With out a shadow of a doubt...mine is Kefka(Cefca) from Final Fantasy VI.

...a completely deranged and insane madman...never had a genuine reason for being evil,just wanted to destroy everything that exists...had a sense of humor aswell...oh yeah,before I forget...

Evil clowns have always frightened the SHIT outta me!!!

Depends if you mean favorite boss as in villian, or favorite boss as in battle.

My favorite villian would likly be Kefka also.

My favorite fight would probally be... Collosus 13 from Shadow of the Collosus- an amasing flying boss that forced you to run along side it on your house, shoot it from the sky, leap on its back and stab it in the spine. Truley epic.

Chilli Billy and Chilly Willy from Banjo Tooie.

Funny bosses, and good fights.

my favorite boss is abyssion from tales of symphonia and mithos....when i play ToS i always want to defeat them 'cause they're great ...and fun when tey're in mania mode

Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid (and Twin Snakes). Unlike other baddies who come back after being killed, Liquid does it right.

I think it's K.Rool in Donkey Kong 64!

Because it's so focused on the battle. It's a boxing match with comments and stuff.

And you have to beat him with all of your characters in different humorous ways.

I like when he get stuck in the spot light.

And the ending is cool too

Elseway (is that a word?) i like HUGE bosses. Like Quadraxis (MP2) or Morpheel (LoZTP)

GlaD0s , otherwise, the Bowser from Paper Mario (one of my favorite Mario games ever)

My favorite video game boss would either be Sephiroth or Genesis from FF7: Crisis Core...

"Takoon" posted:

"atukomanga" posted:

I see so many people picking some of the most cliche names in all of video game history

Oh come on! Just because they're well known games doesn't make the bosses cliche. There are a lot of good bosses out there, but the most epic ones from the best games are the ones that stick out in people's minds.

Not that I blame you for sticking up for the underdog bosses. ^ ~

I call them cliche cuz every time this question come up, they are usually the main vote. Not that they aren't great, but I've know WAY to many people that jump on bandwagons and just to fit in, name off stuff that everyone likes. Take anime fans. Way too many people claim the title of 'Otaku', but how many of them have ever seen anything that hasn't been on Cartoon Network or Fox. A lot of them haven't even seen a Miyazaki film, or Akira for that matter, let alone other staples as Ranma 1/2, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, Fist of the North Star, Macross, etc. Not that I'm hating on fans of stuff, but there are some people that take things WAY to far to fit in. I've always felt that if you like something, then like it, but don't parade it as the "best thing ever" and put down everyone else that doesn't think the way you do. That's how wars start.

For instance, I hate the Naruto anime, but I kinda (keep in mind, kinda) like the manga. And people don't understand why. Here's where I get to show random knowledge of useless things. Naruto, along with many other Shounen anime, has what I call DBZ syndrom. This disease is where an anime pushes scenes, fight scenes in particular, to extend the length of the series without adding any value to the scene itself. Also, they have added scenarios and episodes that were not in the manga to extend the life to make more money. Do I blame the company for doing it? No. I blame the fan boys and fan girls that mindlessly buy the paraphernalia, watch the series, and post really bad AMVs and fan dubs online to drain all that is good from the series away from those of us that think it's "okay".

Now this thread is probably going to start the forum war of "Screw you! Naruto rules!" or something similar. So to those people that are thinking of starting that thread, congratulations, you are the people I am talking about. Opinion is opinion. I would like to see more people posting stuff that is rare, to show that they aren't mindless, and I noticed after my post there were a few of those, but we still got some Kefka and Sephiroth fans out there. And as great as that is, we need to get something that hasn't been done to death, buried, blown up, dismembered, experimented on, reformed, beaten to death again, and repeated countless times.

So I issue a challenge. Scour the world of video games and anime and whatever else you can find that has villians, heroes, whatever. I want to see something rare. The most unknown characters that are vicious villians, epic heroes, hilarious sidekicks....anything that hasn't been posted on every forum enough times that the google search counter hits the triple thousand digits.

And to show I know what I'm talking about, I'll start it off. No one ever wants to mention them, but the most epic, well-known and yet never mentioned villian of all time: The NAZIS. that's right, I said it. The Nazis have been in games, movies, and even anime for so long, that we brush them aside, but whenever there is a Nazi around, you know that gun fire will soon be flying, and "HAIL FUHRER!" will be shouted. Indiana Jones, Full Metal Alchemist, Medal of Honor...those tenacious Germans have been scouring our screen without us knowing it, and we've been hating them for so long.

What else do you people got?

"cgseth" posted:

Tomator, the boss of The Lost Vikings. What I loved about it was that it wasn't just hitting him a bunch of times repeatedly, it was a puzzle, and it used the whole level and all of your characters and a bunch of triggers and switches. I still remember the password you had to enter to get to the boss level. Plus he had a really funny expression when you hit him.

Now THAT'S a rare find. I give you 20 epic points, 30 cookie points, and a imaginary trophy for picking that as your fav boss. I had to watch the video to actually remember playing Lost Vikings back in the day.

"atukomanga" posted:

"Takoon" posted:

"atukomanga" posted:

I see so many people picking some of the most cliche names in all of video game history

Oh come on! Just because they're well known games doesn't make the bosses cliche. There are a lot of good bosses out there, but the most epic ones from the best games are the ones that stick out in people's minds.

Not that I blame you for sticking up for the underdog bosses. ^ ~

I call them cliche cuz every time this question come up, they are usually the main vote. Not that they aren't great, but I've know WAY to many people that jump on bandwagons and just to fit in, name off stuff that everyone likes. [And some really nice words here which I don't need to post ^^]

I think the main reason for this is either, you do not stop and think of some truly great bosses before posting.

Or simply that they haven't encountered enough bosses to have any of them beating the Known bosses. (Maybe this isn't the case on this community...) It's hard to like bosses you haven't played.

When you first pick up a game it's a really high possibility that it's one of these big titles. so the fact that many unknown games have crappy bossfights makes it less common to stumble upon a truly great one (boss fight) outside the big titles.

AND... maybe I'm all wrong

My favorite could be Kefka.

But I don't know. I love Skeith from .Hack//Infection. He is really weird and I love that

Without a doubt Gabrie Celesta from Star Ocean The Second Story, which is also the best game ever made.

She were the special boss u could fight at the end of the cave of trials and she beat the crap out of me even though my main character were somewhere around lvl 180 at the time.

After about 2 hours or something like that I had run out of every single recovery item and usable item I had in my inventory and she killed of my characters. Now that moment was one of the most epic boss fights I've ever had.

But let's not also forget the last boss in Breath of Fire IV. At the end of the fight I had used up all recovery items and had so little hp left that the next hit would send me to oblivion. And I WON! =D

The main point why I loved these boss fights is that I usually never even come near dying in a RPG or even feel as much challenged. However these bosses can really push you over the edge. =)

And just to leave a comment about Sephiroth, he was a nice character in all but as a boss he was just a pansy weakling which could barely hurt you at all at the end of the game.

And I think that the last boss should at least be somewhat hard.

It would have to be Seven Force from Gunstar Heroes. Just too fun

Kefka from Final fantasy 3 and Nyx from Persona 3 Fes.