I will put the Protector from Epic Battle Fantasy 3 here. Having a boss with a buff canceling laser and four minions that debuff your party while buffing it, healing it, having instant death moves (The Gunslinger guys after you kill one of the first minions), and giving you statuses is not good game design at all. It's the reason why I never finished the game. Fuck this boss.
Any bosses that you hate with a burning passion?
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Yeah, many Bomberman bosses, specially from the Super series (3 to onward.)
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It's more of qualities I hate in a boss fight but if I had to pick one I'd say Chairman Rose from Pokemon Sword and Shield.
He's not exactly difficult but it's more about his character and how much I see him as wasted potential. A very underwhelming boss fight as a whole.
Any fighting game boss. They all suck.
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Biggest pain in the ass in all of video gaming
I used to be with it. Then they changed what it was.
Now what I'm with isn't it and what's it seems weird and scary to me.
It'll happen to you!
This. This Fucking Bitch. Hate Him.
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At 10/16/21 01:40 PM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:I will put the Protector from Epic Battle Fantasy 3 here. Having a boss with a buff canceling laser and four minions that debuff your party while buffing it, healing it, having instant death moves (The Gunslinger guys after you kill one of the first minions), and giving you statuses is not good game design at all. It's the reason why I never finished the game. Fuck this boss.
It sucks that you got stuck there because Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is the only one in the series that I beat, and I found the entire game to be fun and memorable. There were definitely some fucking bullshit battles in Epic Battle Fantasy 1 & 2 that made me quit trying. I think the only reason I stuck with 3 to the end was because I liked the adventure.
At 1/28/22 04:36 AM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote:At 10/16/21 01:40 PM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:I will put the Protector from Epic Battle Fantasy 3 here. Having a boss with a buff canceling laser and four minions that debuff your party while buffing it, healing it, having instant death moves (The Gunslinger guys after you kill one of the first minions), and giving you statuses is not good game design at all. It's the reason why I never finished the game. Fuck this boss.
It sucks that you got stuck there because Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is the only one in the series that I beat, and I found the entire game to be fun and memorable. There were definitely some fucking bullshit battles in Epic Battle Fantasy 1 & 2 that made me quit trying. I think the only reason I stuck with 3 to the end was because I liked the adventure.
I'm imagining how mad OP would be at EBF5's final boss. there were harder bosses in the previous games, but that thing he does when he drops below ~25% HP makes me very unwilling to re-match him. being too lazy to find a speed run guide for epic difficulty on EBF5 was the main reason I didn't collect the entire series' medals here before the death of flash. the final boss of EBF3 may be my favorite boss, but the final boss of EBF5 belongs in this thread IMO.
At 1/28/22 09:29 AM, OnixDark wrote:At 1/28/22 04:36 AM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote:At 10/16/21 01:40 PM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:I will put the Protector from Epic Battle Fantasy 3 here. Having a boss with a buff canceling laser and four minions that debuff your party while buffing it, healing it, having instant death moves (The Gunslinger guys after you kill one of the first minions), and giving you statuses is not good game design at all. It's the reason why I never finished the game. Fuck this boss.
It sucks that you got stuck there because Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is the only one in the series that I beat, and I found the entire game to be fun and memorable. There were definitely some fucking bullshit battles in Epic Battle Fantasy 1 & 2 that made me quit trying. I think the only reason I stuck with 3 to the end was because I liked the adventure.
I'm imagining how mad OP would be at EBF5's final boss. there were harder bosses in the previous games, but that thing he does when he drops below ~25% HP makes me very unwilling to re-match him. being too lazy to find a speed run guide for epic difficulty on EBF5 was the main reason I didn't collect the entire series' medals here before the death of flash. the final boss of EBF3 may be my favorite boss, but the final boss of EBF5 belongs in this thread IMO.
Oh boy, I'll take your word for it.
At 1/28/22 04:36 AM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote:At 10/16/21 01:40 PM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:I will put the Protector from Epic Battle Fantasy 3 here. Having a boss with a buff canceling laser and four minions that debuff your party while buffing it, healing it, having instant death moves (The Gunslinger guys after you kill one of the first minions), and giving you statuses is not good game design at all. It's the reason why I never finished the game. Fuck this boss.
It sucks that you got stuck there because Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is the only one in the series that I beat, and I found the entire game to be fun and memorable. There were definitely some fucking bullshit battles in Epic Battle Fantasy 1 & 2 that made me quit trying. I think the only reason I stuck with 3 to the end was because I liked the adventure.
I also liked 2, but goddame it the final chapter is so bullshit.
Though not an actual boss, Saturn from Borderlands 2 makes the Warrior look like Face McShooty. That war machine has a special scoreboard labeled 'how many times I annihilated the vault hunter' and needs to buy a new one. Being pelted by turret fire is one thing but the kamikaze surveyors will send you to fight for your life near instantly, and your only cover is a single building. Thankfully Gub pistols seem to grow on trees or else I would've had to grind for new legendaries
Necroing this thread to vent about this slut.
Fuck her and her horribly bitch in the ass to dodge attacks that make me wonder who the hell am I suppose to dodge them, some have piss poor telegraphing. Doesn't help that some moves like should have crosslines don't. Combine all of this with Rabi-Ribi's questionable at best use of danmaku in a platformer and you got something that makes having AIDS, all forms of cancer and being forced to listen to a Blood on the Dance Floor song all at once look like Heaven in comparison.
Seriously, fuck this whore.
If you can guest, I'm stuck on this shit boss fight.
Jasper Batt Jr from No More Heroes 2
the 2nd to last boss fight in the 1st sonic game... having to hit a flying enemy multiple times while dodging a trap-filled vertical (not even diagonal) climb PLUS the flooding water... fuck. that. boss. fight.
Kingdom Hearts 1, final secret boss, Xemnas. What makes this so bad? The free-spamming instakill move. Why is it bad? Strap yourself in:
- Fighting this boss starts with a 2 minute cutscene, which, as a reminder, was unskippable in the original release. Not as long a cutscene as the Ansem-possessed Riku fight, but still egregious.
- During the fight he has a ton of parries and dodges, so you have a hard time actually dropping his health bar. He throws up barricades that block attacks and spells, he moves around like an acrobatic dancer so EVERY attack also repositions him, he's got AOE orbs big enough that the dodge roll is useless, and his damage is high enough that even at level 70/100 you're still taking enough damage to need heals after every hit. And he has five - FIVE - health bars, each of which results in adding new moves to his already stupid arsenal. And this is where it gets really bad.
- After knocking down the first health bar, he starts using a SHOCK/RELEASE ability that freezes you in place, hurts you, and then puts you in "Press X to not die" instakill state. Except the button you have to press changes. "Release" shifts between the different menu commands and the triangle button rapidly, only slowing down right before it kills you, meaning you have either luck or perfect timing to not die. Each failed press also hurts you, and - OH - he's still firing off attacks while you're trying to de-curse yourself, and while this Shock curse is active you cannot use your normal attacks, magic, or block, so you're a sitting duck to the rest of his arsenal while you're trying to get this thing off. You can die to regular damage while trying to shake off this debuff.
- And this isn't a one-off. He. Keeps. Using. It. And he uses it more frequently, the more health bars he drops, until on his final bar he's using this move with every other attack. Because he doesn't have an attack pattern or a move rotation. The game chooses his moves randomly so that he can't be predicted on what he'll do next. Except the Shock/Release debuff goes up in probability. Each time he uses it, it delays the fight further while you shake it off. Each time he uses it, you're stuck for a moment with your momentum and flow destroyed. And each time he uses it, you can instantly lose and have to restart the fight.
By the final health bar, you're spending more time shaking off this fucking debuff than you are actually fighting. There's tiny little weakspots in his moveset where you can actually do damage, and these get harder and harder to hit as his moveset expands. He actively denies you gameplay and counterplay every step of the way. Xemnas isn't boring, he's actively AGGRAVATING and spends the entire fight in a state of denying the player any sense of success or progress in the fight.
The records for beating Xemnas generally are about 3-4 minutes playtime. But those are the players who've grinded him and know his moveset inside and out. The ones who don't? It's more like 8-10 minutes (plus the cutscene time) each time you die; it costs an enormous amount of potions and Ethers; and what you get for it is..... the last Ansem Lore Report, which is nice, and a ring to boost your Experience gain..... WHEN YOU NEED TO BE NEAR MAX LEVEL TO FIGHT HIM RELIABLY IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!! The ring is insult to injury!
And narratively? He just shrugs off the whole fight like it was nothing, says "I'm beyond your comprehension", and then fucks off to wait for us in KH2.
He doesn't challenge your knowledge of the game. He doesn't give you options for how to fight him, you have to use a very specific moveset. He negates combat flow. He spams instakill moves. And you get NOTHING OF VALUE for beating him. KH1 Xemnas is there to waste your time and leave you angry, nothing more, nothing less. You don't even feel satisfied when you finally win.
Seymour Asses and his stupid Mortibody
FFX has some surprisingly fun puzzle bosses, but Seymour is one of the weaker ones imo. He's got an arsenal of big dick damaging attacks as well as a spell that insta-gibs your Aeons. The Mortibody is his skeleton-dragon pal who keeps him healthy throughout the battle. If it weren't for his unreasonably high damage output it'd be a fun act of ensuring that Morty stays unconscious while also whittling away at Seymour's health bar. When you realize that you can just poison Seymour the fight becomes a cakewalk. But encountering him the first time... then again... and again drove me up a wall in my first playthrough as it felt very "Baby's first troll encounter"-esque.
Response to Any bosses that you hate with a burning passion? 2024-12-20 14:51:11 (edited 2024-12-20 14:53:14)
Xigbar in Kingdom Hearts 2. I was never able to get past him growing up.
Response to Any bosses that you hate with a burning passion? 2024-12-20 16:00:01 (edited 2024-12-20 16:01:04)
At 1/27/22 07:46 PM, Toxic-Tin-Can wrote:
This. This Fucking Bitch. Hate Him.
Is this Secret Rings? Rare I don't recognise a Sonic screenshot.
Ahh fuck, this is an old post, whoops.
At 12/20/24 04:00 PM, DeaghlanNG wrote:At 1/27/22 07:46 PM, Toxic-Tin-Can wrote:
This. This Fucking Bitch. Hate Him.
Is this Secret Rings? Rare I don't recognise a Sonic screenshot.
Ahh fuck, this is an old post, whoops.
Yep. It's not as bad as some people would lead you to believe, but this part is awful, probably one of the lowest points in the game.
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At 12/20/24 05:28 PM, Toxic-Tin-Can wrote:
Yep. It's not as bad as some people would lead you to believe, but this part is awful, probably one of the lowest points in the game.
Yeah, I played it back when it came out. Guess that part wasn't especially memorable.
The game was OK, but the fact it was on rails made me only play it once, maybe twice.
I like most bosses in Metaphor:Refantazio but the few centered on big damage sponges with no weaknesses are bullshit. Like Persona, it's supposed to do a version of Shin Megami Tensei's Press Action system, but when you take away any possibility of getting bonus actions from exploiting a weakness, it just devolves into rote SNES or PS1 era RPG strategies.
Doom II icon of sin because it wasn't a boss, it was a wall
At 10/16/21 01:40 PM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:I will put the Protector from Epic Battle Fantasy 3 here. Having a boss with a buff canceling laser and four minions that debuff your party while buffing it, healing it, having instant death moves (The Gunslinger guys after you kill one of the first minions), and giving you statuses is not good game design at all. It's the reason why I never finished the game. Fuck this boss.
Megaman X7's Red boss. This pain
Join The Rat Cult and grasp firmly.
At 1/24/22 08:30 AM, mightypotato wrote:
Biggest pain in the ass in all of video gaming
To me, it is easy, but Wily Wars Yellow Devil, Stage 1... That's to me even worse. As Megaman the Wily Wars to me is acceptable. As the magnet beam not being able to refill in that version, the slowdown or the easily cheesed... Maybe if didn't know how to cheese that boss fight, I would easily that it was worse.
Join The Rat Cult and grasp firmly.
Response to Any bosses that you hate with a burning passion? 2024-12-21 18:12:02 (edited 2024-12-21 18:21:02)
Wesker in RE5.
I still don't fully understand the mechanics of any of his three fights.
Every time I think I understand what I need to do, something just doesn't work properly.
The first fight with Wesker and Jill is like... on a timer... but you can drastically reduce the timer and get Wesker to leave early if you do things right (and get a better ranking)... but Wesker never cooperates. ...and trying to get the thing off of Jill's chest without killing her is sooo hit or miss.
The 2nd fight involves turning off lights, shooting an RPG with lights off, shooting the rpg after wesker catches it, then having your teammate hold wesker while you inject him. At any step of the way, things just seem to not fucking work randomly... and reloading the rpg is such a massive pain (one shot with it, then climb three ladders to get a rocket, takes 2 players to reload etc.)
Third fight, you need to shoot the little orange dot, but sometimes you can spend all day long shooting it with the most powerful weapon, and he will just take 0 damage, because some sort of scripted nonsense needs to happen first.
ughhh
Wesker is the boss of one of the DLC's as well... and as much as I love the rest of the game, I never even bothered playing the DLC because I never wanted to fight that shitlord ever again.
От каждого по способностям, каждому по потребностям
At 12/18/24 05:26 PM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:
Necroing this thread to vent about this slut.
Fuck her and her horribly bitch in the ass to dodge attacks that make me wonder who the hell am I suppose to dodge them, some have piss poor telegraphing. Doesn't help that some moves like should have crosslines don't. Combine all of this with Rabi-Ribi's questionable at best use of danmaku in a platformer and you got something that makes having AIDS, all forms of cancer and being forced to listen to a Blood on the Dance Floor song all at once look like Heaven in comparison.
Seriously, fuck this whore.
If you can guest, I'm stuck on this shit boss fight.
I'll like to add something to this: What kind of fucking boss punishes the player for progressing in the game?! What were the developers thinking?! Basically, her gimmick is that she copies what items and power ups you have.
Have a full screen bomb as a consumable item? She can use a bullshit fullscreen as an attack. Have health upgrades? Fight takes longer now. Gotten a certain power up? Too bad, here a bitch to dodge attack from her.
Seriously, who thought this was a good idea for a boss fight?!
It depends how difficult the Boss is, not in base of personality and character alone.
One of them is Morpho Knight X.
Sonic Superstars Bosses
Monsoon is hard in Metal Gear Rising.
Response to Any bosses that you hate with a burning passion? 2025-02-19 10:04:33 (edited 2025-02-19 10:06:49)
Shao Khan specifically from MK9's Story Mode. You're forced to play as Raiden, which if you're not good with, you're gonna have a rough time. His Damage Output is backbreaking, while taking barely any damage from your moves. The best way to fight him is to just cheese him during his projectile moves and even than you can still get caught by a high damaging move if you're just a split second slow on the counterattack. Oh, and he has super armor too so enjoy some of your moves not making him flinch
