I actually dreaded d'em preggers slashers more myself just cause once things got all clusterfucky, you just knew one of those assholes would wander in at the wrong angle and you'd get a face full of little sticky things tickling Isaac to death.Machine Man 1992 said:
Bosses you didn't want to fight?
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At least you could kill those guys. Later in the game, Pregnants birth two Lurkers instead of Swarmers. Up to you to decide which is worse.NihilSinLulz said:
I don't think I ever wanted to fight a single boss from Demon's Souls. I had very bad experiences with the spider boss and the tower knight boss, though as it turned out I just hadn't leveled properly. You can trump anything by sheer force of numbers, it just takes a lot of time.James Rednok said:
4-5 posts in...no Sif?
Another few posts in...oh, Sif was referenced in the OP.
Half the thread in...good lord half these posts are referencing Sif.
My choice is also Sif.
Another few posts in...oh, Sif was referenced in the OP.
Half the thread in...good lord half these posts are referencing Sif.
My choice is also Sif.
Its amazing what a little non-verbal characterization can do to what would otherwise have been a meh boss fight. The guys who made Demon's Souls and Dark Souls really need to give the Skyrim ppl a tutorial on story telling.BloatedGuppy said:
So many mentions of Sif and Qualagg but not of this guy?
You monsters.
Other than the Dark Souls bosses I can't really think of any right now. Most game bosses aren't intended to be sympathetic.
I did feel bad for killing that giant blind octopus in TR: Underworld (It's not really a boss just a puzzle). It was just chilling there not even attacking you and happened to be in front of somewhere you need to go. Although killing rare animals because they happen to be where you need to go is hardly unusual for TR.
You monsters.
Other than the Dark Souls bosses I can't really think of any right now. Most game bosses aren't intended to be sympathetic.
I did feel bad for killing that giant blind octopus in TR: Underworld (It's not really a boss just a puzzle). It was just chilling there not even attacking you and happened to be in front of somewhere you need to go. Although killing rare animals because they happen to be where you need to go is hardly unusual for TR.
Anyone here at the Escapist know about Undertale? An indie game that raised about 50,000, when the goal was 5,000. There's a certain boss at the end of the demo, as that's all that has been released so far, that I really, really didn't want to fight.
I'm talking about Toriel, the goat/demon/monster thingy that acts as a mother figure for the gender ambiguous main character. She just wants to help you, keep you safe from harm, and in what may be kind of a selfish reason (Kind of in that it only makes me feel even more sorry for her.) she looks forward to taking care of you so she won't be alone anymore. (Literally, all of the other monsters in the ruins are afraid to talk to her.)
She wants to protect you so much, she will try to force you to stay if you insist on leaving. In an attempt to show just how dangerous it would be further into the ruins. Most people kill her on their first playthrough, but there is a way to avoid fighting her. The game doesn't make this obvious of course. (If you want to truly feel like a dick, you can calm her down, and then stab her, taking her out in one hit. She basically loses all faith in the human race and says that even though you are a child, you would fit in with the monsters further in.)
I did everything she said to do, I went back upstairs and went to sleep at every opportunity, kind of hoping it would be an ending. It wasn't.
Spooky thing though? What seems to be the main villain calls you out on save scumming if you kill her, quit without saving, and then making sure she lives. He knows. (And some endings imply you're the same sort of being he is.)
She wants to protect you so much, she will try to force you to stay if you insist on leaving. In an attempt to show just how dangerous it would be further into the ruins. Most people kill her on their first playthrough, but there is a way to avoid fighting her. The game doesn't make this obvious of course. (If you want to truly feel like a dick, you can calm her down, and then stab her, taking her out in one hit. She basically loses all faith in the human race and says that even though you are a child, you would fit in with the monsters further in.)
I did everything she said to do, I went back upstairs and went to sleep at every opportunity, kind of hoping it would be an ending. It wasn't.
Spooky thing though? What seems to be the main villain calls you out on save scumming if you kill her, quit without saving, and then making sure she lives. He knows. (And some endings imply you're the same sort of being he is.)
This is going to contain a quite major spoiler from Tales of Symphonia so anyone who is interested in that better not read this (old game, but it is getting a port for those who didn't own it on GameCube).
Zelos Wilder. He's a team mate for about 60% of the game unless you go the path towards killing him. He's also one of the most entertaining characters always getting the mood right. I picked his path once for completion which requires an item that you get going this path and his name in the monster list, but never again... well, I'll probably go for completion in Symphonia Chronicles too.
Not bosses exactly but looking back on RPGs or FPSsessess ive played i feel really shiddy for killing so many security fodder. These are just people who are working for the rent & feeding their families.
I can get behind killing if its just wasteland scumbag raiders, mutated psychopaths, or some kind of expendable mass produced punching bag like droids/undead/evil spirits/invaders.
At least give me the option to alternately knock them out with:
Sleeping gas
Stun grenades
Taser weaponry
Knockout with martial attacks
Chokehold
Illusions
Telepathy
Bribery
Speech check [Apparently Naruto's ultimate jutsu]
When i play certain games like MGS234 or DeusEx:HR i always go for the No-kill tactics on humans. Even in Fallout 3 & New Vegas any quest i can i beat with a speech quest or by getting in their favor i just take the opportunity and save me some bullets
I can get behind killing if its just wasteland scumbag raiders, mutated psychopaths, or some kind of expendable mass produced punching bag like droids/undead/evil spirits/invaders.
At least give me the option to alternately knock them out with:
Sleeping gas
Stun grenades
Taser weaponry
Knockout with martial attacks
Chokehold
Illusions
Telepathy
Bribery
Speech check [Apparently Naruto's ultimate jutsu]
When i play certain games like MGS234 or DeusEx:HR i always go for the No-kill tactics on humans. Even in Fallout 3 & New Vegas any quest i can i beat with a speech quest or by getting in their favor i just take the opportunity and save me some bullets
I know right? Astraea of the west is basically renegade Mother Theresa, she abandoned her faith when she saw it wasn't doing jack shit to actually help the people in need. People always claim that hey, "she's sitting on a huge pile of gold and Garl is sitting on literally a mountain of corpses," but look at those corpses, they're all wearing Mirdan scale armor, the church's assassins perhaps? Poor Astraea, all she wants to do is help but fuckin Urbain and his friends keep sending men to kill her. So Garl and the valley's denizens do the only thing they can, protect her and offer her tribute with the valuables stripped from her would be assassins. That is, until a warrior glutted on demon's souls enters her realm, slays her sworn knight and lover, and rips the soul from her body.NihilSinLulz said:
Damn you souls games for always making me feel like an asshole. Honorable mention also goes to Sif the Great Grey Wolf (of course) as well as Ceaseless Discharge (all he wants to do is stop you from pillaging his sister's grave)
Eugh thank you! Seriously that whole scene made me cringe. Really? Youre really this much of a sociopath? I was desperately trying to side with what he was doing until that point. That whole scene was monstrous.ceasefires said:
Assassins creed 3 does something similar. When you invade abstergo industries they send wave after wave of UNARMED guards at you with their FISTS. You have knives and blades and just BRUTALLY stab them in their faces and necks OVER and OVER and OVER until they bleed out. Its disgusting. I really hated desmond from that point onward and it totally turned me off from the assassins. Who the fuck does that. That whole scene disturbed me loads and i kept asking "Is this INTENTIONAL?! That the game makes me a cold blooded murderer in the most brutal and sadistic way of UNARMED guards all with families? And i CANNOT use unarmed against them?". Was a shitty level. Totally ruined the "assassins are the good guys" image.
Also for EVERY convoy i kill all the guards EXCEPT the drummer. He always comes at me with his drum sticks and I punch hum unconscious instead of killing him. The poor man is strapped to a fucking drum i cant just execute him he has literally NO way to harm me.
Playing through Metal Gear Solid for the PS1 I really didn't want to fight Sniper Wolf. All she knows is war, "I was born on a battlefield. Raised on a battlefield. Gunfire, sirens and screams... They were my lullabies..."
So the only way she knows how to end a conflict of interests that are strongly sided, is through fighting. For her it's kill or be killed. No middle ground. Finally coming to the understanding that, it wasn't killing that she wanted, it was for someone to kill her so that she'd be set free.
Just wasn't going to go down without a fight.
So the only way she knows how to end a conflict of interests that are strongly sided, is through fighting. For her it's kill or be killed. No middle ground. Finally coming to the understanding that, it wasn't killing that she wanted, it was for someone to kill her so that she'd be set free.
Just wasn't going to go down without a fight.
Grey Wolf... wait. Okay, Sniper wol- damn it. I'll be "original". In Dark Souls, I felt like I was killing a mad dog whenever I fought one of the former lords (Nito, Seath). It was kind of sad.
The Horde in Warcraft 3 was never meant as an exclusive club for the strongest. It was meant for the weak and disenfranchised to become powerful again in a multicultural empire. Looking back on it all, Garrosh has barely done anything remarkable to be considered for the Warchief spot. Only the weight of his daddy's name and his "actions" in Northrend. It's what his fans love to deny but can't seem to disprove.
I don't want the Horde to be goody-goody saviors. I don't want them to be skinning babies alive and calling it "honor" either.
On that note, I really didn't want to fight Nazgrim. He was in the same positiion as the player character regarding Garrosh's tyranny.
Pretty much any NPC that went hollow in Dark Souls. The more characters dead, the more lonely I felt in an isolated depressing atmosphere. Especially Solaire, the beacon of sun surrounded by eternal darkness. Sunbros 4lyf.
Shame on me for calling out a useless, whiny brat for being a useless, whiny brat. Garrosh had potential in Cataclysm when he had shown some degree of the type of "honor" and some skill I agreed with, even though he was disrespectful to other members of the Horde. I actually hated Thrall by the end of Wrath. In MoP, they threw his character in the toilet. At that point, I didn't care about being an oathbreaker anymore since Blizz was confused on what the Horde really is. They still are.Azkar Almsivi said:
The Horde in Warcraft 3 was never meant as an exclusive club for the strongest. It was meant for the weak and disenfranchised to become powerful again in a multicultural empire. Looking back on it all, Garrosh has barely done anything remarkable to be considered for the Warchief spot. Only the weight of his daddy's name and his "actions" in Northrend. It's what his fans love to deny but can't seem to disprove.
I don't want the Horde to be goody-goody saviors. I don't want them to be skinning babies alive and calling it "honor" either.
On that note, I really didn't want to fight Nazgrim. He was in the same positiion as the player character regarding Garrosh's tyranny.
Dunno, to me it felt like mercy to kill him.DementedSheep said:So many mentions of Sif and Qualagg but not of this guy?
You monsters.
Other than him, killing pretty much all "sentient" bosses in Dark Souls made me feel bad. Well, except for the Capra Demon. He got what was coming to him. I do dread fighting him everytime, though.
Technically, you're the douche for going onto his territory and trying to make off with his former master's items. If the game had allowed it, he'd probably leave you alone if you just left.Mikejames said:
Some others I thought of:
The Dinosaur people in Chrono trigger
They want to keep you from fixing the time line because when you do, you wipe them out from history forever. You basically commit genocide
and,
Ultimecia from Final Fantasy 8
I've always believed that Ultimecia is really a future Rinoa. She became a monster after Squall and friends died. The entire game is a pogo-paradox so by defeating her, you ensure your Rinoa will go through the same pain.