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I'm all for a good tough boss fight but when the AI just plays so cheap and gives you no chance it brings a game down a few notches for me. Last Blade 2 Boss, so damn cheap and crazy attacks that drain your whole life.
I was playing the TG-16 Vigilante and the Bosses are so cheap, they regenerate life while your fighting them. What a joke. This is much harder than the SMS version.
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Originally Posted by Korian
That isn't that bad. The ones I hate are the ones that do attacks that you have no chance of stopping or avoiding. Or bosses that break the rules of the said game.
Jesus was that his name? in Street Fighter was my number one
hated boss.
The guy at the end of Bushido Blade 2 comes to mind, he would teleport to the other side of the level whenever you attacked him.
Vega?Quote:
Originally Posted by Korian
I dunno my Street Fighter characters?
Most anything that's involving SNK and fighting games. In fact, most fighting games have just plain annoying bosses. Whenever Burnout 2 cheats it ticks me off but the game is so easy this rarely comes into play.I don't know if you don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korian
Mizar
Yeah SNK bosses are notoriously cheap, the worst being: 2k2 Rugal, 96/SvC Geonitz, and of course 2k1's Igniz. (Another Neo Geo great is Fernandeath/Fernandez from Sunsoft's Waku Waku 7. That's one cheap ass boss, in fact when I encounter a tough boss and relate the story to my friends, I often say "He/she/it busted a Fernandez.")
The 4th stage (I think it's the fourth) Boss of Ikaruga comes to mind. Whatever, it's the one where it's a giant orb and you have to manuever your way around it by managing your ship in the tight space between the outer wall and the boss itself. That thing was a mother-bitch.
I'll post more later. I just woke up and I can't think of anything else.
Envy in Batrider. Ugh.
Gill in SF3
Justice in GG (North American version)
Rugal in KOF94...damn near impossible
Shao Kahn in MKII, MK3
Grim Reaper in Castlevania (I'm not kidding)
If you have the boomerang with either doubles or triples, the grim reaper can be taken out in a few seconds. I remember back in the day my brothers and i being stuck on the grim reaper and dracula for hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerodash
This is a cut and paste of one of my posts at gaming age:
Tsuganai: Atonement. The final boss. The first form is simple. The second form is where the cheese starts to begin. He gets 2 turns to your one, and hits 3 times per turn. Depending on what he does, his attacks do 1000-3000 damage per hit, and only 3-400 if you block. At the beginning of the fight, he hits first, so if you didn't finish the last fight with enough HP, you're fucked. You're average person will only be at level 43 or so, and with 4200 HP, so you're screwed. I levelled up to 58, and had almost 7000 HP, making it easy to survive just the beginning round. So now, i have to rely on my 2 summoned monsters to attack, since i die every round and have to use a sacrificial doll to survive. Easy enough. It takes awhile, because your monster might do something stupid like heal you when you don't need it. I whip his ass, and as bad as that was, it got worse.
The final form gets 3 turns to your 1, and wouldn't you know it, he attacks first. His breath can only be avoided if you have enough of your strage gauge to backstep, but more than likely, it'll be empty. the breath does 2500 or so damage. he also bites you, but that can be blocked and you only take 100 damage. you don't get to heal after the second fight, so if you only have a little health, and it uses breath 3 times you're screwed. After a solid hour and a half of trying to survive just the beginning round, i manage. This is one of the only boss fights where i started sweating like hell in quite a while. I went in with 38 sacrificial dolls, and when i was done had 2 left. I basically said that if i died, i would never touch the game again. Luckily i managed to win.
Gill is annoying.
Nearly every KoF boss.
M.Bison destroyed me on lvl.8 difficulty back when I first got the snes version, he sure is to take to the cleaners now though. :D
There was a lava/moth boss or something in the PS2 Shinobi that worked me pretty good.
Whoever the hell the final boss is in Guilty Gear XX. Also, most SNK fighter bosses in general.
Ino? Just learn her patterns, mate!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy
Gill, the fucker.
The shapeshifter in Castlevania III. The only way I could beat him (even when I play the game nowadays) is if he gets stuck in the corner or in the floor.
Ikaruga, Level 3 boss. I've only just worked out how to beat it. (Only had it 2 weeks now).
Shinobi on the Master System. Most. Annoying. Boss. Ever. The one with the indian statue things that moved slowly across the screen. My blod pressure is raising just thinking about it. Quality game though.
The whole Military Base level of Ninja Gaiden. Including the seven thousand bosses ( ok, maybe three ).
The Dark Genie in Dark Cloud. He has a phase where you can only hurt him with projectile weapons, and unless you've developed either Xiao or Ruby rather nicely, you're gonna be doing shit damage to him. Furthermore, in this phase, he uses an unblockable, unavoidable attack where he swooshes his wings at you. It does a decent amount of damage, and it's only a matter of time until you run out of cheese and stamina drinks. Cheapest, most unfun boss ever.
I still have that annoying boss music in my head.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blinky
... and the death music.
Wedding Cake in Super Mario RPG.
Thunder Force 5 final boss. :( I still can't beat that douche bag.
Yeah that one wins. I had all my lives (like 10!) going into him and barely touched him because he shoots instant death and moves so fast. I stopped playing after that game.
Yeah, Ive said it before and I'll say it again - (and Im glad to see that some of you others are feeling my pain) but Gill from SF3: TS (not the SF3 Gill - I can easily own him with throws if I have to be cheap or SI Gill who I can beat consistently with anyone) is a cock monger whore bitch. I swear the only people Ive beaten him with are Ken, Ryu, Alex,Akuma, Ibuki, and Makoto and thats after some serious replaying and "WOOSAA' in "to keep from smashing my DC into pieces.
I want to say all of the Devil May Cry bosses put up a hell of a challenge especially Angelo. Good God.
Oh ,another thing I found out after trying to replay Symphony of the Night with Richter the other day - I want to say that most of if not all fo the bosses are impossible to beat with Richter. I got worked against the Hydra bitch in the caverns - WORKED. I cant imagine going against the inverted castle Lightning God dinosaur boss. :xx:
Yeah, Ive said it before and I'll say it again - (and Im glad to see that some of you others are feeling my pain) but Gill from SF3: TS (not the SF3 Gill - I can easily own him with throws if I have to be cheap or SI Gill who I can beat consistently with anyone) is a cock monger whore bitch. I swear the only people Ive beaten him with are Ken, Ryu, Alex,Akuma, Ibuki, and Makoto and thats after some serious replaying and "WOOSAA' in "to keep from smashing my DC into pieces.
I want to say all of the Devil May Cry bosses put up a hell of a challenge especially Angelo. Good God.
Oh ,another thing I found out after trying to replay Symphony of the Night with Richter the other day - I want to say that most of if not all fo the bosses are impossible to beat with Richter. I got worked against the Hydra bitch in the caverns - WORKED. I cant imagine going against the inverted castle Lightning God dinosaur boss. :xx:
Yeah, Ive said it before and I'll say it again - (and Im glad to see that some of you others are feeling my pain) but Gill from SF3: TS (not the SF3 Gill - I can easily own him with throws if I have to be cheap or SI Gill who I can beat consistently with anyone) is a cock monger whore bitch. I swear the only people Ive beaten him with are Ken, Ryu, Alex,Akuma, Ibuki, and Makoto and thats after some serious replaying and "WOOSAA' in "to keep from smashing my DC into pieces.
I want to say all of the Devil May Cry bosses put up a hell of a challenge especially Angelo. Good God.
Oh ,another thing I found out after trying to replay Symphony of the Night with Richter the other day - I want to say that most of if not all fo the bosses are impossible to beat with Richter. I got worked against the Hydra bitch in the caverns - WORKED. I cant imagine going against the inverted castle Lightning God dinosaur boss. :xx:
I don't know why, but Gill's pretty managable for me. It's more of a speed trial than anything. If his gauge builds up, it's over.
Most satisfying win over him was with Urien: low kick 2 in 1 to energy ball 2 in 1 to far (HP) Aegis Reflector 2 in 1 to near (LP) Aegis Reflector. The ball knocked him back into the first AR, then he was sandwiched between the two ARs, which bounced him back and forth a number of times.
I don't know why, but Gill's pretty managable for me. It's more of a speed trial than anything. If his gauge builds up, it's over.
Most satisfying win over him was with Urien: low kick 2 in 1 to energy ball 2 in 1 to far (HP) Aegis Reflector 2 in 1 to near (LP) Aegis Reflector. The ball knocked him back into the first AR, then he was sandwiched between the two ARs, which bounced back and forth a number of times.
You are talking about Mandara. I never beat that boss not once. I even had the grenades and still couldn't win. After many futile attempts, I just used the level select code. Mandara to this day is the hardest bost I've ever faced. Drago in Rocky for the Master System was a tough sucker too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blinky
Funny as this is, one of the hardest bosses in a game for me was Jafar from Alladin on Genesis. I never did beat him, after beating his first form he turned into the evil genie and the floor got set on fire and there was no place to stand.
What is SNK by the way?
To beat Mandara, continuously jump and shoot so you hit multiple targets. It's also easier to beat it with shurikens than with bullets. I found the Masked Ninja much harder than Mandara.
Mentionned earlier.
Igniz 2K1 ( Even Zero was fricking hard for me )
Fricking Gill in SF3:TS
Dizzy, I still can't beat Dizzy.
I only have problems with bosses from fighters, I don't think I've ever had any trouble with bosses from any other genre as much as this one. It ticks the heck out of me, because then I ponder if it's hard, or I just plain suck. :(
SNK / Playmore are the guys who brought us the NEO*GEO and all the fighting games, beat'um ups, schmups, and puzzlers that came with it. They were big into the arcade scene, but as that started it's slow agonizing death they began porting a trickle of their games onto popular systems (most on DC, and mostly in JPN). Nowadays they have begun putting them out on PS2 and claim to be moving to Xbox.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
Most people on here talk shit about them now, but back in the day they were all hersey squirting in their Thundercats underwear when they saw KOF '94 at their local pizza parlor for the first time.
Also, back in the day Puzzle Bobble was what the japanophiles would slit your throat if they caught you trying to play without an obscene amount of inborn skill.
It's pretty lame if anyone does trash SNK, they made alot of good memories for me in the arcades.
Thanks NeoZ,Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
I'm going to unleash over a decade of frustration on Mandara's candy ass.
SNK wrote the book when it comes to cheap bosses, especially with Geese. He was nearly impossible to beat back in Fatal Fury 1.
The only boss that Capcom has done that can come even CLOSE to the difficulty of an SNK boss was Magneto on X-Men: COTA.
I have never been able to beat him. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerodash
This thread makes me want to fire my NES up and play some Castlevania 3. That game was awesome.
Agreed, I will be purchasing a Master System & Shinobi as soon as poss. Or I'll just go download an emulator, whatever... |-)Quote:
Originally Posted by The Shiva
I still say Igniz or Rugal '02 are the cheapest.Quote:
Originally Posted by FX-ism