Seconding Andrew Ryan. Also, I know it isn't a boss, but I did not want to...engage...with the doctor in The Last of Us.
Bosses you didn't want to fight?
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I do... *sniffle* I do...James Rednok said:
I'll add the noble wolf to this, you know the one.
OT: Kreia is a good one, and I'll also add Darth Malgus from Star Wars: The Old Republic. Malgus was a bro, through and through. The epitome of what it meant to be a sith without the stunted retrograde views of the old sith empire. He saw the empire was withering away. He saw it's decay from decadence and antiquated ideals of purity of race. Survival meant looking to the future, a progressive empire strengthened by alien alliances and tempered by tolerance. If given the chance I would have joined him in an instant. So much for choices Bioware, and this was an MMO, something like that could have factored into the long term. Just another let down.
Imma be that guy... Star Child in ME3. LOLOLOLOLololololololol...
But an ACTUAL boss... Damn, this is hard. Spec Ops: The Line and Farcry 3 don't count as the "bosses" at the end of both games aren't really bosses (Andrew Ryan also goes in this list). Hum, I guess Imma have to go with both ending bosses in DA2. They are both in the wrong morally and siding with one then having the other turn on you pisses me off to no end. Some AC1 bosses too. Sure they are the scum of the earth, but they are doing some good things too.
But an ACTUAL boss... Damn, this is hard. Spec Ops: The Line and Farcry 3 don't count as the "bosses" at the end of both games aren't really bosses (Andrew Ryan also goes in this list). Hum, I guess Imma have to go with both ending bosses in DA2. They are both in the wrong morally and siding with one then having the other turn on you pisses me off to no end. Some AC1 bosses too. Sure they are the scum of the earth, but they are doing some good things too.
Shit, I meant to quote you before I posted and I forgot to. So sorry bout the double post.ceasefires said:
Anyway... I gave that fucker one chance to move and then I gladly painted the wall with his face with my shotgun. I did let the nurses live because they didn't try to stop me.
Runescape's Recipe of Disaster.
I spend my entire week, doing annoying, long, difficult quests that got one or two patches since their release in Classic or Runescape 2, fighting tedious bosses. In the end I gained several Magic and Defense levels, and could equip better armour.
What made me stop playing Runescape for a long time was then, in Recipe for/of/whatever Disaster, you have to fight the most poorly-implemented bosses in the game. Again. Consecutively.
I hate Runescape so much.
I spend my entire week, doing annoying, long, difficult quests that got one or two patches since their release in Classic or Runescape 2, fighting tedious bosses. In the end I gained several Magic and Defense levels, and could equip better armour.
What made me stop playing Runescape for a long time was then, in Recipe for/of/whatever Disaster, you have to fight the most poorly-implemented bosses in the game. Again. Consecutively.
I hate Runescape so much.
Yep cutting kids brains out and brainwashing them into killing machines is certainly the right thing to do.
My pick would be several bosses and encounters from Dark Souls, especially Sif.
There are probably more but I can't really think off the top of my head.
My pick would be several bosses and encounters from Dark Souls, especially Sif.
There are probably more but I can't really think off the top of my head.
Yah beat me to it in your own OP.NihilSinLulz said:
So yeah, that one. I felt pretty shitty about killing such a neat animal. I don't even like wolves very much, but that one was sad.
The other Dark Souls boss I felt terrible about was the Moonlight Butterfly. The whole game is filled with these terrifying fucking demons and monsters that want nothing more than to murder things and tear their guts out. Then this gorgeous creature of light appears. The music is beautiful and soothing and the atmosphere is amazing. And then you kill it. The first thing you see that's not horrifically evil and it has to die because that's part of the quest.
I actually felt worse about the butterfly. The wolf was sad, but the bastard killed me so many times, I was relatively mad at it. The butterfly on the other hand was almost defenseless. The thing hardly even put up a fight, even landing several times and putting its head within reach without even attacking.
Fuck, I forgot about that one.Feral said:
"I gotta try"
"I know..."
;_;
The "good" ending didn't really get to me since Cole is so bland, but damn if the other ending doesn't make me crie errytiem.
Solaire from dark souls.
Yes you can save him, yes he is kinda of optional and you can just leave he there.
But on my first playthrough I didn't knew that and when I saw him like that, kinda possessed and attacking me even after our long journey I just felt like I had to do it.
I just stayed there blocking and parryng his attacks for a good five minutes waiting and hoping he would stop...
But to be fair, I kinda wanted to duel him.
Yes you can save him, yes he is kinda of optional and you can just leave he there.
But on my first playthrough I didn't knew that and when I saw him like that, kinda possessed and attacking me even after our long journey I just felt like I had to do it.
I just stayed there blocking and parryng his attacks for a good five minutes waiting and hoping he would stop...
But to be fair, I kinda wanted to duel him.
Seconded. Yeah, the Heart had corrupted him, and yeah he was as mad as a box of frogs, but I still spent a couple of playthroughs trying to find a way of redeeming him. Poor sod.Augustine said:
Linus and Lloyd in Fire Emblem (GBA). There are others, both in the same game and series, but those two were respectable sons of a respectable man caught in a bad place. I'd trade Viada for one of them in a heartbeat.
The Illusive Man in Mass Effect. I was really hoping 3 would be 2 games, letting you choose at the start whether you want to work for Cerberus or Alliance, I'd go with the one that actually lets you get stuff done.
The Enclave in Fallout. Yeah, they're not so good guys, but I hate the threat of consolidated power under the other factions.
The Illusive Man in Mass Effect. I was really hoping 3 would be 2 games, letting you choose at the start whether you want to work for Cerberus or Alliance, I'd go with the one that actually lets you get stuff done.
The Enclave in Fallout. Yeah, they're not so good guys, but I hate the threat of consolidated power under the other factions.
Benjamin Hornigold
Ok, it's not really a boss fight (you just assassinate him) but I actually really liked this guy in AC4 and I understood his reasons for betraying Edward and joining the Templars.
Essentially
he wanted Nassau to be something serious, a democratic society where there are no kings, no nobility, no inequality. Instead he saw it being turned into a pestilent shantytown populated by axe-crazy guys like Charles Vane or drunken idiots like Calico Jack, only out for self-profit and all kinds of debauchery. He saw the exact same values that he wanted to pursue in the Templar Order.
To be honest, I actually think that the Templars were pretty... well, right in AC4 (well, except for the whole Observatory business).
Alex Mercer in prototype 2.
Not only was he right for most of the game, he was the old protagonist, and a much more interesting character than the borderline racist caricature he was replaced with.
then in the last few minutes of the game he inexplicably becomes both evil and stupid, and that's it.
when I died in his boss fight, I was genuinely happy.
that's by far the worst that I've experienced.
Not only was he right for most of the game, he was the old protagonist, and a much more interesting character than the borderline racist caricature he was replaced with.
then in the last few minutes of the game he inexplicably becomes both evil and stupid, and that's it.
when I died in his boss fight, I was genuinely happy.
that's by far the worst that I've experienced.
Garrosh Hellscream. The first and last hero to reignite any kind of passion in Warcraft lore with me. My character never broke their blood oath to the Warchief, as I stopped playing. The Horde literally no longer exists as all of it's "members", every single one, is a blood oath traitor and is even worse than the boring as possible Alliance and their Lawful Good spam.
It felt great to stand up to atrocities veiled with righteousness and politics with anger and strength. However the traitors HATED the idea of not having a goody goody leader. They hated not being some kind of annoying cliche "We're actually the good guys you know!", they hated the theme that to be anyone in Garrosh's Horde you had to work hard to get it. They disliked getting called out for weakness or naivety.
"Hellscream's eyes are upon us!" Win or lose, die or live. Hellscream was watching us. He didn't care about past deeds or sucking off his little champions. Fight hard even to the death or else. Earn your respect with blood and war. I still fail to see how finally being given reign to be as Horde as possible was met with REVULSION by so many! Go character change to Alliance if it booty bothers you so much.
Not to mention it was obvious Garrosh was going through a growth story arc that was cut short and thrown to the saturday morning cartoon villain garbage tip to satisfy the 'gotta be good guys!' crowd.
tl;dr: I am extremely pro-Hellscream.
It felt great to stand up to atrocities veiled with righteousness and politics with anger and strength. However the traitors HATED the idea of not having a goody goody leader. They hated not being some kind of annoying cliche "We're actually the good guys you know!", they hated the theme that to be anyone in Garrosh's Horde you had to work hard to get it. They disliked getting called out for weakness or naivety.
"Hellscream's eyes are upon us!" Win or lose, die or live. Hellscream was watching us. He didn't care about past deeds or sucking off his little champions. Fight hard even to the death or else. Earn your respect with blood and war. I still fail to see how finally being given reign to be as Horde as possible was met with REVULSION by so many! Go character change to Alliance if it booty bothers you so much.
Not to mention it was obvious Garrosh was going through a growth story arc that was cut short and thrown to the saturday morning cartoon villain garbage tip to satisfy the 'gotta be good guys!' crowd.
tl;dr: I am extremely pro-Hellscream.
The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Never has a foe in a game made me despise killing them so much. You are forced to put her down as it even makes you pull the trigger. I was upset so much from it.
Lucas's brother in Mother 3 if you played the game to the end you know exactly what I am referring to and just how sad and tragic it is.
Neather of them deserved there fate they where not evil or anything and I can honestly say the only 2 bosses who have really hit me in thinking of just how wrong it was for them.
Never has a foe in a game made me despise killing them so much. You are forced to put her down as it even makes you pull the trigger. I was upset so much from it.
Lucas's brother in Mother 3 if you played the game to the end you know exactly what I am referring to and just how sad and tragic it is.
Neather of them deserved there fate they where not evil or anything and I can honestly say the only 2 bosses who have really hit me in thinking of just how wrong it was for them.
While not a boss per se, I was reluctant to have to kill Titus Mede in Skyrim.
I just felt that, as someone who sympathised with the Imperial Legion over the Stormcloaks (I mean, seriously, pragmatic realists looking to keep the empire united, vs a bunch of racist wannabe Bravehearts with no conception of who to fight and why), it made very little sense, especially as afterwards, you get the opportunity to assassinate the contract giver himself in revenge. I'd have liked to have been given the option to leave the contract unfulfilled and it have a meaningful effect on the game.
I dunno, I'm weird like that.
Also, Dante in Assassin's Creed 2, and Fenris in that one playthrough of DA2 when I didn't get him onside and sided with the mages. And what a mistake that turned out to be. Got stuck with Anders the moron.
I just felt that, as someone who sympathised with the Imperial Legion over the Stormcloaks (I mean, seriously, pragmatic realists looking to keep the empire united, vs a bunch of racist wannabe Bravehearts with no conception of who to fight and why), it made very little sense, especially as afterwards, you get the opportunity to assassinate the contract giver himself in revenge. I'd have liked to have been given the option to leave the contract unfulfilled and it have a meaningful effect on the game.
I dunno, I'm weird like that.
Also, Dante in Assassin's Creed 2, and Fenris in that one playthrough of DA2 when I didn't get him onside and sided with the mages. And what a mistake that turned out to be. Got stuck with Anders the moron.
Not really a boss, but basically the entire second half of the "Syndicate" reboot.
I thought it would have been way more interesting if they gave you a choice over whether you wanted to keep serving the Syndicate (or Eurocorp specifically) or go to war with them. Instead they basically give you an origin story and say "you NEED to hate these guys, go kill them'.
Also, agree with the earlier posting on making Alex Mercer into a villain. I'll admit that Alex Mercer wasn't the greatest written character ever developed, but it's a pain to go through an entire game developing and upgrading a character, and then be told "oh, now go kill them with this other character we pulled out of thin air". I just found James Heller annoying.
I thought it would have been way more interesting if they gave you a choice over whether you wanted to keep serving the Syndicate (or Eurocorp specifically) or go to war with them. Instead they basically give you an origin story and say "you NEED to hate these guys, go kill them'.
Also, agree with the earlier posting on making Alex Mercer into a villain. I'll admit that Alex Mercer wasn't the greatest written character ever developed, but it's a pain to go through an entire game developing and upgrading a character, and then be told "oh, now go kill them with this other character we pulled out of thin air". I just found James Heller annoying.