When was the last time a game's final boss truly impressed you? A final boss that wasn't just a satisfying ending to the game but the absolute peak of its experience?
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When was the last time a game's final boss truly impressed you?
When was the last time you got laid?
t. Shadow of Mordor gay
Schizo guess, incorrect guess
All right well just a boring homosexual then
Shadow of war was great
Probably Hollow Knights Radiant Moth.
2 nights ago, most likely tonight.
It's been 5, almost 6 years since I've seen a vegana. You get a taste. Only to make the absence of it hurt so much more.
Hey, don't give up hope. I believe you can be with someone again if you want and try. I hope for the best for you and others.
>I believe you can be with someone again if you want and try to.
Just wanted to fix up the sentence.
>"hey let's talk about this videogame topic on the videogames forum"
>"yeah but I bet you don't have sex, virgin"
do normalgays-wannabe tourists really?
2 months, but it's about to end this week, hiring a hooker.
Ask your mum gayet
I'm actually suprised that this pissed off someone.
Frick off normalBlack person.
Ganker has fallen
2018. I used to always have girlfriends too but that shit is over for me now.
Like a year and a half ago. Is alright.
>Normies unironically believe sex can compete with a good boss fight
I feel pity for these simpletons really
Sad!
>All these sex havers in the responses
Disgusting. Where the frick are my fellow wizards?
reporting
I'm only 27 but the V-card is well-guarded.
I wish somebody would at least try to steal it, just to prove it's worth something.
I'll do it Anon!
Good luck, it won't be easy.
my eternal virgin status was broken the day I managed to talk my way into getting a blowjob, and I awoke to the strange knowledge that I did, in fact, have game.
Hello
This morning with my live in prostitute aka an honest girlfriend
Pussy is cheap though game however are my life
MHW's Fatalis
yesterday I fricked my wife then we played World together
Ask your sister.
Never
>t. ALready a Wizard
a destructive cope
>Finally fall for the sex meme
>Go out of my way on a Friday night, comfy af in my room, watching a recap of the Injustice comic while playing Dark Souls 3 PVP, to go get laid with some random nobody prostitute from Tinder
>Arrive at her home
>Small talk for 5 mins, and she's already sucking my dick, and I'm hitting her from behind
>10 mins later I'm done and leave after some more small talk
>Experience was 5/10 at best because she was fun to talk with
Never again, you fricks promised me some mind-blowing crazy stuff that would leave me hooked for life, I left my video on a massive cliffhanger, you bastards said this was gonna solve all my life problems and I'd be a full functioning normie, but I'm still wasting away at my room, playing Vidya
now you'll never have wizard powers
>last time
Isshin.
goat 2nd post
HOW MY BLOOD BOILS
2pbp
Sippy Bippy
How many fights in Sekiro had a clear second phase? I don't mean that they have 3 health pips and get a couple more moves the further into the fight you go. Isshin, Genichiro, and the ape are the only ones I can remember that did, which makes the ape scene especially effective
Ancient Dragon or whatever if you consider killing the weird goobers his first phase lol
seikurururu
Headhunter in Katana Zero, short and simple but very effective, and I love the conversation with her beforehand
MAIRE, SEKIRO!
Isshin wasn't the boss i struggled with the most, but it feels like a boss that tested you the most.
If you "got" the game by that point, you will pass, but if you didn't he will frick you up over and over again.
A boss that isn't just a self contained challenge, but a final skillcheck for the game as a whole, making him the perfect final boss.
Frick his jobber grandson for just wasting your time though
I like Genichiro showing up there, killing him in half a minute as a warm-up really impresses on you how far you've come since when you first fought him. Assuming you struggled with him on the first encounter, anyways.
AC6.
this looks neat
i dont really have a good answer... the FROM games have just another big powerful boss. i guess i havnt beat THAT many games :/
Shame All-Mind is pretty easy
The fight itself is pretty easy and the first phase with all the jobber bots is annoying, but the design is really cool and I want a model kit of that thing so bad
Pic unreleated?
>Everyone wants coral convergence. Thanks to this overwhelming consensus we've decided to fight because????
>all the ACs that come to help allmind are nerfed to shit because everything about 6 had to be made easier for casuals.
>Ok now here's an old boss we copy pasted twice.
>turns out the only reason anyone is fighting is because a useless moron whom you've killed a minimum of 3 times already is acting like a literal petulant child
The Rusty, walter, and pretty much every PCA fight mog it completely.
allmind-iguazu isn't nearly as cool a bossfight as Ayre was.Not to mention the entire story in route3 feels kinda nonsensical
2nd phase being a bit slow because you need to counter certain attacks with certain assists aside, he's head and shoulders above most final bosses from these kinds of action games. Great buildup, great framing, great music on either mode, the only boss that make you parry things on the off-beat, and a bunch of little touches (The 808 distraction super doing nothing as a unique voice clip of "Did you think that would work? I'm a dog person." plays). Not as excellent as either final Vergil fight or as memorable as Armstrong, but only a tier below them.
Also great recent picks.
That said, pic related IS on the same tier as the best in the genre, if you include the two phases (on the beach as any Autobot, in orbit as Optimus) as one fight. A true mechanical test of skill against a boss with a massive movepool, followed by a more straight-forward brawl in space with one of the best Optimus/Megatron interactions Cullen & Welker ever recorded, debating over the validity of human life while punching each other. Absolutely 10/10 final boss.
Dark Souls 2
I was truly impressed that the final boss was a damage sponge with area attacks and a status effect
Secret final boss of A robot named fight.
I never got to playing through the last update that added an alt version of the third area. Don't think I ever did a run trying to defeat this boss first thing though.
kinò
Didn't Sauron get killed by a woman in the movie?
No that was a nazgul, one of his little b***h boys
>commenting about Lord of the Rings without even knowing the most basic shit about it
Sauron's hand got cut off by a man who took the ring of power and then Frodo throws the ring in Mount Doom to finally kill him.
Actually, Frodo put the ring on and fricked off, Gollum was the one who tossed the ring into the fires of Mt. Doom (by accident).
But Gollum is not a woman so that anon is still morone.
>Down, down!' he gasped, clutching his hand to his breast, so that beneath the cover of his leather shirt he clasped the Ring. 'Down you creeping thing, and out of my path! Your time is at an end. You cannot betray me or slay me now.'
>Then suddenly, as before under the eaves of the Emyn Muil, Sam saw these two rivals with other vision. A crouching shape, ... a creature now wholly ruined and defeated, yet filled with a hideous lust and rage; and before it stood stern, untouchable now by pity, a figure robed in white, but at its breast it held a wheel of fire. Out of the fire there spoke a commanding voice.
>'Begone, and trouble me no more! If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom
Frodo takes ownership of the ring and, using its power, declares a prophecy that will ultimately destroy it (thanks, perhaps, to a little divine intervention).
>Sauron's hand got cut off by a man who took the ring of power and then Frodo throws the ring in Mount Doom to finally kill him.
In the books Sauron was defeated in battle and then Isildur cut off his ring finger while he was incapacitated.
No, that was Witch-King, Leader of Nazguls. He was to Sauron more or less relatively the same thing Sauron was for Morgot.
Game bosses don’t impress me anymore. We’ve had this same tired formula for 30 years now, just showing devoid of creativity game studios are
>start game
>progress and kill trash mobs
>boss fight
>continue with story
>another boss fight
>continue story
Same shit every game
what would you propose instead?
you are completely moronic
>no counter
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Literature doesn't impress me anymore. It's all been the same for thousands of years. Its boring.
>Beginning
>Rising tension
>Climax
>Conclusion
Same shit every book
What’s it like having Trisomy 21
I gotchu senpai
read Kafka
>he hasn't read tumult of the Black folk
The only explanation for me is you do too many high-dopamine activities recently. Do a dopamine fast and your receptors will have time to reload so you can enjoy stuff again.
>The only explanation for me
You should try reading what anon was replying to then
That gameloop remains the same because people buy and enjoy it. This is a (you) problem
so what you're saying is that we should fight the boss first, and THEN fight trash mobs
That would actually be godlike if done right. I'd do it in reverse order so you fight the final boss and make him as punishing as possible to force the player to burn up their resources then you fight a dual mini-boss immediately afterward and then you finish the game having to slaughterfrick the basic enemies when you're absolutely depleted.
Primordial Malzeno was fantastic, despite Rise itself being pretty crappy, it's one of the few monsters in modern MH that can actually keep up with the player in what feels like a fair and extremely rewarding fight instead of just flinging AOEs everywhere or relying on one-hits and gimmicks
I beat it first try while under geared. It was way too easy.
There have been some in the past few years. All of AC6's final bosses are great. Isshin from Sekiro is just one of the best final bosses of all time. The final boss from Hi-Fi Rush was excellent and also like Armstrong in the way that he's a lot harder than literally anything else in the game. I also think Baldur's Gate 3's final boss was really cool, fighting on top of the Nether Brain is a great setpiece and on Honor mode its actually quite challenging.
Primordial Malzeno is also definetly on the list, quickly became one of my favorite Elder Dragons in the series. He's just so cool, his moveset is super interesting and he's hard without feeling obnoxious like fricking Crimson Glow Valstrax
Primordial was really well done
As far as final bosses go though I'm disappointed that Shara and Gaismagorm never got a harder version even with all the boosted monsters getting thrown around in Iceborne and Sunbreak's endgames
They did a really good job on Alatreon and Fatalis too, Amatsu was kinda whatever but I never liked him much.
At least Shara was a decent fight in its own right. Gaismagorm felt like a big spectacle with not much substance behind it. Just throwing out individual slow heavy moves. It really needed a hazard quest where it starts off in phase 3 right away
this because I couldn't believe it was actually the final boss
the presentation was cool as frick, monster sperging out more and more.
Not sure why he
seneschal and daimon, for different reasons.
Who is the idiot who made this image. They got SENATOR and ARMSTRONG swapped
Granblue Relink
Wasn't hard at all but it was a kino experience
It legitimately blows my mind that "make the final boss the best experience of the game" isn't somehow accepted as basic game design 101. This is the climax and ending of your video game, arguably the most important part, and yet so developers just frickin' whiff it. How?
They're batshit insane (but not in a cool way).
Because they (vidogaem industry) believe final bosses are an outdated concept, and the game should end up with a fart.
Statistically fewer than 25% of players make it to the final boss so why bother putting any effort into it?
I'm pretty certain a lot of those statistics are skewed by people who pick up games and never end up playing them, or drop them after the first level. And there's no point in designing games for people who don't play them; you might as well make paintings for the blind.
This is part of it. Also at the end of the long journey some people just get fatigued and want to be over with it especially in a game where you can't backtrack or grind up or anything. They just get mad and quit.
>Also at the end of the long journey some people just get fatigued and want to be over with it especially in a game where you can't backtrack or grind up or anything. They just get mad and quit.
Why play the game then? Why don't jist watch a movie?
Statistically, fewer than 25% anons pull out legit statistics and not ones coming out of their ass.
The numbers were pulled out of his ass but it is proven looking at Achievement data that the people who beat any given game are the minority. The percentage has actually gone up in recent years though, so final bosses are actually starting to matter more.
this is something that has pissed me off every Mario game since sunshine. I could literally play the final stage/boss and beat the game with no previous knowledge, imagine sitting through 30+ hrs just for the final boss to be such a lame pushover. fricks sake, at least land the ending
>this is something that has pissed me off every Mario game since sunshine. I could literally play the final stage/boss and beat the game with no previous knowledge, imagine sitting through 30+ hrs just for the final boss to be such a lame pushover. fricks sake, at least land the ending
What about the final boss in Odyssey?
Replayed DQ3 recently and Zoma's still a great fight as far as RPG bosses go.
Most devs can't make a single good boss fight on purpose, let alone make the rest of the game good
god I still remember my first armstrong fight to this day.
My issue is that it's so frequently the second last boss that's the best one. Turns out fighting the dude who's a lot like yourself is always more fun than fighting the big ugly mindless monster that punches the stage and has no character. Armstrong honestly almost falls into this but he's just so fun that it works out.
>urns out fighting the dude who's a lot like yourself is always more fun than fighting the big ugly mindless monster that punches the stage and has no character.
the best part is how the game actually baits you into think that this is what's gonna happen by making you fight excelsus right after Sam.
what a game
2nd to last boss is the story critical and mechanically challenging boss
meanwhile the last boss is all about spectacle
I dont think this is a bad thing tho, sometimes you need to make the fight easier so the player can enjoy all the shit going on
or you could just combine the two
God Hand is THE example I think of for this. Azel should have been the actual final boss, not the moronic Angra thing. Completely killed the hype, same for Absolute Radiance being the actual final fight instead of Pure vessel in Hollow Knight.
The second son of miracle was nowhere near as hard as Eviterno, but he's the prettiest fight in the game. He perfectly embodies the game's "holy yet twisted and grotesque" aesthetic. It's a shame because he only knows three attacks that while they do a ton of damage, are relatively easy to dodge. Eviterno was far more engaging of a fight where you had actually had to be fast to evade him.
but the smart games know this and do the big spectacle fight before the quiet rival fight
e.g. dmc3, mgs 1-4
I very much miss the big fancy omniscient clockbird that pierces the stage and stops time and teleports and MIGURUSHII
Making them a QTE is fricking criminal
Money and time are usually gone by then and everyone is crunching to just ship the fricking thing.
>this homie thinks games are made from the beginning to the end in a linear fashion
OH NONONONONOOO
Some of them are
normalgays don't finish games
from a financial perspective, it makes sense to put all the effort into the start of the game to keep players hooked
My attention span doesn't allow me to finish video games
>Gael,mogh, godfrey, ludwig,sis frida
>Rusty, worm, final ng++ boss from ac6
>Anything from nioh 2
>Most boss from furi (personal fav is samurai guy)
>Redsun guy 2nd phase with kino music from mgrr
Top picks.
Nyx Avatar is one of my favorite final boss fights of all time.
>13 phases, the final one being the strongest.
>Narrates the Fool's journey between each phase swap.
>Thematically the perfect climax to the game.
About to fight it in the remake tonight, hope it holds up.
It was a slog for me, I must have been underleveled or something because I got by having to use all my items and barely doing any damage
Nah bro they fricking ruined it. They actually ruined nearly everything about it
>HP not adjusted for reload
>Theurgys rape it
>Only one move per turn
>Background is ruined, Nyx's voice is ruined
>Doesn't spam Night queen(only uses it once) or use moonless gown
>Piss easy even on merciless
this so much, nyx was one of my fav SMT bossfights and it got absolutely ruined, only one turn instead of the usual 2 for bosses is a joke, and theurgies + characteristics make your party absolutely OP. fuuka makes it so when your weakness is hit you just recieve normal damage, and some party members have a shitload of crit now, or buffs effects are stronger or can use debilitate or basically can spam heals for free...
and yeah of course, theurgies one shot his phases. you deal too much damage compared to the og game and he has the same health
Not counting the secret boss/es, but I really like the final boss of Furi. The boss before it basically requiring you to just be perfect is a great actual final challenge compared to it though.
furi is one of the few games where i think literally deleting a chunk of it, with no other changes, would drastically improve it.
once you escape it should have ended. the stuff afterwards ruins the mystery and the moment.
remnant 2
It really was a kino final boss. Best boss of 2023 easy.
Nier automata did that gimmick better. The actual fight itself was a joke, but constantly flipping back and forth between two perspectives really enhanced the overall experience.
nah. automata peaked at the park boss rest was pure unfiltered shit. remnant did boss fights relatively well and last boss was surprisingly good. my personal favorite was sha'hala though
>nah. automata peaked at the park boss rest was pure unfiltered shit
the last route E boss fight where you switch between 9S and A2 is fricking kino.
frick off
honestly what makes the senator armstrong fight for me is that brief moment he thinks he's getting through to jack, picks him up and brushes him off patting his shoulder. it wasn't a "hahaa i win!" moment but a "finally you understand, there's no reason for us to fight!"
just seeing a boss behave in that way is so surreal and unique that it cements that moment in your brain for eternity
>finish his last health bar
>music becomes somber
>UI disappears
>he's still alive
>there's one more phase
Crimson 1 was practically a transcendent experience for me.
In the non-mercenary version of the fight it straight up flashes your emblem like a boss intro and gives you a boss healthbar. It's good stuff
Project Wingman is full of great moments, what a wonderful experience.
Indeed
on a similar note this fight is kinda kino
but Zero is still way better
mediocre slop for psuedo-esoteric gays
the PW fan is legitimately terrified of people actually playing PW and realizing it's nothing special. The Signlalis fanbase is very similar
crimson 1 was an embarrassing, obscenely easy and cringeworthy bossfight
Ultima in FFXVI was pretty badass
>Over three phases
Is anybody else absolutely sick of multi-phase bossfights? It's fine once in a while as a surprise, but these days it's every single boss every single time. Especially the soulslike games.
No, it is you. Multiphase bosses are used not only for "surprise, is it not even my final form, and you already have spent all your healing items", but also for artistic presentation of a boss as a character, unveiling him in parts, revealing his connections to other characters and parts of the game, allowing player to see boss' true personality and motivations, showcase his downfall, moving on his story right during bossfight. Look at Rabi-Ribi main part of the plot final boss.
Look at Lies of P, where almost every single boss gets an entire second phase but almost none of them have any of that "character" shit. It's just tiring, and makes it so the ones that would be interesting no longer stand out at all.
Hadn't played LoP, but right now i have checked randomly several biss fights (parade master, white lady, two bossfights, that, i suppose, are only a minibosses - clown puppet and puppet of the future, puppet eating something, and Laxasia the Complete), and so far i have seen second forms only on parade master (which should show you, that puppets are inhuman machines, because, while resembling human visually originally, he just tears off his head to use it as a club, and Laxasia being prime example of unveiling boss fight i have mentioned in my post about Rabi-Ribi. Maybe there was some additional movements on single-phase bossfights (i haven't noticed them during watching video), but that would not even be comsidered a phase-changing, that is just one-two addotional moves.
Don't play Tekken 8 I guess
Can't believe they somehow made a good final boss after the absolute shitshow that was Delirium
>shit piss vomit naked children christianity bad game
frick off
They are good, but I still think Dogma is a much better fight conceptually, design-wise and aesthetic-wise.
Since you fight Dogma and Beast back to back i just kinda consider them one long final boss.
Shishido had that dog in him.
>a legend in any other era, but came too late as the Yakuza were dying
Too based for a post-Yakuza world
How did the B team's half game blow the A team's full game out of the water? Gaiden is so goddamn kino compared to 8.
TW101 or Nier Automata
The Parade Master is the first boss in the game, and it still has a phase 2 as you pointed out. The clown and puppet of the future are minibosses at best, the white lady is an npc battle. Laxasia does have a full phase 2 with a cutscene transition, as does the green monster/puppet devouring monster (same fight). Reposting because I skimmed over you mentioning those two.
Lies of P has 7 bosses with full cutscenes and a completely fresh lifebar in between phases. The first 3 bosses of the game do things like what you saw with the parade master. There's also a gank squad you fight twice and a repeat of the parade master which starts in phase 2, those are the only fights with no transitions.
link
Has checked on bosses slightly more thoroughly (uses this video).
Well, Archbishop shows madness of petrification disease through masked face after unmasking being a hole full of shards. King of Puppets unveils to us, that other Pinocchios exist. Champion Victor is Bane the Batman Backbreaker, so far first boss with next phase looking like purely powerup, maybe pumping himself full of venom have some plot consequences.
Yes, hadn't noticed green monster being first phase, my bad. This one might me second phase for the sake of second phase. Corrupted parade master is, technically, a third phase or a miniboss, and it shows us corruption on puppets. Simon Manus shows us "evolution" and his own insanity, this time more intended and completed over archbishop's. Rest of them are either minibosses or "NPC" bosses with no second phase. Almost every of them is heavily plot-related except for puppet eater, so far i can only consider your complaint as a complaint about overusage of multiphasing, but not as "multiphasing doesn't do anything but second phase".
Sorry, forgot the video.
It wasn't mindblowing, but I really enjoyed the final boss in a little indie game called Power of Ten. Mostly because of the godlike soundtrack (first time in my life that I bought an OST of my own accord). First tine it really felt like a battle against overwhelming odds and when I finally beat him I felt properly relieved and "spent".
What makes for a good final boss?
>requires use of all combat-related mechanics of the game
>challenging
>high stakes plot-wise
>good music, unique boss theme, bonus points for remix of the main game theme
>satisfying length, several phases
It should be impressive. Powerful, most powerful thing left to defeat. Heavily plot-related. Preferably have a mind and a reason to fight the character (you). Preferably either being honourable or be at this level of power, where only honour is not to hold itself against worthy opponent. Majority of best bossfights in modern japanese games are against human enemy - mgs4, mgr, mgs3, Devil May Cry 3, Demon Souls, Dark Souls 1, Killer is Dead, No More Heroes and so on.
Non-human final bosses require proper and unique treatment like Drakengard 3.
Of course, game director is directly responsible for proper scene - music, dialogue, boss visuals and movements - everything should show you, that here is your true enemy - everything before was just obstacles, tutorial, tests, way for you(r character) to reach peak potential to finally become equal to the final boss, which is an ultimate challenge for you(r character) personally.
tl;dr: good director, who understands, how to prepare player through the for being able to percept climax emotionally, make climax both relatable just enough, so player would start relating to it and therefore be hooked into events emotionally, and how and what crank up to eleven to instantly rev up slightly hooked player to the max, so contrast between passive tension will kick in right from the beginning, AND THEN WILL KICK IN AGAIN by revealing a thing tenfold more impressive, that player has just seen. Adding fighting giant demon/mecha/alien right before true bossfight helps a lot, as player has just got an impression, that this giant thing was the classic Big Bad, but suddenly there is more. And this more is way, WAY more impressive, than a giant fricking demonic robot from space.
good post
The fight was easy but the spectacle was amazing
this game had 4 final bossfights and roland was the best one
Easy post-final boss fights are kino, when done well they really feel like a coup de grace
Every Kirby final boss since Magolor has been top tier. Star Dream is probably my favorite.
Kirby doesn't frick around with Final/Secret bosses. I never cared about this franchise, though it was some kiddy shit until I played on the DS and got blown away.
The fact they added an even harder version for the remake is hilarious
>Unsure whether there was going to be a secret extra fight or just normal Magolor Soul as in EX mode
>Turns out it's just Magolor Soul like in the original
>Turns out it's actually not and i get instantly wiped by its super beam at the beginning
They really know how to play with your expectations
I do like the original CROWNED theme more than OVERLORD though
I love that along with consistently having an absolutely incredible final boss, modern Kirby games additionally always have a cool new secret phase for that boss at the end of the hardest boss rush, usually replacing the finishing move QTE.
Armstrong's fight was very memorable for me because at the time I was playing the game on a crappy laptop I used for college, and it would overheat and shut down when I played that fight for too long and it always does it during the final phase where you fight him in the ring of fire, so I had to really rush through the fight and not spend too much time on it.
I guess the Mega Man Zero series is very old now. But it's a good example as any.
I can't play the fourth game in the series. I tried. I tried playing the fourth game a few times, and I just can't get into it. Is he fourth game bad? No. Not at all. But the third game's final boss was such a peak ending, that it feels wrong to continue the story beyond it. I ask myself, why am I playing the 4th game, when the 3rd game is the true end? There's just no topping it.
Not the last time, but definitely Garrosh.
>unleashes the powers of the old gods
>btfos the pandas and the gay ass alliance
>uses them for his goals of absolute horde supremacy
>in the fight he mutates into a abomination
>nukes left and right, 194014 phases
>mind controls
>4 expasions later his shackled soul screams that he did nothing wrong and he would do it again and commits sudoku while taking down his tormentor
It really felt that you beat WoW as a whole after killing garrosh
Bahamut Versa in Granblue Relink was pure ludo-kino
Admittedly I only played through the game once, so I didn't do any of the unlockable difficulties, but I found that fight particularly obnoxious. I think I spent more time waiting around than actually fighting, and having to fully drain Id's healthbar 3 times left me wondering when the hell is this shit going to end. I don't think he even did anything different each time, it was just a timewaster with a false sense of progress.
*BOOOOM* *aggressive air intake whine* *flamenco riff*
The ending to the mad max game was ok. The actual fight was ok but the set up was good
The entirety of Operation 009 is peak, but 009-C is just fricking insane with Jergingha's seven-ish different phases
>mash A to Protect Earth
>cut to the inside of the wienerpit where everyone is mashing as fast as they can
10/10 fight
I wish I could say Godfrey into Radagon was peak kino, but then you had to fight Elden Beast.
Akhualy final boss of the game is that fight against Mr Corporate's clone? hologram?
>main game final boss just reuses a midgame boss gimmick so it doesn't have the impact it did the first time
>boss of the DLC dungeon with piss easy midbosses doesn't use it at all but absolutely fricks
>DLC final boss uses it again and is once again underwhelming
Really weird. Although I must admit, the final phase just being the same shit but with everyone attacking at once was underwhelming, after that short Rabi-Ribi tier black on white endurance segment I was hoping for more.
Spoilering the image is pointless when you don't say what it is.
Left: japanese game
right: american game
Find the flaw.
Best final fight in my memory is the true mwyah fight in ESA, that shit was hype
giygas* earthbound: for story
smithy smrpg: for music
civV diety: just one long boss fight that makes you a better person by being able to complete it
Melbu Frahma
Since Legend of Dragoon doesn't really allow a first time player to grind out experience, what I got was a knock-down drag-out fight that lasted 45 minutes, like 5 phases, used all of my consumables, and came down to the final phase with only Meru alive. Went for the hail mary basic attack and won only to have my game freeze as soon as the final FMV started.
Very memorable, very climactic final boss that pushes a first time player while pumping the breaks enough to allow their half-assed additions and non-Legend's Casque armor to pull them through with good timings.
Not to mention that final point-of-no-return moment where the field background turns from a calming blue to an intense red while Dart tells the party, and you, that this is definitely the final boss, and to only move forward when you're ready.
The final walk up or approach to the final boss is as important as the boss itself. You need that moment to set a mood, to strike fear into the player, and to make them wonder if there is actually a realistic chance they will lose because of how imposing what they see ahead of them is.
based, i had a similar experience where my game crashed during the final fight transitions and i never finished the game despite makit it all the way to him
i should probably get an emulator and go for it
Sauron shouldn't have been a b***h but it's a little disingenuous to hype up Armstrong's 200% health bar when it melts like butter and there are QTEs that shave off hefty chunks at a time.
Void Stranger is the most recent (sort of, Cif), but Rabi Ribi is the one that came to mind immediately.
I don't know about the best, but I can confidently say that Andross from StarFox Zero is the worst final boss I've ever fought. What an absolutely visual and mechanical mess of a fight, not to mention the nonsense of him shifting from flesh to metal for some reason.
The only high point was andross suddenly being super racist.
>you only get the android form
This final boss had no right being as good as it was.
Giant boss, shooter boss, Nintendo, short singleplayer campaign for primarily multiplayer game; all of these things should have spelled disaster, instead we got one of the best bosses of the 2010s. So good, the devs can't surpass it even now.
Yakuza Gaiden
Xemnas is still the peak for me. Just a masterpiece of a final boss.
It's really the peak of the franchise both narratively and gameplay with all the different phases
>Xemnas taunting both of them with insecurities from past games
>Both cut him to pieces during gameplay without ever acknowledging him
Also the complete catharsis with sora and riku finally fighting together.
shadow of mordor and shadow of war are great games. the only asscreed bamham slop thats fun to explore. orcs having specific voice lines to react to smallest things gives it so much soul
Adam smasher
I assume you mean 2.1 Smasher
Isshin Ashina
Fatalis
Iceborne Fatalis
My hunters
Nameless Puppet
Off the top of my head, my favourite last bosses/ending sequences
>Metal gear rising
>MGS 3
>Dark Souls 1
>LoZ Wind Waker
I don't have a very good memory
And then again on Hard. And then also the superboss unlocked through a stupid amount of repetitive filler cases, but Noah was still better.
I like this thing, i understand the seething about it but personally i think it's cool as hell.
This mother fricker too me 1/4 of a whole day lmao.
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How do I get to final bosses in time to enjoy them, without being burnt out on the game from doing all the side shit first?
have sex, touch grass, go out for a run
Most recently was granblue relink, bahamut versa wasn't that hard as a boss but frick it was hype as hell, especially with that banger ost in the background
fat legs erotic
>fight this guy
>think "man, I really hope we get to use Proto Bahamut to beat the shit out of him"
>it doesn't happen
>psych, you get to fight him again and exactly that happens
Peak
Unironically crystal project.
The secret boss requires you to have a varied team that can do basically everything, and the final boss literally cheats if you don't metagame it into the ground without mercy.
Radagon, Godfrey, and Isshin.
It sucks that Radagon doesn't have a second phase.
This game has no business being as good as it is.
The final battle between a mech and robot t-rex, then fighting in a crashing spaceship, then dving and weaving through said crashing spaceship.
Its great.
Yeah Armstrong was a dumb baddie
You're a slave to history.
bros...
>but the absolute peak of its experience?
Low bar for fighting games granted, but the Tekken 8 final boss is amazing. You get an hour long slugfest that spans space as chuuni angel vs devil and back on Earth as man vs man using fighting styles across Tekken history finally bringing the feud to resolution. Great soundtrack the entire way through as well
absolutely DISGUSTING amounts of KINO
they really knocked it out of the park with this one. whoever came up with the idea of having jin use every fighting style he learned during the ending deserves a raise. unfiltered shounen kino.
it has to be pic rel. its not the final boss per se but it might as well be since everything after it was an afterthought and not nearly as impactful. beautiful fight throughout
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His bossfight is still the final one in my heart. It was just so fricking good in presentation, mechanics, and variety. And all that shit had story relevance it was just amazing
I still think distorted ensemble was a great bossfight too but they went all out with him
I really liked fighting Jack to finish off SoP.
>final boss is just a hard as nails single fight you need to retry over 100 times unless you're a master with funky music blasting
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CRAZY PEOPLE WANT TO
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I do have to mention that the arcade mode can be even more bullshit than the story mode, but that's a given
Hell yea special stage
It's a hard motherfricker of a game but you can't help but run the races over and over until you win with that eurobeat blaring.
Shame SEGA doesn't feel like making another proper release of it.
This shit was utter kino from start to finish.
I AM
I MUST
I WILL
Laugh at me but Nemesis from 3 Houses.
Golden Deer was the last of the 4 routes i ended up playing and i had no idea i would actually fight that guy.
The moment God Shattering Star started i was so in awe i forgot to eat just to finish the map proper. Maddening/Classic
Dragon's Dogma.
I'm not even one of the autists that think its the greatest game of all time or anything, but the final battle with Grigori is satisfying as hell.
Ghost of Tsushima, wasn’t hard or anything, but sure was kino
if you didn't beat it you're not a real gamer
Radagon and the Elden Beast. Especially Radagon.
Azel in God Hand.
This plus the true final boss after you go through the final fight gauntlet is peak videogames, the threat of your save file getting deleted if you lose (which will probably happen at least once) is ludonarrative harmony of the highest order
I don't even like shmups. I've bought dozens of them for like 5 dollars each on sale and have less than 2 hours on all of them. I have 50 hours in ZeroRanger. There's just something about this game, it's perfect. The final boss is amazing every time.
Basically the last sp game I played.
Sure, there are more bosses in the DLC which I am going through now, but this was a pretty satisfying boss to the main game story overall
>ctrl+F
>”Dante”
>0 matches
It’s fricking amazing. You fight him as the penultimate boss, then they make you fight him AGAIN as the final boss and it’s just the same fight with a better song and he has 3x as many moves
>Boss has the same moveset as the player
>On the last phase, he regains HP and both the boss and the player strike a pose before throwing down for real.
Wario Land Shake It was kino of the highest order.
Arkham games had some legit good boss fights.
City & Origins did. Asylum & Knight though, holy frick no, and I love those games otherwise. The Deadshot boss is pretty much the main reason to play Origins.
I thought Deadshot was white.
Black folkhot retired before Wiggershot appeared in Gotham, apparently.
The Deathstroke fight in Origins is shit
Yes, you're all wrong
We could have gotten one of those martial arts enemies with a bigger health bar as a Deathstroke boss but we ended up with a QTEfest, don't let the first 4 seconds of the fight fool you, that frickin fight is a QTEfest.
>Said Deadshot instead of Deathstroke
The new Suicide Squad game poisoned my fricking mind and I haven't even played it. I should've just said Slade.
And yet the Sauron boss fight is more memorable than generic salaryman
No, it really wasnt
Radagon. I fricking love it when media plays you the main theme as the soundtrack to a climatic battle. Same shit with the background track in Sovrengard.
It was good
CAN'T HOLD ON MUCH LONGER
I KNOW IT'S A ONE WAY TRACK
I'M NOT GONNA THINK THIS WAY
CLOSE MY EYES AND FEEL IT BURN
OPEN YOUR HEART
IT'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT
Sonic Adventure was the first game I beat I think. What a kino ending apart from the second phase when the cool music cuts out.
I mean, I know he is not hard, but for a zelda game, he actualy put a good fight for once, when this motherfricker perfect dodged me my jaw dropped, and I was scared for a moment of the possibility of him fricking flurry rushing me, too bad they didn't had the balls to make him do that.
3D Zelda boss fights have always been piss easy and cinematic, OoT had the worst final boss fight of any zelda game. Totk is the only time they had a final boss that wasn't a complete snoozefest, and you could still easily outclass him through armor and hearts to make him too easy. Sad, but its the best 3D has ever done.
>His attacks are gloom 2.0 and fully remove your heart containers, meaning its impossible for you to heal from any of his damage
Kino mechanic, shame having level 4 armor makes it such a non-factor.
Rematch him with only 3 hearths challenge no armor upgrades and only base master sword. It is really fun. No shield for extra challenge
Not last time but imo still one of most memorable boss battles.
>Its a boss battle of the third trillogy
>You face your nemesis you fought with over entire trilogy.
>This is the final battle
>The place of clash is also place where 2 divine beings are fighting each other forcing you to avoiding their devastating powers while facing your nemesis.
>And as cherry on top a great music.
Might and magic 6 didn't have a boss, but rather the biggest and most deadly maze of the game filled with the toughest enemies in huge numbers
Trying to explore the thing is a waste, just get to the center and suicide bomb the aliens before you're inevitably overwhelmed
But at that point you've got a full set of blasters so you destroy them easily.
Tomb of Varn or the fricking Darkmoor Castle - now those were some ridiculously overtuned dungeons
man shadow of mordor was so disappointing, never finished shadow of war so no idea how that shit ends
it has an actual final boss, at least. But it's Sauron in his fair form lmao
Kale was pretty cool
It's kind of odd, Armstrong isn't even that interesting of a fight. It's really carried by the music, as most of the fight is dodging behind him and hitting his weak point.
It's carried by his character, then the music. It's difficult to make a fight as tight as Vergil 3 for that kind of game, when you think about it.
That's a fricking lie, homie. It's a twist villain, no one expected the goofy ass senator from that one cutscene to asspull a metal gear, power up with nanomachines of all things, pull a might makes right speech to Raiden and end the way it fricking ends. The music is hype but the fricking wild ride it is carries all of the phases.
Sekiro
Elden Ring
Metroid Prime
Fatalis, it is objectively the best dragon in videogames. Probably electronic media in general until they one-up it with a White Fatalis rework
What's more kino for final bosses
>first phase is colossal, final phase is the same size as you
>first phase is the same size as you, final phase is colossal
The first one. Especially if by that point you've both used up all your super special video game powers and it's a bare knuckle brawl to the death.
Tekken 8 pulled this off despite it trying to rein in the dumb shit 6&7 did and introducing new dumb shit of its own (taking the Hollow Ichigo shit from bleach and having that result in Jin & Kazuya having a fight in suped up Devil & Angel forms like it's DMC5's final boss after they were blown into the atmosphere from an island like the end of JoJo Part 2). After all that they have the sense to make you fight Kazuya for like 5 straight rounds as Jin consolidates all of his fighting influences into one style again to beat Kazuya to death with no Devil Gene bullshit involved. It's awesome.
First one will always be more hype.
First by far. Second has a couple good examples (Giant Baby Bowser is kino as frick), but a lot of the time the second is kind of lame.
Sauron tries to avoid fighting physically at all costs and has a bad tendency to lose so that actually makes sense.
>a final boss
I was going to post the new prince of persia but the final boss is not even the best one
>bunch of people saying radagon
grim, the west has fallen
The tower sequence from Nier Automata was one of my favorite boss fights. The whole thing just feels so intense with the pacing and story build up. I need to get the secret ending done still.
>proof of a hero starts playing
My personal favorite bossfight in the history of video games.
If you know you know. The motherfricker tanks getting smashed into the moon
EDF 5. Not the real final boss but the ship itself. Holy frick
I liked it, it being a 3 way battle was a fun idea Tabuu was still better
Mischief makers has you fight a transforming giant robot as a little robot girl who can grab the robot by the foot and smash it into the ground looney toons style.