Most annoying/time consuming boss fight ever?

[shrekfan246]

The Four Kings in Dark Souls. They're in the middle of an area they are disproportionately tough for (they're probably the toughest enemies in the game despite appearing halfway through); there's no bonfire (checkpoint) nearby so you have to fight through a mass of enemies to get to them each time you fail; they all spawn separately but if you don't kill the first one fast enough the second will just spawn in while he's still there and you'll be gang-raped; the timing on all their moves is really annoying when trying to get the hang of dodging them, and they have this one AoE move that's virtually impossible to get away from in time.

Seriously, that fight took me so fucking long. But, as usual with Dark Souls, it was really damn satisfying when I was done with it.

Just a little tip for anyone fighting the Four Kings, there is a shortcut at the place where you encounter the first ghosts in the area,don't go up the stairs, if you drained the water there will be a cliff that is a short fall that lets you avoid most of the journey to the boss.

I actually accidentally found that 'shortcut' shortly after I had drained the water, and made my way to the fog-gate that led to the Four Kings by pure chance because I didn't know which way I was supposed to go. I knew I wasn't ready to fight them, but figured "Hey, I was supposed to drop down there so this gate couldn't possibly lead to the boss already." How wrong I was...

OT: As far as time-consuming goes, I'd have to say probably Yiazmat from Final Fantasy XII if you're not prepared for him. Quick kills are generally considered to be after an hour.

He's actually the one optional monster that I don't remember if I killed or not, I don't believe I ever did. Which is one of the reasons I've been replaying it recently, because I'm crazy.

 

[Azurian]

The only way i managed to kill him was to respawn at my body a hundred times and losing my experience and fame as I did it.[/quote]

I can't remember what they're called, but in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn there is two:

- An optional boss that if you defeat him he'll become a summon. Thing is though, he summons a lot of these balls that will consume your summons, curse you, heal him, attack you, protect him, and the like. I tried to beat him three times I think, all of which took over an hour. Gave up after that.
- The final boss (at least I think it's the final boss). It's the guy that's morphed from the three guys you were just battling that were already a ***** to fight. And due to the fact that he/it occurs right after a hard ass fight, you can't go to resupply any consumables you used, which you did, and nor can you go off to level up or do anything else. He does shit loads of damage to multiple people in your party, and it has obscene amounts of HP. I spent over an hour and a half on him and got nowhere, so I quit.

First; Wow, someone else who's played a golden sun game. Never thought I'd see that in my lifetime! Second; if you thought Star Magician and Chaos Chimera were bad, wait until you meet Dullahan and Doom Dragon from Golden Sun: The lost Age.

OOOOOOOOOOOOH I did not just hear the name of the two bosses I hated the most in that game! I thought the Fusion Dragon sucked. I would happily fight the fusion dragon over the doom dragon any day FUCK CRUEL RUIN!!!!

 

[FolkLikePanda]

All of the Boss Battles in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

AND WHY THE FUCK IS THERE SO MANY OF THEM?!

Seriously, S Ranking that game would take so bloody long its unbelievable.

 

[katsabas]

Dante Must Die, Devil May Cry 3, mission 19. Having to face each and every one boss from the game again.

This here sums up my feelings.

 

[Pearwood]

I may be biased since I've just been replaying Persona 4 and I forgot a crucial detail about a boss the story points you to (that being that the game expects you to skip it and come back later, not that it tells you that)... fucking Contrarian King. This guy has an attack that can instakill your character (instant game over) unless you take precautions and will always be able to instakill any other party member who gets an unlucky hit. He uses this attack at random. Meaning sometimes he'll use it twice in a row or on the very first turn when you haven't had a chance to debuff him fully.

Fuck Contrarian King.


Edit - also to make it especially annoying the background music and the voice acting treats the encounter like a normal fight with basic enemies. And the guy looks like a bigger version of a basic enemy. Fuck Contrarian King.

 

[saints1544]

Before I knew the trick in MSG, Phychomantis was freaking hard to beat, possible but hard.

Going old school SNES - Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals - "Master" (a huge red jelly) at the bottom of the Blue Treasure Chest Cave. Getting to him was a beast, let alone actually killing him. And was it true you could beat Gades the first time you battle him halfway through the game?

Also, the entire 7th Saga game on SNES. It, like Drakken, was a *****.

 

[Lodgicalwill]

The only way i managed to kill him was to respawn at my body a hundred times and losing my experience and fame as I did it.

I can't remember what they're called, but in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn there is two:

- An optional boss that if you defeat him he'll become a summon. Thing is though, he summons a lot of these balls that will consume your summons, curse you, heal him, attack you, protect him, and the like. I tried to beat him three times I think, all of which took over an hour. Gave up after that.
- The final boss (at least I think it's the final boss). It's the guy that's morphed from the three guys you were just battling that were already a ***** to fight. And due to the fact that he/it occurs right after a hard ass fight, you can't go to resupply any consumables you used, which you did, and nor can you go off to level up or do anything else. He does shit loads of damage to multiple people in your party, and it has obscene amounts of HP. I spent over an hour and a half on him and got nowhere, so I quit.

First; Wow, someone else who's played a golden sun game. Never thought I'd see that in my lifetime! Second; if you thought Star Magician and Chaos Chimera were bad, wait until you meet Dullahan and Doom Dragon from Golden Sun: The lost Age.

OOOOOOOOOOOOH I did not just hear the name of the two bosses I hated the most in that game! I thought the Fusion Dragon sucked. I would happily fight the fusion dragon over the doom dragon any day FUCK CRUEL RUIN!!!!

Honestly, Doom Dragon was annoying yes, but if you had, say, Piers healing the party every turn in the final phase (Cruel Ruin every turn), it was pretty easy, just a bit lengthy. Dullahan was a MUCH tougher boss, by a long way.

 

[Nelle]

How can not everyone forget Baal on Hell mode in Diablo 2: LoD.

especially on my situation, i was using my frost Sorc. Damn it took me 45+ minutes to finally finish him off, i remember it took me 7 tries also.

 

[sageoftruth]

Me too. Spent a good hour just doing hit and run on the thing. Same with the last boss.

Let me give you a hint: Dance, Water, Dance!!!

He's probably the only boss in that game that I got a Game Over on, and I was playing on Proud Mode my first time through.

The third boss in Star Ocean: The Last Hope that was a bit of a pain. I spent an hour fighting the thing. Not 'dying and restarting', but in a single HOUR LONG BATTLE. Was I playing the game wrong? Maybe. The fact that this guy does it in under four minutes makes me think so.


And that's why I stopped playing SO:TLH.

I quit because I just couldn't stand the voice acting any longer. That, and because Edge wouldn't get over himself. Also, I wanted my next Gamefly game.

Most of the bosses are like this because Tri-ace confuses difficult with Shit tons of HP. So yeah any bosses in that game are my choice special mention to the final boss for probably taking about an 1-2 to beat.

 

[sageoftruth]

How can not everyone forget Baal on Hell mode in Diablo 2: LoD.

especially on my situation, i was using my frost Sorc. Damn it took me 45+ minutes to finally finish him off, i remember it took me 7 tries also.

Ah, thanks for reminding me. I had a similar problem with Diablo. Perhaps I needed the game patched, but I was playing as a Bowazon and my attacks missed him almost 75% of the time, despite my dexterity and all the points I put into Penetrate. It made it even worse with melee fighters, since I had to use hit and run tactics each time I took a swing at him. I almost quit out of boredom.

 

[GoaThief]

The King of Night in Ninety Nine Nights.

Virtually impossible unless you picked up one randomly dropped loot item on the final level that enables you to not lose energy whilst doing specials, as there's only one attack that's particularly effective against him. One problem; where it's random, people can literally try 100 times in a row and still not get the drop.

I platinumed that game bit tht was ages ago. Is that the guy you unlock after beating the game with everyone and I think it forces you to use Inphyy or you can only fight him with her? If it is then there's a move where you fly across the screen that you can spam. That's all I did and won on my second try.

Yes, Inphyy-only and that's the move (AAY combo, forget the name) - obviously you picked up the Deadly Armband otherwise there's no way in hell you'd beat it on your second go as you run out of energy in two uses of it with a full bar IIRC, though it might well have even been only one.

Platinum, by the way. What on earth is that?

 

[excalipoor]

So, I'm going to second Occupation of Arteria Carpals in Armored Core: For Answer. It's a 5 on 1 fight (5 on 2 actually, but your buddy goes splat within the first minute), which is kind of a big deal in this game. Basically, you've done a bad thing, so every single party still in existence decides that you're too much of a dick to be left alive. Both your enemies and former allies join up to make sure you get murdered.

It's the only mission in the whole series I can't finish without exploiting the AI or some cheap ass weapons. Thankfully the mission is pretty lenient in its grading, as you'll pretty much have a guaranteed S-rank just by beating it regardless of how badly you get your face kicked in.

A friend of mine keeps on yammering about how long and hard Fou Lu in Breath of Fire IV is, but I don't remember having any trouble with him. I should probably play through it again. Ultimecia in FFVIII was pretty tough back when I didn't understand the junction system. Or English. Now she's just a big fat (not really though) joke. I guess most turn-based RPG bosses are like that if there's no luck factor involved.

 

[Jason Rayes]

A lot of the bosses in Yakuza can be a pain, a lot of them have unblockable attacks so you have to cat at mouse it. Their hit point bars have to be reduced multiple times to finally defeat them as well. They are nowhere near as long to defeat as some bosses mentioned here but some of them just feel cheap.

 

[sageoftruth]

Lots of boss fights in God of War 2 were very long and annoying on Titan mode. Partly because they had so much health, partly because some of their attacks could now one shot me, and worst of all, because the Boss's life bars had been removed, so I couldn't even tell how much progress I was making. Also, the boss fights were very dull compared to games like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden.

 

[Fractral]

Dr Fetus was pretty hard, in Super Meat boy. Took me around 2 hours to beat him, and seeing as an average life was 20 seconds or so, thats around 300 tries. Though I don't think Fetus himself ever killed me- the level did that.
After that would be the final boss of FF13-2. The previous 3 bosses (This being a 4 part boss) had been easy as cake, and then this guy shows up and it takes me 30 minutes to kill him. He has around 3 1HKO moves, which can only be avoided by putting everyone in sentinel, and he is only able to be damaged when his buddies are dead. When you kill them, you get to fight him for 2 minutes (less, since he starts by spamming daze) and then he respawns them. And god forbid he should use his signature move when both his buddies are alive- if you're not overleveled, that can 1HKO you through sentinel.

 

[Terrible Opinions]

The Arishok in DA2 if playing as a warrior. Even after I beat him on the hardest difficulty, I went back and tried it again on easy and it still took me 30 minutes and he still had his instant loss combo. Crazy, especially as this boss is mind numbingly easy for mages and rogues.

Oh god this. Warrior was my second playthrough (after playing a rouge in my first) and I wondering if I was doing anything wrong, because I just could not damage the mother fucker. Even busting it down to easy took at least ten minutes. I was not pleased.

Grenades, man. It's all about grenades for a warrior.

 

[White_Lama]

Most time consuming: Tartarus from Halo 2 on Legendary (took about 30 minutes of CONSTANT Banshee fire.

Most annoying: The blue dishwasher ***** boss fucker at the end of Dead or Alive 4, fucking annoying piece of shit like I've never seen before.

 

[sageoftruth]

Fighting Nyx at the end of Persona 3 was definitely time-consuming. The difficulty spike was HUGE compared to all the easy mandatory bosses I fought before it. Nyx had over 12 forms. Each one had low HP for a boss, but I did very little damage at a time since I was constantly healing and rebuffing my party (not sure how necessary it was). Nyx went through some forms that nearly killed off my party. When that happened I had to throw caution to the wind and focus entirely on offense, hoping that his next form would give me the chance to heal up.

His final form had tons of HP and naturally was the toughest of his forms. When I finally won, I had fought for over 4 hours.

 

[King of Wei]

Rogu O Ralga from Wild Arms 3. To get to the boss fight you gotta go through the damn abyss which is 100 floors of increasingly more annoying enemies which can take anywhere from 6-12 hours to clear. Then when you get to the boss itself it can kill you in just a few turns if you aren't prepared. It's got 99,999 HP and high defense so fighting the boss takes another 2-3 hours. Then, once you've finally defeated it and make your way out of the abyss you have to fight a bigger, stronger, more pissed off version of it that's blocking the exit. And you have to do all of this without saving so if you get to the second phase of the boss and die, there goes your Saturday.

I did manage to beat it on my first try thankfully but I had more thnan a few close calls.

 

[putowtin]

Darth Vader in The Force Unleashed II....

That boss fight lasted about 15 minutes too long. All it comprised of was attacking, waiting for him to do his thing, attacking the clones he sends at you, attacking him, waiting for him to do his thing.... you get the picture. Then you finally beat him! And you have to do it again...

Spoiler: case and point

They had to make it long and tedious....
this fight doubled the length of the game!