Play 1-2 hours daily, waste all that time on one boss and die. Repeat that everyday until you uninstall the game. Boss defeated.

This is why I love the bosses in FromSoftware's games. You can usually beat them in a minute or two, but it might take you hours of practice to do so (at least when you're new to the games)

That ultima boss fight was incredible

That FF16 Bahamut fight from start to end is one of the most epic things there is

“Do people know the energizer bunny anymore?” Damn😭 am I old?

A looooooooot of final fantasy entries 😂😂😂. Before I even watched I was about to say I know there's gonna be at least a few entries. Great watch as always 👊🏿

Ultima was great, didn't feel long at all to me, just epic. As a city of heroes vet, those hami raids were hell.

The key word from SE was legitimately beating absolute virtue in that time. I was in a guild that equipped kraken clubs on off hands to all DPS so you could outspam him before he could go through his phases. We did it in 10 minutes which led to SE patching him in a way where he couldn't be beaten so easily.

Asura's Wrath is one of the greatest cinematic games of all time. The Chakravartin DLC did NOT disappoint with how nuts the fight was. You fistfight GOD bro.

I remember grinding to get every ultimate weapon, including Tournesol, and getting every character to max level just in preparation for Yiazmat only for my save data to end up getting corrupted. An entire summer break ruined.

This question comes to mind with very long boss fights: "Is this your final form???"

Actually Chakravartin is a Sanskrit word meaning Ruler of the Universe... chocolate bar reference was epic LOL

The Ur Dragon in Dragons Dogma is worth mentioning. It had some online mechanics, but I never did see that thing at low health.

Ultima was an amazing fight. That music keeps you in it!

I used to play Final Fantasy XI and I remember when Those 2 bosses dropped. My god. If I remember correctly when they finally Beat Absolute Virtue by basically having everyone in the alliance (36 players) except one who would have a re-raise spell on them. Re-Raise allowed them to get back up on their own after being KO'd. So when the party wipe attack was about to hit, everyone except the one with Re-Raise Forced DC'd (forced a disconnect from the internet) , I'm not kidding. Everyone in the Alliance was in whatever chat program that was being used back then I have no idea what it was. The dead player Raised themself and told the rest it was ok. so when they logged back in since it was due to an internet issue they were still part of the alliance, then they finished the fight. Square was a bit upset about this to say the least.

Get Clive outta there those fights were peak😭 Also how tf is he taking you an hour are you counting the Eikons fight? Bc that's purely a cutscene with buttons, the health bar only depletes when the game says

I know Yiazmat would be on the list

It's actually crazy how good FF12 looks considering it was back on the PS2.

Nyx Avatar always comes to mind even if its not as long as some of these. Particularly in the original. Phases for days then night queen in the final phase so you get to watch your party heal the boss and wipe itself (yay charm...)

Hey guys congrats on 8 mil subscribers!! You’re doing something right :) first KZfaq channel and only channel I turned on notifications for. Always excited to wake up and catch up on new games and everything. Keep it up!!

Random bonus: 24hr races from Gran Turismo. Not technically a boss fight but making multiple 24hr races a part of beating the game. Almost lost 2 playstations trying it

Darn it Falcon! Now I want me a chakravartin bar. It surely sounds delicious!

Starting with the most satisfying fight I ever played. That final button mash is just perfection.

we always made up stories in school of obscure MMO fights that needed 50 people to fight for 20 hours straight. no idea if they were ever real

I'm too old for long boss battles, I don't have the time or patience anymore.

The real final boss of FF 11 was making your account and figuring out how to actually register your game and play the damn thing

Now those players can say to thier grandkids, "back in my day bosses took 40+ hours to beat".

I'll never forget absolute virtue. I heard rumors from the server that this thing was the thing to beat. I never got a chance to fight it. But it was so hyped up, I always wanted to. Unfortunately the Gil sellers made it too difficult to play the game. And I had to retire. RIP Heiyu.

Good to see Yiazmat on the list.... that damn dragon took me 6 hours to beat, good old traumas... I mean memories yes memories.

All the FF16 bosses were incredible

0:12 yes we know the energizer bunny but do you know the muffin man?

Should do a video on the longest raids in games

Not sure if a full Destiny 2 raid counts as a "boss fight" but some of the day 1 raid races took 18-19 hours to complete

3:35 "Bigger than a galaxy!" -Shows something a small fraction the size of Earth.

The ultima boss fight is amazing and incredibly fun.

But it's fun when we're the Boss!

I played FFXI when it came out and I remember grinding up levels and then once I hit a new level, I bought all new armor and weapons and then I got killed. Back then, dying made you lose XP and I deleveled and couldn’t wear my new gear and I had sold all my old gear and that was when I quit FFXI.

started my first FF game with the FFX HD recently and yeah I am not used to those loooong boss fights.

Yo his commentary was crazy that break me off that piece of chakravartin had me rolling

An honorary should go to Adamantoise from FFXV. I know its not a boss per say, but it is kind of a boss for the hunt side quests. The first time I fought it it took about 2 hours.

The real pronunciation for ‘Chakravartin’ should be Chakra-Varti it is take from ancient Indian title for a king with huge kingdom

Honestly didn't notice the time in the Ultima boss fight, felt like it flew by.

I had no idea there were bosses that take that long. That's an eye opener.

12:05 YES. I watched my friend at the time fight Yazmat for 8-9 hours to beat it. I went over to his house at around noon on a Saturday, had enough time to nap there, and he was still going at it at 8:30 that night.

“Break me off a piece of that Chakravartin” I’m deceased

Boy it brings back memories to hear BtL again. The pure *chaos* of these fights back in the day, the near *anger* that we were paying to do that stuff. Eventually it got to the point where PW and AV were farmable if you had good people, but the absolute trolling and disrespect from SE in this game for its playerbase at this time was insane. By the way, it should be said that to even *spawn* PW, you had to go through an extremely extensive tiered farm of different NMs to collect their drops until you could farm your way up to the key item to spawn PW. You could only hold one at a time, of course, being a key item. The reason to kill PW was ostensibly to get the drop to make a mythic weapon, some of the most powerful weapons in the game at the time (and probably still, considering what they are). PW dropped 1, maybe 2 of this item upon death. You needed 3. The eventual final Afterglow version would cost you 150 (though they didn't put this in until well after PW was, you know, killable).

Xenoblade 3 is probably my favourite game of recent years, and easily in my top 10 of all time. But man, that Z fight is why I rarely do a complete re-play. It's easy to get over-levelled, so he's not that difficult. It's just really tedious. Best strategy I've found is to have at least one of your party members as the signifier class, as you can go nuts stacking buffs. Troubadour is also handy due fast arts charging and burst damage. Incursor or (if you have the DLC) Master Driver aren't bad choices either, as crits are really broken.

Yo love you Falcon and Gameranx... Always look forward to watching your videos...💛

JRPG final/secret/true bosses in a nutshell

The longest boss fight I ever played was The Dark Lord in Doom Eternal's 2nd DLC. The first time I fought him and before I learned the rhythm of it, it took me almost two hours because he healed on every hit he made. If you didn't use that stupid Sentinel Hammer, you just weren't going to beat him. Plus, he has 3 forms that are exactly the same just with a different background and faster attacks. I can beat him pretty quick now but that first time was a nightmare and the worst part of Doom Eternal.

I remembered beating Yiazmat back in PS2 era. I beat it around 3+ hours. The key is to always have Hastega cast to your party.

Hellblade Hela fight, didn’t realize you were supposed to let yourself die lol

You should have given honorary mention to Kojima wanting to make the fight with The End in MGS3 last two irl weeks.

Just to add on the City of Heroes MMO. the Homecoming server officially got licensed by NC Soft this year, so basically it's back again, it's no longer a private server and that makes me happy. I'm also stoked that you guys even covered it! Sorry, my CoH/V fanboying is showing. And yeas, old Hami was a pain in the ass in the olden days for sure but it was worth it.

The Ultima boss has SO many stages, just will not let himself die. However, it is literally god in its game, and does lead to a literal Final fantasy, so I wasn't mad.

"Chakravarti" is a sanskrit word meaning ruler of world kinda, it was a title given to some kings. Just fyi.

MMOs are the worst type of games that don’t respect your time or well being at all. I should know. Played a handful of them my whole life.

I wonder if he's gonna mention Absolute Virtue? "and at number 01 ..." oh. of course.

The reason Asura's Wrath DLC existed was because it was supposed to be a sequel, but the game was considered a failure so a sequel was scrapped so they released it as a DLC.

I remember the energizer bunny.

Malenia Blade of Miquella really deserves a spot on this ranking. It took me 4 hours to beat her and I was covered in sweat and completely drained when it was finally over.

12:35 In the remake of Final Fantasy XII (called the Zodiac age) they improved so many things from the original PS2 version. They removed the damage cap (previously at 9,999) they added secret invisible weapons like the Great Tango (1H sword) and Gendarme (a shield that literally absorbs every elemental damage) and Seitengrat, a hidden bow that had 2x the damage of the most powerful normal weapon in the game. The fact that it's ranged (because it's a bow) makes it even more OP because you can safely fire away from a distance without worrying about damage. Then they made 4 technicks way more powerful and stackable 9 times. Expose - halves defence Shear - halves magic defence Wither - halves attack Addle - halves magic attack If you use even one of these technicks all 9 times, the enemy's stats get reduced to less than 1% of what they originally were. The best part is that these are technicks, not magic, so they can't be reflected or resisted, and you don't need MP to cast them. Then they added 2x and 4x speed. They also removed all the debuffs that used to come with the most powerful items, for example, the Ribbon, which makes you immune to all negative status effects. With all of these buffs, Yiazmat became easy to take on, just long. He attacks using Holy and is weak to Dark (or maybe it was the other way around?), so just equip White Hat and White Robes (which absorb Holy damage and heal you instead) and use the old trick of casting Reflect on everyone in your party (so this means any spell the Boss uses gets returned to him) and cast Darkga on your own party members and watch it bounce off each party member, become 3x stronger (or 4x stronger if you have a guest) and then get reflected to the boss. Obviously, change all your gambits to use Elixirs instead of Curaga to heal your party. If you correctly use the right weapons, armour, spells, technicks, and the 4x speed, you can easily defeat him in 15 minutes.

Switch around ff16 and 7 rebirth my man. At least we had pretty cinematics and cutscenes between phases. 7 rebirth is exhausting, takes for freaking ever, and when you're finally done it throws you into a surprise battle! and if you're not prepared for it, good luck clicking the correct button to restart it without wasting hours of your time!!

The Sniper one from Metal Gear Solid

Where is the FF15 big turtle boy?

My honorable mention is the Dark Lord in Doom Eternal Ancient Gods part 2. Not as long as the others, but it’s just the same exact boss fight for five different stages, dodging him long enough until you get an opening to deal damage. If you make a mistake, he can heal his health back and prolong the whole fight Almost nothing changes in the 5 entire stages until you beat him, it took me about 45 minutes to beat him the first time

Describing Chakravartin as an “angelic Buddha looking guy”. Public education has failed us.

His pronounciation of Chakravartin makes me want to die

13:30 reflect and the fact that spells do not follow the speed bar turn but they get a queue with other spells (making them even slower) is the reason i don't use healing spells i just have one ally with Excalibur and the others with white mask the Gambit is "If ally is minus than 40% -> attack" the attack is instant, extremely fast and white mask absorbs all light damage, excalibur does light damage easy 9999 heal

I managed to beat Yiazmat on the PS2 original disc in roughly 4h and a half, switching to windbreaker armor when he used cyclone, and gambitting so reflect wouldn't be healing it. Took me 7 attempts to work it out, but I did it. Never played it again. LOL

I would love to see a video like this withOUT MMO raid bosses. Like what are all the longest single player bosses

Legend of Dragoon's Final Boss was quite something.

Ultima is probably one of my favorite fights hands down. Just spectacular

It's wild how much more powerful we are now in FFXI. I've soloed both of those fights.

funnily enough Falcon you said exactly what my comment was going to be about Yiazmat, to the point my friend and I would watch anime for hours and go back and see how the battle was going.

I remember spending over an hour fighting the final boss of Star Ocean The Last Hope. I had a healer and had to have my mage set to healing as well and even then my two melee fighters would go down from time to time. They would get resurrected and then back to hitting the thing and over an hour later it finally died. They had to be resurrected over a dozen times.

It's funny how both FFXI and WoW came out in the same year (at least in the US, 2004, XI came out in 2002 in Japan), especially when looking at the boss fights on this list (and other MMOs that came before). Where they had bosses that would last over an hour, most vanilla WoW bosses were, at most, 15ish minutes. And you can cut that time down even further because of WoW Classic and the obscene amount of knowledge players had, it's mind boggling how WoW basically changed what was seen as 'acceptable' in the MMO scene. Square even took the gameplay style and structure of WoW into account when FFXIV 2.0 released.

God, this list made me feel old. I remember the Everquest Sleeper. Good times.

This man brought up the sleeper 👀🙌

I never felt the ultima bos fight(s) took that long

Damn I miss EverQuest. Many years given to that one. Might have to go give some more. 😂

RE: EQ it was not the orignal version of EQ. It was during Scars of Verilous (sp), expansion. This was the first expansion of the game.

On City of Heroes my guild used to run Hamidon raids every weekend, we had it down to a science and could beat him in 1-2 hours rarely failing. Though i had a falling out with the guild so then a couple times me and my buds pulled the Giant Monster enemies into the raid group wiping them and frustrating the hell out of my ex Supergroup (guild)

Warsong Gulch back in Wow Base game, they used to last for days because the bosses took so long and there was the summonable boss/champion The last Remnant? It was a square Enix game that had some long ass boss battles partially due to the union system. FF8 had a boss where if you didn't junction properly, or have the proper magic the fight would go on infinitely because the damage over time would heal and because you didn't have the proper magic you literally wouldn't effectively be doing any damage, I also Vaguely recall Shin Megami Tensei DDS part 1 where one of the hidden bosses had this issue. I think as well now that I recall in Part 2 or 3 of .Hack/sign there were dungeon bosses that took an excessively long time especially if you didn't have very specific things.

If a game has a boss fight over 20 minutes long... well, I'm not playing it. If I want to suffer through needlessly lengthy torture, I'll go strike up a conversation with a lonely 80 year old about the good ol' days.

I really miss the mmo old days. So nostalgic.

The boss that came to mind when I saw the title of this video was Yami from Okami. The first time I fought him, I thought it would be over in like maybe ten minutes. Nope. Solid hour of my life I will never get back. I've made a concentrated effort to only fight that boss on the save where I beat him once before so I have the bead that you need for the special necklace. And it's still a good half hour of a fight with that necklace and a fully leveled Ammy. I've beaten the game multiple times and know all the moves, still a half hour. In a game with decent fights, that one was surprising and unnecessary but also fun as hell.

I was a FFXI player. AV and Warden was skipped by most LS. It was a bloodbath.

Just a reminder falcon, after the leviathan dlc Ultima fight got way shorter because leviathan's eikonic ability is broken.

This is a list of developers that don't respect players, and players that don't respect themselves. I can't imagine doing hardly any of this. If a fight takes more than an hour, it is definitely not worth doing.

Congrats on reaching 8m @Gameranx!

Dragon Quest 8 Draconian Armor quest was an insane fight as well.

@gameranx Please stop making the background of your countdown screen bright white, we get flashbanged 10 times in 20 minutes its super anoying, you can just aply a negative filter over it and make the thext white on a black background.

One day Falcon's gonna get through a video without either butchering an obvious pronunciation or being absolutely blown a way by anything somewhat ethnic sounding. Ninja Williams remembers.

I think a long boss fight would be worth it, if it had some truly legendary rewards.

Love it when Falcon gives these old references 😂

Content like this that reminds me of the dungeons from Mabinogi (Online MMO still up today). The bosses themselves weren't always super long, but the DUNGEONS could take FOREVER if you haven't memorized the entire thing, even if you did memorize them, many of them were randomized so they were never the same unless you used the EXACT same item to open the dungeon, every single time. Even something as simple as 1 gold instead of 2 gold could result in a totally different dungeon layout. Many of the dungeons required LOTS and LOTS of backtracking through multiple floors if you happened to forget to grab a key that you missed along the way. Add on to that the ridiculously slow nature of your character's running speed and most people just said F*** it and purchased a fast mount using real money to run or fly through dungeons faster. Because of how annoying it could be to die in the game throwing money at this actually quite enjoyable game was and still is a big part of the game even today 16 years after it launched in the USA(20 years if you count the original Korea release) and it still has a very loyal fanbase. I still find myself jumping into it every now and then because they CONSTANTLY add more and more content. Voice acted scenes and just gorgeous visuals have become a relatively new part of the game and the art style of the game still looks GORGEOUS to this day.

Oh good lord. "Do people know the energizer bunny?" How old am I if people don't know that??

Not a boss, but the “Verity” encounter in the “Salvation’s Edge” raid in Destiny 2 took about 10ish hours more or less to complete. Complex puzzles.

00:25 Number 10 - Ultima (Square Enix Final Fantasy XVI) 02:17 Number 9 - Chakravartin (Asura's Wrath) 04:39 Number 8 - Secret Final Boss (OCTOPATH TRAVELER II) 06:19 Number 7 - Z (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) 07:51 Number 6 - Kerafyrm "The Sleeper" (EverQuest) 09:32 Number 5 - Hamidon (City of Heroes) 10:59 Number 4 - The Avatar of War (EverQuest) 12:04 Number 3 - Yiazmat (Final Fantasy XII) 13:55 Number 2 - Pandemonium Warden (Final Fantasy XI) 14:59 Number 1 - Absolute Virtue (Final Fantasy XI)