Wait, That Was IT?!? (Boss Battles):
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Personally i think the all the forms of the last boss from the first kingdom hearts were pathetically weak. I was having a bit of trouble with the riku fight, or some boss near there, and looked around for some info on the boss and found people recommending to be level 60 to 70 or up for the last boss and when i got there, at level 52 i believe, i ended up taking quick note of his attack patterns and then just mopped the floor with all of his forms. I think the keyblade i was using was Oblivion. it was the one in the room where riku was. Even when the last boss was in it's final form i thought "oh? is it finally gonna feel like a final boss?" and then ended up just wrecking his health bar and he did the phase two thing and i thought, "Oh? maybe now it will be a bit stronger." and then rinse and repeat to the third and final phase where i thought, "Two disappointing fights with this for, do i hear three?" and then ended up slaughtering the boss befor proceeding to sigh and say, "Yup, i was expecting a boss battle and got a slaughter fest. Well time to sit through this cutscene and then the credits and move on to another game.sovietmisaki said:
I would like to submit the ... ending for Rage.
I know it's not a boss, but it could've been a great place for a fight actually worth having.
I know it's not a boss, but it could've been a great place for a fight actually worth having.
Apparently he was a joke boss referencing some kind of Japanese festival game. And while personally I love the pinwheel boss fight (watching Leeroy get shit done doesn't get old) I can easily see how some people where disappointed, especially when he's holding such an important item as the rite of kindling. He's got some good lore though, check out Vaatividya's lore series on YouTube.epikAXE said:
Got to go with RAGE as well. The boss fight (and final level) are so easy I thought it was the end of the second act and the REAL shit was about to start. I was kind of confused when the credits rolled.
Also, kind of an obscure one but Oisin from Infinte Space. Most of the boss fights in that game are punishing and force you into using different strategies and getting your timing spot on. This guy shows up at the end of a chapter trying to kill one of your friends. It seems like it's going to be a good fight and then boom, 1 shot and dead. Although that could be because my ships were a little bit OP at that point!
Also, kind of an obscure one but Oisin from Infinte Space. Most of the boss fights in that game are punishing and force you into using different strategies and getting your timing spot on. This guy shows up at the end of a chapter trying to kill one of your friends. It seems like it's going to be a good fight and then boom, 1 shot and dead. Although that could be because my ships were a little bit OP at that point!
I think that was because Diablo is made for more playthroughs while ramping up the difficulty. You wouldn't survive him at later encounters, if he was super mega tough on the easiest diffculty.Childe said:
Even the minibosses scattered all over that game in all the levels were quite difficult to deal with on the Hell difficulty.
The final EXALT mission is just as bad, it's just...da da da...more EXALT guys! They didn't even have the decency to throw in a giant omnicidal robot..then again, it didn't really matter as they got barely any character development and felt like more of a nuisance than a legitimate threat.Aeshi said:
Augustine got a warning for that post?!? Bizarre.shogunblade said:That, right there? I know what you did. Here.Augustine said:
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Can't regard Earthworm Jim and not go unnoticed.
OT: The final boss of the Playstation 2(Maybe PS3, I dunno) version of Kingdom Hearts: Rechain of Memories. On the GBA version, the final boss was suitably difficult, he was time consuming, but that was okay, because it was a final battle. On PS2, He never hit me. I literally spent all of about seven or eight minutes and beat the fight. That's so stupid that a port to another system renders the final boss absolutely useless, but I did it. It's making me wait until Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out to care about KH, but at least it told me that spinoffs of this particular series aren't really important to play.
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Emperor Doviculous in Brutal Legend. Perhaps it was made easier by the fact I collected all the dragon statues which built my stats up considerably by the time I got to that fight, but on the Hard difficulty, I never died from him.
Anyway, when Guitar Hero 3 introduced the Battle Mode and I'd get the first power up and just lob it at the boss (except Lou at the end) and take them out 60 seconds or less into their unique song?.I wanted to hear the custom song! Lame. This was also a problem if you did 2 player battle mode with both players on a higher difficulty. Most of the powerups/attacks utterly cripple the other player and fail them out in seconds.
I know it's not quite the final boss of Cataclysm, but the Spine of Deathwing on heroic was maddening for my guild; we had well over 100 attempts before we FINALLY killed it. Though yeah, Heroic Madness was a joke compared to Heroic Spine; that was roughly ten attempts for us before our first kill.Instigo said:
Anyways, Rodrigo Borgia from the end of Assassin's Creed 2 was a bit disappointing. I mean, really? A fist fight with a fat guy for the climactic boss fight? Hyron from the end of Deus Ex: Human Revolution was also rather anti-climactic.
Well, let's see... Oh, AC4 comes to mind. Continuing the proud tradition of having some of the lamest boss fights in gaming history (fistfighting the pope, throwing a dude from a wall after chipping away at his armour) I present to you...
*drum ruffle* (massive spoiler coming up, read only if you've finished the story)
*drum ruffle* (massive spoiler coming up, read only if you've finished the story)
Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts!!! Yes, that Roberts, like in the "Dread Pirate Roberts", one of the most badass pirates ever!!!
Essentially, there's a mission where you help him steal the flagship of the Portuguese fleet, the 'Royal Fortune', a massive Man O' War armed with dozens of cannons from all sides. They even let you take a test drive with it just to feel it's raw power compared to your little brig!
So what happens during the boss fight? He runs away, throws a few fire barrels and then gets his stupid ass stuck between a military convoy of British and Spanish ships. Then it's just simply giving him two à three broadsides, boarding his ship and assassinating him and voilà, you killed one of the most infamous pirates to sail the seven seas and a Sage, a guy posessed by one of those that came before
Essentially, there's a mission where you help him steal the flagship of the Portuguese fleet, the 'Royal Fortune', a massive Man O' War armed with dozens of cannons from all sides. They even let you take a test drive with it just to feel it's raw power compared to your little brig!
So what happens during the boss fight? He runs away, throws a few fire barrels and then gets his stupid ass stuck between a military convoy of British and Spanish ships. Then it's just simply giving him two à three broadsides, boarding his ship and assassinating him and voilà, you killed one of the most infamous pirates to sail the seven seas and a Sage, a guy posessed by one of those that came before
xD seriously! I clicked this topic and immediately did a search for all iterations of Final Fantasy X. Nothing on the first page, so I started thinking "no frickin' way has no one brought this up yet..." Thankfully you did bring it up, though it is very surprising that no one in the 67 posts before yours mentioned it. And your spoiler box hits pretty much exactly what I was going to say: Yevon is a giant floating tick (I'm guessing to signify that he's a parasite on the world) and it's impossible to lose to him unless you kill your own party TWICE. What's that? Not easy enough for you? Well how about the fact that he only attacks with gravity attacks ensuring that your party will get low on health and be able to use their limit breaks pretty much every single turn!Simple Bluff said:
Yevon was the boss that shattered my faith in the series. I suffered through the horrendous plot (don't worry, death is nothing more than a mild inconvenience as long as no one Sends you!), the atrocious voice acting, and the mind-numbing sidequests. But to show up against a final boss who CAN'T KILL YOU is just plain insulting. And that's pretty much when I lost all interest in the series and I haven't played another one since.
Well, technically I played X-2.......for about 2 hours after I rented it. I then returned it the same day and said that it didn't work for some reason. The guy offered to let me check out a different copy of the game, but I said I'd rather get a different game all together.
Well, that's still better than the very last boss.SanguiniusMagnificum said:
You finally track down the templar grandmaster and fight some of his guards in a trap ridden room. Then you do a platforming puzzle and air assassinate him. Or how about his bodyguard, whom you needed all of six pistol shots to kill?
Sufficient to say is that "Boss fights" in ACIV weren't much of the sort.
I have no idea why, but as a kid playing Kingdom Hearts, I got stuck on the first Ursula battle and basically stopped playing it.
My little brother got KH Final Mix, so I thought I'd give it another shot. I beat her so quickly that I was just in awe at how stupid of a kid I was. Still can't believe I decided to play KH2 without even beating KH1 and still managed to be a huge fan of the series despite not knowing the story properly.
My little brother got KH Final Mix, so I thought I'd give it another shot. I beat her so quickly that I was just in awe at how stupid of a kid I was. Still can't believe I decided to play KH2 without even beating KH1 and still managed to be a huge fan of the series despite not knowing the story properly.
The boss in the tutorial of Dark Souls. I'd seen memes about it, and it had been one of the things that had me interested in the game: I'd watched a couple of youtubers play the tutorial for the first time, and they were getting absolutely wrecked. I played it and took him down without a hitch. Luckily, the rest of the game more than made up for the initial disappointment.
I'm going with Fable 2 and Fable 3.
Well for one, Fable 2 didn't even have an ending, that left me quite annoyed at the game, I played and somewhat loved the game and it just backhands me without a boss.
Now Fable 3, while it did have a boss, it wasn't that great. Then when you compare Fable 3 to the original package, you just sigh and give up the game.
Such a great series ruined. :/
Well for one, Fable 2 didn't even have an ending, that left me quite annoyed at the game, I played and somewhat loved the game and it just backhands me without a boss.
Now Fable 3, while it did have a boss, it wasn't that great. Then when you compare Fable 3 to the original package, you just sigh and give up the game.
Such a great series ruined. :/
I am genuinely surprised that nobody has mentioned the Space Terminator from Mass Effect 2 yet. Not only was it a Space Terminator, you spent most of the battle fighting regular Collectors, with it in the background. You then take occasional potshots at it's eyes, while hiding behind cover.
Marauder Shield from ME 3 was much better.
Marauder Shield from ME 3 was much better.
The Sauron battle in the Third-Age. Of course all the boss battles sucked because the combat sucked, but Sauron had a crud load of health yet could do barely any damage at all. (It didn't help the fight was framed really stupidly).
every time. The part after that was just a thematic wrap up and the immortality was part of that. It was just experimenting with something other than a cutscene.
The fight with S. just after you enter Sin was one of those to me though. Pretty much everytime you fought the guy it was a tough battle with some really stretching tactics and then end on a battle which just needs a couple of Null Elements? I've heard someone argue that that one was deliberate too, but it still felt too complex for it to be purposefully a walk-over fight.
Someone also brought up Uncharted 3 which I have to agree with. Those games have always had bad end-game boss fights (so it's fitting Tomb Raider kept up the tradition) but at least the other two weren't easy.
The earlier fight with Malak is definitely one of these sort of fights in retrospect. I guess they didn't build it up which is a saving grace, but it just makes it worse that Malak cutscene cheats to take you out when you can destroy him in almost one hit
I'm always surprised that people consider that one a boss fight. If you asked me who the last boss in FFX was, I'd saySimple Bluff said:
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The fight with S. just after you enter Sin was one of those to me though. Pretty much everytime you fought the guy it was a tough battle with some really stretching tactics and then end on a battle which just needs a couple of Null Elements? I've heard someone argue that that one was deliberate too, but it still felt too complex for it to be purposefully a walk-over fight.
This one so much. I generally think the end dropped the ball in a lot of ways (it felt like they were trying too hard to get Lara back to her old character instead of sticking with the new one) but that fight in particular was a let down.gigantor21 said:
Someone also brought up Uncharted 3 which I have to agree with. Those games have always had bad end-game boss fights (so it's fitting Tomb Raider kept up the tradition) but at least the other two weren't easy.
I tend to expect RPGs to have easy final bosses nowadays (at least when you can't grind) because there's too much chance of building yourself into an impossible situation like with Malak.GloatingSwine said:
The earlier fight with Malak is definitely one of these sort of fights in retrospect. I guess they didn't build it up which is a saving grace, but it just makes it worse that Malak cutscene cheats to take you out when you can destroy him in almost one hit
It's exacerbated by the fact that you have to solo the final boss, so you might have been farming out all the destroy droid tree to another character (like Jolee) whilst focusing on choppy combat with your main, for instance. And that's fine because it works (and indeed is pretty optimal for most of the game, and always will be in any party based combat system, when something is needed in rare instances not all the time it's always best to have one character specialised in doing it not everyone because then everyone else has powers that are useful more of the time).BrotherRool said:
And all of a sudden that goes away because you're fighting solo and you need the one power in the game that's useful the most rarely (or Throw Lightsabre which isn't useful at all so why would you have it?) to proceed.
And yeah, the first Malak fight was cutscene bullshit a go go. "Oh noes he is too strong it took a whole combat round to kill him, Bastila, quick, sacrifice yourself for the greater plot!".
It's like they don't play videogames and don't have any idea how people who do play videogames are going to approach a situation. (See also: Power trees in MMOs, there's always an optimal build. Devs notice "everyone is using same build", so they fiddle with the tree to try and introduce "variety", and then the new best build gets found and everyone uses it).
To be honest, my memory of FFX is very fuzzy. The only moments I remember with clarity are; the horrible laughing scene(I blame the internet for this one, it comes up often), the hugging scene, Titus crying in the ending and being very frustrated dodging fucking lighting 200 times(I remember this clearest... though I don't remember if the wand or rod I got from doing it was worth it). I can't for the life of me remember actually fighting the giant space whale... frog... rocket... thing... was it a cut scene?RJ 17 said:
