Hardest Game Boss?
Sorry if this question has been asked -- I did a search and I can't find anything EXACTLY like it.
When someone asks you 'who is the hardest boss you ever finally defeated' who comes to mind for you?
I'm talking those nasty, cheating, evil guys (or girls) who made you scream in frustartion, hurl the controller, swear enough to make a sailor blush, and when you DID finally win dance the happy dance of joy.
People who play a lot of RPG's and action games with bosses scattered all over the place will have the easiest on this, as some genre's have little or nothing in the way of bosses.
Oh, and 'mini bosses' are fair game also, although if you had serious problems with a mini boss be prepared to be laughed at for a long time.
Right away someone comes to mind for me. I've played numerous RPG's (one of my favorite genre's) and other games with bosses over the last 20 years. Before 1998 I'm not sure who I would have said -- but that was the summer I traded my old GBA Pocket for a copy of Suikoden II and the guide, one of the best RPG's ever made.
And discovered a whole new meaning to the word 'pain' when I finally clashed aganist Luca for the final time.
The guy is just plain outright NASTY. For those of you who have'nt played the game, you need to beat him THREE times in party combat. That's right, he gets to lay the loving on allmost everyone in your party. He can't actually be defeated in the first and second battles -- your goal is just to inflict as much damage on him as you can, to soften him up for the last fight. This normaly consist of him proceeding to lay waste to your five or six people party in a few rounds.
He attacks twice in each round. He can inflict wide ranging attacks and spells to hit everyone in your party, for hundreds of hit points. He laughs and taunts you after each battle with how weak and pathetic that you are. And his defense is SO good even your best spells and attacks cause only a hundred or so points of damage. Mind you, anyting he has left Luca carries into the third battle aganist you and your chosen elite -- and the guy has around 1200 hit points.
I don't even want to admit how manyh tries it took me, a battle hardened RPG'er who usually laughs at the thought of danger, to finally outlast him. Nor do I care to admit what condition I was left in when it happened -- but it was'nt pretty.
And you REALLY wanted to beat this guy, cause it was about halfway into the game that you got to fight him and had learned to despise Luca. He was pure evil. He slauaghted people for fun, pure innocents who were made to do awfull things before his death. He poisioned his own father to gain control of his country. He used people and his own generals and killed those who fell. He wrecked cities and marched people off to die for nothing. The awfull boss battles aganist him were just made WORSE by how much you wanted him dead.
Finally, after all THAT, you had to fight him ONE more time with your main charcter in a one on one duel. Luckily you get a chance to heal and he is low on health. And before the duel he takes about six arrows to the body. And STILL Luca taunts you before he died.
Man! And here I thought Kefka, who is number two on my list, was a nutcase!
Who would you nominate for this 'prize'?
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Originally Posted by davidbrit2
