8 Epic Video Game Moments That Were TOO EASY
These cool video game moments were completely undercut by their utter lack of challenge.
Most video game developers want to transport players to another world and give them an epic experience that genuinely inspires awe, and often that's genuinely considered enough.
But sometimes a genuinely unforgettable video game moment is undercut by virtue of just being too damn easy for its own good.
Difficulty is certainly a funny thing in video games - we've all got our own preferences and tolerances, and so developers can certainly struggle to balance things for a wide variety of skill levels.
And so they don't always quite get it right, meaning that an otherwise jaw-dropping level or boss battle doesn't hit so hard because there's so little pushback in the gameplay.
In some instances this was likely a deliberate move to ensure that players focused entirely on the spectacle of it all, but by making these moments so trivial in gameplay terms, something was undeniably lost.
While it didn't outright ruin all of these moments, it did leave them lacking. After all, when we triumph over a towering boss, we want to feel like we truly earned it, right?...
8. Whale BT - Death Stranding
Nobody does a boss fight quite like Hideo Kojima, though it's also fair to say that most of the boss battles in Death Stranding were both mechanically underwhelming and way too easy.
And this is certainly true of the game's final encounter against the gigantic, flying whale BT, which can attack the player by firing a chiral laser laser at them and also launching BTs from its mouth.
Sounds awesome, right? Yet for as incredible as this fight looks in terms of its scale and visuals, it's also an absolute cakewalk.
The whale BT is really little more than a lumbering bullet sponge whose attacks can be effortlessly avoided, ensuring this is actually considerably easier than some of the game's earlier boss fights, namely Higgs.
Kojima has rarely steered us wrong with final boss battles in his games, but with the sheer wealth of combat options made available at this point, he allowed players to be capable to a fault.
Defeating the whale BT should've felt like we were overcoming something momentous rather than dealing with a mere mild inconvenience.