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Not a boss per se, but I finally beat Fall of Cybertron, and the entire last level is one of the best I've ever played.
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Epoxy Bulletin posted:
I got the gold gem (no damage) for every level except this guy. I'd always gently caress up the timing late into the fight were you said he swaps the patterns, and I must have played it a hundred times and gotten so kid-mad at it I remember it clearly.
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Feb 12, 2015 00:13
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Replaying Metal Gear Rising on PC, and holy poo poo Monsoon is still one of the best bosses in any game ever. AND IT WILL FLOW! LIKE A FLOOD OF RAIN! POURING DOWN ON ME! 
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Feb 13, 2015 23:38
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ninjahedgehog posted:Replaying Metal Gear Rising on PC, and holy poo poo Monsoon is still one of the best bosses in any game ever. Same, but Armstrong is the best boss in that game, sorry. Monsoon is basically the "I hope you learned to parry" check and Armstrong checks if you remember everything you've learned throughout the game. (also don't gently caress with this senator)
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Feb 13, 2015 23:59
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Sleeveless posted:That was a wonderful time, when games were big enough to have actual native English speakers translating games but before gamers got so obnoxious about translations that any and all fun was stamped out in the name of being true to canon. Yup Legion sure doesn't have any meaning in English, or any possible connotations that could relate to the boss at hand. Anyway more on topic, my favorite boss is definitely from Metroid Prime 2.  Your second fight with Dark Samus isn't especially hard or anything, but I always enjoy it. The setting is cool and it's a fast paced fight in a game that's generally slower. I'm also a huge sucker for mirror-match fights with evil versions of your character. Bonus points for the cutscene after where Samus manages to emote more without saying a word than all of Other M.
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Feb 14, 2015 02:37
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Dark Samus 2 owned. I was disappointed when the final fight, following the boring as hell Ing Boss Dude, was less symmetrical and more static. Hm, yeah, we created an evil version of the player character, what do they want out of a boss fight with it? They want it to float inside a blob in the air in the middle of an arena while firing dumb blob laser projectiles, that's the poo poo. The Metroid Prime trilogy didn't have very good bosses generally.
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Feb 14, 2015 02:55
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The worst thing about that final boss, is that the mechanic really comes the gently caress out of nowhere. You don't have to use the charge beam like that at all in the game. Like, if you could anywhere else even optionally it would have been fine. But I lost my first time playing because nothing I did seemed to hurt the boss because "oh by the way brand new mechanic we won't tell you about" and it doesn't help that it's super finnicky to get to work at all.
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Feb 14, 2015 03:16
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Dude, for mirror fights, nothing beats playing yourself in Hexen. Better still when you are fighting your buddy and you either both play the cleric and kill the gently caress out of each other or have a gentleman's agreement to have the perverse rock vs. scissor-paper that is fighter vs mage.
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Feb 14, 2015 05:47
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Exercu posted:Same, but Armstrong is the best boss in that game, sorry. Monsoon is basically the "I hope you learned to parry" check and Armstrong checks if you remember everything you've learned throughout the game. (also don't gently caress with this senator) Pretty much every boss fight in Rising was amazing, but Armstrong was so perfect in so many ways. The music was amazing, the gameplay itself and the sheer hilarity of fighting a lunatic senator juiced up on nanomachines. It took me like 4 hours to beat because I'm awful at robot ninja-ing (It took me until my 20th try at Sam to realize that to parry properly you had to do point the stick every time), but goddamn I looked back on it and really liked it. I really liked Dhaos form 2 in Tales of Phantasia. Wasn't ready at all for form 3 and it turned into "Arche casts Meteor Shower over and over in a corner" pretty quick.
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Feb 14, 2015 07:09
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Nuebot posted:The worst thing about that final boss, is that the mechanic really comes the gently caress out of nowhere. You don't have to use the charge beam like that at all in the game. Like, if you could anywhere else even optionally it would have been fine. But I lost my first time playing because nothing I did seemed to hurt the boss because "oh by the way brand new mechanic we won't tell you about" and it doesn't help that it's super finnicky to get to work at all. "Use your Charge Beam to collect Phazon energy that she expels, then fire it back at her. Direct hits will overload and disrupt her essence." Straight from the scan. If you don't know to scan enemies by the end of the entire game I don't know what to tell you.
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Feb 14, 2015 08:46
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Gestalt Intellect posted:"Use your Charge Beam to collect Phazon energy that she expels, then fire it back at her. Direct hits will overload and disrupt her essence." That's in Dark Samus 4's scan. She switches from Dark Samus 3 to 4 partway through the final battle, I don't entirely remember but there's either no visual indication between the change of forms, or she only goes into Dark Samus 4 during the stages in which that part's relevant. It's not the only boss that has multiple scans, but the rest of them all have distinct visual changes. Dark Samus only gets a new scan when she pulls out an attack you haven't seen her do yet.
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Feb 14, 2015 09:00
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That's fair, although I was paranoid about missing one-time scans so I always checked if I thought a boss might have added a new one.
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Cleretic posted:That's in Dark Samus 4's scan. She switches from Dark Samus 3 to 4 partway through the final battle, I don't entirely remember but there's either no visual indication between the change of forms, or she only goes into Dark Samus 4 during the stages in which that part's relevant. It's not the only boss that has multiple scans, but the rest of them all have distinct visual changes. Dark Samus only gets a new scan when she pulls out an attack you haven't seen her do yet. Yeah I stopped being paranoid about scans early on when I missed that one door you can only scan once. So I didn't even think to scan her a second time..
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Feb 14, 2015 10:32
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I know a whole bunch of people are critical about the Gargoyles in DS2 being lifted directly from DS, just made harder by having 5 of them instead of 2, but believe you me, the catharsis you feel after killing the last of them on your own is so, so great.
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Feb 14, 2015 10:47
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While the last boss in Zone of the Enders 2 is pretty hectic, my favourite fight in the entire game is the fight against five flying battleships. You dodge flak, lasers and giant  beams while chopping up hundreds of enemy mechas. And when you do manage to charge your own beam weapon long enough to destroy the battleship core, you can watch the wreckage fall all the way to Mars surface.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K90g4EKjGNk
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Feb 14, 2015 10:56
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hirvox posted:While the last boss in Zone of the Enders 2 is pretty hectic, my favourite fight in the entire game is the fight against five flying battleships. You dodge flak, lasers and giant Not only that, but straight after the battleships you got to fight Zakat, a giant orbital frame with multiple pilots and an incredible theme song. You destroy it by ripping pieces off it and throwing them back. e: The battleships were a nightmare for me at first until I learned how to dodge and destroy their main beams and use Mummy and Grab to restore health and energy.
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Feb 14, 2015 20:52
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Samovar posted:I know a whole bunch of people are critical about the Gargoyles in DS2 being lifted directly from DS, just made harder by having 5 of them instead of 2, but believe you me, the catharsis you feel after killing the last of them on your own is so, so great. I liked that fight but its pretty much entirely because the Gargoyles have one of my favorite boss themes of all time. So getting to hear it again was nice.
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Feb 14, 2015 22:10
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Samovar posted:I know a whole bunch of people are critical about the Gargoyles in DS2 being lifted directly from DS, just made harder by having 5 of them instead of 2, but believe you me, the catharsis you feel after killing the last of them on your own is so, so great. I didn't mind the fight but I just wasn't blown away by it since they did the exact same thing in Demon's with the Maneaters and obviously the Gargoyles in Dark Souls 1. I just had a bit of a sixth sense kick in at the start of the fight and I knew the gimmick was gonna be having more than two of them show up.
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Feb 14, 2015 22:13
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The Amiga had some pretty bizarre bosses. The Demon King from Second Samurai After platforming your way through Italy in Soccer Kid, you got to fight this guy, who bears no similarity to any person living or dead. Pretty much every boss in Virocop was memorable (even if the person longplaying those videos doesn't do the best job of showing them off.) Of course, they weren't always so impressive.
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Mar 2, 2015 02:22
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Pretty much every boss in Metal Gear Rising is great: they're genuinely challenging and (Mistral aside) the fist time you face them they'll kick your rear end until you figure out how to beat them, however special mention goes to Jetstream Sam. After level after level of ridiculous bosses with gimmicks it's just you, another dude, and two swords. Which is great because there's nowhere to hide - either you're good enough with your sword and can parry/combo effectively enough to beat the guy in a duel, or you're toast. What makes it extra-satisfying is that it's the second time you fight him in the game, and after he cleans the floor with you in the first fight you get the sense that you've finally learned enough to face him on an even footing.
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Breetai posted:Pretty much every boss in Metal Gear Rising is great: they're genuinely challenging and (Mistral aside) the fist time you face them they'll kick your rear end until you figure out how to beat them, however special mention goes to Jetstream Sam. After level after level of ridiculous bosses with gimmicks it's just you, another dude, and two swords. Which is great because there's nowhere to hide - either you're good enough with your sword and can parry/combo effectively enough to beat the guy in a duel, or you're toast. What makes it extra-satisfying is that it's the second time you fight him in the game, and after he cleans the floor with you in the first fight you get the sense that you've finally learned enough to face him on an even footing. First fight? As in the train one? Or am I mis-remembering? 'Cos you can't win that first fight. 
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88h88 posted:First fight? As in the train one? Or am I mis-remembering? 'Cos you can't win that first fight. Breetai posted:and after he cleans the floor with you in the first fight
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Mar 9, 2015 11:06
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If you do really well in that first fight he actually backs off and compliments you, too! He'll then dive right back in and kick your arse but still.
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Mar 9, 2015 11:07
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 I can't read good. I also need to play Rising through again it seems. Enough time has passed that it should be a challenge again.
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Mar 9, 2015 11:28
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I never got beyond like maybe 1/10 of the way through MGS4 because I no longer have a PS3. Is Rising plot-heavy enough that I won't get what's going on or is it a pretty independent storyline?
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Mar 10, 2015 20:48
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sticklefifer posted:I never got beyond like maybe 1/10 of the way through MGS4 because I no longer have a PS3. Is Rising plot-heavy enough that I won't get what's going on or is it a pretty independent storyline? Its basically 100% independent
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Mar 10, 2015 21:16
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Austrian mook posted:Its basically 100% independent But that said the setup for it, and several plot events contain absolutely massive spoilers for MGS4 so finishing/watching an LP/whatever before you go in might be a good idea if you ever intend to go back.
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Mar 10, 2015 21:19
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Just mash the buttons to skip the story, all the content in there is longer than the actual gameplay time. I've played through at least three times and if I were to play any of the MGS games I'd still be pretty much at a loss to explain anything.
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Mar 10, 2015 21:30
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sticklefifer posted:I never got beyond like maybe 1/10 of the way through MGS4 because I no longer have a PS3. Is Rising plot-heavy enough that I won't get what's going on or is it a pretty independent storyline? MGS4 kinda forgets to be a Metal Gear Solid game after the end of Chapter 2, so you didn't miss much there. I think... Aside from Raiden, there's 1 recurring character in Sunny and Snake is dead of old age. Should be fine.
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88h88 posted:Just mash the buttons to skip the story, all the content in there is longer than the actual gameplay time. I've played through at least three times and if I were to play any of the MGS games I'd still be pretty much at a loss to explain anything. The story is good, don't do this. ACES CURE PLANES posted:But that said the setup for it, and several plot events contain absolutely massive spoilers for MGS4 so finishing/watching an LP/whatever before you go in might be a good idea if you ever intend to go back. What in all is spoiled really? I can't remember but I wouldn't ever recommend anyone sit through all of MGS4
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I found someone doing a giant marathon stream of metal gear solid 4 with all cutscenes, so I watched everything after the part I had played up to. The entire game became a giant what the gently caress and act 1 sadly looked like the best. The streamer also basically speedran through a lot of the gameplay sections so the later acts became 10 minutes of gameplay and 3 hours of cutscenes. Some of those cutscenes are individually a half hour long. And the ending is 72 minutes long. What.
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is 72 minutes even as long as the ending of MGS2? edit: I forgot that there's a gameplay break for the last fight. I remember it being at least 2 hours, though, from the second-last fight to the end.
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