Most difficult boss you've faced.

[MrDelicious]

For me it was the Arishok from Dragon Age 2, because I just rushed in there without buying any potions and my first time playing was as a rogue. Also first time round he kept spamming this unavoidable knockdown move that could floor you from across the room allowing him to rush in and wail on you while Hawke slowly ambles up off the floor. (is it possible to amble up?)

Also I found out that, due to his duel weapons, the Arishok is classed as a rogue. So he can get lots of critical hits and deal lots of critical damage.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

The Widow in The Binding of Isaac. Screw Satan, the Widow is one mean ************.

I don't think I have ever beaten him. :/

Runner up would have to be Drek from Ratchet and Clank 1. He's friggin impossible unless you have the RYNO. And even if you do, the fight's still pretty difficult.

 

[thesilentman]

FOUR. MOTHERFUCKING. KINGS. Argggghhhhhhhh..... Damn NG...

I really can't top anything now. Four Kings sent me into a permanent state of paranoia and aggressiveness for the rest of the game.

 

[Knocker]

For me, it was Xaldin from KH2. The fight took me about 45 minutes, depleted all of my healing items, and Mickey stepped in twice.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Overall though I'd say Razor from NFS Most Wanted (original), with the smallest slip ups being very costly.

Really? I beat him with the Gallardo I won with a pink slip... The only thing that made this game remotely challenging for me was the rubberbanding. Although, I'll admit that Razor is the most annoying simply because you have to win 5 races in a row.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Last boss of Shadows of the Damned on highest difficulty and no health upgrades.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Mannup mode in TF2 is quite hard, so that.

 

[Yojimzo]

This will make me sound like a Demon Souls elitist, but...


FUCKING. MANEATERS.

For anyone who hasn't fought them, count yourselves lucky, makes the 4 kings look like a cakewalk by comparison.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

This will make me sound like a Demon Souls elitist, but...


FUCKING. MANEATERS.



For anyone who hasn't fought them, count yourselves lucky, makes the 4 kings look like a cakewalk by comparison.

The Maneaters are just plain bullshit. Massive magic attacks on a narrow bridge. Yes please.

 

[Fasckira]

rubberbanding (...) 5 races in a row.

Yeah, for those reasons. I found in my Scooby that I could have a comfortable lead, then suddenly clip a corner or overshoot and suddenly hes right there on my tail pressuring me. Just got very frustrating. The whole "evade the cops for 12 minutes" afterwards was positively easy in comparison!

 

[Baneat]

For some reason I had difficulty with Mike Tyson in IWBTG. He's not even that difficult, must have been doing it wrong for ages. The most difficult parts of the game were the between-boss sections easily though.

 

[Auron225]

Ah yes.. The old summon Yojimbo, pay him a shitload of gil and pray for Zanmato trick. I used it a couple of times myself.

As soon as I realized you could do that, I went around having him massacring all of them X) All except Dark Yojimbo... it seems fitting that he's the only one it doesn't work well on since you have to fight him more than once in quick succession to actually kill him.

OT: Quite a few come to mind but the most obvious is without a doubt;

Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII): She seemed SERIOUSLY overpowered - the ONLY strategy I had that worked (and it still took hours to actually kill her) was spamming Aura on Squall and praying for his limits to be Lionheart. I actually Lionhearted her to death - it was the only conceivable way to do it. The fact that she had like 4 different forms did not help. That fight is what's putting me off playing through VIII again. I loved the story and all but I just can't bring myself to endure it again.

EDIT: Oh, I just remembered - Murluxia from Chain of Memories. I never did beat him. I never even got to his final form. I had Sora level 70-80 and I came close on most occasions but each attempt just took far too much time and I lost interest.

 

[Anathrax]

ENOUGH! THIS...ENDS...NOW! [http://images.wikia.com/runescape/images/f/fc/Enough%21_This..._ends..._NOW%21.ogg]

Spoiler: Uncle Fester from Runescape.

Double triple quadra penta super duper ultra mega screw you.

 

[lapan]

Lord Darcy Burroughs from Clock Tower 3

Thanks to the rather awful combat of this game this bossfight took me about 30 tries until i finally lucked out.

Spoiler

Vergil from Devil May Cry 3

After about one hour of trying him i pussied out and actually used healing items.

Spoiler

 

[Casual Shinji]

Bed of Chaos from Dark Souls.

He's not so much hard as he is a giant fucking pain in the ass. It doesn't matter how strong or skillful you are in battle, but simply how much luck you have.

It's basically just a giant plant monster rooted in the ground, and in order to get to his vitals you need to destroy a clutch of branches on both sides of his body. But he has two big ass tree arms which he uses to knock the shit out of you if you get close. If you destroy a clutch he spawns a giant flaming mantis arm and starts knocking holes in the ground, which the tree arms are more than happy to smack you into. All the while he's also spamming fire attacks. When both clutches are destroyed a chasm will open up right in front of him through which you have to jump down onto a branch path (while giant arms are still trying to knock you down the into the void) which will lead you to his vitals.

I remember once when I was at his vitals ready to strike and a fire attack fucking killed me.

 

[deleted_by_strongbad]

I had a really tough time with the Thunderbird on Zelda 2

 

[Blitsie]

False King Allant in Demon's Souls. I know some people easily beat him without even wearing anything but dammit did he obliterate me, after about the thirtieth try I just said "to hell with it" and used that super cheap poison cloud tactic to kill him (I still feel so ashamed of doing that).

Pretty much every Ninja Gaiden boss also had me initially clawing my eyes out, especially that double bossfight you have to go through in number 2, I already didn't have enough health or items for the first boss let alone the second (even more impossible one) that immediately comes after and to this day I don't know how I beat them.

 

[his1nightmare]

Mhh..h.hhh...

The hardest task for me is actually labelling anything as "hard".
Well, maybe the final boss from Ys: Oath of Felghana (Galbalan, Nightmare (Inferno isn't that different).
Or maybe the VH version of the stage 8 story boss from F-Zero GX, played without snaking (again, what is "hard"?).

If true hardness allows unfairness, then you can pick any fighting game, its last boss and label it as the hardest. Shitheads who simply do nothing until you press anything and then react 1 frame later with the best possible counter (and I look especially at YOU, Calamity Trigger Unlimited Ragna)... are shit.

 

[ultramarine486]

Wow I'm surprised with all the mentions of Final Fantasy no one has even mentioned Weigraf or Elmdor from tactics. It's bad enough they require a high level of knowledge regarding the leveling and class abilities but the game save locks you forcing you to restart the whole game, or if your lucky a save or two behind, if your under leveled.

 

[DanteLives]

I'm gonna go with King Godwyn from DQIX. His first form was a piece of cake, but that second form was utter hell.

You get no time to heal, so keeping your party high on health is a priority.

His second form loses the vulnerability to Cattle Prod, which means Mercurial Thrust with a spear user is a must, other than that, i spammed Falcon Blade with my minstrel, and my thief was kinda useless, but used that 4 hit claw attack.

After i beat him, it was a welcome sigh of relief.