disappointing shitty boss fights

[Anonymous No.7997275]

[Anonymous No.7997278]

[Anonymous No.7997320]

>>7997275

[Anonymous No.7997435]

>>7997275
>I will ignite the evil link to the dead and then woosh

[Anonymous No.7997485]

>>7997275
shoulda called it icon of gay lol

shub niggerman from quake 1 was pretty trash

[Anonymous No.7997497]

>>7997485
iD from about that time forward seems to have increasing difficulties with basic concepts like "What defines a proper Boss?" and "Is this game part of a series?".

[Anonymous No.7997498]

>>7997275
It was a great fight because it was such a bitch to get up and down the level to fire shots at it. Better than Barons of Hell that ended up being regular enemies.

[Anonymous No.7997503]

>>7997485
Honestly, a lot of the bosses in 90's FPS games were kind of trash. I'm not 100% sure why. Maybe those types of games aren't built for long encounters with a single enemy, so either get something excessively cheap or just a tankier version of a normal enemy. Or in the case of Quake, a thing that just sits there.

[Anonymous No.7997538]

Impossible and to this day i can't beat him.

[Anonymous No.7997551]

>>7997498
Two barons I think was an ok bossfight for part which was the demo of the game. Not amazing or anything, but adequate, consider that most people were still complete noobs at FPS at the time.
The Cyberdemon in E2 is obviously not very threatening the way he is used, but countless usermaps have utilized him extremely effectively.

[Anonymous No.7997650]

>>7997485
>shub niggerman from quake 1 was pretty trash
At about 6 years old, I spent 2 hours trying to just shoot it with every gun at every angle I could think of. Then after enough time I managed to telefrag it by pure random chance, and had no idea what the fuck happened but just accepted.

[Anonymous No.7997752]

>>7997275
and in the end it was really a head on a spike SCREAMING IN PAIN.

[Anonymous No.7997797]

Too bad Fable 2 isn't retro yet.

[Anonymous No.7997821]

>>7997275
thats literally the only good final boss fight retro FPS ever had

[Anonymous No.7997825]

>>7997752
John Romero's head, at that.

[Anonymous No.7997970]

>>7997821
Duke's was much better

[Anonymous No.7997974]

>>7997275
Every id game until Doom 2016 had a weak final boss fight, it's amazing how consistent they were with them.

[Anonymous No.7997979]

>>7997821
I wouldn't go *that* far. Duke Nukem and Blood's final boss was bretty gud.

[Anonymous No.7998001]

>>7997275
>>7997485
I can't think of any classic FPS boss fights that are actually any good

[Anonymous No.7998002]

[Anonymous No.7998079]

>>7998001
a lot of fps bosses are just bullet sponges

[Anonymous No.7998092]

>>7997275
Malus on hard in SoTC. Jesus fuck, it takes forever. I've beaten this game on PS2 and 3, but for some reason it's giving me trouble on PS4.

[Anonymous No.7998384]

>>7997275
Lets be real, the elevator was the real final boss of Doom 2.

[Anonymous No.7998432]

https://youtu.be/zI5ypVUk_wk?t=36030

[Anonymous No.7998440]

The final boss fight in Soul Reaver 2 against human Raziel, because you're literally immortal in the final act of the game so it barely even registers as a boss

[Anonymous No.7998464]

Doom's Cyberdemon can work as a tough monster mixed with other monsters in an otherwise normal level to create tension. But in a 1v1 "boss arena" like in Doom 1's E2, its just boring circlestrafing.
Spidermastermind E3 Boss in Doom 1 is even worse, thanks the the plasma being in the map, alongside being able to bring in a BFG from a previous level, which will kill her in a matter of seconds.

[Anonymous No.7998519]

>>7997538
I thought it was a good challenge.

[Anonymous No.7998626]

>>7997275
The worst part is the ludonarrative dissonance. This fight rubs in your face the fact that you can't aim just a bit downwards.

[Anonymous No.7999187]

>>7998440
This guy, and for the same reason.

[Anonymous No.7999196]

>>7997275
Boss music was lit though, only redeeming factor of this fight

https://youtu.be/8G_f6LCwmsE

[Anonymous No.7999204]

>>7998440
There's no reall bosses in SR2, which set it apart from the other 4 games.

[Anonymous No.7999207]

>>7998626
That's actually the part that didn't work for me, as well. Why would you deliberately choose to highlight one of your engine's most glaring flaws?

[Anonymous No.7999429]

>>7998001
Blood had alright bosses.

[Anonymous No.7999507]

>>7997497
the final Cyberdemon in Doom 3 has to be one of the worst
>spend the whole game honing your weapon skills
>armed to the teeth with ammo
>"let's do this!"
>click 3 times to win with Soul Cube
utterly atrocious. the Soul Cube for that matter was an awful concept, completely killed the tension because it could just automatically empty the room of enemies _and_ fill up your health. it's like they were too lazy to go about placing items in a thoughtful way. for that matter, there was way too much ammo throughout the game, never felt like i had to conserve or worry about it.

i know D3 is pushing the limits of Retro but that shit always bothered me.

[Anonymous No.7999524]

>>7997275
I liked the icon fight, it's not a big epic battle but I didn't ever think it needed to be, still prefer cyberdemon over it though since you get to move around more

[Anonymous No.7999526]

>>7999507
agreed it does kinda suck.
>>7999429
my favorite boss level was the one where all the cultists turn into werewolves. That was pretty challenging

[Anonymous No.7999603]

>>7997538

I could already not beat him because I preferred playing as Vela and so she had the best stats and weapons and then the stupid boss forces you to switch characters in a fixed order...

[Anonymous No.7999614]

>>7999603
That's one way of trapping you making the final fight impossible. But even with all homing missle upgrades and everything, the boss is still impossible. I consider myself pretty good at video games and like a good challenge, but this fight is insanity. I have attempted at least 100 times and can't do it. It's a buggy and unfair fight all around and it ruins an otherwise fun game.

[Anonymous No.7999820]

>>7999614

Yeah, I've seen the TAS and the fight is literally designed in a way that you start with your weapons fully loaded and in the end plink at him with your empty starting pistol. Which would be fine for an epic fight if he didn't also throw all that shit at you all the time because it takes so long so you lose your concentration.

[Anonymous No.8000817]

>>7998001
Heretic's fights were fun

[Anonymous No.8000926]

>>8000817
I've never been a huge fan of Heretic, but the boss were definitely a lot of fun.

[Anonymous No.8002210]

What are some games that present a shitty boss fight, that then suddenly evolves into a kickass boss fight in the next phase?

[Anonymous No.8002216]

>>7997275
Should have played the PS1 version
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MRZRh8Di-vE

[Anonymous No.8002269]

>>7998001
Bosses were a mistake.

[Anonymous No.8002273]

Overall I think the Mechanic of making it spew monsters at constant rate was good, but the weird precision firing was not. Particularly because never before in Doom were you tasked with lining up a shot vertically.

I made 2 Icon of Sin ripoffs for 2 projects, and I made both have a gauntlet where you have to reach the top of some kind of structure and just shoot a brain, while fighting large number of monsters and dealing with new spawns. I think that works pretty well.

[Anonymous No.8002283]

>>7997650
This. I won by accident and could never repeat it until like 5 years later

[Anonymous No.8003841]

>>7998626
It was done to intentionally filter out faggots like you.

[Anonymous No.8004031]

>>7997650
I thought I won because I lasted a certain amount of time.