What is your all time favorite boss battle?

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Tough choice.

I like boss fights that are flashy yet challenging, that require you to use every ability you've learned proficiently. Someone's already mentioned the Metal Gear games; in particular I loved the fact that you can use rotten food as a trap to wreck The Fear when he needs to stop and feed... Or just roll into him and knock him down while he's doing it.

Not as intense, but the first Seymour battle in Final Fantasy X was masterfully put together- first a tactical 3 versus 3 battle, then a duel of Aeons, then a rush to erase his last 3000 HP before his desperation attack- which Yuna could no longer hold back- finished you.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Honestly, if you go for sheer epic "Holy crap, this is awesome" then for me, the first fight with Ridley in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is it. You are fighting Ridley as the most badass woman of all time, while free falling. That...so awesome.

For sheer catharsis factor, however, it would be the Geth Prime at the end of Tali's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2. I was pissed at the crap Tali went through to get to that point my first time playing. Forget pissed, I was almost in tears for her (yeah, I'm a wuss). But there he was. The last geth to fight. Time to get Tali her revenge. *BOOM*

 

[Terminate421]

This guy:

This guy:

And esspecially this guy:

 

[anthony87]

Second fight against Vergil in Devil May Cry 3.

Out of all 3 fights against him in the game, that's the one where he and Dante seem to be the most evenly matched.

 

[Cridhe]

Mass Effect 2. HAAAAH kidding. Seriously, put those pitchforks away.

Realistically.. well, shit. I went through every game I can own, and it turns out I just don't like many games with proper final bosses. Fallout 3 did well--but that was more of an end sequence than a boss. I really can't come up with anything, so in order to be productive to the thread, let me just list Mass Effect, like the despickable little fanboy that I am. The bit with Saren at the end was really well done.

I hated ME1 all the way up until that point, the ending was phenomenal. The end fight of ME2 I thought was actually really cool albeit a tad random and half-expected. Both however were far... FAR too easy.

 

[XDravond]

Honestly it got to be Scar in the game "the lion king" on Sega mega drive (Sega genesis for you Americans..) since that was the first "big boss" I ever beaten so simple yet so hard yet so unexperienced at the time... :-D

 

[Solo-Wing]

Probably one of these:
Biolizard

Xion

Emerald Weapon

Necron

 

[baddude1337]

From a nostalgic view, probably the huge mothership on Katina on Lylat Wars if that can be counted. That was my all time favorite level in that game, epic scale.

 

[FuzzyRaccoon]

Archdemon from Dragon Age:Origins.

Pretty hard boss considering i had to spam a ballista for 20 minutes hoping it would swamp me with dark spawn

I found that boss battle to be horrrribly long and boring.
In fact I find a lot of boss battles to be that way.

I think it'd be easier for me to say which boss battle I hate the most? That'd be Whitney from Pokemon Gold/Silver. Stupid damn miltank... such a cheat! But if you got passed her, nothing in the game was very hard so long as you leveled properly.


Okay...something I liked? I guess... A battle that I actually enjoyed was actually In Twilight Princess where you fight the water temple monster thing. It wasn't hard at all, it was just... fun. xD.

 

[Ace of Spades]

The crazy flying snake thing from Shadow of the Colossus. That fight was just epic.

 

[Off Topic]

Bitchslappin' a highschool teacher, without getting detention. Hells yeah! Did get expelled though..

 

[electric_warrior]

Probably the bird colossus from Shadow of the Colossus

 

[Alphakirby]

Despite the insane difficulty of just reaching the battle, let alone winning (f*** Youmu up the arse with her own sword), everything about it just clicks in a way that's hard to describe.

Dude, I know how that feels. Although I haven't played that Touhou game yet. The one I'm playing is freaking 6 with this crazy vampire:

I know Flandre is much harder than her, and that I've been progressively working on the final stage, it's only on a good day will I actually reduce Remelia down to her final stage. And even then I die because of her stupid immunity to spell cards and damage. GRRRRR!!

Although, my favorite boss to fight has to be Patchouli:

Even though I die on her a few times, her stage and herself are my favorite part of that game.

Well my good sir,you have done much better than I have,then again I am extremely stubborn when it comes to using continues.

OT:I don't know,but I guess mainly any boss that made me say "FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKK YOOOOOUUUU!!!" at my TV screen.

 

[Slenn]

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When I beat the game with continues, I nearly had an aneurism when I learned that you couldn't get the good ending with continues. The farthest I've actually gotten without continues is anywhere within the 6th stage, and even after that I'm too whipped to play any more of it. I've taken a hiatus from that hell-hole basically because that game was driving me nuts. The people that can beat Flandre on Lunatic must have an extreme amount of patience on their hands.

 

[Alphakirby]

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When I beat the game with continues, I nearly had an aneurism when I learned that you couldn't get the good ending with continues. The farthest I've actually gotten without continues is anywhere within the 6th stage, and even after that I'm too whipped to play any more of it. I've taken a hiatus from that hell-hole basically because that game was driving me nuts. The people that can beat Flandre on Lunatic must have an extreme amount of patience on their hands.

Sadly,unless you have a controller or a smooth way to control your character,you are screwed,sad but true.

 

[RADIALTHRONE1]

I'm appaled no one has mentioned Kingdom Hearts yet. Most of the boss battles in both of them. Also in KH and a couple of final fantasies, any battle with sephiroth.