Most difficult boss you've faced.

[teh_Canape]

gameplay-wise, the dragon thing in the sewers in dark souls, and vergil in dmc 5
then there was mundus' spawn from dmc 5, but it wasn't so much for being difficult or anything, but rather because of the scenery changes during the battle, especially when it goes dark with the neons
shit almost gave me a seizure

 

[The Lugz]

the kraken in the witcher 2

took me about 10 attempts, because i had no idea the game wanted me to run up the pillar, so i ran around dying to rubble, tentacles you name it before i randomly ran up there and finished the encounter ( you don't even press a button... )

boss fights are just cheap and aggravating, i'd prefer to fight 1000 little things in waves any day also the concept that there's 'always a way to win' is a bit annoying that being the case one of the umpteen trillion random things you kill should treat you like a boss fight and wear you out for once

infact, being a boss could be quite cool as-long as you're forced to loose like a real boss fight but at the end instead of crying at the player and monologuing whole you bleed out you get the chance to just splat him under your giant foot or something

 

[Dwarfman]

My head chef would be the toughest boss I've ever faced. That man is nigh unstoppable when he's upset.

Ermmmm...As for video games...I dunno... Sarevok from Baldur's Gate was pain in the bum.

 

[John the Gamer]

I think the endboss in psychonauts qualifies. There may have been ones that were harder, but this is the only one I remember right now.

 

[Carnagath]

Yiazmat in FF12. Took me days to beat him, and the fight itself took me about 6 hours. After half health, he would just 1-shot one party member with each autoattack, and I had to reconfigure my gambits so that my whole party was basically only resurrecting, and only attacking if they had a limited time window. Was made worse by the fact that I was only lvl 82 or so, since I hate grinding.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

First up is Dark Bahamut from Final Fantasy X. That fight was ridiculous. You spend most of the battle trying desperately to keep your party members alive and free of status effects and there is very rarely any good opportunity to attack. Still I managed to beat him after a hell of a long fight. Definitely the hardest Dark Aeon I found.

I think Dark Bahamut was the only one I actually managed to defeat, but I can't remember so well haha. You know who's much worse though? Dark Magus Sisters, holy hell... Have you not encountered them yet? Just ridiculous...

The magus sisters were one of the first I defeated. I found I had more trouble with bahamut. Mainly because his attacks put you always on the edge of death.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

In my child years of gaming, Ultros (first encounter) in FF6 because Banon kept dying. In hindsight, I'm not even sure HOW I failed at him.

I failed him alot at first until I realised you could avoid his worst attacks by putting your party members in the back

 

[karma9308]

On my first time through, Yunalesca took me FOREVER to beat. I remember my cousin was watching me play, got tired of me dying, decided to go see a movie, go to the store, had dinner, then came back, and I was STILL trying to beat her. GAH. On subsequent playthroughs I always grinded for at least an hour before fighting her. No problems since then though. Oh I also had the American version so there weren't any dark aeons to fight.

I also had trouble with Seymour's third form, but Yunalesca took the cake.

 

[NecroNinja]

Dark Souls offers some of the best and obviously hardest boss fights in any game, ever. But the hardest are between the Four Kings and Seath the Scaleless. Especially on each subsequent playthrough in which they increase in strength by an absurd amount.

Four Kings is hard because it needs to be quick, but it is very difficult to deal high damage to them and stay healed. Every now and then another King will spawn, so depending on how slow you are, you could end up being attacked by 3 or 4 bosses at once. This becomes flat-out impossible to defend against, with some of their attacks (grabs and magic) being unblockable.

Seath is hard because he can curse you, and without the right armour set, he can do this very easily. He can raise crystals from the floor that fill up your curse meter when they touch you, and sometimes he literally fills the room with them leaving you no escape. If this (small) curse meter fills up, you instantly die and respawn with half your HP, making it nightmarish to lift the curse if you don't have the items you need to do so.

Yet the masochist in me is still playing, currently on NG+3 and outside the Four Kings' area. Wish me luck.

 

[Lilani]

I really cannot stand the strider battle at the end of HL2 Episode 2. It's just so fucking FRUSTRATING. And the end of Psychonauts may be worse. It's not the "bosses" that are tough, per se, but all the hoops you have to jump through along the way (in the strider battle it's dealing with those stupid hunters and getting the explosive on the striders, in Psychonauts it's all the stupid platforming you have to do PERFECTLY or start it all over again).

I also never beat the final bosses of FFX, but that's partially because my brother lost the memory card my save file was on, and ever since I haven't been bothered to replay the game back to that point.

 

[Feraswondervahnn]

Wizpig from Diddy Kong Racing, the first Wizpig in particular (Second is simple)! Always Wizpig! I hate that stupid fat pig! I never expected to find the boss of a racing game hard but damn man! You literally have to hit every boost, take each corner perfectly and even then you might not win! Even the timing of boosts to miss the rising water. I absolutely despise that boss! Always have and always will.

Obviously can't forget to put Yiazmat from FF12 in here, but like all FF Bosses, it's easy when you know how.

 

[Zantos]

First up is Dark Bahamut from Final Fantasy X. That fight was ridiculous. You spend most of the battle trying desperately to keep your party members alive and free of status effects and there is very rarely any good opportunity to attack. Still I managed to beat him after a hell of a long fight. Definitely the hardest Dark Aeon I found.

I think I just did a rinse repeat on Yojimbo's insta-kill for every single Dark Aeon battle. Some people would call that unsatisfying, but I liked it.

The hardest boss I can think of is the dragon from the end of Giana Sisters: Twisted dreams. I just can't do it. It's madness I say! I found that game challenging at the best of times, but the boss just takes the biscuit.

Also, Final Fantasy IX, Ozma. Secret ball aeon thing found in chocobo garden, just pure insanity of a battle. I have never seen a sound tactical plan of out of the window so fast.

 

[Shadowcreed]

I can name 2 from the top of my head:
The End - Metal Gear Solid 3. That guy required patience!!
Dante - DMC4. Dante had quite the sneaky moves, took a while for me to figure out how to beat him.

Can't recall any others at this moment in time. Strange as I play WAY to many games... hmm

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Wizpig from Diddy Kong Racing, the first Wizpig in particular (Second is simple)! Always Wizpig! I hate that stupid fat pig! I never expected to find the boss of a racing game hard but damn man! You literally have to hit every boost, take each corner perfectly and even then you might not win! Even the timing of boosts to miss the rising water. I absolutely despise that boss! Always have and always will.

Oh man Wizpig. Who would've though a kart racing game would have a boss that freakin difficult. Actually most of the bosses were pretty damn hard.

 

[BelmontWolf]

Hands down the hardest boss ive fought is Chai from shenmue.
He can catch you off guard and combo you very fast also the only way to beat him is to use a specific counterattack which takes time to master but you only just learn it before the fight >.<

 

[hermes]

The final boss in ZOE 2. Probably not so hard as others here, but its a difficulty spike so high it becomes frustrating.

Also, this girl:

Spoiler

Not even fair...

 

[Oly J]

Simple enough question. What is the most difficult boss you've faced in a game?

I have two that I found to be ridiculously difficult.

First up is Dark Bahamut from Final Fantasy X. That fight was ridiculous. You spend most of the battle trying desperately to keep your party members alive and free of status effects and there is very rarely any good opportunity to attack. Still I managed to beat him after a hell of a long fight. Definitely the hardest Dark Aeon I found.

Second would be Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts. He attacks relentlessly from the outset and all of his attacks are very damaging and hard to dodge. I actually don't think I managed to ever beat him.

definitely Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts, I managed to beat him eventually, but after about 70 attempts and even that was due to dumb luck in a few crucial moments

 

[Dethenger]

Fucking Manus from Dark Souls and his bloody abyss magic. Even with the pendant it's a pain in the ass to time correctly, near impossible to dodge and one shots my character. FUUUUUUUUCK.

Captcha:

Which does a vegetarian eat? One of the options was soylent green...

I haven't really fought Manus yet, but I've heard that Artorias is harder. I can't say if it's true, but I can say that I believe it, since I came into this thread with him in mind. I certainly hope it's true, because if Manus is harder than Artorias I'll probably have a nervous breakdown trying to beat this fucking DLC.