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I've always been a stickler for a real nice boss fight (if that even makes sense), so in short what are your favorite boss fights? Whether it be for the intensity, the BGM or just because the whole thing kicked ass, for me it'd be:

Backstage Battle (Dynamite Headdy)
The Gate Keeper (Dynamite Headdy)
Wind God Beast (Seiken Densutsu 3)
Dingodile (Crash Bandicoot 3)
Flying Airship (Contra 3)
That Voodoo Priestess (Sly Cooper)
Doomsday Zone (Sonic & Knucles)
That Giant Bird (Devil May Cry)
Orange (Gunstar Heroes)
Giant Turtle Thingy (Contra Shattered Soldier)

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hm lets see i have few fave boss fights:

ff6: atma weapon (that muzik just pumps me up!)
wild arms 2: liz and ard (freakin' hilarious)
guilty gear isuka: leopaldon (this dude is freakin weird...)
ffx2: leblanc syndicate (dont even ask..)
ff9: ozma (hardest thing ever!lol)

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The "giant bird" from DMC is called Griffon, and the Wind god-beast from SD3 is called Dangaard. Griffon is some kind of bizzare combination griffin-tapeworm while Dangaard looks like some kind of two-headed ostrich-griffin. I have a ton of bosses to add, so I won't include reasons why or anything.

My personal favorites (boss - game)

M. Bison - Street Fighter Alpha 3 (my personal favorite incarnation of the Big M)
True Ogre - Tekken 3
Phantom - Devil May Cry
Cerberus - Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Hulk Davisson - Viewtiful Joe
Sigma - Mega Man X (final tier, once again my favorite incarnation among many)
Dragon Emperor- Seiken Densetsu 3
Ice Titan - Kingdom Hearts
Gilgamesh - Final Fantasy V
Marquis Elmdor - Final Fantasy Tactics
Son of Sun - Chrono Trigger
Lavos Core (final battle) - Chrono Trigger
The Axem Rangers - Super Mario RPG
Vize, Anita, and Faina - Skies of Arcadia: Legends
Popple and Rookie - Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
Star Wolf team - Star Fox 64
Volvagia - Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time
*Trinexx - Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past
Dhaos (Past) - Tales of Phantasia
Olrox - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
The Great Mighty Poo - Conker's Bad Fur Day

*The Turtle Rock boss - I actually had to look that one up

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My favorite bosses, eh? Let's see ...

Final Fantasy 6 -- Atma Weapon, Doom, Goddess, Poltergeist (because of the freaky music)
Super Mario RPG -- Exor ... it's just exciting!
Zelda Link to the Past -- Ganon ... the music is pretty intense!

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Let's see...

Any of the Vergil fights - Devil May Cry 3
Matador - Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Gilgamesh - Final Fantasy V (The music does it for me here)
Popple - Mario & Luigi (Again with the music)
Wiegraf - Final Fantasy Tactics
Magus - Chrono Trigger
Time Devourer (First Battle) - Chrono Cross (Best. Music. Ever.)
Culex - Super Mario RPG
Agatio & Karst - Golden Sun: The Lost Age
Baal - Disgaea: Hour of Darkness ("LEVEL 4000?!?")
Mid-Boss - Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Those two ninjas (Bill and Ben, I think?) - Seiken Densetsu 3
Axel - Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Baby Bowser - Yoshi's Island

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I always look forward to Sinspawn Gui and Seymour 1 in FFX. I love those fights. All else that really comes to mind is the Gilgamesh fights. Oh, and Adamant. (Is that the name? the turtle-like boss at the end of Butz's world in FFV.)

Yeah those two ninjas were Bill and Ben if I remember correctly (who look strangely like Gilgamesh when combined) and I haven't played Devil May Cry in like 3 years so I didn't remember that bird's name (I need to get it again). A couple of more:

Sigma MMX, X5 and X6
Giant Brain (Contra 3)
Yunalesca (FFX)
Ultros (He just wont friggin give up)
Dr. Wily (MM7)

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Magus - Chrono Trigger - awesome music, awesome powers, sweet battle all-in-all.

Mad Predator - AvsP arcade - only one-on-one boss fight in the game. The bastard is quick, agile, powerful, a great graphical design AND an example of recycling - he fights almost the same as Rolento in Final Fight (only differrences: Armgun instead of grenades and Rolento doesn't turn invisible)

Bone Crusher - Punisher - he just looks awesome - half man, half tank, all punk and overall kickarse.

Quote (Bone crusher)

Die in your own blood, baby!

Jaffar - Prince of Persia(as in 1) - my first ever "boss". 'Nuff said.

Copy X and Final Omega - Megaman Zero [spoiler]By "Final Omega", I mean Zero's original body[/b] Two Duels of the ultimate level. Plus, I will gladly fight the Four Guardians anytime (especially Leviathan )

Juni and Juli - Street Fighter Alpha 3... Nyaa! Fighting these two at once is one of the more fun fights I've had...they're cute too boot Nyaa!

This post has been edited by SilverMaduin on 20th April 2005 17:33

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Good old CoN

Street fighter Alpha: Shin Akuma
Suikoden II : Captain Rowd (I actually beat him)
FF VIII: Omega weapon
Resident evil II: William Birkin (That one with the pipe)
Crash Bash: Papu Papu (obviously this is a joke)
Arc the Lad II: Final boss (man, it toke me 3 hours to defeat this guy)
FF V: Shinryu and Omega (both of them tasted the power of my Sword...Dance)
KOF series: ´96 Goenitz
´97 Iori, Leona, Chris , Shermie, Yashiro and Orochi.
I´ll think of more later.


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What? no mention of Gigyas from earthbound? What are you people thinking?

ok that's a bit harsh, but still. IMHO da most unique boss battle ever.

others incllude (but are not limited to):

Magus (CT): like said previously. BADASS.
Phantom (Megaman Zero): the rest of the MMZ boss battles are great, but he really is cool. The only one who really matches Zero's speed, a great ninja-samurai type battle.
Mote (breath of fire 1): originality at its finest. Starts off pixely (I first thought it was a glitch when I got to him!) with high magic/low phys resistance, then with each phys hit the balance sways the opposite way. Strategy to the max!
MC Tusk (Bof 2): the name is bad enough, but announcing an attack with "I'm gonna slap you"...

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Rhapsody - Flames of Revenge

Algus (FFT)- The storyline up to this point in the game was intense and it is the battle that changes the course of the game.
Shao Khan (MK)- I always got rush everytime I would fought this guy.
Diablo (Diablo)- Taking out the hulking demon-lord is always fun alone or in groups.
Sorceress Ultimecia (FF8)- I loved getting through her to watch the cool ending.
Dycedarg/Adramelk (FFT)- My favorite battle in FFT.

That's my list, though I'm sure it's not complete.

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Kuja

In no order:

Giygas (although it's scripted) and Ness' Nightmare - EarthBound
Culex - Super Mario RPG
Gilgamesh (third and fourth battles, in particular) and Omega - Final Fantasy V
Kraid - Super Metroid
Nemesis - Resident Evil 3
Ganon - Every Zelda game he's in
Atma Weapon - Final Fantasy VI
Big Boss - Metal Gear
Boomerang/Luceid - Wild ARMs
Krauser ('specially the knife fight, if it counts) - Resident Evil 4
The End, The Sorrow (if you can call that a 'battle') and The Boss - Metal Gear Solid 3
Andross (brain form) - Star Fox 64

Eh...can't think of the rest right now.


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Culex-SMRPG
Axem Rangers-SMRPG
Cerberus-DMC3
Sorceress Ultimecia-FF8
Seraphim Sephiroth-FF7
Doom Gaze-FF6
Ultros-FF6 and...
Vamp-MGS2

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