The most despair-inducing screencap I have ever seen is just two sentences. "Absolute Virtue uses Benediction." "Absolute Virtue recovers 46,613" The developers also seemed to explicitly fuck with everyone by not just patching any blatantly non-intended methods, but even just nerfing specific class setups based exclusively on how they helped make the boss easier, and had the gall to release a hint video on a fight they were constantly patching, which meant the video became outdated in short order.
The devs said there was an easier way to beat him but the FFXI fan base was always so stubbornly rigid in their methods and beliefs that they never figured it out.
@@cyclone8974 sounds more like "we intentionally designed boss to be unbeatable through conventional means so we can flex at our players being bad at our game for that"
@@loganreed23 Well you never played FFXI did you? Once players found a way to do something they refused to vary from it ever. If you said "hey can we try x" you just get kicked and replaced.
@@cyclone8974 i haven't but I've read numerous commentaries of people who did and summarises from people who researched and documented this stuff, and it was exactly as I described.
Imagine it's 2am, you've been fighting the boss for a while, and you have him lower than 20% in his hp, right as you're going to deal the final blow... He pulls a one hit k.o on you
@@daronoch5779 At least those bosses don't take that long per attempt. Maybe Midir and Gael, but the general duration of those battles is 5-7 minutes if done correctly, so it isn't too bad. Yiazmat or Zodiark, from FFXII, on the other hand... Now those can go die in a fire. 1+ hours PER ATTEMPT. At least for Yiazmat you can leave and come back and he would still have the same HP as before IF he didn't cast Regen on self.
Battling the End from MGS3 is one of the most atmospheric moments in that game. I remember slowly crawling my way through the three different zones looking for him while the rain slowly fell. I beat him my first time within about thirty minutes I believe.
I remember playing that when I was 10 or 11 and it took me hours of gameplay, I spent several days thinking about it trying to figure out ways to outsmart a game, I remember I even broke one of my controllers in half because I thought I had him, had went through my plan a million times in my head and boom wrong. I can’t remember how i actually beat him, I honestly think I fell asleep while playing and he died of old age or something.
@@ardi1066 Sounds brutal, what is it that you do that requires such long hours? My day job is technically only 37.5 hours, but I've got my own business on the side and study, so I can empathise. Having only a handful of days off is tiring as hell. Thankfully I'm from a country with decent employment law, so it's my choice to be tired vs doing it out of necessity. Hope you stay safe.
Gotta agree, felt to me like those devs were sort of assuming all their players would have a generalized understanding of the boss' fundamental mechanics and I highly doubt many of them actually do
Or people never caught on to you needing one of every mainline job since chains of promathia came out, to lockout AV's 2 hour abilities. When he gets ready to cast a 2 hour, you're supposed to have someone of the same job use their's to lock out his 2 hour. He will no longer be able to use that special ability. People are/were just a bunch of "let's do the same thing over and over again, and maybe we'll win", which is equivalent to insanity.
I remember my first time against Nyx. After 3 hours, he did Night Queen and KO my whole party. The Charm is not a problem, it's the "I can attack twice per turn" + "When about to die I spam this attack that deals Severe ammount of Allmighty damage to your entire party + apply random status ailment among all the ones existing in the game"
When I was 12, the three headed tentacle monster from Half Life stumped me for a good month or two. I blame me accidentally shooting the guard who was supposed to tell me it was blind.
First linkshell to beat it: HOLY FUCKING SHIT WE DID IT BOYS MY GOD IM GOING TO KISS EVERYONE OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!! WE DID IT! Square Enix stubborn because someone beat it: mmmm idk, sounds fake
SE would actually ban people for not playing the way they wanted people to play. The "legit" way to beat this boss before they toned it down was basically impossible. You can look it up for more details but basically required specific jobs (classes) to do special moves to interrupt the boss casting things like Benediction but with the internet back then it was almost impossible for anyone to catch it in time.
I was among one of those Linkshells that fought Absolute Virtue, this video truly does not do the fight justice. In the game you could only have a group of 18 people fighting it at a given time, he also had 2 other abilities called manafont that allowed him access to the most powerful AOE spell in the game, but it would take him up to 3 minutes to cast so you could stun him and interrupt it, but when he combined it with the Chainspell ability he would cast it in less than 2 seconds, so he could essentially wipe your entire group. To get around this there was second or even third wave groups just in case group 1 wiped, so in total you could have 54 people standing around to fight this guy, but its not like the other groups could just jump in, you would have to disband parts of the original group and invite these new members so it became a menus game as well. The devs released a video after 3 years and gave people the key to beating him but it still took my linkshell 18 hours to take him down legitimately.
Bro how are you going to go into that much detail about the fight and then not say how you ended up beating it? What was this amazing key they showed you?
@@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725 ok that is 4 years of game mechanics i would need to impart just to get the gist so i will give you the short notes of the short notes version. Every job class has an ability that can only be used every 2 hours. Each of these abilities can be used by Absolute Virtue as well and he can combine them to make it even more powerful. The ability mentioned above, Chainspell, could be combined with another 2 hour ability called Manafront and he could instant cast everything he wanted without spending his mp. The key to beating him was waiting for him to use one of these two hour abilities and then every job inside the 18 player engaging alliance had to use their respective 2 hour ability as well, this would then lock him into only being able to use that 2 hour ability for the next 2 hours of the fight. Yes this means he could use it multiple times while the rest of us players had to wait out the 2 hours each time. This also means that part compositions were not ideal in order to get people into the party just to use their 2 hours (for example you never brought a beast master to this fight because their abilities were not made for taking on ultra bosses like this, but you had to have one in case Absolute Virtue used it so you would drop a party member and bring in the beast master just to use the 2 hour then drop him from the party to get back the core member). This was especially dangerous for any Ninjas, which were the main tanks at the time, because their 2 hour ability was literally suicide in exchange for a large amount of damage, so you had to boot them from the party and bring in the backup ninjas so they could continue to tank. This especially got hard when he would use the White Mage 2 hour of Benediction because then he would fully heal himself and would continue to use it every 15 minutes for 2 hours. It was a lot of luck based hoping he would use the correct two hour to lock him into something weak as opposed to something that broke up your damage like the Paladin's Invincible ability. Hope that helps a bit more, trust me this is the extremely simplified version of the fight.
Thomas Hoffman lol that is a lot but the og comment was so anti climatic. I don’t fully understand, why was he stuck using the same ability just because you had everyone use theirs? Hm I probably need to reread🧐
@@thomashoffman8916 waiting for him to use one of these two hour abilities and then every job inside the 18 player engaging alliance had to use their respective 2 hour ability as well, this would then lock him into only being able to use that 2 hour ability for the next 2 hours of the fight. this ^ sooo after he uses his ability, everyone uses theirs so that the two hour timer keeps him from being able to use those classes abilities? why does he have to use his first? couldnt everyone use theirs as soon as the timer is up so he doesnt have the chance? how did noone figure this out by trial and error after fighting him for 30 hours straight? i am probably just missing something you would know from playing.
@@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725 oh and to answer the question I missed, we couldn't just use it to lock him in at the start, he had 20 seconds to mirror his usage of the 2 hour in order to lock him in. Its just the way the developers programmed him.
2020 is like fighting Nameless King as he's riding Midir All while having only 5% of your total health, with bare fists, naked, SL1, NG+7, on the Bed of Chaos arena, and being unable to summon either NPCs or other players
@mb v the map never marked him? You must've been playing on the lowest difficulty. But as someone whose using the tranquilizer gun to get his camo then yes he takes forever
@@iKrazyyi I think i remember the map marked his overall location or something, but thing is, to avoid all his sniper shot to get to him take time, and since he is watching u running to him, when the time u get to his location, he switch location... I beat him when i was very young, so take about 10 mins to get what to do (it is not the "heres the boss, beat him" kind of thing, plus I barely understand the story or wth is a true sniper), and spend 20 mins to find him, to only gave up and start running around the map to get lucky And when I got lucky and found him (after 1 hour), I just chase him across the mountain with thermal goggle and a shotgun at my hand, man I never been so angry and determine about someone XD
Yeah it wasn't that hard for me either, I beat it on the 2nd try. Because his first position is always in Sokrovyenno : Yug (maybe the spelling's wrong idk) you just have to sneak up behind him with an Mk22, shoot him 3-4 times, and then run after him to his next position.
not gonna lie i hate long fights for the sake of being long, if i know a game is gonna be like that ill just drop it down to easy im not here to grind ive done that with a shit ton of games in the past and after so many games it just becomes tedious
That's why I like bosses like Victor/Sabretooth from X-Men Origins Wolverine. He might be difficult (for me at least) but not because he's a bullet sponge, but because he expertly uses almost exactly the same moveset as yours.
@@sharif47 well also reason why sekiro is so far fromsoftware best masterpiece, it maintain the genius of their design, plus all enemies are squisy but take very long to beat, only due to how skills they are
I was there for it when my friends on the Remora Server popped AV on a Friday night... They gave up Monday morning... What made AV in FFXI so hard was the developers absolute refusal to explain how they intended the boss to be beaten. Every time someone beat it, the made sure that method would never work again. People were using Dark Knights with Kraken Club and Monk's subbing Dark Knight with Soul Eater to beat him down fast... They made him build resistance to Soul Eater. They released this cryptic video that showed the intended method and it was never clear... What happened was to cut the regen in half, you had to defeat enough summons from the Jailer of Love... which was the fight that spawned AV... And then you had to defeat enough of AV's Wynav's to cut the regen down again... People were like... Yeah... Duh... We know that... To stop him from using Benediction, you had to have a White Mage use Benediction WITHIN 3 SECONDS OF AV doing it. He could use every jobs 2-hour (now 1 hour) abilities at will, so if your white mage botched the timing... Which by the way... was impossible to land if you lived outside Japan due to server latency, you'd have to wait 2 more hours to try, or get another white mage in... On top of the fact you'd have to get him down low enough to even do it to begin with. It was insane. And the architect behind it? Hiromichi Tanaka. Who went on to almost ruin FFXIV, and made xenophoic comments about people outside Japan. I know some people love Tanaka... But... he's really kind of a shitty person and developer. He's very condescending of his player bases. He actively tries to present himself as more intelligent than fans of his products and when they can't figure out something, he acts like they're dumb rather than his puzzle doesn't have enough clues.... AV... NOTHING IN THE GAME TALKS ABOUT IT. Everything the players knew was from trial and error... and no one is gonna think... Oh, this boss just used the same ultimate that my job has! I better use it within 3 seconds!! Players were trying to do that, even after the video was released... but server latency made it IMPOSSIBLE for people to land it... And he's like... You all are just bad players. You need to be more skilled like that Japanese (I'm paraphrasing, though he did infamously make comments similar to this over the failed release of FFXIV).
@metalfaust19 One of the things not clear from Falcon's discussion or my post was that AV was an OPEN WORLD boss. So anyone on a server that had access to Al'Taieu in the section where Jailer of Love and AV spawned could join. So it wasn't just the people I knew from the Remora server.. It was... THE ENTIRE SERVER. 2,000 people from North America, Europe, and Japan fought it those 30 hours. I mean... an alliance is 18 people, so only 18 people could actively fight it... But think about that. That was the first time anyone had lasted longer than 5 minutes against AV, and so at that point, people said LS/Guild affiliation be damned, everyone was in it together. So the entire server was taking shifts by region. If an alliance wiped, another group took it over before it could despawn. IF someone died, that person was kicked out of party and replaced why someone else got that person back up. It was intense. They could never got it below 50% though. That was before there was even the video hint about 2 hour abilities. an ability you use once and then it goes on a 2 hour cool down is just not something you're gonna think to respond to the same action with.
That boss fight with The End on my 1st playthrough in MGS3 took 3 weeks, LITERALLY WEEKS! Like my buddies and I remember sitting g around our tables on lunch breaks during school strategize on how to beat this guy 🤣 Ahh... Good times.
I just want people to remember that Asura beat the shit out of Chakravatin, basically THE God of their universe, creator of everything, because he made his daughter cry
Didn't expect Nyx Avatar to show up, but that's probably still my longest boss battle to date. Still remember once rolling through all the forms until Night Queen happened and Yukari and Mitsuru took turns to heal Nyx to full health before I finally lost. That was my last attempt for the day.
Welp the psp version let's you control your team but Nyx is still a pain in the neck cause my aunt gets to the point where she reached his final arcana and died instantly because of hi Megidolaon
@@gaming1zanagi-1999 I think it wouldn't have helped that time because everyone was either charmed, feared etc, or, in Mitsuru's case, she went right before Yukari who could cure her. For the psp version, even after switching everyone else to CPU control, Night Queen usually only worked on 2, maybe 3, people and it charmed maybe once or twice, but it was a non-healer. Which is good, but I was looking forward to the struggle personally.
@@tomlafitte1816 tbh it took me 5 to 10 tries to defeat him even on both psp and the emulator but it took me 2 tries on kushaola but on fatalis..... i dont want to talk about it maaan xD
I remember beating Yiazmat. It only took 4.5 hours though. I used reverse to heal myself instead of renew for that exact reason of him casting reflect on my party. I'd rather have to stop attacking or accidentally heal him a couple thousands than heal him 50 million
I had the most trouble defeating Salehanthropous (or however it's spelled) in Mission 50. I got so frustrated, I threw my controller on the ground and it bounced up and broke my TV. Yeah. A month later, bought a new TV with money I didn't have and beat the mission in one try...
I'll always remember my first time fighting The End, it took me like 3 hrs (mostly because I was a child at the time, and I was bad at video games) and at one point I was arguing with my mother at the same time because I've been playing for too long and she kept menacing me with turning off the console, but I won against both.... Good times
I'm a little upset that Freya from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time was not on the list. Seeing as there is an achievement in the original ps2 version for beating her in under 3 hours...
@Cool Dude I don't remember how long it took him, but my 60 year old father has beaten him twice (more times than I have) and I'm forever salty about being shown up by my dad. Lmfao
Freya i wouldn't say is that long but yeah she's a total nightmare to face if you play the game normally and don't exploit things. Holy shit she can shrug off your attacks with random super armor and s plus one shot your ass with a giant divine nuclear blast. You can However exploit the games broken crafting system if you know what you're doing but let's face it most people who went against Freya did it the hard way and it was a brutal slaughter xD
@@nickfillback2336 I can understand a battle that has a ridiculous timeframe like a week or never like that last boss but 1 hr? that's really not horrible in that context (sniping). That's the whole fun for THAT kind of situation. Stalking..... patience..... cunning..... etc. If you have ADD, then that's not going to be for you.
The Godfather I mean yeah but those fights don’t take forever always and can always be shortened which is why it’s not good to put on a list of bosses that took forever to finish and I find it kind of retarted that they included kushala and not a boss like adamantoise and also you should have decorations by that point and upgrades so that’s just a bad excuse for a fight taking forever
Dragon Age, the dragons, even at higher levels were slow, and even took mulitple run throughs at times. On Nightmare difficulty a dragon fight was a very slow crawl.
I remember the DA2 high dragon fight. Its so disgustingly slow because she just fly around summoning minions and and come down for a few sec then flies back again
Back when I fought The End, I noticed how he would “nothing personal kid” you and teleport behind you if you used your scope for too long. I went to a cliff area to look out from and put landmines behind me. Sure enough, after looking through my scope, I hear him start his mockery followed by mine explosions. The game then promptly froze to say no, and I could only laugh at the game having the last laugh. :D
Oh Yiazmat, great memories. I was so frustrated when I died a few hours in to the fight on my first try, but did manage to beat him the next day. Probably one of my greatest achievements in games 😅 One nice thing about the Yiazmat fight was that you could actually go and save your game half way through the fight if needed. I think he healed and got stronger a bit every time you left the arena, so it's not recommended to do more than once.
@@tengkuhafiz4174 Back in those days most games had a walk-through book. Those books usually ended up online if you searched the forums. Websites like Gamefaqs were already around in the 90s, was just if you had internet or not which a lot didn't.
I put the patience into fighting The End and it was sooo worth it. Though not quite as well, they pulled it off with Quiet too. That fight was exceptional.
"The End" form MGS3 didn't take that long. But for me, the longest boss battles I fought I would say "Kalameet" from Dark Souls, and "Grigori" From Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen.
"Kushala Daora in the Top 10 longest battles" Fatalis: "Am i a joke to you?" Alatreon: "Am i a joke to you?" Extrem Behemoth: "Am i a joke to you?" AT Velkhana: "Am i a joke to you?"
Nah. Those 4 are more in the hard category rather than being a long annoying battle. Besides, most of the hunts I've had playing with randos with the latter 4 you mentioned have been faster than Kushala because most players just don't want to bother knocking it out or flashing it. Lol.
You beat me to it. I remember in original DD, that the Ur Dragon was up in the lvl 160 range, and you couldn't do enough damage to him to register onto the server. Only assassin builds abusing one specific grappling stab, while insanely buffed could cause damage.
YES! Just posted. Probably my favorite fight because the consort is brilliant! And even if you did get in at the end, it could still take hours to beat. And then you are trying to get the lay hit!!!! Loved this! Got some great loot! One of my favorite games ever!!!!!!
“You can wait for him to die of old age” lmaoooooooooo Lololol it’s kinda sad that I’m not even surprised that was actually a real choice in a metal gear game. Ha, that Kojima such a jokester *slaps knee*
As for me, it's actually behemoth I'm having trouble with. I'm fighting him solo (he's meant to be fought in a team) because I have horrible wifi. Closest I got was a second comet in the final phase. I just ran out of time
@@floresbrian00 can relate to the internet my dude, the fact that your doing it solo and getting that far is very good. Just keep trucking my dude you will eventually get it.
And, you know, that's ignoring the months, if not YEARS, of time it took to get to the point of even being able to take on AV. Even compared to the MMOs of the day, FFXI was fuckin BRUTAL with what a time sink it was. Just leveling a single job to 75 took ages, especially when you factor how long you'd often be sitting there looking for group because unlike most MMOs even then, soloing was more or less impossible. After you hit level 15-20, you just had to group no matter what to gain any meaningful experience...which meant finding 5 players to join you, players of specific jobs, to fill specific party roles, and even then it was obviously a roll of the dice as to whether that player was a piece of shit waste of space or not. One bad healer, puller or tank often meant a wipe, which meant everyone LOSING thousands of xp, losing tons of time having to run all the way back out to camp, losing tons of money in wasted food and items... No gamer knows what a grind truly is until they've played FFXI as it was during it's first 10 years, before they changed everything and made it more accessible. I never had so much fun in a game as FFXI, my shell fuckin ruled and we were all really tight both in game and out, some even to this day over 10 years later, but man did you have to work for it.
Yiazmat from ff12 took me around 4hrs straight battle... no saves in between (easiest tactic to win against this guy) My strategy was 1. Target lines was on so i know which on my party was his target 2. Battle mode set from "active" to "wait" 3. Reviving and healing members at reserve 4. Proper gambits set-up Curaja alone is enough to heal your hp even with bubble status
what about sinh the sleepy dragon? bastard took me 30+ mins with my broadsword+10 and around claymore+7 just because that bastard has to fly from one end of that humongous arena to the other
The thing with Absolute Virtue is it had EVERY 2hrs (now 1hr) ability of every class in the game (basically your ultimate ability) and he can do it anytime he wants with waiting for the cool down so picture this nightmare situation: your half way though killing it, the Beni then Mighty Strikes (auto-crits) 100 blows (never ending auto attacks) or Chain-Spell (go from one spell to another without cooldown or charge time)
I remember when I was in EB games talking about final fantasy 15 and the clerk honestly tried to convince me that it's a 2 day battle with the adamantoise I told him that it's in game time for 2 days not really 2 days..... Yeah he felt pretty stupid lol
The Freaking Ur-Dragon in Dragon's Dogma, last I say the shit was level 600+ and that was like 2 or 3 years ago, with not many players left online fighting that thing takes soooo long, sometimes almost a week
Exactly, and it is not the only one you fight outside of a Boss arena. Vermivorous (the raid version of a varkid) is fought that way as well and was actually in the base game (non-dlc).
"The moment man challenged me to a battle with braindead AI, he sealed his fate. Yes, the arcana is the means by which all is revealed. Beyond the protaganist move lies charmed diarama boosts, it matters not who you are, the nest hour and a half awaits you"
woot woot! FFXI being represented! Great MMO, I can't wait to see what is coming with Nexom remake. Keep up posted if you can, FFXI is active and receives uncommon amount of updates for an MMO in "maintenance mode"(as in it just got new content)
Maplestory black mage was hyped up over 9 years of story. Then when it was finally released, it was unbeatable for 7 months for the regular servers, then there's a different server called reboot with different mechanics that took a year and a half for a party to finally beat it. Each attempt took about an hour back then and usually requires 6 people. It has a total of 498 trillion hp
@@joshuabuchtel2346 I'd rather Rising 2. You can play Rising on PC pretty easily, and it runs great with the fix. Asura's is only on PSNow or whatever and there's HUGE input lag because of how it's streamed.
If they remake it maybe they will be able to keep the flesh and blood in it. If you remember the first trailer the game was going to pretty graphic but I guess they got too much criticism so that's why everyone is mechanical. But pretty much my favorite game of all time
@@MawZer For what? Ur-Dragon? You're aware you can't beat it solo unless you play offline, in which case it's health it drastically cut by almost 3/4ths. On average, it takes roughly 4 days to beat Ur-Dragon with people coming in periodically each day to widdle its health.
final fantasy 11 was the best mmorpg ive ever played.. i could not enjoy any other mmo after that... it was tough, but you somehow managed to survive in the world of ffxi. our first Kirin (boss) attempt took us 6h back in the day , even normal enemies in the harder areas could cause a whole group wipe, and you lost a lot of exp for dying. and getting exp in ffxi was damn hard back then, took me like 6 months to get my first max lvl class
AV was a tough fight but Pandemonium Warden was a nightmare. Not only did it take a long time to access but the fight itself was brutal until you figured out how to survive when it used Astral Flow.
I beat The End by 100% luck. I went to a screen and he was right in front of me, proned, facing a cliff with his back towards me. I froze and thought "Holy shit. What do I do? This can't be happening. This must be some sort of trick."
I knew it! I knew Yggralith would make the list! I only wish it's total health would be adjusted so that we might actually be able to beat it for the first time in years
Leader of the game devolopers: okay team what should we focus on? Dumb guy: let's make an incredible history that takes hours to complete. Leader of the game devolopers: nah not that Smart guy: let's make the final fight last hours to complete. Leader: omg you genius PROMOTED
Absolute Virtue wasn't THAT bad for coordinated groups. How Benediction works is exactly the same for the player as it is for the monster, so it was on a 2? hour cooldown IIRC. I just remember we'd damage him normally until he did that, then blow through every single burst dmg piece we had - the twice I beat him each time it took about 4 hours. But we also weren't using just 1 alliance on him, we were using 3, because we didn't care about the drops so much as bragging rights that we did it.
@@KitsuneVoidsinger FF12 pulled no punches. It was even worse when you got a super powered version of the boss, or one that knows cannibalize. Or when you came across the occasional immortal undead. Or my fave one that could cast renew every time it got under 20% hp.
I’ve been battling depression since I was 10. Strongest most overwhelming boss I’ve seen yet. Extremely difficult, seems to be running Unlimited HP and hits HARD. 0/10 Most hated boss.
Yes, it's true, it's a real pain in the ass and you don't get to decide at what level you encounter it. Luckily for me, I was already level 24, and I did a speedrun of a year and a half. Beating it's so fuckin rewarding tho. Co-op with a good therapist and meds are key.
@@pyronation8721 I mopped the floor with it. It can have a sort of respawn mechanic like the Orcs of Shadow of War, but I already memorized it's attack patterns, so I know how to fight it. Pretty lazy game design tbh.
I remember the day I beat Yiazmat on the original PS2, I spent literal DAYS beating on him, it was one of the worst boss battles I have ever been into, and nothing has since harder.
Monster Hunter has the right approach with a time limit no more than 50 mins, that way you know that you don't make it in that time, then you are doing something wrong.
You're pretending that they just take a lot of time, but they're also extremely hard to do. Excluding Yiazmat because of the Gambit system, most of these are not just a matter of waiting and that makes them satisfying to beat.
Could you imagine spending multiple real life days battling this boss that takes at least 12 hours to be and then as you're almost finished someone accidentally fully heals him
So many FF10 secret bosses from the monster tinkerer take HOURS to beat. I remember one marlboro in particular took my brother 8 hours to get to a sliver of hp, only for it to petrify his healer. You can imagine what happened from there
I'll never forget the infamous "hint" video SE put out that was supposed to help players figure out how to beat Absolute Virtue, but instead just confused the hell out of everyone. I don't think anyone ever figured out the "secret" it was trying to reveal.
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I've been battling my boss, Megatron, for millions of years. That's a long boss battle.
This checks out
That's because you're not a Boss material.
Dis duude
And when you finally did beat him he came back as galvatron and disintegrated you.
@@raistlarn yes, I must thank him for unlocking the true power of my immortal spark.
it should be noted that during the absolute virtue fight, players were literally taking shifts to allow others to rest.
You know, when beating a boss can be equated to working a shift at a job maybe it stopped being fun?
The most despair-inducing screencap I have ever seen is just two sentences.
"Absolute Virtue uses Benediction."
"Absolute Virtue recovers 46,613"
The developers also seemed to explicitly fuck with everyone by not just patching any blatantly non-intended methods, but even just nerfing specific class setups based exclusively on how they helped make the boss easier, and had the gall to release a hint video on a fight they were constantly patching, which meant the video became outdated in short order.
@@Nyghtking It's not always about fun. Sometimes it about sending a message. Such as, "this game is no longer fun"
Literally?! No way!
@@ggmann13 This is gold! 😂
Longest boss fights number 1 :
Speedrunners : *sweats* That was an intense 10 second fight
"Could've shaved off .0003 seconds tho" *does it again*
@@meeserbaker lmao ikr Damn 0.5 seconds late... Runs ded guys
Damnit! I bumped a fucking corner!. RESET.
The Kushala fight in a nutshell
Square Enix rep: People are throwing up!
Square Enix developers: Fine, tone down the boss a little...
Square Enix: Ive heard enough! Im partially satisfied.
The devs said there was an easier way to beat him but the FFXI fan base was always so stubbornly rigid in their methods and beliefs that they never figured it out.
@@cyclone8974 sounds more like "we intentionally designed boss to be unbeatable through conventional means so we can flex at our players being bad at our game for that"
@@loganreed23 Well you never played FFXI did you? Once players found a way to do something they refused to vary from it ever. If you said "hey can we try x" you just get kicked and replaced.
@@cyclone8974 i haven't but I've read numerous commentaries of people who did and summarises from people who researched and documented this stuff, and it was exactly as I described.
I remember being hunted/hunting “the end” in mgs3 as a kid... the only time being chased by an old man was fun let me tell you
Same but it definitely wasnt the last time i was chased by an old man in the woods as a kid
Would you like to tell us about the other time(s)?
@@avagueblur well...there was this dirty homeless man that i saw last week...
@@blasfeliphimmelreich9323 go on...
@@blasfeliphimmelreich9323 Not that story again Blas, for the hundredth of time
As a Monster Hunter Player, looking at his small health bar is really painful...
It hurts alot bro ;-;
They don't know what food is
And health potions
Having Kushala on the list is pretty painful too. With the right skills and element Kushala is a joke.
Yes
Imagine it's 2am, you've been fighting the boss for a while, and you have him lower than 20% in his hp, right as you're going to deal the final blow... He pulls a one hit k.o on you
Breakin my Series x after that
My DARKSOULS 3 gameplay :(
@@daronoch5779 At least those bosses don't take that long per attempt. Maybe Midir and Gael, but the general duration of those battles is 5-7 minutes if done correctly, so it isn't too bad. Yiazmat or Zodiark, from FFXII, on the other hand... Now those can go die in a fire. 1+ hours PER ATTEMPT. At least for Yiazmat you can leave and come back and he would still have the same HP as before IF he didn't cast Regen on self.
My family thinking something bad happened to me after all the screaming and shattering sounds: '_'
Instant console shut down and cry to sleep
Battling the End from MGS3 is one of the most atmospheric moments in that game. I remember slowly crawling my way through the three different zones looking for him while the rain slowly fell. I beat him my first time within about thirty minutes I believe.
I ran around with thermals and a shotgun and chased the old bastard around pumping shells into him lol
@@weedasaurusrex 2 kinds of players:
One of the best battles ever. If you skip you may as well just watch movies. Pity no other games have copied it.
Great fight. Having thermal goggles does make it easier if I remember correctly.
I remember playing that when I was 10 or 11 and it took me hours of gameplay, I spent several days thinking about it trying to figure out ways to outsmart a game, I remember I even broke one of my controllers in half because I thought I had him, had went through my plan a million times in my head and boom wrong. I can’t remember how i actually beat him, I honestly think I fell asleep while playing and he died of old age or something.
Been battling my boss 40 hours a week for years now. Seems to have near unlimited HP and regen. Dunno what the devs were thinking tbh
Sounds to me like your boss's dev was thinking "Do I want an abortion...? Nah..."
Try 84 hours a week and 1 holiday day in 1 month then.
Be gratefull with your 40 hours a week
@@ardi1066 Sounds brutal, what is it that you do that requires such long hours?
My day job is technically only 37.5 hours, but I've got my own business on the side and study, so I can empathise. Having only a handful of days off is tiring as hell.
Thankfully I'm from a country with decent employment law, so it's my choice to be tired vs doing it out of necessity. Hope you stay safe.
@@ardi1066 Don't be grateful, be better
@@felixargyle1285 *be better* yeah try that when playing game of life on hard diffilculty
When you're maxed out and can't beat a boss in 30+ hours "legitimately", you know there's a balancing issue
Gotta agree, felt to me like those devs were sort of assuming all their players would have a generalized understanding of the boss' fundamental mechanics and I highly doubt many of them actually do
Or people never caught on to you needing one of every mainline job since chains of promathia came out, to lockout AV's 2 hour abilities. When he gets ready to cast a 2 hour, you're supposed to have someone of the same job use their's to lock out his 2 hour. He will no longer be able to use that special ability. People are/were just a bunch of "let's do the same thing over and over again, and maybe we'll win", which is equivalent to insanity.
Or you just suck.
@@majeedmamah7457 No need to be rude
@@majeedmamah7457 oh look we got a bad ass over here
In a nutshell, Japanese rpg developers really want to see players suffer.
Agree...From Software and also Nioh 1 and 2
J Y I mean Japan is the country of overwork
@ FromSoftware
@@sensoeirensen casul
I love challenging games btw even though I am a casual
I remember my first time against Nyx. After 3 hours, he did Night Queen and KO my whole party.
The Charm is not a problem, it's the "I can attack twice per turn" + "When about to die I spam this attack that deals Severe ammount of Allmighty damage to your entire party + apply random status ailment among all the ones existing in the game"
When I was 12, the three headed tentacle monster from Half Life stumped me for a good month or two. I blame me accidentally shooting the guard who was supposed to tell me it was blind.
Lmao I read it as *T E S T I C L E*
@@GWKrae bruh 😂😂😂
Was expecting to see the Giant Tortoise from Final Fantasy on here, but I do indeed agree with this list
Adamantoise! Never got that far...lol
Ah! Adamantoise! He took well over 5 HOURS for me to beat!
Seriuously he should have been on this list
Me too I was totally sure it would be mentioned
Same 😂 took me 8 hours
Imagine being to first to beat the last one after so long and then the developers say you didnt do it in a legitemet way
First linkshell to beat it: HOLY FUCKING SHIT WE DID IT BOYS MY GOD IM GOING TO KISS EVERYONE OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!! WE DID IT!
Square Enix stubborn because someone beat it: mmmm idk, sounds fake
@@miatmiatmiat6991 Yes!!!
SE would actually ban people for not playing the way they wanted people to play. The "legit" way to beat this boss before they toned it down was basically impossible. You can look it up for more details but basically required specific jobs (classes) to do special moves to interrupt the boss casting things like Benediction but with the internet back then it was almost impossible for anyone to catch it in time.
@Hrant Petrosyan ok totally unrelated but ok
Imagine misspelling legitimate
I just love it when the game warns you that it will be a long fight
I was among one of those Linkshells that fought Absolute Virtue, this video truly does not do the fight justice. In the game you could only have a group of 18 people fighting it at a given time, he also had 2 other abilities called manafont that allowed him access to the most powerful AOE spell in the game, but it would take him up to 3 minutes to cast so you could stun him and interrupt it, but when he combined it with the Chainspell ability he would cast it in less than 2 seconds, so he could essentially wipe your entire group. To get around this there was second or even third wave groups just in case group 1 wiped, so in total you could have 54 people standing around to fight this guy, but its not like the other groups could just jump in, you would have to disband parts of the original group and invite these new members so it became a menus game as well.
The devs released a video after 3 years and gave people the key to beating him but it still took my linkshell 18 hours to take him down legitimately.
Bro how are you going to go into that much detail about the fight and then not say how you ended up beating it? What was this amazing key they showed you?
@@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725 ok that is 4 years of game mechanics i would need to impart just to get the gist so i will give you the short notes of the short notes version.
Every job class has an ability that can only be used every 2 hours. Each of these abilities can be used by Absolute Virtue as well and he can combine them to make it even more powerful. The ability mentioned above, Chainspell, could be combined with another 2 hour ability called Manafront and he could instant cast everything he wanted without spending his mp.
The key to beating him was waiting for him to use one of these two hour abilities and then every job inside the 18 player engaging alliance had to use their respective 2 hour ability as well, this would then lock him into only being able to use that 2 hour ability for the next 2 hours of the fight. Yes this means he could use it multiple times while the rest of us players had to wait out the 2 hours each time. This also means that part compositions were not ideal in order to get people into the party just to use their 2 hours (for example you never brought a beast master to this fight because their abilities were not made for taking on ultra bosses like this, but you had to have one in case Absolute Virtue used it so you would drop a party member and bring in the beast master just to use the 2 hour then drop him from the party to get back the core member). This was especially dangerous for any Ninjas, which were the main tanks at the time, because their 2 hour ability was literally suicide in exchange for a large amount of damage, so you had to boot them from the party and bring in the backup ninjas so they could continue to tank. This especially got hard when he would use the White Mage 2 hour of Benediction because then he would fully heal himself and would continue to use it every 15 minutes for 2 hours. It was a lot of luck based hoping he would use the correct two hour to lock him into something weak as opposed to something that broke up your damage like the Paladin's Invincible ability.
Hope that helps a bit more, trust me this is the extremely simplified version of the fight.
Thomas Hoffman lol that is a lot but the og comment was so anti climatic.
I don’t fully understand, why was he stuck using the same ability just because you had everyone use theirs? Hm I probably need to reread🧐
@@thomashoffman8916 waiting for him to use one of these two hour abilities and then every job inside the 18 player engaging alliance had to use their respective 2 hour ability as well, this would then lock him into only being able to use that 2 hour ability for the next 2 hours of the fight.
this ^
sooo after he uses his ability, everyone uses theirs so that the two hour timer keeps him from being able to use those classes abilities?
why does he have to use his first? couldnt everyone use theirs as soon as the timer is up so he doesnt have the chance?
how did noone figure this out by trial and error after fighting him for 30 hours straight?
i am probably just missing something you would know from playing.
@@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725 oh and to answer the question I missed, we couldn't just use it to lock him in at the start, he had 20 seconds to mirror his usage of the 2 hour in order to lock him in. Its just the way the developers programmed him.
These are nothing, I've been battling with myself for 22 years now
Holy shit...this is the most amazing and agreeable thing I have ever read.
You good man?
depression do be like that sometimes
Didn't ask. Don't care. Get your ass in the Clan War.
@@NaturallyCrispy he has passed
On 31st of Dec 2019:
"Why am I going through a fog gate and why do I hear a boss music?"
2020 incoming alert msg pops up.
Dark souls references are just what we need to get darkeater midir on this list
Midir : Hello
Tt
2020 is like fighting Nameless King as he's riding Midir
All while having only 5% of your total health, with bare fists, naked, SL1, NG+7, on the Bed of Chaos arena, and being unable to summon either NPCs or other players
If Yiazmat wasn’t mentioned I was gonna be LIVID. He was SUCH a pain on the ps2
At least the game allows you to leave and save mid-fight. Better than other titles.
@@IzraelGraves If you do that, Yiazmat comes back stronger.
@@philithegamer8265 He has checkpoints where he stops getting health back.
@@IzraelGraves You do have to make it to the save point fast though, fucker will regen.
@@3Rayfire Like I said, he does have caps. His regen will only take his health so far.
I always find it weird when folks keep saying The End was super hard and used the time skip. But I just used thermal goggles and won that way 😂
Right.
@mb v the map never marked him? You must've been playing on the lowest difficulty. But as someone whose using the tranquilizer gun to get his camo then yes he takes forever
@@iKrazyyi I think i remember the map marked his overall location or something, but thing is, to avoid all his sniper shot to get to him take time, and since he is watching u running to him, when the time u get to his location, he switch location...
I beat him when i was very young, so take about 10 mins to get what to do (it is not the "heres the boss, beat him" kind of thing, plus I barely understand the story or wth is a true sniper), and spend 20 mins to find him, to only gave up and start running around the map to get lucky
And when I got lucky and found him (after 1 hour), I just chase him across the mountain with thermal goggle and a shotgun at my hand, man I never been so angry and determine about someone XD
The only long part about the end fight is sneaking up behind him so you can shake him down for some items
Yeah it wasn't that hard for me either, I beat it on the 2nd try. Because his first position is always in Sokrovyenno : Yug (maybe the spelling's wrong idk) you just have to sneak up behind him with an Mk22, shoot him 3-4 times, and then run after him to his next position.
This list takes the term “bullet sponge” to a whole new level.
not gonna lie i hate long fights for the sake of being long, if i know a game is gonna be like that ill just drop it down to easy im not here to grind ive done that with a shit ton of games in the past and after so many games it just becomes tedious
That's why I like bosses like Victor/Sabretooth from X-Men Origins Wolverine.
He might be difficult (for me at least) but not because he's a bullet sponge, but because he expertly uses almost exactly the same moveset as yours.
@@sharif47 well also reason why sekiro is so far fromsoftware best masterpiece, it maintain the genius of their design, plus all enemies are squisy but take very long to beat, only due to how skills they are
Well except The End, one of the best gimmick bosses i've ever fought..
@@brendonallum1738 Agreed now i value fun and challenge more than mindless repetitive grinding of anything .
I was there for it when my friends on the Remora Server popped AV on a Friday night... They gave up Monday morning... What made AV in FFXI so hard was the developers absolute refusal to explain how they intended the boss to be beaten. Every time someone beat it, the made sure that method would never work again. People were using Dark Knights with Kraken Club and Monk's subbing Dark Knight with Soul Eater to beat him down fast... They made him build resistance to Soul Eater. They released this cryptic video that showed the intended method and it was never clear... What happened was to cut the regen in half, you had to defeat enough summons from the Jailer of Love... which was the fight that spawned AV... And then you had to defeat enough of AV's Wynav's to cut the regen down again... People were like... Yeah... Duh... We know that... To stop him from using Benediction, you had to have a White Mage use Benediction WITHIN 3 SECONDS OF AV doing it. He could use every jobs 2-hour (now 1 hour) abilities at will, so if your white mage botched the timing... Which by the way... was impossible to land if you lived outside Japan due to server latency, you'd have to wait 2 more hours to try, or get another white mage in... On top of the fact you'd have to get him down low enough to even do it to begin with. It was insane. And the architect behind it? Hiromichi Tanaka. Who went on to almost ruin FFXIV, and made xenophoic comments about people outside Japan. I know some people love Tanaka... But... he's really kind of a shitty person and developer. He's very condescending of his player bases. He actively tries to present himself as more intelligent than fans of his products and when they can't figure out something, he acts like they're dumb rather than his puzzle doesn't have enough clues.... AV... NOTHING IN THE GAME TALKS ABOUT IT. Everything the players knew was from trial and error... and no one is gonna think... Oh, this boss just used the same ultimate that my job has! I better use it within 3 seconds!! Players were trying to do that, even after the video was released... but server latency made it IMPOSSIBLE for people to land it... And he's like... You all are just bad players. You need to be more skilled like that Japanese (I'm paraphrasing, though he did infamously make comments similar to this over the failed release of FFXIV).
If someone had told me this fight was army training, i'd believe it.
And the devs kept changing it?? What kind dick move is that???
@metalfaust19 One of the things not clear from Falcon's discussion or my post was that AV was an OPEN WORLD boss. So anyone on a server that had access to Al'Taieu in the section where Jailer of Love and AV spawned could join. So it wasn't just the people I knew from the Remora server.. It was... THE ENTIRE SERVER. 2,000 people from North America, Europe, and Japan fought it those 30 hours. I mean... an alliance is 18 people, so only 18 people could actively fight it... But think about that. That was the first time anyone had lasted longer than 5 minutes against AV, and so at that point, people said LS/Guild affiliation be damned, everyone was in it together. So the entire server was taking shifts by region. If an alliance wiped, another group took it over before it could despawn. IF someone died, that person was kicked out of party and replaced why someone else got that person back up. It was intense. They could never got it below 50% though. That was before there was even the video hint about 2 hour abilities. an ability you use once and then it goes on a 2 hour cool down is just not something you're gonna think to respond to the same action with.
@metalfaust19 They brought him back in XIV aswell.
a lot of av clears were due to glitches. which were patched.
Damn I miss those days so much. Ffxi was the best game I've ever played! Can we get a remake now?
That boss fight with The End on my 1st playthrough in MGS3 took 3 weeks, LITERALLY WEEKS! Like my buddies and I remember sitting g around our tables on lunch breaks during school strategize on how to beat this guy 🤣 Ahh... Good times.
I just want people to remember that Asura beat the shit out of Chakravatin, basically THE God of their universe, creator of everything, because he made his daughter cry
Gameranx shouting out Asura's Wrath is fucking awesome tbh, underrated masterpiece
Chakravartin 117
More or less. I’ve always stood by the idea that it’s a mediocre to terrible _game,_ but a FANTASTIC _experience._
@BuiltforSin I need to get a copy of the game, but don't want to shell out the 70 bucks for a used copy
LUL.
I remember playing it for the first time i was like 💀
Didn't expect Nyx Avatar to show up, but that's probably still my longest boss battle to date. Still remember once rolling through all the forms until Night Queen happened and Yukari and Mitsuru took turns to heal Nyx to full health before I finally lost. That was my last attempt for the day.
Oh the PTSD from that fight feels so so wonderful to revisit.
Welp the psp version let's you control your team but Nyx is still a pain in the neck cause my aunt gets to the point where she reached his final arcana and died instantly because of hi Megidolaon
@@gaming1zanagi-1999 I think it wouldn't have helped that time because everyone was either charmed, feared etc, or, in Mitsuru's case, she went right before Yukari who could cure her.
For the psp version, even after switching everyone else to CPU control, Night Queen usually only worked on 2, maybe 3, people and it charmed maybe once or twice, but it was a non-healer. Which is good, but I was looking forward to the struggle personally.
@@Rik3n yeah welp try imagine dying with your own hand like how my aunt accidentally used yakasha arts against a shadow who repels the attacks.
nyx hit me with...............
6 F*cking moonless gowns
Kushaola Daora: nearly impossible and longest hour.
Fatalis: am i a joke to you?
But fatalis has a 30 min timer so it technically is shorter
@@tomlafitte1816 come to think of it yea ur right forget about this comment xD
@@sleepi1235 But let's be honest Kushala shouldn't take any longer than 20 mins if you've fought him before ahahaha
@@tomlafitte1816 tbh it took me 5 to 10 tries to defeat him even on both psp and the emulator but it took me 2 tries on kushaola but on fatalis..... i dont want to talk about it maaan xD
Lao Shan Lung: *laughs in boring as fuck fight that drags on for what feels like hours*
I remember beating Yiazmat. It only took 4.5 hours though. I used reverse to heal myself instead of renew for that exact reason of him casting reflect on my party. I'd rather have to stop attacking or accidentally heal him a couple thousands than heal him 50 million
Too bad you can't call in an airdrop on him.
i just played metal gear solid 5: tpp and remembered how f**king hard it was to defeat the skulls in mission 42
I had the most trouble defeating Salehanthropous (or however it's spelled) in Mission 50. I got so frustrated, I threw my controller on the ground and it bounced up and broke my TV.
Yeah.
A month later, bought a new TV with money I didn't have and beat the mission in one try...
You should have used d walker it's super easy
D walker with gattling gun and finish it within 5 mins
LoL i just had to use D-Walker and it was one of the easiest missions in the game... All partners are trash except of D-Walker
Reniel Philip nope, they fart on my d walker and it stops working
I'll always remember my first time fighting The End, it took me like 3 hrs (mostly because I was a child at the time, and I was bad at video games) and at one point I was arguing with my mother at the same time because I've been playing for too long and she kept menacing me with turning off the console, but I won against both.... Good times
Won against both. Hahaha.
Man, that must suck when a boss takes a minimum of an hour to beat, but parents only let you play for an hour
I'm a little upset that Freya from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time was not on the list. Seeing as there is an achievement in the original ps2 version for beating her in under 3 hours...
Yeah I was wondering if they were going to mention it as I was watching.
@Cool Dude I don't remember how long it took him, but my 60 year old father has beaten him twice (more times than I have) and I'm forever salty about being shown up by my dad. Lmfao
There’s a what
@@meowscutely9554 oh you poor soul.
Freya i wouldn't say is that long but yeah she's a total nightmare to face if you play the game normally and don't exploit things. Holy shit she can shrug off your attacks with random super armor and s plus one shot your ass with a giant divine nuclear blast.
You can However exploit the games broken crafting system if you know what you're doing but let's face it most people who went against Freya did it the hard way and it was a brutal slaughter xD
Fun Fact: "The End" Boss Battle was going to last 1 week (in the real world) as Kojima intended, but Kojima team convinced him to not do that
Honestly, never played 90% of the games on this list.
I've never played any game on this list
@@_Dacor yeah me too
So like you can just say you've only played one...
I haven't played 100% games on the list but i feel better that some boss fights arent overly long this added some perspective
@@Shadow-kz9fb fam im just saying they are just niche games that iv never heard about because their old. Nothing about looking smart.
5:28 "this dudes an overpowered Stalker" my guy that's a Drifter.
And I think he's impossible on op8 so also op10
Tornado Blast no, he isn’t
@@savingark1528 did they Nerf him?
Tornado Blast yup, he got nerfed.
When one's is powerful, one's mind faulters
2:45 awwww, you actually have to play with intelligence? dayum, what a drag!
I agree
@@nickfillback2336 I can understand a battle that has a ridiculous timeframe like a week or never like that last boss but 1 hr? that's really not horrible in that context (sniping). That's the whole fun for THAT kind of situation. Stalking..... patience..... cunning..... etc. If you have ADD, then that's not going to be for you.
It's almost like people have different tastes but sure you can choose to be condescending instead if that's your style
okay edgelord
@@brandon080693 These nuts edged right up to your chin!
The longest boss
Replaying the game and having to go through the unskippable tutorial
“Mhw fight are really long”
Team darkside: ima ruin this mans whole career
They have the best decorations so...that’s why....
@The Godfather what do you mean? Lol
Hunter Meadows Imagine trying to fight Ex-tremoth with no decorations or upgrades. It would take forever for even them. Hell. Imagine Alatreon
The Godfather I mean yeah but those fights don’t take forever always and can always be shortened which is why it’s not good to put on a list of bosses that took forever to finish and I find it kind of retarted that they included kushala and not a boss like adamantoise and also you should have decorations by that point and upgrades so that’s just a bad excuse for a fight taking forever
@@Senthi-g4f I mean you can farm adamant tortoise with ring of lucii
"kushala daora"
oh i see you're a new world hunter
I was like "that fight takes like 6-10 minutes..."
Greatsword stun lock goes brrrr
My longest fight was Plesioth lbg 50 min. It was hell
Lol somebody tell TDS
KT is actually pretty bad for going solo if you’re not an elite hunter and safi is just suicidal.
Dragon Age, the dragons, even at higher levels were slow, and even took mulitple run throughs at times. On Nightmare difficulty a dragon fight was a very slow crawl.
They were slow but incredibly fun!
I remember the DA2 high dragon fight. Its so disgustingly slow because she just fly around summoning minions and and come down for a few sec then flies back again
@@anders8461 Agreed and she spawns stupid dragonlings too.
alt title: "Top 10 reasons why online rpg hackers exist"
*"First Time Battling The Enderdragon..."*
Oh yeah that takes centuries.
No joke I still have never beaten it and I've been playing minecraft since 2012
Killing the ender dragon took me like 5 min but the whole story took me over years
and it was in my friend’s world... so I never beat it in my world:(
15 minutes?
Falcon describes the galaxy boss as 'omni-potent' and I wanna know what the stench is like!
Sup
Perhaps the prince of the land of stench could describe it to you.
What a weird thing to say, I guess…
Like how the Kushala section can be summarized as: “I don’t know how to spec for Wind and Stagger resistance. :’(“
Lao shouldve been this entry.
Exactly
That's not even the worst part. Have you taken a look at his health bar? He actually didn't even eat.
@@kuro9476 Only amateurs eat before a battle.
@@mrdude88 and only a noobs didn't eat before a battle
Back when I fought The End, I noticed how he would “nothing personal kid” you and teleport behind you if you used your scope for too long. I went to a cliff area to look out from and put landmines behind me. Sure enough, after looking through my scope, I hear him start his mockery followed by mine explosions. The game then promptly froze to say no, and I could only laugh at the game having the last laugh. :D
"30 hours ONLY"
Gamers : that was intense.
Non-gamer : Are u shitting me?
(20 mins) rage quit
No boss should be able to take more than 2 hours some games don’t even have 30 hours worth of gameplay that’s fucking redunculas
I beat Starcraft 2 all 3 parts, in less than 30 hours.
and I'm a frigging casual
Sean Peacock exactly
This sounds like a first time VoG raid run back in Destiny days
Oh Yiazmat, great memories. I was so frustrated when I died a few hours in to the fight on my first try, but did manage to beat him the next day. Probably one of my greatest achievements in games 😅
One nice thing about the Yiazmat fight was that you could actually go and save your game half way through the fight if needed. I think he healed and got stronger a bit every time you left the arena, so it's not recommended to do more than once.
The End can be done in 15 minutes provided you know his hiding spots.
Theres also a button combination you can put in that shows where he is on the map.
First time i fought him i had no idea what to do, it’s not like we were in that era of looking up guides & playthroughs
@@tengkuhafiz4174 Back in those days most games had a walk-through book. Those books usually ended up online if you searched the forums. Websites like Gamefaqs were already around in the 90s, was just if you had internet or not which a lot didn't.
@@bbrodriguez33 ok boomer
I put the patience into fighting The End and it was sooo worth it. Though not quite as well, they pulled it off with Quiet too. That fight was exceptional.
When. You played FF11 and just knew #1 was something from it.
True
Ff11 was a second job , not a game. Everything took hours lol
@@TM-rookie Ah yes...sitting in a spawn during a 3 hour window for an NM....with people spamming/botting to provoke/dia/etc and get the tag
Dear god yesssss... and the years to get certain drops.
Had anything other than Virtue been #1 i'd have been shocked
So glad to see AV at number 1. Brings back memories
"The End" form MGS3 didn't take that long. But for me, the longest boss battles I fought I would say "Kalameet" from Dark Souls, and "Grigori" From Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen.
Dark Souls and BB bosses should take no longer than 5 minutes each...
Dont add how much time u died.....just add the successful attempt of killing kalameet it wont be longer than 15mins i think.
GamingNetwork 5 minutes is a lot for that fight
@@forbiddensun9524 i mean at maximum lol 5 minutes is long for any Souls genre battle
@@SBHKur0 have you heard of the defiled chalice dungeon...
"Kushala Daora in the Top 10 longest battles"
Fatalis: "Am i a joke to you?"
Alatreon: "Am i a joke to you?"
Extrem Behemoth: "Am i a joke to you?"
AT Velkhana: "Am i a joke to you?"
Nah. Those 4 are more in the hard category rather than being a long annoying battle. Besides, most of the hunts I've had playing with randos with the latter 4 you mentioned have been faster than Kushala because most players just don't want to bother knocking it out or flashing it. Lol.
We just gonna pretend the ape doesn't exist
Raging brachadios
Developers: let's make this boss impossible to beat! That will be fun to beat right!?
Player: *confused Pickachu face*
It could still be fun with top guilds getting new records on the fight if it was skill based
With completely random 50% heals however..
Online Ur- Dragon. Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen
I was just going to write about the online one, offline ur dragon is easy as hell tho.
Yeah, you beat me as well to it. Btw, I'd say that Awakened Daimon is also a long fight. And almost impossible for close range vocations...
You beat me to it. I remember in original DD, that the Ur Dragon was up in the lvl 160 range, and you couldn't do enough damage to him to register onto the server. Only assassin builds abusing one specific grappling stab, while insanely buffed could cause damage.
YES! Just posted. Probably my favorite fight because the consort is brilliant! And even if you did get in at the end, it could still take hours to beat. And then you are trying to get the lay hit!!!! Loved this! Got some great loot! One of my favorite games ever!!!!!!
I was just about to comment that too
Only watch gameranx for the person talking his voice is soothing😂🤣
Hell yeah that is Falcon. I only really like his videos on here lol.
@@ggmann13 me too lol
Me too,I skip the other vids on this channel. He has such a remarkable voice, absolutely awesome
“You can wait for him to die of old age” lmaoooooooooo
Lololol it’s kinda sad that I’m not even surprised that was actually a real choice in a metal gear game.
Ha, that Kojima such a jokester *slaps knee*
3:40
Kushala daora one of the longest to fight monster*
Hunter: allow me to introduce my cluster bombs.
Sticky Ammo to lol
They shouldve use japan Raviente. 10 men raid in MH game!
As for me, it's actually behemoth I'm having trouble with. I'm fighting him solo (he's meant to be fought in a team) because I have horrible wifi. Closest I got was a second comet in the final phase. I just ran out of time
@@floresbrian00 can relate to the internet my dude, the fact that your doing it solo and getting that far is very good. Just keep trucking my dude you will eventually get it.
Even Xeno takes longer. This guy must be a fücking noob.
Saw absolute virtue in the thumbnail, my PTSD brought me. >:(
I'm surprised Pandemonium Warden didn't make second, but I guess it makes sense. Can't have XI taking all the top spots.
Ditto 😡
/sits in corner rocking back and forth. "No not AV."
And, you know, that's ignoring the months, if not YEARS, of time it took to get to the point of even being able to take on AV. Even compared to the MMOs of the day, FFXI was fuckin BRUTAL with what a time sink it was. Just leveling a single job to 75 took ages, especially when you factor how long you'd often be sitting there looking for group because unlike most MMOs even then, soloing was more or less impossible. After you hit level 15-20, you just had to group no matter what to gain any meaningful experience...which meant finding 5 players to join you, players of specific jobs, to fill specific party roles, and even then it was obviously a roll of the dice as to whether that player was a piece of shit waste of space or not. One bad healer, puller or tank often meant a wipe, which meant everyone LOSING thousands of xp, losing tons of time having to run all the way back out to camp, losing tons of money in wasted food and items...
No gamer knows what a grind truly is until they've played FFXI as it was during it's first 10 years, before they changed everything and made it more accessible. I never had so much fun in a game as FFXI, my shell fuckin ruled and we were all really tight both in game and out, some even to this day over 10 years later, but man did you have to work for it.
@@Effedup I remember all of that I had good times and bad times and even the bad times was good times
Everybody: “HAPPY NEW YEARS🥳🥳”
*2020’s life bar appears*
Everybody: “😰”
More like 2020 life bar with poisoned status from coronavirus.
This is actually a good story idea
HP: 365,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (Was that too much?.......or was that too little?)
Delta Xeno too little bump those numbers up
For Your Ears Only stfu
Yiazmat from ff12 took me around 4hrs straight battle... no saves in between (easiest tactic to win against this guy)
My strategy was
1. Target lines was on so i know which on my party was his target
2. Battle mode set from "active" to "wait"
3. Reviving and healing members at reserve
4. Proper gambits set-up
Curaja alone is enough to heal your hp even with bubble status
Dragons dogma the ”Ur-Dragon” online version should be top 3
Agreed
I was looking for that
Exactly the one I was rushing to comment. Totally agree with the Top 3.
I wouldn't say top 3, but definitely should be in top 10
I was literally looking for that it’s practically unbeatable now.
Dark souls 2 ancient dragon took me 36 minutes by using the broken ladle
The Gutter is the hardest boss fight in Dark Souls II
@@Coffeeshopkid screams in blightown lag
what about sinh the sleepy dragon? bastard took me 30+ mins with my broadsword+10 and around claymore+7 just because that bastard has to fly from one end of that humongous arena to the other
Talk about Brume Knight, took me over 40 tries in one setting to beat him, that guy was the most entertaining boss fight in the Souls series
just start between his toes and he can't hurt you its so easy
Ayy seeing Nyx was a great surprise on here.
I was thinking that in my head when the video started
I was so happy
The arcana is the means by which all is revealed.
Hell yea
Fucking Yukari with Diaharan ;~;
The thing with Absolute Virtue is it had EVERY 2hrs (now 1hr) ability of every class in the game (basically your ultimate ability) and he can do it anytime he wants with waiting for the cool down so picture this nightmare situation: your half way though killing it, the Beni then Mighty Strikes (auto-crits) 100 blows (never ending auto attacks) or Chain-Spell (go from one spell to another without cooldown or charge time)
I remember when I was in EB games talking about final fantasy 15 and the clerk honestly tried to convince me that it's a 2 day battle with the adamantoise
I told him that it's in game time for 2 days not really 2 days.....
Yeah he felt pretty stupid lol
The End was originally gonna be WAAAAY longer, but Kojima decided that was unrealistic and/or impossible lol
The Freaking Ur-Dragon in Dragon's Dogma, last I say the shit was level 600+ and that was like 2 or 3 years ago, with not many players left online fighting that thing takes soooo long, sometimes almost a week
Number 1: The Owl’s text bubbles in Ocarina of Time
The wost part was when he would ask at the end "Do you want me to repeat?" and you'd hit yes accidentally....
5:26 Dexiduous the Invincible is an overpowered Drifter, not Stalker; Voracidous the Invincible is the raid boss version of a Stalker.
Exactly, and it is not the only one you fight outside of a Boss arena. Vermivorous (the raid version of a varkid) is fought that way as well and was actually in the base game (non-dlc).
"The moment man challenged me to a battle with braindead AI, he sealed his fate. Yes, the arcana is the means by which all is revealed. Beyond the protaganist move lies charmed diarama boosts, it matters not who you are, the nest hour and a half awaits you"
woot woot! FFXI being represented! Great MMO, I can't wait to see what is coming with Nexom remake. Keep up posted if you can, FFXI is active and receives uncommon amount of updates for an MMO in "maintenance mode"(as in it just got new content)
Why not play ffxiv? Lol
Maplestory black mage was hyped up over 9 years of story. Then when it was finally released, it was unbeatable for 7 months for the regular servers, then there's a different server called reboot with different mechanics that took a year and a half for a party to finally beat it. Each attempt took about an hour back then and usually requires 6 people.
It has a total of 498 trillion hp
Asura's wrath need a remaster, who's with me?
Ive been waiting for this shit for *years*
The devs literally said in the past year that they want to, but its up to Capcom
Metal Gear Rising first please
@@joshuabuchtel2346 I'd rather Rising 2. You can play Rising on PC pretty easily, and it runs great with the fix. Asura's is only on PSNow or whatever and there's HUGE input lag because of how it's streamed.
it looks really sick, never really seen it before. sadly my 360 broke otherwise i would have bought it somewhere
If they remake it maybe they will be able to keep the flesh and blood in it. If you remember the first trailer the game was going to pretty graphic but I guess they got too much criticism so that's why everyone is mechanical. But pretty much my favorite game of all time
I feel attacked that the Ur-Dragon from Dragons Dogma, and the Adamantoise from Final Fantasy 15 weren't mentioned at all.
Adamantoise wasn't too bad in my opinion
depends is what level you are or how many reborns it took like 2 shots in my fully decked up guy solo
@@MawZer For what? Ur-Dragon?
You're aware you can't beat it solo unless you play offline, in which case it's health it drastically cut by almost 3/4ths.
On average, it takes roughly 4 days to beat Ur-Dragon with people coming in periodically each day to widdle its health.
Adamantoise goes down in less than 10 minutes man
@@Cessate i saw people killing ur dragon in under a minute
I remember fighting AV and PW with my linkshell and dying a lot for long stretches of time, man I miss FFXI.
Same!
They are remaking it for mobile, not ideal, but it will be easier to get groups lol
Imagine the boss battle be so long that there are *real life casualties* because of the fight damn
The longest boss fight is my life. It's been 18 years since I started fighting this boss...
Hmm I’m not gonna ask just in case
@@brycewayne2517 I didn't ask you to ask me just in case
@@justanordinaryguy._.7399 top 10 comebacks in history
Unfortunately you have much further to go, and it only gets worse
Oh wow how original
Asura's Wrath is just a quick times event game.
@Kody Crittenden budda gatling
The greatest QTE game ever made
Once I realized this, I sent the game back.
@@matthewedwards6454 you missed out on a 1 of kind game.
the dark ryu fight was hilarious
Imagine fighting absolute virtue till his hp becomes 1 and then the power goes out
I would have died!
i play on a laptop >:)
@@alexithemia9746 youd still lose your internet, so your laptop wouldnt save shit
Not if they have a good hotspot of some sort that is charged, hopefully when that would happen.
final fantasy 11 was the best mmorpg ive ever played.. i could not enjoy any other mmo after that... it was tough, but you somehow managed to survive in the world of ffxi. our first Kirin (boss) attempt took us 6h back in the day , even normal enemies in the harder areas could cause a whole group wipe, and you lost a lot of exp for dying. and getting exp in ffxi was damn hard back then, took me like 6 months to get my first max lvl class
AV was a tough fight but Pandemonium Warden was a nightmare. Not only did it take a long time to access but the fight itself was brutal until you figured out how to survive when it used Astral Flow.
I spent a couple of weeks trying to beat the Soviet Union in Hearts of Iron 3.
They were pretty much the final boss of that game.
I beat The End by 100% luck. I went to a screen and he was right in front of me, proned, facing a cliff with his back towards me. I froze and thought "Holy shit. What do I do? This can't be happening. This must be some sort of trick."
That's a decoy! the real him was clearly right behind you!
You can actually aim at him to hold him up and if you shoot off next to him he will eventually drop a camo or something
@@Billcipher_fan5 No need of shooting, he'll drop the camo anyway
Infamous second son “evil delsin” was one of the worst I’ve ever played.
I chose to be good.
@@sqeekeezthehamster1116 Same
Sqeekeez the hamster I’m on my second play through, first was good second will be bad
Gonna be honest I tried doing an evil Delsin game but I barely made it past the start because of his reactions
I loved being evil omg however I liked the good ending way more :D
I knew it! I knew Yggralith would make the list! I only wish it's total health would be adjusted so that we might actually be able to beat it for the first time in years
Leader of the game devolopers: okay team what should we focus on?
Dumb guy: let's make an incredible history that takes hours to complete.
Leader of the game devolopers: nah not that
Smart guy: let's make the final fight last hours to complete.
Leader: omg you genius PROMOTED
I think you had the dumb guy and the smart guy switched around
When you fight "The End" you can use thermal goggle to help find his footprints
The damn Armatoise from FF XV, I must of been way too weak because I was fighting for hours.
Took me about 5 hours to beat that bitch lol
Nope, fight was just broken. I was max level and it still took hours.
Adamantoise btw. Close enough tho fuck that boss
Get the Zwill crossblade and the fight only takes like 40 min
I beat him in less than 5 minutes
Absolute Virtue wasn't THAT bad for coordinated groups. How Benediction works is exactly the same for the player as it is for the monster, so it was on a 2? hour cooldown IIRC. I just remember we'd damage him normally until he did that, then blow through every single burst dmg piece we had - the twice I beat him each time it took about 4 hours. But we also weren't using just 1 alliance on him, we were using 3, because we didn't care about the drops so much as bragging rights that we did it.
good if you can keep up your skillchains and element bursts
Yiazmat and Absolute Virtue showed up in FFXIV.
Me: "Ah"
Want to know something surprising about ff12 yiazmat and ff14 yiazmat? The ff12 one has more hp even though the ff14 one is a 24 man raid
@@KitsuneVoidsinger FF12 pulled no punches. It was even worse when you got a super powered version of the boss, or one that knows cannibalize. Or when you came across the occasional immortal undead. Or my fave one that could cast renew every time it got under 20% hp.
@@manaskyes9081 wtf did you even play. There's no such thing in FF12.
@@manaskyes9081 yeah wtf lmao
@@knightenchanter7908 the boss that casts renew is King Bomb and the one who uses cannibalize is Antlion, an elite mark
I’ve been battling depression since I was 10. Strongest most overwhelming boss I’ve seen yet. Extremely difficult, seems to be running Unlimited HP and hits HARD. 0/10 Most hated boss.
Yes, it's true, it's a real pain in the ass and you don't get to decide at what level you encounter it. Luckily for me, I was already level 24, and I did a speedrun of a year and a half. Beating it's so fuckin rewarding tho. Co-op with a good therapist and meds are key.
Aye yo did you beat him yet?
@@madamelaroux518 Ahhh CO OP, Aghh Difficult to trust Co-Op players thats the problem though I'm glad you're having an easier time against the boss.
@@luqmannaim8087 Idk if you can ever truly beat the boss without it ever coming back
@@pyronation8721 I mopped the floor with it. It can have a sort of respawn mechanic like the Orcs of Shadow of War, but I already memorized it's attack patterns, so I know how to fight it. Pretty lazy game design tbh.
gameranx: these bosses gonna take at least 1 hour to finish
speedruners: 10 seconds and done
I remember the day I beat Yiazmat on the original PS2, I spent literal DAYS beating on him, it was one of the worst boss battles I have ever been into, and nothing has since harder.
I kept spitting my noodles whenever I see that "Really?" eagle face. TH-cam played this on autoplay. And you got me on that eagle.
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Wtf do devs think while making these time wasting battles! Even by the super gamers' standards this is insanely crazy.
yeah i like when a game is hard but when is hard and tedious i start regretting playing it
There are people who enjoy that sort of challenge, they're called masochists.
@@jsullivan2112 Hate is the only thing they are gonna get.
Monster Hunter has the right approach with a time limit no more than 50 mins, that way you know that you don't make it in that time, then you are doing something wrong.
You're pretending that they just take a lot of time, but they're also extremely hard to do.
Excluding Yiazmat because of the Gambit system, most of these are not just a matter of waiting and that makes them satisfying to beat.
I fondly remember Donkey Kong 64
Could you imagine spending multiple real life days battling this boss that takes at least 12 hours to be and then as you're almost finished someone accidentally fully heals him
I've been battling with my bank balance since I opened a bank account. And that's one boss battle I'll never win.
So many FF10 secret bosses from the monster tinkerer take HOURS to beat. I remember one marlboro in particular took my brother 8 hours to get to a sliver of hp, only for it to petrify his healer. You can imagine what happened from there
Dude FF10 is forever on my shit list when it come to bosses in general....Looking at you Maester Symore and Yunalesca
I bet he totally rocked it.
When the Boss has a regeneration Trait:
Most bosses in Final Fantasy XI have regen traits, but not many had such insane ones as AV.
I'll never forget the infamous "hint" video SE put out that was supposed to help players figure out how to beat Absolute Virtue, but instead just confused the hell out of everyone. I don't think anyone ever figured out the "secret" it was trying to reveal.