Bizarrely Easy Boss Fights

[LookingGlass]

I finished Dawn of War 2 the other day and after a few late game missions that turned out to be battles of perseverance against bosses with ridiculous amounts of health, the last boss went down in no more than 20 seconds. It was over before I'd even used everyone's special abilities.

I can't say I was too disappointed though. I was expecting something impossible that would result in some kind of rage quit.

 

[Astoria]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who found the end boss fight with Alduin disappointing.

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I actually found it easier to kill him than the first dragon I came across on my own. I didn't even bother shooting him with arrows, I just let the old warriors do it for me while I waited for Dragonsrend to recharge. The fight with the two dragons and the priest to get into Sovengard was much harder.

 

[lunam-kardas]

The human reaper thingymajig from ME2.

Fights with Praetorians or Scions were hard as hell, but the much vaunted final boss? Piece of Pie.

Well to be fair it was a fetus, although yes, a grand boss fight that does not make.... I was hoping to take on the collector general myself...

 

[lunam-kardas]

The boss at the end of Cosmo Canyon in Final Fantasy VII.

X-Potion = Win.

Don't forget the tree of life boss in FFIX.... cast life or chuck some feathers from the general store at it and bam, no more boss.

 

[Arkitext]

SPEEEHSS MARIIINES! WAAAAAGH!!

Massive Spoilz Ahead Space Marine fans!

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Yeah, so, in WH40k "Space Marine", you fight Orks (who can be pretty god damned tough) and then eventually Chaos Space Marines, who turn out to be hard as NAILS, just like they should be. They're regular Space Marines (walking man-tanks of righteous fury) infused with the nastiest daemonic shit the universe can pump into their veins.

So, the Chaos Warband is called the "Chosen of Nemeroth"... those who follow Lord Nemeroth, which tends to mean that if he's got a whole Chaos Warband following him, Nemeroth is gonna be a pretty bad ass dude who doesn't take shit from anyone. When you finally come to fight him it's a pretty cool looking show-down, but I think things start to go a bit wrong when you realise that for the first part of the battle he's just a glorified spawn point. When you fight the Ork Warboss earlier in the game, sure he's a cakewalk, but it's quite satisfying when he's smashing open walls to let his horde into the boss room, whilst you try to take him down, you've got his grunts nipping at your heels, he feels like a real boss, as in a leader.

Nemeroth? Like I said, he starts as a spawn point with some sort of Warp-shield around him. You kill his dudes in waves, a battle where you have to utilize all your skills and weapons, taking cover and taking pot-shots for some enemies, getting stuck in with your Close Combat Weapons for others. Then when you finally clear them out, what happens?

Nemeroth drops his guard and you get your chance! For a QUICK TIME EVENT. The longest Quick Time Event you've seen. Which literally culminates in PRESS X TO POP NEMEROTHS HEAD LIKE A GRAPE.

http://youtu.be/uFsPUrs7LKk

So lame, because as far as Lore is concerned, Nemeroth is rolling out in a full set of Daemonic "Terminator" Armor. Which should make him just about as hard to kill as The Governator himself, with the strength to crush you like a piece of paper if you get too close... But no, Captain Tit(us) is once again totally OP. Not because of his DIVINE FURY, or his impressive combat prowess, but because he's Captain Titus, an Ultramarine. A member of one of the most boring factions in Warhammer, always seemingly guaranteed to win, without having any kind of personality or losing any battle they ever fight. I mean, come on, right after killing Nemeroth, Titus sacrifices himself in a warp explosion the size of a football field and still survives without a scratch.

Total bullshit.

 

[JasonBurnout16]

There's a mini boss in Borderlands 2 called 'Blue' who is one of these Crystel creatures with three legs. When he rose out the ground, he can tower above you and I went "Oh Shit" so I started gunzerking and dropped him in around 5 seconds. I even asked my brother over Xboxlive why that was so easy.

 

[thejackyl]

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.

He is actually a bit harder without the rocket launcher, but the strategy is still the same. Shoot the creature's eye until it's mouth opens, and shoot Salazar until the mouth closes. Avoid the tentacle attacks and repeat.

 

[Bestival]

Last boss of Dead Island... after he zombifies. One hit with that knockbacky circlesaw firebat thing and he flew into the plane, and dead. Was CoOping with my best friend tho, so instead of disappointed we just had a massive laugh fit.

 

[kyuzo3567]

The final Boss of Ninja Gaiden,you figure that he kicked your ass so handly early in the game that this is going to be a nasty fight. Nope, just spam flying sparrow and the dude didn't know what hit him.

That only worked in the original... same with Alma and Doku. Once NG Black came out they nerfed the Flying Swallow for boss fights, and it stayed nerfed for NG Sigma

 

[Ultress]

The final Boss of Ninja Gaiden,you figure that he kicked your ass so handly early in the game that this is going to be a nasty fight. Nope, just spam flying sparrow and the dude didn't know what hit him.

That only worked in the original... same with Alma and Doku. Once NG Black came out they nerfed the Flying Swallow for boss fights, and it stayed nerfed for NG Sigma

Never played Black or Sigma,good to know though because I really hated how easy it was to spam it in the original.

 

[omicron1]

So I was playing through Deus Ex: Human Revolution recently and...

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the second boss fight, the one that takes place in Eliza's core room was really, really easy. I didn't grab the heavy rifle before going in, I didn't use my guns to electrocute the ground, I just used my Typhoon on her twice. That's it! That killed her! It was really weird because combat in the game is normally very challenging, especially if you sank all your upgrade points into stealth and hacking.

So, has anyone else played a game with a oddly easy boss fight?

EDIT: I tried the boss fight in Deus Ex: HR without using the Typhoon and it was really hard! But the Typhoon is so overpowered that it just felt like a waste not to use it, especially since there was lots of Typhoon ammo in that room.

This boss fight was easy for me, too, but for a different reason. When I tried it, she got stuck in the scenery before she even hit me once. From there, it was a matter of standing in one place and shooting repeatedly.

From what I hear, I dodged a (figurative, and literal) bullet with this one.

 

[DarkestBlue]

From Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues

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The huge robo-scorpion just before you confront Mobius. I had the Sneak robot disabling perk, and I just snuck behind it, disabled it, and then shot it a few times. Couldn't believe it was so easy, especially after I went 'round the room afterwards and saw all the other things I could've done to make it even easier..

 

[Naeras]

The final boss of Space Marine. The engagement before the boss fight was really damn hard(you versus... six chaos marines?), but the fight itself? Seriously, it was a big quick-time event where a space marine captain punches a demon prince in the face until he explodes.

What the fuck.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Wilhelm and the Bunker in Borderlands 2.

Wilhelm is so trivial that he'll be half dead by the time the voiceovers have stopped shitting themselves at how much of a badass he is, and if you go into the nice enclosed structure at one side of the area the Bunker is in it can't hit you at all for 90% of the fight and the only threat is suicide robits.

 

[GloatingSwine]

From Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues

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The huge robo-scorpion just before you confront Mobius. I had the Sneak robot disabling perk, and I just snuck behind it, disabled it, and then shot it a few times. Couldn't believe it was so easy, especially after I went 'round the room afterwards and saw all the other things I could've done to make it even easier..

Even if you don't have that perk there's a console in the area that just lets you turn the robo-scorpion off. Job done.

But that's actually good, because it shows that your character skills matter, even in boss fights.

Also, I killed Rawr with a single shot. Admittedly, it was a headshot from stealth with a high explosive .50cal bullet, and there were a bunch of plasma mines between me and him in case it didn't work, but one shot none the less. Because my skills and perks mattered.

 

[DarkestBlue]

From Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues

Spoiler

The huge robo-scorpion just before you confront Mobius. I had the Sneak robot disabling perk, and I just snuck behind it, disabled it, and then shot it a few times. Couldn't believe it was so easy, especially after I went 'round the room afterwards and saw all the other things I could've done to make it even easier..

Even if you don't have that perk there's a console in the area that just lets you turn the robo-scorpion off. Job done.

But that's actually good, because it shows that your character skills matter, even in boss fights.

Also, I killed Rawr with a single shot. Admittedly, it was a headshot from stealth with a high explosive .50cal bullet, and there were a bunch of plasma mines between me and him in case it didn't work, but one shot none the less. Because my skills and perks mattered.

True, true... I had to whittle Rawr down with the flaregun and all the grenades that I had. Took many, many tries due to missing as he was coming back towards me, and then getting decapitated.

 

[DrunkenMonkey]

Every single boss in Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma, I came for punishment, and pain. What did I get? kisses and motherfreaking hugs..

 

[GloatingSwine]

True, true... I had to whittle Rawr down with the flaregun and all the grenades that I had. Took many, many tries due to missing as he was coming back towards me, and then getting decapitated.

I'd built the character from the ground up as a critical hit monster. I was maybe about 3% off the highest crit rate you could get, and had all the crit damage stacking bonuses. I had a pistol I could one shot regular Deathclaws with from stealth with a headshot.

 

[PoorCollegeLad]

I did a quick skim and as far as I saw nobody mentioned Bioshock! Honestly, that last boss fight, besides being an anomaly in that game, was piss easy for me. And hell, everyone says that whole game is easy, but that just didn't ring true for me, so the fact I didn't fear death at all at the end was something else.

Also the end of Half Life 2. For a shooter game, that end sequence didn't require a lot of shooting.

 

[MardukGKoB]

Diablo himself from the first Diablo game. Several people I know killed him accidently without him being on screen, in a couple of cases (including mine) not even knowing he was there. I played an archer and put almost everything into an electrical attack that scattered out along the floor. It did a ton of damage in a large area and I could cast it almost continuously.

I knew I was near the end of the game, but when I got jumped by a bunch of tough-looking things I didn't expect that to be Diablo's room. I over-spammed my electric attack, and killed Diablo off-screen while he was still far enough away to not activate. The game ended while I was still waiting for my electric attacks to stop, and I didn't get the ending I assume because Diablo never activated.

A friend saw Diablo and didn't think he was ready for the fight, so he summoned some golems to cover his retreat and ran away. The golems killed Diablo before he could exit the level. At least he activated Diablo and got the ending...