Your Favorite Boss Battles of All Time?

[lestatdark]

2000cc said:
Yiazmat (final hunt) in Final Fantasy XII, It took me 18 hours 20 mins (to beat him alone) but the last few hours when he is in critical at double level (Level 150 ish I believe) taking only 2/3rds damage and killing a (lev 99 with ultimate equipment) party member almost every hit is just epic, such an intense fight.

Plus add the hardest monster from any given monster hunter game in here, their toughest is always a blast regardless of the monster hunter game/version. But that basically IS why anyone plays the game

Speaking of which I need to buy a Japanese 3ds so I can get M.H 3G....

Oh dear...18 hours? And I thought I took it the slow way by taking 5 hours on my first attempt (later, with the proper gear for a 3-party, managed to get it under 90 minutes) xD. I bet solo-ing would be harder (and thus longer), but it would also be a big matter of chance since he starts spamming Death Strike after he's down to 60% of his total health and even with proper gear, the probability is still high (25% chance of it connecting).

Omega Mk. II Solo or Zodiark Solo on the other hand...now those would be some pretty insane fights

OT - My favourite boss battle of all time is probably the secret boss of Parasite Eve, Maya. Nothing could prepare you for that fight (both in context for the history of the game and the sheer difficulty of it), even though you had gone through boss battles on the Chrysler Building that made both Eve and Ultimate Being look like child play (especially the Queen Bee and Cockroach bosses).

But Maya...Maya was in a whole different level:
- Able to combo you to death easily if you didn't have an armour rating of over 200 (which was only achievable if you carefully fused armours through two entire gameplays).
- Able to put every status effect on you in every hit of the combo (thus you needing to also fuse armours carefully to have 8 slots for status protections).
- You could barely do over 100 damage to her if you didn't have a weapon with over 400 attack (this was almost impossible to get if you didn't went through the extremely tedious job of gathering 300 Junk pieces for forging one of the ultimate weapons, the AK-47 for me).
- Couple that with her 40000+ HP stat and the ability to heal for multiples of x000 each time you hit her when a fac-simile doll of her was on screen (hit her enough times and you'll heal her for 9000 HP a piece, which was basically gameover for you)
- And if that wasn't enough, she could do an Energy Shot type of attack that was instant death, no matter your protections or HP, after she was under 50% of her total HP and that attack took 90% of the screen size (you could only dodge it by staying so close to Maya you could smell her).

Basically she's like the mother of any superboss I've ever faced xD. She needed Two playthroughs of careful and planned preparation and even that was not enough to guarantee your survival of the Chrysler building itself, much less victory in that battle.

Unfortunately, couldn't find any youtube videos of the fight which aren't either someone overlevelled to 99 (which takes an absurd amount of time to do in this game, over 100 hours of fighting to get from 37 to 40, or via cheating device) or someone who has cheated his/her weapon&armour stats to godly stats, which are impossible to get in EX Mode 1.