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So what's the greatest retro boss battle of all time? My vote goes for this. The music, the scale, the everything! When I was a kid it blew my mind that the SNES could be so awesome!

>> No.535142

>>535127

Seconded.

>> No.535150

>>535142
Fifthed.

>> No.535153

I was always partial to The Icon of Sin from Doom II. The Butcher in Diablo was pretty cool too.

>> No.535165
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535165

It's probably not /the/ best but this was a good one

>> No.535174

I will go with OP's pic there.
I didn't enjoy the rest of the game as much as SMW but getting to this monstrosity was totally worth it.

>> No.535192
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535192

I really liked this one, mainly because the last part of the game has this great feeling of finality to it. When you finally reach Sigma, and he turns into this thing, complete with the more despairing and less hard rock final battle theme, it really feels like it's the last time.

And it was even going to be, fucking Capcom.

>> No.535207
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535207

This and Sonic 3&K were good endbosses

>> No.535216

>>535127
The Genesis equivalent was better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBAP-VdoN48

I will give the Baby Bowser fight kudos for having a better sense of "oh shit oh shit ohshitshitshit"

>> No.535227

>>535216
I enjoyed the fight with the Eggsterminator (I think that's what it was called) more than the Doomsday Zone. I think I owe it to that amazing final boss theme.

>> No.535231

>>535192
THIS

>> No.535278
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535278

OP's is great, but I have to go with battling Red.

>> No.535292

>>535278
It's the music that makes that fight. Red is ludicrously easy, but hot damn, the song they use for him and Lance is just awesome.

>> No.535293

>>535278
What a dick.

>> No.535351

This thread was over with OP.

>> No.535403

Pretty much any Treasure boss.
Seven Force, Cerberus Alpha, etc.

>> No.535409

>>535292
He wasn't ludicrously easy for me because I was terrible at Pokemon my first time.

Ended so epic. It came down to my Charizard vs. his Blastoise. By all rights, I should have been destroyed, but he just kept missing, and my Fire Spin just kept widdling down a little bit more health at a time.

Eventually he fell, and I shouted in excitement in the middle of a full plane.

>> No.535432

>>535409
> I shouted in excitement in the middle of a full plane.

Fucking terrorists.

>> No.535496
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535496

The scale of this one is just amazing.

>> No.535516
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>> No.535541

>>535496
For that one I think the intro was more interesting than the actual fight itself.

>> No.537345

>>535127

This and the boss fight with that penguin dude on the rotating planet were seriously impressive demonstrations of the SNES hardware

Far better than what was first released with the system

I was excited to see where the SNES and videogames in general would go from here, but Super Mario 64 was released a year later and 2D became a thing of the past

>> No.537440
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537440

this guy right here

>> No.537468

>>535516
I have to go to Mechahitler. I played the game when my dad left me alone with the computer. It only took a few weeks to get to him. I called my dad in and he saw me shooting the shit out of a fucking robot hitler with my minigun. It was awesome.

>> No.537473

>>537345
Vid request of said penguin planet peril

>> No.537478
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537478

I particularly enjoyed that bastard spider boss from Megaman X

>> No.537492

>>537473
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHyEYK-AM

>> No.537534

>>535516
I loved the fuck out of that boss fight, though it scared the shit out of my little kid self when I first ran into his floating flamethrower shooting fake hitlers.

>> No.537559

eyedol

>> No.537576

>>535432
>10 or something
>Spend 30 bucks renting this game over and over again to beat it
>Call friends over so we could tackle the dungeons together (I was pretty damn bad at it)
>One night
>Finally get to Ganondorf
>Get into THE ZONE
>BOUNCING EVERYTHING BACK
>STOMACH DROPPING EVERYTIME I HIT THE TENNIS BALL
>Beat him
>ESCAPE THE TOWER
>Suddenly feel a trickle of warm blood coming from my nose
>Holy shit now it's not a trickle
>Blood is everywhere
>Ruin my white Spiderman pyjamas
>Run to my mom screaming because I've never see this much blood before
>20 minutes later hasn't even slowed down
>Mom freaks out and drives me to the emergency room
>Rushed to a room because the secretary freaked out because I was covered in blood
>Doctor walks in gives me an icepack for my nose
>Asks me what happened
>Trying to talk, blood comes flying out of my mouth and lands everywhere and on the doctor's face
>"I beat Ganondorf!"
>Go home
>Unpause game
>Get down the tower
>THIS HAPPENS

Great night, would do it again.

>> No.537594

>>537478
I just HADOKEN him every time.

I don't find him particularly hard, it's just one of those bosses I don't feel like fighting.

>> No.537908

>>535165
I'm a diehard Kirby fan, but that battle was utter shit.

Now 02, on the other hand...that was a fantastic fight.

>> No.539896

>>535127
Best RETRO boss battle?
More like best boss battle, PERIOD.

>> No.539912

>>537576
If true, awesome childhood confirmed.

>> No.540813
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>> No.540837

>>540813
I love that you can get almost all of those monsters as members of your team in DWM2. Too bad by that point that you can wreck anything in the game.

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540842

>play Yoshi's Island as a kid
>beat final boss battle, but didn't play thru entire game myself
>do so on emulator now
>just beat the koopa troopa boss of world 4 today
>turn it off, back on later
>save file is gone
>see OP's post
>die a little inside

>> No.540919
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540919

I always liked the Grunty fight for a couple of reasons. First off, it makes use of all of the abilities you have acquired throughout the game, which really showcases how good you've gotten at the skills by that point. Second, it maintains the game's humor with Grunty and B&K trading comments during the fight. Lastly, it brings in a reason for your collecting Jinjos the whole time. Does anyone know if it's possible to get to the Grunty fight without collecting any Jinjos?

>> No.541973
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541973

certainly not the best, but this one blew my mind as a kid

>> No.541992

>>535207
Seconded.

Really liked Venom from Starfox.

>fight your rival team in a freeform battle
>descend into Venom's core
>fight the big dude
>escape with dad's help

It really was the perfect boss sequence if you take it all together but probably falls short if you take each segment individually.

>> No.541993

>>537478
Fuck that guy

>> No.542015

>>540919
>Does anyone know if it's possible to get to the Grunty fight without collecting any Jinjos?
>require 94 jiggies to get to Grunty
>9 worlds contain jinjos
>100-9=91

So you would need to save all the jinjos in at least 3 worlds.

I agree I really liked the Grunty battle. Dat music.

>> No.542047

>>537478
gaddam bosspider...I hated that damn thing.

>> No.542043

>>541973
When did Kirby become NGE?

>> No.542053

>>542043
You mean when did it become EoE right?

>> No.542069

Diablo in Diablo 2 was pretty tough depending on class, level, etc. "Not even death can save you from me." will be a line I don't think I'll soon forget.

>> No.542151

>>535227
Close, it's the Egg Emperor (mark 2 technically).

>> No.542213 [SPOILER] 
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542213

Its hard to define greatest cause there can be great in a lot of ways theres atmosphere, Scale, How fun it was, how much it defined you as a gamer. Of course theres also just those boss battles that you can reply over and over and never get tired of because the boss fight is the pinnacle of what that game is.

To me though just that moment in gaming I treasure was the first time i heard this guy start singing.

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>> No.545089

>>542213
That image hurts too look at

>> No.545130

>>542213
I am not playing this song. Thank you.

>> No.545174
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545174

Best fucking boss music ever.

>> No.545175
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545175

I acknowledge my own bias, but in twenty years of gaming, nothing else has even come close.

>> No.545184

>>542213
Epic ninegag meme image dude.

>> No.545206

Most of the boss battles in Dynamite Heddy were excellent. Also, Gunstar Heroes.. dat boss that keeps transforming into a gun and shit.

>> No.545249

>>537576
You got a Japanese erection nosebleed thanks to your progression in Ganondorf's tower.

Nothing unusual here gentlemen.

>> No.545265

Sigma in X4 is pretty damn cool. He taunts you a bit, and then begins the fight with a cheesily voiced acted threat. All three of his forms are pretty fun in their own way, And I just love, love the theme for his last form:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c02hyPlKGFk

Hell, I just love the climax to X4 in general. After defeating Iris/Double, the game never lets up until the credits.

>> No.545323

>>545265

PREPARE TO BECOME SPACE DUST!!!!

>> No.545334

>>537576
I think you misquoted, since I can't recall ganondorf-chan being in a pokemon game

>> No.545340

>>537440
The music makes it.
It's actually an uninteresting final boss fight gameplay-wise.

>> No.545415 [DELETED] 

>>545265
>first and second form
>generic grim reaper, meh
>Duo Maxwell called he wants his scythe back
>third form
>that nightmare-inducing giant Sigma head holy sh*t

>> No.545776
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545776

I always liked K Rool from DKC2. It's like one long obstactle course, and it's also pretty long and tough.

The lost world one is probably more fun but too short.

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>>545175
What game is this?

Also, this is mine. The first time I played this, it took me forever to figure out that I had to actually go to my item menu and 'use' the crystal. After using it, my jaw dropped.

>> No.545963
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545963

Bumping with Gato.

>> No.546034

>>545864
bof2 obviously

>> No.546035

Anyone still there?

>> No.546039

>>546034
I actually never played Breath of Fire. I'll hop to it as soon as I finish Persona 4

>> No.546101

>>545963

If you didn't know, this is an edit of the French duo-producers, Justice

And is be far one of the most stunning images of them

>> No.546124

Death Adder from Golden Axe

The final boss from D&D Shadow Over Mystara

Also some Metal Slug boss, maybe

>> No.546189

In no particular order....

Ridley from Super Metroid.
Red from G/S/C (I recently beat him with an all-under 60 team on SET without using items, fuck yea)
Bowser from SM64 (that final music is fucking awesome)
Gary from R/B/Y was pretty tough for me as a kid, so I'll put him in there

>> No.546263

Sarlac from Blackthorne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWfLlUASRs

He isn't massive, the music isn't too epic but he is so powerful and challenging compared to anything you fight beforehand that you really feel you've conquered something when you defeat him. The guy in the youtube video makes it look pretty easy but it definitely isn't, probably took me 20 attempts.

That's more important to me than the visuals because there are so many bosses that don't live up to the build up.

>> No.547952

>>546101

Aww shit going to see Justice tonight

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548638

I had to.

>> No.548680

>>535127

Yes, Yoshi's Island final battle, loved it. I had over 300 lives and vividly remember it.

>> No.548735

>>535496
Oh yeah

You're really going mano-a-mano with Ganon, it's just you and him, you don't even have your sword and the fate of fucking everything is at stake

The music really sets the feel, it doesn't try sound like it's trying to hard to be epic and it's slow enough to let you know this is serious,
something they stopped doing for other zelda game, though to be fair Skyward Sword did try to do this with Demise and it sucked.

>> No.548779

I like Goofy boss fights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EePxnbmwHE

>>542213
The Justin Bieber quip got me
I'm going to go kill myself now for laughing at something shat out by NeinRag

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548806

>>542213
>it also have an Xbox 360 re-make called "conker live & reloaded"

>> No.548832

>>535127
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHyEYK-AM

I still, 16 years later have fond memories of my first time reaching this boss. As the music started, I was expecting some huge ass thing to come out the RIGHT side of the screen, and was pretty focused looking there.

That caused me not to notice immediately Bowser rising out of the darkness, until he started coming out the darkness and covering the yellow sky.

I remind thinking to myself "holy shit I am so fucked now"

>> No.549226
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549226

He's not as good as Yoshis Island fight, but damned if he isn't an amazing last boss for that kid who got teh SNES when it first came out

>> No.549292

>>537440
Tower of the Magi is where its at, not this.

>> No.549306

>>549226
I always felt he was anti-climatic. Mostly because, you know... Koopa Clown Car.

I do like how most Mario games are pretty consistent about Mario being unable to do any real direct damage to Bowser, and it tends to be outsmarting him.

>> No.549317

Sephiroth

>Dat music
>Dat Supernova
>Dat fucking everything

>> No.549325

>>549317
Overrated, but I won't hold it against you.

>> No.549372

>>545174
My vote is for this. As a kid, this fight blew my god damned mind, I think I reenacted it a thousand times with my jurassic park toys and legos.

>> No.549502
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Fighting game final bosses need more love

>> No.552337

>>545864
Storywise, I think FFIV would have been better if Zeromus was Cecil's father. Filled with hate from the loss of his family at the hands of the people on Earth, he returns to the moon, imprisoned because he's a powerful wizard, hated grows, controls his own son to do his bidding and so on.

>> No.552354

>>552337
>>552337

At least his boss theme is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ-7Wk42aM0

>> No.552383

>>535207
Holy crap was Doomsday Zone such a great final boss. The sheer amount of effort of having to get the chaos emeralds twice over while playing two game's worth of levels. Amazing fight.

>> No.552406

>>549502

I miss when final bosses in fighting games were simply the hardest fight yet. Now, the difficulty escalates to an insane degree and the final bosses have abilities that pretty much 'break the game' which just makes them feel like bullshit to fight. I'm all for challenge but bosses like Gill and Jinpachi felt like they were from completely different games. Gill's resurrection move is fucking ridiculous.

>> No.552407

>>552383
Never liked Doomsday Zone. Felt like a complete waste since it played like none of the other levels up until that point, so it was hardly a test of skill.

It'd be like making the final boss of a hack and slash action game a gigantic tedious rhythm game.

>> No.552416

>>552406

blame snk

>> No.552426

>>552407
>Never liked Doomsday Zone. Felt like a complete waste since it played like none of the other levels up until that point, so it was hardly a test of skill.

it's surprising how often final bosses tend to do this. But yeah doomsday zone felt like R-Type or something. It was essentially like having Sky Chase as Sonic 2's final level.

>> No.552438

>>540919
>>542015
I always loved how the tune changes whenever you have an upperhand

I really need to play this

>> No.552439

>>552406

I agree completely, I played Tekken 6 at my friend's house and bombed through the arcade mode only to get to this enormous purple demon thing that doesn't fucking flinch when you hit it, or really abide to any 'rules' of the gameplay itself.

i used to look forward to final bosses in fighting games because they were meant to be the strongest fighter in the tournament, but recently they've just become demons or final fantasy rejects. Alpha 3 Bison is pretty bullshit, but at least he's still Bison and abides to the laws of the game.

>> No.552458

Say what you want about DK64, but the K.Rool fight in that game is fucking awesome. You fight him as all 5 kongs in order, and if you die you have to restart from the first Kong if I remember correctly. so the tension builds as you go through the fight. It takes place in a boxing arena with commentators talking in between each round, and each character's ability is used in their segment to test how good you've gotten while playing the game.

>> No.552474
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552474

So, I can't actually remember most of this game, despite playing through it on three separate occasions. It was pretty forgettable.
But the end boss was fucking epic.

Fighting a massive dragon bigger than the fucking screen on top of a flying techno-fortress, with your team mates constantly charging up your weapon so you can hurt the damn thing. With incredible music.

>> No.552497
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552497

It was a little on the easy side, but fuck me if it wasn't cool

Cortex fights are always a let down because of the N. Gin one just before

>> No.552528

>>552407
>>552426
But you guys, it's Sonic in space! It's freakin' epic!

That's what Sega was going for, anyway. Doomsday isn't supposed to be the "ultimate challenge," it's just a bit of cinematic flair.

>> No.552524
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Rocket Knight. You and your nemesis suddenly jump into giant mechs and punch the hell out of each other. Awesome.

>> No.552570

>>537440
Yes. Yes. Yes.

Kefka was probably the most satisfying boss to take down, the fight is appropriate, epic, and exactly what it needed to be, and the score did not slouch for a second. FFVI, always a special place in my heart.

>> No.552580

>>552474
This is what dragons should look like. Not generic dinosaurs with wings, not dog-faced fursonas, but alien and majestic.

>> No.552587

>>552528
I never liked the music or sound effects in 3, they lacked the punch of 2.

>> No.552593

>>535192
I like X4 way more because of how fast-paced it was
And better musics

>> No.552603

>>545334
I sure did.

>> No.552612

>>537440
Yes. Yes. Yes.

Kefka was probably the most satisfying boss to take down, the fight is appropriate, epic, and exactly what it needed to be, and the score did not slouch for a second. FFVI, always a special place in my heart.>>545340
YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY MOUTH!! YOU SHUT IT RIGHT NOW!

>> No.552615

>>552593
>>545265

I'm inclined to agree. Much faster paced, better music, and the corny voice acting makes it more fun. Scale isn't as grand though.

>> No.552651

>>535292
pokemon music is shit tier sorry

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>>552651
Can't tell if trolling or serious.

>> No.552704

>>552662
serious the first gen pokemon games had completely average music, I just tried to listen to that song he mentioned and it was the harshest most annoying shit, and I love chiptunes. Pokemon just has shit tier music for the most part

>> No.552743

>>552704
That's your opinion I guess. I absolutely love Pokemon music, from gen 1 to gen 5.

>> No.552757

>>552743
thanks for confirmation of your faggotry. Some of the music is alright like the bike tune on the first game is awesome but god damn their are way better gameboy soundtracks than that shit.

>> No.552765

>>552580

I approve of any game where the final boss is essentially you fucking up and waking up an Ancient Old One, and having to desperately put it down again.

>> No.552773

>>552757
Yeah, it's not the best soundtrack on the GB, but it's still good. No need to be rude.

>> No.553421

>>535153
>The Icon of Sin
That's just the level title, not the name of the "boss". I always found it to be a really dull climax, the first time I saw it I didn't even realise it was supposed to be a boss. I saw it as a wall texture. Shooting rockets into a hole in a wall brought the game to an abrupt halt and I was left wondering what I even did to trigger the ending and why I didn't fight a boss.

>> No.556583

>>553421
Id just doesn't know how to make good bosses.

Hell barons and the cyberdemon are awesome and iconic of Doom, but they're just beefed-up versions of a standard enemy.

Quake, don't even fucking talk to me about Quake's bosses. Just... Jesus, don't.

>> No.556609

>>537440
Oh my God this.

>> No.557472

>>535127
>Everyone mentions Bowser.
>Nobody talks about Rapheal the Raven's battle