Really?! For me it was the damn Spider.
Orphan of Kos I never got past, and Yukiko from P4 made me end that one pretty much immediately.
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Boss fights that made you just say "I'm done" (Potential Spoilers)
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Really?! For me it was the damn Spider.
Orphan of Kos I never got past, and Yukiko from P4 made me end that one pretty much immediately.
I literally just turned off Luigi's Mansion 3 because of that trash boss fight, seen this thread and wondered if anyone else would mention and its in the OP. What a garbage boss. The controls fight you more than the actual boss and ruined what was a otherwise great game.
Not too much of a spoiler, but Luigi's Mansion 3 had
I don't know about you, OP, but I didn't have much issue with the controls, as I switched to twin-stick as soon as I heard it existed.
an awesomely innovative fight with Helen Gravely. If the game ended there, it would've been greatly satisfying, but NOOOOO King Boo-shit had to come along and use hard-to-avoid attacks and short-fused bombs to ruin the ending.
I don't know about you, OP, but I didn't have much issue with the controls, as I switched to twin-stick as soon as I heard it existed.
This and Bahamut were the two most frustrating fights in all of Final Fantasy for me. Their mechanics just didn't click for me, and the game really doesn't telegraph it at all. Even with the official guide, I was left wondering "am I doing this right? What is going on?"
Hecatoncheir, Final Fantasy 13
Actually, you were just supposed to run to the side the moment he starts preparing his attack, that way you avoid it completely :D
I always have the same answers for this thread: Hiruko from Shinobi PS2 and (not a boss but a ridiculous battle that I never actually beat) Battle of South Moundtop from SaGa Frontier 2.
So, to switch it up, Absolute Radiance from Hollow Knight. As if Pure Vessel wasn't already hard enough. At my peak, I was easily stomping Radiance and NKG without getting touched, and then those two were just give-up hard.
Also, the final boss in SaGa Frontier 2 made me give up and restart the whole game the first time. Apparently it's quite easy to put yourself in a state where he's unbeatable. But it was easy the second time around, after I knew what to expect.
So, to switch it up, Absolute Radiance from Hollow Knight. As if Pure Vessel wasn't already hard enough. At my peak, I was easily stomping Radiance and NKG without getting touched, and then those two were just give-up hard.
Also, the final boss in SaGa Frontier 2 made me give up and restart the whole game the first time. Apparently it's quite easy to put yourself in a state where he's unbeatable. But it was easy the second time around, after I knew what to expect.
The Watcher Knights from Hollow Knight. I tried tons of times, but I got so frustrated that I dropped the game.
The final boss battle of kingdom hearts has like 6 stages and if you fail one you redo them all. Tried for an hour or so and gave up, never looked back.
Not me, but my mom was playing Saga Frontier 2, which she absolutely hated. I think she just wanted to beat it to never have to think about it again. I'm fuzzy on this because it was so long ago, but she got to a late-game boss for which she needed some item she didn't have, or had to do something a certain way and didn't realize. She had to have picked away at that thing for over an hour before it finally killed her, she yells "FUCK!" and threw her head back, hitting it on the coffee table behind her. Never played it again.
Sword Saint in Sekiro.
I'm actually playing right now after months of hiatus to try and finish it at least once.
I'm actually playing right now after months of hiatus to try and finish it at least once.
that is an extremely easy fight if you lit the bonfires before the battle
Probably the final boss. If you don't take out an earlier boss (and you can't go back to do it), the final boss can do an AoE petrify attack that just wipes your party. That's also what got me the first time.
Ha, same for me! I loved the game, but got totally stopped on that one. (I also just lowered the difficulty.)
Definitely Ashina in Sekiro. He beat me twice and I was just like "I know you're the final boss and I recognize what you're asking of me but I'm not about to spend two days grinding to accomplish this".
Sadly, I dread the bosses in Souls games.
Sadly, I dread the bosses in Souls games.
Not a boss fight. But in Arkham knight there's a point where you need to use the Batmobile in a stealthy way to get behind enemies and I hated it so much.
The *real* last boss in Cave Story.
The cutscene preceding the end scenario has you amped to finish on a high note, but the combat design and tight gameplay arenas directly after cannibalize the momentum. Every time I've beaten TLoU—every damn time—I'm pissed by the time I complete it because I've restarted two dozen times. In fact, this is an issue with all ND titles IMO.
I nominate The Last of Us for this.
The cutscene preceding the end scenario has you amped to finish on a high note, but the combat design and tight gameplay arenas directly after cannibalize the momentum. Every time I've beaten TLoU—every damn time—I'm pissed by the time I complete it because I've restarted two dozen times. In fact, this is an issue with all ND titles IMO.
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This doesn't really count because I had already beaten the main game, but the Valkyrie Queen in GoW. I had finished everything else in the game and figured I might as well 100% it, then I got my ass handed to me for a couple of hours and said fuck it.
Ya, this for me too. Nothing in the game is real bad, not even tempered ruiner Nerg, but the supernova is not fun especially since i cant go to camp to swap elements.
I returned recently to a game that I previously dropped because of a fight that just made me say "That's it, which is part of what made me make this thread. I know there are lots of times that people get extremely frustrated with a boss fight, though they continue on, but there's that rare right that just makes you say "Nope, fuck that" and put a game down temporarily or forever. Besides the game that caused me to make this, there's one other game that I can think of that got me to that point and that's...
1.) Drakengard 3 - The boss in question is the final boss of the game, so I'll try to keep it spoiler free, for anyone that hasn't played it/got this far and wants to experience this trainwreck 'boss 'with fresh eyes. For anyone who's played this game and got this far though, I really, REALLY don't have to go into detail of why this final boss is just absolute bullshit. You play the entire game as an action rpg type game, and at the very end, the game flips the script and turns intoFUCKING Dance Dance Revolution, Hatsune Miku's Theatrythm Edition. You basically are playing a rhythm game and have to hit the right button at the right time to the music. Now, that on it's own isn't so bad, but leave it to Yoko Taro to not only stab you in the back, but twist the dagger, kick it in with his boot, and spit on it for good measure, just to savor as much agony from the player as possible; Not only can you not mess up a SINGLE time, or else you die and start over (Oh, and this is like a 7 minute sequence btw, so good luck if slip up), but eventually as the 'boss' progresses, the SCREEN JUST STARTS TO BLACK OUT; Yes, that's fucking right, you're expected to hit button prompts, without being able to see them, by sound alone.
The first time this happened, I think part of my brain actually broke, and I'm still recovering to this day from the the night terrors to this day. The sheer stupidity of what's expected from someone here is just astounding. I've seen so many Taro fanboys defend this, and wail on about how 'It's not really that bad, people are exaggerating' and 'All you have to do is listen to the music, it's easy! Well, to that I say'; Fucking bullshit. Mechanically as a fight (and a final one), it's awful and betrays the player and the effort they put into the game. Instead of having the player test the abilities and skills developed throughout the game as final test of what the player learned (which most games with good final bosses do), this throws all of that away in exchange for having the player do something that's not been asked of them the entire time. And even then, what is presented is somehow overly simple, but somehow unnecessarily unforgiving and devolves into just flat out being unfair as it progresses.
The only thing that I can credit the fight with, is that it fits well thematically and it sets the mood very well, as the way the music continues to build in tandem with the fight is quite nice to watch (if someone else is playing it). However, that is far, far from being enough to justify designing it that way. I probably could have beat it if I kept trying (and there are 'synch up' videos to help now), but I just thought it was so bad of a fight that it didn't deserve anymore of my time and stopped there. It's extraordinarily rare for me to quit something (I have very bad obsessive compulsiveness, with completing something I start), so that's a testament to how awful I thought it was.
if it makes you feel any better OP, Drakengard 1's final boss would also drive you mad for the exact same reasons. lmao
As sucky as it was in D3, I couldn't help at smile at the audacity of the man to bring back one of the most legendarily fucked up final bosses in all of games. lol
The Surge 2. That game was going so good until you get to the first real boss. Some electronic octopus thing that you can only beat by countering its attacks. Like, why would they do that? The counter/parry system sucks and is so strict and here I have to use it to get past a boss. I quit it.
That boss fight made the angriest at a game than I had been in years.
Final Boss in Metal Gear Rising. Barely had the patience to get through this game, had no patience for a boss fight that seemingly lasted for hours.
Mhh. . .lemme think. . .I know there has to be an example somewhere in my history of playing video games, I just usually drop games on the levels themselves so
OH. I GOT ONE.
The final boss of the Stargate game adaption on the Sega Genesis. I was a kid at the time, so not sure how much it counts, but I'd managed to gradually after several attempted playthroughs make it to the end, and then I hit that fight. Just the right mix of a difficulty spike and the sprites used being uncanny valley for it to fray my nerves a bit too much, so after I lost I'm not even sure if I picked up the game ever again.
I mean, it's a deep pull, but I'm generally SO bad at games that I usually get walled off before I even hit a level's boss, LOL.
I think there was also at one point the ridiculous room boss in Mega Man 2 where you have to have a full stack of Crash Bombs to beat it when there's a couple Crash Bomb spots on the way there just to tempt you into spending them so you'd end up permanently stuck at that boss without warning, but the difference is that Mega Man 2 is actually a legitimately enjoyable romp and I was playing on 3DS Virtual Console where there were save states, so after a while I still went back and beat the game anyway, LOL.
And while it wasn't me, I know at least one person who quit Xenoblade Chronicles X because they couldn't beat it's final boss. As someone who DID beat that boss, I can see freaking why and I view that win as one of the closest things my sorry easy mode playing hide can claim to an accomplishment gaming wise.
OH. I GOT ONE.
The final boss of the Stargate game adaption on the Sega Genesis. I was a kid at the time, so not sure how much it counts, but I'd managed to gradually after several attempted playthroughs make it to the end, and then I hit that fight. Just the right mix of a difficulty spike and the sprites used being uncanny valley for it to fray my nerves a bit too much, so after I lost I'm not even sure if I picked up the game ever again.
I mean, it's a deep pull, but I'm generally SO bad at games that I usually get walled off before I even hit a level's boss, LOL.
I think there was also at one point the ridiculous room boss in Mega Man 2 where you have to have a full stack of Crash Bombs to beat it when there's a couple Crash Bomb spots on the way there just to tempt you into spending them so you'd end up permanently stuck at that boss without warning, but the difference is that Mega Man 2 is actually a legitimately enjoyable romp and I was playing on 3DS Virtual Console where there were save states, so after a while I still went back and beat the game anyway, LOL.
And while it wasn't me, I know at least one person who quit Xenoblade Chronicles X because they couldn't beat it's final boss. As someone who DID beat that boss, I can see freaking why and I view that win as one of the closest things my sorry easy mode playing hide can claim to an accomplishment gaming wise.
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Aw hell nah. Eject that shit into orbit and right into the sun.
Never, ever again, lol.
For me it is the Final Boss of Star Ocean: The Second Story.
Let me paint you a picture:
It was circa 1999 in the southern United States and I was 16 years old; full of youthful vigor & optimism.
My closest friends were nerds like me and one in particular had his fingers on the pulse of Japanese culture earlier than most as his father had visited Japan in younger days & passed exotic tastes for anime & video games along to his son who, in turn, passed these tastes along to me.
Thanks to his encouragement I tried sushi for the first time a year or so before this story takes place.
This friend owned gaming systems that I, as a loyal Nintendo Power reader knew only through rumor, such as the Sega Cd, 32X, and Saturn.
(To be fair I had ample experience on the Master, Genesis, & GameGear systems)
This friend purchased bootleg subtitled anime from Ebay.
This friend showed me a Super Saiyan before Toonami even dreamed of it (back when we debated whether it was Saiyan or Saiya-jin)
On this day in 1999 (or so) this friend let me borrow a Playstation he had modded to read bootleg & imported discs along with a copy of Star Ocean: The Second Story. (I do not remember whether this was a bootleg copy of the US release or a subtitle modded version but I know an unmodded PS would not read it)
"You'll like this game!" he said as he handed it over.
And he was right. I loved the game. The pixel art was wonderful, the story engaging, the battles lively, the mini-games & crafting engrossing. I was especially a fan of the Iron Chef cooking competition side quest. Genius stuff.
I flew through the game & soon found myself climbing a tower that was, I assumed, the final dungeon.
My characters all hovered around levels 65-70, a fair benchmark for the end of an RPG.
Up & up the spiral staircase of the tower I climbed until finally I ascended and faced what I expected to be the final boss.
A tough battle followed but I emerged victorious.
Surprise! This was not the final boss.
I had yet to comprehend the horror that awaited.
I readied myself for a climactic dual, steadied the controller in my hands, assessed my characters, leapt into battle...and was promptly trounced.
No opportunity to mount a defense. No chance to heal. Utter ruin.
Perhaps I didn't act quickly? Perhaps I need to buff my characters?
Stomped into the dust again.
"I'll grind out some levels" I thought. Now my MC was approaching the mid 80s & my other party members were high 70s. "This should work."
Obliterated nearly as quickly as before. "What the hell."
Grind some more & now my characters are all in the 90s.
This time I managed to last a few rounds before the end came.
Time to grind up to level 99!
My MC made it there first and then rolled up to Level 100. "What the hell?"
So I started grinding again. Over & over. Levels upon levels until, finally, my characters hovered around the mid 120s.
This time surely I'd do it. The battle was fierce. The battle was long.
I used those most prized potions & tinctures a true RPG gamer NEVER uses come hell or high water.
The boss shuddered. The boss shook. The boss went down, its life points exhausted.
Yes! Yes! Finally! What kind of game has a second-to-last boss scaled for level 65 but a final boss scaled for level 125?
And then Phase 2 began. "What The Hell!"
And my god-tier party was wiped out almost instantly.
I returned the Playstation to my friend, game unfinished, my spirit broken a little more than before he lent it to me.
Woe to those who dare to tread where gods walk.
P.S. A message of encouragement to those crushed by Sekiro's Undead Ape, Demon of Hatred, or Sword Saint Ashina. You can do it! I believe in you!
I suck at rhythm games. I suck as Soulsbornes. As you can see from the story above I also suck at late-90s RPGs.
I beat Sekiro up to NG+3 and it was glorious. The battle against the Sword Saint is a sublime experience once you understand that "Hesitation is Defeat".
Let me paint you a picture:
It was circa 1999 in the southern United States and I was 16 years old; full of youthful vigor & optimism.
My closest friends were nerds like me and one in particular had his fingers on the pulse of Japanese culture earlier than most as his father had visited Japan in younger days & passed exotic tastes for anime & video games along to his son who, in turn, passed these tastes along to me.
Thanks to his encouragement I tried sushi for the first time a year or so before this story takes place.
This friend owned gaming systems that I, as a loyal Nintendo Power reader knew only through rumor, such as the Sega Cd, 32X, and Saturn.
(To be fair I had ample experience on the Master, Genesis, & GameGear systems)
This friend purchased bootleg subtitled anime from Ebay.
This friend showed me a Super Saiyan before Toonami even dreamed of it (back when we debated whether it was Saiyan or Saiya-jin)
On this day in 1999 (or so) this friend let me borrow a Playstation he had modded to read bootleg & imported discs along with a copy of Star Ocean: The Second Story. (I do not remember whether this was a bootleg copy of the US release or a subtitle modded version but I know an unmodded PS would not read it)
"You'll like this game!" he said as he handed it over.
And he was right. I loved the game. The pixel art was wonderful, the story engaging, the battles lively, the mini-games & crafting engrossing. I was especially a fan of the Iron Chef cooking competition side quest. Genius stuff.
I flew through the game & soon found myself climbing a tower that was, I assumed, the final dungeon.
My characters all hovered around levels 65-70, a fair benchmark for the end of an RPG.
Up & up the spiral staircase of the tower I climbed until finally I ascended and faced what I expected to be the final boss.
A tough battle followed but I emerged victorious.
Surprise! This was not the final boss.
I had yet to comprehend the horror that awaited.
I readied myself for a climactic dual, steadied the controller in my hands, assessed my characters, leapt into battle...and was promptly trounced.
No opportunity to mount a defense. No chance to heal. Utter ruin.
Perhaps I didn't act quickly? Perhaps I need to buff my characters?
Stomped into the dust again.
"I'll grind out some levels" I thought. Now my MC was approaching the mid 80s & my other party members were high 70s. "This should work."
Obliterated nearly as quickly as before. "What the hell."
Grind some more & now my characters are all in the 90s.
This time I managed to last a few rounds before the end came.
Time to grind up to level 99!
My MC made it there first and then rolled up to Level 100. "What the hell?"
So I started grinding again. Over & over. Levels upon levels until, finally, my characters hovered around the mid 120s.
This time surely I'd do it. The battle was fierce. The battle was long.
I used those most prized potions & tinctures a true RPG gamer NEVER uses come hell or high water.
The boss shuddered. The boss shook. The boss went down, its life points exhausted.
Yes! Yes! Finally! What kind of game has a second-to-last boss scaled for level 65 but a final boss scaled for level 125?
And then Phase 2 began. "What The Hell!"
And my god-tier party was wiped out almost instantly.
I returned the Playstation to my friend, game unfinished, my spirit broken a little more than before he lent it to me.
Woe to those who dare to tread where gods walk.
P.S. A message of encouragement to those crushed by Sekiro's Undead Ape, Demon of Hatred, or Sword Saint Ashina. You can do it! I believe in you!
I suck at rhythm games. I suck as Soulsbornes. As you can see from the story above I also suck at late-90s RPGs.
I beat Sekiro up to NG+3 and it was glorious. The battle against the Sword Saint is a sublime experience once you understand that "Hesitation is Defeat".
This. This fucking boss on hard mode made me wanna break my controller
Telethia from Xenoblade Chronicles. I will always remember almost rage quitting the entire game because of that boss.
The Demon of Hatred was that for me until I beat him. The sword saint was rather easy compared to him and Owl Father.
The flying boss in MGS4. Wasn't fun at all and it just felt like Kojima wanted to f with the player. Still haven't beaten that mess...
LM3 boss was easy and it makes me wonder what's wrong with me that I had no trouble with it at all
Final bosses in both Mario and Luigi remakes. They doubled boss health for some reason, so they take like 30+ minutes of perfection and the bosses constantly heal and stall among other bullshit. Stuck with it for like 3 hours in SS and beat Cackletta, but in BiS I just put that shit down to casual difficulty and finished it asap. Some of the most monotonous final bosses I have ever faced.