7 Boss Battles You Won But Not Really
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Beating a tough boss is something we take great pride in - which is why we get mad when we discover in the following cutscene that actually we lost, better luck next time. Here are seven times that exact thing happened in videogames. Thanks to commenter Time Dragon for the suggestion, and subscribe for a video like this every Thursday!
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Similarly weird situation: you absolutely hand it to a boss, either because you are good or have spent way too much time in side quests, only for the cutscene to indicate that it was a "close fight."
i 100% completed botw and was so worried about the fight against ganon that i had about 500 pieces of cooked meat alone, all my op weapons, as many arrows as i could collect....needless to say i barely needed any of that. could’ve finished it with the mastersword alone -_-
Or even worse, you absolutely demolish the boss, and suddenly the cutscene tells you that the boss was actually wrecking you
Ninja gaiden 2 is like that lol I hear ya man
Does Pokémon also count? Always getting that one off comment about how “close the match was” and like lol no, I didn’t even need to change my starter
First mini-boss in Tales of Symphonia is my big example for this.
"How's this boss gonna get out this life threatening battle?"
"Actually, super easy. Barely an inconvenience!"
Wow wow wow
Boss resurrections are tight 👌
So, you have a boss battle for me?
Oh man, Bosses getting away unscathed is TIGHT!
Think I crossed over... whoops whoopsie!
Mike: "Why would you make a game about a murder school?"
Me: Shuffles to the side to block out the view of my 280 hour save on Fire Emblem: Three Houses
* He looks pointedly away from what you discern as RWBY, Naruto, Soul Eater, and assassin classroom.
* Anime are different from games kiddo.
Monokuma's laughter fading in the distance
*laughs in monokuma*
I forgot I left this comment. That save file is over 660 hours now.
@@mattball8622 a true gamer
PORTAAAAAL: You finally kill Glados and are rewarded with a fun little musical number, I vividly remember the chills I got hearing "I'm still alive" over and over again at the end..... Oh and then she's back in the sequel 🤦♀️
When that one kid in the playground whips out their "everything proof shield" 🙄
*Basically yes.*
"I can do this all day/"
Screw that kid.
I fire the nothing gun, which is effective because it’s the opposite of everything
you mean batmans
Knights of the Old Republic: Darth Malak. I was happily stomping him into the ground when Bastilla decided "You can't win this fight!" and promptly got in the way and captured.
Lol
Yeah, they should have made that one of those super-hard fights that progresses whether you win or lose. Would have made the cutscene much more realistic.
Bruh. I literally just played that part last night! 🤣
I killed Malak in 2 hits and the game crashed 5 times in a row. Game needed to get to the cuisine were he drains jedi. So I ran up hit him once and ran away.
Another boss that did this: Kazuya in Tekken 7. First you murk him as Akuma but get interrupted by orbital death laser, then in the final battle, you whittle down his health bar to 0 as Heihachi. After you do that, SEVERAL TIMES, Heihachi still loses in cutscene.
Don’t smack talk my boy Joker he’s been with us through the entire story.
Joker is a precious angel who just does his best
@@-leezha- precious angel? Talking a psychopathic nightmare clown that loves torturing men, women, and children
@@deathbykonami5487.... Not the DC Joker. A character from the Mass Effect trilogy...
@@-leezha- oh that Joker must be protected, sorry I misunderstood
Due to seeing too many DC Joker fan comments
He could have been toned down a bit
"...at which point he explodes."
I need to hear this sentence more in my life 😂
"A diamond coated Jason Statham". Is that Jane's Christmas present?
Its a recurring term they use to describe rock hard bosses
@@deathbykonami5487 But Jason Statham is already rock hard.
@@LnPPersonified that's the point. (?)
Actually in that form diamond would probably be pretty easy to break. Diamond is really brittle because it is so stiff. Just saying....
Devil May Cry 5 ; The Vergil Boss. No matter how good you are at beating Virgil in the boss battle in the cut scene afterward he's knocking Dante into a wall.
Alduin from Skyrim.
When you defeat him on top of the mountain, he runs away, and you chase him into the afterlife.
Ansem from Kingdom Hearts: you beat him, but he's not beat. you beat him again, and he's not beat. you beat him a third time, he's still not beat, and he opens the door to Kingdom Hearts. then you find out in the 2nd game he wasn't even Ansem.
I don’t think anyone could forget the opening fight in dishonored.
You school a bunch of assassins and then just get picked up like a little kid and told to sit down XD
To be fair it's duad, he beat the second games antagonist, and had the power of the outsuder when you don't
That whole first chapter was a no win scenario, mostly because it's before you meet the outsider to get your void powers
At least you get revenge
Dr Eggman from the Sonic games would fit in nicely here. He's survived being on fire and/or exploded multiple times. The only time he's died was when Shadow killed him with a karate chop
Eggman died to Shadow on purpose just to make Sonic feel weak
I love to imagine that Shadow's karate chop split eggman's skull in two
Egg who?
ah yes. Dr. Robotnik.
And even then, he somehow came back for sure cause you can't have a good Sonic game without Eggman~ he's the must have villain
Yeah, but then he got better.
Assassin's Creed 2 : you survive the blast that knocks everyone else out, create illusions of your past self to help you beat Rodrigo, trash him, switch to cutscene mode,...
then he litteraly goes "no !" blasts you and steals the Apple of Eden. And you have to beat him one more time, to STILL let him live in a cutscene !
The worst part is, if you take the practical route and shoot him, the game pretends you stabbed him so everything could be all drama-y.
"delivers devestating hits with more frequency that Taylor Swift"
Okay, someone needs a raise.
After you see what they make....they can go without a pay raise for years. This is what they are paid for, you don't get a pay raise at your work when you do your job like your supposed to right?
Jane seems so quiet and calm today...
...
...Alright, Jane, who did you kill?
Probably Cameraman James.
I think she snuck into Andy's Outer Worlds save and amused herself by hitting the mayor over and over again with the Mandibular Rearranger.
@@cthulhufhtagn2483 This does sound like a Jane-thing to do.
Sounds like she's got a cold or something to me.
@@DylanGarcia1619 We never see James, so he's probably an all powerful godly figure that the dark lady can't kill
I mean have we actually seen him in the list videos and the d&d segments
Doesn't have a cutscene, but the dark mages of Fire Emblem will "retreat" several times each game. Hubert from Three Houses will do it about eight times, depending on which route you do and who you recruit
What about Gangrel and Aversa from Awakening? You spend most the game chasing after one or the other
I think most if not all Fire Emblem baddies dont like staying down and just run away, or possess your character to stab your best friend and kill him.
Also Luca in suikoden 2, xenogears had a few too
Fun fact!: The Steel Superman with a sledgehammer is based on a African American folk hero named John Henry! Who in legend beat a machine in steel-driving race. Steel's name is even John "Henry" Irons!
It was the first comic my Dad gave to me, and I won't forget it.
Personally, I liked his DCAU incarnation best, but reading about the original was cool.
Lois even backed Steel as John came the closest to living up to Clark's ideals as Superman.
Mugen Kagemaru "A barber shop? Gotta hand it to you, Lex. No one would think to look for you here."
You apparently didn't actually pay attention to the "REAL" story of John Henry...John Henry lost to the machine by a few strokes....
@@jamesmeppler6375 My greatest apologies.
@@basilanan no worries, some things now days change the story a little bit. The story was of modernization and how man can still keep up. You're dead on with your comic knowledge, so good one on ya for knowing that ^_^
My favorite Japanese movie, harakiri is about samurai honor and how it became a facade. The remake made the main character look cowardly and thusly took away from the true message
It's always great to hear the Mass Effect music. So many good memories...
Nabstablook is my spirit animal, got to love him.
Loved the moment when you find him in his house and just lay on the ground together
becomes one with the universe and turns into a trash bag
I hate it when this happens in games, just makes you feel like you wasted time
Right! But would you prefer for the entire battle to be cutscene, or would you prefer to just have an unwinnable fight?
DELVARO - 6 I’d prefer that my efforts had at least a little affect, like the cutscene changing... y’know, like Sekiro.
Especially if you manage a flawless victory and the cutscene has the boss fine a you a bloody mess
@@captainsix5640 it could just be an alternate story
@@cortezjolly1604 an alternate story? That would be hundreds of hours of work. Unless you just mean oh you beat the main villain role credits
"...amazing, when you consider it's about child soldiers going to a murder school." Isn't that the plot of, like, at least two animes, three shows and two movies in the past couple years? It's apparently a very popular plot.
How about every Pokémon battle. I’m so sick of stopping criminals from committing some heinous act just for them to then casually walk past my rival and me without either of us moving a muscle to stop them.
Reminds me of The Witcher 2's Letho! You fight a tough as heck boss battle at the end of the first chapter, only for the game to then - if you managed to survive this long and lower his HP, that is - put on a cutscene where Geralt gets beaten, falls unconscious and Letho escapes again. Even if you, the player, were beating him the whole time. Really frustrating fight right there
The Stranger/Baldur in God of War. He just doesn't stop coming!
"I feEeeEEl NOTHING!"
I know it's like yea, I'm brutally beating the shit outta him but he doesn't even feel it so it's just not as satisfying lol
And when he does feel it, HE LIKES IT, DAMNIT
Well it makes sense, in the lore of Baldur Freja went around the world asking everything to not harm Baldur for he was so beloved, the only thing she did not ask was the mistletoe because she felt it was too young. People actually would throw objects at Baldur as a sort of game because he was not harmed by anything. Until Loki learned of the situation with the mistletoe and fashioned an arrowhead from it, then handed a bow and the arrow to Hod who was blind and urged him to join in on the fun with everyone else. So Hod fired the arrow and it ended up killing Baldur.
Joker was not annoying. Conrad Verner was annoying.
But at least you can shoot him
Joker was one of my faves. I warmed up to Conrad after he gave me war table assets.
@@SleepyQuiet Verner had his perks if you kept him alive through all three games. He wasn't *useless*, but he was certainly annoying at times.
Joker was never annoying to me. He was brutally honest and hilariously awkward, but not annoying.
Scorpious187 I'm not saying Conrad is useless but he was... Odd. Don't build a shrine of me, it's weird. I couldn't get past the tasteful shine of Shepard.
No one can tell me Joker was annoying. He's fun. Also it was established as making jokes to ease the tension in me1. Liars gets mad and Shep can say it's just him trying to help. I freaking love Joker. I say into the universe to hopefully increase my chances of getting an SR1 hat. I need it.
@@SleepyQuiet I wasn't trying to imply that you said Verner was useless, I was clarifying that *I* wasn't saying he was useless, just a bit annoying at first. He gets considerably less annoying in ME3.
When I was a kid and got the first Kingdom Hearts game, I restarted my game over and over to try and beat the "Darkside" heartless at the very beginning. After many attempts I finally did it! Only to enter a cutscene where my keyblade disappears and I lose 😩 what a heartless* trick by the developers.
I hate this trope. If I'm going to fight someone but can't win because of plot either make the fight unwinnable (with secret cutscene for stubborn people) or just do a cutscene and save the fight for when the plot says I can win.
On the one hand, the health bar is a representation of your progress in a fight. Having a villain escape when on low health makes some sense. It's the ones where they get up and beat you down that really annoy me. Hey, if I was fighting all this time an noticed I was barely actually hurting him, can I escape instead?
Hmm, interesting twist. You get the enemy's HP bar down, and you realise that was only a layer of armour you broke through. The fight continues but now you can escape or continue fighting them. If you continue the fight gets harder, but beating them again gives you some reward while not actually killing them off.
@@Coldheart322 That's a neat idea. I also agree with kain that it's dumb to reduce their health to 0 only for them to get up and win anyway. Imagine chopping off someone's head and then they just get back up, punch you and put their head back on. They're not a zombie or anything, they merely survived you chopping their head off.
Not to mention, you can not fail to not win. If you die, you have to start the fight again 'cause that's a game over
How about the first time you encounter Malak in Knights of the Old Republic ? You can absolutely wail on him, but when his lifebar is empty, he paralyzes you (something you have survived many times up to that point) and your companion does a heroic sacrifice by staying behind so you can escape. I remember the first time I saw that, I was screaming : "No, you fools ! We can take him ! Come on !"
It's made even worse by the fact that, since when you *do* fight Malak properly at the end of the game, he is using strange Force powers to boost himself, implying that he *wasn't* holding back the previous time you fought.
To this day, I am still contemplating writing a fanfic of what would happen if you just killed him during that first encounter.
Julien ARMAND Yes, totally malak
Julien ARMAND write it and send me a link when you finish it
To be fair, Malak in the first encounter is nerfed to the point of absurdity. He has way better everything the second time you fight him, so I guess he was holding back a little the first time around.
@@Talyrion Nah, it's explicitly mentioned by Malak himself before the final confrontation that he is being boosted by the very location where you are fighting him.
Ah sindel, you were on such a winning streak but you know what they say-"victory is hair today, gone tomorrow".
A great example of this is Vergil, mainly in DMC5, where once you beat him as Dante he'll just slash you away with a teleport even BEFORE a cutscene
Don't forget Baldur from God of War! I lost count of the number of times you had to fight that guy and killed him only to find out: nope!
Should've used mistletoe on him.
@@JohnZ117 well funny you should say that. That may or may not come into play eventually...
@@orangecat862002 Only played the first 2, only know the myth.
this really is one of gaming's greatest sins
The other one is microtransactions
@@TowkayCC absolutely microtransactions need to go dig their own grave and die slowly as they are buried up to the neck....if microtransactions had necks...or a physical form....whatever you get my point.
@@mitchellneuda fug did they do to you?
@@failure2946 more than enough.
The Cyberdemon in DOOM (2016) is killed by removing it's power source, an Argent Accumulator, which is used to travel to hell. It's corpse goes with you, then immediately resurrects itself to fight you again.
Gaunter O’Dimm from the Witcher 3 dlc, Hearts of Stone. True, the boss “battle” is essentially you running around a hellish nightmare scape trying to solve a riddle to save your soul, but once you solve the riddle and defeat O’Dimm, he reveals that he cannot die, and that he is leaving Geralt’s world but will return sometime in the future.
Metal gear rex from MGS1 was a prime example of “oh i just battered him like a greasy sausage in a chippy. Aw wait he’s back up? Dammit Kojima!!”
Wait what were we talking about?
Leon in Kingdom Hearts I. I spent literal days leveling up on 1 xp heartless on Destiny Island just to beat him in Traverse Town. And what happens? Sora passes out at the end and Yuffie says Leon went easy on me. Pfft.
At least he gives you something for that. I think it's a Megalixer?
@@Inhaledcorn Just an elixir, but yeah, at least you get rewarded for it.
The cutscene is slightly different too.
If you lose he’s all fine, while if you win he’s worn out and Yuffie mocks him a bit for struggling to beat a child
@@TheDjbz Was it Yuffie? Oops. Been a long time since I played.
@@ChristyTina22 It was Yuffie. Tifa doesn't show up until KH2.
New rule: Win to lose fights can end with you losing the fight since it's pointless to have to win a fight just for a cutscene to say "Well yes, but actually no."
12:18 "JESSIE!!! Aww, man. Zaeed's gonna be pissed."
Bowser could have been literally every entry
So could Eggman.
So could your mom 😂 jk
Meanwhile, in another castle...
Hell yeah
Or Dr Wiley/Sigma. Kinda surprised that only a fighting game version made this list.
“Nightwolf sucks!”
BRUH...
True, he's so generic and bland, he makes Connor from Assassin's Creed III look more interesting
@@deathbykonami5487 See there's shade, but what you just did there was straight savage
@@mathieushifera9555 how so? It's true
@@deathbykonami5487 yes, but Connor??? The shade!
@@mathieushifera9555 at least Connor had character, nightwolf is every native American stereotype rolled into one
I feel like *every* Tales of game has one of these moments, too. As far as boss fights you can win, but the cutscene after shows you losing, at least. In most cases, though, the game at least rewards you a little extra for winning. Though, there was *one* fight in Tales of the Abyss where, after winning, I got 0 xp, 0 gald, and negative grade. It was kind of embarrassing, after such a hard fight.
I also remember a fight in an entirely different game, where I had a defense skill I'd used not long before activate on the attack that was supposed to defeat me to trigger the next cutscene, causing it to miss and let me finish the battle a win. It was kind of hilarious, all things considered, since that one was just a glitch. Obviously, there wasn't any sort of different cutscene.
The worst part are the ones that require you win the fight before showing you that you canonically lose. Especially if it was a difficult fight that you might actually lose multiple times before finally persevering to see that it was all for nothing.
Basically every fighting game ever, because we have 7 more characters to go through, and you’ve already beaten big baddie #4.
"The time has come, and so have I."
- The exact moment I saw Mike.
Eww
I don't believe there is a DMC entry on this video.
Yo did you just talk smack about Joker? Is he allowed to do that?
No one is allowed to do that.
Tell me about it, the ableist bigot!
No he is not
His own jokes are worse tbh.
Jokers annoying...he should have been toned down
“Name yourself after an animal and you’re going to get eaten”
-Cries in 2020
Cries in 2021 too.
This is probably my least favorite trope in video games because it really invalidates your actions as a player.
Would you rather have an unwinnable fight or a cutscene for t he entire fight
@@captainsix5640 its not impossible to make a good rewarding Boss fight without these two options you know?
@@woodpecker8116 you (for the most part) are always playing through a story completely crafted by a hand full of people to be cinematic and provide tension, drama, and weight. The problem is that most gamers have been programmed to believe they should win all fights handily and not lose due to the mass majority of games having zero mechanics outside of hp, power meter/mag size/mana bar, and damage. So if you need to face someone and lose for the story people will riot if they actually have to lose so it becomes a choice of unbeatable boss in gameplay where people will complain about lack of control and having the game taken away from them or, loss in the cutscene after the fight which just leads to even more complaining. For game developers who have very small time frames to make these games it can be incredibly hard to create a good reason outside of these two options for you to lose a fight.
Oh hey, just remember another mechanic. Dodge roll because everyone wants to be darks souls but the game they make is easier than demon's souls
Literally any villain from Trails of Cold Steel 2, or if you want, mention the entire series, this happens all too often.
Crow, Vita, McBurn, Duvalie, even freaking Bleublanc of all people...you'd expect him to go down easy you don't become No. X enforcer by being a pushover
Doopliss from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door also comes into my mind. You think, the battle is easily done, before you realize, what really happened.
I was always annoyed in Kingdom Hearts when you fight Squall (Leon) for the first time. Not only would I win, but I win handily, and the cutscene doesn't even have him break out a supermove to defeat me in one hit. Instead, regardless of what my health was at, Sora just passes out!
The first fight between Geralt and Letho in The Witcher 2 springs to mind. You can be whupping his butt and the cutscene makes him the victor.
I'm dissapointed you didn't find a way to mention how Kai Leng stole Anderson's cereal in a tie-in novel.
Kai Leng looks like the Chinese knock of of Night Wing.
ah yes, a list of one of the most aggravating things that game developers do. Hot tip, if you intend for your players to lose a fight, how about actually making the fight unwinnible instead of pretending they didn't win when they did.
I know I'm five months too late, but they do this very well in Skies of Arcadia Legends. This badass dude gives you the option to surrender, which one of your party members strongly encourages saying you can't beat him. If you choose to fight him, he completely wrecks you in a couple of turns and captures you anyway haha.
@@zjoee Late here too, PS1 tales of destiny. Beat leon before he joins your party for a secret ending. he can wreck your team fast though
Agreed, it's stupid for me to beat someone in a game and then die in a cut scene
Sometimes devs _do_ reward you for winning an "unwinnable" fight though, like the first boss in Dark Souls.
@@alrightalright4585 or the first boss in demon's souls! A great example of "okay yeah, you beat the boss, but you were supposed to die" that doesn't make the player feel like they were cheated.
There actually is a cool setup for some game’s conflict in there. The villain has a power to force you into cutscene, and you spend the game acquiring power to skip cutscenes. It can work with a jokey meta-narrative about games, or in a some sort of high-fantasy key where it’s reframed as an ability to “control fate” or something.
Shoutout to literally every boss of even fleeting importance in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
I never beat the game, but by the time I stopped my count was at 14.
Amen to that.
you beat me by an entire day, yes after a while every time I beat anyone in a battle I'd think "welp here we go, show me why I lost this battle actually".
When I was a kid the one that annoyed me the most was that Grovyle boss battle in Mystery Dungeon.
Strobing light warning at 3:09 and 3:30
Eggman and Chaos, specifically from Sonic Adventure. Not only does Choas peace out in cutscenes every time you kick his translucent blue arse, only to return later having nommed more chaos emeralds, one of these instances happens AFTER you have just beaten Eggman in a boss battle. As his machine lies in ruins, a cutscene happens and not only is he fine, he steals a Chaos Emerald from you, and guess whose ears are burning and just shows up to claim it? Erm... does Chaos have ears?
To whoever Reads this Merry Christmas and Happy New year and thank you to everone else at OutsideXbox for making a video around the holidays
There is the Guardian in The Evil Within 2 you could just run away from it or actually kill it then boss "beaten" until she comes back a little later and severs you in half
Kai Leng is a total coward, always running. If Thane dies during the suicide mission he kills Kirrahe, hold the line. If Kirrahe died on Virmire and Thane died on the suicide mission, well something different happens.
I see the Salarian councilor in this video is not the one from Mass Effect 1, somebody likes renegading lol 🤣
Honestly, I would have been more devastated by losing Captain Kirrahe than Thane. But emailing me crosses the line.
I'm super curious what happens if both Than and Kirrahe have died now... but not curious enough to actually kill Thane and Kirrahe >.>
@@GiftedContractor the councillor dies.
@@taln0reich oh. Good, they were a shitty person anyway
I love the "if X is gone" stuff in ME3. Did you know you can convince Mordin not to fix the sabotaged cure? Wrex and Eve both have to be dead, so it's not worth it, but it's possible. He'll still WANT to cure it, but he'll concede that now (with Wreav in sole control of an autocracy) is not the time to do it. Mordin will fake his death, go into hiding, and work on the Crucible. If Mordin's dead too, his replacement can't be persuaded though and will try to cure it even with Wreav in sole control.
It's also kind of possible to get Thane through the game. If he's alive but you ignore his email and never meet him on the Citadel, then he won't show up for that Kai Lame sequence. I mean, he's still going to die of space lung cancer, but he doesn't actually die in the game. Legion is actually the only squadmate through all three games that absolutely 100% must die.
The worst part of the Kai Leng encounter is in the original write-up he killed both of the party members you brought with you to the temple. It was so badly received that their play testers refused to play further until it was changed. So you lost the gun instead of two party members, which would probably be your favorite members since you didn't see it coming.
Pariah - OG Xbox: I may be misremembering this, but I swear you “defeat” the final boss, only for it to not die, then it convinces the player character to commit suicide in the final cutscene.
My jaw was left hanging. Firstly because it was a ballsy and really bleak ending. Secondly because it felt like everything was for nothing.
I remember that title. And yes, yes it was brutal 😞
Basically 95% of the bosses in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 fail to die affter you actually beat then.
I had the same idea mate
And one
ooh ooh ooh
to add to this kind of idea
boss battles that were incredibly hyped up, but then left to a cutscene or qte
The more satisfaction when you finally get to impale Kai Leng on your omniblade though.
Thanks for taking my comment in! But you missed the first Vergil fight in DMC3
Two words: liquid snake (mgs1)
"Fight me as I drive this giant robot!"
Takes several stinger rockets in the face. He's fine.
"Fight me on the top of this giant robot!"
Takes several punches straight in the face and falls a hundred feet from the ground. He's fine.
"Fight me as I chase you on a jeep in this ridiculous long tunnel!"
Takes several rounds of machine gun in the face, crushes with his jeep.
Dies of heart attack.
Don't forget
'Fox...."
"Die"
You forgot “fight me in this attack helicopter!”
Crashes, burns, lives to do everything else you said.
Apparently he wore himself out
@@joeschmo3844 You're totally correct.
Forgot the first round, which neither means anything, and the transition to the second phase literally isn't done by you.
Jane describing Ultron as "snarky" hurt my soul.
Metal Gear Solid 2. You're wrecking the Metal Gear Rays, and no matter how easily you were doing this, suddenly Raiden's giving up, and only Olga and the worm cluster keep you from dying right there. The next time you have control, you're handcuffed.
here's one for the comment edition. Squal/Leon in Kingdom Hearts, winning isn't mandatory but if you do win Sora gets exhausted and passes out anyway.
Nomura has a weird way of making battles rewarding. Because you still miss somehow? I feel like we missed a cutscene related to Sora being weak? KH3 same feels
That was in a video about "boss fights you are not supposed to win but you can if you are good" or something like that.
You could fill out this whole list, and another one with just Xenoblade Chronicles 2
I really hate the games where you get a game over in the boss fight and are forced to win but then at the end you get a lovely cutscene with you getting your ass kicked
Happy holidays oxbox. You guys are amazing
Whoa dude list videos during the Christmas challenges?! Y'all work too hard
Holidays are for holiday dudes
Never! Holidays are for content!
Only 3 videos between Oxbox & Oxtra today? Bunch of slackers!
Wait what about the monkey in sekiro where when you cut his head off he just grabs it a fights you while carrying it
Joker from mass effect was just trying to console you. Regardless of the lack of tact, I appreciated the thought.
Basically every Nintendo boss ever
What about Genichiro Ashina from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. You take his health bar down twice, only to hit phase 2. Then when you beat that, he just hops off the roof you’re fighting on to show up yet again later in the game.
Please tell me Genichiro Ashina (from the beginning/tutorial of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice) is on this list.
I think he is not here cuz thats an optional win. You dont have to actually beat him to move forward in the game
@@keyblademasterkatsu7839 I mean, if we're talking optional wins then Edea, Napstablook, and Ultron Sigma wouldn't be on this list. You don't have to beat all three of them in combat, either.
I think the key here is that victory/defeat didn't change the outcome at all (including in the cutscene itself) or the boss is protected because of plot armor (like Kai Leng) even though you're clearly wrecking their turds.
Genichiro features two cutscenes with the same result. So that would be why he doesn't fit on this list. Besides, he was featured in "boss fights you're not supposed to win, but you can anyway" list.
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Jane's delivery on calling Cyborg Superman a dick was flawless and I think we need that as a soundclip.
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Genichirou should be on this list. Not only does he activate his cutscene superpowers at the beginning of the game in that even if you drain *both* health bars, he still cheats and cuts off your arm, he also runs away like a coward the second time, and the third time kills himself before you get the chance for payback!
Great list but what about Baldur from God of War, the endless "I feel nothing" xD
I was expecting the penultimate Vergil bossfight in Devil May Cry 5. When you beat him, there's just a scripted counterattack that leads into the cutscene, which slowly leads into the final bossfight
Soul of Cinder from dark souls 3! Those 3 notes....
Around this time every year Jane gets sick and loses her voice. Get well soon.
Super easy first fight against Edea: Just summon Carbuncle so he casts reflect. She'll waste her turns casting Dispel on everyone. Then just resummon Carbuncle. She'll barely ever manage to get in a hit and you can keep casting other GFs and simply beating her down until she's "defeated". It doesn't work on any other fights with her, but it makes that first one super simple to get through.
Ah. That Kai Leng boss fight really messed me up... I flew to the Citadel, went to the shooting gallery and shot empty every gun I had. Which, as a soldier, were *_all of them._*
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This video probably should come with a light sensitivity warning.
Andy: turns up at the end of video with a self-proclaimed "unskippable cutscene"
Me: "Oh-Ho? You challenge me? We'll see about that" Proceeds to close browser tab after liking the video, but crucially before the "unskippable cutscene" ends.
God, I love all these videos! What a fun team!
I love how inconsistent all of the characters in mortal kombat are. At any given time a simple human like Johnny cage or proven weakling like Baraka could beat a, "God", like raiden or badass like Shao Khan. 😄
The reason Kai Lang is so annoying is that he’s controlled by cutscenes and thus beyond your ability to defeat. Very immersion breaking, not unlike the ridiculous final chapter.
Not only that. He's also a weak boss outside of cutscenes. So it's even more frustrating to watch Sheppard lose to him like a chump.
@@aquelegabriel absolutely true! I regularly and easily crippled him only for him to be revived by the game. Very frustrating and immersion breaking.
Cut Scene rescues of crap bosses is one of the staples of gaming. ME2 also has it with the Arival DLC where you win against waves of enemies but will lose to a cut scene, then you can kill the insane boss but lose again in a cut scene.
Also from MK9, when you first beat Shao Khan in Outworld as Liu Kang. The cutscene even shows Liu Kang driving a flaming fist through his torso.
Only for Shao Khan to have survived, Quan Chi coming up with a new plan for Shao Khan to take Earthrealm (invasion with Sindel) and he proceeds to smack you down until you actually defeat him for the final battle as an empowered Raiden.
What about eve from Neir Automata when you nearly killed eve and he drew power from the network