Best boss fights

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#1 danb0
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What are some of the best boss fights you've seen in video games? I thought most of the ones in Radiant Silvergun were pretty good. I'm sure there are tons of great ones in the RPG genre too.

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#2 Panzer_Zwei
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  • Seven Force (Gunstar Heroes)
  • The SEGA Consoles (SGGG)
  • Geese Howard (Ryuuko no Ken 2)
  • Orlox (Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight)
  • Dire51 (Musha ALESTE)
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#3 AjaxNeron
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Banjo Kazooie games have some awesome boss battles!

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#4 Got_to_go
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God Hand. Except for the Mad Midget Five. **** the Mad Midget Five.
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Sagaia, because just one boss was enough for me to almost eat my puny SMS controller with a nice relish sauce. Axelay had some cool bosses.
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#6 initialanarchy
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God Hand. Except for the Mad Midget Five. **** the Mad Midget Five.Got_to_go

And that's why we have AoE knockback.

I'll chip in another vote for God Hand's bosses, as well as Shadow of a Collosus's

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#7 Eastern_Paladin
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I really enjoyed the boss fights in the WarioLand series. Playing basketball against a rabbit was pretty fun, if you can really call that a fight... A lot of the bosses in these games ranged in difficulty from easy as pie to hard as hell. The first battle against Bowser in New Super Mario Bros.(NDS) was really cool, it was pretty classic and seeing Bower's skeleton come out of the lava was kind of shocking.(I was like "OMG! I just killed him, I really killed him!) I also liked the final battle in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (only if you have Fierce Deity Link though) The Guard Scorpion boss near the beginning of Final Fantasy VII was pretty awesome, I had never seen anything like it when I was a kid.
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#8 kingdavid562
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kirby nightmare in dreamlad for gba was the best:D

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I'd say Super Metroid epic boss fight against Mother Brain and Yoshis Island a close second.

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-'The End' in Metal Gear Solid 3

-Pigsy in Manhunt

-All forms of William Birkin in Resident Evil 2

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#12 UF6
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kirby nightmare in dreamlad for gba was the best:D

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Well most of the boss fights in the remake and the original are very easy to beat. Though having the star wand was a amusing fight.

As for myself I alway found:

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Star Ocean

Super Metroid

Golden Sun

Star Fox 64

Doom II

Phantasy Star IV

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

Mega Man 2

Chrono Trigger

Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen

Diablo

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

System Shock

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#13 TabJSR
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The final fist fight between Solid Snake and Liquid Snake in Metal Gear Solid. Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid, the first fight between Link and Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Mario vs. Bowser in Super Mario Bros. 3.

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[QUOTE="Panzer_Zwei"]Seven Force (Gunstar Heroes)Fragasnap
So long as we're talking about the hardest difficulty, we may as well close the thread now.

Well that boos is more of memorizing his attacks than being hard. Only the panther mode and the crab along with the bird is the hardest. Panther that it does forty damage on its attack. The bird that its hard to get a clean hit. Also the crab thingy also is annoying to.

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Super Paper Mario are pretty cool.

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Xemnas from Kingdom Hearts 2 is what got me into appreciating boss battles, whether they be epic or small. So the head man of the Organization has my vote!

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#18 UF6
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[QUOTE="UF6"]Well [Seven Force from Gunstar Heroes] is more of memorizing his attacks than being hard. Only the panther mode and the crab along with the bird is the hardest. Panther that it does forty damage on its attack. The bird that its hard to get a clean hit. Also the crab thingy also is annoying to.Fragasnap
Lots of great bosses are that way (particularly in 4th and prior generation games). Seven Force was just awesome because he had seven freaking forms with some epic boss music. He made the final boss of the game seem like a wuss.

Yeah, the last boss seemed a breeze after you fought this one boss in seven times.
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#19 hurriflash
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Incredible but true as sunlight, nobody name it. Shadow of the Colossus has the most memorable exciting and creative Boss Fights evere created, certainly it is made up of it in gameplay but no other game can witness similar epic battles neither famed god of war games. You want some istances? OK i ll give. I liked Avion (no 5 Col) and Phalanx (no 13 Col) boss fights. So Beauty.

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#20 DonatelloToAll
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Shadow Of The Colossus is my go-to-game for enormous boss fights.Fighting a Colossus is so much fun,considering you have to plan on when,where,and how to climbup them,all while being pursued by the Colossus.

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#21 wstfld
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I have too many favorite boss fights, but MGS, R&C, GOW, DMC, SOTC and Viewtiful Joe as series have my favorites.

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#24 Night-Wolf93
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Contra III The Alien Wars snes the last boss

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Every boss fight in Resident Evil 4, but specifically Salazar and Mendez. Salazar for being hard as **** and Mendez for making me poop my pants the entire time.

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Any bosses in Devil May Cry. I feel all tingly playing it. 8)

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I really liked this one from Tales of the Abyss, the final fight between Luke and Asch. The music was also epic.

The final boss fight in Sonic Unleashed against Perfect Dark Gaia was pretty awesome. The beginning of the boss fight was reminiscent of Doomsday zone and the music was epic.

That's all I can think of right now.

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#28 majornougat
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Basically every boss battle in Donkey Kong 64 was epic
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Weldar and Lord Woo Fak Fak in Banjo-Tooie were pretty fun to fight. Kurt Zisa was a good boss fight in Kingdom Hearts. Resident Evil 4 and Metal Gear Solid 3 had great boos fights in general.

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"The Devourer of Time" from Chrono Cross.
Quite emotional yet epic :)

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The End fight in Metal Gear Solid 3,Elizabeth fight in Persona 3 and the last colossus in Shadow of the Colossus

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#33 BurstEther
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Megaman Legends 2 Golden Sun Champions return to arms Resident Evil 4 Golden Sun 2 Pokemon Edit: Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater. I loved fighting the boss, she was tough. Metal Gear Solid, the fight between old snake and liquid...It was beautiful.
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GOW 1&2 DMC3 SoTC
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Super Paper Mario are pretty cool.

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#36 Disco_Master_J
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The games with great boss fights are Metal Gear Solid series God of War trilogy Metroid series (especially the Prime trilogy) Resident Evil 5
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#37 Disco_Master_J
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[QUOTE="Disco_Master_J"]The games with great boss fights are Metal Gear Solid series God of War trilogy Metroid series (especially the Prime trilogy) Resident Evil 5 Shadow of the Colossus Devil May Cry 3

Fixed.
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Shadow Of The Colossus Metal Gear Solid 1, 3, & 4 Resident Evil 4 Final Fantasy XII God Of War 2
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I like some of the boss fights in Rygar (PS2) and the one with the Griffon in DMC.

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#40 LostHopes22
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Devil Genshin from Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 was a fun fight in fact all of the bosses on that game are wild.
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#41 Daavpuke
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Those mentioning SOTC: That's badically the entire game though.
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Prince of Perisa: the two thrones final boss, epic

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#43 sayyy-gaa
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MGS introduced me to a new level of boss fights. The fights in SMB were awesome to me at the time. Ditto in TMNT: the arcade game for NES and at the arcade. When I was a kid we would waste tons of quarters trying to get bebop or rocksteady to turn red and then die!! Awesome, awesome times.

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#44 GooMaster
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The Russian - The Punisher (PS2) Even though it was extremely easy. ( probably the easiest boss fight ever) It was one of the most memorable. The camera angle, the music, the action. it was nearly perfect!