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Why would you ask such a thing of the final bosses?

>>16025530

They obviously already lost it.

>>16025440

Yes, it's about as bad as managing to get an onsite interview at the most well-paid company in the world, spending months preparing, skipping both your thanksgiving and christmas holidays, and then failing at the end.

that manga looks like ass

>>16025614

Begone ESL

>>16025576

That's not really Mark on the right in the suit, yeah? I'm not up to date on the Mark lore, but that seems too far even for him.

If the final boss isn't the hardest boss (not including superbosses), it's a shit final boss unless it has a good reason to not be the hardest (You just got the ultimate shit kicking powerup before the fight, it's the puppetmaster rather than the warlord, etc.)

>>16025682

Give it time >>16010719 >>16010755

It's always more fun to be on the verge of losing a fucking hard fight but still pull through.

>>16025495

Good post, was going to say something along these lines.

>>16025440

depends on the boss anon

not all final boss are hard and some are

>>16025440

>is it better or worse to die to the final boss?

Better or worse than what, not dying? Assuming the point of the final boss is to beat it why would it be better to die to it?

>Are people who die at the final boss scrubs?

Kinda depends on the game and circumstances doesn't it? Was this bait? I'm not sure what your point is here.

Dying on the final boss is a respectable way to fail a 1CC. Shit thread though.

I think OP is specifically referring to the first time you fight the final boss, it can be pretty disappointing if it turns out to be a cakewalk, but also demoralizing to lose while being so close to the end.

Personally I would rather either:

>Get absolutely destroyed, multiple times even, before actually getting my shit together. Thus rightfully earning the boss's title as the greatest opponent

or

>Struggle and barely manage to come out on top, winning mostly thanks to accumulated experience from previous fights in the game, plus a bit (or a lot) of luck.

Still, it really does depend a lot on the type of game and what the context is to the fight, if there's any at all.

Final bosses should kick your ass the first few times you face them, it should be a test about how much you've learned and how your skills have improved. Cinematic final bosses a shit.

I know what the gayest way to lose to a final boss is: failing the QTE after you beat the boss

>have to deflect a huge projectile with the counter button

>used to tapping it a few times beforehand

>turns out you can only tap once in this super special cutscene scenario

Advance Guardian heroes is a laggy ass, badly translated game that does as much wrong as it does right.

>>16025440

I never realized Disgaea had multiple endings. Flonne died in the final battle, so I went years crying over Prinharl ending without ever realizing that there was a good end.

>>16027392

Is that the vape store guy?

>the game has character progression with choices, that solidify together to form a "build"

>you can also go through the game at level 1

>the final boss is weak to the element that dosnt use your levels and therefor any build can use it

>the final boss is weak to the technique any build can use to the point it could be considered cheesing

>you never learned it

turned a boss everyone said was a joke into an actually hard boss, actually felt like a good final boss

he didnt have an obscene amount of health but he could ruin your whole healthbar very fast if you let him, and he dosnt give you time to heal either, it was difficult and exhilarating, all because I never learned how to parry

>>16027392

>>16027262

The final normal play-through ending you get is primarily controlled by how many times you kill your own teammates with your own attacks. That is the main measure of your morality in the game. Intentionally killing even one of your teammates is enough to prevent the good ending. But there are actually many different endings to the game that can happen at different parts of the game, with different combinations of killing your own teammates in excess, forcing the senate to vote a certain way, sparing bosses lives or not, etc.

>>16027392

What really? That game is so old, its initial PS2 release is closer to the release of Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES than it is to the current year.