Video Game Bosses That Make You Want To Throttle A Game Designer

[katiuska]

Originally Posted by Toastburner B

Really, the only dungeon I remember having a harder time with is the dungeon where all the doors are monsters. I believe that is the same one with the Evil Wall boss, so that's just all the more reason to look forward to it.

Lord... I don't remember the Dark Elf cave giving me much grief, but I died like 5 times fighting the Evil Wall before I finally said "fuck it" and leveled a bunch. I just couldn't seem to do damage quickly enough.

In the DS version I didn't have that problem, so I don't know if they extended the time before it starts using instant-kill or I just suck a lot less than I used to.

[synkr0nized]

hahaha
That fucking wall.




Recently, I've been quite frustrated with my buddy Hazama in Continuum Shift. Health degen/regen fields and near-instant triggering of ultras makes for a pain in my butt. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if I got more into the cancel mechanics.

Really, I seem to get the angriest at fighting game bosses. Genra was a giant source of my hatred for a while, and similarly so was Alpha (both from the DoA series). They get given mechanics that regular players and even CPU opponents don't, and that's just annoying.

[Seil]

Console or PC?

PS3.

EDIT What the crap, Flemeth? What the crap?

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Seil

PS3.

EDIT What the crap, Flemeth? What the crap?

Just throw fireballs and CoC's at everything like it's going out of business, then. All your problems shall be solved.

Also: Flemeth ain't that bad. At least she stays in one spot.

Edit@DarkElfCave:

Some of Cecil's swords are non-magnetic and he can wear robes. Cid can equip wooden wrenches or bows, as well. That just leaves removing your iron accessories from your mages, and you can use your entire party.

It's not that hard if you prepare properly.

Edit 2: Or maybe Cecil should be using a bow too. I don't remember THAT well, but I know I had my entire party working well.

[Marc v4.0]

The only problem I ever had in DA:O on my 360 was GOD DAMN YOUR SHITTY PORTING WORK GO CLIMB A WALL OF DICKS!

That was the real hardest boss.

Well, that and the difference between quality DLC work between ME2 and DA:O, or what passes for quality on DA:O...

[Aerozord]

Oh, the final boss in Super Smash Bros Brawl, a one hit KO, that he launches three times in a row, and can only be dodged by side-stepping.

And of course all his other one hit KO attacks

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

Oh, the final boss in Super Smash Bros Brawl, a one hit KO, that he launches three times in a row, and can only be dodged by side-stepping.

And of course all his other one hit KO attacks

Easy, just side step three times. If you want to know how to master it, look up perfect runs of Boss Battle mode on Youtube. I personally prefer Jigglypuff for fighting him though.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Aldurin

Easy, just side step three times. If you want to know how to master it, look up perfect runs of Boss Battle mode on Youtube. I personally prefer Jigglypuff for fighting him though.

....I said in the post how to avoid it.

I know how

But timing a side step is among the hardest skills to master in the game and not only do you have to do it three consecutive times, but if you screw up once, just once, its instant death.

PS I hate instant death bosses in general. But normally that isn't nearly 100% of their moves

[akaSM]

I got some indie games not so long ago.

Suguri: every single boss has been this to me so far D:, I'm stuck in stage 3 on both easy and normal. Having one life bar for the whole stage while the bossed have 3 (I think) life bars make the game pretty hard, even on easy >_>

Acceleration of Suguri XE: The secret boss, I have no trouble getting past the normal characters, even getting only A and S ranks in them but, I barely defeated the secret boss on normal difficulty, and that was spamming super attacks D:.

Also, I second Dullahan from GS: TLA, I hate that Djinn Storm D:. Either you need to get lucky or, boost your elemental stats (they're related to the summons' attack power) insanely in the first turns AND then use all the summons you can before Djinn Storm comes and you get raped. Getting a level 99 party (getting to lv 99 just as hard as making a castle of obsidian in Minecraft, the normal way, i.e. no duped,generated stuff or any kind of cheating) to fight him on the other hand, reverses the situation >:3.

OTOH, fighting the secret bosses of that game is quite fun (yup, even Dullahan, specially after getting Iris) so, I don't want to throttle anyone, except for the fact you can only replay boss battles in a random battle arena thing.

Also, SSBB's last boss isn't so hard after you learn to sidestep but then, there's the Boss Battles thing D:

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Krylo

MorriganxWarden OTP.

She's all like,

"But what do you think we should do"

And I'm like,

"Murder all the fuckin' orphans, OBVSLY!"

And she's like "Fuck yeah!" *air guitar*

*High five*

*Chestbump*

"GO TEAM EVIL"

And then Alaster gets all weepy and shit for some reason.