Messmer the impaler from Elden Ring SOTE.
I love this boss, it's not bs, just pure skill... Shame I lack any of it. Still beat him eventually.
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Dunno if I ever beat Mike Tyson
Jake Paul, is that you?
Ornstein and Smough from Dark Souls. The series have plenty of difficult boss fights but this one is earlier than most and the biggest difficulty spike in the entire game IMHO.
Outside of the Souls games, there's Lil' Hunter from Nuclear Throne. I tried to beat this little trashcan SO many times and succeeded only once. It's insane.
Also shout-out to Hush from the Binding of Isaac for almost giving me a heart attack when I was fighting it as the tainted lost. Never again.
For me, it was in Last of Us, >!when you walk through the door and get caught in the rope trap, then have to shoot the zombies upside-down.!<
I had to go through that entire animation over and over and over. It made me hate the game. I played a little bit more after finally making it through, but my heart wasn't in it and I just stopped after a while.
Fume Knight from Dark Souls 2
MCP from the Intellevision version of Tron.
Great Wolf Sif because I can't bring myself to kill a loyal pupper who is trying to save me.
Sword Saint Isshin is not the hardest fromsoft boss. IMO he's not even the hardest boss in Sekiro. But he might just be the boss design GOAT.
Saving the VIP on Veteran at the end of Modern Warfare. I spent 4 hours, 4 HOURS trying to save that guy. Not a traditional boss but a boss nontheless
Maleficent in Kingdom Hearts 1.
Oh my god. I tried everything. Every potion combo, every magic combo, every adjustment of Donald and Goofy to make them heal or damage. Never beat her. And never beat the game.
And before that is the fight against Riku with that hours long unstoppable cutscene. "You'll never take Kairi's heart!"
I still have every single line of that “Kairi’s inside me” cutscene memorized, because it was so extremely long and was immediately before the hardest story boss fight in the game. I felt like I was throwing myself against a brick wall with how many times I had to retry that Riku fight.
In comparison, the second Maleficent (dragon) fight was a breeze. I spanked her in like two or three tries, max.
Most people agree that Hollow Bastion is where the difficulty actually spikes. Before then, most bosses won’t really give you any trouble as long as you’re properly leveled. But Hollow Bastion is what separates the “easy” section of the game from the “hard” section.
Having seen the game played, I know the difficulty stabilizes itself around that point.
The guy at the end of Hotline Miami was pretty tough.
For me it was Sword Saint Isshin from Sekiro. The ape already took me days to beat, but Isshin was weeks and hundreds of attempts. But it felt so fucking good - especially since it was easy to no-hit Genichiro by the end. God, he must have been pissed off.
Radagon and Elden Beast at rune level 1. The area of effect attacks and the tracking projectiles are brutal. I was able to get a strategy that clobbered Radagon in <1 minute without taking any hits but it required really intense concentration and timing. Not being able to practice just the Beast was the worst part, I hated having to slog through Radagon every single time to attempt it.
Also Sister Friede at level 1 is a strong contender. I don't remember which took me longer to complete.
It's been a long time since I played so my memory may not be totally accurate, but the final boss in fatal frame 2. I rage quit it because it was a one hit kill, and before you get to them, you had to walk down a long hallway avoiding other enemies. It was like 5 minutes of work to get to the final boss only for him to hit you once and you have to start all over. So infuriating. The rest of the game was so much fun.
Inner Agent 3 from Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion
What an absolute nightmare. They play like an online cheater. It's just back to back sub and special weapons. There's almost no room for error. I gave up after like thirty tries because the reward just wasn't worth the stress and frustration.
So this is dumb but there is a Mummy game, as on the movie, I think on PS2. You could play through as either O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) or Imhotep (he was fun but pretty overpowered). I don't remember there being a difficulty setting but I could be wrong.
I beat it with Imhotep but never could beat it with O'Connell. I want to say the final boss was the Scorpion King. I tried so many times.
The only thing I can figure is I didn't load up on as much ammo, grenades, equipment, etc. as possible and never went back to try differently.
Could you die as Imhotep? I'm getting Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy vibes from how you explain this.
Maybe? I don't remember if it's specifically "death" or just some kind of excuse for a game over.
And sorry, I had to look it up, it's actually The Mummy Returns for PS2.
Here's a full playthrough of both.
The shadow enemy in super smash bros brawl, cant beat that mf
Tabuu or Mr. Game and Watch?
The one that mimics you
In Chrono Cross, when entering Time Fortress Chronopolis, you immediately encounter the PolisPolice. This isn't framed by the game as a boss encounter, but it is.
There is a design problem with this boss that you probably wouldn't see in a more modern RPG. To survive its big attack, you need the White Plate to absorb white-based magic attacks. You get the White Plate by stealing it from the Sky Dragon. If you already fought the Sky Dragon and forgot to steal at the time, you are hosed. The game doesn't let you go back and redo that, and the PolisPolice encounter is about 2/3rds of the way through the game--very late to be starting over again.
I replayed that encounter 20 times before I finally lucked out on the attack cycle to keep the party alive. Then I encountered the actual hardest boss: a disc scratch that prevented the game from continuing towards the very end.
Reminds me of the time in a Pokemon game when a friend of mine caught Latias in one go only for the game to immediately freeze afterward with no explanation.
The striders towards the end of Half Life 2 episode 2.
Lavos. :(
Final boss of fury
This asshole made me scream in rage and frustration
Mushihimesama Futari's final boss. I felt so proud of myself when I beat it and this is the game that got me into playing Touhou on lunatic mode for fun
Moldorm - The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past (https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Moldorm_(A_Link_to_the_Past) )
This f'ing guy was hours of work to beat. Still the most annoying game boss ive ever encountered!
I hate this guy!! Worst thing is from what I remember his health gets fully restored whenever he knocks you down
Yeah, you have to be perfect and not get knocked off, otherwise its back to square one. Super annoying. But it does feel like a real accomplishment when you finally beat him!
Vermivorous the Invincible in Borderlands 2. First of all getting it to spawn...
Okay, i'm gonna name one that might raise some eyebrow.
Halflight, Spear of the Church from Dark Souls 3 Ringed City. I know i know, but i can explain. I'm doing a knife only, no summon run, i mainly use Brigand Twindagger for everything, and occasionally Bandit's Knife for anything susceptible to bleed, and it's quite a good run, beating anything with varying difficulty, and even Demon Prince were defeated with a knife, then comes Halflight, Weeb of the Church. Technically it isn't a hard one because it's basically vs an npc invader, but the difficult came from the constantly spawning Guardian that's also do healing and also using a knife, and also the long reaching and parrying weeb sword of Halflight. I couldn't get past this one no matter how much i try, it's the most difficult "easy" fight i've ever did on this run, where the second most difficult one is...Deacon of the Deep.
Artorias.. hardest one SO FAR
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