What are the most memorable boss battles in gaming?

Off the top of my head:

Ganondorf - Ocarina of Time
MGS 1 - Psycho Mantis, Sniper Wolf, The Hind, Metal Gear Rex
Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Marbus
Demon Souls - Tower Knight (not a favorite, but memorable because of music and it was huge)
Ni No Kuni - Shadar

How about you, SW?

Shadow of the Colossus

Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow

Borderlands 2

There are more, but SotC is the easiest off the top of my head.

The usual.

I haven't played any "face a boss" kinda games recently.

SotC. Various Metroid bosses. Zelda bosses. God of war.

pretty much everything in Shadows of the Colossus

How does one talk about MGS bosses and not mention The End?

Other than that....Omega (Megaman Zero 3), Blue (Pokemon gen 1) and Bowser all jump to mind.

i have vivid memories of battling ornstein and smough 'billy-no-mates'

FF7 final battle with sephiroth.

These ones for me:

• Streets of Rage 2 - Shiva and Mr. X
• Streets of Rage 3 - Robot Y
• Sonic 2 - Death Egg Robot
• Sonic CD - Metal Sonic Race
• Sonic 3 - Big Arms
• Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Hyper Sonic Asteroid Field Chase
• Sonic Adventure - Perfect Chaos
• Revenge of Shinobi - Spider-Man, Batman, Godzilla
• Gunstar Heroes - Seven Force
• Alien Soldier - Its version of Seven Force
• Mega Man X - Sigma
• Mega Man X5 - X vs. Zero
• Mega Man 2 - Wily Machine 2 and Alien Wily
• Mega Man 7 - Wily Capsule 4
• Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight - Jerec
• Ocarina of Time - Ganon
• Pokemon R/B/Y - Gary
• Panzer Dragoon Saga - Atolm Dragon and Guardian Dragon
• Chrono Trigger - Lavos

Crisis Core FFVII: Sephiroth
Zelda Ocarina of Time: Ganondorf
Zelda: Twilight Princess: Bridge Battle, Puppet Zelda
Final Fantasy Tactics: Altima/Ultima
Kingdom Hearts: Riku
Persona 3 FES: Yukari, Mitsuru, Junpei, Koromaru, Ken, and Akihiko
Persona 4: The true final boss
Final Fantasy V: Gilgamesh
Final Fantasy XIV ARR: Halicarnassus

Metroid(nes) - boss:Mother brain

Metal gear 3 - boss: The End

GOW3........................ all of it

Serpentshrine Cavern elevator boss.

Serpentshrine Cavern elevator boss.

Died more times to that f*ck than any other boss in there.

all God of War bosses

Omega Weapon - FFVIII

there's a lot in the Souls games i just forgot they're names, a lot of them gave me headaches

Mike Tyson in mike Tyson's punch out

God of War 3.

Dark Souls (Specifically moonlight butterfly and hydra)

The Mighty Poo

Really? Moonlight Butterfly? I though that was one of the worst bosses in the Souls series (haven't played DS2 mind you). All you did was run back and forth on a tiny ass bridge.

God of War 3 definitely. Posiedon was the tits.

King K. Rool and the fake credits in Donkey Kong Country. I was so excited to finally beat the game and had put my controller down while the fake credits started and then that bastard came back to life and killed me before I could grab my controller back.

RAAM from Gears of War 1 and Dead Space bosses.

Most Demons/Dark Souls bosses.

Sonic 1 Green Hill Zone. Mainly because of the music.

Some cool ones in Zelda games.

Borderlands 2 because of the cool intros.

Mario 64 just because I played it so much.

@Slashkice: who is dat?

Ninja Gaiden Black
Alma
Master Ninja

**** that bitch.

pretty much every boss in dragon's dogma

super mario world, Bowser in his floating clown ball thing.

Uhm.... since you didn't specify in which Time Frame... I'l just say All The Puzzle Bosses !

Puzzle Bosses are the best best....

Shadow of the Colossus is nothing but the most epic boss battles, I'd say those.

God of War 2 probably had the best boss battles in the series.

Painkiller has most interesting boss battles out there

Boom, You just witnessed it! ;P

Of my recent games, P4G had some excellent boss battles late in the game.

I beat her without taking a hit one time... you would not believe the feeling, holy shit. The first time I played the game I almost quit at that fight, probably lost to her 100 times. Pulling off a no hurt battle against her (Very Hard, not MNM) was like the sweetest revenge. If there was one fucking time in my life I wish I would have been recording a game, that was it.

Also this guy.

Definitely one of Kojimas biggest wins. I'd love to play this battle the way he originally intended to be, but it was fucking bad ass as it was.

This dude.I'm surprised no one has mentioned him already.

@elkoldo

Because the gameplay is absolute trash ?

I guess it should win since everybody would definately remember struggling with the controls. ;)

All the usual

God Of War, Zelda, Shadow Of The Colossus and Metal Gear Solid.

And the Krauser boss fight from the glorious game that is Resident Evil 4.

@happyduds77

Which Krauser Boss Fight ?

There were 2 and honestly... they were both terribly flawed, because of the gameplay.

The Boss and The End.

The only reason to play MGS3 over and over again.

There's only one Krauser boss fight in the story mode. And the one when you first encounter him is a QTE, and I wouldn't exactly call that a boss fight.

Demon's souls - King Allant, Maneater (when the 2nd one spawns in lol), Flamelurker

@happyduds77

What about Ada vs Krauser in the Seperate Ways campaign ?

I doubt that reference would be known here :P

Lavos...

And MGS, Sonic, Phoenix Wright, I'm forgetting quite a few great ones.
Lavos.

That's a dlc, you know a side story. Devs don't put as much effort in DLCs.

Ah....how could I forget that. A serious, military infiltration game where the boss change the battleground to to a garden filled with white flowers then open her jacket to show her boobs before the fight and when some dialogue which I still can't make sense of whether she was a lover of snake, a sister, a kind of mother or truly an enemy or really fought like an enemy and when she died her scar turn to a real snake and vanishes into bushes. How emotional. Really bring a tear to my eye. Note that all of this is supposed to happening in a real world not a world of fantasy. What a great writer and Designer Kojima is. /sarcasm

@ConanTheStoner said:

Definitely one of Kojimas biggest wins. I'd love to play this battle the way he originally intended to be, but it was fucking bad ass as it was.

Oh yeah, how could I forget him. The hundred year old guy who is always sleeping and then suddenly wakes up and takes shot with his sniper rifle while his eyes popping out. Again totally believable real world setting.I think he also uttered some garbabe when he was killed by snake along the lines of returning to forest. I'm sure you MGS shills have masturbated to that as well, considering it to another of Kojima's genius.