Bizarrely Easy Boss Fights

[OtherSideofSky]

The last boss of Xenosaga II uses his first turn to cast a spell which revives you if you die, and then proceeds to do nothing whatsoever to stop you from killing him. He get about three turns for every one of yours, but instead of attacks he has about thirty different fully voiced insults.

 

[Xariat]

Handsome Jack and the warrior from borderlands 2 (solo /W Zer0).

holy fucking shit that was so anticlimactic it wasn't even fun. it took me three sniper shots to down Jack himself and the warrior barley hit me once.

I had more trouble with RPG loaders robots or those guys who runs around with rocket launchers than I had with the final "boss". heck I've taken more damage from accidentally hitting myself with weapons that are thrown like grenades when you reload them.

 

[Terrible Opinions]

Borderlands 2... no, not Wilhelm - see: plot. And yeah, the final boss was piss-easy, but that's been mentioned, too.

BNK3R. There's a glitch that lets Zero one-shot him.

Hell of a time saver on True Vault Hunter.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

The boss in Deus ex: human revolution where you run upto where he lands and stealth kill him before he can do anything to you. Gotta be the easiest boss fight ever although it didn't really seem like a boss fight at all. The final boss was a complete joke aswell...switch him off *rolls his eyes*. If ever there was a game with easier boss fights overall then i'd like to see it. Proximity grenades ruined everything.

I'll add the boss at the end of Final Fantasy 10...i was so overpowered from killing the dark thingies that the final boss died in 1 hit.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Boss battles in FFX were incredible tactical feats, requiring incredibly precise tactics....

You mean, the easiest main series FF game ever made (and the FF series is generally easy).

BTW: The battle with Yunalesca was about the only fight that required a little strategy. And that strategy was let 1 person be zombified. That person will survive auto-death and will revive the others. It's also easier to keep a (mostly) living party healthy.

Or you could just use Yojimbo.

How needlessly expensive.

Quick Hit breaks the game. Give it to everyone.
My set up of "Auto Haste", "Auto Protect", "Break HP" and "Break Damage" while spamming "Quick Hit" means you will kill almost anything before they can move.

It helps that I also retooled my Sphere Grid so that everyone has stats of 255 in all categories (except luck). There are only +4 stats on my grid. Nothing smaller.

Really once you got Yuni's super weapon and limit break this game was easy. Summon the three sisters or Anima and everything died but quick.

Except Super bosses and anything else that auto-kills summons. Then both your and Glademasters strategies are fucked over.

Quick Hit for everyone people. It's all you really need.
Auto-Haste and Auto-Protect just ensures the game is fully broken.

Zanmato: Yojimbo calls his katana out of a portal in the ground and uses it to slice all enemies in half. It instantly kills any enemy in the game, with the exceptions of Sin (when fighting face-to-face on the airship), Yunalesca and Braska's Final Aeon, which will only move to the next form (unless they have already reached their final form, in which case Zanmato will kill them).

Yeah it works just fine on anything in the game basically. Also 10k gil is not a lot for an instant kill which makes all boss fights easy. Abusing another mechanic you need to do a lot more work for which does not work unless you min/max to an insane degree. Over leveing or in this case overspeccing will of course make everything easy. Quick Hit may be integral to beating Penance and what not but so are the ridiculous spec.

So yeah time investment for that vs spending 10k gil for normal play Yojimbo is way less time consuming.

 

[Bad Jim]

Metal Sonic in the Game Gear/Master System version of Sonic 2.

In the Megadrive version, hitting it while it's moving or doing its' chainsaw hair thing will kill you. You have to dodge it and hit it when it's vulnerable. Plus you also have to defeat Robotnik afterwards with no checkpoints so you'd better get good at beating it.

In the Game Gear/Master System version, if you jump into it while moving you both just bounce away and there is no chainsaw hair thing. So you can't die while you are in the air and if you just keep jumping you have a good chance of beating it on your first attempt. And it's the last boss in the game unless you've been collecting those chaos emeralds.

 

[BrotherRool]

The last encounter with Seymour in FFX. Boss battles in FFX were incredible tactical feats, requiring incredibly precise tactics and use of special statuses, up to the point where one of the battles before this Seymour fight involved deliberately letting your party be zombified on one turn to avoid an instant death attack the next, curing the status and healing up as much as possible in one turn and then going zombie again etc...

Or you could just use Yojimbo.

OT: Any fight in FF VIII after you get Aura and Meltdown and Pulse Ammo, any fight in FF X after you get Yojimbo and finally the Fable 2 "final boss".

You had enough money to sustain Yojimbo? You can blow your entire purse on him and he still might not do something cool

Yojimbo training get overdrive, Yuna get overdrive 2 chances to instant kill anything and it wasn't that expensive.

I'd always heard that the chance even then was pretty slim. I never managed to trigger it

Boss battles in FFX were incredible tactical feats, requiring incredibly precise tactics....

You mean, the easiest main series FF game ever made (and the FF series is generally easy).

BTW: The battle with Yunalesca was about the only fight that required a little strategy. And that strategy was let 1 person be zombified. That person will survive auto-death and will revive the others. It's also easier to keep a (mostly) living party healthy.

Or you could just use Yojimbo.

How needlessly expensive.

Quick Hit breaks the game. Give it to everyone.
My set up of "Auto Haste", "Auto Protect", "Break HP" and "Break Damage" while spamming "Quick Hit" means you will kill almost anything before they can move.

It helps that I also retooled my Sphere Grid so that everyone has stats of 255 in all categories (except luck). There are only +4 stats on my grid. Nothing smaller.

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I think you and I are talking about rather different play experiences, I never maxed out the sphere grid, I never get enough stuff to manufacture the auto spells on decent sets of armour. My playthrough was rather more mortal and pedestrian than yours and in that sense FFX was more interesting, in FFVII and XII, XIII (never could really get into 8, don't know why I haven't played 9) in that less perfectionist sense, I never felt like I needed to be particularly strategic in any battle and generally didn't need to employ much more of a strategy than healing and DPS.

 

[AgentLampshade]

Gonna have to add to the final boss from FFX with Yojimbo crowd. I just put down all my considerable fortune for him. What else am I going to use it for? It's the final boss!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I would say Goht from Majora's Mask. I consider it a major design flaw when I can just stand in the doorway an pelt him with arrows as he runs by and he won't be able to even touch me.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

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The more you get attacks with Yojimbo that aren't the god the higher chance you have to get better attacks and Overdrive boosts this a lot. I managed to beat all of the Dark Aeons bar Yojimbo by abusing this. Not that I couldn't have done it other ways I just wanted to see how much I could abuse the mechanic.

 

[raklin]

Final boss fight of BG1, maybe?

 

[BrotherRool]

I think you and I are talking about rather different play experiences, I never maxed out the sphere grid, I never get enough stuff to manufacture the auto spells on decent sets of armour. My playthrough was rather more mortal and pedestrian than yours and in that sense FFX was more interesting, in FFVII and XII, XIII (never could really get into 8, don't know why I haven't played 9) in that less perfectionist sense, I never felt like I needed to be particularly strategic in any battle and generally didn't need to employ much more of a strategy than healing and DPS.

Even on my first playthrough I breezed through FFX.
It's the fact that it's pure turn based (no ATB) coupled with seeing who gets a turn in what order for dozens of turns ahead of time... It's way too easy to know exactly what to do or manipulate mechanics.

At the fight you were referring to, for example, I was not at god like levels of power.
I couldn't even customize Death or Zombie Proof. I did have a few Zombieproofs on dropped equipment though.

Thing is, the biggest flaw with FFX is just how easy it is. And again, that's saying a lot in a series that's as easy as Final Fantasy.

I think we're still talking about you being on a way higher level than me and (hopefully) other people on this stuff, you seem really skilled at these games. I at least didn't notice X being harder than the other FF's and in fact found X the hardest to complete of all the ones that I've played. I found they forced more tactical intricacies with the turn based system whereas the time part of ATB made the battles a little looser and gooey, one less variable that could be considered and used and the rest had to be toned down because nothing could be used as precisely.

 

[Samantha Burt]

you're using typhoon...

your argument is invalid. that is so OP to the point it's not funny.

OT:

vermivorous the invincible on borderlands 2 was fucking cake.

I didn't struggle with it, I just nicked a load of mines from the supply cabinets inside and placed them around the outer ring, near the junctions.

OT: Whitney. Everyone complains about that Miltank, but I steamrolled it with a Machop-Haunter combo. xD

 

[Casual Shinji]

Salazar from Resident Evil 4.

Just buy a rocket launcher from the Merchant standing just outside, wait for Salazar to reveal himself, and then simply blow him away in one shot.

As a matter of fact, this is the only way I know how to beat him - I've never tried a different approach, because it involved getting grabbed by his tentacles and thrown down in the lower area which is crawling with those spider-y facehugger bastards.

 

[Something Amyss]

That was entirely intentional. Did you actually pay attention to the dialogue afterwards, or are you merely copying Yahtzee?

To be fair, a lot of people were saying this before Wednesday.

My active theory is that a30 second attention span is too much to ask of gamers.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Boss battles in FFX were incredible tactical feats, requiring incredibly precise tactics....

You mean, the easiest main series FF game ever made (and the FF series is generally easy).

BTW: The battle with Yunalesca was about the only fight that required a little strategy. And that strategy was let 1 person be zombified. That person will survive auto-death and will revive the others. It's also easier to keep a (mostly) living party healthy.

Or you could just use Yojimbo.

How needlessly expensive.

Quick Hit breaks the game. Give it to everyone.
My set up of "Auto Haste", "Auto Protect", "Break HP" and "Break Damage" while spamming "Quick Hit" means you will kill almost anything before they can move.

It helps that I also retooled my Sphere Grid so that everyone has stats of 255 in all categories (except luck). There are only +4 stats on my grid. Nothing smaller.

Really once you got Yuni's super weapon and limit break this game was easy. Summon the three sisters or Anima and everything died but quick.

Except Super bosses and anything else that auto-kills summons. Then both your and Glademasters strategies are fucked over.

Quick Hit for everyone people. It's all you really need.
Auto-Haste and Auto-Protect just ensures the game is fully broken.

But your strategy only works at the end if the game anyway...so it's kinda moot in terms of rendering the game easy

 

[C F]

By the time I got to Alduin in Skyrim, I had to cripple myself to get any fun out of it. In particular, I rendered my massive Heavy Armor stat worthless by wearing nothing but the Archmage's Robes (without any of the appropriate spells or perks, it may have well been a set of pajamas) and I used Mehrunes' Razor for the fun of trying to land the ever-elusive one-hit kill on him.

Pajamas and a razor.
It's like I just got out of bed, and I still showed him I'm the king of the mountain.
Despite the overwhelming quantity of all those little scratches, I never landed the one-hit kill (or if I did, he had such little HP it didn't matter) before the almighty dragon decided he couldn't handle the fury of my six inch knife and flew off.

I wore Jarl Ulfric's Lord C F's (sounds much better after I re-named it) fur coat for the next encounter, and that wound up with an insta-kill striking Alduin down when he still had half his health.

Lord Harkon of the Dawnguard DLC at least put up a more unique challenge (if less of a fight because I just walked in the room with some dragon-bone armor and a newly made matching sword at that point). Once again, I prove I am superior to a bunch of bats and winged lizards.

 

[Darren716]

I thought the final Alduin fight in Skyrim was extremely easy and underrealming since all I did to beat him was use drogonrend on him once and then I smacked him with my sword a few times and I only had to use one fast heal spell.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Darth Nihilus in Knights of the Old Republic II

Can eat planets, but gets squashed like an ant.

Also Darth Scion in the ruins on Korriban. I was just sitting there kicking his ass.

Kreia: Run, you're no match for him!
Me: Wait, but I'm not even taking any damage...

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Four Kings from Dark Souls. Iron Flesh made them a joke.

Four Kings is basically a DPS race, so the only thing that Iron Flesh will do for you is make it so you don't need to dodge them. You most likely were using quite a strong weapon, which was the key.

Anyway, easy boss? The last boss from Resistance 2, Daedalus, disappointingly so.