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 🙌
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 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
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.
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
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).
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 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
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"
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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 ^^
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
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
When I first did the quest for Adamantoise, when the land started shaking and it just came out and started going after me. It scared me so bad I had to sit and take a breath for a couple minutes.
@@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
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
@bryangonzales7166 yeah I was around an hour or thereabouts. It was like the final thing I did in the game though so was powered tf up. I don't use guides either.
@@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
My dad got the diamond/rare achievement for beating the adamantoise when the game first launched....took him 7 long hours to beat it.....still one of my favorite moments from when my dad played final fantasy 15
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!!
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.
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
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 😂
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.
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 remember when i fought Adamantoise for the first time, i was majorly underleveled. Took 4 hours to get halfway, i then paused went to sleep, went to school, came home and spent 4 more hours to beat it. That shit was exhausting.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
