10 Shockingly Easy Final Bosses In Iconic Video Games

4. Storming The Enclave - Fallout 3

We can save the discussion of whether a final grand encounter with tons of enemies technically counts as a boss fight. The fact is that storming the Enclave base is the final major set-piece of Fallout 3; a moment you've been grinding and levelling towards for tens (if not hundreds) of hours. With a giant death robot by your side, you brace yourself for breaching the base of the shadowy Enclave organisation.

As you storm it, your giant companion stomps on ahead, incinerating anything that stands in its way with lasers. "This is going brilliantly", you think, as you move in behind the robot to give it some much-needed backup. But as the unstoppable machine powers on, you realise that it doesn't actually need you. You pull out your trusty plasma gun, fire a few shots here and there, but feel completely impotent next to the destructive force fighting on your side. Bereft of any power, you resort to scavenging loot from the dismembered bodies and giblets left behind by the robot.

As you pull Bottle Caps from the squelchy entrails of obliterated enemies, you wonder how you came to be left out of an epic final battle that was supposed to be your hour of glory. Once you're inside the base, at least you get to perform the coup de gras on main antagonist Colonel Autumn, but it only takes a couple of point-blank VATS shots to send his head bouncing across the room. The triviality of the fight is summed up when Sentinel Lyons casually says "Well, that takes care of that", as if you've just finished washing the dishes after having a couple of friends over for dinner, rather than taken out an organisation intent on committing genocide.

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