The Eight Most Creative Video Game Boss Battles

GameDynamo - "Great boss battles can define a game. Creative fights can completely revolutionize games. Sometimes, the most innovative battles aren’t the most grand or even the most difficult. They’re the ones that most effectively put the game mechanics to the test and then tear the boundaries open, inspiring an ‘ah-ha’ moment and a sense of wonder that completely immerse the player into the experience. Here’s my list of the eight most creative gaming boss battles. To make sure I don’t just list all the bosses from one franchise, I’ve limited myself to one boss per series."

[kratos123]

man i loved cronos the titan such a great battle man.
a boss battle doesnt need to be hard it needs to special an memobrable thats what makes a great boss batlle

[rabidpancakeburglar]

Agreed. I loved that battle, the batman scarecrow ones and the metal gear ray battles were awesome

[QuodEratDemonstrandm]

Roughly half of the boss battles from MGS 3 and 4 would have been suitable for this list.

From 3. The Fear, The End, and The Sorrow.
From 4. Laughing Octopus, crying Wolf, and of course, RAY.

All of these were just brilliant.

Now I want to play MGS4.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

I know but they all had the awful ending of the girls walking towards you (in 4, I didn't play 3) and you had to shoot them, I would say that the best from that was the crying wolf with the raging raven being the most annoying just because she was constantly shouting "RAAAAGE"

[kramun]

MGS4,MGS3 and MGS2 were brilliant. They know how to make a game that forces you to forget you're playing a video game. Mostly because they made you wait ages to actually play it because of the frequent cut-scenes.

But it was great...apart from the cut-scenes.

[jetlian]

had the wackest bosses in mgs history!! the only good one was the metal gear one at the end of the game. Best MGS bosses were in part 1.

Whoever wrote this must be young

[QuodEratDemonstrandm]

I didn't much care for Raging Raven either. Crying Wolf and The End were favorites for precisely the same reason.. love me some sniper duels.

[Mainman]

My favorite boss battle of all time is from MGS3 against 'the End'.

[CobraKai]

That was an awesome experience.

[PRHB HYBRiiD]

Like a boss

[Goomb]

I do remember having a really hard time with the Stallord fight. Spinning wasn't my thing and it took me a while to get the hang of it. Of course it's a memorable boss and it was gratifying when it all ended... The battle against Cronos... yes, it was awesome and epic like no other!

[Wobbuffet]

Some of the best boss battles i had were on demon's souls and MGS3, oh and not forgetting pokemon :p

[Der_Kommandant]

The End

[B1663r]

Oh its been a while...

But way back when I was playing Quake 1, it was the first real 3d game I had ever played, everything I played before that was 2.5d Doom stuff.

And you get to the end of that first level and that giant demon comes out of the pool.

That is the most memorable boss fight IMO.

[GamerSciz]

Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid is the MOST creative boss battle of all time. Remember the famous "controller switch"? He recognized controller slot 1 and would "predict" your every move. You had to actually physically switch your controller slots in order to beat him.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[DelbertGrady]

Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid should be on there. The part where you had to switch controllers was pure genius.

@GamerSciz - Lol! Nice synch on that comment :)

[tieryas]

@DelbertGrady and @GamerSciz- I completely agree, the battle was pure genius. In fact, I was inspired to do this list while doing a metal gear retrospective and playing the Mantis battle. I picked the Rex vs. Ray battle cause I could only pick one per franchise, but could have easily gone with Psycho Mantis.

[InLaLaLand]

I can read your memory card :D The gamecube version was 'You like playing Super Mario Sunshine'.

[megalonagyix]

good list, I might add Portal (2) there.

[clintos59]

To this day I still havent played any game that just takes u & beyond boss battles, where I just felt like a GOD. God of War 3 from begining to end. I felt like a GOD on steroids. Its a game ill definitely will never forget. To this day I am still amazed when I watch that Poseidon battle & thats the 1st boss lol. Cant wait to see GOW4.

[sickshot69]

i laughed while battling the mighty poo in conker's game

[tieryas]

Almost every boss fight in Conker made me go, wtf??? and burst out laughing. This one just took the cake.

[HmongAmerican]

Resident Evil 4.

[bessy67]

I thought some of the Bayonetta bosses were great, especially the one where you were surfing on the water the whole time. Crawmerax from Borderlands is also awesome simply because of how insanely hard to beat he is. Lost Odyssey's The Immortal and Professor K and the Killalon were also crazy hard.

And of course, the final battle in Fable 3 should have been on the list. Kidding, just kidding :)

[Shok]

Hell yea, Margaret. Loved her theme music.

[ATiElite]

Psycho Mantis from MGS is an all time classic along with the dam codec code on the game case...Just Brilliant.

Chronos...it just doesn't get anymore epic than that.

Liquid Snake wins the "Boss that will never die award". I remeber screaming "Got Dam how many times do i gotta kill this MoFo" the first time i played MGS...classic game.

I always enjoyed the Nihilanth in Half Life 1. I thought that was a pretty cool Boss way back then.

[Quagmire]

Prince Of Persia in 08 comes to mind. Fighting the boss whilst viewing the action from his own point of view.

[kesvalk]

where is kefka?

[Kurt Russell]

No Andross :( He pushed my SNES to the limit!