Bosses that you JUST. CAN'T. BEAT.

[RejjeN]

Boost Guardian in Metroid Prime 2 Echoes on hard (actual Gamecube hard), I think I must have tried beating it almost 20 times (no joke) until I managed to! I guess you could predict where it boosts around (strikes out a single energy tank in one hit) but I could never figure it out, so was mostly crazy jumping going on and hoping to get lucky for me...

 

[Saetha]

The third or so boss from Luigi's Mansion. The giant boo, that splits into a bunch of smaller boos, and you have to freeze them all and... shatter them, or something? I hated that guy. I always, always got him down to just one or two boos before dying. And he starts off with a hundred. And I have to kill them all. Over. Again. Every time. The most frustrating part was that I know I can do it, because I've done it before! I beat this game when I was, like, ten years old! Why can't I beat it now?! WHY DO YOU KEEP KILLING ME, BOO?! GODDAMN IT, FREAKIN' HATE-

*Ahem* Yeeeaaah... Anyway, that's the only boss I can ever recall having trouble with that wasn't solved by just endlessly throwing myself at them. I never finished Super Mario Sunshine, either... but as I recall, that's not because I couldn't beat one of the bosses but because the game glitched out and the last level wouldn't open or... something. Never figured out what was up with that.

And then there was the first time I played Fallout: New Vegas, and ended up messing with the Legion when I was really early-game, so they kept sending assassins after me. Not really a boss, and I usually took care of them after a few tries and some creative use of the landscape, but it still got annoying fast. But I have a habit of getting in over my head with Bethesda games. It's fun, to try and find your way out of an encounter you have no business being in at your level.

Ooh, though I beat him eventually, I did have trouble with Deus Ex:HR and the battle with Jaron Namir because... yeah, I fell for the upgraded chip thing. I knew it'd screw me over, but I figured the game would force you to take it one point or another, so... thought I'd just get it over with. Turns out, for once, a game let you make a choice and then didn't immediately nullify any consequences it might have. Won that battle by constantly moving around and getting in potshots when he was jumping over the walls. Turns out the guy's aim is awful. Still though, not a fun (Or short) battle, when your Jensen's made of glass and all you've got is a sniper rifle and all those tranquilizer darts you've been stockpiling.

 

[Burchy22]

Dark souls 2 Lost sinner NG+ I can only beat this boss with help, I can't do it on my own, its flat out unreasonable to expect people to be able to take on a fast super aggressive boss while having two pyromancers throw spells at you and don't you dare try to target the pyros because of the "super aggressive" boss.

Dark souls 2 again, Ancient dragon, probably only gave this boss about five tries before deciding its a waste of time and poorly designed boss, this is no Ornstein and Smough were its hard as hell but you knew what went wrong every time you die. This was just at some point the boss gets bored flies up and one hit kills you with fire.

Final fantasy 7, Ruby weapon. Never beat it on a proper playthrough, though it has been awhile since I genuinely tried. Still it is actually faster to go through the hours upon hours of chocobo breeding and earn yourself a Goldie rather then grinding the stats and materia needed to take this guy on.

Final fantasy 10, Dark Aeons. Think I beat Dark Valefor that's it, after that it just became unreasonable.

I think its just any Jrpg that has secret bosses that are several times harder then the last boss, I want them to be harder then the last boss sure, but that to a ridiculous degree because then there's no point beating them other then bragging rights, nothing they could reward you with would be of any use. Sephiroth from Kingdom hearts 1/2 is my idea of a secret boss.

 

[Able Seacat]

The superbosses in FF13: Lightning Returns particularly

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I'm still on my first playthrough so really I should skip Ereshkigal for now and try tackle it in NG+ but it almost feels like giving up.

 

[Avalanche91]

I remember being stuck against Jetstream Sam from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance for a long time. He wouldn't have been so hard if we purchased 'defensive offensive', which you NEED to beat the final bosses, starting with him.

Monsoon from the same game was also a pain in the ass.

 

[woodaba]

There have been plenty of tough bosses, but they've all fallen eventually. Honorable mentions are just about any super boss in RPG's, especially Satan in Digital Devil Saga 2.

It says something about the Superbosses in Digital Devil Saga when Satan can be one of the toughest motherfuckers in video game history...and still be piss easy in comparison to the Demi-Fiend from the last game.

 

[ItsNotRudy]

Boost Guardian in Metroid Prime 2 Echoes on hard (actual Gamecube hard), I think I must have tried beating it almost 20 times (no joke) until I managed to! I guess you could predict where it boosts around (strikes out a single energy tank in one hit) but I could never figure it out, so was mostly crazy jumping going on and hoping to get lucky for me...

He is a big asshole... never beat him on hardcore :/ I hate how the boss is time-limited (hello poison). The trick is to hit it with Super Missiles when he is in normal form, but firing those is clunky as hell...

 

[leberkaese]

People will probably laugh at me for that, but:

The goat boss in Dark Souls... I didn't have any problems with the game until that enemy appeared. Either he or his dogs kill me before I even have the slightest chance to reach the stairs behind him.
That boss made me quit Dark Souls...

 

[JayRPG]

Last boss on hardest difficulty in Tales of Symphonia.
I thought he/she/it was hard enough on normal difficulty, then me and a mate decided to go coop on hardest, never beat him... it... -.-
Won't put the name or the picture of the character, it might spoil an old game for someone?

I don't remember what difficulty I played ToS on back on Gamecube, in fact, I might have been playing on easy. It must have been easy, because I steamrolled the guy, then got my ass kicked by Abyssion later on. Anyway, I set Raine's big-ass AoE healing spell on speed dial (one of the C-keys), and spammed that button during all of combat.

The one boss that has made me go "fuck it, I'll go do something else", is in fact Abyssion from ToS, though I only tried the fight once, because I read that the recommended level to take him is level 70, and I couldn't be bothered to grind all the way to that. Or indeed to play the game again. I remember starting NG+, but I never continued.

Adding more Tales of Symphonia fun.

I never had a problems with either Mithos/Yggdrasill or Abyssion, even on Mania difficulty.

But there was a boss that I just couldn't do on Mania, which was the last advanced team battle in the meltokio arena. The one with meredy, garr and farah.

I just couldn't do it.

I could probably go back and do it now but think I ended up going back and doing it on hard back in the day.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Ancient Dragon from Dark Souls 2. Cheap ass piece of wank he one shots me.

Can I second this? Cos I'm gonna. I gave that boss too much of my goddamn time before I said fuck it and beat Demon's Souls to vent my frustration. Stupid, ill-designed bastard.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

FTL, the fucking flagship. I've tried every combination I can get in that random ass messed up roguelike I love so much and want to murder 1000 times.... Something always fucks up, I get killed and pop back in at turn 1 looking like a chump. Fucking FTL.

EDIT: Also Ninja Gaiden, not the retuned version Black but the original... Alma, that *****. It made me break 4 controllers and gave me a series of serious fucking migraines. I finally just decided to break the damn disc.

 

[BlackBark]

Dullahan from Golden Sun: The Lost Age. Curse him and his damn Djinn Storm! I don't think I ever managed to beat him. I could already mop the floor with the Doom Dragon, but this guy...he's just unstoppable. I never even got to see the final djinn summon because of him. Bastard.

 

[drakonz]

Ancient Dragon from Dark Souls 2. Cheap ass piece of wank he one shots me.

Can I second this? Cos I'm gonna. I gave that boss too much of my goddamn time before I said fuck it and beat Demon's Souls to vent my frustration. Stupid, ill-designed bastard.

With the post i've made above this one... I guess we can all agree about how the Ancient Dragon is the lamest yet most broken, terrible boss in Dark Souls history? I actually think From Software has no excuse, seeing as they made Kalameet in DS 1's DLC the best dragon boss i've ever fought. Such a shame man ...

agreed i was actualy suprised they managed to top bed of chaos in bad boss design. ancient dragon is just lame unlike other bosses winning against it didint feel like i archieved anything at all not to forget its attack animation with flying flame and flying move flame attack are far too similar to each other whole boss battle was just running from point a to b doing few hits and repeat.

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

This guy. Just... this guy.

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That fiery monstrosity was the Balor guardian from "Temple of Elemental Evil". Using the most powerful NPC in the entire game (the only character I've ever seen successfully HIT this guy, by the way) it took me forty-five minutes to bring him down. I've only ever done it once. I've tried more times than I can list.

The final boss fight is cake compared to Balor. The only good news is that you technically don't HAVE to fight him. If you do, on the other hand, you can summon him... and if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that everybody should have a fifty-foot tall flaming hell-demon as a companion.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Ancient Dragon from Dark Souls 2. Cheap ass piece of wank he one shots me.

Can I second this? Cos I'm gonna. I gave that boss too much of my goddamn time before I said fuck it and beat Demon's Souls to vent my frustration. Stupid, ill-designed bastard.

With the post i've made above this one... I guess we can all agree about how the Ancient Dragon is the lamest yet most broken, terrible boss in Dark Souls history? I actually think From Software has no excuse, seeing as they made Kalameet in DS 1's DLC the best dragon boss i've ever fought. Such a shame man ...

Agreed. Kalameet was a fucking blast, and the AC doesn't even compare.
It's like each Souls game is mandated to have at least one really poorly designed boss fight. Demon's Souls had the Dragon God, Dark Souls had the Bed of Chaos. I suppose they're getting better, though. AC is optional, at least. Though, that's countered by the fact that both of the aforementioned are far superior to the AC.

 

[ForumSafari]

I remember being stuck against Jetstream Sam from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance for a long time. He wouldn't have been so hard if we purchased 'defensive offensive', which you NEED to beat the final bosses, starting with him.

Monsoon from the same game was also a pain in the ass.

Monsoon was deeply unfun but Sam can be defeated with the usual running slash, same with the final boss. I never got Defensive Offensive and beat both by running past them, slashing quickly or smacking them with a heavy attack and, most importantly, by not getting greedy and over-extending a combo. Sam was the second toughest boss in the game but after Monsoon the rest were puny by comparison.

I've also never been able to beat the torture sequence in Metal Gear Solid on anything higher than easy.

Have you tried using your fingernail? I generally do those sequences by rubbing the back of my fingernail back and forth over the button rather than pressing straight down.