10 Cheap Boss Fights That Made You Rage Quit

10. The Matriarch - Gears 5 (2019)

The Gears Of War games are brimming with terrifying creatures for players to fight. In addition to the hordes of regular enemies, the series is also home to some exhilarating boss fights.

One boss that's memorable for all the wrong reasons, though, is The Matriarch from Gears 5.

This title's version of the Berserker from previous instalments, The Matriarch is a hulking behemoth that's invulnerable to most attacks. It's also completely blind, only able to detect players through sound. Once it does hear players, it charges in their direction, obliterating anything in its path.

The only way to damage this boss is to hit a weak point on its back, which only becomes vulnerable when the boss is exposed to the cold. While this fight sounds simple in theory, it's far more frustrating in practice.

In addition to the arena's tight layout making it all too easy for players to become trapped and unable to avoid the boss's charge attacks, The Matriarch also takes a lot of punishment before going down. Capable of killing players in a single hit (especially on higher difficulties), and with no checkpoint in sight, what should be a straight-forward encounter quickly becomes a painful ordeal.