The best and worst final boss?

[Crayven]

I dont know about best, but one of the better bosses i faced was in wow, Scourgelord Tyrannus. at the end of a instance. He was so smug and it was so cool. It was a shame he was had a small part.

Worst has got to be Fable 2s last boss. I hit, I mean come on.

 

[Ando85]

The final boss of Xenogears was pretty amazing to me. The music was epic and reaching the climax of this masterpiece of a game was incredible. Also the fact that you are basically fighting God.

I've noticed that a lot of times the end boss of JRPGs are just some easily forgettable mutated blob of some sort. I can run a lot of JRPGs in my head and hardly even remeber what the majority of the final bosses even looked like. I'll never forget the end of Xenogears though.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Best; RAAM from Gears of War because he made me shit my pnts and realize How tiny I was and SHODAN from System Shock 2 hands down.

Worst; The last boss from the first Bioshock. It was an amazing game but the ending boss was horrible.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Some bests: RAAM from GoW especially on Insane difficulty. I needed a 2nd player to help me win
Duke Nukem Forever: Rather redundant, but cool with all the shit going on around you.
FFVII and FFVIII: Extremely satisfying given how epic they are.

Worsts: Kintaro in MK2. Any boss that you need to cheat or use BS attacks to beat is NOT well designed.
Devil in GH3: Too goddamn cheap and difficult of a duel song. To this day I still can't beat the fucker on Hard difficulty.
InFamous: Too goddamn long and redundant. It's like trying to trim your pubes with tweezers. And it's not even that challenging.. just long!

 

[teisjm]

Best: Probably ganon(dorf) eithe in OOT or TP

Worst, discounting stuff that isn't really boss fights like MW1
I'd go with bayonetta (for games i've played at least) I was suprised to see it on bestseveral times throughout the thread.
I was so frustrated by the size of jubileus and that the fight was set in a sphere, half the time, i couldn't see shit, cause of the camera, and the above mentioned factors, but at least it had check points durring the fight.
The fact that you threw a god into a sun doesn't redeem it for me, cause it was just a frustrating fight, mostly due to the bad framing not letting you see what you wanted to see, and added on top of that the arsenal of cheap moves jubileus used. And the fight beeing long really didn't help when it was frustrating.

 

[CrashBang]

Best: Devil May Cry 3. I've always loved fighting a character that's of an almost equal power level and fighting style to my own, it's just so bad-ass somehow. I also love all the bosses from Super Mario Galaxy

Worst: As people have said, Fable II and Fallout 3

 

[JPArbiter]

I never beat the damn game myself, but I saw a video of Bayonetta's final boss, and it looks like quite the fun and challenging spectacle.

Best FINAL Boss I have actually beaten... Kefka from Final Fantasy III(VI) mostly cause the whole damn party you biuld gets involved. Compared to Kefka, Seipheroth is a little *****.

Worst Boss has to be the Holoprojector from Mega Man 2, the one that makes it look like Dr Wiley is an Alien.

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

Best: Kuja and Necron back to back. Then again, I have a soft, mushy, fleshy spot for Final Fantasy IX.

Worst: The final boss of Metroid Prime 3 (name concealed to avoid spoilers). Couple the fact that this boss is hard on its own, with the fact that you have a time limit that starts when you land on the planet. You have to run through this gauntlet before fighting Dark Samus (hard boss in itself) and THEN fight the boss that I've nominated. Yeah, this is insanely hard on higher difficulties, as you can imagine.

 

[jumjalalabash]

Best: Kefka FF6
Worst: Magic zombie deer-tick from FF10

 

[Sajuuk-khar]

Best: Kefka (FFVI). Four stages, whole party involved, awesome soundtrack.

Worst: Fable II wasn't a bossfight... and I found it quite fitting. However let me bring up Fable: The Lost Chapter. TLCs final boss wasn't a bad fight per se, however the game being unbalanced caused me to slay him in two hits (Solus Greatsword + lv4 multihit). Alternatively, FFX: seriously auto-reraise? Or Dead or Alive 4's Alpha-152; fights against CPU in fighting games are always unfair, seeing as how they could instantly respond to your input, but this one also made insane combos.

 

[Nemu]

Best: Kefka Palazzo
Worst: Metroid Prime

 

[Wayneguard]

Best: The Boss - MGS3
Worst: That... guy... - Condemned 2

 

[AlternatePFG]

Best: Xemnas from Kingdom Hearts 2. Okay, it was probably one of the most ridiculous boss fights in any game I've played, but it was one fun and hell at one point, you chop fucking buildings in half with your keyblade.

For a more grounded boss fight, I liked talking the Master to death in Fallout 1. Sure it was easy if you had a high speech or even just talked to a certain NPC in the game but it felt satisfying sneaking in there without killing and sneaking out.

Worst: Fallout 3's final boss, if you could call it that. Not to mention right after is the biggest "Fuck you" ending in videogames, maybe next to Neverwinter Nights 2.

 

[Sephren468]

Best: Chrono Cross Devour of Time or RE2 Birkin
Worst: FFX light ball thingy or ME2 human reaper