Bosses you felt bad about killing

[SilverUchiha]

GLaDOS. I got to like her, and she brought me much joy. Granted, she wanted me dead, but still having to fight her made me sad...

Agreed. GLaDOS made that game pretty awesome. Then again, she was the only one that talked so she had to be pretty awesome for the game to work so well.

I would say that I feel bad for Ganondorf of Zelda. Not because I like him, but he deserves to beat Link. Link is nothing special, to be honest. The problem is Ganondorf doesn't take initiative and kill Link before he goes through several dungeons to collect shit. If Ganondorf ever wants a shot at successful-villainy, he has to take Link out in the first dungeon by himself.

 

[GooBeyond]

DMC 3 - Vergil
that guy was just awesome ...

 

[skywalkerlion]

Late Dragon Age spoilers.

Spoiler

When Zevran betrayed me. What makes it worse, is that he got the dual weapon, stab, head slice animation death.

I agree with this. He was definitely my favorite of my party

 

[MuddShark6]

The end boss of Fable 2. It meant that I was bored enough to play more than an hour or two of that crappy game.

 

[Master Kuja]

I liked Credo from Devil May Cry very much - besides his fight being one of the most epic bossfights at least in my gaming History, I found him to be quite cool (in fact more so than nero), and I feel Credo would really have deserved some bigger role in the events after his bossfight, maybe even as a playable character.

Ditto on this, I liked Credo a lot, his angel form was badass and his boss fight in particular was especially awesome to play through, I felt bad for beating him because he wasn't necessarily an evil guy, and his overall death was such a disappointment too, the only decent character or likeable character in that game bites the dust, but at least he goes out in a pretty awesome fashion.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Glados. Seriously, who would you want to live, the hilariously awesome evil robot lady, or some nameless woman (her name being in the credits doesn't count) who never says a word and kills the Companion Cube AND the awesome little Glados orb things?

 

[Amberella]

The Boss in MGS3.

Even sadder when you find out why she wanted you to kill her.

I was about to say this. =[

 

[fer1wi]

I doubt many people will say this (or know the game), but Jasper from The House of the Dead: Overkill. Especially since you find out he only injected himself with the mutant compound to save his sister, who was "forced into a life of vice" to raise him.

Also despite his betrayal I'd also say Shepard from Modern Warfare 2.

Spoiler: Story ahoy!

Despite his cold hearted Machiavellian engineering of an entire war, he was a loyal soldier who felt betrayed by the political yahoos in government who let the deaths of 30,000 go unpunished. I despise his methods and his callous disregard for life but it's clear that at some point he was broken by the events that occurred and he was in too high of a position for his madness to be noticed.

This too.

Spoiler: MW2 spoilers

Shepard didn't want the lives of those who died in the nuclear attack of Call of Duty 4 (Sgt. Paul Jackson included) to go unnoticed. He plotted the Russo-American war with Makarov, but planned to betray him later. This way, the deaths of the American soldiers will be avenged, America becomes the world's only superpower, and he would become the man who made it so.

 

[Jakiller2]

Saddler from RE4. He was the only one who would make sure Ashley was safe without me actually having to deal with her whiny buttox.

 

[Generator]

I always kind of liked Demyx from Kingdom Hearts II (mostly because he had a badass sitar) and I wish that he could've stayed in the game a tad bit longer.

Also, in Jak II:

Spoiler: Probably unnecessary, but it is towards the end of the game, so I might as well hide it.

I hated killing Crew! He was such a cool character and I really regretted his death when Jak 3 rolled around.

 

[TransMando]

Big Boss from MGS3

 

[aceraptor123]

All Big Daddies, and sometimes the big sisters.

 

[Tucker154]

Saren in Mass Effect
He was only trying to save himself....

 

[blindthrall]

Andrew Ryan, hands down. The end cutscene should have been him sneaking up on Jack with a bloody golf club.

Your girlfriend in Prey.

The Dentons in Deus Ex 2, even if they barely put up a fight.

Some of the contracts in Hitman were distasteful, but I guess it goes with the territory.

EDIT: Fuck Saren, the guy was a pussy and deserved his fate. The Rakni Queen on the other hand...I could never kill her. Not that I like the bugs, but she didn't deserve to die like that. I would have rather let her loose and fought her. Extinction shouldn't be done with the push of a button, it should be earned. And having read Ender's Game had something to do with it too.

 

[Raiha]

the boss in MGS3 immediately comes to mind. even more so after playing MGS4. i'm sure there are others, but none that come to mind befor her.

 

[Plurralbles]

Shadow of the Colossus. Those poor roaming giants!

This is the reply that i was waiting for when clicking on this thread. Glad it came up so quickly.

 

[Ocelano]

I know you don't actually kill her and if you have any sense while fighting her armies you keep well away from her but Ophelia out of brutal legend kinda felt sorry for beating her around the head with my axe so many times

 

[happyvampyre]

I sympathize with the antagonists in almost every game, but most notably:
Saren and Benezia from Mass Effect. They both were people highly dedicated to their races and the galaxy in general, they were simply brainwashed by a force greater than they.

From Dragon Age: Liliena when she betrayed me for defiling the Sacred Ashes (yeah, terrible choice of party members for that little adventure, I know, but I wasn't thinking clearly).

Strangely enough, I upset at killing the archdemon at the end of Dragon Age. I felt like it could have been it's own character had it been explored; after all, it was intelligent enough to organize an entire war. I wanted to know more about what went on inside its mind...

 

[Bobipine]

I can't remember which boss or even which game it was, but I'm pretty sure there is at least one boss I didn't wanted to finish off, probably looked cool and somehow ended up agreeing with you in the battle, or simply didn't have a completely selfish goal. Well... I actually hesitated before destroying the companion cube in portal so....

Spoiler

One boss I'm thinking of right now is Zelos wilder from tales of symphonia. You only get to fight him under certain conditions, which I wanted, but when I ended killing him, I was thinking, well I didn't wanted him to die, and why does everyone likes him suddenly? He was a good comic relief I think. Oh! and that angel that falls in love with Cereza in Bayonetta.