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Message: [QUOTE="HexGramarye, post: 80783, member: 173567"] You know what? I agree. Why does every RPG have to have boss fights with a final boss at the end? Back in the day, the Ultima series didn't really emphasize boss fights at all. The early games had just one boss fight at the end, and Exodus and IV didn't have bosses at all. I'm playing Atelier Marie right now, and you don't have to do any fighting (bosses or otherwise) to get most of the good endings, or the canon ending. And I love all those games. Now, I am a person who loves boss fights myself, unless they're poorly designed of course. But yeah, maybe it's a formulaic cliche that there needs to be a boss at the end of every dungeon. Do you ever see a save point and immediately think, "better save, there's clearly a boss in a second," and doesn't that kill the suspense? So maybe RPG stories would be more creative and original if developers didn't feel shackled by those conventions. [/QUOTE]

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