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Games you have given up on the final boss
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Mario & Luigi Partners In Time's final boss is an absolute slog if you didn't fight every single enemy in the game before it. It's not that it was even difficult, per se, I forget the precise mechanics but I remember it taking an absolute age - I had to rush upstairs to find my DS charger and even then I still lost after what felt like hours.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is in a similar boat as a massive difficulty spike + multiple final boss encounters with unskippable cutscenes. I eventually just used an Action Replay to power through it and see the ending.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is in a similar boat as a massive difficulty spike + multiple final boss encounters with unskippable cutscenes. I eventually just used an Action Replay to power through it and see the ending.
Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen. I never really liked that game but I continued playing... when, after 25 hours, I arrived to the final boss, my sorcerer couldn't do nothing, and when I lost after an hour and half battle, uninstalled the game and never came back. I know there is some love to dragon's dogma on era, but I really really dislike that game, it's a completly mess (at least for me 🤷🏾♂️)
Same thing happened to me, I loved the game but that final boss was some bullshit , one of these days I'll take another stab at it though
See people mentioning Heavenly Sword and I remember giving up at that final boss too.
I believe at some point he fires projectiles at you that you have to fire back at him? Couldn't do it.
I believe at some point he fires projectiles at you that you have to fire back at him? Couldn't do it.
Haha yeah, I recently replayed MGS2 and that part is super frustrating, though it's not actually the final boss.
Yeah, took me forever to kill him. It's a crazy difficulty spike :/
Oh shit, yeah, I remember now I gave up on him too. That was also a rather steep difficulty spike.
Same here. I'll try again someday (maybe before Elden Ring), but even before I reached Isshin I realized I wasn't enjoying my time with the game as much as I did with Bloodborne.
Oh i remember liking that one actually. That was the one where the surrounding was in slo-mo, right? Serkis.
Destiny 2 Raid boss(whatever the base game one was)
I was playing with friends+randoms. Me and my friends were carrying our weight and the randoms were so terrible. We managed to get to the final boss and someone would always fail their role or we'd encounter a glitch the rare moments everything went well. It sucked so much cause even though we tried changing it up in terms of who did what role the randoms kept failing. I ended up giving up on it and just sold the game as I didn't want to spend money on DLC.
I was playing with friends+randoms. Me and my friends were carrying our weight and the randoms were so terrible. We managed to get to the final boss and someone would always fail their role or we'd encounter a glitch the rare moments everything went well. It sucked so much cause even though we tried changing it up in terms of who did what role the randoms kept failing. I ended up giving up on it and just sold the game as I didn't want to spend money on DLC.
This is the only game I remember quitting.
I think I can beat it now but my young self had no hope left 😂 it's so disheartening back then.
Luigi's Mansion 3. it was clear to me how to beat the boss but between the finicky controls and the complete RNG of when you can actually damage the boss (that is, when bombs spawn to allow you to hit him) I just couldn't do it. It's one of the few times I'm giving up on a game and it was because it was hard for the wrong reasons.
Final Fantasy VII on PS1.
I remember my friend reaching the final battle after something like 60 hours playtime and feeling really clever that I had taken less than half.... I didn't bank on not being levelled up enough to defeat Sephiroth though. Worse still, I didn't have a game save prior to that last descent so couldn't go back nor could face restarting.
I remember my friend reaching the final battle after something like 60 hours playtime and feeling really clever that I had taken less than half.... I didn't bank on not being levelled up enough to defeat Sephiroth though. Worse still, I didn't have a game save prior to that last descent so couldn't go back nor could face restarting.
This happened to me, damn near exactly. After my healer healed the boss to full after what felt like 45 minutes of bringing him down to critical HP, I gave up on Persona 3 so fast and I didn't even bother looking up the null-charm item.
A more recent example is Doom Eternal. Enemies are constantly spawning, and I couldn't really find many opportunities to deal damage to the boss.
Final Fantasy 3 (PSP). The final boss is a ridiculous jump in difficulty and the game only lets you save on the world map, meaning you have to go through three dungeons just to get to it.
The strange thing is the enemies before her are all piss easy so it doesn't make sense to grind it out. I think I attempted it again a couple months later after some grinding but I still got curbstomped again so I just gave up on completing it and watched the ending online.
The strange thing is the enemies before her are all piss easy so it doesn't make sense to grind it out. I think I attempted it again a couple months later after some grinding but I still got curbstomped again so I just gave up on completing it and watched the ending online.
This one was almost my case. i came close to give up. One of the worst final boss ever.
I think I can beat it now but my young self had no hope left 😂 it's so disheartening back then.
I was thinking that I didn't have an answer to this thread unless I called the actual last stage of Ninja Gaiden NES a final boss.
But you just reminded me that I never beat Bowser here, what an absolute mess.
For me, it's Octopath Traveler, very final boss. There is nothing much to discuss about, other than pulling off the combos and strategizing the attacks is just not something I can do.
Sekiro (having not read the thread I can imagine that's a popular answer).
I did almost everything there is to do including the notoriously hard (optional) bosses, but by the time I got to the final guy, I was done. I think if I was still into the game at that point I probably would have defeated him, but I was burnt out at that point.
I did almost everything there is to do including the notoriously hard (optional) bosses, but by the time I got to the final guy, I was done. I think if I was still into the game at that point I probably would have defeated him, but I was burnt out at that point.
I honestly don't even know how the Final Boss fight is because I just completed the secret dungeon and used points to level up Ultima Weapon so it could use the slash to 1hp attack for the first three phases. now that I think about it since there are four phases I must have only fought that one.
Oh yeah that boss is a pain in the ass. Took me a good long while to beat it.
Final Fantasy VIII - Back when I was a teenager I played through it didn't understand the leveling and draw system so I got annoyed near midgame and use a gameshark to make everyone level 99. Get to Ultimecia but the level scaling made her just unbearable and I couldn't beat her last form. Actually replayed FF8 last year on the PC and this time kept levels low and had a lot of draws for good stats. Still died to her, but mostly due to bad luck with spells and having a good party member get replaced by a useless one, next shot I finally beat her.
La-Mulana 2 - Got to the last boss and kept dying. Kinda lost interest in playing and gave up. Probably going to give it another shot when I replay the series on the Switch.
La-Mulana 2 - Got to the last boss and kept dying. Kinda lost interest in playing and gave up. Probably going to give it another shot when I replay the series on the Switch.
Kingdom Hearts 1. The End of the World was exhausting enough, I beat Ansem in the fight on the beach but when I realized that the fight after that has multiple phases and dying sends you back to the start, I just gave in.
That game should have ended after the 1 on 1 Riku/Ansem fight in front of the portal in Hollow Bastion.
That game should have ended after the 1 on 1 Riku/Ansem fight in front of the portal in Hollow Bastion.
Then I remembered that you couldn't beat the Watchers in Horizon too, and made it all more beliveble.
Pft, you got stuck on the wolf in Bloodborne within the first minute. Now that's believable.
