[General Discussion] Favorite Boss Fights

My personal favorite Rez boss will always be the Area 4 running man. The first time you chase him down the twisting corridors as Joujouka pounds in your ears is an indescribable rush. The damn thing just looks so awesome you feel like not shooting him, at least until you get to the straight corridor and he starts attacking.
Maybe a little easy as a boss fight, but no less entertaining, especially if you hold out destroying him fast and he start morphing between multiple forms in rapid succession near the end of the fight.

Killer7 had a host of extremely memorable (and fucked up) boss fights. The seven-part duel against the Handsome Men is one favorite of mine, even if the outcome is prescripted. It just came outta nowhere for me and I was laughing my ass through the whole thing.
I also rather liked the standoff with Curtis in the third level: Encounter. Even though it's so ridiculously simple, it took me ages to figure it out. While a lot of the boss fights had been more or less extravagant blast-fests, Dan's duel with Curtis Blackburn had a far more private, intimate feel, though no less surreal because of the way you had to observe the pigeon and wait.

Resident Evil games have also had a lot of great bosses, not least the fantastic Resident Evil 4. The Tyrant fight in the GC REmake is a personal favorite of mine. The atmosphere and everything that had taken place before it just had you all pumped up knowing this was the "final battle".
It was both scary and thrilling, or frustrating depending how much ammunition you had left. I almost always had plenty of magnum ammo by then so fighting him wasn't a problem. It was also hilariously tense when you fire that last rocket at the Tyrant expecting the usual cutscene, only to have the Tyrant swat the shot aside like a fly. Finally taking him down proved extremely satisfying, thankfully.

Another boss that dies extremely satisfyingly was Verdugo in RE4, Salazar's right hand. The whole fight was incredibly tense for me, desperately trying to dodge his attacks and horrifiedly coming to the conclusion that he doesn't seem to be taking any damage from my shots. Eventually realizing to freeze him with the nitrogen tanks, the final shot completely took me by surprise. I expected him to die in the typically boring overexaggerated and lumbering fall to the ground, but seeing him shatter to a dozen pieces while frozen brought about an excited whoop from me.

Originally Posted by Elixir

- Astro Boy: Omega Factor and the sister robot which transforms into different kinds of animals. I had to kill this thing very carefully otherwise I'd still be working on it. It totally caught me off guard since the rest of the game had been on a certain pace which hadn't been changed until this boss.

That wasn't the sister robot (Zoran), that was Pook, an entirely different character. Zoran has no reason to fight Astro =/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Helloween

What the holy crap? I didn't know you could kill him. I always figured jumping into the elevator was the only way to finish the fight, and just leave him hangin' up in the power room. Well, you learn something new every day, i'll have to remember that for my next play through.

Yeah, you need to keep tipping the nitrogen tanks over to freeze him and shooting. The magnums do nice damage there, I had the Broken Butterfly at the time.
Sadly, I discovered on a later playthrough shooting him with a fully upgraded Handcannon does not produce the shattering effect when he dies, he merely slumps to the floor after a squeeling death animation, which wasn't half as satisfying.

I too loved Del Lago. It was such a thrilling set piece and a massive rush the first time you played it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.