/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1039001]

ITT, "that" enemy.

Fuck these guys, seriously.

[Anonymous No.1039012]

>>1039001

[Anonymous No.1039015]

[Anonymous No.1039025]

>>1039015
I fucking hate these motherfuckers.

[Anonymous No.1039030]

SKREE

[Anonymous No.1039040]

[Anonymous No.1039047]

[Anonymous No.1039054]

>>1039047

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWBkmkQ_Q6s

[Anonymous No.1039064]

>>1039040
Why are spiders, bats and birds always have to be the worst enemy in every game they're in?

They should come up with one that acts like all three of 'em at the same time, just for shits and giggles.

[Anonymous No.1039071]

Fuck these things.

[Anonymous No.1039095]

Those fucking squids in the Mario games.

[Anonymous No.1039097]

[Anonymous No.1039098]

[Anonymous No.1039135]

without spotty collision detection, these guys would have been at least tolerable.

[Anonymous No.1039194]

>>1039071

Starman DX666 health was maxed out!

[Anonymous No.1039213]

Every enemy in this fucking palace, I swear to fuck.

[Anonymous No.1039239]

>>1039001
Those enemies of metropolis zone in sonic 2

[Anonymous No.1039249]

[Anonymous No.1039253]

>>1039071
You can say that to pretty much anything that exploded in that game. Damn Territorial Oaks, I needed to bring back Paula alive!

[Anonymous No.1039278]

[Anonymous No.1039290]

>tfw no Ice Slasher

[Anonymous No.1039305]

>>1039012
If you know the proper way it's very easy to kill.

Pic related: A real threat. I could never kill this bastard without taking damage.

[Anonymous No.1039312]

>>1039012
Those fucking things.

[Anonymous No.1039320]

>>1039012
>>1039305
Those are not chaingunners

[Anonymous No.1039327]

>>1039320
Chaingunners are only bad if there's a lot of them surrounding you. Otherwise you can quickly take them down with almost any weapon.

[Anonymous No.1039325]

>>1039278
>Ambushed!

[Anonymous No.1039326]

May I present to you:

[Anonymous No.1039356]

>>1039135

to this day i view them as among the hardest enemies to beat. there is no real strategy, and they move so fucking tricky

[Anonymous No.1039364]

>>1039327
Chaingunners do a lot of damage fast, but they have very little HP.

[Anonymous No.1039371]

I hate these.

[Anonymous No.1039390]

>>1039249

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[Anonymous No.1039397]

Am I the only one who had difficulty with these guys?

[Anonymous No.1039402]

>>1039397
They're manageable in a room with cover, so you can swing at them as they walk around corners.

In open rooms like that, they're pure hell.

[Anonymous No.1039404]

>>1039397
I was just playing LoZ. They are not too hard if you bring medicine and just snipe them with the beam. Before I figured that out they roughed me up for days, however.

[Anonymous No.1039408]

>>1039327
Or if they're across a giant open space. Looking at you Plutonia

[Smile No.1039416]

>>1039397
yes
out of 7.1 billion people, you are the only one

[Anonymous No.1039461]

>>1039371
I preferred them to blue darknuts.

Seriously, fuck these guys.

[Anonymous No.1039473]

[Anonymous No.1039489]

[Anonymous No.1039496]

>>1039461
>Blue Darknuts move much more rapidly, require twice as many hits to defeat, and deal twice as much damage.
Good God!

[Anonymous No.1039530]

>>1039496
thats nothing, try these on for size. they are far easier if you are able to do jump attacks at them but often you will be stuck in a narrow hallway like this where you really can't get good hits in.

those axe board guys suck pretty bad too but for their overwhelming offensive vs these guys defense.

[Anonymous No.1039536]

>>1039530
ah here we go. also a royal pain the ass, especially if you run into one in a narrow path unlike in the picture where you can get above them. (i think they throw those axes too)

[Anonymous No.1039545]

>>1039213
>>1039371
>>1039397
>>1039530
There's a lot from Zelda games, aren't there? I'd also add the Redeads from OoT to that list

[Anonymous No.1039548]

>>1039530
>>1039536
I can kind of deal with those, but the blue bird knights near the end of the game?
Fucking ridiculous. The only thing I can do is run.

[Anonymous No.1039551]

>>1039530
The blue ones are much worse. Those are pretty much bosses when you first encounter them.

[Anonymous No.1039557]

>>1039536
>(i think they throw those axes too)
They do, and you can not block them, and jumping over does not work because they throw too many. And getting hit knocks you back.
Fucking Zelda II, man. That game hates the player.

[Anonymous No.1039565]

>>1039545
re-deads

the ones that can literally be stunned for every once you get a certain song?

come on thats baby mode

[Anonymous No.1039567]

How do you kill him without getting hit?

[Tensnake !!Xk5TXfmbxdJ No.1039597]

Hi

[Anonymous No.1039596]

>>1039567
have the right sub weapon.

[Anonymous No.1039616]

>>1039597

[Anonymous No.1039672]

>>1039597
I would just run away from it on level 3, since the checkpoint was close by. Never made it far enough to see another one since I barely played that game, but that thing was MUCH harder than the ones in the NES game if you did not have the bow.

[Anonymous No.1039695]

She's not here right now... but you know the bitch I'm talkin' bout.

[2D !779o.ra/0E No.1039704]

>>1039001
>>1039012
>>1039030
>>1039098

Suddenly /vr/ actually does PC? I'm proud.

[Anonymous No.1039708]

>>1039695
>chun-li
>hard
Not really, you should have said Vega.

[Anonymous No.1039745]

[Anonymous No.1039752]

>>1039597
In SG&G they're pretty easy if you use those arrows.

Shame you you have to be stuck with an underpowered weapon.

[Anonymous No.1039978]

>>1039567

Axe.

I almost never use sub weapons, but when I do it's always an axe just because the arc is something the whip can't replicate unless you're playing CV4.

Holy water is handy for some bosses but I don't really need it in CV3 so I don't usually pick it up.

[Anonymous No.1039993]

Whats that guy from that one Dragon Quest game? The thing that could blow itself up and kill everyone at random.

[Anonymous No.1040016]

>>1039993
Golden batboon. Fuck him. Fuck the killer robots as well, especially when they came with armor reducing enemies, and fuck the blizzards that spammed defeat.
DQII had a lot of annoying enemies towards the end.

[Anonymous No.1040021]

>>1039704
havent you been to one of the 50 million doom threads?

[Anonymous No.1040037]

Fuck that shit. And Asterons too. And Shellcrackers. Fuck, the totality of Metropolis Zone.

[Anonymous No.1040049]

>>1040021
>>1039704

PC isn't made out of doom.

[Anonymous No.1040054]

>>1040049
yes it is stop challenging my worldview

[Anonymous No.1040059]

>>1040037
The worst part is that many of them were placed right after one of the vertical tunnels covered in bumpers, so you were almost guaranteed to get hit and knocked back down.

[Anonymous No.1040097]

>>1039040
The funny thing is that those birds were making more damage than guys with guns and ninjas *because* they were harder to dodge or hit.
Fuck them devs.

[Anonymous No.1040113]

y halo thar

[Anonymous No.1040129]

Say goodbye to your shields, bitch boy.

[Anonymous No.1040168]

>>1040113
god my first experience with that game was fucked up. I was young, had an arcade game collection with joust, defender 1 and 2, some other game i cant recall at the moment, and Sinistar.

Im maybe six, and never heard of it before, but the other 4 games are fun, so i ignore Sinistar for a while. Late at night, dark room, by myself, decide to play it. turn it on, its quiet, so i turn up the volume. Play for a minute or two before sinistar decides to choose his first vocalization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=S-XEINagmaU#t=10
Fucked me up pretty hard.

[Anonymous No.1040190]

That's some very nice equipment you've got there.

[Anonymous No.1040230]

This sack of shit.

[Anonymous No.1040275]

>>1039213
Those guys are pretty evil. Either I'll wait on top some blocks and poke at them....or sometimes it just makes sense to run.

The Eggplant wizards always spook me. It's just such a strange enemy as well. Eggplants?

[Anonymous No.1040306]

>>1039489
Phanto ain't shit.

[Anonymous No.1040328]

>>1040275
Japan just has a thing for eggplants; they're in Wrecking Crew too.

[Anonymous No.1040341]

>>1040328
And Adventure Island, with the life-draining eggplants. Speaking of which, those stupid bats are the reason why I can't get past 8-3 on the first game!

The last boss on IV is a giant evil eggplant that summons smaller eggplants. That's a total mindfuck, man.

[Anonymous No.1040426]

Jader is a fuckin dick. You gotta be insanely careful to try and keep him just barely on screen so you can pick him off with like ten goddam spears, and even then you will inevitably reach a point where two Jaders will swarm your shit and you will either have to run like hell or burst into flame.

[Anonymous No.1040559]

I know they're not particularly hard or anything, but they just drove me up the fucking wall.

As soon as I got close to them they'd dash somewhere else, and your characters respond so much slower that they laugh as you waddle towards them.

[Anonymous No.1040576]

>>1039704
>suddenly
We always have, bro. You just weren't paying attention.

[Anonymous No.1040592]

Welcome to my home base! Let me give you the grand tour....

[Anonymous No.1040618]

fuck these assholes

[Anonymous No.1040642]

>>1040592
FUCK
Those really are terrifying to fight against. Sectoids with mind control and ethereals are also really hard to deal with. You pretty much have to retreat if you made the mistake to bring rookies.

[Anonymous No.1040665]

>>1040559
>Not just dash attacking EVERYTHING
Honestly Golden Axe wasn't very good when it came to hit detection.

It was basically dash attacks and that huge jump stabs.

[Anonymous No.1040691]

Perfect Dark, Carrington Institute mission. The Datadyne thugs are, IMO, the worse fuckers in the game. Their shields and K7 Avengers fuck you up real bad, and they put up a better fight than the Final Boss. I still have not finished that missoin on Perfect Agent, they pop outta nowhere.

[Anonymous No.1040698]

These things were brutal in Diablo 1 if you were playing a warrior; all they would do was shoot magic at you from off the screen and run away when you tried to engage them in melee. More often then not you would chase them into a massive ambush and suddenly you'd go around a corridor and 30 magic attacks would come flying at you from off screen.

[Anonymous No.1040708]

>>1040698
I'd be lying if I said I haven't fapped to this.

[Anonymous No.1040712]

>>1040698
Damn they gave me a boner though.

[Anonymous No.1040930]

[Anonymous No.1040985]

>>1040930
>Oh I remember these guys from that one boss, how bad could they-
>pk starstorm
>pk starstorm
>pk starstorm

[Anonymous No.1041015]

any enemy that drops rare looting, but it has a godly evasion rate and is able to escape.

[Anonymous No.1041048]

Hey guise

[Anonymous No.1041067]

FUCK these guys in the original game. If you don't have their positions memorized before hand they can give you serious trouble. Even the Chimeras weren't as unforgiving as them.

[Anonymous No.1041076]

THIS FAT FUCK

>just TRY and throw me. See what happens.

[Anonymous No.1041092]

Why's there gotta be one of these guys over *every* single pit

[Anonymous No.1041316]

>>1039040
played this game for the first time today. Fuck those birds.

[Anonymous No.1041534]

[Anonymous No.1041536]

>>1041534
That filename is not nearly angry enough.

A truly ugly blotch on an otherwise excellent game.

[Anonymous No.1041552]

[Anonymous No.1041586]

>>1039135

not hard you just have to keep your cool and stick close to them if they drop right in front of you.

[Anonymous No.1041596]

[frankie teardrop !SOPaNdl0X. No.1041623]

>>1039001
>>1039567
Please gib names of these games

[frankie teardrop !SOPaNdl0X. No.1041638]

>>1041623
Anyone?

[Anonymous No.1041645]

Lakitu here gave me quite a scare when I was little. It's the way it keeps chasing me and the endless spiky turtles,

[Anonymous No.1041650]

>>1039695
Oh please. Pick any of the not-Balrog bosses and even then once you get their patterns down they're cake.

[Anonymous No.1041654]

>>1041638

Wolfenstein and Castlevania 3

[Anonymous No.1041757]

[2D !779o.ra/0E No.1041760]

>>1040021
>>1040049

This is why I was hesitant to even reply to the two id Software posts.

Someone needs to change things around in here.

[Anonymous No.1041768]

>>1040559
Aren't they supposed to only give you something extra? I don't think that they were enemies.

[Anonymous No.1041789]

>>1041757

[Anonymous No.1041825]

>>1039290
I hate the fact that there's no pattern with these guys. If you could just see the big jumps coming it would be fair

[Anonymous No.1041828]

>>1041534
>>1041536
the hell are you talking about? just use item 1 + crash bombs + your brain

[Anonymous No.1041830]

Dicks. All of them.

[Anonymous No.1041951]

>>1041828
It's a puzzle room where if you don't land every shot you're forced to stand around and die so you can grind weapon energy. Previous bosses were vulnerable to the buster and encouraged experimentation, but here it will kill you. Aside from the final boss, which can be killed with half your weapon energy to spare, this never comes up again. It's pretty bad design.

[Anonymous No.1041959]

>>1041951

On it's own I feel it's a fine puzzle.

However, within the context of a Mega Man game, I'll give you that. It is pretty awful when you have no idea what to do. And recharging your weapons/waiting for them to kill you so you can try again is just cruel.

[Anonymous No.1041965]

>>1041951
how do you miss a stationary target?

[Anonymous No.1041971]

>>1041965

It's not clear that you have to destroy the walls in a certain way. Use your brain.

[Anonymous No.1041972]

>>1041971
yes it is

[Anonymous No.1041980]

I don't have a picture, but...

The Omega Missiles from Super Robot Taisen Compact 3. On certain maps (most of them, it feels like), a nuclear missile spawns at the edge of the area after a few turns, and goes after the nearest target. They self-destruct on whatever unit they manage to make it to, and generally destroy weaker units in one hit. A few turns later, another one appears. Repeat. Why they would do something like this is beyond me; none of the other games have such an annoying mechanic.

[Anonymous No.1041979]

>>1041972

Except it's not when you first get there.

[Anonymous No.1041992]

>>1041972
It isn't even clear how many shots you have left, let alone that you'll have exactly enough to win if you shoot the minimum number of walls.

[Anonymous No.1041998]

Once the alarm was set off and this guy appears...you just know your fucked.

[Anonymous No.1042000]

>>1040698
>those
not these

[Anonymous No.1042004]

>>1041979
>>1041992
Why would you shoot anything above the minimum? How does not knowing if you have enough affect it at all? Surely, if you're worried you have less than the required amount, you'd attempt the minimum anyway?

[Anonymous No.1042195]

[Anonymous No.1042204]

>>1041534
I actually lucked out and got a glitch where none of the doors appear. I think you can mess up that boss fight by getting multiple sprites from the previous room nearby when you enter.

[Anonymous No.1042528]

>>1039695
is this lester the unlikely on a bike?

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1043254]

>>1041951
Especially heinous if it's your first time playing and you didn't anticipate having to save up all your crashbombs. It's definitely a "gotcha!" moment.

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1043259]

>>1042204
I think also if you destroy the doors and die, the doors don't respawn.

[Anonymous No.1043285]

>>1039326
i actually did not find 6-2 difficult at all, well a little, but not that screen

[Anonymous No.1043295]

>>1043285
I can play the entier game without a single game over until 6-2, which I've never beat
the fuck is wrong with me

[Anonymous No.1043305]

Blue excitebike guy
not because he was difficult or anything, it was just a personal rivalry against him every time.

[Anonymous No.1043823]

>>1041789
Very annoying at first but easy to deal with once you played the game a couple times and know when to shoot them.

[Anonymous No.1043852]

>>1043823
in wily stage 2 you only have to stand still and press b to take care of them. ironically they're slightly harder in cut man stage

[Shaithis !ceYOYlFZoU No.1044274]

>>1039015
>>1039025
>>1039047
>>1039305
>>1039567
>>1040559
>>1041067
mah niggas
>>1041076 stay still untill the start to breath fire then move out of the way, they'll still go to where you just were then you can smack em from behind

heres mine:

[Anonymous No.1044348]

[Anonymous No.1044353]

[Anonymous No.1046724]

>>1044348
HOLY SHIT
I forgot about those guys. God damn. They were so satisfying to head-bash though.

[Anonymous No.1046729]

>>1039326
>Jetpacks
Not very ninja like, but damn they're rage inducing.

[Anonymous No.1046743]

you wir pay...wid your brud

[Anonymous No.1046745]

[Anonymous No.1046758]

This, or the zombies from the second game. MOOOOO. MOOOOO. MOOOOO. MOOOOO. MOOOOO. MOOOOO.

[Anonymous No.1046775]

>>1044274
I remember the nightmares now.
>dat fucking final boss

[Anonymous No.1046835]

>>1041552
Oh dear god, this motherfucker.
So many hours wasted in my childhood on this beautiful game though

[Anonymous No.1046856]

>>1039745
I actually like Goopis for farming Gold Golems and Demons.

[Anonymous No.1046879]

Yes, Indeed!

[Anonymous No.1046930]

I still get mad remembering the first time I actually met one of those.

[Anonymous No.1046938]

>>1039545

Redeads? They're creepy, but not difficult. Don't you get some song to stun them? You're not supposed to confront them anyway.

[Anonymous No.1046945]

>>1046775
I scrolled down and saw this thumnail.

I fucking froze and sat there trying to remember where I knew this horrible thing from.

Tomb Raider! Aw shit! I'm a bit fuzze on the plot but I think I felt bad for ..Natalia? When she ate it.

[Anonymous No.1046960]

>Airdropped at the back of your base
>Next to the windtraps
>Your army is attacking the enemy base

[Anonymous No.1046978]

These things (and other draining undead) were an endless fountain of terror and rage to my ten year old self

[Anonymous No.1046984]

[Anonymous No.1046991]

[Anonymous No.1047007]

>>1042195
Nigga you serious?!

[Anonymous No.1047168]

>>1039397
What cruel hack puts that many damn darknuts in one room?

[Anonymous No.1047173]

> play warrior
> these
> these only
> in massive swarms

[Anonymous No.1047207]

>>1040037
I swear Sega has a sadist working for them and Metropolis Zone is where he got his start.

[Anonymous No.1047218]

>Nyaa-na-na-na-na! Heh-heh-heh!

[Anonymous No.1047219]

>>1041998
Once you see him for the first time, run away and see that grey shot just following you through walls and obstacles, knowing it's a one-hit kill and back to the loony bin.
Although I'd say the elephants with jetpacks in the sewers are worse. Ugh.

>>1039530
Any type of hallway will let you do the jumpstab on them. Usually you don't even have to slow down to kill them unless they're blue.

>>1039213
Up-stab when he jumps over you and block when he's not jumping. Pain but easier than stabbing wildly and hoping.

>>1039040
I never got why these were more of a problem than >>1039326
Usually when there are birds on the stage you'll have the boomerang shuriken anyway, and that weapon completely eats up birds like candy.

[Anonymous No.1047232]

>>1047173
Soul Burners as a sorcerer
even better in Hell mode when they're immune to mostly everything

[Anonymous No.1047247]

>>1046960
These had a huge damage output, but were extremely squishy.
With your army away, though...
Well, no one insisted on you playing those EVIL HARKONNENS.

[Anonymous No.1047282]

>>1047173
still not as bad as these motherfuckers
>>1042000

[Anonymous No.1047290]

>>1039473
>inside the dragon
>bat comes
>I grab bat
>bat grabs dragon
>practical noclip

[Anonymous No.1047295]

>>1046775

What the fuck was this thing anyway.

[Anonymous No.1047342]

>>1041552
Sunset Riders?

[Anonymous No.1047364]

>>1047290
>About to kill dragon
>Bat comes and steals sword
>Cornered by dragon
>Bat comes and steals dragon

Someone needs to make a comic of this.

[Anonymous No.1047393]

>>1039135
for me the one on the stairs is much harder

you basically have to get lucky not to take a hit with him, since you can kill him but still get hit by his hammer

[Anonymous No.1047394]

>>1039461
literally the reason I have not yet beaten the original LoZ

I also blame the fact that I use a GC controller d-pad

[Anonymous No.1047404]

>>1039001
Ah, yes, the dreaded disco zombie.

[Anonymous No.1047405]

>>1039597
the one a quarter of the way through the level in the first game

man, that is some shit for Level 1

[Anonymous No.1047406]

>>1047394
Remember that they can only change directions when they're standing in the middle of a square, so every second step they take they can't change direction.

It's easier if you use that to your advantage.

[Anonymous No.1047409]

>>1047406
holy fuck I didn't know that

I'll have to give it another go some day but my back log is already pretty huge

[Anonymous No.1047416]

>>1039530

but that's easy, you can still do the jumping attack in the narrow hallway, I never had trouble with even the blue ones as a kid

if you didn't know the jumping attack then I assume they'd be pretty tough though

[Anonymous No.1047431]

>>1039597

those guys are so awesome in Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts

they probably have pretty simple programming, like everything would in a SNES game, but somehow they're able to show real personality, and follow you through whole stages while consistently avoiding your attacks, and occasionally hide in a floor or ceiling and do a little dance to taunt you--all before finally diving at you unexpectedly to finish you off

not that I can't kill them because really it's very easy if you have the gold armor, regardless of your weapon; but while you're still learning the game they are super-cool, a triumph of emergent gaming

[Anonymous No.1047450]

>>1047364
10 minutes in no skill pencil.

[Anonymous No.1047464]

Might as well toss one in.
Note that this only goes for hard mode. Normally they aren't anything special, but on hardmode it's a literal case of "I can't get past the first 50 pixels on this stage with unlimited continues".

Add to that the fact that you fight like 7 of these in a row the first thing you do.

[Anonymous No.1047479]

Fucking these guys.

[Anonymous No.1047506]

>>1047479
Genies were fucking weak, other than casting haste on the wrong unit, they didn't really matter as enemies.

Efreet Sultans, on the other hand...

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1047525]

>The soldier ant bites!
>The soldier ant bites!
>The soldier ant bites!
>The soldier ant bites!
>The soldier ant bites!
>The soldier ant bites!
>You die...

[Anonymous No.1047548]

I hated the guys with baseball gloves too.