THAT boss

[Alcari]

The only game I didn't finish was Battletoads for the Megadrive. Not really a boss, but that bloody hoverbike level. I still can't beat it, it's my one great shame.

 

[Xaio30]

I feel like I'm doing something wrong.
I have not encountered a hard boss yet.

 

[Angry_squirrel]

Mine is also in DMC2, near the end there is a boss that is made up of 3 giant heads. Being the completionist that I am, I played through the whole game on Dante must die difficulty. I did beat him, eventually, but it took me an ungodly amount of time.

 

[PSIcho2468]

Ameno-sagiri from Persona 4. The wanker made me stop playing for about six months after trying to kill him for about a week

 

[azukar]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThatOneBoss


End of thread, really. My personal That One Boss was the forgettable Champion from Pokemon Ruby. Metagross. Ouch Cynthia didn't give me half as much grief.

 

[Harlemura]

The final boss in Heavenly Sword. It's been about 2 years since then, and I've long forgotten his name, but God damn, I sure haven't forgotten the rage and frustration of that fucking three-stage battle!

I have to go with that as well.
Protip for game developers; When someone can't tell if they're doing damage or not because the boss' health is going down so slowly, you've officially given your boss too much health.

 

[StormShaun]

Ninja Gaiden 2, the subway electro eel thing, you have to fire arrows at it (Limited arrows), you cant slash it, the arrows bearly do any damage and the boss fires balls of electricity at you while spamming underlings at you...

REALLY, no nothing at all, nothing else I can use to kill this thing. ARHHHGG!

 

[alittlepepper]

An oldie...Shakhan from Xenogears. I loved that game so damn much but once I hit him I just could *not* beat him. I always ran out of fuel or something like that. I followed every strategy hot tip I could find and still couldn't win.
I really wanted to beat that game, too. Maybe I should dig it back out and play it again, have another go at it. Maybe now that I'm a good bit older I'll do better.

 

[Malrock]

May well have simply been because I was young (not sure as I've not gone back to it) but defeating the Golden Evil Statue at the end of Onimusha 2 took me an age.... =(

 

[Robin Huo]

...GLaDOS... Kidding if you've haven't figured it out already, the actual hardest "boss" was Evlarg from RuneScape... You don't know who or what that is, do you? Well, once you wikipedia it, know that I've quit RS a while back

 

[Googenstien]

In past 2 years for me it was Barthandelus in FF13.. that fucking fight is about as cheap as it gets!
- Bores you to death with its length 12+ minutes!
- Easy to blow it if you dont do the right patterns
- and goes from a survival fight to a timed fight with an instant death if you dont do it in the proper time

Stupid figth ruined the game for me too.. shortyly after finally beating it I just shelved the game and never went back.

 

[Cpu46]

Spoiler: Tabhartas from Mabinogi Generation II.

He's the big one

Sure you get to undergo a transformation that pushes all of your stats well into the hundreds and adds a ton of bonus hp. That still dosn't matter when the boss is a friggin Golem with 3,000hp, the ability to completely deflect mele attacks, and an unblockable AOE that knocks you down. Oh and if he kills you the transformation ends and you cant use it for an entire in game day.

However if you do win you get to keep the transformation skill which is awesome.

 

[MercurySteam]

Motherfucking Elizabeth Greene in Prototype. Especially if you don't know what you're doing.

She's not too hard but she can take ages to kill if have to constantly pull hit-and-runs then consume Hunters every time you lose health (which is every minute or so). But it's no cakewalk that's for sure.

 

[Suijen]

That damn Russian guy in Alpha Protocol, with that seemingly goddamn bulletproof tracksuit.

That damn Russian guy in Alpha Protocol, with that seemingly goddamn bulletproof tracksuit.

I think I snuck up on him and knifed him in the neck. In any case, it ended quite soon.

The bossfight in Alpha Protocol where you fight a crazy Russian crackhead blasting 80's music. After playing I paused the game, quit, declared it bullshit and sold it to pre-order Resistance 3.

EDIT: NINJA'D

Oh yeah, for some reason that little bastard was tough.

 

[Hamish Durie]

the final boss in the world of warcraft plants vs zombies minigame
it's UNPOSSIBLE

 

[funguy2121]

We all have one, you know that boss that took you a million tries to beat or you still haven't beaten to this day? What is your One Boss? As for me, it's probably that giant SOB that comes out of the building in Devil May Cry 2, I still haven't beaten him.

Seriously? The one boss that comes out of the building? You go to the trouble to start a thread on him/her/it and you don't even recall the name or feel the need to come up with a description?

"Hey! Everybody! Tell me about your first fight. I was thinkin' about this the other day because I was doing something-or-other with a guy-I don't remember who-and he asked me about the first time I had a sandwhich, and I thought of this one guy who ate the one thing the other time."

I predict baby/bottle/diaper role play/fetishism will explode in a few years...

Bad Girl from No More Heroes.

 

[Alon Shechter]

Having my kitty fall asleep on me when I need to go to the restroom. In my head is the most intense argument whether I should do it or not.
She's doing it right now.

 

[MazdaXR]

Every single boss from Ninja Gaiden 2.

Especially the big ones.

The big armadillo one is particularly bad as it explodes and kills you even after you have beaten it if you don't know it will explode

 

[Suicideking]

The final boss in Heavenly Sword. It's been about 2 years since then, and I've long forgotten his name, but God damn, I sure haven't forgotten the rage and frustration of that fucking three-stage battle!

It's the Heavenly Sword final boss for me as well.

I didn't even continue to try after 2 days... the game wasn't worth the effort at that point.

 

[tombman888]

Sephiroth from Kingdom Hearts 2.... Man, he took me ages to beat. Funny story actually, i was playing my copy of it at home, and i'm like "FUUUU why is this so hard!!!" Then my girlfriend was having a sleepover, and we booted up the PS2 and her copy of the game. Now, she's grinded up to level 95, boosted all drive forms, and has Ultima weapon... Beat him with a flick of my wrist on her save file.

Also, The Ice titan and Sephiroth again from the first Kingdom Hearts. Still not beaten.

EDIT: HOW COULD I BLOODY FORGET! The clocktower Boss in the peter pan world (KH1) I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER beat him, nor try to.