Shin Akuma
Hah! Ugh Zan III from the first Serious Sam, for no doubt. All other bosses look pygmean comparing to him.
He's also extremely hard to beat. I managed to kill him in the easiest level, but abandoned the idea on more advanced ones. It appears to be impossible.
*hears "Get back to work!!" yell from Burns*

Haha ... well ... admittedly, I do play games It's tough to think of a specific "boss" that has given me trouble, being that the games I play usually are not of the straightforward FPS nature.

One encounter that stands out in my mind though is from a game for Nintendo GameCube. It's basically a Lord of the Rings rip off of Final Fantasy (I actually remembered this thanks to ALM's post ), called "The Third Age". There's a level in there where your little band of people (can't remember their names now) catches up to the actual Fellowship and you have to help Gandalf fight the Balrog on the Bridge of Khazad-D?m.

That fight ... was ... impossible To this day I haven't finished it.

The addition of Gandalf to your party was nice and all, he had some attacks that would be devastating in the normal gameplay, but nothing would drop this sucker! Eventually I just lost interest. Too bad, it was a pretty enjoyable game.

Thats a really hard question... but I think I'll go for Malcom from the PC game Unreal Tournament 4.

Every other level was completed with reletive ease, with an steady but not steep slope of increasing difficulty.
Until the last level, which was like driving over an anti-tank mine. In a petrol tanker.

I did manage to complete it though, one keyboard later. But I cant think of a more stressful experiance with a video game boss.


Not really a boss, but worth mentioning: I've never, ever completed any Gran Turismo game. By the time I get really far on it, the next GT is out, so I buy that one.    And the fact that you have to be very determined and patient to complete it all. I just love that game though.

I never really have many problems with fighting bosses on games, as its just problem solving, you have to lose to learn in many cases, however some of them are just bastards. For the life of me I cant remember what its name was, but there is a Dragon on the online final fantasy (which I dont play) and honestly it took my friend and his party of 21 people '4' freaking hours to NEARLY kill it before they all got wiped out. they did manage to kill it, in 3 hours, but it had SO many health points, they were doing a rotor service to keep everyones fingers from going numb. This is a guy who can beat the final robotnick on Sonic the Hedgehog in 9 seconds. It just seemed a bit much to me.

For me though, the only boss I ever had massive problems with was that solid prick at the end of Mortal Kombat. He took hours to figure out. It turned out to be really easy though, so that was just me being dumb.

~Syke

1 - thankyou that sounds about right

2 - its the quikest way if it is cheating sligtly, and I thought you could merge parties anyway? I dony know how it works I just laugh when he gets his ass handed to him.

3 - Dragons arent as strong as you thing methodically.

But there's one boss, who is resist any projectile attacks and I almost got pissed, when I tried to fight him. I call him as The Dragon King as well, but his real name is.....ONAGA! The final boss of Mortal Kombat: Deception.

The only way to defeat Onaga in MKD, I have to shatter all the Kamidogu, what are shown at the final stage. These Kamidogu are source of Onaga's Immortality. Once the Kamidogu are destroyed, Onaga is weak of basic attacks and combos.

The one (or tag) character is very good to use to defeat Onaga and I always use Noob-Smoke (Noob Saibot & Smoke) to kick his ass.

Here's a pic of Onaga, the true Dragon King.

I can't really say that I remember any boss fights as being incredibly tough. Maybe Komari Vosa, the deranged Jedi who was the final boss on Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, but I don't remember spending hours on end trying like a madman to beat her.