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What’s the hardest boss you’ve ever faced?
- Thread starter StarskySilvers
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I don't know if they were the hardest per se but the twin tanks in Ninja Gaiden Black were a serious pain in the ass.
More recently Lady Butterfly from Sekiro slapped me around like I owed her money.
More recently Lady Butterfly from Sekiro slapped me around like I owed her money.
My wife! No but seriously it's probably either Sister Friede or that Watchdog thing in the Chalice dungeons in Bloodborne where your health is like half or whatever. Fuck that dude.
Yep, came to post this.
Especially his third/last fight on mission 20.
I broke 4 weapons on them, in the hurry to equip a new weapon I accidentally picked havel's shield and killed the last one with it.
Not sure I would say the harddest but this probably my most hated From's boss fight.
Getting to them alone is torture (fuck Frigid Outskirts)
Sister Friede DS3, Ashes of Ariandel DLC.
Ornstein & Smough, DS1
Orphan of Kos, BB.
Sephiroth, Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2.
Ornstein & Smough, DS1
Orphan of Kos, BB.
Sephiroth, Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2.
Yeah, the Mysterious Figure is some straight-up bullshit. Easily the worst secret KH Boss.
Hollow Knight "special" bosses. I can't remember who, but I reached a difficulty wall almost impossible for me, so O stopped playing. It was a great game, I finished it with something around 96%, but the special challenges are waaaay out of my skills haha.
DS, BB or Sekiro bosses are like little babies against them.
DS, BB or Sekiro bosses are like little babies against them.
No boss stands out for me in terms of difficulty but I'm pretty sure it wouls be a boss from SNK, some of those bosses are just straight up cheap.
Drakengard 3.
Final boss is a rhythm game which fucks up your brain. Especially with the last few notes being completely without an audio or visual clue. Had to use a video where someone showed the buttons/notes, and started both, the game and video at the same time in sync.
Final boss is a rhythm game which fucks up your brain. Especially with the last few notes being completely without an audio or visual clue. Had to use a video where someone showed the buttons/notes, and started both, the game and video at the same time in sync.
Jaquio ( Ninja Gaiden).
The worst part was having to re-start the whole final stage. Could only beat it on the Switch with save states.
The worst part was having to re-start the whole final stage. Could only beat it on the Switch with save states.
Imlerith from Witcher 3 on Death March difficulty is another good one.
In that difficulty, the first 5 to 10 hours are pretty brutal, after that, with the witcher gear you found, it kinda it levels out, and it gets easier and easier. This motherfucker appears at 25 hours, and it's one of the biggest difficulty spikes I've ever experienced.
In that difficulty, the first 5 to 10 hours are pretty brutal, after that, with the witcher gear you found, it kinda it levels out, and it gets easier and easier. This motherfucker appears at 25 hours, and it's one of the biggest difficulty spikes I've ever experienced.
In terms of time spent they're mostly FromSoftware bosses I think.
Orphan of Kos
Nameless King
Ornstein and Smough
Ancient Dragon
Laurence, The First Vicar
Watchdog in the defiled dungeon
Sekiro boss spoiler
Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising was a challenge.
I remember I couldn't beat Seymour Flux in FF-X back in the day, but that was more a case of being underleveled and having bad equipment.
But I'll go with Sekiro final boss if I need to choose one, think that's the only one I couldn't beat in one session.
Orphan of Kos
Nameless King
Ornstein and Smough
Ancient Dragon
Laurence, The First Vicar
Watchdog in the defiled dungeon
Sekiro boss spoiler
Isshin, The Sword Saint
Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising was a challenge.
I remember I couldn't beat Seymour Flux in FF-X back in the day, but that was more a case of being underleveled and having bad equipment.
But I'll go with Sekiro final boss if I need to choose one, think that's the only one I couldn't beat in one session.
That gave me nightmares. His healing DT on DMD made the fight 1000x worse.
I'll have to admit that Senator Armstrong in MGR kicked my ass on my first playthrough on normal.
It was one of the few bosses who really left me clueless after a good hour of failed attempts, and I just couldn't believe it.
The difficulty spike with this end-boss didn't help either.
It was one of the few bosses who really left me clueless after a good hour of failed attempts, and I just couldn't believe it.
The difficulty spike with this end-boss didn't help either.
Mike Tyson in NES Punch-out. That jerk was so hard the fucker even knocked me out when using an invincibilty cheat on the Game Genie.
The final showdown with this girl in Ubisoft's Kinect game Shape Up, and I'm completely serious.
I can't find any videos of her final battle online, but it was no joke, as you were fighting both her and Kinect's lag at the same time. It took some serious coordination of the whole body, I was entirely drained when I finally beat her.
I can't find any videos of her final battle online, but it was no joke, as you were fighting both her and Kinect's lag at the same time. It took some serious coordination of the whole body, I was entirely drained when I finally beat her.
Bogey Alpha & Bogey Bravo - Vanquish challenge 6. Took me whole week to beat them. With challlenge 6 the game basically telling you ''master the boost cancel mechanic or you'll suffer even more''. Also Alma (NGB) is up there as well.
I have faced even harder bosses on some shmups and 8-bit games long time ago, but don't remember their names btw.
Only boss in DS2 I never even reached. Frigid Outskirts is the worst designed area in any game period.
Not sure I would say the harddest but this probably my most hated From's boss fight.
Getting to them alone is torture (fuck Frigid Outskirts)
Defiled Chalice bosses in Bloodborne. There's one battle with one of the beasts in a very narrow area that starts with it already enraged. It's a one-hit kill pretty much and the the narrowness of the room and camera fuck you constantly.
He's actually easier in the demo. We were just newbies. In the demo he has a very telegraphed attack that ends up with him sliding and exposing its belly, which is his most vulnerable and punishable part, by far. Team Ninja must have realized because it was removed in the final game.
He's actually easier in the demo. We were just newbies. In the demo he has a very telegraphed attack that ends up with him sliding and exposing its belly, which is his most vulnerable and punishable part, by far. Team Ninja must have realized because it was removed in the final game.
I expected a few WoW bosses to show up in this thread (for structural reasons I think they're inherently harder than any solo bosses even at low-level raiding), but I came in here specifically to see if anyone mentioned Yogg. Congratulations! It's easy to wonder afterwards what all of that effort and coordination was even for, when WoW progression content is so transient by design and one tier gets shoved aside for the next, but I find it interesting that total strangers can still reminisce about the shared experience a decade later.
I was a fairly casual raider myself (we were consistently top five on a bad server, which wasn't much, and I've never cleared the hardest fight/achivement on the hardest mode in any raid while it was current), so even standard old Yogg 25 was a landmark accomplishment and my favourite memory of WoW raiding—something the whole team had to earn piece by piece, adjustment by adjustment, even if Lich King was the real guild-breaker later on in the expansion cycle. Design-wise, Ulduar was the pinnacle in so many ways.
Probably Nightmare King Grimm from Hollow Knight. I may have fought some bosses somewhere that were more cheap and thus more "difficult", but Grimm is like...a well-made fight that happens to also be super difficult without relying on any sort of BS. Multiple fist pumps after beating him.
Orphan of Kos and Defiled Amygdala from Bloodborne.
Edit: add Sister Friede and Nameless King from Dark Souls 3 to the list.
Edit: add Sister Friede and Nameless King from Dark Souls 3 to the list.
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Yes, easily this.
Nameless King is probably the hardest actual boss I have faced. Took me longer than any Sekiro boss
Mysterious Figure in BBS and Ludwig in The Old Hunters.
There's a lot of From bosses for me, but Ludwig is #1.
There's a lot of From bosses for me, but Ludwig is #1.