Molyneux really dropped the ball with the Fable series' lack of pacing. He's so focused on creating what he assumes is an emotional experience that any challenge goes right out the window. The first time around, I wasn't expecting Reaver to shoot. I just did the deed. Second playthrough had me let Lucien prattle on.
It does create a difference in tone, but beyond that? Weaksauce.
Honestly, though, one of the most disappointingly easy boss fights I've had to contend with is probably Sebastian LaCroix, from Bloodlines. By the time the endgame rolls around, the Withering's more or less turned your wee little fledgling into a demigod. You're not one month into your unlife and you can kick the shit out of a guy who's at least two centuries old.
His Sheriff, though, is tougher. Not because it's any harder, but because guns in Bloodlines are utterly worthless on anything other than the kine.
So I was playing through Deus Ex: Human Revolution recently and...
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?
I finished HR without much trouble, without the typhoon? And in the core room you fight the invisible one right? I took that one out without too much trouble.
My easiest boss battles were in Bioshock one and two.
Every boss in the Pokemon series except for the last few ones. (8th and maybe 7th gym leaders and the elite four) There were a couple exceptions, Watson was a very hard battle if you didn't evolve Mudkip, and every single boss in Pokemon Colosseum was incredibly difficult, the final boss in particular was a lot harder than it should have been.
Bah, i hated her. she is still one of the most difficult bosses ive ever faced due to my stealth/non lethal builds that i play as.
I didnt have typhoon or electic immunity. took me hours upon hours to beat her (cant get in a gunfight as she kills near instantly with smgs, cant electrify the floor as it quickly kills you). The only way ive ever beaten her (on two different playthroughs) was to liter the entire area with mines and pop out with my heavy rifle whenever she was stunned (which still only worked like 10% of the time).
Barret was easy, just lob barrels at him like Donkey Kong. Third boss i beat on my first try with just cover and gunning.
but yea, first playthrough after 30 tries to beat her I restarted my entire game and went with a slightly more offensive build as i had no weapons or abilities that worked well against her. Weigraff from Final Fantasy Tactics has nothing on her.........
yea, i could have gone with electric immunity or typhoon to make the fight super easy, but that seems like cheating.
It's a really odd game your ability choices can really effect how stuff goes down for better or worse. It's why the boss fights really didn't fit into that game. I heard they were like pasted on afterwards by another company to please the publishers -.- which explains why they aren't balanced at all.
Wilhem from Borderlands2. Hearing how difficult he is, and how he took down the last vault hunters you would think he would be a badass. Went out real quick.
That was entirely intentional. Did you actually pay attention to the dialogue afterwards, or are you merely copying Yahtzee?
Wilhelm carried a core to power Sanctuary's shields. That core was deliberately corrupted so that Angel could take down the shields to Sanctuary. Therefore making it open to attack
Jack made him easy to kill so you'd succeed, so he could do this.
Honestly, the game flat out tells you why he was so easy, it's an actual plot point.
Was there a way to avoid that plotpoint? Because as soon as you beat him and he drops something so convenient I immediately thought it was a trap and was annoyed I didn't find a way around it. I had sort of the same thing when my siren didn't use her powers in a cutscene to avoid the bad guy from doing something bad and when after the game's final credits everyone just left without you seeing it I got the impression the player characters occasionally just kind of zone out at stare in front of them
Saren in the original Mass Effect. After that epic fight up the tower, I was all geared up for an epic boss fight. Then I talked my way out of one phase of the battle, and the zombie version was laughably easy, but then again so is every enemy that's susceptible to push, lift, and warp.
Ganon in Wind Waker is another one. The last phase of the puppet was pretty hard, and then you get that. Granted, it's incredibly epic and really felt like a climactic sword fight to a movie, so I'm good with that.
Soo much build up... his own map as a mini staging area, and it starts by him throwing a train at you...
The brakes come off, I throw a grenade, run to some more space (as he moved to where I was) threw another grenade, zoomed on his head (sniper rifle) and shot 3 times... Boss done... I didn't even get a scratch!
Then, as I tried to pick his loot, I didn't realise that the Surveyors were still there and only won due to a second wind! :/
Yes... Wilhelm didn't scratch me, but I was killed by a surveyor! FM[sub]BL:2[/sub]L!
EDIT: I will point out that yes, I did get why it was easy... but when I looked online all it states that he is the first major boss, and that some people find it hard...
I think I just lucked out at the start!
Half life?
If I remember right, the end "boss" was mega easy?
I found it harder to kill the Black Mesa dudes - although this may have come down to having hardly any ammo and having to use a crowbar...
The Destroyer and the Warrior, from Borderlands 1&2 respectively. After a fairly challenging campaign, I was expecting a big challenge both times and both times I was let down. I just wish those boss fights could have had phases that changed up the routine. That's all I got for now
Soo much build up... his own map as a mini staging area, and it starts by him throwing a train at you...
The brakes come off, I throw a grenade, run to some more space (as he moved to where I was) threw another grenade, zoomed on his head (sniper rifle) and shot 3 times... Boss done... I didn't even get a scratch!
Then, as I tried to pick his loot, I didn't realise that the Surveyors were still there and only won due to a second wind! :/
Yes... Wilhelm didn't scratch me, but I was killed by a surveyor! FM[sub]BL:2[/sub]L!
EDIT: I will point out that yes, I did get why it was easy... but when I looked online all it states that he is the first major boss, and that some people find it hard...
I think I just lucked out at the start!
People probably find it hard because if you don't wipe him in the first couple seconds, he gets a bazillion Surveyors to power him up and render him near immortal if you let them. A lot more noticable on PT2 because he summons Badass Surveyors and such.
I'm actually going to add another: Harper from Resident Evil 6. Even on Professional difficulty, I beat her both times (During Leon and Ada's stories) without getting damaged once. She was just kind of...sad.
So I was playing through Deus Ex: Human Revolution recently and...
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?
FF9 had it was well, the boss that was causing the mist. It keep doing undead effects and I was near death so I decided to give it a try. Think it took 2 high powered healing items (or a healing and a res, was long ago) and it was dead XD. But I actually thought it was a good thing, hate when you meet a boss with qualities of a normal mob but without its weakness.
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..
I had no ammo. All my points were poured into science, medicine, speech, guns and repair. That goddamn scorpion had me hiding in a corner with the unique proton axe. Fortunately with 100 medicine, stimpaks only take one or two uses to restore me to full health...but still. The fight was a *****. I couldn't get around him because my armour was broken, and I had nothing but my axe and no melee skill.
So...yeah. Sucked.
For mine, any bosses in the first two campaigns of Aliens vs Predator. The 2011 shooter, not the RTS. The first Praetorian took me a minute to figure out because I kept cornering myself or ignoring the xenomorphs around him...which was frankly a stupid move because even a single xenomorph can tear your bollocks out before you realise he's there. Then there was the fight against the two Praetorians outside the Predator temple, and that was easy as hell. They stood roaring at me from the other side of the bridge. I emptied a clip from the sniper's rife into one of their headcrests and he advanced slowly, and alone, pushing through the machinegun fire from the automated turret. Then he died. And then the OTHER one finally decided he should do something useful and advanced too.
And then at the end of the Alien campaign, the Elite Hunter. Good lord he was easy. Fun fight though, felt like a proper tussle. Like it should've done. But I think I took damage all of once during that fight, and then the Hunter ran away to hide from me, and the xenomorph's regenerative health rendered that single hit totally useless.
Really? I heard he's suppose to have more Health than Terrormorphus. Havent actually tried it myself (fucking hate varkid, tend to avoid them if possible.
Really? I heard he's suppose to have more Health than Terrormorphus. Havent actually tried it myself (fucking hate varkid, tend to avoid them if possible.
oh i was kidding, i haven't actually faced him yet since it's piss hard to get em to even spawn, and it's not like i actively go searching to get raped in borderlands 2.
but yes, i watched a youtube video, that thing is walking death, fucking ridiculous.
Really? I heard he's suppose to have more Health than Terrormorphus. Havent actually tried it myself (fucking hate varkid, tend to avoid them if possible.
oh i was kidding, i haven't actually faced him yet since it's piss hard to get em to even spawn, and it's not like i actively go searching to get raped in borderlands 2.
but yes, i watched a youtube video, that thing is walking death, fucking ridiculous.
Oh, thanks for getting my hopes up that he wasnt really all that hard... now I really dont want to try this guy[footnote] No malicous-ness intended, BTW. All in good jest.[/footnote].
Really? I heard he's suppose to have more Health than Terrormorphus. Havent actually tried it myself (fucking hate varkid, tend to avoid them if possible.
oh i was kidding, i haven't actually faced him yet since it's piss hard to get em to even spawn, and it's not like i actively go searching to get raped in borderlands 2.
but yes, i watched a youtube video, that thing is walking death, fucking ridiculous.
well if you're like me, and solo most everything, you probably don't have the most amazing loot laying around, so i would definitely say it will be hard..but, here is some video footage for you gaze at:
you steamy little cock![footnote] i fucking hate you, you fucking jerk! [/footnote]
I'm going to rip you apart![footnote] just kidding! [/footnote]
I always found Mephisto from Diablo 2 to be lame... he's pretty much the only boss in the whole game that gives me no problems at all, even some minor uniques are harder than him. (for me)
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