How The Hell Did That Happen? Gaming Enemies!

[Cauterize]

It happens in the majority of games, and we hate it!
When your macho super strong character gets killed by...

...a Snail?
...a Bird?

well basically any animal/object which could be easily killed/stopped in the "Real World"

So i thought id start a thread where we can slag off those gaming enemies that look puny but pack a punch!


Ill start off with Castle Of Illusion (Megadrive/Genesis)

First Level is within the forest... and the most powerful enemies in this area are...

A Tree, A Flower and A Mushroom

:hmm:

*shit the tree got me!*

[Cryomancer]

All I gotta say....Earthbound. (at least until around when you get Poo, then the foes get a bit more serious)

[soniko_karuto]

i'd say slimes in dragon warrior. God i hate those stupid slimes.

[Snapple]

FFXI is a good recent example of that. You start out the game fighting bees and rabbits and crabs, and 50 levels later, you're fighting... bees and rabbits and crabs.

And you're like, "@#$%, I'm a level 50 character with million-gil armor, and I got killed by a little bunny..."

It's not even a big bunny. It's a bunny-sized bunny.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

Just about every RPG series in history has had "cute" Monsters that can beat the crap out of you. For example, Pugs in Final Fantasy, Gold blobs in the Breath Of Fire games (when they're not running away) and like you said, numorus typical forest animals in MMORPGs.

[SuperNES]

the shell-less koopas in SMW! i mean COME freaking ON, mario, ya nancy boy. LOL

also all the food "enemies" in out to lunch.

[Flack]

In the higher levels of Rogue, you get to fight Wraiths, Yetis, and Vampires. In the early levels though, I used to always get killed by Emus. Either Emus and Bats. Stupid winged things.

In Wizardry and Bard'd Tale, I remember getting killed by Ooze and Green Slime. Just walk away, warrior.

In Keystone Kapers, you get killed if you touch a radio, a remote controlled airplane, or a bouncing beach ball. Go cop go!

Of course in Mario you get killed if your toe touches a plant or a walking mushroom.

And speaking of food ... in Burgertime you can get killed by a big poached egg or a hot dog wiener. Although granted it's a very large wiener.

[drwily008]

i'd say slimes in dragon warrior. God i hate those stupid slimes.

HEY! I resemble that remark!!

[GobopopRevisited]

Annother Turtle in Super Mario World: The ones that kicked their shells back at you... Ugh.

You would always be the laughing stock in the basement room filled with your neighborhood chums competing for score in the first Super Mario Brothers game... if you accidentally ran in to Goomba number one.

[icbrkr]

And speaking of food ... in Burgertime you can get killed by a big poached egg or a hot dog wiener. Although granted it's a very large wiener.

I hate it when someone beats me with a large weiner...


ermmm...

[digtempest]

How about locked doors in games? Your character has all this firepower and can't blow open a door, not even a wooden door! Resident Evil 1 and 2 comes to mind. Project Snowblind is another one.

[Graham Mitchell]

The stupidest and most lethal enemies that I always remember are the bats and birds from Ninja Gaiden that knock you off ledges and sabotage your jumps. You die more from that garbage than from the knife-wielding psychos that are littered throughout the game. They become such a problem that they make the game nearly impossible in the last couple of stages.

[Satac]

Rats - you have to fight against stupid rats in every RPG...

[Sotenga]

I freaking hate bats, eagles, and any other winged monstrosities in the video game universe. I have established a rule over it, as a matter of fact.

Sotenga's Patented Winged Enemy Theory

If it's winged... IT SUCKS.

That's all there is to it. I can't think of any airborne enemy in video games that isn't a total prick.

[DDCecil]

The birds and monkeys on Battle of Olympus. You are jumping from cliff to cliff, when all of a sudden, a group of monkeys knock you off... I'll say they are 100 times worse than the birds of Ninja Gaiden.

[spider-man]

I find it funny that while playing dmd mode in devil may cry 3, you get crushed by the enemies in game, while when a cutscene starts (beginning of mission 8 for example), you smash through the enemies like its nothing :/ Or when you kill a boss in-game, but then magically they defeat you in the follow-up cinema (first fight with vergil).

[ktulu]

oohh, don't get me started here! Well, I guess my earliest memories of the frustration of being killed by a stupid little nothing are from the C64. Loads of cases like that, but I can't choose between Giana Sister's little bending stick, whatever their name is, i HATE them :), and Terry's Big Adventure's drops. I think I lost a couple of years of my life by trying to pass that one drop!!! LOL

[Kid Ice]

2600 Chuck Norris Superkicks...Chuck Norris vs. grass...the grass wins!

[calthaer]

They had stupid circus toy monsters in Final Fantasy VII. There were all sorts of stupid monsters in FF games.

[orangemage]

the skull eater from Final Fantasy V
http://img102.exs.cx/img102/9073/skulleater3zs.gif
it's just evil

[Slate]

Pirates: Legend of black kat

In the haunted Isles there are jumpy little skulls that WILL BITE.. They can pinch you to death... But when you hit them They are funny in return. They say "OUCH" In the funniest way..

Sewer Shark:

There are giant bats. They don't attack, But they are VERY Distracting. So, if you have played the game you can understand.

[Crush Crawfish]

What about Deadly towers' fearsome enemies, such as the beach ball, the puddle, and the sllinky? Man, I love that game! :D

[jdc]

Then there's all of those Pokemon.......

Some of them are really.....weird.

[SamuraiSmurfette]

I tried DBZ Legacy of Goku for the GBA
for about 15 minutes...until I was killed by a crab.

[pragmatic insanester]

if you don't add eyes and smiley faces, technically, blobs would be pretty hard to kill with bladed or blunted weaponry. especially if they were acidic.

as for the pugs, those aren't cute. they look like little gremlins who ram gardening shovel into you. more like a silent hill-esque enemy.

[Dahne]

That's one of the things I liked about Metal Gear Solid 3. Some of the aggressive animals, like crocodiles or some snakes, will attack you if you get near them or annoy them, but otherwise go about their crocodile or snakey business. I can't count the games where all surrounding fauna has made it their life's mission to KEEEEL YOU.

[Slate]

Just remembered a lot:


Tom & Jerry - Sega Game Gear

You can die from all sorts of things here.

Soccer balls, Soda cans, Brooms, Fish, Jerry, Bombs, Snakes, Skulls, Bubbles and Bats.


Sorceror's Apprentice - Atari 2600

Mickey Mouse vs. Brooms: Brooms win (In the end)


Sonic Adventure - Dreamcast - Don't know if this works in the gamecube version.

Knuckles can get drowned by a tree. YES, BY A TREE. This is a glitch. In the Mystic ruins adventure field, go over to Big's home, and climb the tree until you see some water splashes. Then stay there, and you'll drown (And you are not, Seemingly, Underwater)


The Sims:

Bills. bills, bills. If you don't pay them in time (Or can't pay them) The repo man will come and take Hi's repo-gun and start zapping your furniture. When you don't have any $$, it's nasty out there.


Also, I love those TVS and lamps! When they break, You can expect a shocking death when you have little Repair skill.


The Sims (Livin' Large Expansion Pack):

Genie Lamp:

Rub the lamp and a purple genie will come out. He will ask you what you want (Two things are avalible) And it's random of what it'll be that he asks you. Sometimes when he gets it wrong your most expensive item in the house will catch on fire. Well, Sometimes it turns out to be a $10,000 Rug, wich your sim can be standing on, talking to the genie. Well, you can guess the rest. PHOOM. Sim: AAAAH! (The Sim dies, and apparently the genie travels ont he road to freedom, now that hi's lamp is destroyed)

And that chemistry set is.. Delightful... You can turn your sim into a zombie for awhile, Get fined for folling around with the chemistry set, And get your sim in an EXTREMELY bad mood.


The Sims (Makin' Magic Expansion Pack):

My, my my.. Magic can be... Terrific.. And Terroriffic! You can turn your sim's head into a donkey's head if you don't do a certain spell right. LOL O_O


The Sims 2:

Can't forget the cake wich the nanny to sneeze on, And then catches the whole house on fire. (It's real funny to watch, and then watch the nanny jump around like avoiding bullets aimed for her feet)


Also, gotta love those grenades.. Small and harmless-looking... Until you know what they do. LOL

[Ryaan1234]

I've been playing Dragon Crystal recently and the enemies can be really stupid. Oh man, I got killed by the giant eyeball!! LOL

[rbudrick]

And you're like, "@#$%, I'm a level 50 character with million-gil armor, and I got killed by a little bunny..."

It's not even a big bunny. It's a bunny-sized bunny.

Haven't seen Holy Grail, eh?

-Rob

[Damaramu]

The NES version of Rambo was absurd:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/Damaramu/rambo2.jpg

Yes, John Rambo is run out of the jungle by snakes and moths! LOL
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/Damaramu/rambo7.jpg

[Vigilante]

I think it was Eye of the Beholder, D & D game on my old 386 pc. The game had "Shambling Mounds." It was grass.... evil grass! I'm like "I've got piles of that stuff in the back yard, you don't see me waiving a level 12 broadsword to cut my grass."

[Push Upstairs]

The NES version of Rambo was absurd:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/Damaramu/rambo2.jpg


The similarity between that rendering and the actual Stallone is uncanny.

[GameSlaveGaz]

The stupidest and most lethal enemies that I always remember are the bats and birds from Ninja Gaiden that knock you off ledges and sabotage your jumps. You die more from that garbage than from the knife-wielding psychos that are littered throughout the game. They become such a problem that they make the game nearly impossible in the last couple of stages.

Damn you! Iwas gonna mention the damn birds in Ninja Gaiden! You beat me to it! They're the bane of my existence!

Another stupid thing that kills you: In Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, a 5-foot drop would kill you despite your acrobatic skills (yet, in the cutscene before the level that takes place in the prison, you fall like, 5 stories into the dungeon and survive...)

[cracked8ball]

In Kid Klown for the NES, one stage has the letters A, B, and C as enemies.

I also remember a game on the Commodore 64 in which you run through a maze where a giant letter M is chasing you.

[Slate]

Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (SNES):

Grass - Land on it in level 2 and Ow.

Tumbleweed - In level 2, If you touch it, Ow.

Green Shoes - They jump! They walk! They run! And they hurt Porky pig.

I think that there are more in that game, But i forget..