Bosses that you JUST. CAN'T. BEAT.
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People need to stop complaining about the Ancient Dragon from Dark Souls 2 - it could have been the Everlasting Dragon from Dark Souls 1.scorptatious said:
OT: There was a handheld Mario RPG I played back in the day called Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. It was pretty fun, but holy god did it drag. The final boss, to this day, I have not, and likely will never beat, because it just takes so god-damn long to damage. I probably made my build wrong but- FOUR HOURS to get to the final form of the final boss, to which I just responded: No game, I think I'm done... now.
The closest thing I think I have to one of these was fighting the 25 or so Metal Gear RAYs in MGS 2 on extreme. I tried upwards of twenty times over the course of a week, quit for about two years, and eventually beat them all, getting my each and every movement down to a fucking science. THEN came the truly impossible part: Surviving the strangulation torture thing.
Another year passes, I learn somewhere that the bar drops much slower if you look at the moon while being strangled.
The swordfight with Solidus that followed was a cheery, blade-swingy skip through the blood-soaked and on-fire flowers, in comparison, quite fun!
Another year passes, I learn somewhere that the bar drops much slower if you look at the moon while being strangled.
The swordfight with Solidus that followed was a cheery, blade-swingy skip through the blood-soaked and on-fire flowers, in comparison, quite fun!
I am going to add to this as well, this boss was not well written. He is stupidly hard until you figure out how to beat him, and then he is stupidly easy. There isn't even a middle point where you have to practice the strategy, it is literally one point to the next.Caramel Frappe said:
Except that everlasting dragon was not a boss in any kind of way. He was many things, but not a boss. He was A: a covenant master, B: a test platform for weapons, and C: a drop source for the Dragon Greatsword. Since you can not kill him period, and you can not agro him, why bother attacking him?Chaosian said:
Last year I played Ys:Origin, and I got stuck at what I'd assume is the last boss.
Top of the tower, big angel demon thing, a gorillion phases mirroring your attunements, grabs you and shoves a giant space laser in your face that almost comletely kills you, it really has a strong final boss feel.
I find it unfortunate that I dropped the game, because it seems like that kind of game where the first playthrough is only the beginning, but I don't know if I'll ever get back into it.
Top of the tower, big angel demon thing, a gorillion phases mirroring your attunements, grabs you and shoves a giant space laser in your face that almost comletely kills you, it really has a strong final boss feel.
I find it unfortunate that I dropped the game, because it seems like that kind of game where the first playthrough is only the beginning, but I don't know if I'll ever get back into it.
Ruby and Emerald WEAPON from FF7. Never beat them on a proper playthrough as I just couldn't work up the energy to care all that much. I did recently work up the energy to take them on seriously, but I have lost the memory card that had my best FF7 save on it so I've sort of screwed myself over on that count since I no longer really have the time to do another playthrough and grind my way up to a level where I can beat them in any reasonable time.
Most likely his Zombie + Heal combination, which he enjoys using during that battle.Xan Krieger said:
Personally, I liked using Yojimbo as an Aeon the first time I came across Seymour Flux and when I summoned him, Yojimbo ended up killing Seymour with Zanmato. A day later, wanting to show the move to a friend, I loaded up the savefile from before facing him... and Yojimbo just did a wakizashi...
As for me, I lost quite a few hours to Radec in Killzone2 on Elite difficulty.
Here's two recent additions to the list - Mecha Deathshead from Wolfenstien: The New Order and Royce from Transistor.
This is a luck based battle if I ever saw one. First part is easy enough - dash to two cannons, use them to take down two Zeppelins powering his Force Shield, then pound on the shield until it overloads and it takes you to the next part of the fight. Here's where things turn into an excercise in infuriation.
This part takes place in a confined area. His suit comes with a pair of Machine Guns like the ones you find on the mounted turrets, and a Tesla Cannon if you get too close to him. His weapons also destroy most of the cover. And someone thought it would be a good idea to litter the area with valves that will go off and will (if you wander into their streams - and you will) scythe though your health harder than his guns! Given how Wolfenstien: The New Order has many enemies that can chew though your health at an insane rate, this fight very much becomes a luck based mission on Normal. I'd hate to see what this boss can do on something like Uber difficulty.
Oh, and it took two fully charged clips of the Laserkraftwerk, an entire salvo of Laser AR Marksmans (dual wielded) and an entire clip and a half of rockets to kill him on Normal. It's only with luck that I finally managed to beat him on Normal.
This part takes place in a confined area. His suit comes with a pair of Machine Guns like the ones you find on the mounted turrets, and a Tesla Cannon if you get too close to him. His weapons also destroy most of the cover. And someone thought it would be a good idea to litter the area with valves that will go off and will (if you wander into their streams - and you will) scythe though your health harder than his guns! Given how Wolfenstien: The New Order has many enemies that can chew though your health at an insane rate, this fight very much becomes a luck based mission on Normal. I'd hate to see what this boss can do on something like Uber difficulty.
Oh, and it took two fully charged clips of the Laserkraftwerk, an entire salvo of Laser AR Marksmans (dual wielded) and an entire clip and a half of rockets to kill him on Normal. It's only with luck that I finally managed to beat him on Normal.
This guy makes Mecha Deathshead look like a pansy in comparison. Why? This guy goddamn CHEATS.
You MUST fight him using the turn based Gimmick the game has - it's impossible to hit him in Real Time while he's running around waiting for his turn to charge.
Oh yes, he can do the same Turn Based shenanigans as you. Only better because you cannot avoid or block his attacks. Neither Jaunt nor Mask will trigger in time to avoid his abilities, meaning the Player is forced to very slowly move out of the way of his attacks. There is cover, but it's pointless because most of his attacks avoid Cover.
Like Mecha Deathshead, he has a pretty high HP count - only The Spire has a higher pool of HP. The kicker is that unlike Mecha Deathshead, Royce has extra lives - four of them infact.
I'm perfectly fine with a difficult boss fight, but when you make the FTL Flagship look like the Alien Queen for Aliens: Colonial Marines in terms of broken cheese...my god.
You MUST fight him using the turn based Gimmick the game has - it's impossible to hit him in Real Time while he's running around waiting for his turn to charge.
Oh yes, he can do the same Turn Based shenanigans as you. Only better because you cannot avoid or block his attacks. Neither Jaunt nor Mask will trigger in time to avoid his abilities, meaning the Player is forced to very slowly move out of the way of his attacks. There is cover, but it's pointless because most of his attacks avoid Cover.
Like Mecha Deathshead, he has a pretty high HP count - only The Spire has a higher pool of HP. The kicker is that unlike Mecha Deathshead, Royce has extra lives - four of them infact.
I'm perfectly fine with a difficult boss fight, but when you make the FTL Flagship look like the Alien Queen for Aliens: Colonial Marines in terms of broken cheese...my god.
For me it was The Harvester from the The Golems of Amgarrak DLC (Dragon Age Origins) on Nightmare difficulty. Apart from the fact that it has a ton of HP and deals crippling levels of damage, you are stuck with a pre-set party who are less than no help at all and the Harvester itself spawns enemies who spawn at a random rank up to and including boss rank. Most difficult trophy I ever earned!
Last boss of Blue Dragon. Mostly due to that i couldnt return to a previous level to level up some more. Cant remember if i just didnt leave extra saves or the game had one save point over.
Life. I keep trying the Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right BAABAA Start cheat code, but every time I do it they say "Put some pants on." and cite me for public lewdness. Anyone else not able to get past the "Hide the sheep in the bushes" part of the Life end-boss level? I could really use some advice.scorptatious said:
The robot at the end of Mass Effect 2. Kept dodging and kept shooting but every time i get towards the end I die. I think the game was trying to torture me.
My bad. forgot about that one ... yeah she can be a total ***** in that one.MysticSlayer said:
I fall into the category of ran up to Ancient Dragon in Dark Souls 2 about 5 times and decided screw this. Just to be clear I spent a lot more tries first beating Darklurker or O&S in DS1 but this Dragon boss is just cheap as hell and no fun. Heck there isnt even a trophy at stake.
The other boss I never beat is the final gigantic demon looking dude in Serious Sam First encounter (I think it was the first encounter ...) where there was like a circular arena and some machinery you were obviously supposed to activate in some pattern I never figured out. Gave up after running in circles for about an hour.
Oh and I stopped playing Arkham City (I loved AA, AC not so much) when I got to that gimmickey boss battle against the frost dude where you have to sneak up and there is puddles and electricity etc. Snorefest.
The other boss I never beat is the final gigantic demon looking dude in Serious Sam First encounter (I think it was the first encounter ...) where there was like a circular arena and some machinery you were obviously supposed to activate in some pattern I never figured out. Gave up after running in circles for about an hour.
Oh and I stopped playing Arkham City (I loved AA, AC not so much) when I got to that gimmickey boss battle against the frost dude where you have to sneak up and there is puddles and electricity etc. Snorefest.
In Demonstone, a hack and slash RPG-lite brawler for the Xbox and PS2 the penultimate boss of the game was an Adult Red Dragon. Who had been chasing you throughout the game as well, all the way from stage 1. You've seen this thing in action, it's taken out armies and extra-dimensional generals with kickass swords. But, you and your characters(a Fighter, a Rogue and a Sorcerer) finally manage to corner it in it's lair. The fight has several phases, the first consisting of you disabling it's wings with your Sorcerer to get it on the ground and then whacking at it's exposed head and legs.
The final phase was supposed to be this awesome combination of all your characters unique skills to kill it with a final blow to the head.
....except that the damn mechanics of the sequence didn't work. You have to cast [CHARM] on the beast to get it to hold still long enough for your Rogue to [LEAP] on it's head to force it down into sword range for the Fighter to strike the final blow. Except.... if you weren't standing in the most specific(and I mean pixel perfect specific) distance and position, the spell would BOUNCE OFF OF THE DRAGON and DAMAGE your Sorcerer. And if you kept casting, you'd keep getting damaged until it KILLED YOU. Forcing a restart of the ENTIRE fight.
...I spent 7 hours on that single sequence until I found the exact position to stand in and got the spell to stick.
AND THEN THE ROGUE GLITCHED OUT AND DID THE EXACT SAME THING! Cause the spell to wear off and forcing me to re-cast it. Another 2 hours later(and this was after a 9 hour night shift hauling boxes at a distribution center) I finally got it and went on to beat the last boss of the game.
For my aggravation, my only remembered instance of me getting hives in my entire life.
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The final phase was supposed to be this awesome combination of all your characters unique skills to kill it with a final blow to the head.
....except that the damn mechanics of the sequence didn't work. You have to cast [CHARM] on the beast to get it to hold still long enough for your Rogue to [LEAP] on it's head to force it down into sword range for the Fighter to strike the final blow. Except.... if you weren't standing in the most specific(and I mean pixel perfect specific) distance and position, the spell would BOUNCE OFF OF THE DRAGON and DAMAGE your Sorcerer. And if you kept casting, you'd keep getting damaged until it KILLED YOU. Forcing a restart of the ENTIRE fight.
...I spent 7 hours on that single sequence until I found the exact position to stand in and got the spell to stick.
AND THEN THE ROGUE GLITCHED OUT AND DID THE EXACT SAME THING! Cause the spell to wear off and forcing me to re-cast it. Another 2 hours later(and this was after a 9 hour night shift hauling boxes at a distribution center) I finally got it and went on to beat the last boss of the game.
For my aggravation, my only remembered instance of me getting hives in my entire life.
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That sounds right and makes me glad I got that aeon. Sounds like a crazy expensive move though, something that demands more grinding. I take it this is how it's gonna gobluegate said:Most likely his Zombie + Heal combination, which he enjoys using during that battle.Xan Krieger said:
Personally, I liked using Yojimbo as an Aeon the first time I came across Seymour Flux and when I summoned him, Yojimbo ended up killing Seymour with Zanmato. A day later, wanting to show the move to a friend, I loaded up the savefile from before facing him... and Yojimbo just did a wakizashi...
Summon Yojimbo
Pay him to do a move
does something other than zanmato
reload save file
summon Yojimbo
pay him
does something other than zanmato
repeat till he does the move I want