RPG Final Bosses

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Originally Posted by The_Meach

FFVI

Mostly b/c it was such a long, drawn-out affair. You die, then you've got to start at the beginning. Boring.

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FF hasn't been hard since it left the NES. Don't kid yourself. Difficult games are few between these days. Because the masses suck.

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Originally Posted by link1110

Grandia 2's was a joke. Just pick one element spell for each character to use and level it uop completely. Each character does 3000 damage per spell.

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I hope you're not talking about the VERY VERY last boss. I'm talking about the last one that you fight as a complete party. Regardless, it was his AOE spells that really singed my sides, because I hate having to group heal/defend and split up.

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Originally Posted by MarsKitten

FF hasn't been hard since it left the NES. Don't kid yourself. Difficult games are few between these days. Because the masses suck.

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Most people would rather sit back and enjoy then deal with frustrating, annoyingly difficult gameplay. Which yea, was how a lot of NES games were.

Besides, most games of any worth have difficulty settings, and the highest difficulty settings are frustrating and annoyingly difficult. So stop whining.

I actually find the 16-bit era tends to have the easiest games. Like diff said, today's games set on high difficulty are as cruel as the hardest 8-bitters.

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Originally Posted by TrialSword

I hope you're not talking about the VERY VERY last boss. I'm talking about the last one that you fight as a complete party. Regardless, it was his AOE spells that really singed my sides, because I hate having to group heal/defend and split up.

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yes I'm talking about the last one..... he was easy. Not to make you feel bad or anything, just IMO it was.

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Originally Posted by OmniGear

If the game is too hard tone it down, if it's not hard enough raise it up.

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Uhm, this is exactly what I'm saying, just that it happens during gameplay, so that you don't start a game and then find out "oh, this difficulty is too easy" or "oh, this difficulty is too hard."

Seriously, I do not understand you people sometimes. I'm talking about an idea that will give more challenge and reward to those who want it, and make things a bit easier for those who aren't so much into the challenge. How is that BAD?

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Originally Posted by Zerohero

yes I'm talking about the last one..... he was easy. Not to make you feel bad or anything, just IMO it was.

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Dude, I wasn't responding to you. But to each his own anyway. Perhaps I was unprepared or the fact that I like to bunch up and use buff spells worked against me.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Uhm, this is exactly what I'm saying, just that it happens during gameplay, so that you don't start a game and then find out "oh, this difficulty is too easy" or "oh, this difficulty is too hard."

Seriously, I do not understand you people sometimes. I'm talking about an idea that will give more challenge and reward to those who want it, and make things a bit easier for those who aren't so much into the challenge. How is that BAD?

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I believe Max Payne had a dynamic difficulty system like this. Its just that Japanese RPG designers are stuck in the dark ages, a time when things like "enemies that you can see before you have to fight them" are scary and weird.

If you've ever played legend of mana and beaten it hundreds of times like I have, you will know the meaning of a final boss that is either easy or impossibly hard. beating the game at normal difficulty isn't too much of a problem for a level 35 character. beating it on no future mode, which puts all enemies at Lv99 (beat the game to get it) is nearly impossible for a level 99 character with maxed stats.

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Originally Posted by Ajinryu

FF9's final boss can't remember what it was called but it was very tough.

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Are you joking? The last boss (Kaj... Kaz... something) was ridiculously easy. I took barely any damage from him and he only petrified one of my characters once. Easiest boss battle ever. Ozma, on the other hand, was a bitch in that game.

I've never really played any RPG that had any super hard bosses for me, except for Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. That game really threw some tricky bosses at you, starting with The Matador... Ugh, great game though.