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Psycho Mantis -- like wtf do we really need to change controller ports just to beat you?
I'm sure most of us have come across a game boss we thought at one point was impossible to beat... maybe even made you give up the game. Perhaps he was more annoying then he was hard. Maybe his laugh made your skin crawl and made you play endless hours trying to beat him. Maybe his defense was without fault or his attacks were something you looked at in aw. This is what this thread is about. What game boss or perhaps game in general made you yell in anger. Maybe even cry in frustration. Enough to make you throw your console out the window. Ok I'm being a little over the top but let's hear it.
What game/game boss made you have nightmares?
Psycho Mantis -- like wtf do we really need to change controller ports just to beat you?
seymore in ff10 when you are on the mountain level. I got so happy when i finally beat his ass. Only to kick myself 3 years later and figured out a strategy that made it 20x easier
Mike Tyson (punchout)
Shao Kahn (Mk 3 and MK 9)
Those are off the top of my head. I wanted to list a Ninja Gaiden boss, but to be honest the game is so damn hard I didn't make it to too many of them.
Shao Kahn is even more of a to beat in the new mortal kombat game AHHHHHHH.
Oh definitely. The only way I found to beat him is to be cheap back. Lu Kang I would just get to the back of the screen and do the low fireball over and over again. With Radien I believe I just would telport when he was going to throw something then superman him. Still frustrating.
Tyson though I still have never beat.
Not a boss but generally a very hard game.
Anyone ever play Battlemaster on the Genesis? Holy that game was impossible and when you saved, it gave you a save code about 45 digits long, wtf!
there was this N64 game MK Mythologies: Sub Zero. I loved it, but I never even made a dent in Shinnok's health bar, and not for lack of trying, I could stay alive for a looooooong time against him.
still to this day don't know how one was supposed to defeat him, probably some simple trick that I was too stupid to figure out
crime fighters, final stage is all the boss from previous stages and multiple of them...fkn lame...
mk3 only some characters u need to do repe ive to eat khan...but some of teh characters have its flaws that you cant even win...remember the repe ive with the jump kicking just to win rounds....that was lame.
As a kid Sonic 2's last stage kicked my ass so much. Metal Sonic + Eggman with no rings.
Star Ocean: The Second Story on PSX, the main boss (Indalecio) with limiter off (The result of really specific events in the game, really have to want it or to be f*****g unlucky). He wipes you in a few seconds, never managed to beat him...
Seth from Super Street Fighter IV pissed off my 27 year old self worse than that cheating Bison ever did when I was 12.
I can't think of a boss off the top of my head but my nightmare game is any of the R-types (especially III). I know the bosses for the first mega man were lightyears harder than any of the rest too.
Also, what a great topic!
BTW these games had me thoroughly convinced that the Japanese hated american teenagers and were on a crusade to cause them to commit suicide as much as possible.
That may be true
Off the top of my head, I'm going to say the 10th and 13th colossi in Shadow of the Colossus.
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I love this game, have played it through several times, but the combination of having to ride fast, control your horse, keep the colossus in sight, AND use the bow and arrow still makes me want to hurt things.
I always had more trouble with Macho Man than I did with Mike Tyson.
That ING SPIN PUNCH! After about 20 tries with Tyson I could start to figure his timing out but I could never get that got damn spin punch figured out. Part of that I expect is that you could use a password to get straight to Tyson while getting to Macho Man meant slogging at least the World Circuit opponents.
The bosses in the original Castlevania were a progressive case study in old school frustration and gaming addiction. Probably as much a testament to my lack of skills and short temper as an 8 year old, but Igor and Frankenstein, Death, and then Dracula himself all gave me fits that built up towards a horrific profanity laced blow out at that little gray box when I had Drac down to one bar, pressed the attack button only for nothing to happen, and then got killed. Enough for my parents to ban me from touching a controller for a week.
Looking back now I can appreciate them as rather well designed examples of old school gaming. Smart, patient players could figure basic patterns and strategy that would work but took a fair amount of in game skill to implement, which is pretty much exactly what a boss fight should be.
Ninja Gaiden bosses were the
There was this one boss in Master Blaster that I just couldn't get through. It was the one that was a box and it would just multiply over and over and over. Damn was it frustrating. So frustrating I never finished the game.
My memory sucks. Ive played video games since I was 5, beat countless games, remember vividly bouts of sheer frustration, but cannot recall one boss or bosses that drove me to insanity.
Its my lack of memory on the subject, not my l33t $kill$.
that looks almost as fun as calculus homework
I don't think there is a harder boss in any video game than Akuma in Super Street Fighter II Turbo.
Dude is ing impossible to beat in a best 2 out of 3.
There was a game for the NES called Ninja Brothers. It was sort of an action RPG. You'd wander around and the random encounter battles would then shift to a real time beat 'em up sort of fight. The boss fights though were done in a traditional turn based style, which was frustrating enough because it felt more boring than like a change of pace. I don't know how far my brother and I ever actually got into the game but it always ended at the same spot. There was this ing boss who had an unstoppable attack where they'd turn you into a loaf of bread and summon a monster that would eat you. No way to block, counter, or prevent its use. Nothing your teammate could do once you got turned into the loaf. Just a ing arbitrary game ender.
also, Vega on the original Street Fighter 2 was pretty damn hard on the hardest setting, because even his weak and medium attacks would count as a strong attack against you, which is really annoying because he can just jump around with his leg stuck out doing a weak kick and hit you 5 times and you are a bloody puddle of .
He literally took me hours to beat. him up his generic fighting game boss ass.
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