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The 100 Hardest Video-Game Bosses, Ranked
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The à¹ÛBronx
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Did you try Skolas with Arc Burn?
SliceSabre
Banned
Vortex Queen from Ecco makes this list solid for me regardless of anything else on it.
DJ Incompetent
Member
3. Larsa/Spiritual Larsa (Mushihimesama Futari)
2. Zatsuza (DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu)
1. Twin Hibachi (DoDonPachi DaiOuJou Death Label)
2. Zatsuza (DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu)
1. Twin Hibachi (DoDonPachi DaiOuJou Death Label)
sp3ctr3
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They have various Street Fighter bosses in there but not Gill? The cheapest motherfucker in a Street Fighter with his bullshit and revival super!
No Howard Geese an input reading asshole from the King of Fighters series.
And I never beat the final boss in Dead or Alive 4 on hardest difficulty. Maybe I just suck at 3D fighters but that boss was hard.
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and no bullethell shooter bosses?
Dracula at #18 is a joke. Sure you have to memorize his patterns but not hard at all.
No Howard Geese an input reading asshole from the King of Fighters series.
And I never beat the final boss in Dead or Alive 4 on hardest difficulty. Maybe I just suck at 3D fighters but that boss was hard.
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and no bullethell shooter bosses?
Dracula at #18 is a joke. Sure you have to memorize his patterns but not hard at all.
ShaggsMagoo
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Two genres known for their hard boss battles, MMOs and SHMUPs are severely underrepresented on that list. And fighters to a much lesser degree.
Prithee Be Careful
Industry Professional
Bloody Crow is literally the only opponent I've never downed in Bloodborne - Old Hunters included. Personally, I never struggled with Orphan of Kos, but Lady Maria gave me holy hell and Gascoigne must have taken 30 tries the first time.
Edit: I almost forgot Yharman Queen - she's definitely up there.
Ninja Gaiden is significantly more difficult than Souls games for me because you have to rely heavily on combos to maximize damage.
Kael was bugged as he built up aggro during the phases he wasn't involved in, when he became involved in P4 he would make a beeline to the healers and squash them. Our guild didn't kill him until the bugs were fixed but it was still a hard fight.
M'uru was just fucking hard until they nerfed him, I saw so many guilds fold due to that one fight in TBC than most others put together.
Novel Mike
Member
C'thun wasn't even hard it was just massively overtuned to the point where someone actually pointed out it was mathematically impossible to kill the thing. After Blizzard nerfed it it died within hours.
There are tons of harder boss fights in WoW, shit I lost friends because some of the fights were so damn hard.
Honestly though this list is just not good at all. You have some big mistakes like putting Sephiroth from KH2 on that list at 8th and putting Lingering Will as 24th. Is that a joke? Sephiroth is easier in KH2 then in 1, he doesn't deserve to even be on the list. LW certainly does though but it should be higher. Doing that fight on critical is crazy.
Even with some lesser known picks hes not making a lot of sense. Shining Force is listed twice but he lists two of the easiest battles in the game (Darksol and the Laser Eye battle) The former is not hard in the least and barely hurts you and his AI is dumb so he normally just uses physical attacks. The laser eye is only hard if you're dumb enough to move your people right into its line of fire like an idiot, everything else including the 'silver knight' boss is just regular enemies.
If you want to talk hard bosses lets talk the Marionette from Chapter 2, thats before you have promotions and its before you generally have good characters or weapons. It's hard because it has 35 hp and really high defense so you'll do less then 5 damage on it, it also knows Freeze 3 so it'll 1 shot pretty much everyone on your team outside of Ken and if you try and group up it can hit multiple people at once. Oh it also regenerates around 10hp a turn. The only way to make the fight easier is to abuse the power ring but without that its certainly fairly hard when every fight until this point is largely a joke.
RespectThySole
Member
Kinda baffling to see bosses like Nameless King and Orphan of Kos so high up. Theyre tough sure, but I can name several more difficult bosses from DMC and NG alone.
criesofthepast
Member
I don't get the hype with Nameless King. I mean it is an awesome fight and dudes a badass but I didn't find him all that difficult.
InfiniteCombo
Banned
After reading through the whole list, and finding not a single SNK fighting game boss, my conclusion is simply: that list is bogus.
They do mention M. Bison "inspiring" other bosses, but there are much harder/cheaper/frustrating fighting game bosses than him.
They do mention M. Bison "inspiring" other bosses, but there are much harder/cheaper/frustrating fighting game bosses than him.
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
On the subject of RPGs how about stuff like Pringer X and Baal in Disgaea? Not only ridiculous battles, but a super steep ramp up in difficulty.
striferser
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I beat flamelurker solo on the very 1st try. Didn't even realize he a tough boss...
But then again, i was playing asia demon's souls unpatched, and meat cleaver is OP in that game. Oh, but the world goes pure black tendency even when ypu die in soul form, so i guess it's a fair tradel
Fume knight is definitely hard. Harder than kalameet tail fight
But then again, i was playing asia demon's souls unpatched, and meat cleaver is OP in that game. Oh, but the world goes pure black tendency even when ypu die in soul form, so i guess it's a fair tradel
Fume knight is definitely hard. Harder than kalameet tail fight
I only played through the game once and I wasn't particularly good at it so I don't know if I just got lucky or what but I beat flamelurker first try pretty comfortably, I remember Maneaters, Armor Spider, False King, manta ray things all being much worse..
I had the purple flame shield if that makes a huge difference
I had the purple flame shield if that makes a huge difference
Frankie Williamson
Member
That was my immediate reaction. He's easily harder than 90% of the list.
Skiptastic
Member
I wasn't expecting this to show up, but if you're talking about a serious challenge...
FUCKING DUGOG FROM PUZZLE QUEST 1.
That asshole is way overpowered for the first major boss of the game.
Anytime he gets gold? Free turn.
Anytime his blue is above 6? He gets a life point.
His club? Randomly will do major damage.
You need so much luck to win this battle. Then the rest of the game seems so easy.
FUCKING DUGOG FROM PUZZLE QUEST 1.
That asshole is way overpowered for the first major boss of the game.
Anytime he gets gold? Free turn.
Anytime his blue is above 6? He gets a life point.
His club? Randomly will do major damage.
You need so much luck to win this battle. Then the rest of the game seems so easy.
pretty much, I assumed it'd be a bullshit list before I even looked at it so I'm not really surprised. Alatreon and Gold Rajang are way way harder than most of that stuff.
Also I killed things like Kael'Thas, C'Thun, most of Sunwell and a lot of modern Mythic raid bosses when they were current content in WoW. It's absurd to compare that kind of thing to a normal singleplayer game boss. Your individual responsibilities on C'Thun for example could be quite straightforward but organizing the entire raid to execute a complex strategy was a massive undertaking.
That said, the fight was literally impossible when it came out because it was broken. That's a stupid reason to put anything on a 'hardest bosses' list. Other bosses in the instance like Twin Emperors and Ouro were arguably harder once they fixed C'Thun. Still a great raid encounter though, and one of the few that I couldn't imagine as anything other than a 40-man raid.
UncleSporky
Member
Man there are far too many bosses on this list that I've beaten. I feel like if I've beaten them, they really shouldn't be on this list.
You can tell it's a personal thing for this author because of multiple Shining Force bosses on the list. Laser Eye is not hard at all. It's just one of very few gimmick fights in the game, you just stay out of range until the timing is right and then rush him and focus fire.
I could say similar things for many bosses there. Jaws on the NES was kind of easy, I thought.
Yes!! Agreed completely!
You can tell it's a personal thing for this author because of multiple Shining Force bosses on the list. Laser Eye is not hard at all. It's just one of very few gimmick fights in the game, you just stay out of range until the timing is right and then rush him and focus fire.
I could say similar things for many bosses there. Jaws on the NES was kind of easy, I thought.
Yes!! Agreed completely!
SeeNoWeevil
Member
Friede and Demon Prince from DS3 DLC rank pretty far up there for me. Ludwig from Old Hunters is up there for me also.
TheOfficeMut
Unconfirmed Member
Nope.
God... whenever I see games like this they look so fucking stupid.
entremet
Member
Dark Wood Grain Ring is your friend with Manus.
Lord British
Member
Gate from Mega Man X6 is the only boss battle to make me weep with sheer frustration, so I vote Gate.
Certainly not an original point in this thread but it is worth reiterating: This is a dumb list that eschews accuracy and intrigue in favor of including things that people know and will be like "yeah I beat that and it was hard". Yes, I realize this is a result of their weird/populist criteria, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a misleading list.
An accurate list would:
1. Consist almost entirely of arcade games and
2. Consist almost entirely of SHMUPs.
A console game that has been beaten by a large number of people simply does not contain one of the 100 hardest video game bosses of all time. That includes relatively difficult games like Bayonetta and the Ninja Gaidens.
An accurate list would:
1. Consist almost entirely of arcade games and
2. Consist almost entirely of SHMUPs.
A console game that has been beaten by a large number of people simply does not contain one of the 100 hardest video game bosses of all time. That includes relatively difficult games like Bayonetta and the Ninja Gaidens.
Chuck the Bean
Member
Landing my jet on the Carier in Top Gun when I was 7 was a nightmare...
atomic moth
Member
It's silly to have fighting game bosses included and not even mention any SNK boss fights
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
People still somehow managing to be bewildered that a 'top x list' differs from their own personal experience and tastes, and still believe it's possible to have an 'accurate' list of such a thing.
Hayama Akito
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Kaiser Knuckle's General laughs at your list.
What a classic. This boss is so hard there is a yearly event in Tokyo dedicated to beat him (thanks god for Mikado).
Yep. There's also OoT Dark Link which just requires you to spam the hammer.
Yui's Empire
Member
Fuck that guy. I mean, all high level battles in this game are bullshit because the enemy literally knows what's outside of the field and what RNG it'll get, so it constantly makes "dumb" moves which somehow turn into extra turns or skulls spawning right where he needs them. But that boss... I raged, hard. I beat him once, never bothered again.
It's hard for me to put any Souls boss in the top 20, everything I remember as being a real pain comes from playing games on higher difficulty. Even a game that isn't known for its difficulty, like MGS2, bosses on extreme difficulty are harder than anything I ran into in a Souls game... Maybe I should try a SL4 run!
entremet
Member
I think this is where people miss the point. These lists are subjective by nature, like any list. So take into account the editors' views and gaming experiences. It was put together by many editors/writers. Like any list, look at it as a way to spur discussion, not as something authoritative.
Gaming is incredibly diverse medium. I haven't put in any time in MMOs or SHUMPs myself, so I wouldn't even rank those for my list.
CaptainClaw
Member
Nothing on the list from Bayonetta? ... really?
Skiptastic
Member
The worst part about him for me is (if I remember) there is no New Game + mode for PQ1, so you have to replay him as a wuss again if you want to play through the story a second time. That SUCKS.
Rellik
Member
My young self almost broke controllers over Goro.
Through The Fire and Flames belongs in that list.
Through The Fire and Flames belongs in that list.
TheRedSnifit
Member
No Metal Slug?