What do you think is the hardest AD&D or D&D video game fight?

[Rvdvelden]

As far as I can remember I had he hardest time killing the Drizzt party in BGII. You come across them in the woods IIRC and can tempt them into a fight, but it was freakin' hard. I found it very funny that later on Elminster is going after you if you decide to keep their special armour/weapons. He eventually casts imprisonment on you (automatic game over).

 

[Numion]

As far as I can remember I had he hardest time killing the Drizzt party in BGII. You come across them in the woods IIRC and can tempt them into a fight, but it was freakin' hard. I found it very funny that later on Elminster is going after you if you decide to keep their special armour/weapons. He eventually casts imprisonment on you (automatic game over).

My friend found a bend on a river that Drizzt can't cross. So drizzt is stuck in the bend on other side of the stream while you pepper him with arrows. Takes a long time, but he will die with no risk to you.

 

[Felnar]

hardest fight?
memory's a bit fuzzy on it but in NWN there was a old keep with a big demon in it
my DR items kept me from getting hurt, but the demons DR 20(?) meant i only hurt him on a max damage critical hit, and even then for only ~2 dmg

i could hardly sit thru that it was so painful.
i just set myself on attack and went to watch a movie

 

[diaglo]

the red dragon from Adventure by Activision for the Atari

 

[Kralin Thornberry]

In Pools of Darkness, there was the fight inside Moander. I don't think I have EVER gotten past that.

In in the Dark Queen of Krynn, the fights w/ the wizards that are behind the draconians, basically get me 50% of the time (stupid delayed blast fireball).

 

[Melan]

as I stated in another thread the Mulmaster Beholder Corps in Curse of the Azure Bonds. it was a side quest that was nigh impossible. basically it was your 6 PCs versus about 20 of each of Beholders, Dark Elf Lords (self hasting and mostly immune to magic), High Priests (lots of Save or Die and charm magic) and Rakshasa (fireball crazy but vulnerable to the blessed crossbow bolt).

The optional fight with the dragons atop a tower in the same game gets my vote, but the MBC was also hard as hell. I never succeeded without at least three or four PCs killed.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

In Pools of Darkness, there was the fight inside Moander. I don't think I have EVER gotten past that.

Is that the sequence with the Drow and all of their [bleep]ing poison attacks?

Can I nominate a sequence? Whatever the sequence is in Pools of Darkness with the Drow gets my vote. I can get past any single fight okay, but then the next one comes along and I lose half of my party to insta-kill poison.

My vote for the single hardest fight is in the BG2 expansion against the wizard that turns into a dragon half-way through the fight. After your party severly beats up this wizard he changes into (his natural form if I remember a correctly) a dragon and then all heck breaks loose. At that point a massive Dispel Magic goes off (destroying all buff spell prep work) and is followed by dragon fear affects and is finished with a buffet of confusion, hold person/monster, charm and domination spells.

Any prep work I did before the fight gets destroyed from the Dispel Magic and after my massive cheating and dropping the difficulty down to the lowest level it still took multiple attempts before I had a party member survive his dominated companions long enough to take out the dragon.

Edited to add: And the fact that even after giving up and cheating in multiple ways I would think that I was doing something massively wrong in that fight. I later looked at the guide book that a friend of mine picked up and - nope; no indication that I missed something. Just a statement that said 'this fight could be tough' or something along those lines.

 

[Kem]

There is an extra Dungeon after the main story in Pools of Darkness.

It has you fight every single boss from the game in one fight. And also has you fight them each singly while not having a certain kind of attack. Like Magic.

 

[Nepenthe]

Any prep work I did before the fight gets destroyed from the Dispel Magic and after my massive cheating and dropping the difficulty down to the lowest level it still took multiple attempts before I had a party member survive his dominated companions long enough to take out the dragon.

Edited to add: And the fact that even after giving up and cheating in multiple ways I would think that I was doing something massively wrong in that fight. I later looked at the guide book that a friend of mine picked up and - nope; no indication that I missed something. Just a statement that said 'this fight could be tough' or something along those lines.

Well, he definitely is a toughie, but it just shows that you have to be able to buff on the run, as it were. Of course, both times I've played through ToB (yes, just two, long story), I think I've had a sorcerer in my party; the flexibility you get from one pretty much makes a lot of really tough encounters more bearable.

My friend found a bend on a river that Drizzt can't cross. So drizzt is stuck in the bend on other side of the stream while you pepper him with arrows. Takes a long time, but he will die with no risk to you.

You guys are talking about different games, btw.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Probably a tie between Kangaxx (the demilich in Baldur's Gate II) and the Balor in ToEE. Took me a number of attempts both times. Kangaxx's "imprisonment" ability is just insanely annoying, until you release the (few) ways in which you can make your fighters immune to it.



***SPOILER***



Demogorgon from BG2 isn't so hard, if you have the right tactic. Send in two good fighters with the "whirlwind attack" ability (which you can select multiple times at high level). I've played through BG2 (incl. expansion) at least six times, and never had to reload on this battle. Poor old Demogorgon goes down in less than 15 seconds with enough whirlwind attacks on him.

Yep. Some hasted WW attacking fighters will mow Demogorgon down quick. I was dissapointed in how easy I whipped him, but my characters were total twinks too.