Your favorite boss ever?
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Technically you can. I've seen this one video in which the player used the REC to hit one of the generators right before Freeze could disable it. It isn't easy to do, but it's possible.Darren716 said:
This is actually difficult for me, since I play a number of good games.
I'll give you guys a good top three, 'kay?
{1} WHEATLEY - PORTAL 2
From the beginning of the game, you get to know Wheatley as a talkative-but-helpful-and-funny companion who just wants to get out before things...you know...explode. And, he's not actually BAD. It's just that the plan that put him into charge rapidly-corrupted him from the inside, and...Glados didn't help by revealing his true nature. To me, Wheatley isn't even properly evil. It's this place. It's Aperture Science that's doing it. So, when you're fighting him, remember that this was your friend, the guy that tried to get you OUT. He talks up a storm while fighting, AND his Four Part Plan IS rather good for a guy who's unable to figure out how to keep the labs from exploding. It's a fun battle.
{2} CUBIA - .HACK GAMES
This goes back a while, because of how long ago the .hack phenomenon has been going on. When I played the first game and beat Skeith, alluded to be the first phase of something greater, I didn't know what to expect. The last thing I DID expect was for The World to go crazy, and then at the end of the game to be blasted by a giant hovering monster. When I first saw Cubia, I was shocked. What WAS that thing? Cubia is your daunting shadow throughout the series. Literally, he's some sort of Guardian of The World seeing you as the major threat because all the Phases and Morganna Mode Gone have the right credentials...and you're a kid that Data Drains and has a massive infection. He shows up to prevent you from confronting Aura or ANY key data location out of the belief that it's harmful to the system. In the final confrontation in Quarantine, Kite realizes that this creature will NEVER stop hunting them down unless the Twilight Bracelet is destroyed, leading us into the problem of the final battle without it. Cubia also returns in later games, albeit changed because of the happenings OF those games, and then finally he's compiled into a character 9in .hack//LINK with exceptional ability! Kid's scary, yo, but awesome.
And finally...
{3} KAIN VERSUS RAZIEL - LEGACY OF KAIN: DEFIANCE
Legacy of Kain games are weird and hard to follow at times, and both Blood Omen 2 and Soul Reaver 2 can be frustrating. However, Defiance was hella-good, and so was this culmination in all the backstory and rivalry between these two beings, Kain and Raziel. At the time, Raziel wishes to find the Heart of Darkness and restore Janos Audron, his mind and attitude tweeked by the psychokinetic burst he received from defeating Terel the vampire, possessed by the Hylden who are in fact the source of the Council of Nosgoth's madness. He's realized where the Heart is, but Kain doesn't know, and his impatience and hatred for Kain's scheming leads the two of them to fight it out. This boss fight is a double-act, though, which is why it's brilliant. You start as Kain, trying to bring Raziel to his senses because, for some reason, it's a bad idea to bring Janos Audron back to life. (You find out why later, of course.) And then, once that's done, you switch over to Raziel to defeat Kain at long last, ending in this ending...
Kain beaten with an ironic echo of his own family motto, surprised to find that he was the one to receive the Heart of Darkness.
I'll give you guys a good top three, 'kay?
{1} WHEATLEY - PORTAL 2
From the beginning of the game, you get to know Wheatley as a talkative-but-helpful-and-funny companion who just wants to get out before things...you know...explode. And, he's not actually BAD. It's just that the plan that put him into charge rapidly-corrupted him from the inside, and...Glados didn't help by revealing his true nature. To me, Wheatley isn't even properly evil. It's this place. It's Aperture Science that's doing it. So, when you're fighting him, remember that this was your friend, the guy that tried to get you OUT. He talks up a storm while fighting, AND his Four Part Plan IS rather good for a guy who's unable to figure out how to keep the labs from exploding. It's a fun battle.
{2} CUBIA - .HACK GAMES
This goes back a while, because of how long ago the .hack phenomenon has been going on. When I played the first game and beat Skeith, alluded to be the first phase of something greater, I didn't know what to expect. The last thing I DID expect was for The World to go crazy, and then at the end of the game to be blasted by a giant hovering monster. When I first saw Cubia, I was shocked. What WAS that thing? Cubia is your daunting shadow throughout the series. Literally, he's some sort of Guardian of The World seeing you as the major threat because all the Phases and Morganna Mode Gone have the right credentials...and you're a kid that Data Drains and has a massive infection. He shows up to prevent you from confronting Aura or ANY key data location out of the belief that it's harmful to the system. In the final confrontation in Quarantine, Kite realizes that this creature will NEVER stop hunting them down unless the Twilight Bracelet is destroyed, leading us into the problem of the final battle without it. Cubia also returns in later games, albeit changed because of the happenings OF those games, and then finally he's compiled into a character 9in .hack//LINK with exceptional ability! Kid's scary, yo, but awesome.
And finally...
{3} KAIN VERSUS RAZIEL - LEGACY OF KAIN: DEFIANCE
Legacy of Kain games are weird and hard to follow at times, and both Blood Omen 2 and Soul Reaver 2 can be frustrating. However, Defiance was hella-good, and so was this culmination in all the backstory and rivalry between these two beings, Kain and Raziel. At the time, Raziel wishes to find the Heart of Darkness and restore Janos Audron, his mind and attitude tweeked by the psychokinetic burst he received from defeating Terel the vampire, possessed by the Hylden who are in fact the source of the Council of Nosgoth's madness. He's realized where the Heart is, but Kain doesn't know, and his impatience and hatred for Kain's scheming leads the two of them to fight it out. This boss fight is a double-act, though, which is why it's brilliant. You start as Kain, trying to bring Raziel to his senses because, for some reason, it's a bad idea to bring Janos Audron back to life. (You find out why later, of course.) And then, once that's done, you switch over to Raziel to defeat Kain at long last, ending in this ending...
Kain beaten with an ironic echo of his own family motto, surprised to find that he was the one to receive the Heart of Darkness.
So many good choices!
Agreed with The End, and Grigori from Dogma.
But my absolute favourite must come from one of my all time favourites, Kingdom Hearts 2.
The entire final fight sequence is amazing, it's about half an hour or more of continuous fighting. If you've played it, you know what I mean.
Agreed with The End, and Grigori from Dogma.
But my absolute favourite must come from one of my all time favourites, Kingdom Hearts 2.
The entire final fight sequence is amazing, it's about half an hour or more of continuous fighting. If you've played it, you know what I mean.
Gameplay-wise? The last fight with Vergil from Devil May Cry 3.
Thematically? Probably either the last boss from Planescape: Torment or Arcanum. For either you can avoid the fight entirely depending on what you do. Both encounters are quite well written, have multiple endings, and unfortunately are quite boring if you actually fight them normally.
Thematically? Probably either the last boss from Planescape: Torment or Arcanum. For either you can avoid the fight entirely depending on what you do. Both encounters are quite well written, have multiple endings, and unfortunately are quite boring if you actually fight them normally.
The final boss battle in Bayonetta, where you fight every boss you've faced up until that point plus the giant-ass broad at the end.
Sure it's strenuous and made me want to rip out my hair and scream profanities at my dog, but I somehow managed to get through it with all of my hair in tact.
Can't say the same for Napoleon though. If dogs can actually understand a hundred-something-whatever words, then I think it's safe to say half of his English vocab is a wide variety of swear words!
Sure it's strenuous and made me want to rip out my hair and scream profanities at my dog, but I somehow managed to get through it with all of my hair in tact.
Can't say the same for Napoleon though. If dogs can actually understand a hundred-something-whatever words, then I think it's safe to say half of his English vocab is a wide variety of swear words!
Well, it's obviously gonna be the final boss of Persona 4. Come on, that was so fucking cool. The soundtrack is basically a metaphor for the fight itself, it seems completely hopeless (indeed I got basically instakilled when the second form came up for the first time) then after about 5 minutes when you realise that maybe you can actually win this the depressing (but awesome) dirge-like song turns into a orchestal version of the game's main battle theme. That is to say, Reach Out to the Truth. The entire theme of the game... And you're in touching distance of the truth now because it's the final boss fight.
Fuckin' fuck...
Also Von Karma in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. What a dick. And the final stage of the final case in the third game is one of the most awesome things in video game history.
It's gotta be done! I'd call this major spoilers so be careful
Two games. Two goddamn games since that theme came up. Then they remix it for the very final moments of the very last case. Pure brilliance
Fuckin' fuck...
Also Von Karma in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. What a dick. And the final stage of the final case in the third game is one of the most awesome things in video game history.
It's gotta be done! I'd call this major spoilers so be careful
Two games. Two goddamn games since that theme came up. Then they remix it for the very final moments of the very last case. Pure brilliance
I really enjoyed the Alma and Genshin fights from Ninja Gaiden 1/2,intense,fast paced and fun as hell.
Shadow Naoto from Persona 4 it wasn't a present breather boss after the fight before it,and the design was really cool.
Also Shadow of the Colossus,all of it except the geyser boss.
Shadow Naoto from Persona 4 it wasn't a present breather boss after the fight before it,and the design was really cool.
Also Shadow of the Colossus,all of it except the geyser boss.
Jeez, now that shooters don't have bosses I can't even think of any really memorable ones.
First time I saw Ragnaros in vanilla WoW was pretty darn impressive.
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Lot of love for 'The End' in here. I got onboard MGS(1) thinking it was supposed to be realistic. Granted, there were clear signs early on that this was not the case, but that was the premise I was playing under. Enemies like The End annoyed me to no end (Vamp more than anyone else though) because of how ludicrous it was. Still a fun idea though, and he killed me way too many times during the fight.
First time I saw Ragnaros in vanilla WoW was pretty darn impressive.
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Lot of love for 'The End' in here. I got onboard MGS(1) thinking it was supposed to be realistic. Granted, there were clear signs early on that this was not the case, but that was the premise I was playing under. Enemies like The End annoyed me to no end (Vamp more than anyone else though) because of how ludicrous it was. Still a fun idea though, and he killed me way too many times during the fight.
Call it nostalgia, but no one left an impression like he did.
*snap*
*door opens*
*looks at Dante, rolls shoulder*
*leaps out*
Classic.
*snap*
*door opens*
*looks at Dante, rolls shoulder*
*leaps out*
Classic.
Oh. I thought this was "favorite boss fight". Well, uh, I've got nothin', then.
Izzy Glow, though? That's walking the unbeaten path if I've ever seen it. Nice to see people not furiously masturbating to X Vs. Zero for once when it comes to that game, though. I mean, come on people, that confrontation was forced and ham-handed as all hell, and the theme wasn't that good.
Izzy Glow, though? That's walking the unbeaten path if I've ever seen it. Nice to see people not furiously masturbating to X Vs. Zero for once when it comes to that game, though. I mean, come on people, that confrontation was forced and ham-handed as all hell, and the theme wasn't that good.
Henry from No More Heroes snce I like fighting bosses that more of a duel sort of fight (almost fighting on equal terms). While he was a hard boss but he was far more easier compare to Jeane (her stupid leet speed). He also got an awesome instant kill attack-
