Everybody gangsta until the boss heals itself (No matter what, I still remember fighting yuzhong 4min straight non stop at early. It was the great fight until we both bought anti heal item 😂)
@@gamenerdlegacy I even had a sleepless night because of this boss fight. I remember clearly that I was start fighting Yiazmat around 10 PM & still fighting him at 6 AM. That was a long ass battle. Never do it again. It's one and done. 😅
@@FrankencteynGamingTV OoF! That is a long time. Impressive. I would leave the fight to go save and come back to continue cuz it saved your progress on him. So it took me days. You doing it all in one sitting WOW! Respect 🙌
I remember that giant tortoise fight from FF 15. I was so close to beating it and then accidentally teleported outside of battle. I remember being super angry, but oddly super calm. I calmly turned off my console and didn't touch the game again for a few months.
@@tylerperez4861goddam Costlemark! I replayed this recently after 2 years, completely forgot about that teleport! I had to stop for the night and put it in RestMode
Sometimes when I work line for concessions at work, I'll blast that music on my lil speaker. Only ever played FF3 on SNES. I should try FFVI on another platform sometime. FFIV Ultimate is a pretty good hack that I've been playing. You can pick your party from everyone after getting the final party, there are extra dungeons, new spells, weapons and armor, and some other stuff I can't remember right now. Totally worth playing.
I was there with Absolute Virtue. There was a huge drama when someone called for Help. To explain this, in FF11, whoever attacks the enemy first gets to claim it. Anyone in your party list can join. When someone calls Help, that claim becomes unclaimed, then anyone in the server can attack. And the biggest downside to calling Help is they nullify rewards at the end. So, no drop from killing it.
So...is THAT why nobody ever got it drop anything? Because from what I know, it has been defeated multiple times, and it never dropped anything. In fact, I don't think it even accomplished anything.
@@ootdega it was killed "legitimately after they raised the players level cap. some of the drops were still best in slot or highly valuable for a long time
Absolute Virtue is definitely a “had to be there” moment, and thankfully I was… watching my dad do it haha. even as a spectator that fight will have you on the edge of your seat. funny thing is, it became my “can they beat goku” phrase. “But have you fought AV and won? No? Try again” 😭
Yeah a true "had to be there" The AV now is a shadow of his former self and can be easily beaten solo. That's awesome you got to watch you're dad do it.
Just do it on an off day (ain't nobody gonna work 7 days a week!). True for the meals though. And let's not forget the toilet (or a toilet bucket instead of a chair).
Pandemonium Warden was the 18 hour boss fight with people throwing up and stuff. It got nerfed after a lot of bad press at the time. Absolute Virtue was pretty much unkillable, and any time a group did beat it, Square would just patch it out as a glitch. AV was more a Community vs Devs issue that went on for years, whereas Pandemonium Warden was new ToAU content and all eyes were on SE to fix it.
A bunch of dark knights wielding kraken clubs and using blood weapon at the same time as being buffed by bards and white mages isn't a glitch, it was a strategy they didn't intend on (aka oversight). The devs stopped the strategy from working anyway by making blood weapon ineffective against AV anyway
I'll be honest, I did everything legit in the game, all Superbosses. Then I get to Penance and he shows me how much 5 days of grinding means to him. I gave in to Yojimbo lol, I was at the finish line.
I always went in with all aeons having full overdrive, so I personally never experienced the fight "legit". Even on my first playthrough, I accidentally discovered this "strat"
Absolute virtue is iconic in gaming history. It stayed up and no one was able to beat it.. until they released a hint video yet people couldn't grasp it... Until one clan downed with a trick strategy... The GM popped, clapped for them, and took servers down to make it unbeatable with the the method they used. Man living these moments live was something else
I beat Adamantoise in 30 minutes using Prompto! When I'm having trouble with some enemies I always use him lol. His weapons are great since it's long range ^^
But if you don't leave the area fast enough when taking a break against Yiazmat he will use Renew, restoring his health to full. His AI will also cast reflect on YOU if you have Renew on a gambit. So when you use it, it will reflect off you and heal him all the way. So no auto-battling. But he is a lot easier in Zodiac Age because you can break Damage Limit and speed up time.
he'll never heal to FULL (100% of his hp); just the current bar he's sitting on. Even when you return he'll be at 100% of that pip or "current hp bar" since his total amount of heqlth is lqbeled with the current hp bars and the rest just as a pip / dot
Ozma sucked balls! Ruby and Emerald Weapons were hard for me when I first played FF7. At this point of my life, I'm sticking to playing the classic games. Games these days seem to just get tougher, more tedious and longer, and I don't have the time, patience, or sanity to deal with all that as I approach 40.
@@jofez27 exactly I agree! It’s not that games are getting harder now, I’m okay with that, it’s that they’re getting more tedious. “Oh, you want this item? Wait 8 real time hours, come back, wait another 4 hours to cultivate it or whatever, and then you still need to do it 4 more times. I hate that.
I remember mapping out a perfect built for Ruby and Emerald in FFVII and actually writing out each hit so I'd know what I had left. It was maybe only an hour grind, but it gave 16 year old me a massive feeling of accomplishment.
Master of Magic using reflect and healing only with the whole tower to reach him in FF6 (plus all the grinding to survive the blast), it was the best experience in these games, but drained me so much I didn't go to the final dungeon.
That fuckin' Mega Death spell, man... there are SO MANY times I've been instantly killed. Even the death "proof" attachments don't make you immune to it entirely. I don't count that as a "long" fight, more so an obnoxious one. A very obnoxious one. Made me feel like I was playing Ghosts & Goblins on the NES again lol
@tumultuousv once the boss battle gets so long you ain't really playing...and there are more companies that like to see how hooked their players are by giving long pointless tasks
@@gamenerdlegacyit’s a really good game with a great story arc. I only quit because the gacha was terrible and I ended up spending $700 in a month with nothing to show for it. But that was years ago. Rumor has it they fixed it so you may have a better experience.
@@equilibrium1950 Oh wow! $700! That's a lot. Yeah I have heard things that the game is much better. Plus now there's Ever Crisis, so much to play right
As strange as it sounds, it was the sin battle on the airship in FF10. You only had a few minutes to defeat sin, and he starts far away from the ship, forcing long-range attacks. I spent hours trying to defeat it, using every trick in the strategy guide, even going back and grinding levels. Never was able to defeat him.
Beating Yiazmat in one sitting will forever be one of my biggest gamer moments. I swear you get superstitious in thst fight. I know there were certain stones that if you stood on they caused it to do certain attacks more often then others.
I remember sitting in front of my tiny tv for 3 1/2 hours, eyes glued to the screen, struggling to kill the Angra Mainyu from FFX-2. And Yiazmat took several separate sittings for just how long the battle went on.
You'd be surprised, actually. Sometimes, yes but as long as the monster doesn't do the same 2 or 3 things the whole fight, it'll be quite the fun fight. Granted, you won't want to do them again haha
I was scrolling through the comments looking for this. Played every FF since VII and I was like, am I just remembering XIII’s bosses taking me AWHILE? Like I remember looking at the clock on one of the higher bosses and a whole hour had gone by and I was still grinding. I love it though 😁
@@rockmegently no remember sitting in my room being like 13 raging out to this games bosses. Getting on gran pulse through the tower and I think there was some sort of dragon boss? It took me like weeks to get through it
I still remember fighting Yiazmat and it literally took me 8 whole hours, not to mention I ran too far away to heal once and it’s hp dots started going back up. I almost had a stroke lmao 😂😂😂😂 good times though for sure
I Must Say, The Yiazmat of Final Fantasy XII, In The Ridorana Cataract, Has EVERYTHING On The Adamantoise of Final Fantasy XV. Took Me About 20 Exits, And Reentries Before Felling The Beast!!
Absolute Virtue was nerfed because there was a FC that stayed up over 18 hours or something still fighting it and people fell physically ill. The people able to kill it had to do it with a glitch where they stood on a ledge where they couldn't be attacked if memory serves. Shits crazy.
It didn't help at all that the devs themselves were such douchebags about the whole 'beating it the right way' ordeal that they'd consistently invalidate and patch out every method the players would find to beat AV, before finally releasing a video on how to beat AV 'properly' which made it obvious that they used a force kill command on it because their displayed method didn't even work in practice. I swear, every time I hear someone reminiscing about ff11, I hear the most insanely unhealthy things the player base would do that parallel the crap out of gambling and drug addictions.
@@rugalbernstein5913 Yeah from what I've been hearing from you as well as other comments the devs of FF11 really handled this badly. Plus I know there was the linkshell that fought Pandemonium warden for so long the got sick
People could never fight Absolute Virtue before lvl 99 more than an hour or two. Once you got it to 90% is would chainspell meteor and wipe you. All kills were within 20secs to 5 mins. The only time it was defeated without zerg was the wall glitch which took about 10 hours or so with 18 black mages that it couldn't hit through the wall. Shout out to exodus linkshell.
@@aryaeliadel3094Which makes no sense because all Ruby would need to do is not put claws in the ground. Once the tentacles come out, then he takes damage
Developers wanna push the boundaries of what it means to beat bosses and sometimes we get iconic ones like Psycho Mantis, The End or the multiplying boss from Nier Automata but just dragging it out by being a hp sponge is legit stupid.
@@Kurostyle21 Then do the silly method and instant ko it with the luci ring. Other people enjoy fighting the monster with the most hp in any game as a challenge. Its a giant turtle, what did you expect it to do lol.
Yiazmat is the ultimate boss that makes you leave the game on and hide in a corner just so you wont have to get his health bar back down if need to leave the crib 😂
Okay, first of all, kudos to y'all doing the one mentioned in this video. Me personally I hated fighting Ruby in OG FF7 as a kid lol that took me 2 hours straight after a few game overs lol
You forgot Pandemonium Warden again from Final Fantasy XI. That one actually took days that some had to be hospitalized because they were fighting it nonstop. Its been nerfed now and takes mins with the current equipment and lvls but that was in the lvl 75 days.
Pandemonium warden was the start of the end to tough bosses in FFXI. The real question though did the developers have a method to beat it in short time before the nerf? I wish someone speaks up.
To be fair if you don't use Ring of Lucii or Zwill blade/dagger defeating adamantoise in ffxv takes a really long time. Even at level 99 with the highest attack stat weapons it took me like 19 hours.
Minerva from crisis core took longer than adamantoise if you dont cheese the fight, can kill you with most of her moves from full hp, takes away your phoenix down while doing 75% max hp true damage in the same move.
First time you encounter Adamantoise is indescribable. The characters dialogue and reactions are insane. First time it took nearly 3 hours, then I builded up with some buffs and suddenly I was farming Adamantite defeating It under 10 min.
For me it was Yiazmat. 5 consecutive hours, non-stop, no bathroom breaks, no pausing. The game even went so far as to insult your slow progress by putting a counter beneath your minimap that kept track of the number of times you exited and reentered the arena. XD
My linkshell (guild) only ever spent an hour or two on AV (pre-nerf) but Tiamat we had the longest battles with. We'd literally have people coming in and out of the alliance in shifts. On multiple occasions where a person would have to leave for work, then come home and get right back on and into the alliance. ...Of course this was all before the discovery of Bard rotations and RDM/DRK stunlocking, which turned hours-long fights into 20 second plummelings.
Omega in FFXV is brutal- he is difficult to fight, can one hit you, is immune to everything, and loves to knock you out of the ring so you have to restart. If you have the DLCs you can cheese him playing as Prompto, but he was wayyyy harder than adamantoise.
It took me 6 and a half hours to beat adamantoise when i was about 14. I had to restart the fight once halfway through, so in total about 9 hours. Worth every minute.
Whenever someone comes up with a list of most difficult things/boss/battles in FFs or RPGs in general and they dont mention FF XI, you know that list cant be right. And it’s not like it’s only AV and PW. Back in the days, even normal party-missions were extremely hard, like the one you had to do to gain Sea access (against Tenzen, Omega and Ultima) or to finish the Zilart expansion (the ark angels). FFXI was a masterpiece because your sense of achievement after clearing such obstacles were just… out of this world, especially if you managed to do them before level cap expansions, nerfs and so on…
I did every boss in Final Fantasy 12. In all honesty I didn’t know you could leave and come back, but I’d be there in about three hours, maybe 3.5 can’t remember anymore
I was in the first group to beat absolute virtue and later the pandemonium warden. AV required hours of organizing and set up, all to get destroyed in 30 minutes.
Getting out of midgar took me the longest time in all Final Fantasies I've played. Not knowing English beat me again and again until I bought a magazine with a walkthrough in Greek. I finished the game over 30 times after that and the game never left my heart. What a story ❤
Yiazmat is on a whole level. Also Omega from FF15 I fought for an hour with barely a dent in the Royal DLC, it was a battle of attrition so I just left.
Virtue reminded me of the fact that after Square heard the complaints about Virtue, they made an official guide on how defeat him more easy, but everyone who followed the guide was being punished for doing so xD
@Game Nerd Legacy it was BAD. There's a video about FF bosses and it explained that anytime people found a way to fight virtue the devs patched it. Then the devs made a guide to fight it just to patch that too. It was ridiculous tbh.
@@nobody-xh6ii i dont think he was ever beaten legitly the devs video they put out on how to properly beat it was actually impossible for even the best players(devs did it on lan with no lag and it took them multiple tries with full knowledge of the hidden mechanics) the only groups i heard beat it was using invisible wall tricks which bascially glitched the boss and they got free reign to nuke it down. multiple groups fought it for like 24hrs + and still failed.
idk why so many ppl make things up. no one got punished for killing it the way the devs did....they got punished for using glitches to kill it, basically stood on the other side of the wall and locked him in place aka the wall of justice
The FF15 turtle took me 4h. The "jumping" dungeon 7h30 with no pause. Crazy but satisfying once done. Now I would not have the courage to redo it. Hahaha
Everybody gangsta until the boss heals itself
(No matter what, I still remember fighting yuzhong 4min straight non stop at early. It was the great fight until we both bought anti heal item 😂)
Man even worse when the boss is already a tough fight to win against
Yzamat when he has 1 bar left can confuse ur party member so it can renew on the boss itself that mean FULL HEAL to 50 mil HP
I would kms
Yaizmat can do that...its the worst
i remember Lineage boss fights also toke some time but the funny part was ig you where a healer class you could basically heal moobs back 😂😂😂
Beating Adamantoise is just a matter of minutes with the Ring of Lucii equiped. Yiazmat however, is another story.
haha Yeah Adamantoise can be push over. Yiazmat was a long commitment for me back on PS2 but worth it 🙌
@@gamenerdlegacy I even had a sleepless night because of this boss fight. I remember clearly that I was start fighting Yiazmat around 10 PM & still fighting him at 6 AM. That was a long ass battle. Never do it again. It's one and done. 😅
@@FrankencteynGamingTV OoF! That is a long time. Impressive. I would leave the fight to go save and come back to continue cuz it saved your progress on him. So it took me days. You doing it all in one sitting WOW! Respect 🙌
@@FrankencteynGamingTV I defeated Adamantoise the "real" way, so no Ring, took around 30 minutes I think. Yiazmat takes longer.
Yiazmat is not as long in the remake, since they removed the 9,999 damage cap in the remake
I remember that giant tortoise fight from FF 15. I was so close to beating it and then accidentally teleported outside of battle. I remember being super angry, but oddly super calm. I calmly turned off my console and didn't touch the game again for a few months.
That would literally be me.
Been there 😂😂😂
This was me in that fucking Costlemark Tower dungeon lol accidentally warping outside 😭
@@tylerperez4861goddam Costlemark! I replayed this recently after 2 years, completely forgot about that teleport! I had to stop for the night and put it in RestMode
Duuude that happens to me too 😢
"For no explainable reason, the ring works on the turtle." ~ Maxor
😂😂😂 Not untrue
That is a lot of exp. Now what you wanna do is go back to the future in alternate fu**in timeline where you have gone Garfield.
@@Theblecquetzal 😂😂😂
only after a patch
beat yazmat in 8 hrs. invited friends over to watch, we got drunk. it was epic
Damn! That sounds like an awesome time 🍻 I need to throw a party like that
Lol took me 17 mins 🤣 ff15
Basically SAME!😂
@@JG-lm9zh Nice!
You sure you weren’t so drunk that the 12 hours didn’t feel long? 😂
I remember me & my brother had to do a whole Roundtable tactical meetings everytime Seymour showed up in FFX
lol! That's awesome!
😂😂 My first thought was Seymour. Especially on Mt. Gagazet.
@@chanmarr8118 YEEESSS!!!
@@chanmarr8118 😂😂 Nice!
@@chanmarr8118I just watched a video where the speedrunner beat Seymours final form in two hits. He beat him in 35 seconds
Kefka took me the longest because I never wanted the music to end
Aw Yeah that music is fire🔥
Lol did you know you can 1 shot his final form
FF6 has so much soul. Heheh
Sometimes when I work line for concessions at work, I'll blast that music on my lil speaker.
Only ever played FF3 on SNES. I should try FFVI on another platform sometime.
FFIV Ultimate is a pretty good hack that I've been playing. You can pick your party from everyone after getting the final party, there are extra dungeons, new spells, weapons and armor, and some other stuff I can't remember right now. Totally worth playing.
" Why would someone create this!!!" Me tryna complete all the hunts.
There's just so many hunts
Conan o brien got mad
Memories of my dad spending hours reading guides on some bosses. I miss those days.
That's awesome. I used to do the same thing with my Step dad. Those were fun days 👍
@@gamenerdlegacyhaha step dad, hahahajaha😢😂
That’s a core memory of mine - sat next to my dad watching him read and play FFXI 😂
@@cianphillips1099 Oh that's awesome!
My daughter uses my old synth handwritten notes from Final Fantasy XII. She thanked me for detailing how to craft Tournesol
I was there with Absolute Virtue. There was a huge drama when someone called for Help. To explain this, in FF11, whoever attacks the enemy first gets to claim it. Anyone in your party list can join. When someone calls Help, that claim becomes unclaimed, then anyone in the server can attack. And the biggest downside to calling Help is they nullify rewards at the end. So, no drop from killing it.
Oh very interesting. That's terrible to get no drop especially after beating a boss as hard as Absolute Virtue was 😱
So...is THAT why nobody ever got it drop anything? Because from what I know, it has been defeated multiple times, and it never dropped anything. In fact, I don't think it even accomplished anything.
@@ootdega it was killed "legitimately after they raised the players level cap. some of the drops were still best in slot or highly valuable for a long time
Crazy that someone died in RL over this boss
@@davidwaffles2638 😮
Yizamat casts reflect on you so if your unaware of it might end up healing the damn thing
True. And that's a nightmare
Absolute Virtue is definitely a “had to be there” moment, and thankfully I was… watching my dad do it haha. even as a spectator that fight will have you on the edge of your seat.
funny thing is, it became my “can they beat goku” phrase. “But have you fought AV and won? No? Try again” 😭
Yeah a true "had to be there" The AV now is a shadow of his former self and can be easily beaten solo. That's awesome you got to watch you're dad do it.
You literally have to call off work, have 6 square meals on hand, and play while on the toilet to beat absolute virtue 😂😂
True🙌
Just do it on an off day (ain't nobody gonna work 7 days a week!).
True for the meals though. And let's not forget the toilet (or a toilet bucket instead of a chair).
@@nickbritto1511 I always found it fun to make day just for fighting a certain boss. That's solid strategy for the toilet 👍
Scree that lmao. I can't be like Cartman in that south park world of Warcraft episode
@@gothxm 😂😂😂
Absolute Virtue is the craziest boss I've ever seen.
Agreed
The thing is Absolute Virtue was made to not be beaten
@@carriestovall8687 the devs actually patched exploits that gamers used to kill him too.
@@carriestovall8687 Hm, interesting 🤔
So what happens when you kill it? I imagine he just awkardly dies and drops no loot lol
Pandemonium Warden was the 18 hour boss fight with people throwing up and stuff. It got nerfed after a lot of bad press at the time. Absolute Virtue was pretty much unkillable, and any time a group did beat it, Square would just patch it out as a glitch. AV was more a Community vs Devs issue that went on for years, whereas Pandemonium Warden was new ToAU content and all eyes were on SE to fix it.
Ah ok. Very interesting. That clears some things up for me. You explained this well. Thanks 👍
A bunch of dark knights wielding kraken clubs and using blood weapon at the same time as being buffed by bards and white mages isn't a glitch, it was a strategy they didn't intend on (aka oversight). The devs stopped the strategy from working anyway by making blood weapon ineffective against AV anyway
I remember fighting this thing for hours it sucked and was damn near unkillable
Ffx secret boss was wild
Penance? Yeah Wild for sure!
I'll be honest, I did everything legit in the game, all Superbosses. Then I get to Penance and he shows me how much 5 days of grinding means to him. I gave in to Yojimbo lol, I was at the finish line.
The one that I will always remember is Seymour on Mt. Gagazet, FFX.
Nah fr
Dark Aeons 😮
Seymour on gagazet kicked my ass a million times
I always went in with all aeons having full overdrive, so I personally never experienced the fight "legit". Even on my first playthrough, I accidentally discovered this "strat"
I stoped playing games,like at all..for two weeks because of this fight... I hated him SO MUCH! hahaha
Absolute virtue is iconic in gaming history. It stayed up and no one was able to beat it.. until they released a hint video yet people couldn't grasp it... Until one clan downed with a trick strategy... The GM popped, clapped for them, and took servers down to make it unbeatable with the the method they used.
Man living these moments live was something else
It was a epic time in history. It's the stuff legends are made of
Didnt they have to patch out MULTIPLE glitches because people kept cheesing it with different methods?
@@mwbwyatt yeah there was the wall abuse, then the DRK burn with kraken clubs
I remember GM’s popping in for dynamis too. Those were the days
@@Mr.Persia958 They definitely were
I remember fighting adamantpise for like 2 hours then dying and I never came back
Aw yeah. I don't blame for not wanting to come back.
Quitter🎉
Does dying and having to rewatch Yunalesca's unskippable 30 minute cutscene several times count?
Yes
Yep.
OMG!
😭😭😭
I remember Yiazmat, don't forget to dispell his Regen spell when you go away LOL, otherwise you'll have to start it all over again 😂
Lol Yes cuz having him heal after fighting for so long...Oof! It hurts to even think about 😬
Is there a gambit to auto remove regen?
@@cleangoblin2021 Yeah I believe there is. You should be able to find one with a quick google search
The dark aeons on a first time playthrough are no joke.
Agreed 👍
I beat Adamantoise in 30 minutes using Prompto! When I'm having trouble with some enemies I always use him lol. His weapons are great since it's long range ^^
Oh that's a good strategy 👍
You know Noctis can equip the guns, right?
@@angeldiaz762 Noct's gun options are limited so I like using Prompto more ^^
That God damn turtle spent hours chipping away at it and my power went out had to grind again afterwards
Oh no that sucks! I commend you for going back to the grind after the power outage 👍
Minerva from Final Fantasy 7: crisis core took me like 2 hours with max damage
That's a tough fight. Well done 👍
2h with max damage ?
limitbreaks and all ? impossible. With max damage Minerva is down in like 10 min
@@lorisgbd205A true one I see.
But if you don't leave the area fast enough when taking a break against Yiazmat he will use Renew, restoring his health to full. His AI will also cast reflect on YOU if you have Renew on a gambit. So when you use it, it will reflect off you and heal him all the way. So no auto-battling. But he is a lot easier in Zodiac Age because you can break Damage Limit and speed up time.
Yeah i remember stressing every time I left Yiazmat to go save on PS2 cuz he could possibly restore his health. Good to know about the Zodiac age 👍
I just 1 staged him on the ps2 lmao haven't actually fought him on the ps4 but cuz break damage limit it'll be even easier xD
Real og remember lamer cheese for yiazmet on ps2
@@seafear494 triple reflect ring Darkga spam 🥰🥰
he'll never heal to FULL (100% of his hp); just the current bar he's sitting on.
Even when you return he'll be at 100% of that pip or "current hp bar" since his total amount of heqlth is lqbeled with the current hp bars and the rest just as a pip / dot
Nobody even mentioning Ozma. He wiped the floor with me the first time I fought him.
Ouch! Yeah Ozma, an underrated beast of a boss
Ozma sucked balls! Ruby and Emerald Weapons were hard for me when I first played FF7. At this point of my life, I'm sticking to playing the classic games. Games these days seem to just get tougher, more tedious and longer, and I don't have the time, patience, or sanity to deal with all that as I approach 40.
@@jofez27 exactly I agree! It’s not that games are getting harder now, I’m okay with that, it’s that they’re getting more tedious. “Oh, you want this item? Wait 8 real time hours, come back, wait another 4 hours to cultivate it or whatever, and then you still need to do it 4 more times. I hate that.
I remember mapping out a perfect built for Ruby and Emerald in FFVII and actually writing out each hit so I'd know what I had left. It was maybe only an hour grind, but it gave 16 year old me a massive feeling of accomplishment.
Oh wow! That's awesome. That is a grand accomplishment 👍
My boy penance didnt make the cut (pun intended) bc I guess yojimbo exists.
He was so close to making it in tho.
Adamantoise takes me a solid 45min every time
That's a solid victory 🙌
Same, I’m scrolling to see who else did it in less than an hour. Less people than I thought
Ultima weapon in ff8 whilst being unprepared is a fucking nightmare. The first time i fought him as a kid, it took me 2 hours to beat
Oh wow! just he thought of fighting him unprepared sends chills down my spine
Master of Magic using reflect and healing only with the whole tower to reach him in FF6 (plus all the grinding to survive the blast), it was the best experience in these games, but drained me so much I didn't go to the final dungeon.
Yeah I can see it being draining. FF6 took me years too finish lol
Ravus from FFXV. TOOK ME 3 DAMN DAYS. AND I WAS RIGHT AT HIS LEVEL.
But you still beat him! Well done 👏
Ravus took you that long???
Ravus, lol
I remember Yunalesca being a pain in the ass because of how long it took.
Yeah she can be a lengthy battle.
the fight that made me ragequit FFX for a year
That fuckin' Mega Death spell, man... there are SO MANY times I've been instantly killed. Even the death "proof" attachments don't make you immune to it entirely. I don't count that as a "long" fight, more so an obnoxious one. A very obnoxious one. Made me feel like I was playing Ghosts & Goblins on the NES again lol
I remember dying to adamantoise 6 hours into the fight and had to start over, after an 8 hour fight I finally beat it. I'm still riding that high.
Wow! Impressive! Keep riding that high. You deserve it 👍
The chocobo lady for tidus's ultimate weapon 😅
When a gaming company knows they have their players hooked to do anything they want
Like playing the game?
@tumultuousv once the boss battle gets so long you ain't really playing...and there are more companies that like to see how hooked their players are by giving long pointless tasks
@@jakedragon8753"once the boss battle gets too long your not really playing"? Lol, how does that work.
Absolute virtue is a literal monster in data form
Haven't played XV yet, but this kind of makes me want to.
Go for it. You can usually find the Royal Edition which comes with all the DLC on sale for cheap.
@HRTBR3AARION Awesome!
Definitely worth it.
"It takes days to complete"
Speedrunners: Am I a joke to you?
True lol but Speedrunners spend months maybe years to be able to beat it that fast.
Ffx when i was 11 or so and i was too dumb to relize you could use curaga on enemies lol
Ah yes I had the same kind of kid stupidity. Tho they were with FF7 and FF8 lol
To be fair, I never realized Cure and Raise could used on the dead until I was older.
FFBE has had some insanely long boss fights without a complete cheese strategy. If you're counting their phone games
That's good to know. I have FFBE on my phone and haven't played it yet. I need to though as I've heard good things about it.
@@gamenerdlegacyit’s a really good game with a great story arc. I only quit because the gacha was terrible and I ended up spending $700 in a month with nothing to show for it. But that was years ago.
Rumor has it they fixed it so you may have a better experience.
@@equilibrium1950 Oh wow! $700! That's a lot. Yeah I have heard things that the game is much better. Plus now there's Ever Crisis, so much to play right
@equilibrium1950 700 on FF Exvius??? Lol, even my whole Genshin Impact career only comes to about 150.
As strange as it sounds, it was the sin battle on the airship in FF10. You only had a few minutes to defeat sin, and he starts far away from the ship, forcing long-range attacks. I spent hours trying to defeat it, using every trick in the strategy guide, even going back and grinding levels. Never was able to defeat him.
Aw I give you an A for effort tho 👍Maybe one day you'll go back for a rematch 💪
I finished binging 3 podcasts by the time I slew this beast.
lol! Now that's proper multi-tasking 👍
Yiazmat by far. FF12 is great but they really wanted to stretch out the time as much as the could…it worked.
It really did.
Me laughing with the Ring of Lucii and 99 Ether:
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Haha yeah you crushed the big Turtle then 🙌
Beating Yiazmat in one sitting will forever be one of my biggest gamer moments. I swear you get superstitious in thst fight. I know there were certain stones that if you stood on they caused it to do certain attacks more often then others.
One sitting? That is a big moment. Well done 👏👍
and i beat it at lvl 1 lately check out the vid😂
I remember sitting in front of my tiny tv for 3 1/2 hours, eyes glued to the screen, struggling to kill the Angra Mainyu from FFX-2. And Yiazmat took several separate sittings for just how long the battle went on.
Sins fin on the boat in the first few hours of FFX. Now granted i wasnt ever attacking the fin and grinding the mobs but still took hours.
Wow! You must've got a ton of AP and Power spheres 🙌
@@gamenerdlegacy all about getting those tidus overdrives early, best place for it.
@@zerothehero11 Ah, I see. Cool, I like it 👍
@@zerothehero11I respect it. Personally I was content getting them around or before the Calm lands.
Omega Weapon from FF8 took me a while. Even with my party maxed and GFs maxed it was still a chore. Then you just get "proof of Omega" 😅
Haha true. Great job beating him 👍
Talk about disappointment some triple refinement and a certificate I was disgusted!
It's hard to imagine the gameplay would remain engaging for a fight that took that long.
It is, but with Yiazmat for me, it did stay engaging for that long.
You'd be surprised, actually. Sometimes, yes but as long as the monster doesn't do the same 2 or 3 things the whole fight, it'll be quite the fun fight. Granted, you won't want to do them again haha
I’ve played damn near almost every FF and I would have to say 13 had some fucking difficult time consuming bosses
No disagreement there lol
I was scrolling through the comments looking for this. Played every FF since VII and I was like, am I just remembering XIII’s bosses taking me AWHILE? Like I remember looking at the clock on one of the higher bosses and a whole hour had gone by and I was still grinding. I love it though 😁
@@rockmegently True. They XIII bosses do take a long time. If youtube shorts could be longer they would be on the list
@@rockmegently no remember sitting in my room being like 13 raging out to this games bosses. Getting on gran pulse through the tower and I think there was some sort of dragon boss? It took me like weeks to get through it
I'm all for the 13 Love.💪
The absolute Virtue 😀 I found the Omega Weapon in FF15 annoying but VERY satisfying!!
Nice! Congrats on beating them! 👏
I still remember fighting Yiazmat and it literally took me 8 whole hours, not to mention I ran too far away to heal once and it’s hp dots started going back up. I almost had a stroke lmao 😂😂😂😂 good times though for sure
OMG Yiazmat healing himself gives me chest pain just to think about 😂😂😂
I Must Say, The Yiazmat of Final Fantasy XII, In The Ridorana Cataract, Has EVERYTHING On The Adamantoise of Final Fantasy XV.
Took Me About 20 Exits, And Reentries Before Felling The Beast!!
haha nice! Well done on Yiazmat 👍
I'm really glad you mentioned absolute virtue. Need more 11 recognition in the community
I try 👍
Absolute Virtue was nerfed because there was a FC that stayed up over 18 hours or something still fighting it and people fell physically ill.
The people able to kill it had to do it with a glitch where they stood on a ledge where they couldn't be attacked if memory serves. Shits crazy.
It was the Pandemonium Warden that the FC fought for 18 hours and where they got ill. Both bosses were ungodly hard. Shit was crazy on all accounts
It didn't help at all that the devs themselves were such douchebags about the whole 'beating it the right way' ordeal that they'd consistently invalidate and patch out every method the players would find to beat AV, before finally releasing a video on how to beat AV 'properly' which made it obvious that they used a force kill command on it because their displayed method didn't even work in practice.
I swear, every time I hear someone reminiscing about ff11, I hear the most insanely unhealthy things the player base would do that parallel the crap out of gambling and drug addictions.
@@rugalbernstein5913 Yeah from what I've been hearing from you as well as other comments the devs of FF11 really handled this badly. Plus I know there was the linkshell that fought Pandemonium warden for so long the got sick
People could never fight Absolute Virtue before lvl 99 more than an hour or two. Once you got it to 90% is would chainspell meteor and wipe you. All kills were within 20secs to 5 mins. The only time it was defeated without zerg was the wall glitch which took about 10 hours or so with 18 black mages that it couldn't hit through the wall. Shout out to exodus linkshell.
Everyone gangta till the boss transforms into his 2nd form
😂😂😂
You mean Ruby Weapon in FFXIV?
@@aryaeliadel3094Which makes no sense because all Ruby would need to do is not put claws in the ground. Once the tentacles come out, then he takes damage
Octopath had be sweating some of those long hours 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Adamantoise plus the royal pimp ring and warp points, getting that achievement "tortoise toppler" was brilliant
Haha nice 👍
WHO decided that it was ok to make a boss fight that long? That sounds like a nightmare.
Hard to say what the game devs were thinking
He is a legend is why.
@@pipz420 He is 🙌
Developers wanna push the boundaries of what it means to beat bosses and sometimes we get iconic ones like Psycho Mantis, The End or the multiplying boss from Nier Automata but just dragging it out by being a hp sponge is legit stupid.
@@Kurostyle21 Then do the silly method and instant ko it with the luci ring. Other people enjoy fighting the monster with the most hp in any game as a challenge. Its a giant turtle, what did you expect it to do lol.
Yiazmat is the ultimate boss that makes you leave the game on and hide in a corner just so you wont have to get his health bar back down if need to leave the crib 😂
Bro dropped that ffvii crisis core intro soundtrack and thought we wouldnt notice it
I'm impressed you did notice 👍
funny thing about Yiazmat is that he can use the spell "renew" and IF that happens, wel.. hes back to 100% HP.
Have fun starting over.
Imagine almost an hour in and he heals to full. That's the stuff nightmares are made of 😱
Jad from RuneScape
I banished that damn 🐢! Shouts Arcana!!!
Lol, nice.
Me just jumping from rock to rock making big turtle skinny till explosion happens
Haha nice!
Adamantoise: I can do this all day
Ring of luci: Famous last word
That ring is Infamous
Maxor took a lasagna and then sucked him into a wormhole
Adamantiose was maybe 20 minutes worth a fight my first time
Nice job! Well done 👍
Ah the giant turtle in FFXV [Laughs in Ring of Lucius]
haha yes!
I [laugh in Noctis] personally.
Okay, first of all, kudos to y'all doing the one mentioned in this video. Me personally I hated fighting Ruby in OG FF7 as a kid lol that took me 2 hours straight after a few game overs lol
You forgot Pandemonium Warden again from Final Fantasy XI. That one actually took days that some had to be hospitalized because they were fighting it nonstop. Its been nerfed now and takes mins with the current equipment and lvls but that was in the lvl 75 days.
Pandemonium warden was the start of the end to tough bosses in FFXI. The real question though did the developers have a method to beat it in short time before the nerf? I wish someone speaks up.
To be fair if you don't use Ring of Lucii or Zwill blade/dagger defeating adamantoise in ffxv takes a really long time. Even at level 99 with the highest attack stat weapons it took me like 19 hours.
Very true
It took me 2 hours with the ring, I cried and turned off the game afterward and went to bed 😂
@@Blue_Incognito98 Aw 😂Did you wake up and try again?
Brelshaza, Akkan, Thaemine…even weeks for the first time
Ruby weapon from FF7 took me over 2 decades
Dazers makes it the easiest super boss in the history of ff to beat
Minerva from crisis core took longer than adamantoise if you dont cheese the fight, can kill you with most of her moves from full hp, takes away your phoenix down while doing 75% max hp true damage in the same move.
Oh Minerva, I remember her Judgement Arrow completely destroying me way too many times lol
First time you encounter Adamantoise is indescribable. The characters dialogue and reactions are insane. First time it took nearly 3 hours, then I builded up with some buffs and suddenly I was farming Adamantite defeating It under 10 min.
Under 10 mins? Nice! Well done 👏👏
For me it was Yiazmat. 5 consecutive hours, non-stop, no bathroom breaks, no pausing.
The game even went so far as to insult your slow progress by putting a counter beneath your minimap that kept track of the number of times you exited and reentered the arena. XD
Haha I didn't know about the counter lol. Congrats on an impressive win over Yiazmat
first time beating adamantoise i had to pause it mid battle and go to work and come back and beat it when i got home XD
Nice! Sometimes we gotta do what we gotta do 👍
everybody gangsta until they fight Absolute Virtue
Yes indeed!
My linkshell (guild) only ever spent an hour or two on AV (pre-nerf) but Tiamat we had the longest battles with. We'd literally have people coming in and out of the alliance in shifts. On multiple occasions where a person would have to leave for work, then come home and get right back on and into the alliance.
...Of course this was all before the discovery of Bard rotations and RDM/DRK stunlocking, which turned hours-long fights into 20 second plummelings.
Wow! Fighting in shifts. That's so cool. Oh very interesting, Tiamat was the longest huh?
Odin with his fuckass ultimate zenitsuken on final fantasy difficulty
Oof! 😬
Forgot to mention Pandemonium Warden in 11. Back in the day, he was the reason most wouldn’t finish their mythic weapons.
Oof! yeah the Warden was beast until nerfed
@@gamenerdlegacy he ws not nerfed tech just out leveled
virtue got nerfed
@@bloowri Oh ok
Omega in FFXV is brutal- he is difficult to fight, can one hit you, is immune to everything, and loves to knock you out of the ring so you have to restart. If you have the DLCs you can cheese him playing as Prompto, but he was wayyyy harder than adamantoise.
Agreed
Yeah man that shit was rigged
Surprised about that the adamantoise was showcased instead of omega weapon. Could have sworn that POS took longer...
Lol, how about just playing a good Noctis? Any hurdle or level in that game can be overcome with skill. Much like FF7 Remake.
It took me 6 and a half hours to beat adamantoise when i was about 14. I had to restart the fight once halfway through, so in total about 9 hours. Worth every minute.
Nice! Agreed! Totally worth it
Them Dark Magus Sisters😤🤣
Oh yeah I forgot about them. They are tough to beat if you're not prepared
So you understand.
when i was young .. and i couldn't play alot.. angra manyu (or some sort) from ffx-2 took me like 2 hours to defeat
But you defeated it! and that's Impressive 🙌
Whenever someone comes up with a list of most difficult things/boss/battles in FFs or RPGs in general and they dont mention FF XI, you know that list cant be right. And it’s not like it’s only AV and PW. Back in the days, even normal party-missions were extremely hard, like the one you had to do to gain Sea access (against Tenzen, Omega and Ultima) or to finish the Zilart expansion (the ark angels). FFXI was a masterpiece because your sense of achievement after clearing such obstacles were just… out of this world, especially if you managed to do them before level cap expansions, nerfs and so on…
Well said. I first played FF11 on the Xbox 360 back in the day. It was rough but I felt very accomplished anytime I completed anything 🙌
soloing primals with just carby to get them unlocked enough said. dark souls is easy by comparrison.
@@azadalamiq Haha yeah agreed. Dark souls would be way easier
Yiazmat....😂 I'll never forget that boss fight
Same here
I did every boss in Final Fantasy 12. In all honesty I didn’t know you could leave and come back, but I’d be there in about three hours, maybe 3.5 can’t remember anymore
Yeah lots of people didn't know you could leave Yiazmat, save and return. But you had to do it quickly otherwise you return and he's full life 😱
I was in the first group to beat absolute virtue and later the pandemonium warden. AV required hours of organizing and set up, all to get destroyed in 30 minutes.
Wow! Im impressed 🙌
lmao yeah right
It was easy after the nerf. You just needed a few kclub drks
@KubanKevin true, I just hate that it took them 2 years and am exploit to realize that the boss weakness was a poor excuse for a weakness
Penance took me a single Zanmato on Final Fantasy X 😂
😂
If it means anything I fought him legit first lol.
Getting out of midgar took me the longest time in all Final Fantasies I've played. Not knowing English beat me again and again until I bought a magazine with a walkthrough in Greek. I finished the game over 30 times after that and the game never left my heart. What a story ❤
That's awesome you kept at it even though you didn't know English. Glad you were finally able to beat it because yes what an amazing story ♥
Sin ff-10 is currently taking me 10+ years to beat
You can still beat him! I believe in you!
Yiazmat is on a whole level. Also Omega from FF15 I fought for an hour with barely a dent in the Royal DLC, it was a battle of attrition so I just left.
lol! That's fair
just spam the legacy of lucis,
@@zackfair2323 Yup that works
@@zackfair2323 quintcasts may also help
Virtue reminded me of the fact that after Square heard the complaints about Virtue, they made an official guide on how defeat him more easy, but everyone who followed the guide was being punished for doing so xD
Oh really? That sucks. Why would they do such a thing?
@@gamenerdlegacy Obviously they're stupid
@Game Nerd Legacy it was BAD. There's a video about FF bosses and it explained that anytime people found a way to fight virtue the devs patched it. Then the devs made a guide to fight it just to patch that too. It was ridiculous tbh.
@@nobody-xh6ii i dont think he was ever beaten legitly the devs video they put out on how to properly beat it was actually impossible for even the best players(devs did it on lan with no lag and it took them multiple tries with full knowledge of the hidden mechanics) the only groups i heard beat it was using invisible wall tricks which bascially glitched the boss and they got free reign to nuke it down. multiple groups fought it for like 24hrs + and still failed.
idk why so many ppl make things up. no one got punished for killing it the way the devs did....they got punished for using glitches to kill it, basically stood on the other side of the wall and locked him in place aka the wall of justice
Everyone gangsta until they have to deal with last boss fight of FF7 Crisis Core...
Lmao! True
I remember beating Yiasmat back in 2010.
Nice job beating him 👍
The FF15 turtle took me 4h. The "jumping" dungeon 7h30 with no pause. Crazy but satisfying once done. Now I would not have the courage to redo it. Hahaha
But you had the courage to do it once! That's enough 👍Well done!
Ah yes, the jumping dungeon. Took me about 6 hours, the experience was totally worth it.
@@nicholasong2892 It's a great feeling when you finally beat it 👍
Is the "jumping" dungeon the post game dungeon in FFXV called pitioss?