15 Most Infuriating Video Game Boss Battles Of The 2000s

9. Seth - Street Fighter IV

There's another fighting game final boss coming up later in this list, and alongside Seth, it just proves how easy it is to crank up the difficulty in the genre; simply increase the amount of screen-filling attacks the enemy can do, and you'll garner challenge through sheer cheap tactics. Immediately there'll be diehard Street Fighter fans doing the whole "Um well, actually if you do this it's easy" dance, which... if you insist, but man, just looking at Seth's programming objectively fills you with the notion that Capcom simply wanted you to die a few hundred times before getting remotely comfortable. An amalgam of every other character's most spam-able attacks, that means you'll have everything from Dhalsim's extend-o-punches to Ryu's flaming uppercuts coming your way. Invincibility frames mean your own moves occasionally won't connect, where other times he'll teleport right through whatever you're doing to put you down - and that's without mentioning his special attacks, which can fill significant chunks of the screen with death-bringing chest-lasers, ensuring that if the game's code wants you to perish, you'll have no choice but to do so.