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Top Videogame Boss Fights Rated
Thanks to GameSpot for their list of their 10 favorite videogame boss fights ever. The article claims: "The bosses here qualify as memorable by excelling in a number of categories; difficulty, personality, and innovative fight mechanics all come into play", and goes on to name bosses such as Dark Falz from Phantasy Star ("...so terrifying, they couldn't even spell his name right"), Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid ("more about figuring out the gimmicks behind his trickery than being skillful with your weaponry"), and Ganon from Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time ("the most dramatic and epic [boss battle] in Zelda history.")
No, no, you're getting them comfused. Gamespy is a bunch of assholes who hate the Gamecube, spout stupid opinions about things, and monopolize file downloads. Gamespot is a reasonably cool site that bothers to have insightful commentary and well-written news occasionally.
Gamespy hates Mortal Kombat, Gamespot doesn't.
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I'll ignore the fact that you've confused Gamespot and Gamespy. However, Gamespot is here praising just one boss- they in fact say many of the other enemies were pretty poor quality and easily defeatible by cheap stupid tactics- and one boss does not a game make. Furthermore, even if it were a good game, plenty of Gamespy's "most overrated" games were actually pretty good- it's just that the hype, the reviews, or the anticipation that they'd be even better than the great games they were successors to pointed towards a game light-years beyond the "OK, not great" games they turned out to be.