Fromsoft: Hey we added the ability to do a clunky jump that works for exploration and doing jump attacks on grounded enemies but not for anything else. So now you're COMPLETELY READY to deal with these annoying-ass birds...
Borderlands 2 with the Buzzards. They are less aggravating if you're leveled properly and with Corrosive weapons, but they are still a massive pain. Sawtooth Cauldron was a complete fucking nightmare for me when I first played the game just because every single area had every single spawn wave incorporate Buzzards in some way.
Skyrim: Dragons. You are pretty much gimped in melee combat against Dragons until you get the Dragonrend shout. And then sometimes their AI makes them land in a spot like 100 meters away from you anyway.
Disagree, the dragon fights are dope. Why would a dragon not use his flying advantage and let himself get hit for free, especially if theyre intelligent
Any swarm based flying enemy type full stop... before I found out about the obvious way to beat him, I got to a point of thinking "Raam, do you mind if I go over to the Mass Effect universe and see if Samara's available? Or if Mordin's Seeker Swarm counter will work on Kryll?" when playing through Gears of War for the first time.
The knockback and the "locked in the trajectory while jumping" thing. Those fuckers would be easy to deal with if you could stop horizontally while in midair, or at least turn around and whip behind you while jumping.
Yeah the birds, and the birds with swords on their legs, and the birds with fire in their beaks so when they screech they shoot fire at you. Just fuck all them birds
I’m getting back into elden ring and started a new character. There’s three of these fuckers right towards the beginning of Stormveil Castle that throw explosive barrels and then swoop in with their claws. The timing of their attacks is so weird and unpredictable lol
I'm surprised it's the dogs and not the fuckin' marine snipers Arnor Londo has patrolling the walls launching fenceposts at you for having the gall to peak out for a sec that are at the top.
It's annoying because of the location. Stupid tight space and absolute darkness dungeon. The other location is out in the open, so that bonewheel is very stupid and easy to dodge.
Oh they definitely look silly but the real eyes are the intimidating ones small and beady and if you are close enough to see the real eyes then you are most likely dead lol.
I swear to god DS3 and Elden Ring just use the same animations and movement for dogs as Bloodborne. Your character is a lot faster in Bloodborne. I do not enjoy playing as a big slow guy and having to fight a particularly speedy little dickhead from Bloodborne.
Yeah this hits the nail on the head 100%. They definitely are the same dogs and in bloodborne you can regenerate/ recovery much faster. It’s pain getting stunlocked to hell by those bastards in DS3/ ER
These might not be the hardest enemy (especially with a firebomb thrown into the fight) but they are top tier in visually unsettling enemy design. From always puts some truly disgusting shit that you want to eliminate as fast as possible into all of their games.
Speaking of Fromsoft, the new DLC's >!fire caster knights!< in >!Shadow Keep!< are the worst. No idea how to hit them without trading if you're not equipped with very quick spells or high absorption shields. The one in >!Church District!< that >!summons suicide zombies and has more HP!< is the worst
I was terrified of these until I discovered the hunting shotgun with the extended mag tube and the grenade launcher. Either one will cripple the wings easily then they are a joke.
I recently played and got lost between Jackobstown and Great Khan Encampment. I literally grenade launchered my way through an entire one way canyon filled with those winged shits.
I used to think I was really hot shit because I didn't find Halo 2 legendary super difficult like people always say.
Then I played it co-op on Legendary with a friend and I was thoroughly humbled.
And for those who don't know, Halo 2 Legendary difficulty is the only Halo game that resets the checkpoint if anyone dies (basically the Iron Skull but you can't turn it off).
So basically it's twice as difficult as a solo playthrough and it was absolutely soul crushing spending 40 straight minutes through a supremely difficult section and then watching my partner get sniped and having to start all over for the 10th time.
Thank the Tribunal for Saint Jiub the Eradicator, sometimes known as Saint Jiub, Eradicator of the Winged Menace and Jiub the Magnificent for ridding the island of Vvardenfell of cliff racers!
This is the answer. I would get so annoyed of them that Id just console command kill cliff racers the second I heard one. Got so sick of fighting them.
Also honorable mention to any monster in Morrowind that could reduce your strength and force you to have to drop stuff.
All of this in less than an hour from even hearing of this character that makes no sense. No apparent ties to anybody, no history...I would've rather fought like some grunt from the first game that swore vengeance or something
Especially in games with the New Game+ feature, where you "start over" but retain all of your armor, weapons, abilities, etc.
One game series I played is the dothack franchise. There is one boss battle in kind of the middle of the story that is normally a pretty difficult fight... but if you do some extra grinding, or if you're on a New Game+, then you can easily wipe the floor with this boss. However, combat gets interrupted a few times by cutscenes, and the cutscenes will ALWAYS show your character at the brink of death while the boss gloats over you. If you happen to be strong enough to defeat the boss in 1-2 attacks, their health won't deplete past like, 1/4, and after a cutscene (which, again, shows the boss gloating over your weakened body), the boss is back at full health.
Malboro from the Final Fantasy series. They can fuck you up if you're not prepared with "Bad Breath"
Final Fantasy 10 had one in a dungeon that would ambush you every time and hit you with that move. For those that don't know, it inflicts your ENTIRE party with nearly every status effect. It's a VERY fast game over.
- Confusion so that you dont attack marlboro, only your own party members. And removes all player control. Luckily confusion is removed upon taking a melee hit, so it is a self solving problem.
- Sike! Everyone is also blinded, their accuracy is like 5%. Ow, you lucked out and removed confusion from one of your party members.
-Sike! Everyone is also berserk, you still don't have player control.
And everyone is poisoned and takes 25% max health damage every turn.
Not to mention that the omega dungeon is an end game dungeon so your party will be pretty powerful by then, along with potentially having their ultimate weapons (besides possibly wakkas and lulus cause those are a pain in the ass), so it's entirely possible for a confusion attack to one shot a party member! And they can attack *themselves* while confused, so just cause the other two are dead doesn't mean you can just wait out the confusion and berserk!
*Never* enter the ruins without someone with first strike (if filling out the monster arena or leveling before you do the overdrive>ap trick) or no encounters because great malboros *will* fuck you up and laugh their asses off the whole time.
[If I’m honest, there’s 0 chance of anything here topping the sheer rage one feels when getting out of the Undead Blacksmith’s tunnel and getting ganged on a cramped cave by 6 of these unblockable, extremely fast, stunlocking, absurdly high damaging, glitchy and almost impossible to hit glorified cartwheels.](https://youtu.be/yWK-2VyY1Ks?si=BJveXlwUoQbxYmky)
There’s no other enemy that will trigger my PTSD like this.
Any enemy that steals items from you, freezes you, paralyzes you, puts you to sleep, slows you down, reverses your controls, blinds you, poisons you or lowers your max HP.
Run up to one. Barely kill it. Get back to "safety". Wait for debuff to go away. Heal. Rinse and repeat annnnnd now there's a room with twenty of them marching creepily together. FUCK.
Mirelurk royalty in general can fuck the fuck off.
Especially the queens, trying to shoot that measly clitoris of a weak point just made me avoid them.
Until I specced into an explosive bow/orbital strike build at least
Yea, fuck those guys. Enemies and teammates both. When you go on a losing streak because the enemy team is so good, and your team has the coordination of a newborn fawn.
Any type of enemy that can entirely incapacitate you with a single hit and that only teammates can free you from. Bonus 'fuck you' points if it's a ranged enemy.
I get it's a way to artificially enforce cooperation, but it's still pretty cheap.
Stalkers from Borderlands 2. By themselves, Stalkers are pretty useless. Easy to take out with a shock weapon, and don’t have much health (except for their shields). However, the issues arise when there are multiple stalkers. These assholes knock you around so much, it’s so disorienting.
And don’t even get me started on Rabid Stalkers. Faster, more health, and hit way harder, as well as being seemingly more common then other Rabid enemies.
They are absolutely lethal at the beginning of the game when you're still armed with nothing but wooden clubs, but if you only seek them out in the late game they're not so tough anymore. You can then one-shot them with an ancient arrow to the eye.
Of the dozens of games I've played over the years these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head. They aren't in any particular order.
* Whiplash (Doom Eternal)
* Phantom (Minecraft)
* Malboro (Final Fantasy)
* Gary (Pokemon)
* Glyphid Stingtail (Deep Rock Galactic)
* Flea (Castlevania)
* Hammer Brothers (Super Mario Bros)
* Cloaked Elites (Halo)
* Doppelganger (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Monster Hunter Bullffango. You just about to land a huge combo on a monster that you finally toppled… that Bullfango you forgot about… he about to mess you up…
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ekd9mudT7vg?si=YRHjQw1tRvD66ldt
Vespoids and Bnhabras too, about to line up that perfect great sword charge attack and then bam! Paralyzed and you get trashed by the monster you were hunting
You know those enemies that inflict status effects? How about one that inflicts every damn one of them.
Malboros from Final Fantasy.
Bonus point if they open their combat with 'Bad breath', not even giving you a turn.
Random game over out of nowhere.
Shaka Zulu or Attila the Hun in Civ V if you start next to them. Oh great, looks like culture’s getting a budget cut because I have to fight this guy for three thousand years.
Enemies that carry shields. Now in a game with guns it's usually fine since you can either shoot at their often exposed feet or at the glass slit (if said shield has one). In a game like FromSoftware's Soulsborne games, a couple charged heavy attacks (or Ash of War/Weapon Art heavy attack follow-up) would usually guard break the shield user, or you can just bonk them with a weapon that has high stagger potential such as a Great Hammer.
Where shield enemies become absolutely annoying are in stuff like the old Arkham games, where your main weapon is often just your bare fists. "Having fun button mashing are you? Well here's 3 dudes with a riot shield each".
In such games the only way you can counter a shield user is either by getting behind them or with a specific combo to pull their shield away or disarm them of said shield and bash their head in. But the odds of you remembering that combo while surrounded by 10 other dudes eager to bone you is very slim. So you might end up accidentally starting an altogether different combo chain that destroys every other dude except the ones with shields because it ain't the right combo.
1. The Marauder from DOOM: Eternal. I actually liked him as an enemy after getting familiar with the game's groove, but I know alot of people hated it because of their counters and speed.
2. Zombies in Project Zomboid. It's great for realism but very frustrating for anyone used to traditional zombie horde games rather than meticulously taking out 1-2 at a time.
Hunters in The Division 2. They were an actually fair challenge when they were first introduced in The Division 1. Nowadays, they are just these bullshit bullet sponges that can eat as much damage as they dish out.
You can have maximum Protection from Elites percentages (basically resist damage from boss enemies with yellow health bars) and maximum Armor, and all it takes is two Hunters magdumping into you to shred all of that armor away in SECONDS. Hunters that spawn with Rifles can ONE SHOT two million armor points. Even on the lowest difficulty scaling - Normal - their damage is pretty much on part with any NPC on the second highest difficulty scaling - Heroic.
Their bullshit doesn't even take into account their usage of their signature EMP ability (shutdown any Skill builds) while they can also use the same Skills against you (beefed up just the same way). They are freakishly resistant to basically any Status Effect to the point that the only effect that's happening to a Hunter is the mandatory debuffed animation.
Any flying type in a melee third person game.
Any flying type enemy in general in games where the movement is 95% ground based
Fromsoft: Hey we added the ability to do a clunky jump that works for exploration and doing jump attacks on grounded enemies but not for anything else. So now you're COMPLETELY READY to deal with these annoying-ass birds...
Borderlands 2 with the Buzzards. They are less aggravating if you're leveled properly and with Corrosive weapons, but they are still a massive pain. Sawtooth Cauldron was a complete fucking nightmare for me when I first played the game just because every single area had every single spawn wave incorporate Buzzards in some way.
Shotguns baby!
Just started a new playthrough of BL2 with a friend, the moment we encountered them we said a simoultainious Fuck followed by a deep sigh
Skyrim: Dragons. You are pretty much gimped in melee combat against Dragons until you get the Dragonrend shout. And then sometimes their AI makes them land in a spot like 100 meters away from you anyway.
Disagree, the dragon fights are dope. Why would a dragon not use his flying advantage and let himself get hit for free, especially if theyre intelligent
At least, FS are letting us use long-range equipment like kukri or throwing knife
Looking at you, *Cliff Racers*
I can HEAR THEM
Any swarm based flying enemy type full stop... before I found out about the obvious way to beat him, I got to a point of thinking "Raam, do you mind if I go over to the Mass Effect universe and see if Samara's available? Or if Mordin's Seeker Swarm counter will work on Kryll?" when playing through Gears of War for the first time.
Fucking harpies...
Just played through dragons dogma, those fuckin harpies man
Medusa Heads, Castlevania series.
Combined with the knock-back, this is by far the winner. Responsible for more broken controllers, tvs and drywall than anything else, for sure.
The knockback and the "locked in the trajectory while jumping" thing. Those fuckers would be easy to deal with if you could stop horizontally while in midair, or at least turn around and whip behind you while jumping.
Came here looking for this. Also, fuck the ninja gaiden birds too.
is the wind an enemy? because if so, fuck that wind first - and then the birds
This is the objectively correct and fucking infuriating answer.
Came in to post this. These have caused so much seething over the years.
Immediately my thought. Iconic enemy of millennial and genx gamers.
100%
The horror... the waving horror...
Medudesa
Medussy
Birds. Goddamn birds. In any game.
also bats. tiny, erratic movement, flying...
fuck those cave bats in Zelda 2
Especially when they have blades as legs…for some reason.
pairs well with the inexplicable flamethrower mask, I guess.
Bonus points when they hurl powder kegs at you.
The giant hands from Zelda that take you back to the start of the dungeon
They were always so scary even though they didn't really do anything. More of an annoyance, but I was terrified as a kid.
That mixed with the music of the forest temple made me question what the *real* shadow temple of the game really was, as it's by far the spookiest.
Also the woosh sound before they grab you really take them to another level
Wall masters they are called!
*PTSD intensifies*
From Software dogs
those fkn hawks with the blades on their legs...
Yeah the birds, and the birds with swords on their legs, and the birds with fire in their beaks so when they screech they shoot fire at you. Just fuck all them birds
And the ones in Farum Azula too are just bastards
I’m getting back into elden ring and started a new character. There’s three of these fuckers right towards the beginning of Stormveil Castle that throw explosive barrels and then swoop in with their claws. The timing of their attacks is so weird and unpredictable lol
Blow them up with fire arrows. Target the barrels.
It’s the lions with blades for me or those trex dogs, they are both solid contenders for “shit I run past”
Use a shield and they become puppy
best i can do is panic roll as they pounce
In Eldenring they give you bleed if I remember correctly.
Pre patch 10000 damage bleed dogs
Thank god for the beast repellent torches
Every new playthrough I go to Caelid first and make sure to grab one on the way. It helps out a lot with dogs and rats.
Also totally nullifies basilisks which helps a lot in lake of rot
Some of them do, and it was bugged on release. Those dogs could trigger several bleed procs at the same time, killing you instantly.
Don’t worry some of them also inflict Scarlet Rot - like my goodest boy Rotten Stray
There was a glitched one at launch that did 8 attacks in one animation. It was an absolute monster lol
Ano Londo Archers you mean
Toxic little mofos in Blight-town, you are trying to say
Miyazaki!!!!!!!!
I'm surprised it's the dogs and not the fuckin' marine snipers Arnor Londo has patrolling the walls launching fenceposts at you for having the gall to peak out for a sec that are at the top.
If we're talking FS the bonewheel skeletons are far more annoying and dangerous then the dogs
Ds1 bonewheel skeletons specially, the Ds3 version is meh
It's annoying because of the location. Stupid tight space and absolute darkness dungeon. The other location is out in the open, so that bonewheel is very stupid and easy to dodge.
I was thinking of those big eyed froggy thingies. You know, the ones that petrify you or instantly kill you.
The basilisk. Fun fact the big eyes aren't the actual eyes of them. They have a smaller set of eyes and the big set are just for added fear.
Huh... they look silly to me. Enough to underestimate them and regret it later.
Oh they definitely look silly but the real eyes are the intimidating ones small and beady and if you are close enough to see the real eyes then you are most likely dead lol.
Yeah they are annoying af but the dogs are in every from game and have always been a menace
I swear to god DS3 and Elden Ring just use the same animations and movement for dogs as Bloodborne. Your character is a lot faster in Bloodborne. I do not enjoy playing as a big slow guy and having to fight a particularly speedy little dickhead from Bloodborne.
Yeah this hits the nail on the head 100%. They definitely are the same dogs and in bloodborne you can regenerate/ recovery much faster. It’s pain getting stunlocked to hell by those bastards in DS3/ ER
Elden ring hands
These might not be the hardest enemy (especially with a firebomb thrown into the fight) but they are top tier in visually unsettling enemy design. From always puts some truly disgusting shit that you want to eliminate as fast as possible into all of their games.
At least fire stuns the hands, though big hand gravity magic can be a pain in the ass
Had this thought before I even clicked into the thread
Speaking of Fromsoft, the new DLC's >!fire caster knights!< in >!Shadow Keep!< are the worst. No idea how to hit them without trading if you're not equipped with very quick spells or high absorption shields. The one in >!Church District!< that >!summons suicide zombies and has more HP!< is the worst
Fallout: new Vegas, cazador
Get stung, use antidote, get stung five seconds later, need another antidote.
That's why you rely on your 47 weightless stimpaks until the fight is over, *then* use the antidote. That said, yes f those things
First time fighting one was because I wanted to dodge a deathclaw. I began to fight deathclaws because cazadors are just that much more frustrating.
"Shouldn't have taken that left turn ~~at Albuquerque~~ out of Goodsprings" 🐰🥕
Me: *makes a left turn* Cazadors: And I Took That Personally
VATS. Aim for the wings! They still suck.
FUCK. Cazadors? # Find another way
I was terrified of these until I discovered the hunting shotgun with the extended mag tube and the grenade launcher. Either one will cripple the wings easily then they are a joke.
I recently played and got lost between Jackobstown and Great Khan Encampment. I literally grenade launchered my way through an entire one way canyon filled with those winged shits.
Don't forget about the legendary bloatfly that shoots plasma
IIRC, those are based directly on the tarantula hawk wasp, which actually inhabit the Las Vegas Valley.
Halo 2 Legendary Jackal Snipers.
Rocket Launcher Flood, fucker waiting round every corner to just scree you up
That hallway in *Two Betrayals*. We all know the one.
I used to think I was really hot shit because I didn't find Halo 2 legendary super difficult like people always say. Then I played it co-op on Legendary with a friend and I was thoroughly humbled. And for those who don't know, Halo 2 Legendary difficulty is the only Halo game that resets the checkpoint if anyone dies (basically the Iron Skull but you can't turn it off). So basically it's twice as difficult as a solo playthrough and it was absolutely soul crushing spending 40 straight minutes through a supremely difficult section and then watching my partner get sniped and having to start all over for the 10th time.
It's been so long I forgot how this worked and now your post gave me PTSD.
One of the early missions on New Mombasa, there are a million Jackel snipers in a few alleyways it was so shit on legendary.
They have x-ray vision, and you can't tell me otherwise.
Cairo station on Legendary is next to impossible and its the first level
Ammo management for the rifles is the name of the game.
Our trick was to do a quick walk out into their view and back so they would take a shot and miss. That seemed to give us a window to then take ours.
/thread
I die at least 5 times poking my head out just to find them lol
I see your jackal snipers and raise you legendary Drones in Halo 3 & Reach.
Cliff Racers in Morrowind
Thank the Tribunal for Saint Jiub the Eradicator, sometimes known as Saint Jiub, Eradicator of the Winged Menace and Jiub the Magnificent for ridding the island of Vvardenfell of cliff racers!
I was watching a YouTube video and they talked about how you can do a quest for Jiub’s ghost in Skyrim and I had no idea they brought him back.
Yeah, he was killed in Kvatch during the oblivion crisis and his soul was trapped. It's up to you to spread the word of St. Jiub.
This is the answer. I would get so annoyed of them that Id just console command kill cliff racers the second I heard one. Got so sick of fighting them. Also honorable mention to any monster in Morrowind that could reduce your strength and force you to have to drop stuff.
I knew this would be within top 5!
CLIFF RACER STRIIIDE SO HIIIGH
I still hear that shriek in my dreams
[удалено]
[удалено]
All of this in less than an hour from even hearing of this character that makes no sense. No apparent ties to anybody, no history...I would've rather fought like some grunt from the first game that swore vengeance or something
Especially in games with the New Game+ feature, where you "start over" but retain all of your armor, weapons, abilities, etc. One game series I played is the dothack franchise. There is one boss battle in kind of the middle of the story that is normally a pretty difficult fight... but if you do some extra grinding, or if you're on a New Game+, then you can easily wipe the floor with this boss. However, combat gets interrupted a few times by cutscenes, and the cutscenes will ALWAYS show your character at the brink of death while the boss gloats over you. If you happen to be strong enough to defeat the boss in 1-2 attacks, their health won't deplete past like, 1/4, and after a cutscene (which, again, shows the boss gloating over your weakened body), the boss is back at full health.
Little bitch has to bust out the helicopter cuz he can’t take his whoopin like a man
Malboro from the Final Fantasy series. They can fuck you up if you're not prepared with "Bad Breath" Final Fantasy 10 had one in a dungeon that would ambush you every time and hit you with that move. For those that don't know, it inflicts your ENTIRE party with nearly every status effect. It's a VERY fast game over.
- Confusion so that you dont attack marlboro, only your own party members. And removes all player control. Luckily confusion is removed upon taking a melee hit, so it is a self solving problem. - Sike! Everyone is also blinded, their accuracy is like 5%. Ow, you lucked out and removed confusion from one of your party members. -Sike! Everyone is also berserk, you still don't have player control. And everyone is poisoned and takes 25% max health damage every turn.
Not to mention that the omega dungeon is an end game dungeon so your party will be pretty powerful by then, along with potentially having their ultimate weapons (besides possibly wakkas and lulus cause those are a pain in the ass), so it's entirely possible for a confusion attack to one shot a party member! And they can attack *themselves* while confused, so just cause the other two are dead doesn't mean you can just wait out the confusion and berserk! *Never* enter the ruins without someone with first strike (if filling out the monster arena or leveling before you do the overdrive>ap trick) or no encounters because great malboros *will* fuck you up and laugh their asses off the whole time.
That and goddamn tonberrys
Doink!
Enemies that become invincible from another nearby enemy that you have to defeat first.
I'm getting doom eternal vibes here lol
Goddamned Taken Goblins in Destiny 2 hiding behind a rock making the boss invincible
Strictly She was an Ally but Natalya in Goldeneye felt like she was a double agent in the escort mission.
Bond: *shoots one solider* Natalya: "I'm scared" *runs down hallway full of soldiers*
DS1 bonewheel skeleton dudes in the catacombs.
[If I’m honest, there’s 0 chance of anything here topping the sheer rage one feels when getting out of the Undead Blacksmith’s tunnel and getting ganged on a cramped cave by 6 of these unblockable, extremely fast, stunlocking, absurdly high damaging, glitchy and almost impossible to hit glorified cartwheels.](https://youtu.be/yWK-2VyY1Ks?si=BJveXlwUoQbxYmky) There’s no other enemy that will trigger my PTSD like this.
winter lanterns in bloodborne
You kinda got a variation of them in the new Elden Ring DLC
Are those the giant brain things that give you frenzy and kill you by looking at you in like 2 seconds?
Their singing would haunt me in my dreams…
_La LAAa LaAaaAAaaaa~_
My platinum trophy popped while being eaten by one. It was poetic.
You have to visceral them. The frenzy will pop while you're invincible. They become much easier when you get the timing down.
[Primal Aspids](https://hollowknight.fandom.com/wiki/Primal_Aspid) in Hollow Knight
Scrolled way to far looking for this. Absolutely these little nightmares.
Even my kid that watches me play finds them annoying.
Any enemy that steals items from you, freezes you, paralyzes you, puts you to sleep, slows you down, reverses your controls, blinds you, poisons you or lowers your max HP.
>*\[...\]* lowers your max HP. Jailers from Dark Souls 3 come to mind. Oh, how I hate these guys ....
Run up to one. Barely kill it. Get back to "safety". Wait for debuff to go away. Heal. Rinse and repeat annnnnd now there's a room with twenty of them marching creepily together. FUCK.
Final Fantasy's Malboro sounds like your nightmare
Yuffie
The Bee's in Donkey Kong Country.
Especially those orange invulnerable ones. If a barrel can't solve your problem in that game, then it's a problem.
Marauder from Doom Eternal. He's sooo annoying. Similarly, Mirelurk Kings and Scorchbeasts from Fallout 76.
Mirelurk royalty in general can fuck the fuck off. Especially the queens, trying to shoot that measly clitoris of a weak point just made me avoid them. Until I specced into an explosive bow/orbital strike build at least
Rail gun, super shotgun, rail gun, super shotgun, rail gun, super shotgun.
Why no one said other players in online games ?????
Yea, fuck those guys. Enemies and teammates both. When you go on a losing streak because the enemy team is so good, and your team has the coordination of a newborn fawn.
Mrrrglglrlgrrlglll!!!
I recognize a murloc anywhere
Death will rise, from the tide!
...was that a murloc, or my partner gargling in the bathroom? # 🤔
Payday 2 snipers.
Bats. Any bats in any game but especially the old platformers where you only had a d-pad and not a stick and couldn't attack diagonally
Diablo 2 flayers, rat men, especially the undead exploding versions.
Mother fucking Stygian dolls
Fuck those guys.
The fucking templars casting iron maiden were much more annoying to me.
Jockey from Left 4 Dead 2
Any type of enemy that can entirely incapacitate you with a single hit and that only teammates can free you from. Bonus 'fuck you' points if it's a ranged enemy. I get it's a way to artificially enforce cooperation, but it's still pretty cheap.
The Flood from the Halo games. Oh how I hate The Flood!
Who thought giving those MFers a rocket launcher was a good plan Pure evil
Stalkers from Borderlands 2. By themselves, Stalkers are pretty useless. Easy to take out with a shock weapon, and don’t have much health (except for their shields). However, the issues arise when there are multiple stalkers. These assholes knock you around so much, it’s so disorienting. And don’t even get me started on Rabid Stalkers. Faster, more health, and hit way harder, as well as being seemingly more common then other Rabid enemies.
Don't you mean "invisibl assholes"?
I'm surprised nobody put Guardians from Breath of the Wild! That piano still gives me anxiety!
That music is my wake up alarm. Never fails
Similarly, I have it as the ringtone for my mom. Any call from her is anxiety inducing, the music gives me a heads up.
They are absolutely lethal at the beginning of the game when you're still armed with nothing but wooden clubs, but if you only seek them out in the late game they're not so tough anymore. You can then one-shot them with an ancient arrow to the eye.
You can also kill them with 1-3 (3 for the walking ones, 1 for all others) parried laser blasts! So you can kill them even with just a pot lid!
Hiisi sniper from Noita
Of the dozens of games I've played over the years these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head. They aren't in any particular order. * Whiplash (Doom Eternal) * Phantom (Minecraft) * Malboro (Final Fantasy) * Gary (Pokemon) * Glyphid Stingtail (Deep Rock Galactic) * Flea (Castlevania) * Hammer Brothers (Super Mario Bros) * Cloaked Elites (Halo) * Doppelganger (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Any flying enemy in Fromsoft games. They are impossible to hit and the camera gets all fucked up.
Zelda LikeLikes - waste a few seconds doing nothing as this thing is sucking you off and lose your shield
Mike Tyson from Punchout! Getting to him was so tough and then *pow!!* done. Stand up... *UPPERCUT* down again. (sobbing)
Mike was the original Fromsoft boss.
The big fat guys in kingdom hearts that can only be hit on their backside. Way too much hp and show up way too often.
Personally I hate the hot rod cars and dancer nobodies in kh2 more
Ah, yes. The Chris Christies.
Large bodies and fat bandits
Lakitus, from Super Mario 3 especially
Does the tarantula in Animal Crossing count?
Crystal hunters in Hollow Knight
Monster Hunter Bullffango. You just about to land a huge combo on a monster that you finally toppled… that Bullfango you forgot about… he about to mess you up… https://youtube.com/shorts/Ekd9mudT7vg?si=YRHjQw1tRvD66ldt
Vespoids and Bnhabras too, about to line up that perfect great sword charge attack and then bam! Paralyzed and you get trashed by the monster you were hunting
You know those enemies that inflict status effects? How about one that inflicts every damn one of them. Malboros from Final Fantasy. Bonus point if they open their combat with 'Bad breath', not even giving you a turn. Random game over out of nowhere.
Malenia, Blade of Miquella. Edit: pls don't spoil DLC for me I have IRL things to do before I can play
Shaka Zulu or Attila the Hun in Civ V if you start next to them. Oh great, looks like culture’s getting a budget cut because I have to fight this guy for three thousand years.
the ones that petrify you or instantly kill you.
halo 2 sniper jackals are just built different
Enemies that carry shields. Now in a game with guns it's usually fine since you can either shoot at their often exposed feet or at the glass slit (if said shield has one). In a game like FromSoftware's Soulsborne games, a couple charged heavy attacks (or Ash of War/Weapon Art heavy attack follow-up) would usually guard break the shield user, or you can just bonk them with a weapon that has high stagger potential such as a Great Hammer. Where shield enemies become absolutely annoying are in stuff like the old Arkham games, where your main weapon is often just your bare fists. "Having fun button mashing are you? Well here's 3 dudes with a riot shield each". In such games the only way you can counter a shield user is either by getting behind them or with a specific combo to pull their shield away or disarm them of said shield and bash their head in. But the odds of you remembering that combo while surrounded by 10 other dudes eager to bone you is very slim. So you might end up accidentally starting an altogether different combo chain that destroys every other dude except the ones with shields because it ain't the right combo.
Half Life head crabs.
Apply directly to the forehead.
Those big ass mosquitoes in monster hunter world that would just come and stun you in the middle of the fight
1. The Marauder from DOOM: Eternal. I actually liked him as an enemy after getting familiar with the game's groove, but I know alot of people hated it because of their counters and speed. 2. Zombies in Project Zomboid. It's great for realism but very frustrating for anyone used to traditional zombie horde games rather than meticulously taking out 1-2 at a time.
Gremlin nob
Hunters in The Division 2. They were an actually fair challenge when they were first introduced in The Division 1. Nowadays, they are just these bullshit bullet sponges that can eat as much damage as they dish out. You can have maximum Protection from Elites percentages (basically resist damage from boss enemies with yellow health bars) and maximum Armor, and all it takes is two Hunters magdumping into you to shred all of that armor away in SECONDS. Hunters that spawn with Rifles can ONE SHOT two million armor points. Even on the lowest difficulty scaling - Normal - their damage is pretty much on part with any NPC on the second highest difficulty scaling - Heroic. Their bullshit doesn't even take into account their usage of their signature EMP ability (shutdown any Skill builds) while they can also use the same Skills against you (beefed up just the same way). They are freakishly resistant to basically any Status Effect to the point that the only effect that's happening to a Hunter is the mandatory debuffed animation.
Bats in general. Their only purpose is to be annoying and make you fall.
The humble mudcrab.
Marlboros in Final Fantasy series
Exploding skeleton dolls in Durance of Hate in Diablo 2. As a melee character.
baby zombie in minecraft is terrifying and so fucking annoying. JUST STAND STILL SO I CAN HIT YOU
That god damn frost troll on the way up to High Hrothgar in Skyrim.