Game bosses you really, really hate
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Keep in mind that I am still on a box from 2002, in a house that is not wi-fi. The most recent console I own is a Gamecube (unless you count the DS, which I count as a portable). I have been out of work for almost three years and I am a college student.AtticusSP said:
Crackaz is broke 'deez days
Pasternak from Ace Combat 6. He himself is a pushover, but if you're going for S-Rank, you have to shoot down 25-30 of these little drones flying everywhere... It's a tedious, frustrating nightmare.
Come to think of it, the mission where you're flying in the mountains and have to shoot down the drones flying recon for the Aigaion is even worse, since you have to fight those drones. The whole mission is a low point in the game.
That's the most recent one I can think of, but being longtime RPG player, there are tons and tons of bosses in old-school RPGs that are just awful, awful, awful. Back in the day, when it was cool to be Square, developers were totally OK with sending the player to the game over screen a dozen times if it meant getting the message through that that boss is a badass.
Come to think of it, the mission where you're flying in the mountains and have to shoot down the drones flying recon for the Aigaion is even worse, since you have to fight those drones. The whole mission is a low point in the game.
That's the most recent one I can think of, but being longtime RPG player, there are tons and tons of bosses in old-school RPGs that are just awful, awful, awful. Back in the day, when it was cool to be Square, developers were totally OK with sending the player to the game over screen a dozen times if it meant getting the message through that that boss is a badass.
That stupid baby in Persona 4. What's his name? Mitsuo? I mean, what kind of boss is a baby that turns into an 8-bit warrior?
Also, Yunalesca in FFX. I always seem to have trouble unless I'm soloing her.
Also, Yunalesca in FFX. I always seem to have trouble unless I'm soloing her.
A clinically depressed kid that just wants everyone's attention and thinks of his life and the worldfoodmaniac said:
And his act of murder
As for me, I HATE the boost ball guardian from Prime 2 so. damn. much. Quite literally threw a controller while playing on hard mode.
Most of Ninja Gaiden 1/2 Bosses get a mention but to be more specific: Spirt Doku, having to go through a load of shit to get to him and then fight him with his bullshit health stealing move is really fucking annoying. Also The Train Demon and Giant Fire Armadillo, the former because arrows are the most prudent option but it's annoying to fire them off and he has rapid fire attacks that are hard as hell to dodge. The armadillo is not to bad but his stupid explosion upon death move is just a giant fuck-you to the player. On top of that he comes out of nowhere has no connection to anything and after wards no one speaks of it again.
Persona 3's Floor bosses should get a mention, not all of them but the ones that do deserve mention they know who they are. The Answers Floor bosses get special mention because they are all annoying asshats. People ask what FES stands for well the answer to that is in the answer(bu dum tish), it stands for Fuck Evade Skills.
EDIT: Forgot Moldorm from Link to The Past, the jack ass would constantly knock you down to the floor below and make you start the battle over again, and if you happened to be unlucky he could knock you down and have you got down 5 floors.
Persona 3's Floor bosses should get a mention, not all of them but the ones that do deserve mention they know who they are. The Answers Floor bosses get special mention because they are all annoying asshats. People ask what FES stands for well the answer to that is in the answer(bu dum tish), it stands for Fuck Evade Skills.
EDIT: Forgot Moldorm from Link to The Past, the jack ass would constantly knock you down to the floor below and make you start the battle over again, and if you happened to be unlucky he could knock you down and have you got down 5 floors.
If we're going to call WoW bosses, I'm going to go old school back to Vanilla WoW and say Lord Valthalak. He was the endboss to the teir .5 stuff. He was found in UBRS, so you could only take ten people to kill him. Technically, he was supposed to be doable by a group of ten in mostly teir .5 and teir 0. Instead, due to the demanding nature of the fight, he'd murder ten of my guildies, as we were tearing handily through later in the game content.xavierxenon said:
By vanilla standards, that guy was a nightmare.
Much harder than it looks.
Mogenar and Dark Samus in Metroid Prime 3 were extremely difficult on Hypermode. Especially Dark Samus, she takes so many shots before she goes down. And even if you beat her, you still have two more bosses to beat afterwards, and if you fail those you have to fight her AGAIN.
Bogimoray from Lost Odyssey. It's not actually that much of a challenge to defeat this thing, but the first time I played the game was the first JRPG I'd played since Chrono Trigger, so I wasn't 100% sure what the hell I was doing. If you don't kill everything on the screen quickly enough, a second giant worm will spawn. In this video, it appears just after the first one dies, but in my first attempt I had to fight two of them side by side.
So yeah, I can kill the thing quickly enough on any playthrough now, but it still suffuses me with a completely irrational hatred.
Duriel from Diablo 2
Why does he have a freeze aura? Why can he charge you? Why is he so fast? Why is he so strong? Why can he stun you? Why is his room so tiny? Why the fuck is he so much harder than any other boss in the game?
Gods, that overgrown maggot makes my blood boil.
Why does he have a freeze aura? Why can he charge you? Why is he so fast? Why is he so strong? Why can he stun you? Why is his room so tiny? Why the fuck is he so much harder than any other boss in the game?
Gods, that overgrown maggot makes my blood boil.
What makes me really angry is that FF9 never had anything that could really counter a "instant kill" attack. They had auto-life, except it only revived you once, and only heals one (AND ONLY ONE) hit point. Meaning if you can't immediately get off a cure-all move then you are fucked beyond belief.Enagan said:
Gnasty Gnork: spiro the dragon (i feel old)
Pyscomantis: Metal Gear Solid 1 (but only when you dont know how to beat him)
The alien "heinrich": Conker live and reloaded (he was easy to beat on bad fur day)
The End: Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake eater ( AHHHHHHHHHHHH! ***** Stop running you old fart)
Pyscomantis: Metal Gear Solid 1 (but only when you dont know how to beat him)
The alien "heinrich": Conker live and reloaded (he was easy to beat on bad fur day)
The End: Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake eater ( AHHHHHHHHHHHH! ***** Stop running you old fart)