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Levellass wrote:Mind you, Keen 3 is the only game with a traditional videogame boss, sure you *can* see the Shikadi master or the Q.E.D as one, but not really, it's more a goal.
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Haha, wow, I wouldn't have thought that of all people lass could forget Dreams.
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tulip wrote:Haha, wow, I wouldn't have thought that of all people lass could forget Dreams.
Well apparently she did! :pogo
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There's forgetting, and then there's deliberate omission. Eh? Eh?
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What was the ending to Keen GBC like?
(I'm not asking plot, I'm asking level structure and order.)
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Ehm, Boobus Tuber?
Huzzah! Someone reads my comments!

Keen is still far below par in terms of bosses though, most games I know of end with one, or multiple ones.

I've enver counted the VC as a boss, he's just like the other Vorticons and it's not so much a battle as 'if you can figure this puzzle out, you win. Otherwise sneak by'
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I have always preferred games that don't rely on bosses for epicness.
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Commander Spleen wrote:I have always preferred games that don't rely on bosses for epicness.
That.
I've still never got past the boss in God of Thunder, and I've been playing that for longer than keen!
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Eros wrote:Mortimer McMire in The Warpcore.
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Commander Spleen wrote:I have always preferred games that don't rely on bosses for epicness.
WHAT BLASPHEMY IS THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaSYH9SYpVo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU5W5YzUqrA

BLASPHEMY.
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CKeen wrote:
Commander Spleen wrote:I have always preferred games that don't rely on bosses for epicness.
WHAT BLASPHEMY IS THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU5W5YzUqrA

BLASPHEMY.
Yes but megaman doesn't RELY on bosses for epicness :) It is epic regardless of its amazing bosses.
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Well, true. But bosses are a fundamental part of Mega Man's gameplay. The bosses and the fact in each game you gain a different weapon by them.

Most platformers I know have bosses at one point or another, Keen is one of the few series that almost doesn't have any boss. And it's a pity since they would be so much fun to fight with neural stunners and pogos (although once again the die-in-one-hit is lame).

Boss fights are usually meant to test your combat skills to the maximum. Indeed, I've faced some *VERY* hard bosses in some games. Some rayman and ratchet & clank bosses are unforgiving.
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I think it all depends on how well it's done. A game may very well rely on bosses for epicality, and that's fine, as long as it makes the game as a whole good. Likewise a game with no bosses is fine, as long as it's a good game. You can't make a bad game better by squashing in a big boss somewhere, nor will removing a boss magically improve a game. (Unless it's http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThatOneBoss )
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