GuitarGuruu
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The last boss in Metal Gear Rising made me quit, just was sick of the bullshit.
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Have you ever given up on a game completely...at the final boss?
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ThatStupidLion
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onimusha 1.
was burnt out playing the game straight. and i attempted to beat him a few times... just couldnt get it.. never ended up returning to it unfortunately. beat the other games though
was burnt out playing the game straight. and i attempted to beat him a few times... just couldnt get it.. never ended up returning to it unfortunately. beat the other games though
EdwardTeach
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I stopped at the final boss of dark souls. (I still have the intention to complete it).
The context is that my save is over several years (about 4!). I stopped for a long time when I couldn't use my save after the switch up from gfwl. I eventually recovered it. I was at the 3kings,and played through from there until final boss and then lost momentum again.
Another game would be far cry 1 (pc). Got stuck at some kind of corridor of death near the end.
The context is that my save is over several years (about 4!). I stopped for a long time when I couldn't use my save after the switch up from gfwl. I eventually recovered it. I was at the 3kings,and played through from there until final boss and then lost momentum again.
Another game would be far cry 1 (pc). Got stuck at some kind of corridor of death near the end.
Zippedpinhead
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Completely? Probably not. If Im at the end of the game I want to see that ending.
Have I ever completely restarted the game and its prequel because i discovered I missed two items in the first game that not having (and not adequately grinding prior to the last save) prevented me from beating the game? Absolutely.
I beat arc the lad 1 and got through arc 2 back in high school 15 years ago now. I reached the final fucking boss, and discovered that no matter how I played and how stingy I was with my MP usage I couldnt beat it. It was either grind hours (and HOURS) into the monster arena to supplement my poor levels (and I dont think that would fix my lack of items issue)
OR restart the first game, clear it (for easier access to the bonus characters AND the 0 MP usage item) and then restart the second one.
So thats what I did, and five years later (in my last year of college on a hacked PSP) I beat arc the lad 2. Why on a hacked PSP instead of a PS3? Well, the nature of the last boss, it had maxed stats, I could take down 1/2 his HP before all but 1 of my characters would die. That last character could not be killed. Using the 0 MP usage item, I could cheese the boss by casting his invulnerable skill (two turns of invulnerability to all attacks/Magic) and then physical attack (since none of his skills would do as much damage as his base attack).
But I did it. Still to this day the most I have ever done to beat a game. Hell I even tracked down the hardcover strategy guide to make sure I would do it right)
Have I ever completely restarted the game and its prequel because i discovered I missed two items in the first game that not having (and not adequately grinding prior to the last save) prevented me from beating the game? Absolutely.
I beat arc the lad 1 and got through arc 2 back in high school 15 years ago now. I reached the final fucking boss, and discovered that no matter how I played and how stingy I was with my MP usage I couldnt beat it. It was either grind hours (and HOURS) into the monster arena to supplement my poor levels (and I dont think that would fix my lack of items issue)
OR restart the first game, clear it (for easier access to the bonus characters AND the 0 MP usage item) and then restart the second one.
So thats what I did, and five years later (in my last year of college on a hacked PSP) I beat arc the lad 2. Why on a hacked PSP instead of a PS3? Well, the nature of the last boss, it had maxed stats, I could take down 1/2 his HP before all but 1 of my characters would die. That last character could not be killed. Using the 0 MP usage item, I could cheese the boss by casting his invulnerable skill (two turns of invulnerability to all attacks/Magic) and then physical attack (since none of his skills would do as much damage as his base attack).
But I did it. Still to this day the most I have ever done to beat a game. Hell I even tracked down the hardcover strategy guide to make sure I would do it right)
I was really young and I want to say it was Grandia 3 or Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (lol, I'll verify on my lunch break).
I came back later and used these wonderful things called "items" and beat it with ease.
Fake edit: it was Star Ocean
Real edit: I got lost in Rogue Galaxy as a kid in the twin towers. Came back for that later too.
I came back later and used these wonderful things called "items" and beat it with ease.
Fake edit: it was Star Ocean
Real edit: I got lost in Rogue Galaxy as a kid in the twin towers. Came back for that later too.
Yeah that was also BS. Half of them would've been alright, but every single one of them?
Did that today and it seriously took me about half an hour.
Shitty design imo and lowering the difficulty is something I avoid at all costs so I had to do it.
With Arc the Lad II, I finished that last year without any bonuses from AtL, and found that equipping as many 'regen MP' items as possible, plus having multiple healers with area heals so they could take turns doing it while their comrades regenned MP, was the answer. Still took ages though. It's not that the battle is difficult, just that the boss has a huge hp pool and inflicts x damage per turn, so unless you can heal that damage you're going to lose.
With regard to the OP, SMT Strange Journey is the main one for me. It was my first SMT game so I didn't really know what to do in turns of builds, and could not defeat the final boss even after a dozen attempts, reworking my team and levelling up. Such a huge difficulty spike combined with 'party leader KO=game over', sometimes I'd be dead in 2 turns.
Sheriff_Battlesnake
Banned
Hmm. I put down Final Fantasy XV at King Behemoth. I think Im way underleveled but nothing is compelling me to finish. Story would be cool if it was told to me in a cohesive way, but its not. I never found the combat/magic stuff particularly satisfying. Felt a little out of my control.
I could go grind in the puppys crazy time travel dream, but Im not sure if I will ever prefer to play FFXV rather than moving on to another game.
Unless there have been significant improvements since release...
I could go grind in the puppys crazy time travel dream, but Im not sure if I will ever prefer to play FFXV rather than moving on to another game.
Unless there have been significant improvements since release...
The
in Undertale. It just wasn't worth it. I actually gave up on
after a few hours... Youtubed the rest of it and realized I made the right choice. No way I could do that without weeks or months of practice
Also Wizpig in the original Diddy Kong Racing. The Silver Coin challenge was brutal enough for me.. no thanks. Redeemed myself in DKR DS even though they made it dramatically easier >>
genocide route
Undyne
Also Wizpig in the original Diddy Kong Racing. The Silver Coin challenge was brutal enough for me.. no thanks. Redeemed myself in DKR DS even though they made it dramatically easier >>
I have a long history of making it to a game's final dungeon and then dropping the game for one reason or another. As far as stopping at the final boss, a couple occasions come to mind.
The first was Mega Man X4. It was one of the first PS1 games I owned, and I played it so much that I have practically memorized the entire game. It took me over a decade to finally beat it, simply because Sigma is really hard in that game, particularly compared to how easy the rest of the game is. I had to slowly build up my Mega Man skills by playing other games in the franchise first.
My first playthrough of Romancing SaGa for the PS2 also ended right at the final boss, for the same basic reason. The final boss of that game is really hard! My team just wasn't up to the task. I was planning on trying to grind up more and try again, but then my brother beat the game with his playthrough. I did beat the game later, but that was using a different playthrough with a different main character and new game+ data from my brother's run.
The first was Mega Man X4. It was one of the first PS1 games I owned, and I played it so much that I have practically memorized the entire game. It took me over a decade to finally beat it, simply because Sigma is really hard in that game, particularly compared to how easy the rest of the game is. I had to slowly build up my Mega Man skills by playing other games in the franchise first.
My first playthrough of Romancing SaGa for the PS2 also ended right at the final boss, for the same basic reason. The final boss of that game is really hard! My team just wasn't up to the task. I was planning on trying to grind up more and try again, but then my brother beat the game with his playthrough. I did beat the game later, but that was using a different playthrough with a different main character and new game+ data from my brother's run.
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Deleted member 59090
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I beat Ridley and tried maybe twice to take down Metroid Prime but never came back to it later.
HyperCroutons
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I gave up on the last level in Fire Emblem Awakening but I did come back to it almost 6 months later and beat it.
And this. Some levels were too scary for me to go back to as a kid.
Jet Force Gemini's last boss was too much for me. This is the one, where it bothers me the most, that i couldn't beat him. Because i loved that game so much.
Never saw that game's ending.
Ys: The Oath in Felghana is the other one, where i never could beat the last boss. I mean i beat the one that came shortly before, who i thought was already freaking hard. So i felt pretty good with myself and thought how much harder can it get...
Never saw that game's ending.
Ys: The Oath in Felghana is the other one, where i never could beat the last boss. I mean i beat the one that came shortly before, who i thought was already freaking hard. So i felt pretty good with myself and thought how much harder can it get...
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Viewtiful Joe on hard difficulty. I tried a few times and realized I wasn't even getting close.
This, it was annoying then my Xbox died
Also castle of illusion remake on PS3, got to the last boss it was tough stopped playing for like a year then my PS3 died
salaciousdrift
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100% this. I soldiered through that game and then came the tedious final boss which required so much more than anything else in the game. Two passes at it and then immediately took the disc out and traded it in. It did break me of trying to finish games because of the sunk cost fallacy. I guess I am grateful for that.
Screaming Meat
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Nope. Im bloodyminded... to a fault.
Example: I spent nearly three weeks (2-3 hours a night) bashing my head repeatedly against Orphan of Kos till I finally beat him. Im not ashamed of my lack of skill, just how much gaming time I spent in one area on one game.
Example: I spent nearly three weeks (2-3 hours a night) bashing my head repeatedly against Orphan of Kos till I finally beat him. Im not ashamed of my lack of skill, just how much gaming time I spent in one area on one game.
At the final boss is actually a pretty good stopping point for most games since you've already seen pretty much all of the game, unless there's a significant amount of post-game content. Nowadays you can just YouTube the ending of almost any game, too.
Also one of the Bonk games. Maybe Bonk 2? Don't remember, but I do recall one of the final bosses just wrecking me so many times that I just eventually gave up. Don't think I've gone back and beaten it, but I'm not 100% sure.
Other games I've temporarily given up on at the final boss with the intention of never coming back to it:
Xenoblade Chronicles. I think it took me almost two years to go back to this - it certainly over a year.
Paper Mario: Color Splash. I died at the very end of the very last phase of the final boss. I think I failed to defend against his final desperation attack, or something (my memory's a bit hazy on that). Didn't feel like going through such a long battle again. I did come back to it not even a day later, though.
Same. I also don't have any drive to go through that final level again. I was actually OK with the game for the most part, but those last couple of levels suck hard.
Also one of the Bonk games. Maybe Bonk 2? Don't remember, but I do recall one of the final bosses just wrecking me so many times that I just eventually gave up. Don't think I've gone back and beaten it, but I'm not 100% sure.
Other games I've temporarily given up on at the final boss with the intention of never coming back to it:
Xenoblade Chronicles. I think it took me almost two years to go back to this - it certainly over a year.
Paper Mario: Color Splash. I died at the very end of the very last phase of the final boss. I think I failed to defend against his final desperation attack, or something (my memory's a bit hazy on that). Didn't feel like going through such a long battle again. I did come back to it not even a day later, though.
Unlimited SaGa, I think.
One of the stories, for one of the girl characters. Can't remember much about it other than the boss just being fucking impossible for me.
I didn't 100% give up on the game, as I went through it on different stories, but I never felt like I truly beat the game after that,
One of the stories, for one of the girl characters. Can't remember much about it other than the boss just being fucking impossible for me.
I didn't 100% give up on the game, as I went through it on different stories, but I never felt like I truly beat the game after that,
PhilipDoesMatter
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Bravely Default true ending. The boss is still there waiting for me. I feel I didnt develop the jobs correctly and now I would need some grinding. Not doing.
Sunset Samurai
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Not the final boss but in Cuphead damn near made me quit when the two frogs
combined into a slot machine and the lottery spin would send out like 40 fast moving disk you have to keep hopping over
Sweet Bellic
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Learn to spam the fuck out of parry and you'll find that Gwyn is quite punishable and manageable. That said, can't say I'm looking forward to this fight again on my inevitable NG+ playthrough.
freshVeggie
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I never did.
But I did lower the difficulty from max to a step lower after unsuccessfully dying several times at the final fight in Max Payne 3. Talk about artificial and unimaginative difficulty design.
But I did lower the difficulty from max to a step lower after unsuccessfully dying several times at the final fight in Max Payne 3. Talk about artificial and unimaginative difficulty design.
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.
Oh gosh, Rareware bosses. I never played JFG that far because I hated how the game controlled, but I think one of my brothers quit playing at the final boss.
Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever beaten either of the N64 Banjos either. I've played up to Grunty in BK, but never beaten it, and the one time I played up to the final boss in BT, my brother beat the boss for me.
DK64, I think I beat eventually, but I'm not certain about that. I might've actually given up before the final boss when you needed to play those arcade games in order to progress.
TheBlueRogue
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The final fight in Jeanne D'arc for PSP. I even grinded three seperate times after I failed the fight and still couldn't beat it. It's one of those two-tiered fights so not only does it take forever, but you can't reuse your special transformations which is the key to winning.
FalsettoVibe
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Yup!
Dear lord yes.......
whatever6352
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Almost did in Final Fantasy X. Glad I didn't as tthat became my favorite FF ever.
Von Krukru
Banned
Zone of The Ender 2. Don't know why, these kind of mirror battle are my favorite kind of bosses ever. I just stopped during the fight and never booted it again, without any reason.
Nioh. The true last boss. At that point I was burned out HARD. This game is too long for his own good. And the best boss was the
anyway.
Nioh. The true last boss. At that point I was burned out HARD. This game is too long for his own good. And the best boss was the
Ninja Toad
ZeroMaverick
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Dark Souls 3.
I think I'm spec'd in the wrong way or something. I just cannot beat that fucker.
I think I'm spec'd in the wrong way or something. I just cannot beat that fucker.
bizzarewars
Banned
Yeah. Metal Gear Rising. Great character, shit boss imo.
Also Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. The game's overall combat issues are significantly exacerbated by that boss.
Also Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. The game's overall combat issues are significantly exacerbated by that boss.
Nocturnowl
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I very recently reached the final boss of Paper Mario Sticker Star, after dying during a second phase and feeling like there was some of that SS boss Trial and Error shenanigans in play I quickly looked up a guide to get the gist of things.
Apparently consists of like 3 or 4 more phases including a straight up ruck for the last one....
I'm probably not going back, which is a small shame because despite its flaws and being the weakest Paper outing I actually did enjoy it and it has some *gasp* positives that are worth the experiment.
If we can include the entire last stage as the final boss, I never even saw the big bad because it's such a nightmare
Apparently consists of like 3 or 4 more phases including a straight up ruck for the last one....
I'm probably not going back, which is a small shame because despite its flaws and being the weakest Paper outing I actually did enjoy it and it has some *gasp* positives that are worth the experiment.
Yup!
If we can include the entire last stage as the final boss, I never even saw the big bad because it's such a nightmare
Phatosaurus
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Crysis. The game kept crashing at the final boss fight.
Always-honest
Banned
I still have to beat the final boss (and just the second, final part) of Wolfenstein: The New order. Played the game on Uber. Loved every minute of it. Can't beat him. I just can't. he should have been dead several times now but he just won't die. Even tried the cowardly hiding under the stairs shit. It's my biggest gaming trauma.
Baraka Obama
Banned
DBZ Budokai Tenkai something 2 for the wii
Terrible controls, stupid objectives, and being 9 didnt mix well.
Terrible controls, stupid objectives, and being 9 didnt mix well.
Stone Vagabond
Banned
The Telltale Jurassic Park game has this QTE where you have to mash "A" to outrun a T-Rex. It is hands down the most ludicrously hard final section of a game I've ever played. It's more like one of those Strongman games you see at a carnival than an actual boss.
Reckless Abandon
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No, I have an innate need to finish everything I start unless it is truly terrible.
Came close recently, though, with Clustertruck. The final boss in that game requires mad precision and a bit of luck to beat. Spent the better part of two evenings before I took it down. Happy I did though, it had Portal-like payoff in that finally getting it done after all that struggling felt great.
Yeah, honestly I don't know how I ever did that. Spent multiple days of trying to get it done. I tried the stairs thing too and it would work for a bit and then not. After that I was just running around like a madman and finally was able to finish him off. You can barely stop for even a second or you'll get shredded.
Yeah I almost gave up on a re-play of the HD edition late last year because of the Jecht battle. I rushed through the game so wasn't really at the right level but I didn't want to go back and spend time leveling up. After about 10 re-tries I got it, thank heavens for Lulu's doublecast. Also sucks because there is such wait between the save point and then actually fighting him.
Came close recently, though, with Clustertruck. The final boss in that game requires mad precision and a bit of luck to beat. Spent the better part of two evenings before I took it down. Happy I did though, it had Portal-like payoff in that finally getting it done after all that struggling felt great.
Yeah, honestly I don't know how I ever did that. Spent multiple days of trying to get it done. I tried the stairs thing too and it would work for a bit and then not. After that I was just running around like a madman and finally was able to finish him off. You can barely stop for even a second or you'll get shredded.
Yeah I almost gave up on a re-play of the HD edition late last year because of the Jecht battle. I rushed through the game so wasn't really at the right level but I didn't want to go back and spend time leveling up. After about 10 re-tries I got it, thank heavens for Lulu's doublecast. Also sucks because there is such wait between the save point and then actually fighting him.