Wait, That Was IT?!? (Boss Battles):

[Tanis]

Ever get to a boss and think 'well, THAT was boring/pointless/underwhelming'.

Maybe the game hyped it with some cut scenes, or maybe a friend oversold it, etc.

You get to the boss and fill like it was nothing more than your average enemy encounter, with just more HP or lines of dialogue.

 

[Orange12345]

Darksiders 2 final boss was this, I was sitting there waiting for the cutscene to end and get to phase 2 of the boss..... then the credits starting rolling. Worst thing was I didn't really think I was overpowered or anything I barely made it through the previous boss and the boss before him killed me a few times but I destroyed the final boss like he was nothing

 

[Silvanus]

Electrocutioner.

I know it was a joke-fight, but I just feel it was a real shame.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Desann, the final boss of Jedi Outcast, can be either very difficult or laughably easy depending on the circumstances.

Hard mode: fight him one-on-one in a lightsaber duel. Desann's abilities completely overpower your own, with unblockable saber attacks and Force powers. He also has a metric butt-ton of HP to boot. You end up spending most of your time running away to heal between swipes, occasionally returning to shave off a miniscule amount of health. Rinse and repeat until dead.

Easy mode: lure him over to a pillar and throw your saber at it, causing it to fall and smash him like a cockroach. Boom. Insta-kill. You are true Super Sand Jedi Master.

To be fair, the easy way isn't an obvious solution. You have to think outside the box (or look it up on GameFAQs).

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Every boss in the new DMC. It was always just hit them a few times then follow scripted sequence to kill.

Also the final boss of Halo 4. That was a complete joke.

Also Lucifer in SMT Nocturne. I kept hearing how difficult he was and then all it takes to kill him is a few hits of Freikugel. The only way he would be difficult is if you had shit demons with shit skills.

 

[Vegosiux]

Electrocutioner.

I know it was a joke-fight, but I just feel it was a real shame.

Many Arkham bosses count, including every single "It's just another goon zerg battle" one...I think the only two I actually felt were a remotely enjoyable fight were Ras al Ghul in City and Deathstroke in Origins. But Electrocutioner does take the cake for silly.

If you played a thief, all bosses in Baldur's Gate 2 could be cheesed by merely utilizing your class skills and I don't count that as an "exploit" because you just did what you'd be reasonably expected to plan to do before knowing aynthing about the fight - set up a bunch of traps in preparation like the shady, sneaky scoundrel you are, fighting dirty.

From my WoW days, I'd chalk many up for anticlimactic, naturally, with so many being present, but I think the one that disappointed me most was not one, but two jormungars.

 

[Asita]

Oh you know, the final encounter in Final Fantasy VII. You beat down "Safer" Sephiroth, and things start to look all fine and dandy...but then you get pulled into a one on one battle between Cloud and Sephiroth! Surely this is the moment that everything has been building up to, the single battle that will put all your skills to the-wait, did he just get 1HKOed??? Is it even possible to lose that fight?[footnote]Spoiler: No.[/footnote]

I get that this was supposed to be a metaphysical battle, the manifestation of Cloud's will overpowering Sephiroth's, but really, if you're going to make a one hit battle that's impossible to lose: MAKE IT A CUTSCENE!

 

[FPLOON]

Sethiroth from Kingdom Hearts 2...

This was at a time where I could not STAND facing Sethiroth without lasting less than his first "Sin Harvest" attack in the first game... and then I go a face him in the second game, knowing that I'll never beat him... and I beat him first try...

Wait... What just happened? I know I was barely trying (and this was on Proud Mode after giving up trying to 100% this game), but this didn't seem as limiting as it was in the first game... And, yes, this was before finding out about the "legit" way of beating him without him making another attack after the "press triangle to begin" attack...

Did I get "lucky"? ...I don't doubt it... Was I able to beat him again to prove it wasn't just out of luck? Yes... and the more I did, the more the battle disappointed me, in comparison to the battle in the first game...

(And, yes... Beating Sethiroth in KH1 for the first time was more satisfying than beating him in KH2 for the first time... and both of those times were on the highest difficulty in the US releases...)

 

[Olas]

I'm not sure if this counts as a boss or not, but every dragon in Skyrim I've met so far.

You know something's wrong when you can slay a dragon in seconds only to die to the stray bear that ran up to you after the fight.

Oh, and how about the final boss in Metroid Prime 3? Not that it's a terrible boss necessarily, but for being the final boss of a trilogy known for it's great bosses, it definitely leaves you feeling a bit underwhelmed.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Dawn of War 2 actually does a really good job of integrating boss battles into an RTS setting, it's ingenious. A lot of the Boss Battles are really fucking tough, such as the Farseer, the Carnifex, The Avatar of Khaine, and Bonesmasha.

Then you get to the Hive Tyrant...

The final boss of the game is a complete joke. Mainly because by that point in the game, you are completely god tier, kitted out with Terminator Armor and OP weaponry. And that's before you remember that you're fighting him with all six squads instead of four, and you have Gabriel Motherfucking Angelos with you. Hive Tyrant didn't stand a chance.


Knights of the Old Republic: Darth Malak. You can either let him run and suck the life out of the Stasis Jedi, prolonging the fight by up to ten minutes, or you can ignore Malak, run around and suck their life out yourself before he can, and then finish him off with one or two Force Speed buffed Flurries.

 

[Fireaxe]

That.. thing.. at the end of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It was a neat concept, but it was also extremely easy.

 

[Dalisclock]

Knights of the Old Republic: Darth Malak. You can either let him run and suck the life out of the Stasis Jedi, prolonging the fight by up to ten minutes, or you can ignore Malak, run around and suck their life out yourself before he can, and then finish him off with one or two Force Speed buffed Flurries.

The first battle with him is what came to mind when I saw the subject of this thread. I had no issues with him and was pissed when the game told me "Well, you're losing so break off the battle". One more round and he would have been dead right then and there. Of course, then we couldn't have the endgame, could we?

 

[MiskWisk]

Virtually every boss in Skyrim. I mean really, Alduin was as joke, end of dungeon bosses could all be beaten with a similar strategy and Miraak wasn't all that great either. Only one who actually used the game mechanics fully was Harkon and he still wasn't that good.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Dark Falz in Phantasy Star Online on normal mode. I only underline that mode since he was alot hard in hard mode and above but still the fight itself was more like easy mode! He just move around firing his flies thing and aswell unleash some explosion but that it when you get its hp to 0, they couldn't be bother adding in the rest of his forms like they did in hard mode! I wanted at least a proper challange coming from a boss!

 

[GundamSentinel]

Several Dragon's Dogma bosses fit. For instance, after clearing out the Shadow Fort, killing hordes of goblins and a couple of cylopes, you enter the final room and find... a slightly stronger goblin... >.> Why that thing even had a boss-type health bar is beyond me.

The Old One, final boss of Demon's Souls. It can barely harm you. But that's appropriate as you've spent the entire game killing its sources of strength.

FFXIII's final boss can be ridiculously easy as well if you've bothered to level your party at all. Just Relentless Assault that thing into the dirt.

 

[Zeh Don]

Also the final boss of Halo 4. That was a complete joke.

Should have been the first post. What the fuck were they thinking with this rubbish?

 

[Sarge034]

All these posts and no one mentioned ME3? Son, I am disappoint. Also, agree with DE:HR. There is also; Borderlands (1), RE6 (the final goo boss in the hidden campaign), Dishonored, and many others.

 

[crispskittlez]

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.

For reasons along the lines of the "villains dying in cutscenes" quality. Hell, there's NO boss fight, so it might not be appropriate for this list.