Your favorite enemies of all time - Page 3

Urban Ranger · November 15, 2003, 12:40

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Originally posted by Stuie
and the little common lowly soldiers who are fun to fight:
Chrysalids!!

I wouldn't call them little common lowy soldiers, and they are definitely very scary

vmxa1 · November 15, 2003, 15:05

"Q" from Might and Magic VI. Ok, he was not scarry, but dumpy. He had 10,000 HP at a time when most monsters had less than a 1,000. He used the finger of death and funny little sap.

Ben Kenobi · November 15, 2003, 19:46

From Heroes2:

THUNK.

Huge Army, better stats than you'll ever have, dimension door, serious attitude, sphere of negation preventing spells in combat.

And all you get to fight him with is one hero, though strong, always weaker than THUNK, with human troops, and if that hero dies, you lose the game.

As for grunts, I'll add another vote to those intelligently acting poison spitters from Dialbo 1.

I beat the entire game without using healing poitions, just scrolls of town portal, and they were by far the most difficult section.

The Mad Monk · November 16, 2003, 04:42

SHODAN.

Great sense of drama and style, that one.

(from System Shock 2, natch.)

DrSpike · November 16, 2003, 07:27

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Originally posted by The Mad Monk
SHODAN.

Great sense of drama and style, that one.

(from System Shock 2, natch.)

Shodan is back. She is calling herself Comrade Tassadar.

Boris Godunov · November 21, 2003, 21:21

Those f*ckers, the Shadowlords--killed me so many damn times!

Boris Godunov · November 21, 2003, 21:23

Old Man Stauf from the 7th Guest...creep!

Nubclear · November 21, 2003, 21:25

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Originally posted by DrSpike

Shodan is back. She is calling herself Comrade Tassadar.

How could you have done this?

You werent meant to be important....And now, you think to destroy me!

How dare you, insect. How dare you interrupt my ascendence...YOU ARE NOTHING!!

A wretched bag of flesh, what are you compared to my magnificence?

But is it not too late

Can you not see the value in our friendship? Imagine the powers I can give to you, human. The cybernetic implants I gave you were simply TOYS....

DrSpike · November 22, 2003, 08:32

Now all that remains is to work out why Shodan, not the most balanced or friendly of characters (as you can see) dresses up in a Father Christmas outfit and burns a flag.

Case · November 22, 2003, 19:52

The sword master in Monkey Island 1

runner up: German Panther and Tiger tanks in any of the Close Combat games, especially when you killed them by sneaking a bazoka squad up behind them or one of your Stuart light tanks got lucky.

Zkribbler · November 23, 2003, 00:59

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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Karras from Thief 2 was a fun - and completely insane - adversary.

Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba

I've said it once, and I'll say it many times more:

Most Annoying Voice Actor, EVAR!

The voice actor who played Karras was Droopy Dog.

Richard Bruns · November 24, 2003, 17:20

The Cyberdisks in X-COM were just nasty. When you saw them, you knew that someone was going to die. Their plasma attack burned right through even the best armor, and they self-destructed with a massive explosion when they died. Killing them gave a sense of accomplishment.

As for the BBEG (Big Bad Evil Guy/Gal), I'd vote for Chrono Trigger's Lavos. All console RPG villans want to destroy the planet, but they usually have some stupid metaphysical reason for doing so. Lavos was just a big hungry monster, and that was cool. I liked the way they set up that enemy.

Nubclear · November 25, 2003, 23:27

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Originally posted by DrSpike
Now all that remains is to work out why Shodan, not the most balanced or friendly of characters (as you can see) dresses up in a Father Christmas outfit and burns a flag.

Do not question my actions, insect. They are far too great for a spec such as you to understand.

DrSpike · November 26, 2003, 07:15

Well you can't be too omnipotent if you get defeated at the end of both games.

Father Beast · November 26, 2003, 20:38

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Originally posted by Case
The sword master in Monkey Island 1

You're kidding, right? Carla was just too cuddly to take all that seriously. OH! You mean favorite THAT way!

HeHe · December 10, 2003, 23:58

That is my favorite enemy of all time. A living, breathing, cunning, human opponent.

epicurian · December 17, 2003, 22:39

For a final boss type baddie, I think Hitler in a power suit with arm mounted gatling guns at the end of episode 3 of Wolfenstein would get my vote.

As for rank and file types, Chrysalids made for some nerve-wracking encounters, especially if you were still using conventional wepaons! Members of the JDF in Front Mission 3 were also quite entertaining for their "I'll get you next time gadget!" fist shaking type antics when you blew their mech to pieces.

Vlad Antlerkov · December 17, 2003, 23:17

Big boss: Baphomet/John Romero's head on a stick, Doom II. (The big skull is never given an actual name in Doom II, but Final Doom calls it "Baphomet," so I just go by that.) Honorable mention to Magus, Chrono Trigger. Practically everything in the game up to that point implies Magus, not Lavos, is the last boss.

Normal boss: Duriel, Diablo II.

Grunt: Warmech, from Final Fantasy I. Honorable mention to the minions of any CEB archer, Diablo II, v1.10. (The CEB archer itself I don't have much trouble with. It's the fact that the attacks of the minions are cold-enchanted, as well...)

gopher · December 18, 2003, 01:35

Regular Shmoes:
Earthbound:
Those trees in the early part of the game that always explode and kill somebody. Any battle with those Oak Trees meant serious PP usage for healing.

Boss:
Final Fantasy 1
Warmech
On the walkway to Tiamat, the boss of the tower section, you had a 1 in 64 chance of encountering this monster. Unfortunatly, my first time happened to be it. Massive number of HP (rivaling the final boss of the game), massive number of spells (all level 9: Nuke, XXXX!, etc), and even worse, always went first. If you beat him (it?) handily, you could easily beat the rest of the game.

Edit: Did not see the above post. Wow, somebody else encountered the 'Mech!

aaglo · December 18, 2003, 02:38

Favourite enemies:
- The 4x1 Red Block from Tetris

- Shambler from Quake (shoots lightnings)
- Minotaurs in Heretic

Chronus · December 18, 2003, 22:06

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The villain was 'Evil Otto' , a bouncing smilie face who chased you and would kill you if you stayed on one level for too long.

Holy cow, how could I have forgotten about him! And that was my favorite game at the time.

Best (worst?) of all, he was indestructible! You either had to go on to the next screen or perish.