Supposedly Difficult Bosses That You Found to be Easy?

[Nosirrah]

As for Mr. Freeze, I don't see what all the hub-bub was about. While certainly more challenging than Croc and very unforgiving if you mess up, it's basically just a "final exam" of all your Batman stealth skills. That is to say, it's testing your mastery of the Predator sections of the game. The hardest part of the battle is that you can't use the gargoyles in the room, but even so it really isn't that hard to work your way around the room and set up all the possible stealth-takedowns that Batman can pull off. Personally I never had a problem with him.

Did you fight him on NG+? he is practically impossible then as you have only a limited amount of detective vision, he'll destroy anything similar to what you used and is constantly moving.

OT: General raam, from gears of war. just shoot him with a torque bow, then unload on his face, rinse repeat.

Shao Kahn (MK9, Final boss fight) Apparently, this is the hardest fight in the game, yet by spamming Raiden's projectiles and electrocution move, i beat him almost flawlessly.

Also from MK9 comes the goro & kintaro tag battle, as

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Cyber Sub Zero

. I beat both of them in a straight out brawl. don't know what the fuss was about, just dive kick to escape CQC, then jump in with a punch and combo. (FK-BK is really good, especially in corners.)

 

[WOPR]

Form 2 Ornstein (got him second try) and the Letrec 3v1 (got him first time) from Dark Souls. The final ship from FTL (just kill all but one crew member or pack cloaking guys). Any and every boss from IWBTG. Then again my friends often regard me as the local "gaming god" so it would be easier to name bosses I DID have troubles with...

(Only bosses I DID have trouble with) Basaran (the 9th Colossus... I couldn't stay on his back), Agni/Rudra from DMC3 (I couldn't get them to hit eachother), Sephiroth FF7 (Note: I took him on at level 34-36, not level 99), and Dredmor (from Dungeons of Dredmor... I just can't kill him... and he kills me in 2 hits...)

 

[legend of duty]

Hag 1 in Banjo Tooie. As long as you remember to strafe you're golden.

 

[RJ 17]

As for Mr. Freeze, I don't see what all the hub-bub was about. While certainly more challenging than Croc and very unforgiving if you mess up, it's basically just a "final exam" of all your Batman stealth skills. That is to say, it's testing your mastery of the Predator sections of the game. The hardest part of the battle is that you can't use the gargoyles in the room, but even so it really isn't that hard to work your way around the room and set up all the possible stealth-takedowns that Batman can pull off. Personally I never had a problem with him.

Did you fight him on NG+? he is practically impossible then as you have only a limited amount of detective vision, he'll destroy anything similar to what you used and is constantly moving.

Yeah, I have played him on NG+...and he's still easy as hell. You can use Detective Mode as much as you want, as long as you cut it off before his Jammer Sequence (or whatever, it's shown in the top-right whenever you turn on Detective Mode) gets full. If you cut it off, the sequence dies back down, so you can keep using it throughout the whole fight if you only use it when you need to spot where he currently is.

Beyond that, it's still incredibly easy. He tracks the heat of your footsteps so you get to lead him anywhere you want to in order to set up your stealth takedowns. If you COULDN'T lead him around by the nose and he roamed around freely, then the fight would be much more difficult because you'd have no way of planning out your next attack. But since he's so predictable, all you have to do is walk him by a window then run around to the other side, or walk him by an explodeable wall and blow it up. Walk him down a straight line for the line launcher, etc.

I just never really found the guy to be that challenging at all.

 

[Shanahanapp]

Monsoon in Metal Gear Rising. I think it's 'cause some people had trouble picking up the parry system. I found him quite easy, just spam parry and hit him when he's stunned.

 

[zarker]

Flamelurker, is he the boss from 2-2? If so... I beat him on my first try.

That's the one! Yeah, he was horrible for me. My 1st toon was all Dex and fairly low level. Took me about 15-20 tries because he's extremely aggressive. His fire did a lot of damage behind my shield and it was almost impossible to get a heal off without being hit. But, he wasn't nearly as bad on my mage or in my NG+.

 

[RaikuFA]

That 7 form machine from Gunstar Heroes. A lot of people says hes so hard bit I differ.

 

[Silverbeard]

The last battle in MechWarrior 4: Vengeance has the player taking on an enemy in an assault mech (best armour and most weapons, for those not in the know) in a damaged mech of the player's own as a 1v1 fight. Everyone I know who has played that game expresses intense frustration about this fight; no-one has happy memories of it.
Yet I took that boss in my first try. Very comfortably, even.

 

[Azure23]

Hmm. Only example I can think of would be Ornstein and Smough from Dark Souls.

I was able to beat them within two tries on my first playthrough. I think I was using a crystal halberd so Smough went down relatively fast.

As a straight mage build with the Dark Wood Grain Ring, I solo-ed the crap out of them. But then a Boss like the Capra Demon totally destroyed me over and over.

This was essentially my experience in my mage playthrough of darksouls. I played a semi tanky mage with an eagle shield and great magic shield, so many bosses were easily handled by lobbing soul spears while their attackes whiffed through the air. Capra is the one of the only bosses that really poses much challenge to casters, mostly due to his being so early in the game plus the tiny arena and dogs.

 

[TrevHead]

I was told that General RAAM was a ***** to beat. But I beat him easily with a torque bow. And this is Insanity.

General RAM is hard because the game doesn't show you a Bosses healthbar, so unless you have seen a replay and know the correct strategies you have no clue if what you are doing is having any effect.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Uhh...boost and spider ball guardians from Metroid Prime 2. Got them both in one. Not sure what else I've had ease with that is commonly considered hard.

 

[Comic Sans]

Recently the final boss in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, while having the potential to be hard because he summons the really high level aliens as well has have some really good mind powers and high HP himself, I had a fully upgraded sniper an entire room away taking very high hit chance shots with the best sniper rifle in the game. The others barely had to meatshield for him. Squadsight is overpowered as fuck.

I had it even easier than that. I had an assault wearing Ghost Armor cloak and run in to give vision. Using squad sight, the ability that gives higher crit chance, and being able to shoot multiple times, I killed him on my first turn. The enemy didn't even get to move. The entire last level felt anti-climatic.

 

[omegaweopon]

Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts (The original). After I had beat the game the first time, I decided to do a proud mode run, and see at just how low a level I could be and beat him. The answer? Level 59. Only thing that stopped me from killing him sooner is the necessity of Second Wind. Otherwise, I could kill him as soon as I get Super Glide. Strike Raid is all sorts of overpowered when dealing with him, as if it is timed perfectly you can stay invincible through his entire attack chains. Dodging while waiting for the ability to cast it again becomes second nature. Eventually he fell with me barely taking any hits at all. I gained 4 levels from that one fight, putting me at 63 when I was done. Strategy guide recommends 75 on normal, and a whomping 90 on proud. But I made Sephiroth look like the whiny little ***** he is.

 

[King Billi]

I'd say most of the Colossi in Shadow of the Colossus.

Not that I'm aware that many of them are actually considered "difficult" bosses but more just that you'd expect them to be harder than they are when you look at them, and when I first saw someone else playing the game I remember thinking it looked pretty tricky.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

One from Persona 4:

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Matsuo's shadow. Apparently loads of people found this really hard, but I just spammed my most powerful physical attacks from Kanji, Chie and my character then had Yukiko use Mediarama every turn. It's easy when you've got three characters with 400+ health and one with 400+ SP that has the skill that makes health spells 50% better. I did kind of grind a lot in that dungeon before going into the boss room, so I was about 10 levels above the recommended level. I was also lucky and ran into about ten golden hands in that dungeon, each giving me 10,000+ free EXP

 

[Rack]

Let's see, just yesterday I beat The End in MGS3, really fun fight but not at all what I'd say was difficult.

Every single boss in Alpha Protocol. I hear tons of complaints from folks saying that pistol only is impossible to do in that game despite me never using any other weapon, even in the boss fights. Steel Core Round Chainshot Critical Headshots are super op, and no one ever thinks to use them I guess.

Don't know why anyone would say that, the Pistol is op as hell and a total boss mauler in Alpha Protocol.

Not so much easy (it was but no-one said it would be difficult) but I did beat all of the optional bosses in Disgaea with absolutely minimal grinding.

 

[Mister K]

I just (re)beat Final Fantasy 7 with a friend - it's probably because I over-leveled to fight the WEAPONS, but good Lord the last three bosses are pathetic: Jenova was so terrible I actually stopped attacking just to see if she would do anything but she sat there for like 5 turns before I said screw it and finished it (we found out that affects whether you can split your party into 3 teams for Sephiroth) / Bizarro is just overly complicated, not hard / Safer, the most famous and enduring gaming villains, the famed "One Winged Angel", is really simple. He Super Nova'd me twice and I tossed out a mega-elixir. I'm actually less impressed with Sephiroth as a character because of it. My friend actually asked me why I didn't bring any summons and I said "Because it'd be over too quickly!" Incidentally, I remember having to fight Ultimate several times in the past - this time I used Knights I think twice and he died in 2-3 sessions.

I had the same situation. Just finished the game for the very first time a few days ago. I've spoiled this fight for myself a bit with a walkthrough (I just wanted to find out how to make this Golden Chocobo, and I was suddenly reading most of it) and it said something like this: Sephioth's stats are somehow multiplied by party's level. So, I leveled Cloud, Tifa and Barret up to the max, they all had master command/magic, 4x cut and Cloud also had master summon. Oh, and everyone had ultimate weapons. The WHOLE fight ( meaning pre "angel Sephiroth" and "angel Sephiroth") was about 7-10 4x cuts long.

That was really not fun. When FFX HD comes out I will make a separate game save with party of a decent, but not high level just to enjoy Jecht fight.

 

[Church185]

In Dark Souls, the hardest boss is Manus. He's from the DLC as the final boss.

Let me tell you- he's REALLY hard if you're not prepared. Not only that, you're screwed if you're soloing him on NG+ unprepared. I remember dying to him 34x before beating him by a notch of health left. The only reason I found him to be easy without even losing a quarter of my health next time was because of a few things...

• 1) I was able to summon Sif to help me. When you rescue him, he actually aids you (hard to find his summon sign during the fight though.)
  
  2) Having the silver pendant repels all of his dark magic so he's basically wasting his time.
  
  3) The character I used was a tank / faith build with a strong shield, so I was able to block 100% of physical attacks.
  
  4) Sunlight blade. It wrecks Manus especially if the Sunlight blade is enchanted on a 15+ Murakumo.

With all of these, he was pretty easy. Don't get me wrong though, without Sif, my build or having a good spell- he's really tough. Heaven forbid if you're a guy with less then 800 HP he'll kill you in a heartbeat unless otherwise.

That fight was interesting to say the least. I didn't know you could summon Sif though I did find him and take the shield. When I fought Manus I was playing my Dragon Mage build (no armor), and I didn't know you could use the Silver Pendant to deflect his attacks (I was light enough that I could dodge fast and it didn't matter). My biggest complaint is that he has a ton of health and attacks relentlessly. His physical attacks are easy enough to roll under, but there is rarely a chance to heal if you do get hit, and trying to play a caster class against him requires you to know exactly when he is going to take a break long enough for your to get a Crystal Soul Spear off. Because of how much health he had I ran out of spells before the end of the fight and had to rely on my Moonlight Greatsword to chip away at him until he died.

That being said, I think trying to cut off Kalameet's tail makes for a much harder fight than Manus.

 

[Church185]

This is all assuming that we're formally fighting Kalameet and are using Gough's help. Otherwise the "fight" is about as much a fight as it is in Demon's Souls.

It's actually possible to kill Kalameet without Gough's help. If you set yourself up in the arena as he swoops in and hit him with a shot from the Dragonslayer bow, it will cripple him just like if Gough had shot him. It opens up a unique dialogue with Gough when you go see him, he will be impressed that you brought the dragon down by yourself and give you his bow.

 

[already in use]

The Four Kings in darksouls.
They were supposed to be the hardest boss, I just ran to everyone of them and
spammed r1 great club untill they were down,they hardly dealt any damage either.
I thought it was because my first char was over sl 100, but it wasnt much harder
with my low level mage invader and a crystal halbert. There were like six of them though.