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[Heilige_Kip]

FF X. That boss was so annoying and I couldnt be bothered by going back and do some grinding.

 

[Danjin44]

I almost did with Drakengard 3 true final boss but that music....I just couldn't give up.

 

[BratmanDu]

Dust Elysian Tail. I got it on Steam as it was tagged as Metroidvania, which is is not really, it's more a 2d hack n slash. Still enjoyed it for the most part, graphics and voiceover is nice.

But damn that end boss, it's like a 4 stage fight, and by the 4th stage there's just too much noise on the screen, and using your attacks cause explosives to converge on you.

 

[Duxxy3]

You've disappointed me... LOL

I've heard some awful things about Killzone 2's last boss on hard.

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

FF8 and Lost Odyssey. Screw both those lame fights.

 

[BlueBadger]

Yup. Final Fantasy X. I gave up and stopped for years. Mind you, I was a lot younger back then (early teens or so..)

All clear now

 

[mindatlarge]

Not that I can recall. Though I almost did playing through Cave Story+ recently. I missed getting the

Spoiler

jetpack 2.0

which I imagine would have made the last boss encounter a tad easier. Took me 10-15 tries before I beat the game.

 

[Merrydeath]

Final fantasy 13-2.
After forcing myself to beat 13 and going through 13-2 without going all out. The final boss second form is when I felt.
Thats it. I'm done.

 

[Herb Alpert]

Yep. Xenoblade X

 

[SafeinSound]

Final fantasy 8. I have probably gotten to the end of that game 5 times and then I just give up and say fuck it . I know how it ends anyway, as I watched my friend beat it.


Also most games make me want to give up at the end because of how utterly shit the end of 99% of games are.

 

[KorrZ]

FFXIII

I only attempted the final boss once and didn't quite make it. I never intended to quit completely, was just done for the night. Never ended up going back to it.

 

[CrazyHal]

Persona 3

I didn't liked the game so i rush trought the last parts as i just wanted to get it over with. As a result, my party was not strong enough to defeat the final boss. So i was like "fuck it" and watch the ending on youtube.

 

[MrS]

DMC 3
MGR

Awful boss fights both

 

[JessePJ]

I've given up on a game completely on the first boss: Devil May Cry 3.

 

[Bloodporne]

I've never had the motivation to beat the last boss in Devil May Cry, the original I mean.

That fucking annoying "avoid the projectiles" shooter segment having to be replayed over and over just made it a total chore and every time I've hit that point I just said screw it.

 

[Mr-Joker]

Yeah I have,

Mario and Luigi: Super Star saga;

I just couldn't defeat cackletta and the Bros were taking too much damage, plus I didn't unlock their super bros moves so that didn't help.

Will try and defeat her in the remake.

Mario and Luigi: Partner in Time

I couldn't defeat Princess Shroob so I never knew about the game true boss, plus it was my first Mario and Luigi game, not exactly the best game to start the series with.

Donkey Kong Country Return;

The final boss was a bit too hard and when you die you have to fight him without Diddy which made it even harder as you have only 2 hearts to defeat him, so I just let the game fight him for me.

Defeated but had an extra hand from the game

Mario and Luigi; Dream Team Bros

I defeated the final boss but evoked easy mode to defeat Bowser as I just wanted to finish the game.

Mario and Luigi; Paper Jam Bros

Same thing as Dream team I evoked easy mode to quickly defeat the final boss.

The only Mario and Luigi final boss that I defeated legit was Bowser Inside Story and I don't know how I did that.

 

[Linkark07]

Two.

First one was Killzone 2. The last boss was a pain in the ass. Had to wait two years before finishing it.

The other one... well, actually last dungeon, was Resonance of Fate. But this time it was because I probably screwed my builds.

 

[Menitta]

Legend of Starfy. Couldn't beat the last mashing part. Gave up. That game was cute too. I should go back to that.

 

[AdmiralMikey]

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

The final boss was a tremendous pain, and after many, many tries I found a way to cheese around the difficulty by hanging of a ledge for most of the fight. It turns out doing this glitched a cutscene that was supposed to trigger during the fight and I was never able to proceed to the next stage of the battle. I turned it off and never turned it on again.

I also never played PoP: Two Thrones either due to the frustrations, but got back into the series with PoP 2008.

 

[Addi]

Only one I can think of is Metroid Prime 3. I died a couple of times close to beating it and I felt it was too long so I couldn't be bothered doing it again. I preferred the exploring part of that game anyway.

 

[AdropOFvenom]

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, they introduce some new mechanic in the final boss fight where you had to slice through boulders and I just wasn't any fucking good at it, and trying it 10+ times sucked all the fun out of the game for me. So I just went on Youtube and watched the damn ending.

 

[MythicReclaimer]

Quantum Break.

However, I forced myself through the game up to that point as I really didn't enjoy it at all thus when I got to the final boss which had multiple phases for the encounter (if I remember correctly) I just said forget it.

 

[selfnoise]

I never could beat the final form of Metroid Prime. I don't know why, supposedly it's the easier of the two.

I got to the final stage of the Talos Principle and quit in disgust because

Spoiler

after the whole game being a relaxed Zen experience you have this BS timed section.

 

[wvnative]

Glad I'm not alone. I fucking hate the idea of investing that much time into a game just to give up on the end, but this one, it's just too much for me.

 

[Yoshimitsu126]

Tropical Freeze.

I can't do it. Then the Wii U got bricked because I forgot to delete HomeBrew from Wii Channel.

Aggh.

Yep. Xenoblade X

That boss was stupid. You realistically would have been using your Skell all the time and now it forces you to get out before that stupid auto kill skell move. I had to buy a reserve tank and got good at timing the dumb roar move to cheat my win. Also purposely lost to all the bosses in the last chapter to lower their difficulty to get over with the story.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Lost Planet. The final fight never clicked with me.

 

[mnemonicj]

I played through Bloodborne almost all the way blind, until I reached Gehrman. I must've died many dozen times and almost quit the whole game. But then I discovered how to summon and also died while summoning.

I had to search for Insight until I finally summoned someone really strong and beat the guy. I was so pleased.

 

[Heropon Weegee]

Dark Souls 2. Manly cuz i could never conter properly and im all out of human effigy and can't find anymore, so im at the lowest my health bar can go.But I will finish it someday!

 

[Deadpool_X]

Double Dragon 3 on NES. My best friend and I tried for months to beat her, but considering you only get a total of 2 lives to make it to her each, and the second life is either a totally weak ninja or a slow, fat man, they really don't count. Pretty much, once you lose Jimmy and Bimmy, it's over.

 

[Jencks]

Tropical Freeze. Just not good enough to beat that shit.

Final boss of Xenoblade took me like 50 tries, but I eventually got it. Was super close to throwing in the towel.

 

[Draft]

I could not beat the last boss in Mario RPG: Seven Stars of Whatever. Like a big dragon. Lost a few times, put the controller down, and eventually sold the GCN (not because of that boss, but that closed the door on future attempts.)

 

[wvnative]

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, they introduce some new mechanic in the final boss fight where you had to slice through boulders and I just wasn't any fucking good at it, and trying it 10+ times sucked all the fun out of the game for me. So I just went on Youtube and watched the damn ending.

You can skip the boulders if your no good at it, like I did

 

[dohdough]

Killzone 2. The game is repetitive as fuck, was playing on hard, and the final boss was irrtating: rage quited after dying a lot.

Are talking the boss or the gauntlet before him? Radec was easy, but holy crap the soldiers right before were brutal.

 

[Thaciselis]

Ninja Gaiden 2 on its hardest difficulty

 

[mikelarry]

Yeah i did the final temple in little ninjas, those weird enemy ninjas that made a weird crocking noise had to defeat a room full of them and no matter how i tried just couldn't do it

 

[lucebuce12]

Final Fantasy XIII.

TWO separate times.

I started from the beginning and just got so mind numbingly bored by the end I gave up.

 

[mr.beers]

Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door I had to quit due to the lead up to the boss was, what felt like at the time, 10 mins of chatting/cutscenes before you could fight. So I would endure that fight the boss then die and endure it again and you could not skip any of it. Super bummed because I loved the game.

 

[kunonabi]

Saga Frontier II. I did like 2 million HP worth of damage over his max and he still wouldn't die. What's worse his max health should have been halved anyway. Had to use a gameshark to beat him.

 

[Rosa Lilium]

Flandre in Touhou Project: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. I'm not sure I could ever be good enough to win that fight.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Yep, I gave up for a couple of years at the Joker battle in Batman Arkham Asylum.

 

[kromeo]

I've never had the motivation to beat the last boss in Devil May Cry, the original I mean.

That fucking annoying "avoid the projectiles" shooter segment having to be replayed over and over just made it a total chore and every time I've hit that point I just said screw it.

I remember having real trouble with that and the last nightmare fight on the PS2. I cruised past both of them easily on the remaster so I assumed they altered the difficulty

 

[DarkKyo]

I'm so ashamed that I haven't beaten the final boss of Metal Gear Rising. I probably tried for the first day I got to it but then never returned. I should go back and do that soon so to remove this stain from my soul.

Got pretty close to the last boss of Bloodborne too before quitting that one so that also kind of weighs on me.

 

[The 8-Bit Raider]

Parasite Eve...I just don't have the patience or time.

 

[erlim]

Yeah, I could never beat Andy Serkis at the end of Heavenly Blade.

 

[Eusis]

Yup!

Oh, this is a VERY special example since dying during the final boss gauntlet sets you back way further than if you died literally right outside the boss room. It's some of the biggest bullshit I've ever seen.

I also stalled out at the end of Super Mario RPG. Just had too much difficulty with the final boss, I half expect that to be a non-issue if I replayed through to the end.

 

[indigodomino]

Killzone shadowfall. There’s really no final boss, but the room full of enemies before you walk out to the next room which triggers the last QTE for the ending is ridiculous, enemies spawn right behind you. I ended up watching It on YouTube.

 

[Aaron D.]

FF VII back in '97.

I knew I was at the end-boss as you had to take your party down into a crater and (I think?) a Point of No Return message popped up.

Well I wasn't ready for the game to be over so I held back and simply power-leveled all my party members up to 99 off the backs of Cactuar's (they gave the most easy-XP).

Countless hours of this repetition later, I kind of burned out on the game and moved on to something else, always meaning to take on the final boss fight at some point.

Sadly, I never did.

 

[Nyx]

Paper Mario TTYOD

I couldn't beat Bowser and did not have enough power-ups with me. If I recall correctly, the only way to get more was to backtrack a long way and I did not feel like doing that, so I never did.

 

[Sotha Sil]

The latest iteration of DOOM on the equivalent of hard mode. Partly because I vastly prefered the arena-style gameplay of the rest of the game (boss fights tend to bore me) but mostly because I suck and couldn't beat the demon, with or without protips.

 

[adversarial]

Star Ocean: The Second Story - I was in my early teens I believe. 80+ hours into the game, I think it was the last fight, I'm not positive though. 3 super powerful enemies at the same time - I just gave up.