10 Bosses That RUINED The Game For Us 

Seeing the Deathstroke boss fight in Arkham Knight be a Batmobile fight, was one of my most disappointing game moments.

The struggle of running back to the Bed of Chaos fog gates after each attempt is a special kind of torture.

I like how when he says "Video games are not meant to be a walk in the park", it cuts to Heavy Rain's scene where you walk in a park

In Uncharted 2s final boss, the boss says “stand your ground” ironically if you listen to him and stand your ground next to one of those exploding resin things and just let him grab you and hit you and repeat until the resin regrows you’ll beat him no problem. I did it on crushing my 2nd attempt. It’s more of a bug than a feature tho.

The Mist Noble from Sekiro was definitely the straw that broke the camel’s back for a majority of players. Hardest Fromsoft boss ever made.

My roommate and I have a deal going. He lets me live in his house rent free, but every time he plays Batman Arkham Knight, when he gets to the excavator fight he hands me the controller, and I have to get him through it. No joke.

The bad guy from Fable 2. You go through the entire game gearing up for this epic boss battle and you don't even get it. If you don't shoot him during his monolog someone else will and the fight is over. There is a boss but no fight

Always loved how even the intro to Borderlands 2 pokes fun at the final boss of the first game.

In Elden Ring, I knew I had signed up for a challenge but Margit didn't even buy me some wine before destroying me.

DDDDRAKE!!! drove me crazy trying to get through it on hard level

The redeeming quality for Destroyer is how cool fighting Eridians on the way to the vault was. Like sure, the boss itself was very underwhelming, but the path to it really delivered imo

Loved Lazarvich, and that boss fight was amazing 🤣

I actually thought the final fight in Uncharted 4 was a really fun way to end the game. While also not being infuriating!

He said the Destroyer from Borderlands 2, instead 1

Isaac frost in EA Fight Night still raises my blood pressure to this day

My god, hearing Falcon say the line “so anyway I started blasting” in Lezarevic’s voice was something I didn’t know I needed to hear until now 😂

I would love for you to do a series where you point out boss fights which are initially very easy and then they suddenly become amazing and highly memorable

wait there was a strong bad reference??? wow we are old Falcon lol

Mortal Kombat 9 Shao Khan final boss fight. Took me two weeks to finally beat him. They make his damage insane and literally he spams moves over and over until he kills you. His xray attack basicaly deals some crazy damage and yeah it just isn't fun.

OMG when Falcon does an accent, it always cracks me up!😂😂😂

The godskin duo the worst boss they ever did ? Idk about that one boss.

Am I the only masochist who loved the Godskin Duo battle? It was so challenging, but so much fun. Beating that boss battle felt like a huge accomplishment. Maybe not Ornstein and Smough, but still very good.

At least for the spider guardian, you have a massive amount of energy tanks, unlike the miserable hell that is the boost guardian, especially on hard

Terranigma, the last game i played on the SNES and such a surprisingly heart-wrenching experience. I waltzed through most of it's bosses though, that village with the zombies everywhere was a great spot to level up.

Terrarnigma's honorable mention reminds me that that's just something that team does cause Illusion of Gaia, their previous game, also has a random dramatic difficulty spike boss against vampires.

That Batman escavator fight literally broke my controller. I get ptsd just thinking about it

i just love when falcon makes those "old man screams at cloud" videos, hear him letting out all his frustration it's so entertaining

I kid you not, I beat the godskin duo on my first try. Yep. I think I managed because I had to repeat the the thin godskin (Apostle) solo boss fight (I think it was inside a tall tower) dozens of times, so I ended up mastering it and learning its patterns. The fat godskin (Noble) in my opinion wasn't that bad. If it makes you feel better, I was at the end of my rope when the fight was over, with no flasks left and at less than half health

You missed the i think second encounter with the eyeball monster in RE2r. You have to get him knocked off of a platform twice but unless you have 2 flash bangs to stun him, he will grab you and pull you off with him.

nice. i have never seen terranigma on any list ever. that is one of the coolest snes games ever made.

Didn't have a problem with godskin duo, fire giant really pissed me off tho lol

The home star runner reference just made my day ❤😂

i really feel like the BorderLands 1 end boss was meant to be that bad. as a joke, its right within that games humor. Going for the whole "That's it?! THAT is the big threat you talked up?!" kind of reaction.

Godskin Duo is definitely rough the first time if you don't know the gimmick. But Once you have sleep crafting, you can take one out while concentrating on the other. I wouldn't say it's cheesing, since it is the intended use of the mechanic. If anything, I would say the bigger issue is that sleep only gets a chance to shine like this a few times in the whole game.

To be honest it's not just the spider guardian that's miserable, there's also the Boost guardian, High damage, Unpredictable, and after an already miserable level. I have died so many times to it...

The worst part about The Imprisoned is that they brought it back for the first Hyrule Warriors game, where it functions the same way, but now it's in a game that's all about rapidly dispatching hordes of enemies like an unstoppable force if nature.

The only boss that ruined my day, is the boss at work.

when I first found this channel I thought it was called Gamer-anx but now that I know the correct way it makes a lot more sense.

Batman Arkham knight was such an amazing game, that the bat mobile fights weren’t even enough to bother me lol

It wasn't the duo that stopped me in that area. It was the tree sentinel after them 😂😂😂

I’d have to say Raam from gears of war 1 lol

4:25 Lazarević is Serbian, which... you know... in not the same as Russian 😅😂

I was excited when the Batmobile was destroyed in Arkham Knight, followed by almost crushing disappointment when Lucious immediately gives you another one.

This video show how games get ruined by bosses that are very bad But in theory it is possible for a game to get ruined by a boss that is too good, making the rest of the game look horrible

I don't get how people can complain Elden Ring has too many reused bosses with a straight face. Has nobody played God of War (2018)? Where the first boss is also the last boss, then there are 10 trolls, 6 ancients and 7 valkyries, with mostly minor variations between them.

I will contend that Elden Ring has some of the worst bosses in all of From's catalogue. Not all the bosses are poorly designed, overpowered, imbalanced. But my God, a fair amount of them feel pretty poorly designed, overpowered, and imbalanced.

Godskin Duo: the first encounter with the snail was probably the most rage inducing with having to run back to the boss from far away. This second encounter, I somehow 1st tried it. The secret was being over-leveled...

The only saving grace for the god skin duo fight is getting to hear that amazing boss music again

it seems like the SONY bosses are the bosses ruining gaming at the moment

Diciple Zr'ell from Baldur's gate 3. This Boss fight is really annoying. All Z'rell does for the entire fight is Spam her Black Hole which slows down your party and prevents them from using bonus actions. Follow that up with the fact that she's got a bunch of Cultist backup that constantly Buff eachother and hit really hard and you are in for a Rough time. But luckily if you know how you can skip this fight entirely.

That excavator in Batman AK is really easy to just avoid until you're ready. I just avoided the guy and learned the next chase tunnel until I got it down, rinse and repeat

Falcon seems like a cool bird to get a beer with

Tip with Uncharted 2 is to just hit L when he is near the blue blob near the tree bridge … get him to follow you anti-clockwise in the area and run to the end of the tree bridge turn around and wait for him to run towards you …it’s the only area you can guarantee to hit him as it forces him into a bottleneck … there is a chasm below the tree where if he throws grenades while you are lining up the shot most of them will fall below. It’s the only way I got to beat him! What’s annoying is you have to do this 2-3 times! 😢

The Slug Boss from Evil West. Not only do you have to worry about it Spraying you, but then comes the rockfall and the exploding minions from the cacoons if you don't shoot them in time.

"So long, Dark Knight" lives in my head rent free

Bro, Lazarvich was cool, with just the right amount of challenge. The Train Captain from earlier in the game, however, was overly difficult and not only was he NOT fun to fight, but he wasn’t even a fun character, because he wasn’t even a character! He was just some dude on a train with a gun and some grenades 😡

I still listen to and have Gone Guru by Lifeseeker on RU-vid music. Man what a moment and time in life! The 360 release days!

When you come across an annoying boss in a game that you like to replay, check how speedrunners deal with it.

There's two that need to be on this list, the final boss of Gun, he's so annoying and completely ruins an otherwise amazing game. Then there's the final boss of the scorpion king game. I seem to remember that you need to collect these gems to level yourself up throughout the game but they aren't easy to find, if you don't collect enough then the final boss becomes so difficult

A boss only weirdos like me know about is the final Boss of Red Faction 2. He starts in a Power Armor that cuts through your health quickly and the only cover in the room quickly gets torn apart by the missiles. When you do finally destroy the Power Armor, he fights with a Railgun which, if it hits you and you don't have any medkits in your inventory, kills you instantly.

Lazarevic's lines are ingrained in my brain... "You THINK you can stop MEEE???" "DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE" "YOU WILL NOT STAND IN THE WAY OF DESTINY" It was a mistake to play that game on crushing

My vote is for Micolash in Bloodborne, if you dont have poison to cheese him, the fight is just exasperating.

Hahahah love it - it sounded like Strong Bad crossed over with Mojo Dojo!

I found the Boost Guardian in the Gamecube version of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes was pretty grim. Constantly losing health due to the poisonous air and the enemy constantly ricocheting everywhere with no where to hide from it? Not fun

*The Destroyer from Borderlands 1 (Borderlands 2 was 'The Warrior')

The final boss from Dark Cloud. I spent the entire game focusing on only using the main character, a sword user. At the end of the game, the second phase of the final boss can only be damaged by ranged attacks, requiring you to switch to a ranged character (the only time the game does this in a fight). This wouldn't be so bad if the boss didn't also regularly use an arena wide unavoidable attack. This left me having to enter the fight with an inventory dedicated to healing, and hoping I could cherry tap the boss with the bad ranged character before I ran out of items.

I absolutely destroyed The Destroyer in Borderlands 2. Gaige max anarchy and 1 clip of the SMG I had back then. Melted his ass

When I was getting the platinum trophy for uncharted 2 on the ps3, after 2 hours of trying to beat the final boss I just quit at around 5am. One month later just came back to the game and beat him on the first try of the day 😅.

QTE bosses are perfect in games like Uncharted because it's such a cinematic, story driven game that it fits right in

The first time I faced the Godskin duo I used the mimic tear - the only time I've ever used assistance of any form in a Fromsoft game. I then decided no, that wasn't good enough, so I started a new playthrough from scratch, levelled up better throughout the game and upon reaching the Duo I killed them 2nd attempt. No sleep, no assistance, no spells. Pure melee. It was pretty easy. As soon as one goes down you have time to take the other down. Rinse and repeat. Neither of them had a chance to go to their phase 2.

I recently got the Arkham Trilogy Remaster on Switch. It's jarring how much A.K. *_forces_* you to use the Batmobile. Not that it's there if you want - you progress a certain way in a mission and Batman says "Oop - better get the Batmobile for this!" Coming off a two-game stretch where pretty much the only vehicle you ride is the Tiger helicopters when you're trying to scan them, this is egregious as the forced 'boat stealth' mission in Assassin's Creed 4 - except it's across a whole game.

If I remember correctly I figured out a cheese strat myself to beat Barrett as I had a stealth build. It took forever to get to that point and was VERY frustrating.

Wow, i haven't heard Terranigma mentioned in a long time. Do they ever mention Soul Blazer or Illusion of Gaia? First time i played that Terranigma boss, i was on an emulator, and Save states got me through it.

Dude thank you so much for that terranigma mention 😭♥️♥️ that was my favorite games growing up, my uncle gave me an SNES emulator and I went and beat that game and E.V.O the search for gia both of which I think are underated classics ♥️ the ending of terranigma and realization of the main characters true reason for existing still holds a heart breaking spot in my core.

So glad someone finally mentioned Lazaravic from Uncharted 2! The worst part is that it doesn't even tell u to shoot the blue rocks - I had to look it up after dying 5+ times

Did not expect a homestar runner reference. Now I'm gonna watch some strong bad emails

"Pumpin' metal guru in the Subaru" Dead Rising still haunts me to this day.

I think the fact that they brought back Deathstroke in Dark Knight and made it a tank fight was a big slap in the face. Cuz the Deathstroke fight in Origins was probably the best boss fight in the series, and it wasn’t even Rocksteady. Maybe that was a preview of Rocksteadys future tone deafness.

i knew i liked you. the strong bad reference was top notch. russian stereotypes in cold war call of duty are hilarious

FromSoftware even apologized for the whole Izalith / Bed of Chaos area. They simply ran out of time and FromSoftware deadlines were very tight back in 2011. They also didn't want to delay the game further so Miyazaki did what he could and you can see the end result. That's also why you never see the Witch of Izalith except in the intro cutscene, it simply couldn't be done in time. The same with the 6th archstone in Demon's Souls. The area DOES exist, but in a pre alpha stage with some enemies and a boss in the files that can be restored. I think it was Lance MacDonald who restored the whole level until it was "playable". Since Miyazaki is President of FromSoftware now, they have more crative freedom. Elden Ring got even delayed due to the pandemic, which was unthinkable back in 2009 / 2011. And yes, I also find no excuse for the Godskin duo except that this boss is extremely annoying. I never made it alone.

Hearing falcon spit the opening to gone guru made my day lol 🤌

So one thing about the godskin duo: there’s an extra summon if you enter through the other door. With your ashes, you’re now 3 against 2, and it’s actually quite easy without any cheesing.

Im so glad you mentioned arkhem knight in this list cause i always thought I'm just that bad at this game with that stupid tunnel chase sequence😭

The final boss of The Callisto Protocol. He’s completely out of place in that game - like, a Resident Evil boss found its way into the game. It’s also completely, ridiculously difficult compared to anything else in the game. Just a really poorly thought out final encounter.

Ah Terranigma, havent heard that name for years. 6 years old me fighting bloody mary for over an hour because every attack only dealed 1 damage. Good memories :D

The boss fights in the Kotor games. You can quite easily make it to the end fight no matter how bad your build is, but if you didn't do your build correctly, the final fights are impossible. And also, you rely on your companions for the entirety of the game and then they're removed. Leaving your only option really being just running around, spamming mines, or having to load a save from an hour+ ago.

Anyone know the song that plays right at the beginning until the countdown in the video properly starts?

The House from ff7 wrecked me for so long I had to lower difficulty to easy after a couple weeks

The hardest boss in Elden Ring was the 3rd guardian in the Haligtree. Eventually I just ran past him, letting my Mimic be a distraction, hit the respawn point, and then cheesed him with dozens and dozens of arrows. I guess I could have just kept running. Seriously, I had less trouble with Melenia. She's actually "easy" if you have a light build. You can roll right out of that move that she does that everyone complains about.

In Uncharted 2 - listen to Lazarevic - get by a source of blue sap, punch him, let him grab you - he says "Stand Your Ground!" Do just that - shoot the sap, and repeat until done. No running, no muss, no fuss. You just have to repeat the sequence the number of times required for the difficulty level at which you are playing.

TBF the Barrett fight is managable for a stealth focused character. You just need to grab all the rare EMP grenades lying around the chicago suburbs and throughout the FEMA facility to have a chance.

Barrett from Deus Ex:Human Revolution, was a complete pushover. All you have to do is get into air vent on the right side of the room, and follow it to where you are above him. He can't hit you, but you can wipe him out in no time.

Dead Rising needs to come back

Falcon went full Morty talking about the final boss lol

I almost got mad when Falcon said The Destroyer from Borderlands 2 was the worst boss until it was clear he was talking about the boss from the first Borderlands. The Borderlands 2 final boss was actually a lot of fun while Borderlands 1 boss is justifiably the worst

I remember playing dead rising when it came out and those damn convicts definitely made me rage quit.

Ok, so I gasped a little at the bonus entry. Terranigma still sits high on my list of my favourite JRPGs of all time. It's an almost yearly replay for me but you never really see it mentioned, like, anywhere. The problem with Bloody Mary, is she requires grind if you want to do any substantial damage to her, at least physically, where as all the bosses leading up to her were pretty well scaled to how you progressed naturally. It's like the Majima/Saejima fight from Like a Dragon. The funny thing is, the moment you hit a certain level (Can't remember the level, but it's around 24), there's a massive difference in your physical damage output, going from between doing 2-3 points of damage to her, to 30-35 points of damage. Definitely a must play for any JRPG fan though.

Any boss you can't beat the first time with just reflexes is a failure.

I forgot about those stupid convicts until now. I’m reliving my frustration.

Spider guardian? Really? No, the worst one's Boost Guardian by a country mile.