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Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 511 Joined: 28 Apr 2009     | |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 89 Joined: 2 Dec 2009     | Borderlands. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 378 Joined: 1 Dec 2007   | General scales (or whatever his name was) in starfox adventures. I was expecting a huge melee fight, but all I got was a cutscene of a ****SPOILER**** *disappointing* |
SUSPENDED  Posts: 9532 Joined: 22 Aug 2008     |
She didn't say that, she said there was no big reveal like you had in KotOR 1 when you found out that the PC was actually Revan. You still had a semi-difficult battle against her and then a planet explosion as you fly off into the distance. Admittedly it would've been better if they'd finished making the game, but you can blame LucasArts for that. User was suspended for: PC Gaming Elitism. (7 days) |
Paperboy  Posts: 27 Joined: 13 May 2009     |
Knights of the old republic had a good last boss fight |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3401 Joined: 15 Jan 2009    |
I think the whole level was pretty much the "Boss Fight" But MW2 made it alot more epic to kill the big bad than CoD4. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 153 Joined: 4 Sep 2009     |
To me, KOTOR 2 felt like an anti-climax long before that. Taris by any other name was the asteroid belt at the start. And instead of building on everything that came before in KOTOR it instead felt deconstructed and incomplete. When information wasn't provided about who the bosses were, it didn't feel mysterious. It felt like entire sections of story telling and plot were never inserted. |
Paperboy  Posts: 24 Joined: 18 Nov 2009    |
What, are you really saying you didn't find the ending of COD4 climactic at all? Okay, so the Big Bad doesn't jump into a huge mecha that you have to shoot at for half an hour until it goes down, but if you're trying to tell me there was no climax I'm going to have to ask you to step outside. The ending was so shocking I think it broke a piece of me inside. To me, COD4 made its statement pretty clear: War = bad. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 59 Joined: 30 Nov 2009     | I'm going to go ahead and through CoD 4 out there. I know not the most original or unique, but seriously WTF was that crap for an ending? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 157 Joined: 28 Nov 2009   |
Amen. I beat that game in 24 hrs with my brother. The first one took a heckuva lot longer to do. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2512 Joined: 27 Apr 2009     |
Do you mean the bit where you single-handedly stop all the nuclear missiles or the huge chase scene with all the helicopters trying to gun you down while you flee in a jeep? Are you talking about the bit after the jeep explodes and flips several times, throwing out your entire squad across the final part of a motorway, leaving you with nowhere to run as you're surrounded by enemies? Maybe the part when your dying buddy throws a pistol to you and you get one shot to take out the leader of the bad guys? No, no you're right. I can see how that could be anticlimactic.
It still amazes me that people didn't work this out by the end of the opening scene. Especially on this forum, where everyone keeps saying about how smart we all are. I'm... I'm not going to bother quoting anyone for Fable 2, Oblivion or, when it inevitably comes up, Fallout 3. The problem that everyone seems to have is that they were expecting boss fights in RPGs. If you had to fight Dagon in Oblivion, you would have died, and that would have been more anticlimactic than watching someone else do it. For Fable and Fallout 3, the entire last area is the "boss fight", the last kill (or not, in Fallout 3), is just the symbolic final defeat of your enemy. Also, they're both very old humans, exactly how much punishment do you expect them to take? Or is the last person you see in every game meant to finish their monologues to turn into a giant monster/hop into a mecha/suddenly become fully armoured and wield a massive sword? OT - my biggest dissapointment has got to be the final boss from Gun. It's been realistic right until the very end, when suddenly a breastplate stops all damage from the front and sides... |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 111 Joined: 27 Oct 2009 | [/quote]
For me it was the Dark Aeon fight in Final Fantasy 10. When they first appear your reaction is a slightly more panicked version of "Oh Bugger". But then by that point in the game most of them go down in one measly attack, with only the very hardest aeon lasting a round of combat. |
Paperboy  Posts: 22 Joined: 23 Oct 2009    |
Irenicus is a prime example of why I HATE magic. Good times though. On-topic, I got nothing. Just can't really remember a time I've played a game and just genuinely went 'meh'. I did, though, hit my head with a strong concussive force an hour or so ago. That probably why I'm having a hard time thinking of anything. Edit: No wait, Re4:Wii. Spoiler, it ended rather easily. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 591 Joined: 15 Feb 2008   |
I'll go for the level design. When you spend hours wondering if you are proceeding forward or backtracking through purple hallways with the occasional roundabout. It got seriously boring there. One also wondered "Why the HELL!?" Level designers that needs to have their noses broken. Game could have been tops 6 hrs long if they hadn't been so fond of ctrl+c or "dead" environments. It was, like Metal Gears Solid 4, in serious need of proper editing. EDIT: I cannot come up with any "biggest" anticlimax actually. A lot of games have had their share of grand disappointments. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1941 Joined: 6 Oct 2009    |
well in MW2 it's pretty much the same except, you pull a knife out of your chest and throw it at some dude getting him in his eye. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 611 Joined: 30 Oct 2009  |
Yeah, and they did that TWICE! |
Muckraker  Posts: 311 Joined: 13 Jun 2009   | I liked the ending to Fable 2 actually. It did make me lol. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3122 Joined: 15 Oct 2009    |
Not that it was hard, it was just shit. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4792 Joined: 15 Jun 2008    |
What are you talking about...? Too Human had a final boss - I can't remember her name, as the story was terrible, but the game defiantly ended with a boss... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 491 Joined: 10 Aug 2009     | Probably doesn't need a spoiler but JIC: |
Beat Writer  Posts: 188 Joined: 17 Oct 2009   | Borderlands final boss. Killed him, now I'll go into the vault! Or just loot my white pistol. *tear* |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 76 Joined: 26 Oct 2009    | Saren in Mass Effect. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2681 Joined: 27 Sep 2008    | For me it's still the final battle with Sephiroth, the whole thing was a bad ending to a game I never really enjoyed. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 139 Joined: 11 Nov 2009  | mine is the ending to borderlands. THERE IS NO VAULT!!! You spend all this time trying to find a vault thats suppost to have alien weapons, but insted this bigass octupus monster thing comes out of this portal thing and tries to bite your face off! where are the weapons!? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1318 Joined: 12 Aug 2008  | There's a "your mom" joke in your title somewhere. |
Muckraker  Posts: 297 Joined: 1 Jul 2009   | Welcome to the Escapist. Please use the spoiler tag! |
Anonymous Source Posts: 5 Joined: 15 Apr 2009   | Going way back, the ending to Doom 2 was pretty anticlimactic, it wasn't even really a boss, you just have to shoot 3 rockets into a whole in the wall that spits out enemies. It's no Cyberdemon, is all I'm saying. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 449 Joined: 10 Nov 2009    |
Well I mean you do shoot him in the face no human can survive that. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 805 Joined: 17 Sep 2008   |
At least they didn't give him some arbitrary health limit. In a game that prides itself on being very realistic, shooting the last boss in the head and him still running around firing back would have been downright ridiculous. The only way to remedy the situation would have been to have him in some sort of vehicle, like a helicopter. That way it could plausibly take more than one shot to kill him, and he still wouldn't seem super-human at all and break immersion (sp). |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 498 Joined: 3 Feb 2009 | Not sure if someone mentioned it yet, but the very final boss of FFX was really disappointing. Granted, you had about 3 or 4 harder fights before that, but a floating scarab with giant stone pillars was a bit of a let down. Also, FFXII was also a letdown in its entirety. I kept playing, waiting for the storyline to start, and then beat the game to discover that that was it. Game over, nothing else. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1577 Joined: 2 Jan 2008 |
I've said this before, but here we go. Anyone who didn't immediately know that the "box" we were trying to open on PANDORA was going to contain some unspeakable evil and not treasure needs to stop playing so many video games and go read a goddamn book or something. - J |
Beat Writer Posts: 139 Joined: 11 Nov 2009 |
well i figured there would be an actual vault that you could go into after the the final boss. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 88 Joined: 20 Apr 2009    |
Yeah, except it shoots one hit kill cubes that spawn enemies. Infinitely. Pretty much you have to do it very fast, or you end up dead. Plus the only way to get shot into the hole is to shoot at the exactly right time while going up on an elevator platform. Plus the Cyberdemon isn't the last boss of doom. The Spiderdemon is. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 128 Joined: 9 Nov 2009 | It's gotta be the ending to MGS4. Probably one of the only times i've sighed at an ending |
BANNED  Posts: 2007 Joined: 26 Jul 2009 | Portal JOKE User was banned for: What does your name mean on UrbanDictionary?. (Permanent) |
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Finishing kotor 2 and basically having Kreia tell you that there is no big climax.....Thanks Kreia.