History BeyondTheImpossible / Videogames

* How insane can we make the Shadow bosses of {{Persona 4}}? In order of appearance, Yosuke's is a frog-thing with a ninja grafted onto it's back, Chie's is a dominatrix banana-head that sits on top of a tower of schoolgirls, Yukiko's is a firy bird that can summon an evil price doll, the less said about Kanji's shadow the better, Rise's is a satellite-faced swirly-colored stripper, Teddie's is just downright frightening, and Mitsuo's is a floating baby with an eight-bit character for a shield.

*** Bright [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan Slapped the fail out of]] ''[[{{Evangelion}} Shinji]]''. [[CatchPhrase Nuff Said]]

** Wrong question. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsnH_994Jo How far]] will the developers take RefugeInAudacity?

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f3woBOc8pY Asura's Wrath]]. Just, ''AsurasWrath''. As if that wasn't enough, [[spoiler: That planet sized budda? Its one of the weakest and presumably, earliest bosses in the '''Whole Game'''!]] Looks like ''{{Bayonetta}}'' has some competition in this department, now.

* How much longer can we delay DukeNukemForever?

* Can SplinterCellConviction protagonist Sam Fisher get any more American!? At one point without missing a beat he actually stabs a terrorist with an American Flag. Made all the better by the fact that the terrorist in question is a CompleteMonster with several ShootTheDog moments who most players have wanted to brutalize for the entire game.

** How badass can we make Mickey flippin' Mouse?

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f3woBOc8pY Asura's Wrath]]. Just, ''AsurasWrath''. As if that wasn't enough, [[spoiler: That planet sized budda? Its one of the weakest and presumably, earliest bosses in the '''Whole Game'''!]] Looks like ''{{Bayonetta}}'' has some competition in this department, now.

* ''[=~Assassin's Creed~=]'': How [[TheCombatPragmatist brutal]]/awesome can we make {{Counter Attack}}s and the other killing moves? [[GroinAttack Crotch stomps?]] [[SpamAttack Multiple slashes]] [[SlashedThroat to the throat]]? Child's play! WordOfGod on ''Brotherhood'' promises being able to attack multiple enemies with one counter. The possibilities if it's pulled off well...

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f3woBOc8pY Asura's Wrath]]. Just, ''AsurasWrath''. As if that wasn't enough, [[spoiler: Theat planet sized budda? Its one of the weakest and presumably, earliest bosses in the '''Whole Game'''!]] Looks like ''{{Bayonetta}}'' has some competition in this department, now.

*** Five words: [[spoiler: [[CoolVersusAwesome REAPER VERSUS COLOSSAL THRESHER MAW!!!!]]

*** Five words: [[spoiler: REAPER VERSUS COLOSSAL THRESHER MAW!!!!]]

** How much [[MadeOfIron damage can Alex regenerate from?]] [[LovecraftianSuperpower How much gorier can the super powers get?]]. How many tanks, helicopters and APC's can he hijack/destroy with a whip, claw, hammer, blade, super-jaws-of-life-esque-arms, armor, and shield, all made out of ''himself''? Or more correctly, made out of [[IAmAHumanitarian the countless soldiers, zombies, and civillians he devours]]. How much of a [[CompleteMonster sociopath]] can most of the main characters, [[RefugeInAudacity ''including the protagonist'']], turn out to be?

** How much [[MadeOfIron damage can Alex regenerate from?]] [[LovecraftianSuperpower How much gorier can the super powers get?]]. How many tanks, helicopters and APC's can he hijack/destroy with a whip, claw, hammer, blade, super-jaws-of-life-esque-arms, armor, and shield, all made out of ''himself''? Or more correctly, made out of [[IAmAHumanitarian the countless soldiers, zombies, and civillians he devours]]. How much of a [[CompleteMonster sociopath]] can most of the main characters, [[RefugeInAudacity''including the protagonist'']], turn out to be?

** Pffh. DMC4 was a breeze compared to DMC3, even on Hell and Hell mode. With the enemies' skill level bumped down to "Normal" and 3 revives per checkpoint, any decently skilled DMC player can win without much hassle. The Dante boss fight can be problematic if you don't know how to counter him properly; otherwise, it's a cinch. DMC3 Dante Must Die on the other hand...picture this scenario. You're on a giant chessboard, fighting 16 chess pieces. Killing the King kills the other 15 pieces, similar to checkmate on an ordinary chess game. Problem is, the Bishops can heal pieces (usually the King) and the Knights can summon other pieces, making the fight a non-stop, clusterfuck uphill battle. On Very Hard, it's a challenge to destroy the King. On Dante Must Die, with the blue aura surrounding the King and the other pieces (which significantly increases their defense and vitality), it's absolute hell. And that's the first fight of level 18. THEN you have to fight at least SIX other bosses you fought earlier in the game, CONTINUOUSLY. And now, the voice you're hearing is you, screaming.

* The doujin BulletHell shooter [=''HellSinker''=] really illustrates this trope starting with Segment 5: You have to navigate your way through a labyrinth lined with guns while weird {{Magitek}} things fly through the walls to attack you, then fight an absolutely incredible boss with many forms of attack that summons various bizarre machines to attack you, then summons the ''final boss'' of the creator's previous game, Radiozonde, to fight you, then when you finally beat all of that back and whittle its armor down to zero, [[MindScrew FATE CONTROL TERRA++ ]] and it's freaking immortal and you have to time it out to win. This would easily qualify as the FinalBoss of any other shooter, but it's ''just the halfway point'', and it only gets more insane from there.