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Have you ever given up on a game completely...at the final boss?
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Gai Murakumo
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Same I have never really finished XIII.
funroll-loops
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I never beat the last boss on Metroid Prime, I got annoyed with trying to backpedal around poison goo (or something, it's been a long time since I played it) and stopped at the last boss.
I stopped Final Fantasy X as well because I didn't want to keep sitting through a 30 minute cutscene to try fighting Yunalesca again (I guess she isn't the final boss but close enough). I did replay it and beat it recently on the PC though, it's a lot easier now that I actually understand the battle system.
I never got through the final castle in Ocarina of Time either, I just sort of lost interest since it felt like I'd done pretty much everything and mastered the game by that point, so why bother
Also Pokemon Sun, the game was just a huge slog and by time I got to the Final 4 I realized I'd been tricked into buying the Pokemon Diamond/Pearl of the 3DS and turned it off
I stopped Final Fantasy X as well because I didn't want to keep sitting through a 30 minute cutscene to try fighting Yunalesca again (I guess she isn't the final boss but close enough). I did replay it and beat it recently on the PC though, it's a lot easier now that I actually understand the battle system.
I never got through the final castle in Ocarina of Time either, I just sort of lost interest since it felt like I'd done pretty much everything and mastered the game by that point, so why bother
Also Pokemon Sun, the game was just a huge slog and by time I got to the Final 4 I realized I'd been tricked into buying the Pokemon Diamond/Pearl of the 3DS and turned it off
Just a few months ago I was playing Blue Dragon via backwards compatibility. I got all the way to the final boss and realized that in order to beat him I needed a lot of items that cured a paralysis effect. I had like 2 in my inventory and the dude just keeps spamming those attacks. I could have just gone to a store to buy more of those items, but in order to do that I would need to have reloaded an earlier save that would require me to face the second to last boss again (because the games save system is stupid). I didnt want to go though the hassle of doing that so I just gave up. Blue Dragon wasnt all that great anyways and Im sort of surprised I kept going on with it.
The one where you need to figure out how to slice diagonally? That was really hard for me too, until I figured out you could run away out of the boulder's path and wait for him to come back down.
You don't get the healing items they drop when you cut them, and you don't get the big QTE at the end that does a lot of damage to him, so it's still way harder than intended, but at least it's doable.
NeoZeedeater
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I was somehow stuck in a two hour battle at the end of FFVIII and lost. I downloaded a video of the ending after that.
The human-like face still creeps me out a little.
It always looked like a fox face to me
It was a combination of having to fight like 20,000 soldiers in one room and then having to fight a dude with stealth camo and a shit ton of health
The last level of KZ2 was just a brutal difficulty spike from everything else that came before it that it retroactively hurt my opinion of the game
I also never managed to finish Metroid Prime. I still like the game, but after so many attempts to finally take out Meta Ridley I was pretty fed up with playing it. And it wasn't so much the final boss that frustrated me but the lead up to it. Having to dodge multiple metroids and jump my way up to the boss room became tiresome, especially as I'd almost always enter with depleted health.
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits - my characters were mostly underleveled, I was out of healing items and my only other save was from hours before.
I wasn't quite at the final boss but I've given up on Brave Fencer Musashi on two separate playthroughs, both at exactly the same point, a rhythm minigame boss in the final level.
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits - my characters were mostly underleveled, I was out of healing items and my only other save was from hours before.
I wasn't quite at the final boss but I've given up on Brave Fencer Musashi on two separate playthroughs, both at exactly the same point, a rhythm minigame boss in the final level.
Riesenfass
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Wolfenstein the old blood. The end boss was just a big bullet sponge and frustrating, annoying, and had nothing to do with how the rest of the game played. After 6 or so attempts I figured I've gotten what I need out of this and watched the ending on YouTube.
No ragrets.
No ragrets.
wvnative
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After seeing other people just watch endings on youtube I've decided to just watch mech assault 2's ending...
*three minutes later* Yeah, definitely not worth this bullshit boss...
belteshazzar
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This effer:
The last encounter with Mizar in Jet Force Gemini. I remember using all the ammo from all my weapons and being left with the infinite useless weapon from the pistol. He just wouldn't die and your accuracy had to be almost perfect, while he shoots a ton of crap at you. I tried several times over a prolonged period of time, and then quit, to my dismay. Several years later, with this failure still bugging me, I said: f this, you're going down. So I tried several times and finally destroyed him. It felt good.
The last encounter with Mizar in Jet Force Gemini. I remember using all the ammo from all my weapons and being left with the infinite useless weapon from the pistol. He just wouldn't die and your accuracy had to be almost perfect, while he shoots a ton of crap at you. I tried several times over a prolonged period of time, and then quit, to my dismay. Several years later, with this failure still bugging me, I said: f this, you're going down. So I tried several times and finally destroyed him. It felt good.
RPGCrazied
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Presona 3 is the one I can recall offhand.
Saiyan-Rox
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Final fantasy VIII
got to the last boss but due to not leveling everyone up she kicked my ass every single time
got to the last boss but due to not leveling everyone up she kicked my ass every single time
Not sure. I remember that there are pillars and I think the enemy was in an atrium below me.
Do we have the same wife?!?! I am in the same exact situation hahaha.
As far as the original question, I came close with Dark Souls where I basically had to learn to parry to finally take down Gwyn but I managed to do it after a week of attempts (rest of the game took me like two weeks).
The only games I can remember giving up at the final boss and never conquering are TMNT 2 because of Shredder and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga with Cackletta. Still makes me mad.
Astral Dog
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As a matter of fact, i did. :S
back wehen i didnt grind in RPG and thanks to GBA battery life
back wehen i didnt grind in RPG and thanks to GBA battery life
aygomyownroad
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Wolfenstein the new order.
I just couldn't kill the boss when the place is burning down. I need to go back and do it but of all the hard bosses I have done i just couldn't do it.
I just couldn't kill the boss when the place is burning down. I need to go back and do it but of all the hard bosses I have done i just couldn't do it.
The Last Wizard
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Yes, sadly at resonance of fate. Was really enjoying the game too but the final boss is such a cheese.
MissingString
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The exact same thing happened to me. Kept wiping even after getting my party over level 100. Turns out I did something dumb and ended up missing Ashton entirely.
I restarted the game from scratch and made sure to get him and bring him into my party. I dont even think I was level 80 the second time around. Claude and Ashton just kept using their specials in a pincer formation and the boss couldnt move. Ended up rolling him and sustained little to no damage. Felt so vindicated.
joecanada
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Dragons Age Origins = Not because it was hard but I literally did not give a shit anymore, about the characters, the story, none of it...... this was after I beat Morgana's mother the dragon...... it's pretty sad because people always point to this one as being the best one which it is and it wasn't even worth finishing......... sorry but Bioware sucks (I missed their early stuff so can't comment on earlier games).
FF8 or FF10 sorry I cant remember which one, both were boring to me, one I quit at end boss one I didn't last more than 4 hours, I can't remember which....... but someone might know.... in this FF you could chain attacks continually to run automatically.... there was a grinding trick where you would set your characters up, leave your ps3 running and then come back like 8 hours later........ that's the one I went to the end boss and was just like "meh".
Mike Tyson. Damn him to hell lol.
FF8 or FF10 sorry I cant remember which one, both were boring to me, one I quit at end boss one I didn't last more than 4 hours, I can't remember which....... but someone might know.... in this FF you could chain attacks continually to run automatically.... there was a grinding trick where you would set your characters up, leave your ps3 running and then come back like 8 hours later........ that's the one I went to the end boss and was just like "meh".
Mike Tyson. Damn him to hell lol.
Eyedol - Killer Instinct 1 Arcade version. On my fifth try fighting him when I was younger and almost killing him, seeing him hit me across the screen then proceed to stomp all of his health back just made me walk away from the machine. I've only recently beat the arcade version of Eyedol via an Ultra64 emulator.
Magneto - X-men children of the atom. If you thought Juggernaut was darn near impossible...this fight was even worse if you played with Wolverine who happened to be my favorite character.
Magneto - X-men children of the atom. If you thought Juggernaut was darn near impossible...this fight was even worse if you played with Wolverine who happened to be my favorite character.
Mine would have to be that t-rex from that one Turok ps3 game.
That
(swearing) is THE worst boss design I have witnessed in a game before. It had a 1 shot kill move that could get you between walls and didn't really have an animation. Basically as long as you were at most 50ft away from it, you were liable to die due to teleporting Dino.
That
piece of shit
Chaos2Frozen
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Vergil DMC3
The last boss of Star Ocean 4
The last boss of Star Ocean 4
Chrono Trigger
Haven't literally given up on it though, as I intend to beat it one day.
Final Fantasy IV
Don't intend to play it ever again.
That's it, I think.
In a way you could count Undertale because was on my way through a
when I first saw footage of the
and then decided I wouldn't finish it.
Haven't literally given up on it though, as I intend to beat it one day.
Final Fantasy IV
Don't intend to play it ever again.
That's it, I think.
In a way you could count Undertale because was on my way through a
genocide run
Sans fight
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Knack, I gave up right at the end on knack.
Grandia 1. Saved before the final boss and after 50 tries realized i didnt have the items/char level to beat it.. and there was no possibility to go back from what i remember.
Also Super Mario Land 2. Could never beat the last level and Wario. So damn long to go before even getting a shot at the boss. And that asshole had like 3 stages.
Also Super Mario Land 2. Could never beat the last level and Wario. So damn long to go before even getting a shot at the boss. And that asshole had like 3 stages.
Jangowuzhere
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Tales of Xillia 2
I actually didn't give up, but I did end up lowering the difficulty all the way to easy. Even then, the final boss was still super difficult. It's probably the most insane difficulty spike I've experienced in a game.
I actually didn't give up, but I did end up lowering the difficulty all the way to easy. Even then, the final boss was still super difficult. It's probably the most insane difficulty spike I've experienced in a game.
Brotherhood93
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Matterfall. It's not an incredibly long game so it's not like I'd made a big investment in time before leaving it and I'm sure I could eventually beat it if I wanted to but not only is it very difficult it's just not a very fun fight either which is odd for a Housemarque game.
I couldn't for the life of me beat the one in Paper Mario 2, so I ended up trading it for The Simpsons Hit & Run and never looking back.
Yeah, I know.
It almost happened with Strange Journey, but determination wss the key!
Also this isn't the same, but my game crashed in Dragon Ball Z Legends during the final battle (Kid Buu?) and I think there weren't save files in that, and the same thing happened /after/ the final boss in Ape Escape. I never went back to either out of frustration
Yeah, I know.
It almost happened with Strange Journey, but determination wss the key!
Also this isn't the same, but my game crashed in Dragon Ball Z Legends during the final battle (Kid Buu?) and I think there weren't save files in that, and the same thing happened /after/ the final boss in Ape Escape. I never went back to either out of frustration
Yes, in "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII". It's a little unusual, in that you can ignore large parts of the final dungeon and fight the final boss early if you feel you are powerful enough. If not, the optional parts give you plenty of opportunities to level up and unlock powerful gear. Not a bad idea, perhaps, but it didn't really work for me. I tried the final boss early, was soundly defeated, did 1/4 of the optional stuff, tried again, did better but was defeated at
final stage. The optional stuff I had completed was really more of a grind than something I enjoyed, and I didn't really like the idea of doing the remaining 3/4 just to see the final cutscene, which I could see on Youtube instead. So that's what I did. In pre-Internet days, I probably would have persevered.
Bhunivelze's
Yup, with Thief 2014. I ended up realising that I didn't have the necessary gear to defeat what I'm pretty sure was the final boss so I would've had to restart the entire mission which I simply could not be bothered to do so I abandoned the game. Maybe I'll go back to it at some point, who knows.