RPG Final Bosses

Yeah dude, fuck that guy.

Grandia's boss pwned me. I didn't level up enough and I don't have enough resources to go back.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

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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It cheapens the accomplishment of beating the game.

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Originally Posted by OmniGear

Oh yeah, how can I forget the last boss in Chrono Trigger? For some reason that motherfucker gave me sooooooo much trouble.

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Falcon Hit owns his ass so much.

The only frustrating final boss that comes to mind is Malroth at the end of DW2. Bitch breathes fire that takes off over half your HP (assuming you're fully healed), attacks for around 75% damage, casts Explodet, Increase, and the worst of all... Healall. You can be cruising along, dealing 80 HP of damage per round, then he casts Healall and sets you back to square 1. Did I mention I rarely had more than half my MP by the time I got there? Even at maxed-out-levels (50, 45, 35, respectively), he still gave me problems sometimes because of fucking Healall.

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Originally Posted by arjue

It cheapens the accomplishment of beating the game.

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Oh horseshit. It's like scaling the difficulty on a fighter or shooter. Some people do that just to make it through; how is his suggestion different?

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Originally Posted by Thief~Silver

I'd say it had some of the best directing I've ever seen in a game. But yeah the gameplay was slow and sluggish

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Everyone knows you can go into the options menu and turn up the ATB speed, right? Because at standard, "glacier" speed I found it almost unplayable.

But yeah, you can make it faster. I can't stress that enough.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

Everyone knows you can go into the options menu and turn up the ATB speed, right? Because at standard, "glacier" speed I found it almost unplayable.

But yeah, you can make it faster. I can't stress that enough.

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it wasn't just the speed of the battles themselves, it was the huge load time before every stupid fight. ok there's the music! and the background! *waits for the camera to slowly rotate around the battlefield* oh good, the enemies! etc etc.

you know there's a problem when skies of arcadia (which came out at the same time,) seemed to play much faster.

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Originally Posted by epmode

you know there's a problem when skies of arcadia (which came out at the same time,) seemed to play much faster.

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There is NO WAY SoA was faster at anything except putting me to sleep during battles.

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Originally Posted by taloony

Oh horseshit. It's like scaling the difficulty on a fighter or shooter. Some people do that just to make it through; how is his suggestion different?

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his suggestion, if I understand correctly, is that the user can manually change the difficulty setting in game. You can't see how that cheapens it?

also, people playing on harder settings often expect greater rewards in game, whether its more experience or better items. how would this be guaged in a system like shidoshi's?

It doesn't cheapen anyone's fucking accomplishment. You beat it on hard, giving you your videogame gratification that you can beat hard games, I'm clapping for you. People who think a game is too hard and become frustrated do not finish the game period, so they're getting 0 gratification. If you mean that it ruins your gratification that someone else beat the same game you did without having to be a button pressing prodigy, well, then it's just you who are wrong.

while we're at it, lets have an extra lives button and a kill everything on screen trigger.

Anyone here beaten Legend of the Dragoon? if so, either you had characters with freakishly high levels, or you'll agree with me that it's final boss isn't that hard, it just takes forever to beat. I fought it for well over four hours, then it killed me on the final stage. This commenced the "controller durability test."
I beat it the next time, but it still took another four hours.
I can't even remember how many stages it has. something around 6-8.
you're also kinda screwed if you need more supplies, since you can't go back.