10 Most Underwhelming Final Fights In Video Games

10. Hoyt - Far Cry 3

The Far Cry series is known for its eccentric villains, with Far Cry 3 ironically featuring the series' most and least memorable.

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After spending most of the game fighting against Vaas, a psychotic, drug-addled island native who betrayed his tribe to the pirates he now commands, we're introduced to the man behind the man: Hoyt, leader of the mercenary company occupying the game's setting of the Rook Islands.

Vaas is interesting. He's well-written and impeccably performed by Better Call Saul's Michael Mando. A deranged warrior poet with grandiose speeches and warped philosophical musings, he's manic and unpredictable. And the fight against him, during which you're under the influence of a powerful hallucinogen, is fitting and fun.

Hoyt, however, is much more of a standard action movie villain - more of a gangster than anything. Upon confronting him, he's a little too cool for school as he recites your accomplishments over the game in an aloof and casual manner. Finally, after cutting off one of your fingers, you engage him in a short knife fight in the form of a quick time event.

After spending so much of the early-game fighting against Vaas, Hoyt's entire anti-climactic arc feels like an afterthought.

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