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The final boss of Jet Set Radio Future is great for how it comes out of nowhere and is totally bonkers. First, the theme is delightfully bizarre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPDDelKThk8 Second, most of the game takes place in a pretty fantastic, but still sort of grounded-in-reality setting. Then for the final battle you get sucked into a nauseating LSD Dimension where you have to ride up floating stairways and giant 360 degree corkscrew railings. It takes all the ridiculous physics of the game to their logical conclusion, and it's perfect. (Also: really frustrating.)  Here's a guy playing it for the first time, and his reactions are great. Just, uh, Headphone-Users Beware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyXYj-OArHw&t=1932s Morton Haynice has a new favorite as of 19:05 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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I always liked fighting this guy in Twilight Princess: But who wouldn't want to destroy the vertebrae of a giant skeleton with their cog-skateboard?
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Nov 14, 2014 19:00
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Spoiler for one of the forgotten gems of the Gamecube.
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Nov 14, 2014 19:49
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Spoiler for one of the forgotten gems of the Gamecube. Truly, anyone wearing Crocs is the foulest of villains.
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Nov 14, 2014 20:14
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Verdugo in RE4 was tough as gently caress. Thinking about that fight stresses me out to this day.
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Nov 15, 2014 00:20
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Junpei Hyde posted:I'm now reminded of Seven Force from Gunstar Heroes. That boss rocked and you should all play Gunstar Heroes. I thought it looked familier too, so I looked it up and turns out it was made by Treasure too. Speaking of Treasure... Sin and Punishment for the N64 is goddamn insane. After fighting your way through a war between some evil military force and a bunch of mutated animals, you fight this woman:  She is also goddamn insane, and spends most of her time using her own men as makeshift projectiles against you. After you beat her, the entire country gets flooded in a sea of blood for reasons beyond my loving comprehension, while both you and her get turned into giant mutant things and fight each other again:  This all happens in the first level of the game. The crazy continues to escalate from there till the final level, so by the time you reach the end Treasure decided the only way they could top it all off was to have you fight a planet. Not the inhabitants of the planet, an actual goddamn planet.
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Nov 15, 2014 01:30
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fleshy echidna posted:
I am really torn between Smough and Ornstein and this guy right here 
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Nov 15, 2014 01:49
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Still one of my favorite bosses for his over all arc: Pious Augustus This is how we are first introduced to Pious, as a PC nonetheless--as a Roman General conquering Persia, you stumble onto an ancient ruin that holds the Tome of Eternal Darkness and the artifacts/essences of three other dimensional Gods of pure evil and terror.  You end the level by choosing one of them. Which turns Pious into this:  Yet even as a horrible Lich, he actually still manages to be a great character. Add to that the fact that as you play the game there's like a 1/12 chance of him being the one to personally murder you at the end of your mission, so you really hate the fucker but its always kind of awesome at the same time when he shows up. He's a truly moustache-twirling brand of Evil, but in a Lovecraftian sense. Then when you finally get to fight him with the arrival of a dark Elder God onto the material plane at stake, except now you're maxed out on magic and get to channel all your past selves to come together to fight him. Annnnnnnnnd god damnit, I guess I'm dusting off the game cube tonight... e: the game is Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, for the uninitiated
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Nov 15, 2014 03:00
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Konstantin Brayko in Alpha Protocol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPyxUUAyvNc The video doesn't really do his intro justice. You've been going through this mansion with every bad 80s stereotype smeared across the walls. Then you walk in and Autograph's Turn up the Radio starts playing. Its just perfect.
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Nov 15, 2014 03:08
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Athenry posted:Konstantin Brayko in Alpha Protocol. I could never bring myself to kill Brayko on any playthrough because he is seriously one of the best bosses
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Nov 15, 2014 03:26
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ANYBODY LIKE CUBE posted:Verdugo in RE4 was tough as gently caress. Thinking about that fight stresses me out to this day. There aren't many bosses were you're given the option of just running the gently caress away because beating him in a straight up fight is too hard.
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Nov 15, 2014 07:21
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Metal Storm is a semi-obscure side scrolling action/shooter for the NES. It had a nifty (and well incorporated) gimmick where you could reverse gravity to walk on the cielings. and I'm guessing not a lot of people have seen this boss because A: the game was released on a system that was, at the time, on its last legs and B: it was hard as balls. Stage 6's boss?  You are in a square room. If you touch the floor, you die. If you touch the ceiling, you die. Good news! There are three blocks that rotate around the room, clinging to the sides. You can stand on these but you'll need to be quick on your feet not to fall off or get shoved into the ceiling. The first one or two (or three) times you start, you're probably going to immediately fall or get mashed into the ceiling because who can even make sense of what the gently caress is going on in the one second you're given to react? And then there's the boss. The boss is the blocks. You have to destroy the only thing keeping you from falling to your death. It's hard enough to start, but it gets drat hard after you've knocked one out. And god help you if you don't destroy that last one fast, as that's what completes the level and deactivates the death floor/ceiling. Whoever designed this was a sadist and it's so absurd it's funny.
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Nov 15, 2014 08:00
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Rollersnake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUPrHBSZcTk
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Nov 15, 2014 08:35
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Quiet Feet posted:Metal Storm is a semi-obscure side scrolling action/shooter for the NES. It had a nifty (and well incorporated) gimmick where you could reverse gravity to walk on the cielings. and I'm guessing not a lot of people have seen this boss because A: the game was released on a system that was, at the time, on its last legs and B: it was hard as balls. Isn't the battleships in the background one of several shout-outs to Irem's more famous game series, R-Type?
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Nov 15, 2014 09:01
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Choco1980 posted:Isn't the battleships in the background one of several shout-outs to Irem's more famous game series, R-Type? Year, those battleships ARE the stage 3 boss. Everything down to the turret placement is spot-on.
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Nov 15, 2014 13:03
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For me that would be one of two guys. Either Senator Armstrong from MGR.   Or Artorias from Dark Souls.  Imho still the best boss in the entire souls series.
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Nov 15, 2014 15:28
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 You wanna dance with me, tough guy?   And stay down.    N?o?OoOOOo??Oo?????!!?!?!1?
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Nov 15, 2014 17:50
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Spoiler for one of the forgotten gems of the Gamecube. That fight was a lot of fun, also it was really funny that the plot told you to use the Ocean Mirror on him to break his curse, but if you did so in battle it would fully heal him  Another good one from that game was Malpercio, AKA Frankenstein-Cthulu:  Also it probably had the best music in the game when you fought it, which is saying a lot because Baten Kaitos has a drat fine soundtrack- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK5cRPzYa2w
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Nov 15, 2014 17:59
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Breetai posted:Year, those battleships ARE the stage 3 boss. Everything down to the turret placement is spot-on. I seem to recall when someone did an LP of the game way back in the Hard Games thread that's sunk into archives some time ago, that there were several R-Type references in the game. Including I'm pretty sure one of the bosses WAS the R-Type ship. That game is absurd. It's like someone turned VVVVVV into a nintendo-hard platform shooter. Then you play through and play through the game which is hard, but learnable, like most hard games of the time. And then after beating it, the game pulls a ghouls and ghosts on you and reveals a password to play the REAL game. You'd been playing through on the easy mode. The real loop is absoludicrous hard.
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Nov 15, 2014 18:47
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Final boss in Drakengard 1. Not necessarily my favorite, but certainly one of the hardest. And you just get shot down at the end anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B09qyRzXU_4
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Nov 15, 2014 19:40
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Athenry posted:Konstantin Brayko in Alpha Protocol. Just watching this makes me forget what a shitshow the first 1/3rd of that game was and makes me want to play it again.
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Choco1980 posted:I seem to recall when someone did an LP of the game way back in the Hard Games thread that's sunk into archives some time ago, that there were several R-Type references in the game. Including I'm pretty sure one of the bosses WAS the R-Type ship. That game is absurd. It's like someone turned VVVVVV into a nintendo-hard platform shooter. Then you play through and play through the game which is hard, but learnable, like most hard games of the time. And then after beating it, the game pulls a ghouls and ghosts on you and reveals a password to play the REAL game. You'd been playing through on the easy mode. The real loop is absoludicrous hard. Yeah, that's crazy. This is a game I only beat due to a 100+ lives cheat, and must've lost 40 on the boss posted above. The hard mode is just, I dunno, people playing that must be up to their ears in leather and ball gags.
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MotU posted:I could never bring myself to kill Brayko on any playthrough because he is seriously one of the best bosses Brayko gets points for If you spare him and take him along to stop his boss, the boss will call for his bodyguard, who's an Olympic boxer. If you don't bring Brayko, boss fight. If you do, he pops in to say "He isn't coming, he is busy winning gold medal. In dying" and it cuts away to Championchik like six kinds of stabbed.
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Nov 15, 2014 21:46
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Athenry posted:Konstantin Brayko in Alpha Protocol. If I recall correctly the song was originally going to be "The Final Countdown" but I'm so glad they couldn't get the rights/decided against it, because Turn Up The Radio is just the epitome of cheese and suits him way more. "Put on your red shoes, let's dance!"  And always get Heck to poison his beak.
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oldpainless posted:I really liked God of War 3. Also Ocelot from MGS4 is one of my personal favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub-6sKfGSmw
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Rollersnake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUPrHBSZcTk He's not the most obnoxious because there is that loving spider boss later on that I recall to be super loving hard.
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Maybe not my favorite, and definitely not difficult by any means, but I really liked how the fight against Vass Montenegro is presented in Far Cry 3. After all the poo poo he puts you and your dumbass friends through, you're literally starting to become blind with rage as you enter the warehouse where he's waiting for you. Then he pops out from behind a corner and stabs you in the chest before the fight can begin. The fight then becomes a trippy near death hallucination with crazy poo poo going on and its hard to say what the hell actually happened, except for certain that you stabbed him right back (repeatedly) at the end.
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Bit of a spoiler, but how has no one mentioned GLaDOS from Portal yet??
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The final boss in Shadow of the Colossuss:
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GAINING WEIGHT... posted:Bit of a spoiler, but how has no one mentioned GLaDOS from Portal yet?? Well, the character is interesting but the actual boss encounter is nothing special.
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Nov 17, 2014 20:32
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Wheatley's fight was more fun overall.
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Nov 17, 2014 23:44
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sticklefifer posted:Wheatley's fight was more fun overall. What's great there is when they introduce moon dust you start thinking to yourself about shooting a portal at the moon and just maybe that would work. And then the actual ending comes around It's just such a brilliant setup and payoff.
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Know that you died with honor, it is more than can be said for most. Deathstroke - Batman Arkham Origins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_zh0jcoCvc That is one badass fight.
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Really? To me it was nothing but 'wait for counter, trigger QTE, hope he doesn't go too close to a wall because then you get a different QTE that doesn;t hurt him'. Maybe it's better to watch someone play, but any time the combat animations are a distraction from watching for what button you have to press, then someone has made a design mistake. Really, I'd put every boss from Arkham Origins in this thread's opposite. They were repetitive and stale, and you never felt like there was any sense of progression, that you were overcoming the boss, that you actually won. They just let their life bar hit zero and decided to leave for no good reason.
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Nov 18, 2014 16:00
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The one good Origins boss fight was the one against the stun gloves dude.
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Elfface posted:Really? To me it was nothing but 'wait for counter, trigger QTE, hope he doesn't go too close to a wall because then you get a different QTE that doesn;t hurt him'. I thought Deathstroke was kinda cool the first time you fight him until you figure out that countering is his entire gimmick. But really, he's the best of the bosses in that poo poo game. Mr. Freeze from Arkham City is probably my favorite Batman boss.
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mind the walrus posted:That reminds me of the Moon from Zelda: Majora's Mask As a kid I remember being really turned off MM initially because of the time mechanics. I ended up borrowing a strategy guide for a friend which motivated me to power through the game. There were a few situations where climbing up a ladder only to have the camera pan to a low angle and suddenly, bam, creepy rear end moon staring at you. I remember having several really bizarre "scary" dreams involving the moon in the weeks following.
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Elfface posted:Well, the character is interesting but the actual boss encounter is nothing special. It says favorite boss, not favorite boss fight
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Ace Combat: Zero has "Pixy" your former wingman-turned-traitor. http://youtu.be/TgZ3lHsXruk?t=7m35s The whole game is a reimagining of the Knights of the Round Table story, told by the aces you shot down. The last fight is a jousting match in fighter jets set to an awesome spanish guitar.
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Alhazred posted:The final boss in Shadow of the Colossuss: Wander isn't the final boss; all those little humans are. CRUSH SMASH Uhhhh I really like the Gaping Dragon in Dark Souls. You really have to watch its introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIqgfTBXe_o First time I saw it I was like "WHAAAAT? FUUUCK BAAALSSS NOOOOO" and etc. here's a picture in case you don't want to watch a 40 second video.  PISSS FUCCCKKKK
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