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[KillerDark]

I haven't ever quit a game because of a boss. I've stopped playing games from getting bored but I can't think of any scenario where that has happened because of a boss? Usually tend to view that as a challenge and pound my head against them till I win.

 

[V-Gief]

Last boss in Shinobi.

12 year old me couldn't figure out the mechanics, so, after trying over and over and over, I had to give up.

Came here to post this, thankfully someone beat me to it. Got stuck on this boss and just gave up. Came back to the game a couple of years later and managed to beat it \o/

 

[DarkConfidant]

Gravelord Nito's fall damage in Dark Souls made me quit for years. Just went back and beat it a week ago.

I've never let a boss do it permanently, as far as I remember, though.

A game has to be bad or boring for me to quit. Not just have a difficult boss.


EDIT: I guess Seymour Flux in FFX stopped my 2nd playthrough of the game, though I've since beat the game in the HD Remaster. It's funny to see how many bosses other people quit on that I had no problem with.
Nobody should feel pressured to finish a game, but I hope you all remember that a lot of these (especially the Dark Soul and FF) are possible when you come at it from a different angle.
Either way, there's nothing wrong with quitting a game. It's just a game.

 

[pantsmith]

Played it on Hard, because I'm pretty handy at TRPGs, and while its nothing I couldn't run off and outlevel eventually I had a horrible time with this fight and how I geared my party. Just lost interest completely.

 

[Jonboy]

Seriously? This was one of the easiest bosses in DS3 and one of the few that I managed to down on my first try.

Yep. No other bosses came close to being that hard for me. Even Nameless King was much easier. I was a sorcerer though and I've heard that one is really tough for sorcerers. Would've beaten the last boss on my first try if not for a disconnect. Keep meaning to upload a video of this. I was so annoyed.

 

[zeemumu]

Ornstein and Smough

 

[mr_nexus]

The very first boss of Deus Ex: Human Revolution made me literally rage quit and be turned off from the game.
Not awhile later, I regret that decision and now want to continue Deus Ex again.

This. I tried playing a stleathy game so by the time the first boss popped up I was not prepared for him and I was never able to beat him. I bought the director's cut after which was supposed to balance the bosses better but I still never got around to playing it.
I'll try a new play through before the new game comes out.

 

[Sane_Man]

Kind-of-a-boss-but-not-really the Flappy Goat trophy in Goat Simulator made me quit. Having never played Flappy Bird and spending a couple of hours trying to get through 10 gates, I gave up. I thought I could have got there with another few hours maybe, but I seriously thought there were better and more interesting things I could be doing, even though it meant giving up on a platinum trophy at the last hurdle.

I tried for around 3 hours then rage quit and gave up. Randomly went bad to it 2 months later and did it within 30 mins. Never lose faith!

 

[lord_of_flood]

The tank from Valkyria Chronicles in Chapter 7. It's beatable without any permadeaths if you grind a bunch, but I didn't have time for that, so I quit VC because of it. I'll probably go back to it if I find the motivation to grind to beat it.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

The Ice Titan boss in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow made me quit. I fucking haaaated that boss battle; it was like a tedious copy of Shadow of the Colossus with poor controls and for some reason the jump button became a dash button which I could not get my head around.

 

[Mors_Verigo]

Dancer of the whatever Valley from Dark Souls III.

 

[BebopMcJigglypuff]

The last boss of Odin Sphere put so many sprites on screen that the frame rate would drop to well under 1 FPS at times, which made dodging impossible. I gave up in frustration. At least the ps2 inside my ps3 couldn't handle it... I assume the ps2 inside a ps2 would perform the same.

 

[antitrop]

Scorpion boss from FFVII, the thread?

Took a 2 year break from the game, came back, and realized the simple way to kill it.

All they needed to do was put "If you..." at the beginning of that sentence and it would have made sense.

 

[Dinskugga]

Ice Boss - Luigi Mansion 2 3DSA
Last Boss - Beyond Good & Evil

 

[disastermouse]

The very first boss of Deus Ex: Human Revolution made me literally rage quit and be turned off from the game.
Not awhile later, I regret that decision and now want to continue Deus Ex again.

It didn't make me stop, but holy hell was that a wall of a difficulty curve. Haven't they fixed it on the editor's cut edition?

Yeah, I always dread that battle and now almost always go for typhoon upgrades immediately in anticipation. At least, I think I do. I'm trying to remember if typhoon is even available for that boss. Either way, it totally affects my upgrade path in the early game.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Ryu in Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z. The game is terrible all around but I have no idea what they were thinking with that boss. Is the point that you can't beat the old protagonist? He's nonsense even on easy

 

[NeoRaider]

Never.

 

[panda-zebra]

I'm still haunted by the fact I could never get past the last boss in Killzone 2. Spent a few hours total trying to do it and just couldn't. Even got a couple of mates around one night who fancy themselves at FPS to try, and no-one could do it.

Such inadequate

hah, now I don't feel so bad, someone else admitted to it I can out myself as well

keeping the other one to myself as it's completely embarrassing lol

 

[.Anema]

I almost quit with Ornstein and Smough, but I finally managed to kill them. And since then I've finished Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, Demon's Souls and I'm at the 80% of Dark Souls III... Thanks Ornstein and Smough for being the perfect teachers of how to enjoy the Souls saga!

Also, I've never killed Ozma in FFIX

 

[disastermouse]

That poorly designed boss fight in Deus Hex where you lost all your augments right before. I know you can keep your augments if you make some different choices earlier in the game, but giving more of my time to this game that clearly didn´t respect it was out of the question.

OMG! I forgot this. Yeah. I was playing the game at the same time as my roommate. He had more free time so was ahead of me in the story and I watched him get destroyed again and again at that level. He finally got past it, but needless to say, I avoided the 'upgrade' or whatever it was that allows it to happen and basically walked through that boss.

 

[Elitist1945]

I quit on Uncharted 2's boss fight. Sure, its nothing compared to a lot of other games, but I still hated it enough to stop. I never actually finished UC2 until the collection came out.

 

[notaskwid]

I think Malice Killer in Shadow Hearts from the new world, I tried several times and couldn't beat it, and haven't tried again in yeas... Was not really enjoying the game though. (I think it was Malice Killer, my memory is foggy as hell).
Recently is Martyr Logarius in bloodborne, but I'm just bad at that game.

 

[DamagedInc]

The last boss in Lords of the fallen, I'd endured the game to the end but it seemed I'd not specced out properly and it was just a real pain in the arse,I tried it several times and game to the conclusion that I really didn't care how it ended so I just quit and left it.

 

[Avenger54321]

Orphan of Kos on NG++++

Lingering Will on Critical Mode:

 

[mikeGFG]

This motherfucker from Resident Evil 0:

Fourteen years ago, I had to abandon my save file on the Gamecube because I didn't have enough ammo to kill him.

Well after days of meticulous planning and ammo conservation, I finally killed him on Hard mode last night. Fuck that fight.

 

[Boy Wander]

Some spinning thing with tentacles (?) in Metroid Prime 2. At least I think that's what it was. I was out of missiles pretty much and my prior save was way back so I reluctantly quit. Been meaning to restart for 12 years...

 

[dcx4610]

Other than on the NES days, the only boss that has made me quit going through every console and every generation was Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising.

It took me hours to beat him, I gave up and it took me another hour the next day to finally do it.

 

[disastermouse]

I quit on Uncharted 2's boss fight. Sure, its nothing compared to a lot of other games, but I still hated it enough to stop. I never actually finished UC2 until the collection came out.

I quit UC2 at the part fairly early on where Sully is taking fire from a heavy and I can never figure out where he is or how to kill him before Sully dies.

I even looked it up in video and can't figure out where or how to get to it. I know I'm missing something so obvious that everyone else just understands, but it was enough to guarantee that I'll never play another Uncharted.

 

[mhayes86]

Some boss pretty early in Zone of the Enders 2 HD. Might have been Vic the Viper, but I can't remember.

ZoE1 was easy, and up until this point in ZoE2, the game was pretty simple, but for some reason I just could not get passed this boss. I haven't gone back to it since.

 

[Manu]

Armor Spider from Demon's Souls made me ragequit the game. I didn't come back until a year later, and even then it took a while.

Lost Brothers in Lords of the Fallen. I'm still not sure how anyone considers this game easier than Souls games. Nothing in Souls is as much bullshit as 90% of the bosses in this game.

 

[horkrux]

Mundus, final boss of the original Devil May Cry

and fucking Space Mama, boss mid-way through Rayman 1

Spoiler

Then I got back up and pwned them

. Achievements say about a week later for Mundus. I swear I had been dead set on stopping, but it didn't last. Don't know what happened with Rayman, though. I know I came back years (and years) later and finished the game, but as a kid I might have simply cheated past her and played a bit more before getting stuck again.

 

[Resident Guru]

The last boss of Quantum Break was dumb, so I turned the system off and moved on. My time is more valuable than that.

Right there with you. So cheap and the boss fight goes against the gameplay mechanics of the entire game. Really soured the game for me. Also, the checkpoints for the boss are pure bullshit!

 

[LakeEarth]

OG Perfect Dark. I just didn't get that I was supposed to be hitting the statue above him to be able to drop his shields. By the time I read what I was supposed to do, I had already stopped caring about the game.

 

[Ryde3]

Littlefinger in Quantum Break, thought the story was great, the gunplay was okay, but that last boss pissed me off so much. Came out of nowhere, nothing else in the game is like that I struggled so hard.

Found it funny cause I was playing it along side Dark Souls 3 but yet THAT made me quit Quantum haha.

 

[Host Samurai]

I loved Xenoverse up to the part where I had to kill 20 Frieza guys right after you get your skillset swapped for Ginyu's. Oh, in case that didn't confuse me enough, I also had to defend stupid AI that got gangbanged left and right. Beat that part after 10+ tries.

Then got to this part.

Beerus & Whis are impossible. Can't beat them

Ninja Gaiden 2 Vanilla final boss

Mike Tyson

 

[The Orz]

Gates of Hell from The Last Remnant (XBox 360 version)

I think the game warned me

Spoiler

that I was at a point of no return, but I figured I had it under control as no bosses were all that tough...Boy was I wrong. This was before I understood that grinding on weak enemies was a bad idea on the 360 version.

Quit the 360 version and came back to it on PC much later on. Now have 182 hours on the Steam version.

This so much. But wait, let's not forget about the surprise boss battle that happens immediately afterwards! I was playing on PC and it still broke me ;_;

Beat both of them eventually and, wouldn't you know it, the boss battles only got tougher. Loved the game.

 

[ebullientprism]

I forgot the name but it was some boss in a flying ship (?) in FF12. It was my first (and last) FF (and proper JRPG) and I was way under-levelled IIRC.

 

[RMI]

owl boss at the end of world 2 in Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. I finished DKCR with no major problems aside from the last boss (I might have tried like 30 times to beat him) but this owl motherfucker made me give up pretty quickly.

 

[Tambini]

The Ice Titan boss in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow made me quit. I fucking haaaated that boss battle; it was like a tedious copy of Shadow of the Colossus with poor controls and for some reason the jump button became a dash button which I could not get my head around.

Yep, game was average until then, but that boss was infuriating

 

[creatchee]

Last boss of Dark Souls 3... Just sort of stopped trying and didn't feel like changing my build.

I still haven't gotten past the first boss :/

 

[partime]

I never beat him, even with cheats.

 

[BumblebeeCody]

NG3: RE last boss made me have an hour break.

 

[CoffinVarnish]

When I played Dark Souls for the first time I quit for about 4 years because of the fuckin Capra Demon.

That is the worst boss in the game other than O&S.

 

[cLOUDo]

The boss in this game ( level 10 i think) is the must difficult most i ever meet (i was kid in that time, i was stuck days in that shit)


EDIT: This bastard!

 

[Magnus]

Honestly, the very first sword fight 1 on 1 with Ghi in Skyward Swird. I'm great with motion controls in almost every game, but hit a total brick wall with Skyward Sword for some reason. It just never clicked for me, and that fight owned me for hours.

 

[Omegasquash]

I still have my Demon Souls stuck here.

The motherfucker is just so fast and unpredictable for me...and I've Beaten DS, DS2 and Bloodborne -.-

I tried so goddamn hard, and eventually, I did it. But he kept me stuck for weeks.

Bonus: Elana: Squalid Queen on NG+ solo. I even brought in the two NPC summons, but the Queen will NOT stop summoning Velstadt + Skeletons. And I mean, back to back to back to back. You'd think it'd be easy since I was a faith build but nooooooo. Eventually won, but she made me put the controller down and walk away numerous times.

 

[Romars202129]

I took Lady Comstock down 3 times with guns only, and on hard mode in Bioshock Infinite. I don't quit for bosses.

 

[Gravidee]

This guy. The least fun I've ever had playing a Zelda game. If you die, you gotta go aaaaallll the way back to the beginning and chase him again. Just utter shit.

He's not even hard to beat though. Nor difficult to track down.

 

[ibyea]

Any fans of Xenoblade Chronicles will not so fondly remember this horrible, reverberating phrase from a boss battle: "YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!!!" Which you will hear again and again as you indeed do pay for your insolence. She is insanely difficult. She is able to do many kinds of negative status effects on your party, her defense is insanely high unless you defeat the four gas cloud element things, which is in itself another kind of struggle. Worst of all, your party members are stupid as hell and will keep running into the pool of acid. There is wailing and gnashing of teeth as you struggle to form a coherent strategy against the boss, and woe is you if you don't know the game mechanics in and out. In essence it takes forever to defeat her.

In the end I managed to beat her and managed to reach the penultimate boss. But I was sick and tired of the game and sort of phased out of it.

 

[John Dunbar]

Loved the game, but never beat this fucker.