What are some of the worst final bosses in videogames?

For how amazing Sonic Mania is. The final boss sucks.

>>387632556
Definitely not that one. It's just mediocre as fuck

>>387632727

one day you too will be tired of nintendo boss fights

>>387632556
Fist-fighting the pope in ACII

>>387632665
Shame because the atmosphere is incredible

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Obligatory

>>387632794
>I am tired of company
>therefor the bosses in tbeir games are bad
Derp

Fable 2

>>387632556

Dark Samus in Metroid Prime 3 is pretty average compared to the first two fights in Prime 2. Becomes borderline unplayable and unfun on Hyper Mode difficulty. Then, rather than anything cool, you just fight an Aurora Unit because it's trying to be Super Metroid. Dark Samus could have become Metroid Prime again or something cool, but no.

Both Castlevania Sorrow games have pretty bad final bosses too. Just random clusterfuck shit all over the screen. At least Chaos in Aria was justified in that it's the source of the castle's powers, but it's still not fun. Menace was just atrocious, to the point where evil Soma in Julius mode was a better final boss.

tfw playing warhammer 40k: space marine and its a pretty fun game with fun combat
tfw get to the final boss and its a fucking QTE

>>387632556
Crash Bandicoot 2

>>387632665
This dammit.

Original Zelda is a bad joke at it.

>>387632660
Original Sonic sucks at it as well.

Halo 4 has the most insultingly bad final boss "fight" ever.

>final fight is just shooting glowing tubes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPybJbvoRT0
Fucking Insomniac really phoned in the ending of the game.

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>>387632556

>>387632830
That's why I wouldn't consider it one of the worst bosses overall. The design is solid, it gives you an idea of just how massive and powerful Ganon really is, and makes you feel like this bitch could walk over Hyrule if you weren't there to stop him.

It's just a shame that it's such a piss-easy fight and ruins all that atmosphere

>>387633309
All of the MvM bosses suck, really. Valve actually was going to put in a more unique final boss (think of it like Merasmus and HHH), but sadly they axed it before the gamemode came out.

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This music is way too good for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZPkCgYic-c

>>387632952
>criticizing yoko taro
go back to plebbit, fucking faggot. you disgrace /v/.

>>387633486
The bosses in Sonic CD in general are pretty fucking bad outside of metal sonic.

>>387633330
I hope that DLC gives us a "true final boss" of some kind, but I don't wanna get my hopes up too much

>>387633672
Most of his games in terms of gameplay suck or are janky as fuck, with Drakengard 3 being irredeemable shit in this regard

>>387632952
It's absolutely brilliant from design standpoint and atmosphere though.

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>>387633330
>The design is solid, it gives you an idea of just how massive and powerful Ganon really is
>pig anus

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>>387632952

That's one of the best final bosses in gaming though, no joke. The first game had a silly joke ending rhythm game, Nier extrapolated an entire universe from the joke ending, and finally D3 completely remade it into something beautiful. It's difficult, thematically flavourful, long, and truly satisfying to beat. In a game filled with Intoners who battle through song, it only makes sense that the final boss is a rhythm game. It introduces several extra meta twists, such as the camera spasms, because the Flower comes from 'our' world and it's attacking you, the player, directly by attempting to make you ragequit. The music itself is amazing. And finally, it ends in Taro's first "happy" ending. What more could you ask for?

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>>387632556

>>387633807
No, his games are multi-layered masterpieces, it's alright though. You're obviously too stupid to get that so I won't bother you.

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>>387634038
I absolutely adore the often overlooked fact that during credit shmup in ending E of Automata last big names are starting to shoot bullets in Flower's pattern.
This alone made already powerful End of YoRHa absolutely brilliant for me.

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I didn't even know what the fuck i was doing, it's easily the worst super sonic fight in the series.

dark souls 1 and 2

>>387634380
It has shitty music
In a Sonic game
Inexcusable

>>387632952
Artificial difficulty: the boss.

>>387633486
Was this intended to be the final boss? It feels like it was cut at the last minute.

>>387634380

THAT LOOKS LIKE A HOMING SHOT

>>387632665
>zelda states that if you don't finish it quick, he will grow stronger and destroy hyrule
>never happens
they put you in the field and they didn't add some kind of destruction during the fight?

>boss is too big
it's an "escape the area" boss
>boss is too small
it's a glorified cutscene
>boss is too easy
it's a glorified cutscene
>boss is too hard
ending feels anticlimactic
>boss isn't developed well enough
it was pulled out of nowhere
>boss is established from the beginning of the game
saw it coming a mile away

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>>387632556
Prototype's Supreme Hunter
>Timed Boss battle after getting bosses health down to 25%
>Nowhere near enough time unless you do it cheap.
>His super moves have poor reeds and can insta kill you.
>TIMED BOSS BATTLE

Honestly, glad they didn't do the same shit in the second game.

I genuinely enjoyed Undertale, but the fact that 2/3 of the possible final bosses literally can't even fucking kill you kinda ruins the intended impact of the endings.

>>387635676
>boss is too hard
>ending feels anticlimactic
I'm afraid I don't follow you on this one

the hardest possible boss would naturally lead to the most climactic ending, yes? easy bosses are anti-climactic.

>>387635863
>Hard Boss
>Finishing blow has to be dealt with a QTE
ruined.

claymates has an awful final boss, you can literally stand still and never get hit
and then an even worse real final boss when the game turns into a sidescroller shmup for no reason

>>387635959
I actually think Saints row 4 did it the right way. Have the actual battle be a normal boss fight with normal health bars. Then when the boss reaches zero, use easy QTE's to pummel the final boss to death for maximum satisfaction.

>>387635959
There's literally nothing wrong with that if it's done well. The satisfaction of finally getting that HP whittled down and then getting retarded with some kind of kickass finisher to drive in just how hard you kicked the boss's ass feels great.
I feel like people give QTEs too much shit. They obviously shouldn't be used as filler, or to replace actual gameplay, but using a QTE as a sort of reward for skilled play is perfectly acceptable in my book.

>>387635959
honestly, I got nothing against tacking on a QTE after a proper boss battle. actually beat it using the mechanics of the game, then finish it with a cut-scene (or QTE sequence) for style points.

>>387635863
I guess it depends on the story and pacing. Usually the game doesn't just end at the final boss, though there might be games that actually do. Many stories involve the main character becoming supremely powerful and saving the day in a sort of deus ex machina, and whether that fight is the last battle or if you actually defeated the boss in proper gameplay, and which battles you actually count... there are so many logistical problems

Like FF7 and BotW, for instance. Cloud takes out Sephiroth with omnislash, which is the last fight you have in the game, but was that really the last battle? Well, not really, it was a glorified cutscene. BotW's Beast Ganon isn't any different in this regard, since the insurmountable size of the enemy makes him pretty difficult to realistically fight in the way you've fought 99% of the enemies in the game

My entire point was it's incredibly difficult to balance the various attributes, and at a certain point you have to expect people are going to realize the challenge in BotW's ending wasn't dark beast but the fight right before it, and so on

Finding something to complain about is the easiest thing in the world to do. /v/ is literally life's easy mode

>>387635676
>boss is too hard
>ending feels anticlimactic

wat

>expecting something from 2D Mario boss fights

At least the 3D games once in a while might have an interesting idea (though it still usually is "hit bad guy 3 times on the head" garbage) but 2D Mario bosses are just awful around.

Name a good 2D Mario boss please.

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>>387632556
Not a final boss but Red Faciton Guerrilla last mission.
>Final mission is the antithesis of the game
>Full combat charge up the hill
>Two enemy apc's keep respawning
>You start off with a super tank, but it quickly gets destroy because killing the anti tank posts if fucking hard as fuck.
>Isn't about planning a strike, then running away to hide and repeat the process.
>You have to do the mission by yourself, despite having two factions behind you and supporting you.

RFG is one of my top games of all time, but the devs were fucking stupid on the last mission.

>>387632556
Final boss of Gravity Rush.
The setup is fucking awful. It manages to be out of nowhere and completely predictable at the same time. The fight is a huge mess, and even the ending afterwards feels like they ran out of budget and decided to cut everything short.

>>387636227
>>387636168
>>387636161
I'd agree with you, but in the event that it takes you completely by surprise and you fail it, depending on what happens next it can completely kill a boss battle

>>387636432
A boss is supposed to be a test that you've mastered the mechanics of the game that you've been taught up until that point.

2D Marios are platforming games. It's like people suddenly expecting Mario to whip out a sword and start slashing at him in a highly action-oriented way. In a sense, "the boss is really the whole level" is a much more appropriate approach to 2D Mario games, since that's what Mario is. It's getting from one size of the level to the other by jumping and avoiding things,

>>387636664
Yeah, I agree on that one. Having a QTE kill you at the end would fucking blow, but I personally like it when it's something Like Bayonetta 2, or Kingdom Hearts 2FM: A fairly simple QTE with next to no punishment for failing that either serves to give you some sort of bonus or just look fucking COOL.

>>387636664
Again, this is why "easy" is important part. If the player presses the wrong button it shouldn't be a "fail". Nothing should happen. Same if they don't press anything. All the player should do is spam the action button to rip the bosses head off or something. Mistakes at this point shouldn't be punished at all, because the player has won the true battle of skill.

Basically an interactive cutscene with no bullshit.

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>Kirby generally has pretty good final bosses.
>And then there's this loser.

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The final boss in life sucks. For fucks sake you can't even win against it!

>>387635338
True final boss is Final Aeon.
This thing is the same as Cloud vs Sephiroth, a glorified cutscene.

>>387636992
Musk and Theil will win, but only because they can afford to upload their brains onto computers. Us plebs will be maggot food.

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>>387636849

>Final boss fight of pic related
>Ends in an incredibly badass cross counter between two fated rivals, both doomed to die but determined to settle their score before they do
>...and a surprise QTE where if you fail it you die on the spot and have to start from the beginning

Pretty sure everyone who played this game got caught by that at least once.

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>>387635547
>>387635547
that's not the final boss

>>387637119
>True final boss is Final Aeon.
International version is non-canon

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>>387637248

>>387636781
Ok, name a good 2D Mario boss battle

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>>387637179
>Win track race in real life
>About to be handed my prize
>Before the judge hands it to me he yells
>"ANSWER MY RIDDLE FAGGOT! NO SMOKE WITHOUT!?"
>"Fi-"
>"DIDN'T ANSWER QUICK ENOUGH FAGGOT!"
>He proceeds to break my legs, everyone is laughing at me.
>I must compete again next year to claim first place.

>>387637523
I'm not sure I'd call any of them good, but I also wouldn't call any of them bad. The ones that are single-screen like SMB3, SWM, are actually the most disappointing. I prefer the escape-the-area style

>>387637479
Final Aeon Jecht, not Penance.

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>>387637572

>>387632945
you take that back, love the sound design here and how the fight felt so harrowing and lovecraftian, it was honestly really satisfying (FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR MARKER)

>>387638871
HA HAAA
HAAH

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>>387638871

You posted the wrong Cortex "fight"

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>>387634380
>it's easily the worst super sonic fight in the series.
No, this is.

>>387639253
It was at least easy.

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I'm still upset.

>>387639453
Eh, It sucks but I don't remember it being that bullshit. Just disappointing.

>>387639546
The game was solidly enjoyable from start to him, he was an incredibly disappointing last boss.

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>>387639453
what a fucking shitshow

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I mean it doesn't help that the combat is complete garbage, but even that dude on the mountain was funner than this chucklefuck. What a shitty game.

>>387634380
>I didn't even know what the fuck i was doing
Same, the final boss in colors was also underwhelming but at least the music was really good

>>387633486
The american music was better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77MDHoSuHNw

>>387636964
At least possessed Daroach was pretty cool.

The first Borderlands

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Apparently you were supposed to run up and mash square on her.

>>387639587
Yeah but I wouldn't say "worst". "Worst" implies an element of cheapness and bullshit in a video game sense. The end boss of Space Marine was just sad.

>>387637523
Final Bowser fight in Super Mario World...but that's the only one worth mentioning.

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>God is just Homer Simpson's head

>>387639934
The cool thing about this fight is there's this weird CQC countering mechanic going on if you try to use it on her, but the game doesn't tell you how to do it, that you can do it and the way the fight is largely stealth based means you don't really do it unless you run at her like a retard

A fight like the hand to hand fight with liquid on the metal gear would have been better for this imo

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I like the design, even if I know what the hell he's supposed to be, but the actual fight is just running away in a big circle until he makes himself briefly vulnerable. Your biggest enemy in the fight is the camera suddenly turning, and it's a real shame considering the two fights before it are great.

>>387639896
Final boss in the second one was even worse.

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>final boss is a fishbowl in a mech

>>387634642
>shitty music
>in a Sonic game
How is this surprising?

>>387640767
(You)

>>387638871
Wish I could find the video of Cortex's laser killing Crash when it's not even touching him.

Brio was even worse. His fucking face in the Hulk form you need to get exactly fucking right. I swear I directly hit his face the other day and it still killed me.

Fuck Vicarious Visions are incompetent and they blame it on the player the fucking cunts.

>>387633207

I was satisfied with final zone in Sonic 1. Unlike Mania's, it actually challenged me

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>no one posted this shitshow yet

>>387634134

He's right, Taro's games aren't great. You only like them because of nostalgia over the PS2. Causes people to like pretty underwhelming vidya because they had good chdhood memories

>>387641073
Not an argument.

>>387641251
How was Sonic 1's final boss anything of a challenge?

Dude went down like a chump despite the cutscene build up and music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6xQyJlt7EE

>>387641564

No rings

>>387641403
Sauron was posted before anon. Shit sucks though.
>>387639697

Here are some scary old school orks to cheer you up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oBvNFMt9Ic

>>387641481
He's baiting, mate. Newfags to the series do tend to overhype the older games without playing them though, and then find out the hard way just how shit Drakengard 1 is.

>>387641706
So?
You'd have to be a moron to get hit in the first place.

>>387641743
I've seen lets plays of Drrakengard 1. It does not look fun.

Ganondorf in Twilight Princess was so easy to the point where my friend's brother who had no experience with the series whatsoever got handed the Wii Remote and beat him in about a minute or so.

>>387641771

You never died on that boss? I don't believe you

the DS version has a better final boss fight than the normal game,like a SMT game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O848gqPoj-U

probably that QTE one from Sonic Chroicles

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>mfw trying to remember a good final boss
Like there are plenty that are thematically and conceptually neat or ones that fit the story, but like a really great boss fight to end the game?

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talk about anti-climactic

>>387641846
You realise you're talking about Sonic 1 right?
The same Sonic 1 where it's extremely easy to avoid incoming attacks and hit Eggman and there's always a space in the electric ball attack where you can just stand still?

New Super Mario Bros. 2 was pretty mediocre in general and I say this as a Mario fanatic. Uninspired, generic, and with the shittiest gimmick ever (collect a million coins, which takes weeks of nonstop play, all for a fucking gold statue on the title screen?).

Presumably Nintendo will make another 2D Mario platformer in a couple years, and I hope it's something different from the New Super Mario Bros. series (though the Wii U game is pretty great).

>>387642009
>Stagnation of Fromsoftware's creativity in one image.
>Another twirly man boss fight.ps4

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>>387635959
I don't get this because this guy was pretty great. I guess throwing a QTE in there when there isn't any QTEs in the game is pretty shitty.

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>>387635795
>That boss on hard

>>387641954
W101 and Bayonetta had good final bosses. Wild Arms 3 had a good final boss. Invisible Inc had a good finale mission.

>>387642345
>QTEs
>armstrong didn't want it to be this way.

>>387632665
First phase was good, wish they had switched them.

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I remain impressed to this day that an attempt to "fix" a stupid looking, unfun final boss led to this garbage, which looks more stupid and is less fun than the original

>>387637523
>Yoshi's Island technically has Mario in the title
>has actually somewhat creative boss fights
>2D Mario games have totally failed to ape this
Why?

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>Final boss is just standing/sitting there and shooting
>Pretty much on-rails
>Not even a rocket launcher to finish the job the traditional way

Just such a disappointment. Marguerite was the only good boss the game had.

>>387632556
any game with a tornado for a boss is bullshit