Dullest Bosses?

mjclark · Post by **mjclark** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:30 pm

Just as a corollary to the "Freakiest, Most Messed-Up Bosses" thread, what shmups have the dullest bosses?
I just checked out that "Trapezedron of Darkness" stuff from the "Presentation Isn't Everything" thread and man those bosses were unremarkable...so were the ones in XII Stag come to think of it

GrimoreLibrarian · Post by **GrimoreLibrarian** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:34 pm

Stage 3 behind boss in HellSinker. The first 3 bosses in any TouHou game before Moutain of Faith. Also the TLB in The Trapezohedron of the darkness.

jp · Post by jp » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:43 pm

Every boss in Nanostray 2.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:57 pm

jp wrote:Every boss in Nanostray 1.

Fixed.

Also:

Most of the bosses from Mushihime-sama. The game truly shines during the stages, but when that boss music hits, HOLY SHIT, prepare for mediocre, uninspired, and forgettable purple diarrhea.

Chaos Field. All of it.

Most of the bosses from R-Type Final. ...actually, scratch that, ALL of the bosses from R-Type Final.

The "final boss" from every Gradius game ever made. Here's hoping they make him fight back in Gradius Rebirth.

Angeraze 2's final boss. Hot damn, those were the worst and most exploitable bullet patterns ever generated by a final boss.

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:44 am

Red boxes on wheels:

http://pics.livejournal.com/slycherrych ... c/0001ywp7

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:49 am

Most of the bosses on Ghost Pilots were dull to me, none of them really stuck out.

Post by **system11** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:17 am

The first boss in Megablast has to win this. It's the legs of a presumably giant robot that you never get to see. Fires a few bullets at you then runs away if you shoot it too many times.

bitkid · Post by **bitkid** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:44 am

To me any boss that I have to do boss milking on is dull. I guess this means I won't ever get the full Raizing experience.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:28 am

bitkid wrote:To me any boss that I have to do boss milking on is dull. I guess this means I won't ever get the full Raizing experience.

I still make poo poo in my pants when I´m trying to milk Boredom in Batrider.

And actually, the milking in EspRaDe is MUCH duller, since that secondary-attack only "peppering" takes forever (and quite honestly, it always seemed like a programming oversight to me). But in any case, I´d rather have to milk an exciting boss for several minutes with increasingly hard attacks than having to face really boring ones that do next to nothing.

A good boss milking in my book is when the bosses react like you´re a little gnat trying to suck blood from them, and they get increasingly pissed

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:07 am

Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:Red boxes on wheels:

http://pics.livejournal.com/slycherrych ... c/0001ywp7

Awesome. Which game is that?

I have to nominate the bosses of Katakis (C64). They look fine, but all you have to do is sit in one spot and wait for the boss to explode.

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:39 am

Zweihander wrote:Chaos Field. All of it.

Yokotate and the sword did this. You were too close to the bullet emitters to admire the view much. The game keeps you so focused on your ship's immediate vicinity--but not always its hitbox--that it does trippy things to your vision. The gameplay isn't something you'd eat for its nutritive value.

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:09 pm

Herr Schatten wrote:Awesome. Which game is that?

Ilyad, Amiga.

ForceDevice · Post by **ForceDevice** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:34 pm

Zweihander wrote: Most of the bosses from Mushihime-sama. The game truly shines during the stages, but when that boss music hits, HOLY SHIT, prepare for mediocre, uninspired, and forgettable purple diarrhea.

The first two? Yep. The last one? Maybe. But the stage 3 and stage 4 bosses are amazing. Their patterns are beautiful to look at AND require you to actually dodge them, not just tap left and right. In maniac mode, that is

Also, Night Raid bosses are stupid and die too fast.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:54 pm

1st boss in battle garegga.. the most boring p.o.s ever, mainly due to those damn birds i guess *restart*

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:48 pm

All bosses are dull.

clp · Post by **clp** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:00 pm

bitkid wrote:To me any boss that I have to do boss milking on is dull. I guess this means I won't ever get the full Raizing experience.

as already mentioned esprade milking is shocking way worse than any raizing game , it actually ruins the game for scoring as if you intend on competitively scoring you have to do it .

PainAmplifier · Post by **PainAmplifier** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:45 am

The bosses in Legendary Wings are exceedingly boring...even before your find out that they repeat with almost no variation!

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:55 am

PainAmplifier wrote:The bosses in Legendary Wings are exceedingly boring...even before your find out that they repeat with almost no variation!

And yet they love that game in Japan, for some reason or other.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:22 am

Ahh nobody has mentioned
B Wings
Xevious (sue me)
Exed Exes

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:28 am

Somebody played far enough into B-Wings to find a boss?!

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:30 am

Ed Oscuro wrote:Somebody played far enough into B-Wings to find a boss?!

I shudder at the thought of *playing* the game but some guy posted a video review of the game some time ago.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:13 am

Darwin 4078 has the exact same ship for every stage, just a bit different patterns. Halley's Comet has the same setup as the Darwin 4078. Both are great games though. Darwin 4078 has the coolest weapon system ever.

Emph

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:21 am

Icarus wrote:All bosses are dull.

Negative.

Viewpoint by Sammy (Neo-Geo version) Never a dull boss.

gennss · Post by **gennss** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:02 pm

after playing a lot of dreamcast shmups and seeing all the crazy bosses... donpachi seemed unremarkable in regards to boss.

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:19 pm

ROBOTRON wrote:Viewpoint by Sammy (Neo-Geo version) Never a dull boss.

On a scale of Dull to 10, I'd give Viewpoint's bosses a -∞.
Sort of like playing a 60min long Gradius bossrush, but with every boss being the Big Core from the first game.
Or like going into the Oxford Concise Dictionary and changing every word to "dull" and then reading it in a depressing monotone voice.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:11 pm

ROBOTRON wrote:
Icarus wrote:All bosses are dull.
Negative.

Viewpoint by Sammy (Neo-Geo version) Never a dull boss.

I lol'd. This was a funny statement to read.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:14 pm

ForceDevice wrote:
Zweihander wrote: Most of the bosses from Mushihime-sama. The game truly shines during the stages, but when that boss music hits, HOLY SHIT, prepare for mediocre, uninspired, and forgettable purple diarrhea.
The first two? Yep. The last one? Maybe. But the stage 3 and stage 4 bosses are amazing. Their patterns are beautiful to look at AND require you to actually dodge them, not just tap left and right. In maniac mode, that is

Also, Night Raid bosses are stupid and die too fast.

Ah, confirming this. Both the notion of Mushi's stage 3 & 4 bosses being rather fuckwin, and Night Raid's bosses being exceedingly boring. (Otherwise, though, I'd rate Night Raid a pretty decent and fun shooter)

bitkid wrote:To me any boss that I have to do boss milking on is dull. I guess this means I won't ever get the full Raizing experience.

Enjoy never being able to appreciate Psyvariar.