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

[Mycanid]

the red dragon from Adventure by Activision for the Atari

Hmm ... he wasn't THAT hard.

 

[Mycanid]

The toughest fight (to me) is the Balor in the Fire Node in the Temple of Elemental Evil. Fighting a Balor with 10th-level characters sucks any way you cut it. Still never won that fight.

COme to think of it those Galeb Duhr in ToEE are pretty tough in the Earth node....

 

[Imp]

Klauth has generally been the toughest fight for me in the NWN OC. I haven't usually gotten through it on the first try, I don't think. Of course, I haven't gone through it with a cleric that can unload 3.0 harm on dragons. That Balor in the middle of Chapter 4 is only really deadly if it gets off a Wail of the Banshee (I think that's its death spell) on you. SoU's harder in general because your equipment options don't seem to open up until very late, but I'm not sure... isn't there one with a bunch of Formians? I think that one gave me pause.

The thieves' lair fights in the Pirates of the Sword Coast premium module are fairly infuriating. I hate it when I have to resort to cheesing doors.

 

[cmrscorpio]

The Red Dragon in the AD&D arcade game. Unbeatable.

Agreement here, that game ate so much of my money back then it wasn't even funny. But I have my revenge, now you can't even FIND an arcade they're extinct as Dodos.

But now that game continues to live in emulation.

I have to agree that is the hardest fight of any D&D game I've played.

Now for my D&D videogame pedigree:
D&D Online: Stormreach
Dragonshard
BG 1 & 2 and expansions
NWN 1 and official expansions
Planescape: Torment
D&D arcade games 1 & 2 (can't remember their actual names, played on emulators)
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2

I'm pretty sure that I'm forgetting one PC game from the 90s on my list, but I know it isn't either of the Icewind Dales.

 

[ephemeron]

* That evil cleric guy who's the foil in the first chapter. First of the many you-can't-kill-him-until-you-take-out-the-henchmen-making-him-invulnerable fights.

They really like that gimmick, don't they?

The Valsharess fight is a good one; I died a couple of times before beating her.

The character you use must make a big difference in that fight. My paladin took her down so quickly the whole thing was anticlimactic. (He also didn't get to meet the demilich at all, so I can't compare notes on that one.)

I'd actually figured that the fight with the Valsharess was intended to be anticlimactic, because it suited the plot twist.

 

[Doctor DM]

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.

I HATED Kangaxx. Out of the entire game of BG2, that's the one thing I just couldn't beat. Irenicus was a pushover for me though.

 

[Remathilis]

The Beholder in Eye of the Beholder. If you don't exploit the chargen AND the 255 dex glich, your toast...

 

[Melan]

The Beholder in Eye of the Beholder. If you don't exploit the chargen AND the 255 dex glich, your toast...

How so? I always killed the bugger with no losses on my first or second try. Just do the Dungeon Master step-dance (sidestep, wait, hit, sidestep, wait, hit, sidestep, wait, hit) until it goes down.

 

[Joshua Randall]

The first time I fought the Beholder in EotB, I wasn't prepared, and it killed all but one of my PCs. In a panic, I backed off and starting sniping at the thing with a bow (and using the sidestep dance as described above).

Unfortunately, I soon ran out of arrows.

Fortunately, you could damage things in that game by throwing crap at them. Weapons. Pieces of armor. Scrolls. Potions. Basically anything that had an item icon.

So, with an entire party's worth of crap (remember, all but one PC was dead), I killed the Beholder by throwing stuff at him.

 

[Sucros]

The three dragons in BGII, the shadow was easiest, silver had, red was next to impossible (but I did it!)

Only thing harder were the goblins in the first encounter in IWD. Took me countless tries.