Most over hyped enemies!

[Soviet Heavy]

Oh come on, the Great Destroyer from Borderlands trumps all other examples.

Shoot the immobile space vagina for two hundred thousand bucks!

 

[demoman_chaos]

I never even though of that...I would've been happy with just Mic support.But a while co-op storyline would be even better. Especially since you can have quite diverse parties (I mainly use a Longsword, Bow and a bit of magic, while my friend would run around with fucking huge weapons to rape demons with)

I don't want it to rely on having a very diverse party, but some advantages of having one would be good.

I started with melee powerhouse, but have turned into a lightweight heavy hitter with some ranged attacks to be balanced.

 

[Tddawg25]

Fable 3 enemies, pour your Guild Seals into magic, fireball, ice storm, and spell-weaving and you're the equivalent of god in that world.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Technically not a game one, but this is all I could think of.

Darth Vader (the movie one). They spent 3 full movies showing his back story and motivation, calling him 'The chosen one' etc, but in the original trilogy he wasn't that big of a player... That's as close as I can get to an overly-hyped enemy at the moment.

Not that big of a player? He's Luke's father! He and Luke have two epic lightsaber duels! He restores balance to the Force, defeats the Emperor, and saves Luke's life in one swift act of heroism! How is that over-hyped?

But being hyped up for three movies straight as 'the chosen one' I'd expect him to throw planets with his mind. Instead, Vader is more of the emperor's lap dog even being told what to do by mere imperial officers in the first one (see grand Moff Tarkin). I'd would expect more from someone like that, even if he did look badass.

Thinking about Vader now - his lack of any amazing power really makes sense I suppose when you look at the canon Expanded Universe that games and other media has given us. Starkiller for instance, was used by Vader to try and overthrow the Emperor.. anything that you see of Anakin Skywalker after his transformation isn't really all that impressive, as if the rebuilding of his body only served to repurpose the mind and will of the imposing figure that would become Darth Vader.

He's feared throughout the movies because his powers are highly above those of a regular human - but I suppose a lack of any real enemy made his abilites decay over time.

Actually, im pretty sure its established that Anakin lost a lot of his power when he was reborn as Darth Vader, by that point he was scarred beyond recognition, had lost pretty much every limb, and his life support system was heavy as shit, sure he was a match for most Jedi, but he was really just a ghost of his former power

 

[demoman_chaos]

Dagon from Oblivion was kinda lame. Just a horde of bad guys and his tall arse. You don't even fight him. You just escort Martin into the temple and watch a cutscene.

I quite like the Archery in the game. Especially since I've saved my friend many times with a well placed shot.

Cannot wait for Hunted The Demon's Forge. It looks to be a fucking epic RPG.

The aiming for the bows is kinda weird. They don't ever hit the middle of your crosshairs, it is always to the left or right of the center depending on distance. That and teh arrows are really slow. They are still awesome vs AI, but worthless against other players.

Never heard of it.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Agreed with Killer Croc, disappointing sequence.

And Ganon from Ocarina of Time. Yeah, I said it, that guy was a pansy.

 

[TiefBlau]

#1 Killer Crok (Batman Arkham Asylum) (seriously how do you spell it)

One of the most inhuman monsters of Batman lore, and you have to play a game of Simon with him...

#2 Super Mutant Behemoth's (Fallout 3) Not very diffuclt enemies, the only problem i could see them posing is if you stumbled into one at a low level, but i had no problem with them. Also i killed them all without the fatman!

Normal super mutants scare me more than any behemoth. At least those come in numbers and with miniguns. And those centaur things are fucking horrifying.

 

[Solo-Wing]

Sepheroth. Kinda obvious how he is overhyped.

 

[XzarTheMad]

Tanks from Left 4 Dead.

Here's how it goes.

-Tank spawns
-Finds Survivors
-Gets Molotov'd and/or 'naded
-Has at least two shotguns and an assualt rifle shooting it
-Dies a few seconds later

That's on normal. On expert it can be quite a lot tougher. Obviously, if you only play versus it'd figure you'd think that of him. Truth be told, it ought to be an advanced tank in a game of versus, to give him a little health boost.

Dagon from Oblivion was kinda lame. Just a horde of bad guys and his tall arse. You don't even fight him. You just escort Martin into the temple and watch a cutscene.

You were honestly expecting to go toe-to-toe with a daedric prince? And not just any daedric prince but the prince of destruction and ambition? What exactly were you hoping to do? Even as a maxed out mage you can't even step to Sheogorath, the sad tosser of the Shivering Isles, without being hurled to a gruesome death. Dagon, even if he were bound by some rules of Nirn as opposed to his omnipotence of the Deadlands, it would still go to reason that he could
a) stomp on your ass
b) magicka your ass to space dust
c) punch/slice/chop/crush/violently penetrate your ass

He's the lord of fire and earthquakes, man!

(For comparison, he's level 100 with 1k hp, 1k magicka and a 100dmg melee attack. Oh, and 100% immunity to paralysis and fire.)

 

[demoman_chaos]

You were honestly expecting to go toe-to-toe with a daedric prince? And not just any daedric prince but the prince of destruction and ambition? What exactly were you hoping to do? Even as a maxed out mage you can't even step to Sheogorath, the sad tosser of the Shivering Isles, without being hurled to a gruesome death. Dagon, even if he were bound by some rules of Nirn as opposed to his omnipotence of the Deadlands, it would still go to reason that he could
a) stomp on your ass
b) magicka your ass to space dust
c) punch/slice/chop/crush/violently penetrate your ass

He's the lord of fire and earthquakes, man!

(For comparison, he's level 100 with 1k hp, 1k magicka and a 100dmg melee attack. Oh, and 100% immunity to paralysis and fire.)

I was expecting something other than walking between his legs while he stands there looking menacingly.

Your arguement is like saying Kratos shouldn't be fighting Zues. Zues kicked the Titans' ass so no mortal could stand up to him. While it may be true that Kratos wouldn't realistically be a match for the god of gods, but I thought we threw realism out the window when gates with demons popped out of the ground. They could have at elast had you fight a lesser form of him. After enough damage, he gets pissed and goes full power. Then you have to avoid him trying to kill you while you escort Martin to the temple.
What you get however, is him just standing there while you take down some goons so you can get a former priest into a temple.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

I was playing Batman Arkham Asylum yesterday and i got to the point where you fight killer crok (Did i spell that right) and that was such a big disappointed (Like my first sexual encounter.) All it amounted to was swatting him down (as mentioned in zp) so i got to thinking about some over hyped enemies.

#1 Killer Crok (Batman Arkham Asylum) (seriously how do you spell it)

This, this, a million times this. I wanted a God of War style epic showdown, not some boring "sneaking" scene. Rocksteady, I am disappoint.

 

[Neverhoodian]

I have to agree with the majority here. Croc was a big disappointment in Arkham Asylum. I also felt the fight with Bane was a let-down as well. He's supposed to be one of Batman's deadliest foes (he even broke Batman's spine once in the comics!), yet you defeat him by making him run into walls.

I'd have to say Admiral Harkov from Tie Fighter falls under this category as well. An influential Imperial admiral defects to the Rebels with his fleet (including many state-of-the-art Tie Avengers and Assault Gunboats), yet he's captured and executed by Lord Vader after only five missions or so because he got stranded waiting for supplies at a space platform. If he's got a fleet, why not call for reinforcements to get him out of there?

 

[Mittens The Kitten]

Deathclaws from Fallout 3, it might be a cheap way to play the game but the dart gun made it an easy game of making sure you didn't back into anything bad.

Yeah the dart gun as well as the rail rifle broke the game early on, aswell as later on the Terrible Shotgun, Xulong Assault rifle, & Lincolns repeater made me Jesus with more flexible ethics. But when you learned to use power armor the game might as well have called it quits because anything that posed a threat to me prior to that point was diminished (Along with my sneak skill.)

Maybe you were playing a different game, one where the rail rifle didn't suck.

 

[robodukky]

Yeah I would have to say Killer Croc myself, as well as the Big Daddies in Bioshock. Admittedly, they are tricky the first couple of times but once you get the grenade launcher they go down easy.

 

[Nibblitman]

Now I know this isn't in a game but the bad guys in the tv movie the langoliers were sooooooooooo unscary it came out funny. The movie was scary, dark, and full of tension, and then we get toward the end and we see the bad guys. And we see this http://cdn.hometheaterforum.com/f/fe/fe973101_htf_imgcache_482.jpeg The bad guys that have been hyped the whole movie are just those stupid raisins with teeth, the biggest let down ever.(though a good one as I was about 7 and I was scared s**tless till I saw the real bad guy and just started laughing)

PS that was about the most scary picture of them I could find so yeah.

 

[Atmospherical]

You know, "once you get the grenade launcher they go down easy" could apply to almost anything.

 

[badgersprite]

Deathclaws and Yaoi Gui (I sense I spelled that wrong ) in Fallout 3. Everyone treats them like scary shit but I was taking them down with assault rifles on the hardest difficulty at level five. Now, the enemies from the DLC like Trackers just WOULD NOT FUCKING DIE. They were made out of Kevlar or something because my bullets did nothing to those bastards.

 

[Chibz]

Metal slimes.

 

[Catfood220]

Maximilian from Valkyria Chronicles is so pathetically easy its a disappointing last boss for such a great game. All you need to do is blind him with your smoke round to stop him shooting everything that moves before taking out the towers powering his shield with your snipers and Lancers. Then send in Rosie who you should have armed with the most powerful flamethrower you have, have her get up close and use that on him, she will avoid most of the return fire that she may get and just repeat until Maximilian is defeated.

You should be able to beat him in 2 moves, Sylvaria and Jaeger were a much harder challenge.

 

[urahara75]

I say it's a tie between (1) the "vanilla" Behemoths of FFX, (2) the chapter 2-2 boss battle (Popokarimu; the las plagas-infused giant bat/insect creature) of of RE5.

(1) I mean, really...seriously?? All the strategy guides and word-of-mouth saying these were "really BIG bruisers" were generally all hype. By the time you get to the area you first encounter them, your party is more than capable of crushing them in several turns, in spite of their (auto)buffs & crazy physical power. Their "King"-version at the end of the game, on the other hand...

(2) This is probably the most disappointing boss battle of the entire game. Even on the most difficult difficulty setting, this is pretty much just a game of "bait-&-switch" with the boss. The battle would be much more challenging if only 1 character was allowed to fight at a time. For a boss that really didn't have a respectable defense in the first place,and a [a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaksauceWeakness"]weaksauce weakness[/a] to bypass it entirely, it makes it almost a [a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeUltimateMook?from=Main.LevelFiveOnix"]overbloated glorified mook[/a]...