10 Final Bosses That Utterly Ruined Their Video Games
1. Yourself - Fallout 3
After you've roamed the Capitol Wasteland, fought your way through countless horrors and decided if you're going for the good karma or the bad karma ending, Fallout 3 gears you up for one final epic battle. The Brotherhood, the guardians of all moral virtue in this apocalyptic reconstruction of America, head to Washington DC to activate Project Purity - thus saving the world.
Supported by a 60ft walking, wise-cracking, laser-wielding robot, the player follows The Brotherhood as they fight their way up to the Jefferson Memorial and into the control room to confront the evil Colonel Autumn. A duel for the ages that's not only been building up for almost half of the entire story, but depending on how you've played the game either represents the ultimate battle of morality or a winner-take-all chance to shape the future. Except the problem with Colonel Autumn is that he's merely a man.
Fallout 3 takes you across the wastelands of America's capital and pits you against tribes, armies, 8ft tall super mutants and a psychotic supercomputer - the good Colonel is merely some bloke armed with a pistol, and only a polo neck and a parka coat to protect him. Two well placed shots later and the whole thing comes to a quick, anticlimactic end. That's because the greatest adversary in Fallout 3 is actually... you.
With time ticking away and no other course of action available, the final task in the game's story is to activate the water purifier that's now located in an impossibly irradiated area of the facility. Your choice is either to go in there yourself, or send the young Sentinel Lyons in your place. Fallout 3 has you solving virtually every problem with the nozzle of your gun, but game's entire set-up is, let's be honest, built around good and bad karma. Bethesda Studios perhaps deserve credit for thinking outside the box and making the last battle one for your own conscience, but in reality all this equalled was every single player slowly putting their pad down and grumbling "was that it?" as the end credits rolled.
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