Hardest Boss Battle(s)

[Mike Weedmark]

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Ragu O'Ragula.

Shinobi PS2's final boss, Hiruko, on Super Mode without Moritsune. GG.

FF8's Lv100 Omega without Holy Wars.

Megaman X6's final Sigma with minimum upgrades.

The 50/50 mine at the end of Expert Minesweeper.

[angelheadedhpst]

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Dark Souls... Four Kings in NG+. =|

Also: MGS2, the Ray boss fight on Extreme. A more satisfying victory I've never known.

[Charu]

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The entirety of Gradius III (Arcade version, not SNES port).

More specifically from Gradius III's Arcade version

That ice level and it's luck based RNG'd block positioning.

[Mike Weedmark]

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I could also add: Final Ghirahim and Demise in Skyward Sword can both be a bitch if you have no prior knowledge of the method. They're both puzzle battles and end up being a fight between your ability to reason through them and your potion supply. Of course, once you figure them out the first time, you kind of suck if you ever die on them again lol.

[U.N. Owen]

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For example, you'll see a lot of lists claiming that, say, Emerald Weapon from FF7 is insanely hard, when really he's only hard because people aren't using any real strategies. If you just walk in hammering KOTR repeatedly and hope not to get killed in the meantime, you're gonna have a bad time.

Sans Slots, I always found Ruby harder than Emerald. You're pretty much stuck with one character and Ruby's defense is ridiculously high, so you can't even do the overflow glitch on it. Then there's the chance it'll wipe you out with Ultima.

Emerald can be beaten within 45 seconds with the right setup.

[Pseudo Enigma]

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Crystal Chronicles Ring of Fates, Selkie Solo Run. That's fukken hard.
There's nothing more aggravating than watching the boss kill you with a sliver of health on Hard mode. Often times you wont get him down to half.

[V-Ormix]

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on 6 star difficulty, common, you know this guy is rough

[Reincarnate]

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Maybe I just got lucky but I have yet to die *once* against either Emerald or Ruby -- but more generally, all the bosses in that game are impossible to lose against as long as you leverage the right strategies


EDIT: Oh I just remembered -- fighting Goro or Motaro on the old Mortal Kombat I/III arcade machines was wicked hard

[Charu]

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Guys guys... I have a boss battle that no one will be ever to beat.

Lets implement something in the game that we don't explain even in the instruction manual and see the little kids cry as they try to mindlessly get through it.



Suffer... SUFFER! SUFFER!

[Crazyjayde]

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I was just going to talk about the MK series bosses but you beat me to it. Particularly during the golden SNES age of Mortal Kombat, bosses like Shao Khan or Motaro would screw you over countless times. The Goro/Kintaro duo was also pure mayhem.

I might also add to this list the obligatory boss rush mode at the end of Actraiser I. It was pretty hard since your health would not regen between bosses and you only had about two or three lives to survive the whole ordeal. Not particularly extreme, but pretty demanding for a SNES age game.

I've got so much I can't remember, I myself am a pretty sadistic gamer.

EDIT:

Lets implement something in the game that we don't explain even in the instruction manual and see the little kids cry as they try to mindlessly get through it.

Lol, isn't that the NES motto? There's so many games that used to have cheap tactics as a way to progress into story. Like games where you had to die during battle, and where you used all your precious items because you didn't know it. Or games where you had to do something very specific prior to a boss, or else it would be invincible.
Good times...

[Arntonach]

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nice emulator filter :/

If you want REALLY hard, you could try Score Attack on BlazBlue or Persona 4: Arena. Elisabeth is fun.

[Pseudo Enigma]

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Luther SO3

yeah he's easy if you prepare for him, but preparing is hard and very luck based as well.
If you don't, he's hard as balls.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

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Guys guys... I have a boss battle that no one will be ever to beat.

Lets implement something in the game that we don't explain even in the instruction manual and see the little kids cry as they try to mindlessly get through it.



Suffer... SUFFER! SUFFER!

I still don't know how to beat that

[Reincarnate]

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Haha, that was one of the cool things about the pre-Internet era. You had to figure out all this shit on your own, make notes, etc. People would pass rumors around, depending. It was an interesting time to be a gamer. :P

[intensez]

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You press down on the control pad as you go down it