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Your longest time spent on a boss battle
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Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I know there's a few boss battles I've spent several hours on if difficult and long, die and have to start over. Don't know the exact times and it's been a while.
I know I had a lot of difficulty off the top with Riku in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories after Destiny Island (the original Gameboy Advance one) when I was younger, I had a lot of difficulty with the final boss of Silent Hill 3 on Hard combat difficulty with how I played on my first playthrough (had a lot of ammo, almost no healing items). There's definitely more though, and some I have spent more time on, but I'd need to see the game to remember.
I know I had a lot of difficulty off the top with Riku in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories after Destiny Island (the original Gameboy Advance one) when I was younger, I had a lot of difficulty with the final boss of Silent Hill 3 on Hard combat difficulty with how I played on my first playthrough (had a lot of ammo, almost no healing items). There's definitely more though, and some I have spent more time on, but I'd need to see the game to remember.
OmnipotentO
Member
Like 5 hours trying to kill The End. 3 giant areas. Could never find him.
Most definitely this! That fucking run down to the fight as well.
Codeacious
Banned
I still haven't beaten
in SotFS. No other DS/DS2 boss gave me much trouble- I even beat
, but
... ugh. I died for a few hours, quit for PvP for a while, came back, and still just got wrecked over and over again. Although, I didn't know that
in order to
, which makes it far more difficult. I give it a few more attempts every time I start up the game, but to no avail.
Fume Knight
Mytha without burning the windmill/removing the poison
Fume Knight
you need to save one of the Smelter Wedges
prevent him from healing during the fight
Backfoggen
Banned
Manus at SL1.
Ludwig at NG+++ (still stuck)
Ludwig at NG+++ (still stuck)
Actually, not sure if it counts as a boss, but the part in GoldenEye where you have to protect Natalya while she hacks a computer, on 007 difficulty, was pretty damn tough. Must have spent days doing it. And I never have beaten the last part of story mode on F Zero GX, on any difficulty.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Goat Demon in Dark Souls, Ancient Dragon in Dark Souls 2.
Those fuckers wouldn't die.
Also, [Sin]. I was way underleveled.
Those fuckers wouldn't die.
Also, [Sin]. I was way underleveled.
Snore Crime
Neo Member
What about Yama in Spelunky? Over 200 hours and I still haven't actually killed him. Fuck me. I keep dying to dumb shit after having a really good run. Other than that, Demyx in KH2 I remember being kind of a bitch the first time, but I don't really play a lot of hard games. Revisiting KH2 it's piss easy lol.
I didn't have much of a problem with Chalice Rom. IIRC there are even pillars where you can hide from her meteor attack?
whyreggielie
Member
For some reason, I will never forget this guy:
I know I fought him when I was not ready for it but I refused to give up. Eventually got him, never had a fight last this long before as he could kill incredibly fast and I think he was even resistant to a lot of things.
I know I fought him when I was not ready for it but I refused to give up. Eventually got him, never had a fight last this long before as he could kill incredibly fast and I think he was even resistant to a lot of things.
Tangled Up in Blue
Banned
The worst for me was probably trying to beat Bison in the original SNES Street Fighter II on the hardest difficulty with Dhalsim. I had beaten him with every other character and I was determined to beat him this time, too. I spent an entire day of my Christmas break trying to beat him (I started at around 9 AM and it was dark outside when I finally won). There were so many instances where I would whittle him down to just a sliver of health and only needed one last hit to win, only to have him come back from the brink and kill me. This was the first game to cause me to break a controller by throwing it on the ground. So. Frustrating.
But this still has to be the worst that I've ever heard of:
http://www.destructoid.com/final-fantasy-xi-boss-causes-vomiting-takes-18-hours-to-beat-99391.phtml
But this still has to be the worst that I've ever heard of:
http://www.destructoid.com/final-fantasy-xi-boss-causes-vomiting-takes-18-hours-to-beat-99391.phtml
Thicc Enigma
Member
Metal Gear Rising... Yeah, you already know who.
It was mainly just the unpredictable reach of the small spiders. Something about that boss just completely threw me off my game. I never had a problem with previous souls bosses nor bloodbornes and usually found regular mobs more difficult , but rom just fucked me over so badly
18 Hour boss ? Fuck that.
Another vote for Ornstein and Smough, took me about a week to finally kill them
Though as a child I remember it taking me a month to get to the end boss in DK64, then another month to actually beat the final boss
It''s a 5 part boss battle in a boxing ring, where you have to use all 5 Kongs one after the other, to win 5 rounds, and it had no save or checkpoints
The last punch needed perfect timing and if you missed it was back to the start
Though as a child I remember it taking me a month to get to the end boss in DK64, then another month to actually beat the final boss
It''s a 5 part boss battle in a boxing ring, where you have to use all 5 Kongs one after the other, to win 5 rounds, and it had no save or checkpoints
The last punch needed perfect timing and if you missed it was back to the start
themagicalkitsune
Member
I thought of this one too. It's funny how out of all the lengthy RPGs I've played, this one has the boss fight that took the longest. It must have been close to an hour too.
Meccanical
Member
In Demon's Souls it took me an hour on one attempt to beat Flamelurker.
I went straight from World 1 to world 2.
I went straight from World 1 to world 2.
Se7enSword
Banned
Ys Origin Nightmare boss rush as
against
Took me 4 hours @_@
Toal
Darm
Took me 4 hours @_@
TheRedSnifit
Member
Elizabeth Green in Prototype.
Assuming you've leveled up the appropriate skills, know the ins-and-outs of the gameplay, and make intelligent use of military hardware and Devestator attacks, she'll take about forty-five minutes to beat.
Assuming you've leveled up the appropriate skills, know the ins-and-outs of the gameplay, and make intelligent use of military hardware and Devestator attacks, she'll take about forty-five minutes to beat.
Call Me A Hero
Member
I took me about 45 minutes to beat Ethereal Queen in Star Ocean 4: TLH.
The ultimate boss appeared in a Souls game,
Man. This fucking asshole took me probably 20 tries on my first playthrough... I got so frustrated I looked up videos of people beating it, and they'd just walk up and hack at him and make it look easy. He was far more aggressive in real life than in the "how to" videos and it just drove me up the fucking wall.
Rhomega Beta
Member
Final Fantasy II
The Emperor
1 hour
I lost
Yeah, I pretty much lost my drive to beat the game after that. That and the stupid leveling system. That was years ago.
The Emperor
1 hour
I lost
Yeah, I pretty much lost my drive to beat the game after that. That and the stupid leveling system. That was years ago.
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
The boss fight at the end of the True Demon Ending for SMT Nocturne/Lucifer's Call probably took me a couple of hours to actually get through, as my only real damage dealer was the main character. I think half my game time for DDS2 was grinding up to fight Meganada - that fucking son of a bitch.
NHarmonic.
Member
Caius finale form in FF13-2. The worst hours of gaming i've ever had. Fucking awful.
I don't think it counts as a boss but there was this random ass dragon that I fought in Dragons Dogma that was so stupidly powerful it was like 10X harder than the final boss. I must have fought it under leveled or something but I just stumbled onto it in the woods and the ensuing fight took took two attempts but each was over an hour long because the fucking thing had like a million heath and all it ever did was fly around, breath fire and nearly instant kill my party members. It also din't help that a roaming packs of goblins or some shit kept rolling up on us when we were fighting the dragon. By the time I finally beat the bastard I was caked in sweat and felt like I lost ten pounds. I wish I had that shit on video cuz that was easily the hardest fight of my life.
AlimNassor
Banned
Any end-game boss in maplestory. First attempt at Zakum took us 5 fuckin hours with a huge party. We were all woefully undergeared.
Vital Tundra
Member
Lingering Will in KH2FM. Secret bosses can be brutal in KH, more so with the Critical Difficulty. But that fight, holy balls it was killer.
Same here. It looked pretty easy when I watched videos of other people, but it took me a long time to beat her. I also couldn't summon anyone at all, so I had to do it all by myself even when I just didn't want to anymore.
The Fury from MGS3 has to be one of the worst for me. To this day I still haven't figured out a consistant way to beat him, and usually end up dying few times every time I replay the game.
As for bosses I haven't actually beaten, optional end-game bosses from RPGs seem to be my weakness. I've never managed to beat Ruby Weapon from FFVII, Omega Weapon from FFVIII, Penance from FFX or
from Persona 3.
As for bosses I haven't actually beaten, optional end-game bosses from RPGs seem to be my weakness. I've never managed to beat Ruby Weapon from FFVII, Omega Weapon from FFVIII, Penance from FFX or
Elizabeth
KeyChainDude
Member
Yeah, this one! Sephiroth was also quite a long battle the first time I beat him, but not so much on other playthroughs.