User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Final Bosses/@comment-5020152-20160507142949

1) I definitely wasn't expecting to see Zinogre. I thought Jhen Mohran was the offline final boss of Portable 3rd? Zinogre was just the Four-Star Urgent Quest, according to the quest list here.

2) It honestly doesn't matter to me. If they want to bring back an older monster, I'm completely fine with that as long as they make the battle fitting for that of a final boss. However, I'm always happy to see new monsters as well.

3) My favorite offline final boss is Ivory Lagiacrus at this point. He was such a fun and challenging monster to battle, and he looked badass as well. However, I have a feeling that Glavenus is going to replace Ivory once I get around to fighting the fire-breathing abelisaurid in MHGen.

My favorite online final boss is easily Gogmazios. He's hard-hitting, gigantic, intimidating, spooky, and just plain awesome. His design is really cool, and his music is fantastic. I had a ton of fun fighting this monster in 4 Ultimate. Honorable mention goes to Dire Miralis, which I haven't actually fought yet (4 Ultimate came out while I was still working on 3 Ultimate's G-Rank quests). He looks f*cking awesome, though.

4) Screw Rusted Kushala. I loved the music and atmosphere of the battle, as well as its storyline significance and the cutscenes that played during the fight, but seriously? A Battlequarters tutorial for the final offline boss?

Shagaru Magala wasn't that great, either.

As far as online final bosses go, Alatreon was just unfair. It took me fifteen tries to kill it.

5) Um... care to be more specific?

6) Lao-Shan Lung. Who was the genius that considered HIM final boss material?

7) Hey, the build-up is half the battle. Gogmazios is the exception, though - I like how he basically comes out of nowhere. Yeah, there's a whisper here and there about stuff missing from the Battlequarters, but other than that, there's nothing.