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 🙌
this is why you use bubble, decoy, and reverse on two of your characters. the third attacks while the others maintain themselves. any damage he does heals them while his attempts at healing them to cause damage only heal himself.
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
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.
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.
lol I remember everyone always tormenting me to help with that garbage because of my kraken club. The scholar helix cheese later was crazy basically one tic of damage and done.
@@gamenerdlegacy Yeah, not even counting the endless grinding you had to do for the stats and the right gear, if you made even one mistake in that battle, he would one-shot you.
@@innakaputra2759 Ahh, no. A secret boss called Penance appears after you have defeated all of the dark aeons. It was in the original Japanese and European versions and the US remake.
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
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).
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
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.
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"
I remember sitting in front of my tiny tv for 3 1/2 hours, eyes glued to the screen, struggling to kill the Angra Mainyu from FFX-2. And Yiazmat took several separate sittings for just how long the battle went on.
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
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
This fucking turtle took me 6 hours. Did not die once, gave up on using weapons and just used the ring. I started the fight at midnight, thinking that it should not take that long. By the time that i was done with it, the birds were chirping outside and the sun was coming up....
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
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
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.
@@gamenerdlegacy lol ty, I also ONLY used Royal Arms, I beat the endgame like that as well. I was literally a glass canon. The amount of times I'd warp strike with the Axe of The Conquerer and instantly get knocked out on impact was too funny to give up. This however was completely negated once I started getting better bangles and stuff to prevent such things
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.
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 ^^
I remember the story of a player who was beating Yiazmat for a long time, having reached half of the life, and then healed it by mistake to full HP lmao.
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.
@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
@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.
@@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
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.
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 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
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 😂
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.
@@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
There was a dragon named Infinity in Ultima Online that would take a week to kill, even with max skills and amazing items..I left my PC on overnight every night while it was fighting him, with enough lifesteal to just not die..
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.
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.
Whenever someone comes up with a list of most difficult things/boss/battles in FFs or RPGs in general and they dont mention FF XI, you know that list cant be right. And it’s not like it’s only AV and PW. Back in the days, even normal party-missions were extremely hard, like the one you had to do to gain Sea access (against Tenzen, Omega and Ultima) or to finish the Zilart expansion (the ark angels). FFXI was a masterpiece because your sense of achievement after clearing such obstacles were just… out of this world, especially if you managed to do them before level cap expansions, nerfs and so on…
Virtue reminded me of the fact that after Square heard the complaints about Virtue, they made an official guide on how defeat him more easy, but everyone who followed the guide was being punished for doing so xD
@Game Nerd Legacy it was BAD. There's a video about FF bosses and it explained that anytime people found a way to fight virtue the devs patched it. Then the devs made a guide to fight it just to patch that too. It was ridiculous tbh.
@@nobody-xh6ii i dont think he was ever beaten legitly the devs video they put out on how to properly beat it was actually impossible for even the best players(devs did it on lan with no lag and it took them multiple tries with full knowledge of the hidden mechanics) the only groups i heard beat it was using invisible wall tricks which bascially glitched the boss and they got free reign to nuke it down. multiple groups fought it for like 24hrs + and still failed.
idk why so many ppl make things up. no one got punished for killing it the way the devs did....they got punished for using glitches to kill it, basically stood on the other side of the wall and locked him in place aka the wall of justice
FFXI - Absolute Virtue. First fight we did took us 32 hrs because we had not figured the fight out yet. I was apart of the first alliance to get through COP and fight Absolute Virtue. Those days were awesome.
The FF15 turtle took me 4h. The "jumping" dungeon 7h30 with no pause. Crazy but satisfying once done. Now I would not have the courage to redo it. Hahaha
@@a2t4r75 Well luckily if you fight Yiazmat you can actually leave, go save and return to the fight. So feel free to take as many smoke breaks as you need
It’s funny how even if you take the time to fight Adamantoise normally, it isn’t a hard fight at all, just extremely tedious Yiazmat straight up requires a strategy other than “hit it til it dies” and even then it’s still hard
It took me and my friends 7 months to beat Nael Van Darnus in FFXIV. The actual fight only took around 10 minutes, but it took 7 months' worth of attempts (3 hours per week) for us to actually execute it correctly.
My first fight against the turtle took about an hour and a half. Now it takes about 3-4 minutes with limit break with rare medal, ragnarock blade, and clairvoyance.
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 😂)
Man even worse when the boss is already a tough fight to win against
Yzamat when he has 1 bar left can confuse ur party member so it can renew on the boss itself that mean FULL HEAL to 50 mil HP
I would kms
Yaizmat can do that...its the worst
i remember Lineage boss fights also toke some time but the funny part was ig you where a healer class you could basically heal moobs back 😂😂😂
Beating Adamantoise is just a matter of minutes with the Ring of Lucii equiped. Yiazmat however, is another story.
haha Yeah Adamantoise can be push over. Yiazmat was a long commitment for me back on PS2 but worth it 🙌
@@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 🙌
@@FrankencteynGamingTV I defeated Adamantoise the "real" way, so no Ring, took around 30 minutes I think. Yiazmat takes longer.
Yiazmat is not as long in the remake, since they removed the 9,999 damage cap in the remake
beat yazmat in 8 hrs. invited friends over to watch, we got drunk. it was epic
Damn! That sounds like an awesome time 🍻 I need to throw a party like that
Lol took me 17 mins 🤣 ff15
Basically SAME!😂
@@JG-lm9zh Nice!
You sure you weren’t so drunk that the 12 hours didn’t feel long? 😂
Yizamat casts reflect on you so if your unaware of it might end up healing the damn thing
True. And that's a nightmare
Also the fact that it has like 50 health bars
Darkaga with dark absorb for healing
Not to mention Regen on itself that you have to dispell on re-entry.
this is why you use bubble, decoy, and reverse on two of your characters. the third attacks while the others maintain themselves. any damage he does heals them while his attempts at healing them to cause damage only heal himself.
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.
That would literally be me.
Been there 😂😂😂
This was me in that fucking Costlemark Tower dungeon lol accidentally warping outside 😭
@@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
Duuude that happens to me too 😢
Kefka took me the longest because I never wanted the music to end
Aw Yeah that music is fire🔥
Lol did you know you can 1 shot his final form
FF6 has so much soul. Heheh
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.
Holy I had the same thought when I was watching this... I remember just leaving my SNES on for days just to listen to it!
I remember me & my brother had to do a whole Roundtable tactical meetings everytime Seymour showed up in FFX
lol! That's awesome!
😂😂 My first thought was Seymour. Especially on Mt. Gagazet.
@@chanmarr8118 YEEESSS!!!
@@chanmarr8118 😂😂 Nice!
@@chanmarr8118I just watched a video where the speedrunner beat Seymours final form in two hits. He beat him in 35 seconds
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.
lol I remember everyone always tormenting me to help with that garbage because of my kraken club. The scholar helix cheese later was crazy basically one tic of damage and done.
Remember the wall of justice?
"For no explainable reason, the ring works on the turtle." ~ Maxor
😂😂😂 Not untrue
That is a lot of exp. Now what you wanna do is go back to the future in alternate fu**in timeline where you have gone Garfield.
@@Theblecquetzal 😂😂😂
only after a patch
@@Ubu90 unless it was only a few months after, i killed adamantoise with the ring only 3 months after the game came out
Ffx secret boss was wild
Penance? Yeah Wild for sure!
@@gamenerdlegacy Yeah, not even counting the endless grinding you had to do for the stats and the right gear, if you made even one mistake in that battle, he would one-shot you.
Yojimbo.
Ultima weapon is the hardest and also dark aeons for ffx special edition
@@innakaputra2759 Ahh, no. A secret boss called Penance appears after you have defeated all of the dark aeons. It was in the original Japanese and European versions and the US remake.
Memories of my dad spending hours reading guides on some bosses. I miss those days.
That's awesome. I used to do the same thing with my Step dad. Those were fun days 👍
@@gamenerdlegacyhaha step dad, hahahajaha😢😂
That’s a core memory of mine - sat next to my dad watching him read and play FFXI 😂
@@cianphillips1099 Oh that's awesome!
My daughter uses my old synth handwritten notes from Final Fantasy XII. She thanked me for detailing how to craft Tournesol
The chocobo lady for tidus's ultimate weapon 😅
Oh that was torture 😂.
That was HELL. A billion hp ultra super boss is far more preferable than that wretched monstrosity of a race
" Why would someone create this!!!" Me tryna complete all the hunts.
There's just so many hunts
Conan o brien got mad
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.
Oh very interesting. That's terrible to get no drop especially after beating a boss as hard as Absolute Virtue was 😱
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
Crazy that someone died in RL over this boss
@@RexRuther19999 😮
You literally have to call off work, have 6 square meals on hand, and play while on the toilet to beat absolute virtue 😂😂
True🙌
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).
@@nickbritto1511 I always found it fun to make day just for fighting a certain boss. That's solid strategy for the toilet 👍
Scree that lmao. I can't be like Cartman in that south park world of Warcraft episode
@@gothxm 😂😂😂
I remember.. I needed around 4 hours to beat Yiazmat with my full team equipped with full dark ninja blade or something.
Gold old memories.
Nice! Agreed. "Gold old memories" I love this
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.
Ah ok. Very interesting. That clears some things up for me. You explained this well. Thanks 👍
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
I remember fighting this thing for hours it sucked and was damn near unkillable
I came here for this comment.
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.
Oh wow! That's awesome. That is a grand accomplishment 👍
The one that I will always remember is Seymour on Mt. Gagazet, FFX.
Nah fr
Dark Aeons 😮
Seymour on gagazet kicked my ass a million times
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"
I stoped playing games,like at all..for two weeks because of this fight... I hated him SO MUCH! hahaha
I remember sitting in front of my tiny tv for 3 1/2 hours, eyes glued to the screen, struggling to kill the Angra Mainyu from FFX-2. And Yiazmat took several separate sittings for just how long the battle went on.
I remember Yiazmat, don't forget to dispell his Regen spell when you go away LOL, otherwise you'll have to start it all over again 😂
Lol Yes cuz having him heal after fighting for so long...Oof! It hurts to even think about 😬
Is there a gambit to auto remove regen?
@@cleangoblin2021 Yeah I believe there is. You should be able to find one with a quick google search
Absolute Virtue is the craziest boss I've ever seen.
Agreed
The thing is Absolute Virtue was made to not be beaten
@@carriestovall8687 the devs actually patched exploits that gamers used to kill him too.
@@carriestovall8687 Hm, interesting 🤔
So what happens when you kill it? I imagine he just awkardly dies and drops no loot lol
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
It was a epic time in history. It's the stuff legends are made of
Didnt they have to patch out MULTIPLE glitches because people kept cheesing it with different methods?
@@mwbwyatt yeah there was the wall abuse, then the DRK burn with kraken clubs
I remember GM’s popping in for dynamis too. Those were the days
@@Mr.Persia958 They definitely were
As Conan said, "WHY WOULD SOMEONE PLAY THIS?!"
True lol
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.
Yeah i remember stressing every time I left Yiazmat to go save on PS2 cuz he could possibly restore his health. Good to know about the Zodiac age 👍
I just 1 staged him on the ps2 lmao haven't actually fought him on the ps4 but cuz break damage limit it'll be even easier xD
Real og remember lamer cheese for yiazmet on ps2
@@seafear494 triple reflect ring Darkga spam 🥰🥰
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
Minerva from Final Fantasy 7: crisis core took me like 2 hours with max damage
That's a tough fight. Well done 👍
2h with max damage ?
limitbreaks and all ? impossible. With max damage Minerva is down in like 10 min
That God damn turtle spent hours chipping away at it and my power went out had to grind again afterwards
Oh no that sucks! I commend you for going back to the grind after the power outage 👍
This fucking turtle took me 6 hours. Did not die once, gave up on using weapons and just used the ring. I started the fight at midnight, thinking that it should not take that long. By the time that i was done with it, the birds were chirping outside and the sun was coming up....
Wow! Now that was an epic fight! Well done 👍
The dark aeons on a first time playthrough are no joke.
Agreed 👍
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
I remember Yunalesca being a pain in the ass because of how long it took.
Yeah she can be a lengthy battle.
the fight that made me ragequit FFX for a year
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
"Why would someone play it?" I never quostioned this to myself but now i'm 😂
Oh! Me?! That Adamantoise!
I spent 2 and a 1/2 hours trying to beat this "mountain!" My FIRST time only to be taken out BY A GLITCH!
Good job! I think?
@@gamenerdlegacy Thank you...😭
Got him my 2nd and 3rd try though.
@@Treysor101 Nice! 👍
Nobody even mentioning Ozma. He wiped the floor with me the first time I fought him.
Ouch! Yeah Ozma, an underrated beast of a boss
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.
The Adamantoise took me close to 3 hours without any guide
Nice job 👍
@@gamenerdlegacy lol ty, I also ONLY used Royal Arms, I beat the endgame like that as well. I was literally a glass canon. The amount of times I'd warp strike with the Axe of The Conquerer and instantly get knocked out on impact was too funny to give up. This however was completely negated once I started getting better bangles and stuff to prevent such things
@@-Mr.Cookie- Haha oh that's awesome! I totally understand the to funny to give up 😆
Adamantoise may take 72 real hours with the nixperience band but that just seems fucking psychopathic to do that.
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.
Aw I give you an A for effort tho 👍Maybe one day you'll go back for a rematch 💪
Does dying and having to rewatch Yunalesca's unskippable 30 minute cutscene several times count?
Yes
OMG!
😭😭😭
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 ^^
Oh that's a good strategy 👍
You know Noctis can equip the guns, right?
@@angeldiaz762 Noct's gun options are limited so I like using Prompto more ^^
I remember the story of a player who was beating Yiazmat for a long time, having reached half of the life, and then healed it by mistake to full HP lmao.
Ultima weapon in ff8 whilst being unprepared is a fucking nightmare. The first time i fought him as a kid, it took me 2 hours to beat
Oh wow! just he thought of fighting him unprepared sends chills down my spine
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.
One sitting? That is a big moment. Well done 👏👍
and i beat it at lvl 1 lately check out the vid😂
"It takes days to complete"
Speedrunners: Am I a joke to you?
True lol but Speedrunners spend months maybe years to be able to beat it that fast.
The real final boss is my boss. It feels forever when working with him.
lol!
When a gaming company knows they have their players hooked to do anything they want
Like playing the game?
@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
Haven't played XV yet, but this kind of makes me want to.
Go for it. You can usually find the Royal Edition which comes with all the DLC on sale for cheap.
@HRTBR3AARION Awesome!
Adamantoise takes me a solid 45min every time
That's a solid victory 🙌
Same, I’m scrolling to see who else did it in less than an hour. Less people than I thought
@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.
patience isn't a virtue, it's a luxury.
well said 👍
FFBE has had some insanely long boss fights without a complete cheese strategy. If you're counting their phone games
That's good to know. I have FFBE on my phone and haven't played it yet. I need to though as I've heard good things about it.
@@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
Ravus from FFXV. TOOK ME 3 DAMN DAYS. AND I WAS RIGHT AT HIS LEVEL.
But you still beat him! Well done 👏
Ravus took you that long???
Ravus, lol
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.
Odin with his fuckass ultimate zenitsuken on final fantasy difficulty
Oof! 😬
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
OMG Yiazmat healing himself gives me chest pain just to think about 😂😂😂
Yiazmat by far. FF12 is great but they really wanted to stretch out the time as much as the could…it worked.
It really did.
I remember dying to adamantoise 6 hours into the fight and had to start over, after an 8 hour fight I finally beat it. I'm still riding that high.
Wow! Impressive! Keep riding that high. You deserve it 👍
I'm 18 years late (literally half my life ago) about knowing you could leave the Yiazmat fight and come back... Did it in a sitting... 😭
Yeah it wasn't obvious you could leave the fight and save. Impressive you beat him in one sitting though 👍
I didnt know at the time i had no internet and only the ps2
I’ve played damn near almost every FF and I would have to say 13 had some fucking difficult time consuming bosses
No disagreement there lol
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 True. They XIII bosses do take a long time. If youtube shorts could be longer they would be on the list
@@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
@Next-GenNeptune Nice 💪
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 is a literal monster in data form
Not even the dev team was able to beat absolute virtue in 11.
Sadly true
Ffx when i was 11 or so and i was too dumb to relize you could use curaga on enemies lol
Ah yes I had the same kind of kid stupidity. Tho they were with FF7 and FF8 lol
Omega Weapon from FF8 took me a while. Even with my party maxed and GFs maxed it was still a chore. Then you just get "proof of Omega" 😅
Haha true. Great job beating him 👍
Talk about disappointment some triple refinement and a certificate I was disgusted!
Sins fin on the boat in the first few hours of FFX. Now granted i wasnt ever attacking the fin and grinding the mobs but still took hours.
Wow! You must've got a ton of AP and Power spheres 🙌
@@gamenerdlegacy all about getting those tidus overdrives early, best place for it.
@@zerothehero11 Ah, I see. Cool, I like it 👍
I fought the adamantoise before the ring got buffed and it took me an entire day, i legit had to pause, eat and go back to it
Wow! Nice job 👍
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.
Very true
It took me 2 hours with the ring, I cried and turned off the game afterward and went to bed 😂
@@Blue_Incognito98 Aw 😂Did you wake up and try again?
My boy penance didnt make the cut (pun intended) bc I guess yojimbo exists.
He was so close to making it in tho.
Everyone gangta till the boss transforms into his 2nd form
😂😂😂
You mean Ruby Weapon in FFXIV?
@@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
There was a dragon named Infinity in Ultima Online that would take a week to kill, even with max skills and amazing items..I left my PC on overnight every night while it was fighting him, with enough lifesteal to just not die..
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 was the Pandemonium Warden that the FC fought for 18 hours and where they got ill. Both bosses were ungodly hard. Shit was crazy on all accounts
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.
The absolute Virtue 😀 I found the Omega Weapon in FF15 annoying but VERY satisfying!!
Nice! Congrats on beating them! 👏
WHO decided that it was ok to make a boss fight that long? That sounds like a nightmare.
Hard to say what the game devs were thinking
He is a legend is why.
@@pipz420 He is 🙌
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.
Yiazmat....😂 I'll never forget that boss fight
Same here
first time beating adamantoise i had to pause it mid battle and go to work and come back and beat it when i got home XD
Nice! Sometimes we gotta do what we gotta do 👍
I banished that damn 🐢! Shouts Arcana!!!
Forgot to mention Pandemonium Warden in 11. Back in the day, he was the reason most wouldn’t finish their mythic weapons.
Oof! yeah the Warden was beast until nerfed
@@gamenerdlegacy he ws not nerfed tech just out leveled
virtue got nerfed
@@bloowri Oh ok
Thank you so much for giving ffxi some credit. Most channels ignore its existence.
I know right? Long live FFxi 🙌🙌🙌
Ruby weapon from FF7 took me over 2 decades
Dazers makes it the easiest super boss in the history of ff to beat
Adamantiose was maybe 20 minutes worth a fight my first time
Nice job! Well done 👍
Penance took me a single Zanmato on Final Fantasy X 😂
😂
Minerva: allow me to introduce myself.
That's a good introduction.
I drained this with the ring for about 45 mins I have hilarious screen shots of it shrinking to comedic sizes
Oh that's awesome! lol
Whenever someone comes up with a list of most difficult things/boss/battles in FFs or RPGs in general and they dont mention FF XI, you know that list cant be right. And it’s not like it’s only AV and PW. Back in the days, even normal party-missions were extremely hard, like the one you had to do to gain Sea access (against Tenzen, Omega and Ultima) or to finish the Zilart expansion (the ark angels). FFXI was a masterpiece because your sense of achievement after clearing such obstacles were just… out of this world, especially if you managed to do them before level cap expansions, nerfs and so on…
Well said. I first played FF11 on the Xbox 360 back in the day. It was rough but I felt very accomplished anytime I completed anything 🙌
soloing primals with just carby to get them unlocked enough said. dark souls is easy by comparrison.
@@azadalamiq Haha yeah agreed. Dark souls would be way easier
Virtue reminded me of the fact that after Square heard the complaints about Virtue, they made an official guide on how defeat him more easy, but everyone who followed the guide was being punished for doing so xD
Oh really? That sucks. Why would they do such a thing?
@@gamenerdlegacy Obviously they're stupid
@Game Nerd Legacy it was BAD. There's a video about FF bosses and it explained that anytime people found a way to fight virtue the devs patched it. Then the devs made a guide to fight it just to patch that too. It was ridiculous tbh.
@@nobody-xh6ii i dont think he was ever beaten legitly the devs video they put out on how to properly beat it was actually impossible for even the best players(devs did it on lan with no lag and it took them multiple tries with full knowledge of the hidden mechanics) the only groups i heard beat it was using invisible wall tricks which bascially glitched the boss and they got free reign to nuke it down. multiple groups fought it for like 24hrs + and still failed.
idk why so many ppl make things up. no one got punished for killing it the way the devs did....they got punished for using glitches to kill it, basically stood on the other side of the wall and locked him in place aka the wall of justice
FFXI - Absolute Virtue. First fight we did took us 32 hrs because we had not figured the fight out yet. I was apart of the first alliance to get through COP and fight Absolute Virtue. Those days were awesome.
Wow! Yeah that does sounds awesome!
The FF15 turtle took me 4h. The "jumping" dungeon 7h30 with no pause. Crazy but satisfying once done. Now I would not have the courage to redo it. Hahaha
But you had the courage to do it once! That's enough 👍Well done!
Ah yes, the jumping dungeon. Took me about 6 hours, the experience was totally worth it.
@@nicholasong2892 It's a great feeling when you finally beat it 👍
Is the "jumping" dungeon the post game dungeon in FFXV called pitioss?
Took me restarting FF7 about 3 times as a kid before I finally managed to beat Sephiroth
Yeah as a kid I restarted FF7 twice. Awesome you stuck with it and beat Sephiroth though 👍
Before guides came out, Yiazmat took 7 straight days to beat.
Wow! Your commit to beat him was impressive 👍
With my magnificent of encoding I kill Yiazmat in 1 hit. 😂
@@yosanbubblegum 😂😂😂
Everyone gangsta until they have to deal with last boss fight of FF7 Crisis Core...
Lmao! True
FFXI's Pandemonium Warden back in the day.
If i could've fit one more boss on the list, it would've been the Warden
I beat adamantoise no cheese in 3 hours. I had to take 2 breaks to get drinks, pee and smoke some weed. Not even hard, just tedious.
Haha nice!
Can’t even go 3 hours without smoking
@@a2t4r75 Well luckily if you fight Yiazmat you can actually leave, go save and return to the fight. So feel free to take as many smoke breaks as you need
@@gamenerdlegacy not talking about myself but the other guy.
@@a2t4r75 Oh! 😅
It’s funny how even if you take the time to fight Adamantoise normally, it isn’t a hard fight at all, just extremely tedious
Yiazmat straight up requires a strategy other than “hit it til it dies” and even then it’s still hard
Yeah Adamantoise is basically a meme at this point lol. Yiazmat tho...😬
What about omega mk 12 in ff 12
@@stephentrader9142 Omega Mark XII is a tough fight
I remember doing Yiazmat when my siblings left for school and just beat him as they all got back 😆
Haha awesome 👍
Adamantoise plus the royal pimp ring and warp points, getting that achievement "tortoise toppler" was brilliant
Haha nice 👍
It took me and my friends 7 months to beat Nael Van Darnus in FFXIV. The actual fight only took around 10 minutes, but it took 7 months' worth of attempts (3 hours per week) for us to actually execute it correctly.
Impressive! Nicely done 👍
Idk man but the longest boss for me has actually understanding the lore and waiting for the cutscenes
Yeah you can spend a lifetime and then some learning the lore of these games. Once you get a cutscene always felt like a nice treat
I knew it was going to be Virture, never played 11, but at the time, feel like everyone in the gaming scene knew about that 18 hour long fight.
Virtue is legendary
Adamantoise: I can do this all day
Ring of luci: Famous last word
That ring is Infamous
Them Dark Magus Sisters😤🤣
Oh yeah I forgot about them. They are tough to beat if you're not prepared
My first fight against the turtle took about an hour and a half. Now it takes about 3-4 minutes with limit break with rare medal, ragnarock blade, and clairvoyance.
Oh I like that setup 🔥
*laughs in EverQuest Plains of Power zone clearing back in the 90s*