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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

    Quote Originally Posted by Axel
    Not owning an XBox I can't say for certain. But what I understand is that it's a good game that simply failed to live up to the massive hype which had been built around it.
    Exactly. The expectations were rediculous, and Molyneaux's studio did nothing to quell them. Molyneaux himself even apologized after the game's release about hyping it so bad and boasting about features that never made it into the game.

    However, when I played the game, I didn't know any of this. So I was really happy with how interesting and new the game was. There is a TON of things to do and there are lots of different ways to approach victory. Saying you can complete the game in 10 hours is simply not true. That's only one way to play the game. There are different alignments, and economy to play with, and the goofyness of age, religion, and relationships. It's fun.

    It's a toy. It's an amazing toy. It just isn't the ultimate single player fantasy world ever concieved that will eliminate your need to go outside and have a life, which is how it was hyped by the (surprise) marketing and PR guys of the publisher.

    Most marketing people should be thrown in a pit of lava for ruining art and entertainment.

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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

    Quote Originally Posted by Beldaran
    Jaded, over-stimulated gamers who hate everything by default will hate it. People who still have a soul will really enjoy it. I loved it.
    I hated it and I don't think that I've lost my "soul" yet. Aging was too fast, environment was too small, dialogue was annoyingly repetitive. It didn't deliver on most of the cool things I was expecting. As Alexmax said, it's fairly decent to rent. I played a good amount for a little less than a week than after only enjoying the fighting mini-game for a while I became too bored to continue.

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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

    Donkey Kong Country. I didn't expect K Rool to come back. I beat him the first time, and I was so excited ( I was in like the 4th grade, after all) and I left the room to get my mom and I came back and I was dead. I was quite angry at that one.

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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

    .hack//QUARANTINE, but not for a suprising final boss, but for the lack of one. the story explains about a cursed "wave", that was to follow eight phases, but the eighth phase is the final boss, and the "wave" is all the phases. it's clever, and a bit dissapointing, but certainly suprising

    actually, there was an unexpected final boss. the secret boss, Twilight Wanderer. while the eight phases allow you to beat the game, this boss makes you complete it. I certainly was NOT expecting this boss, or it's second form

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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

    Quote Originally Posted by Dechipher
    Donkey Kong Country. I didn't expect K Rool to come back. I beat him the first time, and I was so excited ( I was in like the 4th grade, after all) and I left the room to get my mom and I came back and I was dead. I was quite angry at that one.
    Heh, so I'm not the only one.

    But, there was Duo.EXE in MMBN4. While Duo was from space in MM8 and the asteroid heading towards Earth in BN4 being from space (of course), I still didn't even think of similarities between the two. I absolutely had no idea WHO the final boss was even going to be, but it turning out to be Duo was a bit of a surprise seeing as he was good in MM8 (States he's not evil, but only trying to wipe out the Earth because of the evil within humans -- an evil act right there. ).
    And to this date, Duo is still the most cheap boss in all of the BN games; attacks were absurd. And then, who'd even be crazy enough to fight DuoOmega for 100% completion? Pft, fuck that.

    Edit: Damn typos/errors.

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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

    Quote Originally Posted by Tygore
    Super Smash Bros. I mean, a giant floating hand? What the crap? That one got me.
    Eh, that's not really unexpected at all. The intro shows a hand playing with toys, so the game itself is toys fighting each other. It just makes sense for the final boss to be the hand because the toys are fighting against the hand which is playing with them. *shrugs* I didn't find it unexpected.

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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

    Quote Originally Posted by Axel
    I'd have to say FFX was pretty surprising. Just the entire final fight, you have to fight all your summons and can't possibly lose.
    You have to fight the summons? Wow. I wouldn't know, because I had Auron's legendary weapon, and with it the First Strike capability.

    Auron did 99,999 points of damage to Yu Yevon immediately, ending the final boss fight in that game for me.

    Of course, I'd previously spent 200 hours optimizing and filling all of my character's grids and collecting and upgrading their legendary weapons(Lulu's legendary weapon is a nice little reference).

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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

    Oh yeah, the Doom Dragon's identity. I deffinitely didn't see that coming. But the Dragon itself wasn't really a surprise.

    I remember having to wipe out all your summons before Yu Yevon even shows up. Not that it matters, with the autolife thing and all. Of course, the only one that stands a chance of ever killing anyone is the Magus Sisters.
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    Re: Unexpected Final Bosses

    I was thinking they might've did the autolife thing so that getting the optional summons doesn't end up as a punishment. If you actually had to fight the Magus Sisters in that battle, people might think twice about getting them. But still, the whole autolife thing was really stupid.

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