10 MORE Bosses Removed For Being Too Hard
4. The Original Doc Ock Battle - Insomniac's Spider-Man
In the case of Insomniac's Spider-Man, the original version of the final Doc Ock boss fight wasn't scrapped for being too hard for players, but because it was just too damn taxing for the developers themselves.
In 2021, Insomniac CEO Ted Price revealed that the final battle against Doc Ock originally took place across vast swaths of New York City, but it was ultimately decided that the ambitious fight was "way out of scope."
Faced with the possibility of a brutal crunch period to get the battle done in time for launch, Insomniac instead drastically scaled the fight back into something simpler that leaned harder on the emotional turmoil between Peter Parker and Otto Octavius, which the developer rightly felt was more important than wrecking New York.
Price added that they sought to strike a balance between "excellence and wellbeing" while finishing up the game, and given that Spider-Man clearly didn't suffer for toning down its final battle, this sounds like a win-win outcome for all involved.