"I thought you were bigger..." Anticlimatic Bosses

[Ranooth]

Fallout 3

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Don't get me wrong i freekin' loved the end with the brotherhood, i was just wishing some huge enclave robot thing would come crashing in giving me a chance to fat man it to death

 

[the_tramp]

Most people say that FFX-2 has an anticlimactic ending, but I really don't believe it, because the whole 3 part vegnagun battle makes up for it, INCLUDING the parts in between battles.

I didn't find FFX-2 to have an anti-climatic ending because I personally did not feel that it was building anything up to have a climax. The whole game disappointed me and it felt more like 50 mini-games built within the FFX world. There was a side story about trying to investigate why merchant carts were being highjacked or something... didn't it turn out to be Rikku or something stupid like that!?

 

[Signa]

I remember being totally underwhelmed at the end boss of the first Max Payne. It was probably the first end boss I played that just didn't fight back while I didn't shoot her either. In the end, I'm glad I didn't have to fight her, because it just made the ending so much cooler by not being all typical and having some massive epic fight to end the game with. Instead, the heavily story driven game was ended with more story. It was flawless.

 

[Amnestic]

Fable 2

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"What? I'm supposed to shoot him or something?" *bam* "Okay..." I kept waiting for him to turn into a dragon or gain immense power from the three heroes. Anything would have been preferable. Then when the blind lady (I forget her name) ominously said that the tower was hers now, I figured she would be the big boss fight. Guess we'll have to wait for an expansion pack.

Spoiler: Response

I guess you missed the part where you use the music box to drain all the powers he got off the other three Heroes? You know, the giant beam of light that went into it? The final boss fight was the Great Shard. Everything after that was Epilogue. You drained all of Lucien's powers with the box. He was just a normal old man while he was giving his speech, nothing more.

Fucks sake people complain when there's no good story like in Halo games and then when a game has an epilogue almost entirely story based people shit all over that too. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

Fable 2 had by far the most anticlimatic ending in any game I have ever played.

yes

Not really, I remember hearing that the ending to The World is not Enough videogame consists of you pressing a button and it blows up the bad guy in some chamber, you don't even get to kill him directly with a gun.

 

[neoman10]

Fable 2 had by far the most anticlimatic ending in any game I have ever played.

yes

Not really, I remember hearing that the ending to The World is not Enough videogame consists of you pressing a button and it blows up the bad guy in some chamber, you don't even get to kill him directly with a gun.

that actually sounds fun, like megaton in fallout

 

[Bluntknife]

The boss-dude from Crysis before entering the space ship. Idiot died from a single hit with a box.

What? I coudl've taken him down with a box?
I unloaded an entire minigun into his face and he didn't go down.

 

[darrinwright]

The end of Oblivion:

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All that build-up, and I don't even get to fight the bastard... shesh, talk about dissapointment.

AGREED. Made me so mad.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

Gears of War 2... you give a monster's face a sunburn. Woooooo.

 

[Atvomat_Nikonov]

GTA IV, Not really a boss battle i know, but where you find and kill Jimmy at the end (depending on what you choose i guess). More a dissapointment because it was relatively easy compared with the rest of the game.

I second this, but I chose Dmitri. He was stupidly easy, it took less than one magazine of M-4 to take him out. I also thought that Vogel in Saints Row 2 was a pretty easy boss. He's only armed with the weakest pistol in the game, unless he loots the SWAT team for their M-4's and he just runs from you mostly. That's another thing, if you kill his bodyguards you hardly lose any health as you're built like a tank and he has a pistol. A great game with a dissapointing boss battle.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

Ninja Gaiden 2 boss :

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That second last guy in Ninja Gaiden 2. Sure he is huge but after slashing about for the whole game you have to resort to bow and arrows? What's up with that?!? I was expecting a huge hack slash...kinda like the Skeleton Dinosaur from the last game.

and

KOTOR 2 Boss:

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The last boss of KOTOR 2. I found her a little easy and seriously it's not even the cracked up Sith (but you do have to fight him earlier) it turns out its Kreia. Big Twist...but kind of a let down.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

All of the Bosses in Dead Space

Given how difficult the normal Necromorphs can be and the many interesting/hilarious dismemberements you can subject them to. I was expecting a shitload more than bog standard "Here are my glowing points shoot them and I'll die," boss fights. We're on an interstellar planet mining ship for chrissakes, you would think there would be at least one piece of planet chopping machinery to exact revenge for Ishimura's crew. Oh, a gun turret, well I've never seen one of those before...

But by far the biggest disappointment is the Leviathan. That things is a zero gravity fight against a giant tentacle monster. Surely even an hours though could have come up with a better fight than you get.
As it is every bit you cut off just fades and vanishes. I was hoping the massive cylinder would become gradually more clogged with severed parts of the creature. Eventually getting to the point where both you and it can barely move as you have have to use the floating lumps of meat as cover to get in close enough to launch your attack or escape it's flailing tentacles.
As well as trying to avoid getting crushed by the enormous slabs of meat now attached to nothing.

But no, I just presses left and fires at the middle the whole time. There's a near identical boss fight in Area 6 of Lylat wars, that's 11years old.

I was going to come in here and say the exact same thing. After killing it I said "The ishimura crew is a bunch of pussies (ok so there was a death cult on the ship and colony and they all went crazy, but come on, that Leviathan was all size and no substance)

 

[Sir Broccoli]

Grim Fandango:

Spoiler

You follow the bad guy, get betrayed, find out his evil plan, one of your companions dies (again), you find out he should've had a great afterlife, you get pissed at bad guy and then kill him by shooting at a friggin' WATER TANK

 

[Supernovajake]

Although Resistance was a great game, there is not even a final boss to speak of!

 

[GonzoGamer]

I also thought that Vogel in Saints Row 2 was a pretty easy boss. He's only armed with the weakest pistol in the game, unless he loots the SWAT team for their M-4's and he just runs from you mostly. That's another thing, if you kill his bodyguards you hardly lose any health as you're built like a tank and he has a pistol. A great game with a dissapointing boss battle.

Yea that was way too easy for such a cool game.

The God of War bosses would've been so much better if Quick Time Events weren't involved: QTEs make any game 75%lamer.

However one of THE most disappointing bosses was Lez Shake from No More Heroes. In a game where boss battles were the only thing anyone seemed to have put some creativity into, why did they have to have the coolest looking boss rendered down to a cutscene? I wouldn't have minded if the rest of the game was any good at all but that was like a dollop of diarrhea on top of a crap sunday. That cutscene ruined what little fun I was able to squeeze out of that disc.

 

[Caliostro]

Definitely the general Kiong (or whatever) from the original Crysis... I mean, I thought he was hilarious, as was the whole fight...But a boss? Uh... Your average korean nanosuit is harder than him... Specially the mini-gun wielding fuckers... Those hurt a lot.