Cheapest boss characters
Every gamer under the sun has faced a boss characeter in a game that just fights so f***ing dirty that it sends them into a altered state of mind.... a state of mind know as gamer rage (see also: throwing controllers, shouting obscenities, biting the heads off of orphened baby chipmunks). What I want to know is what boss character (Mini-bosses count too) has sent you furthest down that path & what the craziest thing that a boss fight has made you do or say (censor it with *'s if it is super bad.... no need to corrupt the children).
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Still a great game, though. I'm not sure if the patch fixed everything (I haven't played it), but it's worth any frustration that's left.
I don't think I've ever played an SNK game, but Tekken and Street Fighter have both had me making up inventive new swearwords at one point or another.
Also, this doesn't really count, but I can only think of one time I've had proper gamer rage and broke something, and that was doing a certain challenge on one of the later Tony Hawk games (I think it might have been American Wasteland).
It was something frustratingly simple-sounding, like "kickflip down these stairs and do a grind, yo" but one little thing about it - it might have been the angle of the board or the timing of the grind - made me fail it in excess of 50 times. I ended up just throwing my controller across the room to get my frustration out and then finishing the challenge on my first try with my newly broken controller.
That poxy, simple little challenge laughed in the face of my gazillion-point combos and hurtled me, kicking, screaming and controller-flailing into manhood. I've never played a Tony Hawk game since.
Edit: Also, I remember being so frustrated with games when I was a kid that I'd bite the controller or try to snap it in half because I didn't want to throw it and risk breaking it... looking back, that just sounds weird. Anyone else ever do that?
The final boss in Half Life would repeatedly whisk you off to nasty trap rooms that you had to navigate before you could face him again; and he had one hit kill attacks.
Dark Link from OOT; how much dirtier can you get then copying your opponents moves!?
Cackletta from Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga has the fight start both heroes off with one HP, and she gets to attack first!
Psycho Mantis reading your controler and useing Meryl as a wepion and trying to force her to commit suicide is also dirty as hell..but that boss battle is awesome.
And the first time I played Jedi Knight II, I had serious problems to defeat Galak Fyyar, but I found Dessan dissapointly easy to beat.
If that's the effect those games have on you then you'd write an entire dictionary playing SNK fighters, SPECIALLY the old ones (I dare anyone to beat Art of Fighting 2 without having to exploit the AI and no save states).
Yeah, similiar. I found the original really hard but the most recent two much much easier. Cackletta was brutal, some of the Popple battles were brutal and there were other nasty nasty bosses along the way.
Metal Sonic in Sonic 2. How cruel is it to set up the last level in the game to be nothing but two bosses and no rings? This spot would go to Robotnik's last machine in the game, but I never got past Metal Sonic without using debug mode to give myself some rings, so I never had the opportunity to get frustrated with Robotnik.
However, I did lose my head over Robotnik in Sonic Spinball. With only four levels, the game had a pretty sharp difficulty curve, to the extent that I had a very hard time even getting one of the Chaos Emeralds necessary to reach the boss in the final level. Then when you finally do reach him, it's hard to stay in his area to beat him. To this day, I've only beaten that game by using save states.
Bongo Bongo in Ocarina of Time. I never had a problem getting past any other part of that game, but I was stuck on Bongo Bongo for a very long time my first time through. He's a piece of cake for me now, but back then was a different story.
The Omega Pirate in Metroid Prime. Again, much easier now that I've played the game a few times, but he used to wipe the floor with me.
This one isn't a boss, but it's still one of the most frustrating things I've ever encountered, and it's one of the few remaining insurmountable challenges preventing me from advancing in a game. The damn special stage in Sonic Heroes. I finished levels one and two, but level three has me completely stuck, keeping me from getting the other five Chaos Emeralds and finishing the game.
Lou in Guitar Hero III. The guitar battle with him is the only thing between me and finishing the game on hard.
And...that's about all I can think of right now.
One was in Knights of the Old Republic II during this mission that only used three side characters to infiltrate this Sith tomb at the end of which waits two Sith masters and a Sith lord. Only one of the characters that I chose was a Jedi, and was a really sucky one at that (this was my first time playing). I spent nearly three hours running Atton (not a Jedi) around in circles taking potshots at the Sith masters and Sith lord until they died. Needless to say, incredibly frustrating.
Another was in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy in the third "act" of academy missions at the end of...another Sith tomb level. This one featured a fight with a double-bladed lightsaber Sith and two dual wielding lightsaber Sith. For some reason, the game kept on glitching like it does and the Sith kept on one-hit killing me. Then, after about an hour, I finally beat two of them and was searching around for the third when I discovered that another glitch had caused him to disappear. I could still hear the conniving bastard but I couldn't actually find him. I couldn't finish the level without killing all of them so, very angrily, I had to restart once again.
Now both of these mini-bosses are pretty easy for me, but those first times were absolutely awful. I did feel accomplished at the end and took very good care saving my game.
Goddamn Fireball attack -______-
That one was mine too... cheap ass bastard...
Ever do that????
I STILL do that
mind you, i've only ever gotten there by Legendaries and water pokemon
Beat all of the Gyms and Elite Four in HGSS with a Typhlosion and weak pokemon and a lot of max revives. Noob.
Original or bust, noob.
I'm playing Crystal
Really? I never found those games to be too hard. Adam was a bitch to kill though. Stupid dual wielding chainsaw clown bastard....
Almost every boss is able to one hit kill you essentially, since your character falls down for 62 hours upon being hit, and can be hit again before he gets back up 267 hours later.
Really? I always thought Gyorg was easier than Goht. Majora's Mask is one of my favorite Zelda games.
So let me add Kangaxx of Baldur's Gate II.
You do realize that well over half of the games mentioned here are for PC (or at least have a PC version) right?
Otherwise I wouldn't state I didn't even knew said titles...
Tantrums were threw that faithful day in the Exodus household
And Puppet Ganon in his third form in Wind Waker. Wouldn't give me enough time to take the arrow out and even when I did render him unconscious, he snapped out of it 3 seconds later and proceeded to BULLDOZE me into a corner and just keep ramming into me until all my fairies were done and I had no magic and arrows left. Jerk.
Yes, Xaldin has thrown me into blind rage harder than any other video game boss I can remember.
Another bad one was the last assassination in Jeruselem in Assassin's Creed, the one where
Oh, and riding the horse through the Vatican in the second game was a ridiculous pain in the ass as well. Would you consider the Vatican army as a single entity to be a boss? No? Well, it was still a pain in the ass.
I estimate you will die >5 times before managing to leave the first screen. The bosses in that are insane.
As for disproportionate boss, there was a game I played as a kid called lego racers, and the final character was rocket ronnie. He was a cheating little brat. He raced on his own track, in a car that was designed for that track, and faster than anything you had available (you win his car if you beat him, but then what's the point?). He was so fast that the only way to win was to cheat and take a shortcut, which he took, but only when you weren't nearby to watch what he was doing.
I may have just found it hard cos of being a kid, but man, I spent ages on that stupid guy.
Well that took longer than I was expecting.
It is well known fact that any time you mention something being hard, somebody always either...
A. Makes a wang joke
B. Mentions Kaizo
C. Mentions IWBTG
My least favourite boss? The Joker in Batman: Arkham Asylum. Great game, but a terrible boss, my least favourite example of the "lather, rinse, repeat" school of game bosses.
Must. Resist. Urge...crap, I couldn't.
Seth is pathetic and totally overrated, play an SNK game if you want to know what real cheapness is.
Sorry, every time Seth is mentioned in topics like this I can't help posting that >.>
Seriously. I can barely play SF and Seth is no problem.
Hell in BB their bosses drain your health by being near them, and they get the health. Their special meter fills by the second, and fast. They can counter anything, including unstoppable chains, deal such massive damage that it's possible to 9 hit characters. Hell Nu's already cheap and her boss mode made her send out 3 times her normal attack with less delay. So you had 3 daggers flying at you, faster, and could spam more per second, and she's not the worst of them.
As for KoF bosses, I don't know as I'm no where near good enough to get to a boss in KoF.