Other titles? Well how about the good Thief games that came before that one you mentiond! In first one you need to sneak around Trickster and do not get spoted, in the third game you do the same with the scary witch lady (and thats only the end bosses, you sneek alot more enemies before that), in the second game you cannot even get near to the "boss" so that one is probably for a difrent list :P
A true victory isn’t won in battle, it’s won in the totally embellished story you make up later at the pub about how epic the fight was and how many spin kicks you did
me: i sh0t him with my sn1p3r r1fle so much that he started cr....... person: you just sh0t than ran like a p*ssy and set traps till he d13d didn't you. me: at least i beat him unlike kieth!
When Ellen mentioned the last phase of the David fight, I was shocked. I used my "eagle vision" to find David; I never thought to actually listen to him stepping on broken plates.
@@SilverByakuya no but the noise he makes when he steps on the broken glass can be heard, giving you a general idea where the gross cannibal bastard with Nathan Drake's voice is most likely hiding
This is why bosses should be more attentive to their surroundings. I mean, you’re an evil genius hell bent on world domination but you can’t peel your eyes away from your 35th binge watch of Friends as I sneak up on you? No worries, I get it.
@The Gaming Meta true I can't argue with you on this but their awareness is that of skynet once they see you thye will be on alert 24/7 just look at Keener from the warlords of new York dlc.
Oh yes. I mean, stealth kills get me the most xp per kill, so it's almost like they're encouraging me! At least, that's what I tell myself as I empty the necks of every enemy in a fort without fighting anyone.
Dunno. Its overly easy to be honest due to how absolutely stupidly easy Stealth is in Arkham City. Its a good showcase of different stealth takedowns...but its too easy.
@@outsidextra speaking of which, still waiting for an Ellen's fear academy t-shirt. I'm picturing a coat of arms depicting a small rabbit and the phrase "crouching is king" written around it.
While it’s insanely difficult, it’s totally possible to stealth kill, or even stealth loot and then leave, Daud in the original Dishonored. How? Quick-saves. Lots of quick saves.
The second phase of Konstantin boss fight in Rise of the Tomb Raider, after he crashes his helicopter. He takes all of Lara's weapons, except her climbing axe and you have to stealth melee him to death.
@@Candlekeepdeep That's after the fight, the part he was talking about was after Konstantin crashes, he sucker punches you and takes your gear, leaving with only your axe and your ability to pick up rubbish to throw and distract him with
In Breath of the Wild, I make a habit of sneaking up on Lynels by air and dropping right on their backs. When you do that, you get to spam attacks on them while they try to buck you off. While this is basically just a Flurry rush, the important part is the fact that weapons don't lose durability when you do this, so you can pull your strongest weapon out for some free damage and still have enough of that weapon to break over the guy's face during the battle proper.
Stealth kills are why I really appreciate when a game like Skyrim gives those character name tags when you look at someone from a distance. Stealth archer is definitely the most OP skill set in the game, but I want to know that's a baddie before I shoot them. "Let's see, is that by any chance just a normal miner trying to make a living in this mine? (Seems like you would run into one of those when you're constantly investigating mines after all!) Ah, nope, another bandit. Die Bandit!" I mean silly me right? Thinking that you would ever encounter anyone other than bandits or cultists or various monsters in all these mines! Except those 3 times that it's actually an npc waiting to offer you a quest. But they often respond to those first 2 or 3 head-shots with an "Ow! What was that for?! Hey, stop it! " So, no worries!
(In announcer voice)IN THIS CORNER, WE HAVE ELLEN ROSE STANDING AT BLEEP AND WEIGHING BLEEP POUNDS. IN THE OTHER WE HAVE NICHOLAS CAGE, STANDING AT BLEEP AND WEIGHING BLEEP POUNDS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE. Ding ding
The legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild: A Hinox always carries three rare weapons on him, instead of fighting him, you can wait till he sleeps, put on your stealth gear, sneak up and grab the goods.
I mean, you _could_ do that, unless you end up on that island that confiscates your shit and you have to smack the hinox repeatedly with metal boxes and metal weapons during a thunderstorm like I did even then, I was never one for stealthing in BOTW
The fight with The End (an old sniper) in Metal Gear Solid 3 is a good one. Pop up out of the grass carelessly and you'll likely get a tranq dart through the chest. It took a while to finish the first time I played since the map was fairly large and working my way around it to get the drop on him was slow-going. Of course, finding him in the first place was also a challenge due to his camouflage. It's probably my favorite boss fight in the series.
What about Phaedra (the 4th Colossus) from Shadow of the Colossus? You have to hide underground until he leans down so you can climb his reigns or tail.
Hey, we need efficiency! If I can reduce the amount of time I have to spend on the boss by a couple of minutes by forgoing any morals, I will happily do so!
The first temple, fire temple, and water temple last bosses each have places where you can stand perfectly still and not be hit by their major attacks. The water boss is so ludicrously easy that I can't remember it's name, you just stand in a corner of the room and wait for it to show it's core and yoink it out with the hookshot. It can't reach you, but it'll just sit there trying. On the other hand, I have not played every version, they might have updated it.
Kilkreath temple in Skyrim, the boss and his minions, if one does a sneak archer build and you don't go into the boss chamber, you can snipe all the minions and boss pretty quickly from a distance without getting wrecked
What about Konstantin from Rise of the Tomb Raider? You literally had to use MacGyver-style grenades to distract him so you could attack him from behind with your climbing axes. Especially since in the prior cutscene he stole your weapons and all that.
I was reminded of the fact that in Skyrim, you could sneak up and 1 shot just about any boss. Take the guy doing the murders in Windhelm for example. You can catch up with him mid-murder attempt in the market and sneak kill him with no one saying anything.
If you know anything about slings during the period Davis and Goliath is set, the story takes on a whole new meaning as in trained hands those things were really effective weapons and it was widely known how effective they were. Goliath never stood a chance so the message becomes something more akin to don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
The Mr. Freeze fight in Batman was the very first fight I ever did in any of the games in the series. My friend was stuck and couldn't manage it so he handed me the controller out of frustration. Unfortunately I didn't know anything about his tools so I spent a lot of time sneaking around and just hitting him.
@@Bluesit32 Waiting? You could snipe his ass when he first shows up on the pier and eschew the boss fight altogether (although he is replaced by some of Ocelot's soldiers...).
@@doggygirl3187 why not though? Besides the annoying bridge, it was a pretty good game that clearly deserves a rerelease like the other three. Different studio or not, its still part of the canon
@@insaincaldo ooh, I gotcha. I was making fun of the “moral” and “righteous” right that considers weed immoral. The quote reminded me of watching those commercials high as shit, laughing at the “moral outrage” they were trying to conjure up.
Or when you leave the Lagoon and see him in his wheelchair you can rapid head shot him. You do that and instead you have to deal with a squad of soldiers.
In every single play through of Dishonored I have never ever seen this... And looking at it now you can see all the stone statues are bloody looking that way. Back onto Game Pass it is!
I've only played through the 2 games once but I think another playthrough is due, the DLC for both of them was ace apart from I got locked out of one of the endings of Death of the Outsider because I didn't do something that seemed inconsequential quite a bit before the end and I didn't have saves far back enough to change it, booo
I'm so glad Delilah in Dishonored 2 was on the list because I always go for the "choke out the real one" option every time, but also shout out to Delilah again in the earlier Brigmore Witches who is almost as much as a headache but can also be taken out simply by replacing a painting while she's not looking, and Granny Rags in the original Dishonored who (if you already know how to beat her) can be snuck around and have her locket destroyed before she even knows you're there. I don't think the Granny Rags one counts as non lethal ghosting but sure is easier in the whole "oh god i'm being eaten alive by rats" alternative.
Splintercell Blacklist, Sadiq. Ill never forget how many times I've snuck up behind him, just for him to get spooked and run on the otherside of the final area.
I killed the final boss in AC3 by sneaking up to a building behind him, killed the guard who has a gun, took the gun and shot at him, killing him immediately. Felt very anti-climactic. Was supposed to go through the horde of soldiers he had in front of him, I think.
Toughest early boss fights that were completely underestimated. I don't remember if this has been done before or not, I feel like it may have been but I also feel it hasn't. My vote honestly goes to the very first guardian in the blades of time game, as that one was pretty rough if you didn't know what you had to do or couldn't lock on properly fast enough before it completely blasted you out of existence. This one was extremely infuriating as two minutes later you I lock the "rewind time" ability you this have the rest of the game.
Although there are lot of Zelda bosses that are beaten by stabbing in the back (or butt/tail), for the Stalblind in A Link Between Worlds you have to actually HIDE in his shield, so you can then stab him in the back. Like a hero.
Jack the Ripper in the eponymous AC Syndicate DLC is a prime example of that. He is pretty much immune to all frontal attacks, can easily dodge all of your tools (he is also immune to the fear tools and the voltaic bomb). The only way to win is to lose him in a smoke bomb, cause him to go different way than you are, and sneakily wait in a corner to reach you so you can use the brutal takedown (which is FAR more violent than "Assassinate"). Do that three times and he will summon handful of goons (who, I can tell you, have unforgiving battle skills but have none of Jack's defenses). Repeat the sneaky brutal takedown one more time when you get to be alone with Jack again and you will be able to free Jacob. Because yeah, Evie and Jack are the only playable characters in the DLC. You cannot however freely switch like you would in the main game. Fun fact: the Jack the Ripper DLC events happened only a few years before the birth of Lydia Frye, Jacob's granddaughter and main character of the World War I sequence. So it is safe to assume that Jacob had a child who was very much scared for their father's death while Aunt Evie had to search for her brother, make sure Aberline doesn't betray the Assassins, disrupt the maddening effect Jack had on gangs, and make London a tiny bit safer for prostitutes (as safe as it can be when a serial killer is targeting them specifically).
The End from Metal Gear Solid 3, yes you can beat him by counter sniping him but the best way is to sneak up behind him, hold him up for his items and double tap him in the back of the head like a true worlds greatest soldier would :D
Hi Italian here! Constantin from Rise of the Tomb Raider comes to mind. He is the final boss, so by the time you get to him you are leveled and geared up. Still, you have to stealth to beat him, no way around him. Unfair, but it is very thematic and coherent with the lore.
Also Whesker in Resident Evil 5. In order to hit him in the first fight, you need to catch him off guard by shooting him in the back. In the second fight you need to turn off the lights, then shoot him in the back.
I‘m surprised nit a single Sly Cooper Boss fits that definition. You‘d think in a game all about sneaking and thieving the boss fights would be less...fighty
nah, sly cooper (at least the first one) is about revenge and him proving himself to the world. the stealth is cause he's a thief and he needs to REACH the targets of his revenge in the first place, once he's there, nothing beats taking that revenge with his own hands as for the later games...I guess he took more of a liking to violence than he admits?
Not sure it counts, but the best way to No Hit Null (Metal gear solid Portable ops) is to ambush him with a shotgun, Run away, rinse and repeat, If you stand face to face with him, he will either fill you with lead with his submachine gun, Or deflect your Shots with his machete (Includes SOMEHOW shotgun blasts) and turn you into mince meat.
Bane - Arkham Origins. Absolutely nervewracking. Sir Nicholas - Innocence: A Plague Tale, for a more literal David vs. Goliath. Ellie - TLOU 2, because we can't have nice things.
In most stealth games you just stab everyone in the back.Bosses,enemies,civilians.Ignore that last one I totally never stabbed anyone except for enemies.
At least in my playthroughs, an annoying number of enemies will completely disregard my character simultaneously being invisible and muffled to march up and attack me regardless of how close I am to the previous location I did literally anything from.
Almost any boss in Amalur, if you drop your smoke bomb mid fight, you go completely invisible and they stop searching for you, so then stabby-stab,stabbidy stab them (with those awesome stealth stab animations.)
I didn’t know you could kill the Delilah statues. I didn’t even know some were shaped like her. I just fought her head on and watched a speedrun where they did the “KO the real one immediately” strat.
Kind of the opposite for me. I played with most of the hud off, so I instinctively climbed up to get to a vantage point. I was super surprised to find her up there!
There's also that first boss you face in Alpha Protocol (can't remember what his name is, but he's the terrorist's bodyguard); if you are able to get up close to him without him spotting you, you can just shove him off the bridge without having to fire a single shot. It's pretty tough, but quite satisfying when you pull it off.
but that's not really stealth, sure you use the arena to your advantage, but the whole time wyvern is aware of where you are and tries to strike back until he gets too tired, stops for breath, and you drop a knife into his spine and land on top of it
IMO, LoU's David is the best work Nolan North has done (and he's done a lot of usually good to great work), the best villain in any Naughty Dog game, and one of the best boss fights I've played. Especially playing on Survivor/Grounded it's such a tense experience--but it retains a lot of its power even if you were to go play on Easy, the character and set-up are just that well-done.
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If you're a boss, better look out behind you! No wait, DON'T do that. Then we can sneak up on you like total legends. AHA!
thanks for warning them
TOTAL LEGENDS AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (to long of a maniac laugh)
Little thing, Sekiro: Shadows die twice is misspelled hilariously.
(:
Other titles? Well how about the good Thief games that came before that one you mentiond! In first one you need to sneak around Trickster and do not get spoted, in the third game you do the same with the scary witch lady (and thats only the end bosses, you sneek alot more enemies before that), in the second game you cannot even get near to the "boss" so that one is probably for a difrent list :P
A true victory isn’t won in battle, it’s won in the totally embellished story you make up later at the pub about how epic the fight was and how many spin kicks you did
"And then I did a back flip and snapped the bad guys neck."
@@TheManOfManyNames373 Referencing a famous Ryan George skit is TIGHT!
We see you Corazon
me: i sh0t him with my sn1p3r r1fle so much that he started cr.......
person: you just sh0t than ran like a p*ssy and set traps till he d13d didn't you.
me: at least i beat him unlike kieth!
@@TheManOfManyNames373 wow wow wow wow...... wow
I'm not much for boss-battles in games, but these I can really get behind
Pun intended 🤣
nice one XD
HA HA HA HA
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Boooo XD
Gfys
When Ellen mentioned the last phase of the David fight, I was shocked. I used my "eagle vision" to find David; I never thought to actually listen to him stepping on broken plates.
I thought you couldn't see him with Listen Mode?
@@SilverByakuya as I recall he gets quieter and faster the longer the fight lasts
@@SilverByakuya no but the noise he makes when he steps on the broken glass can be heard, giving you a general idea where the gross cannibal bastard with Nathan Drake's voice is most likely hiding
@@deathbykonami5487 A Nathan Drake cannibal. That is horrifying.
He's even more of a bastard in grounded mode.
As they say: "Discretion is the better part of valour." You know what we call people who forget that saying?
Dead.
That was a clever joke and serves as a good reminder lol
Can I use this in a book?
@@thegreyareaofsantos Go nuts
I like the equally apt phrase: "There are old warriors, and there are bold warriors; but there are no old, bold warriors"
@@matthewobrien1312 I like both of them.
This is why bosses should be more attentive to their surroundings. I mean, you’re an evil genius hell bent on world domination but you can’t peel your eyes away from your 35th binge watch of Friends as I sneak up on you? No worries, I get it.
The bosses from the division are more aware to their surroundings
no body said life was going to be this way
@The Gaming Meta true I can't argue with you on this but their awareness is that of skynet once they see you thye will be on alert 24/7 just look at Keener from the warlords of new York dlc.
That'll be why Bowser is so successful. Sure, there's a giant axe to destroy the bridge he's standing on, but look how many Marios died to get there.
I GOTTA WATCH ROSS MAN T^T
Me vs. every orc in Shadow of Mordor not immune to stealth.
Bonus points for it being while they're complaining about how you sneak up on them.
me doing the same but in Shadow of War
Oh yes. I mean, stealth kills get me the most xp per kill, so it's almost like they're encouraging me! At least, that's what I tell myself as I empty the necks of every enemy in a fort without fighting anyone.
EVERY captain that can be stealth-killed WILL be stealth-killed
@@gavinmaretzki6675 Well you are the *Shadow* of Mordor, not the berserker
I'll never get tired of talking about Mister Freeze. It’s such a perfect stealth fight.
Definately one of my favorites if not THE favorite
It's arguably the best stealth based boss fight every made in a game. Right up there w/ "The End" in MGS3
Why must the best boss battles be against old people?
Dunno. Its overly easy to be honest due to how absolutely stupidly easy Stealth is in Arkham City. Its a good showcase of different stealth takedowns...but its too easy.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Isn't stealth always too easy for Batman?
Nightmare fuel characters that really just want to be friends (mimikyu)
Btw anyone else notice that with bipedal souls bosses your wailing on their crotch?
I was gonna agree with you about Mimikyu. Because the little puppet needs love too. But then you said that, now i can't un-see that now
Monica...
@@Yuukichan1888 I mean, it’s honestly the optimal target. Dark souls isn’t fair to you, so never fight fair in dark souls.
Mimikyu is my favorite pokemon!
I've played Dishonored 2 many times and only now have I realised that Delilah was hiding above the entryway in the painted world
I thought it was only me!
It's the fastest way to take her down
That witch!
So she is hiding above the entrace way an didn't see you take down her doppelgangers with stealth than she gets taken down with stealth. 😆 LOL.
@@jaclan1000 She is really high, so she might have not seen you kill replicas, although I believe she will see if you attack the one on the throne.
Thank you, Luke. Guy Fieri going super saiyan is an image that will haunt my nightmares for years to come.
This list should be titled “how I beat every boss if I can.”
If i cant outright overpower them in a few hits, stealth is the next best thing
Shh! You're giving away my tactics to the enemy!
the game made me do it by being so hard.
Anybody else notice that Ellen said “Ethan” instead of “Sebastian” when talking about the evil within? 😁
Someone hyped for resie 8. Not Ellen though, she knows exactly whats happening the moment that game comes out ;)
Resident Evil 7 has obviously scarred me for life after Fear Academy. WHOOOPS. - E
I did not.
I was just about to say that
@@outsidextra speaking of which, still waiting for an Ellen's fear academy t-shirt. I'm picturing a coat of arms depicting a small rabbit and the phrase "crouching is king" written around it.
While it’s insanely difficult, it’s totally possible to stealth kill, or even stealth loot and then leave, Daud in the original Dishonored.
How?
Quick-saves.
Lots of quick saves.
6:17 “Flopplegangers” no, I certainty will not accept that.
Flopplegangers is what I shall call my friends now.
Does this count as any boss Ellen plays in a scary game, as she is instantly and always crouched
The second phase of Konstantin boss fight in Rise of the Tomb Raider, after he crashes his helicopter. He takes all of Lara's weapons, except her climbing axe and you have to stealth melee him to death.
You have the option of walking away, at which point Lara will say 'you're not worth it.'
@@Candlekeepdeep I think that's after you defeat him.
@@Candlekeepdeep That's after the fight, the part he was talking about was after Konstantin crashes, he sucker punches you and takes your gear, leaving with only your axe and your ability to pick up rubbish to throw and distract him with
I just grabbed stuff and turned them into makeshift bombs and used those on him
"Probably should have let Oracle finish..."
LMAO, I can just imagine Babs being like "Bruce, wtf?!"
In Breath of the Wild, I make a habit of sneaking up on Lynels by air and dropping right on their backs. When you do that, you get to spam attacks on them while they try to buck you off.
While this is basically just a Flurry rush, the important part is the fact that weapons don't lose durability when you do this, so you can pull your strongest weapon out for some free damage and still have enough of that weapon to break over the guy's face during the battle proper.
A couple of them, especially the one in the colosseum, I snipe from above with bomb arrows. Just make sure they never find out where you are.
*"NO RIDES,* you MEOWther fu--!"
Even more inspired on that Ninja Dwarf IP now
XD
Stealth kills are why I really appreciate when a game like Skyrim gives those character name tags when you look at someone from a distance. Stealth archer is definitely the most OP skill set in the game, but I want to know that's a baddie before I shoot them.
"Let's see, is that by any chance just a normal miner trying to make a living in this mine? (Seems like you would run into one of those when you're constantly investigating mines after all!) Ah, nope, another bandit. Die Bandit!" I mean silly me right? Thinking that you would ever encounter anyone other than bandits or cultists or various monsters in all these mines! Except those 3 times that it's actually an npc waiting to offer you a quest. But they often respond to those first 2 or 3 head-shots with an "Ow! What was that for?! Hey, stop it! " So, no worries!
(In announcer voice)IN THIS CORNER, WE HAVE ELLEN ROSE STANDING AT BLEEP AND WEIGHING BLEEP POUNDS. IN THE OTHER WE HAVE NICHOLAS CAGE, STANDING AT BLEEP AND WEIGHING BLEEP POUNDS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE. Ding ding
The legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild:
A Hinox always carries three rare weapons on him, instead of fighting him, you can wait till he sleeps, put on your stealth gear, sneak up and grab the goods.
I mean, you _could_ do that, unless you end up on that island that confiscates your shit and you have to smack the hinox repeatedly with metal boxes and metal weapons during a thunderstorm like I did
even then, I was never one for stealthing in BOTW
@@lazyperfectionist3978 same I don’t think the game is built around stealth
And the Yiga clan hideout. I hate that place.
Can't you sneak up on a Lynel also?
I flipping love stealthing around and dropping bombs on enemies in that game. It's so much fun ♥
Q: How many ice-puns can Ellen fit into one segment? A: Yes.
The fight with The End (an old sniper) in Metal Gear Solid 3 is a good one. Pop up out of the grass carelessly and you'll likely get a tranq dart through the chest. It took a while to finish the first time I played since the map was fairly large and working my way around it to get the drop on him was slow-going. Of course, finding him in the first place was also a challenge due to his camouflage. It's probably my favorite boss fight in the series.
The end's weakness: His age; wait about a week after logging out of the fight and join back in, then he's ded of old age.
I need to find a way to work "flopplegangers" into a conversation
What about Phaedra (the 4th Colossus) from Shadow of the Colossus? You have to hide underground until he leans down so you can climb his reigns or tail.
Hey, we need efficiency! If I can reduce the amount of time I have to spend on the boss by a couple of minutes by forgoing any morals, I will happily do so!
Damn straight!
There's also diplomacy, as Deus Ex and Mass Effect have proven quite well.
What, I want to reason with them, and I don't want to waste too much ammo.
The first temple, fire temple, and water temple last bosses each have places where you can stand perfectly still and not be hit by their major attacks. The water boss is so ludicrously easy that I can't remember it's name, you just stand in a corner of the room and wait for it to show it's core and yoink it out with the hookshot. It can't reach you, but it'll just sit there trying. On the other hand, I have not played every version, they might have updated it.
Ah yes, Sekiro shadows dice twice. Who doesn’t love that masterpiece?
I don’t think they realized they spelled it like that. What are the shadows dicing?
@@anthonyeckert6967 Obviously fruit
I'm not going to play Sekiro Shadows Die Twice. That snake scares me too much to want to play it.
@@starscreamsniper926 kinda poor excuse not to play a masterpiece. Go on give it a try, face your fears
@@ABadassDragon what game system is it on? If it's on switch I might be persuaded to play it. Since that's the only current game system I have.
"Look mate, you've got a FLAMETHROWER, let's not talk about FAIRNESS here"
Shoutout to Ray Sunshine and Big Squish!
Hell yeah ray! Smashin em flat
Who's this Ray Sunshine guy? Is he Big Squish's sidekick or something?
@@CJVale Ray is just the vessel for Big Squish's vengeance.
Jane: Remember your ABCs - always stay crouching!
Ellen: Write that down WRITE THAT DOWN
Kilkreath temple in Skyrim, the boss and his minions, if one does a sneak archer build and you don't go into the boss chamber, you can snipe all the minions and boss pretty quickly from a distance without getting wrecked
That is how I always do it.
This goes for nearly all the bosses and enemies in skyrim. Do a sneak build, max stealth, then sneak attack everyone to death.
@@allenl5960 All paths lead to Stealth Archer.
Alternate title: "7 Bosses Mike Has a Hard Time With"
Jump scare at 5:08 for my scaredy-cat homies
Thanks man
Much appreciated, good sir.
I appreciate this but I already experienced it before looking at the comments
@@maimaikoa did you at least have it on mute, so it's not as bad?
@@IamaPERSON I did not have it on mute and I had headphones, it was bad
11:15
"Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!"
Should have hid in a box
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? ;)
What about Konstantin from Rise of the Tomb Raider? You literally had to use MacGyver-style grenades to distract him so you could attack him from behind with your climbing axes. Especially since in the prior cutscene he stole your weapons and all that.
It's interesting how David and Liam can handle getting knifed in lethal areas of the body so well.
What surprises me is that they can stabbed in their organs and just walk it off like it was nothing
I was reminded of the fact that in Skyrim, you could sneak up and 1 shot just about any boss. Take the guy doing the murders in Windhelm for example. You can catch up with him mid-murder attempt in the market and sneak kill him with no one saying anything.
The Evil Within 2 is one hell of a game. I enjoyed every second of it
tbh it was pretty good.
Wasn't a fan of the fire gauntlet survival section
i wonder if anyone tried shooting the fuel tank on there back, that's just a rule in shooters. you see a big red tank, you shoot at it till it blows
The End, MGS3. This is still the greatest stealth boss fight of all time. Sneak up behind him and get him to drop his photosynthesis camo.
Can’t believe Ellen challenged Nicholas Cage to ritual combat
Hello, Metal Gear SOlid 3, The End! That's literally the entire point of the fight, sneak up on him before he sneaks up on you.
No no, the total hero move is just letting his age do it's thing.
@@insaincaldo or exploding him while he's in his wheelchair...
If you know anything about slings during the period Davis and Goliath is set, the story takes on a whole new meaning as in trained hands those things were really effective weapons and it was widely known how effective they were. Goliath never stood a chance so the message becomes something more akin to don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
The Mr. Freeze fight in Batman was the very first fight I ever did in any of the games in the series. My friend was stuck and couldn't manage it so he handed me the controller out of frustration. Unfortunately I didn't know anything about his tools so I spent a lot of time sneaking around and just hitting him.
I didn't see the end from metal gear solid 3 on here
Just like the boss didnt see snake sneaking up in the snow camo.
Sneak up on him? I just waited a few days. He dies of old age.
@@Bluesit32 Waiting? You could snipe his ass when he first shows up on the pier and eschew the boss fight altogether (although he is replaced by some of Ocelot's soldiers...).
Albert Ramos good. He's on far too many lists.
“Floppelgängers”. Luke, I love you.
So, like Bane in Arkham Origins?
Edit: oh would you look at that, Mr Freeze showed up
Arkham whatnow? - E
Arkham city right lol
@@outsidextra you will have to acknowledge that games existence at some point, no matter how much we don't want to
@@doggygirl3187 why not though? Besides the annoying bridge, it was a pretty good game that clearly deserves a rerelease like the other three. Different studio or not, its still part of the canon
@@toongrowner1 yeah I know, I'm just joking around, I don't have any problems with the game myself.
"Morals be damned, Gimme that Grass!" The exact thing I say when watching anti-drug commercials.
no
@@insaincaldo anything to add, or just “no?” Because uh, yes? Weird comment homie.
@@martyvendetta2743 What morals, it's just grass.
@@insaincaldo ooh, I gotcha. I was making fun of the “moral” and “righteous” right that considers weed immoral. The quote reminded me of watching those commercials high as shit, laughing at the “moral outrage” they were trying to conjure up.
@@martyvendetta2743 Self righteous and delusional, but seems they are learning.
What about The End from MGS3? I remember spending over an hour sneaking my way behind an (albeit not so helpless) old man.
The hilarious way of dealing with that fight is to wait him out until old age kills him.
Only way to get his camo too.
Or when you leave the Lagoon and see him in his wheelchair you can rapid head shot him. You do that and instead you have to deal with a squad of soldiers.
In every single play through of Dishonored I have never ever seen this...
And looking at it now you can see all the stone statues are bloody looking that way.
Back onto Game Pass it is!
I've only played through the 2 games once but I think another playthrough is due, the DLC for both of them was ace apart from I got locked out of one of the endings of Death of the Outsider because I didn't do something that seemed inconsequential quite a bit before the end and I didn't have saves far back enough to change it, booo
I always need to take a good breather after the David fight. That shit stresses me out.
I'm so glad Delilah in Dishonored 2 was on the list because I always go for the "choke out the real one" option every time, but also shout out to Delilah again in the earlier Brigmore Witches who is almost as much as a headache but can also be taken out simply by replacing a painting while she's not looking, and Granny Rags in the original Dishonored who (if you already know how to beat her) can be snuck around and have her locket destroyed before she even knows you're there. I don't think the Granny Rags one counts as non lethal ghosting but sure is easier in the whole "oh god i'm being eaten alive by rats" alternative.
Splintercell Blacklist, Sadiq. Ill never forget how many times I've snuck up behind him, just for him to get spooked and run on the otherside of the final area.
“The old hero looks like if Guy Fieri figured out to go super saiyan.”
Hmmmmmm
Up next on “Diners, drive ins and Death to all scrubs!!” Lol
"Which is something I think we've all thought about." In our nightmares.
Boo. No.
In a timeline that includes a KFC dating sim, I refuse to accept no as an answer to this idea.
I’m surprised I didn’t see the Tower from Shadow of Mordor. That boss is one of the only enemies in the franchise Talion can’t just smack in the face.
Like I always say if it gets the job done abuse the heck out of it...until it gets patched.
One patch closed, two new holes
MAXIMUM CHEESE
I killed the final boss in AC3 by sneaking up to a building behind him, killed the guard who has a gun, took the gun and shot at him, killing him immediately. Felt very anti-climactic.
Was supposed to go through the horde of soldiers he had in front of him, I think.
That's the point of AC games, especially the older ones, thinking out of the box 👌👍
@The Gaming Meta Well the latest 3 aren't really thinking games, more spam abilities and you win... Mis the good old Desmond games...
Keep up the fantastic work. It has really helped during the ongoing lockdowns
Sneaking behind the final bosses - every Thief game ever.
This was followed up with the Deus Ex, Hitman, and Dishonored games.
They're still great though, except for Invisible War, Absolution, and Thief 2014.
Toughest early boss fights that were completely underestimated. I don't remember if this has been done before or not, I feel like it may have been but I also feel it hasn't.
My vote honestly goes to the very first guardian in the blades of time game, as that one was pretty rough if you didn't know what you had to do or couldn't lock on properly fast enough before it completely blasted you out of existence. This one was extremely infuriating as two minutes later you I lock the "rewind time" ability you this have the rest of the game.
What about Burk from Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Missing Link?
Not unless u avoid the virus download
Although there are lot of Zelda bosses that are beaten by stabbing in the back (or butt/tail), for the Stalblind in A Link Between Worlds you have to actually HIDE in his shield, so you can then stab him in the back. Like a hero.
Monsters that I sneaked up on? Pretty much all of Skyrim.
Sneak up on nothing. I lodge an arrow in their faces from a distance.
Two words : Stealth Archer
I am always torn between going full on stealth or full on frontal attack on the bosses of Skyrim myself lol
What about Venom Bane in Origins? You have to hide from him the entire time
It's more like Proto-Titan Bane. He was always on venom.
It’s even worse on NG+ and I Am The Night Mode.
13:27 When you haven’t played a game in a while and forgot the controls. Oof.
Jack the Ripper in the eponymous AC Syndicate DLC is a prime example of that. He is pretty much immune to all frontal attacks, can easily dodge all of your tools (he is also immune to the fear tools and the voltaic bomb). The only way to win is to lose him in a smoke bomb, cause him to go different way than you are, and sneakily wait in a corner to reach you so you can use the brutal takedown (which is FAR more violent than "Assassinate"). Do that three times and he will summon handful of goons (who, I can tell you, have unforgiving battle skills but have none of Jack's defenses). Repeat the sneaky brutal takedown one more time when you get to be alone with Jack again and you will be able to free Jacob. Because yeah, Evie and Jack are the only playable characters in the DLC. You cannot however freely switch like you would in the main game.
Fun fact: the Jack the Ripper DLC events happened only a few years before the birth of Lydia Frye, Jacob's granddaughter and main character of the World War I sequence. So it is safe to assume that Jacob had a child who was very much scared for their father's death while Aunt Evie had to search for her brother, make sure Aberline doesn't betray the Assassins, disrupt the maddening effect Jack had on gangs, and make London a tiny bit safer for prostitutes (as safe as it can be when a serial killer is targeting them specifically).
Ellie from the last of us 2?!? She was much more menacing than David because she was actually stealthy.
The End from Metal Gear Solid 3, yes you can beat him by counter sniping him but the best way is to sneak up behind him, hold him up for his items and double tap him in the back of the head like a true worlds greatest soldier would :D
But to feel like a boss, you have to sneak up on 'The Boss'. Using the snow camo ofcourse.
No, the best way is to wait a week or so and come back to his corpse.
@@Bluesit32 or you could just change the system time
I never finished thief because of the asylum level, I wasn't ready for a horror game
Hi Italian here! Constantin from Rise of the Tomb Raider comes to mind. He is the final boss, so by the time you get to him you are leveled and geared up. Still, you have to stealth to beat him, no way around him. Unfair, but it is very thematic and coherent with the lore.
I really want the ABCs joke on a t-shirt now. ^_^ Most of my characters are stealth characters who always be crouching.
Honestly, first thing I thought of was doing sneak attacks on sleeping dragon priests in Skyrim
Or the dragons themselves with that sweet sweet stealth dagger buff
Two, four, six, eight
That Sekiro snake is really great!
'Great' meaning large or immense
I'm using 'great' in the superlative sense!
9:07 "Remember your ABC's People: Always Be Crouching" We'll never forget this as students of Ellen's Fear Academy 2020.
Every enemy in splinter cell lol love that game fingers crossed for splinter cell 2021
Splinter Cell was the only game that could rival Metal Gear's stealth espionage gameplay. Wish it could be revived.
@@akmal94ibrahim Splinter Cell beated MGS, especially the latest games, MGS became more of a shooter instead
@@maartenpauwels8970 You could say Splinter Cell is the game to surpass Metal Gear
The final boss in Splinter Cell Blacklist where you have to hide from him in a blizzard.
@@maartenpauwels8970 The student became the master
Also Whesker in Resident Evil 5. In order to hit him in the first fight, you need to catch him off guard by shooting him in the back. In the second fight you need to turn off the lights, then shoot him in the back.
I‘m surprised nit a single Sly Cooper Boss fits that definition. You‘d think in a game all about sneaking and thieving the boss fights would be less...fighty
nah, sly cooper (at least the first one) is about revenge and him proving himself to the world. the stealth is cause he's a thief and he needs to REACH the targets of his revenge in the first place, once he's there, nothing beats taking that revenge with his own hands
as for the later games...I guess he took more of a liking to violence than he admits?
The giant serpent kill in Sekiro is easily one of the most satisfying stealth kills in any game.....
Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, basically every single one of Noir’s boss fights involves sneaking up on the boss
Not sure it counts, but the best way to No Hit Null (Metal gear solid Portable ops) is to ambush him with a shotgun, Run away, rinse and repeat, If you stand face to face with him, he will either fill you with lead with his submachine gun, Or deflect your Shots with his machete (Includes SOMEHOW shotgun blasts) and turn you into mince meat.
After a year of lockdown I'm thinking being trapped forever in a painting of dogs playing poker would be a step up. Because dogs. And poker.
Bane - Arkham Origins. Absolutely nervewracking. Sir Nicholas - Innocence: A Plague Tale, for a more literal David vs. Goliath. Ellie - TLOU 2, because we can't have nice things.
In most stealth games you just stab everyone in the back.Bosses,enemies,civilians.Ignore that last one I totally never stabbed anyone except for enemies.
I always say "If you can hurt them, you're meant to hurt them."
Of course, only in video games.
Someone got desinc a lot in AC games...
Soon as he is looking through the key hole and that jumpscare popped up my soul just left for a second
I'm surprised skyrim isn't on this list. The game is practically begging you to backstab malaketh.
At least in my playthroughs, an annoying number of enemies will completely disregard my character simultaneously being invisible and muffled to march up and attack me regardless of how close I am to the previous location I did literally anything from.
I got very excited when I read the title. I love these situations!
Luke's joke about crouching is on point, it really is tiresome 😂
How about The End in MGS 3? Poor man is geared up for a long drawn out sniper duel, so you sneak up behind him and fire darts into his back
"I learn from my mistakes, Batman. Do you?"
Ironic Freeze, considering he still messing around with cryotechnology, knowing full well that's the reason for his current condition
@@deathbykonami5487 Yes, but it's also the only thing keeping his wife alive.
Almost any boss in Amalur, if you drop your smoke bomb mid fight, you go completely invisible and they stop searching for you, so then stabby-stab,stabbidy stab them (with those awesome stealth stab animations.)
"what's this?"
"It's deer..."
"I asked what it was, not how much it cost"
I didn’t know you could kill the Delilah statues. I didn’t even know some were shaped like her. I just fought her head on and watched a speedrun where they did the “KO the real one immediately” strat.
Kind of the opposite for me. I played with most of the hud off, so I instinctively climbed up to get to a vantage point. I was super surprised to find her up there!
Wow. The entire Liam fight in The Evil Within 2 I was just running around shooting him and waiting for the ammo to respawn.
same and waiting for him to get near an ice thing i can use to freeze him.
If you destroy his tank, he rushes at you and brutally beats you with the flamethrower nozzle instead.
There's also that first boss you face in Alpha Protocol (can't remember what his name is, but he's the terrorist's bodyguard); if you are able to get up close to him without him spotting you, you can just shove him off the bridge without having to fire a single shot. It's pretty tough, but quite satisfying when you pull it off.
huh? no ancient wyvern from dark souls III? it's nearly impossible to kill, unless you run all the way around the area, and plunge him
but that's not really stealth, sure you use the arena to your advantage, but the whole time wyvern is aware of where you are and tries to strike back until he gets too tired, stops for breath, and you drop a knife into his spine and land on top of it
IMO, LoU's David is the best work Nolan North has done (and he's done a lot of usually good to great work), the best villain in any Naughty Dog game, and one of the best boss fights I've played. Especially playing on Survivor/Grounded it's such a tense experience--but it retains a lot of its power even if you were to go play on Easy, the character and set-up are just that well-done.
Is this a new business venture for dob, to earn more money he can throw into the sea? ;)
didn't know they did more stuff on this channel
Did you record a fail with the explosive gel on camera in 13:25?
At the "end of the game"?
Did somebody actually finish Thief!?
I did.
What about Leo Stiener from the Lady Nightingale campaign in Call of Duty: Vangaurd? Felt so ruthless.