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[Oracle Dragon]

What boss really gets you when playing games?

Im playing MechAssault 2 right now, and the final boss.... WORST. BOSS. EVER.

 

[Dice]

Jinpachi and his magical stops-anything palm strike, it's so stupid and cheap. It might not have bothered me so much if the game kinda sucked, but Tekken 5 is such a wonderful fighter all the way through until you get to him and then BAM! CHEAPO! ...it just sours the whole experience and robs any sort of momentum or enjoyment I get playing the game up to that point. Plus, having to replay him so many times hurts my eyes with the bright purple cloud around him.

 

[MrAngryFace]

Final Boss of NInja Warriors for SNES. What a fucker.

 

[MiketheBSG]

M Bison from the original Street Fighter 2.

 

[Mike Andrade]

Final boss of Grandia II.

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Any and all KOF bosses.

Just wasted time with Maximum Impact a few days ago, and Duke busted out four consequetive area effect supers. Sumbitch makes Rugal look conservative.

 

[Bebpo]

I'd just say all fighting game bosses in general

 

[Matlock]

Heihachi, any Tekken game that he fights before the retarded Omega Ultraboss of Doom!

Seriously, Hei would kick the crap out of you, then you'd have to go into this gimmick battle to win the game--that usually was far easier than Hei. :\

 

[Borys]

SNK fuckers:

- Omega Rugal
- Krizalid
- Kain R. Heinlein

RPG bosses galore:

- Dragon Quest 5 - Mildrath, heals himself.
- Final Fantasy IX - Ozma, heals himself.
- KOTOR - Malak, heals himself to the max. 8 times.
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga - Cackletta. Need uber platforming skills.

And the obvious one: SF's M. Bison

 

[AtomicShroom]

Eyedol. He could almost empty your whole freaking energy bar with a triple combo. Whenever he'd knock you high, he'd slowly heal himself. Whenever you tried to pull a combo on him, he'd break it. Ugh.

 

[Hydro_Alexis]

tekken 5 jinpachi close thread

 

[Ronin]

I just want to say fuck SNK.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

What was the name of the last guy from KOF 2001? The guy after Zero? He was a mega-fucker.

 

[Rlan]

I don't know about Hardest, but the easiest ever was Ratchet & Clank 2's. What a fucking pushover.

 

[Phoenix Dark]

I don't know about Hardest, but the easiest ever was Ratchet & Clank 2's. What a fucking pushover.

Saddler from RE4 is very easy to beat compared to the other bosses.

 

[themadcowtipper]

SNK fuckers:


- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga - Cackletta. Need uber platforming skills.

This man Speaks the Truth

 

[Azure Dream]

Trying to throw Bowser into a bomb in Super Mario 64 DS on the last stage. It's already hard enough to get him swinging around no matter if you're using the D-pad or touch screen, but you're also shaking your viewpoint while you do it, unless you've set your DS down somewhere and can play like that. And for the last hit, you can't baby-toss him forward into one, you HAVE to do a big toss. I didn't have as much of a problem on the N64, but trying to do it on the DS is a nightmare, the absolute worst part of the conversion. (I did 95% of the rest of the game with the D-pad with little to no issues.)

 

[MoxManiac]

Duke has nothing on the 2D KOF bosses. He's tough, but if you know how to react to his supers he can be taken down fairly easy.

Tip: When you see him charging that super that guard crushes you in one hit if you block, run up and throw him quick. You can throw him out of it if you're quick enough.

 

[djtiesto]

NeoExDeath in FF5. Man, Grand Cross + Almagest are absolute nightmares to deal with.

Spoiler

Malpercio

in Baten Kaitos. After you do a lot of damage to him, he suddenly gets 3 attacks in a row, including one that drains your life and heals him. I had to level up like 9 levels before I could finally beat him.

Spoiler

But he's not the REAL end boss. There's a stupid, pointless fight that comes out of nowhere that is so pathetically easy

Oh yeah and I'm surprised nobody mentioned this dork:

 

[Ash Housewares]

Saddler from RE4 is very easy to beat compared to the other bosses.

atleast he's harder than Tyrant

 

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Though I have beaten him twice

 

[junkiexxl]

all bosses in super mario land :lol

 

[Joeholley]

The final boss in PS2 Shinobi. Cheap!

 

[pestul]

Final boss of Grandia II.

Spoiler

Cheap in design dollars.. he was a fucking butterfly. Worst ending to a game ever. I seriously would have rather seen an abrupt 'The End' over that shit.

 

[MrAngryFace]

Yeah that grandia II boss was like pulling teeth, but I beat both Grandia II and SoA that month, biggest gaming marathon ive ever done.

 

[quin]

I thought the last GrandiaII battles were pretty easy. The first Grandia was more difficult(but not cheap)

 

[opkal]

The final boss in PS2 Shinobi. Cheap!

Hard, yes, but I don't think you could call it cheap.

 

[yacobod]

if you focus and destroy all the jedi's in the pods, malak will only heal himself like once or twice

so he isnt that bad

 

[Zeo]

Dunno if cheap is the right word, but FFX's last boss was sure a ripoff.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Spoiler

Cheap in design dollars.. he was a fucking butterfly. Worst ending to a game ever. I seriously would have rather seen an abrupt 'The End' over that shit.

Gotta admit though, he's one boss you'll never forget.

Spoiler

I remember when I finally got to him and thought to myself "You've gotta be kidding me". I was expecting him to transform into something else, but he never did.

 

[Raytow]

SNK is one of the worst offender no doubt, Capcom had it share of course, M. Bison from SFA3 was a freaking nightmare, and Gill was a pushover too.

 

[MarkRyan]

Gill in Street Fighter III--after you barely squeak out a win, he revives himself to full health.

Guilty Gear XX has some pretty cheap stuff, too, including some super version of Ino.

 

[belgurdo]

Dunno if cheap is the right word, but FFX's last boss was sure a ripoff.

Spoiler

Yu Yevon

is not the final boss. That's more of a plot thing. Although the battle with

Spoiler

Braska's Final Aeon

can be a little tricky provided you didn't powerlevel beforehand

 

[Littleberu]

Metroid Prime 2 boss.

What were they thinking!?

"Let's put a 80 feet monster into a small room"
"Hey, let's put PHAZON on the walls too!"
"GOOD IDEA!!"

 

[bjork]

The last guy for Wonderboy in MonsterWorld (the Genesis one, I think that's the name) was pretty tough in comparison to the rest of the game.

Hardest ever is Target Earth's second-to-last boss. He could kill you when you had the invincible code enabled. That's some serious shit, right there.

 

[llTll]

:lol

SNK fuckers:

- Omega Rugal
- Krizalid
- Kain R. Heinlein

:lol


i would say DOA3 boss. $%#$%#$% fire balls when u r far you can never reach him unless you die. >_<

 

[Yamauchi]

FFX boss kthx.

Edit: I totally misread this and thought it was talking about the worst final bosses ever.

 

[Mejilan]

JFG's last boss, Mizar, was a bitch of note!

 

[raYne]

i would say DOA3 boss. $%#$%#$% fire balls when u r far you can never reach him unless you die. >_<

You can sidestep the fireballs....

ps. you suck at games....

I remember some version of Akuma being a pain in the ass. Might've been Cyber Akuma from MSHvSF. That or any 2D fighting game character where the AI already knows what you're doing before you do it.

 

[Wario64]

final boss in NARC (the original arcade game)

 

[Version 3.0]

Metroid Prime 2 boss.

What were they thinking!?

"Let's put a 80 feet monster into a small room"
"Hey, let's put PHAZON on the walls too!"
"GOOD IDEA!!"

He wasn't so bad. There's no reason to ever touch the phazon--just spin attack and not only are you invulnerable, but when you reach a wall, you'll bounce off and land outside the phazon.

It's the real final boss who's the pain (you know who). You're dependent on one of its random attacks to fuel your own counter-attacks, and you're on a time limit. Great--so what if it doesn't do enough of that particular attack within the time limit? You die. It happened to me.

 

[thomaser]

I put blood, sweat and tears into playing through Iron Sword on the NES. The one with Fabio on the cover. After a long time, I reached the last boss. Or the last bosses, three or four floating heads you had to beat in sequence. Utterly impossible. After hundreds of tries, I only ever got to the second head.

 

[LakeEarth]

final boss in NARC (the original arcade game)

Very true. I remember the day I finally beat him... and then those cockroaches came out of his body and killed me, GAHHH!HH!!HH!!H!H!H!H!!H!!H!H!!!

 

[Reilly]

I say Boss from MGS3. Once she comes running at you, there's nothing you can do....

 

[Borys]

if you focus and destroy all the jedi's in the pods, malak will only heal himself like once or twice

so he isnt that bad

Yeah I know. I could not - I had no Dark Powers. That's the biggest design mistake in BioWare's history (finished all of their RPGs).

 

[Red Scarlet]

You can still die in the last fight of FF10, though..

My pick is

Spoiler

Cloud of Darkness

in FF3.
Takes like 2 hours to get to, no saves, and does the same attack over and over every round for about 1500 damage.

 

[Poody]

The G-unit boss in Halo 2. I didn't have to shoot him and eventually it dies.

 

[BigBoss]

I say Boss from MGS3. Once she comes running at you, there's nothing you can do....

You can counter her CQC if you press O when the controller vibrates.

 

[G-Fex]

Igniz is positively one of the hardest bosses ever in a fighting game and will make you cry.

Oh and the hardest boss i've ever fought and still cannot beat is the final boss in Rage of the Dragons.

 

[the year 20XX]

MIKE TYSON

koam wins the thread x15.

My vote (non-Tyson) is for the drunken boxing guy at the end of China Warrior. Or the long-haired boss in China Warrior. Or the guy who is a palette-swapped version of you.

Fucking China Warrior.