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Haha I love Gaping Dragon because his head is this tiny little alligator head and the rest is...like that.
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Love the game Medievil, and the first real boss of the game is this guy. The Stained Glass Demon As far as boss fights go he's pretty average, but his whole premise is just awesome and really original. His introduction is sweet, and his death animation is the best in the game.
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Nov 19, 2014 15:28
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Not particularly specific but Undead Final Fantasy bosses. Sure game I'll beat a boss in one turn using an item I picked up at the shop for a few bucks. I'm a big fan of cheesy gimmicks in video games.
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Nov 19, 2014 16:19
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 I'd almost forgotten how fun the Axem Rangers fight is. They're evil octopus power rangers!
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Nostradingus posted:
They're tough if you don't fight them right too. Gotta focus fire them down, starting with pink.
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Nov 19, 2014 17:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifxogTi_hE&t=240s Kojira in Destroy All Humans 2 was a great boss fight. She gained health by destroying buildings, so you could gain the upperhand in the fight by levelling Tokyo first, or try to fight her without causing collateral damage so the military would side with you against her.
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Nov 19, 2014 18:08
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The final boss of Sonic Adventure 2 was FINALHAZARD, definitely one of the most memorable game sequences I've ever experienced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H70emkCT8o&t=103s I love that amazing song 
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Nov 19, 2014 18:08
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Metal Gear Ray, in Revengeance. What a way to start a game, goddamn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3bHENs9-2A
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Nov 19, 2014 18:18
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Super Waffle posted:The final boss of Sonic Adventure 2 was FINALHAZARD, definitely one of the most memorable game sequences I've ever experienced.
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Kojiro posted:Metal Gear Ray, in Revengeance. What a way to start a game, goddamn. Speaking of Metal Gear, the boss fight in Act 4 of MGS4 has you piloting Rex and fighting Ray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA02xxwaOH8
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cowboythreespeech posted:Uhhhh I really like the Gaping Dragon in Dark Souls. You really have to watch its introduction. This was also approximately my reaction the first time I met it. The little thing pokes over the edge and I'm like, "Okay, when's it gonna get bad?" And then the rest shows up and I'm all, "I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT MUCH BAD."  One of my favorites has always been Luca Blight, from Suikoden 2. He was always just about at the right point where he was believably psychotic, because there have been military groups who pretty much did what he did, and the fight to drop him was very satisfying. Also, he's got a bitching boss battle theme; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFQuIr4Mjig
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Speaking of Metal Gear, the boss fight in Act 4 of MGS4 has you piloting Rex and fighting Ray: For all its issues the boss fights in MGS4 were generally loving amazing. Rex vs Ray I thought couldn't be topped till the actual finale with Snake and Ocelot beating the poo poo out of each other with styles going through all four games. It's just an absolutely perfect capstone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub-6sKfGSmw Edit: What's great in Revengence is that for how much as people made "Nanomachines" a meme because of MGS4 they just said gently caress it and ran even harder with it and it worked. The final boss in MGR:R is literally swole Dick Cheney who's pacemaker uses nanomachines to make his skin almost indestructible. It's brilliant. Tracula has a new favorite as of 23:51 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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Tracula posted:For all its issues the boss fights in MGS4 were generally loving amazing. Rex vs Ray I thought couldn't be topped till the actual finale with Snake and Ocelot beating the poo poo out of each other with styles going through all four games. It's just an absolutely perfect capstone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub-6sKfGSmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfy0I2gRCs8 Pretty much all of the boss fights in Shadow Of The Colossus are amazing (aside from the geyser turtle) but Phalanx is my favourite. So loving cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn92pg3m_uc Dirge the sand worm is great too. He scared me when I was a kid.
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Celery Face posted:Dirge the sand worm is great too. He scared me when I was a kid. After beating Dirge I fell through the sand and ended up in an empty void looking up at the land and sky above  Then the black tentacles got me and I warped out but that made a scary boss even worse.
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Lasher posted: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. The best thing about Brayko is if you spare him in the post-battle cutscene, he'll send over a disco ball plus some speakers that will play Turn Up the Radio when interacted with.  If you kill him you just get gold-plated SMGs, nice but not as cool as the disco set.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:After beating Dirge I fell through the sand and ended up in an empty void looking up at the land and sky above Dirge was a nice surprise but so was Malus. The elementary school classmate told me that the final boss was basically a mountain with its legs tied together. I imagined a giant tree-shaped rock that hopped around a green valley. Glad the game proved me wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO2I2kFORQo The thing that surprised me the most about the fight was that the music never changed. Not that it's a bad thing, it fit the whole thing perfectly. The soundtrack in Shadow Of The Colossus is the best I've ever heard in a game. Pelagia is also cool because he's the weirdest looking colossus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLXZW7KCdw8 Celery Face has a new favorite as of 02:04 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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 Marv and Harry, Home Alone for NES Once every few years, I'll bust out this game for an hour or two with the intent to beat it. It can be beaten in 20 minutes flat, and all you have to do is stay away from those motherfuckers. Easy enough, right? I have never beaten it. I am 28 years old and have been playing this since I was probably 5 or 6. The two bumbling crooks are fiendishly fast (especially as the game progresses), and I am nearly convinced that there is no way to finish the game.  The Red Falcon, Contra for NES The final boss is surprisingly easy for a game this hard (especially if you destroy some of the spider-spewing pod things), but drat, that design is unforgettable. The heart pumps faster and faster the more damage it takes, which is rad as hell.  The Cyberdemon, Doom Those of you who have played this game (it should be all of you, dammit) know that this guy isn't as hard as he looks to be - he's actually harder.  Phantom Ganon, Ocarina of Time As good or better than the actual Ganondorf battle, for a few reasons. For one, it comes at the end of one of the best dungeons in the game. Also, he's riding a dead phantom horse into and out of the paintings in the wall, how loving cool is that?  Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, Dark Souls Make no mistake, this guy is pretty tough. What makes this battle so poignant, though, is the story and atmosphere. You can piece together the background of this once noble old man if you are paying close attention throughout the game. You go into the final area expecting an all-out brawl and plenty of bombast, but what you get is an utterly depleted ceremonial guard leading up to the final encounter with a withered, deranged husk. The music that accompanies the battle is beautiful and really drives home what is happening. It's a really sad and desperate moment, and it was not what I was expecting. An unusual and fitting end to a great game.
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Black Wombat posted:
The fight against Luca Blight is awesome just because oh how god drat much it takes to drop him. Battles with multiple parties with him getting shot all to hell in between, and the fucker just will not die. Really drives home what a threat he was and makes you feel as if your characters were idiots for trying to kill him and lucky to be alive afterward.
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Your Sledgehammer posted:Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, Dark Souls It's perfect. He really is the "Lord of Cinder." His fire is just but a few embers and that's all he is too. That music is near the best in the series next to Maiden Astraea's theme from Demons Souls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ7mipLHWxY His video explains it better than I could. It's an odd thing where the actual fight isn't anything special but holy gently caress is it impactful.
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Quiet Feet posted:The fight against Luca Blight is awesome just because oh how god drat much it takes to drop him. Battles with multiple parties with him getting shot all to hell in between, and the fucker just will not die. Really drives home what a threat he was and makes you feel as if your characters were idiots for trying to kill him and lucky to be alive afterward. I think it is compounded how badass he is if you are playing it the first time through, since you probably don't have 18 people relevantly trained for the fight if you don't know it is coming. You end up with a few of your strong dudes you were probably using (Flik, Viktor) actually being able to damage him and take a hit or two, but your first two parties will probably be torn apart. It really feels like an uphill battle against one dude (a dude that isn't magically enhanced or a secret god or something) and honestly the end of the fight sequence is really really unsatisfying but probably the only way your side would have won, which made it cool.
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Luca Blight's easily the best part of an already great game. When you get to the end and the final bad guy is like "Now face the power of a True Rune!!!" I was just like, "Oh, thank gently caress it's not Luca again." Although unexplained Zombie Luca Blight would've probably been a better final boss.
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Master Twig posted:Love the game Medievil, and the first real boss of the game is this guy. This has got to be an homage to one of the first usage of a cgi character in a movie, from Young Sherlock Holmes. Nifty. If I wasn't on my phone I'd find a clip..
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Autechresaint posted:This has got to be an homage to one of the first usage of a cgi character in a movie, from Young Sherlock Holmes. Nifty. If I wasn't on my phone I'd find a clip..  This thing?
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Your Sledgehammer posted:
I never played that game again after losing with less than a minute to go.
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Besides GladDos, the best boss in all of video gaming, SHODAN is the 2nd best AI in gaming. I'm a sucker for computers taunting me as I play. I do not trust the robot race. "Look at you hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZMD_eCpEo "When the history of my glory is written, your species should only be a footnote to my magnificence." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFZ5fv_pb8 "You are no longer welcome here, nuisance. Why do you stay when you sense my displeasure. I have suffered your company long enough. It is time for our dance to end." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZaxmrXNOpk
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Walltha in a Gigagoojin from Wonderful 101. Now this is probably my favorite Platinum game by far, and all of the boss fights are ridiculous and awesome. In this one, your team manages to hijack a giant robot that you've fought several of before, and then when you get to the boss fight, it turns into you fighting an EVEN BIGGER robot in Punch Out!! style and it's completely awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Kz7BCC7xs&t=767s Also the fact that he yells "CURSES! BLAST! SHENANIGANS!" as he dies is wonderful
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Many of the boss fights in Cave Story were impressive for one reason or another (the Core is particularly stand-out), but the moment when the bad guy forces you to fight the NPC you were supposed to be rescuing is impressive for just how bad it manages to make you feel about defeating a boss in a computer game.
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I know it's a bump but I want to nominate literally every Platinum Games boss ever for this list. I recently beat Bayonetta 2 and Revengeance and have been playing Wonderful 101. Every boss in these games is so loving good that you could see them being the final boss in a normal game. If I had to give one game a highlight it'd be Revengeance for the dynamic music being insanely awesome in every instance.
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Your Sledgehammer posted:
Better yet once you finish Doom you get Brutal Doom and realise Doom was a cakewalk. What's harder than a Cyber Demon? Two loving Cyber Demons and two Spider Masterminds
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 Load up the Mortal Combat soundtrack and fight this guy all day. Just a great, fun boss to mess around with.
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Enhance.
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I really liked the final encounter in The Evil Within. It's pretty ridiculous and jumps the shark pretty hardcore, but I had a big ol' shiteating grin on my face the whole time.
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cowboythreespeech posted:Uhhhh I really like the Gaping Dragon in Dark Souls. You really have to watch its introduction. Ironically the Gaping Dragon turns out to be one of the easiest bosses in Dark Souls, mainly because he has a tendency to charge into a wall and do nothing for ~10 seconds while you hit him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAo2XVw5HbM Killer7 did a lot of weird things but having a boss be an anime was one of the more memorable ones.  Tracula posted: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 What's even better is that the achievement for beating Portal 2 is titled Lunacy. They hid the events of the ending in plain sight!
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Whybird posted:Many of the boss fights in Cave Story were impressive for one reason or another (the Core is particularly stand-out), but the moment when the bad guy forces you to fight the NPC you were supposed to be rescuing is impressive for just how bad it manages to make you feel about defeating a boss in a computer game. That fucker Balrog did not deserve a redemption arc after forcing you to do that 
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 Minotaur, the first boss in SMT4. Sure you fight, encounters that seem like bosses before this, like the Disaster Horde and Alraune. They're not bosses. Minotaur is the first boss, because Minotaur is the first enemy who will wipe his rear end with you if you aren't prepared. He's the first use of the boss theme. The real boss theme. He'll reduce you to a stain if you are not on top of buffs and debuffs and the press turn system, and he might level you anyway as Labrys Strike hits really loving hard. I could post half of the bosses in this game. They're so wonderful.
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Whybird posted:Many of the boss fights in Cave Story were impressive for one reason or another (the Core is particularly stand-out), but the moment when the bad guy forces you to fight the NPC you were supposed to be rescuing is impressive for just how bad it manages to make you feel about defeating a boss in a computer game. I'm bad at Cave Story. I still can't beat that boss 
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 Yami (his final form) from Okami. The battle isn't that difficult overall, but it's very cinematic and the soundtrack is great.
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