Hardest final boss you've ever fought?

[Dr. Love]

I find it amusing that people are mentioning Tales games on this list. It's called levelling up until you can do it, people (the level cap in those games is 250 if I remember correctly, with one-hitting final bosses often possible at 110+). Not to mention, items are ALWAYS ridiculously helpful in those games. Broken, even.

Your right really, but to be honest I never really played with the royalguard to much, when I beat it on DMD I vowed to do it on Gunslinger seeing as how my roomate in college kept badgering me on how crappy it was. In my opinion he ended up being right but finally managed it, just wish I had my copy of DMC3 still so I could try out Royal guard and Trickster more, heard those made the game so much more fun

Yes, that would be a shame. Trickster is the other style that can really help with Vergil. It's not an easy fight at all on higher difficulty, but the third level move within Trickster, the vanishing dodge, is a very, very good move to use to get up close and personal with Rebellion. As for Gunslinger... well, it's not at all bad for combo fights with mooks, but it's terrible against bosses in general.

Ugh as I found out, was just to determined to shut my roomate up, I just kept bashing my head against the wall til I finally beat it all.

OT: gonna contribute again, another boss I had a horribly hard time with was Thesias (sp) from GoW2, the one you fight on the giant horse with the minotaurs. Took me a full month of attempts to finally kill him

 

[Echo136]

Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2. He's not the final boss but christ is he ridiculous. Other than that, right now Im stuck on Arkham Asylum fighting Joker. I know he's probably not too difficult but he's giving me problems.

Edit: And probably the final boss of Prototype. I couldnt imagine fighting him on hard difficulty.

 

[NotAPie]

General Knoxx in Borderlands on Playthrough 2 by myself.
I was doing good but the fight was so long I lost ammo for most of my guns, so I ended up having to use a revolver with regenerating ammo.
Ugh, longest boss battle of my life.

 

[Ultra_Caboose]

So far, Sephiroth was the hardest boss ever, the first time I fought him.

My first time I went through, I used a gameshark, and didn't know that Sephiroth's level matches the party, and sinec I was 11 and didn't know shit, I lost constantly.

Still stuck on the Sanbone Trio on Master mode, though...

 

[Ionflux]

Though probably not that hard, I was young and found it near impossible at the time: Drek from Rantchet & Clank.

At least I think Drek was the bad guy from the first one...

He was the bad guy... I hate that bastard... fought him so many times.... finally gave up after a month... never tried it again.

 

[DracheLehre]

Dark Gaia from Illusion of Gaia

Never really got a hang of her pattern.

 

[thatguy1]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but marluxia from kingdom hearts, chain of memories for gba. Then again, I put all of my experience into health and not cards.

 

[The Heik]

The title kind of speaks for itself here,
In most games the final boss is a challenge, but there's often a boss that makes it look pitiful,
So I ask you my fellow escapists, of all the games you have ever finished, which one had the hardest Final Boss?


I have to say LoZ: Majora's mask, in all the times I've played through that game, I've only beaten it once without the fierce Diety mask

The Metalhead leader in Jak 2. Respawning little guys, wide blast attacks by the boss, and every time you die you start with the same amount of ammo that you had when you died the last time, which will be a lot less considering the little baddies you have to kill.

 

[CharlesA]

Any final bosses in the Metroid Prime serie.

Also, Seth from SF4. ************ was so, so cheap.

 

[Flour]

Whole end of Ninja Gaiden 2. You fight a boss while fighting enemies at the same time, he drains you so fighting the 3 part boss RIGHT AFTER him is difficult.

Yeah, Dagra Dai is horrible.

Sure, some of the other bosses are brick walls, like every fight with Genshin, and the armadillo. But nothing is as cheap or as horrible as Dagra Dai with his damn respawning pets in that tiny arena. Hell, even those pets could kill you in seconds and dodging often means you'll roll in to another attack.

Ninja Gaiden 2 is the only game I have never been able to finish, and I probably never will because I have only seven healing items, the wrong weapons since can't play with he katana or the dual katanas and they have the range and speed needed for the fight and Ninja Gaiden isn't exactly a game you can stop playing for a while.

 

[xchurchx]

Colonel Radec from Killzone 2
he sends in 5 guys with rocket lauchers
which on normal and hard is an instant kill if your hit
F*kin Bombs

 

[FROGGEman2]

Spartan: Total Warrior's Ares. Seriously, he was so damn hard.

 

[Singletap]

The final boss in resident evil 5 because me and my friend weren't smart enough to figure out how to get the girl to not fall and it took us 3 days... I suppose that's really not the boss though it's just gravity DAMN GRAVITY TO HELL!!!!

 

[Denamic]

Ozma in FFIX.
Not a final boss per se, but it is the hardest.
Hardest/cheapest boss ever.
That fight is 90% luck.

 

[Christemo]

Absolute Virtue in final fantasy XI
Probably the only boss ever to still be undefeated by anyone. I got no chance beating him.

i think someone got it once, but im not entirely sure.


on topic: Dantes Inferno´s Lucifer, first playthrough (Zealot Difficulty). the patterns on the punches in the first phase were absolute nuts near the end, and the second and third phase were just SO FUCKING CHEAP. its not fair that nearly every time you hit Lucifer with your cross in second phase, he does some telekinetic blow on you thats completely unavoidable and takes 1/12 of my maxed-out health.

dont get me started on the third phase...

 

[commasplice]

The final boss from the game Ikaruga, in fact... the whole game of Ikaruga

This. Oh god, this. I never got past stage 3, I don't think. Actually, I'm not even sure I made it that far. I eventually sold the game--not because I didn't like it, but because playing over the first two stages for the rest of eternity isn't very fun. I kinda regret it now, since I'd like to give it another go someday. I've never been great with them danmaku gaems.

 

[Neotericity]

does half life 2 episode 2 count?

 

[Dr. Crawver]

whetehr it's a final boss or not is up for discussion, but crawermax the invincible on borderlands, that things just won't die

 

[CoverYourHead]

The final boss of the arcade mode in DoA4.


A teleporting boss with completely unfair combos that have your ass handed to your in under 30 seconds?

Yeah, that's the toughest I have ever fought.

Oh dear god. Worst boss fight in the history of the world. Damn you to hell Alpha! DAMN YOU!