Some video game bosses truly crushed our gaming hopes and dreams as kids, and oftentimes from games you wouldn't expect. Subscribe for more: ru-vid.com?su...
The lack of repeated "lists" and same ideas is incredible. Channels like Whatculture and Gaming bolt always rehash lists and constantly discuss the same games or the same sections in games. Gameranx seems to always have ideas or shine light on less discussed games or sections. Been a viewer since early 2015 and it's never a dull moment.
See i like Jules from whatculture but I do know what your talking about it seems like you hear the same list from 4 different people but on this channel it's always fresh
@@MisterChubz and on top of having a good reason for reusing the list they usually say right off the bat that they are reusing it. Love the transparency.
That was for sure one of the most stressful gaming sequences I've ever been in, as a kid I didn't know sometimes you could be safe from him so it was pure terror from start to finish 😭😭😭
The 2000’s was right when bosses were getting more complex but without the quality-of-life changes of the modern day, so often if you died, you had to redo a looooot of work.
@@gameranxTV Easily the worst fight of the 2000s for me was Kamsky from Cold Fear, he hits pretty much every bad boss checklist, mechanics that are nothing like anything you've done previously in the game? check, an escort section? check, no health-pick ups during the fight? check, attacks that are difficult to consistently dodge and do way too much damage? check, attacks that are poorly telegraphed? check, being unable to directly damage the boss making your weapons basically useless? check The only way of defeating him being a ridiculous solution that pretty much no normal players would ever guess in a million years? check. It's sad because Cold Fear is otherwise a really solid game, but that horrible final boss fight really turned me off from ever playing it again.
@@gameranxTV well talking about Prince of Persia I find the fight with Kailina(2nd encounter) and just after that Dhaka to be more difficult than this one(from warrior within). I mean no kidding but I really beat those two guys from the two thrones in my 2nd attempt during this boss fight. They are pretty easy to beat if you are good at rolling.
Wow! That mention of Dead Space and that Slug boss... That brings back nightmares for sure! I didn't realize that so many other people had the same problem, a slow moving turret. At least now I know it wasn't just me.
Getting the associated trophies/achievements for the turret sections were even worse. Had to get through them with hull integrity at least at 50%, which you can imagine on a controller with 30 fps aiming, it was a slogfest of a nightmare having to repeat the sections OVER and OVER until I eventually, successfully did them.
Dead Space is one of my favorite horror games ever, but when I go to replay it, I always DREAD those parts. It could honestly be on a list of fantastic games with one terrible mechanic. The rest of the game is a gem.
Something I didn’t know about Ratchet and Clank until recently is that there actually is a way to strafe, it’s just not exactly ideal. The only way you can strafe is to double tap the crouch button with jetpack Clank. You’ll start to “hover” and it lets you strafe at the cost of jumping. It wouldn’t help much in the drek fight tbh but it’s definitely something interesting that I never found out about until decades later.
As soon as I heard Metroid Prime 2 I instantly knew what was coming… Shortly after I beat the Spider Guardian as a kid my save file got soft-locked due to a glitch I hadn’t realized happened yet and I had already saved. Needless to say I quit the game for a long time but a few years ago I finally decided to go back through the game and beat it, felt very good to finally accomplish that.
I rarely get to comment cause I watch ur videos on my tv everyday but just wanna say I always love the “2000s” related videos - you guys always bring up games I totally forgot about haha
Not gonna lie... it's been a while since I've seen a video on this channel that reminds me that you guys are life long gamers that experienced different eras of gaming. As a life long Tekken fan, I appreciate anytime anyone mentions the franchise at all because it gets overlooked so much. but the fact that you mentioned Viewtiful Joe really shows you been about this gamer life. I completely forgot about that game but you reminded me just how frustrating it was to beat that boss. Great job on this video. Thank you!
Tekken is so popular, it's odd that it would be overlooked by others. Tekken 7 came out in, what 2017? And still has a very dedicated fanbase playing the games (I don't play online myself, but my sibling does and I would watch his fights when we roomed together). Also, I remember wanting to get Viewtiful Joe :) I never did, but that comic book artsytle was, well...beautiful, lol. I have a feeling I'm probably around Falcon's age and wonder if he remembers the first Killer Instinct on the SNES and fighting Idol. Now there was a boss that deserved to be on this list! Cheap bastard hit hard and fast (with lots of "c-c-c-combo breakers!") and could regenerate his health. Attempt to stop him from regenerating and get ready to meet the side of his massive spiked, demonic club (which his mother gave to him for his *birthday*, by the way. You can win Idol after bearing him and if you beat the game with him, she appears, asking if Idol is her lost son Billy, recognizing that club (my guess is the club possessed him). Idol says nothing and instead delivers a blow to the head and that's that. But I always had so many questions, namely, what mother gets her son something like that?! 😂😂😂. Sorry, complete side tangent, but I always found that rather funny). Not enough channels bring up Killer Instinct, lol.
Just started ff10 again and yep Seymour such a good character. Also his line of "so even you turn against me" when you summon anima is a fantastic touch.
Good thing is that u have a turn with your aeons, so that's one battle u have to pump everyone to overdrive before the battle to make that not a terribly hard one
Wow Seymour Flux had me puzzled as a kid. I didn’t beat him for years. I would rush progression and lose every time. Final Fantasy games really make you take your time to level up your characters or you run into to brick walls like Seymour. My first and Favorite Final Fantasy is X and Seymour flux was my favorite boss in the series. I’m about to replay it tbh. Great video btw.
@@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats there was like 3 save points in MT. Gagazet before you fight Seymour. You can definitely go back and train. It’s just you might get bored. I would go back to the underground temple where you get Yojimbo and train.
Same thing, it took me 10 years to finish Final Fantasy X, because I didn't know english, and couldn't understand that each character had his role in every fight. And every Seymour fight was just a wall that I couldn't pass. So every year I tried it again, progressing more every year, but Seymour Flux was unbeatable for me. I passed the game in 2012, after a friend gave me a complete guide, and even with that I had a hard time.
Anyone remember Wizard101's old Malistaire with 100k health and it took a full team of wizards to take him down, struggling at the max lvl? That was a challenge!
Triggered my PTSD bringing up Azazel and especially Jinpachi, lol! Learning to strafe (which, in checking that word's actual definition, I'm a bit confused on how it came to be used for continuous side-stepping for video games, lol) was a must with both, but especially Jinpachi and his fireballs. But the fact that he could hit the move right when you're getting up and it would almost always, even if you were far away, made him very infuriating. Oh, and while I've played the story mode of each Tekken since 3, I'm terrible wirh doing powered attacks, especially with Hwoarang (who only became my main character after Tekken 4 and beyond removed half of Jin's original attacks to give them to Devil Jin. DJ became my second main in 4, but I dropped off in using him after that). Not knowing how to hit powered up hits (aside from Hwoarang's charged up axe kick, which is easy to dodge or knock him out of) meant doing damage was even more tedious for me. I have come to be amazed at myself on how I've managed to beat any video game considering I often either forget or don't know many of the mechanics I'm given, lol.
How about Ansem from Kingdom Hearts 1? He didn’t hurt my experience, since I only played the final mix version, in which you can skip cutscenes, but those who experienced him in the original version, I feel bad for. Given how long those cutscenes are, and the amount of phases to go through with no checkpoint, there was around half an hour for each attempt that went to phase 2 or later, which could ruin your sanity due to how brutal phase 2 is.
I also remember fighting Dr. Nefarious at the end of "Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal" was really hard. I still loved playing those games though, and it's still one my favorite franchises
The 2000s were the best memories in my life not joking, that's because I don't knew what were game bugs or lags etc. I just used to enjoy what I was playing as a kid, Nowadays when people find a single big in the game they create mess on the social media, during 2000s social media was not also much developed for people to create mess 😂.
Right but now a days with the gaming industry being lazy just putting out whatever for a high price you need people like that to fight against the machine or they will do whatever they want
FFX brought back memories. You literally had to get all your characters and Aeons into overdrive mode and hope for the best. Absolutely loved that game growing up!
0:30 😂 same here Falcon! With Uncharted 2 though, I found the tank boss in the town far more infuriating since it goes on so long and is very scripted, so you can run into suicidal dead ends without realising. And the GI Joe type at the end of the train section. Once you realise the trick with Lazarovich, he's pretty straightforward, just keep him chasing you, don't chase him. It's the only one in this list I've encountered, though admittedly I didn't play on higher than hard.
You can cheese Lazarevic, even on crushing, by just standing right next to him at the beginning and he will continuously grab you. Complete the QTE, rinse, repeat and the fight is a cakewalk.
Here I was thinking I'd just be watching the video for fun because I didn't like playing hard games as a kid but then you had to bring back my Prince of Persia PTSD.
Symbiote Doc oc at the end of spiderman on the n64 destroyed my childhood! That thing was terrifying and hard becasue of the camera angle. And that scream he did....that scream...*shutters*
In Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones,I skipped all health upgrades and ended up not being able to finish off the final boss even after I'd learned his fight pattern for the first part.
My oldest brother was born in ‘91 and I was born in ‘01, so I got to experience a lot of these games that I shouldn’t have for how young I was with no help from any of them. And in dead space 2, oh man, In dead space 2 the invincible necromorph right after you stab your eye was too much for my young 10 year old mind. That was a childhood ruiner. That and anything on new grounds in the 2000s
Such a great story, reminds me of the moment I first played the original Resident Evil 3 (in my early teenage years) at my neighbours place (with their son of the same age, born in ‘88 and ‘89) and meeting the Nemesis for the first time was such a creepy thrill back then...
This channel never misses bruh. I tune in to every single video cuz you guys are just fucking awesome. Content is always fresh and never ever feels like a bore to watch. Keep up the great work guys. You make gaming culture a blast
I’ve been playing video games since the Pong machine was the only console! I’ve owned every major console and a few not so well known. You name a single player game and I’ve likely played it! That being said, the strongest and most difficult bosses were definitely in the early to mid 2000’s! Also the most unique, experimental, creative and well written games came out in these years! Who else would absolutely love to see an Advent Rising sequel?!
Ok I came up in the late 80's early 90's so I remember the days of dying on a final boss and having to play the entire game again. However the most frustrating boss I clearly remember is the small From Studio game for the PS2 Eternal Ring. It wasn't even the boss that was so bad, it was that before fighting him you where forced to watch a 20 minute cut scene with the boss talking about baby birds or some silly nonsense. I died about 20 times in that fight, which means I had to watch that freaking cut scene 20 times!!!! I had a friend sitting with me and he would just look at me and scream "BABY BIRDS!" It was rough.
The One Bossfight that really got me furious was Sepharoth from kingdom hearts two. I was 15 years old. He was difficult in the first game but he was even worse in the second game! It took me a whole summer to defeat him! Thankfully I was able to craft the ultimate weapon and That really helped me lol 😆
@@andyrockhampton3032 if I recall correctly I think I was level 60 when I fought him with the ultimate weapon. Before that I was using oblivion and that did not work at all!
i love how SE essentially knew what they were doing with both Seymour and Yunalesca, having that super long cutscene right before essentially the hardest newbie fight thus far, just knowing that you're going to be seeing it a fair amount of times.
I do hope they remaster the original Dead Space trilogy. Now yes, the 3rd game is debatable. But it was still an enjoyable experience. I would love to experience Dead Space again on the new updated consoles.
There is actually a full-on remake of the original coming, unfortunately it's only going to be on next-gen consoles so those of us that aren't willing to pay scalpers an arm and a leg are SOL.
@Old Man Jones Strikes Again With Vengeance not everyone has money or time to go buy old consoles man. Why do all the movies get preserved but not games? That's dumb as fuck and eventually we're going to have to solve this problem. Why can we watch classic movies from the 1940s to this day but somehow it's hard to find games from 20 years ago unless you find other ways. Silent Hill 2 should be on every console and it's original version but nope 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
Y'all are the best...I never miss a list by Gameranx. P.S. When you hit 7M subs, Jake mentioned how it was unfathomable that you could get more than that. Well, I literally saw your subs go from 7.06 to 7.07 WHILE WATCHING THIS VIDEO. Keep up the good work!
Princess Shroob's older sister in Mario and Luigi: Partners in time haunted me a lot, always survived for 30 minutes against her but always ended up losing, but eventually when I played years later the game from the beginning I got my revenge and completed the game cuz this was back then the only game I couldn't complete when I used completed them to the point where there wasn't anything left to do
Seymour Flux finally getting some recognition - I remember him wrecking my shit all those years ago. The rest of the game is pretty straightforward then you come up against him, and Yunalesca not long afterwards who is arguably even tougher. Seymour Flux and Yunalesca were a real sudden difficulty spike
The Yunalesca fight in FFX gave me a ton of grief last time I played. I must’ve spent 2 hours on it because the fight was basically a stalemate the my party’s levels. I did go on the get the platinum trophy in January 2022 and Zanmato Penance and Nemesis lol
Played it as a kid & couldn't beat it even on 3 playthroughs. Bought the switch version & maxed the sphere grids then smoked every boss in the game... So satisfying lol
So, you went through the trouble of completing EVERY sphere grid, filling every node, and then went on to cheese the last two bosses that could actually put up a fight. Like training for an MMA match for a few years, and then headshotting your competitor with a sniper rifle as they enter the ring. LOL!!!
@@thegamingmummy4382Despite having an absurd amount of HP, the Yiazmat boss fight is forgiving since you can return to a save point mid fight. I still enjoyed it a lot tho. I personally think that Omega and Zodiark were tougher to beat.
Not only did the first Ratchet and Clank lack strafing, but if memory serves me you couldn't pause while choosing your weapons either. That game was a trip.
By 'original' do you mean NES or Xbox? Never played the NES one but as a kid that nunchaku guy was the absolute worst. Not too bad on later playthroughs, but for a first timer definitely one of my hardest boss battles
Hah. For Azazel I remember setting the matches to 1 round, time to 30 seconds, getting a hit in and then blocking for the rest of the match to unlock each character's endings in arcade mode. Fun times.
That's pretty big-brained and I wish I had thought of that, lol. I think I only ever beat him with a small amount of characters because of how infuriating he was (and I was on a PSP, so a much smaller screen).
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Oh, I used to play it on the PSP too! The game looked surprisingly good despite being on that handheld. I had some really nice memories with my PSP, wish I never gave it to my cousin lol.
@@azeem1597 Aside from the loud, mechanical whirring from the UMD games (I think they were called), I agree, lol. I had a silver one, which I remembered wanting specifically in prepararion for Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. Went to Gamestop to get one and when I asked for a silver one, the guy instead showed me a black one with Madden bundled with it. I told him no, I want the silver one. He gave this sort of annoyed sigh and rolled his eyes, reaching back under the counter while saying, "Only silver ones we have are for Kingdom--" My surpressed but still loud squealing drowned out everything else he was about to say, lol. The very color PSP I wanted, bundled with the very game I wanted?! Christmas had come early, lol. But screw that guy for nearly making me miss out on buying it because of his own biases. Favorite game I had on the console though was Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7. Love that it's had a resurgence in popularity, thanks to FF7 Remake.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Ah, mine was second-hand black version, came with pirated software and games. Had someone teach me how to download games into it, so I never had any experience with the UMDs, but those tiny discs looked cute. Also I feel like I need to say this, but yeah, I know piracy is bad, I pay for my games now. That was a long while ago back when I was still a kid. Also Birth by Sleep and Crisis Core. 🥺 I'm replaying through all the KH games in preparation for 4 and I've forgotten most of what happens in BBS, will be a really nice nostalgia trip. Both of those games were also my favorites. Was a really big fan of turn-based JRPGs on the PSP, some of them being Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, Persona 3 Portable, Valkyria Chronicles, Disgaea and the Ys series. I wish I could replay some of these games but I don't think I can fit them in my schedule right now..
I laughed when that fight in Prince of Persia came up on this list, because that fight is pretty much the only time I have ever truly ragequit and stopped playing a game. I have never done that before or since.
Missed that Era of video games. Stopped with super nintendo but picked back up with ps4 once the kids were older. Now they're grown and living on their own so I can game all day
If you between 23 and 30 you had the best childhood, gaming just felt different back then halo 3 ,crysis bo2 nfs underground the list goes on ..gaming was just better back then and I don’t know why😂
jinpachi made me quit tekken altogether, i curse him until this very day.. replaced tekken with bloody roar, a nice trade i must say! the bosses from prince of persia weren't too bad. all the rest, never played nor heard of them before.
Haha! I feel your pain. As a casual Tekken fan, that fight was one of those that made me swear like a sailor, lol. Azazel was also awful but I don't think I found him as difficult as Jinpachi.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley how do you beat this bastard? ... my only way is to not fight him PERIOD! jinpachi WILL stun 90% of your attacks with his cursed ground kick, the rest of the 10%? he'll throw fire ball at you taking 50% of your health meter, and if he's being a little bit "kind to you" he hugs you with his claws stealing your hp to his own! the number of times he instantly PERFECTED me are countless, and they always ended with me merely turning off the ps2. jinpachi is a CHEAT boss, don't care whether you MASTERED the combos, you only attack with unblock able attacks, special attacks, NOTHING MATTERS! i tried to even have a full GUARD strategy ... 2 FIRE BALLS and he defeated me within 2 seconds of the battle! i DO NOT CARE HOW MANY TIMES OTHERS DEFEATED HIM. he's a CHEAT boss, given GOD MODE 99.9% of the time, the 00.01% is when the game looks DOWN on you like the PATHETIC LITTLE WORTLESS FLEA YOU ARE AS THE PLAYER ONE, FROM THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN WHERE HIHACHI THREW KAZUYA and spits into your face, saying "okay, you may win... and finish your character's story THIS TIME ONLY. so i simply showed the game 4 flipped birds with my hands and feet, and said, fuck you too! and simply quit it! i will never again play ... frankly anything tekken, YES the grudge i built IS THAT BAD. i no longer care about the story or the series anymore. same as when MK was nerfed, i quit it.
@@TrueInvisible 😂😂😂😂 Maybe one of those pitied victories is how I beat him, lol. I probably stopped though after winning with Jin and Hwoarang, the only two who I care the most for.
Fun fact: the first decade of this millennium broke decade-based patterns, so it has its own name too: the aughts. Also many, if not most, of us here are around Baldino's age ("core" Millennials, so late twenties to early/mid thirties, and he was born circa 1989-91 iirc - maybe Falcon too)? Chances are the marquee game here (Dead Space; the game being used for the thumbnail) is from a specific time - late aughts - in which many of us were straight up adults. I was 21 for most of 2008, for instance. People a little younger were teens. And no, I don't wanna hear some stuff about "there are younger people here too." Obviously. I was once the kid, teen and "yuppie" on the 'net too -- long enough ago that my [childhood] time predates the internet boom and hearkens back to an age where we properly called these cyberspace places as websites on the worldwide web (and that a web user was said to be "surfing the net/web" when browsing it). If left up to the lot of you and the corporations who simultaneously pander and try to indirectly govern our lives, twenty-somethings and teens would be the *only* relevant voices on the *Web.* My pointing out being 21 in 2008 is clap back against our inadvertent ageism, which is favouring the youngest and allowing the somewhat oldest to "rule the roost," but drowning out the voices of people in the prime position between super young and old - those of us who are ~30-35 to 50.
During my playthrough of FFX, when I got to the Seymore Flux boss fight, the first move I did was to summon Yojimbo. And the first attack he does is the Zanmato, killing Seymore instantly. So for me the fight was over in 1 turn. Honestly I had mixed feelings about that, cause on the one hand, easy win, but on the other hand I think I kinda missed out on an intended experience.
@@TheTerribleIvan not that really hard to do. veterans of FF games know about grinding and exploring. The only FFX Bossfight i had issues with was Jeckt at the end, because i power leveled all the time.
I knew it was weird when I got to number 2 and Final Fantasy hadn't been mentioned. THANK YOU! Seymour Flux literally stopped me dead in my tracks as a kid and only ended up beating the game a few years later with a guide in my early teens haha.
"..Many of us were young and just getting into videogames..." Me (a 40 year old who's first boss of note was ED 209 on level 1 of Robocop on the Atari ST in 1988) I too remember being young once! I think.....
The 80s were my childhood so I remember the beginning of the PC gaming Culture, the Console gaming Culture, etc... So many great games with bosses that just drove us bananas.
God, I felt like such a genius after the 6th time fighting Seymour flux when I just went on an hour grind to get every one and every aeon to full Ult bars. It was absolutely satisfying to see it all whittle the bastard down. Great list as always, y’all!
Dead Space 2 was when I was around 13 - 15 and I recall the only time I didn't get " mad " and just fight back was when the Ubermorph comes out right after you have to stab a needle in your eye. Even then, if I recall right - he's already chased you a tiny bit before that and then busts into the room right after you're done unlocking Isaac's memories of the marker.
Seymour Flux was one of those that I really, really hated. However, in the recent years that I've played it, I grind a lot more where fighting the Ronso brothers at the base are a clear indication if I can take out Flux. Kimahri himself is a beast, so I'd make sure everyone in the party was relatively grinded as much.
Honestly for me with FF10 Seymour was actually pretty easy. It was lady Yunalesa that always annihilated me lol. Ironically after grinding ( years later when I restarted the game) I was able to get Khamari to have a Zombie Proof accessory, so he would survive and resurrect the party. The downside was he was my weakest party member lol.
For me, it was the final 3 bosses from Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks. I've never beaten them as a child, so I decided to emulate the game last year and it took me 4 hours to finally beat my childhood trauma.
As soon as a gameranx video starts I pray that falcon is talking that video. His humor is much needed especially after a rough day at work. Sorry Jake not hard feelings it’s just perspective😂😂😂
