Your Most-Hated Enemy Power!

[Grimfolse]

In Final Fantasy games, any of those attacks that hits you with a whole lot of status effects at once (Bad Breath, Pale Horse, Grand Cross).

Also, in any game, attacks that reduce one or every party member to one HP. The fight with Yojimbo in FFX-2 has an extra nasty version of this, which reduces the whole party to 1 HP, 0 MP.

 

[azuriel_abraxas]

I love the Tekken series, in fact I would say it is my favorite fighting game franchise to date. Out of the Tekken titles so far, I have enjoyed Tag and 5 most of all, but my favorite would have to be Tag for one reason: Jinpachi Mishima. In Tag the final boss is pretty reasonable, as it has an actively regenerating health bar, yet it fights you alone while you have two fighters which you can swap out (which is great because the boss switches fighting style and you never know what you might face). However, the final boss of Tekken five has caused me to be on the verge of rage quitting countless times, but I usually do not because luck can cause you to win against him. You can forget about your long hours of hard work perfecting combo string execution because this boss can halt you i your tracks with a stun move, which has speed priority that trumps every other attack in the game, and hits you high, low, and mid-section given that you're in proximity for the attack. It does not do damage, but Jinpachi will typically follow it up with one of two other cheap attacks: either his "hug" attack which drains your health (the only other character in the game to have healing abilities is Yoshimitsu), or this fireball which shoots out of the mouth in his stomach (the only other character in the game to have a ranged attack in the game is Devil Jin), which is not only unblockable, but takes off well over half of your maximum health. Sorry Namco, but Jinpachi Mishima is not a good final boss, just insanely frustrating.

 

[Pirakahunter788]

For me, it's either regeneration, or instant kills. There's nothing worse than having to deal with enemies that can heal themselves to full within a few seconds, or others that have attacks that will kill you in one shot, without any warning, without the ability to prevent it.

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

Been playing Final Fantasy XIII lately, and the last couple of bosses have cast this spell that kills me when the time limit runs out. It come up and I'm like "Don't rush me!" and then I die from either the time limit running out of because I'm rushing and not being careful enough.

 

[tombman888]

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You think that was hard? Try him in the first game. His attack pattern was totally random, and he pulled the same cheap-ass shit with Heartless Angel over and over and over again, not just on his last health bar. In Kingdom Hearts 2, his moves were clearly assigned to how much damage you had dealt, and if you could press triangle when the commands came up, you'd pretty much won. That said, Sephiroth battles are only difficult if you're below level 70. After that, you can destroy him.

I never beat him in the first game.... i barely landed a single hit on him, but yeah, that one is harder. Also, i hated the Cloaked Clocktower boss in the first one, which i also have never beaten.

 

[Odbarc]

He's not as bad in Nightmare or Hell because you can always go back somewhere and power-level until he's no longer a threat. But in normal, there's no where you could go except to Duriel.

I heard the arcane sanctuary used to be a great grinding location.

And by "heard" I mean "personally know".

It's what I did actually, when I solo'd. It was nice to have the enemies block each other so I could safely pick at what I could.

But in the later years of Diablo 2, there were lots of Tomb runs which people just didn't do when I played. But from release to the 7th year I quit, people were really into rushing. Act 2 was the worst because people hated to find the amulet and staff with all the other acts you could skip instantly.
Eventually Blizzard made it so you had to kill the council to skip act 3 too. Everyone else hated it. No one was really into playing the game.