Most Annoying Thing A Boss Can Do.

[Ruwrak]

The most annoying thing a boss can do?




Nothing really... And I don't mean bosses are not annoying, but I mean the bossfights where one just stands and looks and does not do to much. I.e. Seeth The Scaleless..
Easiest... Boss... Evar. x.x And I got his tailweapon as well (moonlight greatsword) which is nothing special.

 

[Deathlisk]

Summoning evil ninjas with incendiary shurikens.... Damn you nija gaiden 2!

 

[Hosker]

Stun attacks can be very annoying.

 

[Hosker]

Double post.

 

[zxcvbnmas]

Do high dmg unblockeble attack that hits 99 times out of 100

YES PUPPET MASTER IN CASTLEVAINIA HOD I AM LOOKING AT YoU!!!

 

[JesterRaiin]

1. Autofire long, boring, badly written and badly played cutscene with no possibility to save game just before (or after) it or skipping this sh*t.
2. Insta-kill your character.
3. Repeat #1.

It happens. Oh yeah, it happens...

 

[azukar]

Be boring.

I'm thinking Yiazmat from FFXII. Fifty-friggin'-million hit points, but if you're strong enough to challenge it, it's literally just a waiting game once you set up your gambits and clear out the arena traps. He doesn't really change tactics or do anything interesting.

Compare Ozma from FFIX. Less than 0.1% of Yiazmat's HP total, but will keep you on your toes for the whole battle, on matter what level you are. And Ozma is (arguably) harder to beat than Yiazmat. Boring bosses are boring.

 

[kebab4you]

Healing, why do you get to heal when I have to keep fighting with 10% health left?! Fucking unfair...

That and having a unskippable right before the fight starts.

 

[Wintermoot]

heal or make itself vulnerable only 1% of the time

 

[Aprilgold]

I can't believe I'm the first person to say this.

Cheap 1 hit kills.

OH GOD THIS!
Want to know what my pet peeves with bosses are, get No More Heroes 2, get to the last guy, beat his first form, WITNESS THE POORLY DESIGNED BOSS FIGHT! I can deal with every trick in the book but just being cheap is mean.
Heres a video of it:
Oh yeah, spoilers, heres the second episode.

Any large boss in the God of War series. They do very little to differentiate themselves from the other boss fights. Plus, all sense of epicness is lost when you can defeat him/her/it with just a series of QTEs.

Isn't that every fight in God of War?

 

[Pirakahunter788]

1. Insta-kill moves. Especially when they have no warning.
2. Self-Heal. Especially when it heals more than the damage you can dish out.
3. Framerate lag due to it's size, animations, or what have you.
4. Invincibility modes.
5. Never ending minions.
The list goes on and on, but those are the major ones.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Bosses in fighting games like doa who have crazy powerful attacks that turn the boss fight into a scenario where you are just praying they don't choose to use 'that move!'

 

[Creator002]

There's one boss in Pokémon White that has Pokémon that all have moves effective against all of mine and his Pokémon always attack first! To top it off, the battle starts after a one minute cutscene that is unskippable!
Rrrr. So frustrating. I'd probably have broken the DS by now if it wasn't my friend's.

But yeah, unskippable cutscenes right before the boss as well as bosses that wait until they're at 1/5 health and then unleash a mega attack that can kill you if you're at half health.

 

[everythingbeeps]

This was supposed to be a topic expressing my deep, everlasting hatred for minions. However, I decided to take a different approach.

What are the most annoying things a boss can do during a boss fight?

My top two are: 1) Spawn minions and 2) heal itself.

Came here to say those two.

The final boss battle of Arkham Asylum was awful, because it was like 80% minions. Wasn't satisfying.

Another really annoying one, usually found in JRPGs, is when a boss has a grossly over-powered attack that it's supposed to do only very occasionally, one that basically kills off one or more of your party, but due to some stupid fluke, does it like three times in a row.

EDIT: After glancing above at another post, I'm reminded of another: invincibility modes. Those times where the boss can't be hurt and you have to just waste time defending or whatever.

 

[krazykidd]

I have two boss pet peeves.

One, the previously mentioned "boss that heals itself." The other, the boss that has umpteen more powerful forms that are never hinted at, and only appear after you've killed the first (and what you thought was only) form.

Wow , i actually love those and would like to see it more often , like persona 3 nyx battle.

OT: i hate when bosses have multiple parts that have to be destroyed in a certain order requiring trial and error to figure out . I also hate bosses that fully heal themselves mid fight to prolongue the fight ( see FFXIII) , also bosses that have unblockable attacks.