plus the music is incredible.
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Games with the worst final bosses
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plus the music is incredible.
The best part is how it's the same boss they had at the end of Opposing Force.
Apsjdbeosnsosnsjsnaos
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More like all Halo games.
Tartarus, Guilty Spark and Wardens Eternal.
I wouldn't count the Didact since he was never meant to be a boss fight, but Halo games just need to stop trying to make boss fights.
I've not played the first Borderlands but the end bosses of 2 and TPS were by far my least favourite parts of those games
My vote would be Tales of Graces f, but mainly because it's fresh in my mind (beat the game last week)
The end boss was one hell of a slog
TheChocoboCadet
Banned
Has Type 0 not been mentioned in this thread? The final boss starts out as a completely unwinnable boss fight and then transitions to a completely unlosable boss fight. That's it. It's like someone took the two worst ingredients of JRPG boss fights and mashed them together. And it's not like FFX either where the real final boss is actually the boss before it. There is no final boss in Type 0. Only an interactive cutscene designed to come across as a poorly designed boss fight.
That was the most baffling decision. The entire game is predicated on you building up your own power, destabilizing the opposition and augmenting your ghost spirit nonsense. There is a little bit of that towards the end, but the actual confrontation? Garbage. I hope this gets fixed in the sequel.
Rad Shadow
Banned
Fake Sephiroth was a pretty shitty final boss.
TheTeacher
Neo Member
Breath of the Wild. So much potential. Could have been the most epic fight in Zelda history. Red-maned Lynels are tougher than the Calamity itself.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Yep. Holy fuck was that ending bad. The game was good, but jesus that ending was bad.
This and Starfox Adventures.
Also Breath Of The Wilds final boss was very lacking which is weird considering how much the game builds towards it.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
I hated Fable 2 for a long time because of the sour taste that final boss left me.
For those who don't know
you spend the entire game recruiting a team to take down Lucian, and at the end either you or your marksman will just shoot him. There's no fight or anything.
Breath of the Wild is definitely a weak one, and feels incomplete - as if they ran out of time and didn't get to finish it. The second phase being a total cakewalk is one indication, like they had an idea and got a rough form of it working, but didn't have time to either refine it, complete it, or realize it's no good and trash it for something else.
The first phase could have been alot better too. Aside from it being the most bizarre-looking Ganon in the series, it would have been way cooler to have him appear more complete and powerful the more guardians you take down. That way if you rush him from the start, you're weaker, but so is he, while assisted by the corrupted guardians. Beat all the guardians first, and he comes out with a more complete recognizable appearance, stronger, and maybe even able to talk, but gets wounded by the guardians and has no aid.
Breath of the Wild's world is amazing, but the bosses and somewhat the dungeons took a clear backseat in development.
The first phase could have been alot better too. Aside from it being the most bizarre-looking Ganon in the series, it would have been way cooler to have him appear more complete and powerful the more guardians you take down. That way if you rush him from the start, you're weaker, but so is he, while assisted by the corrupted guardians. Beat all the guardians first, and he comes out with a more complete recognizable appearance, stronger, and maybe even able to talk, but gets wounded by the guardians and has no aid.
Breath of the Wild's world is amazing, but the bosses and somewhat the dungeons took a clear backseat in development.
Glendemonium
Member
Fallout 3, very anti climactic.
Saints Row 2 was just the dork who ran Ultor. Rather underwhelming, the three gang leaders were far more fun to fight.
Destiny vanilla. Glad they spiced things up with Taken King and Rise of Iron.
Dead Island Riptide: I could tell the game was running out of budget, but at least it was a crazy fight.
Saints Row 2 was just the dork who ran Ultor. Rather underwhelming, the three gang leaders were far more fun to fight.
Destiny vanilla. Glad they spiced things up with Taken King and Rise of Iron.
Dead Island Riptide: I could tell the game was running out of budget, but at least it was a crazy fight.
Parapraxis
Member
Shadow of Mordor.....my jaw dropped at how awful it was.
Ivellios
Member
This, i cant believe they made the final boss so boring
Quantum Break had a god awful boss battle that has a 1 hit KO move, an unskippable cutscene that plays before the fight and numerous enemies on the map that you have to run around the arena and pick your spots to win.
For good games though, Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time's final boss was such a bummer. Did not expect that to be such a letdown with the QTEs.
For good games though, Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time's final boss was such a bummer. Did not expect that to be such a letdown with the QTEs.
dickroach
Member
Bowser fights have never been great.
Mario 1: it's just like any other Bowser in the game
Mario 3: you just avoid him till he kills himself
Mario World: I liked it, but someone mentioned it in this thread so... hm. :\
Mario 64: It's just like the other Bowsers, but a bit longer
Mario Galaxy: it's just like the other Bowsers, but a bit longer
Mario Galaxy 2: it's just like the other Bowsers but a bit longer
Mario 3D World: cat Bowser
I don't really remember the NSMB games, but there's one where you beat the boss and then a GIANT MOTHERFUCKING BOWSER starts chasing you through a castle level. might have been the first one, cuz that had the mega mushroom.
ProgenitorCastle
Banned
Came here to say this...the final boss wasn't that grand or intimidating. And yea there were much better boss fights before that one...*wishes Salazar was the final boss instead*
Sir Ilpalazzo
Member
Quake - it doesn't even do anything, lol. Even Doom II's lame final boss was better.
The Evil Within - a letdown of a setpiece. I'm totally okay with games with intentionally weak or flashy final bosses if there's at least an actual "ultimate boss" just beforehand (like in Devil May Cry or Demon's Souls) but Evil Within's great third-person shooter combat just culminates in a miniboss fight.
There are definitely games with worse final bosses, but those games have excellent combat throughout, and TEW has fantastic bosses otherwise, so they both stand out for me.
The Evil Within - a letdown of a setpiece. I'm totally okay with games with intentionally weak or flashy final bosses if there's at least an actual "ultimate boss" just beforehand (like in Devil May Cry or Demon's Souls) but Evil Within's great third-person shooter combat just culminates in a miniboss fight.
There are definitely games with worse final bosses, but those games have excellent combat throughout, and TEW has fantastic bosses otherwise, so they both stand out for me.
Catphish
Member
The two that pop into mind for me are both related to Wolfenstein.
The last boss of Return to Castle Wolfenstein was the simplest I can remember, easily defeated by circle strafing, and the one from Wolfenstein: The Old Blood was so laughably WTF that it just shit on the entire experience.
Seriously, W:TOB was such an awesome game, and had me so enthralled, when I realized that fking thing was the culmination of the whole experience, all I could do was roll my eyes, and give a stiff bird to the tv.
Horseshit.
The last boss of Return to Castle Wolfenstein was the simplest I can remember, easily defeated by circle strafing, and the one from Wolfenstein: The Old Blood was so laughably WTF that it just shit on the entire experience.
Seriously, W:TOB was such an awesome game, and had me so enthralled, when I realized that fking thing was the culmination of the whole experience, all I could do was roll my eyes, and give a stiff bird to the tv.
Horseshit.
Gears of Wars 4 boss was a total letdown, he was very easy to beat and it almost feels like an QTE fight
Judgment was a letdown too if you consider the prologue as the end of the game, otherwise, the boss in the main campaign was very cool, and I will dare to say the best boss after raam
Judgment was a letdown too if you consider the prologue as the end of the game, otherwise, the boss in the main campaign was very cool, and I will dare to say the best boss after raam
This. I tried for a while and decided that my time was better spent elsewhere. I ended up just watching the ending on YouTube.
Gradius, practically the whole series...
If you haven't seen it ingame: That boss does literally nothing. You can destroy the emitters keeping it in place to kill it or just wait a bit and it will die on its own. When I first encountered such a boss in Parodius I thought it was broken.
Boombloxer
Member
Two stupidly easy & disappointing bosses from otherwise great games
Even the Lost World version was easy.
I had forgotten about the final boss until reading this, and yeah...considering the marathon of boss fights leading up to it, digging an org was pretty disappointing.
cyber_ninja
Member
It did not even feel like a final boss battle, i thought it was a mini boss before i enter the last area in the game. What a let down.
The last boss in Demons Souls was a joke as well.
spazchicken
Member
Uncharted.
It basically turns into Mike Tyson's Punch Out with guns at the end.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but they give no warning or training of it up to that point.
It basically turns into Mike Tyson's Punch Out with guns at the end.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but they give no warning or training of it up to that point.
Came in here thinking of this. Still the best post-Dreamcast Sonic though.
dragonzdogma
Member
Came for this + tatsunoko vs capcom included it as a final boss as well.
This is also correct. Gannon might be the easiest boss in the game, and the
"shoot arrows at glowing spots"
CaptainClaw
Member
As far as Shooters go anyway...
Fahzgoolin
Banned
BOTW might not be the "worst", but it was the most disappointing/underwhelming as of late.