@Ginger:Somehow I thought that's what you'd say. Well Colossus is almost nothing but boss fights.

Then you will love Shadow of the Colossus. It's all boss battles, and they're all awesome.

hings are getting intense in Fluttershy's Bad Hare Day! And I see that there is now Recursive Fanfiction of it. Though the fanfic in question is a poem. Naturally, it's about the awesomeness of Jim. I was one of his first fans and I can prove it by how early my comment is.

edited 5th Jun '12 2:30:19 PM by Sereg

One of my faborite parts of a gamw urs the story. I learned from MLP to never judge abook for it'ts cover :)

Hey all. Been busy with school stuff... hope nobody went into that bathroom. >_>;

It just occurred to me that Psychonauts should have finished installing by now.

I also found out that there are cutscenes in Thief that haven't been working on my computer. I may need to get a fix.

edited 5th Jun '12 2:30:50 PM by Pannic

Not the way I hear it. I hear there's also ridiculous amounts of tedious walking around too.

One thing that always annoys me, is when bosses have a very limited number of attacks. It's frustrating. Bosses should have LOADS of interesting looking attacks dammit.

@Ginger You should try Overlord :)

I wish one year on E3 (or similar events) they announced that Space Sim genre was resurrected.

And now for something interesting

@Fallen He doesn't like it or something. It is hilarious though.

edited 5th Jun '12 2:34:37 PM by Chadaman99

Boss fights in games almost never real epic enough to me.

Anypony played Painkiller? That game had cool boss battles.

Oh yeah. Great times.

edited 5th Jun '12 2:37:19 PM by Pannic

That's why I'm pissed off at Valve regarding HL 2 Ep 3

That series FINALLY introduced some interesting antagonists, and now I'll never get to duke it out with them

... *Game designer hat on*

you know that bosses generally have limited amounts of attacks for a reason, right? Firsto f all there's the logistical issues - every new attack needs to have a specific behavior programmed and animated - and if it affects anything else then those need to be programmed and animated too. That takes loads of time on it's own, let alone the time ti would take to design all of the attacks. It's not just a mattero of saying, "yeah, this would look cool", we also need to consider how the player is going to react to it, how it's going to affect thep layer and how it will balance the fight, and how well it interacts with the environment you're given, the player's abilities, etc. Basically, each new attack requires a lot of thought with lots of componants, and therefor lots of things that can go wrong.

Setting all that aside, there's also a very good reason to have limited attacks fro the players perspective too. The boss battle is generally intended to be an test of sorts - they test your skill level, your knowledge of the mechanics, etc. For this reason early bosses tend to have a strict gimmick - they need to test how you've learned a single mechanic.

Later bosses are tests of more general skill, but they follow the same general pattern. Most bosses are essentially beaten by the ability to recognize, predict, and react accordingly. In other words, the player must be able to recognize what they are doing in order to avoid it. If they can't predict the attack it takes away the sense of agency and control when they're hit, and it becomes frustrating. So the designers use a limited number of attacks, so that the player will be able to see, recognize, and react to the them all using the skill sets the game has taught them.

It's not feasible from a designers perspective to include lots of attacks, cool as we all know it would be, nor is it enticing from the player's perspective. The only way for it to work is to have what is essentially an interactive cut scene, and while that does it for some others just find it aggravating and pointless.

• game designer hat off*

Episode 3?

WHERE?

I still need to finsih Painkiller (and it's expansion) on highest difficulties.

BTW There no more epic boss battles than raiding space warship.

Nowhere. That's the problem. Valve can't count to 3.

edited 5th Jun '12 2:40:50 PM by Bluespade

Oh...

I still need to beat the game. I got up to the "Old Monastery" level (y'know, the second to last level) my old computer, but my computer kept crashing every time I hit the end. So I had to start over. Playing Nightmare difficulty, and I'm near the end of "The Palace."

edited 5th Jun '12 2:42:47 PM by Pannic

Portal had good boss fights.

Not because they where challenging or anything, but because of how funny they were.

Portal is...absolutely hilarious.

"That's the sewage storage unit. Go ahead and rub your face all over it."

I recently played through the original again after beating the second. It's sort of interesting to play both of them and consider the different approaches to the gameplay, story, and humor.

@kegi Ah, but if a game has failed to interest me with it's pathetic array of boss attacks then it's failed it's job altogether.

and I'll say right now that I KNOW I'd be able to memorize more attacks than the ones bosses have half the time