Bizarrely Easy Boss Fights

[silver wolf009]

The human reaper thingymajig from ME2.

This. I just vaguely pointed my gun at it. I didn't even shoot, I just said "Bang" and it died.

I had that Nuke heavy weapon equipped at the time. Battle started and I immediately wiped out like half of the thing's health. Then about three minutes later it was dead.

"Wut?"

Well in his defense, you did jump him when he wasn't even out of the proverbial womb or even done... But yeah, he was easy.

Also, real smart. Build the giant death baby over a huge chasm. Really. Can't possibly backfire.

Wanna put spikes at the bottom of it too? You know, for bats that fall from the ceiling.

OT: I'm going to go with the two Praetorians you fight in the final level of the Marine Campaign. They WOULD be hard, if you weren't around 700 yards away, with a high powered, armor piercing sniper rifle. It's a matter of distance that decides some battles.

 

[RJ 17]

The first time you fight the Elemental Fiend of Water in Final Fantasy 2 (4)...one blast from Tellah's Lit 3 spell and he's dead.

 

[likalaruku]

Gawd, I don't remember what it was. All I remember was a difficult pre-boss battle & then the actual boss going down in 3 hits. I was so underwhelmed I can't even remember what game it was.

 

[Cavan]

You had enough money to sustain Yojimbo? You can blow your entire purse on him and he still might not do something cool

If you were particularly cheap, you could always just save and give him some meaningless small amount of gil(at the point where you're getting thousands and thousands just for winning any fight). A fair amount of the time he'd still do his stupid crazy moves, if not..reload and repeat. Also the most you use him and get him to do attacks, the more often he'll perform better attacks.

 

[Fasckira]

Too many games to list. Most recent game I completed was Lollipop Chainsaw and it practically spoon feeds you the entire way.

 

[Dark Prophet]

Atlas at the end of BioShock, my reliance on the chemical thrower and especially on electric gel totally broke that boss fight for me.
Almost every boss in Borderlands and in Borderlands 2 for that matter because I did every quest possible and was usually several levels higher.

 

[FalloutJack]

Persona 3...

Hello, Satan!
Hello, Lucifer!

Hello, Apocalypse...
Hello, Victory Cry...

Goodbye, bosses!
Goodbye, Death!
Goodbye, Nyx!
Goodbye, everything in the Tartarus basement!

(Seriously, when I fought Nyx as he went through his Arcana phases, I breezed through them all and then got him to Death, where he's suppose to be actually hard...then hit him with a Fusion Spell and dead.)

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

You had enough money to sustain Yojimbo? You can blow your entire purse on him and he still might not do something cool

If you were particularly cheap, you could always just save and give him some meaningless small amount of gil(at the point where you're getting thousands and thousands just for winning any fight). A fair amount of the time he'd still do his stupid crazy moves, if not..reload and repeat. Also the most you use him and get him to do attacks, the more often he'll perform better attacks.

You quoted the wrong person with your snip.

 

[Raika]

The final boss of Space Marine. The engagement before the boss fight was really damn hard(you versus... six chaos marines?), but the fight itself? Seriously, it was a big quick-time event where a space marine captain punches a demon prince in the face until he explodes.

What the fuck.

I was actually going to mention Nemeroth as well. As someone who thought Space Marine was one of the best games of 2011(and easily the most underrated aside from the not-really-that-bad Duke Nukem Forever), the final boss fight, which to me amounted to a not-as-good version of the Meta Ridley showdown from Metroid Prime 3(a game I despise), was immensely disappointing, especially after how much fun the Ork Warboss was to kill.

"But I am finished with you, Ork."


Other notable examples for me include many of the bosses from the Final Fantasy series, most notably Seymour Omnis and Braska's Final Aeon from Final Fantasy X and several of the later bosses in Final Fantasy XIII. Orphan was a ***** and a half, though. Holy moly.

 

[EeviStev]

This actually skirts the definition of "boss".

Recoil on PC. The boss is a computer-brain thing. You shoot a thing to expose the brain, then shoot the brain a bunch. It doesn't attack you or respond in any way except die after you've shot all of it's surface area. Then you win the game.

For serious.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Volf from Ninja Gaiden Sigma, would have taken me more time in-game to kill the minions he killed in the preceeding cutscene. And Exusia from Armored Core V, pitifully easy with dual rifles, dual shotguns, dual autocannons, dual sniper rifles, etc. The only reason I take damage at all sometimes when fighting it is a nigh-unavoidable pulse bomb-run which I have no idea what I'm meant to do against. I mention this because sometimes it isn't a problem, because I can kill Exusia before it even starts flying. Also the OP, I tried doing it legit and then realised Typhoon would probably make short work.

 

[Naeras]

I was actually going to mention Nemeroth as well. As someone who thought Space Marine was one of the best games of 2011(and easily the most underrated aside from the not-really-that-bad Duke Nukem Forever), the final boss fight, which to me amounted to a not-as-good version of the Meta Ridley showdown from Metroid Prime 3(a game I despise), was immensely disappointing, especially after how much fun the Ork Warboss was to kill.

"But I am finished with you, Ork."

I honestly think the entire game slowly went downhill after killing Grimskull. Chaos Marines and bloodletters just aren't as fun to kill as orks. The game was at its best when you litrally were a merciless killing machine armed with a chainsaw and an automatic rocket launcher that massacred entire hordes, and that feeling diminishes when most of your enemies are as powerful as you are. Not enough blood for the blood god

Still a fun game though.

 

[mitchell271]

I did a quick skim and as far as I saw nobody mentioned Bioshock! Honestly, that last boss fight, besides being an anomaly in that game, was piss easy for me. And hell, everyone says that whole game is easy, but that just didn't ring true for me, so the fact I didn't fear death at all at the end was something else.

Try playing with the Vita-Chambers turned off. The game is much, much harder and creepier that way.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Anybody remember Lucien from Fable 2? If not than

Spoiler: SPOILER WARNING

Thank you Reaver, for ending the game for me.

Molyneux really dropped the ball with the Fable series' lack of pacing. He's so focused on creating what he assumes is an emotional experience that any challenge goes right out the window. The first time around, I wasn't expecting Reaver to shoot. I just did the deed. Second playthrough had me let Lucien prattle on.

It does create a difference in tone, but beyond that? Weaksauce.

Honestly, though, one of the most disappointingly easy boss fights I've had to contend with is probably Sebastian LaCroix, from Bloodlines. By the time the endgame rolls around, the Withering's more or less turned your wee little fledgling into a demigod. You're not one month into your unlife and you can kick the shit out of a guy who's at least two centuries old.

His Sheriff, though, is tougher. Not because it's any harder, but because guns in Bloodlines are utterly worthless on anything other than the kine.

 

[Latinidiot]

So I was playing through Deus Ex: Human Revolution recently and...

Spoiler

the second boss fight, the one that takes place in Eliza's core room was really, really easy. I didn't grab the heavy rifle before going in, I didn't use my guns to electrocute the ground, I just used my Typhoon on her twice. That's it! That killed her! It was really weird because combat in the game is normally very challenging, especially if you sank all your upgrade points into stealth and hacking.

So, has anyone else played a game with a oddly easy boss fight?

try defeating her WITHOUT typhoon.

This ,my first playthrough on hard i didn't know about typhoon . So much rage .

OT: so following the OPs example . Final fantasy 8 , Zombie president , phoenix down , win .

I finished HR without much trouble, without the typhoon? And in the core room you fight the invisible one right? I took that one out without too much trouble.

My easiest boss battles were in Bioshock one and two.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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try defeating her WITHOUT typhoon.

I did, she was laughable. All of the boss fights in that game were bloody weird though.

I'd say the final boss in Dark Souls too it's just like one dude with a sword :/

 

[Russirishican]

Every boss in the Pokemon series except for the last few ones. (8th and maybe 7th gym leaders and the elite four) There were a couple exceptions, Watson was a very hard battle if you didn't evolve Mudkip, and every single boss in Pokemon Colosseum was incredibly difficult, the final boss in particular was a lot harder than it should have been.

 

[Ryotknife]

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try defeating her WITHOUT typhoon.

I did, she was laughable. All of the boss fights in that game were bloody weird though.

I'd say the final boss in Dark Souls too it's just like one dude with a sword :/

Bah, i hated her. she is still one of the most difficult bosses ive ever faced due to my stealth/non lethal builds that i play as.

I didnt have typhoon or electic immunity. took me hours upon hours to beat her (cant get in a gunfight as she kills near instantly with smgs, cant electrify the floor as it quickly kills you). The only way ive ever beaten her (on two different playthroughs) was to liter the entire area with mines and pop out with my heavy rifle whenever she was stunned (which still only worked like 10% of the time).

Barret was easy, just lob barrels at him like Donkey Kong. Third boss i beat on my first try with just cover and gunning.

but yea, first playthrough after 30 tries to beat her I restarted my entire game and went with a slightly more offensive build as i had no weapons or abilities that worked well against her. Weigraff from Final Fantasy Tactics has nothing on her.........

yea, i could have gone with electric immunity or typhoon to make the fight super easy, but that seems like cheating.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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It's a really odd game your ability choices can really effect how stuff goes down for better or worse. It's why the boss fights really didn't fit into that game. I heard they were like pasted on afterwards by another company to please the publishers -.- which explains why they aren't balanced at all.