Your favorite video game boss?

frosty

Master of Disaster

Location: Dk

Joined: Dec 31 2007

Bowser.. He's big, mean and green..

Joined: Dec 31 1969

ummm, thats kinda hard - i really enjoy killin all my bosses. but i'd have to say bowser - he's been around from the start and a true classic!

gamingnguitar

Total Gamer

Location: Sylvarant

Joined: May 12 2008

Ahhh...lots of Bowser fans, I see. I like Bowser, but in the later games they've made him so downright easy (Super Mario Sunshine, anyone?).

Waladuz

Der Kritiker

Location: Germany

Joined: May 31 2008

Magus from Chrono Trigger...You fight him once in the entire game as I can remember, but he is definetly my fav.

Sinergy

Joined: Aug 05 2007

didnt think so many people would say bowser lol..

well anyway theres so many out there, i guess if im going for best design i would have to say Ridley hes been there almost from the start too, most challenging i'd say any of the Big Cores from Gradius V, try beating those suckers on loop 50....

all time favorite: magus from chrono trigger

yoshistrings

ヨッシー

Location: trapped in an egg

Joined: Oct 29 2007

tabuu was fun to fight, but as a chracter, my favorite was bowser for sure.

yoshistrings

ヨッシー

Location: trapped in an egg

Joined: Oct 29 2007

hahaha that was a hilarious battle. I walk in and there's this enormous bowser taking a bath. Whoops. wrong door.

doktai

Daniel

Location: Toronto, Canada

Joined: Jan 14 2008

I think that the two final battles of the game Ico (the horde of shadows and then the evil queen) are both the creepiest and most well-done battles I have ever seen. Either that or the first battle with Xemnas in Kingdom Hearts II (the one fought next to Memory's Skyscraper).

Joined: Dec 31 1969

"gamingnguitar" posted:

"yoshistrings" posted:

hahaha that was a hilarious battle. I walk in and there's this enormous bowser taking a bath. Whoops. wrong door.

Well, it was one of the weirdest in Mario history, I can tell you that. Think back to the old Super Mario Bros. where this was actually half-serious, and next thing ya know you gotta battle him in the tub. Freaky.

haha - u mean he was in a bath tub! lol I'll pick up that game just to see that!

Tyrant

????

Location: rio grand city texas

Joined: Jun 11 2008

i say the eeagle guy from shadow of the ninja(blue shadow)

rancidfetus

Classical Metalhead

Joined: Oct 09 2007

For me, it's up in the air between U3 from Resident Evil 4 and Stallord from LoZ: Twilight Princess. Scratch that, ANY boss from Twilight Princess.

atukomanga

Shiny/Glowy object collector

Location: Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Joined: Jun 13 2008

I see so many people picking some of the most cliche names in all of video game history (though Sephiroth is mysteriously missing in this list), like Kefka, Bowser, Ganon, etc...but doesn't anyone remember Ghaleon from Lunar: The Silver Star? One of the most composed villians ever, and his laugh sent shivers down your spine. He tortured dragons, stole girlfriends, and just when you thought he was dead, he comes back in Lunar 2!

Then I'm gonna go even older and say that the bosses from Thunder Force IV were amazing. They provided hours of challenging battle, and the DarkStar at the end became damn near impossible on Very Hard mode. Plus, they all looked wicked epic.

zer0

Joined: Jun 05 2008

Bowser, Ganondorf
and vile from megaman x

doktai

Daniel

Location: Toronto, Canada

Joined: Jan 14 2008

heh heh, I was just going through some old games the other day and I came across Pikmin 2. Did anyone ever face the man-at-legs? Basically, it was a machine/spider that shot at you with a machine gun cannon thing. A lot of fun to fight =)

cgseth

Joined: Apr 17 2007

Tomator, the boss of The Lost Vikings. What I loved about it was that it wasn't just hitting him a bunch of times repeatedly, it was a puzzle, and it used the whole level and all of your characters and a bunch of triggers and switches. I still remember the password you had to enter to get to the boss level. Plus he had a really funny expression when you hit him.

aBinaryVision

Joined: May 31 2008

With out a shadow of a doubt...mine is Kefka(Cefca) from Final Fantasy VI.
...a completely deranged and insane madman...never had a genuine reason for being evil,just wanted to destroy everything that exists...had a sense of humor aswell...oh yeah,before I forget...
Evil clowns have always frightened the SHIT outta me!!!

Rembrant

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Joined: Aug 12 2007

Chilli Billy and Chilly Willy from Banjo Tooie.

Funny bosses, and good fights.

SamuraiDanny

Rising Guitarist

Location: Among the Stars

Joined: Jun 18 2008

Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid (and Twin Snakes). Unlike other baddies who come back after being killed, Liquid does it right.

ChupaCalvin

Lt. McMuffin

Joined: Jun 22 2008

GlaD0s , otherwise, the Bowser from Paper Mario (one of my favorite Mario games ever)

atukomanga

Shiny/Glowy object collector

Location: Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Joined: Jun 13 2008

"Takoon" posted:

"atukomanga" posted:

I see so many people picking some of the most cliche names in all of video game history

Oh come on! Just because they're well known games doesn't make the bosses cliche. There are a lot of good bosses out there, but the most epic ones from the best games are the ones that stick out in people's minds.

Not that I blame you for sticking up for the underdog bosses. ^ ~

I call them cliche cuz every time this question come up, they are usually the main vote. Not that they aren't great, but I've know WAY to many people that jump on bandwagons and just to fit in, name off stuff that everyone likes. Take anime fans. Way too many people claim the title of 'Otaku', but how many of them have ever seen anything that hasn't been on Cartoon Network or Fox. A lot of them haven't even seen a Miyazaki film, or Akira for that matter, let alone other staples as Ranma 1/2, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, Fist of the North Star, Macross, etc. Not that I'm hating on fans of stuff, but there are some people that take things WAY to far to fit in. I've always felt that if you like something, then like it, but don't parade it as the "best thing ever" and put down everyone else that doesn't think the way you do. That's how wars start.

For instance, I hate the Naruto anime, but I kinda (keep in mind, kinda) like the manga. And people don't understand why. Here's where I get to show random knowledge of useless things. Naruto, along with many other Shounen anime, has what I call DBZ syndrom. This disease is where an anime pushes scenes, fight scenes in particular, to extend the length of the series without adding any value to the scene itself. Also, they have added scenarios and episodes that were not in the manga to extend the life to make more money. Do I blame the company for doing it? No. I blame the fan boys and fan girls that mindlessly buy the paraphernalia, watch the series, and post really bad AMVs and fan dubs online to drain all that is good from the series away from those of us that think it's "okay".

Now this thread is probably going to start the forum war of "Screw you! Naruto rules!" or something similar. So to those people that are thinking of starting that thread, congratulations, you are the people I am talking about. Opinion is opinion. I would like to see more people posting stuff that is rare, to show that they aren't mindless, and I noticed after my post there were a few of those, but we still got some Kefka and Sephiroth fans out there. And as great as that is, we need to get something that hasn't been done to death, buried, blown up, dismembered, experimented on, reformed, beaten to death again, and repeated countless times.

So I issue a challenge. Scour the world of video games and anime and whatever else you can find that has villians, heroes, whatever. I want to see something rare. The most unknown characters that are vicious villians, epic heroes, hilarious sidekicks....anything that hasn't been posted on every forum enough times that the google search counter hits the triple thousand digits.

And to show I know what I'm talking about, I'll start it off. No one ever wants to mention them, but the most epic, well-known and yet never mentioned villian of all time: The NAZIS. that's right, I said it. The Nazis have been in games, movies, and even anime for so long, that we brush them aside, but whenever there is a Nazi around, you know that gun fire will soon be flying, and "HAIL FUHRER!" will be shouted. Indiana Jones, Full Metal Alchemist, Medal of Honor...those tenacious Germans have been scouring our screen without us knowing it, and we've been hating them for so long.

What else do you people got?

wako-kun

MM tabber

Joined: Jun 14 2008

"atukomanga" posted:

"Takoon" posted:

"atukomanga" posted:

I see so many people picking some of the most cliche names in all of video game history

Oh come on! Just because they're well known games doesn't make the bosses cliche. There are a lot of good bosses out there, but the most epic ones from the best games are the ones that stick out in people's minds.

Not that I blame you for sticking up for the underdog bosses. ^ ~

I call them cliche cuz every time this question come up, they are usually the main vote. Not that they aren't great, but I've know WAY to many people that jump on bandwagons and just to fit in, name off stuff that everyone likes. [And some really nice words here which I don't need to post ^^]

I think the main reason for this is either, you do not stop and think of some truly great bosses before posting.

Or simply that they haven't encountered enough bosses to have any of them beating the Known bosses. (Maybe this isn't the case on this community...) It's hard to like bosses you haven't played.

When you first pick up a game it's a really high possibility that it's one of these big titles. so the fact that many unknown games have crappy bossfights makes it less common to stumble upon a truly great one (boss fight) outside the big titles.

AND... maybe I'm all wrong

saiyoucho

Joined: Jun 25 2008

Without a doubt Gabrie Celesta from Star Ocean The Second Story, which is also the best game ever made.

She were the special boss u could fight at the end of the cave of trials and she beat the crap out of me even though my main character were somewhere around lvl 180 at the time.

After about 2 hours or something like that I had run out of every single recovery item and usable item I had in my inventory and she killed of my characters. Now that moment was one of the most epic boss fights I've ever had.

But let's not also forget the last boss in Breath of Fire IV. At the end of the fight I had used up all recovery items and had so little hp left that the next hit would send me to oblivion. And I WON! =D

The main point why I loved these boss fights is that I usually never even come near dying in a RPG or even feel as much challenged. However these bosses can really push you over the edge. =)

And just to leave a comment about Sephiroth, he was a nice character in all but as a boss he was just a pansy weakling which could barely hurt you at all at the end of the game.
And I think that the last boss should at least be somewhat hard.

Yuki

Joined: May 20 2008

Kefka from Final fantasy 3 and Nyx from Persona 3 Fes.

Raiden

Joined: Jun 29 2008

psycho mantis from mgs1

gamingnguitar

Total Gamer

Location: Sylvarant

Joined: May 12 2008

Heh. I was definitely expecting Sephiroth to be more prominent on this. He's insane as a villain, but he's really a pansy when the actual battle comes up.