Anyone play Omikron: The Nomad Soul? That was a pretty unique game for its time. Plus it had David Bowie. Couldn't go wrong with that.

Anyhow, Astaroth, the final bad guy, the big bad 10-story-tall demon boss, would hop around his chamber, trying to stomp you, while your human-sized Cuchulainn had to shoot him with the magic weapon thingy in just the right spot in order to do damage. Oh and to add insult to injury, Astaroth must have had a bathtub of chili for lunch, cause he would retch these spheres of gas at you too.

Was completely out of health packs, but after about 30 tries, I finally got it. Take that, you soul-stealing bastard! Ahahaha!!!

not sure if this counts but how about magus in chrono trigger

My favorite game of all time is Earthbound, all the master's from that were awesome and insane. If i were going to pick the hardest it would either be ruby weapon from ff7 or sephiroth from kingdom hearts.

Heinrich III from Return to Castle Wolfenstein. May not be the toughest, but still pretty tough.

Ummm i have to agree that the final ship on Nintendo's Bionic Commando was freaking insane, you have to nail it in one shot or your dead usually took at least 5 or 6 tries. Devil May Crys boss was insanely hard for me and was getting to the final boss in BattleToads.
OOOOOOOOOOOOO anyone get to the secret mission on Tenchu:Wrath of Heaven... the final Boss of that level Mr. Ceo or some poop like that was the most insanely hard character ever created imo. I even had a health cheat and it was hard as hell. But if you have the game and haven't found the mission yet look it up. You get to execute rent-a-cops in the "present time" while sneaking into a skyscraper. Fun poop I tell ya

Diablo or Baal, from Diablo 2:Lords of Destruction, bloody hard guys to beat

FFX bosses have been pretty hard to beat for me. I never played FF9, but 8 and 7 were a lot easier to beat just as they gave you more freedom to build levels. I think the hardest boss ever to beat was Chaos from FFI. I never got to beat him- my neighbor eraced my save spot, and shall forever burn in hell.

Going with the coolness factor, Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time is just an awesome fight. Hardest boss for me was the final one in Baldurs Gate : Dark Alliance, on extreme. Damn, she's a bitch.

Cool bosses would be any Dragon in Baldur's Gate II...
I think the Ultima Weapon from FF7 was pretty cool looking.

Hardest? Tough to say...Ruby weapon? Any boss that you have to fight in Xenosaga before you get the AG-05?

There's a pair of boss fights in Xenogears where you have two separate parties fight two different members of 'The Elements' one after the other. It took me about 5 tries to win the second fight, but what made it so challenging was that if you had to restart, you had sit through the same 40 minutes of dialogue all over again without falling asleep or throwing Xenogears out your window because it doesn't have a 'Speed up text' button.

Damn Xenogears. It was good, yet so bad.

I'm not quite sure of the boss's name, but in FF7 where you had to dungeon crawl from the bottom of the tower to the top, 7 levels I believe. That was the most frustrating part of any game I've played to date. Not taking into account how underdeveloped most of my FF7 characters were at the time, when I finished that they had twice the amount of power they did than when I first attempted it.

To take a different spin, I was really disappointed with Omega Weapon in FFX.

By the time I got to him, Yuna had gone through the circles to have all the good black magic spells, (flare, ultima, etc.) and all the best white magic spells, (holy, cure3, life2, etc.) and doublecast, PLUS she had her ultimate weapon unlocked, so all spells only cost 1 MP.

Well, she also had her agility jacked up so she was the first to fight in any situation. I had her doublecast ultima and went to go fold some laundry. When I came back, the fight was over. What a gyp!

I loved all of FFIV =P

The Boss at the end of Ikari Warriors III was unkillable. You lost all your weapons except your sword. I tried over 100 times to no avail. I hated that boss.

The place where the Ninja chick steals your materia?

well its not really much, but honorable mention goes to the 3 green tenticales from Half Life 1. YOU CANT HURT THEM! and they can hear your every move. It was soooo freeky back then. It was great.

the hardest boss ever has to be emerald weapon from ff7, ruby weapon was a bitch too(till i discovered knights of the round and w-magic)

Kabuto, in 'Giants:Citizen Kabuto'...that game really isn't hard until you have to fight Kabuto as the 3 Meccs...once i found a cheap spot where he couldn't hit me, i just blasted his balls with rockets till he died :-P

I wish I could have seen the look on my face when I found out that to beat Sephiroths first form, I had to use party members other than the 3 that I used. Who really used everyone, I mean, you pick your favorites and stick with, right?
Thankfully, knights o da round made short work of him...

Sephiroth is by far the coolest boss I've ever seen.

Lu Bu in Dynasty Warriors 4 on hard was insanely tough to beat, extremely fun and a great rush when we managed it, though.

Also, old days of Everquest Lady Vox...now THAT was a fun encounter =)


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Oh, I just remembered the hardest boss ever... MGS2: Substance. That boss is a fucking prick, lol.

Could of been, the only thing I really remember is sand, and it was in a city =)

Someone mentioned Baulder's Gate II.....

Gaxx, the Demi-lich under the Dock District (I think..) continues to thawrt me to this day. I have no clue how to beat this bastard.

Most of the secret area bosses from Valkerye Profile will rape you too.

And yes, Lu Bu on Hard in DW4 is just silly...I've still yet to best him in a duel.

I play way too many games....

Ridley from super metroid always gave me problems. Same with that shadow link guy in zelda ocarina of time.

Wait, which one? Solidus was almost as much of a pussy as the Liquid Snake Jeep/Machine Gun fight, and the Multiple Metal Gears were easy once you got a rythym down. Or is this a Boss in Substance that isn't in the original MGS2?

I've tried about 20 times to beat Olga on the Tanker in extreme difficulty, I came within one torso shot once, it's the only time I've ever had any trouble with a Metal Gear game, including the NES ones.

I dont play long enough to beat games

don't believe they qualify as bosses, but those huge demonsr in Doom that fire the rockets can be challenging if you are playing fairly - of course I was fond of using god mode and killing them with just my chainsaw though.

M. Bison from street fighter 2. It was really fucking difficult to beat him

I enjoyed a the tough encounters of Baldur's Gate II, especially the final enounter with Irenicus, and the series of boss fights that make up Thone of Bhaal. They weren't particuarly flashy, and only some were really difficult, but the story real helps putting an edge to a boss.

For BGII try the final battle with Malason with the acenssion mod

bosses on mmorpgs are fucking tough but i guess that doesnt count, so id say seymours final form in ffx.

About the FF7 thing...in the red pagoda building, where after you beat it you get some Summon Materia? I think that's what you get after you beat it anyways...but I know exactly what you're talkin' about, where you'll meet Yuffie's father in there and everything.

Someone mentioned something about BattleToads being really tough (too lazy to find it and make sure)...every message board I read, anytime something tough involving gaming comes up, BattleToads gets mentioned. Sheesh! I used to beat that game all the time when I was a lil' kid! Back in the day I plowed through that game, and I never understood what makes people think that game's hard...but whatever; Tetris is insanely hard for me, so I guess we're even.

Hardest: Last boss in FFIV (on the SNES, the psx version was easy)

Best: Kefka.

Both the coolest and the hardest boss I've fought would have to be Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts. Sin Harvest, how I hate ye.

I remember when I first unlocked the Platinum Match and saw the introduction for Seph, I about wet myself at how cool it was. And god damn, what a bitch of a fight, I used so many elixirs.

Metroid prime, ya what a pain in the ass. Its Firing things at you while 2 missles are locked on to you, the things its firing can burn you, freeze you so you cant fire or just blast your brains out, it blew the only rocks in the area to hide behind and you had to time when it was going to charge at you roll and go below it even if the missles have yet tobe blown up, then it fires more.

Btw, you had to use a certain gun type each time he fired the missles or he got hit because he became vulnerable to different blasts cosntantly.

The second form was so annoying, I thought I beat the game then this retarded thing comes out of nowhere having to change my visor constantly then running over to puddles to attack him, while he spawns other mobs to go at you.

JESUS so annoying

The key to winning any Baldur's Gate II battle was summon spells.


4 Hasted Aerial Servants could take anything.



Man,that game was TOO damn fun.

Those would last .4 seconds vs. the Demi-Lich...

The last boss from Blaster Master is to this very day the bane of my existence.