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As someone said, the Mother Brain from Super Metroid was great. I played that game for the first time about a year and a half ago and felt a great sense of accomplishment when I finally finished. That said the final boss was much easier than some of the previous bosses in that game.

Shodan, and comedy version gladso, are two of the greatest computer game antagonists. But I rate them so highly for the conversations and insults throughout the games rather than the final fights themselves. Their personality and negative relationship with you is what make finishing them off so much more satisfying. It's good killing agent Navarre for similar reasons... and the fact you can choose from so many moments to kill her.

I have a fondness of Phantom Ganon from OOT because it seemed like such an imaginative boss in such a ground breaking 3d game. Riding out of paintings and requiring the player to try and spot the authentic Phantom Ganon painting. I'm not sure if it still stand up as well but I'm fond of it.

Vega... He calls you ugly and climbs up the background before jumping down to scratch your face. And in most iterations of street fighter you can choose can play as this mf.

Bowser in Super Mario 3d land. There have been many great Bowser battles and it's hard to pick a favourite but 3D Land felt the most satisfying and entertaining. Not just a straight up fight but a chase through an fun level packed with platforming fun.



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End of raid boss in vault of glass, destiny.

Seriously.



I3LuEI3omI3eR said:

Mother Brain (Super Metroid) - One of the most memorable battles in Video Game history (Mother Brain shoots non stopping death Hyper ray at Samus, leaving her with 01 left, and there is no way of hurting it. As Mother Brain is preparing to finish off Samus, the Metroid from Metroid II: Return of Samus that she saved comes out of NO WHERE and sucks the life out of Mother Brain temporarily, but then slowly starts dying. It's last actions were attaching itself to Samus and restoring all her HP and infusing her with the same Hyber Beam Mother Brain uses against her... Samus easily disposes of Mother Brain and then has to race out of an exploding planet back to her ship) If your read this, this is why it was one of the best games of the 16-bit era and of all time really).

Another vote for Mother Brain in Super Metroid. If you haven't played it, go now , don't read the spoilers.



I don't think anything will ever be as awesome as Ganondorf/Ganon was in OoT. It blew my little mind at the time, and it's still a lot of fun.

Now that people are mentioning it though, the last boss from Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door has to be pretty up there, too. I was just thinking about it the other day. It's just a silly Mario game made up of paper-looking sprites, but that last battle gives me chills just thinking about it!



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Poseidon from god of war 3 easily takes the cake

Honorable mentions
Chronos and Hades GOW 3
Hydra God of war 1
The wonderfull 101 bosses
The legend of zelda twilight princess fossil and spider

And many more which I can't think of right now :)



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Bowser in Super Mario 3d land. There have been many great Bowser battles and it's hard to pick a favourite but 3D Land felt the most satisfying and entertaining. Not just a straight up fight but a chase through an fun level packed with platforming fun.


I have to agree with you there.  That battle was ridiculously awesome and satisfying.  The battle with Bowser in 64 might have been more incredible at the time, but I don't feel it's aged too well, so 3D Land probably takes the cake for epic Bowser fights.  (A lot of great ones though.  Galaxy 2's was amazing.)



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the_dengle said:

summons are for scrubs

Definetly this.

Smough and Ornstein... The most epic battle I have expecienced, much better without summons.



This is certainly the best boss fight of all time.. No exceptions.



                
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I could probably list purely from the GoW series so I'll just pick one game in the series...

God of War III: Poseidon, Hades, Cronos, Hercules and Zeus.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadows: The Three Lords of Shadow, Satan and Pan.

The Last of Us: David.

Gears of War: Raam & Berserker.