Perhaps the most coolest looking enemy in the game, but these giant assholes do not fuck around. They appear without warning in the middle of huge hordes of enemies, and sometimes in pairs too. And each one is armored, has a ton of health, and has brutal melee attacks.
I also love their high-pitched ululating right when they're about to unleash attacks. When you hear that, you better get your ass out of the way!
But boy oh boy the satisfaction you get when you and your coop buddy beat the snot out of these freaks with powerful melee combos is hard to match.
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[spoiler='Halo - Elites']
To be specific, these particular elites.
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Elites have always been tough-as-nails across every Halo game, and definitely much more fun to fight than Brutes are. They're quick, intelligent, strong as hell, and aggressive. I love how their skill and effectiveness actually change depending on their rank, with there even being Elite Specialists that come at you in all sorts of unusual ways from using Jetpacks, to being invisible.
But the Elite pictured above are Ultra Elites, I believe. The most nightmarishly difficult Elites to fight.
Sure, the heroic Gold Elites and Hammer Brutes are legendarily dangerous with their insta-kill melee attacks. Ultra Elites pose a massive threat in an entirely different way; they actually fight you as a squad and use teamwork to fucking wreck you.
They appear altogether as a single squad, traverse the map at super fast speeds in unison NEVER splitting up from each other - And then come sprinting at you with all piss and vinegar shooting powerful weapons and throwing roundhouse kicks simultaneously. Oh so many wipes in Firefight thanks to sudden appearances of these Ultra Elites. And may god have mercy on your soul if you run into an squad of them by yourself.
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[spoiler='Killing Floor - Patriarch']
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Armed with a goddamned minigun/rocketlauncher arm, can shoot you with 100% accuracy at virtually any range, sprints faster than anyone else in the game can (including you), has extremely powerful melee attacks, can heal himself, and can turn invisible.
To be honest, I've died to this guy way, WAY more times than I've ever killed him. It seems that it's almost always Game Over as soon as he appears, because try as we might - he will kill us ALL eventually.
There is nothing that's fair about him. Even the Tanks from Left 4 Dead are tame in comparison to this asshole. And you know what, I don't even mind getting killed by him anymore. It's almost endearing. Of course, if you do manage to beat him, the slow-mo focus on his dying body is such a rewarding thing to see. Then we can all celebrate by throwing dosh at each other.
Perhaps the most hilarious way I've died to this guy was back when Foundry was just released. The final wave was about to begin, and we decided to hold up in some hallway. We sealed off every other door leading to us except for one, it was the ONLY way that he could get to us. So we took formation side-by-side guns trained down this corridor, waiting for him to appear.
And while we were waiting.... a fucking rocket comes flying out of the darkness in front of us [b]and blows us all to fucking hell.[/b] GAME OVER. WE LOSE. Not a single one of us even managed to shoot in his direction ONCE before we all got exploded. It was humiliating, but we all laughed our asses off over this spectacular defeat.
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These are what I could think of off the top of my head.
[QUOTE=Shimmak]I loved the boss battles from FFX(especially the seymours), theres nothing like watching your face get blown of with an insta-kill move only to be revived straight away with full overdrive and then send it strainght back at them.[/QUOTE]
FFX did have some great boss fights. Although speaking of Seymour, I thought his Flux form was one of the most outlandishly grueling fights in the game. I'm willing to accept the possible fact that I was just a moron and never figured out the right strategy, but I swear I had to grind for HOURS on Gagazet just to stand a chance against him. And even then, he still killed a bunch of my party and I barely managed to scrape together a victory.
Oddly enough, after that narrow victory, every single boss fight from Flux onwards was a total cakewalk! What happpened? Almost as if every boss just dropped in difficulty after him, even the fight against his final Omnis form was over in a few turns. The only other boss that was actually a threat to me was the final damned boss of the game. Very weird.
