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Anonymous Source Posts: 6 Joined: 26 Jul 2008  | |
Paperboy  Posts: 47 Joined: 25 Jan 2008   | Taking out Hogger for the first time in World of Warcraft... Ahh, what a wonderful thing that was... Also, I think this has been done a million times already. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1678 Joined: 2 Jan 2008     |
At least a million. |
Beat Writer Posts: 210 Joined: 19 Feb 2008     | Super Dimentio. |
Muckraker  Posts: 235 Joined: 23 Jul 2008    |
gotta agree with this guy, dimentio was a pretty hectic fight and those scarabs may not be the hardest fights, but theyre bloody fun to kill |
Paperboy  Posts: 36 Joined: 19 Jul 2008 | The last boss in Mana Tombs in WoW on heroic hes was quite easy but very fun, if you werent quick enough you get blown to narnia lol |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 876 Joined: 15 Jun 2008   | YAMI I have fought a lot of bosses in my time. And Yami, from the capcom game Okami is definately the most epic boss I have ever fought. Throughout the game your assorted brush powers build up in strength and usefullness until you reach the point where you use them almost instictively and to great effect. Really they make you feel like a god as you effortlessly carve your way through legions of enemies that were challenging just two techniques previously. Confident in my brush powers and overpowered Divine weapons I enter the final boss battle. Only to instantly be stripped of my powers, weapons and techniques. For the first section of the boss battle I am a normal Wolf!!! Then throughout the battle you have to beat up on Yami until he gives up one of your brush powers. Then he transforms into some other configuaration and you have to use your newly reclaimed power to beat that stage and claim another. Each round you have to pry another power from the greedy bastard and then turn it back upon him. In the beginning Yami is like some unstoppable force that you can barely keep from being killed by. As the battle wears on the balance tips as you become stronger until it feels like you are the one in control. The feeling of accomplishment when you finally get your final brush power back (Sunrise) and then burn him to a cinder with all the combined force of your Godhood is just amazing. It's challenging, it's imaginative, it's Epic. Any boss that can force you to use the full gambit of your techniques in one battle (13 brush gods, subskills within each one.) has really crafted a masterful final boss. Also you have to take into account how very impersonal Yami is. He doesn't mock you, or laugh evily, or tell you his evil plan. He just takes your power and proceeds to smack you around. He never speaks. He's just a big ball of evil. No steryotypes, no malice. Just evil. Pure, unadulterated Evil. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2350 Joined: 14 Sep 2007    |
That there has to be some of the best game design I've ever heard of. |
Paperboy  Posts: 36 Joined: 27 Apr 2008  |
Its kinda satifiying to own hogger at level 70, whos the bitch now! |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 469 Joined: 24 Jul 2008 | Zeus in god of war2. That whole game is awesome. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3790 Joined: 28 Feb 2008    | Most God of War bosses are epic, Sephiropth on the original Kingdom Hearts is epic, most earthbound bosses are some kinda epic. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 768 Joined: 5 Jul 2008   | Gilgamesh in FF12, Anything in God of War 1 and 2 And Halo 3... |
Paperboy Posts: 47 Joined: 26 Jul 2008 | Not really a boss battle |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2549 Joined: 28 Jun 2008   | I had a transformers game aages ago on my PS2. The mission started off with you getting into a motherfuckin' huge aircraft carrier to steal some secret data. When you get back to dry land the aircraft carrier sinks due to some sabotage jobby. A few seconds later it stands up. I really should've seen that coming in a game about Transformers , shouldn't I? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1315 Joined: 10 May 2008  | Mike Tyson from Punch Out, havent beaten him, but he's damn fun to play against |
Paperboy Posts: 27 Joined: 19 Jun 2008 | Fighting Heat for the second time in SHT: Digital Devil Saga 2 is pretty epic, if only because it's followed by a long cutscene explaining the backstory to the game, punctuated by another boss battle against Real Serph and Fake Serph. Ares in God Of War 1 and Zeus in 2 are awesome fights. Much love also to the giant minotaur boss in 1. I want to avoid final bosses, but the final battles of Skies Of Arcadia Legends are really something. The lake monster in Resident Evil 4. And the old man with the beard and fake eye in the burning cabin. The Aparoid Queen from Starfox Assault. Probably my favourite from Shadow Of The Colossus is the fifth one, the giant bird. Clinging on to that bastard as it swoops round the gigantic arena is a rare privilege. Older school: the inviso-powered flying saucer at the end of Area 6 in Lylat Wars. And the Macbeth boss, because of the way you can cut the fight out by redirecting it into the fuel depot. Magic. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2834 Joined: 12 May 2008   | I think we already have this thread, but the most epic boss battle in the world is the final duel against the boss in MGS3. That or getting the final boss in Fallout 2 to die by talking to him. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1380 Joined: 2 Aug 2006   | I'm sure I've had many more epic boss battles, but the only one I can think of is the epic boss battle against a giant turd monster in Conker's Bad Fur Day. Oh, hey, thanks YouTube: |
Beat Writer Posts: 210 Joined: 19 Feb 2008 | Well, with Dimentio, the music helps. The Sareaper... Well, you've been waiting the whole game to kick Saren's ass, and the fact that the Reaper is manifested in his corpse means you get to kill a SECOND bastard at the same time. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 474 Joined: 12 Jun 2008  | Beating any boss in I Wanna Be The Guy is freaking epic, you feel like the man who is all that with ten million bags of chips... and then the next screen owns you hardcore. Red pixels everywhere. God I love/hate/love/hate/love that game. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 2 Joined: 27 Jul 2008 | Hmmm... What was the most epic boss battle for me? You know, the boss battles in Resident Evil 4 were really good. Fighting Ganon in Ocarina Of Time, when he turns into that big pig, I thought was quite epic. I don't know for sure though. Another boss that I thought was quite epic, was the last boss in Doom for the Xbox. I have to say, I'm really not quite sure what was the most epic for me, but the boss battles I listed were quite epic to me, for sure. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 54 Joined: 9 Jul 2008 | Probably just a big dur, but if you can count GLaDOS in Portal, then she tops my list. It's so easy to play through the game and kick her parts into the fire that I do it just about every night before I got to sleep (like a gamer, at two a.m. or so). |
Anonymous Source Posts: 2 Joined: 27 Jul 2008 | Oh yeah, I can't forget about the bosses in Shadow Of Colossus. Those were pretty amazing. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 454 Joined: 4 Jun 2008    |
It's glorious! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2051 Joined: 19 May 2008 | Fighting Magus from Chrono Trigger, the music was awesome and the whole battle was tense, so was the last few battle with Lavos. God I love the classic, good times. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1922 Joined: 1 Jan 2008  |
Huh? |
Muckraker  Posts: 229 Joined: 9 Jun 2008 | I'd have to say Sephiroth from Kingdom Hearts one, or the giant bird or snake from Shadow of the Colossus. For sephiroth, it was having a battle system so tight that it was actually a challenge to face a boss; instead of just figuring out a pattern or mashing buttons, you had a system which forced you to rely on skill to beat a ridiculously challenging enemy. |
Paperboy  Posts: 48 Joined: 11 May 2008 | I'll try to limit it to 5 here... on this thread The Joy (Metal Gear Solid 3) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2834 Joined: 12 May 2008 |
The Joy was an amazing battle...Greatest ten minutes of my gaming life. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3159 Joined: 16 May 2008   | pretty much every battle in Shadow of the Colossus. A game where every level solely involves climbing a giant lumbering monster and figuring out how to kill it, and then clutching on, shoving a sword into it, pouring black blood out all over you? ya. my only issue with it is a couple of the bosses are similar in design, but they usually have at least a couple different elements that make it a different. Edit: Shadow of the Colossus has been mentioned I see, but it bears mention again. When it comes to big bosses, SoC wins until Resistance 2 comes out, then we'll see. |
Muckraker  Posts: 269 Joined: 24 Mar 2008  | The Joy/The Boss (MGS3) Wouldn't say "Epic", but it felt like a great triumph |
Paperboy  Posts: 11 Joined: 12 Jul 2008 | The giant, skinless, half-formed mutant from the original Tomb Raider. That fight was the only reason I bought Anniversary; and I don't think I've ever been more disappointed in my life. I spent the next 2 and a half hours intentionally dunking Lara in molten lava to ease the pain. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 5 Joined: 27 Jul 2008 | Twilight Princess, Air temple boss, Zant (Easy but amazing idea), and the sand temple boss. The giant skeleton dragon thing. That has got to be the most amazing boss fight I have ever done |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 12795 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
Aww fuck yeah. Maybe not the most epic, but very easily the most fun I've ever had during a boss fight (Including pitting REX against RAY). Its like someone decided to distill what makes Tony Hawk games fun, and made a boss fight out of that. And this is added to the games that need chapter select. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 76 Joined: 3 Jul 2008   | GLADOS, the Sareaper, and the end battle in Crysis. Seriously, blowing up that giant walker thingie and then using a portable nuke launcher to sink an EVEN BIGGER alien warship? Epic. |
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What boss battles do you think were either very epic, or extremely fun. For me it would have to be Dark Samus in Metroid Prime 2 and 3.