Aw Cmon!! Really?!?

[snow]

Assassins creed and Assassins creed 2 suffer from this... They could have done so much with making the ending a real challenge, but I don't think they were sure at the time of what to do with the system they've created.

Spoiler

Near the end of the first one... It was a fight simulator, after putting so much work in making the rest of it a stealth game, it didn't sit well with me that they removed the key motive the game was supposedly based on...

Assassins creed 2 felt like a hitman remake in the games final stages, falling short of having you disguise yourself to make it through, although by that point you're wearing black anyway.. Sure I was able to take out all the areas of guards without having a single battle, but after that, the stealth felt dumbed down compared to earlier parts of the game, where you had to move from group of people to group of people...

That and the stupidity of the main conspirator truly ruined the game for me... He had a magical staff, and finally got his hands on the apple of Edan that Ezio carried... "Enough of this!" Ezio says... "Let's duke it out.. No weapons.." "SURE!!!! GREAT IDEA!" says the pope!

I mean... Really? They decided to toss away 90% of what we learned in the game just to go back to showing what we learned in the first scene where we see Ezio as an adult? Heck that was more of a challenge because you were fighting a crowd of people in a Romeo and Juliet-esque street brawl...

What the hell?!

 

[WestMountain]

The final battle in GUN.

It was easy enough, and so totally divorced from the grittiness of the rest of the game.

"Alright, I'm fighting cowboys with a slow loading rifle, yeah, this is the old west."

"Wait a minute, I can't kill this guy with a rifle shot to the head, and he's carrying a gun they used to mount on ships? And I kill him by throwing his own dynamite back at him? And even that takes a while? WHAT?!"

So thats how you kill him! I never completed that game because I didnt know how to kill him

 

[NUMAN01D]

Fable II is the worst offender!

That turned me off that game perminetly. The last boss of the entire game took one shot to kill?! He didn't even try to fight back.

Yes! I totally agree with this, but mainly because I did it accidentally. I think I skipped the last cutscene and must have double-pressed a button because before I know it, it's all over. I was like "... was that supposed to happen?"

 

[jowo96]

Any boss battle that requires an entirely different set of skillset than what is required in the rest of the game.

An example that comes to mind is the matrix path of neo where you get a flying section, I won't spoil it by telling you the context sufice to say it has nothing to do with the actual game.

On the other hand a boss with massive health is not so much hard it is tedious

 

[GraveyardTricks]

Bully - The geezer on the rooftop at the end was pathetic, I know that was the whole point, but still, I wanted a fight.

 

[SonicKoala]

The last boss in Dead Space was really easy - just dodge him a couple times, then shoot; it's a recipe that's repeated all too often. However, that personally didn't "ruin" the experience for me. I really don't care if the very LAST BOSS is so challenging, particularly if the rest of the game provides a sufficient enough challenge (which it almost always does).

 

[Outright Villainy]

I've said it once and I'll say it again:

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time had the most pitiful excuse for a final boss in any game I've ever played.

Seriously, Ganondorf is supposed to be the epidamy of all evil. He's the ultimate form of pure hatred and everything wrong with the world, yet I beat him without getting hit once.

Fucking Bullshit

This is far too true, though when i first played it, I'm sure it was better because I wasn't too great at games and stuff back then. The penultimate battle is way better, though once you figure it out it's a bit of a cakewalk too. I think majora's mask is the only zelda with decent challenging bosses, and when i replayed it lately, being the overconfident zelda pro, I just hopped into the last battle with no potions and was soundly whipped. Good stuff right there; pity wind waker and twilight princess really brought it to ridiculously easy levels after...

 

[Norks]

Fable II is the worst offender!

One of my favorite games of all time, when I play it I don't want it to end, firstly because I enjoy it so much, and secondly so that I won't have to endure the rubbish final Boss fight!

 

[Sephychu]

Twilight Princess and Metal Gear Solid, especially the former. The boss battles were waaaay too easy.

Que? REX, nay, all of the bosses were nails on the highest difficulties. With the possible exception of The End if you fought him with the internal Clock.

 

[ShakesZX]

The ending of Darksiders. I'm not talking about the Final boss fight, but at the very end of the cinematic. I so wanted to see what would happen next.

Or the ending of Assassin's Creed 2. That was a major "WTF?!? Seriously?" moment.

 

[funguy2121]

Twilight Princess and Metal Gear Solid, especially the former. The boss battles were waaaay too easy.

Que? REX, nay, all of the bosses were nails on the highest difficulties. With the possible exception of The End if you fought him with the internal Clock.

Metal Gear SOLID. 1. Not 2, prequel/3, or 4. Just 1.

 

[Volafortis]

Gears Of War 2. I was loving the game, then the final boss came. 5 seconds later (quite literally, 5 seconds later, you honestly press and hold the right trigger twice to win), I was like "WTF?". The game still goes down as a great shooter in my books because the gunplay works well, and the worm level was fun, but that was ridiculous.

 

[Trivun]

I didn't much appreciate fighting Xemnas in Kingdom Hearts 2. See, in the first game, you're fighting 'Ansem' (cough cough) and it gets really tough, I struggled for ages trying to get past the stage where you're in that little bowl area and Donald/Goofy are trapped outside on the beach. Then in KH2, you reach Xemnas, and he's piss easy. There's still several stages, and it's still pretty damn cool (like the bit where you fight on the back of a mother-fucking dragon...), but it's still too easy to be worth all that trouble in the rest of the game.

Though it was still a good game. Any game where you fight a thousand Heartless at once just has to be good...

 

[Jenova65]

Fable II is the worst offender!

Fable II is the worst offender!

That turned me off that game perminetly. The last boss of the entire game took one shot to kill?! He didn't even try to fight back. Also darksiders last boss was quite easy. Took one go and only lost 1 health bar.

I actually found it very satisfying, so no.......

Fable II is the worst offender!

That turned me off that game perminetly. The last boss of the entire game took one shot to kill?! He didn't even try to fight back. Also darksiders last boss was quite easy. Took one go and only lost 1 health bar.

I'll take it I'm the only one who liked Fable IIs final boss. The game spends all its time building up just how evil and powerful this guy is, but the only reason he is like that is because of his knowledge, contacts and henchmen. Without it, he's just a normal guy and like a normal guy, he dies after 1 shot in the head. Much better then if they had done a Deus Ex Machina to making him uber-powerful and annoying.

And on that note, another vote for Bioshock.

.......you aren't the only one who liked the end

 

[JohnSmith]

Not just the final boss in borderlands but the guardians. Who are supposedly kick ass, and given the amount of XP attributed to killing them the developers clearly thought they were a challenge but they were easily the least troublesome enemies in the game.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Every single one of Wet's bosses was a QTE, a slow QTE. Hardly difficult from a hardly difficult game.

 

[havass]

Assassin's Creed 2. final boss fight is a punch out with the pope. -.-

And Prince of Persia. I swear, that's the stupidest and most innovative idea to fight a boss. You stroll straight at him.

 

[Bunnybeater]

Apart from several excellent examples already put up (Oblivion, Fable II), I have to say Skies of Arcadia.

Three stupidly easy boss battles, back-to-back, separated only by cutscenes (no save opportunities), and they went on FOR FUCKING HOURS.

The first time, I got bored and lost focus halfway through the second battle. Got killed, had to start all over again. About two goddamn hours just to get back to where I had been. Madness.

 

[Ildecia]

Mario Galaxy, Bowser was always the easiest boss to beat, even his son proved a bit more of a challenge than him.

This...

and the emperor from force unleashed...

he was easier to beat than some of the earlier bosses (maybe i didnt know the controls) force powers = win...

 

[Keepitclean]

Halo 3, if guilty spark counts as a boss. It's just too easy.