Funny boss fights in games 

Hamish bard going "they are not dead, it´s all in my head" i actually laughed out loud. :D

I was taking a drink when Alan said "beating up a physically disabled Dark Lord General!" I nearly died!

I don't think the costume designs get talked about enough. They are phenomenal every single time.

I know these compilations are just ways to get me to rewatch the same videos but I don’t even care they’re still hilarious 😂

That walk of shame after (cough) 'defeating' the dark lord 😂😂

I'd almost forgotten how good Hamish is in these lol. Thanks.

Bruh, the necromancer one made me sad for the Zombie as soon he said I love you master

15:05 “LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE NO MATCH FOR SCHMERLOCK” This is a fantastic moment

Episodes: 0:00 Weak Spot 2:59 Difficulty Slider 6:35 The Bard 10:12 Nerfed Boss 12:32 Cannon Fodder 14:25 Scripted Loss 16:40 Necromancer 19:43 The Puzzle 22:21 Level Up 23:49 Kill Steal 26:03 Holy Nova 27:40 Meteor 30:36 Teamwork 32:25 Guard Exploit

Anyone else wonder what the dark lord would’ve been like on hard difficulty? 😆

The crew all have such good acting skills but when it comes to self-deprecating and overtly goofy powerful men roles, no one does it better than Hamish... I swear he would win an oscar if he made a movie career 😂 he's so damn good...

That scary boss turned nerfed party member brings up a few angry memories.

"Why am I hurt suddenly?" I feel that.

More skits of Hamish as a bard please 😂 he looks fantastic in that outfit

Production-value and acting is actually so high quality that you could make feature-film, love to see a full length fantasy-comedy by you guys! Excellent work!

12:37 this is probably my favorite VLDL skit of all time. It perfectly captures what I did on my last Skyrim run 😂 totaled up 9 followers... every time I loaded into a new area, I'd have to go back, then reload the area, just to get all of them wherever I was going, because I'd always be missing at least 1 or 2 🤣

Love how these guys understand gaming and add their own twist to perfection.

Rewatching the second short I now realize it was Rowan being the dark general when I'm so used to Ben being the Death Knight!

All skits are awesome, but "Difficulty Slider" may just be my most favorite VLDL skit of them all. Pure gold.

18:25 the Necromancer carrying Saruman’s staff is a nice touch

"You're not dead, it's all in my head" just might be one of the greatest lines ever!

Lowering the difficulty really does feel like a different boss fight

The Kill Steal reminds me of a case from City of Heroes where one player refused to join any of the teams fighting Lusca and once the giant octopus was finally defeating, he went around calling out on broadcast that he had soloed Lusca.... not that that changed the reward he got... but still very eye roll inducing. Given there were literally 24+ other players involved in the same fight. At least three whole full-sized teams.

I love Shmirlock SO much and I would love to see more of him. Hamish nailed it with that dude! Edit: Who am I kidding? Hamish ALWAYS nails it.

Schmerlock the high warlock of arakite has the ability to switch that damage taken between him and his opponent, this of course means he allows you to damage him because it’s all a part of his plan. When you fight him for real you have to first destroy the hidden away artifact that allows him to use this ability causing him to fight you at a portion of his potential, and I say a portion as he is still canonically rusty as his artifact has caused him to not have to fight anything properly for many years. Don’t sleep on Schmerlock.

for the short when he turns down the difficulty, he was only at mid difficulty and the downgrade was enormous so i'd be afraid to see what the hardest difficulty was >.

If the bard doesn't make them all at least 33% stronger, it would be more efficient to just replace him with another fighter.

If there is a better ineffectual villain anywhere than Hamish, I'd ride out to vanquish them. I should also add he is the best Souls NPC ever too!

I had a recent scripted loss I absolutely despised. It was in Digimon Survive in the Harmony route, the enemy I fought I had done good leveling up my party and was wiping the floor with the guy and suddenly my entire team was on the ground, and he was like "This is what you get for attacking me" and I was "But I was wiping the floor with you" O.O

31:20 Adam lvled up..he knows more this “holy nova” now

4 minutes and 2 seconds into the video. Adam's screaming every time he dies to the dark Lord general. That was me the other night in bloodborne playing the hunter's nightmare 😂

23:51 Awesome Warcraft 3 adaption! :)

Completely forgot that Bonecaller was the one scared of undead. And Greg laughing himself half dead about him. That sets an interesting background for the current place in the DnD campaign 😁

The "Summoning the Meteor" scene was actually a pretty epic scene if it went the way they thought it was gonna go, the sacrifice woulda been pretty Nobel.

The bard is still one of my favorite skits “You’re not dead it’s in my head” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Amazing skits! It's hard to highlight only one but "difficulty slider" is incredibly great. And also I want to see the vomiting necromancer again 😆

"I'm allowing you to go free. It's your lucky day." That's funny right there!

30:36 This is getting me one of my awesome ff14 memories. I was a reaper and the other teammates were white mage and red mage. At the last boss, a tank died and I immediately got aggro. White mage immediately tried to keep me alive and red mage resurrected a tank. We finished the game and before leaving, we all bowed to each other. That felt good.

There are two opposite ends of scripted losses. You have to beat a highly difficult boss in order to lose, an actual loss in the fight means game over. The other end, the game expects you to lose, and that's fine, but if you win they get reinforcements to win, and drop great loot for your achievement.

Poor bosses got bullied 😅

5:45 I want to see what that boss fight would look like on hard

I could watch these day after day no matter rather I’ve seen it 10 times I still laugh

"Cannon Fodder"... Pure Genius🙌🧠

32:04 and this is why individual loot drops are the best way to do it, instead of everyone getting access to a single cache of loot, causes so much fights. When you get your own loot cache there’s no fighting for stuff, if someone got lucky then that’s nice, but yoi don’t fight over it

Just watched the 19 minute mark with bone caller and realized….I hope his persona of gaging and being squeamish to the undead carries over to the current viva dnd session!!!!😂😂😂 PLEASE ROB!!! I NEED THIS!!!

Hamish as an incompetent wizard is totally perfect , 😁😁😍😍😁😁😍😍😁😁😍😍

11:47 That one KILLED me :D I literally spit my beverage over the keyboard. Soooo good!

These guy’s are like Monty python’s movies. There videos are so well done, they should make their own movies.

So many years ago, in Everquest, you knew you were something when you could solo a town guard. Those folks were TOUGH!

I love how piling a crap ton of armor on Alan triggers "over acting mode" every time...well, except when it's Izack

How did I not catch Hamish's "Schmerlock the high warlock" 🤣

Always excellent skits

The one with Firelord Far'Zel makes me laugh the hardest.

Words cannot express how much I love this group of people, especially Hamish.

The "teamwork" skit is my favorite. The music and choreography was very well done! And of course, the humor!

Whats funny about the Dark Lord General fight was that it was actuslly a bug within the game, where the hard and normal setting for him was switched. If You upped the difficulty slider to Hard, you would actually be fighting the Normal difficulty variant instead. I remember trying to figure it out my self. Nit sure if it was patched or not.

Scripted losses after you stun-lock or parry-spam a boss always got me laughing, ah yes and kill-steals... I know why I prefer the majority damage version where the one that did the most damage gets it while the last-hit just gets an exp bonus or some such.

That last one reminds me of Asheron's from 20 years ago. High level players go to starter towns, let a bunny kill them, leveling the bunny hugely. Then sit back and watch noob player corpses pile up in front of said bunny.

6:25 oh man I wish difficulty sliders worked like this!!! That would be fucking hilarious!!!

It would be hilarious if a game actually shamed you for sliding it down to low difficulty like this. 😂

I want Adam yelling "HOLY NOVA" as my phone's ringtone

That bard should bring a bigger guitar that can be slammed and beat the boss while buffing his allies.

The part where Ben gets his kill stolen from him by and Archer, actually ticked me off because it broke back memories of other people actually doing stuff like that.. lol

Cannon Fodder: There's nothing quite like being able to call on a few D-Classes from the SCP, huh? Kill Steal: Ben - "Please tell me that this is a PvP game...Please..." Well, you don't hear it but you know he's thinking it.

Watching this really makes me hope Adam is Bonecaller for the dnd series

"Beating up a physically disabled Dark Lord General!" LOL

22:11 that witcher 3 quest completion sound 😂

The bard is by far the funniest one. Hamish just kills it! Can't stop laughing! 🤣🤣😂😂 Thanks guys, I really needed that. 😄

12:00 all that buildup for a firework

9:54 When one person created a theif or a bard character, you knew he would be less help than the 1 hitpoint magicuser that could at least cast 1 magic missile and toss darts.

I haven't seen the Cannon Fodder one before. Alan, Adam, Rowan, and Hamish made me hurt myself from laughing with their battle cries.

Always love the voice filter thingy they use to make them sound more menacing .

Back in the early Everquest years Bards were known to have been able to play multiple songs at the same time, so much that an experienced player could have four songs running at the same time. The art of doing this was known as "Twisting".

Do you really think I would put all of my Life Force into one singular orb?" Reminds me of the movie Heavy Metal, the old one from the 80s (or something) with the green orb.

The second video : That's how difficulty settings should be visually represented in games!

I love these types of sketches the most in the VLDL catalogue. Keep up the great work guys!

Best channel i followed in the past 3 years. Allways entertaining, great humor, alot of different types of videos (bored series are my favourite), and very creative. 💯 Much Love from Vienna 🇦🇹 ♥️

That scripted loss hurts... sister was playing one of the older Star Wars rpgs and almost beat this main Sith baddie in one of these "run around and survive before you can escape" kind of areas... straight up two-shot the Sith, and proceeded to wait around and see if they would still trigger the cutscene despite being one shot away from dying... seems they still had to run though, which was rather funny. It's always great when a game gives you something in exchange for beating a powerful character before their end-game boss fights such as how if you successfully defend your master in the opening of Sekiro you get a different cutscene where the enemy falls seemingly dead before coming up from behind to still take your arm.

I had sort of hoped that bow-up/bow-down bit would last the remaining 30 minutes.

I could only imagine Hamish and Byron being a terrible duo of bumbling evil that failed their way up.

Guard Rowan yeeting Adam with his sword is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, omg

Cannon Fodder: I have used that technique so many times especially with guards that stand near city gates.

They're all so good, it's hard to pick a favorite. Cannon Fodder or Scripted Loss? No, it's Necromancer!

Trying to hold a straight face in front of Hamish.

The last clip when Rowan says super fast: " VIOLENCE IS A CRIME PUNISHABLE BY DEATH" is the best 😆😆😆

Alan’s face after Rowan goes down is priceless

For a second I was like, hold on they've done this already how is this new? Then I realized it was another compilation.

everyone makes fun of the bard because the concept of "magic music" sound lame or whatever, but in literally every game I have played with a bard, they are OP as hell! Also in D&D writing a backstory for a bard is really fun!

I think the "teamwork" battle was pretty dramatic & high quality. (and the punchline was great too) Also, who doesn't love the look on his face after inadvertently creating "SUPER guard"? LOL

Noticed Adam using Saruman's staff from the Lord of The Rings as the necromancer lol nice

The first had me dying just like the rest

so when are you guys getting a netflix show? because this adventurers fighting evil while breaking the fourth wall with NPCs is the shiiiit

Kill Steal had great prosthetics! That mask and blending was top notch

When you lower the difficulty for a tough fight, remember to raise it again before getting your rewards. That way you don't have to face them on the lower setting.

If you're getting 1 shot by a boss, chances are you're probably not meant to fight them. Hell, even in souls games bosses don't one shot

25:00 I mean, honestly, it’s his fault for having all that restraint and not killing the puny archer himself

6:07 I'm going to always think of this whenever I'm asked about difficulty in a game. You have defeated Sick and Feabled Dark Lord General ❤❤❤😂

The production quality of these is on point!

we need a short movie back grounding the genesis of THE GOLDEN SKULL OF RAHUL

I would love to see you guys do a monster, hunter world, or Iceborne video game role-play where the hunting horn replaces the bard and can buff and heal the party and do great amounts of physical damage