Favorite final boss in any video game, ever.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Nohman inside Auuman Anubis - Zone of the Enders 2: the Second Runner

This is an amazingly fun and cinematic fight to cap off an amazingly fun and cinematic game. Really, you could consider the "final" boss to be the battle right before it where you face off against Anubis at full power inside of an energy stream with a severely crippled Jehuty. But this battle, this battle is the battle where both runners have achieved the utter perfection of their already formidable orbital frames. This is the defining battle, where you know already that you've surpassed Nohman's skills, and where you get to pull out all of the stops and TAKE HIM DOWN.

I especially loved how (SPOILER)even at the end, Nohman is defiant and scornful. As Dingo screams at him for sacrificing his old unit and his friends, Nohman simply laughs and delivers one of the better villain lines.

"Those scum died so ungracefully! I wanted to see it with my own eyes!"

I also especially like how the game gives you control of Jehuty once more to deliver the final blow.

[NeoCracker]

I don't understand why some of you are saying you thought Wind Waker's final boss was good. I love WW, don't get me wrong, but I was really disappointed by all of the boss fights in that game. It might just be because I play a lot of Zelda, but there was never even a second where I thought that I might die during any of the boss fights. They seemed very anti-climatic and painfully easy to me. Especially Ganondorf, he was ridiculously easy I thought.

It's true that Ganondorf was pretty easy, but just like Ganon in Ocarina of Time, what made the fight great was the atmosphere. For Ganon, it was the dramatic music that perfectly conveyed a sense of "final clash of good and evil"; the flashes of lightning that provided very brief glimpses at the monstrous beast before you; and the simple fact that, after a game-long set-up, Ganondorf had finally fulfilled what we knew what was going to happen from A Link to the Past's backstory: transform into Ganon, the King of Evil.

In The Wind Waker, it was that this hulking tyrant had finally lost his cool and was going after these two kids with a sword in each hand; the rain falling, which was actually the ocean up above starting to leak into the sealed-off Hyrule; and that finale, where the gameplay seamlessly segued into his death scene, with the Master Sword in the forehead and everything.

The onlything I'd add to this is I enjoyed in the end fighting Ganon himself, and not some transormed monstrocity like the others in the end. Don't get me wrong, they were all awsome. But I enjoyed ending fighting just plain old Ganondorf.

[ThundagAuron]

Virgil from Devil May Cry 3 on pretty much any difficulty. (except Easy)

Also, yes, The Boss in MGS3 is probably one of the best, if not the best, boss battles ever.

[Jessweeee♪]

Oh dear...don't hurt me for saying this:

Mine would have to be FFX, from Sin's fins all the way to Yu Yevon. Of the games I've played this one had the best soundtrack and was the most fun (plus the auto-life halos looked awesome)

I didn't like FFVII much, but I loved the music while fighting sephiroth.

and FFVIII wasn't that difficult, but it was fun.

KH2, would be my next favorite after FFX and after that Tekken 3.

[Alixsar]

I don't understand why some of you are saying you thought Wind Waker's final boss was good. I love WW, don't get me wrong, but I was really disappointed by all of the boss fights in that game. It might just be because I play a lot of Zelda, but there was never even a second where I thought that I might die during any of the boss fights. They seemed very anti-climatic and painfully easy to me. Especially Ganondorf, he was ridiculously easy I thought.

It's true that Ganondorf was pretty easy, but just like Ganon in Ocarina of Time, what made the fight great was the atmosphere. For Ganon, it was the dramatic music that perfectly conveyed a sense of "final clash of good and evil"; the flashes of lightning that provided very brief glimpses at the monstrous beast before you; and the simple fact that, after a game-long set-up, Ganondorf had finally fulfilled what we knew what was going to happen from A Link to the Past's backstory: transform into Ganon, the King of Evil.

In The Wind Waker, it was that this hulking tyrant had finally lost his cool and was going after these two kids with a sword in each hand; the rain falling, which was actually the ocean up above starting to leak into the sealed-off Hyrule; and that finale, where the gameplay seamlessly segued into his death scene, with the Master Sword in the forehead and everything.

The onlything I'd add to this is I enjoyed in the end fighting Ganon himself, and not some transormed monstrocity like the others in the end. Don't get me wrong, they were all awsome. But I enjoyed ending fighting just plain old Ganondorf.

I completely understand all of that, but...he was so friggin' easy. It was an awesome fight, but I never even got hit. Not once. Well maybe once, it was a few years ago I don't remember, but that was probably it. It really took me out of the experience. The set up was great, and I really loved the entire "under the ocean" thing from the first time I went down there, but if he really was fufilling his destiny etc. shouldn't he be able to at least hurt me? Even a little bit? And as awesome as it was, I still prefer the OoT Ganon fight. Maybe it's just me but doing backflips to dodge his sword, having him hit a piece of castle rubble shattering it to a billion pieces, and running around in a ring of fire while a storm rages outsides and Zelda watches helplessly as you do all of this without your trusty sword seems a little bit cooler to me.

[black orb]

>>> Not that Im a fan of those characters, the final battles against them is what I really like..
Chaos - FF1
X-Death - FF5
Zophar - Lunar 2

[KentaRawr!]

It's true that Ganondorf was pretty easy, but just like Ganon in Ocarina of Time, what made the fight great was the atmosphere. For Ganon, it was the dramatic music that perfectly conveyed a sense of "final clash of good and evil"; the flashes of lightning that provided very brief glimpses at the monstrous beast before you; and the simple fact that, after a game-long set-up, Ganondorf had finally fulfilled what we knew what was going to happen from A Link to the Past's backstory: transform into Ganon, the King of Evil.

In The Wind Waker, it was that this hulking tyrant had finally lost his cool and was going after these two kids with a sword in each hand; the rain falling, which was actually the ocean up above starting to leak into the sealed-off Hyrule; and that finale, where the gameplay seamlessly segued into his death scene, with the Master Sword in the forehead and everything.

You just explained the end of Zelda: The Wind Waker without a spoiler warning. D00d. Of course, that is to be expected in a topic about Final Bosses. But to stay on-topic...

I also liked the Final Boss of Chrono Trigger. It was like, funky-licious.

[Swifthom]

Hmm...
Sonic Adventure 2, I think it was called Final Hazard... big giant lizard, end of the world, super sonic space battle, voices in the background, switching between two characters and great controls...
Back when that was ORIGINAL (pouts at how every Sonic game since has copied it, and it itself copied the game before...)

Wind Waker, yeah, that's quite good. The atmosphere's everything, even if he only poses a threat if you muck around.

But...
No, I think I'll settle for those two.
Um...
Yeah.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Deus and Urobolus from Xenogears. My favorite RPG ever, so it's pretty natural my favorite final boss would come from that game.

[NeoCracker]

Patriarch from Xenosage II. The fact I got to beat up a guy who looked like a Catholic priest was awsome, also it was quite fun to fight. I won't call the fight after it a real fight, cause I don't thing its possible to loose that fight.