The Arch Demon in Dragon Age: Origins. Built up as this dark god of unbelievable power that corrupts and lays waste just by existing. With the right build, and enough potions, it was pretty much a cake walk. The only problem I had was trying to keep all my NPC friends alive. Actually, bioware has a bit of a habit of these. Saren was piss easy too, in both his forms. Bursting down his shields with the right tech abilities made it simple, and of course I brought all my tech heavy allies because I was fighting the geth.
I'm almost reluctant to ask this ... were you intentionally quoting the original MGS game there, or is that just me being an embarrassingly obsessive Liquid Snake fanboy?
Darksiders 2, the final boss absalom was made out to be this unstoppable monster, even had multiple characters refer to death as a "flawed copy" of him. Took me less then 5 min to trash him, he is one of the easiest bosses in the game
He's especially unsatisfying considering you've just beaten probably the BEST boss in the game, to boot. My thoughts on defeating Absalom were 'ok, now what's his next form gonna be?' I think I had more trouble with those annoying frost knight skeletons with the cheesy shields than him...
The vault monster in borderlands. I simply stood in front of and emptied my guns into it. When the guns went dry the boss was dead. I was a siren, perhaps they were over powered.
I dunno. Ultimate Hazama is easier than I-No.
It helps that she has the most badass boss music in any fighting game.
OP: I'm going with everyone that says the Dragons in Skyrim. They aren't hard. They are simply tedious as fuck.
Oh - and Convictors in Star Ocean 3. Sorry, but though they are introduced last, and the game tells me that they are the hardest of the three types of executioners, they are by far the weakest. Proclaimers are still the biggest threat of the three.
The Arch Demon in Dragon Age: Origins. Built up as this dark god of unbelievable power that corrupts and lays waste just by existing. With the right build, and enough potions, it was pretty much a cake walk. The only problem I had was trying to keep all my NPC friends alive. Actually, bioware has a bit of a habit of these. Saren was piss easy too, in both his forms. Bursting down his shields with the right tech abilities made it simple, and of course I brought all my tech heavy allies because I was fighting the geth.
I was waiting for someone to add in teh Arch Demon in Dragon Age: Origins. It's so true I found him easy because of the balista catapult things just placed in the area that do a decent chunk of damage and also halt the Arch Demon from attacking.
Also, another Dragon Age: Origins enemy battle is in the mage origin where you can choose to go and clear out an area full of spiders for, wait for it, a senior enchanter. That's right, a senior enchanter is unable to kill a bunch of spiders that you can easily dominate with basic spells.
OT: Sad to say, but the reapers, partly because of this part:
just extremely gamebreaking to see ONE cain mini nuke blow that thing over like it was cake, compared to many of the other reaper fights/battles/codex mentionings.
seriously, just give every damn ship/soldier shit tons of cains and problem solved.
this is the point where i nearly gave up on the game when i found out it was so easy to kill them. also the ships do sort of have those on.... but theyre about 50x more powerful
In the first Neverwinter Nights, (all expansions) I had some trouble a couple times as a pure sorcerer with some parts and with others, it was such a nightmare... But toward the end of Hordes, I began to turn into this unstoppable being. And I had SOOO much gold. So much that I was even able to...
buy Mephistopheles' true name AND the true names of others and STILL have a good chunk left over.
Then again, anyone who's played through the game will probably have reached the same level of awesomeness that I did but if you didn't, tell me so I can feel better about myself
Lastly, there was that one guy in Fallout: New Vegas. Name was Decanus and he was hanging around Nipton doing some pretty shifty business. I didn't approve so I just annihilated him and his cronies with my Flamer. It was definitely a challenge but the way the game was going on about him, it would make you think that this guy was just one of those way-too-powerful-to-be-messed-with-for-now characters.
Yet he did manage to dominate me into doing his bidding a few times. So no, I did not expect him to be such a pushover.
Oh and cut the French some slack, I don't particularly like the country myself, but this "snail eating surrender monkeys" meme has been going around for too long >.>
Darth Nihilus in Kotor II. Everyone seemed to think he was some sort of monster god of dark energy. When I confronted him I was a bit nervous, unsure of my build... If it wasn't for the cutscene at 50% hp I would've litteraly 3 shotted him with my main character alone.
He had a story reason to be easy for you as mentioned here. You are basically his antithesis.
Not like Darth Malak, who goes down with one Flurry combo aboard the Leviathan and everyone is like "OMG, run, we have no chance against him, I'll sacrifice myself!".
ganondorf, and Ganon from Legend of Zelda: ocarina of time. this was the guy who destroyed a city defended by gods, and all it took to beat him as a game of catch and slicing at his piggy tail, I was not impressed. Shadow Link should have been the antagonist in this game, he was at least hard to kill.
OT: Sad to say, but the reapers, partly because of this part:
just extremely gamebreaking to see ONE cain mini nuke blow that thing over like it was cake, compared to many of the other reaper fights/battles/codex mentionings.
seriously, just give every damn ship/soldier shit tons of cains and problem solved.
That's not a Reaper you're destroying in that section, it's just an anti-air gun. It also doesn't blow up so much as it falls over, who knows how little it might take to get back on its feet again. All that said, this is the London stage where everything is incredibly half-arsed anyway. This is hardly the only instance of you doing something in London that doesn't really fit with how tech is presented in the rest of the series (Thanix missiles, WTF?).
WouldYouKindly said:
The Arch Demon in Dragon Age: Origins. Built up as this dark god of unbelievable power that corrupts and lays waste just by existing. With the right build, and enough potions, it was pretty much a cake walk. The only problem I had was trying to keep all my NPC friends alive. Actually, bioware has a bit of a habit of these. Saren was piss easy too, in both his forms. Bursting down his shields with the right tech abilities made it simple, and of course I brought all my tech heavy allies because I was fighting the geth.
You must have really got your build right, then, because I found the Arch Demon immensely frustrating. Granted, I sucked at DA:O's combat whenever it threw a vague challenge at me, but I thought a total tank build for a sword and shield warrior was going to be the simplest way to get through as a noob. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but it seemed to make sod all difference against the Arch Demon - he ripped me to pieces if I got anywhere near. So I had to resort to running around firing the ballistas, but I guess the random number generator really hated me because they seemed to break after only one or two shots. You know how sometimes you could repair them with a rogue? Yeah, I didn't seem to get that option much. They broke permanently really quickly.
Agreed on Saren, I guess. Though oddly his hardest fight is the one that's skippable. The one time I didn't have enough charm/intimidate points to
convince him to shoot himself
And therefore the one time I had to fight him as a first stage was also the only time Saren actually killed me in a fight. It's been a while since I played it, but I think during that fight he gains the ability to shoot rockets at you. If you mess up your timing, even the mountain of health Shepard has by that stage of the game can take a hit. Plus, he zips around the level on the platform of his fast enough that even pistols lose a little of their supreme accuracy.
His final form is a piece of piss though, totally. You mentioned tech attacks, but arguably he's even easier with biotics. You don't expect a Reaperised Spectre who moves like a geth stalker on speed to be affected by powers like lift. But he is. And singularity will leave him floating for a few minutes. And if you've got the upgrade that lets you shoot people in stasis... Yeah.
Imre Csete said:
BigOrteil said:
Darth Nihilus in Kotor II. Everyone seemed to think he was some sort of monster god of dark energy. When I confronted him I was a bit nervous, unsure of my build... If it wasn't for the cutscene at 50% hp I would've litteraly 3 shotted him with my main character alone.
He had a story reason to be easy for you as mentioned here. You are basically his antithesis.
Not like Darth Malak, who goes down with one Flurry combo aboard the Leviathan and everyone is like "OMG, run, we have no chance against him, I'll sacrifice myself!".
All the people who say that Darth Nihilus was a pushover, I kind of feel like you've missed an important story detail there. Nihilus isn't powerful because he's the shit with a lightsaber, or a badass at zapping minions with lightning, he's an unstoppable monster because he devours all life around him, uncontrollably through the force. People refer to him in such fearful terms because he's no longer a man, he's an evil force of nature.
The key thing about the Exile is that you're this kind of 'black hole' in the Force. He can't help but try and feed on you, no more than he can help feeding on everyone around him, but you're 'empty'. The more effort he expends trying to consume you, the weaker he becomes. Not to mention that your connection to the Force isn't a 'natural' one (the Jedi Masters, particularly Vrook, state that they still can't feel the Force in you, even after you've started choking, zapping and stasising mooks like a badman). Nihilus, as a creature of the Force, has no real defences against your Force abilities because they're not really 'yours', you're just warping the Force connection of those around you.
There are other mitigating factors, too. As Imre said, by this point in the game, he's pretty much starving and desperate. Even entire worlds of normal people are becoming to little to sustain him; he needs Jedi. That's why he's suckered into coming to Telos, on the mistaken belief there are Jedi there. Instead, he gets a world even more dead than most.
All that said, they do talk up the idea that you have to be 'ready' to face Nihilus, even though it seems you had the ability to beat him innate in you since the very start, and it's not like the fight makes you feel you needed to hold off as long as you did. I suppose the point of the delay was to manoeuvre him into a position of weakness, though. And he isludicrously easy. His AI does suffer from being a single enemy against three (he's pretty much the only real 'boss' in the whole series you face as a team). He could have done with a bit more health, I suppose, and certainly some more powerful Force powers (seriously, his wisdom stat should have been through the roof).
I do agree that he should have been a little more of a challenge purely in terms of gameplay, but there are both in story reasons and technical reasons (the limitations of the engine) as to why he is so easy.
Completely agree with the Malak fight on the Leviathan. Seriously, Bastila, everything was going fine!
The Dragons in Skyrim. They're made up to be those fabled creatures, that you should tremble and fear at their sight. Only the best of the best, the bravest of the bravest, you could even just stand a chance against them.
In reality, you just hack at it's head for 2 head, as it repeats the same stupid strategy over and over, you kill the darn thing, still it's soul and bones, leave it to rot.
Kai Leng from mass effect. He's build up as this really dangerous anti-Shepherd who's supposed to be your match in everything yet he only barely wins against someone thats already dying and only barely fights off Shephard because he happened to have a warship to help him out. Then You get to kill Kai Leng in an easy bossfight and thats it.
Yet he did manage to dominate me into doing his bidding a few times. So no, I did not expect him to be such a pushover.
Oh and cut the French some slack, I don't particularly like the country myself, but this "snail eating surrender monkeys" meme has been going around for too long >.>
That's pretty much the whole thing about Ventrue though. Once you get past their ability to dominate weakwilled individuals they really don't have anything that can help them in a straight up fight. They're schemers and plotters, not fighters. That's why he had that giant sheriff handle that part. That guy was still kind of a pushover though, especially with maxed out celerity and potency.
The final boss in Assassins Creed 2. This guy has been the big baddy you have been chasing the whole game, he has the ancient mystical artifact that is supposed to make him unbeatabble. He doesn't even use it in the fight you have with him, you dont even use your own weapons and you spend 3 minutes punching this guy. A bit anticlimactic.
Darth Bandon from KotOR, and Caranya from Oblivion. Both gave dramatic speeches before being crushed like bugs.
I have to agree with everyone about Skyrim. The dragons could have been swapped with cliff racers, and the gameplay would have been the same. I defeated Alduin with 3 shots from my crossbow. I thought his death was a little too dramatic, after that pathetic fight.
The Dragons in Skyrim. They're made up to be those fabled creatures, that you should tremble and fear at their sight. Only the best of the best, the bravest of the bravest, you could even just stand a chance against them.
In reality, you just hack at it's head for 2 head, as it repeats the same stupid strategy over and over, you kill the darn thing, still it's soul and bones, leave it to rot.
That's honestly nothing compared to having a Khajit Merchant..
That's wearing only normal clothes, with just what...an iron dagger, take out a Dragon.
Like...wow. It was that moment that I was 100% convinced something is wrong.
OT: Sad to say, but the reapers, partly because of this part:
just extremely gamebreaking to see ONE cain mini nuke blow that thing over like it was cake, compared to many of the other reaper fights/battles/codex mentionings.
seriously, just give every damn ship/soldier shit tons of cains and problem solved.
That's not a Reaper you're destroying in that section, it's just an anti-air gun. It also doesn't blow up so much as it falls over, who knows how little it might take to get back on its feet again. All that said, this is the London stage where everything is incredibly half-arsed anyway. This is hardly the only instance of you doing something in London that doesn't really fit with how tech is presented in the rest of the series (Thanix missiles, WTF?).
yeah i didn't word my post EXACTLY right, I knew it wasn't a reaper, but it's still based on the same technology, was the point i was going for. and yes, thanix missiles...We have dismissed that claim
Also, as in a response to you, the arch demon can be a ***** and a half, especially if you don't crowd control correctly with your mage(s). (always have haste+ice weapons+other spells going at the same time) Those spells keep your party firing like machine guns at whatever they are attacking, and make sure to keep your mages a distance away from the main chunk of the battle, the arch demon does those stupid attacks that hurt anything in range. (Did you summon your "allies"? I forgot to do that the first time, it honestly does help keep busy some of the baddies)
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