7 Anti-Climax Boss Fights That Weren't Worth the Build Up

When done right, boss fights are climactic experiences that pit you against an enemy you’ve been longing to face for ages. There’s another kind of boss fight though, which builds up a significant enemy, only to have the actual confrontation be an anticlimax so disappointing you wonder why everyone involved bothered in the first place. See for yourself in these disappointing boss fights, and subscribe for a video like this every Thursday from Outside Xbox!
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[@Gyrbae]

My most disappointing boss "battle" was with Lucien in Fable 2. The guy who killed your sister, the guy who killed your dog, the guy whose head you're after the entire game, and once you finally reach him, he talks for less than a minute and you just shoot him. And if you don't do it, your party member Reaver shoots him. The word anticlimactic doesn't even come close to describe the disappointment of that end boss.

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

LOL I remember that, you wait in jail for your moment and all you get is cut scenes :(

[@superhappyfuntime10]

On top of that the thing that kills him is a small music box.

[@Gyrbae]

@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 Yeah you had to go in The Spire and worked your ass off for some reason, and the game tried its absolute best to make us care about that other guy Bob. He dies in The Spire and later the banshees whisper stuff like "You let Bob die!!" and I was like "Yeah, what of it". If they ever make a list of characters we were supposed to care about but didn't, I'd nominate that guy.

[@CelynBrum]

I'm still bitter that I couldn't kill Reaver. That guy is a dick, and not even in a fun way. Even worse in Fable 3, where he tried to feed me to Balverines and then later was... advising me in court? What the heck, game???

[@joshuagoforth1658]

I was literally gonna comment this lol

[@secretscarlet8249]

Now do the opposite; boss fights that came out of nowhere! No story nor level design build-up, just straight up hard bosses that came out of the left field.

[@matman000000]

Darkbeast Paarl

[@joacoguerrero98]

I honestly can't think a better example for that than the Asylum Demon. You literally kill 3 undead that mostly don't defend themselves and you have to face a boss right after that, that's all you have played, the first time is overwhelming as fuck

[@jotarokujo4727]

Aizawa from Yakuza 5 the guy dosen't even know why he is fighting you,but still give you one of the best boss fights in the whole Yakuza series

[@Espartanica]

sans

[@tomread8748]

It's a cool idea, but isn't the opposite though - the opposite would be most enjoyable boss fights, which would also be interesting.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

"The only thing higher than his cheek bones is his opinion of himself." Now to be fair, that can be applied to ALL elves in the Elder Scrolls

[@dreadcthulhu5]

Wood elves are pretty chill.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

@@dreadcthulhu5 Except for the part where they eat people.

[@dreadcthulhu5]

@@LAZERAK47V2 Only those they kill in battle and only if they actually follow the Green Pact, which is mostly prevalent in their homeland where they aren't allowed to eat plants by their god. There does seem to be a difference in thinking between the tribals and the city dwellers. If you think about it it's a mandate that makes them less likely to kill knowing they have a time limit in which to consume the whole body and I'm sure it limits their inclination for war as well. Three days isn't long to empty a battlefield of bodies. Imagine having to think, "Do I really want to have to eat that person?," to determine who you really, really want to kill.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

@@dreadcthulhu5 A Dance in Fire literally proves that false. Bunch of (Imperials, I think) visit Valenwood during a festival and get served as the main course.

[@dreadcthulhu5]

@@LAZERAK47V2 So some Imperials visit the homeland of the wood elves, Valenwood, and end up eaten as part of their Green Pact and you think this disproves my argument? Okay I misspoke when I said only if they killed them in battle, but the rest holds true. What I meant was the Green Pact does state that a fallen enemy must be eaten completely before three days pass. It also says: Only meat-based products can be consumed. Prohibits the use of wood or other vegetable derivatives as building materials. Forbidden to harm trees and plant life for their own betterment. Forbidden to smoke anything of a vegetable nature. Forbidden to alter their physical form(s) This of course only applies to the plants native to Valenwood and plant material is imported for use from outside regions. They follow this mandate out of obedience to their forest deity Yffre to gain his patronage. As such those who are born or live outside of Valenwood don't necessarily follow the Pact. Thus if anything your argument strengthens mine.

[@CaptainYokkiller]

When I fought the Mist Noble I killed her and saw the mist and I was like "Oh here we go she's gonna spawn multiple clones of herself and I have to guess the real one in order to kill her for realsies" but then the mist fades and i just went oh i guess I'm done here, and then I awkwardly shuffle away.

[@towelie1313]

My favorite goof: Sekiro fans were at one point collectively pretending that the Mist Noble was the hardest boss in the game - they were hyping him up to ridiculous levels in discussions, making memes about him and write "strategy guides" for the boss fight. All of the guides were very long - at first they were written to be believable, but later on usually descended into the absurd (such as claiming that the Noble uses an uzi in the 69th phase of the fight, etc). A new player who is trying to avoid spoilers would obviously not open those posts or read them that far. There were some newbies who fell for it and crapped their pants as soon as the name "Mist Noble" popped up on the screen. ;D

[@tevildo9383]

People have been doing the same for Pinwheel from DS1 for as long as I can remember.

[@Jacob_G9]

They're STILL doing that, It's basically the Meme of the game, next to the dive bombing enemies

[@joshuayeo7470]

@@Jacob_G9 WooOOOO

[@doubleg281]

I'm pretty sure the mist noble is one of the most important NPCs in the entire game. The purified lord Tekeru sealing away mibu village. He does this to starve the great carp so that it will destroy the fountainhead palace stopping the immortal coruption from spreading into ashina

[@sirslothington2908]

To be fair once you beat the game, it's very believable that the mist noble would have uzi if the final boss didn't steal it from him

[@VTimmoni]

In Skyrim you can't forget my wife's first play through where she stabbed Alduin with Dagon's Razor and the dragon died in one hit thanks to the Razor's instant kill effect going off.

[@ChangelingLady]

The face Andy makes with the ''Can games be art? You tell me'' is absolutely hilarious lol

[@thedarksiderebel]

I was gonn say this. That delivery was so funny

[@dagonlikesfishsticks5133]

Shadow of Mordor comes to mind: who would have thought Sauron was such a push-over all along

[@MultiFilmstudios]

They kind of redeemed themselves with the sequel, or at least for me. That fight was tough.

[@slenderminion289]

@@MultiFilmstudios I didn't think it was that difficult, but still a very enjoyable fight. Makes the one in Shadow look even worse since they clearly can make a decent boss fight if they set their minds to it.

[@carsonneedham3844]

The black hand was pretty cool tho

[@slenderminion289]

@@carsonneedham3844 From looks alone, yeah. But he doesn't even get a fight at all. If you consider him to be Sauron himself as is heavily suggested, he then has the quicktime event which isn't much better. At least there's a proper fight with Sauron in the Bright Lord DLC.

[@Firestar4041]

I mean, going off the movies; dude gets one bad paper cut, loosing his favorite class ring, and then just telecoms all his big evil meetings :v

[@jamma.77]

I knew Skyrim would be in here - although quite frankly, Mike, you made it even more anticlimactic by Fus-Ro-Dah-ing him off the balcony - you don't even get his armour now.

[@tyrant-den884]

For me the anti-climactic fus-ro-dah fight is the end of the Mahrunes Dagon quest. All that trouble to shout a couple dremora off a cliff.

[@carlsiouxfalls]

If you can't loot the boss can you really call it a win?

[@Boomslayer19]

I mean i can't even play it unmodded given how absolutely weak and pathetic most bosses are without revenge of the enemies Like harkon having lower stats then the snow elve you fight before hand In fact miraak is the only one who give a significant challenge And i pretty much have defeated all bosses given that i have been playing this game for 10 years and never stopped Pretty much all bosses are a massive walk in the park with an even below average build

[@tyrant-den884]

@@Boomslayer19 yeah, Bethesda has never really bothered with bosses.

[@teddylyon1189]

You can still get the armor by going to the bottom of the cliff from whence he was yeeted

[@iskdea8461]

In Arkham Knight, I'm more dissapointed in a Deathstroke "battle". You just destroy a few tanks, destroy his tank and then... Batman just launch-punches him and that's it!

[@ericb3157]

yeah, he was MUCH easier than the Arkham knight himself.

[@ronaldplatt7620]

Damn I forgot that fight. Literally just a rehash of the other boss fight. At least we can remember the arkham origins fight with him

[@blueshadowsoundeffects1559]

Also hush

[@kassandra7313]

I remember preparing myself so much for fighting Alduin, getting all my best gear, summoning Lucien's ghost because I fully expected him to die so I didn't have to deal with him following me around - and then Alduin died in 30 seconds and I had to listen to Lucien chattering in my ear for the next however long.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

The fact that Mehruns Razor can one shot him was hilarious.

[@reapergrimm8]

If you guys think the Human-Reaper Larva was anticlimactic, I can't wait to hear what you consider the final confrontation with the Illusive Man in Mass Effect 3 to be.

[@darkhope97]

Marauder shield*

[@szklanylabirynt151]

@@darkhope97 Marauder Shields and the Three Husketeers.

[@redshirt49]

@@szklanylabirynt151 Good Lord, I had deleted that sequence from my mind. Why'd you have to remind me?

[@Themilesrock]

@@darkhope97 That thing has killed me way too many times

[@elilla331]

​@@darkhope97salute to that fallen hero, who tried to save us.

[@Zenlore6499]

My personal anti-climax boss fight was when I quit my first job. She didn’t even show up!

[@BrotherMag]

Aww man

[@jamma.77]

LOL

[@latecore_]

am I the only one who doesn't watch the spoiler list cause I don't want the list to be spoiled for me? 🤣

[@thisnoisenoise]

I can stand when someone spoils my spoilers for me, either.

[@Knopey]

You are not. Then again the fact that this spoiler list exists is the reason I prefer the ox lists over all other videogaming list videos out there. It's a canundrum.

[@SorowFame]

@@Knopey I like the list because if I’ve played the game I can guess at what’s on there. I imagine it’d be helpful if I cared about spoilers too.

[@yufi305]

I miss the chair scenarios. Glad you brought it back Andy, sad that everyone else is not sitting in the chair as well. I love seeing you guys talking about the video games and not just hearing your voices over the game footage, also the fact that I can hear you talking with each other while one sits in the chair and others echo from the background. Your interaction are hilarious and it make me laugh and smile. allas I know the reasons why everyone can't be there, I'm just saying. Hope your all doing well, and hope things get better so you guys can hopefully return to this format, its so unique compared to other top list videos and I love it.

[@samtaholo]

They've been doing videos back in the studio (and in the chair) for months now, thankfully. I imagine this one doesn't feature Jane and Mike in the chair because it's something they put together over the holiday break, and Andy was the only one who had already filmed his footage.

[@yufi305]

@@samtaholo Oh, ok. good to know 🥰👍

[@elissalesse8320]

the pause between the fus ro dah’d npcs getting thrown and the quest text fulfilling itself (aka marking that theyre dead) will never stop being hilarious and satisfying

[@sarahdanvers1076]

Fable 2's final boss was the most Peter Molyneux to ever Peter Molyneux. It wasn't even a battle, more of an interactive cutscene where you kill him in one shot or your companion does it for you if you take too long to do it.

[@bustinarant]

First time that happened I was so mad. I was going to listen to the monologue for the first time and do a cool disarm, but he falls off the ledge even if you shoot his stupid old hand lol

[@michealforguson5317]

What's worse is that Reaver insults you if you don't shoot him. "And I thought he'd never shut up! Oh, I'm sorry. Did you want to kill him?" Yes!

[@bubbles993]

I think a part of that was the point though. No matter how hard he tried, Lucien was just an ordinary man whose grief led to madness and greed. In the end all that's left is a pathetic bitter old man, an epic battle would have defied the point.

[@Macrochenia]

I thought the worst part was that you weren't allowed to shoot Reaper.

[@dracawyn]

Oh, when I saw Skyrim was on this list, I assumed it would be Alduin. It just felt like a normal dragon fight, but even easier because you had 3 allies helping.

[@This_0ne_Person]

This is what i was thinking. He may be as tanky as a legendary dragon, but with 3 allies, he's a straight pushover

[@H0lyMoley]

@@This_0ne_Person I agree with both of you, but never forget that Alduin is not the true antagonist of Skyrim. Belethor is. (Ugh. Belethor. The very name invokes dread.) Belethor the undying. Belethor the sardonic. Belethor the indestructible. Just think how many times you have to deal with him, yet he always stays... right... there. Taunting you. Taking all of your gold. Might actually be the biggest a--hole in Whiterun, and boy, that's some big shoes to fill. Talking of which... (The Jarl is a deadbeat Dad who doesn't notice his kid is consorting with daedra. His two servants are a stuffy bureaucrat who wants to leave a village undefended against dragons in case it stirs up trouble, and a dark-elf who shows contempt for the traditions of her peers. Then all the kids are awful except Mila ("This skeever-hole of a city" indeed!), there's Ysolda who then happily sends you on a quest to take on a giant camp at level 3, the sexist d-bag who wrote "A Gentleman's Guide", the guy who barks "Grey-mane or battle-born?" at random tourists, the entire insufferable superior condescending wolf-blooded Companions, Sigurd's Sigurd-ness, the priestess who will sacrifice a paradise for the sake of a tree, the alchemist who keeps trying to convince you you're ill so she can sell you more stuff, and let's not of course forget Nazeem, AKA "Everyone's first sneak-kill practice target.") ...Anyway, I feel I got a little sidetracked there. What about Salokhnir? One of the very few dragons you can actually see resurrected, and you can easily kill him before he's even got his skin on. No matter when you go after him, he feels woefully under-levelled.

[@Boomslayer19]

and harkon and basically everyone who isnt the ebony warrior or karstaag

[@roguishpaladin]

At least Alduin is a dragon fight, though, and I'd argue that Alduin feels like a let-down not because it's lacking but because dragon-fights in Skyrim are that good. The Dawnguard guy, though...it's just a guy. It's the problem with normal sized humanoid boss-fights in general in games. No matter how much you build them up, they're just guys. Colonel Autumn is another bad example of this. It's actually surprising that Legate Lanius *doesn't* feel like thatm honestly, but General Oliver also has the same problem.

[@Boomslayer19]

@@roguishpaladin not really given that said humanoid npcs can be incredibly powerful as mods like revenge of the enemies prove as in getting my ass beaten by red eagle

[@ian7064]

Arkham Knight was filled with underwhelming boss fights. The Arkham Knight himself was a huge letdown with that awful giant drill mission. If that wasn't bad enough, they teased Deathstroke and it ended up being another tank battle

[@DrEcho]

This was gonna be my comment if somebody else didn't beat me to it.

[@adamnielson42]

The arkham knight battle was okay in my opinion, especially since earlier (or maybe later) you fought him in a modified predator situation. The deathstroke fight is what really pisseed me off.

[@matman000000]

It's a real shame, especially since Arkham City and Origins had some great boss fights

[@mattyt1961]

@@adamnielson42 That predator encounter was good, that drill bit though....

[@javierortiz82]

Deathstroke was the worst in my case, I don't know how I did it, but I didn't even fight the guy, he just threw himself into the river, both in the first run and in the new game+ run, then, his car glitches and he jumps out of it and you get a dissapointing cutscene. I liked the game, but that boss was the worst. The Dark Knight wasn't that bad, but Jason's whining ruined the mood.

[@GriffinWolf]

"There has never been a good ladder in a video game." Truer words were never spoken.

[@The_GlitchWitch]

It’s hard to say that it’s anti-climactic considering how hilarious it was, but the final boss fight with Mysterio in Spider-Man 2 definitely did not match its build up...

[@mickdanger1434]

It’s such an iconic part of the game I honestly forgive the shitty boss fight

[@Quintega]

It was kinda of the point. Mysterio even in the cartoon was hilariously weak. This was an intentional joke

[@ian7064]

I haven't played that game in ages. Isn't the "fight" just knocking him out in one hit in a convenience store?

[@The_GlitchWitch]

@@ian7064 lol yes!! And as the fight is building up the game makes this big show of giving him a huge health bar.

[@bustinarant]

@@The_GlitchWitch I love talking about Mysterio losing after the nonsense game show he makes you participate in. Also swinging on UFOS to the Statue of Liberty..

[@TheJimmcv]

I now want Andy going 'Can games be art? (pause) you tell me' as a GIF.

[@TheJimmcv]

@Jmt1000 you and me both.

[@Cunnysmythe]

Rewound to see it and it didn't disappoint

[@neko_makie]

Also had an anticlimactic one where I one-sidedly beat a boss. All I got in the end were a bunch of dialogues like "You're fired!" and " I'm calling security if you show your face again."

[@guardadewindhelm7520]

Hm

[@frodobaggins7710]

The mist noble was such a surprise when I beat him. Especially because the area leading up to it contains Tokijiro and a Headless, both of which are genuinely difficult minibosses

[@ragingfirefrog]

The headless are so annoying to deal with. It's been a while since I've played but I remember fleeing (or rather dying) when I first encountered them, only to hunt them all down once I figured out how to kill them. Even then, they are annoying to deal with. I honestly don't remember how I feel about the mist noble. There are a couple of bosses that I remember well.

[@00pugsly48]

You could fill this list with entires from Arkham Knight. They dropped the ball there. Especially Deathstroke.

[@OK-yy6qz]

Can't believe the only decent boss fights in the game come from side quests

[@pihermit7724]

I definitely agree on the point. When it came to the story, the atmoshpere, and the gameplay, Arkham Knight was so much fun. But when it came to some of the boss battles, I said to myself, "Is that it?" The Deathstroke boss battle pissed me off the most. If I recall correctly, in the comics he is a master tactician who is always 7 steps ahead of his enemy, but in Arkham Knight, his boss battle was just a game of hide and seek. Step 1: Hide Step 2: Shoot his tank Step 3: Run away Step 4: Go back to step 1 And that was it. One of the most stupid ways to fight and beat a "master tactician."

[@00pugsly48]

@@pihermit7724 yer it was awful. The worst part for me was it looked like after the tank battle you were going to settle it in good old fashioned fisticuffs then you drop him quickly in a non interactive sequence….after spending ages clearing his camps. 😢

[@wojtek1765]

And now a few years later we have suicide kill The J U S T I C E League and Oakham is Batman was officially killed by Harley Quinn

[@magicpyroninja]

I always thought it was interesting that the enemy vampire boss blows the roof off the temple so that depending on the time of day you're fighting him out in the sun 😂

[@StrangePlaysGames]

General Scales from Star Fox Adventures! I know this game didn't have great reviews but I always enjoyed it. What I didn't enjoy, however, was that when you get to the end and finally face off with big bad General Scales, before the first strike can be made, all of a sudden Andross appears because... Star Fox reference.

[@dyingstar24]

TFW past minute design changes are made

[@PerfectKirby]

General Scales was my first thought too

[@MinnehahaSybyl]

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who had that reaction to Vyrthur! I even read a strategy guide on him the first time, and instead he literally stands there for a second so you can load up your shout. I just stared at him for a second going "Really? We're doing this right?" Before I sent him off the cliff.

[@thegrandcactus]

And then reload save and do it differently, for his armor

[@Gatorade69]

I did that to the Blades. Even though they couldn't die.

[@redshirt49]

I crafted a set of swords sword that did thousands of damage. He dies in two hits. In fact, everything does. Except Draugr Death Overlords for some reason, who are infinitely more pesky opponents than anything else the game throws at you (including Miraak).

[@OneWingedRose]

Mass Effect 2's Terminator Reaper boss battle is one of my highlights in gaming memories to be honest. Learning what the Collectors had been doing with the humans and WHY the Reapers were building a human reaper (as a sort of honour over your achievements in ME1) was pretty cool I think. And then... I will always remember pausing the game with the weapon/ability/command wheel button RIGHT as the Terminator Reaper rises up to actually fight you, music swelling, image frozen/in-slow-mo before me of what was about to happen. Sure, the fight itself was just your standard shoot the weakpoints on a large enemy kind of affair, but the game had done a great job of building up to it and letting you sit in that reveal (or maybe that last part was more me than the game lol). - - - So it's odd to see it on a list like this for me.

[@thomasrevill7723]

I wouldn't necessarily call it an anticlimax as far as the narrative goes, just not very interesting to play through. That being said, it doesn't ruin the ending by any means, and the cutscene that follows is more than worth the slightly boring barrier to entry.

[@someguy1ification]

Yeah, that fight may have been simplistic, but it was at least a spectacle and fun to play. I thought the Mass Effect entry would be Kai Leng from 3, who I shot twice in the head with my sniper rifle.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Wait, there's actually a fight? I thought you just shot the Cain and it died.

[@Berserker720]

@@FelisImpurratorlol. If you hit the right spot it only takes one shot of the Cain to finish the fight. I managed to kill it in the first how many ever seconds it takes to charge up the cain. Edit: I forgot about the part where you have to shoot the tunes. You can only one shot it with the cain after that part.

[@alhena11]

To be honest, how much interesting you can make a boss fight in a shooting game?

[@Actuallyadogperson]

For me it’s Tentalus from Skyward Sword. You go through arguably the best dungeon in the entire game, run through the sinking sand ship after completing the puzzles, narrowly escape drowning and then get to the boss: an underwhelming Medusa-Cyclops hybrid that you shoot at from a distance and can dodge easily. The character design somehow manages to be even more underwhelming than the fight itself.

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

Agreed completely. The pirate miniboss was actually better and harder than the actual boss. The only worse obe would be later stages of the imprisioned. It would be so cool if it wasn't for the toes and fingers.

[@Actuallyadogperson]

@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor I think I've blanked the imprisoned from my mind, the repeated fights just make it really dull.

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

@@Actuallyadogperson Yeah. The last one is sort of cool but it's just so repetitive.

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Aaaah the wasted potential...

[@rusticgiraffe4262]

Can’t forget Bowser from Mario Sunshine. You never see him once for the entire game, you make your way through a lava-filled gauntlet within an unfortunately named volcano, and when you finally confront Bowser, he’s just chilling in a bathtub. All you really have to do is flip the tub over and you win the game.

[@dyingstar24]

Hey, villains need vacations too, man! It just so happened that both parties were in the same place at the same time!

[@kingtaco258]

A plot hole i noticed from mass effect is that almost all doubts would be solved if Shepard had a body cam out on missions or the mass effect equivalent.

[@dododojo905]

They do have AI in the Mass Effect universe. Maybe it's too easy to deep fake camera footage?

[@voodoominerman]

I think they actually do have them. I'm pretty sure in ME2, while talking to the council, Anderson mentions that they've seen the recordings of shepherds conversation with Sovereign. The problem was that there wasn't enough hard evidence to prove that sovereign was an AI. That whole conversation could easily have been delivered by a simple VI built by Saren.

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of something i read about in one of the "wing commander" games: you repeatedly encounter mysterious stealthy enemy ships, and EVERY time, your Flight Recorder malfunctions...

[@shinzero0271]

They had video and recordings. Plot just got in the way of common sense when it came to the council and the writers used them to ensure Shepard and crew had no real support other than Hackett sending in cleanup crews once Shepard was done.

[@szklanylabirynt151]

@@shinzero0271 It's not about the "plot". It's about the Council thinking with usual politics-level common sense, which is revealed in the Citadel DLC in the Archives. They believed Shepard completely but decided to bury it to avoid galaxywide panic. Preparations were made, especially in the Turian Hierarchy, but that was just grossly too little too late. Also, we need to remember that it was too late from the start - by the time of Mass Effect, two years prior to ME2, the harvest cycle reached its expiry date so to speak. The harvest was supposed to take place right then and there but it was thwarted, along with the Citadel relay being cut off for the Reapers. So, there was an illusion that some time was bought, when in reality... there simply wasn't enough time to properly prepare and reveal anything to the public.

[@carlsiouxfalls]

I didn't mind the ME2 end boss. Pretty sure I've always missed those mini-nuke shots on it, somehow.

[@druinofodd1762]

The threat of the floor disappearing beneath you during the fight and the looming worry of losing squadmates throughout that whole section makes it pretty memorable imo

[@JachAnen]

Never tried after I first got it. Because every time I hit something, it killed me too

[@janeausten222]

Agreed, at least there was a "boss" fight unlike ME3.

[@talltroll7092]

I find that a Widow rifle and the beam weapon makes it pretty manageable

[@nayrasylasister9234]

If you keep all the mininukes in the game, you can have 2 for the last boss. Shoot twice, and that's it...

[@desertrose4days]

Thinking back to when i obliterated Calamity Ganon in about a minute, I had a harder time with the Lynels leading up to it.

[@speedypichu6833]

It depends on how you play, but I would say Ganon from Breath of the Wild, who if you get the master sword, 4 divine beasts, and some decently leveled equipment, I could beat in under 5 minutes on my first try, when I accidentally started the fight early.

[@matman000000]

I was waiting for another harder phase after defeating him, then the credits started rolling and I was like "that was it?". Most lynels were harder that Ganon

[@speedypichu6833]

@@matman000000 Yeah, I think Silver lynels might have more health than him, and by that point I had memorized the dodge timings I can beat them getting hit twice at most, while Ganon doesn’t even do that much when I fight him since he just dies

[@Manavine]

Ganon's only an actual threat in Master Mode. ...Where suddenly, him being invulnerable is really FUCKING annoying and lets him easily regen EVERYTHING you and the divine beasts have done throughout the fight. The only reason I didn't reload and instead continued the fight was, at that point, I thankfully knew that regen had its limits. But, once again, instead of an anti climax, you get the representation of everything wrong about the whole health regen aspect of master mode. So yeah. Still a fucking stupid fight.

[@chadpeterson5698]

Yeah seriously Dark Beast Ganon from Breath of the Wild is one of the worst final bosses in the Zelda universe only beaten by Lady Maud from Triforce Heroes ( I just have a big hatred for Lady Maud seriously WHY DOES SHE EVEN EXIST!!!!!)

[@thechevyferrari9559]

I love Hush from the comics, and his build up in Arkham City was what MADE ME READ THE COMICS ABOUT HIM, but yeah. Arkham Knight has a few anticlimactic boss fights, but that was just… nothin. Granted, Hush is at his best when you don’t see him at all, you’re just too off balance and busy reacting to his schemes that you have no idea what’s really going on. He’s a better final boss than a side mission, if that makes sense.

[@shawnfields2369]

While I may not know much about Hush, I didn't completely hate that fight against him, only because Batman is such a badass, but it genuinely should have been more of a fight against him, although I did like seeing Lucius smashing something against Hush's face, before Batman grabs him, and slams him through his desk. Looked and sounded cooler than the actual "fight", and should've been HOW the fight ends, not how the fight went! Sure, everyone knows Bats is a badass and the World's Greatest Detective, but that wasn't a fight. That was Batman punching Hush in the gut, Lucius slamming a jar or something against his face, before Batman combo's him up in the air, and slams him back down through directly through his desk. Impressive to see and hear about, definitely, but I think if they'd put more effort into Arkham Knight, they could've made it work. Definitely. Not that Arkham Knight is a bad game, just not as good as Arkham City or Arkham Asylum, or even as good as Arkham Origins. Roger Craig-Smith's portrayal of the Dark Knight was better than I expected, and Troy Baker's portrayal of The Joker was also pretty good(obviously, nobody can top Mark Hamill's voice, but Troy Baker did ok). Fun Fact: Roger Craig Smith is also the current voices of both Sonic the Hedgehog, and Chris Redfield(from the Resident Evil series). Sorry if this went on too long though, dude. Also, I completely agree, the fight against Hush is literally nothing at all. Maybe it's supposed to symbolize how Hush has nothing himself?

[@thechevyferrari9559]

@@shawnfields2369 not a problem, I’m probably as hype on the Arkham games as you are. And yeah, Chris Batfield was kinda odd but very fun! I think I like Knight’s combat the best, and I don’t even mind the batmobile that much, but City had the best pacing, world, story, all that Jazz for me. And yeah, one of Hush’s things is that… he kinda doesn’t have one. He’s a plastic surgeon and a tactician, but like…. No real identity of his own

[@shawnfields2369]

@@thechevyferrari9559 Hey, thanks anyways, dude. Batman has been my favorite DC superhero ever since the cartoon days, which was when he was played by Kevin Conroy, or Eric from Boy Meets World(for Batman Beyond), but they always did a good job. I haven't seen a Batman portrayal that disappointed me personally, since the 90s Batman & Robin, but even then, everyone's apologized for it, so it's not a big deal. I didn't even hate Ben Affleck as Batman, and I've never liked Affleck either. But something about seeing him in Batman V Superman, or even the 2017 Justice League movies didn't disappoint me at all. Even though everyone and their grandma hated both movies, hey, that's perfectly understandable. Nobody can top the Batman from the 90s, or even the late Adam West's performance as the Dark Knight, or especially Christian Bale's Batman, despite the corny deep voice thing he was doing, his performance was the best live action Batman we'd ever seen, and his movies also had the BEST Commisoner Gordon ever, and best take on Alfred, and Lucius Fox also, as well as the best live action Joker(until 2019 with Joaquin Phoenix), and the best Two-Face as well. But they also had the worst Bane. It was so bad, I can't even remember HOW bad it was. But the cartoons are the only time I've seen Bane done right, and maybe the Injustice games, but I haven't read the comics, unfortunately. It's not like I don't feel like it, I just prefer the cartoons, games and movies. But I don't hate the comics though. The Joker has always been my favorite Batman villain, though. And I'm hoping Robert Pattinson will live up to The Dark Knight's legacy, because the trailers make his portrayal look pretty cool so far. Yeah, I get it, Dr. Thomas Elliot, a plastic surgeon who has no identity, so he goes around, cutting people's faces off with his precise surgery skills, and attaches their faces to his own, like he's Leatherface or something. Creepy... he likes to go around, pretending to be other people, trying to be them, imitate them, but he especially HATES Bruce Wayne and his family, because he's rich. He's jealous of Bruce and wants his money, because Hush feels like; his family going bankrupt was Wayne's fault, and wants the entire Wayne family's fortune. His big plan was to commit insurance fraud, and totally make everyone believe Bruce Wayne is Batman(when everybody knows he's totally NOT!), but seeing as how if people knew who Batman truly was, that would take away the fear the bad guys feel whenever they know Batman's after them, trying to stop them. So, Hush forcing Batman's hand to try and show his face, isn't a bad plan, just poorly executed. Hush as a villain, still sucked here though. So much buildup... just to see Bats slamming Hush through his desk, beating him in about...10 seconds. Looked cool though.

[@thechevyferrari9559]

@@shawnfields2369 Hehehe, yeah no, I cannot pick a bad Batman portrayal, and I’m very hyped for Pattinson’s attempt. (The Lighthouse is both cinematic brilliance and a complete meme of a movie, no hyperbole). Yeah, Hush’s big thing was Thomas Elliot and Bruce Wayne were childhood best friends, but when the Wayne’s died and Bruce inherited all their money, Tommy wanted that too, cut the brakes on the car, failed to kill his mom, and ended up losing all of their family’s fortune on paying for her health care, so it’s a big ol jealousy thing towards Bruce Wayne. And he’s a big brain chess guy too, sortof Riddler but without the flamboyancy. I really recommend the original Jeph Loeb story HUSH, people like to hate on it now cause whatever, but it’s just a genuinely fun story. I’m also very excited we’re getting a dark riddler interpretation, that just sounds interesting.

[@SolaScientia]

The fight against Tirnoch at the end of the main quest of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. She's referenced vaguely the entire game as some great monstrosity Gadflow made a pact with; he certainly makes a big deal about her. The fight? Almost trivial. She spawns 3 or so copies of your character that you have to fight. They're pretty easy to kill. Attacking her is just fateshifting her to drop her down and then just wailing on her once you've killed the clones. Rinse and repeat (it's 3 times total, I believe). In my first encounter with her I beat her more quickly than various other bosses or even groups of mob enemies. I for sure had an "is that it?" reaction to the whole thing.

[@robstuart8474]

Never heard of that game. Has anyone on the channel ever mentioned it?

[@jprofio]

I had way more fun with all the side quests tbh, I'd done everything by the time I reached the end

[@SolaScientia]

@@jprofio Same. I've done multiple runs in the original game logging 540 hours in it. I haven't played much of Re-Reckoning even though I did get that new Fatesworn expansion/DLC. Comes from basically having the game memorized at this point and also focusing on Bloodborne and DS3, lol. The side quests and all are varied enough that I never felt too bored by them. The final boss fights of each faction questline were all a bit tricky as well, except the Warsworn and Travelers ones. The boss fight for the Scholia Arcana faction is a right pain and even knowing it as well as I do I still hate that fight.

[@Gyrbae]

@@jprofio Yeah me too, there was so much to do that when I returned to the main quest I've sometimes forget what had happened prior.

[@ToastyCola]

That, and with endgame mastercrafted gear, it doesn't even take many attacks before the fight continues -I've gone and killed her in less than ten attacks before, even if you include the fateshift knockdown / finisher as an attack.

[@gregdurando3987]

General Scales from Star Fox: Adventure. You spend the entire game foiling his plans, but before you get to administer a righteous beat down, he dies like a chump.

[@Gaaraloverr1]

THIS! I had a harder time with the Test of Fear than I did going up against General Scales.

[@gregdurando3987]

@@Gaaraloverr1 Same here! Testify!

[@hologilion2868]

I'm surprised there was no mention of Corypheus from Dragon Age: Inquisition. Introduced in the previous games Legacy-DLC where he got a challenging, epic boss fight; then built up for most of Inquisition as a massive threat with armies under his command ... and in the final fight he's alone and really easy to beat.

[@BouncingTribbles]

Mass effect two missed such a good opportunity to have a scaling boss. Depending on how many humans the reapers get their hands on you could have fought a different stage of development for that giant reaper

[@bustinarant]

Although having almost my entire team die the first time I got that far was good motivation to "do side stuff" lol

[@fireblade295]

@@bustinarant I never understand rushers. Someone who 100%s gets more of the game than a rusher.

[@petervandam6240]

@@fireblade295 Because some games their 100% is you collecting useless thing for no reason, you can take The Witcher 3 as an example, you can do every side quest to kill a monster, only to get more useless money you don't need and what? their head?

[@bustinarant]

@@petervandam6240 Thats a bad example because the side quests in the Witcher 3 are all pretty unique and remembered fondly. I don't always do everything in a Bioware game though other than befriending my party. Mass Effect 2 is the first time it's ever gone wrong because of that, other than killing everyone in an evil playthrough, ya know.

[@petervandam6240]

@@bustinarant Bad example? The Witcher 3 indeed has a lot of "unique" side quests but still most are just forgettable.

[@ThatCerberusGuy]

Mephistopheles at the end of the Hordes of the Underdark expansion for the Original 2002 Neverwinter Nights is mine. For as powerful as they made him, BioWare forgot to make him immune to death magic. So the first time I fought him, a summoned Balor I had with me, cast implosion on him, and he rolled a one. One of the Nine Lords of Hell died in literally two seconds to the famous D&D 5% rule lmao

[@Kilthan2050]

nice. I just cheesed my way through by abusing the multiclass system. A half-orc Sorcerer/Pale Master/Red Dragon Disciple. He had almost no magic, but his Strength, Dex, Con, and AC were through the absolute roof. Nearly invincible, able to wear heavy armor, swing a two handed great sword, and one hit kill most enemies without resorting to his finger of death Pale Master ability.

[@matsujonen]

Deekin killed him for me in one round.

[@ThatCerberusGuy]

@@matsujonen Deekin needs his own stand alone game. It was cool that he had a cameo in NWN 2, but I wanted more :D

[@ThatCerberusGuy]

@@Kilthan2050 nice! You ever try doing a 4 levels of Bard to get the arcane spell casting you need for Pale Master? I don't know how many levels of Sorcerer you took, but if you had "no magic" I'm guessing not many lol, but having the bard song even at low level, is a decent boost to your attack rolls

[@JohnZ117]

Screw that. My characters just bought his name. The good or neutral ones sent him away, the evil ones...

[@87TIG]

Professor Nakayama from borderlands 2 wasn't necessarily the most disappointing, but it was incredibly comical to watch the guy you're supposed to have a boss fight with abruptly fall down a set of stairs and die without a single shot needed.

[@blueshadowsoundeffects1559]

Dude died from stairs but the boss after him was hard as hell

[@jordanyates278]

Breath of the wild came to mind when I saw the title. Giant boar Ganon that takes up the entire valley should be epic. But then he kinda just stands there while you ride around and shoot him.

[@jurrehuizinga7136]

You mean dark beast ganon.

[@CaitlinRC]

...Zote the mighty in the Colosseum of Fools. You battle through this gauntlet and the final boss drops down... The hero who boasted of his prowess the whole game. And what happens? You play swing ball with his body for a minute

[@varunchaturvedi2581]

HUUUUUUUUUHHHH MANEWAAAAAAAA *proceeds to be utterly unable to damage you*

[@octohunter7775]

Oh yeah thats a good one

[@valiroime]

Is _swing ball_ another name for tether ball?

[@CaitlinRC]

@@valiroime Yes it is! In the UK we called it swing ball :)

[@Monkeyzforever]

One of my favourite moments in the game tbh xD But then you get to Grey Prince Zote and... Bretta has quite the imagination

[@DementedDistraction]

For me the most anti-climactic boss fight I can remember was against Nemeroth in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. The game itself is decent up until the final boss - I mean, it's largely a God of War clone, but the gameplay is still fun, visceral, and engaging, but when you get the the final battle with Nemeroth you don't get to employ ANYTHING you've learned or otherwise acquired during the game. It all just boils down to a simple QTE as the two of you fall off a tower - The End. It's doubly jarring because the entire game Nemeroth was built up as this unconquerable force of evil, and all of it delivered with bombastic fanfare along with heavy trappings of inevitable doom...and then the finale plays out with all the dignity of a wet fart in the middle of church. I don't know if the designers were burnt out and couldn't think of anything, or if the development schedule caused them to run out of time, but it was a staggeringly bad final battle, and one that completely undermined the game that preceded it.

[@jeffathomp]

Isn't it literally impossible to lose the final fight in Final Fantasy X? Really kills the drama.

[@Kartissa]

Yeah. After Braska's Final Aeon, it's just cleaning up the mess. Much like the final Cloud/Sephiroth confrontation in FF7.

[@unchangedimage1603]

The final boss in Sly 4: thieves in time. The series returned and was another really entertaining entry but it ended with a whimper. It was a glorified QTE which hurt the weight of the scenario that you built towards throughout the story. Unfortunately there hasn’t been any news on a continuation.

[@kchgamer1788]

100% agreed. Having someone who came from a family of thieves and could possibly have had their own family moves and have actually posed a threat to Sly in skill would have been soooooo fun. I don’t think we’ve ever gone against someone who has possibly equaled him in pure skill. But no, QTE. Well I guess that’s it.

[@pantheman2842]

Agree. He could be a mirror boss who fights just like you, using his stench for a stun, and change his style as you, due to the unstable time machine, visit every single place you had before.

[@positronium3525]

Bioware has a history of underwhelming Boss fights. Corypheus in Dragon Age II Legacy DLC is a satisfying, hard as nails boss fight. I was excited when Dragon Age: Inquisition revealed Corypheus as the main villain and expected another epic multi-phase rpg boss fight. Fast forward to the climax of Dragon Age: Inquisition where you have just completed a difficult scrap with a corrupted Dragon and stoked to finally fight to put an end to Corypheus. The fight with Corypheus was underwhelming easy that for me lasted than two minutes.

[@janeausten222]

You must just be better at gaming than others. I struggled to make it through the dragon and Corypheus and felt incredibly happy when I overcame both.

[@TacticalProjectGaming]

I don't know man, I think the build up to the Saren boss fight and in Mass Effect 1 and the showdown itself was one of the best I've ever played. Especially making him regret his decision and kill himself, only to come back as a robot.

[@felixbenkenstein4904]

That's why I think that it wasn't a bad choice for Bioware to dispense with the boss fight at the end of Mass Effect 3

[@SebasTian58323]

Just from the name, the panther king from Conker's deserves a shout out. And, the Skyrim one only counts if you decide to exploit the game mechanics of the Fus-Ro-Dah shout, otherwise it's not nearly as anticlimactic as you point out yourselves

[@jardex2275]

Just how many Skyrim 'bosses' can be beaten by maxing out your stealth and crit hitting them with an arrow to the head?

[@merchantfan]

The voice read on Batman is hilarious in the first clip. "Listen, Alfred's making pot pie tonight. Hush. Got. Away"

[@KyuubiWindscar4]

If you include Skyrim then you gotta add in Alduin. Vythur was disappointing a bit but Alduin was supposed to be a world eater but nobody ever felt in danger. He isn’t even as strong as Ancient Dragons

[@shocking_squirrel]

Some how the singing poo never ceases to surprise me that it was a thing that happened.

[@BrotherMag]

I still have the game 🤦‍♂️

[@oonk1418]

@@BrotherMag I still love and play it 🤦‍♀️

[@sternonisoil]

Love that Andy cutaway gag. Gave me a good lol

[@napassagemsecreta]

The fight against the March Hare and the Dormouse in Alice Madness Returns. A giant teapot immediately takes out the huge mecha you were supposed to fight.

[@Razuki5]

That totally shattered my excitement, because I really like fighting giant mechas. But I think it cements the idea that you’re not fighting wonderland, but the corruption instead. The only traditional boss fight in the game is the one at the end, the source of all the bad stuff you went through

[@jpdoe9005]

Two things that will never grow old: the oxbox jazz piano intro and the clip from the the great mighty poo. Timeless classics.

[@user-wj6eq1cx7x]

Needs more "You Are Dead" song

[@isabellanoble1280]

What about fable 2? If I recall correctly the final boss dies in one hit, talk about disappointing.

[@finnover9781]

Killbane in the "Kill Killbane" ending in Saint's Row 3. You just beat him up in a few QTE's, and snap his neck. And then you have to hold a funeral for your friends who got blown up when you decided to go after Killbane instead of rescuing them from STAG.

[@HavocHounds1988]

I agree that is a very anticlimactic fight for sure.

[@calebdixon7982]

That was the whole point though! Critically, it was a great scene. You find him, full intent on revenge and then when you get it's just... Empty. All there is to show for it is your dead friends. It was great.

[@shinzero0271]

I mean, it makes sense when you consider that choosing to chase Killbane was clearly the wrong choice in a franchise that has always been about loyalty to friends. The whole game's storyline is getting revenge for the unexpected loss of a friend while the Saints were just dicking around.

[@HavocHounds1988]

@@shinzero0271 True, that is a good point.

[@akisavolainen4918]

I have to consider Fallout 3 a sad omission from the list, with the "climactic" fight consisting of a speech check, running, then walking while a giant robot does your work for you, and another speech check.

[@GhengisJohn]

I personally loved the final boss fight in Mass Effect 2, narratively it was fantastic, I loved the way the music swelled when it appeared and if you play the harder difficulty modes it's a lot more of a challenge, plus I got to face it down with my homies, Garrus and Miranda which somehow made the whole thing better. Certainly kicked the ever loving poop out of the "Star child", that's for sure. And that's who'd get my vote. The star child. Mass effect 3 had a lot of problems but that climax was perhaps the worst of them.

[@termnus77]

Agreed, but it was unfortunately not really a boss fight, more colour filter choice 😁

[@Boomslayer19]

mass effect 3 doesn't really have a boss its more just a multiple choice question but all choices are the same the ending equivalent of the fallout 4 dialogue wheel also mass effect 2 boss is fine its just that the nuke is ridiculously overpowered till the point cheesing bosses becomes rather easy that's nothing to do with the boss difficulty but bioware's balance even with it taking all ammo ammo is so easy too get by that the nuke just becomes stupidly broken honestly mass effect 2 would be better off without that particular weapon the black hole gun does more then enough damage already

[@nasima4132]

I absolutely agree with you. ME2 final mission and boss fight made me feel like I was in a live action block buster movie! My heart was racing the entire time with excitement and anticipation. The epic music, story telling, worrying about your team and praying to all the great powers out there to keep your mates alive while you fight to save the very galaxy, and in the end face off a horror of a reaper which is blasting freaking giant lasers at you while collectors swarm you endlessly, then blow up the place to hell and watch how the team and shepard escape in an epic cutscene, see how the team survives because you took the time to bond them together, I say hands down one of the best end fights and conclusions I have seen and played. Bioware outdone themselves and I love them for that I just hope they could have kept the bar high just like that with ME3. Oh well😓

[@chrispotter2616]

Agreed. It had elements of surprise and tension - because of the music! Without it, the ending would have very much felt a little lacklustre. It's not fairly comparable with other entries in this list.

[@caldwin]

Have to agree. It's a much more involved fight than ME3. Though Star Child wasn't really a boss. You don't even fight it. I think the last boss was actually Marauder Shields. Just a few well placed gun shots and he's down. Poor guy was just trying to save us from the real ending. Poor Marauder Shields. :(

[@H0lyMoley]

System Shock 2. I love that game, but man, the final level made no sense (and not just because it was apparently "SHODAN's memories" yet starts in the one place on Citadel Station that she canonically has no idea existed.) Thinking about every exhausting thing you had to do in SS1 to dismantle her creations before finally taking her out in cyberspace, and then thinking about SS2's final fight (which is easily over in ten seconds if you have the lowest-level heavy weapon in the game and a decent supply of ammo for it)... yep. This was not a great ending.

[@Chris_Sizemore]

I think my most disappointing boss fight had to be in Borderlands 2 against Professor Nakayama. Guy is the antagonist for Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt DLC. The guy behind all of the strange robots and animals with Jack faces, and a plot to bring Jack back as a clone. He has been 'taunting' you through all of this DLC. Laying traps. Doing his best to get you in the mood to stomp him good. You work your way into his Lair and confront him ... the guy is delivering his big pre-battle speech in a cut scene and he stumbles down some stairs which kills him. All that build up, and no fight. I'm not even mad, just disappointed.

[@Trotty32]

To be fair, you do have a proper boss fight immediately before that, in the form of Nakayama's Frankenstein monster and Handsome Jack wannabe, Jackenstein. Only after you beat this very real boss, do you then get punked by Nakayama's "fight" where he is defeated by gravity and ineptitude. It's also hilarious, and probably the funniest part of that DLC.

[@dyingstar24]

To be fair, Nakayama was also a wimp and a coward, with a lot of his dialogue making him sound not only as such, but also making it sound like he was stalking Jack like an absolutely obsessed creep... Which he actually was according to the echos you find lying around

[@Aldragon]

I feel like you missed the entire point lmao

[@PhilipCarroll64]

That was pretty funny though. Plus after all that fighting, it was kind of a relief not to have to fight him.

[@stevewurster]

Thank you for playing one of my favorite quotes from ME2: "We are Harbinger".

[@wdya]

Final boss of Resident Evil 7. I love that game, and of course saved up massive stores of ammo for the final boss as you must in these games, but the entire encounter is basically completely scripted and on a timer to when she dies. Your hits don't even seem to do anything.

[@bossd3815]

I believe your hits do something in the first stage of it's transformation, when it slowly crawls towards you untill the house breakes and you fall out of it. I lost a few times at this stage and was sure that I wasn't supposed to shoot at this thing since it doesn't seem to do anything, but than guide suggested otherwise. I did some experimentation with my highest damage output weapons, and it went to the next phase, which is basically an interactive cutscene

[@brycethebattlephoenix3720]

They were more hoping for the shock value because you thought that she was just a harmless old lady

[@bossd3815]

@@brycethebattlephoenix3720 I don't think you would normally consider anything harmless on this game, and she was particularly scary with her sudden appearances and disappearances throughout the game

[@zel7396]

You gotta have Fable 2's boss fight. Just a button press that you could even be robbed of

[@thedylannorwood]

Ironically enough, The Didact from Halo 4 and Harbinger from Mass Effect 2 are voiced by the same guy, Keith Szarabajka.

[@jprofio]

Skyrim 101: When fighting a strong enemy, lure them near an edge and Shout them off

[@AD-6896]

I was so disappointed that the final battle against Hades in Horizon: Zero Dawn was what it was. Helps was plain annoying, like, Lazarevic from Uncharted 2 annoying, and the you go to the Spire to face Hades with all your allies, and what do you face? Another deathbringer. Like, I get that there are only so many kinds of machines, but I felt kind of let down.

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

I don't remember the Hades battle at all. Considering I remember damn near every other major moment in that game, probably a good indicator they fucked up.

[@Macrochenia]

@@ossiehalvorson7702 It was a hold-the-line action against waves of enemies using an admittedly rather fun shotgun-cannon, followed by climbing the tower and just having another Deathbringer fight.

[@matthewdean143]

Yhorm the Giant in DS3. He's big, he's menacing, and if you completed Siegward's questline, he spends like two thirds of the boss fight stunned.

[@HavocHounds1988]

If you don't use the Storm Ruler he's not as much of a pushover.

[@matthewdean143]

​@@HavocHounds1988 Based on the Skyrim dude in the video, bosses who get reduced to insignificance based on one relatively easy trick qualify even if you can get a more satisfying encounter by not using that trick.

[@HavocHounds1988]

@@matthewdean143 Yeah, I guess that is fair.

[@SorasShadow1]

The "final boss" of FF10 where you can't even die was pretty disappointing given all the hype around Sin. I get the thematic reasoning behind it and agree that Jekt makes for a good "true final boss" but damn, the disappointment I felt on my first run through the game after years of hearing how good 10 is can't really be quantified.

[@TheBlackSeraph]

Yu Yevon was the first thing that came to mind when thinking of "disappointing boss fights". The second being Brahman from SMTDDS2, but in that case, the setup was the disappointment more than the fight itself.

[@TheLadyLiddell]

Yu Yevon wasn't meant to be viewed as the "final boss" though?

[@SorasShadow1]

@@TheLadyLiddell thus the rest of my comment, i get it, but it doesn't mean i wasn't disappointed at the time. which i was.

[@TheLadyLiddell]

@@SorasShadow1 I got the metaphor at the time so 🤷‍♀️

[@SorasShadow1]

@@TheLadyLiddell good for you?? man idk what to tell you, people are allowed to feel complex emotions that include understanding the point and being disappointed at the same time.

[@halkiierid4084]

Reminds me of the time I had my D&D party (all fairly low-level) encounter an owlbear. The wizard pretty much rendered the whole battle trivial with the use of the Grease spell and a few lucky rolls.

[@SanctifiedSanity]

First one in a while that made me laugh out loud several times. Andy's "Are games art?", the Fus Ro Dah I never considered, and the atrocious aim for Mass Effect. Thank you, I needed that.

[@Sunprism]

I know not everyone played it....But Damn, I am still salty about the final boss in The Darkness....Like the most annoying chase ever, then you just have to shoot him once while he stands in the middle of a room

[@misterbones5981]

It was more of a challenge to fight his goons throughout the mansion and grounds rather than shooting a boss who doesn't even have a gun

[@zapunknown]

Orochi from Okami was really disappointing. He was being heavily built up the whole game and even kinda appeared in other boss fights. But the worst thing about Orichi is that you have to fight him a whopping 3 times and it’s always the same exact boss even when the game promises him to be different he isn’t, but atleast it doesn’t ruin the entire game. Edit: I put the name of the wrong game at first, guess that’s what I get for reading comments while writing one

[@anonymousgerbil8336]

At least the final boss fight was satisfying.

[@RodH_05]

HUSH: MY FACE! BATMAN: *slams hush on the table. "YOUR BACK."

[@Slowpokeinabathtub]

In tomb raider the definitive edition, you’re up against these Japanese foot soldiers and there is a massive giant solider. During this time everything is going crazy as there is so much snow and so much chaos, and bursting through the doors is the giant samurai solider.. only.. a gust of wind throws him off of the cliff…

[@silentsnow9254]

I'm honestly having the hardest time remembering a lot of it because it was so long ago. But the "fight" against Dutch at the end of RDR1 was very anticlimactic for me.

[@Amayawolf_01]

I genuinely don't remember fighting him at all lmao

[@Jalbert1989]

One more for the list: Dying Light main antagonist battle. From a quick pace shooter game, it gets reduced to a damned Quick Time Event.

[@dyingstar24]

Gotta admit the climb up rais' tower was more of the final boss, considering the games playstyle... But yeah, they kinda blew it by making rais a qte...

[@garyismad8283]

I have one from Metroid dread, the X parasite named Escue the electrical bug that gives you storm missiles. It is a challenge to fight and is annoying to fight coz it can do electricity barter so it can take NO DAMAGE for a bit AS well it can it’s version of storm missiles and no PARY attacks!

[@ChasoGod]

Lucien Fairfax from 'Fable 2' was a big anti-climatic boss fight. He was defeated by a music box and a single bullet, either shot by you or by Reaver after you freed him from Lucien draining him and two others of their power and you just don't shoot.

[@cearnicus]

In the original Gradius (NES), an otherwise pretty hard shooter, the final boss was a brain. Just a brain. It doesn't even attack you. Apparently, you don't even have to shoot it, it just dies on its own after 30 seconds.

[@cmdraftbrn]

now theres a game i havent heard in a long long time

[@1Holbytla]

Sounds like Operation C (Contra) for the original Game Boy. The boss is just a helpless blob in a tank. You stand and shoot it til it dies. Very unsatisfying to me. Wow! The Gradius brain dies on its own? That’s just… wow.

[@Cyberlanky]

I don't understand the hate for the Proto-Humam Reaper. Of course it's not too advanced; The Collectors haven't gotten very far as the attacks on the colonies are relatively recent. Also they didn't expect anyone to make it through the Omega-4 relay so they weren't as prepared as you'd think. The music, narrative build up and scale of the creature more than make up for it's lack of creativity from a gameplay standpoint. Mass Effect has always been about the story and characters over combat mechanics.

[@NotAVeryGoodNickname]

Sometimes it is the player that makes it trivial. Back when ps2 was new a rpg called Summoner was released where you fight a multistage battle against a demon of darkness in a cathedral in the end. However build one character with magic resistance and they can just whittle the final form down with a bow. Or better yet, build a backstabber and kill every phase in one or two hits.

[@joshuah4952]

The follow-up to Vyrthur, that is, Serana's father Harkon, was incredibly anticlimactic the first time I encountered him. I was playing as a backstabbing assassin, and just walked behind him and slit his throat while he was talking to Serana.

[@andymcp4752]

*Heavy machine gun fire, Explosions, reloading, Enemy death screams* "for England Ja-" *More, louder machine gun Fire*

[@lukasgamemaster4528]

What about the fight against Sauron from Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor? All this build up, fighting through innumerable orc hordes, forcing a sort of Social Darwinist selection process on their leadership to help the hero Talion enthrall the most powerful captains, in order to finally face your ultimate foe...who you then kill via QuickTime Event.

[@KillerCornMuffin]

I thought the ME2 final fight was meant more to be mind-screwey than difficult. Finding out everything you did on the collector base was similar in tone to what you see at the end. I liked it.

[@Kagane1001]

Half of the bosses of Undertale have a variant that deserved a spot on this list. If I had to name one though, Mettaton neo. An area worth of buildup, transformation pre battle into a mech that traded it's right opposable thumb for a arm-cannon. Then battle begins and he doesn't even have attacks, and if you as much as breathe on him it's a clean oneshot

[@GenLiu]

What do you mean mist noble was anti-climatic? I was on the edge of my seat for the entire fight! Saw the flute playing monstrosity and began to sweat profusely. Use buffs. Sugar, confetti, you name it. Mario the hell out of him and took his first health bar...Well, that seems too easy. Your playing Sekiro, something is gonna happen, I know it. Smash the boss (or the bros, if you want to keep the Mario vibe) but not too aggressively because, you never know, he may have some crazy counterattack that one shot you.....Can this guy defend himself? Killed him...Naaaaaah, I don't buy it, something's gonna happen...The screen is covered in mist and I panic again. Oh my god, I knew it! Reapply buffs and the like, clutches my controller like a lunatic. Waiting... Waiting... Waiting... Prod the corpse in the ribs. Are you alright bro?

[@LadyTarasque]

The 1 on 1 final fight with Sephiroth.. Prior fights are challenging (unless you're like me and always get to the final fights overpowered), but with him.. he's finished before he can make a move :/

[@boobah5643]

I never saw that as a boss fight; your only options are 'Push the buttons to execute Omnislash' or... don't.

[@michealforguson5317]

A symbolic fight. It takes place within Cloud's mind as he destroys the Jenova cells within his body.

[@darrenk284]

Dark Beast Ganon at the end of Breath of the Wild. The final final boss, the pure enraged form, and you can take it down with no effort in what amounts to a playable cutscene.

[@ExcelsiorTech]

I enjoyed the video… the thumbs up was giving the list of the games before you started… many thanks 🙏!

[@DemiZarek]

Your missing the bad and only boss in the first Prince of Persia sands of time game. The game was so hype but the boss was so disappointing.

[@ThePhantomStinker]

Given your Batman inclusion, I feel like the better Mass Effect nominee would be Harbinger. The thing about the Human Reaper is that, unlike so many others on this list, you only find out that it even exists at all right before you fight it. The big suspense comes from not knowing what the Collectors are doing. And yes, when I found out that the reapers had a Plan B and I just stumbled right into it -- that was a pretty big "holy shit" moment for me. Consequently, you knew Harbinger was going to be the big bad of Mass Effect 3 BEFORE YOU EVEN BOUGHT IT. And how does that final confrontation go? You encounter a hologram of a child who asks if you want the light show to be red, blue or green.

[@hologilion2868]

ME3 kinda has three disappointing boss fights, in a sense: Harbinger, built up for two games? Dodge lasers, but you fail anyways. Illusive Man? Dialogue and possibly a single button press. Which makes the actual final boss fight ... Marauder Shields.

[@andrewbennett8314]

What about Gen. Shepard in CoD MW2? You spend 3/4 of the game doing his bidding only to have him massively betray you. Then you have to fight your way through an entire base's worth of goons to kill him in a minute long QTE! Similar with Makarov in MW3. The big bad of 2 (and a bit) games goes out the same way after Capt. Price punches him a few times.

[@PhenomsServant4]

When I think anti-climactic boss fights I think of General Scales in Star Fox Adventures. The guy was built up for the entire game and when youre just about to face him. He’s commanded to stand down and surrender the final Krazoa spirit to Fox and end up facing a shoehorned Andross boss fight out of nowhere. Granted this was mostly Nintendo’s fault for having Rare shoehorn the Star Fox franchise into the game but it still blew.

[@rocktimusprime99_]

The boss fight/end section in Control was really anticlimactic. After all the good bosses in the side missions I really expected better. The AWE boss fight was pretty good though.

[@DarkLordArbitur]

now, hold on, cheesing a fight D&D style by launching Arch-Curate Vyrthur off the balcony with your thuum is not anti-climactic because of the game. YOU chose that.

[@beesforbreakfast]

I dunno, Skyrim isn’t exactly stingy with the ol’ invisible walls

[@tjknight]

Obvs this goes to Hush, being a cliffhanger from the last game, and I get not double dipping, but Deathstroke fits the bill as well. You literally have like 5 militia fetch quests before you face him and you have the last fight you two had to compare it to only for the fight itself to be quite the blue ball

[@asinga_tv]

I've recently gone back to play Spyro the Dragon: Reignited and made my way through the first game, all the while the game building up to an epic showdown with 'G'nasty 'G'norc, an enemy who was responsible for turning all of the dragons in the game into crystals except for Spyro, starting your journey to save them all. I finally did all that and made my way to the final boss. Then you end up chasing two thiefs down for keys and then chasing 'G'nasty 'G'norc around a relatively easy to navigate track and flaming him, where he just falls over and dies. Spyro bosses aren't exactly the most intense boss fights in the world but it actually made my brain pause and say out loud "Wait was that it?" after beating him.

[@tevildo9383]

Eredin and Hubert Rejk from The Witcher 3 for me. Eredin is pretty easy for the final boss of the main game, especially compared to his generals, Imlerith and Caranthir. Hubert is a really cool character, but fighting him is pretty boring because his boss form is just a generic vampire type that you will have probably encountered several times at this point in the game. I’m really glad that the Blood and Wine DLC did the vampires justice because they were definitely underwhelming in the base game.

[@RainWelsh]

Yeah, Imlerith and Caranthir are, as far as I’m concerned, the real final bosses of the game. Getting to whale on Eredin afterwards is like a treat, for beating the other two. Funnily enough I’m currently replaying it, and just had the Hubert fight last night. I ended up howling with laughter as smug, confident Hubert turned into a monster, then started hissing/chittering and sprinting awkwardly around the warehouse. Bit of mood whiplash there. Then again, the Dettlaf fight is one of the most bastard-hard I’ve ever played, so they learned their lesson, at least.

[@tevildo9383]

@@RainWelsh On my first playthrough (Sword and Story difficulty), I believe Dettlaff was the only boss that I died to more than once (took me 5 attempts IIRC). I'm also replaying it now (about halfway through a Deathmarch run), but I haven't been playing very consistently 'cause I have like 5 other games I'm trying to work through before Elden Ring consumes my life.

[@RainWelsh]

@@tevildo9383 yeah, same (the Dettlaff thing). I think the only time I’ve taken more attempts to beat a boss was that fucking asshole dragon at the end of Dragon Age: Origins. But then, I don’t really have the patience for Soulsborne-esque games. I die to the same thing more than twice and I’m ready to launch myself through a wall, never mind the controller. Best of luck with Elden Ring! May you completely forget the real world exists for a few hundred hours.