Boss fights

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Not sure if this has been posted before sorry if it has.

Do you like Boss levels in games,just finished Resident Evil 5 after many months not playing but had to nail Wesker.

Never been a fan of boss fights in games myself personally but pleased when i reach that goal to finish the game and get the credits rolling.

Which is your favorite Boss or the one that most frustrated you..:eek:
 
I think most games with any kind of half-decent story needs boss fights. It is especially good when you have been dreading it for a while. Good games drop hints and let you know you're gonna be in trouble! :D

Trying to think of the most annoying boss I've done, but nothing springs to mind. I am sure there have been plenty of boss fights where I have wanted to launch my controller through the TV! :p

OH! Omega Weapon on FFVIII! Just about every hit he does causes like 99% HP damage lol. You spent most of the battle healing and hoping to get the odd limit break in!

GothicCorpse said:
Best boss fight imo is Psycho Mantis from metal gear solid, he reads ur mind and everything.
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Plug controller into port 2 - he can't read your movements then! :D
 
SiriusB said:
OH! Omega Weapon on FFVIII! Just about every hit he does causes like 99% HP damage lol. You spent most of the battle healing and hoping to get the odd limit break in!
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Aura was pretty much essential for that :p


squalls lion heart could do 9999 with each hit on the right set up.
 
the worst one for me was the last one on Gameboy Advance: Mario an Luigi supserstar saga. I gave up at the final boss after a few hours (over a few weeks). It was 3 bosses, one after another. No point explaining any more.
 
Personally I hate boss fights, when they often ramp up the difficulty of the game in arbitrary fashion, and force you to perform a series of arbitrary, timed button presses. It's often like playing a different game, a game I don't enjoy.

If they can work it in so it fits the rest of the game play, I don't mind so much. In a lot of classic first person shooters, the 'boss' of one level is one of the grunts of later levels. Take the original Doom - the 'boss' at the end of the first episode is a hell baron. But by the 3rd episode, you encounter them in small groups.

For me a good end-of-level challenge is one which requires the same skills you've been using through the game up to that point, with perhaps a little bit of thinking and/or knowledge of level layout.
 
I love boss fights that have a good tactic/weakness based system that you have to work out rather than the arbitrary "he has more health than normal"

FF13 i thought was good for this.
 
Still have nightmares about the end boss of Doom II.

Not sure I ever did it without cheating. Was hard enough in God mode lol.
 
McGray said:
Still have nightmares about the end boss of Doom II.

Not sure I ever did it without cheating. Was hard enough in God mode lol.
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Very hard that, but wasn't that having to shoot rockets into a big hole of something, whilst loads of other things attacked you?
 
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