Most annoying/time consuming boss fight ever?

[Fractral]

Dr Fetus was pretty hard, in Super Meat boy. Took me around 2 hours to beat him, and seeing as an average life was 20 seconds or so, thats around 300 tries. Though I don't think Fetus himself ever killed me- the level did that.
After that would be the final boss of FF13-2. The previous 3 bosses (This being a 4 part boss) had been easy as cake, and then this guy shows up and it takes me 30 minutes to kill him. He has around 3 1HKO moves, which can only be avoided by putting everyone in sentinel, and he is only able to be damaged when his buddies are dead. When you kill them, you get to fight him for 2 minutes (less, since he starts by spamming daze) and then he respawns them. And god forbid he should use his signature move when both his buddies are alive- if you're not overleveled, that can 1HKO you through sentinel.

 

[Terrible Opinions]

The Arishok in DA2 if playing as a warrior. Even after I beat him on the hardest difficulty, I went back and tried it again on easy and it still took me 30 minutes and he still had his instant loss combo. Crazy, especially as this boss is mind numbingly easy for mages and rogues.

Oh god this. Warrior was my second playthrough (after playing a rouge in my first) and I wondering if I was doing anything wrong, because I just could not damage the mother fucker. Even busting it down to easy took at least ten minutes. I was not pleased.

Grenades, man. It's all about grenades for a warrior.

 

[White_Lama]

Most time consuming: Tartarus from Halo 2 on Legendary (took about 30 minutes of CONSTANT Banshee fire.

Most annoying: The blue dishwasher ***** boss fucker at the end of Dead or Alive 4, fucking annoying piece of shit like I've never seen before.

 

[sageoftruth]

Fighting Nyx at the end of Persona 3 was definitely time-consuming. The difficulty spike was HUGE compared to all the easy mandatory bosses I fought before it. Nyx had over 12 forms. Each one had low HP for a boss, but I did very little damage at a time since I was constantly healing and rebuffing my party (not sure how necessary it was). Nyx went through some forms that nearly killed off my party. When that happened I had to throw caution to the wind and focus entirely on offense, hoping that his next form would give me the chance to heal up.

His final form had tons of HP and naturally was the toughest of his forms. When I finally won, I had fought for over 4 hours.

 

[King of Wei]

Rogu O Ralga from Wild Arms 3. To get to the boss fight you gotta go through the damn abyss which is 100 floors of increasingly more annoying enemies which can take anywhere from 6-12 hours to clear. Then when you get to the boss itself it can kill you in just a few turns if you aren't prepared. It's got 99,999 HP and high defense so fighting the boss takes another 2-3 hours. Then, once you've finally defeated it and make your way out of the abyss you have to fight a bigger, stronger, more pissed off version of it that's blocking the exit. And you have to do all of this without saving so if you get to the second phase of the boss and die, there goes your Saturday.

I did manage to beat it on my first try thankfully but I had more thnan a few close calls.

 

[putowtin]

Darth Vader in The Force Unleashed II....

That boss fight lasted about 15 minutes too long. All it comprised of was attacking, waiting for him to do his thing, attacking the clones he sends at you, attacking him, waiting for him to do his thing.... you get the picture. Then you finally beat him! And you have to do it again...

Spoiler: case and point

They had to make it long and tedious....
this fight doubled the length of the game!

 

[RADIALTHRONE1]

Not exactly bosses but...

Any random dragon that attacks me in Skyrim.

Get down here where i can hit you with my fucking sword!!


Captcha: thank you, come again
Captcha, why are you inviting the dragons back?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Fighting Nyx at the end of Persona 3 was definitely time-consuming. The difficulty spike was HUGE compared to all the easy mandatory bosses I fought before it. Nyx had over 12 forms. Each one had low HP for a boss, but I did very little damage at a time since I was constantly healing and rebuffing my party (not sure how necessary it was). Nyx went through some forms that nearly killed off my party. When that happened I had to throw caution to the wind and focus entirely on offense, hoping that his next form would give me the chance to heal up.

His final form had tons of HP and naturally was the toughest of his forms. When I finally won, I had fought for over 4 hours.

Yeah that is exactly why I only attempted him 3 times and never did actually beat him. I always said I'd go back a try again, but every time I think I might want to do that I remember how excruciatingly long that fight was and go and do something else instead.

 

[JasonKaotic]

To be honest, I think the one, true, factual answer to this thread is Yiazmat from Final Fantasy XII.
The boss takes 4 hours to kill, and has instant death attacks.

I challenge you to name a more tedious boss. I dare you.

 

[Kapri]

The end boss of FF XIII. I don't remember his name. Orphan? Whatever. Took me forever and a day to kill that bastard. So bored the whole time and repeatedly frustrated with his "You will now die in X amount of time" attack. That entire fight was bullshit.

I actually used Hope (because the dumbass would never heal my party when he needed to) as the party leader and put a deathproof accessory on him to avoid that. After that it took about 1/2 an hour if even that to fight him but I agree it was a boring fight.

 

[azukar]

Time consuming... surely either Yiazmat (FF XII) or Absolute Virtue (FF XI) take the cake?

Oh wait, MMORPGs don't count. Scrap the Virtue Man then.

 

[hazabaza1]

Gaping Dragon.
It's not even hard, it just has a fuck ton of health.

 

[ultrabiome]

I'd say The Bonus Boss in FF XII Yiazmat.
50 million HP and a Dmg cap of 7k per hit halfway through.
I died after I had it down to about 20 mil and decided to waste my time with something else.

yeah, it took me 6 hrs to beat it (i probably wasn't maxed out or anything). i actually died 1 hr in the first time too, then did the 6 hr second try.

 

[Avalanche91]

Hero/Shadow Mitsuo in Persona 4

It's one of those cases were the boss isn't too bad if you know what you are doing. But considering a first time player wouldn't necesarily fuse Black Frost, it becomes a large pain in the ass, as happened to me. Worse, I had only 1 ingame day left to beat him, and a low social link with the fox.
Translation; I was pretty fucked.
Even if you know what you are doing, it'll still take quite some time to put this guy down. And his armor just keeps growing back.

Shadow Teddie gets a honorable mention for being a damage sponge, but not difficult at all.

 

[Akkiko]

Nobody's mentioned the Enderdragon from Minecraft yet? That thing's a pain in the right arse to take down without mods or creative mode.

 

[Applejack]

The King of Night in Ninety Nine Nights.

Virtually impossible unless you picked up one randomly dropped loot item on the final level that enables you to not lose energy whilst doing specials, as there's only one attack that's particularly effective against him. One problem; where it's random, people can literally try 100 times in a row and still not get the drop.

I platinumed that game bit tht was ages ago. Is that the guy you unlock after beating the game with everyone and I think it forces you to use Inphyy or you can only fight him with her? If it is then there's a move where you fly across the screen that you can spam. That's all I did and won on my second try.

Yes, Inphyy-only and that's the move (AAY combo, forget the name) - obviously you picked up the Deadly Armband otherwise there's no way in hell you'd beat it on your second go as you run out of energy in two uses of it with a full bar IIRC, though it might well have even been only one.

Platinum, by the way. What on earth is that?

Oops I meant I got all achievements! Been on ps3 lately . The weird thing is that I was bad at the game, I literally cheaped out every boss! Except when I was the goblin because he is so amazing against bosses.

Any chance you played the second game? I haven't and was wondering if it was good.

 

[atkndfan92]

I am going to go a different direction here and say the Albert Wesker fight from Resident Evil 5. That boss fight was dragged out for way too long in more and more ridiculous environments. The boss fight on the lower difficulties was easy to the point of insulting, and then you hit a brick wall on Professional difficulty, especially if you are playing with a bot partner and no cheats. If I had to summarize how idiotic the fight got, there is a moment where you are literally punching a rock inside a volcano during the fight. Terrible boss fight to cap off a mediocre at best game.

 

[Matt Kutcher]

Cuchulainn, the Impure from FF tactics always hate that boss fight because of the fact that all this boss does is use the spell nightmare (which hit you with the status effects sleep and doom)and the occasional physical attack (which is pretty strong and can kill a unit in a hit or two),now that i think of it there are plenty of annoying bosses in ff tactics lol

 

[lord canti]

I can't remember what they're called, but in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn there is two:

- An optional boss that if you defeat him he'll become a summon. Thing is though, he summons a lot of these balls that will consume your summons, curse you, heal him, attack you, protect him, and the like. I tried to beat him three times I think, all of which took over an hour. Gave up after that.
- The final boss (at least I think it's the final boss). It's the guy that's morphed from the three guys you were just battling that were already a ***** to fight. And due to the fact that he/it occurs right after a hard ass fight, you can't go to resupply any consumables you used, which you did, and nor can you go off to level up or do anything else. He does shit loads of damage to multiple people in your party, and it has obscene amounts of HP. I spent over an hour and a half on him and got nowhere, so I quit.

First; Wow, someone else who's played a golden sun game. Never thought I'd see that in my lifetime! Second; if you thought Star Magician and Chaos Chimera were bad, wait until you meet Dullahan and Doom Dragon from Golden Sun: The lost Age.

Don't you ever mention the name of that boss again.I took me months to finally be able to beat him. I also found doom dragon much easier than fusion dragon. I mean you have to fight that thing right after saturaus and menardi without even healing.