Most difficult boss you've faced.

[mrdude2010]

The final boss in psychonauts was definitely frustrating, if not really hard. You had to be so careful with the platforming.

The other one I had a hard time with was my solo playthrough of castle crashers.

 

[Nazulu]

I remember I had a really hard time facing each boss in Links Adventure, but I eventually won.

Most difficult Boss I've ever faced that is actually beatable is the last boss in Biometal. I never won, I only got up to him twice and then gave up since the games was difficult enough as it is.

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

Other than that, The Four Horseman in Naxxramas in Vanilla WoW. If you thought it was hard having getting 25 WoW players to shuffle from different ends of the room and having your 4 tanks properly taunt the bosses across the room. you have no idea how hard it was to get 40 barely geared for it players to do the same. Good times.

As someone who played WoW (and now vehemently loathes it, but that's another issue), I don't think there will ever be anything as maddeningly beautiful as vanilla 40-man Naxxramas. Special note goes to Loatheb, who made it so that you only got one heal per healer per minute.

I mean, shit. Just reading about those things on WoWWiki intimidated me when I played it pre-cataclysm. I can't even imagine what it was like to actually do it.

 

[cerebreturns]

ruby or emerald weapon in ff7 without using knights of the round or mimic (or was it called copy cat?).


...and that STUPID golem in the megaman games that has a single eye and turns to bits and flys across the screen.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Voracidous the Invincible is a mother fucker of a boss. You can't use the Bee against him because the chief regularly uses an arena wide a attack. Then there's the tons of shit you need to dodge constantly. Only boss I have yet to beat solo so far.

Then there's this guy:
The song's hard enough as it is. Throw in that Lou will make you switch to lefty mode and it becomes pretty easy to fail in a matter of seconds.
I've only ever beat this guy once and that was pretty much entirely luck mixed with a lot of flailing.

Edit: Also Karstaag from Dragonborn DLC.

Even WITH full armor and magic resist, he is still insane. He can kill you extremely quickly and I fought him with 200+ damage swords. Fire mages can do decently against him but everyone else is in for a tough time.

 

[uzo]

Lord Soth, from Death Knights of Krynn (old SSI AD&D game).

Goddamn that bastard. Goddamn him.

For one, he's a freakin' Death Knight (instead of some undead fragile wizard, this guy was an engine of destruction before becoming a lich). Insta-fireballs whenever he wants, causes fear, immune to almost all damage ... and the prick's brought along about 12 of his buddies who are all varying shades of immovable object/unstoppable force.

Seriously, I have never had a moment in a game where I've felt more like a bunch of nerds having the absolute bejeezus beaten out of them than that final fight against Lord Soth.

It was like watching 6 jawas fight 12 Darth Vaders (Vader I'm sure being the inspiration for Lord Soth).

The fight would invariably start the same way - Lord Soth and a half dozen of his lackeys would open the fight with 6 delayed blast fireballs straight into the middle of the party. Even if you managed to save vs. spell, you still took half damage (long time no play, but I think a fireball from a Death Knight would do about 8d6 damage).

It was simply luck whether you even had one person left standing after the first round, considering one half-decent roll on damage was all they needed to incapacitate all of your party. And they got six attempts. Before your Knight of Solamnia even drew his freakin' sword and yelled 'CHARGE!'

 

[MrDelicious]

For me it was the Arishok from Dragon Age 2, because I just rushed in there without buying any potions and my first time playing was as a rogue. Also first time round he kept spamming this unavoidable knockdown move that could floor you from across the room allowing him to rush in and wail on you while Hawke slowly ambles up off the floor. (is it possible to amble up?)

Also I found out that, due to his duel weapons, the Arishok is classed as a rogue. So he can get lots of critical hits and deal lots of critical damage.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

The Widow in The Binding of Isaac. Screw Satan, the Widow is one mean ************.

I don't think I have ever beaten him. :/

Runner up would have to be Drek from Ratchet and Clank 1. He's friggin impossible unless you have the RYNO. And even if you do, the fight's still pretty difficult.

 

[thesilentman]

FOUR. MOTHERFUCKING. KINGS. Argggghhhhhhhh..... Damn NG...

I really can't top anything now. Four Kings sent me into a permanent state of paranoia and aggressiveness for the rest of the game.

 

[Knocker]

For me, it was Xaldin from KH2. The fight took me about 45 minutes, depleted all of my healing items, and Mickey stepped in twice.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Overall though I'd say Razor from NFS Most Wanted (original), with the smallest slip ups being very costly.

Really? I beat him with the Gallardo I won with a pink slip... The only thing that made this game remotely challenging for me was the rubberbanding. Although, I'll admit that Razor is the most annoying simply because you have to win 5 races in a row.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Last boss of Shadows of the Damned on highest difficulty and no health upgrades.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Mannup mode in TF2 is quite hard, so that.

 

[Yojimzo]

This will make me sound like a Demon Souls elitist, but...


FUCKING. MANEATERS.

For anyone who hasn't fought them, count yourselves lucky, makes the 4 kings look like a cakewalk by comparison.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

This will make me sound like a Demon Souls elitist, but...


FUCKING. MANEATERS.



For anyone who hasn't fought them, count yourselves lucky, makes the 4 kings look like a cakewalk by comparison.

The Maneaters are just plain bullshit. Massive magic attacks on a narrow bridge. Yes please.

 

[Fasckira]

rubberbanding (...) 5 races in a row.

Yeah, for those reasons. I found in my Scooby that I could have a comfortable lead, then suddenly clip a corner or overshoot and suddenly hes right there on my tail pressuring me. Just got very frustrating. The whole "evade the cops for 12 minutes" afterwards was positively easy in comparison!

 

[Baneat]

For some reason I had difficulty with Mike Tyson in IWBTG. He's not even that difficult, must have been doing it wrong for ages. The most difficult parts of the game were the between-boss sections easily though.

 

[Auron225]

Ah yes.. The old summon Yojimbo, pay him a shitload of gil and pray for Zanmato trick. I used it a couple of times myself.

As soon as I realized you could do that, I went around having him massacring all of them X) All except Dark Yojimbo... it seems fitting that he's the only one it doesn't work well on since you have to fight him more than once in quick succession to actually kill him.

OT: Quite a few come to mind but the most obvious is without a doubt;

Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII): She seemed SERIOUSLY overpowered - the ONLY strategy I had that worked (and it still took hours to actually kill her) was spamming Aura on Squall and praying for his limits to be Lionheart. I actually Lionhearted her to death - it was the only conceivable way to do it. The fact that she had like 4 different forms did not help. That fight is what's putting me off playing through VIII again. I loved the story and all but I just can't bring myself to endure it again.

EDIT: Oh, I just remembered - Murluxia from Chain of Memories. I never did beat him. I never even got to his final form. I had Sora level 70-80 and I came close on most occasions but each attempt just took far too much time and I lost interest.

 

[Anathrax]

ENOUGH! THIS...ENDS...NOW! [http://images.wikia.com/runescape/images/f/fc/Enough%21_This..._ends..._NOW%21.ogg]

Spoiler: Uncle Fester from Runescape.

Double triple quadra penta super duper ultra mega screw you.