Yeah I totally thought Shadow of Mordor was gonna be on this list, was shocked when it wasn't, since that game was so awesome but the final boss fight was so disappointing. The only way to get around it is to understand that it would be pretty weird and lame from a narrative standpoint if you could really fight and defeat Sauron as a regular boss, but even then, having it reduced to a short, boring QTE sequence was still a major letdown.
I dunno, killing Mathias at the end of Tomb Raider felt very cathartic because, in the end, he was really just a delusional cultist and putting him down felt very rewarding. The Oni was the real final boss.
By the way, what happened to dual wielding chrome Desert Eagles in Hitman .I remember dual wielding silencer pistols why isn't that in the game anymore?
You missed the classic, Skyrim, where the final boss was so diappointing that people who didn't even do it "missed nothing of value." It's just another dragon fight, like you've had dozens of up to that point as random encounters. No phases, no minions, just "hey it's alduin flying around, this time I have to do one shout to dispel the fog, then another to ground him, then stab, game win?"
No Spoilers: Dying Light would be an excellent kickoff for another list of these someday. Absolutely love the game but that last boss battle was... Special lol
@Seer-of-things end Honestly, you should give it a chance, it's really good. My last Far Cry was 3, so maybe if you've played all the other newer ones it's too samey but after such a long time I really enjoyed 6. And you can totally ignore the supremos and pets if you don't like them.
Vaas wasn't even in the original plan for Far cry 3, Micheal Mando went in to audition for another character in the game but he didn't fit that character, but Ubisoft liked Michael's audition so much that they created Vaas just for him to voice. Just a fun fact lol
Man i i disagree it seemed like a glorified qte. For 2 characters that never picked up a sword anywhere in the game. To each their own though, either way the game overall is just downright amazing.
@@AstrophelTDeath I agree! i liked the different campy takes on the historical creatures and myths popping up in some way in the previous games , so till the very end with Rafe, I'd just been waiting for some other bigger, scarier boss to appear, and for us to make use of the ship's environment somehow. so i was underwhelmed with the QTEs with Rafe. he's still terrifying tho, but in a very....real-scary-dude kinda way lol
@@kirkian1828 yeah its not a horrible boss fight , its an amazing game. I had to play it again to realize that, but the mutant part of uncharted 1 was not only the best part, but the scariest part. It still makes me nervous, and i e played the game at least 7 times. Lol. So.. it was good just a bit disappointed with no mythological creature. There was alot they could have pulled from.
I just replayed the first tomb raider and beat it last night. The final fight was disappointing but Lara using the duel pistols was cool af. The Oni dude right before fighting him was fun though. It was a solid game overall
I never played Uncharted 2, but the description of that fight already sounds much better than the shite that capped the first game. At least you have to run and be skillful when you shoot, instead to getting 3 QTEs and job done.
No Lucien from Fable 2? I thought he'd be #1, the whole game you've spent preparing for this guy, recruiting allies, strategically attacking his forces, some pretty tough fights, too. You finally seem ready and bam surprise attack, he's turning the tables, but one shot with a bullet and that's the game!
I was waiting for this the whole video. Definitely the worst boss battle imo. I was so ready to hack him into a million pieces and I swung once and he went flying. I was so confused
Alduin from Skyrim should've been on the list. In adition to that terrifying prologue where you really fear that horrifying black HUGE dragon, all through out the game you are being told about him as the "Worlds' Eater" the elder of all dragons that you will have to defeat!! And the hype keeps building and building where the game even gives you supposedly three of the world's best warriors to help in the battle, at that moment I distintinctly remember my hands shaking from the thrill of anticipation for the glorious impossible battle ahead... But then the fight starts, and I could swear that the Alduin we got in the fight was much smaller than what we've seen in the prologue, and the fight itself was disappointing and just so ease, Alduin was easier than most enemies and dragons that I came up against in the game, and I only played main quests, so I wasn't really that op when I fought him
I remember doing a long marathon finishing Shadow of Mordor. I was so hyped. I was like "i'm gonna do 100% on this, the game is incredible". And there I was, last quest. I face the tower, stupidly easy. And then... final boss. And it's a QTE. It was like 5 am. I was so hyped I wanted to punch the guy who had that idea at WB. The secondary boss with the beast in the cave (i don't recall the name right now) was more of a battle than that. I just unninstalled the game of how pissed I was
Rage was always a disappointing final boss for me. The game I thought was pretty underrated--the rest of the game was actually really good--but the final boss wasn't even a boss, it was just waves of enemies. After fighting big mutants and other unique enemies, it was a big letdown that all you do for the final encounter is kill a bunch of normal trash enemies.
Yeah I loved the first Rage game!!! I note a few games have that sort of approach for the last boss.... just have waves of enemies ... Killzone 2 had that as well.... super annoying
Ohhhh yeaaaaa! I love Rage! I've started replaying it again recently tho the entire time I've been vaguely recalling this deep dissatisfaction with it, but couldn't possibly recall why. This is why.
The thing that always annoyed me about Rage is, the point where the game ENDS actually really feels like exactly the point where the game should just be truly getting started. Like up to then it feels like you were playing the prologue chapter, and NOW the real beef of the game is supposed to be there.....but that's it, it's just over.
Not just the boss but the pacing of the story was disappointing. Its like they cut out the middle section of the game and they left only the starting area then the final area. First you run around doing small errands then suddenly put you to siege heavily fortified base alone.
Rage Part 1 was SICK. Terribly underrated and hated on for some reason Only God Knows Why. I can't say much about the final boss, because I don't remember it, which right there goes to show that it was in fact disappointing, compared to the rest of this awesome game which I played like going on 10 years ago yet I can remember it like it was yesterday
Honestly for me I’d say Aldiun. He’s known as the World Eater and seemed like his boss fight would be one for the ages with how they built it up. But his boss fight was really easy, I’m not sure if it was because of you having the other Champions who originally sent him forward into time join you in the fight. I honestly was not impressed. Tsun the literal demigod like character who guards the halls of Sovngarde honestly felt like a much more difficult fight.
Honorable Mention: The didact at the end of halo 4, I don't even think you can even call it a boss fight. It's more of cinematic cutscene, were you hit one button and the game ends, it's super disappointing, especially after the game builds up the threat of the didact.
I was waiting to see that in this video, but yeah man when I first played I was like ok that´s it? just a couple punches and throw him out of the bridge with a grenade? wow what a fight
I was thinking about it throughout the video, it is even disappointing lore-wise because The Didact doesn't even die there and ends up killed in some comic. Probably worse than some others in the video, like the one of F3 because that lame bos battle doesn't make the end of the game so anticlimatic
The last boss in Fable 2 had a terrible last boss, I literally one shotted him by force pushing him off the edge where he was standing what a huge letdown that was
yeah dont even get me started on the rais quicktime event. speedruning up the skyscraper, feeling that adrenaline, not knowing what was gonna happen at the top, and being met with whats, in my opinion, one of the biggest letdowns in gaming, was....just sad lmao. dying light was so good, too. ill never understand why they didnt just make it an actual boss fight, maybe one that scales with your survivor level so hed still be hard if youre op. we fight his goons 1v1 multiple times, and there are other boss type enemies in the game, complete with arena and on screen health bar. literally fuck them for not letting me just cut Rais's head off cause fuck i wanted to so bad
Right I mean he was called CALAMITY Gannon and almost destroyed hyrule and critically injuring Link. The only thing calamitous about the boss fight was how underwhelming he was
That's a particularly odd case too because simply playing the game as intended (defeating the guardians) gimps the final boss to such a degree that it's laughably easy. They could have done something better with his "final form" too. For as cool as it looked, there was basically no way to lose.
Anyone ever play Kung Fu panda back in the day? The entire final boss was one very Very VERY long QTE. You miss a single button and the whole thing restarts. Man it sucked
”Drake, stand your ground like a man!” I don’t know how many times I heard that phrase... but I finally beat him very easily because of a known glitch lol
I still haven't watch the video but I'm sure Fable 2 final boss have to be in this TOP. Edit: well I don't blame then for not putting that boss fight, since it wasn't even a fight, the only thing you do is a press A and you win
I should also add that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time also had a very dissapointing final boss The Vizier was hyped throughout the game to be this crazy magician who wants to destroy the world with the Dagger, and when you finally fight him he just stands in front of you, with invincibility, and spawns a single clone of himself that you can just infinitely somersault over to kill in 20 seconds, and he spawns a clone 3 times in total, then he’s dead with one attack from your sword
Yeah that Uncharted 2 end boss was intense you had to basically hope he did not shot one of those sap things when you were nearby ... it was a war of attrition you basically end up going round and round this arena ... basically choose to take him on on the tree bridge sap .... its the only place he is hedged .... what was funny though was the end after that fight you had to run along a bridge .... I thought it was over onto a cutscene until the bridge started to collapse not realising you actually have to run......
Borderlands definitely stepped up their final boss game in the 2nd Borderlands because while The Destroyer was a little bitch The Warrior was a pain in the ass. I soloed The Destroyer first try like pretty much everyone else but it took me 12 tries to finally beat The Warrior by myself.
King Allant has a story behind him, because he lost all his powers, similar to the final one on Dark Souls. But at least there, the guy fights you, on Demon’s, Allant is just totally gone.
You preferred Fontaine from Bioshock 1? Now that was terrible. Not every game needs a “final boss”. Ken Levine admitted in at least one interview that Irrational wasn’t good at boss fights, and Take Two basically forced them to put one at the end of the first game. In the end, it turned out to be the one blemish in an otherwise perfect game, so from then on, they just resorted to hordes. It may not be as cinematic, but at least it gets the job done without harming the game.
@@ulyssesocounter8488 : I admire their honesty but after a captivating adventure like that, you need some sort of final showdown to make it all seem like it had purpose. Once the narrative starts to really come together, overcoming the enemy that was responsible for all these intersecting paths of loss, tragedy, and insanity becomes something you greatly anticipate. Even if it was a mediocre boss fight I think we should have gotten something.
@@ulyssesocounter8488 I meant Bioshock 1. For some reason I was thinking that boss fight was from 2. I guess after so many years things aren't fresh in my memory anymore. Getting old :)
Bro I remember as a kid being stuck DAYS on the Uncharted 2 final boss. I just literally didn't know what to do until I had to ask my Uncle to come over and figure out why this guys isn't taking any damage and how to beat him lmfaooooo such a great game terrible ending.
Eredin - there are three more difficult, interesting bosses in the Witcher 3 DLC, and even Eredin’s lieutenant, Caranthir, is a harder and more interesting fight in the base game.
You're comparing the final boss to post development DLC? What? And of course, you wreck Eredin. Not only are you in your final build, but he's just a douchebag elf in some spooky armor. There's nothing special about him from a lore standpoint.
The final encounter with The Didact in Halo 4 was so disappointing. They introduced him into the game and he basically rag dolled Chief with ease and I was looking forward to taking him down the entire game. And they made it a QTE. 4 buttons to win. Garbage.
It was actually a tough boss. The problem came from grinding the monster arena. It made you way too overpowered by the time you actually wanted to finish the game.
Same here, and to think I had to buy an Xbox 360 to play that game -_- At this point, I think Molyneaux lost the magic that made Fable: TLC great. Should have just made it a 1 and done game as 3 wasn't all that great either.
Dying Light...........good game up until the last boss. It's just a few QTE's to beat him. I hope Dying Light 2 last boss encounter is better than that.
For me the worst final boss will always be in tomb raider 2. You fight a helicopter...thats it. The game was so good until that one part. You expect this cool ancient monster like the first one and then youre just disappointed. Atleast SOTR had a really cool final boss
When I saw the games that were in the video I was like: DUDE! FFX FINAL BATTLE IS AMAZING, WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT?! Then I realized that I had forgotten the REAL final battle lol
Uh, you do realize that Yu Yevon from FFX was just a story boss, right? It’s for story-telling purposes, not gameplay. You have auto-life on every character. You literally can’t lose. Braska’s Final Aeon, the enemy before Yu Yevon, is the real final boss, and is much better. If one had to put a Final Fantasy final boss in this list, I’d pick the obvious one of Necron from FFIX. While the fight itself isn’t too bad, just the fact that he is a literal “Big-Lipped Alligator Boss” always rubbed me the wrong way.
I was pretty disappointed by the confrontation with sauron in shadow of mordor. I didn't want to go against the dark master, the lord of the rings, with a qte.
My #1 would be Immortals Fenyx Rising final boss: Typhon. For context, when I reached the boss, I had upgrade Fenix almost to the maximum in everything. And the problem is that it makes Fenix absolutly overpowered. So when I get to Typhon, I completly destroyed the poor bastard. Like, in seconds. There is no fun in that.
Never understood the hate for Lazarevich´s boss fight, always found it ingenious for what it was. Especially considering the developers could have done a qte boss like in Uncharted 3 and Golden Abyss.
The thing is with Lazarevich is that he's both hard AND boring. If he was just a QTE boss then he'd just be boring, but fighting him on crushing is one of the most infuriating things I've ever done in a game.
@@brettdueck824 I did, but if I remeber correctly, you had to use specific ammo or explosives which ran out and you had to resupply, the scenario was also pretty dull. In Uncharted 2 you were always on edge because you were constanly running and the enviroment was everchanging, thus it never became repetive to me, quite the contrary it became more stressful lol.
No Crash Bandicoot 2? That final boss can be beaten in 15 seconds and is a slow jetpack chase. The thing has a massive build up throughout the game for 15 seconds of slow boredom
I just finished Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, and the battles leading up TO the final battle are 15000 times harder than the actual two final "bosses".
To be honest, I think Konstantin would be better for a bad final boss. The Oni warrior is actually pretty cool because you mainly fight ranged enemies through the majority of the game, so having what feels like a dark souls boss is a pretty good change of pace. Dominguez was also great because first you have the sneaking part, and then it becomes a one-on-one fight with him. But Konstantin, you literally just run around and throw cans to a place, sneak up on him two times and it's done. Honestly, he had so much potential, and they just decided to ruin that
How can you forget Lucian Fairfax from Fable 2? You finally go to fight him and all it takes is a single shot to finish him, hell you could do nothing and one of your allies will get annoyed and shoot him for you.
Dying light was a pretty great game with a very disappointing boss. Rais the warlord who ruled his men with an iron fist and when it came down to fighting him it was all done via QTE which left me a bit disapointed.
Was surprised not to see the helicopter from the Division. I mean the whole game was pretty disappointing, but literally fighting a generic helicopter as your final boss was so lame.
Let me say it is really funny to state that the final boss in Uncharted 2 is bad, without even mentioning how bad, ugly and boring the final boss in Uncharted 3 is. Like at least the final boss in Uncharted 2 gives a challenge, and you feel fulfilled after defeating him (especially on a higher difficulty). But the final boss in Uncharted 3 is the definition of boredom. IMO the final boss of Uncharted 2 is probably the best in the whole series, unlike the final boss of Uncharted 3 which is definitely the most boring and disappointing one.
Where is the final fight from Dying Light? That was such a disappointing way to end that game. All this amazing parkour and combat, and then a stupid QTE boss fight to end it all...
Nah I thought the final fight in tomb raider was fine, i prefer my rituals to be all or nothing rather than oh they're getting stronger and getting more power etc etc
The Witcher 3 Final Boss was kinda disappointing imo. Even at the hardest difficulty. DLC bosses were much cooler to fight. I don't say it was bad, just not on a final boss level. And tbh also Dark Souls Gwyn wasn't that hard if you know how to parry. I expected more from him.
I think the boss itself wasn't disappointing. The atmosphere, soundtrack was phenomenal. But it was way easier than some of the other bosses in the game.
that's what the game expected you to do, after linking the fire and giving fragments of the lord souls to the 4 lords he had become weaker, he was nothing more than a mad hollow in that bossfight, it was pretty fucking poetic if you ask me, also plin plin plon
Special mention to Dying Light 1 when you fight Rais 1v1. You spend the entire game learning your way to move around quickly and efficiently, fighting with utmost precision and timing, developing skills and arsenals for any and all occasions...and it comes down to a pure quick-time event that uses just about no skill or experience you've had till that point.
you totally forgot about Satan in Castlevania : Lords of Shadow 2 I thought I'd fight SATAN HIMSELF I was hyped up through the whole game and the game was FANTASTIC but..... 💔 I'll let you look it up 💔
@@domdellamorte I don't think LoS 2 was the worst sequel of all games. It definitely wasn't as good as the first LoS, which had that awesome reveal at the end that led to the second game. It was fun to play as Dracula, so I enjoyed it. But I may be a bit biased since Castlevania is my all time favorite gaming franchise, and I'm over excited hearing the news that they are finally getting ready to create a new one!!
Army of Two. During the game you have little encounters with this other mercenary that is suposed to be as strong as you and your mate are. But when you reach the final stage, he turns out to be no different than a regular enemy. Still loved the game.
I mean, it was a game set with the enclave as the bad guys, even if he was in hellfire armour he would of been a joke, he's just worth the unique 10mm pistol, laser pistol and overcoat. I don't think it's the kind of game where a big bad guy was the end boss so "it just works", new Vegas big mountain dlc had more of a big boss end fight really.
Yep, the Cyberdemon was definitely too easy, and kinda lame. Thankfully they made it better, to me, with Resurrection of Evil. Oh, by the way, I love Doom 3.
Surprised they didn't mention the seneschal out of Dragon's Dogma. All of the game's human sized bosses are pretty bad and can be easily one-shot on any difficulty, and the seneschal (the omnipotent keeper of the world) is no different apart from the multiple phases, cinematic elements, and big reveal. Still an amazing game and that fight at least has an incredible song to go with it.
I always thought the final showdown with the Old One cathartic, and sad… seeing his pathetic true form? It just kind of ties the bigger game together…. And I personally loved it. But from a strictly gamer perspective? Yeah… not the final nod you want to face… even on a narrative level.
Half Life 1 should get a mention. The whole time you are fighting this giant alien baby he keeps teleporting you in rooms that are annoying to get out of. Black Mesa did a way better job of the fight.
If anything I see Lord Shimura a bit more as the final boss. But yeah, I liked the Kirin Khan fight, buts definitely less memorable than the first one.
Slick, or Simon, in river city ransom should have been on here. After fighting the dragon twins and then you go out on the roof and confront him was a disappointment. At least after you beat him you can run back inside before he finishes talking and keep playing the game.
Can't believe you left out Lucien from Fable 2. Huge build up to him making the "Wish" tower just to be guild by a single hit or letting what's his face shot him after getting bored of Lucien speech.
Shadow of Mordor would be my pick! The final boss is just a lame quicktime event!
I was more excited about the rival Uruk captain than the final boss fight.
Amen!
After such a amazing build up with the 5 fingers too !
I was waiting for this to be mentioned
Yeah I totally thought Shadow of Mordor was gonna be on this list, was shocked when it wasn't, since that game was so awesome but the final boss fight was so disappointing. The only way to get around it is to understand that it would be pretty weird and lame from a narrative standpoint if you could really fight and defeat Sauron as a regular boss, but even then, having it reduced to a short, boring QTE sequence was still a major letdown.
I dunno, killing Mathias at the end of Tomb Raider felt very cathartic because, in the end, he was really just a delusional cultist and putting him down felt very rewarding. The Oni was the real final boss.
You gotta admit, it was dope to dual wield the pistols in tomb raider's final boss, even if it was just a quick time event.
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By the way, what happened to dual wielding chrome Desert Eagles in Hitman .I remember dual wielding silencer pistols why isn't that in the game anymore?
Yeah, but it was lame that they never appeared again in the sequels.
@@charmingpeasant9834 that was my question? Why what happened to hitman. The game was always a very solid shooter but not anymore.
You missed the classic, Skyrim, where the final boss was so diappointing that people who didn't even do it "missed nothing of value." It's just another dragon fight, like you've had dozens of up to that point as random encounters. No phases, no minions, just "hey it's alduin flying around, this time I have to do one shout to dispel the fog, then another to ground him, then stab, game win?"
The guy with the sword just before him was more of a challenge.
Morrowind had a meh final boss in Dagoth Ur too. Didn’t play oblivion so not sure if this is a trend
I'ma be real with you: I played 57 hours of Skyrim and have no idea what the final boss is or where the story even goes.
tbf im pretty sure most people forget the campaign of Skyrim is the dragons and not the War
who plays Skyrim to defeat the final boss? seriously... the game is not about the boss and you know it
I can still hear that Uncharted 2 boss in my nightmares to this day. Just constantly running for my life...
You still had so much trouble with that boss fight, right?
My god that boss fight was annoying
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I did it legitimately the first time and now I just do the glitch every time
He's not that bad, took me one try to beat him on crushing
No Spoilers: Dying Light would be an excellent kickoff for another list of these someday. Absolutely love the game but that last boss battle was... Special lol
a special kind of disappointing u mean? lmao
I think final boss fight in The Following made up for the lackluster... QTE sequence of the base game
That last boss battle was the reason I almost didn't buy the game...
An unfortunate blemish on an excellent game. The final boss was definitely disappointing.
I fucking hate that ending lol right from that gawddamn platforming up the building to the end, just a terrible sequencing lol
If there wasn't Vaas in Far Cry 3 the game wouldn't be half as enjoyable, also funny how he wasn't the final boss there
@Seer-of-things end *Giancarlo Esposito has entered the chat*
@Seer-of-things end Honestly, you should give it a chance, it's really good. My last Far Cry was 3, so maybe if you've played all the other newer ones it's too samey but after such a long time I really enjoyed 6. And you can totally ignore the supremos and pets if you don't like them.
I find it curious that Hoyt is actually a decent villain, but he just doesn't compare to Vaas
Vaas wasn't even in the original plan for Far cry 3, Micheal Mando went in to audition for another character in the game but he didn't fit that character, but Ubisoft liked Michael's audition so much that they created Vaas just for him to voice. Just a fun fact lol
Both Vaas and the final boss in FC3 were terrible boss fights. They were both QTEs iirc.
I’ve always enjoyed the Uncharted 2 boss fight… but with that being said I think fighting Rafe in Uncharted 4 was absolutely phenomenal!!
Agree! I didn't expect to fight Rafe the way we had to! That was so cool
Man i i disagree it seemed like a glorified qte. For 2 characters that never picked up a sword anywhere in the game. To each their own though, either way the game overall is just downright amazing.
@@AstrophelTDeath I agree! i liked the different campy takes on the historical creatures and myths popping up in some way in the previous games , so till the very end with Rafe, I'd just been waiting for some other bigger, scarier boss to appear, and for us to make use of the ship's environment somehow. so i was underwhelmed with the QTEs with Rafe. he's still terrifying tho, but in a very....real-scary-dude kinda way lol
@@kirkian1828 yeah its not a horrible boss fight , its an amazing game. I had to play it again to realize that, but the mutant part of uncharted 1 was not only the best part, but the scariest part. It still makes me nervous, and i e played the game at least 7 times. Lol. So.. it was good just a bit disappointed with no mythological creature. There was alot they could have pulled from.
Uncharted 1 had a worse boss and so did 3
I just replayed the first tomb raider and beat it last night. The final fight was disappointing but Lara using the duel pistols was cool af. The Oni dude right before fighting him was fun though. It was a solid game overall
I feel like the run up the tower and the oni are the final boss. Mathias isn't a boss he's just a sad old man.
The first tomb raider ? You mean the one on the ps1?
Just consider the Oni to be the final boss and you won't be disappointed.
Wasn’t the final boss the Oni Stalker?
You mean the first tomb raider of the reboot series (2013)
I swear I'm literally the only person who really enjoys the Lazarevic fight at the end of Uncharted 2 😅
I enjoyed it! First time I faced him I did it without dying. Figured out quickly that you had to shoot the blue stuff to damage him
I never played Uncharted 2, but the description of that fight already sounds much better than the shite that capped the first game. At least you have to run and be skillful when you shoot, instead to getting 3 QTEs and job done.
@@kwynn1016 What difficulty
No Lucien from Fable 2? I thought he'd be #1, the whole game you've spent preparing for this guy, recruiting allies, strategically attacking his forces, some pretty tough fights, too. You finally seem ready and bam surprise attack, he's turning the tables, but one shot with a bullet and that's the game!
I was surprise to not see him in this top
Yeah, definitely a let down looking back
I was waiting for this the whole video. Definitely the worst boss battle imo. I was so ready to hack him into a million pieces and I swung once and he went flying. I was so confused
Absolutely the worst boss.
This list invalid without Fable 2.
Alduin from Skyrim should've been on the list.
In adition to that terrifying prologue where you really fear that horrifying black HUGE dragon, all through out the game you are being told about him as the "Worlds' Eater" the elder of all dragons that you will have to defeat!!
And the hype keeps building and building where the game even gives you supposedly three of the world's best warriors to help in the battle, at that moment I distintinctly remember my hands shaking from the thrill of anticipation for the glorious impossible battle ahead...
But then the fight starts, and I could swear that the Alduin we got in the fight was much smaller than what we've seen in the prologue, and the fight itself was disappointing and just so ease, Alduin was easier than most enemies and dragons that I came up against in the game, and I only played main quests, so I wasn't really that op when I fought him
The 1st Borderlands did have an awful boss. I realized almost instantly that I could hide behind a rock/pillar and chip away til he died.
best tactic to do on that boss that is for sure.
Specially if you are Mordecai
@@gundamit8828 i was
They should have had a mechanic to smash those rocks so you ran out of cover.
Yup, i did that with Brick lmfao
I remember doing a long marathon finishing Shadow of Mordor. I was so hyped. I was like "i'm gonna do 100% on this, the game is incredible". And there I was, last quest. I face the tower, stupidly easy. And then... final boss. And it's a QTE. It was like 5 am. I was so hyped I wanted to punch the guy who had that idea at WB. The secondary boss with the beast in the cave (i don't recall the name right now) was more of a battle than that. I just unninstalled the game of how pissed I was
Rage was always a disappointing final boss for me. The game I thought was pretty underrated--the rest of the game was actually really good--but the final boss wasn't even a boss, it was just waves of enemies. After fighting big mutants and other unique enemies, it was a big letdown that all you do for the final encounter is kill a bunch of normal trash enemies.
Yeah I loved the first Rage game!!! I note a few games have that sort of approach for the last boss.... just have waves of enemies ... Killzone 2 had that as well.... super annoying
Ohhhh yeaaaaa! I love Rage! I've started replaying it again recently tho the entire time I've been vaguely recalling this deep dissatisfaction with it, but couldn't possibly recall why.
This is why.
The thing that always annoyed me about Rage is, the point where the game ENDS actually really feels like exactly the point where the game should just be truly getting started. Like up to then it feels like you were playing the prologue chapter, and NOW the real beef of the game is supposed to be there.....but that's it, it's just over.
Not just the boss but the pacing of the story was disappointing. Its like they cut out the middle section of the game and they left only the starting area then the final area. First you run around doing small errands then suddenly put you to siege heavily fortified base alone.
Rage Part 1 was SICK. Terribly underrated and hated on for some reason Only God Knows Why. I can't say much about the final boss, because I don't remember it, which right there goes to show that it was in fact disappointing, compared to the rest of this awesome game which I played like going on 10 years ago yet I can remember it like it was yesterday
Honestly for me I’d say Aldiun. He’s known as the World Eater and seemed like his boss fight would be one for the ages with how they built it up. But his boss fight was really easy, I’m not sure if it was because of you having the other Champions who originally sent him forward into time join you in the fight. I honestly was not impressed. Tsun the literal demigod like character who guards the halls of Sovngarde honestly felt like a much more difficult fight.
Honorable Mention: The didact at the end of halo 4, I don't even think you can even call it a boss fight. It's more of cinematic cutscene, were you hit one button and the game ends, it's super disappointing, especially after the game builds up the threat of the didact.
This is what I was looking for.
I was waiting to see that in this video, but yeah man when I first played I was like ok that´s it? just a couple punches and throw him out of the bridge with a grenade? wow what a fight
Amen to this. Was waiting for this to take the top spot.
I was thinking about it throughout the video, it is even disappointing lore-wise because The Didact doesn't even die there and ends up killed in some comic.
Probably worse than some others in the video, like the one of F3 because that lame bos battle doesn't make the end of the game so anticlimatic
The last boss in Fable 2 had a terrible last boss, I literally one shotted him by force pushing him off the edge where he was standing what a huge letdown that was
If you take to long to shoot him, your companion ( I cant remember his name) actually just shoots him instead.
Turned the speed down to 0.5 to see the spoiler warning, and Falcon sounded like that drunk uncle you have at every family gathering.
Horizon Zero Dawn: Devs believed a final boss means sending all opponents you've already fought
agreed...just another deathbringer after killing about 15 in a row to get to the boss battle. I liked the bull boss in the coliseum though!
😂 man I just finished this game a few days ago. After watching this. I went to the comment section to see if anyone mention horizon zero Dawn 😂😆
Play on Ultra Hard...that end boss is crazy hard especially with the non-stop waves of other machines that just keep coming.
@@MattRowland what I did was, I kept on calling mounts so that I’ll have a companion
Final boss in Dying Light. Press X, Press O, Press Triangle, you've defeated the boss. Such a disappointing end to a good game.
Still hoping that second is better in that way
For how good the game was, easily should've been in the top 5
The ending boss in the dlc was much better if you choose to resist. That being said she was tough as hell to beat
yeah dont even get me started on the rais quicktime event. speedruning up the skyscraper, feeling that adrenaline, not knowing what was gonna happen at the top, and being met with whats, in my opinion, one of the biggest letdowns in gaming, was....just sad lmao. dying light was so good, too. ill never understand why they didnt just make it an actual boss fight, maybe one that scales with your survivor level so hed still be hard if youre op. we fight his goons 1v1 multiple times, and there are other boss type enemies in the game, complete with arena and on screen health bar. literally fuck them for not letting me just cut Rais's head off cause fuck i wanted to so bad
Looks like the boss died light.
gannon at the end of breath of wild was outrageous, they couldve done so much more with what they had
Right I mean he was called CALAMITY Gannon and almost destroyed hyrule and critically injuring Link. The only thing calamitous about the boss fight was how underwhelming he was
Exactly...
I spent lots of time getting ready for it and the battle turned out very easy
That's a particularly odd case too because simply playing the game as intended (defeating the guardians) gimps the final boss to such a degree that it's laughably easy. They could have done something better with his "final form" too. For as cool as it looked, there was basically no way to lose.
Yeah i wish the give us a hard option or something
i've always thought the bosses in general were underwhelming in that game.
You could make this list completely out of shitty QTE fights in action games
I will never forget when I got to the end of GOW2, and it was a lot of QTE. I was crushed.
You probably could
@@editorrbr2107 I was hoping for a final battle with Skorge, like how we fought RAAM in the first.
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Honestly. The fight against Sauron in the Brightlord DLC is so much better than the ending of the main game.
Anyone ever play Kung Fu panda back in the day? The entire final boss was one very Very VERY long QTE. You miss a single button and the whole thing restarts. Man it sucked
”Drake, stand your ground like a man!” I don’t know how many times I heard that phrase... but I finally beat him very easily because of a known glitch lol
I still haven't watch the video but I'm sure Fable 2 final boss have to be in this TOP.
Edit: well I don't blame then for not putting that boss fight, since it wasn't even a fight, the only thing you do is a press A and you win
It says, Final bosses, not final battles. So it would be good to mention it.
I should also add that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time also had a very dissapointing final boss
The Vizier was hyped throughout the game to be this crazy magician who wants to destroy the world with the Dagger, and when you finally fight him he just stands in front of you, with invincibility, and spawns a single clone of himself that you can just infinitely somersault over to kill in 20 seconds, and he spawns a clone 3 times in total, then he’s dead with one attack from your sword
hell naw Uncharted 2s Lazarević was an amazing bossfight with cool features + the challenge was appropriate
Exactly. Uncharted 4 was anti climactic
"The system requirements for doom 3 were crazy at that time"
-384 mb ram
Yeah that Uncharted 2 end boss was intense you had to basically hope he did not shot one of those sap things when you were nearby ... it was a war of attrition you basically end up going round and round this arena ... basically choose to take him on on the tree bridge sap .... its the only place he is hedged .... what was funny though was the end after that fight you had to run along a bridge .... I thought it was over onto a cutscene until the bridge started to collapse not realising you actually have to run......
That brinde, thats why i wouldn't put Tomb Raider and Demons Souls on this list
having a QTE after the final boss doesnt make it the final boss
Or you could have just grabbed him off a ledge lol
Borderlands definitely stepped up their final boss game in the 2nd Borderlands because while The Destroyer was a little bitch The Warrior was a pain in the ass.
I soloed The Destroyer first try like pretty much everyone else but it took me 12 tries to finally beat The Warrior by myself.
What about final boss of legend of zelda, breath of the wild????
A random mob deals more damage than that dude.
King Allant has a story behind him, because he lost all his powers, similar to the final one on Dark Souls. But at least there, the guy fights you, on Demon’s, Allant is just totally gone.
Red Hood boss in Arkham Knight should have been on here
In many ways yes but also no since it wasn't the final boss
If BioShock 2 had, well, a final boss at all, it would be an easy 10/10. The boss being a hoarde fight was anticlimactic.
I was expecting to see Bioshock 2 in this list. When I think poor final bosses I always think of Bioshock 2.
You preferred Fontaine from Bioshock 1? Now that was terrible. Not every game needs a “final boss”.
Ken Levine admitted in at least one interview that Irrational wasn’t good at boss fights, and Take Two basically forced them to put one at the end of the first game. In the end, it turned out to be the one blemish in an otherwise perfect game, so from then on, they just resorted to hordes. It may not be as cinematic, but at least it gets the job done without harming the game.
@@ulyssesocounter8488 : I admire their honesty but after a captivating adventure like that, you need some sort of final showdown to make it all seem like it had purpose. Once the narrative starts to really come together, overcoming the enemy that was responsible for all these intersecting paths of loss, tragedy, and insanity becomes something you greatly anticipate. Even if it was a mediocre boss fight I think we should have gotten something.
@@ulyssesocounter8488 I meant Bioshock 1. For some reason I was thinking that boss fight was from 2. I guess after so many years things aren't fresh in my memory anymore. Getting old :)
Dying Light final boss was a huge disappointment
I personally really liked the final battle in Uncharted 1. I thought the weird zombie creatures were a fun twist
If there's going to be a part ii, that guy from Dying Light (I don't remember his name) should definitely be on the list!
He should have been on this one, at least the quick time event boss fight on The Evil Within is kinda nice
His name is like Rais
RAIS...
Bro I remember as a kid being stuck DAYS on the Uncharted 2 final boss. I just literally didn't know what to do until I had to ask my Uncle to come over and figure out why this guys isn't taking any damage and how to beat him lmfaooooo such a great game terrible ending.
Eredin - there are three more difficult, interesting bosses in the Witcher 3 DLC, and even Eredin’s lieutenant, Caranthir, is a harder and more interesting fight in the base game.
Yup even fighting regular leshen is harder than fighting eredin..
Eredin is still a really cool fight just a bit too easy
You're comparing the final boss to post development DLC? What? And of course, you wreck Eredin. Not only are you in your final build, but he's just a douchebag elf in some spooky armor. There's nothing special about him from a lore standpoint.
thedarkemissary chill
@@thedarkemissary doesn’t explain Caranthir being a tougher fight
The final encounter with The Didact in Halo 4 was so disappointing.
They introduced him into the game and he basically rag dolled Chief with ease and I was looking forward to taking him down the entire game.
And they made it a QTE.
4 buttons to win.
Garbage.
“Yu Yee-Vaughn.”
Falcon, you’re killing me, dude.
He even pronounces it correctly later at 8:11 but then reverts to Yu Yee-Vaughn lol
He does it to troll us. Ignore him and he’ll get good
It was actually a tough boss. The problem came from grinding the monster arena. It made you way too overpowered by the time you actually wanted to finish the game.
Worst boss fight in history HAS to be the final "FIGHT" against Lord Lucien in Fable 2. Most anticlimactic moment in my gaming life.
Same here, and to think I had to buy an Xbox 360 to play that game -_-
At this point, I think Molyneaux lost the magic that made Fable: TLC great. Should have just made it a 1 and done game as 3 wasn't all that great either.
@@RyuKaze I really enjoyed the addition of firearms in 2 but your right 3 was trash in comparison.
In an otherwise all time awesome classic game, I would put the Joker final boss battle from Batman: Arkham Asylum on this list.
Yeah, I was wondering where that was
That shit just confused me.
Facts
The Joker fight in Arkham Knight was way better
Remember Fable 2 final boss? Literally a cut scene and a gunshot. Done
Dying Light...........good game up until the last boss. It's just a few QTE's to beat him. I hope Dying Light 2 last boss encounter is better than that.
Witcher 3 was also a ridiculous boss fight. I was expecting a super hard boss, they hype up the guy for the whole game, and he's down in 5 min
For me the worst final boss will always be in tomb raider 2. You fight a helicopter...thats it. The game was so good until that one part. You expect this cool ancient monster like the first one and then youre just disappointed. Atleast SOTR had a really cool final boss
Actually is pretty Hard to find good final bosses out there.
Gears of war 2 great game but skorge should’ve been the final boss!
When I saw the games that were in the video I was like: DUDE! FFX FINAL BATTLE IS AMAZING, WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT?! Then I realized that I had forgotten the REAL final battle lol
Two words.. phoenix down
I'm surprised the Fable 2 final "boss" isn't here. He'd be at #1.
I like easy final bosses! At the end of the game I got tired (if long game) and just want to finish as soon as possible!
I absolutely love the game. But I thought for sure shadow of Mordor was going to be on this list when you started talking about QTEs
Uh, you do realize that Yu Yevon from FFX was just a story boss, right? It’s for story-telling purposes, not gameplay. You have auto-life on every character. You literally can’t lose. Braska’s Final Aeon, the enemy before Yu Yevon, is the real final boss, and is much better.
If one had to put a Final Fantasy final boss in this list, I’d pick the obvious one of Necron from FFIX. While the fight itself isn’t too bad, just the fact that he is a literal “Big-Lipped Alligator Boss” always rubbed me the wrong way.
Shadow of Mordor - building up to fight Sauron the entire game and it’s ends up being a quick time event…
I was like..thats quick😂
@@zharfan7573 I overall enjoyed the game but that ending is so disappointing
I've not played the game. When I think about Sauron, I imagine the burning eye, and I feel the urge to yell: "Go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes!"
That's what happens when you are overpowered
Definitely agree that king allant was intentional and has massive story implications. The real final fight of that is the illusion of him
I feel like dying lights final boss was really boring
I was pretty disappointed by the confrontation with sauron in shadow of mordor. I didn't want to go against the dark master, the lord of the rings, with a qte.
Gears of war 2. One of my favourite games of all times. No final boss
Oops. You guys mentioned it. Lol
My #1 would be Immortals Fenyx Rising final boss: Typhon. For context, when I reached the boss, I had upgrade Fenix almost to the maximum in everything. And the problem is that it makes Fenix absolutly overpowered. So when I get to Typhon, I completly destroyed the poor bastard. Like, in seconds. There is no fun in that.
Never understood the hate for Lazarevich´s boss fight, always found it ingenious for what it was. Especially considering the developers could have done a qte boss like in Uncharted 3 and Golden Abyss.
Have you ever played Gun for the Ps2? The final boss fight there was extremely similar to Lazarevich's fight.
The thing is with Lazarevich is that he's both hard AND boring. If he was just a QTE boss then he'd just be boring, but fighting him on crushing is one of the most infuriating things I've ever done in a game.
lazarevic was the best thign about uncharted 2
@@brettdueck824 I did, but if I remeber correctly, you had to use specific ammo or explosives which ran out and you had to resupply, the scenario was also pretty dull. In Uncharted 2 you were always on edge because you were constanly running and the enviroment was everchanging, thus it never became repetive to me, quite the contrary it became more stressful lol.
@@MichaelHill-sg8ks I disagree, boring is the last feeling I have while being chased by that maniac.
Original version of Bionic Commando had a proper final boss.
Dying lights final boss was pretty underwhelming
Have you all done 10 of the most satisfying bosses?
No Crash Bandicoot 2? That final boss can be beaten in 15 seconds and is a slow jetpack chase. The thing has a massive build up throughout the game for 15 seconds of slow boredom
I just finished Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, and the battles leading up TO the final battle are 15000 times harder than the actual two final "bosses".
To be honest, I think Konstantin would be better for a bad final boss. The Oni warrior is actually pretty cool because you mainly fight ranged enemies through the majority of the game, so having what feels like a dark souls boss is a pretty good change of pace. Dominguez was also great because first you have the sneaking part, and then it becomes a one-on-one fight with him. But Konstantin, you literally just run around and throw cans to a place, sneak up on him two times and it's done. Honestly, he had so much potential, and they just decided to ruin that
How can you forget Lucian Fairfax from Fable 2? You finally go to fight him and all it takes is a single shot to finish him, hell you could do nothing and one of your allies will get annoyed and shoot him for you.
shouldve done Adam Smasher from cyberpunk, that guy is easy on hard
Shadow of Mordor in my opinion was so lame. You get hyped to fight Sauron and then all of sudden X, Y, A -> Game Over, you won!
Dying light was a pretty great game with a very disappointing boss. Rais the warlord who ruled his men with an iron fist and when it came down to fighting him it was all done via QTE which left me a bit disapointed.
I think is because in a fight you would one shot him with an ar and they dont want to make him a damage sponge
@@shkambaba2087 Still doesn't make it less disappointing.
Was surprised not to see the helicopter from the Division. I mean the whole game was pretty disappointing, but literally fighting a generic helicopter as your final boss was so lame.
How did the Halo 4 bossfight not make it in here? It was 100% a quick time event, and not even a mildly intense one
I was looking for this
I hate halo 4
@@mr.armstrong8076 multiplayer was pretty solid tho. But ya the forerunner minions were the most annoying enemies to fight in any video game ever
Let me say it is really funny to state that the final boss in Uncharted 2 is bad, without even mentioning how bad, ugly and boring the final boss in Uncharted 3 is. Like at least the final boss in Uncharted 2 gives a challenge, and you feel fulfilled after defeating him (especially on a higher difficulty). But the final boss in Uncharted 3 is the definition of boredom. IMO the final boss of Uncharted 2 is probably the best in the whole series, unlike the final boss of Uncharted 3 which is definitely the most boring and disappointing one.
You can't actually loose the final fight in ffx. You'll just come right back to life
Thats what I was thinking, surprised it's even on this list since we have constant auto life going
most don't consider Yu Yevon to be the final boss, but rather Braska's Final Aeon.
Lol. I've played FFX like 15 times, and I never knew that. :D
Where is the final fight from Dying Light? That was such a disappointing way to end that game. All this amazing parkour and combat, and then a stupid QTE boss fight to end it all...
Nah I thought the final fight in tomb raider was fine, i prefer my rituals to be all or nothing rather than oh they're getting stronger and getting more power etc etc
The Witcher 3 Final Boss was kinda disappointing imo. Even at the hardest difficulty. DLC bosses were much cooler to fight. I don't say it was bad, just not on a final boss level.
And tbh also Dark Souls Gwyn wasn't that hard if you know how to parry. I expected more from him.
I think the boss itself wasn't disappointing. The atmosphere, soundtrack was phenomenal. But it was way easier than some of the other bosses in the game.
that's what the game expected you to do, after linking the fire and giving fragments of the lord souls to the 4 lords he had become weaker, he was nothing more than a mad hollow in that bossfight, it was pretty fucking poetic if you ask me, also plin plin plon
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Very good!
Special mention to Dying Light 1 when you fight Rais 1v1. You spend the entire game learning your way to move around quickly and efficiently, fighting with utmost precision and timing, developing skills and arsenals for any and all occasions...and it comes down to a pure quick-time event that uses just about no skill or experience you've had till that point.
you totally forgot about Satan in Castlevania : Lords of Shadow 2
I thought I'd fight SATAN HIMSELF
I was hyped up through the whole game and the game was FANTASTIC but..... 💔
I'll let you look it up 💔
Well to be fair they can save that game for number #1 most disappointing sequel of all time. First game was a masterpiece imo.
@@domdellamorte I don't think LoS 2 was the worst sequel of all games. It definitely wasn't as good as the first LoS, which had that awesome reveal at the end that led to the second game. It was fun to play as Dracula, so I enjoyed it. But I may be a bit biased since Castlevania is my all time favorite gaming franchise, and I'm over excited hearing the news that they are finally getting ready to create a new one!!
Army of Two.
During the game you have little encounters with this other mercenary that is suposed to be as strong as you and your mate are. But when you reach the final stage, he turns out to be no different than a regular enemy.
Still loved the game.
Fallout 3 was amazing until the final boss. It was such a dissapointment considering how strong we get until the end of the game
Don’t let a bad final boss ruin the rest of the game for you. Fallout 3 was incredible!
Fallout 3 was a good game but the end really was falling off the end of a cliff.
I mean, it was a game set with the enclave as the bad guys, even if he was in hellfire armour he would of been a joke, he's just worth the unique 10mm pistol, laser pistol and overcoat. I don't think it's the kind of game where a big bad guy was the end boss so "it just works", new Vegas big mountain dlc had more of a big boss end fight really.
Little disappointed that Jack of Blades wasn’t on the list. The guy before him was harder!
Lazarevic is the best final boss in the uncharted franchise 😂
Rafe is much better.
i love the Uncharted series, but i don't like most of their final bosses.
343 Guilty Spark from Halo 3. Actually final "boss" battles in the Halo series just suck in general.
Yep, the Cyberdemon was definitely too easy, and kinda lame. Thankfully they made it better, to me, with Resurrection of Evil. Oh, by the way, I love Doom 3.
Bruh, after *FINALLY* defeating Jecht, I was glad to have a ceremonial battle with Yu Yevon!
Especially since there isn't a save file between them. Imagine dying at Yu Yevon and then having to fight Jecht again. Nah
I feel like most games with sponge enemies just have bad bosses, like a boss in the Division or destiny is just a normal enemy with more health
I feel like you could have had a section just called "The PS3/360 Era" and made it a top 5. xD
FINALLY a spoiler warning was included in the videos.
Dark souls 1, you just parry like twice with the hornet ring and Gwyn is just freaking dead
Surprised they didn't mention the seneschal out of Dragon's Dogma. All of the game's human sized bosses are pretty bad and can be easily one-shot on any difficulty, and the seneschal (the omnipotent keeper of the world) is no different apart from the multiple phases, cinematic elements, and big reveal. Still an amazing game and that fight at least has an incredible song to go with it.
At least the DLC added some better bosses
I thought uncharted 2 boss was amazing 🤷♂️ oh well as long as I enjoyed it I guess
I always thought the final showdown with the Old One cathartic, and sad… seeing his pathetic true form? It just kind of ties the bigger game together…. And I personally loved it.
But from a strictly gamer perspective? Yeah… not the final nod you want to face… even on a narrative level.
Half Life 1 should get a mention. The whole time you are fighting this giant alien baby he keeps teleporting you in rooms that are annoying to get out of. Black Mesa did a way better job of the fight.
On the plus side, Miyazaki hasn’t failed to deliver on a final boss since Demon Souls
The Kotun Khan bossfight at the end of Tsushima was really disappointing compared to when you get to face him at the beginning of the game
I loved it. Not only you fight him in a classic duel, but also in the second stage use all your Ghost weapons against him.
If anything I see Lord Shimura a bit more as the final boss. But yeah, I liked the Kirin Khan fight, buts definitely less memorable than the first one.
Slick, or Simon, in river city ransom should have been on here. After fighting the dragon twins and then you go out on the roof and confront him was a disappointment. At least after you beat him you can run back inside before he finishes talking and keep playing the game.
Can't believe you left out Lucien from Fable 2. Huge build up to him making the "Wish" tower just to be guild by a single hit or letting what's his face shot him after getting bored of Lucien speech.
Reaver, yeah. listen to the monologue and he pulls the gun instead.
@@dreadkaiser1058 Thank you, it was bugging me I couldn't remember his name.