>final boss
>it's completely anti-climactic
Why do westerners always do this?
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Isaiah Walker
Bosses are a busted and old cliché, a dead weight from arcade games that have no place in modern videogames.
Ryder Hall
Same reason only Japanese games actually connect the player to the characters: I have absolutely no idea but it's true
Samuel Parker
>Game builds up boss through the entire game
>They talk shit to you the entire time
>The time to fight them finally happens
>They just chill in the background and send waves of the same old enemies you fought the entire game
>After the waves, you beat the boss in a cutscene
Owen Collins
I will put you in a grave you dumb cunt I swear on me mum. Bosses are THE best thing about video games you raging faggot journo
Evan Peterson
But there are Japanese games that do this too, like FF10, FF7, FF9, Demon's Souls, and Dark Souls.
Wyatt Hill
Boss battles have no place in modern gaming
Jaxon Hill
>Game builds up villain for 8 seasons
>Gets stabbed in the back by an ugly goblin
Wyatt Sullivan
>You're only pretending it was bad because it was Arya
Bentley Foster
Westerners are poisoned by post-modernism but don't have the bravery to attempt to create something new.
All they can do is stomp on old narrative structures like angry children.
Daniel Gutierrez
Subverting expectations?
Jeremiah Perez
Well it's now the standard
More like, they inverted the subverted expectations
Like how female warriors were a subverted trope, but nowadays people get angry if there are no female warriors
Same with bossfights, western gamers were told bossfights were bad for so long, now they forgot about them
Hell, Undertale having one hard boss spawned a meme just because westerners are so unused to bossfights
Zachary Ortiz
>japan doesnt have underwhelming final bosses
James Barnes
>friends throw surprise birthday party for me
>instead of celebrating, they all take turns raping me
expectations subverted 10/10 would party again
Tyler Rogers
>4 phases
>great atmosphere
are u deaf dumb and blind?
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Kayden Hughes
At least that one was part of a 4 boss fight chain. granted i don't thing the other 3 were that great either If it were a Western game the dorf sword fight probably would have been completely standalone.
Dominic Powell
>final boss
>It's a QTE
So...This is the power of western gaming
Nolan Baker
The cloud vs sephiroth fight was just an interactive cutscene, safer sephiroth was the true final boss. Also Gwyn can be challenging if you're shit at parrying.
Jordan Stewart
Seems like it turned out being better in the end, user.
Julian Russell
Haha imagine that'd be like super gay
Robert Taylor
that's like saying movies shouldn't have grand endings
Wyatt Bell
BiG tHiNk
Luke Fisher
>main villain is killed in a cutscene by her underling
>final boss has zero buildup and comes literally out of nowhere
>"meh, might as well kill that" t. main character
Colton Collins
Dying Light burned me so hard by this. The entire game was completely unremarkable and cliche storywise, and yet for some reason the last couple missions ramped up in quality with the protagonist suddenly being extremely self-aware of all the garbage he was being forced to do, complaining about all the convoluted mess he was being put through, including being shot at from the top of a building by some guy with a rocket launcher.
Then you get to the end, and there I am, smiling all the way through, somehow having convinced myself that the game was going to le tme just go ahead and use my five dozen high powered weapons and guns to shoot the completely human and ordinary villain in the face in an incredibly carthatic way... then the game goes ahead and gives me a QTE fistfight.
Ethan Ward
>Get cutscene nuked by Somacula in the bad ending
>Become cutscene demon fodder in the good ending
The absolute state of Celia.
Matthew James
the actual game is good but the plot is saturday morning anime tier.
I like that guy in the suit whose dialogue consists entirely of lines like "hmhmhm, simpletons are so amusing..."
Jaxon Howard
Reminds me of F.E.A.R.
Easton Allen
Are you saying pic related is in a Castlevania game?
Aaron Ward
>great atmosphere produced by a villain shoved in out of nowhere
Nathaniel Edwards
But that was half of the dork souls final bosses. You have this repertoire of giant beasts and able humanoids and they choose to end the game with a disheveled and broken man. Storywise this is great but ending the game so easily just makes me go thats it?
Ayden Sullivan
To blueball you and keep milking the series. Just who in the hell do you think we are?
Ian Price
>Fight final boss
>This fucker was built up the entire game
>Boss if your father and you from another life
>Kick his ass
>Another boss comes out of fucking nowhere
>This boss is just named after some mythic creature and has fucking nothing to do with the plot
>Guy who you should have killed the shit out of gets to walk away scot free and goes to become one with god or some shit
Bonus points if you know the game.
Christopher James
>Dude Sex:HR Missing Link dlc boss
>you can fucking murder him before he finishes his grandiose speech and interrupt it abruptly
Eli Foster
final thread I destroy OP's boypussy
Tyler White
>implying that matters
Ryan Green
Why, my ffx of course!
Oliver Anderson
Very similar but sadly no.
Austin Powell
>last minute villain is a 100 year old ghost loli
>final fight is a 15 phase battle against an evil copy of the entire planet
William Diaz
Because the concept of boss is too ableist.
Charles Scott
>final boss is a boring and anti-climatic fight
>they release a great version of the same fight 9 months after the game released
Gabriel Reyes
ff9?
Benjamin Gray
Close but no cigar.
Jose Reyes
Close? is it an FF? Cloud and Squall don't have dads. Not sure about the latter actually
Connor Price
>Squall don't have dads.
also, his mom is Raine, they have a water theme going with their names
Bentley Green
what the fuck. i knew i should've finished this shit.
Adrian Reed
Based and redpilled.
Bosses are the whole fucking point of the game. Stabbing gannondorf in the head is how you save hyrule. Dropping bowser in the lava is how you save peach. Boss battles are the best way to satisfyingly tie up a game's story.
Using a cutscene to do it is retarded, and deprives the player of closure.
Bosses are great.
Blake Green
Its close because its a Squaresoft game just not Final Fantasy.
James Jenkins
Honestly for me Celia getting curb stomped by the monsters she created in both endings felt highly satisfying to me. It underscores just how little she really thought her plans through.
Easton Reed
>bayo 2 final boss
Shit felt so unsatisfying compared bayo 1 and i don't even know why
Logan Walker
>Gameplay is musou all the way through
>Final battle is a difficult rhythm game
Luis Ramirez
do first person games ever have good bosses?
Connor Roberts
western video games are pretty much junk food
if you're left satisfied you wont go out and get more
Robert Hughes
Monster Girl Quest
Sebastian Anderson
Doom 2016's bosses were alright, as far as FPS bosses go.
Luis Rodriguez
I don't like that Dorf hijacks the plot either but it was fucking obvious that it was going to happen when he showed up in the flashback at the end of Arbiter's Grounds.
Jacob King
*ahem*
Brody White
final bosses are more like the kiss/love interest that's shoehorned into every single live action film ever
they have a place but they're shoehorned into literally every single one even when the rest of the movie doesn't support it
Hunter Mitchell
Fable 2's final boss you just shoot the guy.
I swore off western games after that travesty
Christopher Carter
>he chose that out of all the examples he could've made
Gay
Wyatt Bennett
>final encounter of final mission
>win before aliens get to do anything
Colton Diaz
Soul Nomad.
Blake Cooper
>final boss
>it's kino
Why do japs always do this?
Samuel Sanchez
To those who wanted to know this game it was Xenogears on the PS1.
Parker Ortiz
>This boss is just named after some mythic creature and has fucking nothing to do with the plot
Retard
Owen Hernandez
>final boss
>it's a god
Noah Wood
Good bosses are about clever gameplay mechanics. West can't do gameplay.
Logan Gonzalez
>Final boss has completely different mechanics from the rest of the game and its janky as fuck.
Dont.
Cameron Perez
>final boss
>was a party member
>you are just a fever dream of his last day left to live while he dies of some disease that doesn't even exist anymore
>your entire life and world is a lie and you accept death either way because ???
Josiah Thomas
>action game
>final boss requires you to backtrack through most of the game to find all the weapons
>it doesn't actually use them
>in fact it doesn't even remotely play like the rest of the game
>it's an 8 minute rhythm game that purposefully fucks with the visual cues and that you have to perfect
William Allen
And it's all worth it because zero is a cute
William Turner
Drakengard is funny like that.
Bentley Garcia
No it isn't. Fucking prostitute.
Nicholas Thomas
The final boss is your slutty mom