Disappointing Boss Battles

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#1 majinstrings
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What are some of the most disappointing Boss battles you've played?

One Boss battle that I felt was pretty weak was the fight against Darth Nihilus in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2...he was so easy to defeat and it just seemed so insignificant...

Another boss that kind of let me down was Ganon in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time...it wasn't the battle that disappointed me...in the cinematic that leads to the battle, Ganon looks HUGE because you see him from kind of a low angle but then you start fighting him and he's not that big...it just made me go: "Whoa, he's gigant - oh...nevermind..."

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#2 xisytenin
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Makron in Quake 4, just a little too straightforward, all you do is keep shooting at him

great game though

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End boss of Bioshock and sacred
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#4 69ANT69
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I've heard that the Haze final battle sucks, I havn't really had any really disappointing final boss battles
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#5 FreshDimSum
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i would have to say the B&B Corps in MGS4. im not saying they are downright aweful because the battle with laughign octopus was intense, but compared to the bosses in the previous titles, these girls are not as interesting nor as challanging. every boss in the series had a reason to fight. B&B corps? just cuz.

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#6 TristanShand
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I loved everything about the B&B corp bosses in MGS4 except that they were way too easy. I found myself constantly having to give them chances in order to drag the fight out longer, since they was so well put together.

I totally agree with the first post about Knights of the old Republic 2. They made him out to be all bad ass, destroy planets with his gaze and whatever. You fight him and he is dead quicker then you can pause the game.

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#7 skp_16
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The final boss fight in Bully...too easy!
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Taurturus (last boss) on Halo 2. It was way too easy, even on Legendary.
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#9 Qixote
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Nearly all boss battles disappoint me. I don't think that it is because they are sometimes too easy or too hard. They are just too unimaginative, especially for something that was meant to me a climactic part of the game. They all tend to follow the same formula: objective is to kill the godlike boss with a wash, rinse, and repeat pattern. I actually commend games that forego using bosses and use other methods of making a climactic experience. Example, the CoD games don't have bosses, at least not in the context we are discussing. Instead, those games give us epic, realistically climactic battles.
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The final boss to Metroid Prime 3.It was completelyanticlimactic.I'm still questioning how Retro,after designing all the other bosses in the game quite well,managed to drop the ball on the final boss.
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Corpser in GeARS of War
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The final boss fight in Bully...too easy!skp_16

you beat me to it!

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as much as i love mgs, the cyborg ninja fight was a letdown. youve seen him dismember a legendary character in the series and absolutely demolish troops and a hallway in one of my favorite cutscenes ever, and then...you punch him.
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even though I love the game, the boss battles in Mass Effect are very disappointing.
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Every boss in The Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess. At first glanced it seemed incredibly epic and very difficult, but, even the final boss fights are easier than some of the minions you are forced to fight in the game. Other than that i would have to say that Volf from Ninja Gaiden 2 was incredibly easy. He looks all big and intimidating with his 4 arms, his gigantic scythe, and hes a werewolf and king of storms to boot, but wow. Over in 10 seconds.
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Ultimecia in FF8, if you refined the Zell card and got the Hero drinks (might be something different haven't played in a couple years) and used Aura's on the characters the battle was over really quickly.

Also, the mana beast in Secret of Mana, if you used the moogle belt trick and hid in the corners so that it couldn't hit you. And the last couple missions of GTA IV...not really boss battles, but I beat them all on the first try.

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#17 gameguy6700
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What are some of the most disappointing Boss battles you've played?

One Boss battle that I felt was pretty weak was the fight against Darth Nihilus in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2...he was so easy to defeat and it just seemed so insignificant...

Another boss that kind of let me down was Ganon in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time...it wasn't the battle that disappointed me...in the cinematic that leads to the battle, Ganon looks HUGE because you see him from kind of a low angle but then you start fighting him and he's not that big...it just made me go: "Whoa, he's gigant - oh...nevermind..."

majinstrings

At first I was about to post something like "you've got to be kidding, OoT had one of the best boss fights ever" until you said why you found it disappointing. I'd have to agree with you there, it still irks me how Ganon goes from being about 3x Link's height in the cinematic to about a foot taller in the actual fight.

I'd also agree with whoever mentioned the Corpser in GeoW. The game treats the fight like its some huge, really difficult fight and yet its probably one of the easiest boss fights found in any game. And on that same note I feel obligated to add Super Mario Sunshine's boss fight to this list (I'm surprised nobody has said anything about it yet) since that was one of the lamest boss fights I've ever played.

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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption's last two boss fights were probably the most disappointing in the history of gaming. Up until that point all the boss fights were creative, entertaining and action-packed. The last two were a joke and sadly, one of them was Dark Samus, who in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes had three different stunning boss fights.
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Ganondorf in Zelda: Twilight Princess and Zadler in Resident Evil 4
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FFX :? the final summon was too easy to kill and that drawn out Yu Yevon fight where you are invisible completely kills the pace of the game for me, I swear that last section through Sin was more difficult :|. It was even more pathetic once you got your best kit together, 2 hits and he is down :| just wrong...
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#21 Benny_is_here
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Saren in Mass Effect [spoiler] after he resurrects [/spoiler] was too easy and repetitive.
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Lol at your avatar pic Benny_is_here. I remember that part of the game well. The ex captain is like 'come on there is no time to lose! you gotta get back to the Normandy and i will set up the decoy! The life of the galaxy is at stake!' then he rushes off. Meanwhile you think this is a good time to scamper over to the dance floor and do a little jiggle.

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#23 Ash2X
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I absolutely love Grandia 2,but the final Boss is maybe the easiest I´ve ever fought.And he´s ugly.Number 2 on my list was the Legend of Mana Finla Boss,who was totally unspectacular and just as big as your chaacter while others fill the whole screen!

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#24 Octavius1701
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Bit of a ***spoiler***...

Mehrunes Dagon in Oblivion. He just kind of stood there and, um, didn't really do much (other than looking like Goro from Mortal Kombat). There were lots of his minions crawling about, but it just didn't seem very special to me. Nice dragon at the end, though.

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Sadler from RE4 definitely gets my vote. There was really not much to that battle, add the fact that the battle with Krauser prior too was pretty sweet and it makes the Sadler battle that much more of a letdown.
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#26 GSU28
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What are some of the most disappointing Boss battles you've played?

One Boss battle that I felt was pretty weak was the fight against Darth Nihilus in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2...he was so easy to defeat and it just seemed so insignificant...

majinstrings

Great example. I love KOTOR 2 but I crushed Darth Nihilus in about one minute without losing half my health. He was a joke, fortunatly the final boss...*spoiler alert*

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Kreia was actually very challenging.

There is another "boss" that recently disappointed me and that would be the final confrontation in Bad Company. I loved the single player in Bad Company which was surprisingly excellent, despite DICE's reputation for making crappy single player campaigns.

I just found that fighting the Legionnaire as he was in a helicopter was a bit anticlimatic. I mean it wasn't too challenging or too easy, the difficulty was just right and I take pride in the fact that my final blow to the helicopter was actually a grenade launcher to the cockpit.

But to be honest, I would much rather have confronted him directly in a fire fight in a city, blowing apart buildings to take him and Acta Non Verba down. Perhaps it is me just nitpicking, because I really do love the B-Company single player. I was just a little let down by the final fight.

Fortunatly I will be playing the multiplayer for quite awhile, probably for the rest of the summer. What a great game. :D

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#27 BoG_
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Every boss in Twilight Princess was a boring chore. ESPECIALLY that face thing in the Arbiter's Grounds. That was PUNISHMENT.
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Vizier in Prince Of Persia : Sands Of Time. The whole game was easy and great, but I really excepted something more challenging, but there are still POP second and third.