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What are the most annoying enemies in all of retro vidya?

>> No.1501770

medusa heads

>> No.1501776

>>1501770
Which reminds me: bats in any game they're in.

>> No.1501791

Enemies that show up, do something shitty, then run away before you can retaliate.

I'm looking at you, SMT2 Basilisk.

>> No.1501812

Any one of the living tree enemies from the Mother series.

>> No.1501821

Black Death in Diablo, especially if you don't know about them and decide to just bash them.

>> No.1501834
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little spawns of hell

>> No.1501847
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I'm playing through Shadow Warrior at the moment, and i'd throw a vote for Hornets.
Honorable mention to Coolie ghosts.

>> No.1501879
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1501879

Only in Super Ghouls N Ghosts. They're tolerable in the other games.

>> No.1501898

Anything that flies in Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania, as well as their sequels. Oh, and those jerks that throw rocks at you in Zelda 2.

>> No.1501906
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1501906

>that's a nice everything you've got there
>it's mine now
>also, i disappeared lol

>> No.1501916
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>>1501879
Why dude
Why

>> No.1501917

>>1501834

Those little spinning pieces of shit at the beginning of ElecMan's stage too.

>> No.1501997
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1501997

What I found annoying about them was the REALLY LOUD NOISE they have to make when you fight them, and you have to fight a lot of them.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[sopiler]I know it is not retro, but these fuckers deserve to be mentioned[/spoiler]

>> No.1502010
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1502010

These fuckers pissed me off a lot

>> No.1502014
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1502014

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

i know it is not retro, but these fuckers deserve to be mentioned

>> No.1502041
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1502041

Darknuts

>> No.1502047

>>1502014
Too bad, go away.

>> No.1502062
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1502062

Enter room, sudden shrieking noise off to your side, immediately lose 40 points of shields.

>> No.1502070

>>1502014
>i know it is not retro, but

Every time.

>> No.1502074

>>1501821
That's been fixed for a fucking long ass time. Since like 1.06 or 7ish. What're we at now, 1.15?

>> No.1502079

Vores. Every goddamn. Little. Thing. About them.

>> No.1502076

>>1502047
>>1502070
If /v/ weren't so shitty

>> No.1502082

>>1501821
Its just a newbie trap. No one is going to fall for that shit more than once. "Use ranged weapons" isn't exactly secret tech.

>> No.1502117
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>> No.1502289

>>1502014
Fuck those guys.

>> No.1502363

>>1502062
This nigga gets it. It's pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to avoid taking serious damage from one or several of these as soon as you enter a room. Truly the most offensive among hitscan crapbox enemies.

>> No.1502386
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1502386

>>1501770
>>1501776
>>1502117
flying things in a platformer

>> No.1502403

>>1502363
It's possible; you just fire a homing missile around the corner before they see you. But that entails playing through every level with trial and error to know where they are in advance.

I can't actually wrap my mind around some designer thinking they added something to the gameplay, though. Thank god they got rid of them in the sequel.

>> No.1502404

Those drone guns in Goldeneye.

>> No.1502418

>>1502403
I have foul memories of savescumming and desperately trying to memorize where all of them were, but then I'd stop playing for a week or two and all would be lost.

Man, I would go to such extreme lengths to get another Descent game but I know it'll probably never hapen. RIP in pieces, Interplay. Thanks for the great childhood.

>> No.1502457

The Revenants in Doom II. It's no contest.

>> No.1502472

>>1502041
fighting them alone is kinda easy once you know how to beat them
fighting them in groups tends to be hard
fighting them in groups along with blue wizborres its a nightmare

On the other hand,Zelda 2 darknuts[or iron knucklers] are way harder

>> No.1502504
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>>1502472
eh i found iron knuckles relatively easier to beat (drop slash). they do sometimes appear in a very uncomfortable location, but then i could just ignore them.
>>1502386 and pic related are much more annoying imo.

>> No.1502510
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1502510

I can't be the only person who thought this dude was throwing socks at me. To this day I still call him the sockman. Not particularly annoying but this thread reminded me of sockman

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1502531

No one has mentioned the Humping Jumpers yet.

>>1502504
screw those guys

>> No.1502547

>>1502510
lel, I see it

>> No.1502549

>>1502510

I will never unsee this

didn't need my fucking sides anyway

>> No.1502553

Anyone that uses Hula of Misfortune.

>> No.1502573
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>>1502531
That looks like happy merchant.

>> No.1502579

>>1502573
CANNOT UNSEE

>> No.1502605
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>> No.1502872
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1502872

Those are some nice civilians there, I hope you like zombies and more of me when I kill them

>> No.1502884

>>1502510
OMFG YES, I thought that too!!

>> No.1502886
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1502886

PAIN

>> No.1502887
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1502887

The ghosts in Lands of Lore.

>> No.1502914

Triad Enforcers or Monks from ROTT. Both have too much HP, and Monks are particularly boring and numerous to fight.

>>1502886
It's pretty fun when the map already has too many lost souls and they still try in vain to shoot you. Perhaps they should've been given a standard projectile attack to use when that's the case.

>>1502531
These or the birds.

>> No.1502918

>>1501879
They are a fucking joke in SGnG because you can use the bow.
In the first game they were also pretty easy because you can usually walk next to them and rapid-fire their ass.
The second game is where they are at their hardest. You'd think that being able to shoot up and down would make it easier but nope.

>> No.1502920
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1502920

CRUDOX CRUO

>> No.1502921
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1502921

They just keep spawning.

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1502951

Most annoying enemies? Most *annoying*?

How about when the games goes- Here. I'll just waste your fucking time. Also, ammo. Fuck mantis.

>> No.1502953

>>1502117
>they deal 2 hp of damage, not one
>that's the same as a light missile launcher in the same level
>tfw you realise it's BECAUSE thay're harder to avoid than other enemies
>their caws can be translated to "git gud"

>> No.1502958

>>1502886
just cock block these faggots to make them impotent & angry
source: important training material

>> No.1502965

>>1502920

Those aren't annoying, they're some of the most satisfying enemies in all of vidya to kill.

>> No.1502993
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>>1502993
Oh fuck you, you just reminded of these guys.

>> No.1503019

>>1502951
FUCK those guys.

>> No.1503023

>>1503005
This. I would argue that whole stage is annoying. And Sega made three stages of that zone! WHY?!

>> No.1503030

>>1503005
I came to this thread just to say this. Glad someone beat me to the punch.

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1503132

Oh, you didn't want that reploid did you? Hehe.

>> No.1503141
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1503141

Always had trouble with Hammer Bros

>> No.1503149
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1503149

Co-coCawww!!!!!!!!!

>> No.1503168

>>1503141
AWK-WARRRRRRD!

>> No.1503193

>>1503141
Well you could always just sit around and wait for them to actively charge you, then go around them.
Not a hard way to get past them, but then you have to make sure you get to the flagpole quickly.

>> No.1503375

>>1501997
>not the suicide sentries that are tough as shit

>> No.1503382

>>1503005
>starfish bots that always hit you when they suicide
>crab bots with the hitbox the size of a few pixels
>FUCKING MANTIS BOTS THAT ALWAYS FUCKING HIT YOU BECAUSE THEY'RE AT THE TOP OF JUMPS OR AFTER A FAST PART

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1503428

Fuck these niggers, they've ruined my speedruns for RE3 on many occasions.

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>>1501767
these fuckers always piss me off

>> No.1503493

>>1501767
>Bats
>Zubats

>> No.1503502

>>1502951
Just walk away, they mostly only populate in random encounters. They're only barely a threat at low levels.

>> No.1503512

Those little Hard Hat thingies in the Mega Man games. They always seem to know when you've stopped waiting for your chance to shoot them and decide to jump over them instead - then just as you're about to jump, they pop up and say "FUCK YOU" and shoot those three bullets, or they suddenly rush at you and knock some life out of you.

Every single one of them does this.

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>>1503512
That´s why they look like niggers.

>> No.1503620

>>1502951
I have to say the wild dogs were worst. Every fucking time they would surround you and make it impossible to run away.

>> No.1503973

>>1502531
You call them hunchbacks but I still see a monkey.
Anyway I found i¡out in the first game if you leave the screen while they start shaking faster before moving, and then come back, they're gone.

>> No.1505017

>>1503023
Here's a brief rundown.
>Metropolis Act 3 was originally meant to be its own stage
>early on in development, it was called "Genocide City Zone" (I'm not making that up; it's in the Simon Wai beta)
>Japanese developers picked the word because it sounded edgy
>American team informs them otherwise
>name is changed to "Cyber City Zone"
>zone is scrapped soon afterwards
>layout becomes Metropolis 3
>graphics used for The Machine level in Sonic Spinball

>> No.1505042

>>1505017
Now I'm wondering if someone's managed to do a hack that replaces the Metropolis 3 graphics with The Machine. Minus the pinball stuff of course.

>> No.1505064

>>1505042
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvdrDAimqjE#t=24

>> No.1505109

>>1502014
I always thought they were kinda funny.

the Kleer Skeletons were way more annoying.
the hooves sound, the projectile being hard to notice at times...the weird like 2.5 shotgun blasts to kill.

>> No.1505113
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1505113

actually. the most annoying enemy I can think of are the fucking robots with miniguns in Descent. You hear that creaky robotic shriek....and before you know it half your shields are gone.

>> No.1505141
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>>1502062
>>1505113

>> No.1505187
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>> No.1505208

>>1505180
I always just hunted down and killed those things in the beginning of every level so they never bothered me. I saw where they were going with it, trying to get you to switch weapons and mix up the gameplay but it was just sort of pointless.

>> No.1505631

>>1505113
Those vulcan guys shoot way too fast.

>> No.1505662

>>1502951
Just level up outdoors, you moron.

>> No.1505685
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>> No.1505726

>>1505685

Ancient vampires are way worse, not only more powerful, but they make that really obnoxious noise.

>> No.1505727

When playing as a warrior, every single enemy in Diablo 1 that keeps walking away whenever you try and get close to them, so you're forced to lure them into a corner almost every single fucking time!

>> No.1505764

Warmech and Mindflayer from Final Fantasy NES.
Molboros from all incarnations of FF which they appear. Every single status effect. I think paralyzing all of my party members wiped me more than anything else.
The flying propeller things in Zelda NES.
That one Caterpillar boss in Zelda SNES that continually knocks you down a floor so that you have to go back up to fight it.
Hunters from Resident Evil 1. They had a pretty decent chance of instantly killing you and while you had tools to deal with them, if you used them you might not have enough for the final boss fight.
Akuma from Street Fighter.

>> No.1505780
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1505780

Add these jerks.

>>1505764
God damn I forgot about Moldorm.

>>1505727
That and Spitting Terrors.

>>1505685
Not annoying. Death unless you've got one of the resist/absorb/reflect spells.

>>1505726
See above.

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>> No.1506586
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>>1501767
any flying creature in this fucking game

>> No.1506621

>>1503502
The point isn't that they're a threat, it's the opposite. They mostly appear on mid-to-end game areas and are just a fucking waste of time.

>>1505662
Who the fuck puts any sort of priority on leveling outdoorsman of all stats or does it past 101??

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>>1505180
I've actually come to really appreciate the Thiefbot. It's so sneaky and you need to be equally crafty to trap and kill it. It's all about looking through the map and thinking about good places to lurk in wait and ambush it, and then if you fail it's an adrenaline chase through the mines to get your quadlasers back. Not enough games have tough enemies like this anymore.


Now, these fuckers, on the other hand.....

>> No.1506631
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1506631

These guys. At some stages they are pretty annoying.

>> No.1506805

>>1506631

Every single enemy in that game was annoying as shit.

That among other reasons were more than a cause to stop playing at ep. 4.

>> No.1507264

>>1505685
That fucking sliding wall puzzle right before that guy was more of a pain in the ass. Though by the end of the game you will have gone through Direnni Tower at least 4 times.

>> No.1507312

>>1502510
My sides are in orbit

>> No.1507348
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>>1502510
Oh wow it's in my head now.

>> No.1507364

>>1502510
You now notice that he is holding a small striped laundry bag in his left hand.

>> No.1507442

>>1502914
My nigga.

I loved the design around the enforcers and monks, but I agree they have FAR too much HP. Even in the ROTT remake, they made them have too much HP and a grind to fight against. (though there is an achievement for killing an enforcer with just a pistol)

>> No.1507546

>>1502921
lol i fucking *loved* fighting the invisible mutants :) Unloading a like an entire clip and half from your pistol...

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>> No.1508363

>>1506621
>makes huge fuss about something that bothered no one before
>people post solutions
>starts bitching
Suit yourself, you douchebag.

>> No.1508610

>>1508363
>post about annoying enemy on thread about annoying enemies
>attract attention seeking retard who posts "solutions" no one asked for

Feel free to show someone else your particular brand of autism. Why not try /mu? I'm sure they'll love your suggesting flamethrowers next time someone asks about an affordable acoustic guitar.