Gexup's 12 Days of Christmas - Top 4 Boss Fights

Happy New Year, everyone! And what a way for itstailtime.net to start 2014 with a new list by me! Today, I'm going to count down the 4 biggest highlights in (most) video games, and that's the boss fights! For me, a video game (no matter what genre it's from) needs to have plenty of boss fights throughout the experience. I've seen a lot that are great, some mediocre, and some horrible. But in this list, we're counting down my favorites ever! These are the four bosses that I worked my ass off getting through the progression of the game learning more and more on how to play each game and then at the end we get tested to see if we learned enough to face a foe much harder than the others. Keep in mind that these aren't the final bosses only, these are the bosses that given me great pleasure and honor in battling them.

As stated already, boss fights are tests to see if you're capable enough to handle all the challenges that the developer have offered. But we sometimes get so invested in the game that it doesn't look like a test anymore, but rather our journey and destination to the bosses that face our path to finishing the game. Sometimes we take these bosses as our own personal enemy, because we fell like the character, and we want nothing more than to beat their ass. But not just simply beating their ass, but we want it to be captivating, gripping, challenging, and thrilling to face them only to have us left eager to challenge them again. This is what makes these villains a character to us by showing how engaged they want us to loose as much as we want to win. A great boss fight shouldn't really be all trial and error and then hit their weak spot (Mario series), but rather an equal rival that is believable enough that can finish you off, like a bully in school. The last thing we want is a boss fight that only have a couple more hit-point than your normal enemy in the game (again the Mario series), but should be intelligent enough to strike at will and make it feel like a threat. And lastly, we want to have the biggest reward after we defeat them because nothing is like facing a worthy foe to feel so rewarding after making it this far and have complete fulfillment when victory is yours! There are so many to choose from but I only have four picks to choose as my favorite. Share with me your favorites in the forums, but here's my list!

TheHande - The Curse of Monkey Island, Finale: Pie Pan Pandemonium!

We finally finish up my favourite Let's Play of my favourite adventure game. Thank you very much to T-McBee for sharing the adventure with me.

There will be an extra bonus video on Thursday related to this Let's Play.

Litestudios - Power Rangers a Tribute to Ernie (Richard Genelle)

My short tribute to Ernie. I give a small amount of trivia on the character and actor and say my final goodbye. I'll never forget you Richard.

Gexup's 12 Days of Christmas - Top 5 Most Disappointing Last Gen Games

As stated in my last list, I am not a fan of gaming in last Gen because of all the reasons I've stated yesterday. I know that not every console generation is perfect, but if there are more negatives than positives, then the 7th generation of consoles could seize that moment! I could be the most critical person of last generation of consoles (despite my view points of being a retro gamer) because the many times I've got screwed over by developers who given me incomplete games, horrible game endings, and many more to list down! I can easily say that this could be the worst generation of gaming because of how badly abused the consumers all were and the worst part of all is there are suckers everywhere letting these corporate assholes get away with it by taking their hard working money on them. For that reason alone we're going to have many more of them and it's now time for me to move on and stop begin a modern gamer because I'm going to loose way money more than I hope for.

It's easy for some of you guys to have parents to buy them all for you, but my brother and I had jobs trying to earn enough cash to buy games that we hope would be entertaining or worth keeping, but only to feel upset to completely dissatisfied. We could have spend all those $60 worth games to get anything more valuable than these worthless interactive programs that dares to call themselves entertainment. Out here in Japan, there is no rental game store like what you guys have in America and elsewhere. Of course, we as gamers have no right to barge in and tell these developers and publishers how to make these games, so just like any media, we spend our money and we take our chances with them.

In this list, I'm of course NOT counting the "worst games" from Last Gen., because anyone can pick any shuffleware from the Wii which is a dead giveaway. I'm only counting the games that have been shoved in our faces so many damn times that they've persuaded us to buy it and towards the end, we feel like fools once we finished the game. These are the games that created so much anticipation, but turned out to be another way to takes our money from our wallets, so I'm not counting any shooter game because there was absolutely no anticipation for me to play titles like fucking Call of Duty or Battlefield to be entertained or even worthy to put in my game collection. You MUST have anticipation first in order to be disappointed and that's the only way a game from last gen to make it on this very list!

There are just so many bad games from this generation to count, but I'm selecting only 5 games from this gigantic shit pile. Instead of doing honorable mentions for this list, go replay any of Boochow's game of the year award shows and look up the disappointing games category that we've awarded and nominated because there are more than enough of them to count! With that being said, here is probably my most controversial picks and my most angriest list I've ever written! So here it is!

Shintai Rambles: Assassisn's Creed: Brotherhood, Revelations and Forgotten Sands

This is my first attempt at Shintai Rambles where I take a more casual approach to talking about games I don't intend to review much want to discuss regardless.