10 Genius Ways To Beat Video Game Bosses You Totally Missed

1. The Master (Fallout)

The Master Fallout
Black Isle Studios

The original Fallout's final baddie, The Master, a twisted mess of flayed skin and fried machinery, can be one chewy customer to put down. Even at the maximum level, you still need a cavalcade of followers and a Nuka Cola can full of luck to obliterate this abomination.

If you choose to fight him, that is.

With sufficient stats in intelligence and speech, plus a set of Children of the Cathedral robes, it's possible for a silver-tongued Vault dweller to convince The Master to kill himself. All you have to do is make him realise that, because they can't possibly reproduce, his plans for the mutant race are entirely futile. Utterly crestfallen, the leader calls the nukes in on himself.

You almost feel sorry for him, in as much as it's possible to feel sorry for a load of stretched flesh.

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