Anyone else think Alduin is the best videogame boss ever?

Taking a crap in the toilet is harder than fighting him.

Not even remotely close.
He's way too easy, and you do not get to interact with him enough through the storyline to develop any real feeling of rivalry.

Nope.

not really...
Appart from the meteor storm and having to Dragonrend him, there's not much of a difference from a normal dragon fight.
And the fact you have 3 essencial warriors by your side, he'll rarely focus on you.

It should be 3 named dragons + Alduin, now that would be a fight

Sorry, but Beth did an amazing job with him. I've been gaming for over 20+ years and he is the best written and most visually stunning boss ever.

This topic has to be a joke. There cant possibly be someone with standards that low.

Oh, they're around. Trust me.

Bowser ? Alduin

Sarcasm at its finest.

Andrew Ryan
Ganondorf (Particularly in Wind Waker)
GLaDOS
Joker in the Arkham Games
Pretty much every single MGS boss

There are a lot of bosses that are better written and developed than Alduin is.

Andrew Ryan lol? No.

Andrew Ryan wasn't really a boss, as you technically don't fight him. But by far better than Alduin.

I wouldn't say that Alduin was a great boss. However, Skyrim dragons are really really good-looking, and the majestic feel you get when watching them soaring over the mountain peaks is just fuzzy... then you see one land and you get all excited. Then you kill it so easily and you can't help but feel a bit disappointed. They do look really nice, though - better looking than any other dragon I've seen in other CRPGs. I can't really think of any other CRPG boss which looks and sounds as good as Alduin, but then I haven't played that many. Mehrunes Dagon looked pretty good, but you couldn't really fight him fairly while Dagoth Ur and Almalexia were just normal sized people like you.

In terms of character and plot Alduin is nowhere near the top of even my limited list, though. Jon Irenicus, Deidranna, Batlin, Colonel Autumn, Dagoth Ur, Mankor Camoran and the King of Shadows all made me feel more satisfied when finally confronting and beating them.

Honestly, I love dragons. Fighting them is interesting, and fighting Alduin was pretty interesting too (I don't play on uber-high levels so they're not exactly weak).
While Alduin was alright as an opponent in a battle, he missed out as a villain and character. Can't say I really dislike him, but he didn't seem fleshed out enough for me to get... that feeling after beating him.

Anyone ever watch 24? Arguing with Jack Bauer is hopeless.

what level did you guys do it? for me I did it 50+ and he was actually pretty tough but I also have trouble with ancient dragons too but those 3 warriors are useless at 50+ so it might be them now the first dragon at level 5 that was a fight I hid in the tower scared lol then struck he had killed pretty much every1

Highest level I fought him on was... 40-ish? I didn't enjoy it, I felt overpowered. The other times it was more interesting, since I wasn't anywhere past 30.

That's true, but are we talking about bosses as in boss battles? Or bosses just by going by the game's Big Bad? If the former, than I'd have to remove Joker from the list as well, but both of them are much more interesting characters than Alduin is.

The OP doesn't state anything about boss battles, which makes me look at this as more about the game's "boss" level antagonists, regardless of whether or not they are people you physically fight. And one can even make the argument that considering Ryan pretty much embodies Rapture and its decline, the entire time you're fighting you're fighting him.

The OP mentions specifically writing and visual design, not the final battle. Going purely off of writing, Ryan blows Aludin away, even with what I feel to be his http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f18NWnxRmjI being removed from the game. Visual design doesn't really come into play on this one because it's comparing apples and oranges. One looks like a man, the other a dragon, and with the difference in tone and visual designs, it's hard to really compare the two games on that level.

Alduin best boss ever? how many games have you played exactly?
Alduin was no different then any other dragon battle, pretty much as hard as fighting an ancient dragon. I was actually pretty dissapointed with alduin. At the very least he should of had lightning breath, THAT would have made him 20 x cooler then he is now. I
t would have been nice if he did some more dragon shouts too, like become ethereal, whirlwind sprint, frost form, marked for death.

Off the top of my head i can think of more then a few bosses from other games better then alduin.
Jon Irenicus, Frank Fontaine, Revolver Ocelot, Serial Killer X, Dagoth Ur, The Master, Frank Horrigan, Big Smoke, Diablo....
thats just off the top of my head in 30 seconds, if i actually thought about it i could name a lot more cooler bosses then alduin.

Going by lore, Alduin, the World Eater, is a divine being fully capable of inflicting horrific curses on even the Daedric Princes.

Going by gameplay, Alduin is an angry flying lizard. That's basically how much of an impact he made on me.

Naah he is too easy.