Jimnymebob
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Yeah, King Bohan was ridiculous. I don't even remember like 90% of that game, but that fight stuck with me.
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The 100 Hardest Video-Game Bosses, Ranked
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Yeah, King Bohan was ridiculous. I don't even remember like 90% of that game, but that fight stuck with me.
Magic Mushroom
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Laurence was harder than Kos for me, but these things are different for everyone.
Rellik
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That was just a test to see if you're man enough to play the game.
Ryo Hazuki
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Ctrl-f Chai - Shenmue
0 results. I guess once you know how it can be done it's doable but I doubt very few if any beat him in the Arcade first time.
0 results. I guess once you know how it can be done it's doable but I doubt very few if any beat him in the Arcade first time.
Jimnymebob
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I've always been curious to try Driver just to see if I can pass the tutorial in the car park.
Yui's Empire
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That sums up my PQ experience. See, I love the game. I occasionally start it again from scratch on one of the platforms I own the game for, and I lose interest after a bunch of hours. Reason? The constant orchestrated extra turns, the rigged skull spawns. All bosses are annoying. Not difficult per se, on an equal ground you'd beat them easily because the AI would otherwise be kinda trash. But it literally works with information that is not on the screen and you are unable to know. That's not really different from input reading bosses in fighting games. I don't think I'll ever get to beat that guy again, I'll likely keep on losing interest far earlier.
Theslammer
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I have bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad memories of #92.
Kind of my take. There are notorious raid bosses all over the MMO landscape including some bull shit ones that are probably unbeatable like Absolute Virtue from FF XI. There are a ton of easy bosses on this list and others seem totally out of order considering how hard some actually are compared to others.
Junior Asparagus
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It's funny, because landing the plane is easy as shit now. I think we were all just dumb kids, me included.
Psychotic_Mantis
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How the heck is Senator Armstrong so low? That dude really messed me up! I probably fought him 50 times. Great fight but hard as crap.
I agree with where Orphan of Kos is at...but some of these are questionable.
I agree with where Orphan of Kos is at...but some of these are questionable.
There's no way you're taking Kairi's heart!
That quote will stay with me forever. It's coded on my DNA. Fuck that boss.
CaptainClaw
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Titanfall 2's Viper isn't even the hardest boss in the game... tbf even on the hardest difficulty non of the bosses were top 100 worthy
Seriously no Bayonetta?...come on bro ;(
Seriously no Bayonetta?...come on bro ;(
Theslammer
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Not for me, he wasn't.
IdreamofHIME
Member
That's a lot of effort for Destiny advertising. Kudos to the writer.
papertoonz
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why the hell is KH2 sephiroth at like 8th, if it was KH1 sephiroth i wouldn't think to badly about him being there but KH2? he's a pushover
also why are Zelda 2 and OOT dark link on here? both those fights are barely anything if you know what to do
also why are Zelda 2 and OOT dark link on here? both those fights are barely anything if you know what to do
IdreamofHIME
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It's not a joke, it's a Destiny article pretending to be a thorough journalistic piece. I think the writer almost pulled it off.
Star Falcon
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Not enough MMORPG bosses, to be honest. WoW alone had a smorgasbord of brutal encounters... and whilst that would make for a less diverse list, they have kinda done that anyway with the sheer number of Souls and Destiny bosses.
UncleSporky
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Agreed. There are plenty of arcade games where I couldn't even beat the second level, much less any given boss. They were hard because they were designed to eat quarters.
Also a lot of "hardest bosses" would be completely obscure things that no one would recognize. For example I've read the CRPG Addict blog where he plays ancient RPGs from the 80s and early 90s, and sometimes he just beats his head against certain bosses for hours. Or even is forced to give up, wondering if there must be a bug with the game.
I'd also have to ask, what makes a boss hard - time required to beat them? How difficult it is to beat them without dying? Because a lot of Metal Slug bosses are quite difficult to beat without dying, but not hard at all if you allow yourself a few continues. Whereas with some MMO bosses you have just a couple attempts per day at most. That sort of thing.
The ๖ۜBronx;250060017 said:
Of course it's possible to work towards a more accurate list. For example if there were Steam achievements for every boss in every game, you could compare percentages of players who actually beat each boss. Or for more accuracy, some sort of record keeping on how much time or lives were spent on each boss vs. number of times defeated. Or mass polling among as many game players as possible - first a poll with a list of tons of games asking people to name the hardest boss in each game, followed by a poll asking which of the selected bosses each person was able to beat, or considered the hardest. There are ways to measure this sort of thing, we're just generally not doing it right now.
I realize this list makes no claim of any particular amount of accuracy, but I'm sure a better consensus could be reached. Even if it was something like, 5 gaf threads with different rankings, and a poll asking if THIS list is the most accurate one.
BigBeauford
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Same thing I thought, when you talk about hard bosses it's impossible not to mention SNK ones. I wouldn't consider Bison a hard boss either, Gill was much harder. Also, Senator Armstrong at the end of the list and Dark Link in OoT much higher than that? What?
The list abuses Soul bosses and completely leaves out things that make them look like a walk in the park. I can think of a lot of bosses in DMC3/4, Bayonetta 1/2, Contra, Megaman classic/X/Zero and many others worthy of filling the top spots of that list.
Rellik
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Didn't find that difficult at all. Breezed through it on the first try by following the clear pattern and I'm not even that good at Rising.
But these lists are always subjective. Like M. Bison is ranked higher than Goro. I couldn't beat Goro but thought M. Bison wasn't that difficult.
Snacks the sober sea lion
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Whoever put Vergil that early on must never have played against him on Dante Must Die. Ridiculous fight.
Having played Ninja Gaiden Black pretty recently, the main reason Alma is so difficult is because she's random. Whether she's hit by Flying Swallow or blocks it is completely random, and if you don't use it at the safest possible times and she blocks, you get countered by a grab that does ridiculous damage. But Flying Swallow is the only way to stun her or knock her out of the air without using Ninpo, so you're almost forced to use it. She would still be a difficult boss if it were consistent, but certainly would be more manageable.
Having played Ninja Gaiden Black pretty recently, the main reason Alma is so difficult is because she's random. Whether she's hit by Flying Swallow or blocks it is completely random, and if you don't use it at the safest possible times and she blocks, you get countered by a grab that does ridiculous damage. But Flying Swallow is the only way to stun her or knock her out of the air without using Ninpo, so you're almost forced to use it. She would still be a difficult boss if it were consistent, but certainly would be more manageable.
No mention of
from Nier: Automata?
Massive spoilers: It's a clear inflection point on what, up to that point, was a relatively easy sequence
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Square-Enix
Massive spoilers: It's a clear inflection point on what, up to that point, was a relatively easy sequence
by bullet hell standards
The à¹ÛBronx
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More accurate is always possible in that sense, and your suggestions have some gaping holes in them themselves. The idea of being irritated because a publications top-100 list doesn't match your own seems stupid considering such an expectation is impossible to live up to. There will always be missing games, there will always be bosses you found tough not on the list.
Markitron
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Personally I'd have put the Alien from Isolation at number one. He's a menace the entire game and, unlike most bosses, the primary barrier of player progression.
Tbf I would put Alien Isolation at the top of every list.
Tbf I would put Alien Isolation at the top of every list.
Yui's Empire
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Exactly. Coordinating extremely specific classes and builds for hours on end with no margin for error (nor checkpoints) in some MMO bosses is like the definition of insane difficulty. Doing 1cc through some Touhou, Dodonpachi, Deathsmiles, etc. bosses is very tough even on the lowest difficulty, let alone on the highest ones. Someone rightfully mentioned Puzzle Quest's final boss as well where, skills aside, you need luck. A LOT of it. That makes it inherently harder because you could play perfectly and still not have a chance because your opponent's RNG is better than yours (and it always is, pretty much). A lot of the bosses included are difficult, but come on, nothing to do with some of the truly difficult things. I'd argue that any later level in Super Meat Boy or N++ is more difficult than some of these options.
InfiniteCombo
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No lies detected in your entire post.
Antiwhippy
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edit: should read OP better.
The à¹ÛBronx
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The atmosphere in that game was top-tier. On first playing I found myself hiding under a desk from the Androids for ten minutes, before moving to a locker for fifteen. I was soaked in it. Letalone the Alien when it stalked you.
Just a shame it lasted a little too long imo, I started to build a tolerance.
I was just gonna say, are there any SNK or shmup bosses? From looking at other people's posts, it doesn't seem like there are. Can't be a particularly good list then
Okay so I read a little, and they have... Tabuu? Seriously?
I don't think I could take any list seriously if it didn't at least have this boss.
Sol Dae Rokker is way worse than Rootmars in MS3.
Was he really that hard? I remember beating it in one go (it was a very, very long and tedious fight though)
Okay so I read a little, and they have... Tabuu? Seriously?
Kaiser Knuckle's General laughs at your list.
I don't think I could take any list seriously if it didn't at least have this boss.
Sol Dae Rokker is way worse than Rootmars in MS3.
Was he really that hard? I remember beating it in one go (it was a very, very long and tedious fight though)
Boss battles weren't on their "last legs" because the writer only played the game du jour. This is like saying because I don't eat fast food that hamburgers aren't popular anymore. And the shoehorning in of Destiny for the clickbait element is always worth an eye-roll. Hard pass on this article based on its premise alone.
Dibbs
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tiebreaker
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Where is the infamous Drakengard 3 final boss?
UltimateUnknown
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Good got I remember this. One of the hardest challenges I've ever faced in gaming. It took me hours upon hours of practice to beat and once I did I had like the utmost swag among my friends. I was called over just to beat this level for others. This was insane.
If we're gonna talk about the hardest bosses that didn't make the list, Clashing Fists Brachydios would be my first suggestion.
You know, I had no idea what its actual name was, but I knew exactly what boss you were talking about because that guy is way harder than anything else in MS3. Practicing that boss a ton was the key to me finally 1CCing that game (well that and the bullshit ship escape section).
YGO Forbidden Memories son
each one of these 6 guys alone is tough as balls. Metal Zoa, Meteor B Dragon, Blue Eyes Ultimate, FHD up the ass. And you have to beat all 6 of them to beat the game. back to back. without saving.
Oh yes this too, never played the game but i have witnessed how crazy they are, iirc each of these bosses knows the first 5-6 cards on top of the deck aside the ones in their hand that's how they are so overpowered.