10 Video Game Bosses That Totally Sucked

1. Nihilanth - Half-Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTpmtG5UuRE Half-Life is an amazing game and paved the way for just about every FPS game that followed, and it's because of this that the final boss fight is so absurdly underwhelming. Basically, it all gets a little suspect once you arrive at the alien world of Xen, and Valve clearly have nothing left in the chamber to intrigue us with; it's all unimaginative decor, and then finally, a hulking fetus that's ridiculously easy to kill. You can spend most of the fight hiding and be fine; all you have to remember to do is occasionally pop out, destroy the crystals in the Nihilanth's lair, which render it vulnerable, and then you can move in for the kill. Again, like so many games in this list, it's a case of a title that's so fiendishly intelligent and ingenious going downhill at the last hurdle; thankfully, the rest of the game has such creative heft that we can let it go, but at this point, ending things on even a halfway-decent note should not have been particularly difficult. What video game bosses do you hate? Let us know in the comments below.