Most annoying/time consuming boss fight ever?

[Razentsu]

Nyx felt like a really long fight in Persona 3. It was enjoyable, but damn it was a long fight.

 

[Emperor Nat]

I remember reading about a boss in an MMO (I'm not sure which, I think Everquest but I could be wrong) which was essentially impossible. It was teamed up on by several guilds, beating on it for several hours, and when the company running it (I think SOE, again could be wrong) saw that it was about to die they shut down the server for a while, buffing it in the next patch.

Hang on, this is on cracked, imma go find it...

/search

It was the original Everquest, run by SOE, a boss called Kerafym the Sleeper.

It took 3 hours, they got it down to 22% health (bearing in mind that it had two spammable instand-death attacks and was immune to the vast majority of damage), then Sony shut it down.

I think that's arguably the record holder for "Most Annoying, Time Consuming boss fight ever."

 

[Terrible Opinions]

Dragons like Firkraag and Shadow Dragon in Baldur's Gate II can be pretty overwhelming when fighting unprepared (and yes, I am aware there are very easy ways to kill them like dozens of snares and traps or chromatic orb). Also Kangaxx

The horror. Those sobs were immune to EVERYTHING...except trap spamming and magic missile.

And cloudkill-outta-fuckin'-nowhere.

A good way to solve most any problem.

 

[Ardure]

Shade of Aran WoW:BC ... not difficult at all in raw mechanics and strategy but someone always managed to kill the entire raid. This was the boss that when "Flame Wreath" i cast no one inside of it is supposed to move. So its counter intuitive instead of moving out of the fire you are supposed to stand in it and wait till it goes away. It always baffled me that in so many boss fights people would stand in the fire and die but in the ONE boss fight where you are not supposed to move EVERYONE moves and kills each other.

 

[lacktheknack]

Gurdy from Binding of Isaac, it seems like he takes forever to put down,

He never moved, so if you had five bombs, he went down like a rock.

Of course, it was rare to have five stray bombs.

OT: Playing a high-level thief in Elder Scrolls games with a focus on soft-skills (my favorite builds) meeting a high-health boss:

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(The spaghetti is the boss's health, if you didn't catch it.)

 

[Azeal]

Sephiroth from the original KH. In KH2, all you need to do is block the quicktime events, and you pretty much are ok. In the original game; once Sephiroth hit 2/3 hp, he would use a move that put you at 1 hp and no mana, then he would leap across the arena to whack you a new one. Only way to stop hit was to catch him in a combo, was pretty hard to do when he would jump across to the other side of the map to use it. I think I only beat him because I got lucky...

 

[Tdoodle]

Darth Vader in The Force Unleashed II

Completely forgot about that, good call.

It's not been too bad in replays, but when I first fought Ghetsis in Pokemon White and he brought out his Hyderigon he completely wrecked me.

 

[Zen Toombs]

There was that Elizabeth Green in Prototype that was a *****. I was dealing so little damage I thought I was doing it wrong Probably was.

Same here. ANd I looked it up, and for the most part you probably weren't. There are a few tricks, but the fight is pretty dumb regardless.

 

[Twilight_guy]

There was that Elizabeth Green in Prototype that was a *****. I was dealing so little damage I thought I was doing it wrong Probably was.

That.

The boss has a move that essentially one-shots you if are standing near it and will use it without remorse. As a result, you have to stand behind cover a lot and hide. This is complicated by the unending horde of small enemies that are sent after you during the fight as well. To hurt the boss you first have to destroy several key protective points (that are damaged very slowly) before she becomes vulnerable for a brief window of time. The net result is that the huge amount of life has to be wilted away by the occasional hit and run move that you can get in between waiting for her one-shot to pass and trying not to get blind-sided by the smaller enemies. Either it takes a frustratingly long time or you get killed in a few seconds. Poor design is poor.

 

[auron200004]

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.

It all depends on what your build is. Mine I had a lightning enchanted battleaxe, light armor, and the darkwood grain ring. If you can close the distance between you and them (which I could) and hammer them hard and kill them before the next one shows up, they're not bad at all.

Now, Ornstein and Smough with my build...ugh...

 

[dancinginfernal]

The Monster Hunter enemies in MGS: Peace Walker.

Until I farm soldiers to get my tranq weapon up to 5-ish, I'm just stuck taking 20 minutes at a time just to get a B. :I

 

[Calibanbutcher]

There was that Elizabeth Green in Prototype that was a *****. I was dealing so little damage I thought I was doing it wrong Probably was.

That.

The boss has a move that essentially one-shots you if are standing near it and will use it without remorse. As a result, you have to stand behind cover a lot and hide. This is complicated by the unending horde of small enemies that are sent after you during the fight as well. To hurt the boss you first have to destroy several key protective points (that are damaged very slowly) before she becomes vulnerable for a brief window of time. The net result is that the huge amount of life has to be wilted away by the occasional hit and run move that you can get in between waiting for her one-shot to pass and trying not to get blind-sided by the smaller enemies. Either it takes a frustratingly long time or you get killed in a few seconds. Poor design is poor.

I found this boss very easy.
I simply munched pedestrians until I was in critical mass, run up a building and use the ground-spike graveyard-air-move-thing.
Usually this opens her up for an attack, use charged palm-strike-tentacle move.
Do damage.
Start running and eating pedestrians.
Rinse and repeat.

 

[Mordekaien]

He never moved, so if you had five bombs, he went down like a rock.

Of course, it was rare to have five stray bombs.

It's not that he's hard to defeat, it's simply that I don't want to use any bombs on a guy that's not that hard to defeat, but it takes AGES to bring his health down, if you want to be economic

 

[thebinaryone]

Onimusha 2. This guy. never swore so much playing a game before he showed up.

Spoiler

Gogandantess

Bastard had faster attacks than you, stronger attacks than you, could hit you at long range, dodge 50% of your attacks, block and counter 49%, occasionally flipped over your head and cut your backside to ribbons, AND even if you managed to land a hit on him, it did significantly less damage than on any other enemy in the game. Pretty much all the other enemies were really slow or at least turned around fairly slow and this guy could leap over your head from 20 feet away, and back before you knew where the mouthy git was. Character-wise he was also a prick, which made the unskippable cutscene before every try of his THREE seperate fights even more annoying.

I gave up on one playthrough and started the whole thing again because i got to the fight with him on the beach, no health items, no talismans and only half a health bar. maybe two attacks and i would have to sit through the cutscene again, decided i'd have a better chance by trying to getg throught all the rest of the game getting more of the health items than getting past that fuck.

 

[johnnyLupine]

Seymore Flux, Sinspawn Gui, Evrae and one more I can't quite remember from Final Fantasy X.

Although there's one boss that almost made me snap my controller.
...Bed of Chaos from Dark Souls.
So. Fucking. Cheap.

Just...ugh. UGH.

Really? I get that Seymore can be cheap what with his zombie attack followed by auto-life but its easily avoided, I will admit that in my recent playthrough he did beat me the first time around but once I knew what he was going to do I prepared for it by having a quick word with Wantz to get some zombie warding items and holy water to make some of my own.

If your going to give an example of a cheap boss in ff-x then it ought to be Yunalesca since she uses a similar trick to Seymore in phase 2 but casts Megadeath on any characters not zombified when she transitions into phase 3 and will continue to use it for the rest of the encounter, its fairly easy to avoid this once you know whats going on but the first transition to p3 left me scratching my head and since she used it again after I had used haste I assumed having haste on a character was the trigger so I tried to avoid using it while still keeping zombie to a minimum and got my ass handed to me again, silly mistake I know but its one which lead me to believe that boss deserves the cheap boss top spot.