Skyrim: Now THAT'S a boss fight!

[Use_Imagination_here]

Easy way to clear skyrim on the first 4 difficulties with basically no effort on your part.

Step 1. Clear the main quest chain

Step 2. Get the rest of the words for the "time slow" shout.

Step 3. There is no step three.

No seriousy. It's owerpowered as hell. You can kill a dragon before he has any time to react.

(okay not completely kill him but almost).

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I got a mod to increase dragons health by 9 times

That's right, all dragons, including Alduin, have 9 times the amount of health they should. It makes the battles a bit more epic because they last for a lot longer.

My best battle was just the other day, as a level 15 stealth archer on the Whiterun plains, against a Frost dragon, who aggroed the giants and mammoths, which then attacked both me and the dragon. The dragon was killed, but I have a Hypothermia mod on that saps my stamina in the cold, so I couldn't get away from the giants, and they chased me all the way to the gates of Whiterun. I heard the squeals of the Kahjit traders getting squashed as I ran through the gates. That was pretty intense.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Wait.. its Skyrim. Does that not mean that the hardest boss in Skyrim is pathetically inept when compared to the first boss in say Demon or Dark Souls?

Do people actually play Bethesda RPGs for the the challenge? I thought the point of a Bethesda RPG was the story or was that Bioware? Wait whats the point of Bethesda RPGs again?

Dark Souls for the challenge,
Bioware for the story,
Bethesda for the world!

The point as I see it, is escapism into a dynamic, functioning world of absolute freedom. To create an experience that sucks you in, until your character creates their own personality through their own interaction with the world.

For example, currently I'm playing a wood elf. I had planned on making her a Stormcloak, but I realised that it would be really stupid for her to side with them, because all the Stormcloaks that she met in game have been genocidal, corrupt turds. Ditto the Empire and even the Forsworn, so I'm now playing her as an apolitical Robin Hood style hoodlum, that sides with whomever happens to benefit her own interests the most.
It's tonnes of fun, and makes the gaming experience all that more immersive to know that my character is shaped by her experiences with the world, not my pre-arranged plan to get her 100% dark side, or 100% Paladin for the best perks, which always happens in Bioware games, and that just perverts all my dialogue and action choices into pure unsympathetic gameplay mechanics.

The way Skyrim works there are no distinctly hard or easy bosses; because of non-linear gameplay it all depends on what level you are when you meet them. Personally I had no problem with the OP's boss, because I did that quest late in the game, and was actually a higher level than the boss! In this way a boss that was easy in one play-through can be absolute murder in the next. It just adds to the uniqueness of each character and play-through.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

My hardest Skyrim fight was against a named Hagraven and it's posse of 5 mages, all casting mid level lightning and frost spells while the Hagraven fireballed me to doom from atop a rock (Orphan Rock, I think). I got my low levelled ass handed to me there like 20 times before I had managed to tear through each of the mages individually, save after each, then beat down the hagraven. It was nuts. I was barely powerful enough to pick my own nose, and here's this coven of people draining my stamina and magic with each shot from a distance I couldn't even match yet.

That, or the time I found myself against a Hagraven and two Forsworn Briarhearts. Fast little freaks ripped me to shreds without blinking on many occasions by themselves, and suddenly there's two of them? At least at that point I was strong enough to hold my own, but it was still a good ten minute fight, dodging, casting, healing, and attacking in turn, whittling their health down slowly.

 

[Zydrate]

Easy way to clear skyrim on the first 4 difficulties with basically no effort on your part.

Step 1. Clear the main quest chain

Step 2. Get the rest of the words for the "time slow" shout.

Step 3. There is no step three.

No seriousy. It's owerpowered as hell. You can kill a dragon before he has any time to react.

(okay not completely kill him but almost).

My current mage (the one described in my OP) has forsaken the main quest, because I have not had a good experience with mages, since they are mostly glass cannons for a lot more time than say, my rogue concepts. Even at level 20, I don't feel she's properly prepared for dragons.
Much less beating the whole damn questline.

And I've halted questing until 35ish+ so I can get some of the better versions of some equipment.

 

[Bravo 21]

Ironically, Mass effect 1's ending boss, Saren, was definitly a hairy fight, I blame the fact that hearing my shield's siren go off can make things intense while reviving Wrex and Garrus over and over again.

I remember that. He jumped around like a cricket on meth and fired rockets like they were going out of style. Still, I eventually ground away at his health until he finally died. again. Good times.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

I was level 59 when I tried taking 2 Ancient Dragons and 1 Frost Dragon on simultaneously, hardest difficulty...

That was a fucking amazing fight!

 

[Fijiman]

Even as a more tankish, high-leveled character I still come across the occasional enemy or two who will have me chugging down health potions. I personally kind of like it because it reminds you that no matter how strong and OP your character might be he/she is still very much so killable. For example, the other day I had to fight a Forsworn mage who had me scrambling for cover until I got close enough to bash his face in with my axe and it was actually memorable compared to most of the fights I go through in any given day on Skyrim. Also, until your at least level 40, most bears are basically bosses that can and will annihilate you if you are not careful.

Gears of war 3's horde mode bosses can be intense with the right set ups. Wave 50 against a god damned Brumak?

UHHHG, don't remind me. Some of those bosses can leave a pretty massive trail of BS behind them. For example, having a berserker decide to stand right on top of where the game wants to respawn you effectively screwing over the game because it wont properly spawn you anymore.

 

[Odbarc]

I've NEVER had multiple dragons.
What's up? I saw two in the distance once I couldn't get two.

 

[ChupathingyX]

My best experience with boss fights was trying to kill Lu Bu for the first time in Dynasty Warriors 4.

Ahhh, I remember all those countless attempts like it was yesterday...

http://cfgfactory.com/images/i/4f35923e34365_bitch-please.png

You should have tried him in 3.....

It was the first Dynasty Warriors game I played.

Plus, it's impossible to find DW3 where I live, finding 4 was a miracle.

 

[Voulan]

I've NEVER had multiple dragons.
What's up? I saw two in the distance once I couldn't get two.

It happens only very occasionally. I once had to fight two at once with Kharjo as my companion, but only because one was a random encounter and we happened to be decking out beside a dragon mound, so the other came down to join the fun.

And then I ran into Aela and Farkas being ganged up on by a group of forsworn, who seemed to decide that I was the best target despite the two dragons flying overhead. It was a pretty epic moment.

 

[Tanis]

So...after about 150 hours of KoA:R I tried to get back into Skyrim.

Doesn't look like that's happening anytime soon.
I've been spoiled with low loading times, great combat, easier to manager inventory, and a more atheistically pleasing graphic style.

>_>

 

[Mithsandlegends]

ANY of the dragon priests, also in the quest infiltration about 5 mages all blasting me with everything they had. I was lvl 43 and it was on expert.

 

[Smeggs]

By the time I did Meridia's quest I was such an epic-tier mage that I blasted that fool away in a few hits, so...

I remember a good boss fight being the Dragon Priests, especially the one at the bottom of Labyrinthian.

Also, I just had my first real, "This battle if fucking cool" moment in ME3.

This is free of spoilers so don't worry, unless you for some strange reason didn't expect to run into Geth in this game.

The music was swelling, there was shit exploding, I finally was filled with so much machismo that I threw all sense and caution to the wind and charged at a large group of Geth, being topped off with a Geth-Prime, which on their own is tough enough.
Two frags thrown to kill the three at the front, then I activated Adrenaline Rush and went all slow-mo with my AR, strafing and just peppering them all. After killing about six of the damned things I kept charging forward and beat the final three regular soldier Geth to death with the butt of my gun.

Then it was me and the Geth-Prime. My partners were downed, I'm out of Omni-Gel, on a single healthbar, half shields. The Prime is weakened as well, about five feet away; I only have one chance, live or die.

OMNI-BLADE TO THE STOMACH! And it reeled back, threw its head up in the air and let out a metallic scream before exploding.

 

[Farotsu]

Doesn't anyone encounter that teleport dude in skyrim? That guy is freaking hard if you are low level.

Do tell?
My random encounters are minimal. I fast travel too much, I think. Unless I'm on a character with specific plans to explore. But even then I don't do enough quests to activate various encounters.

Oh! that guy for the Galadur Amulet!
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Geirmund%27s_Hall
Taught me to whip out a shield.

That guy. Fuck that guy. *shudders from memory*

Eh. He was easy if you had any ranged provess working for you. Even on master difficulty you can kill one of the illusions before he gets a chance to respond and then dodge the arrow to get the second. The important thing is to brace against the disarming shout so you don't have to go running around trying to find your staff/bow while getting feathered.

On topic, Skyrim can offer some really tough challenges as long as you don't break it. It's just too bad that it's so easy to actually break the character.

 

[FateOrFatality]

Heh, if you want to make Skyrim more fun* you can always bump it to Master difficulty.

Probably still ways to break it but I had to go and decide to make a heavy armor + sword & board Nord. Any two things in the room with poison = boss fight at low levels. :|

*Dwarf Fortress Fun.

Only time I have trouble on Master difficulty is when I'm fighting Dragons, and that's mostly because I'm running a mod called Deadly Dragons which gives Dragons something like 3 or 4 times more health and a bunch of new abilities.

Please understand I'm not trying to sound arrogant, but I'm really looking forward to some more mods that will increase the difficulty. At the moment I've forbidden myself from using smithing/enchanting because the game becomes a cake walk with them.

 

[RuralGamer]

Oh and the end of Forbidden Legends was a pain; three hardcore bosses in a row...

They Fus Ro Dah me around like a ragdall for most of the fight, but they didn't do much damage to me.
They might do more against my mage, though.

If you do not have a very good armour rating, the second brother can be extremely difficult.