Your longest boss fight

[JeanLuc761]

I think the longest fight I ever had was the final boss in Legend of Dragoon. I could swear it took me an hour to finally take him down.

 

[TheKwertyeweyoppe]

queen bean or whatever in mario & Luigi superstar saga. i was like 10 at the time but i kept using the hammer and doing 1 damage at a time. i didn't realise till my second playthrough that you could jump on her arms

 

[ultrachicken]

I spent a week trying to kill bahamut in FFIII when he was invincible. I didn't know you were supposed to run away...

 

[Nicarus]

Any number of Final Fantasy XI bosses. That shit was so ridiculous.

I never really faced many of the bosses, but I definitely agree. GETTING TO THEM took 3x longer!

But anywho. I could only think of Legend of Dragoon and the final boss. Oh my god, the many forms he takes. And the transitions between them did not help any.

 

[Yoshemo]

Angra Mainyu in FFX-2 at a very low level. It took me 5 hours!

 

[LeonLethality]

Yiazmat for the one I beat, it took me eight hours!

And Absolute Virtue as one I (and everybody else) can not beat. If you have beaten it you are lying as nobody has ever defeated this boss.

 

[Snotnarok]

General RAAM in Gears of War, I dunno what caused it but he was invincible, played co-op and we completely ran out of ammo, grenades and tried the troika on him. It was impossible to kill him, sooo, we restarted the system thinking something was off after the 10th time and won easily.


MUCH RAGE.

 

[Double A]

The game is a little obscure, but the Holoholo Bird in Baten Kaitos: Origins. Good fucking lord. I was stuck on it for the longest time and the attempt where I finally beat it took 3-4 hours at least.

I got one for ya: first time I fought the trio. Second playthrough (and by "playthrough" I mean "the time where I restarted after getting to the second disk) it was easy as hell. But the first time, they literally wiped my ass all over the floor. I had to drastically rearrange my decks, with Xhe... whatever having all my heath items so the other two wouldn't die of Folon poisoning.

On the other hand, the music made that battle completely worthwhile.

Another one was Dark Bowser in Bowser's Inside Story, before I figured out you were supposed to punch him in the gut.

 

[Helmet]

The Tonberry King in Final Fantasy 8. I attacked him when I was about ten levels below the recommended level to attempt it. I cooked and ate dinner then ran a load of dishes while fighting him.

Son of a *****...

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

usually it doesn't take that long for me to kill a boss, but in AC2 the final boss is one annoying bastard. you can't really loose but it takes a long time to win

 

[Double A]

usually it doesn't take that long for me to kill a boss, but in AC2 the final boss is one annoying bastard. you can't really loose but it takes a long time to win

Really? I got him down to low health before he was halfway through his spiel about his back pains and not ruling enough of the world.

Or did you mean the actual fight and not the "beating the elderly for your merit badge" fight?

 

[Internet Kraken]

Avatar of Kaine in Dawn of War 2. Has a huge number of hit points and incredibly powerful attacks. Your squadmates will be crushed if you try to use them for anything aside from cleaning up his Eldar reinforcements. I only beat him with bug bites from my Force Commander and Cyrus. And because I killed him with bug bites, it took ages.

A lot of the bosses in that game take forever to kill on the higher difficulties.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Nyx in Persona 3. Battle seemed to last forever, which made it all the more frustrating when I'd get him down to his last sliver of health and he'd destroy me. Still haven't beaten the fucker.

the only reason is because he/she has what, 13 life bars? (i thought izunami from p4 was longer)

mine was Hell Dragon from FF12, Yiazmat dident take me 2 hours, but i was a much higher level with ribbons on for that battle, but still, fun battle, crappy game (And i love final fantasy games)

 

[Corkydog]

In a FPS, the boss fight at the end of Killzone 2. It wasn't obnoxiously difficult or long, but for a FPS, 20 minutes emptying lead into one dude who can teleport around and knife you in the back is a little too much. I mean, you get a trophy for dispatching him in less that 20 minutes.

 

[NghtmaresXNoVaKaiNe]

Sir Henry ************ on Bitter in "No More Heroes": It's a whole fight of dodging and plaving a random hit every five minutes, not a HARD fight, once you've memorized his attacks, but time-consuming as fuck.
Culex in "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the 7 Stars": Flattened my whole team except Bowser, who would only take 1 damage from any and all of Culex and his crystals' attacks, running out of Flower Power like, five minutes in left me using nothing but melees the whole fight.
Oh. My. Fucking. God. 14 hours later and I was down to just t he ice crystal. FUUUUUCK.

Super Mario RPG was NO JOKE...ever. Alot of the boss fights in that game were disgusting in length and power.

 

[Darth Rahu]

The game is a little obscure, but the Holoholo Bird in Baten Kaitos: Origins. Good fucking lord. I was stuck on it for the longest time and the attempt where I finally beat it took 3-4 hours at least.

I still say Wiseman and the Black Dragon was a tougher fight.

Outside of a JRPG, I have to say the final boss in Viewtiful Joe 2 on Ultra V-rated mode. The fight took like one hour and that's if you did things perfectly, otherwise, it took me days.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

i'd say some Metal Slug Bosses... i don't remember well...

 

[Lullabye]

General RAAM in Gears of War, I dunno what caused it but he was invincible, played co-op and we completely ran out of ammo, grenades and tried the troika on him. It was impossible to kill him, sooo, we restarted the system thinking something was off after the 10th time and won easily.


MUCH RAGE.

Happened to me to. 3rd run through he became Invincible and pissed me off. On my 6th run through online with another player I set my record killing him in 20-30 seconds on the hardest difficulty. made me cry.

OT: Longest boss fight? Well, for me it's proly Selena Vinland. I mean, sure I've spent 10 hours trying to kill a boss before, but that was totaling the time together, plus the time it took to get back to the boss when I died. But with Selena, we had a 3 hour long back and forth before she finally decided to keel over. Holy fuck it was ridiculous. At least I got Blind out of it.

 

[Beartrucci]

Not me, and not a video game, but a friend of mine used to play 2nd edition D&D and at one point they spent something like 5 hours trying to kill a monster, only to finally realize that the "monster" was actually an illusion that went away the moment they disbelieved it. This is a lot easier to understand when you realize that in 2nd edition, illusions were a LOT harder to detect than in 3rd edition.

I've never played D&D before so I was just a bit curious about how you detect that a boss is an illusion that goes away when you disbelieve it? Could you try explain it a bit please?

 

[Skizle]

The red dragon in Daemon's Souls. Ran out of arrows and had to rely on poison clouds. Took me almost two hours to down him. With just one attempt