- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: WhiteRaven119
As shishka put it best (something like this, anyway):
"There were bosses in Halo: CE, it's just that they were nameless hunters and gold elites. In halo 2, you have the same thing, they're just key characters in the game."
There were no bosses in Halo CE. Sure, hunters were tough, but you encountered them numerous times.
In Halo 2, there are three bosses: Regret, Tartarus, and the heretic leader. They are bosses because they require specific methods to kill them; you had to board Regret's chair and kill him. You had to differentiate between reality and holograms in the heretic leader battle. And you had to do nothing but run like a pansy when you fought Tartarus.
A "boss" is a character which has specific attack patterns, specific weaknesses, is important to the story, and is very rare throughout the game. If you're gonna call gold elites and hunters "bosses," you might as well call a pack of grunts "bosses" too.
I don't think bosses belong in Halo.