Longest boss fight?

[silver wolf009]

Pokemon Ruby. Rayquaza. I don't know why, be he just decided he did NOT want to come with me on my most recent playthrough. Atleast fifteen atempts before I finally pegged him.

 

[B33J33]

For me Final Fantasy VIII, it took me forever but worth it in the end.

 

[Casimir_Effect]

Melissan from BG2: Throne of Bhaal took a while, maybe an 30mins or so, just because you have to beat her 4 different times with mini fights in between.

Actually some of The Last Remnant ones took far longer than that. I think beating the Eldritch Dragon or the Koenigsdorf fights each took an hour or longer. And that wasn't an hour of just repeating a tactic over and over. The fights in that game require constant attention.

I also spent about 2 hours fighting the special boss monster the Jhana Royals, and was beaten right at the end. I turned the air fucking blue when this happened.

 

[Mugzippit]

Definitely the final boss in Mario and Luigi partners in time, that boss takes forever.

 

[Parivir]

Wasn't there some boss in Final Fantasy 11 that took 24 hours to defeat? Anyway, the Archdemon in Dragon Age Origins always took a lot of time for me to defeat. What with him flying around making me have to shoot him with the ballista which took forever.

They would be Pandemonium Warden, which pre nerf took over 18 hours and still wasn't dead, by which point the players fighting it had begun fainting and vomiting due to extended play.

And Absolute Virtue, which pre nerf took 30! damn hours, still wasn't dead and then decided to use Benediction which brought it back to full health, making 5 players permanently rage quit FFXI instantly.

Now both of them are vastly weaker and have a 2 hour time limit on them.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Either the final boss from Star Ocean: The Last Hope, what with the first form fight, then the whole wandering down the corridor thing, then the second form fight which by itself takes a good half hour. Either him or Nyx from Persona 3, fucking guy had like 10 forms. I still haven't beaten that fucker.

 

[ABLb0y]

the Aster Protoflorianne from Final Fantasy XIII, believe it or not, took me, in total, twewny hours and six minutes and four tries to beat. The try i actually beat it on, it took me five hours.

God, i'm pathetic...

 

[Sir_Auron_the_Badass]

FFXII's Yiazmat with its 50 million HP will inevitably take some time. I usually clock in at about 2 hours.

How the hell did you beat that monstrosity THAT fast?! I had the best gear and weapons (aside from the ultimate, which you make from a drop off that thing), max health for everyone, and an optimal command list, and it still took me almost 5 hours (not including time to flee the area to rest up if things were looking bad) to take it down.

OT: Aside from Yiazmat in FFXII, I would say Zeus from God of War 3 on insanity difficulty. I literally had to have twitch sensitive controls to avoid any of his attacks, the least powerful of which could take out 1/3 of my health easy, had very limited mana, and make hit and run attempts to whittle away his massive amount of health in all 3 or 4 phases of the fight. It took me a few hours to take just him down, and man was that a euphoric moment for me (although I was cursing a bit and even more angry when he came back to life from being impaled through the chest with the most powerful weapon in the world; I seriously thought there was yet ANOTHER phase of the fight left, but luckily there was no way to lose after that short of turning the PS3 off).

 

[camsha]

I had a really hard time beating Sun Li at the end of jade empire when I was a kid

 

[Pholark]

Probably Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts II. At the time I wasn't that high of a level and it took me countless tries to defeat him... freaking long-sworded jerk.

 

[thepicle]

The guy at the end of prototype.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

FFXII's Yiazmat with its 50 million HP will inevitably take some time. I usually clock in at about 2 hours.

that is just fucking retarded. so glad i bailed on this series years ago.

Well, it's a bonus boss, so attempting it is only proof of masochism. Also, ninja'd.

 

[Lord_Nemesis]

I agree with the above comments about FFXII's Yiazmat or DA:Origins Archdemon. Those 2 battles were epic in length but another which probably isn't long but the amount of attention and the constant action of it: Dante's Inferno, Lucifer. Just seemed like a really long battle lol.

 

[Grayjack]

My personal longest battle was against Metal Gear Chaioth Ha Qadesh in Metal Gear Ac!d 2. I wasn't expecting a boss battle, so I didn't put any rockets in my deck. It took me about 3 hours to destroy it.

 

[TheSchizoid]

The end of Baten Kaitos. Not only do you have to defeat the end boss, but you have to defeat another version of him five minutes later during the end cinematic! There's no save inbetween. I didn't know this the first time and had to shut it off in the middle of the second battle because I was running late for work. I beat it when I got home but that was just evil.

The secret to defeating the boss at the end of Metroid Prime: Hunters was hidden in a collection of invisible messages scattered at random locations throughout the game. These messages are only visible while you are looking directly at them with the scan visor. While you are using the scan visor, you cannot shoot.

Due to this, I missed the vast majority of these messages and once I reached the final boss it took me a very long time to work out what the fuck I was supposed to be doing. And I mean a very long time.

This is why I always played the Prime games with the scan visor on most of the time. I haven't played Hunters but switching back to shooting can't be that hard.

 

[Grimlock Fett]

I think this was the toughest boss! Took forever!

 

[Adamc-mh]

The End from MGS3

 

[Genixma]

Console wise, DMC3 Cereberus no matter the difficulty that thing took a WHILE!

Computer wise? FFXII Yiazmat.

Edit: Actually Console Wise I wonder if the first boss of Darksiders counts.

 

[dvd_72]

I think it would have to be one of the optional bosses for Golden Sun (1 or 2. been a while and can't remember >.<)

Maybe not the longest out of some of the longer ones mentioned, but I happen to have not played any of them, so there

 

[theheroofaction]

Longest ones I've actually had the patience to beat was psaro the manslayer ( dragon quest IV)

Must've taken 200 turns to kill him.

the other was the darksteel dragon (dragon quest VIII) he takes a few hours even if you know his weakness.