[Discussion] How do you define a fun boss fight?

[Ryuko]

Gimmicks make a fight very fun for me, but there also has to be an added level of difficulty and challenge for me to truly enjoy it. It's difficult to strike a balance between 'fun' and 'hard' because for some players, hard fights just aren't fun to them. Titan's unforgiving mechanics (knocking you off the stage permanently) frustrate a lot of people, but they really only get to me when I'm hit and I was never in the Landslide trajectory in the first place. (That is, they target, I wasn't in it so I don't move, then they hit... and I get hit even though I was NEVER in it.) It confuses and annoys me. Similarly, when people randomly drop even though they were inside the spiny plume's bubble way ahead of time. I've seen it happen to others and to myself. When the game itself 'messes up' and you get insta-killed or removed from the fight because of it.. then it stops being fun. Fortunately, these occurrences don't seem to happen TOO often, but I did have a few runs where someone was dying while inside the bubble almost every time. My only assumption is that lag is causing the game to not update fast enough, or the server thinks you are standing in a different place (but that doesn't make sense because everyone can SEE you next to them on their screen).