SoulUnison
Banned
I think I actually ended up restarting Final Fantasy X twice over a couple years because I kept getting to Evrae and basically hit a wall.
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Bosses that have made you quit on a game.
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Most (all?) of the bosses in Deus Ex: Human Revolution made me rage quit many times, but eventually I got through em.
Last Trophy I need for the Platinum, too.
Last Trophy I need for the Platinum, too.
Seymour Flux from FFX.
He can kill my entire party in 1 hit and I'm pretty sure that means I should grind a few levels, but I simply don't care that much about the game.
Metal Gear Rising: Blade Wolf on hard mode
The camera was just atrocious and get killed through no fault of my own made the boss way too frustrating.
He can kill my entire party in 1 hit and I'm pretty sure that means I should grind a few levels, but I simply don't care that much about the game.
Metal Gear Rising: Blade Wolf on hard mode
The camera was just atrocious and get killed through no fault of my own made the boss way too frustrating.
Never quit a game on A BOSS in my life. This is because I take it really PERSONAL if a boss beats me. It is like pvp. I feel like I need a salty runback if I lose (even if I hate the game) just so I can say I didnt quit because the game was hard. I dont quit on a boss because it makes me feel...like the game made me its bitch. Like, slapped my ass and shit.
Like, I lost TO HIM. He is grabbing my ass and squeezing it while saying, "WHO IS YOUR DADDY?"
*Ahem*
What I do is quit AFTER I beat the annoying boss so I dont have to hold dat L.
Like, I lost TO HIM. He is grabbing my ass and squeezing it while saying, "WHO IS YOUR DADDY?"
*Ahem*
What I do is quit AFTER I beat the annoying boss so I dont have to hold dat L.
Berlin_Wall
Member
Quantum Break - last fight
It's not that he's super hard, he's just a really poorly designed boss.
Shit...you just reminded me why I never finished that game.
The boss fight in Sonic Lost World at beginning of the last zone. It's where you are on a circular world and fighting like 3 bosses back to back and after each boss the ground turns into lava making your area of movement shorter each time. That shit is so broken. The floor would literally break under you with no warning and you get insta killed and have to start the whole boss fight over again with the first boss. Coupled this with the fact that Sonic controls like ass and you just have a recipe for a bad time.
Super Mario Galaxy 2. There's like a boss rush at the end of the game after you've finished the main story that features bosses from Super Mario Galaxy 1. I played Galaxy 2 last year for the first time but I haven't played Galaxy 1 since its release date. Having to relearn boss patterns had really aggravated me and I just gave up. I finished the main game so I had no intentions of completing it 100%.
Fallout-NL
Member
This one actually:
PrivateRyan
Member
The final boss fight in Quantum Break. Just don't have the time/patience for stuff like that anymore.
Lupin the Third
Member
I decided I was done with Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon at the icy mansion's final boss. You know, the one where you ride down the tunnel and shoot at his pieces? Like, it wasn't obscenely hard... I probably could have gotten it with a few more tries, honestly. But I was just done. The game had worn out its welcome for me by this point and the boss being annoying was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
Always-honest
Banned
I started Wolfenstein: The new Order on ĂĽber and that was fine till the endboss (second part of that fight).
Still haven't finished the game. Tried about 25 times i think.
Still haven't finished the game. Tried about 25 times i think.
Yangshouwen
Banned
DmC: Definitive edition - There was a boss you fight in a TV Studio that kept wiping the floor with me. I should really try an get back to it.
CecilRousso
Member
None. I just lower the difficulty if they bother me. I don't care for bosses in games at all, since most of them tend to suck.
They're fun when they're optional though, like contracts in The Witcher III.
They're fun when they're optional though, like contracts in The Witcher III.
CyanideFuse
Member
I started Wolfenstein: The new Order on ĂĽber and that was fine till the endboss (second part of that fight).
Still haven't finished the game. Tried about 25 times i think.
I beat him using assault rifle rockets; he wasn't too bad at all using these (edit: the screenshot shows this). There are places you can position in the area where he has trouble hitting you too.
Final Fantasy III.
I don't remember that well it was so long ago, but I went through a lot of troubles in Crystal Tower to get to Cloud of Darkness and got my ass totally beaten, then I decided to quit the game because it wasn't fun to me anymore and I had another game waiting to be played.
I don't remember that well it was so long ago, but I went through a lot of troubles in Crystal Tower to get to Cloud of Darkness and got my ass totally beaten, then I decided to quit the game because it wasn't fun to me anymore and I had another game waiting to be played.
I started Wolfenstein: The new Order on ĂĽber and that was fine till the endboss (second part of that fight).
Still haven't finished the game. Tried about 25 times i think.
The key is to keep moving I think. Run in circles around the arena. Maybe strafe and shoot. I forget exactly how it was done, but once I started employing a strategy like that, the boss was very manageable.
Pyramid head
Banned
Alma in Ninja Gaiden Black. After many attempts I tossed my controller to the floor in resignation and went on to sell the game. It recall the camera getting stuck on the pillars being the main source of my frustration but I was also pretty new to the genre and would like to go back to it some day.
It didn't make me quit outright (I picked the game back up like 6 months later), but I found Belzaboul in SMT: Devil Survivor to be pretty tough.
Oh my god I forgot about that fucking cutscene until right now, really annoying if you mess up the fight...
Oh my god I forgot about that fucking cutscene until right now, really annoying if you mess up the fight...
Andyliini
Member
I don't remember the boss's name, but Persona 3 had a boss in Tartarus, that looks like 3 pillars. They can all spam one very strong attack agains you, that you canno't defend from. Healing after that is pretty much impossible.
I was done with the game after that. Sold the game, too, might try again with P3P some day.
I was done with the game after that. Sold the game, too, might try again with P3P some day.
SpaceCadetKeon
Banned
The second fight with Riku Replica on Riku mode in Chain of Memories (GBA). I put the game down for a year or two before I decided to revisit it. It's crazy how easy the fight actually is if you're patient.
Always-honest
Banned
Thanx. But i tried it all. I think i must have been really really close about 15 times.
The shit part of that mission is that you have to collect stuff before going in. That makes it less apealing to try again.
Same boss for me, I've not been back yet.
I've since Platinumed Bloodborne and I'm fairly deep in DS3, I think I'd do much better if I tried again.
Dark Souls
Fire Emblem : Radiant Dawn when fight Black Knight on 2nd time, it was frustating to me, so i stopped for few days
when i want to play it again, i found someone accidentally delete my save (my brother), so angry that time i said fuck it ... didn't wanna play that thing from scratch
Fire Emblem : Radiant Dawn when fight Black Knight on 2nd time, it was frustating to me, so i stopped for few days
when i want to play it again, i found someone accidentally delete my save (my brother), so angry that time i said fuck it ... didn't wanna play that thing from scratch
• Kingdom Heart's Chernabog: I beat him once after too many tries, only to die before reaching a save point.
• Cave Story's Undead Core: If your boss has more than one stage then give me a freaking checkpoint after each!
It was the final boss for me too.
• Castlevania's Death: At least this is an NES game, I understand the absurd difficulty.
I thrive on that shit.
Smough/Ornstein with killing Smough first to get the right soul got me to take a few days break back then though.
Replayed it recently and man it wasn't even hard. I was bad.
First playthrough?
KennyLinder
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I am stuck on a fucker of a boss on Strider (the new one) at the moment. The water guy, can't think of his name. He controls water and throws waves, punches, and streams at you.
Newtype-001
Member
This mother fker
The one time i managed to beat him i died to the extra enemies that spawn after and it made restart from the beginning of the boss fight even though i completely beat him. I just said f this.
The one time i managed to beat him i died to the extra enemies that spawn after and it made restart from the beginning of the boss fight even though i completely beat him. I just said f this.
Beren the Empty-Handed
Member
Never, but I came real close with Kraid in the original Metroid and the Metroid Queen in Metroid II. Kraid was such a huge spike in difficulty and I struggled with him forever. Ridley was a breeze compared to him, so maybe I just completely missed some sort of obvious strategy, but there's not a whole lot of options in that game.
Metroid Queen was tough in a fair way, and I didn't find out about the Morph Bomb trick until afterwards.
Metroid Queen was tough in a fair way, and I didn't find out about the Morph Bomb trick until afterwards.
Sorry, but this boss is easy, no matter how much stuff you collected.
He has like 4 different attacks which all look really scary, but are telegraphed seconds in advance, and easily dodged once you know that they are. One attack you duck, one attack you roll, one attack you jump etc, and you just have to not get too greedy trying to get hits in between.
He's definitely easier than several of the bosses before him.
Doomshroom
Member
Last boss in Rygar on the Nes. He was bugged in the PAL version and almost impossible to beat.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Manus from the Dark Souls DLC.
Orphan Kos from Bloodborne.
Getting tired of hyper-aggressive Soulsborne bosses whose every attack hits like a dump truck.
Orphan Kos from Bloodborne.
Getting tired of hyper-aggressive Soulsborne bosses whose every attack hits like a dump truck.
Stereogatari
Banned
Towards the end of FFX HD I hacked the savefile so I would beat every boss in one hit. It got to a stage where I couldn't be bothered to grind and just wanted to see the end of the story.
Jonneh3003
Banned
I hear this a lot but as a below average Souls player I beat him on my first try in NG+, I used some Beast Blood Pellets but it wasn't a struggle.
RealityCheque
Banned
Monsoon. MGRising
Fuck that guy.
Fuck that guy.
BouncyFrag
Member
I only recently played the original Metal Gear Solid game on an old ps2 and couldn't get past the ending metal gear fight since I was: a)sucking, b)had hardly any health at the beginning of the fight, and c)still sucking. I ended up just watching the ending on YouTube. I did beat MGS2 even with its crazy ass metal gear fight that almost made me throw my console out an airlock if one had been available.
I stopped playing Dark Souls 3 at the bit where there are two dragons high up on some castle. It's not that I couldn't beat them, I'm just tired of Souls games having extensively played all in the series except Demon Souls.
The Riddler in Arkam Knight making me collect those fucking trophies just to wrap up the fight with him that he was able to escape from.
I stopped playing Dark Souls 3 at the bit where there are two dragons high up on some castle. It's not that I couldn't beat them, I'm just tired of Souls games having extensively played all in the series except Demon Souls.
The Riddler in Arkam Knight making me collect those fucking trophies just to wrap up the fight with him that he was able to escape from.
Chronospherics
Member
I quit the final boss of front mission evolved.
I wasn't enjoying the game and it was the first time I died in the game, and it actually seemed challenging. I was only playing it to see the narrative though and see if the ending was interesting but then when I realised I might need to do more than turn my brain off and shoot missiles, I was like 'nope'.
Maybe the game would have been better if it was more challenging broadly, but that death was the last straw on a generally unenjoyable journey. I'm sure it wasn't hard though, probably would have taken a few tries.
I wasn't enjoying the game and it was the first time I died in the game, and it actually seemed challenging. I was only playing it to see the narrative though and see if the ending was interesting but then when I realised I might need to do more than turn my brain off and shoot missiles, I was like 'nope'.
Maybe the game would have been better if it was more challenging broadly, but that death was the last straw on a generally unenjoyable journey. I'm sure it wasn't hard though, probably would have taken a few tries.
I am on the first boss in persona 4 golden and cant beat it without huge levelling. Playing on normal. So far i havent liked the game. Should i restart the game on easiest setting or just keep playing? Or just quit? Will i save much time if i start over? I like to finish games even if i dont like them.
Chronospherics
Member
Also reminds me of the time where my house mate tried to convince me that senator smash from MG Revengance was 'impossible' and therefore I should just give up.
'You can't beat senator smash, it's impossible, I've tried it and checked youtube, no one can beat him'. He was dead serious, thought it was an impossible game. The guy was generally a fool, full of tall tales and the like, spent most of his time playing cookie clicker.
I did eventually beat senator smash though.
'You can't beat senator smash, it's impossible, I've tried it and checked youtube, no one can beat him'. He was dead serious, thought it was an impossible game. The guy was generally a fool, full of tall tales and the like, spent most of his time playing cookie clicker.
I did eventually beat senator smash though.
Angel Abaddon
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Started Viewtiful on Adult difficulty. Managed to get through most of the game eventually, until I hit the standard Capcom boss rush section. I think I at most made it through about 3 bosses but never managed to make it further.