Sunday, April 11, 2010

Possibly the worst final boss in the history of gaming. (spoilers!)

There's this little game called Bullet Witch for the 360. It's alright. Okay, mediocre in most respects, but there's one thing that I'll never forget. The final boss battle. Get this--



[spoiler] To beat the guy, you have do nothing except shoot him in the back about half an hour. Literally. There isn't the slightest bit of skill involved. He's as big as a skyscraper, so the target is huge, he's extremely slow, so the target is practically still, and he has 2 or 3 very slow and predictable attacks that can be evaded with a single tap of the left trigger. Oh, and did I also mention they're all instant kills? Yep, one mistake and the battle is over. But even though it's very easy to dodge the attacks, the game's horrible camera will screw you over, usually at the very end. There may be broken controllers as a result. [/spoiler] Possibly the worst final boss in the history of gaming. (spoilers!)
Shoot him in the back? You actually have to turn around and shoot him? How about this? You have to shoot a boss til his gauge becomes red and then you wait for a stupid timed button to pop up to shoot him more? And the timed button is bugged. Possibly the worst final boss in the history of gaming. (spoilers!)
I don't know about worst final boss, but every Mortal Kombat game has the worst 2nd to last bosses in history. The whole game is fun until you get to Moloch, Onaga, etc. where all you have to do is button mash and they hit you like twice and you die. Those fights are so aggravating. That is why I like Deadly Alliance so much, because there is no big goof in the game that hits you twice and you die.
I'm currently playing God Of War on god mode and the last boss is making me scream at the tv :(
One of the worst boss ( as in just plain bad not in terms of difficulty) was Yu Yevon in final fantasy 10. What was the point? All your characters had automatic ressurection cast on them at all times. You couldn't lose.
For me, it would have to be Tartarus in Halo 2. It is waaaaaayyyyyy to easy to kill.Lord Saddler gets 2nd place though. I beat him with a Handgun. :\
I was about to order Bullet Witch, thanks for screwing it.
The giant evil computer in Metal Gear for NES, that one comes to mind.
Star Ocean 2nd Story...the Final Boss had only one really dangerous Attack and if he had done it,you had no chanche of winning even with Lv120.If not he was quite easy to beat.But he did the Attack in 9 of 10 Battles...ouch.
[QUOTE=''Ash2X'']Star Ocean 2nd Story...the Final Boss had only one really dangerous Attack and if he had done it,you had no chanche of winning even with Lv120.If not he was quite easy to beat.But he did the Attack in 9 of 10 Battles...ouch.[/QUOTE]I think I vaguely remember that...I'll always remember that game, I remember wanting to get Ashton(I think that's his name?) as my fourth character but I never found him, so I went through the entire game with only 3 characters, lol.
There`s alot of final boss fights that stink. For me it`s the last boss in Shinobi 3. That boss is so freakin hard that I could only beat him once and it was just plain luck. Whenever I play this game, I always end it before the final boss.When it comes to crappy final boss fights I think that Doom 3`s fight with the Cyber-Minitor really sucked. I mean......come on!!! Use acertain weapon, throw it a few times and run around while your fighting and the weapon does most of the work and you also gain health back as the weapon does the damage to the boss. :roll: Too easy!!!
Well, I tend to remember the really awesome bosses and remove the crappy ones from my mind...but right now I'm trying to think of one...I remember the feeling where you're just yawning because a boss is so easy, then all of the sudden he uses an attack that kills you one hit, and he's completely easy other than that one, single move. Most annoying thing...trying to remember where I got that feeling...Oh, yeah, Alpha 152 in DOA4 really sucked. With some characters she was extremely easy, with others, she was a monster. She basically warped around and used the same, ridiculous, impossible combo over and over again. You wanna know what the best strategy was for beating her? Doing the EXACT SAME running punch or kick move (which one was better depended on the character you were using) OVER AND OVER again. That is NOT a compelling boss fight. Just imagine saying, ''Oh my gosh I beat all these fighters, then I went up to the final one, and it was this gooey mass shaped like a hot chick with god-like power. I used my most powerful combos to defeat it, but then I realized that the only way I was capable of beating it was if I ran at it and punched it the exact same way over and over again. This strategy proved to be excellent!''And if you screwed up and actually USED varied combos? She'd use a counter that took out over half your health, then string it into a combo that took out the rest of it.
Ahhh yes there are quite a few games. Ill go with KOTOR 2. See in the first KOTOR the last battle was an incredibly tough fight that lasted almost 40 minutes for me...epic. In KOTOR 2 I killed the last boss in about 8 seconds. :\
Nothing beats that one boss from the original Mega Man during the first mission in Dr. Wily's level, that one-eyed blob who morphs in hundred pieces to the other screen.No way to beat it...then I learned about that pause cheat, than it was cake. :P
Xenogears, I dont know why but I cant beat her.FF8's was a **** tooFF9's second to last was just cheap
[QUOTE=''ASK_Story''] Nothing beats that one boss from the original Mega Man during the first mission in Dr. Wily's level, that one-eyed blob who morphs in hundred pieces to the other screen.No way to beat it...then I learned about that pause cheat, than it was cake. :P[/QUOTE] Wow, you just SERIOUSLY took me back. Was that really the only way to beat him??? I did the same thing (was it the lightning gun or something that you used?) to beat him and never looked back.
Jinpachi from Tekken 5 and Final Bison from Street Fighter Alpha 3 are two cheap as hell bosses:Jinpachi is the only character in the game that can steal your health (and use it to heal himself) and has a vicious laser attack that takes off a good half of health. He can kill you in 30 seconds or less.Final Bison is a pain thanks to his Psycho Crusher special move. If it hits, it either kills you or takes a good 3/4's of your health. And he does this move whenever you're least prepared. If you can survive the Psycho Crusher, you've pretty much still got a chance to win...
I was also going to say Jinpachi .Man...me and my cousin spend about 2 hours trying to beat that guy when we used to play Tekken on his PS2 (about 60% of those to hours was comprised of really nasty words screamed at the TV ) . Like Darth_Homer said he can steal your health and has a weird attack in which he shoots some sort of energy/laser whatever from his chest (if I remember correctly ) and that does take a half of your health.It would be fine if he only used it like once in a battle but noo he has to use chain attacks with that laser so yeah,he can beat you in 30 seconds or less.The way we managed to beat him was just get lucky to hit him once and stop his attack for one second then just mash the controls untill he's dead(it was much easier after the first time but he still is one of the hardest and most cheating bosses I've ever met in any game )
Also, the final bosses and all the SNK fighters are crazy, insanely cheap! I mean, controller-breaking, throwing my console out the window, cheap! (not that I ever did that :roll: )Especially the final boss in Samurai Shodown V. Damn, this last guy is so cheap it makes Jimpachi from Tekken feel like Glass Joe in Mike Tyson's Punch Out! They eased him down a bit in Samurai Shodown VI, but still cheap as hell! I could manage to beat Jimpachi with every character in Tekken 5 but I can't even beat this Samurai Shodown V boss even if I made the settings in the option to beat him one round. He still kills me everytime! The catch is, even if I beat him one round, the game forces you to go another because he changes form. And then that's when he kills you. Damn cheap if you ask me!Even the mid-bosses in SNK fighters are stinkin` cheap. And that last guy in the Last Blade 2 or Garou Mark of the Wolves, makes me wonder if SNK purposely makes these bosses impossible to beat so peoplewho get ticked off at the arcade will pump in quarters until they beat the boss. Anyway, SNK over did it in these games. Every final boss, no matter how cheap, should be beatable...but SNK's bosses are almost impossible, unless you're a King of Fighter or fighting game phenom...I'm talking about those hardcore crowd who enters world tournaments, which most people who play these fighting games, aren't that good.
Paxton Fettel from F.E.A.R. those of you who have finished that game will find that ammusing.

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