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____ is the Most Underwhelming Final Boss [Spoilers]
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I had a similar reaction. I've played DS2 more recently than 1 and 3, too, and I'm always blown away by how much of that game I've forgotten.
I don't mind a scripted story fight as long as it has meaning and there was (preferably) a legitimate fight just before it, ala FFX.
That said, Type-0's final boss was just one of many issues I had with that game overall. So I agree.
Right. I don't mind a scripted fight if there's a real one right before it... but this game doesn't have one hah. Very strange decision.
You dare speak ill of Marauder Shields? He died for our sins protecting us from the ending...
you should be ashamed of yourself!
my answer: Lucien Fairfax from Fable 2.
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Oh yeah. It was really an easy fight. You spend the entire game hidding from him. The fight against the witches was way more difficult.
Yeah I think it's gonna be this for me.Joker from Arkham Asylum has gotta be up there.
Spoilered this one since it's so recent I'd feel mean
Also I love Mass Effect 3 but even I'll admit the final boss essentially being a rando commonplace enemy was really funny out of context
I'd have been happier if the game ended with Trilla, instead we got a must-lose Vader boss fight which just felt like lazy fan-service in a game that otherwise was perfectly standalone. He wasn't even mentioned until then! Even the Grand Inquisitor would have made more sense and felt more earned, IMO.
Also I love Mass Effect 3 but even I'll admit the final boss essentially being a rando commonplace enemy was really funny out of context
I liked the final boss of Bioshock. At the very least, it was better than "defeat a bunch of enemies" like on 2 or Infinite
Necron is death incarnated in a game about life. It makes every sense in the lore and people criticizing it didn't understood what's going on in FFIX.
Lore-wise, maybe Necron(FF9)? It's too out of left field to resonate with the rest of the story and just feels sorta out of place.
Not to say its design isn't neat. The setting is cool anyways.
Necron is death incarnated in a game about life. It makes every sense in the lore and people criticizing it didn't understood what's going on in FFIX.
I came in to say Calamity Ganon, but honestly, while that encounter sucked, it wasn't significantly worse than the other horrible bosses in the game. They make a great study on why Zelda bosses are traditionally "puzzles" to be solved and not typical combat exercises.
I think it's also because you learn little about him so the battle is also emotionally unengaging. I kind of feel like Avalach and Eredin should have turned out to be one in the same and it's the deceit is apart of the hunt or the game.
The former *is* the final boss though? The other thing is just an action setpiece. It's like complaining Metroid's final boss is the bit where you have to escape.
No, I get it. The mage dolls and genomes can't fight fate, etc etc, necron represents fate/death. Like, I get it, it's just not explained or introduced well. Necron as a concept comes out of nowhere. It's connected thematically but not explained well enough in the narrative. And I wouldn't mind that so much if the rest of the story were as abstract. It's like if the final boss of FF7 was MOTHER NATURE or something like that.
Don't tell me I don't understand 9's themes lol
Nah. He sucked. Just because he had some half-assed lore thrown in doesn't make it good.
also the final boss of gears of war 1 for me, mostly because in my game he glitched out and stood there so i just shot him in the face until he died
That's part of why it was underwhelming to me, though. You take down Trilla, the big bad of the game, only for her to immediately be cut down by someone who is a complete stranger to the main character. It just kinda soured it in retrospect, for me, and ruined the sense of finality. It'd be more like if you beat Mother Brain in Super Metroid and SAX popped up out of nowhere, landed the finishing blow, and chased you off.
Mother Nature as the final boss for Final Fantasy VII would be hilarious. Fingers crossed for its eventual inclusion in Final Fantasy VII Remake.
Lore-wise, maybe Necron(FF9)? It's too out of left field to resonate with the rest of the story and just feels sorta out of place.
Not to say its design isn't neat. The setting is cool anyways.
This is the very first thing that pops in my mind. I was like why is this the end boss? Also I think I beat him on the first try which for me is also kinda disappointing, but this thing is status effect king so maybe a lil bit of luck was involved. But even without Ultimate weapons you can put out a lot of damage compared to low enemy hit points in this game.
Yup. Completely missing the point of what makes the Joker interesting.Joker from Arkham Asylum has gotta be up there.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in the creative board room when this gem was given the thumbs up!
Only time I actually broke an controller out of frustration. Felt like a dumbass but Radec made me do it.
Not sure if I agree with NSMB and 3D Land having better finales (because I forgot those games) but I agree on the rest.
Corona Mountain was an awful level and kind of accentuated the worst parts of Sunshine.
Allant from Demons Souls is supposed to be terrible though...you see what becoming a Demon has reduced this once great king to: nothing more than a shapeless blob, an inhuman mass. It's part of the themeing.
I mean how is "Necron" not basically the same thing but more original?
With Fontane, you could enter his boss arena without triggering him. So you could set dozens of those wire traps before the fight even began, and since he started every fight charging right after you, well... *zap*
Yeah, I'd actually say that the bosses in Arkham Asylum and BOTW in general were pretty underwhelming, so the final boss wasn't really a let down as much as just more of the same.
In the end of FF IX, you going through the memory of the world and all the bosses/guardians look like they're from hell, and you reach the origin of life, meeting the grim reaper or a lord of death, doesn't feel too out of place but maybe they should have been more clear. He was originally called Hades.
This is my pick. That boss wasn't even visually interesting like most of the enemies in the game. Huge, huge let down.
I completely forgot about this dumb shit lmao.Joker from Arkham Asylum has gotta be up there.
Hate to say it but yeah, this is exactly right. I love the actual mechanics of the fight, but it's too easy, Calamity Ganon's design is super lackluster, as is the setting of the fight, frankly. I wish it stayed in the throne room.
Beast Ganon is the flipside of the coin. The environment it takes place in is amazing, the design is great, the fight is a fucking cakewalk, a complete victory lap, mechanically. Should've been outstanding but the boss feels like it doesn't work properly. He doesn't target you, he doesn't fight you, he just kinda wreaks havoc.
...Yanno, if that was the intention, that's kinda interesting.
To be honest, I think a lot of people didn't get who he was meant to be, so something went wrong with how it's presented.
Gongora from Lost Odyssey was so underwhelming that he became synonymous with an underwhelming villain for me and my friend. We would refer to them as a "Gongora" for a while.