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Ugh. My friends and I recently played through "V Rising" . It's a good game. It's like Valheim meets Diablo but you're vampires.. Because of our busy adult lives we played together once a week for usually 2-3 hours. It's took us damn near a year to get to the final boss, and it was just wipe after wipe after wipe. We weren't making any progress. Like we couldn't get him down past 75% life no matter how hard we tried. We changed our skills and equipment, same thing. We looked up some guides online and they were basically like "git good"

We never beat him, because we didn't want to waste any more of our limited adult gaming time just getting crushed by a boss for hours.

It was such a slap in the face because nothing else in the game was that difficult. There were some tough bosses that took us down maybe 3 or 4 times. But this was just hours of getting wrecked without even getting close to winning. It was truly a morale blow.

Sigh... We switched to a different game, and I guess we will just never finish that one.

I played Minecraft for over a decade before I bothered going to beat the Ender Dragon

The orphan of Kos in Bloodborne. Could never quite get it right, got so close several times but even with help that crazy bastard is just soo fast and difficult to predict. I tried for like a week, 30 or more goes. It really annoys me because Bloodborne is my favourite souls game.

Not a boss per se, but the first Marauder fight in Doom Eternal made me rage quit for a good 6 months.

Still haven't gotten past RoboPres in Destroy All Humans

Starfox adventure final space boss. After taking months adventuring my way through the game the space fight suddenly ramped up. Had no idea how to beat him.

Friend came over barreled rolled instintvly (I had never played the originals). Blew my mind.

Malileth, the black blade in Eden Ring.

I eventually had to summon co-op players in and just sit in the corner and let them do the work. Fuck that boss...

PS2 Shinobi. That game was brutally hard.

I'm going to say pretty much every fight in Sifu. People praise it as having some of the best fighting combat and claim that it just takes a while to learn, but I put weeks of time into that game and it never got any easier. I managed to get past the first two levels before hitting a wall I could just not get past.

Pokemon ZA Zygarde has been kicking my ass. Usually I'm the one who dies while my pokemon are just fine.

I’m parked about halfway through Returnal. It’s so punishing I just resent the time I need to put in to git gud.

I have this really old save file on Mario & Luigi Partners in Time where I basically tried to skip combat as much as possible, and it took me like 5 years to reach the final boss (compared to like two weeks on the other save).

Its been stuck there on the Shroob finale because it legitimately takes you like 40 minutes to clear the first princess and you have basically no one-ups or a useful amount of bros items, so you have to make every hit and dodge count.

I've seen several good speed runs of the game so it's definitely doable, but it requires about 2 hours of perfect inputs, so I probably won't be finishing it soon lol.

Doc Ock in the OG Xbox Spiderman game... can't exactly remember which one (probs for ps2 too). But if you beat it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. I couldn't stand that fight

Ikaruga.

Not necessarily for any particular boss - but I enjoy shmups (Gradius, Thunder Force, Gaiares) and getting anything other than a "c" on a level is work. I've even seen videos of people 2 sticking the game (playing both players at once) and getting S on levels...

Hardest that I've beaten were Sigrun from God of War, and King Hrólf Kraki from GoW: Ragnarok.

Bosses that made the entire game up to that point feel like a tutorial.

The jousting boss in Luigi 's Mansion 2. Guy was a jerk!

The final T-Rex in "Chuck Rock"

I know most people weren't thinking about webgames but I've never been able to beat this 10 level bullet hell boss rush game Obsolescence

Also this puzzle game Color Tiles is ridiculously hard because of the 2 minute timer. I cleared it once but it took me pretty much a month straight of attempts.

Final Fantasy X. Technically last boss has some auto-win thing to it, but the one before that is a tough challenge.

What killed it for me is, the one just before was very technical. There’s a shifting elemental stance that you can come up with counter strategies to, and it felt like a well thought victory.

But the final boss? WHAM, huge damage. And again, HUGE DAMAGE. It became a numbers check, and I didn’t feel like grinding to keep up, so I watched the ending on YouTube.

Undine the Undying.