7 Anti-Climax Boss Fights That Weren't Worth the Build Up 

LOL I remember that, you wait in jail for your moment and all you get is cut scenes :(

On top of that the thing that kills him is a small music box.

@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 Yeah you had to go in The Spire and worked your ass off for some reason, and the game tried its absolute best to make us care about that other guy Bob. He dies in The Spire and later the banshees whisper stuff like "You let Bob die!!" and I was like "Yeah, what of it". If they ever make a list of characters we were supposed to care about but didn't, I'd nominate that guy.

I'm still bitter that I couldn't kill Reaver. That guy is a dick, and not even in a fun way. Even worse in Fable 3, where he tried to feed me to Balverines and then later was... advising me in court? What the heck, game???

I was literally gonna comment this lol

People have been doing the same for Pinwheel from DS1 for as long as I can remember.

They're STILL doing that, It's basically the Meme of the game, next to the dive bombing enemies

@@Jacob_G9 WooOOOO

I'm pretty sure the mist noble is one of the most important NPCs in the entire game. The purified lord Tekeru sealing away mibu village. He does this to starve the great carp so that it will destroy the fountainhead palace stopping the immortal coruption from spreading into ashina

To be fair once you beat the game, it's very believable that the mist noble would have uzi if the final boss didn't steal it from him

Wood elves are pretty chill.

@@dreadcthulhu5 Except for the part where they eat people.

@@LAZERAK47V2 Only those they kill in battle and only if they actually follow the Green Pact, which is mostly prevalent in their homeland where they aren't allowed to eat plants by their god. There does seem to be a difference in thinking between the tribals and the city dwellers. If you think about it it's a mandate that makes them less likely to kill knowing they have a time limit in which to consume the whole body and I'm sure it limits their inclination for war as well. Three days isn't long to empty a battlefield of bodies. Imagine having to think, "Do I really want to have to eat that person?," to determine who you really, really want to kill.

@@dreadcthulhu5 A Dance in Fire literally proves that false. Bunch of (Imperials, I think) visit Valenwood during a festival and get served as the main course.

@@LAZERAK47V2 So some Imperials visit the homeland of the wood elves, Valenwood, and end up eaten as part of their Green Pact and you think this disproves my argument? Okay I misspoke when I said only if they killed them in battle, but the rest holds true. What I meant was the Green Pact does state that a fallen enemy must be eaten completely before three days pass. It also says: Only meat-based products can be consumed. Prohibits the use of wood or other vegetable derivatives as building materials. Forbidden to harm trees and plant life for their own betterment. Forbidden to smoke anything of a vegetable nature. Forbidden to alter their physical form(s) This of course only applies to the plants native to Valenwood and plant material is imported for use from outside regions. They follow this mandate out of obedience to their forest deity Yffre to gain his patronage. As such those who are born or live outside of Valenwood don't necessarily follow the Pact. Thus if anything your argument strengthens mine.

Darkbeast Paarl

I honestly can't think a better example for that than the Asylum Demon. You literally kill 3 undead that mostly don't defend themselves and you have to face a boss right after that, that's all you have played, the first time is overwhelming as fuck

Aizawa from Yakuza 5 the guy dosen't even know why he is fighting you,but still give you one of the best boss fights in the whole Yakuza series

sans

It's a cool idea, but isn't the opposite though - the opposite would be most enjoyable boss fights, which would also be interesting.

I was gonn say this. That delivery was so funny

yeah, he was MUCH easier than the Arkham knight himself.

Damn I forgot that fight. Literally just a rehash of the other boss fight. At least we can remember the arkham origins fight with him

Also hush

For me the anti-climactic fus-ro-dah fight is the end of the Mahrunes Dagon quest. All that trouble to shout a couple dremora off a cliff.

If you can't loot the boss can you really call it a win?

I mean i can't even play it unmodded given how absolutely weak and pathetic most bosses are without revenge of the enemies Like harkon having lower stats then the snow elve you fight before hand In fact miraak is the only one who give a significant challenge And i pretty much have defeated all bosses given that i have been playing this game for 10 years and never stopped Pretty much all bosses are a massive walk in the park with an even below average build

@@Boomslayer19 yeah, Bethesda has never really bothered with bosses.

You can still get the armor by going to the bottom of the cliff from whence he was yeeted

Aww man

LOL

They kind of redeemed themselves with the sequel, or at least for me. That fight was tough.

@@MultiFilmstudios I didn't think it was that difficult, but still a very enjoyable fight. Makes the one in Shadow look even worse since they clearly can make a decent boss fight if they set their minds to it.

The black hand was pretty cool tho

@@carsonneedham3844 From looks alone, yeah. But he doesn't even get a fight at all. If you consider him to be Sauron himself as is heavily suggested, he then has the quicktime event which isn't much better. At least there's a proper fight with Sauron in the Bright Lord DLC.

I mean, going off the movies; dude gets one bad paper cut, loosing his favorite class ring, and then just telecoms all his big evil meetings :v

The fact that Mehruns Razor can one shot him was hilarious.

This is what i was thinking. He may be as tanky as a legendary dragon, but with 3 allies, he's a straight pushover

@@This_0ne_Person I agree with both of you, but never forget that Alduin is not the true antagonist of Skyrim. Belethor is. (Ugh. Belethor. The very name invokes dread.) Belethor the undying. Belethor the sardonic. Belethor the indestructible. Just think how many times you have to deal with him, yet he always stays... right... there. Taunting you. Taking all of your gold. Might actually be the biggest a--hole in Whiterun, and boy, that's some big shoes to fill. Talking of which... (The Jarl is a deadbeat Dad who doesn't notice his kid is consorting with daedra. His two servants are a stuffy bureaucrat who wants to leave a village undefended against dragons in case it stirs up trouble, and a dark-elf who shows contempt for the traditions of her peers. Then all the kids are awful except Mila ("This skeever-hole of a city" indeed!), there's Ysolda who then happily sends you on a quest to take on a giant camp at level 3, the sexist d-bag who wrote "A Gentleman's Guide", the guy who barks "Grey-mane or battle-born?" at random tourists, the entire insufferable superior condescending wolf-blooded Companions, Sigurd's Sigurd-ness, the priestess who will sacrifice a paradise for the sake of a tree, the alchemist who keeps trying to convince you you're ill so she can sell you more stuff, and let's not of course forget Nazeem, AKA "Everyone's first sneak-kill practice target.") ...Anyway, I feel I got a little sidetracked there. What about Salokhnir? One of the very few dragons you can actually see resurrected, and you can easily kill him before he's even got his skin on. No matter when you go after him, he feels woefully under-levelled.

and harkon and basically everyone who isnt the ebony warrior or karstaag

At least Alduin is a dragon fight, though, and I'd argue that Alduin feels like a let-down not because it's lacking but because dragon-fights in Skyrim are that good. The Dawnguard guy, though...it's just a guy. It's the problem with normal sized humanoid boss-fights in general in games. No matter how much you build them up, they're just guys. Colonel Autumn is another bad example of this. It's actually surprising that Legate Lanius *doesn't* feel like thatm honestly, but General Oliver also has the same problem.

@@roguishpaladin not really given that said humanoid npcs can be incredibly powerful as mods like revenge of the enemies prove as in getting my ass beaten by red eagle

I can stand when someone spoils my spoilers for me, either.

You are not. Then again the fact that this spoiler list exists is the reason I prefer the ox lists over all other videogaming list videos out there. It's a canundrum.

@@Knopey I like the list because if I’ve played the game I can guess at what’s on there. I imagine it’d be helpful if I cared about spoilers too.

Marauder shield*

@@darkhope97 Marauder Shields and the Three Husketeers.

@@szklanylabirynt151 Good Lord, I had deleted that sequence from my mind. Why'd you have to remind me?

@@darkhope97 That thing has killed me way too many times

This was gonna be my comment if somebody else didn't beat me to it.

The arkham knight battle was okay in my opinion, especially since earlier (or maybe later) you fought him in a modified predator situation. The deathstroke fight is what really pisseed me off.

It's a real shame, especially since Arkham City and Origins had some great boss fights

@@adamnielson42 That predator encounter was good, that drill bit though....

Deathstroke was the worst in my case, I don't know how I did it, but I didn't even fight the guy, he just threw himself into the river, both in the first run and in the new game+ run, then, his car glitches and he jumps out of it and you get a dissapointing cutscene. I liked the game, but that boss was the worst. The Dark Knight wasn't that bad, but Jason's whining ruined the mood.

@Jmt1000 you and me both.

Rewound to see it and it didn't disappoint

It’s such an iconic part of the game I honestly forgive the shitty boss fight

It was kinda of the point. Mysterio even in the cartoon was hilariously weak. This was an intentional joke

I haven't played that game in ages. Isn't the "fight" just knocking him out in one hit in a convenience store?

@@ian7064 lol yes!! And as the fight is building up the game makes this big show of giving him a huge health bar.

@@The_GlitchWitch I love talking about Mysterio losing after the nonsense game show he makes you participate in. Also swinging on UFOS to the Statue of Liberty..

First time that happened I was so mad. I was going to listen to the monologue for the first time and do a cool disarm, but he falls off the ledge even if you shoot his stupid old hand lol

What's worse is that Reaver insults you if you don't shoot him. "And I thought he'd never shut up! Oh, I'm sorry. Did you want to kill him?" Yes!

I think a part of that was the point though. No matter how hard he tried, Lucien was just an ordinary man whose grief led to madness and greed. In the end all that's left is a pathetic bitter old man, an epic battle would have defied the point.

I thought the worst part was that you weren't allowed to shoot Reaper.

I wouldn't necessarily call it an anticlimax as far as the narrative goes, just not very interesting to play through. That being said, it doesn't ruin the ending by any means, and the cutscene that follows is more than worth the slightly boring barrier to entry.

Yeah, that fight may have been simplistic, but it was at least a spectacle and fun to play. I thought the Mass Effect entry would be Kai Leng from 3, who I shot twice in the head with my sniper rifle.

Wait, there's actually a fight? I thought you just shot the Cain and it died.

@@FelisImpurratorlol. If you hit the right spot it only takes one shot of the Cain to finish the fight. I managed to kill it in the first how many ever seconds it takes to charge up the cain. Edit: I forgot about the part where you have to shoot the tunes. You can only one shot it with the cain after that part.

To be honest, how much interesting you can make a boss fight in a shooting game?

They've been doing videos back in the studio (and in the chair) for months now, thankfully. I imagine this one doesn't feature Jane and Mike in the chair because it's something they put together over the holiday break, and Andy was the only one who had already filmed his footage.

@@samtaholo Oh, ok. good to know 🥰👍

Hm

The headless are so annoying to deal with. It's been a while since I've played but I remember fleeing (or rather dying) when I first encountered them, only to hunt them all down once I figured out how to kill them. Even then, they are annoying to deal with. I honestly don't remember how I feel about the mist noble. There are a couple of bosses that I remember well.

Can't believe the only decent boss fights in the game come from side quests

I definitely agree on the point. When it came to the story, the atmoshpere, and the gameplay, Arkham Knight was so much fun. But when it came to some of the boss battles, I said to myself, "Is that it?" The Deathstroke boss battle pissed me off the most. If I recall correctly, in the comics he is a master tactician who is always 7 steps ahead of his enemy, but in Arkham Knight, his boss battle was just a game of hide and seek. Step 1: Hide Step 2: Shoot his tank Step 3: Run away Step 4: Go back to step 1 And that was it. One of the most stupid ways to fight and beat a "master tactician."

@@pihermit7724 yer it was awful. The worst part for me was it looked like after the tank battle you were going to settle it in good old fashioned fisticuffs then you drop him quickly in a non interactive sequence….after spending ages clearing his camps. 😢

And now a few years later we have suicide kill The J U S T I C E League and Oakham is Batman was officially killed by Harley Quinn

Hey, villains need vacations too, man! It just so happened that both parties were in the same place at the same time!

And then reload save and do it differently, for his armor

I did that to the Blades. Even though they couldn't die.

I crafted a set of swords sword that did thousands of damage. He dies in two hits. In fact, everything does. Except Draugr Death Overlords for some reason, who are infinitely more pesky opponents than anything else the game throws at you (including Miraak).

They do have AI in the Mass Effect universe. Maybe it's too easy to deep fake camera footage?

I think they actually do have them. I'm pretty sure in ME2, while talking to the council, Anderson mentions that they've seen the recordings of shepherds conversation with Sovereign. The problem was that there wasn't enough hard evidence to prove that sovereign was an AI. That whole conversation could easily have been delivered by a simple VI built by Saren.

reminds me of something i read about in one of the "wing commander" games: you repeatedly encounter mysterious stealthy enemy ships, and EVERY time, your Flight Recorder malfunctions...

They had video and recordings. Plot just got in the way of common sense when it came to the council and the writers used them to ensure Shepard and crew had no real support other than Hackett sending in cleanup crews once Shepard was done.

@@shinzero0271 It's not about the "plot". It's about the Council thinking with usual politics-level common sense, which is revealed in the Citadel DLC in the Archives. They believed Shepard completely but decided to bury it to avoid galaxywide panic. Preparations were made, especially in the Turian Hierarchy, but that was just grossly too little too late. Also, we need to remember that it was too late from the start - by the time of Mass Effect, two years prior to ME2, the harvest cycle reached its expiry date so to speak. The harvest was supposed to take place right then and there but it was thwarted, along with the Citadel relay being cut off for the Reapers. So, there was an illusion that some time was bought, when in reality... there simply wasn't enough time to properly prepare and reveal anything to the public.

TFW past minute design changes are made

General Scales was my first thought too

Agreed completely. The pirate miniboss was actually better and harder than the actual boss. The only worse obe would be later stages of the imprisioned. It would be so cool if it wasn't for the toes and fingers.

@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor I think I've blanked the imprisoned from my mind, the repeated fights just make it really dull.

@@Actuallyadogperson Yeah. The last one is sort of cool but it's just so repetitive.

Aaaah the wasted potential...

While I may not know much about Hush, I didn't completely hate that fight against him, only because Batman is such a badass, but it genuinely should have been more of a fight against him, although I did like seeing Lucius smashing something against Hush's face, before Batman grabs him, and slams him through his desk. Looked and sounded cooler than the actual "fight", and should've been HOW the fight ends, not how the fight went! Sure, everyone knows Bats is a badass and the World's Greatest Detective, but that wasn't a fight. That was Batman punching Hush in the gut, Lucius slamming a jar or something against his face, before Batman combo's him up in the air, and slams him back down through directly through his desk. Impressive to see and hear about, definitely, but I think if they'd put more effort into Arkham Knight, they could've made it work. Definitely. Not that Arkham Knight is a bad game, just not as good as Arkham City or Arkham Asylum, or even as good as Arkham Origins. Roger Craig-Smith's portrayal of the Dark Knight was better than I expected, and Troy Baker's portrayal of The Joker was also pretty good(obviously, nobody can top Mark Hamill's voice, but Troy Baker did ok). Fun Fact: Roger Craig Smith is also the current voices of both Sonic the Hedgehog, and Chris Redfield(from the Resident Evil series). Sorry if this went on too long though, dude. Also, I completely agree, the fight against Hush is literally nothing at all. Maybe it's supposed to symbolize how Hush has nothing himself?

@@shawnfields2369 not a problem, I’m probably as hype on the Arkham games as you are. And yeah, Chris Batfield was kinda odd but very fun! I think I like Knight’s combat the best, and I don’t even mind the batmobile that much, but City had the best pacing, world, story, all that Jazz for me. And yeah, one of Hush’s things is that… he kinda doesn’t have one. He’s a plastic surgeon and a tactician, but like…. No real identity of his own

@@thechevyferrari9559 Hey, thanks anyways, dude. Batman has been my favorite DC superhero ever since the cartoon days, which was when he was played by Kevin Conroy, or Eric from Boy Meets World(for Batman Beyond), but they always did a good job. I haven't seen a Batman portrayal that disappointed me personally, since the 90s Batman & Robin, but even then, everyone's apologized for it, so it's not a big deal. I didn't even hate Ben Affleck as Batman, and I've never liked Affleck either. But something about seeing him in Batman V Superman, or even the 2017 Justice League movies didn't disappoint me at all. Even though everyone and their grandma hated both movies, hey, that's perfectly understandable. Nobody can top the Batman from the 90s, or even the late Adam West's performance as the Dark Knight, or especially Christian Bale's Batman, despite the corny deep voice thing he was doing, his performance was the best live action Batman we'd ever seen, and his movies also had the BEST Commisoner Gordon ever, and best take on Alfred, and Lucius Fox also, as well as the best live action Joker(until 2019 with Joaquin Phoenix), and the best Two-Face as well. But they also had the worst Bane. It was so bad, I can't even remember HOW bad it was. But the cartoons are the only time I've seen Bane done right, and maybe the Injustice games, but I haven't read the comics, unfortunately. It's not like I don't feel like it, I just prefer the cartoons, games and movies. But I don't hate the comics though. The Joker has always been my favorite Batman villain, though. And I'm hoping Robert Pattinson will live up to The Dark Knight's legacy, because the trailers make his portrayal look pretty cool so far. Yeah, I get it, Dr. Thomas Elliot, a plastic surgeon who has no identity, so he goes around, cutting people's faces off with his precise surgery skills, and attaches their faces to his own, like he's Leatherface or something. Creepy... he likes to go around, pretending to be other people, trying to be them, imitate them, but he especially HATES Bruce Wayne and his family, because he's rich. He's jealous of Bruce and wants his money, because Hush feels like; his family going bankrupt was Wayne's fault, and wants the entire Wayne family's fortune. His big plan was to commit insurance fraud, and totally make everyone believe Bruce Wayne is Batman(when everybody knows he's totally NOT!), but seeing as how if people knew who Batman truly was, that would take away the fear the bad guys feel whenever they know Batman's after them, trying to stop them. So, Hush forcing Batman's hand to try and show his face, isn't a bad plan, just poorly executed. Hush as a villain, still sucked here though. So much buildup... just to see Bats slamming Hush through his desk, beating him in about...10 seconds. Looked cool though.

@@shawnfields2369 Hehehe, yeah no, I cannot pick a bad Batman portrayal, and I’m very hyped for Pattinson’s attempt. (The Lighthouse is both cinematic brilliance and a complete meme of a movie, no hyperbole). Yeah, Hush’s big thing was Thomas Elliot and Bruce Wayne were childhood best friends, but when the Wayne’s died and Bruce inherited all their money, Tommy wanted that too, cut the brakes on the car, failed to kill his mom, and ended up losing all of their family’s fortune on paying for her health care, so it’s a big ol jealousy thing towards Bruce Wayne. And he’s a big brain chess guy too, sortof Riddler but without the flamboyancy. I really recommend the original Jeph Loeb story HUSH, people like to hate on it now cause whatever, but it’s just a genuinely fun story. I’m also very excited we’re getting a dark riddler interpretation, that just sounds interesting.

Although having almost my entire team die the first time I got that far was good motivation to "do side stuff" lol

@@bustinarant I never understand rushers. Someone who 100%s gets more of the game than a rusher.

@@fireblade295 Because some games their 100% is you collecting useless thing for no reason, you can take The Witcher 3 as an example, you can do every side quest to kill a monster, only to get more useless money you don't need and what? their head?

@@petervandam6240 Thats a bad example because the side quests in the Witcher 3 are all pretty unique and remembered fondly. I don't always do everything in a Bioware game though other than befriending my party. Mass Effect 2 is the first time it's ever gone wrong because of that, other than killing everyone in an evil playthrough, ya know.

@@bustinarant Bad example? The Witcher 3 indeed has a lot of "unique" side quests but still most are just forgettable.

THIS! I had a harder time with the Test of Fear than I did going up against General Scales.

@@Gaaraloverr1 Same here! Testify!

Never heard of that game. Has anyone on the channel ever mentioned it?

I had way more fun with all the side quests tbh, I'd done everything by the time I reached the end

@@jprofio Same. I've done multiple runs in the original game logging 540 hours in it. I haven't played much of Re-Reckoning even though I did get that new Fatesworn expansion/DLC. Comes from basically having the game memorized at this point and also focusing on Bloodborne and DS3, lol. The side quests and all are varied enough that I never felt too bored by them. The final boss fights of each faction questline were all a bit tricky as well, except the Warsworn and Travelers ones. The boss fight for the Scholia Arcana faction is a right pain and even knowing it as well as I do I still hate that fight.

@@jprofio Yeah me too, there was so much to do that when I returned to the main quest I've sometimes forget what had happened prior.

That, and with endgame mastercrafted gear, it doesn't even take many attacks before the fight continues -I've gone and killed her in less than ten attacks before, even if you include the fateshift knockdown / finisher as an attack.

The threat of the floor disappearing beneath you during the fight and the looming worry of losing squadmates throughout that whole section makes it pretty memorable imo

Never tried after I first got it. Because every time I hit something, it killed me too

Agreed, at least there was a "boss" fight unlike ME3.

I find that a Widow rifle and the beam weapon makes it pretty manageable

If you keep all the mininukes in the game, you can have 2 for the last boss. Shoot twice, and that's it...

I was waiting for another harder phase after defeating him, then the credits started rolling and I was like "that was it?". Most lynels were harder that Ganon

@@matman000000 Yeah, I think Silver lynels might have more health than him, and by that point I had memorized the dodge timings I can beat them getting hit twice at most, while Ganon doesn’t even do that much when I fight him since he just dies

Ganon's only an actual threat in Master Mode. ...Where suddenly, him being invulnerable is really FUCKING annoying and lets him easily regen EVERYTHING you and the divine beasts have done throughout the fight. The only reason I didn't reload and instead continued the fight was, at that point, I thankfully knew that regen had its limits. But, once again, instead of an anti climax, you get the representation of everything wrong about the whole health regen aspect of master mode. So yeah. Still a fucking stupid fight.

Yeah seriously Dark Beast Ganon from Breath of the Wild is one of the worst final bosses in the Zelda universe only beaten by Lady Maud from Triforce Heroes ( I just have a big hatred for Lady Maud seriously WHY DOES SHE EVEN EXIST!!!!!)

HUUUUUUUUUHHHH MANEWAAAAAAAA *proceeds to be utterly unable to damage you*

Oh yeah thats a good one

Is _swing ball_ another name for tether ball?

@@valiroime Yes it is! In the UK we called it swing ball :)

One of my favourite moments in the game tbh xD But then you get to Grey Prince Zote and... Bretta has quite the imagination

Dude died from stairs but the boss after him was hard as hell

nice. I just cheesed my way through by abusing the multiclass system. A half-orc Sorcerer/Pale Master/Red Dragon Disciple. He had almost no magic, but his Strength, Dex, Con, and AC were through the absolute roof. Nearly invincible, able to wear heavy armor, swing a two handed great sword, and one hit kill most enemies without resorting to his finger of death Pale Master ability.

Deekin killed him for me in one round.

@@matsujonen Deekin needs his own stand alone game. It was cool that he had a cameo in NWN 2, but I wanted more :D

@@Kilthan2050 nice! You ever try doing a 4 levels of Bard to get the arcane spell casting you need for Pale Master? I don't know how many levels of Sorcerer you took, but if you had "no magic" I'm guessing not many lol, but having the bard song even at low level, is a decent boost to your attack rolls

Screw that. My characters just bought his name. The good or neutral ones sent him away, the evil ones...

Just how many Skyrim 'bosses' can be beaten by maxing out your stealth and crit hitting them with an arrow to the head?

100% agreed. Having someone who came from a family of thieves and could possibly have had their own family moves and have actually posed a threat to Sly in skill would have been soooooo fun. I don’t think we’ve ever gone against someone who has possibly equaled him in pure skill. But no, QTE. Well I guess that’s it.

Agree. He could be a mirror boss who fights just like you, using his stench for a stun, and change his style as you, due to the unstable time machine, visit every single place you had before.

Yeah. After Braska's Final Aeon, it's just cleaning up the mess. Much like the final Cloud/Sephiroth confrontation in FF7.

You must just be better at gaming than others. I struggled to make it through the dragon and Corypheus and felt incredibly happy when I overcame both.

I don't know man, I think the build up to the Saren boss fight and in Mass Effect 1 and the showdown itself was one of the best I've ever played. Especially making him regret his decision and kill himself, only to come back as a robot.

That's why I think that it wasn't a bad choice for Bioware to dispense with the boss fight at the end of Mass Effect 3

I still have the game 🤦‍♂️

@@BrotherMag I still love and play it 🤦‍♀️

Agreed, but it was unfortunately not really a boss fight, more colour filter choice 😁

mass effect 3 doesn't really have a boss its more just a multiple choice question but all choices are the same the ending equivalent of the fallout 4 dialogue wheel also mass effect 2 boss is fine its just that the nuke is ridiculously overpowered till the point cheesing bosses becomes rather easy that's nothing to do with the boss difficulty but bioware's balance even with it taking all ammo ammo is so easy too get by that the nuke just becomes stupidly broken honestly mass effect 2 would be better off without that particular weapon the black hole gun does more then enough damage already

I absolutely agree with you. ME2 final mission and boss fight made me feel like I was in a live action block buster movie! My heart was racing the entire time with excitement and anticipation. The epic music, story telling, worrying about your team and praying to all the great powers out there to keep your mates alive while you fight to save the very galaxy, and in the end face off a horror of a reaper which is blasting freaking giant lasers at you while collectors swarm you endlessly, then blow up the place to hell and watch how the team and shepard escape in an epic cutscene, see how the team survives because you took the time to bond them together, I say hands down one of the best end fights and conclusions I have seen and played. Bioware outdone themselves and I love them for that I just hope they could have kept the bar high just like that with ME3. Oh well😓

Agreed. It had elements of surprise and tension - because of the music! Without it, the ending would have very much felt a little lacklustre. It's not fairly comparable with other entries in this list.

Have to agree. It's a much more involved fight than ME3. Though Star Child wasn't really a boss. You don't even fight it. I think the last boss was actually Marauder Shields. Just a few well placed gun shots and he's down. Poor guy was just trying to save us from the real ending. Poor Marauder Shields. :(

You mean dark beast ganon.

Needs more "You Are Dead" song

I believe your hits do something in the first stage of it's transformation, when it slowly crawls towards you untill the house breakes and you fall out of it. I lost a few times at this stage and was sure that I wasn't supposed to shoot at this thing since it doesn't seem to do anything, but than guide suggested otherwise. I did some experimentation with my highest damage output weapons, and it went to the next phase, which is basically an interactive cutscene

They were more hoping for the shock value because you thought that she was just a harmless old lady

@@brycethebattlephoenix3720 I don't think you would normally consider anything harmless on this game, and she was particularly scary with her sudden appearances and disappearances throughout the game

That totally shattered my excitement, because I really like fighting giant mechas. But I think it cements the idea that you’re not fighting wonderland, but the corruption instead. The only traditional boss fight in the game is the one at the end, the source of all the bad stuff you went through

I agree that is a very anticlimactic fight for sure.

That was the whole point though! Critically, it was a great scene. You find him, full intent on revenge and then when you get it's just... Empty. All there is to show for it is your dead friends. It was great.

I mean, it makes sense when you consider that choosing to chase Killbane was clearly the wrong choice in a franchise that has always been about loyalty to friends. The whole game's storyline is getting revenge for the unexpected loss of a friend while the Saints were just dicking around.

@@shinzero0271 True, that is a good point.

Yu Yevon was the first thing that came to mind when thinking of "disappointing boss fights". The second being Brahman from SMTDDS2, but in that case, the setup was the disappointment more than the fight itself.

Yu Yevon wasn't meant to be viewed as the "final boss" though?

@@TheLadyLiddell thus the rest of my comment, i get it, but it doesn't mean i wasn't disappointed at the time. which i was.

@@SorasShadow1 I got the metaphor at the time so 🤷‍♀️

@@TheLadyLiddell good for you?? man idk what to tell you, people are allowed to feel complex emotions that include understanding the point and being disappointed at the same time.

To be fair, you do have a proper boss fight immediately before that, in the form of Nakayama's Frankenstein monster and Handsome Jack wannabe, Jackenstein. Only after you beat this very real boss, do you then get punked by Nakayama's "fight" where he is defeated by gravity and ineptitude. It's also hilarious, and probably the funniest part of that DLC.

To be fair, Nakayama was also a wimp and a coward, with a lot of his dialogue making him sound not only as such, but also making it sound like he was stalking Jack like an absolutely obsessed creep... Which he actually was according to the echos you find lying around

I feel like you missed the entire point lmao

That was pretty funny though. Plus after all that fighting, it was kind of a relief not to have to fight him.

I don't remember the Hades battle at all. Considering I remember damn near every other major moment in that game, probably a good indicator they fucked up.

@@ossiehalvorson7702 It was a hold-the-line action against waves of enemies using an admittedly rather fun shotgun-cannon, followed by climbing the tower and just having another Deathbringer fight.

If you don't use the Storm Ruler he's not as much of a pushover.

​@@HavocHounds1988 Based on the Skyrim dude in the video, bosses who get reduced to insignificance based on one relatively easy trick qualify even if you can get a more satisfying encounter by not using that trick.

@@matthewdean143 Yeah, I guess that is fair.

At least the final boss fight was satisfying.

It was more of a challenge to fight his goons throughout the mansion and grounds rather than shooting a boss who doesn't even have a gun

ME3 kinda has three disappointing boss fights, in a sense: Harbinger, built up for two games? Dodge lasers, but you fail anyways. Illusive Man? Dialogue and possibly a single button press. Which makes the actual final boss fight ... Marauder Shields.

Gotta admit the climb up rais' tower was more of the final boss, considering the games playstyle... But yeah, they kinda blew it by making rais a qte...

I genuinely don't remember fighting him at all lmao

now theres a game i havent heard in a long long time

Sounds like Operation C (Contra) for the original Game Boy. The boss is just a helpless blob in a tank. You stand and shoot it til it dies. Very unsatisfying to me. Wow! The Gradius brain dies on its own? That’s just… wow.

I never saw that as a boss fight; your only options are 'Push the buttons to execute Omnislash' or... don't.

A symbolic fight. It takes place within Cloud's mind as he destroys the Jenova cells within his body.

I dunno, Skyrim isn’t exactly stingy with the ol’ invisible walls

Adamantoise was such a slog.

I think you mean FFXV, FFXIV is the mmo. Ardyn wasn't too bad, sure it was easy, but it was more about being a thematic final fight than a tough one.

@@homerman76 Aha, autocorrect XD Yeah, I meant XV.

The original Witcher 3 ending was really upsetting to me at the time. I mean a lot of really important information wasn't really explained well or even at all, and in retrospect was probably an early symptom of the rushed, toxic development culture that sunk Cyberpunk 2077 (apparently the amount of cut content for Witcher 3 was massive). I spent the months leading up to the Witcher 3 launch imagining what kind of amazing ending it would have, only for a lot of it to come across as ass-pulls. The saddest thing is, it wouldn't have taken much more for the very end to be amazing. Book and game Spoilers: We know from the books that humans likely came to the world of the Witcher via spaceships, and that the at least some of the elves had an interstellar and intergalactic autocratic empire. Why not have the main cast go together to find the source of the White Frost, only to find themselves on a ruined, frozen earth. Eredin, having done research on the origins of the White Frost since it began to affect his homeworld, shows up and explains that in Earth's past, atmospheric nanomachines (possibly designed to block the sun to combat runaway warming, but this might be too on the nose) had multiplied out of control, forcing the humans of the past (and the ancestors of humans on the Continent) to flee Earth into space. The Conjunction would eventually bring them to Continent, but would also allow some stray nanomachines from the now-abandoned Earth to find there way across the worlds, where they propogated to threaten the multiverse. Eredin believes that the Witcher world should be less affected at the moment, and that he has shifted his goals from introducing Ciri's "time and space" gene back into his people's gene pool and instead wants to sacrifice Ciri to evacuate as many elves off his Frost-beseiged world onto the Witcher one if possible in the hopes that it will give them enough time to find a more permanent solution. Depending on different questline resolutions and who could make it to this last encounter, Geralt and co. can work out that it was exposure to the elven empire's dimensional traveling magic that supercharged the stray nanomachines after the Conjunction, and that every time an elven navigator opened a portal to physically let the Wild Hunt in, it actually contaminated the Witcher world with the nanoparticles themselves in addition to merely bringing physical cold, thus making Eredin's plan pointless. This would help Ciri realize that she needed to use traditional magic to permanently defeat the White Frost. Telling Eredin that he had screwed his own plan wouldn't necessarily prevent a final fight between him and Geralt, but could alter it. In the best ending, if Ciri had felt valued and cared for as a person to the point that she didn't fear making one mistake would ruin her life as things once has been, she would attempt to connect all worlds via a second Conjunction like she has in the books, but this time with the core cast of characters that had made it up until this point by her side. Sensing space and time being messed with, the unicorns show up in time to witness Eredin's defeat. With their help and the support of her true family, Ciri unseals her fire magic but retains control despite the reemergence of her Falka persona. Through the full use of her spacetime powers and with the help of several powerful magic users, Ciri successfully causes a second Conjunction to gather up the White Frost nanoparticles and then burns them to bits. Everyone teleports home. Cue the best epilogue where Ciri does literally anything else then become the head of a fascist slaver empire. Of course, if the player made different choices, the final battle might play out differently. This all might seem like a lot, but would only need to take the place of the Las few quests in the game and the new area (Frozen Earth) wouldn't need to be super large. It would however, tie up the themes of the series nicely, as the hubris and imperfections of both ancient humans and the elven wild hunt could be overcome, even just a little bit, to the hard-won connections between individuals if they were smart, got lucky, and worked to persist again and again despite a hostile world. Also, the game as it is all but gives magical nanoparticles as the cause of the White Frost in the few books you can find about them. Why not use that idea?

@@jellyfishjig that just sounds like bad fanfiction lol

@@aocgoomba8798 I know! I wrote it while procrastinating off the top of my head and got just a tad too involved lol. But my actual point is that using what we know of the White Frost, the elves, humanity's past, they could have shown us an actual ending that tied things together in some capacity instead of not really resolving or explaining half of the driving forces of the narrative. Also almost every individual component of what I described had happened before in the series or at least had some precedent. Even if I put those pieces together in a fanfiction-ish way, I think there is still something there. For example, not only is the White Frost described as probably being magical nanoparticles in-game, both the facts that the Wild Hunt is attempting to ferry its civilization over to the Witcher world to escape the Frost and that the Frost is ironically already becoming established in the Witcher world are also both established in-game via lore books and dialogue. It is also heavily implied that the Wild Hunt's portals have been exposing the Witcher world to the Frost, thereby (also ironically) speeding up it's own demise and making Eredin's plan, like those of many military dictators, somewhat self-defeating. There's other examples of micro or nano-sized things traveling between worlds, like when Ciri accidentally transported a flea carrying the Bubonic Plague from a past Earth timeline to the Witcher world in the books, where it spread and became known as the Catriona Plague (or however you spell it).

Yes, exactly! You don't even get to fight the illusive man. ME3's ending was a disappointment in so many areas :(

I also don't agree with the Skyrim entry. The fight is great as long as you don't take advantage of design flaw. So many boss fights in so many games can be easily won if you reach a specific area the boss can't reach or make them fall of an edge somehow