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

[Devec]

and bioshock.

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ryan was good, even though it was all cutscene, sucks you further into the game, WAY further into the game. but fontain was just ANNOYING, that stupid voice, and the last boss... ok sure, it wasnt EASY per-se, but it wasnt anything approaching hard and the cool factor just dropped like a rock tied to another bigger, heavier rock. i mean, with the rest of the game i wouldnt have expected them to do the whole shifting element/opposing element final boss cliche BS

One of the quickest bosses I must say I expected something way more epic for such a build up


Also devil may cry 4

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Actually the entire last level in which you have to kill all the intermediate bosses again for the 3rd time which was one of the main dissapointments of the game (that you once played it forward and later in reverse only with different characters). Then as a final boss that old priest again which wasnt really hard nor epic in the first place and now only had an extra attack which didnt make it a whole lot harder. Not to mention the last shortcut in which you deal two blows against the sparda statue which could just have been left out as it was more annoying than usefull.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Vegnagun was an ordeal in my game, he took about an hour to beat, just because my characters were so weak, but oh man.. I still look back at that as one of my favorite moments in gaming, and I'm actually a little sad that it's in FFX-2 of all games.

It can't have taken that long. There's a time limit on the Vegnagun fight.

Anyway, Vegnagun wasn't as much of an anticlimax boss as Yu Yevon in FFX. He casts Auto-Life on you, and recasts it if you die. Barring massive incompetence you literally cannot lose that fight (in order to lose you have to petrify your own characters. Even if you can't overcome his healing you can just defend until he kills himself for you with Gravija.)

guilty spark, do I need to say more

Oh, it may not have been difficult, but you know that fight was only there because everyone's been wanting to blow the shit out of that smug little glowy fucker since The Library. It was a pure fanservice boss, not meant to be difficult (also, Bungie don't like bosses).

I still think the ultimate Anticlimax Boss is General Scales in Starfox Adventures though. He's built up throughout the entire game as the Big Bad, you finally square off with him, and oh, whoops, he falls over and dies straight away and the real last boss is a boring repeat of Starfox 64's only with about half his movement patterns taken out.

 

[fix-the-spade]

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.

 

[Nalesnik]

... wait a sec.. did you just say your mom plays video games?!? RPGs for that matter?!?!
*mind is blown*

I bet you my mom is more hardcore JRPG fan then you are.

her list of JRPG games she's beaten is staggering.

She has put a thousand of hours (yes, thousand) into Final Fantasy X. She's played it through probably about 15 times, she just takes her time with it.

She certainly plays more JRPGs then I do. I've given up on my PS2, but she's still trucking on it. She's written FAQs, beaten games 100% (several times in some cases), whole nine-yards.

she's also 53.

your mum is definitely more hardcore. I only have a few jrpg titles under my belt, and none of them have seen 100% completion.

lol, I can't picture my mum playing any kind of video game at all. XD

 

[Chaossebba]

... wait a sec.. did you just say your mom plays video games?!? RPGs for that matter?!?!
*mind is blown*

I bet you my mom is more hardcore JRPG fan then you are.

her list of JRPG games she's beaten is staggering.

She has put a thousand of hours (yes, thousand) into Final Fantasy X. She's played it through probably about 15 times, she just takes her time with it.

She certainly plays more JRPGs then I do. I've given up on my PS2, but she's still trucking on it. She's written FAQs, beaten games 100% (several times in some cases), whole nine-yards.

she's also 53.

Oh my, thats awesome.

Anyway
Fable 2

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I mean come on, DAMN YOU REAVER.

 

[Altorin]

She's also played through Devil May Cry 1, and Gauntlet Dark Legacy, but other then that, it's all JRPGs. I got her Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon for the 360 and she was SOOO happy, but she's a little disgruntled because she has to borrow my console to play them, I'm not giving her my 360 like I gave her my PS2

 

[scnj]

The last boss in Resident Evil 4. IIRC it was very similar to a boss battle from earlier in the game, and considering how awesome some of the bosses had been (Del Lago, the big Rasputin looking guy) it was a huge disappointment.

The last boss in Lost Planet. The game suddenly went all kinds of Gundam Wing stupid and it ended in an anime style mech battle in the sky.

The last 'boss' in Crackdown. Some old guy called Wang. Kicked him twice and he fell off his building and died. Not good arena design.

The last 'boss' in Alone In The Dark. One shot, straight through the eye. No challenge whatsoever.

The last boss in Metal Gear Solid 2. After two hours or so of cutscenes and exposition dialogue, I expected more than a thirty second fight, followed by another half hour of cutscene.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Tartarus, the final boss of Halo 2, was fittingly hard to kill, but I did expect him to chase me and try to kill me more actively. I mean, maybe they were trying to get across a feel of him being a big, dumb lug, but it was a bit too easy when all I had to do to avoid getting killed was just to be on a different level than him. And this was on the second highest difficulty (don't remember what they called it) Sure it was hard in that the slightest tap would kill me, but like i say, it was just too easily avoided. And being hard to kill was trumped by the fact that as long as I kept my distance, I could shoot him constantly and not feel any repercussion.

 

[searanox]

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

Well, he's not exactly the final boss in the game... he's just a guy in a regular nanosuit. Interestingly, he can somehow take a ton of bullets to the face without wearing a helmet.

The only one I can think up is Zant from Twilight Princess.

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The guy was built up as being all evil, powerful and mysterious and then you actually fight him.... my God he was NUTS!!! It was like fighting a little child. Not to mention that since hearts are so easy to find you'll have so much health it'll be impossible for you to die.

Zant was meant to be a subversion in that previously, he was sort of portrayed as a fairly generic super-evil sort of villain, but since that's always Ganon's role, so they couldn't have two chaotic evil villains in the same game. Instead, they turned him into a lunatic, and while I think it suits him, they probably could have handled it a bit better.

 

[Sombra Negra]

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

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The Burer battle was rather anticlimactic. I was expecting more than some old sod in some white monk-robes. He took an alarming amount of firepower to bring down, something like 5 grenades and 300 rounds, so I guess that partly makes up for it. Still, a hairy tramp throwing fire at you or whatever Dwarves do isn't the most exciting of fights.

 

[SwampCandle]

Liquid - MGS4 - It just turns into button mashing! The most evil guy in the series is beaten in a fist fight which is so easy to do, even on Boss Extreme :/

Ripto - Spyro 2, Just getting the power orbs was easy because they got put down next to you.

Zarok - Medievil, all of the little henchmen dudes he put you against before hand were easy, so you'd expect when he turns himself into a giant dinosaur thing it'd be cooler, no?

Lord Palethorn - Medievil 2, Same as above, henchmen are easy, and he himself is piss aswell!

Jeff Jarrett - TNA iMPACT!. TNA is fun until you get to him. A boss who reverses every move you try is just not fun at all.

Eye of Sauron - LOTR Third Age, seriously, he doesn't attack you, and when he does it makes no difference, it just takes ages to get rid of all his health.

 

[aliiicat]

BIOSHOCK - The end boss, don't get me wrong I loved the game I just felt very 'underwhelemed' by the finale.

Same can be said with MGS4 - the exact same sentiments as SwampCandle above. Again i found the game amazing if not a little drawn out at the end.

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.

 

[Zer_]

One game that I truly LOVED the boss battles was Painkiller. :>

As for shitty bosses, I don't know... OH! OH! I got it!

Every single Raid Boss in WoW after they got nerfed to the ground.

 

[Amnestic]

my sister's girlfriend

Most important part of your post?

The last 'boss' in Crackdown. Some old guy called Wang. Kicked him twice and he fell off his building and died. Not good arena design.

I accidentally shot him twice with a grenade launcher while aiming for his henchmen so I could get a better position of him and while I was still fighting said henchmen he died from flame damage. I was in the middle of a KICK TO THE FACE! when the screen cut to his burning body collapsing onto the ground.

Anyway, Vegnagun wasn't as much of an anticlimax boss as Yu Yevon in FFX. He casts Auto-Life on you, and recasts it if you die. Barring massive incompetence you literally cannot lose that fight (in order to lose you have to petrify your own characters. Even if you can't overcome his healing you can just defend until he kills himself for you with Gravija.)

Eh, I just saw Yu Yevon as a "story" boss, similar to Shuyin or Human Sephiroth as Altorin pointed out. The final boss for me was...uh, whoever it was before that? I think it was big evil Sin Jecht but admittedly it's been a while since I played the game.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

This might help
http://www.cracked.com/article_15712_6-most-disappointing-video-game-end-bosses.html

I must have gotten a bugged copy of Twilight Princess or something. I read all over the place that the final sword duel with Ganondorf was disappointing and easy, but when I fought him he was utterly relentless.

 

[Unknower]

Half-Life 2. In the coffin ride before the end, you can see tubes going up. At least I thought they were some sort of life support things, leading to a boss enemy. I was disappointed when the end was just Breen as a Bubble Boy.

Opposing Force. Boring.

Crysis. Boring. Also, I didn't realize it was the end so I backtracked a bit to get ammo for the minigun. It was pretty lame

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walking around on the deck while the Warship hovers above you, waiting for you to reach the VTOL so that it can crash down to the ship.

Hunters were pretty lame too. Sure, they look good but there's only one way they could kill you and they hardly use it.

 

[Simski]

Soul Calibur 4 Arcade mode...
Due to me meeting the bloody 'Apprentice' right before the last guy, the last guy was so terribly easy in comparison to that motherfucking asshole who keept beating me when I was laying down, never gave me a chance to stand up, attacked me from a bloody distance and blocked almost every goddamn attack I tried on him.

Wouldn't say that was anti-climatic though really... I was quite happy about beating him so easily after that ************ of a character.

The last guy in story mode was okay though, seeing as he had double life and all.

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Another shining example is "Jack The Knife" from Fable. Additionally to his ridiculous name, his clothing habits and his I-Am-eeeviiil-way of speaking(which marks him as a villain from the start and maybe should have been a parody?)he wants to rule the world blahdibla and sucks at the last boss fight.

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Do you mean Fable 1 or 2?
Seeing as I remember no-one named "Jack the knife" in Fable, however the guy was named "Jack of Blades".
I wouldn't say he was anti-climatic.
He pulled of a good fight, although he surely wasn't really hard to beat either if you had the right weapons and spells.

Perhaps you're talking about "Fable: The lost chapters" though.
Where the final boss was the returning of Jack as a Dragon...
I wouldn't say he was anti-climatic in size and all, but yeah his attack were pretty useless and he was fairly easy to kill.

Also in "The lost chapters" his voice was changes to a much lower pitch for him to sound more powerful and evil.
As some people had complained that he sounded too much like a puny old man in the original Fable.
Although in the original fable, he wasn't quite as obviously the villain the first time you met him after the arena as he congratulated you on your victory and told you about your family and all that.
Still pretty obvious though, you kind suspect him, then change your mind, then change your mind again.

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

I agree with Soul Calibur 4, the apprentice was a lot harder than the last guy.

The topic title is hilarious btw.

 

[Demon_Zeya]

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. a game with an anticlimactic ending, well I can't really think of one, but honestly, quit blaming Final Fantasy because they don't have extremely hard final bosses.

 

[neoman10]

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

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