Most annoying video game enemies?

[Dezuria]

I've been playing some of the older Castlevania games, and these damn Medusa Heads are incredibly annoying.

Really now, does any game have any enemies more annoying than these?

[Mattte]

The monkeys in Gears of War suck all kinds of ass, ecspecially the exploding ones.

[VanillaGorilla]

Those roadrunner things on Wood Man's stage in Mega Man 2.

[6669]

That escort mission in Zelda: Twilight Princess is a bitch and a half. Thats kinduva collection of enemies, coming together to form one massive suckfest. I'm about to just give up and have someone else beat it for me.
More traditionally, I hated those big green things in the original Resident Evil. (I think they were called Hunters).
edit. Yeah, these things:
http://www.residentevilfan.ws/largeimages/gallery/remake_hunter3_lg.jpg

[marten]

Tonberries.

Hit them, and they wave a lantern at you.

Let them get too close, and they "doink" you with a spoon-sized knife, and you DIE.

[tiredfornow]

the flood in Halo. sooo annoying. :[

[looploop]

Ninja Gaiden. eagles. That's all that needs to be said ><

[The Crotch]

How are The Flood annoying? The parasites go down easily with a rapid-fire weapon, and the combat forms are so shotgunnable. Now, the carriers...

Anyway! My most annoying? Chain Chomps from Mario 3 were pretty bad, with their random movement. Headcrabs are quite annoying, as they have the habit of popping up after a good ten minutes of puzzle-solving and platform jumping after you've dropped your guard. A lot of Metroid Echoes enemies were annoying, as they were just too damn durable. But the most annoying enemies come in the end of KotOR I. Curse you, infinite respawn!

[Dante Devil]

That pink chick with bat wings in Ninja Gaiden for the xbox.

[CaptainCarnage]

enemy bats are always annoying in any video game.

[Xevious]

The bishop on the left hand side whenever I play Chessmaster. He's sooo annoying.

[Kayden]

Playing Megaman 2 this morning reminds me of this.

The most annoying enemies are any that fly at you just higher than you can jump and shoot and then come strait down on your head while your cant-shoot-up stupid ass is stuck against a wall waiting for a brick to appear.

O, and the teleporting wizard from Super Mario world that shoots the playstation buttons at you.

[zionoverfire]

Kefka FF6.

[Kayden]

You mean the boss fight or the character as a whole?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6EkWp79co *Woooo*woooohhh*woooooooooooooohhhhh*Kefka FF6.

[2Fast]

Wretches from Gears of War. They are annoying to deal with and make the most annoying ass screech of all time.

[Strell]

GIANT.

ENEMY.

CRAB!

[Limegreen]

I would have to say anything from a sonic game

[coolcps]

Kefka FF6.

This isn't the thread for best villain ever.

[Strell]

This isn't the thread for best villain ever.

This man speaks the TRUTH.

[PR Mega X]

When I saw the title of this thread, the first thing that came to mind were the goddamn Medusa Heads. I'm with the OP on this one.

Honorable mention goes to those invisible whores in Prince of Persia: WW that jump on your shoulders and slit your throat. God I hate them.

[crazytalkx]

I've been playing some of the older Castlevania games, and these damn Medusa Heads are incredibly annoying.

Really now, does any game have any enemies more annoying than these?

That's exactly what came to mind when I read the thread title.

[Xevious]

Honorable mention goes to those invisible whores in Prince of Persia: WW that jump on your shoulders and slit your throat. God I hate them.

Sounds like a regular Friday night to me8-)

[furyk]

This isn't the thread for best villain ever.

He was until Square Enix retconed him into a fairy princess. Sure, he was flamboyant back in the day, but make him ugly and flamboyant. Kefka does not need to be bishonen.

[the_deej]

the little blue buzzing things that come out hundreds at a time in Geometry Wars

[Memorex]

the cops in all of the GTA games

[onikage]

The Medusa heads are nothing compared to the spacesuit-wearing enemies that appear near the end of TMNT(NES).

[E_G_Man]

The crows in Ghosts and Goblins, I dont think any other game has made me swear so much.

[Gameboy415]

ARCHERS.

In nearly any hack 'n slash/3D action game where you don't have an effective long range attack, archers PISS ME OFF.

The best examples I can think of is Drakengard 1 & 2. I loved both games, but there were instances where you could mow down a whole army on foot or using the dragon, just to be destroyed in like 30 seconds by 3-5 archers!

Also, Medusa heads and the Flood.

[Inf^Shini]

The Medusa heads are nothing compared to the spacesuit-wearing enemies that appear near the end of TMNT(NES).

I never got that far -.-

I've only made it to the 5th map, is that the last one ?=/

I'd have to say the jet enemies in Streets Of Rage 2, grrrr...

[zewone]

Wretches.

[FriskyTanuki]

The orange notes in Guitar Hero. I think three note chords also fit into that category, too.

[jshendel]

how about this.

The cow pylons in Katamari Damacy where you are only allowed ONE cow item.

[CAG 79]

Nemesis in RE3 and the Beserkers in Gears of War.

[Surferflames]

Surprised so many people are saying wretches from gears. The wretches aren't annoying, but the explosive ones are. Damn suicide bombing monkeys.

[Number83]

The big Easter Island heads in Gradius. I think they're called MOAI.

[Vinny]

I absolutely hate the Medusa heads that turn you into stone in Castlevania games. They seriously need to take them out.

[rscaramelo]

Peyton Manning in Madden 07

[danny-o]

I know its already been mentioned, but the Medusas heads in portrait of ruin are the worst. They come from the top and bottom of the screen in that one area and I usually dont have a problem with them.

[arthurRWD]

Not neccesarily an enem, but the frickin' rotating spike towers in God of War. I've never been so pissed at a game.

Also, the green/black ninjas in Ninja Gaiden (xbox) with the exploding shruiken. I also hated the machine-gunners in the original NES Ninja Gaiden.

[kaw]

I totally was thinking Medusa Heads as soon as I saw the title of the thread.

Although, I do remember those Ninja Gaiden eagles were a PITA too, but I play a lot more Castlevania and the heads are always a nuisance.

Wraiths in Oblivion are up high on my list too.

[deathweasel]

The zombie archers in Ninja Gaiden for Xbox were horrendous at times. I don't usually curse, but I uttered a few choice expletives around chapter 7 or whenever these guys showed up.

[Dandeschain]

I personally abhor Death in the first Castlevania and Macho Man in the original punch out.

[MCalvert1]

Yellow Medusa Heads in any Castlevania for sure. But honorable mention goes to the the hatchlings in stage 6 of Splatterhouse.

MjC

[Genocidal]

The Medusas in Record of Lodoss War; if there were two of them within range you had to quit the game because you were permanently stoned.

[Strell]

The Medusas in Record of Lodoss War; if there were two of them within range you had to quit the game because you were permanently stoned.

Oh god YES.

YES YES YES YES YES.

*has sudden flashbacks of pure WRATH*

There wasn't even a goddamn ring that prevented stoning!

[Zen Davis]

Jack Thompson

[Inf^Shini]

I know!

Those spike enemies in Tales of Phantasia when your on the way to getting the Pluto Summon. You can't kill them (Only using magic tablets), Can't avoid them, and one hit from them and your dead.

Even killing them with magic tablets doesn't net you a damn thing. So annoying -.-...

[blandstalker]

Want some rye? Course ya do!

Anyone who recalls that statement will know exactly what I mean.

[nyprimus4]

Exploding wrenches in Gears.

[greydemise]

i dont know if this counts...but in we love katamari, during the missions where you had to gather a very large animal (i think bears / cows / pandas), i would hate when i get a huge katamari and then pick up a milk carton with a cow on it and it would stop the game and just use the milk carton cow as my captured cow

[Strell]

i dont know if this counts...but in we love katamari, during the missions where you had to gather a very large animal (i think bears / cows / pandas), i would hate when i get a huge katamari and then pick up a milk carton with a cow on it and it would stop the game and just use the milk carton cow as my captured cow

This most certainly counts.

It's why I don't play those levels.

[greydemise]

This most certainly counts.

It's why I don't play those levels.


oh man, that would piss me off so much, its like woo!! huge katamari ..*plick* milk carton!...
oh yea, and every so often, in ninja gaiden when i would either respawn or load, there would be 3 enemies waiting for me AT the load point, and i would die, wow my blood pressure skyrocketed playing that damned game

[MorbidAngel4Life]

Clannfear in Oblivion are pretty annoying.

[Inf^Shini]

All the ninja gaiden games are notorious for their difficulty -.- :bomb:

A plethora of enemies are annoying ;P

[TheOneGod]

The most annoying enimies I could think of is any man like creature in Zelda II.

Horse Head
Skelengtons
Kings Knights
Dark Link.
Stalfos doubled headed Horse man

Anything that can sheild and puts up a fight in a tight spot. I would be in a corner for hours trying to get threw.

The only other time this occured would be Sparkster where you would have to fight your rival in a Boxing Robot and cling together at times where mostly you or the oppenent would die.

[captainfrizo]

Imps in the original Final Fantasy. Nothing pisses me off more than walking to some town only to be attacked by nine of them. You receive next to no experience or money, thus making the battle a complete waste of time.

[tehweezner]

all the enemies/bosses near the end in Xenosaga II. such cheapness i have never seen with their counter-boosting bullshit :bomb:

[Shmitty]

pretty much every enemy in prince of persia: sands of time. i guess the real "enemy" was the combat system, though. :roll:

[dastly75]

The big baby mandragora boss in Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage for dreamcast

[The Linguist]

I doubt many of you endured Bloodrayne 2 like I did, but if you did, you might remember how annoying the ninja vampire chicks that show up in the park level were. You have to grab them from behind and whip them into the blades of downed helicopter. After dying about 25 times trying to get past this level, I finally enabled a health cheat so that I could continue on.

BTW there's also a cheat that's supposed to make Rayne more jiggly. Of course I tried it in the interest of science but didn't really notice any difference.

[briansraregames]

Malboros from the Final Fantasy Series...

[geigerm]

Malboros from the Final Fantasy Series...

What, you don't like getting hit with the Bad Breath attack and then being completely unable to do a damn thing as those stupid things finish you off, slowly but surely?

Me either.

Ran into them for the first time in FFIV Advance today, and almost cursed audibly (which would have been bad, since I was in my office).

First one that came to mind for me was Seymour in FFX, because I got to the point where I'd see him show up and think, "Fuck, I've gotta fight this idiot AND listen to that fucking annoying voice again?!?"

[deathweasel]

The hammer brothers in the original Super Mario Bros. were freakin' annoying back in the day, I remember.

[Kain Vincent]

> Medusa Heads
> Pretty much the entire game of Maximum Carnage
> Level 6, Splatterhouse.
> Behemoth in Final Fantasy 4
> The Master Samurai in God Hand
> Bats in Mega Man
> Super Mario Bros. 3 = Angry Sun!

[ilikegames]

Peyton Manning in Madden 07

QFT

[Graystone]

The little girls that turn into screaming fire in The Suffering.
Exploding Wretches in GoW on hard, and insane mode.

Every enemy in Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub-Zero. I couldn't get anywhere in that game and it just got harder and harder.

[daroga]

The very first goomba in Super Mario Bros.

What a jerk! All he does is take advantage of people who have no idea what their doing and might even think he's a helpful puppy--and he kills them. Smug little putz.

[Strell]

Original Zelda: Likelikes, Pols Voice, Shadow Hands (whatever the things are that send you to the front of the dungeon)

Any battle in Smash Bros Melee where you have the difficulty set to very hard, and you have to do a team battle, with a totally worthless CPU teammate. Allstar mode somewhat counts into this as well, when you have to fight 2 and 3 enemies at once. In all cases, you get surrounded and just get pinballed back and forth.

[The Crotch]

Original Zelda: Likelikes, Pols Voice, Shadow Hands (whatever the things are that send you to the front of the dungeon)
I think those guys are called Floor Masters. Or Wall Masters. One of those two.

Any battle in Smash Bros Melee where you have the difficulty set to very hard, and you have to do a team battle, with a totally worthless CPU teammate. Allstar mode somewhat counts into this as well, when you have to fight 2 and 3 enemies at once. In all cases, you get surrounded and just get pinballed back and forth.
You can trick the CPU into killing itself quite well on most levels. Yoshi's level is particularly good for this - just hang out in the middle and dodge a lot. Enemies should break right through the floor and into the abyss.

However, one has no such luck in the Pikachu + Pichu Event Battle. That's a battle that made me HULK SMASH!!! my speakers.

[Dezuria]

Everything in Bart vs. the Space Mutants (worst game ever)

[JEKKI]

Everything in Bart vs. the Space Mutants (worst game ever)aw hell naw...

Bart vs the Space Mutants is my shit yo!!

ure the worst video game enemy for hating!!!!

[Inf^Shini]

The very first goomba in Super Mario Bros.

What a jerk! All he does is take advantage of people who have no idea what their doing and might even think he's a helpful puppy--and he kills them. Smug little putz.

Aaahhh, hahahaha, I remember running into the first one on the first level of SMB 3.

I was like....whoops:roll:

I also second the vote on Angry Sun for SMB 3 as well. There were 3 ways for me to avoid it, one was use a star on the level and pop it out of the sky, use the P feather so I could just fly through the level, or just dash like mad ^^. I once killed it by sliding =D, did it by mistake too :bouncy:

[62t]

pit in any game, hate one hit kill.

[The Crotch]

That sonnuva bitch Sun. He's usually a minor annoyance, but on one of the last levels, he is absolutely unavoidable. You have to jump across a huge chasm by hopping from musical note to musical note. The notes/blocks act as trampolines, so you're flying all over the place, and you're supposed to somehow land on a tiny square while avoiding the friggin' Sun. After losing a number of lives (and a Hammer Suit), I just flew over him with a PWing.

You know, I think this deserves discussion: what the hell do you call all those things? What do you call the PWings/Feathers? The enemy Sun? Those clam-things that you can jump on with Kuribo's Shoe? The big squinty-eyed fish? The wee-turtles (Save me from the wee-turtles!) with the blue shells?

[Xevious]

The Jaberwock in American McGee's Alice. He was a pain in the ass.

[lordxixor101]

Wow, not many Morrowind fans in the thread yet.

I hated the cliff racers. Once you got strong enough, they were worthless to kill, but that didn't stop 4-5 of them from swarming you, pretty much forcing you to kill them.

[daroga]

That sonnuva bitch Sun. He's usually a minor annoyance, but on one of the last levels, he is absolutely unavoidable. You have to jump across a huge chasm by hopping from musical note to musical note. The notes/blocks act as trampolines, so you're flying all over the place, and you're supposed to somehow land on a tiny square while avoiding the friggin' Sun. After losing a number of lives (and a Hammer Suit), I just flew over him with a PWing.

You know, I think this deserves discussion: what the hell do you call all those things? What do you call the PWings/Feathers? The enemy Sun? Those clam-things that you can jump on with Kuribo's Shoe? The big squinty-eyed fish? The wee-turtles (Save me from the wee-turtles!) with the blue shells?You know you can kill the sun with a Turtle shell, right? ;)

And for your reading pleasure: http://www.nintendoland.com/home2.htm?mario/enemies/me_frset.htm

[lordwow]

Tim Wakefield in MVP Baseball 2005.

[crystalklear64]

The screaming bomb things from Serious Sam 2.

Designer: How can we make suicide bombers more annoying than usual? Make them scream the ENTIRE fucking time they are chasing you!

[coltyhuxx]

Ninja Gaiden. eagles. That's all that needs to be said ><

QFT.

[camoor]

The game Dark Forces had this laser ball enemy (the same one that Luke uses for "force training" in the first movie)

The thing was small, darted around randomly, was almost impossible to hit, and would just sit there taking 1 point off of your life until you managed a lucky shot.

It was like - cute, from the first movie, I get it - now blow the fuck up!!!

[GuilewasNK]

Thos black ninjas in Ninja Gaiden are a pain in the ass.

[fatbeer]

i hate those cheasy ultimate boss that kill you almost instant even with max lvl

Hitoshura-digital saga 1
Ultimate Weapon-any final fantasy game
ruby or emerald weapon-final fantasy 7,making me suffer watching knight of round for 70+times
mike tyson-mike tyson punch out

[oleander]

Lambent wretches. I am currently stuck at the beginning of act 3 thanks to the huge group of them near the factory entrance...I wasn't thinking they would be a problem since they certainly weren't very difficult in casual, so I didn't put much thought into which weapon to keep at the end of act 2, but now I really wish I had the shotgun and not the longshot.

[camoor]

The last boss in Clock Tower 3 is a total nightmare.

The game's controls aren't great, the camera angles are wonky, so most of the boss battles were easy to alleviate frustration.

Then they amp the difficulty to "near impossible" for the final boss and it ruins the game, because the last thing you remember before quitting in frustration is how much the controls sucked and how you will never play another crock tower game again.

[Purple Flames]

The fuckin' vortex that chases you in the speederbike level in Battletoads.

[Kawnhr]

Anything that flies or jumps constantly.

[naes]

Mike Tyson. MIKE FUCKING TYSON.

[coolsteel]

I doubt many of you endured Bloodrayne 2 like I did, but if you did, you might remember how annoying the ninja vampire chicks that show up in the park level were. You have to grab them from behind and whip them into the blades of downed helicopter. After dying about 25 times trying to get past this level, I finally enabled a health cheat so that I could continue on.

BTW there's also a cheat that's supposed to make Rayne more jiggly. Of course I tried it in the interest of science but didn't really notice any difference.


As someone who played BloodRayne 2 that caused a big HUH?! I blew through that fight without even trying. But back on topic, Ninja Gaiden's ghost fish were it for me, oh no the ninjas never really did bother me much but the ghost fish were little monsters that showed no mercy.

[Who's The Twitch Now?]

Monty Mole.

I swear to God.

No, really.

[Rodimus]

I know it's been mentioned a few times but I'd say the Angry Sun in SMB3. That's the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread.

http://www.gamespite.net/img/blogart/0605may/060516_smb3_sun.png

[zerowing]

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[FriskyTanuki]

Black elebits in Elebits. They're a bunch of assholes.