What’s the longest Boss Fight any of you have ever had in a an RPG?
Mine has to be Ordrak from Torchlight - around 1.5 Hours
I was new to the game and in my cockiness picked max difficulty- [Very Hard].
I figured since it’s being made by ex-Diablo developers i shouldn’t have much trouble. The game was a cakewalk until Ordrak appeared
Just to be clear-
Kiting time can be included (but mention it)
No MMOs please
Party based RPGs like Dragon Age, Icewind and the ever classic and legendary Baldur’s Gate can be mentioned
It doesn’t matter if your character beat the same boss in 7 sec the next try as long as the first try was pretty long according to you
And most importantly, please DO NOT include - DARK SOULS (any part) or BLOODBORNE. We all have been there and we all have had those psychotic breakdowns
Surprised the game was a cakewalk to you untill Ordrak. There’s just so much bullshit in it - from non-%WD being total garbage (pretty much why you just don’t play Alchemist as a caster) to insane amounts of damage you just can’t mitigate aside from stacking HP (hello red lightnings of death) to bosses that are pretty much DPS checks (Troll, Ordrak). I for one killed Ordrak in maybe 2 mins the first time I reached him, but before that I had maybe 2 or 3 test characters which were getting rekt all the way till I finally deemed them as failures.
John Bourbon … over 1 hour fight with my first ever character! what a pain! i died like 30 times and promised that I would quit and no longer continue to play! :rolleyes:
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honorable mention:
Butcher D1… took me like 45 minutes to figure out how to kill that bloody thing… had to use the stairs to my advantage!
The first boss from Witcher 2… that Kraken thing, whatever it was called.
I’m pretty sure I spent a good three if not more hours on that thing, with two ragequits. Took me three evenings.
A close second might be the final boss from Salt & Sanctuary, which took me two evenings and maybe two hours until I finally understood how to fight him. S&S is a weird game, bosses are easier when you don’t wear any armor (with a few exceptions).
Do MMO RPGs count? Cause then I have a clear winner: I played Runes of Magic for some time in the past(till it became impossible to play without real cash that was, then I quit instantly), and there was this world boss with a shitton of HP we once killed with a raid, and that stupid fight lasted for 12 hours!! Though I have to admit I had myself replaced by someone else after like 2 hours cause I couldn’t take it any longer, just too boring and stupid
Kaiser Dragon from Final Fantasy 6. He has five lifes and uses some of the most bullshit attacks in the game like Heartless Angel which reduces your entire party’s HP to a single digit.
I think i took almost an hour to beat it and i sweating like crazy at the end. I did beat it in my first try though.
You mean, without counting the retries? If so, then I don’ know, never had THAT seriously prolonged fights, I think.
With retries, guess that would be The Lingering Will (Terra) from Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+ (Playstation 2). Took me about 4 hours of pattern learning, trying, cursing and coffee+smoke breaks to get him on Proud (=hard) Mode
Sephiroth from Kingdom Hearts 1, 2 and KH 2 FM+ had a “Descent Heartless Angel!” attack which worked exactly same way.
Oh and it drained your mana to zero.
-I found most of the game pretty easy. My first death came when i wanted to see whether a trap could kill me.
-This is my kill time from my first playthrough with destroyer. I had no issues with trash till those Dragons showed up that is
-Troll doesn’t seem like a DPS check to me, kill troll overlords/controllers -> kill troll
-Ordrak was a pleasant surprise, i took him out by luring him next to the door/entrance to level. I cornered myself and then tanked him (Frost Shield FTW). I loved it!
That guy’s pretty creepy even by today’s standards imo. I love that game
I have that game in my “To-Play” list. I am close to finishing Ori and the Blind Forest now and then probably will start some old game (RCT 3, maybe) before trying something new
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Counting them ofc.
Never played that one, i heard the developer said the Admantoise in FF 15 takes 15 hours to beat. Not sure if it’s a hoax since many people were speaking about it. Didn’t bother to look into it thought. Not my type of game.
Then it’s Dark Souls for me by far. Pretty much every serious boss took 1 hr before I could take him down. Some bosses I tried to kill for 3 hours or more.
Well, then I beat all my bosses tn timely manner, I guess
(In Souls series, I think there sometimes more time goes to running up to the boss, then to fighting him/her/it/them specifically. And that time shouldn’t count in. My longest in Souls Series would be the nameless king (DS 3), I think — about 2 hours with retries. Oh, and about the same for Kalameet (DS1:PtD) — but I was going for his tail weapon, and got it in the end, heh).
All in all I love a good, hard, variable boss fight (meaning he is changing tactics often if he lives long), and japanese guys know how to provide just that
One that comes to mind is Iselia from Star Ocean the Second Story (one of my favourite JRPG of all time). In time when JRPG had the 9999 damage limit, she has a whopping 3.3mil… she was a long ass fight. I can’t recall how long it took, but probably over 20+ mins (at this time of gaming that’s a ridiculous amount of time for a boss fight).
Here is link to a video of someone fighting her:
More recent battles I’ve done would be FFXIII the final mission quests… battles that would last an hour.
Well, I don’t know then. I was a 4X & MOBA player for a while, these don’t have bosses. Last boss in Torchlight 2 on Elite was damn long because my build sucked, the checkpoint is literally 2 seconds away from the boss so you could just go in -> do two or three hits -> die -> revive -> go in -> etc, but even then it was about half a hour. Wonder why the boss hadn’t killed himself out of desperation. Some bosses in TQ might had been longer, but I don’t remember already - the first time I tried TQ was around 2009, pretty much 7 to 8 years ago. D2 was around 2004-2005 for me, I was a complete newbie and had no internet to find builds/guides/advice, so can imagine myself struggling there, but then again - I don’t really remember. And before that there were JRPG on playstationg which had some bloody hard bosses I spent a lot of tries on, and some of them, like Ozma from FF9, I could never kill. And even before JRPGs there were platformers. By far the hardest boss for me was a fucking drum in Sonic 3 Area 4, Act 2 that was blocking my way. Spent SO MUCH TIME FUCKING TRYING TO PUSH HIM FAR ENOUGH BY JUMPING ON THE TOP. FFS. Hours, literally. Can’t even count how much of play time, and weeks of non-play time. I never felt more stupid (not when it comes to games at least) when I finally figured out the trick.
Completely forgot the final boss of the main game of Titan Quest. I had no clue on how to kill him effectively, i think i died over 20 times and spent over an hour trying to kill it.
The funny thing is that a few years later i replayed the game with the Immortal Throne expansion which actually makes the final boss harder. But i still killed him in under a minute without dying once.
In the base game with no Immortal Throne installed he has to break the statues of the olympian gods in order to get more attacks. With the Immortal Throne expansion he already starts with every attack, making him much more dangerous.
Their fight mechanic is similar to the Three Sisters of the expasion of Titan Quest. The difference being only the Sister with the Eye can actually attack, unlike Aldritch and his asshole buddies where they can attack regardless if they have the crystal or not.
Plus the Sisters don’t put up a Maiven Sphere when around 30% health and don’t heal a portion of their health on top of that.
Cause then I have a clear winner: I played Runes of Magic for some time in the past(till it became impossible to play without real cash that was, then I quit instantly), and there was this world boss with a shitton of HP we once killed with a raid, and that stupid fight lasted for 12 hours!! Though I have to admit I had myself replaced by someone else after like 2 hours cause I couldn’t take it any longer, just too boring and stupid 
