What is your favourite fight?
What is your favourite fight in a game and why?
For example:
In Bungie’s ‘Myth: The Fallen Lords’ there is a fight on a wide area of raised ground where your meager forces have to make a last stand against a pursuing army. The level is called 'Shadow of the mountain.'
Two quick notes about Myth for those who have never played it. 1. You rarely get reinforcements in Myth and they are always limited to just a few more units. 2. In this fight the order of the enemy attacks is randomised so fights would vary but the result is generally the same 
3. In Myth friendly fire is always on. Your bowmen can shoot your warriors if they are in the way and your dwarves will say, gruffly, “Sorry about that,” after blowing up a third of your berzerkers with a poorly timed bottle bomb.
The fight starts with enemies coming from one direction and up a steep slope. Your bowmen and bomb throwing dwarves make short work of them. Just when you start to think the fight is going to be a piece of cake enemies start to attack from a second direction. You head over and start to take care of the new threat. Suddenly you notice more units massing to attack from a third direction. Now you are having to fight and defend from many directions and mixed in with the enemy units you start to encounter ‘dark’ dwarves; bomb throwing dwarves that have been ‘turned to the dark side.’
Your own dwarves are already a danger to your units thanks to their tendency to explode or scatter satchel charges on the ground when killed, or throw duds, or bomb a group of your own men. The introduction of enemy dwarves is a recipe for chaos. There follows a period of explosive game play with good and bad dwarves bombing each other and the rest of your units trying A. To fight the enemy units swarming up onto the hill and B. Trying not to get blown up. At the end of all this, with half of your men dead and with those that are left severely wounded, one last enemy force arrives at the original point of attack. Standing in the centre of the formation is a Trow.
The giant Trow are naked except for a skull adorned loincloth. The good news concerning Trow is: They have no weapons. The bad news: They can kill a unit with one punch or kick. They also have a seemingly endless health bar.
The Trow watches, arms folded, as his remaining forces soften you up, then, with a ground shaking thump, thump, thump, it stomps up the hill to finish you off. Your dwarves, if you are lucky, might get in a few explosive hits in on the Trow, making a small dent in it’s health bar, before the giant kicks them and they die in a ball of flame. Your melee runs in to take the Trow on and your bowmen start to pour arrows into the fast moving giant. There follows a short, but heart stopping, fight with your men being casually punched and kicked to death as they whittle away at the Trow’s health. Once all your melee are dead the Trow stomps on towards your bowmen. At this point one of two things will happen. If you haven’t done enough the Trow will obliterate your bowmen or, if you manage to get it’s health down into the red, the last few arrows might finish it off. The Trow will suddenly turn to stone mid stride. Hit it with a few more arrows and it will explode into a gentle rain of grey dust. Your remaining units, standing on a hillside strewn with debris and body parts, will then cheer and hoot, celebrating their hard won victory.
I think I enjoy that particular fight (I've played it many, many times) because of the element of chaos involved. You find yourself fighting moment to moment and making lots of decisions on the fly.
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I'll have to give this some thought - but the Myth fight description has me itching to go back to the game - I might just fire it up this weekend. I loved Myth II.
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The fight in Resident Evil 4 with Ashley and Louis in the old house is awesome.
You enter an old house and suddenly you are attacked by dozens of villagers coming through the windows. You can push furniture in front of the windows but it will only stop them for a few seconds until they break through. Then you have to fight wave after wave of villagers. You can go up the stairs but the villagers will use ladders to climb through the windows. Overall it's pretty intense.
I might have experienced better fights, but this one is pretty recent and it was the first I thought of.
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When I heard fight game 'Tekken' came to mind.
I love that xiayou, my undefeated kung-fu expert. I know all the special moves and 10 point combos as well as some of my own homemade recipes consisting of backflips and head smashing.
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I tend to like boss fights that make no sense or are just insanely over-the-top.
Such as Metal Slug 3's final boss. After shooting your way through an alien spaceship, killing hoards of aliens and evil clones of your captured friend and ultimately destroying the ship and saving your friend, you have to fight a big brain-like alien with weird little arms while you fall out of the sky in a tank! If it wasn't all so silly, it would be incredibly epic!
The Metal Gear series has some phenomenal bosses, but I think two fights that stand out due to pure ridiculous action movie-esque awesomeness are the fight with Grey Fox in Metal Gear 2 and the final boss battle in Metal Gear Solid 2. The first one because it's a fist-fight in a mine field! If they remade Metal Gear 2 on current hardware with the high production values the series is known for, that would probably be the most beautiful and emotionally charged fight in the whole game, but aside from that, it's a fist-fight in a mine field! That's just pure kickass!
The final boss fight in MGS2 is even more ridiculously sweet because you fight half a dozen Metal Gears and then you fight the President with swords! And the President has two crazy Doctor Octopus arms! It doesn't get much more batsh*t looney than that, even in the Metal Gear series.
Special mention goes to Godhand, in which you fight a steady stream of generic bad guys with the odd demon thrown in, and suddenly you fight two scantily clad and very stereotypical homosexuals who taunt you with things such as, "Think you can sneak up behind me, Brokeback Cowboy?" Or suddenly you fight midget Power Rangers! Or suddenly you fight a gorilla!
And I thought that was insane, but shortly after I was playing Metal Gear Acid 2, and after a few hours of sneaking past and taking out generic soldiers, I was attacked by a gorilla with rocket hands! And after firing his rocket hands, he grows new rocket hands! I haven't finished the game, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was never explained. That's perhaps even crazier than the boss fight in MGS2.
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Diablo from Diablo 1 scared the bejesus out of me the first time I fought him. I had hyped up my expectations and it didn't disappoint. I even had a "guide" else I might have turned tail and run!
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
Homeworld. Not a specific battle in general but the storyline and game mechanics as a whole. RTS in three dimensions, space opera storyline, and Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" in the background. Man I loved that game. I think it's time for a re-install.
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For me, it's got to be the final trial by fire for either the Blood Eagles or Star Wolf clans in Mechwarrior 2. They pit you against four mechs, each of which is superior to your own. The only advantage you have is that you're lighter and have better jump-jets. In the battle for the highest possible rank in the clan, there is no retreat. No surrender. TRIAL BY FIRE!!!
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I don't know how any battle can top Psycho Mantis.
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Well, obviously Psycho Mantis is awesome, but it's awesome because of the fourth-wall breaking stuff and not because of anything crazy happening within the fight. Still, it's in my personal list as one of my favorites.
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The metal gear series has produced a number of memorable boss fights, and one of my favorites has to be the sniper battle with The End in MGS3.
Not only was it epic in length (I'm pretty sure my first play through took the better part of an hour) but you could get captured, sent to prison and forced to replay the last 20 minutes or so of the game to get back to the area and pick up where you left off.
It spread throughout several distinct environments and had you using all manner of tools and skills to try to track him and outsmart him. It was the high point of the game for me.
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The final mission of SC, where you could amass a fleet of fully upgraded Protos carriers and mow the Zerg down by the scores. Good stuff.
My favorite boss battle of all time would have to be Link beating his shadow in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. I think I was in 4th or 5th grade when I finally beat that game, and it was easily the most difficult one I'd ever finished. I still measure the sense of accomplishment I feel after a tough game fight by that standard. So far, nothing has ever come close.
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While i'm not a massive HL fan i really liked the converted library in Half Life 2 and the ascent onto the roof from outside... I think that was my favourite bit of that game.
Hmm. None are really coming to mind... but then i have a terrible memory. I need the game cases here to see the games i've played - unfortunately they're stored away at the moment
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So many good "fights" -- hard to pin down one. Off hand I'd say a lot of the raid bosses in 5-mans in WOW's Burning Crusade were really really fun, even the dozenth time you ran them.
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QFT. Almost every single fight in Psychonauts is memorable. Milkman's, Sasha Nein's or Milla's mind, Lungfishopolis, Black Velvetopia, Waterloo - I still remember most of them.
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The last fight in HL2:EP2. My gods was that intense. And awesome. And intense!
Mystic Violet wrote:
Oh my god, I didn't realize God Hand was that awesome! I promise to pick it up the next time I see it.
Favorite fight... most of the original Halo was great. Standout moments include the fight beneath the elevator to the alien ship, and the fight aboard the alien ship's elevator room, immediately afterwards. On Legendary, naturally.
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Yeah, WoW would be the source of many my greatest fight moments. Especially the barely contained chaos variety like Razorgore, the panther boss in ZG, Rajaxx in AQ20. The first time I saw Ragnaros summoned was also a big moment. The bosses where there are multiple fronts of attack and the whole raid has to function in subgroups, yet as a single well-oiled machine. When those work, it's just magical. There's the anticipation of the pull, the last minute recap of the strategy, the MT standing slightly in front of everyone else, ready to go. I must resist. I'm six months clean now.
Single-player wise I'll have to second Psychonauts as being very memorable artistically.
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End of Portal. 'Nuff said.
I'll help. There's one mission in Homeworld: Cataclysm where the evil chewy assimilation alien tries to chewily assimilate those super-advanced trader aliens in the flying horseshoe, and they go "We will not be bound!" and self-destruct. Awesome.
I'd have to go for Freespace 2, taking down the Sathanas. The fact that I still remember what it's called suggests it was a good fight.
I'm going to disagree with Chicken about the end of Ep 2. I just found that to be hard and frustrating, occasionally punctuated by running over a Hound in my car. I'm also disagreeing with her on principle because she said, "my gods." Pet peeve.
I also liked the last fight in Condemned. Condemned 2 had better fight mechanics but there was just something visceral about ripping chunks of that guy off.
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As frustrating as it was, fighting Perseus in GoW2 was cool (especially since they got Harry Hamilin to voice Perseus). Also, anytime I got to take down a Star Destroyer in X-Wing. There was one bonus mission in the CD version of the game where 4 Star Destroyers and 5 Mon Calamarian Cruisers jump in, along a few frigates, dozens of Blockade Runners, and LOTS of fighters. THAT was an awesome dogfight.
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As far as my favorite level/fight, I'd say the OPs Myth fight is probably up there, however I think the final fight of Myth: TFL where you try to put Balor's head in the Great Devoid. Having to "heal" Soulblighter and racing towards that giant hole, was probably one of the best endings to a game that I can remember.
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Medal of Honor Normandy level. Not that impressive nowadays, but at the time it was pretty intense. It was fun to watch the chaos all around, and when you were able to make it to cover, it took a lot to jump out from behind it, and start running again.
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Tough call!
I'd also like to mention the Midget Power Ranger fight in God Hand. That game contains HUGE amounts of awsome. The bone dragon fight from Ninja Gaiden is a high point for me, because after spending almost an entire weekend fighting it I unlocked the secrets to the game and went on to become quite good at it.
Special mention goes to another game mentioned already in this thread: The motorcycle chase scene in Metal Gear Solid 3 where you are rippin' away from the Shagohad, shooting up soldiers the whole way. Most exhilarating chase in a game ever.
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I really liked the beginning rooftop/apartment building chase at the beginning of Half-life 2. Ooh, and the helicopter fight on that jetski thing. That was awesome.
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The first of three Major Fights in Missionforce: Cyberstorm. You were horribly outmanned and outgunned and you had to hold it together for this massive base assault. One of the hardest missions in the game, and very, very tense.
Any mission in X-Com. Those were all white-knuckle.
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Ninja Gaiden holds some fierce fights. The horde-riding guy with the teleporting guys and then the bone dragon were perhaps the high points of the game. (I. Hate. Alma. So. Much.)
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