We all love a challenging video game boss but some of them push it a little too far.
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"Let Me Solo Her" remains the Robin Hood needed for Devs to be humbled.
Would like to see a list of gimmicky boss fights that worked well and was genuinely fun and innovative
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Rykard has to be there
Psycho Mantis in the original MGS?
@@sottonkMiss that.
Super Shredder. TMNT circa 1989
I think Square's design philosophy with regards to nearly every single turned based FF is essentially; Acts 1 & 2: this is for everyone to jump into and enjoy at their own pace. Fairly light on challenge but not overly hand-holdy. Allows you to explore and expirement with combat if you're so inclined (beyond just attack attack attack) Act 3: we hope you have been paying close attention and taking notes.
Thats most games these days... they teach you mechanics with early easier fights or with puzzles prior to that, then theres a early boss that uses a version of something where that mechanic or skill is put to use, then later bosses mix and match multiple of those mechanics together. I mean even something as novel as "It Takes Two" does this same thing. The puzzles and platforming prior to a boss are teaching you the mechanics/skills to be put to use in the boss fight itself. So if you're actually playing/improving as you go through up to the bosses, its pretty easy to understand what to do FOR the boss. The problem then is in executing those skills/mechanics in either a tighter timing window, in quick succession, etc. I mean, take the rufus fight as an example, its a tough fight sure, but if you're using clouds dodge>attack to do ranged wind slashes with his blade you can pretty easily keep his ATB bar at at least 1 to be able to emergency heal if you mess up the counters enough (skills you should have developed over the course of playing), or use the plethora of materia combos in the game to be able to increase ATB fill rate or just give yourself ATB charges in a pinch (which you should have been doing with all that materia you were picking up and learning to use). I can see him being a cockblock on hardmode since you cant use items and have limited MP effectively... but thats what "hardmode" is about.
I was about to call it quits on the Godskins, until a kind soul told me about sleep pots.
a mimic level 8-10 also does the job.
You're lucky, I was complaining that they took me nearly 2 straight hrs to defeat and my friend said "Why didn't you just use sleep pots?" I raged 😂
Was this kind soul perchance *dark* ?
Sword of St. Trina
Took me days to beat them, kept leaving and doing other stuff and coming back, sadly didn't find the sleep pot strat so it took sheer will to overcome lol
“Gameranx posted 3 new videos” you know youre in for a good day.
Same
That’s to make up for the short Friday news update
Did they?? I only see two
Plus Wrestlemania on today
Talking about Gears bosses …. That Berserker boss fight in Gears 1 had me snap that Xbox disk and yell obscenities into my neighbourhood! 😡 🤬 … never went back to it! I was 12 or so at the time but failing that berserker fight a million times made me angry for at least a week 😅😅😅
I swear Square Enix has a fetish for hard boss fights. I played Last Remnant and Bravely default and in some parts the bosses felt like I was a mortal man fighting superman with no kyptonite.
Bravely Default 2 has the archtype of two bosses that heals each other on the freakinf first boss. While it wasn't hard, at the first boss? really?
@@DaakkuuYRS BD2 sucks. It's the sequel trilogy of the Bravely series. Please play BD and BS if you get the chance. BD is my favorite JRPG of all time and my 2nd favorite game of all time. BD2 is mid everything with horrid writing, soulless characters, boring dungeons, and insulting combat.
@@SilverDreamweaver I don't have any available method of playing them. First, my 3DS is dead. If it wasn't dead the E-Shop is dead and it means getting the game on overpriced second hand market. Even emulation isn't possible as my laptop can barely run DS games.
They do, the Final Fantasy last bosses are reknown/infamous for being insane hard. Final Fantasy III last boss (Lilith I believe) is a 3 on one fight. One side is inmune to physical damage but weak agaisnt magick. The other side is vice versa and the main body you can hit it with whatever. What makes this fight hard is that each side has one turn and the main body has 2 turns, it can heal and has a few skills that can deal damage to all party members or land critical hits on a single target while also buffing itself or nerfing your team. The game uses the job system and, I couldn't beat the game with anything that wasn't the D&D team composition. Knight, Ninja, Magus, Sage.
@@SilverDreamweaverno one's talking to you boykid
An honorable, or dishonorable mention would be the final boss in Clock Tower 3. I almost threw my PS2 in the trash over that one.
Omg that fight is too long and makes u restart the entire thing over again if u die, and in NG+ it's even longer, I'd sat up to 10 minutes +. This should be on this list!
unrelated but Jake sounds like he’s low on T 😂
So Godskin Duo is pretty much "What if we did Smough and Ornstein, but suck out all the fun."
I'unno, with my mimic it wasn't so hard.
git gud
Why is this boss so hated?, it's one of the ones complained about that I didn't find that bad and I'm not very good at souls games, still haven't fully beat elden ring... Maliketh and the draconic tree sentinel in the same area was way worse than them...
Double Gargoyles I found tougher
those guys are easy. Just use your katanas and not a slow clunky two handed weapon. also the gargoyles can kiss may ass. They SUCK!
That matriarch boss, holy Christ, it’s such a long fight and the damn spikes she throws at you are heat seeking missiles that NEVER miss, it’s insane
@_Cinenerd_Clearly they are, or at least some of them, or you wouldn't be here, would you?
Not to say it's not an annoying fight, it is. But you can pretty reliably dodge the spikes it throws. It's a timing thing and the timing is different for the 2 attacks it has. Dodge roll or hide behind the pillars. Just tried it myself to be sure, as all the KZhead videos about it were useless😅
I didn't have that much trouble with her compared to the Berserker fight from the first game on 360.
Git gud
honestly it took me so damn long and i hated it so much, i bet many never completed Gears 5 because of it
We will just not mention the fact that whoever was playing at 10:44 had 940 million runes😂
What does it mean
Dawg I saw that lmao homie was playing a dangerous game 😂
@@holdupits420That is at least 2 ng+ worth of that games currency for an average player. In DS, if you die, you drop your currency and have to pick it back up. Add to the fact that Capra Demon is complete BS, let's just say whoever was playing the game in the footage was really tempting fate.
In Dark Souls 1 its souls not runes 😅
its done with the cheat engine
The Capra demon scared tf outta me when I first passed through the fog idk what they were expecting when they made such a small area for a boss who jumps like lebron with every attack, I finally beat him and threw my controller at the floor after still cause I was pissed they even included that boss in the game lol
Man I wish more people would talk about Bellower from The Banner Saga 1. That boss fight had such a weird, steep AF difficulty spike on literally every difficulty level. I think the devs eventually nerfed it a bit, but man did they take their sweet time doing so.
True The first time i faced it, i started a new save to see if i missed something dueing the story cause i just kept losing against it
Yeah I remember just surviving that one … just … I think it was just one spear man left and I just went all in and poked him!
I thought you were supposed to lose as part of the story, it was so unexpectedly hard!
i remember playing tekken 5 a lot when i was younger,was stuck on the jinpachi boss fight for a very long time,what a rush when i defeated him
That’s the only NA Release I did not play.
Jinpachi wasn’t that hard. If you don’t know how to play Tekken properly, then sure.
@@en6173 who’s your main(s)?
@@JayRacer I’m a Nina/Anna player.
@@en6173my man, I’m a Tekken veteran and Jinpachi is definitely the hardest final boss in the series. If you’re playing on easy you can cheese the dumb AI but anything above medium, you just need to get lucky that he doesn’t stun you.
I spent like two hours bashing my head against a wall in that Rufus battle. The only thing that kept me from giving up was sheer stubbornness.
Rufus was a pain but I got him on my second or third try (not bragging, he really was a pain in the ass). Have you beat Rebirth yet, because I had a WAY harder time with the finale. Some real BS in the last fight!
He's vulnerable to Triple Slash, it really messes him up especially when his dog is in the arena, also if you land one Braver while he's reloading it will stagger him in one shot, alternatively you can put him to sleep and land Braver for a free stagger. Its a gimmick fight, i'm not a fan either but this strategy make him easy even on Hard Mode, if you fight him again now you know.
-Elizabeth from P3. No indication that if you reflect, drain or null an attack she instantly KO's you for it, on top of having to beat her in 50 turns. -Galdera from Octopath. Even with advanced classes, he still makes your characters look like babies. -Absolute Radiance in Hollow Knight, waiting for you after a 45 battle boss rush. I agree with the KH fight but I would put Malenia over Duo because I still have ptsd from waterfowl dance and that is after it was nerfed.
malenia would be fine if it wasn't for that GOD AWFUL lifesteal. Everything else I can get behind but that lifesteal is THE worst.
I just finished Rebirth, and even though Rufus was hard, it’s the finale I found just flat out frustrating and unfair. No spoilers, but the ending is a gauntlet boss rush and has multiple unskippable cut scenes. If you die you start over and have to fight several multi-phase bosses again and again. Then the actual FINAL boss has a BS mode once you get them down to the last sliver of health, and just throws everything they have at you. I was pissed. I literally just beat it a few minutes ago, so it’s still a fresh wound.
Yeah, that whole thing just seemed to go on forever, and that last part? Please. I think I actually started to insult the developers' ancestors at that point. I can't wait to start my second playthrough.
Great stuff like always, gang. I am actually awaiting a surgical consultation to determine whether or not they are going to amputate my finger and possibly my hand or even my arm, so the distraction of friendly familiar videos is helping me through one of the hardest times in my entire life. Thanks for all the great content.
the way I figured out back in the day against Jinpachi Mishima was remaping the R1 and R2 button to move in the Z plane, that was for me the only way to dodge those freaking lasers, I know you can move that direction softly taping the down or up arrow but as Jake said, the gap for dodging was to tight.
You could also quickly double tap up or down for side steps.
glad you included yunalesca. I replayed FFX recently and I forgot how frustrating that fight was. Zombie is so annoying to manage, especially when you need to keep it on certain characters!
Bosses that have thugs doing the heavy work absolutely SUCK.
God of war Ragnarok at the end of the game on Muselheim. The queen of the valkyries boss battle was hard for me. It took me like 100 tries to beat her. But I was playing on Normal. But there are definitely some unfair bosses out there
Seriously dude. I gave up on the game for about 6 months then finally lowered the difficulty to easy just for that fight. Got tired of wasting my precious time haha
Hard bosses and unfair is completely different. All these bosses in the list were unfair by design and had bullshit mechanics that made the fight mostly RNG.
@@mitchellcarter2799 I would argue that boss is pretty unfair. The problem is just the way it's animated. Their attacks are intentionally unnatural. They're often super slow on the wind up, and then when the actual attack comes it's so fast you can't even see it. And the parry timing is very unforgiving.
The re4 double blind guys got me so bad in professional difficulty for hours 😭
@JG-MV yea after like two hours I got past it
Rest for the game was easy for me
Rocket Launcher
@@dansmith16 I was not spending 160 k on that
Everyone knows that us gamers are chronic masochists.
2 Gameranx videos in one day? WE WINNING
In my first play through of Elden ring I played as a caster I had no idea the Duo was hard I beat them so quickly. I am doing a rerun now in preparation for the expansion as melee and I am excited for them to be a challenge. I’ll likely regret saying that. It is such a great game!!
They're only difficult if you don't summon. Even then they're also only difficult if you don't use sleep pots
@@connor7296 I did not use summons nor did I know about the sleep potions. But I was a caster and alot of things felt trivial that likely shouldn’t have. I don’t usually like looking up strategies in my first play through of games just to keep it as spoiler free as possible. The only time I used a summon was Melenia. I could NOT beat her no matter what I tried and I tried her at least 40 times. My BF got her after about 20 tries and he was hardcore no summons he wanted to get it himself, we don’t judge anyone who does it was just how we wanted to do it. This time around I am using all the things. Elden ring is such a great game.
Thanks for the video. Good topic. If you cannot beat a boss after a certain number of tries, I think it's totally fair to "cheese" it if possible. Especially if you've left the game for a while, come back and are still unable to beat said boss. If the alternative is to get so frustrated that you stop playing the game, then why not?
The alternative is get good
Starting the video with a cutscene of Melenia. Perfection!
OMG I CANT BELIEVE YOU BROUGHT UP SILVER SONIC. I LITERALLY NEVER BEAT THAT GAME AS A KID BECAUSE OF THAT FIGHT
I'm playing Sonic Frontiers, or at least I was until I got stuck on the second boss. The flying asshole that you have to parry to attack? Not sure if it's a glitch but he stopped even doing that attack so I run out of rings and then have to spend the next 10 minutes getting back to that point only for him to do the same thing. SUUUUUCKS
Majima and Saijima in Yakuza Like A Dragon (Yakuza 7) i had to grind from Level 53 to 60 to beat them buggers (but hey at least Receive You The Hyperactive was a banger Game Over theme song :'D)
Yakuza 7 has really shitty difficulty spike indeed. The real issue is the final boss, which has OHKO move, and he does on a random character. If he chooses Ichiban you lose as Y7 has the stupid idea that if the MC lose, you lose the fight. So it is up to luck. I got lucky and he chose Saeko but it is just so unfair.
Ichiban has a skill that allows him to survive the attack; and for the others, I used an item or something I don’t remember the name. It’s been a while since I played the game, but you just need to cheese the boss’ cheese attack 😂
Ah, the good on golden tower and it's cheapness, legendary difficulty just makes the pain even more 😢😢
Can we take a moment to appreciate how absolutely banger of a track the Sans fight is set to?! Gets me pumped every time I hear it.
Glad to see Rufus Shinra. I struggled so much with him until I tried using the special attack shortcuts (L1+??). That extra split second you save not using the atb menu makes all the difference.
The difficulty of the Godskin fights can vary a lot depending on your build, though that's true for several boss fights. I had a Dex/Arcane build during my first three play throughs so I was able to do significant damage to their health and I didn't need sleep items or summons, but the version of the Noble in the Spiritcaller Cave gave me a lot of trouble because he is immune to bleeds (being a spirit) and there are no pillars to block his fat rolling. I had to learn to dodge it which can be difficult since his hit boxes aren't the easiest to ascertain. What's really annoying is that you can stun him out of the fatroll but as soon as he recovers he jumps right back into it so you're not shortening its length or being given much opportunity to punish.
Gameranx. My happy place.
@_Cinenerd_ & no one cares F off
@_Cinenerd_who asked?
@_Cinenerd_ Then, here's a thought, don't click on videos about video games. Simples.
For me, A good boss fight is one where you're not doing an iInterpretive dance number, and you're able to use different moves abilities and options. When you're stuck having to do the same two step strat on bosses. That's how the game becomes boring and unplayable. This is why I say Castlevania Lords of shadow is objectively worse than Dante's Inferno (2010). C:LoS constantly forced you to use less and less moves as the games went on with boss fights. So you could unlock all these badass combos just to have them be useless by the end of the game. Compare that to DI (2010) you got a combo it works for the ENTIRE game. You get a move, it works on EVERY boss. You got to play the game with whatever ability you liked, and whatever strat you wanted. Which is objectively fun.
When thinking of "unfair", the Dahaka from Prince Of Persia comes to mind. His attacks can range from 5% to 90% of your health (depending on the difficulty), and he has a move where he shoots tentacles out of the ground, on completely random places. Dodging them feels more like luck than skill. Oh yeah, did I mention he regenerates 70% of his health twice during the battle? Dude is a monster. Literally. Only way I ever beat him was either: playing the games on easy mode, or lose 20 times until he's nerved to oblivion.
oh, you reminded me of Oblivion, the next-to-last boss in Turok 3! he has a strange trick where he's invincible except when attacking, (i think), AND he recovers 50% of his health once if you are playing on normal difficulty, and twice on Hard! one good point: occasionally he will become "stunned" or "out of breath", and sit in place panting though his weird mouth, and THEN you can de extra damage IF you shoot him IN that mouth. i have no idea what can trigger that...with one exception: IF you manage to find all 6 parts of the secret "black hole gun", (or whatever it was called) then you can stun him with THAT for sure!
#9 reminds me of a lot of the Hunters in the Halo games...except that they always came in pairs. #6 i heard the the trick with Silver is to avoid him until he picks up a chair or table. BUT, i've also heard that it's possible for him to trap you in an endless loop, where he slams you into a wall, you pick up one ring, he slams you again, ENDLESSLY, until/unless you turn the game off!
The first penitant from blasphemous 2 is insanee
They taught us how to fight Rufus in Remake - also a 1v1/1v2. I'm not sure why so many seemed to struggle with him this time around, in particular. It was the same gimmick.
I pretty much have the cutscenes before fighting Yunaleseca memorized as I had to sit through them so many times.
From Castlevania dawn of sorrow skull mannequin that clone you over the coffins, second playthrough Is dramatic. It has got a large stamina too.
Shao Khan in MK9 and before I knew how to beat The End in MGS3 Snake Eater
I still refuse to go back and replay MK9 because of how cheap Shao Khan is.
@@iamskyfall just jump back behind him when he attacks and hit him with upper cut. works like a charm.😁
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reminds me of a simple strategy i found for beating Shao Kahn in Mk3. just crouch and wait for him to do a upward slide. the tricky part is that you musn't BLOCK when he does that attack, you you will get knocked back! there's one interesting exception: Striker! he has a smaller hitbox when crouching than any other character!
The alpha hunter duo in halo infinite was infuriating
I don’t remember anything about that game being hard lbs
@@Easymoneysniper5 on legendary my ass raged more than once
9:26 Huh, those are some old Soviet arcade machines. "Lucky Shot", "Safari", "Overtake", "Sniper 2", "Torpedo Attack"
Man, I’m so glad I managed to beat the doom dlc before it was patched, it was mind numbing in difficulty but it was SO satisfying to finally get it
I haven’t played any Final Fantasy games, what is the best one for beginners to play?
7 or 10 but you can emulate 1,2,3 and 4 with PSP emulation.
Same and I want to know because the newer ones look cool and I want to play them and get into it and I want to understand all the lore. So hopefully someone answers 😂
7, 8, 9, 10, 10x2 & 12
@@MrNeverDrownFinal fantasy remake and rebirth if you like 3D stuff like me if want 2D too then play all and then Final fantasy 15 it's very good too has one of the most huge side boss aka a mountain size turtle 🐢
@@jaydeebow6431Thanks, I have been hearing good things about Final Fantasy 7
I haven’t even watched the vid and I’m pretty sure the boss is from sekiro or a souls game
Glock saint ishhin
@_Cinenerd_I see your either a bot or trying to troll… if by 0.001% chance your real I’ll just ask why are you still on this vid then?
I don't feel like Sekiro has any unfair boss fights
@@REHEHEHEEH0it’s a bot 100% that’s the only thing it commented in its history
The doom DLC pissed me off the whole time and didn’t enjoy it at all 😂
Myrkul the Lord of bones from Baldur's Gate 3, should definitely be on the list. He's basically a surprise encounter, does hella damage, has multiple henchman that can heal him, hitting him can be difficult and the list goes on
The twin crucible knight optional boss was way harder than the godskin duo in elden ring. I think a lot of people just skipped that dungeon but you had to master parrying to beat them.
Yall fast lmao
@_Cinenerd_ Didn't Asked!!!
Detlaff in Witcher 3 Blood and Wine.
The bats are really the only thing you need to worry about, other than that the fights pretty easy
Detlaff is easy
@@bernardoheusi6146 very
I’m currently playing the surge 2. Fantastically fun combat, the bosses in that game have come to make my question life itself
I always dreaded two Ninja Gaiden bosses on Xbox: Alma and the 2 tanks fight. I remember they were so frustrating, and the Alma fight had another irritating cutscene. Now I kinda want to replay it lol
I just replayed them and I say go for it if you want to raise your blood pressure
Going through the fiend underworld on master ninja was pure nightmare fuel
Abyss & Night Terror from Soulcalibur III should've made this list, they're far *quicker* than they should be, as in, a lot of their *slowest* can interrupt a lot of your *fastest* attacks, they've both got attacks that're as fast as their *normal* attacks & are *unblockable* , & if you thought input *reading* was bad, they both actually *transfer* your grab inputs to *them* so that instead of you grabbing & throwing them like *should* happen, *they* grab & throw *you* ! & Night Terror's even *worse* about being unfair than Abyss because at least Abyss largely sticks to the *ground* & it's actually *possible* to ring him out; but Night Terror, oh no; he has this *ridiculously* powerful laser shooting attack he flies into the *air* to perform, putting him outta the reach of *most* attacks (even Infernos *ridiculous* charging spin blade move doesn't do that), & if you manage to knock him outta the ring, he just flies right back up! Given all that, I'm surprised the two of them didn't even get a *mention* in this list!
I didn’t even watch yet but I feel like the valkyrie queen will be included
I remember defeating the Mysterious Figure when I was about 13 and it was one of the most difficult bosses I ever fought. I found out later that you can just spam Thunder Surge to defeat him cheaply, but I'm glad I did it the proper way.
YOU CAN WAHT?!
@@jordanbaldridge2242 Yeah, you just equip yourself with nothing but Curagas and Thunder Surges, spamming Thunder Surge keeps him stunned, every now and then he'll break out of it and hit you but then you just need to heal yourself and go back to spamming Thunder Surge.
@@coreymcdiarmid2612 I fought him for such a long time. And I could of just done that...well I'll reach him on the remaster in proud mode soon so guess I know what to do now lol thanks!
Magneto from X Men Children Of The Atom back in the 90s. Had this on my Sega Saturn. No idea how many times I played this game and I never beat him.
Any post moon lord calamity infernum boss, some take 100 hours alone to beat
@_Cinenerd_ Then what are you doing here?
I was gonna scream if you didnt include the hooded figure from birth by sleep, trying to fight him, on proud mode, especially in aquas story, it was absolute hell..
9:26 - I used to play some of those Soviet arcades...my favorite was the Submarine one called Torpedo attack (the one to the right)
Shoutout to that one Knight guarding Malekith in Elden Ring.
• Kaiser Knuckle’s hidden boss: General. Made to be unfair • Magical Drop III’s Black Pierrot secret stage. Instant tp to useful bubbles. • Art of Fighting 2’s Geese Howard
Maybe you could show some love for VR on this channel "Top 10 Underrated VR games" or "10 Vr games that could convert flat gamers to Vr, like Half Life Alyx, Red Matter 2, Lone Echo etc ". Would be great to see a big channel like this help to raise awareness for the platform.
Best videos in gaming 💯% Thanks as always Gameranx
Not a double Gameranx upload noice
Sonic06 actually had some decent bosses and Silver's not actually that hard once you figure out that he has no defense against you sliding into it, if you homing attack him all the time he'll grab you easily but if you slide into him that won't happen, it also helps to focus the camera on him at all times so you can tell when he's vulnerable after he just finishes throwing stuff at you.
I was dreading the fight with the godskin duo and I also had no idea about the sleep mechanic but when I got to them it only took me two tries surpringly without using sleep.
I've never been lucky enough to face any of these bosses, but there have definitely been a few times I've raged on boss battles.
Not a boss fight but the arena challenge in Horizon Forbidden west is unfairly hard. You have to pay for it using your ingame currency, you have to defeat the machines within the time limit. If you fail to do it, you get nothing and the challenge is not cleared. The arena is a small and cramped place and the machines are somehow more aggressive than they're in the wild. A lot of people suggested to lower the difficulty as there are some legendary equipments you can get from the medals.
Thanks Square- for endless hours of fun and frustration.
Would be cool if when you killed Godskins separately they didn't appear in Farum Azula but if you don't previously then you'd have to fight them in the end.wether its just one or both.
I actually managed to one try the Godskin Duo. Mimic tear and sorcery took them down pretty quickly, which is usually the case with most bosses in these games. If you can stay out of range and pelt spells, you can avoid damage quite easily. The Mysterious Figure in KH BBS is just a terribly designed boss in every way. He zips around so fast the camera loses track of him. The FOV is extremely narrow. He can two shot you and even if you're max level, he's still almost impossible. Screw that boss.
The Biolizard in Sonic adventure 2, Volo in Pokemon legends Arceus, and The final boss in Prototype were hard boss fights
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My worst Boss experience is Orphan of Cos new game plus 7 from Bloodborne. Tried about 200 or 300 times and gave up in the end sadly. What makes the boss fight so difficult is that the guy can do fly attack in his second form. You can't fly in the game so good luck with that xD
Yeah even though I managed to solo all the other Bloodborne fights and found them extremely hard, Orphan of Cos and Maria I had to get summon help for. Maria I think I could have learned if I'd had the patience, and her attacks are cool, but Cos is just really annoying.
1. Twin demon princes-Dark Souls 3 Ringed City DLC 2. Lubu- Dynasty Warriors 3 3. Nightmare- Devil May Cry 4. Keeper- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Der Eisendrache (current patch) 5. Sephiroth- Kingdom Hearts 2 6. Dragon God- Demon Souls 7. Nightmare King Grimm- Hollow Knight 8. Wrath(2nd encounter)- Darksiders 3 9. Gaul- The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night 10. General Leang- Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour Honorable mention. The 2 white knights at the end of path of pain in hollow knight
I still have painful memories of Goro (MK1) and Shao Kahn (UMK3 & MK Trilogy) kicking my ass over & over as a kid. Then when I got slightly older, Seth from Street Fighter IV did it all over again. That's probably why I don't play fighting games anymore 😅
Yeah Rufus can be tedious, but if you are patient, attack him in the reload phase, then he will be much easier
When I was a kid, I played through Legend of Legia on the PS1 a few times. About a third of the way through the game, you fight a Minotaur boss (I think his name was Xan?). The fight was so hard and I lost so many times, I thought that it was scripted and I was missing something in the dungeon leading to him. Nope, he was just OP. Most bosses in that game ended up being like that though.
The Ancient Gods Pt. 1 was brutal. I finished it, but has to be one of the toughest DLC/ game I’ve ever played.
I was shocked at what difficulty level I had to drop to in order to complete it 🤣
i legit found it so brutal on console that when i beat it i didnt feel satisfaction but relief that it was finally over rip
Unfair boss, Imo Jingu from Yakuza Kiwami totally count. It's like bring a knife to a gun fight except you don't even have a knife
Honestly a boss I found unfair was the Shriek boss in Ori and The Will of The Wisps when it destroys the entire platform and your're forced to bounce off of the attacks it throws at you while also avoiding the hailstorm of the same attacks and if you fall you die, I found it especially hard when there were no hailstorm things close enough to bounce off of and you have no choice but to fall and redo that part again.
Jake, I’d agree with you godskin duo for a first playthrough but when you find out about sleep being their biggest weakness the fight becomes trivial and unfair from their perspective. Either having sleep pots or the sleep torch from consecrated snowfield makes them seem like pushovers
I've never understood the godskin duo uproar. I've died to them once in my 8+ playthroughs. Difficult for sure, but nowhere near as bad as other boss fights in the game. I also learned today they're vulnerable to sleep so easy cheese too 🤷♂
The Gears 5 guy I died a LOT. Had to change my difficulty down to just get him killed. Did the freeze gun, the shooting ice thing etc. Was tough.
For me, one of the worst bosses i fought was good 'ol U3. Add awkward controls to the fight and you got yourself a proper RE boss. Even in VR, I still struggled with this boss.
Now I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one getting his ass kicked by Rufus, the guy had me on the ropes the entire fight
I also feel your pain.
I’m not a souls bro by any stretch but the Godskin Duo with the Guts build paired Lion’s Claw was a walk in the park. It only took 3 tries.
I think I've seen, what, 3 of these lists from you guys and every time I think: "Okay, THIS will be the one where they talk about Gill from Street Fighter 3: Third Strike". But no. Gotta keep waiting.
The godskin duo wouldn't be a bad fight if it was just two, but it's three and a half. They feel like they were supposed to end with a duo fight, but by the time the player gets there, they are so overleveled they needed to up the difficulty with the three and a half gimmick.
To be honest, people underestimate the Sleep status in Elden Ring more than they should. Even if an enemy or boss isn't fully weak to Sleep, they tend to have a stagger animation that triggers instead of the full-on Sleep status, but that's still a useful window you can use to safely heal, buff up or even just get some easy hits in. Thanks to that Dolores, who just fires Sleep Arrows constantly and stays away from danger, is in general a pretty reliable Spirit Ash. Or, if you don't want to use Sleep at all, you almost showed a good way to deal with the Godskin Noble's rolling BS, namely by jumping on one of the destroyed pillars. He sometimes does weird stuff with that but it's usually a pretty safe spot to also dish out some damage.
To add to the mysterious figure from Birth By Sleep. Once you manage to drop their HP so much (I believe half but maybe quarter) this neat thing happens where they split and make 6 or 7 total copies....that all have access to all of their moves...most fun thing ever was fighting 6 invisible ones while the one.visible was spamming the X slash...my poor psp...
Gameranx going all out this month. Let's gooooooo
I was thinking about getting that first game
As someone who recently had my first Dark Souls 1 playthrough, I agree wholeheartedly about the capra demon
Damn was not expecting the PSP deep cut there at #1. All the Kingdom Hearts secret bosses are ridiculous, but you certainly picked the most frustrating.
Fun fact the Godskins weren't supposed to be weak to the sleep pots. As soon as you put one to sleep the other is supposed to immediately wake him up but there's a glitch or bug that prevents it from happening. If you fight them in another area you'll see it happen
Talking about Gears bosses …. That Berserker boss fight in Gears 1 had me snap that Xbox disk and yell obscenities into my neighbourhood! 😡 🤬 … never went back to it! I was 12 or so at the time but failing that berserker fight a million times made me angry for at least a week 😅😅😅
Yeah the Matriarch was a cake walk next to that bastard, thankfully's he's a lot easier in the Definitive Edition on Xbox One.
I think a lot of times it can come down to play styles, too. Personally, the Godskin Duo fight was quite easy for me, and I didn't even know about their vulnerability to sleep effects. On the flip side, Alecto killed me nearly as many times as Malenia.
Bro jinpachi in tekken 5 was the bane of my childhood but with hours of practice I beat him with every character except kuma😢😂
Rufus was sooo fuuun he’s always forcing you to figure him out and tweak your materia just right, especially since it is a tighter battle being a 1-vs-1 (Chakra materia is one of your best friends here! among others). And I never used countering against him. I noticed he always reloads (leaving him vulnerable, using Assess materia on him gives you that particular nugget of info) after his “Guns Akimbo” move in his first phase. Until then, you can just utilize your block until the moment is right, then POUNCE! You don’t have to change too much in phase 2, but moments where he reloads changes slightly and he just has more moves to dodge. You can just ignore Darkstar. In fact, he kinda makes it easier because now you have something else to attack to gain ATB since Rufus will just counter your attacks (albeit something else to dodge as well). There is so much speed and reflex required for the battle it was an amazing rush!
5:55 i went through so much pain fighting Samuel, and im replaying Ancient Gods rn and I've gotten to that fight