Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

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

It's sad how that game figured the best way to represent CSM was to make them just like you, only with 100000 times more health. The rest of the enemies were spot on, and I loved how they did the Bloodletters, but the CSM were a wasted opportunity.

dementedwombat wrote: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.

That does sound hard.

I'd actually rate the bosses on Force Unleashed as some of the most fun to fight, apart from The Emperor. It's one of the few games where you feel like you're actually fighting the bosses, rather than repeating formulaic combos again and again.

^Oh yes, the bosses and environments were awesome in that game. It's the controls that ruined it for me. That and the fact I was never really that good at some of the bosses and had to beat them down the old fashioned way because I couldn't maneuver right for the quick time prompt to play.

The thresher maws in Mass Effect 1. I've always hated riding the Mako over desolate planets. But I hate it even more when I'm driving to objectives and all of a sudden I'm riding over rough terrain trying to dodge a space worm from eating my tank. worm caught me off guard on five separate worlds on my first and second playthroughs.

 LumenPraebeo wrote:
The thresher maws in Mass Effect 1. I've always hated riding the Mako over desolate planets. But I hate it even more when I'm driving to objectives and all of a sudden I'm riding over rough terrain trying to dodge a space worm from eating my tank. worm caught me off guard on five separate worlds on my first and second playthroughs.

I actually kind of enjoyed the Thresher Maw encounter. I only found one though.
To be fair though, the one in ME2 was pretty fun right?

As for enemies I didn't like facing, I always thought Turrets, Phantoms, and Banshees from ME3 and Krogan from ME1 were much more annoying. For the first two, any time I'd find those in multiplayer, I'd direct ALL fire towards it. Yes, I know it's for a challenge. Still, these things always tore away shields in seconds for me.

 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.

This too. Oh god, this too. Halo 2's Carrier Forms (at least to me) looked TERRIFYING. The fact they could drive vehicles didn't really help and if your energy sword ran out of juice, you were more or less screwed because of the crazy amount of shots they could take. Also, unlike Halo 3, you cannot melee a Flood to death without taking another hit or two in return.

 Frankenberry wrote:

 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.

For the sake of reference, I, EVENTUALLY, beat it on God hard.

A locked door in the Level 1 tutorial for Dark Souls I.

Not being able to complete the first level of a game is probably an indication that its not for you.

Any game enemy that I cannot beat drunk. This is an extensive list. My most hated enemy being the jumpy wall section in god of war 2 (near the start), I've never been good at jumping but that drunken gaming session made me never play god of war 2 again. I bet it's not really hard

Malboros from Final Fantasy 8...feth em!

Skeleton wheels in Dark Souls.

That rattling they make is enough to make me break into a nervous sweat

Agree on CSM. They should be hard because they are smart, not because they have the resilience of two Dreadnoughts.

For the record, Chainsword Marines. In the Chaos Invasion Exterminatus, they were probably the most annoying foe. Fast, decent firepower with their bolt pistols, hitstunlock you far worse than Nobs do, and just as tough as CSM in single player. Due to the hitstun it is impossible to fight more than one at once in melee and they often run around in small squads. I could solo everything up to their arrival, but there I am stuck.

 Retrogamer0001 wrote:
Malboros from Final Fantasy 8...feth em!

I'll be damned, I thought I was the only one who had problems with those

Any Mage on a hard mode melee character on skyrim.

feth that running power attack. feth it to hell.

 thedarkavenger wrote:
Any Mage on a hard mode melee character on skyrim.

feth that running power attack. feth it to hell.

Until you unleashed the werewolf.

 thedarkavenger wrote:
Any Mage on a hard mode melee character on skyrim.

feth that running power attack. feth it to hell.

Ever heard of Spellbreaker?

This guy.

feth this guy.

The Blue tank on the Atari 2600 classic game 'Combat' it could shoot around corners perfectly .... set phasers to frag

 Void__Dragon wrote:


This guy.

feth this guy.

OH god yes, that guy is a dick.

Wallmasters

Captain Flynt from Borderlands 2. Good lord.

Those stupid ninja whores from Half Life.

Lu Bu. Just...Lu Bu.

Kai Leng. But only because of the plot armor. Without the plot armor, he'd have been wiped out in two minutes tops.

 Melissia wrote:
Kai Leng. But only because of the plot armor. Without the plot armor, he'd have been wiped out in two minutes tops.

The stupid helper robot in the first Halo. I predicted that little f--er's betrayal the moment he arrived, and if I'd been able to shoot him then, that would've been a much more satisfying game.

Endermen. This sucked. I was at the village all the server people use as a hub. creative is allowed only in there. I log in an not in reative, infront of an endermen....screw that, no armor

 Jimsolo wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Kai Leng. But only because of the plot armor. Without the plot armor, he'd have been wiped out in two minutes tops.

The stupid helper robot in the first Halo. I predicted that little f--er's betrayal the moment he arrived, and if I'd been able to shoot him then, that would've been a much more satisfying game.

lol, I meant the fight with him at Thessia. If I was allowed to shoot the gunship down I would have managed to do so easily, then killed Kai. Gunship wouldn't have stood a chance; Kai Leng, even less so.

Headcrabs.

Always Headcrabs.

I hate those things.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
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.

At least you can beat him. You can't in MK3.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
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.

At least you can beat him. You can't in MK3.

... oh Gods, the flashbacks of being mowed down over and over and over again by Motaro and Shao Khan in UMK3... I don't know the differences between MK3 and UMK3 but I managed to beat them both more than once. But I am not kidding when I say I probably lost way over 50 times before I managed to actually do it.

I can't believe how much patience I had back then.

Yeah, Motaro. He of the teleport/kick/teleport/teleport/kick/energy bolt. He'd block everything and couldn't be tripped. And assuming you beat him, then it was Shao "Instantly Counter Anything You Do" Khan.

Not even the tricks of later games worked. Moloch and Onaga were next to impossible to beat but you could do it with a simple three hit combo/block pattern - hit, hit, hit, hold block... hit, hit, hit, hold block... - until you won. It even worked on Blaze.

Khan though. Jump him? Rising shoulder barge. Rush him? Hammer. Stand still for a second? Shoulder barge.

Haha yes, I had forgotten about that one! Nightmare

This was a particularly annoying one from Streets of Rage 2


This looks rubbish by todays standards, but it scared the hell out of me when I first played Doom 2 years ago. And the noise it makes before you even see it!


Always found this guy a nightmare..


Absolutely anything in the dizzy games, especially water!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yeah, Motaro. He of the teleport/kick/teleport/teleport/kick/energy bolt. He'd block everything and couldn't be tripped. And assuming you beat him, then it was Shao "Instantly Counter Anything You Do" Khan.

Not even the tricks of later games worked. Moloch and Onaga were next to impossible to beat but you could do it with a simple three hit combo/block pattern - hit, hit, hit, hold block... hit, hit, hit, hold block... - until you won. It even worked on Blaze.

Khan though. Jump him? Rising shoulder barge. Rush him? Hammer. Stand still for a second? Shoulder barge.

Moloch and Onaga were cake-I typically roasted them on the first or second run, if I got unlucky. I remember beating Shao Khan and Motaro on MK3...but it wasn't pretty. Khan is the following (When forced with Raiden): stand still, teleport when he throws, upper cut, jump throws, rinse repeat unless he hits you. Then die, and start over. Because you're dead. Also, you can avoid him, jump/duck projectiles until he taunts, teleport in and hit him. Then run away again. Your only chance at winning was his taunts. And that bastard EARNED the right to taunt you every 3 seconds. And if he ever got his X-Ray off, just reset-cuz you're dead.

 Melissia wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Kai Leng. But only because of the plot armor. Without the plot armor, he'd have been wiped out in two minutes tops.

The stupid helper robot in the first Halo. I predicted that little f--er's betrayal the moment he arrived, and if I'd been able to shoot him then, that would've been a much more satisfying game.

lol, I meant the fight with him at Thessia. If I was allowed to shoot the gunship down I would have managed to do so easily, then killed Kai. Gunship wouldn't have stood a chance; Kai Leng, even less so.

What about the second one? I agree the Thessia one was a pain, but I kind of liked the second time you fought him.

The second one? I killed him so hard. Abusing power combos is fun!

And gutting him like a fishdog was also fun