Your Most Harrowing Boss Fight In Gaming

[cojo965]

We gamers have had at least one of these, a boss fight so intense that it seems that it is impossible to win. And then you somehow pulled it off. The boss went down and you moved on to whatever lied ahead. Post your moments of awesome near failiure against a boss in games that you won.

Mine comes from the new DLC for Dark Souls, namely Artorias of the Abyss and the black dragon Kalameet. I fought Artorias of the Abyss with two other players but only six flasks and yet he was able to nearly kill me (and by extention the other two) multiple times. The fight ended with me having two flasks. Weapons in the fight:

HunterSlayer965(me): Black Knight Greatsword +5
Scruffy: Obsidian Greatsword
AntonKrovorshan: Black Knight Halberd

Later that day, it was time to fight Kalameet. This time the boss was fought with only one other player but 18 flasks. The fight was long and brutal mostly due to trying to sever Kalameet's tail but even after the tail came off the damage our weapons were doing dragged out the battle dangerously long. Worse still, my flasks were running out due to trying to keep my partner's health up, even when Kalameet wasn't actively attacking him for reasons lost on me. The highlights were the tail severing, because, being in an Xbox Live private chat with my partner, I actually called out, "Now, sever it!" which he promptly did, sending Kalameet to me for a free hit. The other was the kill itself, because Kalameet used his rear-up fire breath attack and as he came down, he landed right on my one-handed strong attack, thrusting the tip of my sword into his flank. Weapons in this fight:

HunterSlayer965(me): Black Knight Greatsword +5
Nick Manganello: Black Knight Greataxe

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Without a doubt the Flamelurker from Demon Souls. Most intense and difficult boss fight ever. especially when he gets to 30% health and go nuts.

 

[Wayneguard]

Smough and Ornstein are high up there. In hindsight, it wasn't all that difficult but the FIRST time you do it and the music blares in and you're running for your life with 2 flasks left... so good... so epic.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

Mine was either The Advisor from Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night or this guy.

(Actual boss starts at 4:56)

It's not the fact that he's hard on his own but the fact you are given 2 minutes to take him out. This is not easy as he can do quite a bit of damage to you in a straight combo. The only way I find to beat him is to wait until he attacks first, block it then stun him and get six hits on him, do a power attack, and repeat. This almost always results with the clock near zero. If you manage to get him then you need to to a very quick 3 button QTE that comes out of nowhere. And if you screw that up you have to do it all over again.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Also Sephiroth in the original Kingdom Hearts. Took me about 50 tries to beat him. Such an intense fight.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Well probaby not but it's the most prominent one I can remember.

General Raam on Insane difficulty. Me and my friend had been racing each other to see who'd beat him first. We'd been at it a couple of hours apiece. I was getting royally frustrated and royally tired (this was now 3-4am) but just could not seem to kill the guy before he killed me. I'd come close a bunch of times before the Kryll'd get me or the circling Reavers.

I'd reached the zenith of my anger at this point and basically went automatic. You know the kind of tired where you operate on instinct more than anything else and just do better because of it? That's basically what happened. I rolled, shot, dodged, everything at just the right time, my grenade aim was perfect (every one went between his legs and exploded up his battle skirt) etc etc. Finally I was hiding behind a box that Raam was directly on the other side of, I had ONE shot left on my Longshot. Raam starts coming around the left side of the box, I panic and blindfire. The screen flashes, similar to the many, many times I'd died before. I growl and stand up to launch the controller across the room when out of the corner of my eye I see the flash has become a cutscene of Raam falling back and away.

I was elated the next day. At that point, I simply watched the endgame cutscene, turned off the 360, took out my phone and sent a one-sentence text to my competing friend:

Got the c*nt. (but I didn't use an asterisk)

Then went to bed.

My friend, on the other hand, stayed up another 2 hours to finish him off. In the pub the next evening we were laughing about it.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Basically all of the bosses added in the Final Mix versions of the Kingdom Hearts games.

For instance...

 

[ShinyCharizard]

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Ahh General Raam. I actually couldn't beat him solo on insane until he glitched into a wall and stopped moving or shooting lol.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

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Ahh General Raam. I actually couldn't beat him solo on insane until he glitched into a wall and stopped moving or shooting lol.

Still more fun than GoW2 final bosses. Quick-event Chainsaw Dreadlocks and Septic Ooze Laser Pointer.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

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Ahh General Raam. I actually couldn't beat him solo on insane until he glitched into a wall and stopped moving or shooting lol.

Still more fun than GoW2 final bosses. Quick-event Chainsaw Dreadlocks and Septic Ooze Laser Pointer.

Thats true. It never felt like you were actually fighting the bosses in GoW 2 and 3. More like you were just going through the prescribed motions. Epic totally dropped the ball there.


OT: The Dark Aeons in FFX were pretty damn difficult and harrowing. They were only in the pal version of the game though I believe.

 

[nokori3byo]

Shao Kahn at the end of MK9 was awful.

 

[uchytjes]

sephiroth from kingdom hearts. If not that then peace walker custom from MGSeace walker.

 

[Furbyz]

Devil May Cry 3- The Leviathan Organs on Dante Must Die...I tried for weeks to kill those things. Literal weeks. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do it with cheats. Any damage I did was completely pointless. They'd just heal it right back when they cleared the room, leading to these half hour long stalemates of me being unable to kill it and it being unable to kill me until I finally made a mistake and got hit.

I love that game. Wish I still had it.

Shao Kahn at the end of MK9 was awful.

I've never played MK9, but if he's anything like he was at the end of MK Trilogy, I feel your pain. Damn input reading, psychic, hammer-wielding, mother fucker.

 

[ila]

Ameno-sagiri from Persona 4. My attacks were hardly denting it and Yukiko kept getting knocked out due to needing to heal while everyone else piled on damage. I think I heard the boss music loop at least 4 times during the fight.

 

[BlueKenja]

Spoiler

Guildenstern

at the end of Vagrant Story, my first go when I had little idea of how the item crafting worked and had a Light 100 greatsword, a Dark 80 shield and a Water 60 one-handed sword....

Took 2 hours but I did it.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

Seth from SFIV. Bastard was cheap as fuck.
Radec from Killzone 2. Invisible bastard took ages to kill.
Trypticon from War for Cybertron. Has about 10 multi hit attacks that he constantly cycles through nonstop. You spend more time hiding and driving than you do firing back.

EDIT; also, inb4 Elizabeth Greene from Prototype. I don't think I need to explain that one.

 

[bossfight1]

Just finished the Warrior fight in Borderlands 2; it was epic, my PC handled it like a pro.
Also, the Lich King in Wrath; my guild needed Cataclysm greens to beat him which was pretty emasculating.

 

[dimensional]

Shao Kahn at the end of MK9 was awful.

He is an absolutely broken mofo if you fight him legit but hes extremely easy if you cheese him (with Raiden just walk up to him wait for him to attack teleport and uppercut and repeat. If he has armour on and isnt knocked back by the uppercut repeat teleport and do again until he dies may take a couple of goes to get the timing but hes really easy using this method) actually I dont know how you would clear the challenge tower room of facing 3 back to back Shao Khans if you couldnt cheese him.

Im not sure what my most harrowing boss fight is I mean I can remember plenty of hard and extremely annoying ones but not necessarily harrowing. I guess Gohma Vlitra Core in Asuras Wrath was pretty harrowing but that was because I couldnt figure out how to effectively damage the sob for ages now its not so bad.

 

[The White Hunter]

Without a doubt the Flamelurker from Demon Souls. Most intense and difficult boss fight ever. especially when he gets to 30% health and go nuts.

That isn't the fire spider thing is it? Because I owned that fucker, everything else kicked my ass after that though.

OT: Penance on FF10. Makes Dark Yojimbo look like those first sinspawn that can't kill you.

Edit: Sephiroth in the first kingdom hearts. And Blue back in Gen 1 of Pokemon when I was like 9.

 

[The White Hunter]

Seth from SFIV. Bastard was cheap as fuck.
Radec from Killzone 2. Invisible bastard took ages to kill.
Trypticon from War for Cybertron. Has about 10 multi hit attacks that he constantly cycles through nonstop. You spend more time hiding and driving than you do firing back.

EDIT; also, inb4 Elizabeth Greene from Prototype. I don't think I need to explain that one.

I hated Radec's fight he was a proper bastard to put down. Great character though. It does help to set Radec on fire though, makes him easy to see.