Video Game Cliches

[Jaebird]

Guns, or any type of projectile weapon/tool.

 

[SteveDave]

Big boss battles at the end is a pretty big cliche.

You say that, but you'd be bitching about it if there wasn't some kind of satisfying climax.

I think Fallout 3 and it's

Spoiler: Naughty naughty, no peeking now

Transformer-esque Uber-patriotic Robot/Chekhov's Gun/Plot device

was pretty fuckin' awesome, and there was no real boss fight.

You have me mistaken. I wouldn't post that endgame boss battles are cliche if I didn't believe it. They can create climax without a boss fight, having one just means that you're not creative enough. I was pretty pissed that at the end of Bioshock, a game that oozes originallity, had a typical stupid big boss at the end of a game. Isn't the best part of the game when you finally confront Andrew Ryan? Do you forget that no boss battle was invovled in this classic gaming moment?