The NZA Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 Gamespot's top 10 boss battles Cool to see Dark Falz of Phantasy Star lore get a nod, and there's no way Psycho Mantis wasnt making that list (id vote The Sorrow from MGS3 as well).... still, most of us love boss battles (though not everyone...?), its why games like Shadow of the Collossus - which was nothing but boss fights - are awesome. Which ones've bene you favorites?
Silent Bob Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 Good list. The Kingdom Hearts games had some great boss battles. The dragon version of Maleficent and Chernobog were pretty epic.
The NZA Posted January 7, 2007 Author Posted January 7, 2007 Never got to see them yet. My favorite part of the article: One of our editors likes to recount the story of when he got to Dark Falz for the first time. He hadn't saved his progress since before killing Lassic, and he reached this final foe with very little health, having played nonstop for hours. He basically knew he was dead but couldn't bring himself to start the fight for many minutes. Sure enough, Dark Falz ended up wiping the floor with Alis and company. When he later got back the courage to defeat Lassic yet again and to come prepared to face Dark Falz, he still didn't know what to do--and for the first time ever, he called a video game hint line. "There's no real trick to it," said the woman on the phone. "You just have to hit him a lot until he dies." The editor in question went on to use this strategy to finish dozens of other role-playing games over the years.
The NZA Posted January 7, 2007 Author Posted January 7, 2007 That was another fun "fuck he's got a machine gun!?" one....any chapter in particualr, tho?
alive she cried Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 any chapter in particualr, tho? you mean which game? Do you even have to ask? 1 obviously, the only true SOR game
The NZA Posted January 7, 2007 Author Posted January 7, 2007 aw, that's harsh. 2 wasnt bad. I dont know that i ever played 3, but 2 was alright.
alive she cried Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 Two was ok, but what a let down after the classic that is 1. it was just a worse version of 1. 3? pile o' shite. there's like 4 levels, and the last stage is the exact same as in first game, except when you kill Mr.x he turns out to be a robotic construct, and it cuts to mr.x laughing. no sequal followed. so what mr.x won?
The NZA Posted January 7, 2007 Author Posted January 7, 2007 wow, i never heard that - seeing as how the series never got a next-gen port, sadly i giess he did win. you know, mr x never beat my ass as bad as the hot twins that guarded his room did, come to think of it. Surprised Bowser didnt get a nod from Mario 64, it was pretty dramatic, albeit not nearly as much as Gannon in Zelda 64.
alive she cried Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 seeing as how the series never got a next-gen port i heard something bout this bein' remade, prob bullshit you know, mr x never beat my ass as bad as the hot twins that guarded his room did, come to think of it. Hot twins or "the Blazes" as they were known in our house were fuckin' bitches and way harder than mr.x. now that on the topic here's list of my families names for all bosses in SOR 1: 1st stage - Boomerang Guys 2nd stage - The Freddies (as in Freddy Kruger) 3rd stage - The Wrestlers 4th stage - The Fat Guys 5th Stage - The Blazes what were yours, if you can remember?
The NZA Posted January 7, 2007 Author Posted January 7, 2007 no, youre pretty much right, those'd be them, with small variations like "boomerang fucks", "fat fucks" etc, and the blazes were just the skanks or the green ho's or something. I love how SOR, Final Fight & all the 2-D classic beat-em-ups wanted to make every man a wifebeater by sending really sexy girls after you and forcing you to bludgeon them. Metriod should also get a nom for boss fights: Super Metroid's Kraid was awesome.
alive she cried Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 yeah, wife beatin' is great is'nt it? you know you come home, she's yappin' and a nice smack ensues
The NZA Posted January 7, 2007 Author Posted January 7, 2007 Yeah, but if you could come home to those 2 blazes, life would be good. Youd only need to start smackin if they started that ninja jumpkick shit.
alive she cried Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 yeah and havin' twin wives has other perks too, like gettin' one to feed you while the other mowes the lawn (blatant simpsons rip-off)
Iambaytor Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 Glad to see Iron Mike made the list, the guy they replaced him with after Tyson raped that chick just wasn't even a good replacement. Starkweather from Manhunt, not even closing to being hard. If you got killed by Starkweather than somebody else must've plated the game up to that point to get there, but it was refreshing to have the main boss just be some fat loser in a hawaiin shirt with a revolver. Jinpachi Mishima from Tekken 5 is a cheap-shotting son of a bitch, but I'll be damned if you don't feel like you've accomplished something after you've kicked his ass. The Mana Beast from Secret of Mana was nothing short of edge of your seat action. I don't think I breathed once until he was dead. Motaro from Mortal Kombat 3 - A boss so hard that the only way you could beat him was the AI intentionally screwing up. Better than Goro in my opinion.
The NZA Posted January 7, 2007 Author Posted January 7, 2007 Never saw Motaro...ill have to look him up. and you musta held you breath pretty good man, i remember having to cast mana sword or whatever and hope for the best an awful lot in that fight. waitin on DoJ to chime in about the final fight with Sephirtoh, where you just had to press x to beat the piss out of him. fuck, there's a lotta great fights im forgetting here, like from Contra III.
Iambaytor Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 Yeah Sephiroth was pretty anti-climactic, Kefka was class though mostly cause you got your ass handed to him by 4 other bosses before actually getting to him in the same fight.
The NZA Posted January 7, 2007 Author Posted January 7, 2007 That shit was indeed epic, and well-scored at that. Also, attacks that bring your whole party to 1 HP and make you spit up your chocolate milk are foul. Im trying to remember more old school ones, but i keep thinking bout how cool it was in the end of Golgo 13 to snipe a moving target in an 8-bit game.
Reverend Jax Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 I loved Battletoads. I can't seem to recall any boss fights from any TMNT games, so they can't have been memorable. Motaro was tough as fuck and wholly intimidating.
the division of joy Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 man.. not a single metroid related boss in there... what a gip... and nick, i'll agree with you about the sephiroth thing... that sucked... however, the jenova and one winged angel that came before it did kick ass... and its what i consider to be the proper boss battle...
Iambaytor Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 man.. not a single metroid related boss in there... what a gip... Yeah there was Ridley, Kraid, Mother Brain and... uh... hmm... I got nothing.
soldier of fortune Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 Bowser at the end of Super Mario World, quality. Also Liquid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2 was kick as, fighting on the roof of that building in New York... Why aren't the cut scenes in MGS3 in Dolby Digital, they were kick ass in MGS2 hooked up to the surround sound!
Newtype Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 I loved the final boss fight in the wind waker just because Zelda was cheering you on. Don't know if anybody ever did this one but in FF IX there was a hidden boss fight that was hard as hell. You had to fight a freaking planet yeah thats right a planet.
bishopcruz Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Badass boss fights, hmm... The Centepede guy from Strider Boss from MGS 3 Mother Brain (Phantasy Star 2) Darm (Ys) Vega - Street Fighter 2
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