Hardest boss that you have ever faced in any RPG?

[Taleweaver]

Hmm...there was that one boss near the end of final fantasy VIII. For some reason, I lost all my stuff in some castle. So when I faced her (I was pretty sure 't was a "she"), she just blew my entire party away in one or two hits (my reply barely scratched her armor). Load game, second try: exactly the same.
I never bothered a third time. Yeah, so it was probably better if I had used that card minigame to boost up some stats rather than messing around with things...but I didn't want to.

So...that not counting...I'd go with someone in fallout 1. Or rather: 2 someone's: one huge-ass mutant carrying a rocket launcher and a deathclaw. I remember stumbling upon them in some sort of cave when I had finished both the cathedral and the military base (thus: after the end game). Those two guys were harder than those bosses there (and fallout wasn't an easy game).

Finally...I know warcraft 3 is far more a RTS than an RPG, but that last level of the night elves (and the campaign) was insane: 45 minutes to defend some tree in one part of the map. You have humans, orcs and night elves at your side, lots of resources and the map was some sort of reverse 'Z' (meaning: pretty much one long corridor). And quite some time to build your base. Sounds easy? Wrong. After a certain moment, those undead ATTACK! In one freakin' gulf. And those heroes of the evil side reign terror & stuff...
Okay, on hindsight, it wasn't exactly hard in it being tough (I won after two or three attempts). And any RTS veteran would probably find it a piece of cake. But still...it FELT like trying to stop an unstoppable object.

 

[narutofan777]

i'm not sure if it counts but omega in ff 5 koed me liek nuthin'

 

[DoubleeDee]

All the bosses in dark souls.
Fuck dark souls.

 

[DS1]

i'm not sure if it counts but omega in ff 5 koed me liek nuthin'

Yeah, I don't know if I fought omega, but I fought Shinryuu for about 2 seconds before it owned me. Exdeath was the hardest actual boss I beat though. I tried about 50 times using every method possible, and finally gave up and used the stupid coin throw method.

 

[Ethevion]

In FFX they had that monster colosseum thing. There was an underwater serpent boss there which was ridiculous to beat.

 

[TripleSMoon]

I've only played a small handful of RPGs, so the ones I think are hard might seem really wimpy to most people here.

Anyway, I've always found Sabrina in Pokemon R/B/G/Y to be especially hard. It always felt like there was a much steeper curve between her and the previous gym leader than between any other gym leaders in the game.

Although Brock was pretty darn hard, especially in Yellow (or if you chose Charmander in R/B/G)

 

[emigre]

Although Brock was pretty darn hard, especially in Yellow (or if you chose Charmander in R/B/G)

Catch a mankey, train it to level 9 when it learns low kick. Gove Brock a beating.

You can thank le later.

 

[Relentless88]

Shadow Queen in paper mario thousand year door

 

[gamefan5]

Hmm... Dullahan from Golden Sun series. That shit was super hard.
Next would be...
Bowser X from M&L BIS: Arguably the most hardest boss in the whole series.
That'S all I got for now...

 

[emigre]

Spoiler

This shit. He was fucking irritating.

 

[1234turtles]

Nebula grey from mmbn5

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

In FFX they had that monster colosseum thing. There was an underwater serpent boss there which was ridiculous to beat.

>Use Phoenix Down
>???
>Profit.

Probably one of the easiest fights in that game.

I don't think I have a hardest. I don't play a lot of RPGs, but I've never had one stand out as incredibly hard or anything.

 

[The Milkman]

None, I just grind for cash and buy a bunch of Phoenix Downs or Vitas or whatever thier called in the RPG.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

For me it would probably be Emerald Weapon in FFVII

Just couldn't beat him, he would destroy me like nothing, Ruby was a pushover. In fact, I have no idea how I beat him, he just couldn't hit Cloud for the life of him.

 

[celeron53]

Brock, playing with Pokemon Yellow. Could not defeat his rock type Pokemons for the life of me.

 

[Clarky]

Brock, playing with Pokemon Yellow. Could not defeat his rock type Pokemons for the life of me.

get a few insect pokemon from the forest and level them up slightly? only thing that made that hard was yourself

 

[DaggerV]

Hmm, I had to ponder on this for a bit, the only RPG that gave me problems really was xenosaga and the 7th saga, but was the game in general and not bosses. I'll come back to this thread

 

[ouch123]

The bosses in Ys Seven. They weren't terribly difficult from a tactics perspective, but keeping up with them without your hands cramping was quite a challenge.

 

[Black-Ice]

Had to grind 50 levels in one spot to beat a really annoying Dark Souls boss.
Move to the next area and I still get raped. multiple times.
Fuck that game and all its bosses

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Brock, playing with Pokemon Yellow. Could not defeat his rock type Pokemons for the life of me.

get a few insect pokemon from the forest and level them up slightly? only thing that made that hard was yourself

Insect is weak to Rock and Rock is resistant to Insect. Also none of the Insect types there learn Grass moves.

The best option to defeat him was a Mankey (if they were available in that game? I thought they were off near the grass leading to the Indigo Plateau) or a Nidoran (if they made Double Kick a fighting move yet).