Onyx Jaguar wrote...
No, bosses have no place in these types of games. They should be stamped out.
No, they shouldn't be. Mass Effect is an RPG, after all, and every good RPG should come with epic, large-scale battles.
ME 2 was worse for having them.
According to my memory, Mass Effect 2 didn't have any, save for the one at the end, and the one on the Krogan homeworld.
Call of Duty did not suffer from bosses. The Halo games when they tried did. Half-Life had decent ones until the end because the previous ones were gigantic puzzles. Half-Life 2 took out the bosses but kept the puzzle aspect.
The only bosses that Gears of War had that were of any note were the Berserkers which were also fairly puzzle based.
You've clearly never played a Metroid Prime title. Or an MGS title.
When you have a game that properly scales in tension you do not need bosses as bosses end up making the experience either uneven, or they are implemented to break a game out of monotony.
When bosses are implemented properly, they're usually to reward the player with an epic battle at the end of a level or a gameplay period. If a game properly scales in tension, then the enemies will slowly becoming more menacing, culminating in a boss fight (With or without mini-bosses in-between).
Then after that it was purely a gameplay and creative thing.
And what's wrong with that?
Bosses are uneeded as they would not make sense in this type of environment (look at the ridiculous Saren boss fight and the end boss fight of ME 2, also the stupid end of Noveria fights).
I'd imagine that there couldn't possibly be an environment better-suited for epic boss battles than a futuristic space-opera about giant robots that want to rule the universe.
If Mass Effect 3 didn't involve any epic boss battles, considering its set-up, then things wouldn't make any sense.
Things like what we saw in Feros makes sense, and even in Grunt's loyalty mission where the setup allowed for it. But these were not "Big boss" battles.
The bosses certainly were big, and they were certainly challenging. I'd call them "big boss battles."
Modifié par Batman90, 22 août 2010 - 01:36 .