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7 Of The Cheapest Boss Fights In Video Game History

Dorkly: Many of us gamers bemoan the lack of challenging battles in today’s games. It seems that the controller-chuckingly stressful boss fights of yesteryear have been largely replaced by streamlined QTEs, cutscenes, and a significant drop in difficulty in order to appeal to a broader audience. Well, prepare to retrospectively grind your teeth in agony, because this is a tribute to seven of the cheapest boss fights in video game history. Not including SNK bosses; those gloryhounds already got the very concept of cheap bosses named after them.

waltyftm5236d ago

I agree with all of them except M.Bison, he's a Pussy.

Simon_Brezhnev5236d ago

I agree with that cheap Z.O.E. boss Anubis use to piss me off.

NukaCola5235d ago

The final two bosses from WET. You beat both of them in a short 5 minute cutscene with two small QTEs. It's probably not only the lamest fight, but what I would call as the worst way to end a game, most likely do to budget. Felt horribly cheap.

snipes1015235d ago

The final boss from El Shaddai pissed me off to no end. I mean come ON the dude had 3 forms. That is just annoying.

despair5235d ago

@snipes101

I bet you don't play many new and old JRPGs, especially square/squareenix games, 3 forms were kinda the standard for most last bosses :)

-Superman-5235d ago

Crysis first boss.
You make him 1 hit with box, and he is dead

DigitalAnalog5235d ago

But then again, I played it in Hard Mode, I think he took a good 5 or 6 swings before he caved in.

-End statement

A-Glorious-Dawn5235d ago

METAL SLUG bosses were ridiculous, seriously if you ever played them in an arcade you would get slapped.

additionally you would loose your money.

TheMrMadzen5235d ago

No one comes close to the final boss in Vexx....and here I thought I could beat that game....silly me

ABizzel15235d ago

@waltyftm

Then you must not have played SF: Alpha 3. What he says is the complete truth. His special covers the entire screen meaning you can't jump over it, and even if you block it, it still takes over 30% of your health. That Bison was one of the cheapest characters ever, but not number 1 IMO.

Simon_Brezhnev5235d ago

lol bison was cheap as hell in Alpha 3. I remember if you jump and didnt block your dead. I think i had 2 set my stats to full air blocking i cant remember exactly .

ABizzel15235d ago (Edited 5235d ago )

That's correct. If you jumped and didn't block his Psycho Crusher would take Over 70% of your health, and you had no choice but to jump towards him to try to hit him. He could teleport all over the place making it difficult to get close to hit him. And if you did a move that left you open (example Shoryuken) then he would teleport right behind you and finish you with his Psycho Crusher.

It took me probably an hour to beat him as a kid, and I finally did it with Chun-Li, and Later with Ryu. An hour may not seem like a long time, but considering each match takes about 1 minute to, that means it took at least 60 fights to win.

That sir is cheap, and many controllers were and temper tantrums were thrown due to Bison in Alpah 3.

specialguest5235d ago

This guy makes SF:Alpha 3 Bison look so easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Marceles5235d ago

He really isn't hard, most of the time when he does the super you're already pretty much dead. If anything, it should be Gill up there.

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ATi_Elite5235d ago

I thought Seth from SFIV was the cheapest boss ever.

Actually I always enjoyed fighting M.Bison as his A.I. seemed human but Seth was a total cheap and rip off job to the point where i swear the game unplugged my controller at times just to let Seth win.

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Tito085236d ago (Edited 5236d ago )

Instead of Bison, it should of being Gill!!!!!!

omeGAMERcenary5236d ago (Edited 5236d ago )

I totally agree. Now that guy is cheap!
Or even Cyber-Akuma.

Marceles5235d ago

Boss on Marvel vs Street Fighter, yeah he was a cheap ass too lol

Tito085234d ago (Edited 5234d ago )

Gill is my most hated boss of all, whenever I'm about to beat him, he starts acting up and does his cheap ass moves to gain his super art by the time it runs out he regenerates, or if I'm very closed to lose, he brings the ANGEL super art...

Cyber Akuma, I found him mostly easy, but he takes a mean hell amount of health, if I see I'm too late to block one of his super moves, I know I'm fucked, Lol!!!!!

NarooN5236d ago

Gill was such a hardcore asshole. You fight your ass off to get his health down, then he just randomly decides to regenerate RIGHT IN YOUR FACE??!!

Tito085234d ago (Edited 5234d ago )

There were times there was supposed to be a double K.O., but with full super bar, he regenerates and wins with a perfect, how I hated that!!!!!

I remember back when I played against him in SF3: New Generation when he regenerated right in front of my face when I thought it was over, and I had little health, beat me, but I couldn't continue cause it was my last quarter, lol!!!!

banjadude5236d ago

Anima is a lady? That's new to me... O_O

Pozzle5236d ago

Yeah, it's Seymour's mother. :)

banjadude5236d ago

Welp, I'm embarrassed... since I call myself a fan of FF X. Simple thing like that and I never knew... lol.

Thanks for the info!

Saladfax5236d ago

O_O

I also never knew that.

They must have a very strange relationship.

RedDead5235d ago

Serious? Well...it all makes sense now...

4pocalyps35235d ago

Yeah if you went and got Anima as an aeon yourself she explains what happens.

DragonKnight5235d ago

Wow, you guys didn't know that Anima was Seymour's mother? There's a total of 3 different moments they tell you. Well, the first one no, but the other 2 for sure.

Moment 1: Luca. When They show the CG of Anima's head up close, Anima wears a tag with the picture of Seymour's mother on it. Now, you don't get to know that it's Seymour's mother until much later, but if you've beaten the game even once and played it again then you should know.

Moment 2: Zanarkand. The scene where his mother tells him she's going to become his Fayth. Seymour is only ever shown using one Aeon, and considering it's not the standard Aeons that have been around for centuries in FFX time, that should be clue number 2.

Moment 3: She tells you when you go get Anima. Lol.

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Captain Qwark 95236d ago

hmmm i would say...

nine ball-ac master of arena
alma-ninja gaiden xbox

just two extras off the top of me head

TXIDarkAvenger5236d ago

I'd put Shao Kahn over M. Bison. The only way really to beat Shao Kahn was to be cheap. Bison isn't anything compared to Shao Kahn imo.

Relientk775236d ago

Shao Kahn was pretty annoying, I could only beat him with certain characters

Finger-Eater5236d ago

I could beat Shao Kahn on medium with Sindel and Ermac without being cheap. He is not that hard, is he cheap? Yeah. But once you learn to jump and move out of the way at the right times he is easy to beat.

TXIDarkAvenger5236d ago

That's true. But that was later for me, when I got really good at the game. Just have to know when to block, attack, step back etc...

Still consider him the hardest boss in a fighting game though. I mean you can't possibly beat M.Bison the way you beat Shao Kahn.

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gold_drake91d ago

thats because japan gets it.

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Let me fix this title to something less click baity for you:

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Garethvk170d ago (Edited 170d ago )

The description clearly says what it is. It is not like people have to click to the site. They just have to read.

robtion170d ago

Sure they don't have to go to the site but to get to the description they already have to have clicked on it. Thus the term 'click bait'.

Rebel_Scum169d ago (Edited 169d ago )

If its a book say its a book in the article title. Everyone’s gonna think this is a new game and get annoyed reading your description.

Garethvk169d ago (Edited 169d ago )

The Mods had no issues with the title.
The first line under the image says new book and you can see it in the preview windows without even having to click to read the description.

It also says a Visual History on the image.

Rebel_Scum169d ago

On desktop and mobile the text a visual history is not visible in the thumbnail on the homepage.

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cloganart169d ago (Edited 169d ago )

I grew up on this stuff. Adding it to the art collection!

I do hope the next MK iteration goes back to the core of what made these characters appeal in the first place. A few of them lost their edge - I think I've had enough with some of the auntie designs 😂