Best Video Game Boss Fights Evaaar!

[Phaeton]

I know it doesn't really count, but a memorable one for me was Mother Brain in Super Metroid. I know the second part of it is un-losable, but it was surprisingly full of feeling for a Metroid game in the SNES era.

Another favorite, is King Dedede in Revenge of the King in Kirby Superstar Ultra. Dedede took steps to make the fight differ from his old bouts, booby-trapped the ring this time, and upgraded his hammer.

Least favorite... Ultimate Nineball in Armored Core: Master of Arena and Armored Core 2: Another Age. I can't think of another boss through out the series that chewed through your AP that quickly if you had never encountered him before. Phantasma was pretty irritating then too though. Luckily neither of them had anti-missile systems, meaning if you could keep them from clobbering you and keep a lock on them long enough they were less face-rapingly hard.  

[Jafthasleftthebuilding]

Seeing the Tower Knight for the first time and beating him down.

Then trying to defeat him another time close up like a man!

The last fight against Bowser in the New Super Mario Brothers with 3 people. Ahhhhhhhhhh yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Naked Snake's final battle with The Boss. It was beautiful and tragic.  

[Rica is insane]

Silly is you in a natural state,
and serious is something you have to do
until you can get silly again

Chell vs. GLaDOS from Portal anyone?

I love that boss battle. I have a save just before it simply for the fact of going through it again.

( ﾟヮﾟ)

 

[SuchSweetSadism]

There's something about spinning Bowser around by the tail...

Even though I am a Bowser fan. ^^  

[emmmahy]

SuchSweetSadism

There's something about spinning Bowser around by the tail...

Even though I am a Bowser fan. ^^

THIS.  

[SuchSweetSadism]

emmmahy

SuchSweetSadism

There's something about spinning Bowser around by the tail...

Even though I am a Bowser fan. ^^

THIS.

It really is pretty epic.  

[Jafthasleftthebuilding]

Hmm... I'd like to add anything from God of War. El oh el. The first boss encounter in the first series... One of my favourite moments.

Can never have too much head.  

[SuchSweetSadism]

Rica is insane

Silly is you in a natural state,
and serious is something you have to do
until you can get silly again

Chell vs. GLaDOS from Portal anyone?

I love that boss battle. I have a save just before it simply for the fact of going through it again.

( ﾟヮﾟ)

I mainly love the song. ^^  

[invisible-weirdo]

I have a horrible habit of just not finishing up games that I start, so I don't have as many personal stories to share ^^; Though a boss that I absolutely love fighting (even though he's kind of easy, being the first boss you fight in the game) is Hooktail from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (love the paper mario series~). It's just that part where he starts bargaining with Mario to spare him, feigns surrender, and then comes back and eats the audience XP

Also, I should probably put Shadow of the Colossus up for consideration seeing as how that entire game is essentially boss fights.

As for least favorite, I dunno. Any endgame boss in a fighting game probably counts since they're always so goddamn cheap.  

[AlcoholicPancake]

Though Naked Snake v The Boss was a good fight in Snake Eater, the best fight in that game was against The End. Honestly, I made a save before that battle and kept it so I could continue doing it. I had so much fun with the sniping in it. Plus, everything in that battle just seemed so perfect. Hiding among the grass and bushes, jumping at every little twitch you see through your scope thinking it could be The End himself ready to shoot you. It was so much fun for me and actually forced me to think a more than any other fight ( especially when you're trying to get him with your tranq gun so you can get his rifle. )

One of my favorite battles of all time from a game would be against Limitless Indalecio in SO2: The Second Story. There were so many ways for him to instantly kill you if you didn't have a good group make up, or if your characters weren't itemized correctly. Plus, the way you had to know when to put distance between yourself and him during the battle or risk a full wipe was interesting.

Another of my favorite boss battles from a game would be Pre-BC Naxx Four Horsemen. Jeez that was a hard fight. 8 tanks, tons of healers, and a bunch of DPS that HAD TO KNOW WHAT THEY WHERE DOING. That entire place was so hard, and then you hit the Four Horsemen and it was like " Well ********, let's wipe here for an additional 12 hours because ******** Blizzard hates us... " So much hilarity and guilds falling apart because of that entire instance, but the 4h just topped off all the rage if you ever managed to get to them.