Your most frustrating bossfights - Page 2

Hungry Horace · 25 November 2009, 06:06

the vampire boss on 3-4 of Rainbow Islands sucks.

On the ZX version of New Zealand Story the round 2-4 Octopus boss is much harder than on the Amiga. That is also bloody annoying.

Peter · 25 November 2009, 12:00

Jack The Ripper, one of the boss characters in Shadowman (which I completed on the Dreamcast) was an absolute PITA to kill - probably worse than the end of game boss.

Mungo · 27 November 2009, 21:35

Parasite of LSD.

Muzkat · 28 November 2009, 01:11

The beetle/ladybird/bee/whatever it is boss in Rainbow Islands frustrated the hell out of me. I beat it only once, but my celebrations were cut short when I discovered the Vampire boss was even harder. That's when I gave up on that game.

I could never figure out how to beat the dragon on Moonstone, so I simply avoided it. The game's final spectre of a boss was easier to defeat then the dragon was.

I could never defeat the final boss at the end of the Chaos Engine, because the "rolling fireballs" you encounter on the level before always used to give me lots of trouble, depleting me of all my accumulated lives, so that I had barely any left when I took on the end of game meanie.

More recently, the enormous extraterrestrial cluster of meat boss that you fight in the antigravity chamber midway through Dead Space took me 30 minutes of frantic and sweaty mouse clicking to defeat. I was exhausted by the end of it.

Dan Locke · 28 November 2009, 04:41

The guy at the end of level 7 in X-Out. How much health does he have?

I still haven't gotten past him.

26 December 2009, 17:52

Level 3 of R-Type was always my undoing. Fusing Lord Chaos in a flux cage on Dungeon Master was also utterly impossible for me.

gimbal · 31 December 2009, 00:17

The "caves" boss of Painkiller world 1, level 4 I believe. Was shooting at that mother for 30 minutes before he finally fell. And then I found out you had to shoot the ceiling to making light come through and lure him under it to kill him instantly...

ancalimon · 31 December 2009, 03:41

I hate bosses of Sunset Riders! They don't die and whenever I see one of the bosses I start yelling and go crazy.

gimbal · 01 January 2010, 16:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by ancalimon

I hate bosses of Sunset Riders! They don't die and whenever I see one of the bosses I start yelling and go crazy.

They're not too bad once you know the "trick". Just do play the arcade version, other ports are insanely hard (or should I say unplayable?) as far as I've seen.

MazinKaesar · 01 January 2010, 17:54

Bosses in Mazin Saga per Megadrive and final boss in Bloodrayne for PC!

wlcina · 01 January 2010, 18:29

Shufflepuck cafe - the last boss

fat ugly sun of a beach !

blade002 · 02 January 2010, 06:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jope

Ahh, boss fights.

A friend of mine summed up gaming in the 80s:

You're at the boss, trying your very best to stay alive. Your friend who's spectating shouts "Kill it! Kill it!" and between sobs, you manage to let out a feeble "I can't".

LOL... that is so funny and true

I had a friend once back when i first got my Amiga that would put his finger right on the screen and point here and there and say "go there, go here, shoot him, go up!.etc.." and so many times i would just have to say to him in the end "JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!, HOW I AM SUPPOSED TO KILL ANYTHING WITH YOU POINTING ALL OVER THE FUCKING SCREEN!!!!??????????"

andreas · 18 March 2010, 19:12

3 words:
New Zealand Story.

Boy!!
These bosses are really tough...(always too little room to manoeuver; one wrong movement and they gotcha!) I really had to control the hell out of my Competition Pro to defeat them for good!
(I mean levels 3 and above, of course...)

There is another (sort-of-)boss in a less known game, Contraption Zack that looks like a machine on legs...a sort of robot able to reassemble himself after a short time! Maybe you know which I am talking about...

Xenon:
No uber-game, I know.
But the bosses are really beasts...and I mean all of them.

Rogue Trooper:
The hardest I ever had to deal with.
Plus, you never get any energy anywhere, with half a handful of exceptions...

Lastly...
Midnight Resistance. (trainer OFF, trainer keys OFF)
Just try to beat those as if you only had the original, no tempting trainer option(s)

It's a nightmare.

deicidal · 18 March 2010, 21:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mungo

Parasite of LSD.

Brilliant

, it made me laugh at the time with what you lot wrote in one of your demos

Falcon Flight · 29 March 2010, 00:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by blade002

LOL... that is so funny and true

I had a friend once back when i first got my Amiga that would put his finger right on the screen and point here and there and say "go there, go here, shoot him, go up!.etc.." and so many times i would just have to say to him in the end "JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!, HOW I AM SUPPOSED TO KILL ANYTHING WITH YOU POINTING ALL OVER THE FUCKING SCREEN!!!!??????????"

Heeheheeeee! heehehehehe! I can relate to this, as I'm one of _those_ guys.

A few comments on what ppl have found hard bosses:
Xenon 1, boss 1: you gotta be kiddin, man!

That thing's a walk in the park; I was 10. All you do is shoot it up the **nt. You don't really need power-ups, either. If you hate that boss, you mustn't have got too far in that game, as level 1 is nothing.

Rainbow Islands, boss 3: this one's reasonable, all though it must be said if you've got 3 fast rainbows and stand in my "special place" , he goes down faster than any boss in the game, every time.

Chrono Trigger? wtf? This isn't an Amiga game! anyway no SNES RPG is hard, and this one's the most childish of the lot. you just weren't levelled enough. There's nothing necessarily tactical in it (I played that puppet, on 5x fast forward).

the most punishing games with hard bosses in my exp are always SEUs. I remember back in the old days, one e.g. _Last Resort_ (Neo Geo)had killer guardians that made you break down in tears

Falcon Flight · 29 March 2010, 01:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr_a500

I never even heard the term "boss" used in gaming until I started visiting EAB. It must be a European term or a "Nintendo generation" term, because in all my gaming experiences in the 80's I never once heard the term "boss". We just said things like, "Watch out! There's a big fucking guy at the end of the level!"

not sure when I first heard the "boss" term, if memory serves twas Double Dragon in the arcades. before that, "end of lvl guardian" was common, but a mouthful.

TCD · 29 March 2010, 10:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr_a500

I never even heard the term "boss" used in gaming until I started visiting EAB. It must be a European term or a "Nintendo generation" term, because in all my gaming experiences in the 80's I never once heard the term "boss". We just said things like, "Watch out! There's a big fucking guy at the end of the level!"

Quote:

Originally Posted by Predseda

"End level boss" is the common term here for 30 years

In Germany we even have our own word : Endgegner

(which kinda translates to 'last enemy')

zipper · 29 March 2010, 11:18

Or final foe

deicidal · 29 March 2010, 11:22

The angel thing at the end of Final Fantasy 7, i was starting to loose the will to live it went on that long.

gimbal · 29 March 2010, 22:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by deicidal

The angel thing at the end of Final Fantasy 7, i was starting to loose the will to live it went on that long.

its all about the materia configurations. The thing attacked one of my chars once, that char did 12 counter attacks at 9000+ damage each (of course that requires some level grinding in the northern crater, but counter attack is really easy to master). Then I threw a knights of the round after it for kicks and it was dead. Took at most 2 minutes I'd say.

Leveling in this game is not hard, as long as you never sell the double/triple AP weapons.

18 March 2010, 19:12	#33
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	3 words: New Zealand Story. Boy!! These bosses are really tough...(always too little room to manoeuver; one wrong movement and they gotcha!) I really had to control the hell out of my Competition Pro to defeat them for good! (I mean levels 3 and above, of course...) There is another (sort-of-)boss in a less known game, Contraption Zack that looks like a machine on legs...a sort of robot able to reassemble himself after a short time! Maybe you know which I am talking about... Xenon: No uber-game, I know. But the bosses are really beasts...and I mean all of them. Rogue Trooper: The hardest I ever had to deal with. Plus, you never get any energy anywhere, with half a handful of exceptions... Lastly... Midnight Resistance. (trainer OFF, trainer keys OFF) Just try to beat those as if you only had the original, no tempting trainer option(s) It's a nightmare. Last edited by andreas; 18 March 2010 at 19:24.

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25 November 2009, 06:06	#21
Hungry Horace Wipe-Out Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: . Age: 43 Posts: 2,545	the vampire boss on 3-4 of Rainbow Islands sucks. On the ZX version of New Zealand Story the round 2-4 Octopus boss is much harder than on the Amiga. That is also bloody annoying.

25 November 2009, 12:00	#22
Peter Still an Amiga user Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Kent Age: 55 Posts: 2,715	Jack The Ripper, one of the boss characters in Shadowman (which I completed on the Dreamcast) was an absolute PITA to kill - probably worse than the end of game boss.

27 November 2009, 21:35	#23
Mungo ATX - For Fun Not Status Join Date: May 2006 Location: London Age: 49 Posts: 76	Parasite of LSD.

28 November 2009, 01:11	#24
Muzkat Into the Wonderful Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Earthrealm Age: 42 Posts: 1,430	The beetle/ladybird/bee/whatever it is boss in Rainbow Islands frustrated the hell out of me. I beat it only once, but my celebrations were cut short when I discovered the Vampire boss was even harder. That's when I gave up on that game. I could never figure out how to beat the dragon on Moonstone, so I simply avoided it. The game's final spectre of a boss was easier to defeat then the dragon was. I could never defeat the final boss at the end of the Chaos Engine, because the "rolling fireballs" you encounter on the level before always used to give me lots of trouble, depleting me of all my accumulated lives, so that I had barely any left when I took on the end of game meanie. More recently, the enormous extraterrestrial cluster of meat boss that you fight in the antigravity chamber midway through Dead Space took me 30 minutes of frantic and sweaty mouse clicking to defeat. I was exhausted by the end of it.

28 November 2009, 04:41	#25
Dan Locke Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: USA Posts: 111	The guy at the end of level 7 in X-Out. How much health does he have? I still haven't gotten past him.

26 December 2009, 17:52	#26
ILikeCake Posts: n/a	Level 3 of R-Type was always my undoing. Fusing Lord Chaos in a flux cage on Dungeon Master was also utterly impossible for me.

31 December 2009, 00:17	#27
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 42 Posts: 6,972	The "caves" boss of Painkiller world 1, level 4 I believe. Was shooting at that mother for 30 minutes before he finally fell. And then I found out you had to shoot the ceiling to making light come through and lure him under it to kill him instantly...

31 December 2009, 03:41	#28
ancalimon Supernormal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Istanbul / Turkey Age: 43 Posts: 1,416	I hate bosses of Sunset Riders! They don't die and whenever I see one of the bosses I start yelling and go crazy.

01 January 2010, 17:54	#30
MazinKaesar Super Robot Pilot Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Modena (Italy) Age: 49 Posts: 871	Bosses in Mazin Saga per Megadrive and final boss in Bloodrayne for PC!

01 January 2010, 18:29	#31
wlcina Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Czech republic Posts: 580	Shufflepuck cafe - the last boss fat ugly sun of a beach !

29 March 2010, 11:18	#38
zipper Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: finland Posts: 1,841	Or final foe

29 March 2010, 11:22	#39
deicidal Registered Insane Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Ununited Kingdom Posts: 792	The angel thing at the end of Final Fantasy 7, i was starting to loose the will to live it went on that long.

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