Odd enemies

[Tarlane]

*snip earlier posts*
How do you toss out those old monsters but not mention the wolf in sheep's clothing? A man eating treestump that looks like it has a rabbit sitting on top of it. Creatures come to eat the rabbit and then get eaten themselves.

Because there were so many bad, stupid, insipid monsters that if I didn't stop after four, the post would be forty seven paragraphs long. We'd talked about how Paizo had tried to redeem a few monsters and that's one of the ones they tried to save. Your mileage may vary over whether they succeeded.

I'm a big Paizo fan, so I loved the Misfit Monsters book. They did a good job of making even the flumph kind of cool even if he would still be worthless in an actual fight. Their version of the wolf in sheep's clothing just animated whatever it had eaten last, so if there was a rabbit sitting on top it was a zombie.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

The Gonarch from Half-Life comes to mind.
Heaven's Smiles from Killer7, too. Specially those rolling orbs ones.

 

[Innocent Bystander]

I seem to recall a gang of old women in either New Vegas or Fallout 3. They attack you with melee weapons such as frying pans, rolling pins and, a single kitchen knife. They only appear once and when you kill them that's it (and that's only with the Wild Wasteland perk). I want to fight more senile delinquents...

Oh yeah, apparently they're a reference to a Monty Python skit.

 

[Roxas1359]

I seem to recall a gang of old women in either New Vegas or Fallout 3. They attack you with melee weapons such as frying pans, rolling pins and, a single kitchen knife. They only appear once and when you kill them that's it (and that's only with the Wild Wasteland perk). I want to fight more senile delinquents...

Oh yeah, apparently they're a reference to a Monty Python skit.

Yep it's a reference to the Hell's Grannies skit that was awesome.

OT: The ones that come to mind for me are those poo-like things from Blue Dragon. Seriously what was with those things.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

OT: The ones that come to mind for me are those poo-like things from Blue Dragon. Seriously what was with those things.

Oh yeah, I was going to mention those. And let's not forget the cyborg T-Rex that farted out the giant Poo Snake thing.

 

[xplosive59]

Final Fantasy has a load of weird enemies....

Spoiler

Enjoy sleeping tonight.

 

[XMark]

I could never figure out exactly what the "Droll" enemy in the original Dragon Warrior was supposed to be. Couldn't even guess what kind of shape it took from its 2-dimensional image.

 

[SirPlindington]

Snip'd

I actually find the father mother kind of adorable.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

I've always thought that the Mr. Friendly enemy that was considered for Half Life was pretty weird (look it up on the wiki if you don't already know about it. It was definitely both an odd and technologically ambitious idea). However, I'm not really sure if he counts, seeing as he was scrapped before he could actually be put into the final game.

I also think that the Nu from Chrono Trigger are also pretty weird. There's just something about derpy bipedal mohawk frogs that seems odd to me, I guess.

 

[SirPlindington]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth had the Shoggoth


SCP: Containment Breach had SCP-173

Spoiler: SCP-173

The Binding of Isaac had, well, everything.

I've never understood why SCP-173 was so popular. It's weird looking, but not much else.

 

[Jfswift]

The Vagrant in Dark Souls. I've only ever seen it once but they're strange looking, like an angry ghost clam with tentacles.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I think I know a good one.

Spoiler: The final boss from Kane and Lynch 2

I think I win.

 

[Kopikatsu]

I could never figure out exactly what the "Droll" enemy in the original Dragon Warrior was supposed to be. Couldn't even guess what kind of shape it took from its 2-dimensional image.

Looks sort of like a snail to me. Slug? One of those.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Odd enemies thread huh? I'll bite;

Geth Stalkers from the first Mass Effect. Little jumping bastards that shoot lasers from their eyes and jam your radar, plus they love inflicting status effects. They never appear outside of game 1, and nobody ever mentions them again.

Seriously? So, enemy variety goes DOWN in the later games? One more reason not to play them

Ethics? In Saint's Row? How quaint.

Dude, I returned my copy of SR3 two days after the launch, and I got that that reference. Bad Jack!

Those bastard rubber men from RE4 were weird. It's not often I see something become MORE dangerous without its legs.

Though I think plain damn weirdest enemy ever has got to be ANYTHING from Tonic Trouble. Alcoholic Biker Viking? Check. Magic Mushroom? Check. beartrap-billed rubber duckies? Check. Militant communist vegetables? check!

 

[Owen Robertson]

{1} Any creature whose job is to...explode. Earthbound has these, but I think exploding enemies overall have got to be some of the weirdest ones out there. You're a thing, and you live out your life until one day something threatens you and...your one real defense against them is to explode? How does that work? Is that a "You can't fire me, I quit!" move?

This is actually a valid tactic if you prize the species/group/many above the individual. If a predator tries to eat an animal and it explodes, then odds are good the predators will learn to stop trying to eat them pretty quickly. The individual creatures may be dead, but the species as a whole will benefit from it in the long run, kind of like a more flashy version of the "Don't eat me, I'm poisonous" tactic.

It's not even an entirely fictional thing, several species of Ant and/or Termite actually do explode to deter predators.

Yeah, but then ants and termites are hive mind creatures. A Mammal that explodes won't pass on it's "best explosion" genes and therefore, while extremely entertaining, it's an evolutionary dead end. Unless the explosion only awakens after the creature has been mature for like 10 years. Old Exploding Dog... Best. Enemy. Ever.

 

[Owen Robertson]

Those bastard rubber men from RE4 were weird. It's not often I see something become MORE dangerous without its legs.

I've beaten RE4 like 9 times and I have no idea what you're talking about. You mean the Regenerators?

 

[Eddie the head]

Odd enemies thread huh? I'll bite;

Geth Stalkers from the first Mass Effect. Little jumping bastards that shoot lasers from their eyes and jam your radar, plus they love inflicting status effects. They never appear outside of game 1, and nobody ever mentions them again.

Seriously? So, enemy variety goes DOWN in the later games? One more reason not to play them

Not really. If you stretch it there where maybe 6? 7? "Different " types of enemies in the first game. And when I say different I mean form a game play perspective not there model is swapped out and some number buffed. Where as in 2 and 3 there are a lot more enemies that are well different. They change how you play what gun you use do you use that CAIN now or later? Where do you aim for? Can it even damage them? Can you even get close to them? In Cerberus alone I think there are like 7 "different" enemies.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I always found the Zombie Whale from Final Fantasy IX to be a little odd.

I mean, come on it's a zombie freaking whale.
Also gelatinous cubes.
Who the hell thought that one up.

I think that was Wayne's World.

It's a D&D monster.

 

[FalloutJack]

Okay, so yeah. Persona and SMT tend to take the cake.

I also wanna go on record to say that Breath of Fire games have got it weird too.

 

[SirPlindington]

I've never understood why SCP-173 was so popular. It's weird looking, but not much else.

It isn't one of my favorites, but it's kind of the unofficial mascot of the SCP. The reason probably has to do with the fact that it was one of the first, if not the first, SCPs

Really? I would've thought that the first SCP would be 2 or 3 or something around there. You learn a new thing every day, I guess. I feel educated.