Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it, follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!
Best designed video game generic enemy
Dhalphir
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
I was replaying Half Life 2 today and it got me thinking about how well Valve designed its run-of-the-mill enemies that you encounter, so that each is very unique and different.
I'm not talking about bosses, I'm talking about the mooks.
The best for me, has got to be the manhacks in the early stages of Half Life 2. That metallic whirring sound drives me insane, they are so small and maneuverable that they freak me out and I flail around like a spastic whenever they're in the room. And the worst thing is, they do negligible damage even on the higher levels.
What do you guys remember as being the best designed enemy in games? Whether it be due to a unique sound it made that induced panic (in the case of the manhacks), or blind panic just because of how powerful and scary it was (that underwater shark creature from the original Half-Life).
I'm not talking about bosses, I'm talking about the mooks.
The best for me, has got to be the manhacks in the early stages of Half Life 2. That metallic whirring sound drives me insane, they are so small and maneuverable that they freak me out and I flail around like a spastic whenever they're in the room. And the worst thing is, they do negligible damage even on the higher levels.
What do you guys remember as being the best designed enemy in games? Whether it be due to a unique sound it made that induced panic (in the case of the manhacks), or blind panic just because of how powerful and scary it was (that underwater shark creature from the original Half-Life).
Dhalphir on
This discussion has been closed.
Posts
Pretty much the iconic Doom enemy besides the big bad Cyber Demon.
Welcome to your nightmare motherfuckers
these guys are hugely popular. Even got their own spin off.
Steam: cristke
I remember as a younger gamer I would play Ocarina of Time and scream at the game, "you give that back you mother fucker, that's not yours" as I would spam the sword slash.
no one's mentioned them yet
really
There are plenty of annoying mobs out there, hoppers in Castlevania or birds in Ninja Gaiden definitely got screamed at a lot in my household, but while the LikeLike was insanely annoying, it's greatness was that it didn't just hit you for damage. It gimped your defenses, hit you in the wallet, and was just all around demoralizing.
this fucker
Somebody is impatient on page 1
I took the creepy route!
In fact, I would frequently play the original smash bros. with the highest item drop frequency with only bob-ombs, so explosives were everywhere and I got really good with playing with them.
but they've always terrified me in every iteration they've been given.
Isn't Alma a boss
3DS FC: 5129-0946-8305
Well, not quite true, theres one enemy that illicits the same response.
Poison Headcrabs. I will routinely use highly excessive force to kill those fuckers. Single one approaching slowly? Sounds like a job for this exploding barrel, and perhaps some grenades to be sure. Maybe some rockets.
edit- *Looks up* AHHHHH DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE
Oh I hate those... The little rattlesnake growl thing they do always sends me into panic mode backed into a corner.
3DS FC: 5129-0946-8305
Namely the ones from the abandoned department store level. They coated their skin in Mannequin plaster! You could just barely see mannequins moving around in the distance. And you never knew if you were comming up on an enemy or just a mannequin. I had to take a break halfway through, I was getting too freaked... like sweaty freaked.
3DS FC: 5129-0946-8305
Pretty much every FPS has some form of soldier in it, but in a game filled with weird aliens the standard human soldiers were easily my favourite enemy.
Hearing their radio chatter as they flank you and flush you out with grenades still impresses me.
I think you meant to say the white Combine soldiers look fucking awesome.
You don't fuck with New Age Retro Hippie.
or any other crazy enemy from Earthbound, god knows almost all of them were fucking nuts
these too
Grunts from Halo. It's little things like their childish squeals and the way they flail their arms around.
My Backloggery PSN: Bigisy24
Waargh!
On the heels of the Marines from Half-Life, Halo CE's elites was probably the second and last time I've respected a bunch of pixels as a deadly enemy.
And I never knew how they did it, but Halo 1's AI still felt smarter than 2's, 3's, though maybe that was a level design issue.
Creepy fucks.
I get the chills just thinking about these guys. I remember once when I was trying to run past one (HAHAHA), I shot off both of its legs and an arm and thought I was safe. But no, of course this wasn't enough, because its body and arm wriggled around on the floor and climbed up my body and ate me alive. D:
Poison Headcrabs are well designed because they are scary as fuck. Appearance, noise, the timing and atmosphere of their introduction- you just know you don't want any part of them before you even find out what they do. Manhacks, however, are just as well designed- you can intuit from a glance or a few seconds of audio what they do, what will kill them, and why you want no part of them. Even if the intensity of panic isn't as great, they share the same ingredients.
What I hated in that game were those Trees in Happy Happy valley that would eat you alive if you went there before grinding in town a bit first. God that was hard.
i am the bat!
A bit big:
If we're going that route, then