Hardest boss that you have ever faced in any RPG?

[Guild McCommunist]

Shao Kahn in the latest Mortal Kombat. Seriously, fuck him.

EDIT: Both his midgame boss battle and his final boss battle are ridiculously hard.

Um... RPG?

Got this thread confused with the "Gaming frustration" thread.

Regardless Shao Kahn is a fucking hard ass boss.

 

[MDS]

 

[Psyfira]

Dark Valefor, FFX. I have no clue where to even begin with that guy and he's supposed to be the easiest one :S And the final boss in Trauma Centre was a nightmare, it took me hours to nail that thing.

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.

Spoiler

If you explore the castle first you can fight/unlock some stuff to get your abilities back Even after that, it's still the longest boss fight I've ever had to do so allow plenty of time for it.

 

[Taleweaver]

I know. But the thing is: I had my gear back when I faced her.

 

[Hanafuda]

I'm not a frequent RPG player. Hardest for me is a guy named "Culex" in Super Mario RPG. He's a sidequest/hidden boss, and not anything like the other characters in the game. I've played more time-consuming bosses, but as for coming out of it feeling lucky to survive, Culex for sure.

edited to replace pic.

 

[learnin2hack]

Goresby-Purrvis in Dragon Quest 9 one hit killed my priest all of the time
Beat him when i got a level 60 Paladin .
Does anybody know a game like DQ9 for PS vita (vita/psp/psx)

 

[thebsharp]

I forget the name, but the alternate end boss of Star Ocean 2. I accidentally unlocked him in a secret area. I plow my way through the end of the game, no problem, and hit this wall hard. I level up 40 more levels and still had no luck. I eventually gave up, heh. I later read what had happened (that I unlocked a powerful version of the final boss, and in order to beat him I probably would have had to level up my characters 80 more levels). I was done, heh.

 

[Alato]

I remember Culex was really tough the first couple times around as a kid, but then I quickly learned how incredibly powerful you can get in Mario RPG with the lazy shell and whatnot.

Exdeath in Final Fantasy 5's a bit ridiculous. And even the bosses that come before him.

Final Fantasy 3, I don't remember so well, but there's this battle against two elders or something, each of them turn into monsters, and you have to fight them one after the other. I could beat the first guy, but then my party would be practically dead for the next battle and I just couldn't make it.
BUT, that could be because I was at a low level, not sure.

Guillo in Baten Kaitos Origins. That took a quiiite a few tries.

And, Steel Mechorilla's tough in Mother 3 if you haven't figured out the thunder strategy.

 

[DarkStriker]

for me was Dullahan from Golden Sun : The Lost Age.

Hes kinda faceroll if you spam summons....

Anyways mine would be Ornstein and Smough for the first time no co op or solaire help. Took him after about 50~ tries. All other bosses that i have beaten that is RPG has always taken me less than 10 tries.

EDIT: From dark souls ofc.

 

[lismati]

Bowser X from M&L BIS was an asshole.
Also Ganon from Zelda OoT was kinda hard... when you were 7 years old.
I don't play so much RPGs...

 

[Hyro-Sama]

*snip*

Maybe when you were five. Whitney wasn't that difficult.





Whoever said Culex is fucking right. I seriously wanted to break my Wii in two after so many tries.

 

[BORTZ]

Dragon Warrior Monsters, Master Monster Tamer. Hes the last thing to fight in the end game (and the DWM has a hell of an end game). Hes the last Arena fight you have. No crowd, just you and 3 massive monsters. A Gold Slime, Divigion, and RoseVine. Terrifying.

 

[FencingFoxFTW]

Chaos from the original NES Final Fantasy
The boss from the first .hack// game(don't remember his name)
Dhoulmagus from Dragon Quest 8