View Full Version : Worst final boss fight in the history of gaming? Rate them!
Shinsou Vaan Osiris
07-02-15, 10:01 AM
This particular gem from Metal Gear Rising (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTxAlkD-xDI) has taken me through a black hole, and I honestly believe I will never be the same again for the experience.
There are so many things wrong with this fight that it is honestly hard to list them all. I'll let you decide for yourselves whether or not I'm right, but before you click the above video, for comparative purposes, please watch Raiden vs Metal Gear Excelsius (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4bYOvG3IPE), which is sort of what I expected from a boss fight.
Anyway, link up your own, and rate them in the following catagories. The higher the score, the worse it is.
Tackyness: 8/10
I struggle to think of a game that has scored higher than this. Senator Armstrong scores most of the points here for the unusual absorption of Metal Gear's systems into his body (apparantly via the Lifestream), before declaring he has "nanomachines" that make him practically invincible. For Christ's sake, this is Metal Gear Solid...
Dialogue: 7/10
Points split 3.5 each between Raiden, for his "tool of justice" cliche, and Armstrong for the immortal line "Nanomachines, son." Bonus points to Raiden for slipping the phrase "you're batshit-insane" in there, too.
The Fight: 8/10
I am really, really struggling with the mechanics here. Raiden was slicing Metal Gear Excelsius limb from limb, even using it's own beam sword against it, yet his own HF blade barely damages Armstrong. On top of that, Armstrong begins punching the ground to create jets of fire, and throws cars at Raiden.
The End: 8/10
The only redeeming feature of this is that Raiden crushes Armstrong's heart in his hand, otherwise it would be a solid 10.
Overall score: 31/40
Hysteria
07-03-15, 10:46 PM
There is no doubt in my mind that it is the final boss in the Deadpool game. It was painfully simple, and just involved running backwards and shooting. Whale.... fail....
Tackyness: 8
The final boss is........! Three of the previous boss.
Dialogue: 9
Deadpool is Dialogue, so this is a hard one. The hate for the other categories seeps through.
The fight: 10
10 as in the number of minutes I ran backwards shooting the boss in the face.
The end: 9
'so bad it gave me diabetes' -ING
'Chimichungas were included, 10/10' - Deadpool
The final "boss" of Destiny: The Heart of Darkness.
Tackyness: 10/10
You get to kill the source of all evil: The Heart of Darkness. If instead of the post-apocalyptic future, Destiny were set in a multi-dimensional cartoon world and speckled with keyblades, we'd have Kingdom Hearts 3. The entire premise of Light vs Dark is the oldest cliche out there: Good vs Evil. So, instead of giving evil a face, name, and personality, let's just make it a giant surging blob of black stuff that sends waves of disposable baddies at you. Oh, and we'll bring statues to life to fight you. Three times. Did I mention it's the same statue three times? No variance in combat or tactic? Yeah, pretty anti-climatic. Music was good, though.
Dialogue: 8/10
"The heart is dying! Keep fighting!" - Ghost via Peter Dinklage.
Arguably, one can pick up that Dinklage didn't enjoy his role as the ghost, your little floating, robotic companion. His lines are flat, lackluster, and auto-tuned with sci-fi cyber sounds. Throughout the game, your Guardian isn't much better, pulling lines out like "I don't think we have a choice," or "We go down." The attempt is there, but it's poor. Considering this is an MMO, generic dialogue is understandable, but to be so horribly generic... It's like saying, "I'm the good guy, and I'm a badass. *puts on shades to CSI Miami Opening Theme*"
The Fight: 6/10
For as plain, unimaginative, and repetitive as it was, the game did a decent job of keeping on the pressure for those facing the mission solo. On top of a giant statue shooting explosives, you have little terminator robots trying to gun you down as you seek cover. In the early game, this can be a high tension fight. However, if you can secure a few pieces of rare gear, you can roflstomp the mission. Once you take out the three living statues, the blob of carbon/graphite looking stuff just kinda... explodes. Yup, killing some statues causes the source of all evil to just kill itself. Did I mention that it also controls leagues of time-traveling death machines? Yeah... explodes... from killing three statues... and that's it.
The End: 10/10
Welp, you killed "The Heart of Darkness". What should you and your fellow warriors do? Celebrate. But wait! Let's have the leader of this current era give some sort of valiant speech! You won't be there, but the nameless others that never played a part in the story will. Instead, you're off alone in some hanger talking to a stranger you still have no idea who they are or what role they play. But hey, here's a gun. Oh, and let's drop the cliche line somewhere along the lines of "While the battle may be over, the war has yet to be won," or some similar crap about endings and beginnings. Then, your bestie (or strange robotic fling) vanishes into thin air like all enigmatic badasses do and you zip off into space on your ship and fade to black.
Yay...
Possibly the worst story I have yet to encounter as far as games go. Even the Lore is a pain to understand and decipher from shit you have to find. That's right, you don't get the lore/story, you have to stumble upon it by searching ruins, jumping to locations no normal person would, or looking it up online. Destiny tried, but the game was released incomplete. Instead of giving you the story, they plan to release it over their 10 year projected life. So if you want to understand why you're fighting the good fight, get comfy. It's gonna be a long ass ride.
Overall score: 34/40
Though, for as much shit as I give it, I do love playing the game. Nothing satisfies more than blowing up aliens and other apocalypse survivors all for some loot and bragging rights. A fun time killer kinda like Farmville but more aggressive. Maybe like Diablo? Yeah... Diablo.
Someone totally needs to do the Mass Effect 3 final boss. The most controversial ending in gaming thus far.
Cards of Fate
07-06-15, 01:30 PM
Hopping at Jacks request, The mass effect three boss.
While normally Id take the time to break it down in some fancy ass little judgment, but this boss doesnt deserve it.
Finally after 20 to 30 hours of dicking around the universe eacesdropping on peoples problems and playing creepy fairy godmother you're finally ready to reclaim earth from the reapers. To the games credit the whole earth section is really well done and geniunely gives you a sense of dispair, that maybe you wont win.
But hey, we're Commander shepard, we can do anything. This ends up being a final suicide rush at a sciency space elevator thingy.
...
Wait, didnt I just do this same thing two games ago? Yeah, you did, you even had a sweet armored dune buggy thingy too. This is just you holding the sprint button and praying you dont get lazered.
After a dramatic goodbye you leave your party behind and barely make it into the elevator. Whats stopping you? Its not a reaper, or even one of the more menacing robot hybrids, its a regular grunt enemy. He dies to you spamming a lazer pistol.
At this point you're thinking, "hey I get a solo throwdown with some badass ultimate reaper dude. Sweet!"
NOPE
In fact that danky little grunt enemy is the last thing you fight. What follows is like 30 minutes of hobbeling only to pick which color you want to destroy society in.
Seriously, the cutscene is exactly the same except its tintrd a different color and has a different epilogue.
Worst way to end a 90 hourish trillogy ever.
Shinsou Vaan Osiris
07-07-15, 04:17 PM
Hopping at Jacks request, The mass effect three boss.
While normally Id take the time to break it down in some fancy ass little judgment, but this boss doesnt deserve it.
Finally after 20 to 30 hours of dicking around the universe eacesdropping on peoples problems and playing creepy fairy godmother you're finally ready to reclaim earth from the reapers. To the games credit the whole earth section is really well done and geniunely gives you a sense of dispair, that maybe you wont win.
But hey, we're Commander shepard, we can do anything. This ends up being a final suicide rush at a sciency space elevator thingy.
...
Wait, didnt I just do this same thing two games ago? Yeah, you did, you even had a sweet armored dune buggy thingy too. This is just you holding the sprint button and praying you dont get lazered.
After a dramatic goodbye you leave your party behind and barely make it into the elevator. Whats stopping you? Its not a reaper, or even one of the more menacing robot hybrids, its a regular grunt enemy. He dies to you spamming a lazer pistol.
At this point you're thinking, "hey I get a solo throwdown with some badass ultimate reaper dude. Sweet!"
NOPE
In fact that danky little grunt enemy is the last thing you fight. What follows is like 30 minutes of hobbeling only to pick which color you want to destroy society in.
Seriously, the cutscene is exactly the same except its tintrd a different color and has a different epilogue.
Worst way to end a 90 hourish trillogy ever.
I don't know how, but I forgot about this. Probably out of neccessity.
I think it will be a tough ask to top this.
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