Is it possible to have a fun/interesting boss fight in an FPS that isn't just "strafe and riddle with bullets"?
It's impossible to have a fun/interesting bossfight in any genre. Boring fucking cancer, that's what they all are.
>>320963489
>>320963596
Please just kill yourself. There are way too many braindead fucks like you on this board.
>>320963692
Simply epic.
>>320963920
Is that all you have? Parroting memes like the underage sheep you are?
Deus Ex had some interesting/fun boss fights.
Beyond that, unless they made bosses only vulnerable to certain weapons, they're pretty much always going to be strafe'n'spray.
>>320963692
wow, what an original rebuttal. Surely this board will now become a better place
>>320964061
I adjust my replies to your intellectual capacity.
>>320963489
but that's wrong
mind you, designing a good boss takes as much effort as designing a whole proper area in a game, so the vast majority of boss fights feel half-assed and shit
>>320963345
Maybe, but I've yet to see one.
Painkiller had some cool boss fights.
>>320964538
Came here to post this. They actually tried to get some fitting mechanics in there, instead of just a bigger health meter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFg3VUAxtAI
>>320963345
So your asking for an fps boss that doesn't use any fps mechanics?
If so then from my most recent memory and even though splatoon isnt first person the concepts in its boss battles especially the finally boss could be applied to make a decent fps bosseses.
Essentially make i so that to hurt a boss evasion and skill must be used to do specific actions to open up a boss to being defeated.
A quick example would like lets say haveing a helicopter attack the player on foot. The player cant do much damgr with whatever weapons they have at hand but there is miltary grade anti air equipment scatter about that the player must activate to slowly bring the enemy down.
final boss in quake, you have to kill him by telefrag
>>320965581
>him
I dont think its possible in general to have a good boss fight in a FPS/shooting game. DEMONFACEWALL was a good boss though because it has platforming, adds, an acid floor surrounding the pillar yo need to get up on and pretty much throws extra shit at you simply because just a "boss" is shit. Even the cyberdemon is shit, if you dont stop moving you'll never get hit
the three tentacles in half-life
>>320965910
those weren't a boss, they were a hazard you avoided until activating some swtiches
No.
FPSes should focus more on creating boss levels than bosses.
just playdestiny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iaT_mfFjBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDJP1MeMMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXVto13kOT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeNz0B_pjyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWBibsyqZsk
>>320965581
>how to defeat a boss in a jumper (mario, sonic, etc): jumping
>how to defeat a boss in bomberman: using bombs
>how to defeat a boss in a shooter (quake): stepping in a teleporter
>>320966462
was that 2 complicated 5 you?
>>320965581
Most disappointing boss fight ever.
>>320965910
What >>320965991 said. The last boss, Nihilanth, was kind of interesting, however. Still quite a lot of shooting, but it's mainly about figuring out that he heals, destroying the crystals, and then throwing a few grenades into his brain-case. Better than most.
>>320963345
best H.R. Giger ripoff ever
damn i miss the 90's
>>320966686
It's not complicated, it's just not very engaging given the genre you are playing.
In a shooter the boss should be defeated by shooting at it, but it should also require you to think of a creative and engaging way to apply all the knowledge of the mechanics you acquired up to that point.
I can't think of a way to accomplish that myself.
>>320966339
Did they fix bosses being bullet sponges with The Taken King?
If you're implying The Icon of Sin is interesting kill yourself. Its easily the worst level and i don't understand why wads make different versions of him half the time instead of not just making a custom boss for the end. His level is empty boring and his gimmick is shooting his forehead 3 times well the lift rises and he spawns shit wow.
>>320968571
>Its easily the worst level
doom 2 had plenty worse levels
>expose weak spot
>shoot the core
Worked in the arcades, should work on consoles too.
>>320968657
No they get brownie points for trying and the only reason the city levels are largely shit aside from the few that don't do this are because they're filled with open emptiness everywhere since its supposed to look and feel like a city.
Really that all could've been fixed with more monsters though.
>>320963345
I like the kind of bosses where it's going from point A to point B with a giant fucker interfering
>>320964126
What are you talking about
Every single boss fight in Deus Ex lasted 2 seconds
>Fire a rocket
>Win
>>320970224
>Hello Agent-DUEEARRRRGHH
>>320970224
>playing games on easy
>>320970224
bob page
>>320963345
FPS mechanics is pretty much
>strafe and riddle with bullets
bulletsponges are not very fun
thus it always works better with many enemies than with a single boss
you can do elaborate boss setups with multi stages and paterns, still feels less fun than chaos of fighting a horde of foes
>>320966339
its a coop game and not pure fps even, you use abilities.
and boss encounters team require coordination, its mmo way, very different from singleplayer games
that aside they are not even well designed bosses either
>>320967761
Was entering the 4 teleports mandatory?
>>320972178
no, you can avoid the green teleport spheres
>>320972408
I know you can avoid them, but I always thought you had to beat the 4 portals before you could damage it.
>>320963345
yes, 2hu.
>>320972610
>posts a gif of someone shooting while strafing
>>320972610
No, fights that consist of "hold down shoot while dodging 6 billion projectiles" are terrible. There's a reason that shmups/bullet hells are a niche genre.
>>320972579
>but I always thought you had to beat the 4 portals before you could damage it.
nope, just destroy the crystals and do damage to his head until he runs out of spheres.
>>320963692
>>320966462
>he calls platformers "jumpers"
