Longest Boss Fights

[Crossword]

This may fall under the umbrella of ''Hardest Boss Fights'', but this thread is for posting about your experiences against those bosses that just would not die, whether it be from cheap gimmicks, ungodly amounts of HP, or just plain old hatred from the developers.

Before I post some of mine, I tell you what inspired me to create this topic. According to Megagames, a brave guild of users called Beyond The Limitation tried to take on Pandemonium Warden in FFXI. They lasted eighteen hours before finally throwing in the towel, due to him having twenty forms to switch to. Whenever he does that, he regains all of his HP in addition to spawning eight powerful monsters. Ouch.

Okay, some of my experiences, though not quite as extreme:

1. Taboo Sho Minamimoto (The World Ends with You)

This guy is annoying and takes a while due to two factors: One, he takes 75% less damage then normal enemies. Two, he almost constantly teleports away from you when you go in to attack. And all that together and you get a very low damage output. I had to rely on the top screen partner to deal damage until I could throw together a powerful Fusion, which took quite a while.

2. Star Magician (Golden Sun: The Lost Age)

This one is irritating because he keeps summoning minion monsters that refill 9999HP as well as erecting barriers to reduce damage to pitifully small amounts. They also dilute the damage of your powerful Psynergy, as you can't pile them all onto one character and one alone.

3. Wedigo (Final Fantasy 5)

He has four clones that he constantly shifts between, and there's no real way of knowing which is the real one, resulting in a very protracted fight.

4. Gollum (The Return of the King (PS2))

The gimmick here is that you need to force him to the edge of a cliff and perform your finisher to knock him off. The problem is that it's almost impossible to budge him in any direction with any of your attacks. My cousin and I spent close to three hours fighting him on a single life until we barely won.

[Dark Lord Zenigame]

In Wild Arms 3, I was stupid enough to fight the secret sideboss "Heimdall Gazzo" the first time I was able to.

I was about twenty levels below what you should be to fight him.

By sheer luck, I'd stuck an attribute onto Clive that negated attacks of the Shadow-type, so he managed to stay alive long enough to revive one other party member and begin slowly picking away at his health… then it'd use a multi-attack and I'd have to do it all over again.

Somehow not getting a gameover, I beat the bastard after over eight hours.

[Sandai Mera]

Hmmmmm longest Boss Fight definitely goes to

Lahkesis & Athropos from God Of War 2,

The first part is easy the second and third are fucking evil
the second limiting you by time the third involving a handicap match.

The End from MGS3

Longest game of tag ever.

Crying Wolf from MGS4

Pretty much the same as the battle with the End only a smaller battlefield and with a slightly higher annoyance rate.

[DarX]

for me, it's salazar from Resident Evil 4, but the only reason was, all i had was shotgun ammo and handgun ammo, no rifle, and considering how far away he was, this took forever to take him out, it took me about three hours to beat him.

[Greg]

1. Taboo Sho Minamimoto (The World Ends with You)

This guy is annoying and takes a while due to two factors: One, he takes 75% less damage then normal enemies. Two, he almost constantly teleports away from you when you go in to attack. And all that together and you get a very low damage output. I had to rely on the top screen partner to deal damage until I could throw together a powerful Fusion, which took quite a while.

Supply Boost x2,
Monkey Leisure
Peace Full
Velocity Attack
Velocity Crash

Have fun, you're now invincible.

Longest Boss Fight:

Computer in Pong.

[Insider2000]

Final Bosses of both Resident Evil: Outbreak File 1 and File 2.

Me + Playing as Cindy + Folding Knife + No other weapon + Final Boss + Very Hard Mode = This'll take a while…

[Greg]

Y'know, excluding that Gameboy Color Gaiden tragedy, Outbreaks are the only RE's I never played. I was never in the States when they were released and since there was no hype, I always missed picking them up.

Are they okay solo? The servers and stuff are down right?

[Sandai Mera]

@Greg:

Y'know, excluding that Gameboy Color Gaiden tragedy, Outbreaks are the only RE's I never played. I was never in the States when they were released and since there was no hype, I always missed picking them up.

Why didn't you just buy the japanese versions?

@Greg:

The servers and stuff are down right?

Wikipedia:

On December 31st, 2007, Capcom shut down the US servers for Outbreak. Capcom claims the decision was a result of its online service provider's decision to leave the business entirely. In a statement on its community boards, a representative of Capcom claimed that they tried to move the servers elsewhere, but the provider had no interest in helping Capcom move them.

[Lazzie]

That guy that's dropping blocks on you in Tetris. It takes awhile.

[Buuhan1]

Haven't played it, but apparently the optional boss at the end of Final Fantasy XII takes hours to beat even if your party is fully developed.

Upon searching, seems there is several. The one I was talking about you faught outside in daylight in a circle colosseum like place. Dunno the name.

[Greg]

Why didn't you just buy the japanese versions?

Because I didn't have a PS2 here.

[tonitonichopper]

Longest? Every boss fight in Mario & Luigi Partners in Time. I hate this game.

EDIT: quite off topic, but congratulations Greg.

[OldSnake]

Congratulations Greg.

And the longest boss fight I've ever had was the last fight against Yu Yevon in Final Fantasy X. This could of been my shortest fight but I didn't know the trick to beating him at the time and it took FOREVER. He couldn't really kill me because we all had auto life on us (every one knows the details blah blah) and every time I hit him he healed 9999 damage and it took literaly more then 2 hours to beat him. The second time I played through with a guide to get all the secrets I used reflect on him (which I didn't think of at the time) so instead of him healing himself he healed my party instead which brought down those 2 hours into about 4 minutes (lol) I was dumb and young. Memories =).

[Gaiyae]

Drowning king in ff4 advance.. He kept killing all my party members with his annoying spells, besides Cecil. And i didn't have the time to constantly revive them, even with slow cast on him. So it all came down between him and cecil.. And at a certain point he just keeps healing himself. So in my head i just kept calculating how much Hp he regained with me trying to beating him up. I think i spend 3 or 4 hours, just trying to beat him.

[Greg]

Thank you Old & toni! ^_^

[Insider2000]

@Greg:

Y'know, excluding that Gameboy Color Gaiden tragedy, Outbreaks are the only RE's I never played. I was never in the States when they were released and since there was no hype, I always missed picking them up.

Are they okay solo? The servers and stuff are down right?

Yeah, the US servers are down. (I don't know about the J Servers).

If you find it really cheap, it's always okay for a buy, even with solo. I would suggest renting it.

When you play solo, you get two AI allies to help you. They have moments where they are dumber than anything in this world, but they also have moments where you need them more than anything.

Also, the game is a downslide from Resident Evil 4. Meaning, it's survival horror and NOT killing zombies. Flee before fight. (Zombies respawn.)

[davis]

longest boss fights goto

1. This giant gargoyle type thing near the end of kingdom hearts 1. it took me 2 F* hours of nonstop attacking!

2. Emerald/Ruby weapons in FF7

3. Matador from SMT Nocturne…. it isnt really long, as it is obscenely difficult

[Insider2000]

Death Gaze in Final Fantasy 1 for the GBA. Honestly…

My Knight did nothing but attack (doing about 200 damage). My Ninja did the same (doing a little bit less damage). My White Wizard healed all of us. My Red Wizard attacked (doing less than 100 damage).

.........Death Gaze has 30,000 HP.

I HAD to do something else while fighting him.

[Toastboy]

The final boss in Skies of Arcadia Legends (Dreamcast/Gamecube) lasted at least one and a half hours.

[Lazzie]

Man, that's not how you fight in DoS. You have to use Temper and Haste on your main attacker every turn, and eventually he'll hit for thousands of damage. Works best with a Monk / Master.

Seriously, a lot of the bosses mentioned here (Cagnazzo, Zelos, Mario stuff) aren't long ones at all. Anyone here know Lao-Shan Lung? Anyone?

[Zkaiser]

M. Bison in SFA3. What. A. Bitch. And the last boss in Majora's Mask. Shape. Shifting. Bitch.

[Buuhan1]

@davis:

1. This giant gargoyle type thing near the end of kingdom hearts 1. it took me 2 F* hours of nonstop attacking!

Chernabog? There's absolutely no reason that should have took you 2 hours, hell, 10 minutes even. This is coming from a crappy player too.

[Aceburner]

Ghost Train from FF6.

MIRITE?

[TakinawaTonfa]

Who was that boss at the top of that tower in FF6 where you could only use magic, and he kept switching his weaknesses and resistances every time you attacked him?

That guy.

Took me like two hours get him down.

snicker fffhh…haha OK, OK....now heres the funny part....right before he dies snicker....he casts Ultima...WHOOPS theres goes you're entire party!

All that time down the drain, haha!

[Luffsopp]

I would say Kingdom Hearts I serect boss battle sephiroth. It took me 1 hour just to bring down his shield and it took me 2 hours just to bring him down to green and 1 hour to kill him. Best way to spend time on a sunday morning.

[Mokenda_mint]

Beyond: Good and Evil has some pretty long boss battles, kinda tricky too

[Tizoc]

MGS2 & 4 both had pretty long boss battles IMO…or at least FINAL boss battles.

[Sandai Mera]

None of MGS'2 boss battles were really long though I kind of stumped against Olga for like a good hour or so.

[KrnxAJa]

I say shadow of the colossus. The last 4 bosses took me a total of 7 hours to beat. and that's not counting the travel time. I just couldn't figure out the weak spots, or how to get to it.

[Insider2000]

@Lazzie:

Man, that's not how you fight in DoS. You have to use Temper and Haste on your main attacker every turn, and eventually he'll hit for thousands of damage. Works best with a Monk / Master.

Seriously, a lot of the bosses mentioned here (Cagnazzo, Zelos, Mario stuff) aren't long ones at all. Anyone here know Lao-Shan Lung? Anyone?

I wasn't very good at Final Fantasy at that time. :silly:

[Hiroy]

@Luffsopp:

I would say Kingdom Hearts I serect boss battle sephiroth. It took me 1 hour just to bring down his shield and it took me 2 hours just to bring him down to green and 1 hour to kill him. Best way to spend time on a sunday morning.

Is this after many gameovers? Because even on a low level game, it never takes that long.

The longest fight for me has to Penance in FFX.

[The man with a pigeon]

Lucifer from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. His attack, Death Flies kills anyone, if the main hero dies, game over. Fortunately he was immune to death, but not the rest of the party. So I spent 3 hours altering between healing myself and attacking him. I do 180 HP damage and he has 16 000 HP. Good fight.

[Demon Days]

I remember getting stuck on the Nova Dragon above the Lifa Tree on Disc 4 of FF9. I had Vivi left alive who just absorbed all his wind attacks because of Mag Elem Null or something, and all he did was wind attacks. So I had to keep magic attacking, which wasn't doing a great deal, and it took me ages to win cuz I was practically immortal.

Thankfully not as long as it would otherwise have taken, as I'd worn him down a bit.

[Mr. Zoro]

The End in MGS3.

Long, but fun.

[Buuhan1]

@Demon:

I remember getting stuck on the Nova Dragon above the Lifa Tree on Disc 4 of FF9. I had Vivi left alive who just absorbed all his wind attacks because of Mag Elem Null or something, and all he did was wind attacks. So I had to keep magic attacking, which wasn't doing a great deal, and it took me ages to win cuz I was practically immortal.

Thankfully not as long as it would otherwise have taken, as I'd worn him down a bit.

Hahaha, this sounds like a fun time.

[Sandai Mera]

The last two bosses in Super Robot Taisen OG really how many licks does it take to get to get to the center of these long ass battles
(I can't remember).

[SEA RAT]

@Gaiyae:

Drowning king in ff4 advance.. He kept killing all my party members with his annoying spells, besides Cecil. And i didn't have the time to constantly revive them, even with slow cast on him. So it all came down between him and cecil.. And at a certain point he just keeps healing himself. So in my head i just kept calculating how much Hp he regained with me trying to beating him up. I think i spend 3 or 4 hours, just trying to beat him.

I was about to say the same thing. The fight was so boring to me because It was basically attack, heal, attack, heal times 1000. But when that sucker finally died, I was overjoyed. Another annoying guy was the Dark Elf. Mainly because I fought him like ten times before I figured out that I needed to talk to Edward.

[RuNa]

I have had a lot of long legit battles, but the two that stuck out in my head are:

Chrono Trigger:

-When you are SUPPOSED to let chrono die, I used cheats to keep him alive….and well, I played for 1 hour before I realized I was supposed to die

Final Fantasy V

-When Galuf is supposed to die, I LEGITIMATELY fought for more than a half hour before I died (I had something like dual blood swords on)

[Gaiyae]

@SEA:

I was about to say the same thing. The fight was so boring to me because It was basically attack, heal, attack, heal times 1000. But when that sucker finally died, I was overjoyed. Another annoying guy was the Dark Elf. Mainly because I fought him like ten times before I figured out that I needed to talk to Edward.

I had the excact same problem with the Elf.
Another one was that doctor guy. Luckily he went down fast once you cast a well timed curaga on him. I'm playing the DS remake (never really played the originial), and most bosses are extremely challenging.

[Silence]

@Buuhan1:

Haven't played it, but apparently the optional boss at the end of Final Fantasy XII takes hours to beat even if your party is fully developed.

Upon searching, seems there is several. The one I was talking about you faught outside in daylight in a circle colosseum like place. Dunno the name.

Yazmat. Fucking utterly ridiculous fight.