V Rising
>>733663868Octopath Traveler. Didn't help that you need to run a gauntlet immediately prior and can't save at any point between start and finish.
>MetaphorPut the game down at this point and never went back.
>>733664004>put the game down in the final boss battleRetard.
>>733664174fuck Atlus. This boss isn't meant to be beaten. When his 2nd phase came out I yelled WTF
>>733664240I love when the Akadaemia motif drops and Louis is obliterating your party.https://youtu.be/yZOIelz11bg?si=rIDxAKFf1eFqL39a
>>733663868Twice that I can remember, once for Sudeki and once for Otogi. Both had insanely long and tedious final bosses.
>>733663868yeahhesitation was my defeat
I couldn't care less at this point
I thought the final shmup bit of Nier: Automata (where you fight the credits themselves in a bullet hell) were doable without relying on other players and I got frustrated after trying for about a hour. Felt like using the other players to essentially have godmode was like cheating.
Yeah Silksong. It was too much for me
>>733663995I’m trying to do this right now. It’s been actual months but I keep coming back to it a few times a week. Still haven’t gotten him quite yet, but I’ve been doing better on the 2nd phase.
>>733663868I know that I've done it, but I can't remember which game or games
>>733663868How did you beat the dragon if you can't beat the last boss?
>>733663868https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSo8XY923qI
>>733663868Yeah.https://youtu.be/-fxpJL5a300?si=RPheF3YbltvCiX1i
Optional boss but still feels like a failure
Not exactly the boss but I remember when I got to the final area in Phantasy Star 2 I needed to grind some more levels and just went nah fuck that shit maybe sometime later. Never returned to it.
>>733663868Paper Mario Thousand Year Door. She just kept doing that shadow wave attack over and over like a fucking faggot and I decided that I was done playing the game.
The superbosses in Etrian Odyssey games, I either use a cheese party (I, II, III), use my main party and lower the difficulty (1U and 2U), or just give up (V).
>>733663868Louis was a bit of a difficulty spike after a game of mostly nothing yeah but I did get him in the end. Can't remember exactly what I did but it involved Junah and Basilio spamming a whole lot of something.The only time I actually gave up on a final boss was Zeromus in FF4. I'd have had to go back and grind for a whole day on the lunar surface to beat him and even 12 year old me didn't have time for that shit.
Several Zelda games. Zelda II, Minish Cap, Oracles (linked game). I did finally finish a linked game this weekend for the anniversary, both a Seasons > Ages file I've chipped away at and the Ages > Seasons file I've had sitting around for over 20 years.
>>733663868I got filtered by the last stage of Rabi Ribi's boss and never finished the game. I also didn't buy "all buffs" from the shop and was too lazy to backtrack. It's a nice game but I was never really that involved in it.
>>733663868happened with elden beastI was already sick of the game by then but having to fight marika (hombre) every time I lost to the clusterfuck that was elden beast made me quitI did eventually return to game years later when I got it on pc and raped every boss ezpz except maleinea that took some effort I'll admit
>>733663868I wouldnt say I gave up at any final boss.Only thing that comes kinda close was Skyrim when it was new, because the game was boring and couldnt bring myself to care about finishing the final main quest.
>>733663868I almost gave up on chasing a giant jelly bean around in Elden Ring.Currently debating whether I want to finish the Sarcophagus in the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game.
>>733663995Shit, I forgot about Final Fantasy 3. I haven't officially given up, however, just facing hours of level grinding and put that shit on hold.
Are some of you really so casual that you can't beat the final boss of Fantasy Persona which is the equivalent of SMT-lite?
>>733665235Only time I summoned and I don't even care. Her health regain is pure bullshit.
Devil Survivor 2. Vanilla and re-releaseIt was just an endless war or attrition and I always burned out before I got to the final part no matter what I brought
>>733663868I dropped Prototype on the second to last mission because it was an escort mission
>>733663868THIS MOTHERFUCKER as a kid i didn't fully grasp how djinn weakened you if just spam them for summons so he one shot me with his ultimate move every time i beat the first game though
>>733664774Is the final boss really a sexy pregnant bug? holy fucking based
I gave up on the last boss of Super Mario Brothers in Time (one of the Game boy Mario rpgs) I think. It was the last boss that is an evil mushroom queen.I couldn't time her attack patterns and she took forever to fight so my game boy battery died and I said fuck it
>>733665465lmao same EOV boss was nuts I gave up on it too only used a ultra cheesy dodge fencer strat to see the creditsI did eventually go back and beat it legitmately but there was a lot of luck involved, the dragoon canon shot was MVP, more so than my titan killer monk lol
>>733665214Almost gave up on this one. Took me 4-5 hours to beat these whores. I hope Yoko Fago never makes another game again.
I never actually beat grand guignol in BS2I got close and I didn't recruit the party members so I probably could've done it with them but I was too lazy to figure out how to do that so I watched the final cutscene on youtube.
>>733663868only once with the sekiro final boss. i know i couldve done it if i kept retrying but i knew it was the end and all i'd miss was a cutscene so it didn't feel worth the effort
>>733664774Out of curiosity, what filtered you?
These days if I get stuck towards the last section of a game because of a boss fight or whatever, I just whip out something like Cheat Engine just to get it over with the second it starts to feel like I'm just losing interest.
>>733663868Literally that exact boss. It wasn't even that it was hard, it was just fucking tedious and I didn't feel like fighting it anymore.
Kotama & Academy Citadel on highest difficulty. It has 3 phases.
>>733663868I stopped outside the door of the final boss room in Code Vein and just decided I was done and never played it again. Didn't even bother fighting him once. In Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon I let my best units sacrifice themselves heroically on what I thought was the final boss... only to find out there was another chapter after that. I had saved the game and couldn't go back, and even though I tried many times to beat the actual final boss it was just impossible with my underleveled team of shitters and I gave up.
>>733663868i sold my weapon in fable 1 and accidentally got stuck in final sewuence withou previous saves, i just watched the ending
>>733663868Twice in my life I played through all of FFIV, got beaten up by Zeromus, thought I'd come back another day for a bit of grinding, and then just sort of forgot about it.
>>733663868Absolute Radiance in Hollow Knight. I couldn't do it, and the thought of having to go through the whole gauntlet for a legitimate attempt did not motivate me to keep practicing.
I gave in and used Cheat Engine.Absolutely insane how piss easy everything in Ys II is by comparison.
The entire game was really easy up until the dragons and the secret boss, which were all more tedious then anythingalso, this is the better Louis fight theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M24FmIradKI
When the fuck is this game coming to switch 2
Fuck this guy.
I gave up on final phase Radhan in the Elden Ring DLC. I was just fed up with the fucking light show, I couldn't see shit and there was basically no indication of how to mitigate/dodge things other than trial and error, so I got fed up and quit. I still to this day think it's a terribly designed boss. Never tried it after the nerf patch
>>733663868Arc Rise Fantasia. The game's already infuriatingly hard, but the final boss is something else entirely.I did beat her first form, but gave up on the second, and watched the ending online.I really wasn't feeling like grinding for several more hours to stand a chance.
>>733663868Sticker Star.I didn't have the Thing for Bowser, and I didn't feel like backtracking to get it so I just turned the game off.I also never beat I am Setsuna.I went the entire game not needing to grind or go out of my way for anything, only to get hit with a wall of boss refights BEFORE the final fight, in a row, without opportunities to rest or restock. Insane difficulty spike for a game that was otherwise very smooth.I can't remember exactly but I think it was also a point-of-no-return so I couldn't even go back to the world map to grind and/or prepare.
>>733663868I thought Louis was surprisingly difficult until I realized that Royal Slash scales with both Magic and Strength - I hadn't been using it because I built the protagonist for Magic and I assumed it was a Strength skill, and then when I started using it I beat him easily. It was actually a bit disappointing because the fight seemed more interesting when it was harder.
I made it all the way to the final boss on this on hard mode, but I had to drop it to normal for the final boss. He was a massive pain in the ass and the more I fought him the less interested I was in the game. I think that's the only time I've ever had to lower the difficulty of a game to beat it.
>>733663868Code Vein...First phase was pretty good, I loved it, it'd have closed the game on such a great note!...it didn't end there tho, the second phase was nothing short of AIDS-inducing pain that was probably put there to punish me for all the fun I experienced playing the game
>>733667048I feel like the biggest reason this filters people is that you can just run under/along with him, and no other enemy in the game works that way you just get killed if you try. If im remembering correctly at least.>>733663868Octopath traveler postgame boss. Pretty sure i got wiped with one or two hits remaining, did not feel like doing the 8 trival slog refights before the boss.
>>733663868I gave up after losing to the ff13 boss twice. It was the only fight uo until that point of the game that even offered difficulty, and at that point I was so sick of that shitty game I just said fuck it and watched the end on YouTube. Still surprised I even got as far as I did, ff13 was dogshitPleasently surprised at the lack of mention of nine sols, perhaps the final boss is just too kino to give up on
>>733663868bloodborne
>>733666442you can beat that fucker only with sol blade's megiddo>>733667048my nigga, I've never beaten that boss
>>733663868>make a hack n slash game that's ~35 hours long>last boss>have to skip 2 cut scenes>~3 minutes of loading times on each attempt>hard rhythm game even if it were a rhythm game>the intro of the song is ~20 seconds before your first note>3rd and 4th verse is full of 8th and 16th notes where you don't get to see>song is 6 minutes long>bull shit notes after screen goes blackI wouldn't have complained if any of the previous 30 hour game had any kind of rhythm mechanics but it was just out of no where.
>>733663868When I played Mother 3 for the first time I didn't take any items with me throughout most of Porky's tower and ended up saving past the point of no return in the basement with jackall. I remember being in absolute disbelief that you were stuck there without an item box. Simply couldn't pull it off.
>>733663868Not that I can recall. The final boss of Drakengard 3 was a serious struggle, though.>>733676028The final notes in particular almost prompted me to quit.
>>733664240Lucifer in SMT 3 would've made you cry even harder, bitch boy.
>>733667857I'm not an Undertale fan, but it baffles me how much the final battle is a gigantic rip-off of the Neutral Route's ending.
>>733663868>start Tehom fight>attack her>see how little I move the health bar>realize it would take me like 40+ minutes of nonstop attacking to get her to zero, even taking advantage of the element gimmick>turn off game>haven't come back sinceI just can't bring myself to do something that tedious. The other alternative is to go level grind so it's faster but that also sounds boring.
>>733663868Only once and it was FF13Not because it was hard but because I was so bored and playing it just because my friends were into it, I don't think there was a single moment I enjoyedI just got to the last boss, realized I've seen everything the game has to offer, stared at it and closed the game
Only one I can recall is Tales of Zestiria. I was already limping along because almost none of the characters really interested me, the plot was dry, and the gear combining system was pretty autistic for no real reason. Got to the final boss, some Ganondorf-looking motherfucker. Beat phase 1 (and 2 maybe?) and then he turns into his big wall big mode form. I hadn't really faced any difficulty from the entire game even on the higher setting, and I don't even think I even game over'd once. Big mode form I quickly realize has a mechanic where if you don't kill him fast enough he instant wipes your party. I tried it once more being more aggressive and it wasn't remotely close he triggers this way earlier than you'd expect and I game over again. I shrug, load my save and farm a few levels and slightly better gear and game over a third time nearly identically. I put the game down and never looked back because the story was so forgettable that I could hardly care what happens.I was curious like a year later if I was just retarded or what, but apparently a lot of people had that difficulty. The most common solutions I saw, were to learn the intricacies of the retarded gear crafting/combining system (at the very end of the game) or just switch player control to the girl and spam one specific attack that apparently shits damage. Both those options sound retarded so I never bothered to reinstall it.
>>733677446I beat the game siding with yoko then watched youtube what the boss looks like if i reject her, glad i didn't chose that because tiamat+smug fuck is way more enjoyable than this hp sponge snorefest
>>733663868Kino boss
Cynthia in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl when I was a kid
>>733663868I tried to finish Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn in normal mode and couldn't do it because my units were too weak to do anything productive in the final battle. Things weren't that great either since I figured out that I couldn't have multiple saves of the same playthrough in the one section of the game where you're meant to split your army in teams that will stay the same until the end. At that point I just gave up.
>we ripped off a lot of shit from Dark Souls 1, let's rip off the Gaping Dragon, put it into a small arena and make it obnoxious to kill>let's also make it resistant to every magic-based attack in the game, invalidating a lot of builds>oh, and let's have him screw up the lock-on camera, add shockwave attacks and have it fly to fire random gigantic spikes that are next to impossible to dodgeThe Dweller in the Dark path should have ended with the Silva fight. The Virgin Born is one of the worst boss fights I had the displeasure to fight, and none of the bosses gave me trouble.
