Most Epic Battle/Boss Fight in a Video Game

[NoSanninWa]

Originally Posted by Valdra

According to GameFAQs, yes. I have no idea why it's in place, but NSW asked if it was a gamefaqs rule so...

Well, it seems that their leech protection works perfectly, so I see no reason for me to edit anyone's links. GameFAQs is already ensuring that you can't do it. My advice is that if you want to link to the correct page, you'll have to edit your link yourself so that it has some value.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by Thyrz

http://www.funlol.com/funpages/video-game-wars.html

I vote this as the most epic battle of all times. :P

I don't disagree... but I was waiting for like, a punch line or something. But the whole thing was serious! Argh...

[Rurik]

Originally Posted by Eclipze

Doesnt it depend from person to person? I mean, if you really want an epic battle against ruby weapon, then by all means, do it another way.

It may depend person to person how you want to approach a certain boss, (how you can approach almost any boss with Vanish/Doom in FF 6) but if you depend mostly on Game tricks (like going to gamefaqs, or using a gameguide) to beat something then the game itself wont be that exiting, rather than using the usual tricks to get it done, wouldn’t it be better to do it by “Trial an error”? I mean, I approached ruby weapon in different perspective, before I came to the idea of approaching him in that matter, but even like this, It took me well over 30 Minutes to beat it…And fighting a boss for this period of time while Maintaining your Characters alive and without any Status Ailment is quite hard even by using the way I was accustom to do it.

Originally Posted by monstert

I'll just have to trust your word for it since I don't have the game anymore.
FFIX's Ozma can be decently tough no matter how you prepare for the battle. Though once a while you get lucky and he uses weak attack throughout most of the battle.

I only play FFIX once, and play until CD number 3, so I can’t tell If I encountered this BOSS, so for me this battle can’t be epic, besides, this is supposed to be an Opinion thread..So yeah..For me one of the most epic/Exiting battles in my list is the weapon battle, even if there are people who use certain tricks while drinking Coffee in order to beat them.

[seekret]

i liked all the suikoden boss battles ... the new one comes out soon ;o

[Benoit]

Well, it seems that their leech protection works perfectly, so I see no reason for me to edit anyone's links. GameFAQs is already ensuring that you can't do it.

That's like saying that it's okay for someone to try to do something bad like killing someone because he'll get found out anyway (it's not a perfect analogy, but bear with me here).

If you just copy and paste the link in your location bar, you can see the file with no problems. But it still isn't allowed. As you said, it's leeching, and that's bad.

Poor logic.

[Roots]

Originally Posted by Thyrz

http://www.funlol.com/funpages/video-game-wars.html

I vote this as the most epic battle of all times. :P

That was pretty cool to watch. Thanks

[Quarkboy]

This is reaching way back, but does anyone remember the final boss to...

Earthbound

I believe the name was Gygas... but it wasn't just the final boss, but your arch nemisis Pokey. The music was crucial, with the normal "Pokey theme" interrupted suddenly by a hard rock head bangin' pokey theme remix! And then the terribly difficult final boss, which featured the first (to my knowledge) "alternative" final boss strategy. To defeat him, you had to have one character "pray" 9 times, so it was simply a matter of staying alive long enough. DW VIII and numerous other games have copied it in the future.
Oh and did I mention the truly eerie music, strange amorphous psycadelic background and the fact that your souls were held in time travelling robots? That was epic. There will never be a game as experimental as earthbound again.

[Eclipze]

Originally Posted by Uchiha_Rurik

It may depend person to person how you want to approach a certain boss, (how you can approach almost any boss with Vanish/Doom in FF 6) but if you depend mostly on Game tricks (like going to gamefaqs, or using a gameguide) to beat something then the game itself wont be that exiting, rather than using the usual tricks to get it done, wouldn’t it be better to do it by “Trial an error”? I mean, I approached ruby weapon in different perspective, before I came to the idea of approaching him in that matter, but even like this, It took me well over 30 Minutes to beat it…And fighting a boss for this period of time while Maintaining your Characters alive and without any Status Ailment is quite hard even by using the way I was accustom to do it.

Isn't that the point of the sentence you quoted...?

Spoiler for Off-topic:

You see, if a boss battle like ruby weapon takes 30+ minutes to kill, its not epic anymore: its just following a "keep everyone alive while attacking it" strategy.

I, for one, depend on gamefaqs and guide books for a simple reason: So that I dont lose out on one-time-only events/items that takes place only on the first trip to X location.

And why did you think most people even bother to kill Ruby weapon and Emerald weapons? for the sake of completing side quests. The rewards are not needed to complete the game, nor are they very useful at all.

Lets be frank: Killing Ruby/Emerald weapon isn't exciting: its tiring. Using the KOTR tactic, it still takes around 25-30+ minutes to kill, so how long do you think it would take WITHOUT the same strategy and without dying multiple times, causing fustration?

About Ozma:

Spoiler:

Its a hidden boss, located at the sky chocobo garden (last place for doing the chocobo "hot and cold" mini game".

Its basically a giant sphere, and it can case curaga (heal 9999), comet (pretty obvious instant-death to one character), meteor (instant death once again, to entire party unless you luck out), and Doomsday (can be avoided by equiping pumice, which absorbs the damage).

For a hardcore (somewhat) lvler and grinder like me, killing it was easy, but surviving it while trying to steal items from it was still impossible.

Question: What exactly is an "epic boss battle"? A boss battle where there is suiting BGM? A boss that is very hard to defeat? or a Battle where it feels like the whole (ingame) world is watching?

[NoSanninWa]

Originally Posted by Quarkboy

This is reaching way back, but does anyone remember the final boss to...

Earthbound

I believe the name was Gygas... but it wasn't just the final boss, but your arch nemisis Pokey. The music was crucial, with the normal "Pokey theme" interrupted suddenly by a hard rock head bangin' pokey theme remix! And then the terribly difficult final boss, which featured the first (to my knowledge) "alternative" final boss strategy. To defeat him, you had to have one character "pray" 9 times, so it was simply a matter of staying alive long enough. DW VIII and numerous other games have copied it in the future.
Oh and did I mention the truly eerie music, strange amorphous psycadelic background and the fact that your souls were held in time travelling robots? That was epic. There will never be a game as experimental as earthbound again.

Sadly, I had forgotten about Earthbound. You win. No game finale could ever be as epic as Earthbound. I remember how tense I was in that final battle at the end when nothing would put him down before I got the hint to pray. I was actually emotionally moved by the results of that prayer. (I won't go into details in case anyone here is moved to play Earthbound.) This is probably the only final boss battle to ever move me emotionally in between making me want to scream from the tension.

And I'm not going to metion how I felt about having my soul removed from my body and put into a robot in order to get to that final boss battle.

Earthbound is the winner of this thread, In My not-so Humble Opinion.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Uchiha_Rurik

I only play FFIX once, and play until CD number 3, so I can’t tell If I encountered this BOSS, so for me this battle can’t be epic, besides, this is supposed to be an Opinion thread..So yeah..For me one of the most epic/Exiting battles in my list is the weapon battle, even if there are people who use certain tricks while drinking Coffee in order to beat them.

Oh, I wasn't trying to say fighting Ozma is the most epic. Just wanted to point out that there is not really any specific method to defeat him like there is for the Weapons in VII as well as VIII. The only thing is probably to get the blessings of the 9 friendly monsters. Which in my humble opinion (obviously) makes for a more interesting, if not epic, battle.

But as I said before, Luigi vs Bowser in SMW is the most epic for me.

[Angelic Cross]

Originally Posted by Quarkboy

This is reaching way back, but does anyone remember the final boss to...

Earthbound

I believe the name was Gygas... but it wasn't just the final boss, but your arch nemisis Pokey. The music was crucial, with the normal "Pokey theme" interrupted suddenly by a hard rock head bangin' pokey theme remix! And then the terribly difficult final boss, which featured the first (to my knowledge) "alternative" final boss strategy. To defeat him, you had to have one character "pray" 9 times, so it was simply a matter of staying alive long enough. DW VIII and numerous other games have copied it in the future.
Oh and did I mention the truly eerie music, strange amorphous psycadelic background and the fact that your souls were held in time travelling robots? That was epic. There will never be a game as experimental as earthbound again.

Giygas, actually. And you are correct sir! That fight was definitley one for video game history. What you have with Gigyas is a being whose own inborn power is so immense that it literally becomes too much for its owner to comprehend and destroys Gigyas's mind to the point of insanity. The party's puny robot bodies are no match for that kind of thing. I remember feeling so desperate during the fight against the final form when all my items ran out that I started using Pray as a last resort. Hallelujah! I was at the edge of my seat just barely clinging on to life as Paula kept using Pray several times and the supporting cast starts praying with her. But the biggest surprise of all was the ninth prayer. Paula says she can't think of any more people to ask for help, and I thought I had to figure out another "alternative strategy" (which did not help ease the tension I was feeling), when a very familiar person, but one not known by Ness and his friends, begins to pray, striking the final blow against Gigyas. That little bit right there made the Gigyas fight one of, if not the most, involving boss battles that I've ever prayed. It actually made me feel like I was there with the party to deliver the last attack.

Of course, that little punk Pokey had to survive. He'd better be a beatable boss (ooh, alliteration!) in the upcoming Mother 3 so I can waste his sorry behind.

[2H-Dragon]

Any battle in Shadow of the Collosus for sure. Other game's may bring out more emotion's out of me, but SoC sure as hell win's in beeing most epic. Especially if you fight thingy that fly's and that thingy's that swim's. The water, the wind, the music, etc.

The most funny/easy battle's must be in FF8 and FF9.

With FF8 Rinoa's dog(forgot the name) did something that makes the party temporary not killeble(blue moo?), but that thing did that all the time for some reason so I didn't get much damage. That in combination with Leonhearth is win.

FF9 is also very easy. I remember having an ressurection ring that always work's so it doesnt disappear after one use.

[boneyjellyfish]

Originally Posted by NoSanninWa

Earthbound is the winner of this thread, In My not-so Humble Opinion.

I retract my earlier opinion and completely agree. How could I have forgotten about the plight of Ness and Paula?

But before I forget: another really epic boss battle (though not quite as tense as Earthbound), was Melbu Framha from the Legend of Dragoon. I remember going at him with my puny little level 35 characters and easily defeating his first two forms, with his third form killing off my healer. I just barely defeated the fourth and final form with Dart down to dying in one last hit. Later on I read a FAQ and almost all of them said that the battle was extremely difficult even at the level cap (60). As one of the FAQs says: "Normally, even with a very strong party, this battle will take over a half hour."

[Rurik]

Originally Posted by Eclipze

Isn't that the point of the sentence you quoted...?

No is not. You are implying that This Fight is not epic, because you have a trick to win it, me, and posters who mentioned this battle as epic, because of various reasons that lead to this conclusion.

Originally Posted by Eclipze

Spoiler for Off-topic:

You see, if a boss battle like ruby weapon takes 30+ minutes to kill, its not epic anymore: its just following a "keep everyone alive while attacking it" strategy.

I, for one, depend on gamefaqs and guide books for a simple reason: So that I dont lose out on one-time-only events/items that takes place only on the first trip to X location.

And why did you think most people even bother to kill Ruby weapon and Emerald weapons? for the sake of completing side quests. The rewards are not needed to complete the game, nor are they very useful at all.

Lets be frank: Killing Ruby/Emerald weapon isn't exciting: its tiring. Using the KOTR tactic, it still takes around 25-30+ minutes to kill, so how long do you think it would take WITHOUT the same strategy and without dying multiple times, causing fustration?

Well, Because this is MY opinion, I found Fighting the Weapons as a very Entertaining and Nail biting fight, a 30+ Minute boss fight we you have to create “Tactics” in order to keep your party alive, for me is Epic.

Originally Posted by Eclipze

About Ozma:

Spoiler:

Its a hidden boss, located at the sky chocobo garden (last place for doing the chocobo "hot and cold" mini game".

Its basically a giant sphere, and it can case curaga (heal 9999), comet (pretty obvious instant-death to one character), meteor (instant death once again, to entire party unless you luck out), and Doomsday (can be avoided by equiping pumice, which absorbs the damage).

For a hardcore (somewhat) lvler and grinder like me, killing it was easy, but surviving it while trying to steal items from it was still impossible.

But, I quote myself again “I never encountered this Boss, so I can’t say is epic to me”.

Originally Posted by Eclipze

Question: What exactly is an "epic boss battle"? A boss battle where there is suiting BGM? A boss that is very hard to defeat? or a Battle where it feels like the whole (ingame) world is watching?

That depends in the person, Epic, should not be just because of the BGM, or because it is very Hard, Is just A fight that is impressive for YOU, if for you the weapons Fights are not impressive and are just frustrating and a lost of time, that’s no problem, but It still Epic for me, because I was impressed by this fights and they are still in the back in my mind as the most memorable.

[Kiron22]

Ganon is probably the most Epic, I still remember the lightning going off and the whole place lighting up and back on the N64 it was the most amazing thing I have seen.

Metroid Prime and MP 2 takes the cake though for big ass mean bosses though.

[Maceart]

Man the most epic battle I've ever had was taking on Diablo with my dual rare War Hammers in Diablo II with my Barbarian, Maceart.

Since I was only a newbie back then, I never realized that he had a red lighting of death and instead I rushed right in hacking with Double Swing. It was a white knuckling 20 minute experience, dealing blow after blow while wasting my full rejuvs with impunity. Good thing I laid some health potions around the stage to stock up on as to not have to run back to town.

Another epic battle would be my first time getting the hang of FF8 and junctioning Ultima to strength and taking on Ultimecia with Squall and Quistis. Man Lionheart was the single cheapest limit break ever made for Final Fantasy. It was the most damaging too... 99,999 damage per successful limit, plus Aura you can repeat it almost infinitely.

[Conan-san]

<Oh, damn, the form's screwing with me>

[Conan-san]

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[Conan-san]

Some of the Metal Gear Solid Boss battles (and I meen the franchise, not the game) were some of the of the most fun and epic battles ever anyone who says taking the HIND down wasn't as such is a lyer and a fraud and probably likes <insert anime I flamed here>.

The honest exclusion to these were all but the bosses in MGS 2 with honery exclsions towords MGR and Fatman, I hated the other three or so fights cause they were so...orderery to be honest (Not to mention by the time you get to the final boss, your wondering why the hell your bothering anymore, story wise) and I never bothed with THE END in MGS 3 because he was a dick in terms of cheap and he deserved being outlived.

Besides THE END, MGS 3 has some of the best I felt, the way you found alteretive ways of beating your boss (Hell, the game even rewarded you for going the long route of wearing the opponents stamana down), using thremo goggles to deal with the fear, diving into the watter to avoid the pain's hornets/bees, the sorta thing.

And Of course The Boss herself, now if MGS 2 had you going "This sucks", MGS 3 acheved that being used flavour of Raiden's plight and made it so much better.
The setting was great (and using a time limit you couldn't see helped), and half way though your time limit you even hear the theme of MGS 3 playing in the background and everything else that went through with that fight (The flowers turning red instead of blood) made it awsome.

[Rurik]

Originally Posted by Conan-san

The honest exclusion to these were all but the bosses in MGS 2 with honery exclsions towords MGR and Fatman, I hated the other three or so fights cause they were so...orderery to be honest (Not to mention by the time you get to the final boss, your wondering why the hell your bothering anymore, story wise) and I never bothed with THE END in MGS 3 because he was a dick in terms of cheap and he deserved being outlived.

Besides THE END, MGS 3 has some of the best I felt, the way you found alteretive ways of beating your boss (Hell, the game even rewarded you for going the long route of wearing the opponents stamana down), using thremo goggles to deal with the fear, diving into the watter to avoid the pain's hornets/bees, the sorta thing.

Talk about coincidence, I’m playing again trough this game (MGS 3), and I’m somewhat close to that part, The standard Fight with the END, although its requires patiente, is really a mirror of what a real Sniper duel should be, moving from scenario to Scenario, trying to locate him, it is exiting, although this time around, I noticed something and I tried it.

Spoiler:

Right after the cut scene where we are presented with Sokolov been terrorized by Ocelot Circus act, The End is presented in his weal Chair with the Fear, right after this ends, You got a pretty nice clean shot at him with the SVD…although I was not expecting this to work, it did….and if you contact Major Zero, he would make one of his sarcastic remark