What is the most annoying boss fight you can think of?

To Kill A Raven, Final Fantasy XIV. I'm sure if I had tried it that the hard version of this same fight would be my choice. :p It wasn't actually terribly annoying but it certainly was annoying how you would spend 20-25 minutes before the real test of whether or not you will win the fight. MMO boss fights can be a real bitch sometimes. But the fight was interesting to master, I suppose.

I can only imagine the most annoying boss fight ever would be a tedious, monotonous, repetitive task relying on quick-time events that are questionable at best over their timing and the fight lasts over 30 minutes. If such a boss fight as this exists, I would call it the most annoying boss fight ever. It's pretty much everything I wouldn't like. Oh, wait. Make it force you to partner up with a different person every time, a la Journey. You can't talk with them, you don't know who they are, but you're relying on them as well as yourself now! And the boss would be standard for most of the fight but right at the end would do a move that often will one-shot you, and it won't give any warnings as to when this happens. No HP bar. They could market this game as The Most Annoying Boss Fight Ever, now that I think about it. One achievement: Win.

Demon wall from FFVII the first time you plan him and are underleveled.

ANY boss fight in FFIX when you have the COMPULSION to steal the best item.

Yiazmat. So. Damn. Boring. Truly the hardest battle in any game, ever. Will you slay the damn mothersmurfer, or will boredom slay you first? It's a fight to the death between you and the game.

Dullahan (from Golden Sun). Annoying because the only way to beat him is to spam summons, unless you grind like crazy and abuse the RNG method to forge the best gear for your entire party.

Super bosses in general are annoying. They either mostly rely on cheap tricks, very specific setups or grind fests.

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Minerva (Crisis Core)

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Yiazmat.

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These. At least in XII you can set up a proper gambit system and let your party fend for themselves, switching characters out every now and again when needed. But smurf Minerva. Seriously.

Anything from Dynamite Headdy. That game was hard but addictively so.

There's a trick to defeating yaizmat that works for even a level 5 party. (one mage, one archer, one healer)
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There's a trick to defeating yaizmat that works for even a level 5 party. (one mage, one archer, one healer)
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Sadly, that trick still doesn't beat Yiazmat's greatest ally: boredom.

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There's a trick to defeating yaizmat that works for even a level 5 party. (one mage, one archer, one healer)
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Sadly, that trick still doesn't beat Yiazmat's greatest ally: boredom.

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Makes him stronger in fact.

Anyone who doesn't mention that rainbow boss from Dark Cloud 2 is wrong. :colbert: That was some boring, annoying, tedious-ass trout.

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I like the game, but almost all the battles towards the end of FFXIII fall into this category by virtue of the battle system itself. The whole idea of staggering made these latter boss battles turn into extended wars of attrition, until you finally stagger them and knock their health down a tad, only to do it all again.

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Definetly this, though we should add Xenosaga Episode 2 since it uses the same battle system and all the end game boss fights are tedious 20 minute attrition fests.

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Yiazmat. So. Damn. Boring. Truly the hardest battle in any game, ever. Will you slay the damn mothersmurfer, or will boredom slay you first? It's a fight to the death between you and the game.

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Oh god yes, I love FFXII but I hate Yiazmat and it took me a few years after the game came out to finally finish that battle. It's a shame cause so many of the other Mark Hunt battles are really good but this one was just awful...

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Super bosses in general are annoying. They either mostly rely on cheap tricks, very specific setups or grind fests.

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I agree, they are mostly a novelty element anymore in these games, a way to artificially extend game time by making you grind for better stats and loot. Many of themselves are just giant attrition battles as well.

Largely, I hate attrition battles, they are not bad when used sparsely but a lot of games tend to go overboard with them or worse, build battle systems that are based on these types of battles.

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Capra Demon.

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I also hated the Capra Demon. If you grind for a Balder Shield beforehand, though, you can block all of his attacks perfectly well. Found that out AFTER having suffered through him, of course. :mad2:

Oh, and Hilgigas from FFIX. Not a hard boss by any means, but if you are gonna steal the Fairy Flute (or Angel Flute?), then you're gonna be there for a while. My entire party went into Trance well over a dozen times before I managed to steal that bloody thing!

Most annoying? Pretty much everything in FFIV DS version after Leviathan.

A lot of Dragon Age Origin fights... At first I was all "yay i'm so glad i waited to play this game on PC" but then I read how the difficulty is higher. :(

Wrexsoul. The first time I played him I didn't understand how it worked so it took me hours.

The fight against Red Soul in Final Fantasy 2.
It's such a stupid fight, you can only hurt him with physical attacks and the characters' accuracy sucks against him, so you basically deal Ineffective hits like 80% of the time.
And no, I'm not spending a whole day leveling up my weapon skills just to have a reasonable accuracy against that one boss.