock (Master Knight, Master Black Mage, and I think level 8 Dragoon, Samurai, Monk, Thief and Geomancer. Oh, and the character has to kill at least 20 enemies. Not knock out, kill).
The Onion Knight, however, is a different story completely. Though you can unlock them by getting to level 6 in Squire and Chemist, they royally suck. They have no special ability, and the only thing they are good for is that they can equip absolutely everything. They don't earn XP or JP. They have the worst stats in the game, until they hit level 8. But the only way they CAN hit level 8 is by mastering 14 other jobs, and Squire, Chemist (!), and Mime don't count. Once they DO hit level 8, however, they have the best stats, and stat growth (How your stats level up when you gain a level while using a job), though they still can't gain XP to make use of it. So the only way you can even level up as an Onion Knight, to reap basically their only benefit, is to breed Wild Boars from a Pig (new enemy) that you capture (as they don't appear in the wild) and take them into battle to use their 'Bequeath Bacon' ability to make the Onion Knight go one level up instantly, but it turns the Wild Boar into a crystal. So, basically, the only thing Onion Knights are good for are absolute Tactics Fanatics, who want the best Min/Max build possible, and have the time to level back down all of their characters to level 1 and then breed 98 Wild Boars for each character. A waste of your time, as you'll be kicking ass and taking names anyway by the time you find yourself doing that.
The multiplayer is a very awesome addition, but only if you can find someone locally who is the same level as you (this is extremely hard for me). Because if you're higher level than they are, you'll either own them in the vs. mode, or all of the random enemies will be way too high for them to handle in the coop mode.
Also, one of the new characters is an awesome addition, especially if you're a fan of Final Fantasy XII. Balthier is like Mustadio on crack, with all of his disabling abilities, plus all of the abilities gained from thief, an attack that does massive amounts of damage with any weapon and always hits, and way better stats. The only bad thing about this is he makes Mustadio look utterly worthless in comparison. Luso, however, is a simple exact clone of Ramza with an automatic poach ability. Since Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced is a scar upon the Tactics name in general, I unlocked him simply so I could get some enjoyment out of killing him and using his crystal. In addition, Cloud from Final Fantasy VII is unlockable much earlier than he was in the original game.
All in all, definetly worth buying, if only to have a portable version of one of the best games ever made.
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Oh, I just remembered one of my favorite PITA bosses - the Jabberwock from American McGee's Alice. The first time you fight him is no big shakes, as it's a timed event - but you have to slug it out the full fight the second time around, and he's dead 'ard (and just plain nasty with all of his taunting).
Both incarnations of the Red Queen gave me fits too, but the Jabberwock stands out in my mind more.
Matador from Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. Sure, there are harder optional bosses and the obligatory BALLS HARD secret boss, but you don't need to beat them to finish the game.
"With pop hits provin' unlikely, Captain Beefheart retreated to a cabin to shout at his band for months on end. The result was Trout Mask Replica."
Dullahan from Golden Sun:Lost Age (or whatever the title was). He got 3 moves a turn, had an insta kill attack, an attack that hit your entire party, and a doom attack that he used in succession, had thousands of HP and regenerated some percentage every turn. The only way I ever managed to beat him was by arranging my Djinn so that all 8 characters I had could use the wind/water dragon summons that he was relatively weak to. First party of 4 cast it 4 times and fought until they all died. Second party repeated while I tried to heal up the first to go at it again. I must have used it at least 10 times before he went down.
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What are you talking about? They're Space Marines, which are heroic. They need to be able to do all the heroic stuff. They fight aliens and don't afraid of anything. -Orkeosarus
Leopaldon, the boss from Guilty Gear Isuka.
Basically his head is the only vulnerable part, and most of his attacks fill the screen. I can only do it easily with Chipp Zanuff by constantly teleporting behind him, and very rarely using Millia.
Raise your hand if you've ever actually played a game in this series.
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Terra from KH2: Final Mix. Kills Donald and Goofy within the first 10 seconds of the battle.
Queen Odette from Odin Sphere. Called so many minions the game slowed down, could heal herself while at the same time throwing you a good ways away from her, and carried a good handful of insta-kill attacks for the lvl you're at when you fought her.
King Gallon from Odin Sphere. All of his attacks could hit you really hard, and usually multiple times too. And the method you have to kill him with doesn't help.
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Most amazing 2d fighting series ever made. Beat Leopaldon with both Testament and Zappa (my two most-used characters). But yeah, he was definetly difficult.
Downloaded Guilty Gear Judgement for my PSP. Gets boring after a while, but if you liked stuff like Streets of Rage and Final Fight back in the day, you'll love it. That, and it comes with the arcade version of Guilty Gear X2.
Speaking of PSP...How about fighting Metal Gear in Portable Ops when you don't have any kind of explosive weapon at all? That's just ridiculous.
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Any given World of Warcraft instance boss when you're playing in a pickup group.
Also there was some maggot-vomiting creature chained to the wall in the basement of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence that proved a real challenge for a good 3 hours. He was an optional boss that was 10x as hard as the true final boss fight. Your reward for the effort? Broken, dangling chains which rain blood on the ground as you walk around the board. Very dark, very cool.
Edit: Found a link, he's called The Forgotten One:
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CorporateLogo wrote:Matador from Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. Sure, there are harder optional bosses and the obligatory BALLS HARD secret boss, but you don't need to beat them to finish the game.
To be honest, Nocturne's optional boss, Lucifer, wasn't really that hard. My party when I beat him was Physical Hitoshura with Pierce(duh), Lilith, White Rider, and Trumpeter. Essentially, only one guy focus->attacking over and over, while the rest just healed and buffed. He went down so easily. Matador really was much harder. Still, with the right demons, he's not too hard.
Arctik_Firangi wrote:Leopaldon, the boss from Guilty Gear Isuka.
Basically his head is the only vulnerable part, and most of his attacks fill the screen. I can only do it easily with Chipp Zanuff by constantly teleporting behind him, and very rarely using Millia.
Raise your hand if you've ever actually played a game in this series.
...well... you've all seen my avatar. I don't think much more explaination is required. All you need to know is that I suck with normal Sol, but I'm awesome with Order Sol.
I just remembered Starcraft. They don't have bosses as such, but some missions are a real pain. The 5th Zerg level on Brood War was really hard. You have to take down two of the enemy heroes; one is a super-powered guy in a walker, and the other is in a battlecruiser. The walker-guy kills your air units in two hits.
The 5th Terran level is crazy too. In the previous mission, you have to destroy one of two targets to determine what your enemy's uber-unit will be. It will ineveitably be either constant nuclear missiles or a massive fleet of battlecruisers. What a pain.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Arctik_Firangi wrote:Leopaldon, the boss from Guilty Gear Isuka.
Basically his head is the only vulnerable part, and most of his attacks fill the screen. I can only do it easily with Chipp Zanuff by constantly teleporting behind him, and very rarely using Millia.
Raise your hand if you've ever actually played a game in this series.
*raises hand.
i use ky , miria , and the guy in Fafnir's avatar.
OH MY GORK! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING???
It's some sort of Frog...Wolf...thingy with bad teeth? Piloted by a dog in a SM mask?? And a drumming black mage from FF9 or something. I knew that Guilty Gear was crazy, but this makes Earthworm Jim and Conker's bad fur look like a lesson in german poetry!
There a a bunch of really hard enemies I fought in a bunch of games.
Dr. Neferious though, is definetly not one of them
- I was unable to beat the last Boss in Lost Planet. But then again, I might have tried harer if I was actually interested in the plot.
- The last enemy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl's story mode. I forgot the name, but it took me some time to figure out how I could avoid his shock wave.
- Zeus in God of War 2. He wasn't that hard to beat, but the Quicktime event was pretty annyoing, because you head to listen to a 3 minute cutscene every time you try again.
- Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts 1
- I never beat the last bosses in Final Fantasy VIII and IX.
- The last level in the original Vietiful Joe was prettx hard too, where you had to fight every Boss again in a row, just like in the old Mega Man games.
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The only reason Neferious was hard was because he runs to another place after you take a 4th of his health, then he summons these giant robots that are a pain if you haven't fully upgraded your sniper rifle, cause that's pretty much the only weapon you should use, cause you have little to no cover, and one attack takes away your healt like a cast iron skillet to the face.
AND not to forget, The Fear, from MGS3. The End was easy as pie. he always starts right above that little warehouse place. Took him out easy. And in Mgs2, when you have to fight like 40 Metal Gear Rays, and they keep doing that damn stomp attack.
Though the Sorrow was one of the coolest boss battle ever. The less enemies you kill, the easier he is to finish.
Anung Un Rama wrote:- The last enemy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl's story mode. I forgot the name, but it took me some time to figure out how I could avoid his shock wave.
I've always felt that nearly any of the Events, on Hard, were way more difficult than anything that The Subspace Emissary (I assume that's what you're talking about) can throw at you. Still, I managed to complete them all on Hard at a friend's house, most of them out of sheer luck. Oh, with a sideways Wii Remote, no less.
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dog from Duck Hunt. No matter how many times I shot him, he refused to die.
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