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So, currently I'm playing Project Zero 2 / Fatal Frame 2 (depending where you live) and I got the idea for this question because of a particular enemy: A small girl in a crimson kimono.

The spirit of this very timid girl is an enemy because the poor thing was murdered after a certain event and attacks you (plot stuff. Can't go to details). The fight starts with her crying on the floor, covering her face with her hands, she attacks by running in a very awkward way towards you and if she misses she just falls down looking miserable.
If you "shoot her", she falls back covering her face with her arm while doing an heart-breaking pain shout.
And unlike other spirits, her face never shows anger or hate towards you, or just plain creepiness, it just shows sadness and despair.

I really, really hated fighting the poor thing.

An enemy I hated for totally different reasons was in Ninja Gaiden 2 - There's a type of enemy ninja you face that throws explosive kunais... that stick to you even if you block. Yes, no blocking allowed vs these guys, they were rage inducing foes until I finally got the hang of it.

So yeah, share away what enemies you hated to face and the reasons, doesn't matter what they are

I had a rough time many years ago with the final boss in Panzer Dragoon Orta on the hardest difficulty.

Its a three stage boss that moves from Durable/Not Killy, to all around mean, to Not Durable/Super Killy. Was a nightmare by the last stage, but damn was it satisfying beating it.

What a great game.

The flood from Halo 2. More accurately, the flood during the Arbiter's levels. For one reason or another I dreaded fighting them as a kid.

There's a couple of different kinds of hate when it comes to something you don't wanna fight for me:

1. The scary/dreadful enemy:

These are the tough guys, or the enemies that, for whatever reason seem to have your number. I think the best examples in my experience are the chainsaw guys from Resident Evil 4 or the archers of Anor Londo from Dark Souls.

2. The annoying

These are the fights that are just irritating and unfun. They might be a slog, or have annoying weakness mechanics, but fighting them is a chore. Examples include any kind of trash mob in an mmo or any 'big guy with a weakness' enemy from all kinds of action game.

3. The heartbreaking.

These are really rare, but they are the ones that you have to fight but for your relationship or events in the story, you do not want to HAVE to fight them. Examples are Sif from Dark Souls, or your father from Suikoden.

TheCustomLime wrote:The flood from Halo 2. More accurately, the flood during the Arbiter's levels. For one reason or another I dreaded fighting them as a kid.

Yep, I sympathise entirely. Being stuck on the same level for 4 years is not conducive to morale.

curran12 wrote: any 'big guy with a weakness' enemy from all kinds of action game.

These, too. Nothing more boring than rinsing and repeating the same move 14200 times.

Dread Master Bestia in Dread Palace (SWtOR) - she herself isn't that hard but she has lots of adds and AoE that make the fight really tough. If you can get a group past her usually the rest is doable, but she seems to be the gate keeper as far as whether the group is decent or not.

Shaman's in the Sir Hammerlock's Big Hunt Expansion of Borderlands 2. They heal and buff the hell out of the enemies nearby as well as themselves. On anything other then the first play through they are just incredibly frustrating to deal with.

My mom back in oldy times not letting me play as much as I wanted.

In retrospective...thanks mom.

Most of the fights second half of mortal kombat 9's story mode, I really suck at fighting games.

 Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Most of the fights second half of mortal kombat 9's story mode, I really suck at fighting games.

Any boss from King of Fighters as well as the bosses from Street Fighter III and IV. Man they are so cheap and unfun to fight against.

curran12 has a nice list, but I just remembered another type of annoying enemy that showed up right before the end of Fatal Frame 2 / Project Zero 2 : "The Padder".

So, before the final boss I had to cross a corridor where I had to face 8 - freaking - ghosts. 8. All of the same type ... yeah, their only purpose besides annoying you and waste time, is making you spend resources before you fight said final boss.

It could have been a tension filled corridor with no encounters, but nooo...

Hoooo man, now here's a topic I know all about.

1. Legacy of Kain (the prequel with Kain) - ANY of the Paladins you had to fight later in the game, I hated those guys. They were so damn powerful and while Kain was a beast at times, these guys seem to scale with him perfectly, it was never a fair fight.

2. Prototype 1 - The end boss. Jesus-riding-a-skateboard-off-an-exploding-oil-derrick-and-transforming-into-a-pterodactyl-CHRIST. This guy was not only impossible to hurt normally, but the only way you can kill him is if you have your ultimate attacks, specifically ONE attack that does a bunch of damage in a small area. I almost broke my tv in rage-fueled frustration during this fight.

3. Borderlands 2 - Pretty much anything during your third playthrough, mostly vehicles or bosses in vehicles.

4. I had a hell of a time with the boss from Deus Ex: HR that turned invisible in a computer/server room. One of the very few times I looked to the web for a tip or trick on how to beat a boss.

5. Soul Caliber 1/2/3/4/5 - Fighting games have always had some of the worst bosses in history, SC is no exception. I love this game and the characters but the bosses are just INSANELY hard to beat, and with the instant kill moves in 4+. you couldn't even make a fight based around blocking.

Hardest/Cheapest boss ever was Shao Khan in MK9. I've played through story mode about 3 times now, each time I take about 10-20 rounds to beat him. It's ridiculous. Not in act 1, but at the end game. Never have I found a boss harder in any fighting game. The older MKs were never that cheap.

The Reaper on the Quarian homeworld in Mass Effect 3. Not hard, but annoying mechanics.
Frost Trolls in Skyrim when your character is still under level 10. Always end up just running away.
There's a few boss fights in WoW where I've accepted the fact I'm just going to die no matter what. Hopefully everyone else makes it.

Traitor Martellus from DoW2: CR. Even with a pimped out MM Davian Dread it barely made a dent on his health, not to mention losing all my other heroes like their made of paper. SO. G. D. TOUGH!!!

Those freaking Holy giants in Dark Souls "Oh...all the damage, Iz HEALZ IT"
Actaully, almost anything from that game bigger then me that where not the bosses.
Striders in Half Life 2 episode two. Jesus where those freaking hard......And the zombies in there too.
Also, Deathclaws in vegas. Im walking around LADIDA, then BOOM Im one shotted not too far from the starting area.

I find in a lot of games that bats are annoying enemies.

Also, Sirens from ME3.
Talk about invulnerable

Bison from Super Street Fighter II. Holy cow. I'd play and get to him and then the rest of my day would be spent trying to beat him. I don't know why. I was a pretty good player but for some reason Bison just owned me.

Any King of Fighters boss.

Final Fantasy X. Best FF IMO. But the last guy was so anti-climactic that when I beat it I was like "Okay, now what does it transform into? Any second now. Any second....something more? Anything more?"

Gundam MS Saga. An PRG for the PS2. LOVED that game. But I just could not beat the last guy no matter what I tried or did. Eventually had to use a cheat code.
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I tried everything to get that pic to work. I give up.
Eventually had to get a model of it just to remind me that sometimes life kicks you in the junk.

Well one of the bosses that i have come to dislike a lot go up agianst would be Azrail .from the ps2 game Chaos legion and unless you have the right stuff to even take it on that boss will one shoot everything you can throw at it.

 MWHistorian wrote:
Gundam MS Saga. An PRG for the PS2. LOVED that game. But I just could not beat the last guy no matter what I tried or did. Eventually had to use a cheat code.

I tried everything to get that pic to work. I give up.
Eventually had to get a model of it just to remind me that sometimes life kicks you in the junk.

Fix'd. You had your tags the wrong way around.

 Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Most of the fights second half of mortal kombat 9's story mode, I really suck at fighting games.

For sure. I actually gave up on trying to beat that game during one of the 3v1 campaign matches.

The Gadroon in Canada in Champions Online. They nerfed 'em after a month or two, but I powered through on their original difficulty. Never have I died so much and had so much trouble in an MMO as I did against them.

Flying, gravity manipulating aliens vs a punchy robot. It was incredibly frustrating.

Anything with an unblockable spammable combo. Urgh!

Ravagers or Possessed Scions on Gold or Platinum.


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 Bromsy wrote:
The Gadroon in Canada in Champions Online. They nerfed 'em after a month or two, but I powered through on their original difficulty. Never have I died so much and had so much trouble in an MMO as I did against them.

Flying, gravity manipulating aliens vs a punchy robot. It was incredibly frustrating.

Oh god I remember those guys...


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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Also, Sirens from ME3.
Talk about invulnerable

Sirens? You mean the Banshees? Eh, they weren't as big a problem as the two enemies I mentioned above. Banshees and Brutes could be avoided easily enough in single player, and in multiplayer, a Juggernaut could tank four of 'em together even on a high difficulty. But Ravagers are utterly unforgiving if there's two or three blasting away at long range.

Hexos and Nibbleh from WoW. Ughhhhhh

Catachan Devils, Sentinel and Commissar Lord from Dawn of War II. All of them broken in their own annoying way.

Poison Ivy in Arkham Asylum.

Chaos Space Marines in Space Marine. They were not nearly as immersive to fight as the Orks.

This guy.

So much rage. So much hate.

Remember that game Vanquish?

Remember that end boss?



Yeah, that.

 Soladrin wrote:
Remember that game Vanquish?

Remember that end boss?



Yeah, that.

Oh. Dear. God.

I just spewed blood from my eyes, I had completely forgotten about this.

Warboss Grimskull. I HATED that guy. And I play orks! I was playing on easy and he would still 2 shot me with that Ramming attack if I didn't roll out of the way! I finally just started over a chapter back picked up the Melta and Lascannon.

Also, Chaos Space Marines. It's Lascannons or they WON'T. FETHING. DIE

Pretty much every "quick time" boss in Force Unleashed. Not for the reasons you're thinking though. I played it on Wii, so you had to jerk either the regular controller or the little plug-in accessory controller according to on screen prompts. I'm left handed (so I hold the two controller halves in the opposite hands that they expected me to), and the controls had no option to flip the screen prompts. You have no idea how frustrating it was to train my brain so that when I saw the left side of my screen light up I flick the controller in my right hand (or the opposite of course). Made that game much more difficult than it should have been for the first few levels until I got it sorted.

As far as actual annoying enemies:



The Campaigner from the original Turok Dinosaur Hunter. It has been a while since I played this game, but I distinctly remember the fact that during this fight if you pulled out the "ultra weapon" that you spend 90% of the game assembling, he'd say something to the equivalent of "that's not fair" and instantly kill you. That combined with the fact that he's actually a dang hard boss in his own right got me right mad at him.